After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World

In fact, even if it was just the normal citizens looking, they’d still be in a pinch.

It wasn’t that these people were strong, but there were hundreds of them.

They weren’t immortals!

Not to mention the dozens of people beyond the level cap. They didn’t know where these people came from or how a village could have so many, but they knew they couldn’t stay.

Immediately, the five fled, jumping from branch to branch the moment they realized it’d be too dangerous to stay there.

They didn’t disperse too much but always kept each other within close distance so they could still watch each other’s backs.

At some point, a glint appeared in a direction.

”Watch out!” Minko yelled, throwing a large water whip there. The next moment, someone fell down from a branch. It was an archer and he was about to fire an arrow towards them.

However, unexpectedly, they felt strong attacks coming from several directions—not necessarily from the mob they had been looking at until this point.

Ryan immediately activated his fire shield, shielding them from the attacks. However, the combination of forces from both sides brought the nearby trees to fall down, and they had no choice but to go down.

”Finally out of hiding, eh?” Fang said with a smile. ”You lot are really troublesome,” he said. ”Be honored we’re going all out.”

The soldiers had their weapons out, their vision taking note of their enemies. They were surrounded now and, other than Fang, it seemed like there were a few more level 20s that appeared.

They frowned. Before this, there had been no villages that had managed to send anyone beyond the level cap. Now, there was a handful of them.

The strongmen immediately lunged at the soldiers, with each of them taking one or two on.

Other than the handful of level 20s, there were more people beyond the level cap charging at them. Some of them were new, likely coming from other areas surrounding the territory.

It was obvious that these people were there to deal with the five of them.

The soldiers’ looked at each other. Even if they were strong, they could not stay here.

They nodded in understanding, dashing away from the crowd a second later.

”OI!”

”Don’t let them go past you!”

”Damnit!”

Orz used his earth ability to propel himself, avoiding the attacks, while waving his sword at the same time. A spike of earth accompanied it, hitting one or two people in the process.

He might be slovenly most of the time, but he looked cool when it counted.

Of course, he had to make sure to only kill those beyond the level cap. He would in no way be penalized for these people!

Next to him, Minko jumped back to avoid a slash of a sword. As he moved backward, he held out a bow and arrow. ”Arrow burst!” he exclaimed, hitting his two enemies, one level 21 and level 17 respectively.

It did not kill the level 21, but it seriously injured both of them. Minko did so again with the next batch of people that came after him. Similarly, the others also showed off their elements, making sure to hurt them where they could.

All of their attacks were deadly, causing their attackers to hesitate in their approach.

This was good enough, and this allowed them to widen the gap as they ran.

”Follow them!” Fang yelled as he dashed, intending to block the soldiers’ ways. ”They’re outnumbered! Don’t be cowards!”

However, how could the five soldiers be taken so easily? Although they were outnumbered, they could avoid most attacks, retaliating with stronger attacks in response.

The strongmen were surprised to know how much of a challenge this was though. When they took on this mission, they thought it would be easy. They still had a lot to learn it seemed.

Also… this mission seemed to have a lot of bonus rewards! ”They weren’t lying when they said this place had a lot of elementalists!”

”Then they’d make for good slaves right?”

One of the strongmen laughed. ”Well, even your two villages combined may not have been able to take them.”

”That’s why the master town hired you guys, right?!”

The soldiers heard some of the conversation, and it doused them with cold water.

Two villages joined forces to attack Calming Village—and a mercenary team was even hired to deal with the five of them, specifically.

Further, they seemed to have taken advantage of the loophole of not using the array and walking here on foot, so there were probably a lot more people than they initially estimated.

From a distance, they saw the sheer number of people trying to break through the walls. They could see how their brethren were struggling to stab and shoot the enemies down, but a lot of enemies were close to getting through!

Normally, after settling the traps, the soldiers would go straight back to the walls and assist in their defense. They were not there now.

It was only a matter of time before they broke through. With the combined forces of two villages and with them being held back here, Calming Village’s victory was getting farther away.

Was losing inevitable this time?

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Their paths were blocked by several level 20s, and they were surrounded by many others beyond the cap.

The mercenaries sent attack after attack at them, not caring whether they hit their own allies. The soldiers could only focus on defending themselves for a while, soon realizing that they were being pushed back farther from the walls.

”Shit…” Orz cursed, thinking how they could get out of this.

Ryan narrowed his eyes at them, his element floating around him to keep the enemies away from him, all while skillfully handling his weapon.

This was endless. Even if they were strong and were elementalists, they were still human with finite mana and spirit.

Regardless, with this amount of enemies, the best way to go about this was to run away and get their families. After that, they would escape together.

There was no way: As much as it broke their hearts…, they must abandon the territory.