Wasteland's Only King - Chapter 240 - 30: Qili City? Seven Mile Fragrance! Phoenix Soaring City, Dongshan Li!
Chapter 240: Chapter 30: Qili City? Seven Mile Fragrance! Phoenix Soaring City, Dongshan Li!
“This… this Yu Chen…”
Sakagawa Yu really wanted to know what exactly Yu Chen’s connection was to Sky City.
Before deciding to kill Yu Chen, he had specifically ordered his subordinates to investigate the latter’s information.
The result was—
Yu Chen came from an unknown planet, had no background, no power, no companions!
Because of this—
He speculated that this mysterious group of powerful beings before him had probably just happened to run into his army besieging the city, and were moved by the idea of ’punishing the strong and supporting the weak’?
Countless guesses bubbled up in Sakagawa Yu’s mind, one after another.
But…
His heart only sank lower and lower.
It didn’t make sense.
None of his guesses made any logical sense!
Sakagawa Yu knew it, yet he didn’t want to admit it—didn’t dare admit it.
He had to, and could only cling to that minuscule possibility.
But in the next second…
Yu Chen’s words completely plunged him into hell.
“Brother.”
“Help me kill him.”
That simple word ’Brother’ was enough at this moment to push a Tier Nine City Lord to total collapse.
“No!”
Sakagawa Yu shouted hoarsely.
The humble and respectful facade he had worn earlier was torn to shreds!
Who becomes a Tier Nine City Lord by being an idiot?
The moment Yu Chen called out ’Brother,’ Sakagawa Yu knew—they were here for vengeance, to settle scores!
He had no way out now!
Boom—!
Sakagawa Yu’s reflexes were lightning fast.
Yu Chen’s words had only just finished.
Sakagawa Yu’s figure had already exploded backward, retreating a thousand meters!
An intense attribute aura erupted violently from his body.
The pressure of a Tier Nine Evolver swept over the entire Qili City below!
But…
He wasn’t preparing to fight, but to flee.
Sakagawa Yu knew full well he couldn’t possibly stand against Yu Jin and the others.
For this, he’d rather abandon his loyal subordinates, give up Qili City that he’d painstakingly built over so many years!
Buzz—!
In a split second—
Sakagawa Yu’s figure blurred at the edge of vision.
“Oh?”
“An attribute ability similar to space shuttle?”
Yu Jin watched quietly, raising an eyebrow.
Up to now—
He hadn’t seen another ’space’ attribute awakener besides himself.
“Brother, he seems pretty good at running…”
Yu Chen still didn’t fully comprehend Yu Jin’s power.
Seeing Sakagawa Yu’s figure get farther and farther away, almost disappearing entirely, Yu Chen got a bit anxious.
As soon as he said this—
Naiya and the others all burst out laughing.
“No big deal.”
Yu Jin smiled and answered Yu Chen.
He reached out and gently grasped forward.
Buzz—!
Waves of time rippled outward.
Where the ripples passed, everything seemed to slow down.
“This… this…”
“Brother, your attribute is related to time?!”
Yu Chen was stunned.
He’d read plenty of NovelFires before crossing over; how could he not know how valuable ’time’ was in an extraordinary system?
“More or less.”
Yu Jin replied, then gently squeezed his outstretched hand.
Buzz—!
At the edge of vision—
Sakagawa Yu, who was exhausting all his energy, shuttling over and over, nearly out of Zone 80, suddenly froze in midair.
His time was locked.
His thoughts stayed stuck in the previous instant.
“Come.”
Yu Jin gently waved his hand.
The aura of space fluctuations spread.
Buzz—
The void trembled.
Sakagawa Yu, who had escaped over a thousand kilometers, was forcibly teleported straight back to the starting point.
At this moment, he looked like a statue.
His face was filled with hysterical madness, mixed with fear and hatred.
His hands were pressed together, preparing for another space shuttle.
But…
There wouldn’t be another time.
“Will you do it yourself?”
“Or should I?”
Yu Jin looked at his little brother.
The latter took a deep breath and shook his head.
“Brother, you do it.”
Yu Chen hated Sakagawa Yu greatly, but worried his own tier was too low to break through a Tier Nine Evolver’s defense.
If he messed around too much, it might trouble his brother.
“Alright.”
Yu Jin nodded, then stared at the frozen Sakagawa Yu, thinking.
“What method should I use?”
Yu Jin pondered.
The ten million people of Qili City—unless Yu Chen wanted to kill them all, Yu Jin planned to spare them.
Those hundreds of thousands of soldiers from earlier—they were killed and that was that.
But the millions of subordinates of Qili City, most were actually innocent; Yu Jin didn’t intend to slaughter indiscriminately.
“It needs to be a method with some deterrent effect.”
Yu Jin made up his mind.
He waved his hand.
Whoosh—
Brilliant flames surged from the void.
Within the flames, wisps of black mist could be seen.
This was the ’Dark Fire’ attribute Yu Jin had previously harvested from the Fallen One—a polluted version of pure fire attribute.
“Since it’s Qili City, let’s go with a Seven Mile Fragrance!”
Yu Jin said softly.
Whoosh—!
The flames in the void became even more intense.
Sakagawa Yu was instantly engulfed by fire.
But, under Yu Jin’s control, the fire didn’t instantly burn him to nothingness.
Instead…
It roasted him, inch by inch, little by little.
This method was extremely brutal, true torture.
But…
“Right and wrong—I no longer care to distinguish.”
“If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for trying to kill the wrong person!”
Those two lines from Yu Jin drifted out, entering the ears of Qili City’s ten million subordinates.
In the sky—
All those Tier Seven and Tier Eight Evolvers who’d come with Sakagawa Yu were now trembling uncontrollably, scared out of their wits!
Heavens!
The strength of this young man before them far exceeded their imagination!
The Tier Nine Sakagawa Yu was like a chick in his hands, having no power to resist!
“Master~”
Nasha’s voice suddenly rang in Yu Jin’s ear.
“What?”
Yu Jin raised his brow, looking at the vixen who was always thinking about crawling into his bed.
“Don’t you feel like something’s missing?”
Nasha was very serious.
Yu Jin fell into deep thought.
A moment later—
He waved his hand, releasing Time Stop.
Sakagawa Yu, whose time was frozen, regained his thoughts.
But…
He immediately noticed that although he thought he’d escaped a thousand kilometers, now he was back above Qili City.
More than that…
His whole body was being roasted by blazing, brilliant flames!
“Ah—!”
The screams echoed through the sky.
Sakagawa Yu tried to escape, but couldn’t—this time, Yu Jin had deliberately imprisoned the entire space around him.
“Now that’s more like it!”
Nasha chuckled; that laugh sounded like a demon to all the Tier Seven and Tier Eight Evolvers in Qili City!
…
…
Z99 Planet.
Zone 90.
On the Wasteland Wilderness, a dark red city sat quietly.
Phoenix Soaring City, Level 8 Shelter City, ranked tenth on Z99 Planet.
Its City Lord, Dongshan Li, was a Tier Nine Evolver—and one of only two female Tier Nine Evolvers on Z99 Planet.
At that moment—
Phoenix Soaring City, City Lord’s Mansion.
On the throne covered with fiery red feathers, a slender woman, draped in gauzy silk, frowned deeply.
In front of Dongshan Li, the game panel of ’Wasteland’ floated quietly.
More precisely, it was the ’Z99 Planet Comprehensive Rankings.’
This leaderboard combined Shelter City Level and City Lord’s Evolver Tier in its evaluation.
The outcome ultimately decided the ten promotion slots for Z99 Planet in a month.
Compared to old cities like Qili City, Phoenix Soaring City was relatively ’young,’ so its ranking was just tenth.
But now?
Dongshan Li watched as Phoenix Soaring City’s ranking rose from tenth to ninth…
“How can this be?”
Dongshan Li’s eyes were filled with deep confusion.
The top ten Shelter Cities on Z99 Planet hadn’t changed in ages.
Even the city ranked eleventh was far behind Phoenix Soaring City in strength.
The leaderboard only showed your own rank; you couldn’t see the info of other ranked cities.
But as a ’neighbor,’ Dongshan Li knew that Qili City was just one spot above her, at ninth.
“Could something have happened to Qili City?”
Dongshan Li thought instinctively.
“Or…”
“Did something happen to a city ranked higher?”
Right now, Dongshan Li wasn’t happy at all about Phoenix Soaring City’s climb in rank; on the contrary, a strange sense of unease rose in her heart.
There’s only a month left until promotion.
For Phoenix Soaring City, the best outcome was that nothing unexpected happened.
Dongshan Li rose slowly from the throne.
The thin gauzy robe slipped from her body, revealing skin as white as snow.
On her skin, faint red feather marks could be seen.
Whoosh—
Flames surged.
A splendid fiery phoenix cloak materialized on her.
“Perhaps…”
“I should go take a look at Qili City…”
