After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1977

Chapter 1977: Unfortunate Aftermath of the War

In the room next to her was Gwen.

Like her, because the hospital was a bit far away and it was an emergency situation, she was carried to the Sanctuary by her husband.

[Unable to recover the fetus]

Ryan paled, while the others could only look down or close their eyes, as if they were also in pain.

Ryan’s hands clenched into fists, so tightly they were bleeding. His ears were ringing in despair, his heart in pain for his wife’s suffering, and his body shivering in regret.

He shouldn’t have let her fight, no matter how much she begged. When she pushed through without them knowing, he should’ve done everything to stop her.

Mathilda was also crying at the side. She blamed herself for what happened to her daughter.

The Ministers would be the main targets of the assassin squads sent inside. Naturally, Mathilda was one of the more popular ones. The forces that attacked her were just a little less than what the Research Center had to defend against.

The difference was that she was always stationed in the guard station, which was also heavily defended due to the Aether Letter Station inside. It was pretty much the equivalent of a command center, sending word all over the territory. With the recent improvements, they could send messages even farther away.

The enemy had studied them well, so it was inevitable that they would figure out this function. So, the target in the guard station was Mathilda, as well as taking over such a critical area.

Gwen went over to be part of the defending team. While Gwen herself had gained a high level compared to her peers, and her coordination with her team was exquisite, it was definitely not enough against the powerhouses sent to deal with the Guard Station.

Even with the dense sentries and powerhouses assigned there, the enemies simply overprepared, even more than they initially estimated, so losses were inevitable.

To say that the fight was bloody was an understatement. They won, but a third of Gwen’s squad had already perished, and almost everyone else were critically injured.

Mathilda covered her tear-stricken face. Even if they won such a dangerous war with what the aborigines called ’minimal’ casualties, they couldn’t feel that way at all.

Not enough, she said to herself, they’re still not strong enough!

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About two hours before the 28-hour period ended, the largest breach had officially been closed up. The ones inside became isolated, dealt with by the Alterrans rushing over to help out, doing wheel battles to minimize the casualties.

The breaches were blocked by earth elementalists and stone elementalists, like Reno, creating a wall in front of it. Before, it was a struggle (and a waste of energy) to do so because the other side had their earth elementalists, too.

Battling by building a wall, then having the enemy take it down, over and over, was a waste of effort.

Now, the archers and long-ranged fighters had specifically targeted enemy elementalists first, and after several hours of fighting, the enemy side had lost effective elementalists.

The war was still not over, but many of them could take a bit of a breather.

They estimated that the war was already over now. They had seen the enemies sob, cursing that they had actually become slaves.

However, there was still no announcement, and even if there were, they would still remain alert.

Announcements were sent by the Lord, at their discretion and timing, after they received the system’s notification.

The fact that no one had done so was either that the Lord had something planned or that they could not make an announcement.

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