Chapter 70: Three-Word Battle Armor
The appearance of the Soul Forging echo indicated that Huo Yuhao's forging of deep silver was halfway complete; the next step was Soul Forging solidification.
At this moment, the deep silver had completely transformed into an icy blue color, with some frost crystal patterns on its surface, though these patterns were unstable.
On the icy blue deep silver, the frost crystal patterns flickered in and out of visibility, and the icy blue luster alternated between bright and dim—this was the characteristic of Soul Forged metal before solidification.
Huo Yuhao then used his forging hammer to strike the deep silver gently and rhythmically, assisting it in gradually stabilizing the Extreme Ice property.
As Huo Yuhao continued striking, the patterns on the deep silver's surface were completely solidified, and its color stabilized.
However, the moment Soul Forging solidification was completed, the deep silver, now possessing a Soul, swiftly attempted to flee from the forging platform.
Despite its rapid flight speed, under the slight suppression of Huo Yuhao's Divine Sense, it instantly returned to the forging platform and settled down safely.
At this point, only one final step remained to complete the Soul Forging: Soul awakening, where Huo Yuhao establishes a connection with the deep silver and awakens its Soul, after which the Soul Forging would be finished.
This step should have been the most difficult for a blacksmith, but for Huo Yuhao, it posed no challenge at all.
As early as the Spirit Refined period, Huo Yuhao had successfully established connections with various rare metals with the help of spirit gold.
Therefore, during the Soul awakening stage, the deep silver cooperated fully with Huo Yuhao.
With the cooperation of their connection, each of Huo Yuhao's strikes helped the deep silver fully comprehend Extreme Ice, and the deep silver's Soul grew stronger in the process.
At this moment, a black-gold spirit ring rose behind Huo Yuhao, and a strand of white light condensed in his eyes, shining onto the forging platform as the deep silver's Soul began to rapidly transform.
In Huo Yuhao's eyes, which shimmered with a platinum glow, a newly born, fragile Soul gradually grew.
On the icy blue surface, a hint of platinum light also emerged, with the two lights reflecting each other, gradually turning the deep silver's surface into a blue-gold color.
The cold representing Extreme Ice within it also began to transform.
Originally, the deep silver only contained a trace of cold capable of freezing Souls, but now, with the assistance of the platinum light, this trace of cold gradually expanded.
When the final hammer fell, the platinum light in Huo Yuhao's eyes dissipated, and the deep silver lay stably on the forging platform.
Huo Yuhao's Soul Forging attempt was a complete success; the exquisite Soul Forged deep silver was held in his hand, and he briefly tested its performance.
At this point, the deep silver once again separated the icy blue and platinum colors, with the entire piece primarily icy blue and adorned with platinum snowflake patterns.
To the touch, it was cold, close to the temperature of Huo Yuhao's Spirit, with excellent conduction of ice-attribute spirit power and considerable storage effects for spirit power.
With the assistance of Necromancy Magic, this piece of Soul Forged deep silver was among the best even among Soul Forged metals from ten thousand years later, sufficient to craft the most top-tier Three-Word Battle Armor.
After calming the joy of his Soul Forging success, Huo Yuhao glanced somewhat helplessly at this piece of Soul Forged metal.
The metal was quite good, but it still fell short of the perfect Soul Forged metal Huo Yuhao wanted to create, which balanced Qi, spirit power, and mental force.
If not used to make battle armor for himself, mass-forging ice-attribute Soul Forged deep silver would become somewhat humorous.
The extremely high ice-attribute amplification could perfectly suit ice-attribute Spirit Masters, further countering fire-attribute Spirit Masters, but where would Shrek Academy find an ice-attribute Super Douluo?
In the early stages, this ice-attribute Three-Word Battle Armor might not sell even one set, as its effects were too good—the extremely low temperature even had a suppressing effect on wearers with average Spirits.
After thinking it over, Huo Yuhao concluded that only Elder Xuan could currently use this, as the Gluttonous Divine Ox could absorb all-attribute spirit power, making it a highly adaptable universal Spirit.
Soul Forging had a significant limitation: at this stage, multiple attributes could not be used in forging, meaning only one type of power could be injected during the Soul Forging Legacy.
For example, during Qi Soul Forging, only Qi Power could be utilized, and although Huo Yuhao had started to simultaneously enhance his Qi Power, it was completely insignificant compared to his mental force and spirit power.
Huo Yuhao was currently at most equivalent to Tang Wulin's level when he obtained his third Qi Spirit Ring; to complete Soul Forging relying solely on Qi would require at least a five-level increase in spirit power amplification.
As for forging mental-attribute Soul Forged metal, Divine Sense could not be inherited into it; only mental force could be controlled for appropriate input.
However, Huo Yuhao's mental force had increased too rapidly, and after his Spirit Core condensed, it further strengthened the connection between his Divine Sense and mental force, causing his mental force to always carry a hint of Divine Sense characteristics.
Despite Huo Yuhao's utmost efforts to enhance his control over mental force, the results were still minimal.
As soon as any Divine Sense mixed into the deep silver, it would instantly crack, causing the Soul Forging to fail directly.
After careful consideration, Huo Yuhao decided to first design a set of Three-Word Battle Armor for Xuan Zi, since his Spirit, full of side effects, loved to eat things anyway.
It would be good for him to consume more ice-attribute spirit power, saving Xuan Zi from idly holding a chicken leg all the time.
Regarding the Soul Forged metal balancing the three attributes, Huo Yuhao still had no clue; there was still much room for improvement.
Huo Yuhao felt that the previous forging failures were not only due to the involvement of Divine Sense but also seemed to involve balance issues, as multiple attributes appeared to conflict with each other.
In the following time, Huo Yuhao continuously attempted Soul Forging and methods for attribute balance; his Soul Forging skills steadily improved, but maintaining balance could be said to be completely clueless.
Simultaneously, the battle armor design drawings Huo Yuhao prepared for Xuan Zi were completed, and with sufficient related Soul Forged metal equipped, Huo Yuhao began crafting the Three-Word Battle Armor.
The Three-Word Battle Armor designed for Xuan Zi was naturally the most top-tier battle armor; with the enhancement of Soul Forged metal empowered by Necromancy Magic, it could even be called half-step Four-Word Battle Armor.
However, when Xuan Zi received the battle armor, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, as this set of entirely icy blue battle armor had little to no connection with his Spirit's attributes.
A large amount of different rare metals containing Extreme Ice attributes could be said to have caused a qualitative change through quantitative accumulation; after donning this set of battle armor, Xuan Zi shivered all over.
The Gluttonous Divine Ox Spirit instantly activated fully, and his Spirit Core began to operate frantically, continuously devouring the ice-attribute overflow from the battle armor; Xuan Zi immediately felt he had given Huo Yuhao too many Heaven And Earth Treasures.
Holding the Heaven And Earth Treasures Xuan Zi had accumulated over half his lifetime, Huo Yuhao awkwardly smiled while watching Xuan Zi don the battle armor.
"Elder Xuan, this battle armor's amplification is quite excellent; it just needs to absorb some ice-attribute spirit power during non-combat times, but with the gold standard of your top-tier Spirit, it's no problem at all."
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