After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 469

They arrived when the Ferrol Annual Market Fair was already over, but there were still plenty of territories that stayed. For the civilians, this meant an even bigger market than expected, for the guards, it meant more parties to investigate.

They had been tasked to go on rotation to investigate these territories, as they had higher chances of going after the Terran territories than others.

For their team, half would always remain in the town to roam around and investigate and monitor the happenings. When it happened, Helios was making his rounds after dark.

Ferrol Town was a rich town. While it didn’t buy a lighthouse, there was still a relatively high number of street lights, especially in the main parts of the town. Because of this, there were areas that had decent activity.

Helios was, unfortunately, not assigned to these places. He pulled the short stick and was assigned to the less dense areas with minimal lighting. Fortunately, it was nothing Helios couldn’t handle.

Helios and Hugo actually came from a line of modern mercenaries. Unlike most though, they (mostly) worked within the confines of the law.

Back then, they were often thrown into the dark forest as training. This was really nothing.

He looked around to find any suspicious activities. While the rules forbid him from entering inside the buildings, he could still record who met who, where this and that went, et cetera.

Sometime in the middle of the night though, he heard of a subtle commotion.

His eyebrows rose as he immediately went in that direction, jumping from roof to roof until he finally got to the source of the noise.

There, he saw a woman being dragged, inebriated with something, and his heroic side couldn’t help but want to help.

Helios took out one of his knives from space, throwing it to the beast with accuracy, hitting it right in the eye.

ROAR!

It roared, jumping up due to the pain of the sting. It didn’t really embed deeply, but it definitely shocked it.

Its roar successfully distracted everyone, and the tanned man took full advantage of it. Next, Helios sent another knife to one of the men and he had no choice but to let the girl go.

"AH!"

"What?" His companion asked, but immediately yelled when he was also stabbed. "AH! WHO?!"

They weren’t able to pursue it though because the beast had already gone berserk. It wasn’t even in that much pain, but this reaction was a testament to the quality of the monster and the quality of its taming.

Helios took advantage of the dark. Wearing dark-colored clothing every guard had, he jumped down to ground level to carry the woman.

He pulled her in, covering her sufficiently in its cover. He sprinted for a few seconds until they were sufficiently far, carrying her to the nearest inn.

He paid for the room and carried her upstairs. He was planning to leave her there to let her pass the night on her own.