Chapter 444 - 131: Yang Chu’s Sudden Ascension? Nicole Awakens! A Completely Different World!

Chapter 444: Chapter 131: Yang Chu’s Sudden Ascension? Nicole Awakens! A Completely Different World!

Pingwu City, City Lord’s Mansion.

Inside the council hall.

Boom——

Rumble——!

As the City Lord, Yang Chu at this moment had his eyes tightly shut, uncontrollably suspended in mid-air.

On his face, there was a hint of pain.

But...

Amid the pain, there was also a trace of satisfaction.

Within Yang Chu’s body, immense energy surged wildly.

Hiss——

Crackle——!

Fiery flames spread out from every pore of his body.

The flame was precisely Yang Chu’s extraordinary attribute.

And at this moment.

As Yang Chu’s aura continued to grow stronger, these flames seemed to be tempered.

The originally dark red flames intensified in heat, gradually transforming to a light blue...

"Talent?"

"Fire Refinement?"

In the midst of bewilderment.

Yang Chu whispered, repeating the cold mechanical voice echoing in his mind.

It was a prompt from the "Wasteland" game——

"You have successfully awakened the talent: Fire Refinement!"

"..."

Talent?

Until this moment, Yang Chu didn’t even know about the existence of talents, only about tiers and attributes.

Swish——

In mid-air, completely engulfed in flames, Yang Chu turned to look at Yu Jin in front of him.

The latter, with a smile on his face, showed no surprise at what was happening.

"Relax."

"Awakening a new talent is normal."

These soft-spoken words made Yang Chu completely certain that the source of his transformation was in front of him, this Legendary City Lord of Dawn City.

Boom——

Rumble——!

Within Yang Chu, the sound of rolling thunder became even more intense.

He could no longer hear any other sound, the only thing he could feel was his tier rising like a rocket.

Tier Four, Tier Five, Tier Six, Tier Seven...

The energy within him became more and more vast, more and more surging.

In just a short moment.

He even had an illusion that he had too much energy and was about to explode.

Buzz——!

And just at his critical point where he could barely endure.

Not far away, Yu Jin waved his hand.

A milky white light shot from his fingertip, instantly enveloping Yang Chu in flames.

Buzz——!

The waves of Purifying Light spread out.

The originally turbulent energy within Yang Chu gradually stabilized; the pollution aura that had skyrocketed along with his rapid tier ascent vanished instantly.

Time passed slowly.

A moment later.

When everything in the council hall returned to tranquility.

Yang Chu landed on the ground, his feet firmly on the ground, and slowly opened his eyes.

"I..."

"Have become stronger..."

He looked down at his extended hands.

Poof——!

As he willed it, two clusters of light blue flames sprung from his palms.

The flames were extremely agile, as if they had life.

The space around the blue flames was slightly distorted by their heat.

"These tiny flames..."

"Could annihilate the me from a few minutes ago..."

"Hundreds of times."

Yang Chu stood in place, utterly astounded.

He had yet to accept...

The reality of advancing from Tier Five, leaping three times, to becoming an Eighth-Tier Extreme Evolver.

Yes, Tier Eight Limit, just one step away from Tier Nine!

Besides that.

He had also awakened the talent ’Fire Refinement’.

With the augmentation of talent, his combat prowess received a tremendous boost, and even facing a Tier Nine Evolver, he would be capable of putting up a fight!

"Gulp——!"

After a long stunned pause.

Yang Chu finally snapped back to reality.

First, he swallowed hard, then incredulously asked the question in his heart:

"Yu City Lord..."

"How, how did you do it?"

Upon confirming Yu Jin’s identity, Yang Chu did not harbor any doubts about Yu Jin’s strength.

Even if Yu Jin could shatter planets right now, he wouldn’t find it strange at all.

But...

The events unfolding before him were clearly on a completely different level from mere strength.

From beginning to end.

Yang Chu only saw——

Yu Jin wave his hand at him.

Then...

He himself jumped from Tier Five to Tier Eight.

He himself awakened an unheard-of extraordinary talent.

"How was it done?"

"That is not important..."

On the other side.

Facing Yang Chu’s query, Yu Jin merely smiled slightly.

Yang Chu’s enhancement, rather than being his assistance, was more like a long-overdue, deserved reward.

This reward belonged to the Blue Star Civilization players.

That was...

A few months ago, a reward unlocked by Yu Jin through the Civilization Authority Mall in "Wasteland OL"——

[Detected that you have acquired the status of ’Blue Star Civilization Leader’, Blue Star Civilization players will receive higher rewards!]

[Reward Contents——]

[1. Negative status removal]

[2. Random tier increase by 1-3 tiers]

[3. Already awakened attribute can gain +1 ability]

This was the reason for Yang Chu’s three-tier leap on the spot.

And the talent ’Fire Refinement’ he awakened came from another benefit.

[Level II Civilization Authority’s——]

[Talent Awakening]

[Evolvers of the Blue Star Civilization have a probability of awakening talents]

[The higher the evolver’s tier, the greater the probability of talent awakening]

For the Blue Star Civilizations players who were always in Dawn Fortress, whether it was tier elevation or talent awakening, they had benefited from it before.

But...

For the Blue Star players on Venus Wasteland, and those remaining on A3 Planet.

Possibly due to the server dimension barrier, or perhaps "Wasteland" had a stricter assessment of Blue Star Civilization’s affiliation.

In any case.

This portion of players, before formally joining Dawn Fortress, even as Blue Star Civilization players, did not enjoy these ’benefits’.

And just now.

What Yu Jin did was not the ’immortal act’ that Yang Chu imagined.

He merely——

As the leader of civilization, recognized Yang Chu as a member of the Blue Star Civilization.

And——

Yang Chu, in an unconscious state, accepted this recognition, choosing to utterly pledge loyalty to Dawn Fortress.

After this...

Tier elevation, talent awakening.