Wasteland's Only King - Chapter 132 - 120: Traveling Alone, Venturing Deep into the Wasteland, Old Friends of the Past!
Chapter 132: Chapter 120: Traveling Alone, Venturing Deep into the Wasteland, Old Friends of the Past!
Swoosh——
Above the ten-meter-wide bed.
Naiya’s floating body suddenly fell.
Yu Jin reacted swiftly, catching her in his arms.
“Nngh…”
Naiya’s crystal-bright eyes were now dim and lifeless.
“S-successful…”
Lying in Yu Jin’s embrace, Naiya murmured, her eyelashes trembling ever so slightly.
On her delicate, slightly baby-faced loli features, a faint sense of satisfaction appeared, as if… relieved to have mended some regret.
This time, the Prophecy—though it showed only a brief sixty days of the future—drained all her Tier Nine energy.
Prophecy lets you glimpse the future, but to glimpse it, you must pay a price.
Naiya’s eyes slowly closed, little by little.
Her breath gradually faded into silence.
Yu Jin activated the ’Eye of Insight’.
[Naiya]
[…]
[Status: Mental Power exhausted from Prophecy, must sleep to recover; this sleep is an inherent side effect of the Prophecy, and cannot be broken by any external force]
The exact duration of her slumber was unknown to Yu Jin.
But…
He had witnessed Naiya’s sacrifice with his own eyes.
In that future scene of rushing skyward to perish with the ’Black Meteor’, the figure of this Moore Star loli was there as well.
Hoo——
Yu Jin gently laid Naiya on the massive bed, exhaling a deep, heavy breath.
“Success?”
“Is this really success?”
Yu Jin muttered—he was far from satisfied with that so-called future.
Exhausting everything, ultimately perishing together, just to save Blue Star—this was not the future he wanted!
True.
Yin Yao possessed the ’Range Rebirth’ Ability; if their future Tier was high enough, perhaps she could equip everyone with Resurrection Armor.
But…
That tragic, glorious sky full of fireworks still pierced Yu Jin deeply.
Along with it came guilt and frustration.
He didn’t want a heroic elegy for Blue Star’s humanity.
He wanted an absolute, definitive Purification of Oumuamua!
He was already cheating—if he still needed Yin Yao, Naiya, Old Cui and the others to charge up and trade their lives for the ’meteor’, wasn’t his cheat wasted?
Such an outcome—would it be worthy of his cheat?
“Level up!”
“Level up hard!”
Yu Jin’s resolve to upgrade had never been so unshakeable.
He didn’t know what Tier his Level would be in that future scene.
He only knew one thing——
He had to raise his Level as fast as possible, and by as much as possible.
The safest bet would be to reach the next Max Level before returning to Blue Star!
Second——
Dawn City’s upgrade pace needed to speed up even more.
The previous plan—’upgrade himself alone, leave Dawn City’s advancement entirely to Yin Yao and others’—had to change.
In the future Prophecy, he and Yin Yao and the rest didn’t show up until the very last moment.
That was clearly too late.
If only they could arrive earlier, even just a bit earlier, Yu Jin might have had the chance to Purify Oumuamua 2 before it reached Blue Star.
Once isn’t enough—then twice!
If he returned early enough, he could even guard Oumuamua at the edge of the Solar System ahead of time!
“Doesn’t matter if Dawn City’s Level 6 upgrade sends me back or not; either way, I need to reach Level 6 even faster!”
“If Level 6 isn’t enough, then Level 7, Level 8, Level 9!”
Yu Jin stood up from the bed.
He knew Yin Yao and the others were still outside, waiting for him to announce Dawn City’s successful promotion.
But Yu Jin didn’t rush out—he already had follow-up plans.
Before that, he needed to prepare a few things.
Yu Jin went to the City Core and pressed his hand to it.
[Wasteland Points: 350 million]
Originally, Yu Jin thought this Points balance was outrageous—but after learning that Eureka’s ’S-680 Spaceship’ cost a whole 10 billion Points…
He suddenly felt he was still way too poor.
“Let’s hit One-Click Max Level first!”
Yu Jin thought to himself.
[Beep——]
[Wasteland Points – 80 million]
[Your Tier Five Light Attribute Ability ’Laser’ upgraded to Level 9!]
[Your Fifth-tier Space Attribute Ability ’Space Black Hole’ upgraded to Level 9!]
[…]
After that—
Yu Jin went on a sweeping spree in the Resource Mall.
The Level 5 Mall now sold many ultra-practical City facilities and Attributeless Abilities.
Yu Jin didn’t have time to slowly investigate City facilities.
What caught his eye were several Attributeless Abilities.
[Communication Lv1: On the same planet, allows remote communication (must bind communication targets in advance; current max number of targets: 99)]
[Projection Lv1: On the same planet, allows to project a remote image (projection holds 10% of main body’s abilities, lasts 3 min)]
…
He bought them all.
He planned to accelerate the sweep across A3 Planet.
The specific approach——
Splitting up.
Yin Yao and the others would use Dawn City to subjugate nearby Refuge Cities.
He himself would head out to further regions, leveling up by hunting monsters and subduing High-Level Refuge Cities.
Best case scenario: stumble upon Level 7, maybe even Level 8 Refuge City—would be a one-and-done deal, let Dawn City level up by leaps and bounds.
“That should do it.”
Shopping spree finished, Yu Jin murmured quietly.
Voom——
A spatial ripple swept past—his figure vanished from sight.
…
…
Dawn City.
Inner City, Martial Arts Plaza.
Yin Yao, Chen Gang, Jiang Haichuan and the others were still waiting for Yu Jin to appear.
Dawn City’s successful promotion to Level 5 had already passed over ten minutes.
But Yu Jin had yet to show up—they could only feel terrifying Space ripples continuously emanating from deep within the City Lord’s Mansion.
This made Yin Yao and the others a bit nervous and worried.
“Could the president have run into some mishap…”
Yin Yao instinctively pressed her lips tight, her pretty face paling just a bit.
Voom——!
The next second.
Yu Jin’s figure appeared above Dawn City.
Seeing this, Yin Yao and the rest all let out a long sigh of relief.
And nearly a million Subordinates in the city, by custom, once again shouted their ’loyalty’ slogan in unison.
