Chapter 4: Defense of City Altar
He sees a monster from afar that looks powerful but after seeing Evan who looks natural without any fear, Ash thinks deep in mind "maybe I am nervous because of monsters' upcoming attack that's why I feel fear after seeing some random monster from afar and I should focus on preparation for monsters' upcoming attack and how to make my city stronger, ah. I should explore the outside the area of the city to find some opportunities and resources for the city and some experience on fighting monsters."
Few minutes later,
"Let's prepare ourselves for exploration of outside of city altar for 2 hours.", Ash said with smile on his face.
"Okay, my lord", Evan said with humble voice.
Ash's cheek becomes thin red when Evan told him "My lord", he thinks deep in his mind "I like when someone praises or respects me, I will have to take good care of Evan, when I am sure that he is trustworthy man and he swore his loyalty towards me. I should just glance at monsters' attack time window" Ash sighs after seeing this window,
"Time left before monsters' attack: 4 hours, 30 minutes"
Ash makes normal face when seeing the above window because he doesn't want to give off impression of coward to Evan after all Evan is his first subordinate and he has to fight with monsters in this world regularly. and it is the normal routine on fighting monsters in this world so he has to do it too.
"Do you have any previous experience on outside city exploration?", Ash asked with normal voice.
"Yes", Evan said with smile.
"Good, tell me everything you know about outdoor experience.", Ash asked with excited face.
"Okay", Evan said with polite smile.
"Outside the altar-city without protection of altar's mark any level of person can become mindless monster instantly without having any special treasure and if person has an altar marks' protection, then person can live outside depending on level of person and level of the altar city. Otherwise, corruption can make person become mindless monster.", Evan said
"How much time we can live outside altar protection", Ash asked with normal voice.
"We can live more 1 month because level 0 altar's power and level 0 human-beings' power to protect themselves is not infinite.", Evan said with normal face.
"Let's prepare ourselves for exploration outside", Ash said with normal tone and serious face
"Okay", Evan said with smile
Ash gives the sword to Evan from warehouse for his own protection.
Evan thanks him with delighted face.
Ash asked "By the way, why you know many things about Eldros, is it common knowledge here?"
"Depending on altar's level, common people know more or less, I mean I don't want to say it but I am actually a son of my former altar city's owner so I know more compared to other people compared to my former city's people." Evan mentioned
"Oh, sorry about your dad" Ash said with remorse look
"It's okay, my father has numbers of sons and wives so I am not very attached to my father" Evan said
"Let's prepare ourselves in 10 mins to go outside the territory", Ash said with straight face, he thinks deep in mind "I have a gun and 20 bullets I believe I can kill normal monsters easily if the information I get from Evan is correct and I believe 99% sure Evan not speak lie to me because when new altar is born, it is the highest level mystery in this world from the information given by altar-city so I certainly believe nobody can scheme against me yet. For making sure of my safety, I will not tell Evan yet that I have gun and bullets, this information is my first and last weapon against scheming type of person and I will check the surrounding if there any people is hiding and waiting for ambush against me and I will shoot the person without hesitation and I will easily kill that person in this world.
"Okay my lord", Evan said with firm eyes.
Ash tried to see time before monster attack,
A new status window pop-up in front of Ash.
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"Time left before attack: 4 hours, 10 mins"
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Ash thinks in his mind after seeing above system-window in front of his eyes "I have enough time for one small visit of forest and seeing some monsters for increasing my understanding of these creatures"
"Let's go outside the city", Ash said with determination in his eyes
"Okay my lord", Evan said with confidence.
After 30 minutes of traveling from Nexus-city they come to the forest area near the Nexus-city they also see a vast plain land that is suitable for agriculture and big wide-river that is separating the Nexus-city and forest area. Ash is amazed by greenery in this world and air is also very pure compared to Blue-planet where unsustain-industrialization makes air quality below AQI-index, Ash thinks in his mind with holding gun in his right hand "I better focus on some resource gathering and if possible seeing some monsters from afar for experience purpose and confidence building in me because of upcoming monsters' attack of the Nexus-city and I also see in all area and not find any human activity here and there and maybe this area is remote and not many intelligent species live here and there is no ambush in the forest so I should trust Evan more in compared to previous time, I have a smile on my face maybe because I can trust Evan that's why."
5 minutes later,
In a dense, forest just beyond the borders of Nexus-city. The air is thick with purple-mist, and the sounds of unseen creatures are rustle through the forest. Evan is cutting the wood by using sword and his hand is sweating because of labor in cutting trees.
"We need more woods for construction.", Ash said with holding a gun in his hands and looking everywhere if there any dangerous monsters is targeting them.
"Okay my lord and just take a good look on forest beasts, beasts are very good at hiding and attacking from the back of person", Evan said with sweating face
"I am keeping an eye here for precaution so don't worry about safety", Ash said with confident smile on his face
Ash is holding a gun in his hand and he is trying to keep an eye near the area where Evan is cutting the wood and surrounding area. He hopes in his mind that no big beasts comes otherwise he has to fight a fierce battle that he will not like it without a doubt.
After 20 mins, no big beasts came, small beasts didn't dare to attack Ash and Evan.
Few mins later, Ash sighs in relief mood after he said "let patch up the work and exploration"
"Okay my lord, they have 40 woods for use", Evan said with relief feeling in his face and his hands and face are sweating.
Ash thinks in his mind that "if I get some stone that will make his city's house and market construction quick and that will increase city's facility and foundation strength, maybe I have to search more areas to find stone for mining and perhaps I am actually lucky to have forest near so I will face no problem with wood resource."
"It's very fortunate for us we have forest as resource to use, my lord." Evan said with smile.
"Okay let's depart for the city with their luggage", Ash said with quiet voice and cautious face.
After 30 minutes,
They enter to city's gate safely; they started to think about getting some rest before fighting for their lives against monsters.
"I hope we can live prosperous-life and become strongest powerhouse in this world". Ash said with hopeful eyes and small smile on his face.
"We will live more days my lords, first attack in the city altar is not difficult if we can prepare ourselves and without cowardly mindset and with precaution, we will surely survive without a scratch in our body against monsters and becoming a most powerful in this world I don't have real idea of powerful-beings' power so they will have to see in the future" Evan said with confident tone and determined smile on his face.
"Thanks, my friend and so I am deciding, you will my second in command in the Nexus city, and I hope we will create most powerful city where many of people can live freely without constant fear of monsters and beast attack.", Ash said
"Thank you my lord, we will surely create that powerful city and I believe in you my lord", Evan said with flattery smile on his face
Then,
Ash tried to see attack time when monsters' attack.
A window pop-up in front of him.
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"Time left before monsters attack: 2 hours, 30 mins"
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Now Ash is waiting of monsters' attack with holding guns in his hand with confident smile on his face but in his mind "I must kill all the monsters and I will surely survive these monsters' attack without a doubt" he is clenching his left fist.
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