[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wasteland-s-only-king":3,"chapter-wasteland-s-only-king-wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-265":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},1594947,2061,"Chapter 265 - 42: Super Large Iron Plate Squid! Star-devouring Touch! Main Body Arrival!_2","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-265",265,"\u003Cp>This isn’t suppression at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is practically cooking!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Woo woo—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Central Valley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one reacting more intensely than Nangong Linglong and her people was that previously badly wounded Mutated Black Tiger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It kept letting out low whimpers, its massive body shivering nonstop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when it met the Tentacle Boss before, it was never this terrified!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It actually started missing its mom...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zzz—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zzz zzz—!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the iron plate, the tentacle’s struggles grew weaker by the second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The burned smell hanging over the valley got even stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin was definitely not a professional chef; his control over the heat was not great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a shame.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin gave a soft sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This hometown dish, \"Iron Plate Squid,\" ended up ruined by him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally can’t hold out, huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin, staring at the ever-more-cooked tentacle on the plate, suddenly raised an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right in front of him, information from the Eye of Insight abruptly changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Evil Tentacles]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tier: Tier Thirteen]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Attribute: Splitting, Devouring, Pollution, Peace]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ability: ...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Evaluation: Star System-Level Mutant Beast \"Star-devouring Touch\" split-form... Suffering immense pain, issuing emergency distress signal to the main body out of survival instinct...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin narrowed his eyes, quietly sensing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With powerful Tier Seventeen perception, he \"saw\" the culinary tentacle on the iron plate sending out some kind of special waves toward the starry sky outside Venus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hiding the main body in space?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Star System-Level Mutant Beast chilling in the stars... Makes sense.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin was momentarily stunned, then nodded to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the kilometer-long tentacle stopped transmitting, ending its distress signal, he cranked up the heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cooking is like this—gotta see it through to the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>P-8808 Star Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Star Realm was shrouded in endless, dense nebulae.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally, a bit of stellar light pierced the nebula, but most of the area was lost in perpetual darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roughly hundreds of millions of miles from Venus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of a dark nebula, a terrifying presence surged forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under this ripple of energy, the nebula quaked and the void shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swoosh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swoosh swoosh—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the nebula, countless tentacles whipped around crazily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the tentacles, a massive head appeared, a whole quarter the size of a planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The head was deep red, wrapped in swirling black mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All over the head, large and small eyes—utterly unsettling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The head, and all the countless eyes stitched along the tentacles, stared toward a single spot in deep space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Venus?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the heart of the dark nebula, it murmured quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since its birth, it has survived in this Star Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Till today, countless ages have passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout, it’s traveled to countless planets and left its split tentacles on each.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those tentacles would attract and devour humans or fellow mutant beasts in all sorts of ways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And as the main body, every so often, it would reclaim these splits: swallow them up to strengthen itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, it’s pushed the boundaries of Tier Sixteen, one step from Tier Seventeen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in the vast Star System Wasteland...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tier Sixteen—Seventeen? That’s absolutely top-tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any Star System-Level Mutant Beast above Tier Fifteen gets a proper title—Dominator of the Star Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This mega-beast with countless tentacles is the undisputed mutant beast overlord of P-8808 Star Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apart from it, this realm has one other Dominator, but that one falls in the Infected Body category.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two have never bothered each other all these years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since it’s a distress signal...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This must be some serious emergency.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the eyeballs on Star-devouring Touch swiveled restlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made up its mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It stood up from the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sprawling nebula paved a path for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buzz—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The void trembled endlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The figure of Star-devouring Touch vanished from its spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crossing the starry sky—basic ability for any Star System-Level Mutant Beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention, it’s the Dominator of this Star Realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Venus, Southern Hemisphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crystal Mountain, Central Valley.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kilometer-long tentacle on the iron plate was now completely lifeless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It turned into a lump of charred black—undisputed black cuisine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s eyes filled at the same time with a pop-up from the system—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[With the body of an ant, you painstakingly suppressed \"Tier Sixteen Star System-Level Mutant Beast—Evil Tentacles,\" Civilization Source Points +20,000,000!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Such actions shake the Star River!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Resource acquired: Tier Fifteen Energy Crystal *1]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Classic \"body of an ant,\" even now at Tier Seventeen, Yu Jin still saw that old line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"20 million Source Points?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Feels kind of stingy...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin gave a slight shake of his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leveling up to Star System Wasteland, the old Wasteland Points were still valid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But using them meant exchanging for Civilization Source Points and then shopping at Origin Point Mall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The exchange rate was 100,000 to 1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So if you think about it...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No wonder Holland and company didn’t bother with the A3 Planet rule quests.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A mere 50 billion Wasteland Points is only 500,000 Source Points.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even a fortress fleet commander couldn’t care less about that measly 500,000.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin sighed, thoughts snapping back to the present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, the kilometer tentacle was dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But its distress signal had been sent; all that remained was to wait for the main body to arrive—if it bothered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"S-Sir!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nangong Linglong and her people were now completely shell-shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They spoke, voices quivering, utterly respectful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yep.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since nothing was going on, Yu Jin acknowledged with a grunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He casually informed them of the mining task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ten days, mine out this entire Crystal Mountain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Right now, you—all of Linglong City’s ten million subordinates—are temporary miners for Dawn Fortress.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Perform well, collect achievements, and you might just get a permanent job.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, that’s it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s words were tossed out lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nangong Linglong and her group fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when Sir said ’colleagues,’ this is what he meant...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dozen or so people’s feelings tangled inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The good news—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheated death, rescued by the Boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bad news—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Became slave miners under the Boss... and without pay, too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Any objections?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin raised a brow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No sooner had he spoken—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, no!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Linglong City group scrambled to respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Talking, their eyes drifted nervously up to the massive iron plate still floating above the vault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That iron plate still held the roasted Star System-Level Mutant Beast...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin nodded, satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then fell quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The group from Linglong City exchanged glances, seeing curiosity and confusion in each other’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where on earth did Boss come from?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where exactly was this Dawn Fortress he mentioned?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is he planning to chase after the main body of this giant tentacle monster?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So many questions, yet none dared to ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Yu Jin was still hovering in mid-air, motionless, none dared leave without permission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The valley’s atmosphere plunged into eerie silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time crept by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nearly half a day later—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nangong Linglong at last couldn’t help herself; she took a deep breath and slowly flew up before Yu Jin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nine-tier Mature Lady City Lord bowed herself low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sir—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nangong Linglong had barely spoken, when Yu Jin waved her off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s finally here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That statement—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nangong Linglong was briefly stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gao Sheng and the other Linglong City Evolvers also froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumble—!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole Venus suddenly started to shake violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the southern hemisphere, in broad daylight, plunged rapidly into darkness...\u003C\u002Fp>",1233,"2026-06-06T09:25:00.978Z",1,"novelbin.me","f133d5e19627923aa9950ed7e783e60a055a0a2050a11aecc9575f1eb6fbe428","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-266","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-264",370,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwasteland-s-only-king-cover.jpg"]