After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 341

They shut the box closed, not knowing the piece of parchment would be a tool for at least a dozen people to find their loved ones.

It also saved even more lives by virtue of giving hope.

The group soon finished cleaning up the resting place, making sure that it was as near as to how it was when they got there.

However, they had not finished packing up when they heard running footsteps coming in their direction.

There were no yells or screams though, and their pace indicated they were simply in a rush and not being chased. So, although the soldiers were guarded, it was not so tense.

A group of about fifty people were running to their location and they flinched when they saw it occupied. "We’re just using a small part." One said from the get-go upon seeing their physiques.

The soldiers didn’t mind of course, but they were a bit surprised at the naturalness people arrived here with, despite their apparent tension.

It seemed that this place had been used a lot, and people had an unspoken agreement on how to handle it.

It was just that someone from Bright frowned and walked towards the new group.

"Aren’t you from Vismont?" Ron asked, he was on the tour with him back in Altera.

The tense man relaxed when he recognized Ron. He lightened up like seeing an old friend. "Ah, yes, we escaped. Barely." He paused, "It was so scary. So many monster groups of levels four and five kept attacking the wall.

"If the lord hadn’t chosen to upgrade the wall again after everyone’s help, we’d have fallen an hour in."

"How is it now?" Ron asked. It wasn’t that he really cared about another territory. He cared more about the fact that it could easily happen to Bright as well.

"When we escaped through the other gate, the wall was still going strong." He said, "We also encountered monsters on the way, but thankfully we were rescued on time."

Another skinny man nodded, eyes filled with admiration. "Thank goodness we encountered the people of Altera."

Everyone in the mercenary team froze. "Altera?"

The man obviously did not notice what was wrong. "Yes, our lord requested their help and they came. That fireball was so.. magical."

"Ms. Althea is as beautiful as always."

"Althea?!"

The skinny man squealed like a girl as his thin shoulders were held by a strange man’s iron grip.

"You mean she’s there?!" The man asked, low voice reverberating, and the thin man nodded wildly in terror.

"Where?"

The man shakily pointed at the path he was on. "A-about a few h-hour r-run from here…"

"I’ll go ahead," was all Garan said, eyes fixed in a direction. The next moment, he instantaneously disappeared everyone’s from sight.

…

When he arrived at Vismont about half an hour later, the battle was almost over, with the initial batch of level 5s long dealt with and now a new more powerful batch was being killed.

They were level 7s and 8s and Matthew was thankful they only arrived when the Alterans were already there, otherwise his new level 3 wall—with extremely sparse sentries due to the lack of funds even after so much solicitation—would definitely have given way early on.