Chapter 9: The Advantage of the Angel Armor

After sitting cross-legged beside the mechanical angel armor for half an hour,

Gunie slowly opened his eyes.

During this half hour, Gunie meticulously digested the soul memories of the unlucky wretch named “Yali,” absorbing every detail.

More details of those soul memories were now grasped by Gunie.

He approached the mechanical angel armor.

Gunie placed a single hand on it.

Then, he softly chanted a spell.

A few seconds later,

“Buzz…”

The angel armor emitted the roar of a source power furnace engine.

Then came a “clank, clank, clank…” sound.

After a moment,

The mechanical angel armor, like the metal of a Transformer, rapidly contracted and finally turned into a metal arm guard.

Gunie waved his hand lightly, and the mechanical arm guard storing the mechanical angel armor flew into his hand.

Looking at this mechanical angel arm guard, a faint smile appeared on Gunie’s face.

“This is a treasure of immeasurable value,” Gunie murmured softly.

This mechanical angel armor

was itself designed similarly to a full-body suit of armor.

On the Aoya Continent, during the age of cavalry, this kind of full-body heavy armor “heavy cavalry” had dominated the plains for thousands of years.

With the gradual increase of superhumans and the spread and development of firearms,

the era of cavalry charges gradually faded from the stage of history.

However, even so, powerful superhuman defensive gear was still necessary for superhumans.

The same principle applied to the superhuman equipment sequence: black iron, magic copper, mithril, magic gold, and the higher-level legendary equipment.

The mechanical angel armor was a combination of higher-level methods and technologies based on this.

First was living metal.

This substance did not exist on the Aoya Continent.

But it existed in the higher superhuman world [Shenghaijiaer], and in abundance.

According to Yali’s memories, in Shenghaijiaer, it seemed that a divine kingdom was waging a world war against mechanical lifeforms.

And Yali’s crossing of the “Star Source Light Path” this time was also to participate in another war of their divine kingdom.

Using living metal as the base material,

after high-intensity forging processes, the material properties and superhuman characteristics of the living metal were elevated to the extreme.

Then, through a series of intricate, high-intensity industrial manufacturing,

combined with the source power furnace technology that the higher-dimensional superhuman world had already mastered with ease,

the “mechanical angel armor,” modeled after the angel form, was produced.

Besides the mechanical angel armor,

there were also mechanical demon armor,

mechanical dragon armor,

mechanical titan armor, and so on.

In the higher-dimensional superhuman world, the development of source power furnaces, metal smelting, superhuman cultivation systems, and esoteric scriptures—through countless ages and the efforts of countless superhuman scholars and geniuses—had all reached heights that were difficult to look up to.

Forging these extremely powerful superhuman equipment pieces was not a difficult problem.

When Gunie first sensed all this information from Yali’s soul,

he was initially very surprised.

But upon careful reflection, he realized it was a historical inevitability.

Needless to say,

just the rapid changes on the Aoya Continent over the past few decades were enough to prove that even in this superhuman world, a series of world transformations were taking place intensely.

Following a peaceful trajectory, in a few more decades, the railways of the three empires would be built to every corner of the Aoya Continent.

For those alien races, firearms and cannons, along with more powerful superhumans, would—if they refused to surrender—blast open their skulls, teaching them what “times have changed” meant.

And those alien races that bowed their heads would see their territories become provinces of the empire.

Looking further ahead, the ocean world would also become a fishing ground for humanity’s steel ships.

As for the deep-sea alien races,

if they stayed quietly in the deep sea, so be it.

If they dared to resist, tens of thousands of deep-sea torpedoes would bomb their habitats into ruins, driving their species to the brink of extinction.

When the Aoya Continent’s own steam technology underwent another revolution,

source power transmission technology would also step onto a new stage of history.

The Aoya Continent was about to open a new era of direct contact and crossing between superhuman worlds.

In fact, before humanity reached this level, it could be seen from many ancient historical traces

that many powerful races had already constructed massive teleportation arrays—for example, the ancient dragons of the Dragon Head Grand Harbor.

It was possible that back then, those dragons had merely built teleportation arrays from another world to enter the Aoya Continent.

And the oceans of the Aoya Continent might have been just their playground.

Regardless, once the age of steampunk began, the pace of this world, whether fast or slow, as long as humanity did not perish, would always follow a similar trajectory, step by step.

The large superhuman world “Shengyuanyin” that Gunie knew of was like this now: their superhuman world’s source power furnace technology was very advanced, even capable of constructing massive mechanical source power furnace towers.

And the already extinct Ariste Divine Source Kingdom was the same, or even more advanced.

As for the reportedly boundless, billions of times larger than a large superhuman world, the higher-dimensional superhuman world [Shenghaijiaer],

all its aspects had reached the peak level.

In a higher-dimensional superhuman world like [Shenghaijiaer], there existed the perfect combination of many superhuman technologies—the mechanical angel armor—which was also an inevitability in the development of steampunk superhuman worlds.

“This set of mechanical angel armor itself has legendary-level defense.”

“So it seems I now have a set of legendary defensive equipment.” Gunie smiled lightly.

“And its functions go far beyond that.”

“Besides its powerful defensive capability, it also has self-repair functionality. Even if damaged in battle, it can restore itself by absorbing source power.”

“Moreover, it is just armor and does not conflict with spell shields.”

“At the same time, it has a very powerful feature: flight!”

Gunie’s eyes narrowed slightly.

After reaching the Grandmaster realm, learning some flight spells, martial techniques, or awakening corresponding abilities made flying very easy.

Even powerful Grandmasters could achieve flight solely by relying on their powerful “soul source core” to isolate the world’s attraction.

However, the flight speed of a Grandmaster was not fast.

And just now, Gunie had clearly seen

that the flight speed of this mechanical angel was quite astonishing.

If Gunie advanced to Grandmaster, he would have flight ability himself, and combined with this mechanical angel armor, his flight speed would be even more astonishing.

At the Grandmaster realm, flight speed was a very important metric.

Flying faster than others meant the initiative in whether to fight or flee was in your hands.

Flying slower than others meant that if you couldn’t win, you would be chased to death.

For a spellcaster, this was especially important.

As long as his speed was fast enough and his casting range long enough, Gunie could easily blast enemies to death from hundreds of meters away.

And the enemies wouldn’t even be able to touch Gunie.

Even after becoming a Grandmaster,

the long-range spellcasting class—spellcasters—still possessed powerful advantages that other types of superhumans could not match.