"Legendary skill?" Zhang Wei, controlling his mech, couldn't help but tremble slightly.
This was because Zhang Wei knew how difficult skills were to obtain. In his previous life, what caused his death was merely an Epic-grade skill core.
While Epic-grade was precious, in the tenth year after the arrival of mechs, its value had largely depreciated. Only truly powerful Epic-grade skills remained valuable.
However, even the most useless Epic-grade skill was an undisputed divine skill in the early days of the mech apocalypse, let alone a Legendary-grade skill that was still unobtainable even in the tenth year.
"Use."
"Ding, successfully learned Super Energy Combat Power Enhancement. Base Combat Power +200."
"So strong!" Zhang Wei exclaimed in pleasant surprise.
"Just learning this skill grants a 200 point combat power increase."
For an old hand like Zhang Wei, such a combat power increase was unimaginable. Normally, a mech, even after two evolutions, might not gain 200 combat power.
Zhang Wei didn't rush to feel the changes from the 200 combat power increase to his mech. He immediately checked the skill's effect.
Super Energy Combat Power Enhancement: Utilizes superhumanization to double the body's combat power. Duration 100 seconds, cooldown 10 minutes.
"That's broken!" Zhang Wei couldn't help but exclaim again.
"Is this what a Legendary-grade skill feels like?" Zhang Wei's iron hand, gripping the battle saber, trembled slightly.
"No wonder Zhang Tao was so strong in my previous life."
"This skill doesn't seem that strong now, but when my combat power gets stronger later..."
200 becoming 400, the effect is certainly decent.
But what if 10,000 instantly became 20,000?
Or 100,000 became 200,000?
Most importantly, this skill has a long duration but a very short cooldown, only ten minutes.
Zhang Wei turned his head and glanced. The mice in the mousetrap were still in the process of transformation. Their bodies were starting to swell, but they were currently only the size of large garden dogs. It would probably take about half an hour for them to fully transform.
Afterward, Zhang Wei sat atop the mountain, gazing into the distance, his battle saber plunged into the ground beside him, and his shield resting on the ground.
"In this life, I want to be invincible."
Zhang Wei silently vowed to himself, envisioning his future path.
Just as Zhang Wei was formulating his future plans and waiting for the mechanized mice, several large figures suddenly appeared in the mining area.
"Whoa, those must be heavy mechs," Zhang Wei said, looking at the mechs appearing in the mining area, feeling a hint of envy.
Based on Zhang Wei's observation, the primitive form of the disassembly mech was about fifteen meters tall, a full five meters taller than his own mech.
Moreover, they looked sturdier, clearly heavy mechs. His own medium-sized mech had a super matrix engine, so the heavy mechs' corresponding engines must be better.
"Should I dismantle one of their mechs and take its engine?" A spark of eagerness ignited in Zhang Wei's heart.
The engine was the power source of a mech. It not only provided power for walking, running, and fighting, but after the first evolution, both melee and long-range mechs could perform short-distance bursts.
For example, at this moment, Zhang Wei could return to the hillside with just one burst from the mountaintop.
If the engine had enough power to allow continuous bursts, short-distance flight in the air wouldn't be impossible.
"Take it!"
Zhang Wei quickly made a decision.
Although the super matrix engine was already sufficient, a better engine was right in front of him. If he didn't take it, how could he claim to be invincible?
Zhang Wei quickly stood up, grabbed his battle saber and shield, and sprinted towards the mining area.
Under the crushing force of the ten-meter-tall mech, minor obstacles on the mountain path were no problem at all. Small trees and rocks simply had no right to block his way.
When Zhang Wei entered the mining area, he found it in a state of chaos.
Ignorant crowds ran about, excitedly discussing something around various types of mechs.
There were many vehicles in the mining area. Currently, various sizes of mechs were arranged everywhere. Each mech was surrounded by people, and some mechs were already being operated.
However, their piloting skills made Zhang Wei speechless; they were pretty much like toddlers learning to walk, wobbling and swaying.
Among them, there were naturally some ten-meter-tall medium-sized mechs, all transformed from containers.
It's just that their mechs' appearances weren't as good as Zhang Wei's.
No matter how you put it, Zhang Wei's mech was newly acquired and couldn't be compared to these old, rusty mechs.
Zhang Wei ignored the people and mechs still in a state of chaos. He strode towards the closest earth-colored heavy mech.
"Sure enough, it's five meters taller than my mech."
"Holy cow, look! That big thing is moving so smoothly. Whose is that?"
"My heavens, this thing is so stylish."
"No, I want to go home. I have a car at home; I can pilot a mech too."
A group of people stared intently at Zhang Wei, their envious gazes so hot that if they had temperature, they could probably melt Zhang Wei's mech in an instant.
"What's he doing?"
"Oh, crap!"
Initially, everyone was shocked by Zhang Wei's smooth movements.
But when Zhang Wei raised the battle saber in his hand, the situation changed.
Zhang Wei's mech looked like a proportionally smaller mech, but its combat power far surpassed that of a heavy mech.
After learning the skill and receiving its enhancement, Zhang Wei's current combat power had reached 226 points.
The highest combat power of this heavy mech was only about thirty or forty.
Combat power is the sole standard for measuring a mech's strength. High combat power means great strength, strong defense, high speed, and long-lasting flight capability.
Of course, combat power is combat power, and combat effectiveness is combat effectiveness. Human mech piloting techniques, skills, tactics, and even mental willpower, etc., all combine with the mech to form true combat power.
The heavy mech in front of Zhang Wei currently had no pilot; its combat effectiveness was zero.
"Wham!"
Sparks flew.
The battle saber landed on the heavy mech's body.
As the sparks scattered, the battle saber in Zhang Wei's hand successfully cut into the heavy mech's interior.
"If it weren't for the high combat power bonus, this ordinary battle saber really wouldn't be able to break through the heavy mech's defense."
Zhang Wei sighed.
To outsiders, Zhang Wei's actions seemed effortless.
But only Zhang Wei himself knew that this seemingly ordinary battle saber was not sharp at all.
Fortunately, combat power compensated for this.
"Where's the engine?"
Zhang Wei didn't understand heavy mechs. After cutting a hole in the heavy mech's body with his battle saber, he tossed the battle saber and shield to the ground, then reached both hands into the hole in the heavy mech's body.
Tearing it open.
If he didn't know where the engine was, he'd just dismantle the mech into parts.
The violent dismantling process was very smooth. High combat power meant great strength and speed, plus it was being dismantled without any regard for cost. How could it not be fast?
After just a few minutes, a fifteen-meter-tall heavy mech was dismantled by Zhang Wei into a pile of components.
"It's here!" Zhang Wei found the heavy mech's engine.
Then, two beams of light shot out from Zhang Wei's mech's eyes.
This was the mech's built-in inspection skill.
Regarding mech-related items, as long as they weren't too high-grade, they could be inspected this way.
Dual-Cycle Nuclear Engine.
"As expected, it's a level higher than my original engine. Add it to mech storage."
The warp drive in Zhang Wei's hand disappeared.
Mechs have internal storage space. The larger the mech, the larger the internal storage space.
Zhang Wei's internal storage space was approximately one cubic meter.
This space was sufficient for storing core crystals and similar items.
If he wanted a larger storage space, he would need to equip a warehouse module, which could only be obtained from core crystals.
Ordinary core crystals definitely didn't have equipment; at least intermediate-grade core crystals were needed to obtain equipment.
Equipment was divided into internal and external equipment.
Internal equipment included: engines, warehouses, modules.
External equipment included: weapons, defensive armor, thrusters.
There were also special equipment, such as floating cannons.
Currently, Zhang Wei's equipment only consisted of an engine and a weapon. The engine was built-in, and the weapon was something he improvised.
"Retreat."
After getting the engine he wanted, Zhang Wei didn't linger and immediately fled.
Zhang Tao, that guy, was he here? Zhang Wei wasn't sure. If he was here and reacted in time, what if they surrounded him?
The key was that killing these primitive mechs now offered no other benefits.
There were many mechs, big and small, here. Although Zhang Wei's combat power was much higher, in this low-combat-power era, numerical superiority was a huge advantage.
As for whether Zhang Tao would resent him later, Zhang Wei wasn't worried about that.
Once he raised his body to Level 10, he could undergo his first evolution. At that time, his body would change, so even if someone took his picture now, he wouldn't fear being recognized by Zhang Tao later.
"He ran! He ran! What do we do?"
"Quick, call the boss! We can't afford to pay for this big thing."
People still hadn't realized that the apocalypse had arrived. If only humans had mechs, there wouldn't have been too much chaos.
The true apocalypse occurred after animals became mechanized.
But these people didn't know that. They were afraid the boss would make them pay for it. They had to report it. They had to catch this scoundrel.