Wasteland's Only King - Chapter 258 - 39: Mining! Everyone Mines! System Update! Crystal Fix, At Last! (Part 2)
Chapter 258: Chapter 39: Mining! Everyone Mines! System Update! Crystal Fix, At Last! (Part 2)
Might makes right, loyalty must be absolute!
“L-Lord…”
Morgan was trembling, his voice turning robotic from the shock.
The jolt from Chen Gang had zapped away the last traces of rebellion budding in his heart!
“Mor-Morgan City…”
“Is willing to submit!”
Up in midair.
Morgan lowered his head, dropped to one knee.
Chen Gang flashed a smug grin.
Behind him, the near five million-strong Evolver Corps all shook their heads in unison.
“What a pity…”
“I was hoping for a good, all-out brawl.”
“Didn’t expect…”
“You’d be this pragmatic?”
Morgan and the tens of millions of subordinates in the city listened to the troops’ chatter, their faces turning even more sour.
As once the only Level 9 Shelter City on A-9 Planet,
they used to inspire envy in everyone else.
But now, on just the second day after their promotion…
they’d been stomped, faces ground into the dirt, forcibly recruited as minions.
The difference was… devastating.
And in the next second,
the lazy order Chen Gang gave made the ten million completely speechless.
“Your job is simple…”
“Find minerals. Dig them up!”
“This planet is packed with mineral resources!”
“Morgan City, you have ten days to fully mine out all resources within a 500-mile radius!”
“If you fail…”
“Mhm, just experience the consequences yourselves.”
Chen Gang threw out these two lines.
Then, left part of the 05th legion behind, and headed straight for another Level 8 Shelter City in the distance, not even sparing a look back at the rest.
This mission, he wasn’t just targeting one Shelter City.
“Phew—”
Watching Chen Gang leave, Morgan instinctively let out a deep sigh of relief.
But the next second—
“Oi!”
A shout came from the Evolver Corps left behind.
At the front of the troops stood a young man.
He was the vice commander of this legion, Tier Nine Limit Equal Tier.
“…”
Morgan felt numb all over.
“Promotion was a trap, a damn trap!”
The thought echoed in his mind.
“Upper Realm people, making my Morgan City people miners…”
“Digging miners, huh!”
Clang—!
The sharp clash of metal snapped Morgan out of it.
He looked up—
The vice commander had even thoughtfully tossed a shovel right in front of him.
“Get going.”
The vice commander smiled.
“…”
Morgan clenched his fists.
And then…
Grabbed the shovel.
“Fine, I’ll do it!”
…
…
Venus.
Scenes just like Morgan City’s kept playing out.
Of course, not every newly promoted Shelter City Lord was as “pragmatic” as Morgan.
For example, the Tier Nine City Lord encountered by Naiya was stubborn as hell, refusing to yield.
So…
Naiya blasted him, pulverizing even his ashes to the wind.
And for good measure,
froze several of the Lord’s cronies who tried to resist into ice sculptures, sticking them right outside the city gate as a warning.
The rest of the ten million in the city immediately fell in line.
Before long,
they each grabbed a shovel, heading out of the city to prospect and dig minerals.
…
Above the Celestial Vault.
Dawn Fortress.
After promotion, Dawn City’s appearance had changed drastically once again.
Now, it was no longer just a Shelter City, but a real Interstellar Fortress.
Its scale, expanded further, adding tons of facilities unique to Interstellar Fortresses.
For example: starship launch bays, landing pods, fortress energy cannons, fortress teleportation devices, and so on.
Tower of the Sky, at its summit.
Yu Jin overlooked Dawn Fortress below.
For this operation, almost all of the fortress’s hundred million-plus subordinates had mobilized.
The streets within the fortress were, for once, strangely empty and quiet.
“Let’s hope we occupy this planet soon.”
Yu Jin muttered quietly, glancing at the translucent panel before him.
[Dawn Fortress——]
[Current Level: Micro Interstellar Fortress]
[Next Level: Small Interstellar Fortress]
[Promotion Requirements——]
[1. Occupy at least 10% of the planet]
[2. 5 million Civilization Source Points]
This was just the promotion notice “Wasteland” gave after Dawn City leveled up to a Fortress.
Of the two requirements, the second had long since been met.
After advancing to Star System Wasteland, the Civilization Source Points Carol got for wiping out Salsa’s three main fortress fleets had finally been made available for use as well.
And that pile of points was… one billion!
A frankly absurd amount.
Yu Jin estimated that just this stash was enough to bring Dawn City all the way to Super Large Fortress.
But…
Since it was an upgrade from the Low-dimensional Server,
players on Wasteland Planet got to gank “free fortresses” envied by powers like Salsa’s civilization—but were also hit by unique rules.
For example—
Besides using up Civilization Source Points, upgrading the fortress also required a certain degree of planetary occupation progress.
This was exactly why Yu Jin dispatched Chen Gang with the Evolver Corps.
“New goal—”
“Get promoted to Large or even Super Large Fortress within a month!”
He made plans in his heart, at the same time triggering a thought.
Swoosh—
A different translucent panel popped into view in front of him.
[System updated to Version 2.1!]
[Patch notes below——]
[Because you’re now in the perilous High-Dimensional Federation, some system features have been updated as well!]
[Explore the details yourself!]
[Note——]
[Your max Tier has been increased to Tier Twenty!]
[…]
The update had already started automatically at the moment of the promotion.
As for why…
It was exactly like when he’d first landed on A3 Planet.
Just after arriving on Star System Wasteland, Brother Tongzi insisted they were now in the “supremely dangerous High-Dimensional Cosmic Federation.”
And then—
Without another word, the system buried its head and started updating.
The difference this time being—
“Last it was 1.0 to 2.0, now it’s 2.0 to 2.1?”
“So…”
“Maybe the changes aren’t as drastic as before?”
Yu Jin muttered, focusing on the last line:
[Your max Tier is now Tier Twenty.]
It looked bland on the surface,
but it was anything but simple.
Because—
previous info from the Star System Wasteland rules said the Star System Server’s uppermost Tier was Nineteen.
Tier Twenty?
You had to ascend to a higher dimension for that.
As for why not just stack “Void Plus Three” onto Tier Nineteen and get to Tier Twenty-Two?
Based on his Wasteland OL experience, Yu Jin guessed—
Tier Twenty might be the cap for Evolver Tiers.
Beyond that, besides Limitless, maybe it was a whole new Extraordinary System?
“Have to start Leveling Up from scratch?”
“That can’t be… probably a different way to strengthen.”
Yu Jin shook his head, not wanting to overthink it for now.
Right now, he had more important business.
Crunch—!
A crisp sound he hadn’t heard in ages.
Yu Jin had nearly forgotten…
when the last time he popped a Crystal was.
Ever since his Tier breakthrough to Sixteen in that Stellar Duel with Holland, his Tier had been stuck at the Server’s cap, never rising further.
Now that he’d made Star System Wasteland, time to finally get back to the thrill of popping crystals!
“First, I’ll polish off these Tier Sixteen, Tier Seventeen, and this one Tier Eighteen…”
“Afterward, I’ll go hunt some high-level monsters and loot more crystals!”
“Short-term goal—”
“Break through to Tiers Eighteen or Nineteen first!”
Crunch—!
Another pop.
Vast energy surged around Yu Jin’s body.
His Value was climbing rapidly, visibly, to the naked eye.
One hundred million, one hundred and ten million, one hundred and twenty million…
Meanwhile,
countless lightyears away,
in the depths of the starry sky—
Bzzz—!
The Void suddenly condensed into a massive portal corridor.
Boom—
Rumble—!
Three Super Large Fortresses appeared, each leading a fleet of various Interstellar Fleets as they emerged en masse.
“Lord…”
“Carol, we’re almost there!”
Inside the lead Super Large Fortress,
Carol gazed into the Void ahead, whispering to herself again and again.
“Rest here for now, and find a nearby star to replenish energy!”
“We need to prep for the next long-range spatial jump as soon as possible!”
Carol’s orders swept instantly through the fortress fleet.
Players of the Blue Star Civilization scurried up and down, all busy executing commands…
