After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1998

Chapter 1998: Mercenaries vs Beasts

The quickbeast was a relatively rare monster found in this area. It was a small critter with a disgusting appearance characterized not by its strength, but by its speed. The power of its attacks were also enhanced by the momentum of its speed.

It was said that if one was below level 15, had average equipment, and had the misfortune of getting targeted by this creature, they’d probably lose their heads from a single headbutt.

The person they saved was called Lipin, level 22 at age 25, from team #1, also known as the Loop Mercenary Team. The mercenary was based at the other end of the region, a few thousand kilometers away. It wasn’t too far, but not close either.

Lipin was the type of guy who had been spoiled by his parents and had been willful ever since. He sneaked into his father’s mercenary team for experience. He hadn’t done anything heinous, but he certainly caused a lot of blood pressure to spike.

When he insisted on doing a mission because someone questioned his manhood, the people who accompanied him were chosen by draw lots, and those who were chosen looked like they were about to die.

This was actually Lipin’s first mission. Having never experienced a lot of obstacles in life, he had grown quite arrogant. He was also protected well by the team, but after a while, there were inevitable cracks in the defenses, allowing for some accidents to happen.

If the person themselves didn’t have some self-defence capabilities, they wouldn’t have been able to escape some things. Anyway, this was the closest brush with death he had experienced so far.

He looked at the beautiful woman with shining eyes filled with awe!

"T-Thank you!"

"Just do your job," she said before turning away to deal with other mobs. She obviously did not want to talk with him at all.

Lipin realized that the impression he gave was horrible and he wanted to slap himself and his damned mouth!

Bad mouth! Stinky mouth!

After dealing with a small mob, the area was quiet again. However, Althea’s eyes were narrow. "It’s not over yet," she said. The mercenaries lifted their weapons as they continued to traverse the dangerous lands.

However, even after a while, no abnormality happened. It was just the normal mob that they usually deal with at this level.

If there was anything of note, the mobs were always consistent, and their numbers were never less than theirs. After fighting each mob, they would get more and more injured, and some could barely even fight anymore after a few hours.

Her suspicious continued to simmer, but there was not much she could do.

Soon, dusk arrived, and they found a place to camp. It was an area with some rock formations that could serve as their cover. People dragged some logs or rocks to sit on, while others created their own fires. Each team had their own, while the bride and her entourage shared with a team.

The bride herself did not go out of the carriage. Her maid would just bring her food and take out the things that needed to be thrown out.

Everyone was prepared to sleep on the open air, like they usually did, but then they stared in a direction.

It was Althea and Garan setting up a small tent. It was waterproof and highly insulated. It was also very quick to set up and dismantle, just pushing a few supports here and there.

They watched as the couple took out cushions and pillows and then a contraption (most assumed it was a magic tool) that would push out fire at the turning of a knob.

They even took out some pieces of meat from the latest kills, took out some bottles of spices, and started cooking leisurely at the side.

"..."

They were naturally curious about the two mercenaries. They had looked down on them before due to their numbers, but weren’t they the most comfortable ones right now?

Some tried to cause trouble and claimed they hadn’t done anything, which was why they were so leisurely. Unfortunately for them, Garan and Althea had saved quite a few lives over the past half-day, so not only were they not supported, they even spoke up for them before the troublemakers could cause anything.

And the aroma of that food was just...gulp

They were curious about their skills but, at the same time, they did not want to be the reason why they found out about it. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

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