After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1107

Althea decided to observe for a few more minutes before going into defensive mode again. She had limited mana anyway, and it was best to use her overpowered weapons against stronger monsters, particularly those that would still give her experience points.

"Anyway, back to positions!" Mao yelled, seeing as more and more monsters were piling up below by a few meters.

After the monsters got near, they would prefer to attack the walls, just because the ’aether’ was stronger there. It was why the people desperately tried running towards the wall in hopes of losing the monster’s attention.

However, how easy could it be? Except for the first people who managed to flush themselves against the walls—some even managing to dig a small corner for themselves—the rest were not so lucky.

It was really a gruesome sight. Whether it was monsters or humans, they were trying to go up the unscalable 5-meter-walls—which, at this point, could only be done by piling up on one another.

There would be humans trying to climb above monsters. Some would succeed, while some would only get swallowed from below. Similarly, there were also monsters stabbed by people trying to use them to go up.

They were so desperate they often forgot there were still several layers of obstacles above the walls.

"Hey did you start counting?" Luis-the-obstacle asked, holding up his sword after waving a fire whip downwards, causing a lot of beasts to slide down.

He couldn’t directly attack people because he was way past the level cap, but he could definitely get beasts to crush the humans in his stead.

"I think I’ll win the bet," he said, counting the number of humans still moving. There were a lot—and most of them used their brains very well when it came to hiding, avoiding attacks, and so on.

Mao’s eyebrows furrowed. "Huh?" he asked, narrowing his eyes as he looked down. "Obviously there are more monsters right now, right?" _{ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com}

Luis shook his head. "Have you forgotten? There are fewer monsters in areas not in the gates. Of course there are more monsters in this place."

At this, Mao paled, and he looked down. Piles of earth floated around him, intimidating humans. He couldn’t attack them directly but he could use the stones to push them back—right into the mouths of monsters. "I will protect my 10 Gold!"

The battles had gotten near, and a lot of people were well within earshot.

Further, because Mao and Luis stood a couple of meters apart and were having their own fights (i.e. obstacles), they tended to yell at each other.

So the enemies heard this bet loud and clear. "YOU BAS—"

It naturally made them very angry, but also very distracted. One of the men there—a level 18—wanted to throw a sword at them, but he ended up losing balance as he stepped on something.

When he fell down, he lost all sight—because his head was eaten up by a monster that appeared out of nowhere.

"GAHHH!"

"One down," Mao said, nodding.

Luis then lifted his sword and sent a flame blade and split a level 8 monster in half. "One down, too."

Mao sneered and started to target the nearby humans one by one too, and so did Luis.

The others just rolled their eyes and focused on the battles at hand. The monsters were starting to jump dangerously close to them now, and it was only a matter of a few moments before their own fights would start.

"Ready!" they yelled, and everyone was prepared to attack. Their sights were mostly directly below though, forgetting that there was a beast type that specialized in distant attacks.

Suddenly, a shadow appeared right by the battlement, right above Mao’s head.