After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1106

Yana and Lola distracted the babies by bringing them to the play space. Maya and the other kids also scooted over and played with them, effectively distracting them long enough so she could leave.

Althea went up the bunker’s tall stairs and to the bright sky outside. She took a deep breath. She really preferred the open space like this. Next time, she’d add some plants or vertical gardens in the bunker to make it less suffocating.

As she emerged from the tunnels though, a furry critter jumped over. "Woof!!"

She smiled, lifting her hand to pet the dog. He was large now, almost at her height. His fur was very fluffy and soft to touch, and it was relaxing in its own right.

"Woof! Woof!" Fufi barked, rubbing his head deeper into her petting. Obviously, he quite liked it.

"I’ll depend on you guys to protect the kids, okay?" she said, and she also looked at the couple of guards behind him. They were all assigned at the entrance of the bunker, prepared to protect it at the cost of their lives.

She never asked this of them of course, but she could see it in their eyes that they were willing to do so.

As the Lord, how could she not want to spoil them a bit?

After the war, she took note of giving a few more bonuses to the guard team. She didn’t say any of this though. Instead, she turned to the side to look at Oslo. "I’d really rather you stay here," she said.

Oslo smiled, before shaking his head. "With all due respect, my ability would be far more useful in the main warzone.

Oslo was originally assigned to this guard team. However, even if he had limited mobility as a person above the level limit, his ability to trap people was particularly useful.

He could also kill beasts directly, which could really save lives. So, she had to agree in the end.

Mathilda was also outside, followed by a few personal guards—including her daughter, Gwen and her husband Ryan. She naturally couldn’t hide when her main abilities were so useful to keeping peace even during wars.

It was a bit risky, but her presence outside had already outed two spies who wanted to attack her. Ryan’s shieldsman profession was really useful, especially the skill called [Automatic Cover] which would activate his ability the moment a threat appeared.

Of course, how effective this was still depended on his ability and remaining mana.

Mathilda and Althea greeted each other before heading back to their stations.

"Let’s go," she said to Oslo, who followed closely behind her.

"Time to join in this war."

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They arrived at the Eastern gate a couple of minutes later. The chaos outside was intense and the area right under the walls was filled with humans and beasts trying to get into the walls and kill each other as they did so.

Her eyes twitched when she saw Mao and a few guards with marks of cheese on their hands and mouths but she didn’t say anything.

Even if they appeared a bit careless, she knew they had the ability to recover before any damage would be done.