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

The breaches continued pouring in, overpowering all the forces sent there to stop them! Even those who had arrived with him were only pushed back, unable to damage a single newcomer.

”WHAT IN THE ORCSHIT ARE YOU DOING?!” He screamed, realizing all the guards and the citizens stationed there had already been taken care of. Now, the only ones fighting were the new forces he sent!

How could this be?! Even if the guards were attacked, all his citizens were deployed so the breach should not be this big! The main forces should’ve at least been informed that there was already a leak before it got too big!

What trickery happened here?!

Useless!

”Block the breach!” He ordered. He glared at the citizens who were just staring, shivering from the tsunami of enemy forces coming in. ”If you don’t want to get kicked out, you’d better not show me you’re not doing anything!!”

And so, while scared and reluctant, the people—especially guards and slaves—lunged towards the enemies.

They had no choice after all.

Like this, the citizens, including the old and the young, raised their weapons, even if they were shaky, to meet the enemies head-on. He yelled order after order, summoning most people to where he was.

But the enemies were strong. Their equipment was all much superior to theirs, and they had shields, and their human tanks blocked his people’s attacks. When their weapons made contact with theirs, his people’s bone weapons would be destroyed.

Even his elite guards’ Class D weapons couldn’t go through, no matter how much they tried to slice!

”How can this be?” he yelled, unable to believe such a sharp contrast.

But he didn’t feel hopeless yet, after all, he had so many elementalists! That was why they were here, wasn’t it?

[Shower them with your elements, slaves!] He ordered this, and his elementalists showered the enemies with their embers and waterballs, and wind gusts.

However, elements appeared from the enemies’ side, too, showering them instead. His eyes widened as he saw fireballs, water blades, boulders, and so on appear.

They were not just big, they were powerful as well. He saw some elementalists with levels that weren’t too far away from his own guards, but they could use a technique to push away two or three guards!

He had elementalists, but these people’s abilities weren’t to the degree that he had ever seen.

If he had seen sprinkles of powers and elements before, now it was raining elements.

”Wha—”

While the enemies were hiding behind the shields, they rained down their own barrages on him and on his people.

The quality and strength of their elements weren’t anything he had seen at the village level.

For instance, the best he had ever seen were fireballs the size of fists. These people could send fireballs the size of a child. And many of them!

He watched as boulders pushed groups away, as water washed them. It was relentless, and he realized a huge number of expert elementalists were in the enemy ranks!

A huge number wasn’t even an accurate term. At least half of them were elementalists!!

They also moved as a group, and any openings that were almost formed by concentrated attacks from his side were quickly rectified and countered, unable to recover.

No matter what his side threw at them, the enemies would remain steadfast. He couldn’t even see a single person taken down. Even if one was hit, they’d either be fine by virtue of their equipment or have a healing potion from their spaces.

The swift show of power quickly shattered their momentum. The breaches grew deeper and wider, and Aseem was starting to realize how much they were being pushed back until they wouldn’t be able to get back up.

Was it the same case on the other side, or was that a distraction?

Surely they focused all their forces here? He looked at the aether letter, to order dispatch in this spot... only to see them asking for reinforcement!

[Sector A: Help us, please! Major breach! Hundreds have already entered!!]

[Sector C: Our area is more urgent!! Please! All...all our guards had either been taken down or fled! We are completely open!]

[Sector B: So many elementalists! They are too strong! Our elementalists are no match! They have captured them!]

Aseem’s face lost all blood, and his mind whirled, thinking about what to do to survive—what to do to keep what he had!

He should have hidden in the warehouse before the war started!

Sure, that would’ve been risky because the people would perhaps find a way to go against him after the war, and the momentum would’ve dropped even further.

But what of it? His life should come first!

He would also be blind as to what was happening in the war. How was he supposed to predict the enemy was this strong?

Instead of jumping in, he focused his attention on the outside, wondering how the enemies could breach so quickly and so widely. Were his sentries not working?

He needed to block more people from coming in! That was how they’d lose, by letting even more people in! Priority was always to keep more from coming, regardless of what chaos those who had already breached were causing inside the walls!

It was then he saw them.

He realized that the sentries really were useless, because he saw strongmen all over, catching every single sentry arrow that flew to their side.

There were also some incredibly strong elementalists, and a gust of wind from their side could easily neutralize a few sentry arrows, let alone the arrow rain his own archers had been trying to send down!

There was also a large fireball moving in a controlled manner, moving horizontally across a section of the walls, catching and burning the arrows before they could even get far from the sentry towers!!

The enemies also created steady stairs made of earth. They were stable and high enough so people didn’t have to expend much effort to jump over.

And...there were even half-orcs?

He saw them flying around, taking down every threat that attacked their side on the outside.

Entering his territory was like walking into a park...

Aseem couldn’t believe how... helpless he was.

What...what was attacking them?!