[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-wasteland-s-only-king":3,"chapter-wasteland-s-only-king-wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-315":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},1594864,2061,"Chapter 315 - 68: Oak City! Max Level One-Stop Service? 5.8 Billion Balance!","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-315",315,"\u003Cp>Gangval Star, Oak City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is an ordinary small city located in the southern part of the planet’s northern hemisphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The city isn’t very big—its population is just ten million.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Blue Star, ten million would’ve made it a mega-city, but Gangval Star’s surface area is ten times larger than Blue Star’s, so a mega-city here is just a small city by their standards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oak City, aerial port.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One micro and small spaceship after another lands and docks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spaceship hatches open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tens of thousands of passengers file out from the ships.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of these \"passengers\" have faces marked by curiosity, anticipation, and a lingering hint of anxiety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They all came from Promoter Plaza, just \"newcomers\" freshly ascended from the Low-dimensional Star System Wasteland Server.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment ago—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They boarded these spaceships and left the plaza.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This city called Oak is to be their first stop—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And maybe...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also the place where they’ll live and work for the next ten or even several decades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old currency of Star System Wasteland, Civilization Source Points, aren’t valid here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their place: Wasteland Source Points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The names are only two characters apart, but in reality, the difference is almost infinite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our old mecha, warships, fortresses, spaceships...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All gone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The moment we ascended, they disappeared completely.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They were all repossessed by the Wasteland game. What we got back was just a cold string of numbers, a string followed by ’Wasteland Source Points’—and the number is pitifully small...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the spaceship—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin overheard quite a few people sighing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which is, indeed, the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just to pay for this spaceship \"ticket,\" quite a few promoted players had to go bankrupt, and some straight up went into \"debt,\" signing labor contracts to be worked off by future salaries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin, however, wasn’t one of those people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once he ascended, his Wasteland Source Points balance was unlocked as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Wasteland Source Points: 5,800,000,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That number up there...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not enough to compete for richest man on all Gangval Star, but keeping up with Oak City’s local tycoon shouldn’t be a problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From what Yu Jin had gathered, even a Super Large Fortress once owned by those promoted players was repurchased by Wasteland at just 1,000 Source Points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Super Large Fortresses were the highest and most precious resources on the Star System Wasteland Server.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they’re worth only 1,000 Source Points, you can imagine the buyback price for fortress warships and the rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not every promoted player had been a Lord in their former civilization\u002Ffaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lords accounted for only a very small fraction of players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when a civilization’s warships got repossessed, the Source Points were credited to the Lord’s account.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe in Star System Wasteland they were generals or fort commanders—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But here, they’re just broke wanderers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If your Lord was kind, you might get a few points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If your Lord was greedy and tightfisted?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then you’d have to sign an indenture contract—trade future labor just for a ticket to Oak City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin didn’t need to worry about any of that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the contrary—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was considering instead—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If a Super Large Fortress is only worth 1,000 Source Points...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can I smuggle home like dozens or hundreds of them and bring them back to the Drake-3 Star System Wasteland Server?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As far as Yu Jin knew—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortresses can’t ascend dimensions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless it’s like Dawn Fortress—equipped with a High-dimensional Super Large Fortress Core. That was something Yu Jin bought for 500 million Source Points in the Wasteland OL shop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Downgrading a fortress should be doable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once I break through to Tier Twenty, I need to seriously research this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If this actually works...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The day I return is the day Dawn Fortress dominates Star System Wasteland?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time Yu Jin’s Tier Twenty breakthrough in ascension was aimed at boosting his strength, in case Han Ling came after him later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tier Twenty is preparation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More fortress warships? Also preparation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Both hands—grab them both, and grab them hard!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s hit Tier Twenty for fun first!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin thought to himself, then strode forward and officially stepped into Oak City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back at Promoter Plaza, Yu Jin had already discovered—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t just pop crystals to level up—not even though he owned over a dozen Tier Twenty Crystals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d found out only after asking around—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In high-dimension, you can’t pop crystals to upgrade your Evolver tier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To breakthrough, you have to log onto the Wasteland server—a.k.a. a Low-dimensional Server.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first glance, it seemed pointless—like, Yu Jin literally just came here from the low-dimension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after digging for details, he realized there’s a difference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not all Low-dimensional Servers are the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Drake-3 Star System Wasteland is truly low-dimension, but you can’t break through to Tier Twenty there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wasteland server provided by the Ophelia Federation is under High Dimension, but \"low-dimension\" as defined here, and the tier cap is open up to Tier Twenty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Every promoted player, the very first thing they do here in the Federation: Get inside Wasteland and level up!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you’re not even Tier Twenty, you’re not even qualified for Limitless!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No Limitless?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then you’re a regular human, no extraordinary power at all!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin had just stepped into Oak City when he overheard someone shouting pretty much the thoughts running through his own head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin looked up, seeking the source of the voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other just-arrived promoted players were all paying attention too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swoosh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In everyone’s line of sight hung a huge advertisement display.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Federation certified, official authority!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Exclusive Wasteland server, leveling-up services straight to Max Level Tier Twenty!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Fastest three months, as slow as three years!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Great price, guaranteed quality, worth having!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin was momentarily dazed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here he was wondering how to even find a way to log onto Wasteland, and the advertisements are literally right in his face!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even better...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s just one ad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yu Jin and more new players arrived, Oak City Plaza was filling up with more and more shopkeepers hawking their own services.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not 198,000, not 178,000, only 118,000!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"118,000 Source Points, straight to Max Level!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t just walk by and miss out!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Professional escorts, super-grade leveling!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You just pop crystal and level up, we handle the rest!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Great price, only 128,000!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Interest-free installment plan—up to 360 payments!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Down payment as low as 28,000, Tier Twenty Max Level brought home today!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole plaza was resonating with the sounds of hawking merchants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air was thick with that raw, earthy city-vendor vibe Yu Jin hadn’t felt back on Blue Star in years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scene was worlds apart from what Yu Jin had imagined of the High-dimensional Federation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the flying cars everywhere, and gleaming crystal-looking sci-fi architecture, anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, nothing was all that special.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"98,000?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Down payment 28,000?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s so expensive...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not far ahead, a young man was muttering to himself, face drained and bleak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the same new guy from the plaza earlier, the one the Federation official had \"pretended\" to hassle but actually protected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a Lord from his own civilization too, but clearly didn’t have much saved up—in fact, even 28,000 was worth a huge sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A 28,000 down payment was equal to the buyback price for 28 Super Large Fortresses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His civilization had ascended, but was ranked at the bottom. Before being promoted, they’d only ever owned barely twenty Super Large Fortresses total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let alone...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d also split close to half his Source Points among his subordinates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s gaze drifted away from the youth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He paused where he stood, observed a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And finally—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Picked a direction, and walked off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"New here, friend?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Want to check out our Max Level carry service?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’ve got the best Wasteland server login pods—no one stealing your kills, no one grabbing your crystals!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d arrived at the plaza’s center, the largest business there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why? Because...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their crystal ad display was the biggest, and their prices the highest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s goal was speed and minimal hassle—get to Tier Twenty Max Level, fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d rather spend extra Source Points than spend extra time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s the fastest I can log into Wasteland?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin cut straight to the point—no small talk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The counter attendant—shortish, with half-transparent eyeglass frames—blinked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re not going to haggle?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin didn’t answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Oh.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The short staffer blanked for a second, then snapped back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at Yu Jin with a slightly changed expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You must’ve been a big boss, huh?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can’t remember the last time someone just threw down 138,000 Source Points without haggling...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He mumbled to himself, but his hands moved fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He led Yu Jin to a small spaceship parked at the edge of the plaza, which powered off into the deeper zone of Oak City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About half an hour later—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin stood before a skyscraper fully a kilometer tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is our corporate headquarters!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uh... on the 19th floor!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The short staffer had landed a big client, so though he wasn’t exactly deferential, he was at least a lot more polite now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin replied and strode inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a quick but a bit convoluted process—registering identity info, Federation system check-ins—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin was led to a relatively spacious room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the center of the room rested a silver \"capsule\" about two meters long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The staff explained that this was a Wasteland login pod, way higher-end and more comfortable than a helmet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. Yu Jin,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Would you like to log in now, or...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rest up and come back to level another day?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We also provide accommodations—choose our leveling package and you’ll get ten percent off your room fee—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin waved and cut off the sales pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The custom metal door shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The room fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin scanned the area, flexed his Tier Eleven Unlimiter Perception, and, finding nothing off, headed toward the login pod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a little table in front of the pod was a stack of leaflets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside, one could find usage instructions for the login pod, and which Wasteland server node to pick—the company’s escort trainers would be waiting at the designated coordinates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So annoying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s just popping crystals in a different place...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But they managed to spin it into a full-on business system.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin let out a sigh and shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten minutes later—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He put down the instructions and laid down inside the pod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buzz—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pod vibrated slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Jin’s vision dropped away into darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Player: Yu Jin!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Welcome to Wasteland!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Please select a server node!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oak City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yu Jin logs into the Wasteland server to start his Max Level crystal-popping marathon—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Company tower, 19th floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The company boss—a guy in a gold-trim suit with shiny greased-back hair—was dazing at a semi-transparent screen in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the screen: a long string of numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One, two, three, four, five, six...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Five... Fifty-eight hundred million balance...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You sure this isn’t a system error?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1836,"2026-06-06T09:25:00.978Z",1,"novelbin.me","93bae5e7827ba5c71e56f9e5d8e61252e1c426966655aad1f70276edf1212114","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-48","wasteland-s-only-king-chapter-220",370,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwasteland-s-only-king-cover.jpg"]