Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 615 - 296: Late Tier Two Rock Horse Warrior, Millennium Wolf Howl_2
The first to bear the brunt are the spine and the muscles on both sides.
This area is where the evolutionary meat of the Rock-Horned Horse is located, and it is also the site of the Life Source Material within the Rock Horse Warrior, who follows the evolutionary path of the Rock-Horned Horse.
Together with the heart, it gradually completes the significant leap from Mid-Tier Two to Late-Tier Two.
As Li Hao gradually unfolds his metamorphosis, the aura within his body climbs steadily, and on the surface and battle armor, a layer of what seems to be substantial high-temperature heat waves floats, which from a distance, under the light refraction, appears to distort the nearby space.
But when his aura reaches its peak, it unexpectedly gets stuck at the last step, hovering between Mid-Tier Two and Late-Tier Two, still separated from fully stepping into Level 27 by an invisible, untouchable barrier.
Perceiving this, Li Hao uses the last sliver of his remaining rationality to slowly lift his head and looks at the Lord Bishop in front of him.
The Lord Bishop, seeing this, immediately waves the long spear in his hand, tossing the left arm that was on the spearhead to the front of the Rock Horse Armor, helping Li Hao complete the final metamorphosis.
A body not completely Tier Two naturally cannot achieve the metamorphosis from mid to late stage.
This has been an evolutionary law formed since Tier One, requiring a peak state to catalyze the entire body’s cells in one surge, entering a new level.
Li Hao immediately grabs the severed arm.
Though the severed left arm has lost its connection to the body, the Tier Two cells within it still maintain considerable activity and can be preserved for several days without issue.
If regularly nourished with nutrient solution, it could even last for years, or like planarians or succulents, slowly evolve into a new entity, though lacking self-awareness, merely a piece of living flesh.
This is also the fate of most Tier Two Evolvers.
Of course, the vast majority will become evolutionary resources for similar or alien races, but there are exceptions, such as those who disappear in uninhabited areas, becoming hollow walking corpses.
Thus, for Tier Two beings, when already touching their evolutionary upper limit, the way to prolong life should be focused on expanding brain cells to preserve as much self-awareness as possible.
This requires ingesting more evolutionary resources that can stimulate cell proliferation and division within, such as energy radiation from more advanced existences or events imprinted in genes that can be activated.
For the Tier Two Rock-Horned Horse, it is for the competition among males to continue the lineage, while for the Wolf Race, it is more about hunting instincts.
When hunting large prey, where huge rewards and life-threatening risks coexist, the excitement and thrill brought by the adrenaline surge can allow the evolving Wolf Pack to achieve a metamorphosis under this primal impulse.
Over time, strong prey of the same level have also become grindstones for predatory beasts to maintain their hunting instinct.
If hunting is not conducted for a long time, the aging of Wolf Fang and Claw’s limbs is one aspect, but the stagnation of the brain is even more hazardous.
At this moment, Li Hao picks up the severed left arm, then rips off the blood scab on the wound, attaching the two sides closely to fuse, reconnecting at the cellular level.
With the completeness of the Tier Two body, the final piece of the puzzle to ascend to Late-Tier Two is also filled, and as Li Hao steps into Level 27 evolution, the released energy, along with surplus Evolutionary Source Material, also stimulates the Level 25 Rock Horse Armor on his body to transform to a Level 26 degree.
One could say that Li Hao, at this moment, is the strongest Rock Horse Warrior in the history of the Wasteland.
But at this moment, he needs to engage in a furious battle, performing relentless destruction, to vent the agitation within, only then could he regain calm after digesting the Ascension Potion.
Otherwise, the ever-expanding body and uncontrollable tumult will ultimately destroy his brain tissue, causing the Rock Horse Warrior to turn into a mad horse, completely losing reason.
Thus, entirely dominated by the turbulent and violent power surging within, Li Hao can no longer maintain the last shred of self-awareness and immediately howls to the sky.
The deep and powerful roar spurts out from both the Rock Horse Armor and Li Hao’s own throat.
Wave after wave, it ripples through the wilderness!
All nearby Evolvers feel a shiver throughout their bodies, a contraction of fear from the cellular level; after the sound wave sweeps through their entire body, they instinctively want to flee. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖
The ascent of the Rock Horse Giant Beast requires the release of uncontrollable power within, while the survival of the Desolate Wolf Beast also seeks to challenge giant beasts that can threaten itself.
At this moment, Li Hao, continuously exuding the aura of a Late-Tier Two Rock Horse Giant Beast, can be distinctly sensed within a radius of over a dozen kilometers.
If it’s an Evolved Desolate Beast with a more sensitive olfactory organ, the intense male pheromone emanating from the air can be sniffed from over a hundred kilometers away.
This is an upper-level being marking territory, a declaration of war on other Desolate Beasts, and a provocation to peer-level Giant Beasts.
Currently, within a distance of less than five kilometers from Li Hao, several members of the Desert Wolf Race have already started to have stress reactions.
Other Tier One Evolved Desolate Wolves are still managing, after all, this is the roar and declaration from a Late-Tier Two Giant Beast, and standing firm under such intense aura pressure is already incredibly difficult.
If it weren’t for the bloodline of the Tier Three King Beast within the Wolf Race, they would have scattered like birds and beasts under this roar.
Yet, precisely because the bloodline of the Wolf King flows within them, tens of thousands of Evolved Desolate Wolves, upon hearing the roar from the prey Rock-Horned Horse, feel more excitement and anger than fear.
Especially the leader-level giant wolves of the Late-Tier One, along with the offspring of Wolf Ao, and three Early-Tier Two Desolate Wolf Beasts.
