Douluo Continent: When Huo Yuhao Becomes the Lord of the End

Chapter 264 The First Soul Armor Part is Born

What is Soul Armor?
In Huo Yuhao's mind, the Soul Armor should be different from the Battle Armor. In addition, because it incorporates Soul Bones and Necromancer magic, it is a unique product that belongs exclusively to him.

This kind of thing cannot be universally applicable, and because it needs to be fused with the soul bone, the soul armor should be comparable to divine artifacts or even super divine artifacts in the future.

The addition of rare metals gives the soul bone a unique 'exoskeleton,' while the magic array is the key inside.

Soul armor should be able to evolve along with soul bones. If soul bones are considered as one's first-stage means, then soul armor should be the external manifestation of soul bones, and it should possess second-stage characteristics.

Soul bones can be used to unleash soul skills, and soul armor should build upon this by connecting magic, soul bones, and even energy nodes throughout the body to maximize abilities and power.

It should not be just a 'tool', but rather an extension of its own energy at another level.

Designing soul armor requires first determining the necromancy that needs to be incorporated into different parts. The magic inscribed on the soul armor should not only conform to the attributes of the soul bone, but also be linked to the properties of the metal.

Moreover, since magic is intended to act as a medium, regardless of how much magic is incorporated, there needs to be a point of convergence to integrate the soul bones, magic, and rare metals incorporated throughout the body, creating a unified whole, similar to a soul core.

The modular interlocking technology he designed earlier, also known as the Soul Bone Inlay Technology, was a prerequisite for the complete perfection of the Soul Armor.

Modular chimera technology, also known as soul bone inlay technology.

The principle is to use the soul bone as a spiritual medium, embed it into the core array of the soul tool, and give the soul tool the ability to circulate energy autonomously.

Thanks to Xuan Ziwen's enhancement, this technology is now being used in the design of humanoid soul guides for the ninth-level soul masters in Mingde Hall and Gongfeng Hall.

Huo Yuhao designed this technology with the intention of preparing for the Soul Armor. Since it can be used in the Soul Tool, it is naturally compatible with the Soul Armor he wants to design.

Modular integration technology essentially employs a split design, dividing the soul bone into multiple energy nodes. Each soul bone serves as an adjustable energy center, such as a joint or spine. Each node can be independently wrapped with a replaceable metal module, thereby dynamically strengthening the soul master.

Using this technology, along with necromancy to control various nodes, as long as a central magic circle is established as the main energy hub, he can selectively enhance specific nodes by forging metals of different properties, thus achieving targeted evolution.

Each of the soul armor's enhanced defense or speed modules is designed and linked together with all the soul bones on the body, achieving a physical extension.

Even if a module of the Soul Armor is damaged, it can be repaired individually, preventing the overall deterioration of the Soul Armor. Furthermore, each of the Soul Bones in the body is independent of the others, and each one is the energy center of the Soul Armor.

He wasn't planning to achieve everything at once. First, he wanted to imbue the Soul Armor with the characteristics of a Soul Bone, while also giving it spirituality and the ability to autonomously absorb the energy of heaven and earth to power it.

By proceeding module by module, and finally completing the core, the Soul Armor is naturally born.

Just as envisioned a few years ago, we first designed them separately, and then connected them as a whole. This is the perfect process for creating a Soul Armor.

Huo Yuhao then took out a piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow and a piece of Dragon Breath Silver. He was ready to get to work. Since there were no problems with the technology and theoretical assumptions, he could start to verify the theory.

He has already dealt with the Soul Orb and Soul Spirit; all that is needed now is continuous improvement. Therefore, the Soul Armor can now be included in the next phase of the process.

Dragon's Breath Silver is sourced from Dragon Valley. This metal can withstand extremely low temperatures without damaging its internal molecular structure, and its ability to withstand extremely high temperatures is frighteningly high.

It is a perfect match for the characteristics of the jade scorpion's tail.

He already possesses the skull, left and right arm bones, torso bones, and external soul bones, including the Eye of Annihilation, the Wings of the Ice God, the Emerald Scorpion Tail, and the million-year-old external soul bone skin. All he lacks are the two leg bones.

The two leg bones were harmless; the modular interlocking technology allowed him to perfectly design the segmented structure of the soul armor. He took out the Dragon Breath Silver, and the first thing he needed to perfect was the Emerald Scorpion Tail external soul bone.

For necromancy, he chose Elder Yi's Necromancer Frost, and for the construction and forging of metal, he also designed a standard template for its integration with the Soul Armor.

The only difficulty that has been troubling him all along, or rather, what he lacks, is the fusion of martial soul mimicry, that is, how to achieve synchronous mimicry after the soul bone is fused with different metals.

Simply put, it's about how to make the metal shell simulate the form of a martial soul, reshape the metal's microstructure through the martial soul's essence released by the soul bone, and combine it with metal-controlled soul skills to achieve a perfect fit.

Only in this way can the metal fused with the soul bone achieve hierarchical evolution along with the age of the martial soul and soul bone, allowing the soul armor to advance with the advancement of the soul bone and martial soul, and allowing the metal to automatically generate new characteristics, such as domain fusion and metal regeneration.

However, this problem has now been solved with the improvement of his skills and the complete perfection of modular interlocking technology.

The Emerald Scorpion Tail is a module, an initial design template. In Huo Yuhao's mind, his soul armor should not only have one form, but should be able to change according to the changes in his own abilities and even his original power.

Therefore, the jade scorpion tail should not be fixed in a certain exclusive form. After being forged with a metal shell, it should have other characteristics and should not be used only as a tail.

The nine emerald green scorpion tail nodes give it a unique weapon form. Huo Yuhao naturally made full use of this advantage, and after inscribing it with modular interlocking technology, it could be used independently of his main body.

Soul tools come in all shapes and sizes. External soul bone modules, which incorporate metal and necromancy and form part of soul armor, can naturally serve as extended soul tools.

As part of the node, the Emerald Scorpion Tail can also possess the ability of a soul tool. In addition to the most basic tail form, Huo Yuhao also used Dragon Breath Silver to inscribe several evolving core magic arrays, including a core magic array that can be transformed into a spear, a core magic array that can be transformed into a whip, and even a core magic array that can be transformed into a cannon.

This process inevitably involves incorporating Dragon Pattern Steel, a metal that weighs only one-third of the lightest metal on Douluo Star, but is twice as strong as the strongest metal. It also possesses metal memory, allowing it to recover on its own after being damaged.

A perfect medium for transforming metallic forms.

The Soul Armor adopts a symbiotic evolution path. Its core architecture uses the Soul Core, Soul Bone, and Magic as the energy core, and the Spirit and Life Gold modification technology forms life characteristics. The two are then connected through the Soul Power Circuit to achieve a two-way energy cycle.

Even for just a jade scorpion tail, Huo Yuhao tried his best to make it perfect. He used modular integration technology to design no less than dozens of core magic arrays and hundreds of modules, leaving enough conversion nodes for future linkage with other soul bone parts.

He has also done his best in terms of evolution mechanism, and there is no need to worry about compatibility. As long as he regularly injects the power of his martial soul origin in the future, he can promote the evolution and mutation between the metal and the soul bone.

It took Huo Yuhao a full half month to complete just one component of the Jade Scorpion Tail Soul Armor.

Even with the help of Hyotei and the recovery from the Golden Cicada's metamorphosis, coupled with his current strength, he still felt somewhat exhausted.

But the results are gratifying.

Putting away the Blade of Life, Huo Yuhao now held a ball of light radiating emerald green energy in his hand.

The shape of the light cluster constantly changed, resembling a flowing liquid life form, eagerly hoping to attach itself to the host.

"Don't rush, there's just one last step."

The Bell of the End appeared, its [Craftsmanship] bell patterns constantly surging, performing a final rule-level transformation on the soul armor component that was about to merge with the emerald scorpion tail.

(End of this chapter)