Wasteland's Only King-Chapter 130 - 118: The Dying Sun? Naiya’s Tier Nine Prophecy!

Chapter 130: Chapter 118: The Dying Sun? Naiya’s Tier Nine Prophecy!

"Lord?"

"Endless Starry Sky?"

Inside the courtyard.

The old man’s brows were furrowed, his cloudy eyes filled with worry.

Yin Zhenzhong’s account made everyone realize...

This internal test did not lead to the Wasteland World where Yu Jin and the others were.

But to another completely different Wasteland World, set amidst the vast starry sky, and even more dangerous.

"Tier Twelve!"

During the two days of internal testing, Yin Zhenzhong had, by probing indirectly, learned Carol’s Level.

Of course, that was Carol’s intention.

She needed these ’ants’ to be obedient, so they could better serve the Lord.

Tier Twelve, by itself, was a form of intimidation.

The result...

The people in the courtyard were indeed quite intimidated.

"Tier Twelve, there’s even Tier Twelve..."

All of them understood the information Yin Yao had brought back from her Rebirth.

Yu Jin was Tier Nine, the Dawn City Lord, the unrivaled powerful being of the Wasteland.

But...

Tier Twelve?

And even from Carol’s tense reaction on the last day, it was clear—in that vast starry sky wasteland, even Tier Twelve wasn’t invincible, or rather, had to stay cautious.

"We were too naive before..."

"Sigh!"

The old man let out a heavy sigh.

At first, he’d always thought that as long as Blue Star held out, maybe in two or three months, Yu Jin could bring everyone back.

But...

It was obviously not that easy.

Or rather.

After witnessing a higher, fiercer, vaster starry sky wasteland, he realized that Blue Star’s crisis was not something a measly Tier Nine could solve.

Not even Tier Nine, maybe not even Tier Nineteen, Tier Twenty-Nine, could handle it.

After all...

Thinking of this.

The old man raised his head, looking at the sky.

After the Oumuamua crisis, Blue Star’s technology withered; energy collapsed.

But those actually weren’t the biggest problems.

At worst, civilization would just regress a little.

The mutant beasts all over Blue Star, the infected bodies caused by human mutation, also weren’t fatal problems.

Because, at present, they weren’t very strong; cold weapons plus a human wave tactic could still control them to a degree.

The real trouble was the crisis above.

The old man’s cloudy eyes reflected the sun in the sky.

It was now noon.

But the sun was terribly dim, almost like twilight.

Even though technology had withered, high-end talent could still make a simple ’astronomical telescope’ from common materials.

In the past ten short days.

The sun’s brightness had been dropping at a desperate pace.

Back then.

The shocking light column in the Northwest purified most Oumuamua pollution, so Blue Star wasn’t destroyed by pollution then and there.

But...

The real body of Oumuamua never targeted Blue Star—it headed deep into the Solar System.

"The sun..."

"Is about to go out."

...

... 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

A308 Area.

North of the mountains.

Above Daluo City.

Boom——

Rumble——!

The Sky City that blocked out the sun emerged from the clouds.

"Dawn City——"

"Loyalty~!"

Inside and outside Daluo City.

Nearly a million subordinates knelt on the ground, looking up and shouting in unison.

Not long after.

Dawn City slowly landed on the ground near Daluo City.

Compared to its beginnings, Dawn City’s area had already expanded over tenfold.

Just going from Level 2 to Level 4, apart from expansion, Dawn City’s form hadn’t changed much.

According to Naiya——

From Level 0 to Level 1, the sanctuary city activated ’traits’ and changed greatly.

After that, Level 1 to Level 4 only expanded on the original base.

Only from Level 5 to Level 6 would there be another big change.

Now.

After two days of promotion, Dawn City was Level 4, holding fifty subordinate cities.

This time, coming to the north of A308, it was exactly to subdue fifty new subordinate cities and thus promote to Level 5.

Boom——

Dawn City’s gates opened.

Yin Yao, Chen Gang, and others led a throng of Evolvers into Daluo City.

Daluo City was a Level 4 Refuge City with fifty subordinate cities.

Dawn City could directly subdue Daluo City as a subordinate city, but that would only increase the count by one.

So.

To quickly promote to a Level 5 Shelter City, Daluo City had to be ’downgraded’, meaning it had to give up its fifty subordinate cities.

The procedure wasn’t complicated; Yin Yao and the others planned to finish taking in fifty new subordinate cities within half a day and then trigger another promotion.

...

...

Time hurried by.

In the blink of an eye, half a day had passed.

Amid a huge rumbling sound.

Dawn City rose into the air again.

Under the gaze of millions of refugees below.

Dawn City entered the clouds, starting its third promotion.

Once this promotion finished, it would mean Dawn City’s subordinate city count would soar to one hundred.

At the same time, Dawn City would achieve full control over the entire A308 area.

It was destined to be extraordinary.

It also marked Dawn City’s passage through its early development stage, entering the next phase of frenzied expansion.

...

Above the Celestial Vault.

In the floating city.

On a ten-meter-wide bed, Yu Jin and Naiya sat face to face.

Half a day ago, after Dawn City promoted to Level 4, Yu Jin immediately tested the ’Coordinate Imprint’.

Good news——

It was looser than before.

Bad news——

Not by much.

This made Yu Jin realize that even when Dawn City reached Level 6 and the Coordinate Imprint rose to Level 9, going back to Blue Star wasn’t guaranteed.

Or rather.

Even if he could go back, it would be hard to bring Dawn City’s army of hundreds of thousands of Evolvers as planned...

This was also due to A3 Planet’s rules interfering.

In the past two and a half days.

The long-silent rules of A3 Planet suddenly stirred again.

Brother Tongzi was impressive, deciphering the information right away.

["Potential bug-type players detected in this server. Request for deployment of high-level civilization players to assist in investigation."]

["Please deploy more, higher-tier high-level civilization players."]

For Yu Jin, this was definitely good news.

More ’Eureka’ meant more rewards, including Source Points, crystals, and possibly more internal test helmets.

Even if none of those appeared, with ’Strongman’s Spoils’ ability, Yu Jin could plunder attributes, memories, and even talents from the ’Eureka’ visitors.

If that was all, the A3 Planet rules wouldn’t be called ’disruptive’.

The trouble was the second ’big move’ pulled out after so long of silence.

["Potential bug-type players detected in this server. Request for star system server to implement a higher-level blockade."]

The so-called blockade was rules limitation.

In other words.

Compared to his first journey across, the difficulty for Yu Jin to use ’Coordinate Imprint’ to break through rules and return to Blue Star had increased a lot.

This made Yu Jin uncomfortable.

After all...

The root was his breakthrough to Tier Ten, Tier Eleven.

But he couldn’t just stay at Tier Nine and not promote to a higher level.

After all, A3 wasn’t the endpoint; in the future, he’d have to promote to the vast and dangerous Star System Wasteland.

If it were just Tier Nine promotion...

He might be killed instantly as soon as he arrived.

Cause and effect, effect and cause.

"So..."

"Whether Level 6 Shelter City allows return or not, and how many people can go back."

"What matters now, besides promoting the shelter city, is to understand the situation of Blue Star."

"Especially..."

"The future of Blue Star, and the possibly returning Oumuamua crisis!"

Yu Jin felt immense pressure.

In his ’perception’, his adoptive mother Cao Fang, his best bro Old Tang... were still on Blue Star.

"Naiya."

Yu Jin took a deep breath, looking at the Moore Star loli who was sitting upright with a tense face.

The solution he thought up was...

Prophecy!

Naiya’s prophecy ability was incredibly strong; Yu Jin long ago learned this through information revealed by the Eye of Insight.

But...

After a deeper exchange just now, Naiya told Yu Jin——

She couldn’t prophesy ’Blue Star’ out of nothing—after all, she’d never even seen Blue Star.

Also.

She confessed to Yu Jin that she couldn’t prophesy beings far above her in rank, including Yu Jin.

The implied meaning was——

Naiya’s prophecy a hundred years ago didn’t actually prophesy Yu Jin—she didn’t have that ability yet.

She prophesied her own future.

Among countless possibilities, she followed the guidance of fate and saw the only bright path: cling tightly to the man in front of her.

So...

Prophecy wasn’t just making something out of nothing; it needed at least basic ’media’.

Of course.

To be safe, Yu Jin had given Naiya a thorough purification of pollution over the past two days.

Even.

He specially gave her a Tier Nine Energy Crystal.

This left Naiya surprised and anxious.

The result was...

[Naiya]

[Mother Star: Moore Star]

[Tier: Nine]

[Attribute: Ice, Fire, Prophecy]

[Ability: Ice and Fire Two Realms Level 8, Eye of Prophecy Level 8, Destiny Peeping Level 7, Eye of True Sight Level 1...]

The batch of operations Yu Jin carried out on Naiya obviously took effect.

She broke through Tier Nine, awakening the ’Prophecy’ attribute’s Tier Nine Ability.

[Eye of True Sight Level 1: Use an item or lifeform as media, prophesy the future events with the highest probability; during the process, you will view the future through the media...]

Whew——

Yu Jin exhaled a deep breath.

Since crossing to the Wasteland, it was the first time he felt such tension—maybe even a little anxious.

"Just waiting for Dawn City’s promotion to finish, then testing Coordinate Imprint!"

"Hopefully, it’ll loosen up a bit more; even if people can’t go, at least I can send the ’media’ across..."

Time slowly passed.

Yu Jin and Naiya sat quietly together.

The latter, right now had an unprecedented focus and seriousness on her little face.

Naiya was different from Yin Yao in a previous life; with prophecy ability, she always knew...

After the crossing, the remaining half of Moore Star’s people faced unstoppable pollution and apocalypse.

Precisely because of that.

Knowing they’d lost the ’crystal’, Naiya was all the more determined to lead the surviving Moore Star people to fight for survival, for a glimmer of hope, even waiting a hundred years and traveling ten thousand miles to reach Dawn City, seeking to hang onto Yu Jin with extreme humility.

Even though.

Naiya was shocked that Yu Jin might have a way to ’return to Blue Star’.

But...

In her heart, some sort of indescribable emotion rose.

That emotion was...

Empathy?

Making up for regrets?

For the first time, she saw tension and panic on the face of this man who would rule the future.

For the first time, she hoped her prophecy ahead would see beauty and not disaster.

One hundred and fifty years ago.

She failed to save half the people left on Moore Star.

One hundred and fifty years later.

She’d step into the game herself, accompany Yu Jin to prophesy, to change the future for half the people left on Blue Star.

"Uhm..."

Naiya lowered her head.

She told Yu Jin the effect of her Tier Nine prophecy ability.

But she didn’t tell Yu Jin that this extremely defiant ability would exact an unbearable price...

"Is it worth it?"

Naiya stared absent-mindedly at Yu Jin’s face.

"It’s worth it."

Naiya softly told herself.

Because in this moment, she didn’t see Yu Jin, but countless Moore Star compatriots who perished in despair from pollution one hundred and fifty years ago.

Rumble——!

Finally.

Dawn City shook violently.

In the Core Area, a cold mechanical prompt sounded.

[Beep beep——]

[Dawn City promotion complete!]

[Current Dawn City Level: Level 5!]

Swish——!

The instant the prompt sounded.

Yu Jin raised his hand, fully activating Coordinate Imprint.

Buzz——

Buzzzzz——!

Intense spatial fluctuations radiated from Yu Jin’s body, almost engulfing the whole refuge city.

Naiya watched this scene nervously.

Meanwhile, in the inner city’s martial arena.

Yin Yao, Chen Gang, Jiang Haichuan... and nearly a million subordinates, were all eagerly waiting for Yu Jin to show up and announce the good news of ’promotion success’.

But...

Yu Jin didn’t appear.

What came instead was an extremely intense spatial fluctuation.

In that moment.

Yin Yao and the rest suddenly felt inexplicably tense inside.

"What is the president doing..."

Yin Yao’s nerves tightened bit by bit.

Meanwhile, in the Core Area.

Yu Jin, using Tier Eleven Spatial Attribute Energy, crazily activated ’Coordinate Imprint’, and finally got a result...

Click——!

The space in front of him shattered!

Revealing a fist-sized hole...