NOVEL NEXT Chapter 333: Night Demon Hatching
"Is there anyone who'd like to try the Armored Beetle weapon equipment?"
Wang Tao looked around and asked.
"I want to!"
"Me too!"
Everyone eagerly raised their hands.
Everyone was clearly very interested in this kind of weapon that could arm oneself.
So Wang Tao taught them how to use it.
Normally, the weapon would bind to the person who activated it; others could use it with the binder's permission, but many of its effects wouldn't be fully utilized unless it was unbound and rebound to another person.
But unbinding was very troublesome, and even Wang Tao hadn't known how to do it before. After some research, he discovered that to unbind, one had to deplete the compatibility to 0%, letting the weapon fall into a dormant state, then the person who reawakens it is effectively re-binding it.
Fortunately, Wang Tao could exploit a bug. He simply placed the weapon into the Space Backpack, causing it to automatically enter a dormant state. When he took it out again, it could be rebound.
Everyone watched as the Armored Beetle transformed from the size of a car to a "little giant" two stories tall, and they all gasped in amazement.
Just from visual effects alone, this Armored Beetle was far stronger than Wang Tao's Entangling Roots! The Entangling Roots were like wearing a suit of armor, while the Armored Beetle was like wearing a large set of powered armor!
Of course, the actual strength of the Armored Beetle was also much greater. For example, when Ding Yuqin and the others wore it, they could distinctly feel the great enhancement it brought. It directly gave them Fourth Order Battle Power!
"If each of us could have an Armored Beetle..."
Ding Yuqin said, almost without thinking.
"It's not feasible for now, but maybe in the future."
Wang Tao said with a smile.
Getting the Armored Beetle was purely down to luck, and the Star Meteorites and Crystal Cores from which it could be extracted were highly valued. Wang Tao couldn't keep extracting them indefinitely. But in the future, with more money and more meteorites, it was indeed possible since they didn't have many people...
After some time, everyone had a chance to try the Armored Beetle. Each person was stunned by the enhancement it provided.
Although there were some negative effects from the Armored Beetle equipment, such as reduced agility, the massive enhancement it provided made these drawbacks trivial.
Wang Tao also conducted his own tests, finding no significant difference from the previous Armored Beetle. There was an additional Fire Resistance Ability, but it wasn't something he could easily demonstrate—he couldn't just set the Armored Beetle on fire...
After everyone had tested it, Wang Tao roughly concluded a reliable theory—the weaker the person, the greater the enhancement provided by the Armored Beetle armor!
A Level 3 ability user using the Armored Beetle would gain bona fide Fourth Order Combat Power! Even without an Awakening, the enhancement alone nearly put them on par with Fourth Order ability users who had passive physical upgrades.
If a Fourth Order ability user, like Wang Tao, He Jijun, or Lan Yulian, used the Armored Beetle, the increase in combat power was terrifying. However, relative to others, the enhancement was least for Wang Tao and greatest for Lan Yulian. Enjoy new adventures from My Virtual Library Empire
One could simply understand that, excluding combat experience, personal intelligence, weapon equipment, and other factors, if Wang Tao's personal combat power was 9 points, then after being equipped with the Armored Beetle, his combat power would increase to about 12 points, an enhancement rate of 33%.
If Xu Xiaojun's personal combat power was 2 points, after being equipped with the Armored Beetle, his combat power would likely increase to about 9 points, an enhancement rate of 350%!
Now if Lan Yulian's personal combat power was 1 point, then after being equipped with the Armored Beetle, her combat power would likely get to about 8 points, giving her an enhancement rate of 700%!
So the weaker one's own strength, the stronger the enhancement provided by the Armored Beetle!
But there's a limit to this strength, because the Armored Beetle itself has its strengths, and its maximum is probably around 10 points.
For someone as strong as Wang Tao, it could only slightly enhance his combat power, but even then, it wouldn't exceed 11 or 12 points; any more would surpass the Armored Beetle's capabilities.
However, similarly, the Armored Beetle also had a lower limit. For someone relatively weak like Lan Yulian, it could still boost her up to about 8 points—even if she knew no techniques and had no combat abilities, just with the Armored Beetle's own physical qualities, she could pummel any creature below Fourth Order to death!
So Wang Tao figured the combat power enhancement from the Armored Beetle armor would roughly be between 8 to 12 points.
Of course, to what extent this lower limit can still be lowered, Wang Tao currently couldn't test it.
Even though Lan Yulian, the weakest among them, had her merits. Although she was a healing-type ability user and generally didn't engage in combat, she had a lot of post-apocalyptic combat experience before becoming a healer. She actually wasn't weak.
The truly weak Level Two, Level 1 ability users or even ordinary people, whether they could handle this Armored Beetle equipment, Wang Tao couldn't say. He didn't have such people around him, so naturally, he couldn't test it.
Wang Tao guessed there must be a baseline. For example, if an ordinary person were to arm themselves with the Armored Beetle and then punch a Giant Zombie, it might turn out that the Armored Beetle was fine, but the ordinary person could be shaken to death. Such a scenario wasn't impossible...
He planned to ask Gu Yun later; the City Hall would surely conduct various tests on the Armored Beetle, and they should be able to determine the minimum conditions required to use it.