area51novel Chapter 149 Departure to the Far North Ice Plains
Chapter 149 Departure to the Far North Ice Plains
The peaceful atmosphere lasted until the end of the semester, and Shrek Academy, which did not have the habit of final exams, smoothly entered the holiday period.
On the last night before the holiday, Long You tested his soul power level again, and unsurprisingly, it was still level 48.
"Damn it, Beibei, what's your soul power level now?"
Because, like Long You, Bei Bei received a sacrifice from a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast when absorbing her fourth soul ring, both of them quickly surpassed level forty in soul power and advanced towards level fifty.
Both of them were determined to achieve a breakthrough to the Soul King level before the selection process for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament next semester. Considering that the selection process would begin quite close to the start of the semester, it would be best to complete the breakthrough in soul power level during the holidays.
However, once a Soul Master reaches the Soul Grandmaster stage, they are essentially entering the intermediate Soul Master stage. At this stage, regardless of a Soul Master's talent, the rate of Soul Power increase will significantly decrease.
The energy carried by the soul ring obtained through sacrifice helped Bei Bei and Long You take a big step forward in the Soul Master stage. Their awakened Martial Soul consciousness also kept them constantly in the process of soul power circulation and cultivation.
However, so far, Long You's soul power level is still at level 48. Although level 48 is already at its peak and could break through to level 49 at any time, not breaking through is not breaking through.
"I'm level 48 and haven't broken through yet, so it looks like I won't be able to this holiday. How's your soul ring storage device doing? It'll be too tight to hunt soul beasts after school starts."
“A prototype has already been developed. Tomorrow I will take this prototype of the Soul Ring Storage Device with me to the far north, where there is a suitable second Soul Ring for Yuhao.”
I also want to get a spirit ring in the far north, and then create an ice-fire clash; the effect should be quite good.
"So, that means I'm useless now?"
"Well, not necessarily. If this experiment shows that this thing is really useful, our Soul Guidance Department will definitely continue to produce it."
Considering my travel speed and the current limits of long-distance communication, the Soul Guidance Department should be able to produce a new finished product before the end of this holiday. I'll then ask Teacher Fanyu for permission to let you use it first.
"That won't help. If we can't break through during the holidays, do you think we can break through when the selection process starts?"
"Ha, then it's at least level 49. As long as we have suitable spirit rings, we'll definitely be able to break through level 50 by the time we set off."
"Speaking of which, isn't it true that you can only absorb a spirit ring by killing a spirit beast yourself? But from what you just said, it seems like this rule doesn't need to be followed?"
"Ah, that's generally true, since that's one of the goals this soul tool was designed to achieve. But I'll have to use it once to know the specifics."
He groaned and fell back onto the bed, ending their conversation on the last night before the holiday.
Early in the morning, after having a special breakfast for core disciples at the academy cafeteria, Long You set off with Huo Yuhao. Of course, before leaving, Long You didn't forget to fill his specially made insulated lunchbox with beef soup dumplings and pork xiaolongbao from Shrek City. Hmm, the braised pig's trotters and braised pork hocks from the south of the city were also delicacies he couldn't miss.
After leaving Shrek City, Long You took Huo Yuhao into his soul-guided power mecha. Propelled by the mecha's flight device, it soared into the sky and headed north of the continent.
In fact, this soul-guided power mecha was the first generation of giant mecha created by Long You. Although its five-meter height makes it a miniature compared to the mechas in Pacific Rim, on this Douluo Continent, a five-meter-tall soul-guided mecha is considered a giant mecha.
This was completed after Long You conscripted Bei Bei's labor force and it took a full three months.
To put it in perspective, Long You himself only spent a little over three months working on the battle armor from scratch. Now, a soul-guided powered mecha with complete design blueprints and a solid foundation has taken Long You and Bei Bei three months to complete.
One can imagine how much human labor would be required to build such a massive soul-guided powered armor. It was this process of creating the giant mech that further solidified Longyou's determination to create artificial intelligence, or micro-engraved soul tools under intelligent control.
When performing advanced forging operations such as spirit forging and soul forging, you must do it yourself; you must also do it yourself when inscribing the core magic array. However, there is really no need to do it yourself when inscribing the auxiliary inscription magic arrays that are basically all over the entire soul-guided power mech.
The inscription of auxiliary rune arrays is actually quite simple, far less complicated than that of core rune arrays. After all, core rune arrays may require minor adjustments at any time during the inscription process based on the state of the rare metals. However, the inscriptions of auxiliary rune arrays only need to ensure that their form remains unchanged.
Even if the ability of human hand engraving can match that of computer control in ensuring the integrity and exact sameness of the form, the effort required is definitely not small.
As Bourne controlled the soul-guided power mech to fly north, Long You was also checking the newly built soul-guided power mech in real time.
Long You was very satisfied with the speed, stability, operability, and safety of this soul-guided powered mecha. There was only one thing that bothered him greatly: perhaps due to its large size, the mecha's fuel consumption was also extremely high.
Before setting off, Long You specifically asked Fan Yu for two level-eight milk bottle soul tools filled with soul power. However, now that only two hours of flight time have passed, one-third of the stored soul power energy in one of the level-eight milk bottles has been consumed.
It's only been two hours. If this level eight milk bottle were installed on the small soul-guided power armor that Long You used before, it would be enough to support the small soul-guided power armor to fly for a whole day.
Two hours later, when the soul power stored in the level eight milk bottle had dropped to only one-third, Long You controlled the soul-guided power mecha to land.
In four hours, Long You and Huo Yuhao had flown from Shrek City to the territory of the Douling Empire.
A little further ahead, we'll be entering the capital's restricted area of the Douling Empire, so we should be cautious and land. We'll recharge the soul-guided power mecha while also taking a break; it's time for lunch.
Considering that time wasn't actually very tight, Long You was also thinking about whether to spend the afternoon and evening resting in the city.