[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wasteland-s-only-king":3,"chapter-wasteland-s-only-king-wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-257":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Wasteland's Only King",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1594939,2061,"Chapter 257 - 39: Mining! Everyone Mining! System Update! The Long-Awaited Crystal Fix!","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-257",257,"\u003Cp>Venus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wasteland lands, central Northern Hemisphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morgan City, a Level 9 Shelter City, sat here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the top Promoter on the A-9 Wasteland Planet, City Lord Morgan Riman was the only Tier Nine Evolver before the planet’s promotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Tier Nine City Lord stood within Morgan City, looking up at the colossal fortress drawing closer and closer overhead, only to feel like he could barely breathe!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was Tier Nine, the very pinnacle of the Star System Wasteland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faced with that Sky City, he just felt like an ant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sensed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that city, there were dozens of auras that could easily kill him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"M-Master Morgan!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s going on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tens of millions of subordinates in Morgan City were in total chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had just learned the game rules of the Star System Wasteland and some basic knowledge from their City Lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the blink of an eye,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>why did it feel like their Morgan City was about to be squashed flat by that sky fortress?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky fortress rumbled again and again, unhurried, slowly descending from above the clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its shadow nearly covered a ten-thousand-mile area all around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as luck would have it,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morgan City was right at the heart of this shadow, directly below the fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Morgan City was shrouded completely in darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evolvers everywhere were strung tight, poised as if facing a great enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t tell me...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"High-level Players from the Star System Wasteland have come to bully us newbies?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That can’t be it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I thought there were newbie protection rules...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morgan Riman stood at the front of the City Lord’s Mansion, which looked like a small palace, staring at the ever-approaching Sky City, feeling the increasingly overwhelming pressure, his brow knotted into a deep furrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After another deafening boom,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Sky City ceased its descent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It hovered above Morgan City, about three thousand meters high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That height...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a High-tier Evolver, it was practically within reach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh whoosh—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All eyes in Morgan City turned skyward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From within the fortress, figures shot out in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that...over a hundred million people?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are they all Evolvers?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since breaking through to Tier Nine, Morgan had not felt shock after shock like this in ages, until he was nearly numb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He watched as those hundreds of millions of Evolvers formed twenty-some orderly teams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each team still consisted of nearly five million Evolvers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And every team was led by an Evolver whose aura was terrifyingly powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of wind being split.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One squad, no, one army, headed straight from the fortress toward Morgan City below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not good...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morgan Riman was internally sounding every alarm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His instincts told him—this was going to be bad!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t run!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Morgan City was right here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he abandoned his Refuge City, then even if he survived, it would all be meaningless...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morgan hesitated for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But nearly five million figures were already standing in the skies high above Morgan City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They loomed like celestial soldiers, gazing down at the whole city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The army’s leader—a young man, shockingly young in appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oi!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who’s in charge here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The youth was a bit casual, standing high in the air above Morgan City, shouting out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his voice faded—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shhh shhh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the City Lord’s Mansion,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>countless eyes turned toward Morgan Riman, who was about to shield everyone behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tier Nine City Lord’s face was black as thunder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He braced himself and floated up to just short of the young man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"S-sir!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morgan didn’t hesitate for a moment; he addressed the youth with utmost deference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply because—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man was making no effort whatsoever to hide his aura now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tier of that aura...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morgan had no idea what it was exactly, but it was definitely beyond Tier Nine—no, far beyond Tier Nine!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His instincts screamed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This person could flatten him, over and over, with just a single finger!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crackle—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, electric current crackled in the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flash of raw electric energy...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>made Morgan and the tens of millions in the city alike tremble violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haha!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man was none other than Chen Gang from Dawn City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now he was also the leader of the 05th Legion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past day—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dawn City had been unable to leave due to its promotion to a micro-Refuge Fortress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Assigned by Yu Jin to conquer and claim this Venus, he finally had a chance to \"show off\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morgan hadn’t misjudged—Chen Gang’s current tier was at the extreme of Tier Eleven!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Value, already pushing ten million.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Morgan, just new to Tier Nine, barely had a value above a hundred thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am the commander of Dawn Fortress’s 05th Legion, Chen Gang!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By order of the Fortress Lord—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve come to conquer your...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s the name of this city?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Gang strutted as he spoke, only then realizing he didn’t even know the name of the city, so he stopped and looked at Morgan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"M-Morgan City!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Morgan’s heart sank to rock bottom, but he could only grit his teeth and answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, Morgan City.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re the City Lord, correct?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You should be grateful—the Lord is merciful and doesn’t wish for mass slaughter, so...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have a choice right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First: Submit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Second: Still submit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For or against?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As these last words fell—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crackle—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Gang spread his hands open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the void, terrifying electric currents surged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hair of every one of Morgan City’s ten million people stood on end from the electricity!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Tier Nine City Lord Morgan, specially targeted by Chen Gang, was paralyzed by the current, his body twitching uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the plan was to conquer peacefully, a little show of force was still necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>",978,"2026-06-06T09:25:00.978Z",1,"novelbin.me","463535046c047e7eaf3ee536ab0835f1856986d3c17f810e651f454061e1ebd3","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-258","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-256",370,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwasteland-s-only-king-cover.jpg"]