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

Yana and Lola distracted the babies by bringing them to the play space. Maya and the other kids also scooted over and played with them, effectively distracting them long enough so she could leave.

Althea went up the bunker’s tall stairs and to the bright sky outside. She took a deep breath. She really preferred the open space like this. Next time, she’d add some plants or vertical gardens in the bunker to make it less suffocating.

As she emerged from the tunnels though, a furry critter jumped over. ”Woof!!”

She smiled, lifting her hand to pet the dog. He was large now, almost at her height. His fur was very fluffy and soft to touch, and it was relaxing in its own right.

”Woof! Woof!” Fufi barked, rubbing his head deeper into her petting. Obviously, he quite liked it.

”I’ll depend on you guys to protect the kids, okay?” she said, and she also looked at the couple of guards behind him. They were all assigned at the entrance of the bunker, prepared to protect it at the cost of their lives.

She never asked this of them of course, but she could see it in their eyes that they were willing to do so.

As the Lord, how could she not want to spoil them a bit?

After the war, she took note of giving a few more bonuses to the guard team. She didn’t say any of this though. Instead, she turned to the side to look at Oslo. ”I’d really rather you stay here,” she said.

Oslo smiled, before shaking his head. ”With all due respect, my ability would be far more useful in the main warzone.

Oslo was originally assigned to this guard team. However, even if he had limited mobility as a person above the level limit, his ability to trap people was particularly useful.

He could also kill beasts directly, which could really save lives. So, she had to agree in the end.

Mathilda was also outside, followed by a few personal guards—including her daughter, Gwen and her husband Ryan. She naturally couldn’t hide when her main abilities were so useful to keeping peace even during wars.

It was a bit risky, but her presence outside had already outed two spies who wanted to attack her. Ryan’s shieldsman profession was really useful, especially the skill called [Automatic Cover] which would activate his ability the moment a threat appeared.

Of course, how effective this was still depended on his ability and remaining mana.

Mathilda and Althea greeted each other before heading back to their stations.

”Let’s go,” she said to Oslo, who followed closely behind her.

”Time to join in this war.”

…

They arrived at the Eastern gate a couple of minutes later. The chaos outside was intense and the area right under the walls was filled with humans and beasts trying to get into the walls and kill each other as they did so.

Her eyes twitched when she saw Mao and a few guards with marks of cheese on their hands and mouths but she didn’t say anything.

Even if they appeared a bit careless, she knew they had the ability to recover before any damage would be done.

She took out her bow and arrow, ready to shoot down any threats that would be climbing up the walls.

Of course, other than that she wouldn’t bother wasting mana, especially since the enemies were useful in handling each other.

For example, she would attack the monsters who were only targeting the walls, but ignore the ones taking down enemies some meters away.

She was only Level 17, after all, and she still could not maximize her Bellagio bow in the sense that she could just take down hundreds of level 14s and level 15s monsters with little to no consequences to her.

She should be thankful. Seeing this mob of predominantly level 10s to 15s… she felt a little shiver. It was much stronger than they anticipated. According to the Ferrol notebook, their upgrade mob was predominantly Level 8s to 10s only.

Without these people, they’d have taken a lot of losses. She should be thankful to them in a sense.

If they survived—assuming they weren’t evil—she would consider giving them slightly lighter sentences for their ’sacrifice’.

At the same time, she also took this chance—while the monsters were mostly preoccupied with enemies—to observe them. This would be the normal mob they’d encounter as a Town; it was better to know them well.

Of course, because Garan and the others trained near a Town, they naturally knew a lot about many of these beasts, but there were still some new ones she ought to know more of. Not to mention, there might be some observations they missed.

ROAAARRR!

The most familiar one had to be the Orgoi, which was a common monster near Ferrol Town. When she went there for the Beast Fair, she encountered a small mob of them, too.

Orgois ranged from level 13 to 15 and had a similar appearance to the Terran hippopotamus, except it was bigger, black, and not cute at all. Basically, if the level gap wasn’t large, then a bite from this thing could crush a person’s skull.

However, a lot were also new, particularly those coming from the East. She saw one that was jumping around and was quickly going from one place to another, a human’s head missing from wherever it was just at.

It was a bit furry, around as tall as a human, but it was much swifter and had a terrifying face.

Seeing a new beast, she hung her bow on her arms and took out her Beast notebook from the space.

She took a rough sketch and took note of its movements. It preferred to skip several meters—as if it was unable to land closeby—and she reckoned it had to do with its springy body structure.

That was to say, one of the ways to counter it was to determine where it would not land, and attack from there.

Mao and the other’s eyes twitched when they saw her with her notebook out taking notes.

Hey, if the enemies knew they were being used to observe beasts like this, would they feel even worse?

”As expected from Miss Althea… the paragon of scholarly pursuits…” Luis said, coughing.

”Well, we will see her notes in books soon.”

”AH, that’s true.”

Anyway, while Miss Althea was increasing the territory’s knowledge base, then one of their tasks was to make sure she could do it peacefully!