Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 494 - 245: Beastification State, Third Stage Battle, Desert Wolf Shadow_2
The final result is that the prey, exhausted and overextending its stamina, is forced to stop and rest, then is pounced upon by the slowly approaching wolf pack, brought down to the ground.
After letting out a wailing sound, it awaits the arrival of death.
Now, the strategy adopted by the Desert Wolf remains unchanged. Even Lin Feng, in the beginning, when hunting that weakened Level 9 Rock-Horned Horse, used a staged pursuit, driving the prey into a predetermined route.
Then, when it was utterly exhausted, he delivered a fatal shot.
Now, the Grand Priest, transformed into a Desert Wolf Warrior, also employs this strategy, draining the opponent who has entered a frenzy state, whose Biological Demon Armor has spawned flesh tendrils, until utter exhaustion!
Inside the Biological Demon Armor, Li Mingquan, stimulated by the Ascension Potion and losing rationality, only wants to kill the gray-white humanoid figure in front of him.
Both he and the Biological Demon Armor instinctively sense the danger emanating from the opponent’s body.
This makes it even more furious.
Most of the Rock Horse Armor is crafted from the body of male Rock-Horned Horses.
As long as they are Clan Leader-level Tier Two Rock-Horned Horses, they are often the larger, more competitive and combative males, completing the qualitative evolution to Tier Two.
Meanwhile, female Rock-Horned Horses typically evolve to Late Tier One, but according to experts and scholars researching Rock-Horned Horses, some Rock-Horned Horse herds located deep in the desert likely have female leaders at Tier Two.
This is because these Rock-Horned Horse Herds do not interact with the outside world, nor do they have a need to evade predators; they have to face the challenge of better adapting to harsh environments and finding water sources on the wastelands.
Over time, the herd needed no longer the protection of male Rock-Horned Horses, but intelligent Rock-Horned Horses capable of leading the herd to find water sources.
Thus, it developed into a matriarchal society.
Just like the African elephants of the Old Earth era, the herd leader is the most esteemed and eldest female leader.
Male offspring would leave the herd to survive alone upon adulthood and would only return to mate with the female herd after undergoing transformation and defeating other male Rock-Horned Horses, ensuring the continuation of their genetic lineage.
Regarding these Tier Two female Rock-Horned Horses, they are extremely rare, which is why experts see them as the hope for breaking through the gene studies of Tier Two Rock-Horned Horses and complementing the genetic library samples!
They are also the key to opening the path to Tier Three King Beasts. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
However, compared to female Clan Leader-level Rock-Horned Horses, traditional Tier Two male Rock Horse Giant Beasts are evidently more suitable for crafting Rock Horse Armor to meet the combat requirements of Rock Horse Warriors.
The so-called Ascension Potion essentially extracts the adrenaline and sex hormones of male Rock-Horned Horses, thereby simulating the intense competition among males in the natural environment to maximize the stimulation of the Rock Horse Armor and the Rock Horse Warriors.
Male Rock-Horned Horses in their breeding season not only become fierce and combative but also exhibit the most notable trait of attacking any presence without reason.
Even their natural enemies.
During this phase, the gene drives the host’s urgent need to extend their lineage, providing the impetus to even overcome the individual’s inherent fear of death.
As a result, many large male wild cattle or elephants dare to provoke, or even chase, lions and hyenas on the savannah during the mating season.
At this moment, the Rock Horse Armor is in this kind of irritable state, turning into Biological Demon Armor, taking over control from its pilot, the Rock Horse Warrior, and even influencing and stimulating Li Mingquan, turning him into its puppet.
It aims to dispel its inner agitation by killing the target emitting the scent of a Desert Wolf.
Unfortunately, the body size of a Desert Wolf Warrior is several times smaller than that of a same-level Clan Leader-level Desolate Wolf.
However, its speed hasn’t slowed one bit, and is even more agile and swift.
Its burst speed is slightly faster than the Biological Demon Armor in its ascension state, and its neural reaction speed is more than double.
Although both parties have ventured down the Alien Evolution Path, their external manifestations are completely different.
As Rock-Horned Horses lack the potential for Tier Three Evolution, they are at a disadvantage in gene fusion, meaning the human gene level is higher than that of Rock-Horned Horse genes.
This leads to the genetic expression of Rock Horse Warriors being extremely stable, seldom showing any potential for mutation.
Yet, it also means that the expression of Rock-Horned Horse genes hardly brings about substantial amplification effects.
For instance, Tier Two Rock Horse Warriors at best inherit the super endurance of Rock-Horned Horses, enabling sustained combat, but cannot proliferate the crucial Ceramic Steel Armor.
They also cannot enter the Beastification State to enhance their Physique in a short time.
They can only achieve the complete form of Rock Horse Warriors through the combination of Rock Horse Armor.
This also results in a delay in reactions between the two, preventing one hundred percent instantaneous synchronization, often leading to a struggle for control.
Currently, the Rock Horse Armor, having transformed into Biological Demon Armor, takes the commanding role, desperately attacking without regard for the depletion of reserved Energy.
The Desert Wolf Warrior, on the other hand, is entirely different. The bloodline of the Desert Wolf inherently carries the ancestry of a Tier Three Wolf King, with bloodline potential far exceeding that of ordinary humans.
Additionally, the Tier Three Wolf King itself is a highly formidable Late Tier Three King Beast. For ordinary humans, merging with the bloodline of a Desert Wolf would undoubtedly cause varying degrees of invasive assimilation, resulting in external mutation traits.
Yet, this high-level fusion also allows the integrator to inherit the racial abilities of the Desert Wolf, entering the Beastification State.
Examples include reaction speed and explosive Power.
However, excessive stimulation and fusion can cause irreversible permanent mutations, turning individuals into half-human, half-wolf alien monstrosities, subject to loathing and rejection.
If the Grand Priest did not already possess the genetic base of the Master of the Holy Spring, forcibly using Desert Wolf Evolutionary Source Material to achieve a Tier Two qualitative evolution might have transformed him into the werewolf monster in Ding Yi’s laboratory.
At present, the continuous stimulation of Desert Wolf genes, prompting the proliferation and division of Tier Two Wolf Race evolutionary cells, still brings substantial changes to him.
Now the arms and legs of the Desert Wolf Warrior have burst through the gloves and iron boots of the original Undying Holy Armor, revealing a set of sharp iron claws, gleaming with a silvery light.
Capable of tearing through multiple layers of Ceramic Steel Armor of the Biological Demon Armor.
However, the rational Desert Wolf Warrior did not impulsively rush forward for the kill.
The Rock Horse Armor in a frenzy state can easily unleash over forty tons of Power.
Such massive Force can send a Rock Horse Warrior flying hundreds of meters with a single punch, shattering the organs and rendering him incapable of fighting.
Yet this circling strategy can tire the Biological Demon Armor as if walking a dog, causing it to emit vast amounts of white steam all over.
This is the result of the Rock Horse Armor’s internal metabolism acceleration, with the blood surged to an extreme excitement level, causing a rapid temperature rise.
A large amount of moisture has to vaporize into hot gas and dissipate to cool down.
However, as this pursuit continues, the Energy fully stocked by the Rock Horse Armor before the battle is already depleted.
Under normal circumstances, when the armor reaches this stage, it would undoubtedly lose combat capabilities, entering low-power hibernation state like Power Armor.
Yet stimulated by the Ascension Potion, the Rock Horse Armor, transformed into a Biological Demon Armor, shows no sign of stopping.
When out of energy, it directly initiates an autophagy program within its body, first consuming lower-level cells as food.
This maintains and sustains the proliferation and division of the evolutionary tissue.
Consequently, Li Mingquan roars with blood-red eyes, feeling himself being devoured bit by bit by the acid released by the Biological Demon Armor, consuming his skin, blood, tendons...
Until finally, only a skeleton with a few lingering muscles and ligaments remains, protecting the visceral organs within the ribcage, preserving the consciousness within the brain.
But at this moment, with the frenzy state of Biological Demon Armor, already consumed by the devoured driver, it starts to grow sluggish.
Seeing this, the Desert Wolf Warrior begins to attack.
Meanwhile, outside the arena, Li Hao, Patriarch of the Li Family, after collecting attribute data information on the Desert Wolf Warrior, is preparing to step in and prevent the Desert Wolf Warrior from striking and destroying the Biological Demon Armor.
On the opposite side, Father Su An is ready and waiting.
This battle, following Li Mingquan’s consciousness ceasing, escalates to the Third Stage.
Tier Two Mid-Stage Evolvers standing behind both sides are preparing to intervene.
Meanwhile, at the Oasis Avenue junction, about fifty kilometers ahead of where the duel is taking place...
The Desert Wolf Army, led by Wolf Ao, has found a group of Salvation Army also lurking here.
Both parties are having a not so friendly exchange.
