655 Hard and Soft, the Unparalleled Extension (1/2)
After much exposure, the two pieces of magical equipment were not only known by all the Cultivators but also highly expected by ordinary people.
With the chaos in the Flying Star Sector, many remote space towns had established their own militia or guard team. Their demand for magical equipment had soared.
The Combat Ability Detector had only just started being manufactured. Since the colossal order from Iron Plateau had to be finished first, it went out of stock on the official website very quickly.
The Aurora Chain Gun was still in the field test phase. It was a battle-related magical equipment that concerned the life and death of the user. Therefore, it could only be perfected and finalized with the data accumulated in the tests.
However, some of the prototypes were put on market through various channels.
The Cultivators who received the prototypes mostly recorded their own tests and uploaded them to the Spiritual Nexus.
Some of them were even publishing tutorial videos with titles like '24 Moves for the Chain Gun', 'True Knowledge of the Chain Gun', and such.
For the time being, the two pieces of magical equipment were both barely available on market. One could not buy them even if they had loads of money!
However, Li Yao did not have time to enjoy the fever.
All his attention was now focused on a different piece of magical equipment.
Inside the Ares Laboratory, more than twenty refiners, including Li Yao and Xue Yuanxin, were holding their breath and staring at a set of strengthening plugins on the test platform, which was bound by countless electric arcs.
The set of plugins were a light grey, bordering on transparent. It looked quite unattractive, like a frozen cloud.
On the other side of the test platform, ten pieces of aggressive magical equipment were being charged.
Dazzling, colorful light balls were continuously condensing at the dark heads of the barrels and the front ends of the rails with blood-freezing hissing sounds.
Suddenly—
Swoosh!
The balls of lightning restricted by three rails expanded to such an extent that they darted out with an earsplitting explosion and crashed in the Ares Explosion in a purple streak!
Hum!
The seeming unattractive Ares Extension hummed in a sound resembling a bell being tolled. Ripples were spreading out on the surface of the magical equipment even though it was solid, each of which were a different color but equally brilliant.
As the ripples spread out, the damage of the balls of lightning were evenly dispersed to every part of the extension.
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
Next to the test platform, the hundreds of light beams floating in the air were displaying different figures.
The changes in the tens of thousands of numbers reflected the performance of the Ares Extension precisely.
The hums gradually died down. The energy of the ball lightnings was fully released, and they perished without a sound.
The surface of the bright grey Ares Extension, on the other hand, had purplish electric arcs popping up that looked like lightning that was raging in the cloud silently!
Hiu!
Pa!
BOOM! CRACK!
A moment later, the other powerful aggressive magical equipment had finished charging. Thunderbolts, lightning, flames, acid, frigid rains… Attacks of spiritual energy in various forms stormed upon the Ares Extension!
The figures on the monitoring light beam were continuously changing. Cracks began to appear on the Ares Extension. However, most of the attacks were absorbed by the Ares Extension as the ripples spread out!
Every attack dyed the Ares Extension with a new color. At first, it was only enshrouded in several electric arcs. Then, a few bouncing flames were added, followed by clusters of deep blue that represented freezing coldness.
When all the attacks came to a stop, the originally unattractive Ares Extension was enveloped in a colorful and dazzling mist and couldn't have looked more splendid!
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
On the light beam, countless figures jumped crazily and assembled into various equations, which then calculated thousands of results. A translucent 3D human model appeared on some ten light beams, too, while the system analyzed every organ in great details.
Finally, all the blinking figures jerked hard. One of the light beams flew out in front of everyone and enlarged itself. The eventual conclusion was demonstrated on it.
”According to the calculation of the crystal processor, in the saturated bombardment over the past thirty seconds, the Ares Extension absorbed 74% of the attacks perfectly. The virtual user inside the Ares Extension broke three ribs, with his liver slightly injured. The overall combat ability of the user has been lowered by 7%. He has suffered 'minor injuries', which will not affect any subsequent combat!
”More importantly, the special material—Super Bendable Steel—employed by the Unparalleled Extension can absorb most of the damage. The user can unleash all of it and return the attacks to where they come from with a telepathic thought!”
”We've made it!”
It had been half a year since the major setback of the explosion of the No.1 furnace.
Over the past half year, every refiner in the Ares Laboratory had been dedicated to the research day and night.