Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 456 - 227: Strength and Misgivings, Perfect Tier Two Body

"Can a Combat Priest who hasn’t reached Level 19 be confident in winning the duel?"

Lin Feng asked in confusion.

Level 19 is the upper limit of Tier One Evolution, and its power is significantly stronger than that of Level 17 and 18, even though both belong to the Late Stage of Tier One.

Although both sides can erupt with ten tons of power, a Level 17 Evolver’s base power is only seven tons. A ten-ton burst can only be maintained at full strength for a few seconds at most.

A Level 19 Evolver, however, can continuously output ten tons of power, and some who are skilled in power specialties may even briefly surpass the ten-ton upper limit.

Such as the power boost from Berserker superpowers.

So a Level 19 Evolver can often easily handle three or four Level 17 and 18 Evolutionary Forms at once.

In a one-on-one duel, the side that first possesses the Tier One Limit power has a very high chance of victory,

Under the same equipment, the side with the lower level has almost no chance of winning.

Even if suppressed by the Desert Wolf bloodline, at most, they can match the combat power of a Level 19 Rock Horse Warrior, let alone guarantee victory.

After all, Rock Horse Warriors inherit the characteristics of the Rock-Horned Horse, excelling in endurance and long battles, their stamina and resilience far surpassing other Evolvers or Desolate Beasts.

Apart from a slightly low burst upper limit, this Alien Evolution Path is almost flawless. The technology is very mature, with few occurrences of rejection mutations or loss of sanity leading to frenzy.

After Lin Feng asked back, Bishop Zhang Hui nodded:

"You know that the most important trait of a Rock Horse Warrior is endurance, and their incredibly strong sustained combat perseverance."

"To achieve this, they’ve sacrificed their original burst power, so most Rock Horse Warriors only have the power of normal evolution levels, just with particularly outstanding defense."

"Such a choice of evolutionary direction is a very correct idea in the case of equal strength, because it’s very stable, and in the wild, stable wear down of opponents, avoiding injury, is what leads to the last laugh..."

"But this time it’s a life-and-death arena duel, and a Rock Horse Warrior must wear Rock Horse Armor to have a chance of winning the match."

"Otherwise, ordinary armor can’t withstand the attacks from the Church’s specially made battle armor."

"Rock Horse Armor has to be made at least from the body of a Tier Two Clan Leader-level Rock-Horned Horse as the base material for biological battle armor..."

"This means that Rock Horse Armor cannot be of Tier One level, as its beginning is all at Level 20 of Tier Two, requiring Level 2 flesh and cells to support a ton-level heavy shield."

"When a Tier-One-evolved Rock Horse Warrior wears a Level 20 Rock Horse Armor, it’s akin to carrying half a Clan Leader-level Rock-Horned Horse on their back."

"Unlike Power Armor, biological battle armor doesn’t have an intelligent central system or adaptive adjustment mode to match drivers of different evolutionary strengths."

"As a biological implantation of flesh and blood, though they don’t possess high intelligence, they excel in neural response matching synchronization and strength augmentation."

"But this also means that the load brought by piloting biological battle armor is several times that of mechanical armor."

Speaking of this, Bishop Zhang Hui took out a thick document, filled with research on Rock Horse Warriors and response strategies for this arena duel.

This information is far more detailed than what the Grand Priest presented to Lin Feng initially.

During Lin Feng’s browsing gap, Lord Bishop continued:

"So the problem arises as well. If a Level 19 Rock Horse Warrior doesn’t wear Rock Horse Armor, they stand no chance in front of a Combat Priest."

"Once they wear Rock Horse Armor for combat, their own evolutionary level and strength can’t withstand the load and consumption brought by the armor, so the endurance and sustained combat ability that Rock Horse Warriors are proud of will inevitably be heavily diminished."

"Even with the support of Rock Horse Armor, enabling them to resist damage from same-tier opponents, they won’t be able to maintain that state for long. Their only chance of winning is to end the fight as quickly as possible."

"But quickly defeating an opponent requires an exceptionally high burst upper limit..."

"First Stage Rock Horse Warriors just have a quicker evolutionary level increase but can’t yet leverage the true advantages of Rock-Horned Horse bloodline."

"Therefore, tomorrow’s battle is nothing to fear!" 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

After reading the information, Lin Feng nodded, having previously assumed in sparring with Patriarch Li Hao of the Li Family that every Rock Horse Warrior was as challenging as Li Hao.

In reality, unless they advance to Tier Two and absorb the Life Source Material of a Clan Leader-level Rock-Horned Horse, ordinary Tier One Rock Horse Warriors aren’t particularly powerful, and the rock-horned horse bloodline integrated into their body doesn’t provide a significant Physique enhancement.

Aside from more convenient access to Life Source Material, they have few advantages.

Otherwise, if Tier One Rock Horse Warriors were so strong, the evolution path of the Rock-Horned Horse would not be so easy to obtain, rampant as the current mainstream path.

Even with the mature breeding industry for Rock-Horned Horses providing stable Evolutionary Meat and Evolution Agents, those who control resources, like large factions and local families, wouldn’t allow important evolutionary paths to be leaked.

It seems that even deploying an Level 18 Combat Priest to the fight, as long as they leverage speed and agility to outlast the opponent’s peak state...

Once the Rock Horse Armor becomes a burden in the later stage, they can secure the victory.

Lin Feng continued flipping through, suddenly noticing that among the four candidates participating in the duel, two Grand Priests weren’t involved in the Desert Wolf Source Material modification plan...

This implies they will rely on their human identity to challenge the fully armed Rock Horse Warriors.