Assembly Set Shield

Collector's Edition Book 3, Lin TianAo 5 Shield, Background

## Description

**Assembly Set Shield**, also called the **Assembly Set Consolidated Shield** and ‘**offense and defense in one**’, is a standard uncommon Consolidated Equipment Assembly Set, being the first equipment a *shield*. Each level is named *# level-Jeweled Assembly Shield*. Its first known owner was Ultimate Defense Heavenly Jewel Master, Lin TianAo. It was unknown how many surplus Scrolls were used to complete Consolidating the each piece per Physical Jewel.

For such a shield to be made out of three Physical Jewel Consolidated Equipments, it wasn’t just as simple as a one plus one plus one sort of relation, but rather an exponential increase in power. Furthermore, this also caused the shield to have more sockets for Elemental Jewels as it became bigger. It also known that each Socketing Scroll requires a Zong Stage Consolidating Equipment Master at a million gold coins with an employ of 200,000 gold coins.

The greatest advantage was that every time an additional Jewel was added to the Assembly Set Equipment, it would gain a special attribute, and ***one of the attributes*** added for his shield was actually to reduce to amount of Heavenly Energy used. This greatly reduced the drain on the owner, and also allowed the owner to sustain one's top defense for a much longer time, as the owner was able to convert some of his/her opponent’s attacks as his/her own strength. Therefore with this characteristic, the owner could sustain combat mode against lower level cultivators for more than two hours at top form. ***Another attribute*** is that the the shield is able to neutralize almost 50% of the support or control skills’ powers. One of the inbuilt set Skill ***Heavy Armour*** can cause the already huge shield to grow even larger and thicker, restoring the shield of most external damages. Some other attributes were ***Shield Rush*** (***Charge***) and ***Illusory Shield***.

A smaller advantage is voluntary split assembly ability. Depending on the shield level unleashed, the shield has the option to split into the same number and act as yellow aura covered first shield shaped heavy shields. These round-type heavy shields are individual shields separated to increase a wide range momentary lesser defense. The five shields still have their previous sharp edges that can also cut through his/her opponent and then assemble again.

All shields have sharp edges.

The greatest disadvantage is that each shield manifested increases the weight of the shield, requiring the owner to possess higher physical strength to wield. At the fourth shield, the 4-Jeweled Assembly Shield, the Consolidated Equipment Assembly Set Shield weighs 6,000 jin (斤). Any ordinary 3-Jeweled Heavenly Jewel Master, even one with the Strength Attribute, would not be able to move it. For the Middle-Level Zun Stage Lin TianAo, it seemed as if the 4-Jeweled Assembly Shield was weightless. From there, it could be seen how strong Lin TianAo was, even though his Physical Jewel was not of the Strength Attribute. He must possessed innate super strength. As it became a 5-Jeweled Assembly Equipment, its greater weight caused it to sink down into the ground, therefore, could only use small concise movements to successfully block incoming attacks. At Upper-Level Zun Stage, Lin TianAo was strong enough to charge out with the sixth shield.

* The fifth shield of yellow light was the strongest unique power of the five-Jewel Assembly Set Shield. It was called the ***Illusory Shield***: basically an illusion of his/her shield that could appear in any nearby position according to his/her will. The illusion had a fifth of the defensive power of the actual shield, and it could only be used once every time the owner Consolidated the five-Jeweled Assembly Shield. Furthermore, to use it was a huge drain on the owner's Heavenly Shen Energy, and the owner only used it in his/her most desperate times to save his/her life. ***Illusory Shield*** had a delay option known only to the owner. Other abilities are the mass increase ***Heavy Armour*** and the ***Shield Rush***, aka ***Charge***: a strong yellow light from the owner's shield enveloping his/her body. In the next moment, he/she had charged forward like a bulldozer towards the opponent. The speed increased shockingly as he/she charged.
	+ It was once almost destroyed in Lin TianAo's first bout with the Little Witch.
	+ At 5 Jewel, Lin TianAo's sockets were inlaid two were supporting, and the other three were all fully defensive stored skills.
* The sixth to ninth shields of Lin TianAo's set Scrolls were created by God-Tier Masters: Ye Ruichen and Wei Yang as his individual reward for becoming the Heavenly Jewel Tournament Champion team. Wei Yang designed the general outline, successive three Zong Stage pieces then finally a God-Tier piece, for this set's upgrade path and Ye Ruichen assisted her to create them. The sixth shield at 6 Jewel can even block a single blow from the Heavenly King Assassin without dying.

A 5-Jeweled Assembly Equipment like that was definitely made by at least a Zong Stage Consolidating Equipment Master. Furthermore, even a Zong Stage Consolidating Equipment Master would have to spend ***at least five years*** of full concentration and lots of precious materials in order to create such a set.

The initial three pieces of Ma Qun's set Scrolls were custom crafted by Grandmaster Level Dou Dou, who was almost entering Zong Stage. Less than 3 years later, he had the fourth shield Consolidated before his first Heavenly Jewel Tournament.

## Trivia

* The HJC translator did not write down the inbuilt **Heavy Armour** skill of 5 Pieces.