Wasteland's Only King
Chapter 281 - 50: True Full-Power Strike! Spectacular Fireworks Show! The Surprise Brought by Lord Seneca... (Part 2)
He stared quietly at the changing values of his own stats on the panel before him—
million, 260 million, 270 million...
The value increases slowed down the further it went.
In the end, Yu Jin’s original value halted at 290 million.
And he could feel a faint and elusive bottleneck blocking his way.
"300 million value, that should be Tier Eighteen?"
"Turns out it’s a bit lower than I expected..."
Though he didn’t break through to Tier Eighteen, Yu Jin’s base value gained an increase of 40 million.
This also meant—
On the Alpha Star server, with his Limit-Breaking Coefficient holding steady at 11%, his maximum value rose from 2.75 million to 3.19 million.
"Hoo—"
After the stat boost, the energy consumption from Time-Space Solidification was much easier for Yu Jin to bear.
"Continue!"
"Let’s finish this in one go!"
Yu Jin pressed his palms together. In his hands, eighteen streams of attribute energy shone brilliantly.
Various colored lights wove together like a rainbow.
At last.
With Yu Jin’s efforts.
Eighteen attributes, whether opposing or utterly unrelated, fused together completely.
A Seventeen-Colored Lotus, glowing with eighteen colors, appeared quietly in the void above his palms.
Back on Venus, Yu Jin had used this move to annihilate the Star-devouring Touch—it was then a Seventeen-Colored Lotus.
But now?
It wasn’t just about an extra attribute, an extra color!
It was...
"Grow!"
Yu Jin uttered a soft command.
The Colorful Lotus shot out from his hands, and in that instant, it soared with the wind and expanded rapidly!
From palm-sized at first, in one second it swelled to a hundred meters in diameter—and it kept growing!
Behind it all, Yu Jin’s internal energy was being continually pumped out and drained.
The equivalent consumption of all eighteen attribute energies was something that even Yu Jin, with his 3.19 million Energy Coefficient, couldn’t sustain for long.
So...
"Release."
Yu Jin muttered, waving to lift the time-space freeze.
Buzz—
Space-time rippled and spread outward.
The minds of all who had been frozen returned to normal.
On Silver Beach Island, Athena and the others gazed up at the dazzling pillar of light about to descend, with a vague sense that something was off.
Until...
"What’s that?"
"A flower?"
Don Flack’s eyes were the sharpest; he spotted the difference instantly.
He remembered clearly—
There hadn’t been any flower there before he blinked.
Soon.
Athena, Ah Long, and the other team members all noticed the Eighteen-Colored Lotus.
Or rather, unless you were blind, it would be impossible not to see it.
After all...
That Eighteen-Colored Lotus now had a diameter of ten thousand meters!
The Colorful Lotus was now drifting toward the uppermost Celestial Vault, where the immense Sky Battleship hovered.
And inside the Sky Battleship, Seneca had just shouted "Fire!" and was staring intently at the island below, wearing a smug, vengeful grin—until he suddenly froze.
He stared out the porthole, the lotus seemingly close enough to touch—stunningly beautiful and dazzling, yet carrying a presence that made his heart tremble uncontrollably.
Ahead of him.
A handsome young man, radiating the aura of a leader, suddenly furrowed his brows.
On his face, the sneer and disdain hadn’t faded—the object of his scorn wasn’t Yu Jin, but the Alpha Planet Governor, Seneca.
To him, a governor who couldn’t even handle a few human players landing here, had to call the Federation for backup—what a joke among jokes.
But now?
This Federation fleet captain realized things weren’t so simple after all.
"Activate Energy Shield!"
"Maximum power!"
The young captain’s thoughts flashed, and the orders were issued.
Buzz—
Almost at the moment his words fell.
Outside the Sky Battleship, a faint, indifferent aura appeared from nowhere.
"Titan’s full-power shield can withstand a 3 million value attack..."
"Even a Third Transformation Level Unlimiter couldn’t break through this defense easily in a short time!"
The young captain muttered to himself.
But as those words entered Seneca’s ears, for some reason, they didn’t make him feel safe—instead, his heartbeat quickened.
"No... No..."
"I’m inside a Federation Level IV Battleship, the captain’s already opened maximum defense for caution..."
"So why..."
Seneca felt his forehead, drenched in liquid.
"Sweat..."
He murmured, his expression growing tauter and tenser.
Until...
[Beep—]
[Warning!]
[Warning!!]
[Detected super high-level energy waves!]
[Evade, evade!]
[Estimating energy level...]
[Energy Level: 3 million!]
[Energy Level rising, reestimating...]
[Energy Level: 3.5 million!]
[Energy Level rising, reestimating...]
[Energy Level: 4 million!]
Rapid alerts sounded within the Sky Battleship, freezing the young captain, Seneca, and all crew where they stood.
"Ta... Ta-take how many?"
The young captain’s eyes widened, his composure shattered.
Four million energy level?
He even wondered if the instruments had malfunctioned!
"Impossible..."
"The lotus didn’t show any energy fluctuations before—"
The young captain didn’t finish his sentence.
Because—
Right outside the porthole, the dazzling ten-kilometer Colorful Lotus was slowly blooming.
Its core bud grew and extended at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Each of its eighteen petals gathered a different energy storm.
With a glance, the young captain saw Light, Thunder, Wind, Water, Mechanical... all sorts of pure, powerful attributes.
Even.
He sensed the aura of Time and Spatial Attribute Energy.
"Shit!"
In that moment.
The young captain finally reacted, albeit belatedly.
"Run!"
Defense?
Defense my ass!
Even the Titan’s energy shield at full power couldn’t possibly withstand a four-million energy-level strike!
"Warp!"
"Curvature engines, wormhole construction!"
"All power, fastest speed!"
The young captain was howling out these commands.
But...
Too late!
Everything was too late!
Yu Jin had just frozen time-space, then revealed his trump card, all for this exact scene.
He wanted to strike while the enemy was still probing or underestimating him—with full force, leaving no chance to resist!
In fact.
If both sides had gone back and forth probing, even the Titan Sky Battleship wouldn’t have been able to do much to Yu Jin—but if it insisted on running, Yu Jin was equally helpless.
"Too bad there’s no ’if’."
Above Silver Beach Island.
Yu Jin’s energy nearly exhausted, less than a hundredth remaining; he watched the fireworks overhead and let out a long breath.
Boom—
Rumble—!
The blast came much slower than the light.
On Silver Beach Island.
Athena and the others’ faces were filled with horror.
They saw—
The Level IV Civilization Warship blocking out the sky, exploded!
The energy beam fired by the warship never reached Silver Beach Island.
But the warship itself...
Was completely engulfed by the light of the Colorful Lotus.
And then...
They witnessed this scene with their own eyes.
Upon the Celestial Vault of Alpha Star, played out perhaps the most spectacular and expensive fireworks show in the planet’s billions of years of history.
Whoosh—
Crash—
The shattered debris of the warship rained like meteors, falling everywhere into the Black Sea.
The night sky, dyed in dazzling hues by the lotus and warship explosions.
Seneca?
The Alpha Planet Governor with a Limit-Breaking Coefficient of 10%, not even seeing his nemesis Yu Jin face to face, became just another fragment of the countless fireworks and meteors...
Also annihilated were the young captain from the Fallen Civilization Federation,
and countless Fallen Ones on the Titan warship.
Black Sea.
Central Island.
Nearly ten million Fallen Ones on the island looked up to the sky as well.
"So beautiful!"
"Wow!"
"Is this the legendary fireworks?"
"It’s gorgeous! Was this made by Lord Seneca?"
"I don’t know, Lord Seneca and His Highness Damian seemed to have gone out and aren’t on Central Island..."
"It must be Lord and His Highness, what a delightful visual feast!"