After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 1675

Chapter 1675: Iron Mountains Attacks! (Part 2)
Friends were ordered to kill enemies from the other territory on sight, even if those enemies were people they had been through life-and-death with, and even if they were family members they had been looking for.

No one could sleep after hearing this story, and the investigators from the intelligence team had red eyes. It was unknown whether they were red from anger, or from crying, or both.

Many of their guards and some of those in the intelligence team had once been part of Calma Village, too. One could only imagine how heavy they were feeling after hearing all this.

This happened only a few weeks ago. This could mean that Gocki had gotten more powerful after integrating two new territories and getting more elementalists and fighter slaves.

However, according to their intelligence, it was not exactly so.

For one, most of the people were still recovering from injury. Further, slaves were generally not given medical aid and left to handle their wounds on their own.

The higher the level, the better one’s recovery rate was. This was the same rule with elementalists, who had even better recovery rates than people with higher levels than them.

Therefore, even if they had more slaves, the overall firepower of the territory that could be readily mobilized did not necessarily follow.

Gocki also lost a lot of money hiring the mercenaries. Further, a lot of the post-payments to the mercenaries had to be in the form of elementalist slaves, hundreds of them.

Overall, the enemies who attacked them back then were all suffering at this time.

If they hadn’t heard of the Terran lives that had been lost, knowing that their enemies were going against each other like that would’ve made the former Calma people quite happy.

Speaking of the Calma Villagers, they were among the people going through the array this time.

They arrived at Alterra as refugees, and because Alterra was already fairly saturated, a lot of them had actually settled down in the Iron Mountains, which had a lot of migration benefits to encourage Terrans to move there.

After all, comparing both satellites, Iron Mountains was less attractive because it was so far away, it was surrounded by aborigine villages, and the majority of the population were aborigines.

The infrastructure had also been improved after being taken over, but most of the essentials had already been laid out even before they came to this world, so it was really far inferior to Limestone Valley, let alone Alterra.

Other than them, those who settled in Alterra also went with the caravans to head to this place, just in time to get some rest before the war.

Now, they all stood in front of where the array was estimated to appear within the next few minutes, since the village only had one gate. There were more than ten thousand of them this time, which was a good amount for a village war.

This was led by several level 15s, mostly hired from the Town Center at Alterra. Overall, the current forces Iron Mountains were sending was definitely beyond what the enemy could’ve imagined.

After all, the Class E mercenary teams, averaging in levels 13 to 15, would generally only send out a few dozen people for hundreds of gold. Most villages could only hire a batch or two, and that’d drain a good part of their treasury.

Compare this to Level 15s that were already integrated into the forces. Not only were they more in quantity, but most had practiced teamwork with the guards and citizens by this time.

Basically, everyone strong within the level cap was sent out, while the people beyond the level cap remained in the territory to guard it.

Cassas, the former Lord of Calma Village, was not among these powerhouses, but he was definitely a leader and was assigned to fire them up before heading to war.

He looked at his people, as well as the rest of their allies. By this time, because the token had already been promised to him, he was allowed to act as if he were already the Lord again. Of course, a lot of liability would also fall on him.

“This is a war not just of vengeance but of recovery. We’re simply here to take back what is ours!

“And more than land—we will take back our brethren and our pride!!”

“And to our allies, this is a mission to save our brethren and increase our own strength. We will join the solidarity for the betterment of mankind.

“To Terran!” he yelled, raising his arm.

This war was beyond Alterra, and they all knew this.

This was the first war fought for their entire civilization—or what was left of it.

The Terrans nodded, raising their hands, chanting along with him. “TO TERRAN!!”

As for the aborigines, many of them also joined in the chants. They had plenty of Terran friends, after all, and they were also being swept away by the energy.

Interestingly, a lot of these aborigines were locals in Iron Mountains and had been some of the more cynical members at the start. Now, they were joining what would be a war for another civilization.

That said, for them, this war was for their peace. Although many of the guards were taken aback that they would have to go to war every month—and as the attacking side, no less—they were surprisingly calm about it.

After they saw how their territory prepared to protect them—how they were equipped well in terms of items and skills—even the aborigines were convinced.

These people would go to war for others; didn’t that mean they’d be willing to do the same for them?

At the same time…they just wanted to be part of it. For most of their lives, they lived for their own survival. They did not know what it felt like to live a meaningful life as part of something so big.

Maybe even their children could live better lives than they do.

So, Terran or not, everyone was quite passionate to follow through because they knew that this was something that could change so many lives, now and in the future.