Chapter 30: Aragami, Armor, and Strange Powers
In the core forging area, in the deepest steel hall, there is a huge three-meter-high transparent crystal pot. Through the translucent crystal compartment, a strange creature soaked in a light green liquid can be seen.
The monster is only the size of a basketball, with brown exoskeletons and countless sharp arthropods. Its specific image is similar to a round snail, but it has a bone-like tail and a spider-like mouthpart, with barbed teeth. Its head is covered with triple carapaces, and each layer of carapace has a crystal-like luster and two weird compound eyes that are concave.
It looks like it is just a juvenile body of some kind of creature, and traces of undevelopedness can be seen all over its body, such as its wide insect wings that are only half formed on its back, and its head has just a raised small bone horn, and the bone blades that have not yet grown up on its arthropods or the vague runes on its shell, which also prove how powerful and adaptable to combat it will grow up.
"The breath of chaos."
A low voice sounded, and Joshua looked at the monster floating in the crystal jar with a serious face. He said in a deep voice: "This feeling..."
This kind of terrifying image and chaotic aura that can be accumulated over a long and long time. In the warrior's cognition, only one kind of creature will have it.
God of Desolation.
Before, what made Joshua suddenly shut up and frowned and observed was the wreckage of the Waste God soaked in the crystal jar in the old dwarf forging room.
"Master Moria, is this the God of Desolation?"
Joshua turned around and asked the old dwarf, and the old dwarf also replied happily: "Yes, this is the corpse of the desolate god I have collected before. Don't worry, you should also see that it is dead and will not cause any harm."
Noting that the warrior turned his gaze behind him, Moria seemed to understand what he was thinking, so she immediately explained: "Clayel is also a member of the battle against Chaos. Otherwise, that guy Nostradamus would not have asked her to deal with the problem of Chaos aura corroding the earth for you."
"No, I'm not thinking about this."
Joshua shook his head and looked a little puzzled: "I have killed many gods of desolation, and there are many juvenile bodies. Why is there such a big gap in image between them?"
Recalling the hideous monsters like scorpions that he killed in the demon tide, with six pairs of arthropods and wings, then turned his head to look at the same hideous round tailed wings in front of him, but the warrior didn't understand very much.
The larvae that appear during the demon tide are all in the same form, and there is no reason why the desolate gods here are different.
"The God of Waste will quickly mutate into various forms according to needs. My juvenile body was captured a hundred years ago. It has been different from the previous ones for such a long time. Of course, the bigger thing is to adapt, or maybe it is just a simple chaotic mutation. We will never know how many kinds of God of Waste are in the opposite world."
Moria explained roughly. He walked to the crystal jar, operated the console at the bottom, and said: "After the death of the God of Wild, it will generally turn into ashes and disappear into the world, leaving only the crystal-like crystal on its body. I used a special solution to preserve their bodies, so that it is convenient to study the weaknesses of these monsters and forge stronger and better magic machines and armor."
Joshua remained silent and did not reply to the old dwarf's words. He looked around carefully and found that there was not only one green crystal jar, but five scattered in every corner. The corpses of the desolate gods inside were of different sizes. The soldiers even noticed the breath of the golden realm from a certain corpse.
"Joshya, what is the magic power you mentioned before...?"
The old dwarf seemed to care about the conversation that had suddenly stopped before. He pulled the topic back to the original trajectory, his face full of curiosity.
"What I wanted to say before was magic armor."
He temporarily put aside the slightest misunderstanding that he felt, and the warrior recalled it a little in his mind.
Although the name of Magic Armor is simple and easy to understand, it actually represents the highest crystallization of rune magic and magic technology in the future.
In the late stage of the previous life version, facing the endless offensive of the Black Tide and the monsters invaded by other worlds, although there were many humans, they could not withstand such rapid consumption. In order to enhance the strength of the lower-level soldiers, many breathing techniques were opened up, spell inheritance was made public, and the design of magic armor was also proposed and practiced.
A set of fully-covered exoskeleton magic armor with its own power can allow a black iron-level warrior to gain enough strength to compete with the advanced silver level. If a high-level silver level has a set of magic armored families with good performance, it will have the power to fight against the initial gold level.
Through runes, the power of warriors and mages themselves is enhanced, and their defense and survivability is not only not hindering spell casting, but also has a little magical ability. This magical equipment that can be mass-produced in the rune factory in the middle of the rune factory quickly became the standard equipment for elite legions in various countries in the future. It is precisely because of the magic armor and a series of rune technical creations that humans did not exterminate the clan in many disasters.
He roughly told the old dwarf about the massive production potential contained in the rune factory and the basic design concept of magic armor. Joshua looked at the other party's thoughtful eyes and couldn't help but nod.
To be honest, he didn't understand any magic techniques at all. Even if he knew a little, the warriors could not be sure that everything was the same after coming to this real world. Magic is not as good as martial arts. If there is a little deviation, it is not just him who dies. Since this is the case, Joshua might as well teach some advanced ideas and design ideas from later generations to some geniuses and strong people in this world, so that they can promote the progress of the world.
"What you said is interesting...and your ideas are clear, it's worth a try."
After looking at Joshua deeply, the old dwarf stroked his pale beard and sighed: "It seems that my thinking has been bound by a long life. You are right. The productivity of the rune factory production line... is this word? Anyway, as you said, it is really a waste of just using it to make iron..."
After saying that, after a while, Moria looked up at Joshua's eyes and smiled and said, "Next time we have a chance, we will continue to talk about this issue, but today I will bring you here to complete the last step of 'cast armor'."
The old dwarf quickly walked to the stone wall of his forging room, then patted a certain place, and immediately, the metal-made wall rumbling of gears was heard, and then a hole was removed from the wall that was originally seamless, and a huge metal box appeared in front of everyone.
Moria walked forward and opened the box. Inside was a huge and thick set of huge armor supported by a bracket.
This armor is made up of thick armor stacked layer after layer. The black outer armor covered with layers like dragon scales has no dead corners or flaws. On the helmet are two horns that are like dragon horns, with magical light flashing on it. The observation port on its eyes is a V-shaped crack, filled with transparent steel crystals, and the armor on its legs is also extremely thick and extremely hard.
The armor looks to be at least 300 kilograms, or even heavier. Joshua could see that the black outer armor was definitely mixed with some earth melting dust and Titan core stones to increase the armor's magic resistance, hardness and weight.
"This set of armor alone weighs more than ordinary knights and his war horses."
Walking forward, Joshua touched the armor and sighed with excitement in his heart: "If it were the Tianma or Unicorn Knight of the Elf Clan, this armor could be used to support two... and it was very hard. I used a little force and could not feel any change."
The warrior is a person who can pinch iron with bare hands like rubber. In his opinion, many armors are no different from plasticine, but this test did not cause any damage, which is enough to prove the hardness of this set of armor.
"Weight is also part of defense and attack."
Moria grinned, looking very proud of his design: "You are a golden warrior, and you won't feel tired even if you wield hundreds of kilograms of weapons to fight. Wearing this armor will certainly slow down your speed, but it will also turn you into an indestructible and terrible fortress, allowing you to fight on the battlefield at will... You should understand when you need to use this armor."
Joshua naturally knew that on the wide military formation, he put on this set of armor and started charging, which was basically unstoppable. If he rode a war horse, he was even more tanky than a tank, and he didn't even have to take out a knife when he encountered anyone, he just needed to crush it.
However, in places like woods, swamps, and deserts, wearing such super heavy equipment is basically to make yourself feel drunk.
The old dwarf also introduced: "The outer layer imitates the structure of the dragon scale and the Titan Heart Stone, which can basically make silver-level magic basically invalid. The main material of the armor is the [Wild God Crystal] used to cast the divine machine. Even with my own full-strength attack, it cannot quickly destroy the armor. At most, there are a little obvious dent, but that's all."
Feeling satisfied with the shell of the armor, Joshua turned his head and said, "What is the final step?"
The old dwarf replied quickly: "You inject energy into it and activate the magic pattern on it."
After saying that, he laughed again: "Haha, the oath between your ancestors and I was 'a magic machine and a set of armor'. Now you have contracted a second magic machine. Logically speaking, I should give two sets of armor, but the materials have basically been used up. It is indeed difficult to create the second set of armor, and you have to wait for a long time."
Rin, who was standing quietly beside him, tilted his head and blinked his eyes. He looked at Moria with some confusion when he was mentioned.
"There is no need to forge a second set of armor, and there is no need to complete the so-called vows like this."
Rubbing Rin's head and hair, Joshua shook his head and said, "And how could I take other people's things in vain? Even if it is a vow, it is a vow with my ancestors, not with me. Master Moria, my knights brought the materials of the Great Aes Dragon Hunting Spider and the Black Erosion Dragon I had hunted before, all of which were gold-level materials. I think it would be enough to offset the material fee. If it is not enough, you can tell me that I also like to hunt monsters. If I deliberately search for them, hunting gold monsters is not difficult."
“No need…”
After waving his hand, the warrior stopped the old dwarf's speech and said, "If you really want to help me, then we can modify the structure of this set of armor in the future... Didn't I talk about the general design ideas of magic armor before?"
Speaking of this, Joshua grinned and smiled: "We can start from this aspect and forge the first set of magic armor in the world!"
Clayel, who was standing beside him, looked at Gioshua and Moria who were discussing armor design fiercely. The elf druid couldn't help but sigh softly.
"Men are like this, they like weapons, armor... they always like this kind of thing."
She said to herself gently, without showing an irritable expression, but instead had a faint smile on her face, her eyes floating, as if she had returned to a long time ago.
Time passes through discussion.
After a long time, Moria, who had roughly determined the armor modification plan, let out a sigh. He looked at the design drawing in front of him with satisfaction and praised: "I didn't expect that Joshua, your forging and design skills are very solid. I thought you were just a pure warrior."
After all, my life profession level is 22, and I spent a lot of time to exercise back then.
With a shrugged, Joshua was also very satisfied with the design in front of him: "Sometimes, men always fantasize about being able to create weapons and equipment that satisfy them, but I finally realized that in this regard, there is no talent, but no talent. Instead of blindly envious of others' abilities, it is better to take what they can do further."
"It's much better than most people, you just lack time to practice."
After a little apnea, Joshua suddenly thought of something.
"By the way, Master Moria, this time I came here, besides getting the armor, I have another purpose."
He solemnly took out a small box from his chest, the soldier opened the box, and handed it to Moria. He said seriously: "Please help me identify this piece of steel crystal. This piece of steel crystal has a strange power to host, and I cannot analyze the source."
"Crystal of Steel? This thing is not common."
"Be careful, don't touch it directly, touching it will have strange sequelae."
Nodding to show that he knew the warrior's prompt, Moria took the box handed over by Joshua. He ignited a light golden fighting spirit in his hand, and then took out the black and red crystal placed in it.
The old dwarf who had been dealing with ore and weapons for more than a hundred years looked carefully: "The color is a bit strange. The power in the crystal is spilling out quickly, and it is all very stagnant... Wait, at this speed of dissipation, shouldn't this crystal have dissipated long ago?"
"What kind of force is maintaining its form?"
Chapter completed!