After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1004

A/N: As promised, we’re getting an extra 3 chaps (total of 5) chapters today! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT, EVERYONE! Hopefully, we retain it until the month ends. *prays*

Off to the chapter! Enjoyyy~

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Helios’ eyes widened as the monster went straight to him. The mercenaries saw this and turned cold.

"Watch out! Get out of there!" They yelled, and they knew it’d be too late for them to come and rescue.

Damnit! If the customer got killed at this point, it could be counted as their oversight. This meant they could get punished and their mercenary team could get penalized with the all-important Mercenary Points!!

Causing their Mercenary Team to move even farther from the Class B qualification—which was already years away—would be a shame!

Fortunately for them, Helios wasn’t the type to freeze in front of a vehemont. He managed to avoid it in the last minute, and he dashed towards one of the depressions they encountered before.

He laid down flat and it was just deep enough to cover him this way, and he immediately created a metal sheet to cover him.

ROARRR!

The metal sheet reverberated from the loud roar, and soon he could feel its weight. Helios used a good portion of his mana to reinforce it. He increased its thickness and added small posts to support it.

Bang! Bang! _{frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓}

Clank!

He gasped when a portion of the metal sheet dented a little, hitting his lower stomach.

"UGH!" he gasped, feeling his lower body slowly getting squished. He couldn’t reinforce it like this either. What if he ended up adding material to stab himself, instead?

Shit!

For a moment, he thought it’d continue to dent until it finally impaled him. However, after a few intense moments passed by, the pressure suddenly lifted, and he could hear muffles of sounds and yells above the ground.

Helios could vaguely hear the fight that happened soon after. It was safe to assume that the mercenaries finally got to his place to deal with the monster.

He was breathing heavily as he lay down, taking advantage of this time to repair his sheet. At his pitiful level, he knew he’d only be a burden outside, so he just decided to hide effectively.

Helios could finally breathe out as the metal poking him disappeared. He waited patiently for the fight above to end, desperately hoping they didn’t bring the fight to his area because he didn’t have a lot of mana left.

When rhythmic knocks sounded against the sheet, followed by someone saying a muffled ’it’s okay now, come out’, Helios finally retracted it and heaved in a deep breath of his much-needed oxygen.

He saw that everyone was alive and well, although looking quite haggard. Enok looked at him in interest as he extended his arm to help him up.

"You’re an elementalist?" he asked as he pulled Helios up. "Where did you say you were from again?"

They naturally introduced each other. However, they saw his level and the fact that he was from a village, so they didn’t find any interest in his background. They just assumed he was a village noble or something with money to burn.

They didn’t even think much about the ’broat’ and ’bikes’ he mentioned to the old Beast Carriage driver a few days back, thinking it was probably just one or two contraptions village nobles used to traverse the interior of the territory.

Helios’ eyes sparkled, seeing their curiosity. "Alterra Village," he said. "I’ll show you around when we get there."

The men didn’t know what would be needed to see in a village but they didn’t say so out loud.