Wasteland's Only King

Chapter 295: Chapter 57: How Do You Fight All Tier Eighteen? The Real Trump Card! Thanos Snaps Again! (Part 2)

“What a pity.”

Yu Jin shook his head and sighed softly.

“Execute the backup plan.”

“If we really keep fighting, even Dawn Fortress will suffer losses in living forces.”

Actually.

One extremely critical factor that allowed Dawn Fortress to initiate close-quarters combat in the early stages of the war…

Was Yin Yao—the Yin Yao with the ’Rebirth’ attribute.

Now, she was already a Tier Fifteen Evolver.

If she was just Tier Fifteen, trying to put Resurrection Armor on hundreds of millions, even all high-Tier Evolvers, would still be quite difficult.

But…

She also had the ’Benefit Link’ from Yu Jin.

Under this boost, her true Energy Value reached Tier Sixteen, nearing Tier Seventeen.

Because of this—

Yin Yao, commanding the rear, became the ’Old Man Time’ for all Evolvers in Dawn Fortress with her own strength.

Death, Resurrection, Death, Resurrection…

It was precisely by relying on this almost shameless Rebirth ability that Dawn Fortress subordinates, outnumbered a hundredfold by the Hunter Alliance, could reverse the Celestial Spirit on the battlefield and gain the advantage.

But—

Rebirth and resurrection also had a limit on the number of times.

Now, three full days had passed since the war began.

During these three days, all subordinates’ resurrection counts had just about reached the upper limit.

Want to resurrect again? Yin Yao’s ’Rebirth’ Attribute Ability must wait for its cooldown to finish—this is her Awakening Effect after she broke through to Tier Eleven.

[Rebirth Level 9——]

[Active Effect: Activate ability; bring the target back to life from death!]

[Note: This ability cannot alter the time node at present; can only change the target’s life status]

[Full-Level Effect: Maximum resurrection count can break through the limit (9 times), increases with Tier!]

[Current Max Resurrection Count: 15]

[Awakening Effect: After the target’s resurrection count reaches the upper limit, ability can enter cooldown. After cooldown finishes, resurrection count resets!]

[Current Cooldown Duration: 30 days]

Fifteen resurrection counts—it’s what gives Dawn Fortress the confidence to draw swords and fight hand-to-hand, even when facing the Hunter Alliance whose numbers are a hundred or a thousand times larger.

But—

Fifteen times, however many, are still not infinite.

“Forget it, forget it.”

“Too greedy, and there might be trouble.”

“Besides…”

“Even if we capture all these Fortress Battleships, would we really have enough subordinates to crew them?”

Yu Jin muttered to himself, piloting the Assault Freedom Gundam back to Dawn Fortress.

Returning together—

Were also Evolvers and warships scattered across the starry sky.

Carol’s backup plan was in no way different from Sean Gardner’s.

Initial plan—wipe out the enemy, seize the fortress.

Backup plan—Energy Shock, destroy everything.

The difference was—

Sean Gardner’s Energy Shock came from over a hundred Super Large Fortresses.

These hundred-plus Fortresses were, at this moment, linked together, briefly forming a Fortress of hundreds of times the scale—a Super Super Large Fortress.

Wuuun—

Wuuun wuuun—!

The energy accumulated in the Super Large Fortress surged frantically at this moment, brewing up a blow capable of world-destroying devastation.

And Carol?

Over the past three days, she’d long since had the Decomposer and Odin Battleship preloaded into charging mode.

All for this final strike!

Just in principle—

She also wished to follow Lord Yu Jin’s wishes, preserving as many enemy fortresses and warships as possible for capture.

After all—

Whether it’s the Decomposer or the Odin Battleship, once their final strike is triggered, then everything turns into nothingness.

Endless Starry Sky.

Time flowed by.

The once-boiling, bustling starry sky was now incomparably silent and oppressive.

The Super Super Large Fortress assembled by the Hunter Alliance was luminous at this moment, dazzling like a brilliant great sun.

In contrast—

The Quantum Resonance Splitter surrounding Dawn Fortress was extremely restrained.

It emitted no dazzling radiance; it simply vibrated silently.

Meanwhile—

The three Odin Space Air Carriers, which had first appeared and over the past three days had even been besieged by quite a few Hunter Alliance battleship fortresses, were also quietly gathering energy for their main guns.

The Star River war was, in the end, to be decided by a clash of Weapons.

Individual strength could never change the overall situation.

The silence across the starry sky did not last long.

Boom—!

This energy duel was, in the end, initiated first by the Hunter Alliance.

They saw—

Beams of dazzling light, tens of thousands of meters thick in diameter, suddenly shot forth, blasting straight toward Dawn Fortress.

Rumble—!

The Energy Shield of Dawn Fortress, under this blow, immediately erupted with densely packed cracks.

“Beautiful!”

The leader of the Closter Civilization, Sean Gardner, looked upon this scene, elated.

After all—

Yu Jin’s Dawn Fortress was too mysterious, even making him doubt the effect of an attack from all a hundred fortresses combined.

Fortunately, it worked!

“Continue!”

A smile surfaced once more on Sean Gardner’s face.

The last attack was merely an appetizer, just to test the waters!

The real barrage would follow wave after wave, never giving the enemy a chance to breathe!

But—

What Sean Gardner didn’t know was that, in the Tower of the Sky inside Dawn Fortress, Yu Jin looked at this scene and nodded in satisfaction.

“Not bad.”

“The Energy Protection Shield’s strength is pretty good.”

“That last hit already reached Tier Nineteen Value level.”

“Roughly speaking, Dawn Fortress can now fully endure the full-strength strike of a Tier Nineteen Evolver when the Energy Shield is up!”

Yu Jin was rather satisfied with this outcome.

No matter what, Tier Nineteen was already the theoretical cap of this Wasteland Star System.

“Lord…”

“Shall we continue to test?”

Carol’s voice came up at this moment.

“No need.”

Yu Jin waved his hand.

Just those two words, and the outcome of this war was already determined.

Inside S-1 Fortress.

Commander Carol heard Yu Jin’s words, and her expression immediately brightened.

“Decomposer, ready!”

“Odin, ready!”

“Star Domain Mother Ship, ready!”

Three consecutive commands, issued via the Fortress’s artificial intelligence.

Wuun—

Wuun wuun—

The very instant Carol’s orders came down—

The three Big Killers, dormant for so long, now bared their fangs!

Boom—!

A dazzling beam of light burst out once again from the Hunter Alliance.

But this time—

The tens-of-thousands-of-meters-wide energy beam hadn’t even reached Dawn Fortress before it vanished into nothingness mid-flight.

“How could this be!?”

Sean Gardner’s eyes widened.

Within the Hunter Alliance, a crowd of smug, seemingly certain-of-victory High-tier Civilization Forces’ commanders’ minds all crashed.

This strike was even more terrifying than before!

This one had drained nearly a third of all the fortresses’ energy reserves!

This strike was, after much discussion, their resolve to leave no room, to end it all in one blow!

But now?

Gone…

Right before everyone’s eyes, it just disappeared into thin air like that!

“It’s that!”

“That thing is causing this!”

Sean Gardner’s gaze locked onto the circular ring spinning silently in the starry sky.

[Warning!]

[Warning!]

[Detected ultra-high-level energy fluctuations!]

[Fortress faces threat of destruction. Please warp and escape this starry sector immediately!]

[Warp and escape immediately!!!]

Inside the fortress, the urgent mechanical voice interrupted Sean Gardner and the rest’s thoughts.

In the starry sky—

That massive ring began spinning rapidly at a speed the naked eye couldn’t follow.

Wuun—

Wuun wuun—

An intangible, unfathomable wave swept across the entire starry sky in an instant.

The entanglement of quantum waves far surpassed the speed of light.

So much so that—

The images in Sean Gardner and their screens were still stuck on the moment the ring started to rotate.

But in reality—

The Decomposer’s wave had already reached their position.

At this instant—

Thanos snapped his fingers once again!

No thunderous boom, no brilliance, nor world-shaking aftershocks.

The only thing Sean Gardner saw was that, from the outermost layer of the fortress, everything, absolutely everything, began shifting from ’existence’ to ’non-existence.’

Energy Protection Shield?

Gone!

Outer escort fleet?

Annihilated!

Super Super Large Interstellar Fortress?

Was being crushed, bit by bit, by an invisible giant hand, dissolving into nothingness…