Chapter 120 Frost Energy Flow <TOC> Chapter 122 The False Face
Translator: SumTLMan
The chip Shen Luoyan created was based on a server processor from before the Great Cataclysm, with some improvements for better heat resistance and overclocking performance.
Moreover, chips treated with the radiation of descender skeletal remains had a stronger affinity for psychic energy.
A total of twelve chips could be cut from the silicon wafer, which, along with other industrial chips, would form the brain and nervous system of the powered armor.
Indeed, Shen Luoyan planned to handcraft and assemble a set of powered armor.
This was not a fantastical tale; nearly all powered armors produced after the Great Cataclysm were made by the hands of manipulation-type awakeners.
However, there were few awakeners capable of crafting powered armor solely with their own abilities.
Those who possessed such abilities were master craftsmen and would be treated as esteemed guests in any large organization.
For manipulation-type awakeners above the third energy level, mass-produced powered armors could no longer unleash their full potential. According to the sacred texts, customized powered armors were made using precious psychic metals.
The recent frenzied looting had not only yielded an astonishing amount of gold lasu, but also several precious psychic metals.
With the addition of previously acquired psychic metals, there was enough material to make powered armor.
Although Shen Luoyan had made numerous psychic weapons and various processing chips for the Shen Family, her access as an Ore was limited and she was not allowed to possess powered armor.
Her strength was already formidable, having inherited numerous sacred texts and incorporating many others collected by the Shen Family. If paired with the war machine capable of enhancing combat power – powered armor – she could even contend with third-level awakeners.
Such immense power was not conducive to the Shen Family’s control over her.
As the rainy season approached, the descenders would once again become active in the wasteland, the most dangerous time of the year, and the nightmare of the wasteland people was about to descend.
Shen Luoyan was determined to create a set of powered armor to counter potential risks.
“That’s great. What we lack the most right now is a means to counter third-level awakeners,” Li Mu said.
In a remote province like Avonigarda, second-level awakeners were extremely rare, and the most likely to appear and hinder their plans were third-level awakeners.
However, Li Mu was clueless about making powered armor. He let Shen Luoyan handle the invaluable psychic metals while he sat down and took out a water bottle.
The water bottle was filled not with the Sun Spring but the Soul Spring, a miraculous spring water that could replenish source essence.
During this time, quite a bit of the Soul Spring had accumulated. He filled a bottle and still had about half left, which he planned to save for Li Mei.
Li Mei was still at the fifth energy level, and she could replenish her source essence through the Soul Spring.
For the fourth-level awakeners, their souls were already filled with psychic energy, and the source essence was compressed deep within their souls. It was impossible to extract it without tearing apart the soul.
Li Mu took a deep breath and downed the entire contents of the Soul Spring flask in one gulp.
Accompanied by an almost soul-numbing bitterness, an incredibly pure source essence surged from the depths of his soul. The amount of source essence exceeded Li Mu’s expectations, roughly equivalent to the amount consumed during three cultivation sessions with descender bones.
This was no small number; Li Mu estimated that it was already about a quarter of his own source essence.
Other fifth-level awakeners would hardly consume such an amount of source essence just to evolve a single holy relic.
Li Mu immediately focused on channeling this source essence, directing it towards the holy relic Electrokinesis.
Under the impact of the source essence, the bizarre characters forming the Electrokinesis holy relic trembled violently. They appeared like bacteria under a microscope, becoming rapidly active after absorbing a large amount of nutrients.
Moments later, the characters of the Electrokinesis holy relic began to mutate. Some characters became more complex, while others split and proliferated.
After consuming more than half of the source essence, the Electrokinesis transformation was complete, evolving into a new holy relic. Although it was still far from being a moon-level holy relic, it was significantly more powerful and useful compared to the original Electrokinesis.
Li Mu opened his eyes, which resembled clear, black crystals due to practicing the Divine Eye technique. In his field of vision, numerous faint blue lines appeared in the world.
These lines flickered and fluctuated, sometimes fading into the distance or shining brightly, like a vast web that extended deep underground and spread towards the farthest reaches of the earth.
This enormous web of light was the complex and vast underground electrical network of the city of Avonigarda.
Under the influence of the new holy relic, Li Mu discovered that he could directly see and sense the electric charges scattered throughout the world. Moreover, he had more precise control over bioelectricity, and the amplification factor of the psychic energy he consumed had also increased.
Of course, the changes in the new holy relic didn’t stop there.
Li Mu activated his ability directly. Driven by his powerful physique, a series of dazzling electric arcs wrapped around him, filling the air with a burnt smell.
The next moment, these electric arcs transformed into a brilliant flash of light, leaving a fleeting bright trace in the air and striking the ground dozens of meters away.
With a crackling explosion, a twisted scorched mark appeared on the ground, and dust billowed.
The pure physical destructive power of an electric arc was not strong, but it was more effective at directly harming living beings.
Under the influence of the new holy relic, Li Mu could directly find pathways in the air and the earth, launching his self-generated electric arcs through the air. He could also manipulate the electric charges in the environment, channeling them into the electric arcs to amplify their power.
Although electric arcs were not as easy to control as the energy barriers used by shaping awakeners, they had the advantage of being incredibly fast, striking the target in the blink of an eye.
He tried to enter the neural acceleration state, manipulating the electric charges in his nerves to increase the speed of neural information transmission.
Because his eyes could directly see electrical charges, Li Mu even used his ability to determine the distribution of nerves throughout his body.
This made his control over neural acceleration more precise, and as a result, he required less energy.
“Let’s call this newly-born holy relic ‘Electrocontrol.'”
Li Mu was delighted. This was a unique and unparalleled holy relic that belonged solely to him. Even if there was a second person who nurtured Electrokinesis with source essence, their evolution would not result in Electrocontrol.
At the very least, without practicing a technique similar to the Divine Eye Energy Method, no awakened individual could evolve Electrokinesis to have the ability to directly see electrical charges.
He channeled the remaining source essence into the ancient scales of the holy relic.
The Ancient Scales, which had devolved from a sun-level holy relic to a star-level holy relic over an extended period of time, were not so easily evolved. After absorbing a small portion of the source essence, they only became slightly more active, showing no signs of evolution.
Li Mu was already extremely satisfied with the evolution of Electrokinesis.
Chapter 120 Frost Energy Flow <TOC> Chapter 122 The False Face