From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 142 Soul Armor?! Material Armor?! [Feels like there's a risk of being banned in the next chapter]

How can there be such disgusting things in this world?!

If the reinforcement fails, it will burn through the circuit board and destroy the weapon along the way?!

Is this a setting that a human could come up with?

In the research lab, Chen Hong stared blankly at the patched sword shattered on the workbench, his eyes glazed over. It took him a long time to slowly come back to his senses.

He sighed softly, "Right now it's just a single attribute of strength being amplified. If we face multiple attribute amplifications in the future, the scene of failed enhancements leading to the destruction of families is too beautiful to even imagine."

As the amplification attributes increase, the more powerful the soul tool, the more sophisticated its internal design becomes. In fact, soul masters sometimes mix or even superimpose various amplification runes for high efficiency and energy saving. Although soul masters can also separate various amplification runes to create soul tools with very high enhancement levels, the most powerful amplification soul tools are those that can connect various attribute amplification runes together to achieve instant activation and provide unimaginable explosive power.

If a soul tool can increase a soul master's overall attributes by 10%, it is called an "Enhanced +1" soul tool.

The total amplification of attributes is 100% (50% Strength, 50% Defense), and it is called a "Strength +10" Soul Tool.

So imagine if a Soul Guidance Tool that's been enhanced to +16 suddenly shattered during further enhancement; surely a Soul Master would instantly have their Dao Heart shattered, turning into a demon and becoming a madman.

Chen Hong could tell from the energy logic of the amplifying rune that this rune must appear on various soul-guided weapons in order to reduce soul power consumption and achieve instant activation.

The consumption of soul power is actually secondary; the most important thing is to activate it instantly.

Battles between Soul Masters aren't like the Soul Master Tournament, where both sides prepare, buff themselves, and then fight. Instead, it's like when the Evil Soul Emperor ambushed Ning Lu; Ning Lu's "warm-up" time was too long, and if it weren't for the terrifying effects of her own Martial Soul and Soul Skills, she would have almost died. Or like when Ning Quan instantly appeared and attacked the Evil Soul Emperor Qian Yu; Ning Quan's six Soul Skills activated simultaneously, giving Qian Yu no time to react, and a single combo took him down.

"Well, in other words, if we can make the soul tools bigger, then we can naturally modularize various amplification runes as well."

A brilliant idea flashed into Chen Hong's mind.

"Since it possesses runes that amplify strength, agility, and defense, it must also possess soul guide runes that amplify durability, recovery, lightness, and so on." Thinking of this, Chen Hong's eyes flashed with a strange light.

"The Spirit Machine Hub is actually a kind of 'soul armor' that I designed because I didn't want to directly use my soul to absorb foreign objects. So once those amplification runes that can amplify soul masters are extended to the soul guide device itself, then various soul guide mechanical creations with crazy attribute increases will appear, which is 'material armor'."

Chen Hong had already witnessed the fate of Qian Yu, the fallen spirit soul master. With Qian Yu as a cautionary tale, Chen Hong became even more wary of absorbing anything that might affect his spirit and soul. This included the mental turbulence that was spreading out of the sky near the headquarters of the Soto City Technology Chamber of Commerce, as well as the soul bones produced from soul beasts.

Since the spirit rings contain the mental impact of the spirit beast before its death, and even when Chen Hong was comprehending his first spirit ring in the early stages, he accidentally read a memory of the spirit beast of his first spirit ring being killed by Chen Hong's family, all of this indicates that the spirit rings may contain the soul of the spirit beast.

Meanwhile, in Chen Hong's theory of the three souls, soul bones, being physical soul rings, might also contain the remnants of soul beasts' souls. Moreover, Chen Hong later obtained proof from Qian Yu's remnant soul that the other half of Qian Yu's soul, which was supposed to be "putting all her eggs in two baskets," was hidden in the soul bone, waiting for a destined person. This undoubtedly deepened Chen Hong's vigilance.

Chen Hong's theory of the three souls originated from his comprehension of the soul rings and was inspired by the personal testimony of the Evil Soul Emperor Qianyu.

These tangible things made Chen Hong very wary of indiscriminately absorbing anything that might pollute the purity of his spirit and soul.

For example, Chen Hong discovered that he could not only sense the scattered mental currents in crowds, but he could also slowly absorb them. This is why Chen Hong used to have mental instability when he was in crowded places. This situation was only alleviated after Chen Hong developed the Sage's Ring, but this also made Chen Hong still hesitant to let his spirit absorb the scattered mental currents caused by people's emotional fluctuations.

Therefore, Chen Hong ultimately decided to create a "soul armor" for himself, which is a spirit machine computing center. This "spiritual machine," endowed with absolute rationality by Chen Hong's Sage Divine Rune and granted the ability to ignite waste and enter overclocking by the Excitement Divine Rune, will replace Chen Hong in doing things that he dared not try himself.

Now, following the "Soul Armor" project, Chen Hong has conceived a new plan for "Material Armor" due to the amplification runes.

"The rest is just pointing out energy technology. Ugh, I'm daydreaming about the future again. Never mind, time to read!"

Chen Hong shook his head, clearing all the jumbled thoughts from his mind, and then began to study the Amplification Power Rune again.

Saying

As Chen Hong re-deduced the second-level power weapon pattern, the soul-guided engraving knife in his hand moved with the speed and grace of a dragon and snake. For some unknown reason, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After working as a soul power researcher in this world for so long, I've almost forgotten that my profession in my previous life was a mecha battlefield engineer.

dong dong dong.

As night fell, when Chen Hong's research lab door was knocked on again, his research on artifact patterns welcomed its second "guinea pig."

Upon opening the metal door, a fifteen-year-old boy with heterochromatic eyes stood respectfully outside.

Dai Mubai, the second prince of the Star Luo Empire, possesses the White Tiger martial spirit and is also a young, impotent boy who started visiting brothels at the age of fifteen.

"Sit down." Chen Hong calmly gestured for Dai Mubai to sit cross-legged on the soft cushions in the room. Then, a yellow-purple halo extended from behind Chen Hong, and his eyes flashed with a strange light.

Chen Hong stood to the side of Dai Mubai, then placed his hand on Dai Mubai's shoulder, and his voice appeared in Dai Mubai's mind.

"Relax your mind, let your mental energy follow me. Don't worry, apart from being mentally tired, nothing else will happen."

After the incident where Ning Rongrong took advantage of him, Chen Hong chose to change his approach to contacting her.

(End of this chapter)