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

How arrogant!!

Victor—along with many others—had been guarding the area where the array was nearest to. They had quite a few level 12s and 13s in their midst, so all hands were needed.

This was why when he saw an emergency flare, he could not go there immediately. This was a similar case with the other soldiers. They separated themselves equidistantly along the wall in hopes of balancing out the defenses as much as possible—knowing that the slightest openings would be taken advantage of.

He hoped that someone would be able to get there on time, but it looked like the enemy was attacking aggressively everywhere that even Mao and the others were preoccupied elsewhere.

Of course, there was also the fact that Daga and the others chose this area specifically because it had relatively weaker guards.

Victor didn’t have the time to hesitate. He looked at the guards and the citizens there. ”Focus on the leaks! I will deal with these bastards!” he said as if the three men weren’t his level or higher, and his hands burst to flames and he launched towards them without fear.

He jumped in the middle of the enemy crowd, immediately bursting into flames. The fire immediately surrounded him and hit the enemies head-on.

”AHHH!”

”Ouch!!”

”Damn!!”

Many of the enemies caught fire and tried to run from him, but it gave an opening for the other locals to attack them instead. Victor also didn’t take a break and sent a barrage of attacks to his enemies as well.

The stronger ones immediately tried to compose themselves and focused on defending, but a few of them were still injured in the end. Several were stabbed to death, while Daga had no choice but to step back and cover his back against the wall.

Even Daga’s Class D defense equipment was a bit singed. He patted the fire down but he smirked at him, though the redness in his eyes betrayed his annoyance.

”Heh, not bad,” the man said. He had a rat’s face. If a mouse became human, he’d look like this guy. It also meant his smirk was particularly grating.

”But are you sure you should be giving so much? You’re already panting.”

Victor frowned, but he held on to his weapon, ignoring the sweat that was dripping down his face, some even to his eyes, making it sting a bit.

The two of them stared at each other with their weapons up, while the rest of the fighters around them stabbed at each other, starting a battle royal with both sides adding forces to take on the other in bulk.

More and more enemies would get inside, while the awakened from their side had no choice but to rain down their elements, hoping their mana and their mana potions would last them the rest of the war.

It was like chaos was piling up, and eventually so would bodies.

”AH!”

Victor’s attention was pulled away from Daga as he heard his guards’ screams. He saw that some of the stronger aborigines had pushed against a team, about to behead them.

Victor had no choice but to head there and defend, rescuing his guards. Daga—like a rat—immediately dashed forward, his blade parallel to the ground, its tip heading straight to his stomach.

Before he could reach him though, a small boulder of earth flew in his direction.

He cursed as he had to change his direction. However, because the momentum was so strong, he fell out of balance as he did so, falling on his back a few meters away.

Bang!

Further, while the earth didn’t even graze him, his eyes widened when he looked up and saw the silhouette of a man with flaming feet appear above him.

”AHHH!” he screamed as he felt the heavy step on his stomach. His eyes twitched in pain, and he immediately threw one of his weapons from his space above him.

He coughed and held his stomach. Fortunately, he was wearing a Class D armor so he didn’t sustain much damage.

He took this chance to compose himself and respond to the attacks, and he frowned when he saw the other fire user had dealt with a lot of people with the earth user.

At the same time, some of the remaining Level 13s escaped a mob of locals, joining him.

At this point, they knew that they could do most damage when they worked together. After all, the enemies obviously excelled in teamwork. It wouldn’t do to be mobbed by a team—regardless of the level discrepancies!

They were learning this the hard way!

Meanwhile, Victor slashed at another enemy while he drank one of the mana potions in his space. He took a breath of relief when he saw Benny and Ken (who was now dealing with Daga) with him.

”Boss! Are you alright?!” Benny yelled, small pebbles floating around him so no one would bother going against him when there were far less troublesome enemies in the area.

Ken had no choice but to step back too because Daga now had people with him, and they were even more formidable than before.

There were about a handful of people past level 13 here, and it was obvious they were not from Inko. ”Voumi Town?”

”Oh? So you know?” Daga said, interested. ”Well, regardless, it will be your fall—”

His words were the signal for the two sides to clash blades again, starting another chaotic battle royal among the elites.

Victor and the others did have trouble, but they didn’t falter. Even if they were outnumbered, they were from the special forces after all!

Clack!

Slash!

Clank! Clank!

The exchange of blows went on for a good quarter of an hour, and Daga and the others were shocked that they hadn’t taken down the men despite the level and number differences!

These bastards had extremely good equipment for a Village!

These were superior Class D weapons! Victor even destroyed one of his two Class D weapons at some point! Those were damned expensive!!

”You’re going to have to pay for that!” Daga yelled as he took his spare weapon, about to go berserk.

What they didn’t know was that Victor and the main people here received good equipment from Alterra, not inferior to the ones Alterra’s own guards had.

Victor and Henry, even, were gifted with Protection Charms, so even after so long, Victor was pretty much okay.

After a while, both sides had begun to sustain a lot of injuries, but it was obvious Daga’s side was sustaining more. Worse: The entry of their side also slowed down, and they were running out of people to throw forward as shields!

If this went on, Daga and the others knew they’d be surrounded!

This caused them to be very agitated and someone even started pushing a teammate forward to block Benny’s attack!

This destroyed the already-fragile teamwork that they had, shifting the momentum to Victor’s side.

Seeing the enemy side weaken, Victor looked at his teammates and made hand signals only they understood.

Immediately, they created a triangle, placing the five people within it. Using a lot of their mana, they burst their elements, drowning them in their elements!

”AHHHH!”

”STOP IT!”

Before they could escape the triangle though, the soldiers quickly lifted their weapons, using all their strengths to slash down on their enemies—finally beheading them.