Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded

For example, using the armor-piercing cannon for focused strikes, interspersed with the less powerful rapid-fire cannon to supplement damage, is equivalent to a feint, forcing the mutant to keep dodging.

It's blending truth with deception, reality with illusion.

Leveraging the powerful damage attributes of the armor-piercing cannon allows the rapid-fire cannon, originally with high firing speed and low damage, to also achieve an effective intimidation effect.

But as the number of death restarts increased, Lin Feng also discovered a problem.

Although the rapid-fire cannon can trick the Tier Three mutant, whenever its state drops to a certain level, about to be killed by Lin Feng with the armor-piercing cannon...

This Mutant King would suddenly rage, its state instantly maxing out, charging straight at Lin Feng under artillery fire, determined to perish together with him.

During this time, the rapid-fire cannon was useless, even if it fired ten rounds per second continuously, it couldn't repel the mutant.

And although the armor-piercing cannon has extremely high damage, it lacks sustained fire suppression capability.

Because the recoil from its powerful force prevents the armor-piercing cannon from rapid firing; even with fire coverage's shooting speed enhancement, it can't be easily handled with one hand like the rapid-fire cannon under low recoil conditions.

Fire coverage's six rounds per second is about precise aiming at one point when locking onto the target.

However, if the target is prepared and avoids before the first shell lands...

It's not as convenient to move the gun barrel to track the target's movements as with the rapid-fire cannon.

And the fire coverage attribute can only last five seconds before entering a cooldown phase, with a subsequent firing rate of at most one shot per second, unable to suppress the mutant's fearless attack.

Due to this issue, no matter how Lin Feng tried to delay being caught, he couldn't survive being taken down along with the mutant.

During this time, he thought of using the Power of Branding, sacrificing Level 1 Evolution to obtain a Tier Jump to Level 20 armor-piercing or rapid-fire cannon.

But it couldn't effectively compensate for their respective shortcomings to counter the suicide attack of the Tier Three Mutant King.

Moreover, this trial challenge is very different from the last Tier One Evolution.

Back then, survival was about escaping the Rock-Horned Horse Herd's charge by opening the gate and fleeing, so as long as Lin Feng didn't provoke the herd, he was safe.

Thus, it was possible to securely consume Level 1 Evolution to forcibly upgrade marked items.

Now facing the relentless pursuit by the Tier Three Mutant King, even a slight lapse from Lin Feng would result in being torn to pieces.

Furthermore, after expending Level 1 Evolution, with Level 18 Evolution Power, his physique declines, making it harder to evade the chase.

Faced with the endlessly repeating deaths and the insolvable predicament, Lin Feng forced himself to calm down and carefully think about the true purpose of this trial challenge.

As a trial of superpower awakening, its purpose, naturally, is to enhance the effect and power of superpowers.

However, Lin Feng is not a gunpowder ability user...

The Power of Branding is his foundation.

To break the deadlock, he must start with the Power of Branding, utilizing it to find new solutions.

While dodging mutant attacks, Lin Feng's thoughts began to storm in his mind.

Since simply enhancing item levels cannot solve the problem of enemies far exceeding his power...

Could he, at a critical moment, merge the different attributes of two branding weapons?

For example, granting the armor-piercing cannon the stability and high speed of the rapid-fire cannon, or letting the rapid-fire cannon fire extremely powerful armor-piercing shells.

As soon as this thought arose, Lin Feng instantly had a sudden moment of clarity.

Soon, a prompt appeared before his eyes:

"Power of Branding reawakened!"

"Do you want to consume ten Life Value to temporarily assemble and synthesize the same-level branding weapon equipment?"

"Note: This ability only applies to branded items, either temporarily or permanently; temporary assembly lasts ten minutes. Choosing permanence will deplete a significant amount of Life Value, resulting in a continuous drop in Evolution Level."

Upon seeing the new change in the Power of Branding, the corners of Lin Feng's mouth slightly curved upward.

He immediately consumed ten Life Value to assemble and combine the branded weapons, the armor-piercing cannon, and the rapid-fire cannon in his hands.

Soon, a powerful new synthesized weapon appeared in his hand, possessing the advantages of the original two weapons:

"High-Speed Armor-Piercing Cannon Level 24, Orange Quality, Brand"

"Basic Attributes: Damage 400, Effective Range 5 kilometers, Damage Coverage 20 meters, Remaining Tungsten Core Armor-Piercing Shells 4000; Temporary Synthesis, Duration ten minutes"

"Extra Attributes: Ammo Recovery 1/1s; Space Magazine 4000 rounds; Area Damage (coverage radius 20 meters, center damage 400 at 5 meters); Rapid Pursuit (switch to automatic mode, ten rounds per second), Armor-Piercing Shell (Armor-Piercing Ability +100%, Damage +10)"

"Note: Ten minutes after the temporary assembly synthesis effect is lifted, it will degrade back to Level 19 rapid-fire cannon and Level 19 armor-piercing cannon."

Looking at the newly synthesized powerful weapon in his hand, Lin Feng was greatly shaken in heart but didn't forget the incoming danger. He immediately raised the cannon muzzle, aiming at the incoming mutant.

The entire new cannon is over two meters long, resembling a Vulcan Gatling, with a barrel capable of fitting a whole fist.

Mighty armor-piercing shells flew straight toward the impending Tier Three Mutant King, one after another.

In the next moment, those fist-sized armor-piercing shells exploded instantly after entering the Mutant King's body, blasting apart its two-meter-wide thick chest.

But before the mutant could react, the next armor-piercing shell followed, hitting its head precisely.