Wasteland's Only King

Perimeter of the Dawn Fortress.

In the endless starry sky, an extremely terrifying scene was unfolding.

Laine and a group of high-tier Evolvers from the Serenity Civilization were making clinking sounds.

The source of the sound was their heads.

More precisely—

It came from the iron shovel in Wu Yufei’s hand, fiercely striking Laine’s head.

An ordinary iron shovel could never break through the defense of Eighth to Ninth Tier Evolvers.

But…

Similar to the situation in Alpha City on A3 Planet.

Yu Jin, with his ’metal’ attribute ability, combined cosmic materials to forge the special iron shovel in Yufei’s hands.

Clang—

Clink—!

Yufei muttered words about ’knowledge’ and ’contribution,’ his actions ceaseless.

Laine and others widened their eyes, their pupils full of despair.

But unfortunately!

They were forcibly imprisoned by Yu Jin’s spatial ability, unable to move.

Laine, the Nineteenth Tier Lord of the Serenity Civilization, could only watch helplessly as his head was being smashed bit by bit from the outside in…

“Damn.”

“Yufei has times when he can be so ruthless?”

In the slightly distant starry sky.

A few figures watched the scene, both amazed and a little creeped out.

These people were familiar faces from the Blue Star era and now some of the higher-ups of Dawn City.

Chen Gang, Cui Xiangyu, and Tang Yunxuan, who serves as the Fort Commander.

It was Tang Yunxuan who spoke at that moment.

Old Tang had not been with the group at the Dawn Fortress for long and did not land on A3 Planet initially; after arriving at the fortress, he had been busy with war participation and commander training.

Until now.

The brothers had rarely gathered together.

“Well—”

“I heard from Old Yu that Yufei did such things on A3 Planet back then…”

Chen Gang, who had been with Yu Jin recently, looked at Old Tang and spoke with a mysterious tone.

Once he finished speaking.

Old Cui and Old Tang shook their heads and said nothing.

The scene in the starry sky at this moment…

Was indeed cruel.

But they all knew very well that Yufei was doing this for the future of the Dawn Fortress.

Even though the fortress had been consistently training and selecting commanders for the past month, and conducted multiple batches of training during this war with the Serenity Civilization,

the effect was still limited.

Just before Laine and others attacked,

Yu Jin held a meeting to discuss this issue.

At the meeting, Wu Yufei proposed his plan.

The full name of the plan—

[Knowledge Extraction, Grafting, and Mass Talent Cultivation Plan]

It sounded complicated, but in a nutshell, it was—

Yufei planned to forcibly extract the memories and knowledge of commanders of all levels from the Serenity Civilization using his ’knowledge’ attribute and graft them onto new commanders of the Dawn Fortress.

In this ’epiphany’ manner, they could cultivate commanders en masse.

In this way,

The new commanders could almost instantly acquire the experience and lessons from the Serenity Civilization commanders.

Achieving an overnight transformation from ’newcomer’ to ’veteran.’

As for now?

Yufei started with Laine and others to verify the feasibility of the plan…

This method, although fast and effective, obviously has significant side effects.

The side effect is—

The subjects from whom knowledge is extracted will instantly become idiots.

Losing all memories, knowledge, and even losing the soul in abstract terms, leaving only the shell.

“Alas!”

“An era of great competition is just like this.”

Old Cui looked at Laine, who was still making ’clink’ sounds in the distance, and sighed lightly.

At this moment.

He felt a bit envious of Yufei.

Envious that he could contribute to the Dawn Fortress.

Old Tang, who had long served as a commander under Carol, now led quite a few super large fortresses and had become Carol’s right-hand man, a War General of the Dawn Fortress.

But what about him?

Cui Xiangyu shook his head, feeling some frustration.

His attribute was ’wandering.’

Back on A3 Planet, and subsequently on Z99 Planet, he unlocked numerous and powerful abilities by checking into different Refuge Cities.

And now?

Since advancing to the Star System Wasteland, especially after the Carol Fleet arrived and joined the Dawn Fortress,

his wandering journey had been put on hold.

The good news is—

After breaking through to Tier Ten, he gained the ability to stay permanently in Refuge Cities (Interstellar Fortresses), no longer forced to wander.

The bad news is—

He has been stuck at the Dawn Fortress, unable to wander, and his abilities have not been able to grow.

Even worse—

As Yu Jin’s brother, he had endless energy crystal resources.

But the promotion of the wandering attribute tier required not only energy but also wandering requirements…

This also led to.

Nowadays, Old Cui, at barely Tier Fifteen, has already fallen behind Old Tang and Brother Gang.

Most importantly,

“I can’t help Old Yu!”

Cui Xiangyu sighed repeatedly, feeling annoyed.

He also wanted to contribute to the development of the Dawn Fortress like Old Tang and Yufei.

“If it really doesn’t work…”

“Should I let Yufei graft some knowledge to me?”

“I could also try to be a fort commander like Old Tang?”

Old Cui mumbled to himself as he looked at Yufei in the distance.

…

…

Time passed slowly.

The millions of subordinates in the Dawn Fortress were extremely busy.

Under the coordination of the Fortress Municipal Officer Jiang Haichuan, all subordinates at Tier Ten and above, who were willing to join the army, were registering information at the Martial Arts Plaza outside the Tower of the Sky.

“Name?”

“Citizen Identification Number?”

“Expected grafting target?”

“…”

Similar Q&A scenes continued in various corners of the Martial Arts Plaza.

Meanwhile.