Last Totem Novel - Chapter 104
Chapter 104 Armor
“Old Man Tie said that the Temple and Silver City are colluding. They are not good things.” Tie Zha clenched his fists and said resentfully, “Now, it seems that’s what happened.”
“Not all of them” Cozan took a sip of wheat tea and analyzed the current world situation.
Today, the Silver City faction that represented the Psionic Adepts was no longer as united as it was two hundred years ago. Every silver city has its own culture and traditions, and there are more and more conflicts of interest between them. Although it hadn’t reached the point of war, it was almost there. Cozan predicted that the next world war would take place between Silver City and Silver City, between Psionic Adepts and Psionic Adepts.
Currently, the three major religions maintain their original attitudes towards insecticides. Notre Dame remains as neutral as ever, neither accepting nor hostile. The temple still treated the insecticide as a heretic. On the other hand, the Ancient Temple was seemingly neutral, but in reality, it sympathized with the insecticides and often secretly supported them.
However, the attitudes of the Silver City forces have been changing …
Silver City in the central continent had always been in a state of war with the outside world, so they advocated the acceptance of insecticides. However, due to the doctrine of the Temple, it was difficult for them to openly support them. But secretly, they had absorbed quite a few powerful bug transformers. Even in a frontline city, insecticides can reveal their identities and be protected by law. However, this was limited to the strong among the insecticides, and the weak still didn’t have much status.
Driven by interests, most of the Silver City forces in the central continent were secretly promoting the idea that “humans should unite with the outside world.”
The Silver City forces in the Western Continent and Northern Desolate Continent, even in the parish of the Temple, aside from a small number of forces that were extremely close to the Temple, the rest of them maintained a superficial attitude towards the insecticides, but in fact, they were too lazy to pay any attention to them.
Often the higher the level of insecticide, the higher the stability of the gene chain, the stronger the concealment, ordinary gene scanners can not identify. If he wanted to eliminate them, he would need more manpower and resources, and it would also be dangerous. The death of a Psionic Adept was a huge pension, but the Temple did not pay them any wages, so they were too lazy to do such a wasted and useless thing.
Cozan warned that in the Northern Wilderness Continent, as long as the insecticides didn’t rashly enter the territory of the Golden Triangle, they would normally be fine. The other forces in the Northern Wilderness had a thunderous attitude towards eliminating the insecticides, and they did not take any practical action. The Golden Triangle was different. They were extremely close to the Temple. Many Patriarchs were regional archbishops of the Temple, and many family members served in the Temple. It could even be said that they were part of the Temple.
“What is the Golden Triangle?” Tie Zha asked. Although he grew up in the Northern Wilderness, he rarely traveled far, and his range of activities was basically between Tieshan Town and Sand City.
Cozan explained that the Golden Triangle referred to the three Silver Cities of the Lombardi Family. They were Silver City No. 15, Manzhushahua City, Silver City No. 16, Wind Trust City, and Silver City No. 17, Bauhinia City. These three Silver Cities were ruled by the Lombardi bloodline, Bauhinia City was ruled by the direct Lombardi family, Wind Trust City was ruled by the collateral Lombardi family, and Manzhushahua City was ruled by the collateral Lombardi family.
The Golden Triangle implemented a “trinity” system, which was a political system led by Lombardi and supplemented by Lombardi Norte and Lombardi Nuevo. From a deeper perspective, they are in fact dictatorships. Moreover, they had a close relationship with the Temple from generation to generation, and they were almost symbiotic, both glorious and disadvantaged. Therefore, their attitudes towards the insecticides were the same as those of the Temple, and their execution was exceptionally strong. In addition, they occupied the best piece of land in the Northern Wilderness. Compared to other powers, they could be considered rich.
The dictatorship was closely related to the Temple and was rich. Together, these three factors made the Golden Triangle a forbidden area for insecticides.
Hearing Cozan’s narrative, Tie Zha secretly sucked in a breath of cold air. It turned out that sending You Ge home last time was such a dangerous act, it was simply passing by Reaper. Looks like don’t do anything good in the future, or you’ll be sent to the stake one day.
Until today, he truly realized that he had saved an enemy of extremely high status. This was truly an embarrassing matter …
Although he had never clashed with the temple before, as an insect, his dislike for the temple was natural.
The lunch lasted for more than two hours, until Cozan finished packing the tableware. Iron Dregs remembered that Cozan had said such a big call, but his question was still unanswered. He expressed his displeasure at this.
“Your question is obvious …” Cozan answered awkwardly. “There’s nothing I can do.”
“This” Iron Slag was completely speechless. He had come all the way here, but there was nothing. He had only learned how to brew wine by hunting, the sneak attack he knew, and some fighting techniques. He expressed strong dissatisfaction with this.
“Actually … the herbalism of the Temple of Glory is not bad. There are potions to increase the psionic martial artists, but …”
“Just what?” Tie Zha asked anxiously.
“It’s lost” Cozan said helplessly.
“You” Tie Zha rolled his eyes in anger. If it weren’t for the fact that the other party was stronger than him, he would have already made a move. Although the other party was an old man, he could not fool others like this. He had to pay a price. In the blink of an eye, he decided to steal the ice crystal fruit wine tonight and let the old man suffer a good deal.
“But … I will prepare a kind of medicinal wine and apply it on my wounds, and my strength will slowly increase,” Cozan said.
“Must I get injured?” Tie Zha asked. Cozan’s words made him feel like he was fooling around again.
“Probably … Probably. That’s how my teacher taught me.” Cozan said seriously, “With your current situation, if you completely grasp the Ancient Era’s battle techniques, your strength should increase by a large margin.”
“What’s the specific increase? My current combat strength assessment is at the Golden Beginner Stage. Can I reach the Diamond and Saint Stages?” Tie Zha asked.
‘”This …” Cozan thought for a moment and replied, “The Knights Templar’s assessment of combat strength is actually not very accurate …” The old man changed the topic and said, “Friend, do you want to try the Mechanical Power Armor?”
“Mechanical power armor! There’s one here!” Tie Zha shouted excitedly.
“Friend, please follow me.” After saying that, Cozan walked out of the kitchen and brought Tie Zha to a room on the east side of the first floor of the castle.
When he pushed the door open, he saw humanoid armor leaning against the wall. It was about two meters tall and one meter wide. Tie Zha excitedly stepped forward and looked around. These power armors were somewhat old, but their joints shone with grease. It seemed that/they were often maintained.
Kozan quietly waited at the side, watching as the iron slag touched and touched. The iron slag circled around the room and found that there were three types of power armor.
The first is painted white, about two meters tall and one meter wide. Back with a bag-shaped jet bag, thick limbs, head on both sides of a feather-like ornament. The second is painted in grey, black and eccentric. Compared to the first type of power armor, this type of power armor looked much slimmer, felt very flexible, and had a bag-shaped jet bag on its back. However, it was much smaller, only having two jets, unlike the first type, which had four jets. Notably, there was a rectangular bulge in the arm of this power armor. Upon closer inspection, it was a mechanical flying claw with steel wires attached to its back. It looked like it was used for climbing. The third type of power armor was painted dark green and looked very heavy. It was slightly taller than the first type, but it was much wider. There was no airbag on his back, but a thick shield. From the joints, it could be seen that the steel plates of this type of power armor were very thick and had several layers. Tie Zha touched it and felt that the innermost layer was somewhat elastic. It should be used for cushioning.
Afterwards, Cozan introduced that the white ones were the Dawn Powerful Armor, the standard equipment for the Sacred Wolf Heavy Armored Guards, the slender ones were the Nightingale Powerful Armor, the Heavenly Eagle Nightwalker’s standard equipment, and the heavy ones were the Colossus Powerful Armor, the standard equipment for the Temple Guards.
Tie Zha hesitated for a moment before deciding to try Dawn Power Armor. He was the first to rule out the mammoth armor, which was not his fighting style. As for the Nightingale Power Armor, it looked too slender. It felt like it was a type of hiding place. Although he liked sneak attacks, he also liked to use brute force to kill his opponents. Therefore, it seemed that the Dawn Powerful Armor between the two was the most suitable for his fighting style.
“How do you wear it?” Tie Zha asked. He had been groping for a while, but he couldn’t find any buttons or switches.
“Mechanical power armor cannot be worn directly. Assembly equipment must be used.” With that, Cozan took Tie Zha to another room. In the middle of the room was a large metal disc surrounded by more than ten robotic arms of varying sizes. The end of the arm is equipped with various tools, including screwdrivers, pliers, wrenches, drills, welders and so on. Cozan put Tie Zha in the middle of the disk and turned on the power.
Immediately after, a mechanically synthesized female voice came from the loudspeaker above.
[Respected Guardian, please choose the type of power armor to be assembled]
“Dawn.” Said Tie Zha.
[Assemble Dawn Power Armor, please confirm]
“Confirm.”
[Please stand naturally, scan begins … Du … Du … Du …]
As the notification sounded, rays of multicolored light swept back and forth across the body of the iron slag. At the same time, the disk beneath his feet began to slowly rotate.
About ten seconds later, the light disappeared and the female mechanical synthesis sounded again.
[Scan complete, height, size confirmed, assembly starting]
As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen robotic arms began to move. While removing a set of power armor on the side, they assembled various components on Tie Zha’s body. First, the inner armor was made of soft glue, then the skeleton of steel, then all sorts of indescribable gadgets, and then a series of pipelines were assembled to connect the various gadgets together …
“Bang … Bang … Bang … Bang … Bang … Bang …”
Along with the muffled sounds of metal collisions, steel plates were embedded. At the same time, all sorts of screwdrivers and wrenches stepped forward to tighten the screws and nuts …
[The first stage of assembly is complete, entering the second stage …]
At this moment, tiny robotic arms stretched out and shot out golden laser beams. The laser beam moved around the surface of the power armor, sparks splashing everywhere it went.
After a short while, the welding was completed, and the female mechanical synthesis sounded again.
[Assembly Phase II completed, entering Phase III …]
As soon as he finished speaking, the robotic arms connected to the black pipes extended over and plunged into the hexagonal holes in the power armor. Tie Zha was in his power armor, and he could hear the sound of liquid filling the pipes.
A moment later, several robotic arms retracted at the same time.
[Assembly complete, ready to start]
[Countdown begins, 5 … 4 … 3 … 2 … 1 …]
In an instant, hot steam sprayed out from the holes in the power armor. At the same time, the power armor gradually contracted until it was completely close to his body.
After assembling, Tie Zha staggered out of the disk and almost fell to the ground …