After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 473

His eyebrows furrowed and looked at Gingo, trying to think where exactly it all went wrong. Sure, the enemy was well-prepared, but Bright Village was in no way weak compared to other villages. Even if it was defeated, it shouldn’t have been this… crushing, this helpless.

He looked at the man in front of him. Just how much of the chaos that happened before and during the war his doing?

Micheal opened his lord panel to see the list of population, his blue eyes scanning the names, as well as the loyalties. The average was still around 60s.

And Gingo’s… was as is.

This made his blonde brows furrow. "How… your loyalty…"

"There’s a treasure that was lent to me by my friends, allowing me to add 50 to my loyalties," Gingo kindly supplied, obviously not caring what he heard at this point.

Juno frowned at this. He had heard of it, but he had never seen such a tool himself, as it was something mostly found in cities or higher Towns. It simply didn’t occur to him to mention it to the lord, and he blamed himself for it.

"My lord, don’t blame yourself. They are too cunning. No one would’ve predicted it," Juno said, weapon out and ready to fight the others as needed.

It was also Gingo who was the main voice against calling Altera for. After all, he had been in charge of the Treasury and he had one of the biggest voices regarding what they could afford.

How could they have known he was against the call for help because he was planning something so sinister?

"On the contrary, I should apologize, my Lord," Juno said, heaving a deep breath. "This information should have come from me."

Micheal shook his head. This really couldn’t be blamed on their side at all.

"So loyalties in the panel may not be trusted, then," Micheal mumbled, though internally thinking of what to do with the aftermath.

His people among the military force were either dead or had turned. What of the people?

Perhaps, he should’ve let them run to Altera? However, he shook his head in the end. They had noticed a number of people went missing right before the war.

In retrospect, considering how early they made a mess of their infrastructure, they might have been pruning their forces outside the territory early on as well.

Micheal only looked at the level 16 Juno before turning to the enemies. Unfortunately, Fargo had for some reason plenty of that level as well. However, the advantage of being the defending territory was that enemies beyond the level cap weren’t allowed to enter the walls. They could cause chaos outside, sure, but inside was a prohibited area.

This meant that Juno was the strongest within the walls at this time, and they naturally couldn’t be careless.

Of course, it wasn’t that they didn’t try to take him down before the war, primarily through poison. But Juno had always been distrusting in nature and he always took care of his meals on his own, making that plan fail.

It would’ve been a hard fight if they fought fairly, and now that there were so many attacks from all directions, Bright couldn’t fight back at all.

There were barely any deaths on the other side, while on his side not only Bruno, but also Dig died brutal deaths.

Dig even received a bullet from Gingo himself.