Ian looked out over Labyrinth from atop the hill in silence.
Reconstruction work was in full swing throughout every corner of the city.
While it was an annual occurrence for things to get busy with repairs immediately after an invasion, the scale this year was far more massive. This was because the battlefield had been inside the city itself this time.
Furthermore, due to the all-out war waged to lure the monsters at the end, the northern wall had sustained significant damage. It would likely take several more months to rebuild those structures.
Even though the damage was great enough to say the city was nearly half-destroyed, a sense of vitality could be felt in the streets.
It was thanks to the fact that they succeeded in defeating Calamitas during Phase 1 as planned, which meant that despite the destruction, human casualties were miraculously near zero.
...Since that day.
Ian had waited for quite a long time.
