Wasteland's Only King-Chapter 89 - 86: A Small Tier Nine Shock
Above the celestial vault.
Yu Jin stood amidst the crackling thunder and lightning.
He looked at the scene on the ground below, his face growing increasingly stormy.
"Damn it!"
"So you’re looting my crystals while this Lord City Lord is away, huh?"
At this moment.
In Yu Jin’s field of vision——
Within five miles around Dawn City, all kinds of mutant beasts and infected bodies were packed in!
At a glance.
There were easily three hundred thousand of them!
With the help of ’Light Touch’ and ’Spatial Perception’ abilities.
Yu Jin discovered——
Within fifty miles of Dawn City, every mutant beast/Infected Nest was empty at this moment.
This was truly an ’all out of the nest’!
"Very nice!"
Yu Jin was so angry he laughed.
He’d been worrying no one showed up after logging in to let him practice; then these idiot beasts just delivered themselves.
"If I don’t give you guys a little Value shock today, I might as well have wasted my Tier Nine breakthrough!"
With this thought.
Yu Jin didn’t even bother to land on the city wall of Dawn City.
On the contrary.
He willed it in his heart.
Buzz——!
A hundred-meter-long pair of Light Wings instantly formed behind Yu Jin!
[Tier Three Light Attribute Ability: Light Wings Lv9]
[Active Effect: Condense illusory Light Wings, levitate off the ground, consume energy for short-range flight]
[Full-Level Effect: Ignore gravity, unlimited flight altitude (can absorb starlight in the starry sky, speed multiplies exponentially)]
Buzz——!
The Light Wings gently flapped.
Yu Jin’s form instantly appeared three thousand meters above Dawn City.
Brilliant radiance enveloped him, making him look like a blazing sun.
Below.
On the city wall of Dawn City.
Angelina Neil still kept her bowing posture, but her silver mechanical face was already filled with excitement and reverence!
Opposite her.
Chen Gang looked up, his head tilted back nearly 180 degrees.
"Hiss——"
He stared at that figure whose light outshone the sun, sucking in cold air.
"What the hell..."
"This is the new City Lord?"
"He hasn’t even made a move, and I already feel how terrifyingly strong he is!"
In just a moment.
Chen Gang made his decision——
He would abandon the ’betray the New City Lord’ plot he had with Yin Yao.
Are you kidding!
With this, what are you going to betray him with?
Elsewhere.
Yin Yao was also looking skyward.
But unlike Chen Gang...
Her heart was echoing with a single name, over and over.
"Yu Jin!"
This aura, so familiar yet strange, so terrifying—Tier Nine Evolver vibe...
Yin Yao had only ever felt it once!
In her previous life, when she saw Yu Jin from afar!
"The New City Lord..."
"Is Yu Jin?"
Yin Yao’s eyes stared in confusion, her mind a total mess.
She’d thought of this possibility before.
After all——
The new City Lord had displayed Light, Thunder, Space, and other attributes, exactly the same as Yu Jin.
But!
How could the new City Lord possibly be Yu Jin?!
Doesn’t make sense, so many things just don’t add up...
At this moment.
Yin Yao’s heart was a tangled mess.
She couldn’t even think anymore.
The only thing she could do was quietly gaze up at the figure in the sky.
...
...
In the sky above.
Yu Jin overlooked the beast tide below, now in chaos.
He activated the Eye of Insight.
Information on all kinds of mutant beasts and infected bodies appeared.
[Sand Scorpion Leader]
[Race: Mutant Beast]
[Tier: Tier Five]
[Ability: Poisonous Sting Lv5, sand sinking Lv5, Clamp Strike Lv5...]
...
[Magma Giant Lizard King]
[Race: Mutant Beast]
[Tier: Tier Six]
[Ability: Molten Rock Lv6, Fireball Lv6, Whip Lv6...]
...
[Thorny Earth Dragon King]
[Race: Mutant Beast]
[Tier: Tier Seven]
[Ability: Bone Spike Lv6, Poison Lv6, Earthquake Lv6...]
...
[Mika Hawk]
[Race: Infected Body]
[Tier: Tier Six]
[Attribute: Blood]
[Ability: Bloodthirsty Lv6, Blood Burst Lv6, Blood Elementalization Lv6...]
...
Yu Jin withdrew his gaze, too lazy to look further.
Tier Six, Tier Seven— not worth his attention.
Swoosh——
Yu Jin willed it.
The system’s ’personal information’ panel appeared before him.
He now owned seven attributes, with his ability count breaking fifty.
This time.
Yu Jin wasn’t going to randomly use something like ’Laser’, a low-tier ability.
Laser was crazy, but too slow for sweeping mobs.
Yu Jin’s plan——
One-click sweep!
Fast, precise, and brutal!
"Back when I was on Blue Star, the Tier Seven, Eight, Nine abilities were all sealed; couldn’t even check them, let alone use them."
Yu Jin muttered, glancing at the last entries in the ’Ability’ section.
[Tier Seven Light Attribute Ability: Sunshine Everywhere Lv1]
[Active Effect: Sunshine shines, melts everything]
"The big snake?"
Yu Jin raised an eyebrow, reading on.
[Tier Seven Thunder Attribute Ability: Ten Thousand Thunders Celestial Prison Guide Lv1]
[Active Effect: Use heavenly thunder as a cage, imprison and annihilate all enemies within range]
"Lightning squirrel?"
Yu Jin simply skipped to the last one.
If he’s going to try high-tier abilities, might as well go all in!
[Tier Nine Spatial Attribute Ability: Dimensional Cage Lv1]
[Active Effect: Tag and banish all enemies in designated area to a lower dimension cage, eternal spatial strangulation inside]
"Damn!"
Yu Jin’s eyes lit up instantly.
This Tier Nine ability looked insanely strong!
"You’re the one then!"
Yu Jin, like picking concubines, chose this Tier Nine Spatial Attribute Ability out of fifty-plus options.
"Let’s go!"
Yu Jin called out, extending his hand and drawing a circle on the ground below.
The circle neatly encompassed all three hundred thousand mutant beasts and infected bodies surrounding Dawn City.
"Hmm, don’t want friendly fire."
Yu Jin muttered, and drew another circle.
This time.
The circle wrapped around the whole Dawn City.
At this point.
Yu Jin finished ’tagging’ the area.
"Let’s see what Tier Nine abilities can do!"
Yu Jin willed it, activating ’Dimensional Cage’.
Crack——
Crack crack——!
In just a flash.
The vast world erupted with a deafening sound of shattering.
On Dawn City’s walls.
Chen Gang stared ahead, his eyes bulging wide!
Just now.
Right outside the wall, less than ten meters away.
The space out there began to break apart, inch by inch, like a mirror!
Roar——!
Roar roar——!
The massive horde of mutant beasts squirmed and screamed in terror.
But within a few seconds.
The screams vanished.
Gone, along with them.
Were the hundreds of thousands of mutant beasts and infected bodies.
"?"
Chen Gang looked blank.
"What just happened?"
Equally bewildered.
Were nearly a thousand other Evolvers on the wall.
They glanced at each other, then turned to look outside the city.
"Huh?"
"Is this an illusion?"
At this moment.
In their eyes.
The sky was clear, time seemed peaceful and tranquil.
Outside Dawn City, nowhere was there a monstrous tide of mutant beasts and infected bodies?
"Hey!"
"That’s not right!"
"I see them!"
"On the ground—damn! On the ground!"
Behind Yin Yao, a guy from the Environmental Protection Club opened his eyes wide and yelled shrilly.
As soon as he finished.
Chen Gang and the others all poked their heads over the wall, looking down.
!!!
All at once.
Everyone’s scalp tingled.
Out on the wasteland around Dawn City, for five miles, appeared massive ’wall paintings’!
The content of those paintings...
Were exactly the hundreds of thousands of mutant beasts and infected bodies that had besieged the city!
Even more horrifying:
Those wall paintings—were actually GIF animations!
Just like right now.
Chen Gang watched, wide-eyed——
A mutant sand scorpion crushed into a QR code was being sliced apart over and over by invisible ’lines’.
In just a few seconds.
The sand scorpion vanished, leaving nothing but tiny pixel dots on the ground.
"Gulp——!"
Chen Gang swallowed hard.
"Holy poet!"
"Is this really an Evolver like us, and not a god?"
Brother Gang’s question came from the soul.
But obviously.
He was asking too soon.
Because within about a minute.
All the ground GIFs stopped moving.
The three hundred thousand mutant beasts and infected bodies had turned into colorful pixels across the land.
But...
It wasn’t over yet!
Something even scarier, even more chilling happened!
Plop——!
The crisp sound of things hitting the ground echoed outside the city.
Chen Gang’s eyes widened, like he’d seen a ghost.
"What is that?"
"Tell me what that is!"
"Is that..."
"Infection Crystals? Energy Crystals?"
Plop——
Plop——!
In just a short time.
On the wide open ground outside Dawn City, a splendid ’crystal rain’ began pouring down.
Tier One, Two, Three, Four...
Even Tiers Five and Six Crystals were everywhere!
Chen Gang was numb.
Sometime, tens of thousands of refugees who came from the outer-city streets to the walls for this scene, were numb too.
Only Yin Yao.
Her eyes were vacant, whispering over and over: "Yu Jin, Yu Jin—this is an ability only Yu Jin could have!"
The wasteland in her previous life.
Yin Yao’d heard countless stories about Yu Jin.
One of them matched exactly the scene before her eyes:
"The invincible Dawn City Lord, Lord Yu Jin, just drew a circle with his hand, and every enemy inside collapsed to a lower dimension, strangled to annihilation!"
"Even more magical..."
"The crystals carried by the annihilated enemies dropped out of thin air, just like rain."
...
...
Above the celestial vault.
Yu Jin watched the pouring ’crystal rain’ and nodded in satisfaction.
When he first unleashed ’Dimensional Cage’, he’d forgotten that these mutant beasts could still provide crystals.
The good news is...
[Tier Eight Spatial Attribute Ability: Space Folding Lv1]
[Active Effect: Fold two points in space, causing Spatial Strangulation or fold two points in space to achieve cross-dimensional teleportation (dead items only)]
The proof was clear.
As long as the types and quantity of abilities are high enough—
Even if you make a mistake, you can absolutely fix it afterward!
Space Folding plus Dimensional Cage became a combo move.
Their synergy produced the epic scene now witnessed by Yin Yao and the others.
Yu Jin didn’t use Light, Thunder, or Metal, Giant Stone and similar attribute abilities.
But clearly.
Spatial Attribute abilities were even more mysterious and awe-inspiring.
Yu Jin’s move was both a test run and a means to establish authority.
The targets, of course, weren’t Chen Gang, Yin Yao, etc, but rather the tens of thousands of ordinary refugees in Dawn City.
In the future.
Yu Jin intended to grow Dawn City, and these people, as his earliest followers, could not afford issues in loyalty and faith.
Buzz——!
With the siege crisis solved, Yu Jin put away his gigantic hundred-meter Light Wings.
That thing was a bit much.
Boom——!
Yu Jin took a step.
Behind him thunder lights blazed.
In the next second.
He appeared atop Dawn City’s walls.
"My lord!"
Angelina Neil called out loudly!
"Lord City Lord!"
Tens of thousands of refugees, excited and reverent, knelt on both knees!
"Old Yu?!"
Chen Gang stared at Yu Jin descending from the sky, nearly popping his eyeballs out!
"President?!"
The forty-plus club members from the Environmental Protection Club were dazed and bewildered when they saw Yu Jin!
"..."
Yin Yao stood frozen, watching Yu Jin’s face closely, unable to say a single word...
Turns out,
Yu Jin never needed to replace Dawn City’s City Lord!
Turns out,
Yu Jin was the mysterious and powerful new City Lord!
Turns out,
He needed only three days after crossing over.
Yu Jin could achieve Tier Nine, could stand atop the very peak of the Wasteland World’s pyramid—overlooking all beings...
