novelraw Chapter 212 - 16: Starry Sky Traits and Star Map! Arrival on A4 Planet, Natives Scared Stiff! (Part 2)
Chapter 212 - 16: Starry Sky Traits and Star Map! Arrival on A4 Planet, Natives Scared Stiff! (Part 2)
Their roars...
were thick with unease and fear.
"What happened?"
Whether it was Tao Nai Xiang or the hundreds of thousands of subordinates in Liu Ying City, all were stunned and bewildered at this moment.
Instinctively, they looked up toward the source of the sound, staring at the sky.
The sky was, as always, shrouded in thick, grey clouds, oppressive as ever.
But...
"It’s broken!"
Someone on the walls of Liu Ying City screamed at the top of their lungs.
He saw—
The heavy cloud layer had been pierced by something!
Boom—
Rumble—!
The earth-shattering noise was unending.
The clouds rolled and surged.
Outside Liu Ying City.
The hundreds of thousands of mutant beasts that had been poised to attack the city had actually halted their actions at this moment, instinctively staring at the sky in terror.
Their instincts told them...
Something terrifying was descending from above!
Bzzz——!
Suddenly.
From within the clouds, columns of blue-white light burst out.
Those beams were more than ten thousand meters thick, each radiating an incredibly intense energy aura.
Tao Nai Xiang, the Tier Five City Lord of Liu Ying City, felt her scalp go numb just seeing it from afar.
Those energy beams...
Just a single breath was enough to turn her into nothingness!
No, not just her...
Even the entirety of Liu Ying City, if struck by those blue-white beams, would surely be annihilated in an instant!
Gulp——!
Tao Nai Xiang couldn’t help but swallow hard.
The dazzling peach blossom petals swirling around her withered and faded at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Time seemed to slow to an unbearable crawl in this moment.
No one knew how much time passed.
Maybe only a few breaths, maybe as long as a year.
Finally, in the clouds, an enormous outline appeared—too massive to put into words—a phantom of colossal size.
The shadow it cast nearly enveloped the entire A409 Area.
And Liu Ying City lay right at the center of this shadow.
Boom—!
With a thunderous roar, that massive object slowly descended.
Until...
It completely burst through the clouds, hovering thousands of meters above the ground.
The blue-white streams of energy erupting from beneath it faded quietly, though it was unclear when.
At this moment—
Tao Nai Xiang finally saw the thing’s true form.
That was...
"A city?!"
"Sky City?!"
Tao Nai Xiang’s eyes were wide, wide open.
Her rather ample chest rose and fell rapidly.
And a moment later—
Bzzzz——!
Sky City suddenly gave a gentle tremor.
Blue light flashed above the Wasteland.
When the light faded, there were already tens of thousands of figures floating midair in the sky.
Gulp——!
Tao Nai Xiang almost pissed herself out of fear!
Those figures, there were over a hundred thousand of them.
And floating in midair—this was the mark of a Tier Five Evolver!
In other words—
Hovering in the sky right now were more than a hundred thousand Tier Five Evolvers or higher.
Moreover...
Tao Nai Xiang stared at the leading figures in the front row.
The aura they gave off was definitely more than just Tier Five or Tier Six.
With every breath, it felt as if even heaven and earth pulsed along with them.
Tier Seven, Tier Eight, Tier Nine?
Tao Nai Xiang dared not let herself think any further.
In this moment, she even forgot Liu Ying City was in the midst of a mutant beast siege crisis.
Her mind went completely blank—she wasn’t thinking at all, just looking up at the sky out of sheer bodily instinct.
Suddenly—
Among those in the sky, the slender figure at the very front raised a hand and pointed downward.
Bzzzt——
A spatial ripple spread out.
The hundreds of thousands of beasts outside Liu Ying City vanished.
They transformed into streaks and black pixels on the ground.
At the same time—
Splash——
Crash-crash——
Outside Liu Ying City, a brilliant rain of crystals began to fall.
...
Whoosh——
Whoosh-whoosh——!
The sound of cutting wind snapped Tao Nai Xiang back to reality from her dazed, crashed-brain state.
Figures appeared before her eyes.
At the front stood a young-looking man.
"Hello."
Yu Jin spoke softly.
He planned to get some information about this planet from Tao Nai Xiang.
Thud——!
Thump-thump-thump——!
Tao Nai Xiang said nothing, just knelt to kowtow.
"..."
Yu Jin and those behind him fell silent.
...
...
"Tier Nine City Lord?"
"Level 9 Shelter City?"
Liu Ying City, City Lord’s Mansion.
Yu Jin was sprawled grandly on the City Lord’s seat.
Neil and Naiya stood to his left and right, massaging his shoulders.
Below him, Tao Nai Xiang was sprawled prone on the ground, butt raised high in the air.
Yu Jin thought the pose looked a bit indecent, but Tao Nai Xiang insisted that this was the highest show of respect in their civilization.
Right now, Yu Jin was digesting the information he got from Tao Nai Xiang.
The A4 Planet, overall, wasn’t much different from the A3 Planet.
The same system of Refuge Cities, the same Evolver tiers.
The only difference was...
The pollution level on this planet seemed just a bit lower than that of A3.
Which meant—
There existed here a legendary, unimaginably powerful Level 9 Shelter City.
Its City Lord was also the only Tier Nine Evolver on this planet.
According to Tao Nai Xiang—
That City Lord had dominated the A4 Planet for decades; his individual legend and the legend of his city were already well-known throughout the planet.
And that piqued Yu Jin’s interest.
"Area? Location? Name?"
Yu Jin fired off three questions, leaving Tao Nai Xiang momentarily dumbstruck.
She didn’t know what this mysterious ’alien’ wanted, but her gut feeling told her that even that legendary Level 9 Shelter City was nowhere near as mysterious or powerful as the Sky City she had just seen with her own eyes.
"A480 Area, central region."
"Celestial King City."
"As for that Tier Nine City Lord’s name, your servant truly does not know."
"I only know his code name: Invincible Celestial King."
Yu Jin raised his eyebrows at this answer.
Invincible Celestial King?
Is he for real with such a cheesy name? Don’t tell me it’s another Ye Ye–type edgy teen?
"What the fuck!"
"Even the Invincible Celestial King is here?"
Compared to Yu Jin, when Chen Gang heard this, he got hyped right away.
Tier Nine?
Who isn’t a Tier Nine these days?
Chen Gang himself only ever dares call himself ’Electric Shock Boy’—and that Tier Nine City Lord calls himself the ’Invincible Celestial King’?
"City Lord!"
"Chen Gang requests permission to go deal with this so-called Invincible Celestial King!"
Blunt as ever, Chen Gang spoke his mind directly.
Yu Jin, hearing this, shook his head with a wry smile.
He didn’t agree right away; instead, he reached out, pointing toward the inner part of the City Lord’s Mansion.
"You have more important things to do."
As Yu Jin spoke, he looked toward the prone Tao Nai Xiang.
"Are you willing to voluntarily relinquish your position as City Lord of Liu Ying City?"
Tao Nai Xiang froze for a moment, then blurted, "Willing! I’m willing! I’m a thousand times willing!"
No way she’d refuse.
She was scared that if she hesitated even a second, she’d end up like those mutant beasts outside, turned into black pixels on the ground.
"Okay, that’s all I need."
Yu Jin nodded and looked at Chen Gang.
"Go assume the City Lord’s post. Then..."
"Try and see if you can use Wasteland Points at the City Core to purchase a One-Click Max Level for attribute abilities."
As he finished speaking—
Chen Gang was dumbstruck.
One-Click Max Level?
He’d never been a City Lord since his transmigration and didn’t know what powers came with it. Hearing about ’One-Click Max Level’ now, he still felt out of it.
"Understood!"
Though Chen Gang wasn’t quite sure what was going on, he obediently followed instructions.
"Oh right—if you don’t have enough points, use this instead."
Yu Jin waved his hand, tossing Chen Gang a Tier Seven Crystal.
This crystal was freshly farmed from the system—
The hundreds of thousands of mutant beasts outside Liu Ying City delivered hundreds of thousands of crystals to him.
Thanks to the ’Void Plus Three’ buff, Tier Six and Tier Seven mutant beasts even dropped many Tier Eight and Tier Nine Crystals for Yu Jin.
That’s why he did the job himself just now.
Five minutes later—
"Holy shit!"
At the City Core area.
Chen Gang shouted aloud in delight.
"My Tier One Ability just got bumped straight to Level 9 Max Level!"
The words carried out.
Yu Jin’s face showed a faint smile.
His experiment worked.
Players who arrived on A3 Planet could also become Refuge City Lords and purchase maxed-out abilities on alien planets.
Meanwhile—
Tao Nai Xiang, still crawling on the floor, trembled violently.
The store’s ’One-Click Max Level’ feature was restricted by Evolver tier.
As a Tier Five, even if Tao Nai Xiang bought the upgrade, she could only get to Level 5.
But now?
"Level 9?"
"Level 9!?"
"Even this lord’s subordinates are all Tier Nine powerhouses..."