Other major cities were being reconstructed amid the chaos as well. Their defenses were being fortified, an effort by humans to fight against the monsters. With their communications reestablished, these cities were now in contact with each other as the people fought hard to restore what they had.

Based on the information they had gathered, there were several hundred million survivors throughout Navia, two million of them being Wyvern Peak soldiers.

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On the second day after Adrian left Novemton, a disheveled woman cautiously emerged from behind a hill in the remote wilderness two hundred kilometers away from Swallowston, nervously scanning her surroundings.

Despite the monsters littering the outskirts, it was difficult for them to notice the woman unless she started a commotion. Seeing that the monsters were quite far away, she lay down to catch her breath.

In her race against time and with her grumbling stomach, the woman crawled toward a heap of grass. It was brown due to the