Wasteland's Only King - Chapter 223 - 22: Three Major Fortresses Encircle! Brutal Star River War! Air Drop Arrival!
Chapter 223: Chapter 22: Three Major Fortresses Encircle! Brutal Star River War! Air Drop Arrival!
Endless Starry Sky.
The massive Celsa Ninth Fortress, like a giant asteroid, sits quietly.
Fortress Core.
Lawrence reclines on the throne.
In front of him floats a large light projection screen.
Within the screen, two powerful figures appear.
The emblems on their shoulders are adorned with four shining stars.
“Haha!”
“Lawrence!”
“I heard you couldn’t even conquer an insignificant star realm and got injured here?”
On the screen, a middle-aged man with a rugged beard laughs boisterously.
Valen Edwin, leader of the Celsa Eighth Fortress, like Lawrence, is one of the ten four-star generals of the Selza Civilization.
“Lawrence!”
“We made a continuous long-distance space jump to get here, consuming a lot of resources.”
“Excluding the price you previously offered, you must also compensate for this portion of resources.”
Compared to General Valen’s boisterousness, the other middle-aged man has a sharp, lean face and piercing deep-set eyes.
Harry Roster, leader of the Celsa Seventh Fortress.
The Selza Civilization, with over a millennium of accumulation, possesses ten super large interstellar fortresses, ranging from the First to the Tenth Fortress.
Among them, the overall strength of each major fortress can be directly seen from the ranking.
The First Fortress is the strongest, and the Tenth Fortress is the weakest.
At this moment, these three fortress leaders, the most powerful on the surface, is the Lord of the Seventh Fortress, General Harry.
He is also an Eighteenth-tier Extreme Evolver, but compared to Lawrence and Valen, he is a step closer to Tier Nineteen, almost at half-step Tier Nineteen.
If it were the leaders of the Third Fortress or above, they are all actual Tier Nineteen Evolvers.
“Heh—”
Lawrence, seated on the throne, let out a cold laugh.
The color of his face still bore a trace of weakness and pallor.
Half a month ago, that ’Star Destroying Cannon’ almost caused him to stumble due to his carelessness.
Precisely because of this, he paid the price of two uninhabited planets to summon the Seventh and Eighth Fortresses as reinforcements.
Lawrence was not sure—
whether the opponent still had a trump card like the Star Destroyer Battleship.
These two fortresses are more like the shields he recruited than reinforcement troops.
Moreover…
The real Lawrence died the moment he arrived.
The current Lawrence’s body harbors a soul from a high-dimensional civilization.
In his eyes, whether it is the Lord of the Seventh Fortress or the leader of the Eighth Fortress, they are all low-dimensional ants, not worth his attention.
This pretense is just to be on the safe side.
“That behind Carol…”
“There’s a big secret!”
Lawrence was absolutely certain.
When he first came to this star realm, he was merely interested in the suspected existence of a plundering talent.
He wanted to try to strip it and offer it as a gift at Miss Athena’s coming-of-age ceremony, which might allow him to enter Miss Athena’s circle.
But…
Subsequent developments made Lawrence realize that the secrets hidden in this star realm were far from simple.
“A bunch of low-tier civilization players who aren’t even Tier Ten, yet control more than a dozen interstellar fortresses?”
“The highest commander is no more than Tier Fourteen, but they command Tier Sixteen interstellar combat mechas?”
“And that damned Star Destroyer Battleship…”
“If this were not just a low-dimensional server, I would have thought I saw an Ophelia Federation Star River Battleship…”
In Lawrence’s mind, thoughts kept swirling.
On the surface, he remained unfazed.
Moreover.
He immediately complied with the ’resource compensation’ claimed by the Lord of the Seventh Fortress, General Harry.
This straightforward reaction made the two fortress lords on the screen momentarily pause.
“This…”
“This doesn’t seem like Lawrence’s usual way.”
“That guy is usually too shrewd to suffer any losses.”
They had this thought but did not think too much about it.
Their instinctive impression—
Lawrence was truly angered by the opponents of this star realm, willing to pay extra costs to completely annihilate them.
Buzz—
Buzz Buzz—
At this moment.
Waves of fluctuations spread from the Seventh and Eighth Fortresses.
This is the quantum detection device of the Super Large Fortress.
Before long.
Both generals saw the detection analysis results presented by their subordinates.
“Hmm?”
“Only a mere five million people?”
“Ranks… not even Tier Ten, no, except for the Commander-in-Chief, not even Tier Nine?”
“But such a weak force possesses a medium-sized fortress, ten small-scale fortresses, and numerous unknown warships and mechas?”
Both generals, experienced and knowledgeable, were somewhat bewildered by the information from Carol’s side.
“There is a secret!”
In an instant.
They immediately reached this judgment.
The fortress lords both had unusual thoughts swirling in their minds.
No wonder!
No wonder Lawrence would pay such a high price to invite them over for support…
If Lawrence can swallow this secret, why can’t the Seventh and Eighth Fortresses?
Boom—
Rumble—!
These two fortresses didn’t even wait for Lawrence’s combat deployment before taking action.
One medium-sized fortress after another swept out.
Ships and spaceships of various types roared across the starry sky.
Buzz—!
To prevent Carol and others from fleeing, they even activated the large gravitational wave relay units at full power to block the possibility of space jumps within this star realm.
“Heh—”
Ninth Fortress Core.
Lawrence, watching this scene, continued to smirk coldly.
“Greedy and foolish low-dimensional insects.”
This was exactly the scene Lawrence hoped to see.
