Death... and me
chapter-2616

After everyone calmed down, Luan finally started to test his System Armor. It had three main utilities. The first one, obvious, was its capability of increasing one's defense without being a hindrance. After absorbing Luan's Divine Energy, its weight pretty much disappeared, but the defense was right there.

*Bang!*

Luan suddenly punched the ground, which was also protected by the formation of the training field. Everything trembled around the ground as Luan's fist shined with a faint golden light for a second. Luan then looked at his fist, feeling impressed. "Incredible. I used nothing but my body cultivation right now when I attacked the protection formation. With the amount of strength I used, I should have caused quite a little damage to my hand. Yet, there is nothing."

Luan looked at Rean and the others. "It felt like instead of only the bones and skin of my hand taking the impact, my entire arm did it instead."

Rean nodded, satisfied. "Then the first function of the armor is working just fine. This is, after all, an armor. Its primary objective is to increase your defense. This function of the armor spreads the entire impact throughout the armor as a whole instead of just receiving it at the point of impact. It's especially useful against slashing and piercing attacks."

Roan couldn't help but ask. "How much strength can it hold?"

Howard was the one to answer that. "That's a tricky question. You have to understand that with the armor's function of spreading the impact throughout the whole armor, the power it can defend against varies according to the type of attack received."

He continued. "For example, a piercing attack from a spear has a huge penetrating power at the point of impact compared to the attack of a war hammer. The areas of impact of these two weapons are hugely different. However, we did a few tests during the armor's conception, and we believe the average extra defense power it gives is something around 20 to 30% of the user's original defense."

"20 to 30%?" Roan found it hard to believe. "Everyone's defense is different. For example, my defense with my sixth stage of the Starlight Body Cultivation Technique is ridiculously higher than the defense of some run-of-the-mill body cultivators with their average body cultivation techniques. How can the armor increase my defense by the same 20 to 30% as someone who doesn't use the same technique as me?"

Rean expected that question. "You are not wrong. If the armor is used by some weak individual, then forget 20 to 30%. His defense would increase several thousand percent. However, we only took you, me, and Luan into this equation. After all, I'm only forging three armors, no more. All three of us are cultivators of the Starlight Body Cultivation Technique. Luan's technique is slightly worse than ours since it wasn't created by the system, but the difference isn't that big. That's why we say it should be around 20 to 30%."

Luan understood. "That means the armor gives me an extra 30% higher defense while it should give Father and Uncle an extra 20% or so, correct?"

"Correct," Rean nodded. "Of course, with the ability to spread the impact force, depending on the type of attack you receive, this percentage might get higher but not lower. An explosion, for example, would be something way easier for the armor to defend than a piercing strike due to the area of impact. This is quite a huge contribution, you know?"

Roan nodded, satisfied. "Something that could increase our defense by 20% is already impressive enough. It wouldn't be wrong to say that our defense is not on par with Kentucky's. I always felt his Minokawa defense was around 20% stronger after we reached the sixth stage of the Starlight Body Cultivation Technique."

Luan was still curious. "Uncle Rean, what will happen if the power of the attack is higher than what the armor can defend against?"

"What else?" Rean shrugged his shoulders. "It will breakthrough the armor and hit your body for real. Of course, the armor's defense will mitigate the effect of the attack, so it is still worth it. Roan, I feel like you wanna get payment for the toilet comment. Why don't you give it a try and show us how the armor reacts after its defense is broken?"

Roan's eyes lit up as he looked at Luan. "I intended to give some hellish training later, but that works too."

Luan bitterly smiled but dared not to flee. It was an impossible task, after all.

Roan took out one of Rean's Swords. It wasn't as good as the Black Star, but it could get the job done.

'Death Style, First Form, Stellar Piercer!'

Luan didn't try to dodge as the piercing ray of Light and Dark Element struck his shoulder. Immediately, the armor lit up with golden light as it tried to spread the power of Roan's attack. Unfortunately, it was too much for the armor, so Luan's shoulder got pierced, causing blood to flow.

Still, Roan felt quite surprised. "Not bad. I intended to pierce all the way through his shoulder and exit on the other side. Yet, all I managed to do was to give him a deep wound, but the power of my attack was spent once it reached halfway through his body."

"That's not all," Rean added. "Take a look."

Luan gritted his teeth and bore the pain. As for the armor, the golden light continued as it rebuilt itself around the wound. In less than a second, the armor's light disappeared as it was back to its original form. Yes, the armor simply regrew around the hole Roan opened earlier. "So it can fix itself, uh?" Roan was even more pleased with the result. "It is also good for the wound. The blood is being blocked by the armor since it attaches to the skin completely, so there is no bleeding. I can see the wound and the blood inside, but that's it. Not bad at all.