From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword

Chapter 176 - 147: Distributing the Spoils of War, The Three-Skill Mechanical Beast

"The Flame Demon shattered into a pile of coal slag, releasing three Skill Crystal Cores, a piece of Black Crystal Ore, and a fiery red Source Material."

"Having cleaned up the battlefield, the two teams had no time to slowly study the items they had obtained."

"Because the mission was still incomplete, the most crucial task remained to locate the rift points and destroy them."

"Even though they had killed the Flame Demon, they had not yet investigated whether there were rift points within the Sandstone Hill."

"Therefore, the two teams immediately returned to the Sandstone Hill to carry out their

This means it isn't a support skill but a defense skill.

If it were used by Su Muyu, this skill could only add a shield to herself.

So, Lu Heng planned to use it for the Mechanical Tiger.

The liquid metal shell of the Mechanical Tiger was basically immune to physical attacks unless the impact was so powerful that it could bulldoze through a Class A Mechanical Beast.

However, the Mechanical Tiger still had a weakness—it was vulnerable to flames.

Extreme high temperatures could melt its metal shell into molten iron.

Just like in the Abyss Battlefield before, a high-energy beam from a Sikes Technology Light Prism Tank had melted its shell into molten iron.

Considering this weakness, Lu Heng chose this "Fiery Flame Shield" Crystal Core for the Mechanical Tiger.

With this Crystal Core, which could absorb 500 points of flame damage and increase its flame resistance by 50%,

With this skill, coupled with the "Metal Enhancement" effect, it could now withstand high-temperature burns.

The skill was named "Fiery Flame Shield," meant to block flame damage, but its true effect was to shield against high temperatures.

High-energy lasers caused the same type of scorch damage as flames.

Therefore, this "Fiery Flame Shield" could also protect against heat-based laser weapons.

After feeding the Crystal Core to the Mechanical Tiger, it now possessed three skills.

These were the C-class "Metal Enhancement," B-class "City-Breaking Charge," and C-class "Fiery Flame Shield."

Combined, this hulking beast could be considered Blue Star's number one armored bulwark, nearly immune to physical attacks, and now its resistance to flames had also improved.

Plus, with the reckless "City-Breaking Charge," it could even face a tank head-on.

Talking about combat power, the Mechanical Tiger's abilities were already on par with a Level 25 superpower user.

Especially when facing the Flame Demon or Abyssal Aliens, where ordinary superpower users would hesitate to confront directly, the Mechanical Tiger could.

After resting in Liu River for one night, the next morning,

The two teams of twenty people formally split up, each heading home or back to their unit.

Lu Heng and his two companions returned to Coastal, rested well for a day, and prepared to take a Black Crystal Forging Stone the next day for an attempted upgrade of the Aurora Blade.

Before heading to Quenching Castle, he received an international message from Lin Zeyu.

Ten days ago, Kashima Shintou Sword Saint Saito Takeji was expelled from the country.

Following that, Fusang propagated a narrative that said all swordsmen from Da Xia were despicable and cowardly, fearing to face a challenge and using official power to expel the Sword Saint from Fusang.

This was the situation, but framed differently, it sounded entirely distinct.