The Void Walker Starting from Xumi

Chapter 65, Power Armor
The mushroom beast siege that everyone had expected did not happen, and everyone began to play in the mushroom forest again.

Well~it is indeed for fun. After all, there is no danger in the mushroom forest in the conventional sense for them.

"The Tree King Holy Body Mushroom, this stuff is the most delicious." Xia Mian jumped off the mushroom, his arms full of Tree King Holy Body Mushroom.

“Among the Tree King’s creations, only the Tree King Holy Body Mushroom has the strongest breath of the Tree King.” Fergate nodded and said.

"After the death of the Tree King and before the birth of the Grass King, those sages and others ate the Tree King Holy Body Mushroom raw at banquets to sense the breath of the Tree King and miss him," said Xia Mian.

She had experienced this incident personally, and she had to say that the sages at that time were still talented, unlike the later ones who were all like humans.

"I really don't know what to say about these younger generations." Kuru didn't know how to complain about his younger generations.

At least you should cook the mushrooms well. You are not really afraid that the Tree King Mushroom will mutate and develop some hallucinogenic abilities.

“Here are some shiitake mushrooms.”

"Come to think of it, Arlecino's eyes look a bit like mushrooms."

"You're saying it the other way around, but these two mushrooms do look very similar. If you make the cross bloody, they'll look even more similar."

Alechino was quite speechless. Her eyes were connected to her own blood and were the manifestation of her own blood. They were filled with cursed power. If one observed them for a long time, one would even be pulled into the horrific illusion created by the blood.

People would often go crazy from looking into her eyes for too long.

But it was obvious that the people in front of her didn't care much about the curse in her blood.

Although this gave Alecino a long-lost sense of relaxation, it also had many disadvantages.

For example, she would also be teased. Before, the only person who could talk to her like this in the Hearth House was Clevi, and the rest of the people were afraid of her. Even in the current Hearth House, only Xiamian and Fugate would occasionally talk to her like this.

Others were more in awe of her, and as for the children, their feelings towards her were a mixture of awe and dependence, and some even had fear of her.

To the delicate Alechino, these were like the lines on the palm of your hand.

This feeling made Alechino feel a little familiar and strange.

This feeling seems to be 'friends'?
"I seem to understand why Fuget insisted on bringing me along. Was he afraid that I might have mental problems? This is underestimating my mental quality." I thought of some of Fuget's works.

Arlecino had also read the various works of his own that Fgate had moved to his office. After all, some of the knowledge was indeed very useful, and with the help of intelligence development potions, even Arlecino, who specialized in combat, could easily learn a lot of things.

Alechino also felt amused on the inside, but on the surface he remained calm as he tasted the grilled mushrooms and mixed mushroom soup.

Although the cooking in the wild is not exquisite enough, it is fresh and excellent enough, and tastes unique.

"Mushroom man!" Hetala shouted at Alechino, who didn't know what he was thinking.

However, he was punished with an iron fist by Fuget and Xiamian.

"Don't give people nicknames randomly, asshole."

After the iron-fisted corrections of Fuget and Xiamian, Hetala, who had been letting herself go more and more, finally regained her ladylike appearance and apologized to Alechino with a bruised face.

"What a noisy guy." Baanka sighed, "He wasn't so active before."

"? Speaking of which, someone has arrived. Anyone who can come to Wu Yuchou Forest must be a scholar studying some weird things." Hetala said.

Everyone followed Hetala's gaze and saw an old man in scholar's clothes appear in everyone's sight, followed by several young scholars and several mercenaries.

"Young man, sorry to bother you. Do you mind if we borrow your light?" said the old scholar. Judging from his attire, he should be a Handa from the Yogacara school.

"I still mind it a little bit." Kuru said, "But I can still borrow a light."

"Come to think of it, young man, you look familiar to me. Have we met before?" asked the old scholar.

"No," Kuru said.

After borrowing a fire, the old scholar set up his own camp not far from where Fugate and his friends were camping.

Well~ This place is the most suitable place to set up a camp nearby, so it is quite common to camp together.

However, both sides tacitly reserved room for defense.

Only after the old scholar and his friends set up their camp did Fugate and his friends start chatting again.

Kuru shared his guess: "These guys probably came here to cultivate and balance the environment. According to Xia Mian, it should be their school that purified the Wu Yu Chou Forest and revived such a huge mushroom forest."

Ferget nodded. "The signs of human intervention here are quite obvious, but it's okay. It's much better than Fontaineurenas."

When Fuget was working (slacking off) in Fontaine, he went there. Compared to the well-handled area in Wu Yuchonglin, there is still a huge amount of residual pollution there.

Even many of the original pure water elves have been polluted and turned into turbid water elves.

"The people of Fontaine have tried to purify the area, but all efforts have ended in failure," said Alecino. "The pollution there is not comparable to that of the Yulu Forest."

"That's true... After all, it's an alchemical beast close to the level of a demon god." Ferget nodded. "The most here is the various pollutions left behind by the beast hounds that died in battle."

Several people played in Wuyuchou Forest for a few days and caught a few Shenbo Mitao which are only produced in Wuyuchou Forest. The taste of this kind of fish is really sweet. Originally, the fish masters expected to cultivate fish that tasted like dessert. Unfortunately, due to various factors, the fish dessert was not successful.

In addition, this type of pufferfish is relatively rare, expensive, and difficult to use as food, so people usually raise it as an ornamental fish.

But Fgate and the others don't care about that.

The desire for food and enjoyment are what they should really focus on.

"Okay, let's go back." said Fugate, who had seen most of the beautiful scenery of the Jungle Forest.

Announce that this outdoor dinner + leisure trip has come to an end.

Then they hurried back to the Sixth Manor. After opening some deeper permissions in the Sixth Manor to several apprentices, Fuget pulled Alechino and began to walk in the subspace with Xiamian.

"The scenery of the subspace changes every time I see it." Alechino looked around curiously.

She and Charmian were almost hanging on Fugate.

After all, neither she nor Xiamian have yet completely mastered the skill of walking in the warp, so if they want to walk in the warp they need someone to lead them. This time, it was Fugate who led them both.

"If you want to watch this often, you'd better learn astral projection as soon as possible."

Astral projection is similar to out-of-body experience, but on a much lower level. It can basically be accessed when psychic energy reaches a building-breaking level in the mortal world. One can project one's consciousness or a consciousness clone into the subspace.

Then travel, study, etc. in the subspace.

But unfortunately, Alechino has a hard time learning this kind of non-combat spell.

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"Xamien, are you ready?" asked Fugate.

"Well, we're ready." Xia Mian said.

"Start getting dressed." Fergate nodded and said to the machines around him.

With the cooperation of the machine soul, Xiamian began to wear power armor. This was not the final version of power armor, but a sample armor made by Fugate.

It's just a mass-produced product, but it has all the necessary systems and can be used normally.

But there are some problems, that is, this armor can only be used by people with a body shape similar to Shamian or Shamian, otherwise many models will not be suitable.

"How does it feel?" After most of the armor was put on, Fugate continued to ask.

"It feels okay, a little oppressive, but not serious," said Xia Mian.

"Next, proceed with the final installation of the head armor. If there are any problems, stop immediately." Fugate said, "Also pay attention to the electronic muscle bundle. You don't have a black shell and an external neural link device, so a certain delay is normal. Don't worry."

"Also, you have to be careful about the problem of device overload."

"You've said it many times." Xia Mian said speechlessly.

Fugate scratched his head and shut up.

"Head armor, put on." As Fugate gave the order, the machine soul began the final installation work, and a huge helmet covered Xiamian's head.

"All systems have begun self-checking." Xiamian said in a muffled voice, with mechanical and electronic sounds in his voice. The voice-breathing grid can amplify the wearer's voice and psychic battle cry.

Each system starts self-checking after about ten minutes.

Xia Mian said, "The self-examination results show that everything is normal."

"Then start the test," said Fugate.

"First, the action test."

The action test was completed very quickly, and the next steps were to conduct long-distance running tests and combat tests. These two tests would make a lot of noise, so naturally, we had to inform the boss and even report to the Fontainebleau Science Academy, otherwise it would be bad to be targeted as a runaway robot.

"Has the power armor been manufactured?" Alechino said in surprise.

"Only the inner armor is complete. The outer layer of power armor is a mass-produced product made of substandard steel." Fugate shook his head and said, "But after testing, we can predict the final product effect."

The inner armor is a substitute developed by Fugate for situations where the black shell is not implanted. It needs to be worn close to the body. The ceramic steel doped with refined gold is made using a special process. Due to its special structure, it is very soft and can detect the movement of human muscles, and then convert it into signals for transmission.

The inner armor is already complete and has been tested. This time it is mainly for the testing of the power armor.

"Very strong. Although it has not reached the captain's level yet, it is very close." Alechino narrowed his eyes and looked at the power armor that completed all the inspections step by step.

"Next, we will start testing the elemental force enhancement system." said Fugate.

"I understand." Xia Mian's voice came to Fugate's ears.

Then a ball of lightning burst out from the power armor, and then the power armor began to test the previous action again, but it was visible to the naked eye that the speed was much faster.

"What do you think?" asked Fugate.

Alechino commented: "It has completely surpassed the previous level."

[Shamian·Inferior Ceramic Steel Alloy Power Armor, Challenge Level LV97-LV102] What Fugate was actually asking was the system.

Arlecino's answer reminded Fuget that his nominal boss was also watching.

So he asked himself, "Can you predict the challenge level after the [Thunder and Lightning] Power Armor is completed?"

[Calculating...]

[Shamian·Adamantium Ceramic Steel Alloy Power Armor Complete Form, Expected Challenge Level LV115-LV120]

[Special entry: Aluminum Ceramic Steel Alloy Power Armor, immune to most attacks below LV110, greatly reduced against attacks below LV130, currently immune to physics, elements, rules, energy, divine power, soul, psionic power, mind, spirit, space, dimension (partial)... not yet immune to time, meme, thought, mathematics, cause and effect...]

Fugate nodded secretly. It was much stronger than he had calculated. Pure gold was really powerful.

However, when he saw the last ones who were not yet immune, Fugate couldn't help but twitch his mouth.

These non-immune guys are more idealistic and abstract than each other. Fugate doesn't want to continue working towards them.

"How strong can mine be?" Alechino asked curiously.

"It's not the same model. After all, yours is made of scraps, so it's naturally much weaker than this one. But in terms of flexibility, lightness and combat effectiveness, it's better than this model." said Fgate.

Alechino's armor is naturally inferior to Shamian's.

But Fugate had no intention of fooling around.

"Okay, the element test is complete, Xia Mian can take a break."

"it is good."

The three of them returned to the smelter, and with the help of the machine soul, Xiamian finally crawled out of the power armor.

Looking at Shamian Fuget, who was covered in sweat, he frowned.

"The cooling system and ventilation system are not fully operational?" asked Fugate.

"It's working perfectly. This is just sweat from strenuous exercise." Xia Mian said, "Normally this kind of sweat is easily blown away by the wind, but inside the power armor, it's not easy to drain the sweat, and the inner armor blocks the ventilation system."

"Are you showing any signs of dehydration?" asked Fugate.

"No, the body detection system and energy replenishment system are functioning perfectly normally," Xia Mian said.

"That's good. It seems that what we need next is to modify the inner armor. At least it should not affect perspiration." said Fugate.

"A small amount of sweating doesn't affect anything." Xia Mian said.

"So excessive sweating still has an impact." Fergate nodded. "I see. This is a problem caused by the previous design. It is not difficult to solve."

The main reason is that when a simple inner nail test was performed before, there would not be severe sweating.

"The problem can be solved by adjusting the frequency of the rhythm device and adding a closable sweat groove design to the inner armor."

Fortunately, it was not a serious problem and was relatively easy to solve. Fugate even completed the design and renovation that day.

In fact, this situation would not occur unless we conduct various tests that consume a lot of physical energy in an exaggerated manner like today.

But since there are hidden dangers in this regard, then Fugate is naturally perfect.

"It's normal for the inner armor to have problems. After all, it's not the black shell that has been tested for a long time." Fugate said after handing the inner armor to Xiamian.

"If you have any questions, please let me know as soon as possible."

After many tests, it can be seen that the design of the power armor is indeed very mature, and the foundation is very good, so it is very easy to make various personalized modifications to it.

The parts that often went wrong during various tests were those that Fgate had modified, while the original design rarely went wrong.

Even if there is a problem, it is because of the use of low-quality ceramic steel.

Afterwards, a practical test was conducted, and the target was Alechino.

Before they wore power armor, Shamian and Alecino were evenly matched in terms of combat power. However, after Shamian put on the power armor, he easily defeated Alecino. However, Alecino was also tenacious and managed to hold on for two hours under such strong pressure.

It is true that the power armor is always a beat slower in reaction, otherwise Alechino would probably be defeated within a few dozen moves.

However, the merits outweigh the flaws, and this reaction is completely acceptable.

In short, with the power armor, Xia Mian has confirmed that he can participate in the demon-level battlefield, even if he is wearing this crude and rough one.

The days that followed were a bit boring as Fugate waited for the ceramic steel to reach the standard and then cast it into parts of the power armor.

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On this day, in the courtyard of the Bufadi Mansion, all the children went out to carry out tasks or to make a living.

Fugate and Alechino had a rare moment to chat together.

The content of their conversation, in short, is inseparable from the target they both hate, [Doctor].

"Speaking of which, when we went to the Winter Palace for a meeting some time ago, [Doctor] called you one of the top researchers under him. What do you think about this?" asked Alechino.

"I have my reservations about that," Fugate said, rolling his eyes.

"[Doctor] said that he can lead more than a hundred scientific research projects at the same time. I wonder how many scientific research projects you have started now?"

“In recent years, we have opened three projects,” Fugate said.

"Steel smelting project, two goals; Ceramic steel theory 100%, currently in production and being optimized, Mithril theory 23%."

"The four goals of the alchemy potion project have all been completed. I am working with Xia Mian to optimize various known potions, mainly in the three directions of improving quality, increasing output, and reducing costs."

"Armor project, three goals; [Thunderbolt] power armor, theoretical 100%, actual progress 27%; [Fermented Pearl Hibiscus] power armor, theoretical 98%; [Evil Moon Fire] rapid reaction armor, theoretical 71%."

(End of this chapter)