Wasteland's Only King - Chapter 167 - 146: Surrounded on All Sides! Naiya Awakens! He Has Finally Arrived!
Chapter 167: Chapter 146: Surrounded on All Sides! Naiya Awakens! He Has Finally Arrived!
Naiya City.
Inside the City Lord’s Mansion.
Orange-haired loli, Tier Eight Evolver Reya, her face was grim to the extreme.
Boom—
Rumble rumble—!
It was this moment.
Everyone could hear, from all directions of Naiya City, the earth-shaking roar.
That is…
More Level 8 Shelter Cities!
Just in the short time just now.
Level 8 Shelter City Ghost King City, Quel City, Shili City, appeared all at once.
Following closely behind were Meng City, Wusi City, Heluo City…
Every city had mobilized its entire force, tens of millions of Evolvers marching forth!
“Damn it!”
“We didn’t get any warning at all…”
Reya’s delicate little face was full of frustration.
This siege was too sudden.
It’s no exaggeration to say—
All Level 8 Shelter Cities on this A3 Planet were present!
And their target was Naiya City!
At this moment.
Reya and the other Moore Star People had no time to ponder why these Level 8 Cities would simultaneously besiege Naiya City.
What she had to consider was…
How to secure a sliver of hope for Naiya City in this siege.
Negotiation?
Impossible.
From Quel City Lord’s attitude, Reya could tell there was no room for maneuver in this siege.
Inside the palace of the City Lord’s Mansion.
Yin Yao and others appeared as well.
They had never expected that, after flying Dawn City to find Yu Jin, in the end…
They’d be pulled into this ’Level 8 Shelter City Showdown.’
Yes, even though Ghost King City and other powers were all coming for Naiya City.
The sight of Dawn City in the skies was too conspicuous.
So…
As soon as Ghost King City and others showed up, Dawn City came under attack.
The attacks came from several figures clad in Mechanical Battle Armor, their auras terrifying, slashing out with a sword that nearly shattered Dawn City’s energy shield in one strike.
Reluctantly, Dawn City had to descend above Naiya City, seeking shelter under Naiya City’s energy shield.
Otherwise, a few more assaults and Dawn City would crash from the sky and be destroyed.
Dawn City’s sky trait was powerful, but ultimately it was only a Level 6 Shelter City.
But with this,
Dawn City and Naiya City had truly become like grasshoppers tied to the same rope.
Whoosh—
Yin Yao took a deep breath.
She felt a bit guilty; Yu Jin had only been absent a short time and it seemed she had messed everything up.
Dawn City being dragged into such a war was undoubtedly extremely dangerous…
“The most important thing now is to ensure the President’s safety.”
Soon,
Yin Yao and others met Yu Jin.
The latter was still in deep sleep, and that right arm which vanished at the shoulder was so conspicuous…
Meanwhile, Reya and the Moore Star People had welcomed back their king.
“Our king!”
The seven Tier Eight Evolvers of Naiya City called out in unison.
But Naiya remained asleep, gave no answer.
For a moment,
The atmosphere in the palace was heavy and oppressive.
Be it Dawn City or Naiya City, their strongest had yet to awaken…
…
…
Ghost King City.
Austin Zorn, led tens of millions of Evolvers, storming out the city gates.
Nasha and Aili were among them as well.
Only—
Both their faces were grave.
The reason for their heaviness…
The two looked up at the four guards behind Austin Zorn, always sticking close.
Just yesterday,
One of Ghost King City’s Tier Eight Evolvers, for reasons unknown, was slain by the four guards.
And Austin Zorn watched coldly the whole time, never intervening.
Know this—
The slain Tier Eight Evolver was once Zorn’s most capable subordinate!
Zorn valued him more than his own sister Nasha.
Even so…
That Tier Eight Evolver still died.
No matter how you looked at this, it reeked of the bizarre.
Especially—
Zorn’s behavior was becoming less and less like himself.
Nasha even wondered—
Was that figure ahead really still her own brother?
On the other side—
Aili’s mood was even heavier and more depressed than Nasha’s.
She used ’Farsightedness’ to see the other Level 8 Shelter Cities.
More precisely, the status of the other Tier Eight Extreme City Lords.
Aili discovered—
Be it Quel City Lord, Ten Li City Lord, the other Level 8 Shelter City Lords, each had four figures in Mechanical Battle Armor and sci-fi masks right behind them—’guards.’
Guard?
Aili didn’t believe they were guards at all.
When the ’guard’ acted in Ghost King City earlier, their aura made Aili suspect they far surpassed the power of a Tier Nine Evolver…
“What on earth happened?”
“It seems everything changed in such a short time…”
Aili fell silent, unable to help recalling Yu Jin.
If he were here—
No, even if he were, he could never stop this group of mysterious ’guards.’
Aili didn’t even know what these ’guards’ were after.
Just to destroy and suppress Naiya City?
It couldn’t be that simple…
…
…
Time crept by.
Another half day passed.
In this half day,
Armies of Evolvers from every Level 8 Shelter City converged on all sides of Naiya City.
Looking from the city walls, the numbers of incoming enemies approached a hundred million.
This half day,
Ghost King City and others didn’t launch an attack right away.
They seemed to deliberately give Naiya City time to prepare for war.
Naiya City, too, mobilized all its Evolvers—tens of millions of Moore Star People picked up their weapons, ready to defend their city.
Dawn City did the same.
Dawn City, dragged into a terrifying life-or-death war, had no way to escape.
Unlike Naiya City with a century of accumulated power,
Dawn City now had only a little over two million subordinates.
Most had just joined Dawn City, only recently awakened.
Their Tiers were mostly only Tier Two or Tier Three.
The rest of Dawn City’s subordinates weren’t high Tier either, mostly Tier Three or Tier Four, with Tier Five Evolvers already counted as elite.
As for Dawn City’s top combatants——
Yin Yao, Chen Gang, Neil, were all Tier Seven.
Wang Yunpeng and other long-term core members of Dawn City were still at Tier Six.
This power was far, far less than the 8 Level Shelter Cities like Ghost King City.
Dawn City had developed rapidly, but since Yu Jin took charge, it had only been, at most, twenty days.
Twenty days of rapid growth still couldn’t hope to match the decades or nearly a century of accumulation by Ghost King City and other Level 8 Shelter Cities.
“If only the President would wake up…”
Only now did Yin Yao and others realize how much Yu Jin meant to Dawn City.
“If only our king would awaken…”
The Moore Star subordinates in Naiya City now knew about Naiya’s slumber, and shared that same hope.
…
…
Time ticked by.
Another half day passed.
The strange thing was—
Ghost King City and the other Level 8 Shelter Cities still didn’t attack.
They simply surrounded Naiya City layer upon layer, as if waiting for something.
“What are they waiting for?”
Not only the people of Naiya City and Dawn City, even Nasha, Aili and others of Ghost King City couldn’t understand.
They looked at the four guards behind Austin Zorn, unable to help guessing, but found no answers.
So…
The A337 Area, Naiya City and its surroundings, became immersed in an extremely bizarre atmosphere.
Outside Naiya City, over a hundred million Evolvers sharpened their weapons.
Inside Naiya City, tens of millions resolved to fight to the death.
But…
They just couldn’t start the fight!
Ghost King City and others wouldn’t attack, Naiya City certainly couldn’t strike out first—it’d be suicide.
This great showdown seemed to be silently woven into a net by some unseen hand, waiting for something to enter the game.
Another day passed.
It was the second day since Naiya City was surrounded.
And the sixth day Yu Jin had been in deep sleep.
This day—
Boom——!
Inside the City Lord’s Mansion of Naiya City, an utterly terrifying aura erupted towards the heavens.
Ice and fire intertwined, prophecy peered at fate.
“King!”
“Our king!”
“The king of Naiya City, the leader of Moore Star—has awakened!”
Inside Naiya City, tens of millions of subordinates were ecstatic, many Moore Star People weeping from joy.
“Naiya has awoken…”
Inside Dawn City.
Yin Yao, Chen Gang and the others looked up at the small figure wrapped in ice and fire in the sky, feeling a surge of excitement themselves.
Naiya’s awakening clearly gave them more hope of winning this showdown!
But…
The bizarre happened.
After Naiya awoke, actively revealing their Tier Nine aura—
The surrounding Ghost King City and other Level 8 Shelter Cities still didn’t retreat.
Neither retreat nor attack.
They were waiting, waiting for something.
In front of Ghost King City,
Nasha and Aili were now utterly bewildered.
Not just them—Quel City, Shili City and the other Level 8 Shelter Cities’ Tier Eight Evolvers were all demanding answers from their City Lords.
Why not attack?
Why wait?
Then…
Several Tier Eight Evolvers were executed on the spot by ’guards.’
At that moment,
Other Tier Eight Evolvers, except Nasha and Aili, finally realized—
Behind this bizarre siege, there seemed to be hidden puppet-masters pulling the strings.
So powerful, powerful enough to mobilize all Level 8 Shelter Cities on A3 Planet, strong enough to make Zorn, Quel, Javin and the other Tier Eight Extreme City Lords ’obedient.’
Now—
Ghost King City, deep within the City Lord’s Mansion.
In the core area, a figure in a Commander’s uniform quietly gazed at Naiya City in the distance.
He was sensing, sensing the aura.
Naiya’s Tier Nine aura made him a little surprised.
By rights, with such a high baseline pollution level on A3 Planet, Tier Nine Evolvers shouldn’t exist.
But…
Naiya’s Tier Nine actually further proved his initial plan and assessment was correct.
He murmured, his hands gently stirring the air in front.
In the void, it seemed there were invisible, fine threads, twisting with each movement of his fingers.
Soon.
Yet another full day passed.
Snap—!
Suddenly.
One of the threads in his hand broke!
“Hmm?!”
He sounded a quiet surprise, stood up, stared intently at Naiya City nearby.
“Ha—”
Since arriving on A3 Planet, Holland Benitez, this Salsa High-Level Fleet Commander, wore a smile for the first time.
“So you were always in Naiya City?”
“Interesting…”
“I hope you live up to the name ’bug-type player.’ Don’t disappoint me too much—”
