Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded

Lin Feng carefully examined the power armor before him.

After being branded, the level 22 power armor integrated high-grade wolf bones and teeth, continuously stacking armor defense.

Now, it possesses a basic defense attribute of 350 points, further enhanced by the additional attributes of the titanium alloy wolf armor, stacking up to an astonishing 500 points in total.

The defensive effect is comparable to that of a level 25 armor, capable of withstanding a full-force strike from a mid-stage Tier 2 evolver.

With this attribute, Lin Feng could barely withstand one attack from Li Hao, a level 26 evolver.

However, Li Hao had stated that Lin Feng would have to withstand at least three of his attacks to be recognized as comparable to a mid-stage Tier 2 evolver, qualified to bear the responsibility of guarding the Oasis Key.

In reality, this was Li Hao's true intention.

As the activator and controller of the Oasis warship, the key was a national treasure, so how could it be entrusted to a 'youngster' like Lin Feng for safekeeping?

At the very least, it would require a powerhouse at the mid-stage of Tier 2.

For example, Guild Master Xu of the Wilderness Reclamation Guild, whose strength was only slightly weaker than his, but still ranked among the top three in Oasis Town, was qualified to be the guardian of the Oasis Key.

Lin Feng, who had just advanced to Tier 2, was showing off his gun-type ability and disregarding everyone…

Others might be intimidated by his destructive strike, but as someone who had stirred up trouble in Holy City back in the day, Li Hao was more aware than others that gun-type ability users possessed powerful firepower and excelled at long-range attacks.

Once engaged in a one-on-one duel on a stage, especially in close combat with limited space, the weaknesses of this type of ability user would become very prominent.

For gun-type ability users, they would rather face ten opponents of the same level in a duel ten kilometers away than face a close-quarters battle with one of the same level.

Therefore, his proposal to spar with Lin Feng was not only to dispel the mystique surrounding gun-type ability users in the eyes of his own people, removing the invincible halo…

But also to make Lin Feng understand that as long as he wanted to, he could easily defeat him, unless Lin Feng was determined to die together with everyone using a powerful ultimate move.

Otherwise, after the arena competition was over, he would obediently hand over the Oasis Key according to the final winning result.

As the one who was challenged, Lin Feng was equally aware of this. Li Hao simply wanted to deflate his arrogance and use him to establish his authority.

Therefore, he couldn't let him have his way.

The basic amplification effect was a 20% increase in strength and a 50% increase in speed.

Currently, Lin Feng's limit of strength exertion was around 30 tons. Even with a 20% increase, it would only be less than 40 tons.

Compared to Li Hao, who was at the upper limit of mid-stage Tier 2, there was a vast difference, more than a fold.

After all, the other party also had Tier 2 armor, the Rock Steed biological armor.

With his own level 26 strength of over 60 tons, plus the enhancement of the Rock Steed armor, it should increase to 80 tons without any problem.

Otherwise, Li Hao wouldn't have been able to compare to a late-stage Tier 2 evolver in Holy City back then, earning a place on the Heavenly Ranking.

However, the power armor also had a high-performance movement mode, which could activate maximum power, increasing the amplification to the maximum value.

The original 20% strength and 50% speed would increase to 50% strength and 80% speed.

Originally, the speed increase was still 100%, but unfortunately, Lin Feng pursued defensive effects, and after integrating the fine steel wolf bones and teeth, the armor's weight increased significantly, and it could only increase speed by a maximum of 80%.

Moreover, under the high-performance mode, the consumption of the battery's remaining power would also increase exponentially.

Currently, there were a total of ten air lithium batteries equipped, each with a ten-minute battery life, allowing for a maximum of one and a half hours of combat. The last remaining battery was a backup power, which would automatically enter a low-energy mode, no longer having a power effect, turning into ordinary armor, retaining only combat assistance functions.

After activating the high-performance combat mode, the power armor's continuous combat time would be compressed to within half an hour. If it was just a small sparring match, that much time would be more than enough.

However, Lin Feng wasn't foolish enough not to leave himself with a backup plan, only preparing to withstand three attacks.

Once the other party tested out his true strength, they might come up with other ideas on the spot.

If Li Hao took advantage of his close-range combat advantage and continued to attack him, disregarding Xu Wanfeng who was on the side…

The consequences were imaginable.

The other party might not kill him, but they would definitely want to inflict heavy damage, preventing him from playing the role he should in the subsequent confrontation.

Then the arena competition would no longer be important.

Therefore, the high-performance movement mode couldn't be kept on all the time, at least some should be reserved for a while, or carry replacement spare air lithium batteries.

With a 50% strength bonus, Lin Feng could unleash nearly 50 tons of power.

Although there was still a certain gap compared to Li Hao…

At least it wouldn't be like before, where he had no way to respond to the opponent's offensive.

The speed boost, on the other hand, made Lin Feng even more optimistic.

An 80% speed increase would allow Lin Feng, who originally had a speed of 150 meters per second, to break through to 270 meters per second, approaching an intensity of 300 meters per second.

This speed, combined with 50 tons of power, would allow Lin Feng to easily leap hundreds of meters by kicking off the ground, or even fly into the air with a big jump.

After all, 270 meters per second, converted, is nearly 1,000 kilometers per hour. Back in the old Earth era, most old-fashioned fighter jets and civil aviation airliners had this flying speed.

Although this limit burst could only be maintained for a few seconds, as long as it was used properly, it would be enough to dodge Li Hao's attack, occupy a favorable terrain, and launch a counterattack.

The Rock Steed armor was made from a chieftain-level Rockhorn Steed, inheriting the other party's biological attributes, possessing extremely heavy armor, belonging to the defensive type of biological armor, not the offensive type.

Therefore, it was far inferior to the power armor in terms of speed.

Although the general-purpose power armor was a mass-produced product, its design speed and technical source came from the alien relic fragments that were left on Earth back then.

Otherwise, it would not be possible to have such a powerful gain, especially in terms of speed.

Whether it was in small-scale conflicts and fights, or in the ever-changing battlefield situation, speed was always the most important attribute.

Only by taking advantage of speed could one win everything.

Now the question was how to obtain information about the other party's attribute data, especially about the Rock Steed armor.

However, the problem that Lin Feng was worried about was quickly resolved.

A tall man wearing a gray robe and a hood appeared next to the convoy, requesting to meet the leader, Lin Feng.

In fact, Lin Feng had sensed his aura long ago.

The opponent's aura of the late stage of Tier 1 could be accurately sensed from a hundred meters away.

Second only to Lin Feng, he could even rival Chen Shanshan, who had just advanced to Tier 2.

Moreover, this gray-robed man came from Holy Spring Village, which was right next to the convoy.

His identity was naturally obvious.

Lin Feng then stepped forward and told Ma Chenfeng and A'lian, who were blocking the man, to step aside:

"He's one of us, no need to worry."

As he spoke, he nodded towards the tall man under the hood:

"Please come in, let's talk inside the vehicle."

The man nodded and followed Lin Feng into a modified ordinary transport vehicle. The carriage was a small conference office, with several sofas forming a space.

The convoy's senior management held meetings here, and regular members would also rest here.

It was a multi-functional activity room.

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The man who followed Lin Feng into the carriage immediately took off his hood, revealing his true face, and said:

"Father Su'an is performing surgery on us and is unable to come in person, so he arranged for me to come."

"The information about Li Hao, the head of the Li family, has been compiled here. The main purpose of my visit is to introduce you to his fighting style and information about the Rock Steed Armor."

Lin Feng nodded and took the thick stack of papers from the other party's hand, which recorded information about the Li family.

The Oasis Church had been closely monitoring this Tier 2 intermediate powerhouse since many years ago, mainly his growth and family development, as they would eventually become a malignant tumor of Oasis Town.

Therefore, the collection of information about him began hundreds of years ago.

Now Lin Feng is about to engage in the first match before the arena fight with Li Hao, the head of the Li family. Although it's just a preview before the main event and doesn't affect the final result...

But Lin Feng can't afford to have an accident.

Moreover, the Church also hopes to use this opportunity to test Li Hao's true strength.

The battle high priest guarding Holy Spring Village then began to introduce:

"Li Hao hasn't taken action for a hundred years. The last time he wore the Rock Steed Armor was a hundred years ago when he went out to hunt a chieftain-level Rock Horn Steed."

"That operation was successful. He obtained a Tier 2 early-stage Rock Horn Steed's essence and a large corpse, and used it to cultivate several Tier 1 late-stage leader-level Rock Horn Steeds, extending the Rock Horn Steed industry for more than eighty years."

"But the scale of the farm village's industry has not expanded much, because most of the resources were exchanged by him to cultivate Li Mingquan, the heir of the Li family, and the evolutionary power of the entire family."

"Currently, the Li family has the most Tier 1 late-stage evolvers in Oasis Town, among which there are as many as eight who have evolved to the level 19 limit. As long as the opportunity is right, they can be promoted to Tier 2 at any time."

"In addition to this, although his own evolution has stagnated, the growth of his combat power has never stopped."

"The level 24 Rock Steed Armor that once made Li Hao shine has now been upgraded to at least level 25 after so many years."

"Moreover, the Li family has at least three level 20 Rock Horn Steed essences in their hands, and possibly more."

Lin Feng flipped through the Li family's development data and found that there wasn't much useful information, so he directly asked:

"The Church should also have corresponding records about the attribute data of the Rock Steed Armor, right?"

The high priest nodded:

"That's right, because Rock Horn Steed essence is the easiest evolutionary resource to obtain in this wasteland, and the scale of Rock Horn Steed herds, whether wild or artificially raised, is the most common among evolutionary desolate beasts."

"Therefore, about 70% of the evolvers use Rock Horn Steed essence to achieve evolution, so most of the rebellions that the Church usually solves and suppresses are evolved from the Rock Horn Steed path, and the wanderers are basically the same."

"Therefore, within the Church, especially the armed forces under our battle priests, there is also a lot of research on the Rock Horn Steed evolution path, especially the Rock Steed Armor derived during Tier 2 evolution."

As he spoke, the high priest directly stepped forward, flipped the information that Lin Feng had placed on the table to the last few pages, and pointed to a yellowed photo and said:

"This is the Rock Steed Armor, the most basic armor form at level 20. It is two meters high, one and a half meters wide, and covered with a thick armor of twenty centimeters. It is bulky, weighs up to one ton, and can withstand a 120mm howitzer head-on, ensuring that the Rock Steed warrior inside is not injured."

Lin Feng frowned slightly and looked at the photo the other party was pointing at. It showed an armor that was almost square.

It had many characteristics of the Rock Horn Steed, and a pair of one-meter-long sharp horse horns were installed below the head. Lowering its head and advancing at full speed was not much different from a chieftain-level Rock Horn Steed launching a charge.

At first glance, one would think it was a transformed Tier 2 Rock Horn Steed.

In addition to the horse horns, the most prominent feature was the multi-faceted hard rock shield on its surface, or rather, a ceramic steel shield mixed with metal.

Lin Feng had personally experienced this thing when he was chased by that chieftain-level Rock Horn Steed outside the Wild Rift Valley.

At that time, the Tier 1 early-stage burst rifle was upgraded to a level 14 machine gun, possessing more than 100 points of high damage, enough to threaten a Tier 1 late-stage armor, but when it hit the Tier 2 early-stage chieftain-level Rock Horn Steed, it only sparked a burst of sparks.

It was like tickling, causing no harm at all.

And the level 20 Rock Steed Armor is covered with this layer of dense ceramic steel alloy armor, which is even harder than titanium alloy, but lighter and thicker.

In terms of defensive effect, it is unparalleled.

Lin Feng continued to look down, and there were also several records of the Rock Steed Armor being bombarded by different types of shells.

Among them, shells with a caliber lower than 100mm were difficult to break through the outer armor. It was not until a 120mm howitzer was used that the outer armor was blown open.

But there was also an inner layer of biological armor and close-fitting Rock Horn Steed muscles, composed of level 20 evolutionary flesh.

Therefore, a 20-centimeter-thick armor can withstand at least one 120mm howitzer shell.

It should be known that Lin Feng's current level 22 armor-piercing cannon has a bombardment power between 120mm and 150mm, covering an area of about 30 meters in radius.

The base damage is as high as 300 points, and one shot is enough to destroy an area the size of two basketball courts.

This shows that the defense value of the level 20 Rock Steed Armor can reach 250 to 300 points.

Thinking of this, Lin Feng frowned slightly:

"If level 20 is already so powerful, and Li Hao has upgraded the Rock Steed Armor to level 25, isn't it impossible to break through?"

The high priest nodded as a matter of course, and then pointed to the record content on another page:

"That's right, so to deal with Rock Steed warriors, you have to start with their two weaknesses..."

"They are high-temperature overload and speed disadvantage respectively."