Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 314 The Birth of the Armor

Looking at the black armor floating in front of him, Qin Mu revealed a satisfied smile.

After three years of adjustments, the most primitive form of implantation equipment finally appeared.

Unlike traditional full-coverage armor, it only has a breastplate.

It can be seen that there are seams on the helmet, leg armor, arms, and the chest, back, shoulders, and waist of the black armor.

Each interface can have additional modules added.

"Finally, the initial version is out. This armor, which is modified from the Azure Sea Black Tortoise, is equivalent to a hundred times the genetic life and has the talent 'Black Tortoise Armor Defense'."

Wearing it is equivalent to having a hundred times the power of genetic life.

With its powerful defense, the Azure Sea Black Tortoise can easily withstand an attack with a power a hundred times greater than that of a peak World Lord, even without activating its talent.

Activate the talent "Mystic Tortoise Armor Defense" to reduce both physical and soul attacks to one-thousandth of their original value.

In other words, a power less than 100,000 times that of a World Lord simply cannot break through its defenses.

Qin Mu touched the black armor, and the armor quickly enveloped his entire body like flowing water.

Tentacle-like tendrils invaded Qin Mu's pores all over his body, binding him firmly to his form.

"Embedded Armor - Xuanwu Core Activated!"

Gene binding in progress...

Soul binding in progress...

Binding successful!

The fusion of the colony and the suit was successful.

Evolution module activated!

Talent – ​​'Mystic Tortoise Armor Defense' activated!

"One hundred times the power of a Realm Lord, loading..."

A series of sounds rang in Qin Mu's ears.

Qin Mu didn't pay much attention to the sound, because he had set it up himself.

As a living form of armor, a bio-armor is sentient and can grow alongside its owner; it's perfectly normal for it to be able to speak.

"Although other modules have not yet been installed, the entire body can be covered by the armor itself, leaving no defensive vulnerabilities."

The implant integrated into his body, increasing his power by approximately a hundred times that of a World Lord.

The evolution module begins to nurture the body, and the genes begin to evolve.

However, my genetic makeup is already too strong, so this level of gentle nurturing won't have much effect.

Qin Mu felt the changes in his body.

As the core component of the bio-armor, let's call it the bio-armor core for now. It is essentially a weakened version of the Azure Sea Turtle.

Yes, the weaker version.

Because its other talent, "Azure Waves Reversal," was removed by Qin Mu.

Some organs and tissues were also removed in order to accommodate more external modules.

But in essence, it is still a special life form, the Azure Sea Turtle.

Therefore, it still has a soul.

Because it has life, it is also extremely powerful in terms of soul defense.

Similarly, as a world-master being, it also has an inner world!

It can cultivate, consuming resources to grow.

The newly born armored vehicle has a consciousness like that of an infant.

"Hive Tyrant, wearing this armor, you can ignore attacks from those below the King level."

Even at the peak of the Kinghood, one needs to unleash a burst of power to penetrate the armor's defenses.

As long as they don't burn their divine power to fight back, ordinary attacks can be ignored.

Qin Mu's body rapidly transformed into a ten-kilometer-tall insect hive tyrant with wings on its back.

The armor that had become one with him also changed with his body, including the wings and tail, all of which were now covered up.

"No matter how it changes, the armor can completely cover the body."

However, this change was only an external one; Qin Mu removed the ability of his innate transformation technique to simultaneously alter one's aura and soul.

Because it's unnecessary; those functions consume a lot of resources.

As a battle suit, the primary function of the bio-armor is defense. If there is a need to conceal one's presence, other accessories can be added.

With a flick of his hand, Qin Mu produced a helmet.

This is a bio-engineered sub-module that Qin Mu modified using a special life form, the Shadow-Eyed Hunter Spider.

When his palm touched the helmet, the helmet flowed into his body as if into water.

"Plant sub-entity detected, Shadow Eye Helmet!"

Integration into the bio-engineering core is complete!

Strength and defense increased; talent - Dark Vision activated!

A deep voice rang in Qin Mu's ears.

At the same time, a helmet with three pairs of compound eyes appeared on the head.

With a thought, Qin Mu's world changed dramatically. He could clearly see all the data, such as the energy flow and changes in aura within the surrounding flesh and blood chambers.

This is an extremely powerful reconnaissance talent, and also a powerful combat support talent.

The space rippled again, and this time two implanted sub-bodies appeared.

One of them is the bone spear used by the Hive Tyrant, a bone spear modified from the fangs of the Nether Serpent.

The other piece, however, was a shoulder armor resembling the head of a giant fire-star beast!

Qin Mu held the bone spear in his hand, and the core of his bio-armor, which covered his body, spread to the bone spear, extending fleshy tentacles to envelop it.

"Plantational offspring detected, Netherworld Poison Gun! Poison glands—activated! Beginning to produce venom!"

At the same time, Qin Mu placed the shoulder armor on his left shoulder.

"Plant sub-organism detected, Solar Shoulder Cannon! Talent—Solar Activation!"

As he felt each talent being activated, and the overall power of his armor further increased, Qin Mu revealed a satisfied smile.

Bio-armor, a type of modular biological armor.

It is divided into a colony core and colony daughter bodies.

With each additional sub-body attached, the overall power of the armor increases.

Because the bio-armor is a living being, once it has recognized its master, it can fight autonomously like an auxiliary plant life form such as the Cloud Vine Armor, without the need for the master to activate it.

The difference is that after it completes the recognition of its master, it merges perfectly with the user, and the power of the two can be superimposed.

And the owner can share its talents.

"Defense, melee, ranged attack, and reconnaissance—these are the most basic functions. We can add the other modules later."

As he felt his talents being activated, a smile appeared on Qin Mu's face.

However, he then sensed a rejection reaction between the implant core and the offspring within his body.

Combining multiple different talents, even in a modular form, is not an easy task.

"There are already problems with only three sub-sub ...

If all the reserved sub-body interfaces were to be loaded, the colony itself would likely experience problems.

Qin Mu frowned slightly, but then relaxed.

It would be quite impressive if they could produce an initial version of the armor in just over a year.

In fact, the two sub-projects, the Radiant Shoulder Cannon and the Nether Venomous Spear, were developed under his guidance by the research queen in the swarm.

"Let's call the armor set centered around the Azure Sea Black Tortoise the Black Tortoise series."

As a type of bio-armor, bio-armor naturally comes in more than one form.

As he acquires more and more powerful and unique life forms in the future, there will naturally be more and more of different series.

The Xuanwu series is suitable for high-tier units such as the Hive Tyrant.

The resources required to complete a set of colony armor are no less than those required to hatch a Zergling Tyrant.

"At least all the Hive Tyrants need to be equipped with them, which will be another expense."

"We also need to start developing low- and mid-level bio-armor, especially low-level bio-armor, which is key to the overall genetic evolution of humanity."

"Different series of implanted sub-bodies, including combat, detection, and cultivation assistance modules, each need to be matched with its own."

This is a big project.

Ideally, the armor should be from the same series and be able to evolve like the Seed of Genes.

"Hmm, we need to incubate another batch of research-oriented queens."

A series of questions about the implantation device popped into Qin Mu's mind.

Even with this set of Xuanwu series armor, there are still many problems to solve. He left so many interfaces not just for fun.

If one can acquire more than a dozen powerful talents and wear a set of high-level armor, one can be said to be invincible among those of the same level!

The beginning is always the hardest. After the initial version was developed, the remaining issues were time and resources.

"First, hatch a batch of bio-armor and send it to various battlefields, at least equip the Hive Tyrant with it."

A smile appeared on Qin Mu's lips.

His research approach to the bio-armor drew inspiration from mechanical treasures and benchmarked against the Calamity Armor, a sub-body extended from the original soul.

The Xuanwu Armor, even just the core of the armor set, is comparable to a general's armor and a general's soul in terms of defense.

If it also possesses the functions of nourishing the body, genetic evolution, and integration into the reproductive body, it completely surpasses the armor and soul in every aspect!

Even the combination of King Armor and King Soul is not as good as a complete set of Xuanwu Armor.

And this is not the limit of Xuanwu's armor.

As a living being, Qin Mu could certainly integrate Blood Crystal into his armor on this basis!

Relying on the power of the Blood Crystal, the gene multiplier of the implant core will be increased by a significant margin.

In that case, the defense can be improved even further.

Once the talent is activated, it represents the limit of the King-level realm, and even the invincible King-level realm may not be able to break through the defense!

"The bio-armor is not yet perfect. Let's use it inside the swarm for a while and see how it goes on the battlefield."

"Once the research on mid- and low-level colonies, as well as the initial research on their supporting progeny, is completed, we will consider promoting them to all of humanity."

Qin Mu lowered his eyes; he wasn't in a hurry to integrate the Blood Crystal.

At this stage, the implant is still an imperfect product.

Its problems need to be exposed on the battlefield, rather than being forcibly improved by piling on resources.

……

"The matter of increasing the immortality gene multiplier for the human race and enhancing their divine bodies should also be put on the agenda."

While Qin Mu was studying the implantation equipment, a steady stream of immortal humans voluntarily entered the mother nest within Chaos City for his research.

In fact, it's almost time for the first batch of immortals to enter the Mother Nest to leave.

Their gene multiplication rate has increased to the limit of 100 times, and their divine bodies have also increased significantly.

"We should discuss with the teachers how to handle this group of people, and we also need to propose a standard for fees."

The Chaos City Lord had discussed with him how to rapidly improve the divine bodies of the human race in order to achieve immortality, and they had a suitable reason for doing so.

Human leaders will use the urgency of the situation on the extraterritorial battlefield as a pretext to announce the opening of the race's treasure vault.

Using the treasure trove of resources, we can enhance the multiplication of human immortal genes and divine bodies.

This allows for the reasonable advancement of immortal and powerful human beings.

(End of this chapter)