Exoskeletons of various sizes, ranging from 1.6 meters to 7.5 meters in height, have appeared.
Humanoid, beast-like, and alien-like exoskeletons of various forms have also arrived.
They watched you walk up to the tallest mountain of garbage.
You raise a hand, and flames shoot into the sky, like a lighthouse in the fog announcing your location.
Before the battle even began, someone couldn't help but taunt.
Trash talk before a fight is a traditional virtue possessed by various cultures around the world since ancient times; it is an extremely common and long-standing phenomenon.
"We've seen your previous combat prowess; you are indeed very strong, incredibly strong, but ultimately it's only due to the power of your exoskeleton!"
[“Even among kings, there are differences. The three Tyrant Tiger Kings you killed before were only at the level of ‘Upper King,’ while there are more than twenty ‘Upper Kings’ here, and more will be arriving soon!”]
"At best, you're only among the 'King-level,' but with your current status, even a King would come to kill you!"
As they said, there are distinctions and differences even among the "garbage kings."
[After all, some garbage kings can occupy more than ten garbage areas by themselves, while others need more than a dozen of them working together to occupy just one garbage area. How could they possibly be considered to be on the same level?]
Therefore, the "King of Trash" can be further divided into five levels.
[Those at the Quasi-King level, with exoskeleton functionality between 2 and 5, a cultivation level of 6th rank or higher as an Exoskeleton Master, and a certain level of combat skill, can all be considered Quasi-King level.]
They often need around ten of them to occupy a low-end garbage area, such as one where only daily necessities are disposed of, mixed with a few pilot's equipment and a few exoskeleton fragments.
[Representative characters: Pangolin (Chapter 552), Silver Assassin (Chapter 555), Fire Dragon King (Chapter 556)]
[Lower King level, exoskeleton function between 5-12, cultivation level of external manipulation master 8th dan or above, representative figures such as Octopus King (Chapter 557) and Mountain Digging King (Chapter 558).]
"Is it because the Mountain King's 'Mighty Overlord' is too cumbersome that even with a performance value as high as 87 points, it is still classified as a Lower King level?"
Yun Shou couldn't help but think, "If the pilot of that Silver Assassin could have a better exoskeleton, such as the Fire Dragon Armor with a performance level of 3.1, he might have been rated as a Lower King."
[At the mid-level King rank, the exoskeleton's functionality ranges from 12 to 25. Powerful mid-level Kings typically pilot special-grade exoskeletons and must be at least a ninth-level Exoskeleton Master, equivalent to the peak of the first realm.]
They can often single-handedly occupy a garbage dump; a prime example is the Mad Rhino King, who attacked and perished when you first arrived on this planet and became the Garbage King.
He is undoubtedly the strongest in Garbage Dump Zone 612, but he's always been obsessed with modifying his leg boosters, hoping to board the garbage ship and smuggle himself out of this world. Otherwise, if he were focused on territorial expansion, Zone 612 would have long been his personal fiefdom!
"...Everyone else gets nerfed more and more with each version, but you, Mad Rhino King, who died at the start of the game, are still being pulled out and leveled up."
[The Upper King level refers to Black Gold Stone, Four-Winged Sky Slash, and others you killed in the Sixth Branch of the Consortium (Chapter 564). The Giant Bear Exoskeleton you killed at the end was a powerful Upper King level opponent.]
[A master of this caliber can single-handedly occupy one or more richly stocked junkyards. Those junkyards often yield high-end goods, even military supplies, thrown from junk ships.]
Their exoskeletal functions range from 25 to 80, they possess precious reserve energy, and often also have a body of manipulation (sacred body).
Above them are the monarch level, true regional tycoons who rule over more than a dozen garbage districts, and even conglomerates wouldn't issue orders to them lightly.
[—They have gained the authority to negotiate certain matters with the Dawn Consortium, the supreme power on the abandoned mining planet: lowering tax rates, enacting city laws, etc.]
[The King-level exoskeletons have all been developed to their fullest potential, and their combat abilities far exceed expectations. They either possess ridiculously strong "manipulation bodies" or have taken "that step" to become legendary internal manipulators!]
Because exoskeletons are merely external devices, those who pilot a level 50 exoskeleton often only possess the combat power of a mid-stage Innate Realm expert, equivalent to 30 times that of a Grandmaster.
[However, a King-level being, relying on an exoskeleton with around 100 functionalities, can rival a Grandmaster-level being at the peak of the Innate Realm with 150 times the combat power!]
[A perfect innate state... For a lower realm, even a technologically advanced one, this is absolutely a pseudo-god-like existence!]
[A false god, because of the word "false," can still be overwhelmed by sheer numbers!]
[Battle has broken out!]
"Extinguish, crimson dragon!" The Glacier King's arms were like cannons, but instead of projectiles, they fired frigid breath!
"Try this!" The Purple-Gold King hurled his spear, tearing through six layers of sound barrier!
"Heavenly Descendant!" King Daohe swung his blade, the light of which flowed like a long, endless river.
"Even a King-level being is human. Under the siege of all the Kings, you too will fall!" King Vajra unleashed a giant projectile, which grazed a Quasi-King, shattering his exoskeleton and killing him instantly.
"Good! Good! Good!" You laugh loudly, the coolant in your core, chest and abdomen, heating up to a molten lava-like surging. You strike horizontally, facing a hundred kings!
[You dodged the icy breath, you shattered the spear, you broke the river of blades!]
[As you retreated quickly, you caught the giant projectile with both hands, redirected your force, and hurled it in a different direction, blasting the "Elephant King" that was charging towards you from the side.]
[Boom!]
[A sharp blade springs from your right arm, and you instantly plunge it into the Earth King's head armor. Thirty centimeters deep amidst the high-frequency vibrations, the blade's edge pierces the driver's skull, churning it to shreds!]
[He charged forward again, landing a foot on the Undying King's waist. A surge of furious flames melted the memory metal in the King's body, rendering him incapacitated. The impact also slammed the hundreds-of-kilograms-weight exoskeleton deep into a pile of junk.]
[In the sky, the Phoenix King swooped down, spewing out a fire dragon tens of meters long, causing the surrounding kings to scramble to get out of the way. But you rose up amidst the flames, smashing the mechanical bird's head with a single punch, then severing its arms, shattering its breastplate, and letting it fall from the sky.]
[In just the first round of combat, you've crippled four trash kings, at least two of whom died on the spot, and the other two will be unable to return to the battlefield for a short time.]
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