Chapter Ninety-Two: Firebreather

Qin Fei felt a flicker of shock in his heart.

This Tek gauntlet could actually grant the wielder an additional three hundred jin of arm strength!

A normal person’s arm strength was only around five hundred newtons, which translated to roughly one hundred jin of force.

But after putting on this Tek gauntlet, an ordinary person’s arm strength would leap all the way to four hundred jin. In other words, the gauntlet could quadruple their combat power.

The increase was absurd.

Not only that, the Tek gauntlet could also enhance the speed of the wearer’s punches.

For Qin Fei, strength was his great advantage, but speed had always been comparatively lacking. This gauntlet, however, made up for that weakness perfectly.

It was as if Qin Fei’s close-combat ability had instantly risen by several tiers.

The materials needed to craft the Tek rifle were the same as those for the Tek gauntlet.

So after using the replicator to make the Tek gauntlet, Qin Fei immediately activated it again and produced a Tek rifle.

[Tek Rifle: Fires plasma rounds, equipped with an infrared scope with adjustable magnification, and night-vision capability. Requires Tek energy to use.]

Qin Fei took out an energy element and fully charged the rifle.

Then he pulled the trigger and fired an energy round at a large boulder in the open ground far away.

Bang.

A crack appeared in the stone.

[Remaining energy: 98%.]

Watching the data displayed on the Tek rifle, Qin Fei began to analyze it carefully.

In terms of power and range, the Tek gun was far superior to the shotgun.

As for ammunition, one Tek energy element could refill this Tek rifle to one hundred percent.

Each shot from the Tek rifle consumed two percent of the rifle’s energy.

Converted, that meant one Tek energy element could provide roughly fifty rounds for this Tek rifle.

Qin Fei had two hundred and forty energy elements in his backpack.

That meant all the energy elements in his backpack together could allow this rifle to fire twelve thousand shots.

That consumption rate was already extremely low.

With the Tek gauntlet and Tek rifle in hand, Qin Fei’s combat power had been greatly enhanced, both in close quarters and at range.

Next came the Tek grenade.

Compared with the previous gear, crafting the Tek grenade required one fewer material: silica pearls and obsidian were omitted, while gunpowder and cement were added.

With the Tek replicator, making gunpowder and cement had become incomparably simple.

Qin Fei only needed to prepare charcoal, stone, and flint in his backpack, then activate the Tek replicator, and he could mass-produce gunpowder in a short time.

Cement was the same.

However, after making one Tek grenade, Qin Fei quickly gave up on crafting more.

The main reason was that the Tek grenade’s cost performance was far too low.

If one were to speak purely of power, its blast radius and damage were indeed slightly greater than the iron pipe bombs Qin Fei had used before.

But only slightly.

In terms of materials, every four Tek grenades required one Tek energy element.

Tek energy elements were a nonrenewable resource; every bit used was one bit less.

As for the other materials, Qin Fei did not care much at all. But with Tek energy elements, his attitude was to save wherever he could.

After all, if the iron pipe bomb lacked power, quantity could make up for it.

So the more cost-effective iron pipe bomb became Qin Fei’s first choice.

The Tek equipment Qin Fei had obtained this time after defeating the giant ape was, by and large, very practical.

However, the imprint skill he received, Tek Generator Crafting Technology, seemed rather useless.

The Tek generator’s main function was to supply power to all kinds of electrical devices.

It played a huge role in maintaining the operation of various facilities within the base, but for now it had little use.

With the loot from the Broodmother and the giant ape in hand, Qin Fei and the others only needed to challenge the fire-breathing dragon to open the Tek cave.

But Qin Fei did not rush to activate the portal leading to the fire-breathing dragon’s lair.

After all, everyone had just obtained new equipment, and each of them needed time to adjust and become familiar with it.

Ten days later.

Qin Fei and the other three once again arrived beneath the green ark.

After confirming that all battle supplies were fully prepared, Qin Fei activated the terminal.

[Tribute Terminal: Summon Fire-Breathing Dragon Portal]

[Required materials for summoning: Ancient Artifact of Brute Strength x1, Ancient Artifact of the Sky Lord x1, Ancient Artifact of Cunning x1, Ancient Artifact of Immunity x1.]

Compared with the previous two bosses, summoning the fire-breathing dragon required one additional artifact.

Qin Fei placed all four required artifact materials into the terminal.

A teleportation array leading to the fire-breathing dragon’s lair gradually appeared around them.

[Fire-Breathing Dragon Portal activating...]

[When the countdown ends, survivors near the terminal will be teleported! Countdown: 2 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds...]

[Up to twenty survivors and other lifeforms may be teleported...]

Apart from the chestplate and leg armor, Qin Fei, Xie Nainai, Caesar, and Pulsing were all clad head to toe in Tek equipment, full of a distinctly futuristic feel.

In their hands were Tek rifles fitted with infrared scopes.

In addition to that gear, Qin Fei had the item Mist in a Bottle hanging at his waist, along with a compound crossbow, and a grappling hook attached to the crossbow’s arrow slot.

On the back of Qin Fei’s chestplate was an unexpanded glider wing.

With these pieces of equipment, and with the effects of Qin Fei’s passive skills, Basic Body Enhancement and Triple Strength Enhancement...

Whether in mobility, combat ability, or adaptability to different battlefields, Qin Fei was now worlds apart from his former self.

The teleportation array was ready.

With a flash of white light, everyone vanished from where they stood.

When they appeared again, they had arrived at the foot of a volcano.

This should be the fire-breathing dragon’s lair.

The volcano before Qin Fei seemed to be in the midst of erupting.

Countless streams of lava poured down from the summit, flowing slowly along channels in the ground toward all directions.

At the volcano’s peak, black smoke billowed endlessly.

The smoke was so vast that it had already blanketed the entire sky.

A dragon’s roar rang out from within the smoke.

Along with that roar came a red flying dragon more than twice the size of the Broodmother and the giant ape. It held a massive fireball in its mouth and flew toward Qin Fei and the others.