Wasteland's Only King-Chapter 111 - 100: Honorable Lord City Lord, Please Give Naiya a Shot Too! (3/3 Guaranteed)

Chapter 111: Chapter 100: Honorable Lord City Lord, Please Give Naiya a Shot Too! (3/3 Guaranteed)

Yu Jin always felt.

His luck was pretty average.

Compared to Yu Chen’s crazy luck, he couldn’t call himself truly miserable, but definitely not lucky either.

But...

Yu Jin wasn’t stupid.

After seeing Naiya’s reaction and thinking it over, he realized—

These five traits might just be the best five traits possible.

All at once, nailed it.

"That’s not right."

Yu Jin had a clear understanding of his own luck.

"Brother Tongzi, was this you?"

Yu Jin wondered silently.

[Yep]

Brother Tongzi’s reply, simple and blunt.

Clearly cheating, but his attitude was even more ’open and aboveboard’ than if he wasn’t.

"..."

Yu Jin fell into deep thought.

Obviously.

His development with Brother Tongzi was still less than one percent tapped.

...

...

[Beep beep——]

[Honorable Dawn City Lord, Yu Jin!]

[Do you confirm choosing ’Sky’ as Dawn City’s first trait?]

[Tip——]

[Once a trait is selected, it cannot be changed!]

"Yes."

Yu Jin didn’t hesitate.

Though he still didn’t know just how much ’massive energy’ the ’move by consuming massive energy’ meant.

But...

Yu Jin, after careful analysis and considering everything, plus his intuition, made his choice.

Sky City!

Yu Jin wasn’t sure, in all thousands or tens of thousands of years of A3 Wasteland Planet’s history, whether Sky City had ever appeared.

But—

A movable shelter city meant so much to Yu Jin!

Yesterday’s expedition had gone perfectly smooth.

But it also made Yu Jin realize one thing—

No matter how hard he threw resources at Dawn City, its development could barely keep up with him.

Especially—

When Dawn City would be conquering more shelter cities, ruling a broader area in the future.

If Dawn City can’t move, those impossible distances would waste huge amounts of time.

Of course.

There was another big reason.

Sky City just sounded awesome!

At least deep down, Yu Jin absolutely couldn’t resist.

"He actually chose ’Sky’..."

Naiya listened to the cold mechanical notifications around her, her little face full of surprise.

In her mind.

The best trait was definitely ’Purification’.

On the Wasteland.

Any ability that even slightly touches ’purifying pollution’, its value and effect can’t even be measured!

Just like Naiya herself—

If she could find some way, just to drop her own pollution a bit, even from 99.9% to 98%, she’d be confident she could break through to Tier Nine in one go!

"But..."

"This choice seems fine too."

"He’s already Tier Nine, and his pollution level doesn’t look that high anyway..."

Naiya mumbled, lowering her head, letting out an imperceptible sigh.

She didn’t and wouldn’t interfere with Yu Jin’s trait choice.

But...

If Yu Jin had actually chosen ’Purification’ as his trait,

she really could have benefited too, lowering her own pollution, maybe even breaking through to Tier Nine before promotion.

Naiya felt a bit disappointed, but quickly cheered herself up again.

"Whether it’s Tier Eight or Tier Nine."

"As long as I can stay by this man’s side, board his big ship, Naiya and countless people from Moore Star will see a bright future!"

"Naiya, go for it, you got this!"

Naiya bit her lip, pumping herself up in her heart.

[Beep beep——]

[Trait selection!]

[Promotion begins!]

[Reminder——]

[During Dawn City promotion, the City Lord and subordinates can’t leave the city!]

[Promotion estimated duration: 3 days]

...

...

Dawn City.

Outside the city gate.

A small squad of refugees, who’d traveled from far away, were staring blankly at the tightly closed city gate.

"Eh?"

"Did we come too late?"

"No refugees allowed anymore?"

The twenty-something refugees all exchanged looks, seeing disappointment and regret on each other’s faces.

They were from White Rock City.

After two days of walking, they finally arrived here.

"Sigh..."

The refugee squad sighed, but didn’t want to just leave.

So.

They camped a few miles from Dawn City.

"Wait for the gate to open, then ask..."

"If we could join Dawn City and be protected by Lord Yu Jin and those powerful Evolvers..."

"That’d be the biggest luck on the whole Wasteland!"

They’d seen Yu Jin personally ’One Laser’ right through White Rock City.

And they’d also seen a Tier Seven Mutated Giant Turtle act tame and docile like a little pet turtle in Yu Jin’s presence.

Worth mentioning—

As time went on,

more and more refugee squads gathered outside Dawn City.

And none of them wanted to leave, everyone camped nearby, quietly waiting for Dawn City’s gate to reopen.

...

...

Dawn City, City Lord’s Mansion.

Yu Jin informed Yin Yaonier and the others about Dawn City’s promotion starting.

Although...

Dawn City hadn’t changed at all yet.

No rumbling earthquakes, no floating city.

But everyone still fully believed Yu Jin’s words.

"My Lord——"

"Neil has already closed the city gate ahead of time, blocking all entry and exit!"

Neil reported to Yu Jin, and brought another message.

"My Lord——"

"According to your instructions, Neil monitored the whole process, all perspectives, during crystal and mutated beast meat distribution."

"And the result——"

"Crystals and beast meat, they just vanished... 35 pieces."

The instant Yu Jin heard this, his face changed slightly.

"35 pieces?"

Last time with crystals, 42 went missing!

If it was only a couple less, Yu Jin wouldn’t think much.

But a loss of 7 pieces means...

In just these past two days.

Among around forty Environmental Protection Club members still left behind on Blue Star, six or seven probably died tragically...

Keep in mind.

Those Environmental Club members, after getting their crystals, most likely used them to become Evolvers!

If even Evolvers keep dying, you can imagine what regular people are facing.

"My expectations for Blue Star before were way too optimistic!"

Yu Jin’s heart went cold.

He’d thought purifying 89% of Oumuamua’s pollution sources, leaving just 11%, wouldn’t be such a big threat to Blue Star.

But...

Yu Jin clearly underestimated that ’mere 11%’ of pollution.

Oumuamua, after all, is a Tier Ten Star System Level pollution source!

And Blue Star?

No extraordinary beings, no tiers.

Even 11% of Tier Ten is more than Tier Zero Blue Star can bear.

"Need to speed up, promote Dawn City!"

"Once Dawn City’s promotion’s done and it can move/fly, immediately start sweeping through A308 and the surrounding area, aiming to promote to Level 6 Shelter City ASAP!"

The pressure in Yu Jin’s heart shot up a lot.

Then,

Neil told Yu Jin—

"After distributing the crystals this time, all subordinates will absorb and level up ASAP."

"However, absorbing lots of crystals quickly will also sharply raise their pollution level."

Neil’s tone was full of worry.

In the Council Hall.

Chen Gang and the others all looked tense.

They could see—

Yu Jin wanted badly to raise their strength and develop Dawn City.

But...

If it really kept up like this, popping crystals nonstop for leveling,

maybe before they even got to see Dawn City become great again,

they’d turn into Infected Bodies from pollution overload.

This wasn’t alarmism.

Take Chen Gang for example—

He’d absorbed 3 pieces of Tier Three Energy Crystal and 1 piece of Tier Four Energy Crystal in the past three days.

His pollution level jumped from 50% all the way to 80%.

Pollution can be suppressed by Attribute Energy, the more singular and pure the attribute, the better the effect.

But the premise is—

No popping crystals during suppression.

"Honorable Lord City Lord——"

Seeing Yu Jin silent, Naiya softly spoke up.

"Though developing Dawn City is important, but..."

"If pollution spikes too quickly, even avoiding energy crystals later, it’ll be hard to suppress it."

"Constantly popping crystals is a recipe for poison, drinking to quench thirst but courting doom."

Council Hall.

A hush fell.

Neil stood firm next to Yu Jin, like she’d support him completely whatever he decided.

Wang Yunpeng stood with the Environmental Club members to the left, faces showing some awkwardness and bitterness.

They felt...

They were too weak, dragging Lord Yu Jin down.

Chen Gang hung his head, rubbing his sore wrist from picking up crystals these days.

No matter what—

He believed Yu Jin wouldn’t just let them turn into Infected Bodies right in front of him.

"Neil."

Yu Jin finally spoke.

"My Lord, Neil awaits your command!"

Angelina Neil replied respectfully.

"Gather all subordinates from Dawn City."

"Remember, all subordinates, including the ones who haven’t awakened as Evolvers!"

Yu Jin finished, stood up, and headed to the Martial Arts Plaza outside the City Lord’s Mansion.

Chen Gang and the rest exchanged looks, confused but still hurried to follow.

...

...

Yu Jin stood mid-air, overlooking the dense crowd below.

All 150,000 subordinates of Dawn City were present.

The Martial Arts Plaza wasn’t spacious, packed with people.

Even more stretched all the way out into the outer city streets.

Right now.

Everyone lifted their heads, looking up at Yu Jin floating in the sky.

At the front of the plaza.

Yin Yao, Neil, Naiya, Chen Gang, Wang Yunpeng and other close confidants all lined up.

They had no idea what Yu Jin was about to do.

"Everyone——"

Yu Jin had just started to speak.

"Loyalty~!"

All 150,000 subordinates shouted out.

"..."

The corner of Yu Jin’s mouth twitched.

These subordinates really are ’loyal’ every second of every day.

"Forget it, can’t be bothered, let’s just purify."

Yu Jin had wanted to say a few words, give a pep talk, boost loyalty a bit.

But...

On loyalty, it looked like Yu Jin was actually over-worrying.

"Purification."

Yu Jin spoke again.

His voice was soft.

But...

It spread to every corner of Dawn City.

150,000 subordinates, all looked up in confusion.

Not sure what that meant.

At the front of the Martial Arts Plaza, Yin Yao, who’d been frowning as if pondering something, suddenly trembled.

Naiya’s small mouth popped open like an O.

"Purification?"

"This man actually has the ability to purify pollution!"

Naiya’s mind was set ablaze.

This kind of ability...

On the Wasteland, it’s just insane!

It’s the kind of...

Any time it appeared, it’d start massive brawls between Tier Eight City Lords for this ’strategic resource’!

"Wonder how effective his purification ability is?"

"A hundred years ago, there was once a talent with ’Purification’ ability."

"He could purify 1%-3% pollution, and if the target was a much lower Tier ordinary Evolver, maybe even get up to 5%!"

Naiya fell into memories.

She herself had almost led Naiya City in the war to snatch that ’talent’ back then.

Whoosh——

Whoosh whoosh——!

Time seemed to fly.

In just a few moments of Naiya’s thoughts,

Yu Jin lifted a finger, pointed down gently.

Whoosh——

Whoosh whoosh——

One after another halo of light shot out from his finger.

"Ah!"

Subordinates covered by the halos let out weird, indescribable shouts!

Like...

"GC’d?"

Chen Gang’s eyelid twitched.

Whoosh——!

A halo landed on him.

"Ah~~"

Chen Gang, completely uncontrolled, let out the most ’ecstatic’ moan of his life.

The feeling...

"About to ascend~"

He felt weightless, light as air.

Meanwhile.

Naiya’s eyes were wide open!

She saw—

Visible threads of black mist, under the halos, sizzled and crackled.

In just a few seconds.

The black mist faded away, into nothingness.

"This purification level..."

Naiya blurted out.

This wasn’t 3%, or 5%.

This was... full purification, pollution zero’d out!

Swish——!

Naiya jerked her head up.

Her crystal-like eyes overflowed with never-seen-before... flattery and longing!

"Honorable Lord City Lord——"

"Please, give Naiya a shot too!"