After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 330

At this time, Althea was lounging in her living room, bonding with the children.

"You grow up so quickly…" Althea mumbled as she rolled her babies on the cot. Clearly only a month old, but they were already on the verge of crawling. (Well, if dragging one’s little butt to move counted as crawling).

"Hnghbgmm…" Little Pepper mumbled, her clear blue eyes looking at her, while Little Meatball drooled all over.

"Ghamnnngh…" Meatball drooled so much some started to flow to where Pepper was.

Little Pepper felt the wetness and her face scrunched, rolled over, dragging her body—almost crawling—stomach down.

Althea giggled.

She leaned down to place kisses on the two babies and pondered whether to guide them on their crawling journey or let nature take its turn.

Before she did so however, a blaring alarm sounded around the whole territory, followed by vibration of the walls getting hit.

Althea frowned, her spine straightened in tension, whipping her head to face a direction—

They’re here!!

…

"I’m counting on you…" she told Lola, who took her babies into her arms. Yana was already preparing the place they would place the kids.

It was located in the living room, but with a clean new cot added. It was filled with toys they bought a day prior, just for babysitting duties.

At this time, Mathilda had already gone out to her team, handling their scope, leaving the two old women there wanting to contribute somehow.

Fortunately, Althea knocked on their door, asking them for help, allowing them to do a bit more for the territory. Or, to be more accurate, one of the people carrying it on her back.

"No problem," Lola said, but she couldn’t help but look at Althea worriedly.

She heard from Mathilda before she left that the monsters outside were far stronger than what they had encountered so far. No one was certain how they would truly fare against these monsters.

"Be careful out there," Lola said, and Yana—who just returned from setting up the play place—nodded in agreement. She also took one baby in her arm, and Lola did the same.

"Please try not to get hurt."

"Of course." Althea said with a smile, "Thank you for always being available to care for the kids. I can only fight with little worry for them because of this."

"We love the children don’t worry," Lola shook her head, feeling that they didn’t deserve so much praise. She then looked at the babies and let them face their mother.

"We are all waiting for you to get back safe and sound. Aren’t we, little kids?" She said, and the two old women held the babies’ hands to help them wave at their mum.

The babies had long been teary, as if sensing that their mother was risking her life.

"Mmmahmanggg…"

"Googmmmgmmm…"

Althea smiled and wiped the babies’ tears. They were so well-behaved to not be making a scene despite wanting to.

"Mommy will come back very soon~" She said, kissing them many times before reluctantly walking away, this time without turning back.

The two old women listened as the little babies whimpered, but were otherwise well-behaved.

It was amazing and it also broke their hearts.

The old women sighed as they watched Althea’s back—so lithe and brave—go farther and farther until she was no longer in sight.

"Such a wonderful woman," Lola said, heaving a deep breath and lulling the baby in her arms to relax and not be too sad.

Yana also lifted a baby up and gestured to take him to the play place, hoping to distract them a bit.

One shot, and it fell down. Unfortunately…

Althea looked at her stats and saw that that one attack took nearly half her mana…

Tsk.

She did not continue what she had been doing and let the sentries fire continuously to weaken them.

She didn’t want to use any of the few bombs she made, either. They were so few, who knew when they’d really need the bombs instead?

Besides, the monsters now were troublesome, but still manageable. They were the perfect whetstones for her and her people.

Of course, the premise of something being classified as ’practice’ was that they wouldn’t die for it.

The monsters continued trying to hit the wall for a while longer, and her eyes caught a monster that was continuously protected from damage, shielded from the sentries by hiding behind the body of its companion.

She narrowed her eyes, feeling something different here. Was it because it was a level higher than the others?

It was at this time that Rowan, Oslo, and Drake joined her on the wall battlement, watching the monsters hit the walls continuously without regard for the sentry arrows shooting them.

Level 5 sentries could easily take on level 10 without taking much damage, with slightly discounted attacking damage with stronger monsters. This damage further decreased until the monster was level 30.

The dozen or so monsters were reduced to about seven. It was around this time that a smarter monster—the monster from before—seemed to have noticed the futility of their attacks and roared loudly.

The next moment, the weakened, but surviving monsters ran just out of the sentries’ reach.

Althea’s eyebrows rose.

So smart?