Chapter 119 Probing <TOC> Chapter 121 Enhancing Strength
Translator: SumTLMan
Facing the oncoming Li Mu, Kolkhov didn’t panic. He released more frost birds to surround Li Mu while continuously retreating and gathering even more powerful psychic energy.
As a former officer of the Intervention Army, he inevitably had to fight against the descenders during the rainy season, his combat experience far surpassing that of the Soul Cult cultists.
He had observed Li Mu’s exaggeratedly strong psychic energy scales on his body and knew that if he couldn’t penetrate these scales, it would be impossible to defeat him.
If the extreme cold psychic energy couldn’t do it, he would have to try physical attacks with ice shards.
Li Mu naturally wouldn’t give him such an opportunity. In midair, facing the pouncing frost birds, he caught them all with one hand in a loop and the other in a cage, crushing them all with a burst of psychic energy.
The chilling cold air exploded instantly, but after being weakened by the Ancient Scales, it only numbed his hands.
Having been delayed for a moment by the frost birds, Kolkhov cast his next energy seal technique.
“Ice Vein Seal – Six”
A high-speed energy flow shot out from his palms, containing countless fine ice shards. These ice shards were condensed from water vapor by Kolkhov’s psychic energy, making them extremely hard.
This Ice Vein Seal technique was known as Frost Energy Flow.
This energy flow could easily tear through the external armor of a powered exoskeleton. Kolkhov had once used this technique to directly cut a descender member with a ruptured black membrane in half.
Even if the enemy withstood the initial cutting force, the extreme cold would weaken and make their defenses brittle, unable to resist continuous cutting.
At this distance, he was confident that Li Mu wouldn’t be able to dodge and would have to rely on his psychic energy scales. Even if he blocked the Frost Energy Flow, his psychic energy scales would reach their limit, leaving him at Kolkhov’s mercy.
However, Li Mu’s leaping figure in the air suddenly changed trajectory in a bizarre manner, causing the devastating Frost Energy Flow to miss its target.
After consuming another season’s worth of mature Giant’s Blood, the giant’s power Li Mu could borrow from the void had reached nearly 400 kgs. This allowed him to maneuver in the air, making strange movements that ordinary awakened enhancers couldn’t achieve.
Kolkhov was shocked and panicked. Before he could react, a fierce wind had already struck him.
With just a twist and a spin, Li Mu dislocated Kolkhov’s entire shoulder.
Kolkhov looked at his bleeding shoulder, somewhat unable to accept the reality. A mere fifth-level awakened enhancer had taken his arm in just a few moments.
He knew that if Li Mu had wanted to, it wouldn’t have been difficult to twist off his head.
The excruciating pain caused Kolkhov’s face to turn red. Biting his teeth, he relied on his willpower not to scream in agony, but his body still twitched slightly from the pain.
Li Mu tossed the torn-off arm back to Kolkhov.
“Captain Kolkhov, you are important, but not as important as you estimate. Losing a hand or any other part would not have any impact. I hope you understand that.”
Kolkhov used his extreme cold psychic energy to freeze the wound on his body. With Avonigardabadh medical technology, there was still a chance to reattach his arm.
“What is your ultimate goal? With your strength, every bank would treat you as an honored guest; there’s no need to make money this way.”
He asked through gritted teeth.
Kolkhov knew that when he took the gold in the vault of the Elijah Commercial Bank, he had fallen into the trap of the robber before him.
“How could a shallow pond like the Kallari Sect nurture a true dragon like you?”
“That’s not something you need to know.”
Li Mu said, seeing the bomb disposal vehicle rushing towards them. He glanced at the treacherous security officer, whose body had been completely frozen by frost.
“I trust you can concoct a narrative that benefits you.”
Dodging the security forces and security officers’ search, Li Mu quietly returned to the underground river where he was hiding and pulled the mask off his face.
He lifted a water bottle, took a large sip of the Sun Spring, and felt the warmth surge, relieving the cold in his body.
His hands had taken some frost damage from directly crushing the frost birds and enduring the close-range impact of the extreme cold psychic energy.
“I severed one of Kolkhov’s arms. That should keep him in check for a while.”
Li Mu exhaled a cold breath, and as he did so, his body warmed up quickly.
“Give him a few days to heal, and when he’s recovered, take him to kill Hicks.”
As the boss of Hicks Security Contracting Company, Hicks’ status within the Soul Cult was definitely not low. If he died under the iconic holy relic of the Governor’s lineage, the power of ice, the Soul Cult would be unable to endure, even if they decided to shrink their forces before the rainy season, and would certainly retaliate against the Governor’s side.
Shen Luoyan was wearing a magnifying glass, examining the chip she had engraved with the Sun God’s Divine Light.
Before the Great Catastrophe, humans were utterly reliant on various manufacturing processes, analog integrated, digital integrated, and mixed-signal integrated chips. After the catastrophe, human technology suffered a devastating blow. However, chip production was not completely lost.
The Xindu Federation did not have the ability to produce chips before the catastrophe, and it was even more impossible to perfect the massive industrial chain required for chip production after the catastrophe.
However, manipulation awakened individuals have always been able to create miracles in industrial production. Some highly skilled manipulative awakened individuals can refine and process low-purity, smelting-grade industrial silicon into ultra-high-purity single-crystal silicon wafers in almost hand-crafted workshops.
After undergoing the radiation treatment of the descender bone remains, the psychic energy silicon chips possess far more advanced performance than that of ordinary single-crystal silicon.
Subsequent stages, such as photolithography, etching, ion implantation, and film deposition, are beyond the capabilities of ordinary manipulation-type awakened individuals.
Some large corporations in the Xindu Federation secretly cultivate several manipulation-type awakened individuals, each mastering different confidential holy relics to complete one stage of chip manufacturing, producing chips in a streamlined assembly line fashion.
Their production capacity naturally cannot compare to the chip factories before the great disaster, but the chips they produce are even more superior in performance.
The Sun God’s Divine Light is one of the few known holy relics capable of producing chips.
In fact, due to the high cost and profits of the chips, the Shen family painstakingly collected the other holy relics needed to manufacture chips.
At first, they were cautious and only allowed her to participate in the photolithography process requiring the Sun God’s Divine Light holy relic. However, they later could not bear the low efficiency and yield rate of other manipulation-type awakened individuals, and they had no choice but to entrust Shen Luoyan with mastering all the holy relics.