After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 2103

Chapter 2103: Wreaking Havoc in Quo Town

SMASH!

BANG!

"AHHH!"

"Ahh! Help!!"

Because the enemy forces—especially the proud elementalist orcs—were so focused on hitting the couple, the half-orcs ended up going berserk or throwing attacks with reckless abandon after missing so many times.

This was even more so with the warfreak orcs who could kick and punch recklessly without much grace (except for some innately graceful types), but with a lot of power.

Once they got hit with dopamine from a successful hit, some of the more aggressive ones would continue attacking the nearest ’enemy’. But what if the enemy kept escaping, at least right before their attacks connected? It was very much like whack-a-mole, except they often hit their own allies by accident.

As such, except for a few hits that were dissipated by equipment, the Althea trio had avoided most major attacks from then on.

Where else would those attacks land? Everywhere else, of course.

BANG!

BOOM!

SLAM!

More and more of the locals and the properties were hit by the barrage of attacks. The buildings were not spared either.

Most of the system’s residential buildings were those from the territory’s time as a village. That was to say, the buildings were low-level, so they could easily be damaged compared to the usual buildings found in more established towns.

Like this, the battleground where the couple was very quickly looked like ruins.

Garan kept most of the enemies at bay while Althea handled the rest. Garan had the level 30 human to handle. Similar to Virion, he was also surrounded by weaker enemies, aiming to weaken his defenses while the powerhouse dealt more critical shots.

Althea was fine with minimal assistance from her husband. Most of the remaining enemies attacking were below level 15, though a lot of them were orcs and half-orcs, so their strength equivalent would be level 16 to 18 humans or so.

Because she was alone, she could just weave through the crowd and get them to attack each other. Althea’s disguise skills worked wonders in this situation.

It helped that orcs were aggressive and not particularly observant. Otherwise, if it were human powerhouses around, she might have been detected since she was so close by.

As she ran through the crowd, using her vines or her earth skates to move agilely around, she would even send feints—that is to say, pretending to be in one spot to gather aggro, when in reality she wasn’t there anymore (maybe never was).

"AHHH!"

"Why did you hit ME!?"

"She was there I swear! Why didn’t you see her!?"

Althea found this method of hurting the enemies without consuming much of her own quite fun. This was probably the only advantage of being so outnumbered.

She even took advantage of some ponds from leaked water tanks, pools of blood, and so on to do her now-favorite water-reflecting techniques.

Though her grasp of her water element wasn’t to the point of creating tsunamis (yet), manipulating several small ponds here and there was no problem as long as they were not too far from her.

When the enemies got close to her, she quickly found herself a blind spot and buried herself underground. If she could find a crack—even if it was small—and she could see an enemy, she could even gather the water ponds she could sense and wrap them around someone’s head.

As such, water balls appeared and tried to drown some enemies.

Enemies: !!!

At this time, her earthwalls were still up, creating obstacles here and there, and some people were still tied up in her vines, and movements slowed down.

The enemies gaped. Just how many elements does this woman have?!

The orcs were a bit lucky, and their physique could make up for the level gap and not be tortured with a few attacks, but the human slaves were not so lucky.

To escape the drowning water, the orcs had to be faster than Althea, so she could not keep its shape and keep it in place. It was much like holding up a drink in front of someone walking, asking them to drink it.

The humans several levels below her were helpless and lost consciousness before they could actually run away. It was the orcs that were troublesome to follow. They could even go up and down trees to make her lose focus.

Plai yelled at the civilians and even the orcs there. While the enemy was being mobbed now, it wasn’t enough. He believed that if everyone went to work, how could the enemies not be overwhelmed?!

The strongest was only around level 30! How could an entire town not take them down instantly? Them lasting so long was already humiliating enough!

Aren’t the rest of the orcs supposed to be eager to fight?!

Normally, orcs would indeed jump into a fight, but there were two types of warfreak orcs.

One would be the orcs who thrived in beating people up. The current situation wasn’t particularly attractive to them because they could barely see the targets. Because every orc was a close-range combatant, this meant that they’d have to go through their own people, possibly through violence, to reach the enemies.

Another kind was those that thrived on challenge. Mobbing one to so many wasn’t exactly fun for them. These were the reasons why the orcs didn’t automatically jump into the fray.

Now that the leaders had spoken, everyone nearby followed with varying degrees of motivation. Soon, they started to push Althea and the two back, simply through their numbers.

Althea soon found herself standing behind her husband, who had just dealt with the level 30 opponent and was now dealing with the mob.

As the orcs rushed over to grab them, Althea suddenly remembered some words of the orcs outside, as well as some things she had observed herself.

First of all, from her observations, it seemed like only half-orcs could be planted with the elementalist core. This made sense. From the genetic point of view, only humans could be elementalists, so half-orcs theoretically had this chance.

But orcs wouldn’t.

So what was the issue of missing orcs?

It was here that Althea had an idea. She looked at the crowd around them, even taking out the sound amplifier from her space.

"Don’t you want to know the truth? THEY’RE EXPERIMENTING ON ORCS, TOO! They want your strength!"

As soon as she said this, someone from behind the crowd cursed at her. "SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!"

Her eyebrows rose. She was actually guessing, but Plai’s reaction confirmed it.

They really were experimenting on Orcs, too!