Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 472 - 235: Warrior Devoured by Battle Armor, Biological Demon Armor
The final result of the battle left everyone present completely stunned.
It wasn’t that the Rock Horse Warrior made a last-minute comeback to reverse the situation, only to ultimately fail...
Nor did it end with one side being killed outright, or surrendering and conceding...
Because the final outcome was that the Rock Horse Warrior, struggling tenaciously, suddenly, after a fierce charge, crashed into a giant rock and then came to a halt.
The Rock Horse Armor, like the front end of a truck, embedded half of its body into the rock and remained completely still afterwards.
The Battle Grand Priest who was opposing it did not recklessly move in for a finishing blow but very cautiously backed off to observe the opponent’s still form.
Trying to find any clue.
After all, abrupt changes in behavior often signify the possibility of a trap.
However, they remained in a deadlock for about a minute.
As the Grand Priest continuously adjusted the distance, and picked up stones from the ground to hurl at the target from afar, with the Rock Horse Armor never moving despite constant attacks...
The Grand Priest suddenly realized that the opponent’s burst of energy and displayed combat power had massively increased and the strength required for such a boost would be enough to deplete a Level 19 Evolver.
If that were truly the case, then the driver wrapped in the Rock Horse Armor might have already been exhausted, left with nothing but an overdrawn, weak body, no longer able to support this set of Tier Two Biological Battle Armor.
As the Grand Priest came to this realization, wanting to confirm his suspicions, he began planning a surprise attack from an oblique angle, gripping the alloy long spear tightly, aiming for the gap next to the neck plate of his target.
If he could find that one tricky angle from below, he could pierce through the weakest defense and thrust into the neck of the Rock Horse Warrior driver.
Severing the opponent’s throat and arteries, and then shattering the cervical spine and nervous system.
After severely injuring the neck, even a Level 19 Evolver would lose lower body perception on the spot and fall into unconsciousness due to massive arterial bleeding.
Once this deadly move was executed, not even a Tier Two Powerhouse could withstand it.
If successful, the Rock Horse Warrior would surely die.
The Grand Priest’s decision was not wrong; he was mainly worried that the opponent was feigning, trying to put up a bluff to earn time to recover.
As the white silhouette quickly approached, with a crisp tearing sound...
The Grand Priest and nearby spectators couldn’t believe what they were seeing.
The Rock Horse Armor, pierced by the long spear, made no effort to resist and didn’t even react, as if seamlessly, along the armor’s joint, was pierced through the neck internally.
The next second, the Grand Priest swung with a flick, using the long spear as a fulcrum against the shoulder armor, directly lifting the Rock Horse Warrior’s head.
Attempting to directly sever the opponent’s neck.
With the head separated, even a Tier Two Evolver couldn’t reverse the situation.
Using the fulcrum for leverage, what further surprised the Grand Priest was that the opponent’s head, along with the helmet, flew off entirely, arcing through the sky and landing dozens of meters away.
The result of the battle was decided at this moment...
But the result was hard to believe.
Because inside the Rock Horse Armor whose head was severed by the Grand Priest, there was no trace of the driver’s headless body, and the helmet that flew off didn’t contain the Rock Horse Warrior’s head either.
This meant that the Rock Horse Warrior originally piloting the Rock Horse Armor had disappeared from the arena.
Amidst the uproar of the crowd, Guild President Xu Wanfeng, acting as the referee, immediately stepped in to deliver a verdict.
When her figure appeared beside the headless Rock Horse Armor, she witnessed a scene hard for her to accept:
It was revealed that in the area where the driver should have been, the Rock Horse Warrior dispatched by the Li Family had only some bloody bone fragments, stuck on the internal tendrils of the Rock Horse Armor.
The biomaterial cortex, fitting like skin, was covered with thousands of tiny tendrils like a sea star or sea urchin, densely packed.
Still writhing at the moment, greedily sucking every last warm blood trace from the shattered bone fragments.
Xu Wanfeng, who had lived for several centuries, had never seen such a situation, except for a few cursed underground shelter relics, where she had seen mutated flesh blobs tainted by radiation...
There had never been a wriggling flesh blob under the Scorching Sun.
But in reality, the Rock Horse Armor, being a biological implant, shared a common origin and flow with its driver, the Rock Horse Warrior, both carrying a large load of Rock-Horned Horse genes.
And most importantly, the Rock Horse Armor didn’t have a complex brain structure and couldn’t form self-awareness; its behaviors, aside from being controlled by the driver’s commands, were primarily guided by life instincts.
That is, the primal consciousness of the cells: to stay alive.
Therefore, although the Rock Horse Armor, as a biological implant, was a living entity, it didn’t have autonomous capabilities unless a brain was later installed for it.
Or it gradually evolves on its own as its Evolution Level increases.
At this point, however, it’s merely a low-grade lifeform following survival instinct.
Just like a virus "reproducing" by invading cells, deceiving the core gene chain, and rampantly replicating itself for infinite expansion.
These changes, while happening on a microscopic scale, are simply hard to accept from a macroscopic perspective.
As Xu Wanfeng furrowed her brows and announced the result, the first match of the arena ended in an extremely bizarre manner.
The Rock Horse Warrior "perished", while the Church’s Grand Priest managed to exhaust the opponent to death, relying on the Undying Holy Armor’s recovery ability.
