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

Meanwhile, standing around the area being targeted, a certain group watched with interest as the attack went on. Interestingly, they were not from Inko Village at all.

Rather, they were from the allied Lopi Village. They had been asked by the Master Town to help out with the attack since they were nearby.

It was headed by the heir to the Lordship, Parek, who had once led the attack to Diana Village nearly a year prior.1

Even until the last second, the people about to be hit had no idea they were being targeted.

Parek and his cronies watched the human mobs nearing the walls, trying to determine the best place to sneak inside.

Most territories that got elementalists kept things a secret so they could keep most instead of having to sell to the master territory, unlike Inko.

While they did sell some people to avoid suspicion, they still kept much of their elementalist loot during the Diana War. They mixed the slaves they sold with the weakest slaves they knew would be dying anyway.

When Voumi realized the loot were elementalists, they would say they sent everyone back then, and that was that.

Unlike Inko, they had the ambition to eventually grow stronger than the master someday—which had become possible with the injection of elementalists in their population.

They had been training them for months, and hundreds had already awakened their elements. This was a top-secret operation known only to the most trusted individuals, because they knew someone would tell Voumi Town on them.

If that happened, they were afraid Voumi would find a way to replace the Lord with someone who was a lot less ambitious.

Recently, their territory determined the elementalists could be used in a war, and they did so, declaring war on another ’alien’ village about a week ago!

With the elementalist slaves’ help, they won in less than half a day! It was a bit difficult, however, because the other side also had elementalists. However, they didn’t have the advantage of teaming up with thousands of aborigines so they lost in the end.

Like this, they got thousands of new elementalists! They could already see this number increasing as they trained more and more of these people, their power just growing bigger and bigger!

Of course, for this war, they did not bring a single one. After all, they were keeping it a secret, and it would have reached Voumi Town sooner rather than later if they brought well-trained ones.

He was literally just here for ’attendance’, bringing the bare minimum required for allies to assist. His mind was still in the future, where Lopi Village would become Lopi Town! He could see it happening in less than a decade now, maybe even less!

It was just that his grin faded almost instantly when he saw a black projectile heading their way.

Rather, directly at him. He didn’t know what it was, but his instinct was telling him he was screwed.

Well, Orcshit.

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BOOM!!

The moment it struck, a fiery shockwave rippled amidst the mob, causing the ground to shake and most to lose their balance.

A few people were killed directly, and at least a dozen were injured.

One of the more gravely injured ones was the son of the lord, heir to the lordship!

”MASTER PAREK!!”

The guards nearby, after shaking away the shock of the explosion, cursed and ran to him. They showered him with their healing potions until the bleeding stopped. However, an entire arm and part of his shoulders was unrecognizable.

”DAMNIT!” the lead guard yelled, also looking at the corpses of a few others. The war had barely even started—

BOOM!

Before they could gather themselves, more and more attacks came their way.

They screamed and took cover, but another dozen people nearby were injured, many dead.

”Darn! There’s another one!!”

”How many more!?”

Then, every couple hundred meters, there would be an explosion coming from the walls, followed by pretty large damage in the crowd a few seconds later.

Some of the damage wasn’t even in their area, but there was enough happening nearby to tell them they were being targeted.

BANG!

”AHHH!” another yelled, running in the opposite direction of the wall along with many others.

Unlike slaves, the others could run away and therefore the entire group’s morale could be affected.

The lead guard, who was the de facto leader after Parek’s fall, cursed about a hundred times as he tried to carry Parek.

After some though—fearing another projectile would be shot—he made the decision. ”Let’s go! We already contributed enough to this war!”

They already did their part!

Good luck, Inko! They mused, running away as fast as they could, You’re on your own!

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At this time, inside the walls, there was a group of ’merchants’ from the West who were staying inside the inn.

They happened to have rented one near the clearing and could see the weapon.

They couldn’t see the damage it caused exactly, but based on the sound and the force it propelled, the damage on the other side must not be small.

If a shot killed a person or two from their side, that’d be enough to shake them. After all, the ’culprit’ was more than a hundred meters away and protected by a wall.

Who wanted to die without even seeing the opponent? To some, it would feel like they were being sacrificed, and that’d be enough to affect their momentum.

BANG!

Another explosion resounded nearby, and it was from the nearest weapon.

”Such powerful weapons!” Tanpo yelled, greed occupying his eyes. He was just a merchant, but he knew a good thing when he saw one.

He looked at his companions who were also greedy for it. ”When are you moving?”

”Soon,” Daga, one of the ’guards’ said. ”We will come out when the meatshields get inside.”

If Gurnam was here, he’d recognize half of them as minor guards from Voumi Town, though they were certainly acting as if they were big names here.

They seemed to have made deals with some merchant group to bring them in as ’guards’, so here they were, ready to help out in this war.

While there were other villages with similar people, the ones from this place were just far superior, not to mention the Village itself was attractive!

If they were to waste their war slots, they better take the best!

Anyway, Voumi Town… really wanted to win this war—and they would make sure it happened!

Diana Village - Village where Sarah (Gurnam’s GF) was from