Chapter 145 Burning Bridges <TOC> Chapter 147 Blue Blood Gang
Translator: SumTLMan
The red-hot firewood crackled and burned, with the sparks bursting out like fireflies, dancing along with the heat.
Li Mu placed a piece of Aichiyafa rune into the bonfire. The entire rune was like amber, the size of a fist, presenting a different kind of semi-transparent yellow color. Inside it was sealed with a blue heavy liquid that resembled mercury.
Under the roasting of the flames, the blue liquid quickly crystallized into ant-sized crystals, which appeared with a blue metallic luster and took the shape of strange characters.
The heated runes needed to be used as soon as possible; otherwise, they would self-destruct. This was a security measure for the runes to prevent the secrets of the runes from being stolen.
Li Mu directly put his hand into the raging fire and took out the scorching hot rune. With a little effort, he crushed the hard rune, which was almost as hard as stone.
The crystals jumped around in his palm, and if not for the barrier of the Ancient Scales, they would have penetrated his skin.
Li Mu picked up the railgun made by Shen Luoyan earlier and pressed the crystals onto the gun body, which was cut from the aluminum and curse blood iron alloy.
The crystals immediately formed a series of orderly characters, slowly melting and infiltrating the gun body, leaving no trace.
“Give it a try.”
He threw the rifle to Li Mei.
Li Mei curiously caught the rifle, as it was her first time seeing something as magical as a rune.
After inputting a small amount of psychic energy as a trial, Li Mei aimed at a huge rock not far away and pulled the trigger. The gun shook slightly, and the recoil was perfectly controlled by her.
With his Divine Eye technique activated, Li Mu could see a red light drawing a straight line in the air and hitting the target.
The bullet penetrated the huge rock, creating a bowl-sized dent in it, with more than half of the steel core embedded in the center of the dent, breaking off a large chunk of rock and sending dust flying.
The blue psychic energy flames burst out of the bullet and burned fiercely on the rock for more than ten seconds before slowly extinguishing.
Due to uneven heating, the giant rock cracked open due to thermal expansion and contraction.
Li Mu walked over, pulled the rock apart, and found that the bullet had been completely melted.
“Very impressive power. More importantly, it gives ordinary rifles the ability to threaten the descenders black membrane. This is simply a simplified technique for creating curios.”
Shen Luoyan said in surprise.
“Awakeners with manifestation ability can also attach psychic energy to bullets through certain holy relics, but it requires a long time of cultivation.”
Using manifesting psychic energy to create bullets is too energy-consuming and can only be used as a trump card. The railgun, strengthened by Aichiyafa runes, gave Li Mei the conventional ability to kill the descenders.
Li Mu took out another Aichiyafa rune, repeated the process, and strengthened another railgun.
He did not cherish the guns like Li Mei did, and directly input a large amount of psychic energy into the gun, then pulled the trigger.
Arcs of electricity danced, and the gun barrel shook violently. Under the propulsion of a strong magnetic field, the bullet instantly shot out from the chamber.
“Boom!”
A huge blue flame instantly melted the entire boulder into magma, even scorching the nearby ground red-hot.
Li Mu put away the slightly heated pistol. The psychic energy he had just inputted had not yet reached the upper limit of what the pistol could withstand.
If he input more psychic energy, he would probably have to wait for the pistol to cool down before shooting again.
The power of the rune was greater than Li Mu had anticipated, but he wasn’t very pleased. The civilization capable of creating such powerful runes had also been obliterated in history under the invasion of the Olden Day Rulers.
For human civilization to continue, the road was even more tortuous than he had expected.
Li Mu handed over the remaining psychic energy engines that could provide power for the power armor and the Rune Quwei Sat for creating a protective shield to Shen Luoyan.
These things could play a bigger role in her hands.
Although it was called a psychic energy engine, its appearance was more like some kind of creature. It was disc-shaped, with a diameter of about twenty centimeters and a bulge in the middle.
The surface of the disc had separated grooves, looking somewhat like the human cerebral cortex. On the raised folds, numerous tiny protrusions and tentacles were growing, swaying slightly in the air.
These protrusions and tentacles seemed to be capturing something in the air and sending it to the mouthpiece at the center of the groove.
The bottom of the engine was covered in scaly tentacles with suckers that could firmly anchor itself.
The entire psychic energy engine had a fluorescent green center, a dark red outer ring, and glowing sea-blue folds. Under the light of the bonfire, it had a surprisingly stunning effect.
Faint psychic energy fluctuations emanated from it.
“This is simply amazing. This so-called psychic energy engine is alive, a mutant creature that has undergone genetic and psychic modifications. Even the way to control it is by issuing commands directly through a mental link.”
Shen Luoyan marveled as she held the psychic energy engine in her hands like a precious pet. After connecting the mental link, the engine automatically sent her the parameters and usage instructions.
“Now it’s automatically bound to me, and only I can drive and control it.”
She couldn’t wait to install the psychic energy engine on the power armor and conduct practical tests of its various parameters.
According to the usage instructions of the psychic energy engine, it only takes three hours in a stationary environment to fully charge its psychic energy by drawing essence from the essence sea.
Once fully charged, it could support high-intensity combat of machinery like power armor for four to five days.
In motion and combat states, the efficiency of the psychic energy engine in drawing essence would drop linearly, taking more than twenty days to fully charge. However, the psychic energy produced alone could already drive the power armor’s daily activities.
As the psychic energy engine continued to grow and develop, its output power would further increase.
“This is simply the perfect power source.”
Shen Luoyan temporarily put aside the three Quwei Sat runes in her mind.
She planned to replace the power source for the powered armor and then use these three runes to create armor.
Li Mu placed his hands behind his head and lay down on the ground. His experience in the city of Avonigarda had kept his nerves constantly tense, and now he could finally relax.
He didn’t waste the moon-level holy relic – Hand of Steel from Patrick, the great disciple of the Kallari Sect, and implanted it into his body.
Although it was implanted at the fourth energy level, the Hand of Steel wasn’t as flexible as other psychic energies. However, it was still a powerful moon-level holy relic and the treasure of the Kallari Sect.
Its enhancement to the arms even surpassed that of the Ancient Scales.
When using the holy relic, Li Mu’s arms turned dark, with both defense and destructive power soaring linearly. They were fearless of water and fire, and their flexibility remained unchanged.
This not only made his unarmed attacks more lethal but also enhanced his weapon attacks.
With the increase in his strength, he was no longer like a rootless duckweed in this dangerous and dark world, as he was when he first regained consciousness.
Now, he could finally take some control over his own destiny and face the upcoming storm.
Chapter 145 Burning Bridges <TOC> Chapter 147 Blue Blood Gang