Wasteland: My items are infinitely upgraded.

Chapter 300 Fierce Battle, Schemes, and Spatial Power

The bishop swung his level 24 armor-piercing wolf spear and thrust it straight at the giant wolf's hindquarters.

Although the burns and piercing wounds here have been mostly healed, the outer defensive system—the steel wolf skin and the layered iron bristles that resemble chainmail—cannot be fully restored in a short time.

Therefore, this is also a weak point in Lang Ao's body; with just a little force, the internal muscles and bones can be damaged.

The bishop, wielding the Undying Holy Armor, leaped into the air and aimed his Armor-Piercing Wolf Spear at the giant wolf's hindquarters.

Canines, whether wild wolves or domesticated dogs, are often described as having "copper heads, iron tails, and tofu waists."

When dealing with animals like wolves and dogs, attacking their heads is useless. Their skulls are thick and hard. If you are accidentally bitten on the head by a wolf or dog, hitting its head will only trigger its primal instincts and make it even more ferocious.

Besides stabbing the throat, the best way is to attack the wolfhound's waist, that is, the back half of its spine.

A few hard punches can cause anything from broken bones and serious injuries to paralysis on the spot.

Therefore, the lumbar region, where the spine is located, has always been the weakest point on a canine's body. Important organs such as the heart are also nearby, making it a vulnerable area for serious injury.

This is a problem of physical structure, which still exists even after evolution. However, the outer skin and mane can be transformed into armor for concealment and protection.

However, currently affected by the Oasis warship's massive cannon fire, the steel armor plates on Wolf Ao's hindquarters have become riddled with holes. Even a level 24 armor-piercing wolf spear can easily penetrate the skin, tear apart the internal muscle tissue, break the fragile spine in the waist, or shred the internal organs.

In short, if this attack succeeds, even Wolf Ao, who has evolved to level 29, will suffer severe damage and may even lose his fighting ability for a short period of time.

So, sensing the danger, Lang Ao stopped and could only watch helplessly as the Rock Horse Warrior, who was less than 500 meters away, turned around and dodged the attack.

He then turned back to defend and engaged in a fierce battle with the bishop who was attacking from the side.

A five-meter-tall, blood-red maw lunged straight at the bishop.

The Death's Bite, filled with steel wolf fangs, was powerful enough to swallow the two-and-a-half-meter-tall Undying Armor whole.

Fortunately, the bishop reacted quickly, immediately using his armor-piercing wolf spear to intercept the wolf's sharp fangs, using the force to turn around and fly into the air.

He traced an arc in the sky and landed on Lang Ao's back.

At this moment, all that is needed is to throw the wolf spear in hand, and there is a certain chance that it will pierce the spine of the wolf in the waist, thereby causing it to lose its explosive power and its reaction speed to decrease.

Just as His Excellency was considering whether to take the risk, the dense mane on Wolf Ao's neck and back suddenly tensed up!
Immediately afterwards, it quickly twisted its wolf head, flinging out a large amount of fine steel bristles from its back.

Each one was ten centimeters thick and two or three meters long, with an extremely sharp end, resembling iron swords and spears. Like a celestial maiden scattering flowers, they pierced straight towards the bishop flying through the air!

The hardness of these steel bristles is comparable to that of alloy steel. Although they are not as hard as the ceramic steel armor of the Rockhorse or the steel wolf fangs of the Wasteland Wolf Clan, they can still easily break through the outer defenses of armors such as power armor and the Undying Holy Armor, which are more advanced than ordinary armor developed by humans.

If one is not careful, countless steel bristles, each ten centimeters thick, will pierce through the entire body, ultimately leading to death from a thousand arrows piercing the heart.

This is the second ability that the Wasteland Wolf Clan learns after advancing to the second tier and becoming a Wasteland Wolf Beast. It is also a defensive mechanism that has evolved and developed to protect their relatively vulnerable waist and abdomen.

By indiscriminately dealing area-of-effect damage, the enemy is forced to abandon their attack on the waist and abdomen.

At this moment, this ability also allowed Lang Ao to successfully dodge the bishop's counterattack.

The countless steel bristles thrust forward, forcing the bishop to swing his armor-piercing wolf spear, constantly circling to form a defensive barrier and block the bristles' attacks.

The reaction force from the resistance also caused the bishop to fall to the side, less than a hundred meters away from Li Hao, who had already rushed forward.

The two stood side by side, looking at the giant wolf with a fierce expression a hundred meters away, their expressions tense.

The two sides exchanged blows several times in a single encounter, each blow completed in the blink of an eye, less than a tenth of a second.

Beings that are not at the second-order evolution level, they could not even clearly see the scene of the two fighting each other, and could only vaguely sense that the two figures had briefly collided.

Meanwhile, the army of the Wilderness Wolves, who had been following behind Lang Ao, scattered and arrived near the arena.

However, the intense release of second-order energy on the field instilled fear in them, and they dared not step into it.

They then received orders from their leader, Wolf Ao, to continue forward and directly attack the Oasis Town behind them.

Wolf Ao held off the enemy's high command while the remaining Wilderness Wolf Clan army, in coordination with the Salvation Army, launched a general offensive against Oasis Town.

In this way, the Oasis Bishops present would be distracted by two things, taking care of the safety of Oasis Town, thus creating a slight mishap in this highly tense second-tier peak battle, and thus breaking the stalemate.

At the same time, another second-tier offspring of Wolf Ao, along with another offspring leading part of the wolf pack on the left side of Oasis Avenue, also stepped onto the arena for the martial arts competition.

As chieftain-level wild wolf behemoths, they all possess early-stage second-tier strength. Although they are not yet capable of directly participating in the peak second-tier battle, they are more than competent in interfering and restraining from the outside, especially in suppressing Li Hao, a rock horse warrior who has only just entered the late second-tier stage.

Therefore, at this moment, the balance of power and numbers on both sides has shifted in the arena.

The three giant wolves, led by the largest wolf, Ao, with a fifteen-meter-tall giant wolf standing on each side, formed a triangular formation, confronting the bishop and Li Hao head-on.

But in reality, the outcome of the battle depended on the bishop and Wolf Ao. Even Li Hao, a late-stage second-tier rock horse warrior, was at a disadvantage in the battle against the giant wolf beast and could only passively defend.

Unless he is facing only one of the early-stage Wild Wolf Beasts, it will be difficult for him to make full use of the endurance advantage of the Rockhorse bloodline.

At this point, it was clear that the Salvation Army leader, Bai Ye, needed to step in to create a more evenly matched confrontation, helping the Bishop and Li Hao to share the burden.

But just as Bai Ye, lurking in the shadows, was about to make his move, he suddenly discovered that the last few dozen spatial nodes he had given to the bishop were being held tightly in the bishop's hand.

The other side had clearly already devised an attack plan, which was a signal for him to secretly cooperate.

Bai Ye's sudden appearance at this moment, apart from boosting the morale of the human side, has little practical effect and will only make the giant wolf beast more vigilant.

Therefore, the best strategy is to make Bai Ye's appearance completely unexpected, so that he can achieve a surprise effect in his first move.

For example, help the Bishop or Li Hao avoid the fatal blow from the pioneer wolf behemoth.

Alternatively, the bishop's attack could be 100% targeted, achieving a precise strike.

Realizing this, Bai Ye continued to lurk about two hundred meters away from the group, near the spatial node chain that the bishop had previously set up. As soon as the other party made a move, Bai Ye could activate the remaining nodes in the bishop's possession through the spatial nodes, thus helping him to teleport instantly.

With both sides entering the fray, the battle erupted once again.

Wolf Ao launched the first attack, charging straight at the bishop, while the two early-stage wild wolf behemoths behind him, using their leader's distraction as cover, rushed toward the true objective of the battle...

The later-stage Rock Horse Warrior standing next to the Bishop is Li Hao, who once cooperated with the Wasteland Wolf Clan.

Back then, in order to advance to the mid-stage of the second tier, Li Hao needed the life essence of a mid-stage Rock Horse Giant Beast, so he sought cooperation with the Wasteland Wolf Clan.

At that time, Lang Ao sent out his three second-tier offspring, along with Li Hao's second-tier rock horse warrior squad, deep into the wasteland to track the rock horned horse herd.

With the keen sense of smell of the desert wolves and the ability to detect slight vibrations in the ground, the hunting party quickly located a super herd of wildebeest.

There were nearly ten thousand of them, and the chieftain-level rock horse behemoth was a being that had advanced to the mid-stage of the second tier.

Reaching a size of about twenty meters and covered in nearly one-meter-thick terracotta armor, human-made small cannons were completely ineffective against the surface protection of the mid-stage rock horse behemoth.

In the end, it was the three early-stage wild wolf behemoths that took turns chasing and exhausting most of the rock horse behemoth's strength. Then, with the help of Li Hao and the other rock horse behemoths, they launched precise sneak attacks on the rock horse behemoth's weak points such as its mouth and tail belly, finally killing it.

After the deed was done, the humans divided up the life essence of the Rock Horse Giants, while the Wild Wolf Giants consumed large amounts of Rock Horse meat to accumulate fat and store nutrients, so that they would not have to worry about cell degeneration and decline in strength for the next few decades.

Therefore, this kind of mutually beneficial cooperation was actually very welcome to the early-stage Wild Wolf Beasts.

After all, they only need to be responsible for deterrence, without having to participate in the dangerous killing process, and afterwards they can get a large share of fresh meat resources...

This also means that among Wolf Ao's offspring, they have generally maintained a neutral attitude towards the relationship between the Wilderness Wolf Clan and humans, and have not been hostile to humans.

Even the youngest giant wolf offspring believe that cooperation with humans is the way forward for the wolf pack, since the large herbivores on which wolves depend for survival are increasingly being domesticated by humans.

In addition, with the expansion of human power, many natural water sources in the wasteland have been controlled by humans for a long time, leaving increasingly less and less space for other desert animals to live.

In fact, Lang Ao understood this better than anyone else. If the Wilderness Wolf Clan could not protect the ancestral legacy in the Wolf King's Tomb, the best way out was to attach themselves to a top-tier power and continue the existence of the race.

Then they lie low until the next chaotic era arrives, and then seek to return to their peak.

However, the sudden change disrupted all of Lang Ao's original arrangements for the wolf clan.

The seal was broken prematurely, and in this peaceful era where the gods have fallen and even third-tier kings rarely intervene, no one was able to repair the seal in time.

Ultimately, the Wilderness Wolf Clan may completely lose control of the Wolf King's Tomb legacy in the Fallen Wolf Valley, and there is a high chance that it will be corrupted by the evil god.

Without the inheritance of the third-order evolution path, the Wasteland Wolf Clan, like the Rockhorn Horses at present, could only be reduced to domesticated livestock.

The Steppenwolf is a high-investment, low-return product. In wars between humans, it can only serve as a low-level scouting and reconnaissance mission, and the second-tier Steppenwolf behemoth is not practical.

It's very likely that only the enhanced and early-stage Tier 1 Wasteland Wolves will be retained. The daily consumption of evolutionary meat is too high, and apart from those who are planning to pursue the Tier 3 path, it is estimated that no first-class power can afford it.

Therefore, for the current wasteland wolf clan, especially the evolved wasteland wolves, the higher their evolution level, the less room they will have to survive in the future.

Especially for Wolf Ao, the leader, if he doesn't quickly cultivate a new wolf king to protect himself and the entire pack, his future fate will only be more tragic than that of the lower-ranking wilderness wolves.

Therefore, its attack became even more vigorous at this moment.

They engaged in a fierce battle with the bishop.

Although the level of the Wolf King's power within him was far lower than that of his opponent, the divine might of the Lord of the Holy Spring, Lang Ao still attempted to exhaust his opponent by using thousands of years of accumulated power.

After all, the bishop was gradually losing his strength after a series of intense battles, and his remaining life force was about to be exhausted.

In the face of this, the power of the armor-piercing wolf spear in his hand is getting weaker and weaker, to the point that he can hardly maintain the force of over a hundred tons at his peak.

This gave Lang Ao hope, so he immediately increased the stimulation of the wolf king cells in his body to repair some minor skin abrasions caused by his opponent, maintain his peak condition, and continue to launch a high-pressure counterattack against the Oasis Bishop.

This forces the opponent to maintain peak performance at all times, accelerating their depletion of the Holy Spring's power and life force.

This intense battle lasted for a full minute, with the two sides exchanging blows, transforming into two streaks of light that constantly collided and separated, scattering sparks.

The speed was so fast that it even produced a faint sonic boom, and the impact of the collision alone dispersed the dust that was kicked up nearby.

On the other side, two early-stage Tier 2 wild wolf behemoths did not want to be enemies with humans, or rather, they did not want to cause themselves harm in order to kill Li Hao.

After all, Li Hao's second-tier body weighs at most three or four hundred pounds, and the level twenty-seven evolved flesh, rich in life essence, probably doesn't even weigh a hundred pounds...

In the end, they will only become food on the wolf's plate. They are prey that are meant to be eaten as dessert after a meal. They can be swallowed in one bite, and not even a bone will be given to their three offspring.

If they take a risky attack in order to show off and get injured by Li Hao's counterattack, they may fall behind in this successor training program and even lose their chance.

Therefore, their battle with Li Hao became a mere back-and-forth skirmish, with neither of the two giant wolves determined to kill the other.

From Lang Ao's perspective, this was not a big deal.

After all, this relentless pressure ensures that Li Hao's condition remains at the late stage of the second tier, just like the evolutionary process of the Rockhorn itself.

The early kill could cause the late-stage second-tier flesh cells in Li Hao's body to regress back to the mid-stage.

As time went by, the Oasis Bishop's condition deteriorated further.

Finally, after both sides retreated once again, they prepared to end this tug-of-war with a final blow.

Without hesitation, the bishop swung his armor-piercing wolf spear at top speed, aiming directly at Lang Ao's cervical vertebrae!
At this moment, he was single-minded and had given up any room for defense or maneuvering, determined to fight to the death!
Wolf Ao stopped defending and intercepting, and instead opened his blood-red maw and bit at the Oasis Bishop, intending to swallow him whole on the spot!
Just as the armor-piercing wolf spear pierced into the spine, severing and shattering the first-tier vertebra, and Wolf Ao's blood-red maw, filled with fine steel wolf teeth, had already swallowed half of the bishop's body!

A surge of spatial energy erupted instantly!

(End of this chapter)