After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1929

Chapter 1929: The 28 Hours Before

Alterra

[Valov Town (Lv2) has waged a war against us. They had already made preemptive attacks, and suspicious activity will be strictly monitored. All traffic in and out of the Town would also be blocked, with the former requiring extra oaths. We hope for everyone’s understanding.]

[Everyone past Level 25 must report to the center within two hours. If unwilling, you will be asked to temporarily leave the premises while the war is ongoing. Otherwise, you will be hunted down and tagged as a suspicious individual.]

There were definitely a lot of spies below level 25, but that’d take too long as they now had thousands of people at that level, Alterran or otherwise.

Besides, their average combat ability (considering their guards’ equipment and tools) was already around this, so they could at least have higher chances of handling spies at this level.

It was much more efficient to monitor those who could really hurt them.

Zenno also said that bombs from dwarves required fire elementalists to work well, and this was proven by the latest addition to the prison, a high-level fire user.

If there were other bombs, then they already had a number of suspects for that. The ideal was that they’d enter their monitoring on their own; if not, then they’d use the remaining time to hunt them down.

In these couple of hours, the Elders were sent to finish their own work, the various standard operating procedures pre-war, except they were really more threatened this time and had an even higher sense of urgency. They had to assume there were more bombs around.

Oslo and Eugene went back to expedite some of the things their teams were developing. They also considered whether to take out a few prototypes and whether or not they were safe enough.

Althea went to her lab to begin studying the bomb shrapnels along with the array team, while Mathilda went to create some new in-war rules, especially now that the enemy had much more powerful weapons that could damage them even when their forces hadn’t reached the walls yet.

Some people, including Garan, scoured the territory to try to find out more about the bombs. They found the rest of the shrapnel—though it was more like a hollow sphere—hoping to find ways to detect bombs through them.

"Should we have kidnapped the dwarves in the end?" Mao couldn’t help but mutter at the side. He was there when they encountered the three teenage dwarves.

Since they had already seen and interacted with dwarves, Mao couldn’t help but feel a bit of regret about letting them go, especially now that they needed them.

As it was now, they had no idea how many bombs the enemies had, nor did they know how to handle them well.

If they had dwarves now, perhaps they could’ve gotten the detectors.

The unknown was quite disturbing, after all. Not knowing where the bombs could get planted, not knowing when they would get detonated, was disturbing.

The others, fortunately, gave voices of reason. "There wouldn’t have been any use to develop the dwarves as an enemy. We would’ve encountered the dwarven weapons before this war if we really took them."

Being attacked for luring innocent (bearded) teen dwarves was definitely not something they wanted to see.

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