After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 478

Bright Village.

The war was over and, as agreed upon, Micheal and those who wished to leave were allowed to leave the premises—if they wanted to—with their lives.

However, as they signed an agreement, Micheal and the others also had to sign an agreement wherein they would leave all their aggressive weapons in the territory—including the bomb.

They were also stripped of anything that could defend them outside the territory.

This was basically still killing them.

So it wasn’t a surprise that not many people came with Micheal in their exile. At least they were much safer within the territory walls, compared to the outside filled with monsters, bugs, poison plants, and a hundred other dangers.

It had only been a few months since the Migration. Their experiences when they got transferred were still fresh in their minds.

They simply couldn’t find the loyalties to risk their lives like that. This was just human nature and Micheal didn’t blame them at all.

What’s more, the ones who stayed just felt lucky enough they weren’t like so many of the other survivors who were taken to the enemy territory to become slaves.

Slaves.

Slavery was such a distant concept they had only encountered in history books. But now it was so real and so very possible, like a branding iron hovering over them, ready to mark them as such at any time.

Their concept was a little abstract, but they had heard of its horrors. They would have to follow whatever was asked of them, to do whatever, to act however their owners wanted to.

If they were asked to eat shit, they would, if they were asked to throw themselves in front of sentries, they still would.

It felt like they gained a new life by retaining their freedom. How could they risk that?

They would rather stay with these men than lose their lives or become slaves. At least these people were strong, and the ’master’ territory was stonger.

However, most of them were humans who had friendships with the people ’heading to their deaths’.

They felt sadness and guilt as they watched their former lord—who used to be so handsome and unattainable—drag himself out of the territory. There was a pitiful number of people who came with him, including Tom and little Lily. The only comfort was Juno was with them, at least.

It was amazing that an Aborigine followed the former lord when he was technically not hired by him anymore.

The other aborigines either left during the war or stayed behind to continue with their jobs. Anyway, to them, it didn’t matter if the person at the helm changed—they just needed to continue with their jobs. An Aborigine like Juno was extremely rare, especially in villages where people were ’nothing’.

Eventually, the small group of people headed out, towards the dangerous forests without anything to defend themselves with.

The crowd of their former allies felt guilty, sad, and regretful—

But… they all had to live too right?