Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 600 - 290: Consecutive Duels, Li Hao’s True Trump Card

Upon hearing Father Su An’s proposal, Li Hao immediately halted his steps to leave.

He slowly turned around, the eyes on his head armor revealing a blood-red glow.

The battle with Father Su An was not easy for Li Hao. Even though he was a veteran Level 26 Mid-Tier Two strong person, coupled with the support of his Rock Horse Armor, defeating a fully armed Level 25 strong person would require him to expend his life force.

Their strengths in normal conditions didn’t differ much.

Li Hao needed to reserve some strategies for the final duel in the arena, so he needed to maintain his condition as much as possible before ensuring a stable victory in this match.

To avoid the Church using too many of their trump cards.

Currently, the Church had already revealed their cards.

For instance, the Level 23 Armor-Piercing Wolf Spear in Father Su An’s hand was their greatest reliance.

The biological materials of the Desert Wolves, although extremely scarce in quantity, still circulated somewhat in the Holy City. After all, Tier Three Kings could not act against the Taishan Ruins, but in the lawless zones of the wilderness, order was absent. If given the chance, Desert Hunting Squads or Wanderers would still target the wolf pack as hunting prey.

Of course, in the face of the Desert Wolf Race, human Evolvers were also seen as food.

Moreover, past explorations and searches of the Taishan Ruins had brought out quite a few Tier Two wolf corpses.

So, the fact that the Oasis Church possessed biological materials of Tier Two Giant Wolves wasn’t too surprising.

Furthermore, Li Hao was aware that Bishop Zhang Hui had long been wary of the plans against him and the Li Family, hence he undoubtedly prepared countermeasures in advance.

Using the Desert Wolf Race, natural enemies of the Rock-Horned Horses, to craft targeted Armor-Piercing Weapons was something Li Hao had anticipated.

However, the Level 23 Armor-Piercing Wolf Spear made from Early Tier Two materials wasn’t enough to pose a substantial threat to the Level 25 Rock Horse Armor of Mid-Tier Two strength.

At most, after a few collisions, the armor’s surface might show some cracks, penetrating a few layers of ceramic steel armor, but in facing armor with an average thickness of over 30 centimeters, it could only break through about one-fifth of it.

If Li Hao genuinely wished to act, disregarding all costs, he could directly ignore the threat of the Armor-Piercing Wolf Spear and heavily injure or even kill Father Su An on the spot.

But by doing so, the armor would undoubtedly suffer severe damage, and his own state would be quickly depleted, requiring more than two days to recover.

This meant that in the final arena duel, Li Hao wouldn’t have a 100% chance of winning, and seeing the Patriarch of the Li Family’s depleted state, the Church might even contemplate other schemes.

For instance, they might conduct underhanded actions in secret or brazenly launch an attack, attempting to severely injure or kill Li Hao when he is in poor condition.

At this moment, Li Hao retained at least sixty percent of his combat state, and a recovery would only take half a day, allowing him to participate fully in the next battle.

Yet, Father Su An, after actively conceding, invited him to continue another fight to determine the final victor.

Now, the seven arena battles had progressed to only one remaining. In the previous four Late Tier One battles, both the Church and the Li Family each had victories and losses, winning two battles apiece.

The three Tier Two duels to decide the final outcome had the Church winning the first match, and now, due to Li Hao’s efforts, the Li Family had leveled the score.

Only the final match remained.

Li Hao, after this match, noticed that Father Su An had clearly reached his limit. To deplete him as much as possible, Su An absorbed a large amount of Late Tier Two Holy Spring Water from the Undying Holy Armor, keeping his combat strength consistently at Late Tier Two.

In this way, he could engage in high-intensity combat with Li Hao, thus achieving the goal of depleting the opponent.

Therefore, at this point, Father Su An, if he continued to fight, would most likely be slain by Li Hao on the spot.

After all, Li Hao was fairly certain about his own state; with sixty percent of his strength, without using the Ascension Potion, he could simply drag Father Su An to death in another duel.

But as a rare battle-experienced Mid-Tier Two strong person, Father Su An should be well aware of a Rock Horse Warrior’s true strength; it was challenging to significantly impact a Rock Horse Warrior short of a life-and-death struggle.

The sudden proposal of this fight clearly revealed that the Church had decided in advance to continue the battle.

What kind of confidence and additional resources does Father Su An, and the Oasis Church backing him, have to support their decision to continue.

Li Hao stood motionless, his brain plunging into a storm of thoughts, causing his previously falling body temperature to gradually rise.

The Church proposing another battle to settle everything had the most direct impact, preventing Li Hao and some Li Family high-rank members from returning to Oasis Town promptly.

Perhaps, to cover up their actions in Oasis Town, the Church intended to execute a strategy to cut off the roots by leading the remaining Combat Priests and the Hunting Wilderness Guild, with the help of Lin Feng, to wipe out the remaining high-rank members of the Li Family and opposing forces in the other two Villages.

But even if Nongzhuang Village didn’t have a Tier Two Evolver overseeing it, the leaders of Dawn Village and Mechanical Village were all Early Tier Two Rock Horse Armor wearers. Especially the Tier Two Evolver from Mechanical Village, a Level 23 strong person with a set of Rock Horse Armor, would be difficult for an ordinary Mid-Tier Two being to overcome in a short time.

Logically speaking, even with just these two, the remaining strength of the Oasis Church couldn’t securely take over the Three Major Villages.

Not to mention that on the Oasis Battleship, Li Hao had planted a secret operative long ago.