Wasteland's Only King - Chapter 298 - 59: Fortress Battleship Windfall! Arthur’s Hypothesis: He Came from the Low Dimension!
Outer starry sky, P-8808 Star Realm.
Dawn Fortress, Tower of the Sky.
Yu Jin stared at the lines of text appearing on the panel before him, lost in thought.
“Civilization Hunter?”
“Passive coordinate exposure?”
“Actively claim a fifth of the Fortress Battleships and other resources destroyed?”
“Why does this sound like looting—wait, just straight-up pillage?”
Yu Jin muttered, triggering another thought.
Whoosh—
Another virtual panel emerged.
At the top, in bold, was written [Drake-3 Wasteland Star System Rankings].
The names of Blue Star and Yu Jin, after this battle, had broken into the top ten thousand.
Or more precisely, ranked at No.1556.
Fifteen hundred or so—compared to Yu Jin’s expectations, it still felt a bit low.
After all, in this war, Dawn Fortress alone had destroyed over a hundred super large fortresses.
“Maybe it’s the Subject Evolver tier dragging our score down?”
Yu Jin studied the detailed rules for the rankings for a long time, making his own guesses.
The Star System Wasteland leaderboard is similar to the Planet Wasteland rankings.
The ranking is determined by the resources (fortresses, warships, including Civilization Source Points) a civilization owns, combined with the overall power of its subordinates.
“Boosting subordinate strength significantly in a short time will be tough.”
“But as for warship and fortress resources?”
“This Civilization Hunter achievement has really come at just the right moment, hasn’t it?”
Yu Jin stroked his chin, pondering silently.
After breaking into the top ten thousand and officially gaining a promotion slot, Yu Jin had learned a lot more about promotion.
First of all—
Even if a civilization force gets the promotion slot, it doesn’t mean everyone can advance.
On the contrary,
The number of people allowed to advance is strictly limited.
The higher the rank, the more can advance, and vice versa.
Yu Jin’s idea, of course, was to let all Blue Star Civilization players ascend together.
And for that, a higher ranking was necessary.
“President…”
The soft call from behind, Yin Yao’s voice, interrupted his thoughts.
At this moment—
Yin Yao, Naiya, Neil, and other core members of Dawn Fortress, were staring vacantly at the fading, magnificent fireworks lingering in the distant stars—still lost in a daze.
“This war…”
“Is it over?”
Yin Yao’s beautiful eyes were blank—half asking Yu Jin, half talking to herself.
All eyes turned to Yu Jin, waiting for his answer.
“It’s over.”
Yu Jin pushed aside the thoughts in his head for now, turned to the group, and nodded seriously.
“We won.”
That simple line, just four words, echoed throughout Dawn Fortress, reaching all of Carol’s outlying fortresses and fleets outside as well.
After a brief silence—
Wham—
Roar—!
Thunderous cheers, shouts, and screams erupted through the starry sky.
“Wuhu~!”
“Hahahahaha!”
“Lord, you are mighty!”
“Holy shit, did we really max out this entire star field with just a little effort?”
“Damn, I thought it would be a fight to the death, but who knew…”
“It was all within the Lord’s control!”
“Win whenever we want to, simple as that!”
“By the way, those three warships were that strong? Tens or even hundreds of super large fortresses gone, just like that?”
“…”
Dawn Fortress perimeter.
In the starry sky—
Also watching the dazzling fireworks were the Lord of Moonlight Fortress, Diana, and her people.
“This, this…”
“Are these really just freshly advanced players from P-8808 Star Realm?”
Diana stood dumbfounded.
Her delicate frame trembled involuntarily.
More than ten million subordinates in Moonlight Fortress were even more terrified and anxious at this point.
This fear—surpassing even what they’d felt when fleeing the Star Realm and being besieged by Closter and all the High-tier Civilization Forces.
After all—
This Dawn Fortress was the very one that wiped out Closter and the others…
“My Lord!”
“You, you…”
The core members of Moonlight Fortress were already kneeling in front of Diana, all at once.
They didn’t say anything, but at the same time, they said everything.
Whoosh—
Diana snapped out of her daze.
She took a deep breath.
Her voice trembled, but held a trace of resolve.
“I’ll go to that great Lord’s fortress immediately…”
As she finished speaking—
Beep—!
Diana sent a landing request to Dawn Fortress.
However—
The comm had barely gone out, and Diana hadn’t even gotten a reply yet—
Boom—
Rumble—!
Just outside Dawn Fortress, right by Moonlight Fortress’s position in space—
A series of deafening blasts erupted suddenly.
Bzzzz—
The void trembled.
Silhouettes began to appear, one after another.
“What’s that…”
The ten million members of Moonlight Fortress stared, stupefied, right there.
They saw—
From the void emerged fortress after fortress—Interstellar Fortresses!
From the void emerged warship after warship—Interstellar Battleships!
From the void emerged mecha after mecha—Combat Mechas!
It was as if they’d lain dormant, and only now awakened.
All of them surrounded Dawn Fortress, silently orbiting it!
Among these—
Diana noticed—
The Star System Wasteland’s ceiling: twenty full Super Large Interstellar Fortresses!
And as for large and medium-sized fortresses, there were hundreds, even thousands!
Smaller forts and micro-fortresses numbered over ten thousand!
This scale was nearly a fifth of the Hunting Alliance’s total military strength earlier!
But the problem was—
The Hunting Alliance was a coalition of over a hundred High-level Civilizations!
Dawn Fortress held all these fortresses and warships alone!
Yes.
Diana observed—
Every fortress and warship bore the same bold logo on their hulls.
In a script she could not recognize.
…
Tower of the Sky.
Yu Jin looked at the array of fortresses and warships dropping into the starry sky, each delivered courtesy of the game “Wasteland,” and nodded in satisfaction.
“Not bad, not bad.”
“No cheap knock-offs, all brand new from the factory.”
