Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 500 - 248: Ancient Zhengzhou City, Knight Squad, Fiery Sun Divine Sect

At this moment, the crossroad where the Salvation Army and the Wolf Pack are located is the ancient Zhoukou City. Heading southwest leads to the Zhuma Divine Hall, while to the northwest, the main road passes through Zhengzhou City.

Next to Zhengzhou City is the ancient path of the Yellow River from the Old Earth Era.

However, in today’s wasteland desert, the once endless Yellow River has only left a dried and cracked riverbed, becoming one of the initial references for the Global Migration path.

Following the ancient Yellow River path, one can smoothly enter the Tier Two terrain ladder of the East Asian Continental Plate, slowly and steadily climbing from the plains to the Taihang Mountain Range, crossing the Loess Plateau, and then along the Hexi Corridor, heading to the desert basin in the center of the continent.

Completing this four to five thousand kilometers long trek would cross the territory of ancient China.

This is the homeland where Lin Feng and most survivors once lived during the Old Earth Era.

At the starting point of entering the terrain plateau, near Ancient Zhengzhou City, there are bursts of loud noises and vibrations at this moment.

The intense disturbance causes the ground to tremble slightly, and dust and gravel on the surface are flying all over the sky.

However, Ancient Zhengzhou City is two hundred kilometers away from the Oasis Avenue crossroad, and even for a Tier Two Evolver, it is difficult to sense disturbances from such a long distance.

Only the Desert Wolf Race, when using scout wolf soldiers to explore the surroundings, can sense the faint vibrations through the sensitive pads on their feet coming from the ground.

As for Oasis Town, the Oasis Battleship and Ancient Zhengzhou City are more than two hundred kilometers apart in a straight line, making it even harder to know about the battle erupting in the distance.

And one of the parties in this battle is a squad sent by the Holy City Diocese to support Oasis Town.

It is composed of three Mid-Tier Two Official Temple Knights and nine Early Stage Apprentice Knights forming a standard battle lineup of twelve members.

During the Holy Temple Knight Order’s expeditions, it is usually led by a Mid-Tier Two Official Knight, paired with two Early Stage Apprentice Knights, forming a standard squad of three.

Depending on the nature of the mission and its difficulty, there are usually nine to twelve Knight Apprentices, which are Level 19 Grand Priests, serving as Knight’s Attendants, accompanying the expedition.

Don’t underestimate these Knight Apprentices; those who can become apprentices and serve as attendants, accompanying knights on their missions, are basically top-tier among Combat Priests.

Like the four Battle Grand Priests of the Oasis Church, they are considered top-tier combat power in Oasis Town, easily comparable to a Tier Two Early Stage Evolver.

But in the Holy Temple Knight Order, they still don’t have the strength and qualification to be selected as Knight Apprentices and candidates to become Apprentice Knights.

A standard Holy Temple Knight Squad, in an era where Tier Three Kings do not appear, can basically handle the majority of disturbances in the wasteland.

Even ordinary Late Tier Two Evolvers, or even Level 29 strong persons, find it difficult to deal with a standard three-person squad.

To become a Temple Knight, the minimum standard is to easily defeat more than three Evolvers of the same level.

Moreover, being able to challenge across levels is a basic requirement.

A Mid-Tier Two Official Knight challenging a Late Tier Two entity in full gear poses basically no significant problem. With teammates’ assistance, they can suppress even a Level 29 Tier Two Limit strong person.

After all, the majority of Evolvers in the wasteland have weaponry that is not as complete and refined as that of the Holy Spring Sect.

With the strength of their abilities and an absolute advantage in weaponry, it can be said that a standard three-person squad of a Knight Order is sufficient to complete the majority of suppression tasks or offensive combat orders.

Yet, in a small Oasis Town, the strongest local force, the Li Family, only has a Tier Two Mid-stage Level 26 Rock Horse Warrior...

Logically, there’s simply no need to deploy a knight brigade composed of three standard squads.

But the Tier Three Bishops of the Holy City Diocese are far from being muddle-headed dilettantes. On the contrary, having lived for at least over a thousand years, they are each extremely shrewd.

They are well aware that Oasis Town is a piece of fertile meat on the wasteland, capable of laying the foundation for future promotion to Royal City.

Greed for Oasis Town is not limited to the Holy City; there are certainly other potential forces involved.

This includes the wanderers on the surface and the officially recognized organizations operating in the shadows.

Though they may not be a match for a single squad alone, if they were to join forces, relying solely on the combat strength of a standard squad, it would likely be difficult to ensure Oasis Town returns safely into the hands of the Holy City.

Actually, the situation developing to this extent is, in fact, the responsibility of the Holy City.

Initially rejecting the current Oasis Bishop, which is Zhang Hui, the Holy City deliberately reduced the transmission of Holy See’s military strength to the Oasis.

Not even a single Tier Two Early Stage Apprentice Knight was dispatched, only allowing four Grand Priests to be stationed long-term, two of whom were secured by Bishop Zhang Hui himself.

This has resulted in the Oasis Church’s armed strength barely being sufficient.

With the passage of time, the aging of Church members, and the gradual expansion of local forces...

The conditions enabling the Li Family’s rebellion have also matured with time.

Even without external interference, a power struggle would inevitably break out sooner or later.

And as it stands now, the situation has developed as the Holy City Diocese anticipated, with the three squads of Temple Knights encountering interception along the way.

Their original mission was to ambush near Ancient Zhengzhou City, waiting and watching.

Once the rebels within the Oasis gained control of the Oasis Battleship, they would take it back on Oasis Avenue in the northwest.