Dragonblood Legion/Armaments

== New armor ==
"This old design of your armor is no longer very useful." Long Chen looked it over and shook his head.
"You're still focusing on wide area destruction with this armor. That's not useful to the current Dragonblood Legion. With this kind of attack style, you won't be able to kill our enemies in one blow. People with the qualifications to be our opponents will definitely be high ranking Celestials. Injuring them but not killing them is meaningless," said Long Chen.
"I... you're right." Guo Ran instantly understood what he was saying.
His line of thinking had been too rigid. In the past, in the Eastern Wasteland, to pursue the greatest wide area destruction had been correct.
However, now the Dragonblood Legion's numbers had risen, and the opponents they were facing were powerful heavenly geniuses. He would most probably be fighting one on one, only occasionally throwing out area attacks. His area attacks were now ineffective.
"You can get rid of your three-hundred area-mechanisms. Switch them all for power runes. You only need five close-range life protecting methods in your armor as well. Switch the rest for power runes. You should walk the path of a berserk power fighter," suggested Long Chen.
"Alright, I'll listen to you boss."
=== Scale armor ===
If he wanted Guo Ran to forge Ancestral items, he couldn't be stingy. Without going all the way, any money he did put in would just be wasted.
"Put your personal armor to the side. Let me see your design for the Dragonblood warriors' armor and weapons," said Long Chen.
Long Chen took out two pieces of paper. They were much simpler, but they still needed over a thousand mechanisms.
"Not bad. You've carved a formation on the armor that lets everyone share their power for offense and defense. It's ingenious," praised Long Chen.
Guo Ran was a genius when it came to forging. He knew that the Dragonblood Legion fought as a group. By placing formation runes on each set of armor he forged for them, they would be able to work together easier.
Although there were only two options for sharing their power, one for a collective attack and one for a collective defense, this was still something Guo Ran had figured out how to do on his own. It was very impressive.
"I'm planning to use the scale pattern for the armor. The back and heart will be specially protected. Each scale will have a defensive rune on the front, and the back will have an offensive rune linked to their weapons. That way, their weapon and armor will be connected and be able to boost each other's power," explained Guo Ran as he pointed out various parts of the diagram. "During the past few days, I tried forging two Ancestral items. My forging table and hammer are one hundred percent capable of forging Ancestral items."
=== Prototypes ===
Guo Ran didn't disappoint Long Chen. In just three days, he brought a scale armor and sword set that were on the level of Ancestral items.
However, they were still a mock-up and hadn't had any additional runes inscribed on them. Guo Ran was just letting Long Chen see their appearance. If there was no problem, he would start forging them en masse. Over half of the Dragonblood Legion used swords.
Long Chen sighed emotionally as he held the sword. Guo Ran was truly a blessing to him. Who would have thought that his forging table would be so amazing that it could even forge Ancestral items?
The length, width, height, weight, shape, everything about it was very satisfactory. Long Chen told Guo Ran to imprint an image of a divine dragon on the weapons. That would be the mark of the Dragonblood Legion.
=== Infusion with Divine Flame Crystal ===
Since Long Chen was satisfied, Guo Ran quickly finished the armor and sword. They were both fiery-red and contained a huge amount of flame energy.
That was the result of being forged with Divine Flame Crystals. They possessed a powerful flame attribute, which wasn't suitable for wood or water element cultivators.
Fortunately, those two attributes were rather rare, and only a couple hundred of them existed in the Dragonblood Legion. The others could use these.
Long Chen put on the armor and wielded the sword, testing their power. As expected, without item-spirits, there was no way to unleash the power of Ancestral items.
Since everything was confirmed, Guo Ran went into seclusion and began to forge the scale armor and swords. Since the materials being used were of the highest quality, the forging table seemed to be receiving some kind of nourishment and seemed to be awakening.
That delighted Guo Ran, and he began forging like his life depended on it. As for Long Chen, he sent a letter to Zheng Wenlong.
Zheng Wenlong's efficiency was extremely high, and in just ten days, he had gathered a large pile of forging runes and ancient tomes perfect for Guo Ran's level. He had also brought over a mass of Ancestral items' materials.
Of course, Long Chen wouldn't let Zheng Wenlong suffer a loss. He directly gave him a thousand Divine Flame Crystals and one of those giant divine crystals.
=== Mithril essence ===
Although the Divine Flame Crystals had been forged into Ancestral items, without mithril essence, those Ancestral weapons were all crude. They possessed the necessary hardness, but lacked the flexibility. A powerful impact wouldn't be cushioned at all and would lead to the items cracking and breaking apart.
Without the right material, it had been impossible to make up for this deficit. So Guo Ran, after considering this problem from every angle, had finally decided on a trick to remedy this. He had inlaid an expansion rune on every Ancestral item he had forged.
That was a mysterious rune from the Ethereal Crafting Secret Record. It could be likened to a person's arteries. It formed a network throughout the item with an opening exposed. Once he dropped some mithril inside it and activated the rune, the item would automatically absorb the mithril, increasing its flexibility. This was a completely secret technique that was unavailable to the rest of the world.
=== Item-spirits ===
The millions of souls MQ had gathered had devoured each other until only the fifteen thousand strongest souls remained.
These souls were extremely powerful, but Meng Qi had already erased their minds. They were mindless soul essence essentially, which made it easy for Long Chen to use them to create item-spirits.
With his experience in creating an item-spirit for the Heaven Flipping Seal, Long Chen didn't have to do them one by one. Instead, he added souls to over a hundred of them at once.
When those souls were injected into the weapons and armor, the dull and lifeless pieces of metal suddenly began to shine brightly, their runes lighting up like they had come to life.
This signified that the process had gone off properly. The light slowly dimmed, but now all those items had a slight air of life to them. The newly born item-spirits were in slumber now and required someone to nourish them with their souls. When they woke, the person who nourished them would become their first generation master. All Ancestral items were very loyal to their first-generation master.
The technique that Long Chen used to inject item-spirits came from his Pill Sovereign memories, and it was normally used to impart spirituality to medicinal pills. Not only did it require great Spiritual Strength, but it also required the slightest bit of Pill Flame to help with the process.
== Speed runes ==
"Are those runes on your wings for speed? Why are there so few?"
"I only have three speed runes, and even they aren't very high level. I also can't carve them in a more concentrated way or they'll cancel each other's effect."
Guo Ran was helpless about it. The majority of the runes he could engrave were for King items. The Xuantian Dao Sect didn't specialize in forging items, so King items were their limit.
As for the Ethereal Crafting Secret Record, Guo Ran had yet to comprehend many of those runes and couldn't add them to his forging.
"That's no good. With just power and no speed, you won't be able to hit anyone. I'll go ask Zheng Wenlong to get some forging tomes and material for you," said Long Chen.
== Propulsion mechanism ==
"Does your propulsion mechanism really have to be on your butt?" Long Chen asked with a strange expression.
Guo Ran helplessly said, "There's no way around it. Whenever I put it on my hands, feet, or wings, it's very difficult to maintain balance. This is the best spot for it."
This propulsion mechanism had been giving Guo Ran a headache for years now. Every time he accelerated, it looked like he was farting. It wasn't very becoming.
However, only by placing it there could he keep his limbs and wings free. He was able to maintain his balance while not affecting his agility in battle.
== Soul items ==
Meng Qi was surrounded by sword-light that formed a blooming lotus.
She had a total of nine hundred and ninety-nine flying swords. These were soul items Guo Ran had poured his blood, sweat, and tears into to forge. The person Guo Ran worshipped the most was Long Chen; however, the one he was most grateful for had recently changed to be Meng Qi.
If it hadn’t been for Meng Qi’s help, there was no way he would have had enough soul energy to nourish his armor considering it was formed of multiple Ancestral items. In order to thank Meng Qi, Guo Ran had spent a huge amount of time and energy to create these nine hundred and ninety-nine flying swords. Soul gold had been smelted into them, allowing them to be controlled easily by Meng Qi’s Spiritual Strength.
With Meng Qi’s powerful Spiritual Strength, these soul items formed a terrifying formation that made her enemies feel like they were surrounded by nine hundred and ninety-nine experts. Her opponent was forced back over and over again. His Heavenly Dao energy might be able to suppress Meng Qi’s Heavenly Dao energy, but it wasn’t able to suppress her soul energy.
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