71: Chapter 70 Loading MOD: Ark Reactor

Sun Po did not have Changyou's heaven-defying comprehension, so his experiments were naturally related to the mod loading system.

But he did not act in haste, because Changyou had killed a large number of monsters, and he had not yet picked up the scattered materials.

Sun Po picked up a pile of scales emitting a green glow from beneath his feet and activated the system to begin analysis:

[Card Making Material Analysis]

[Scales of the Mutated Deep One]

Quality: [Green 2-Star]

Description: [Scales dropped by a Deep One contaminated by the blood of the Mad Dragon]

This material cannot be crafted into a MOD.

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Even though it was all in Chinese, Sun Po found these words a bit hard to understand when put together.

The term 'Deep One' was not unfamiliar to Sun Po.

These things came from a mythology called Cthulhu, and generally lived in the deep sea or by the shore.

They were comparable in size to humans, but far stronger than ordinary people.

Their bodies were grayish-green, and their skin could secrete mucus to keep them moist.

They generally had dorsal fins and webbed hands, with heads like fish.

These creatures themselves were adept at pollution, capable of transforming humans into their own kind.

But what kind of thing could contaminate a Deep One? Just what kind of filthy existence was this Mad Dragon?

But there was no point in overthinking. The calamity qi caused by this fish-ization disease incident in Jinyang City was unusually dense,

indicating that this great disaster was far from being over so easily.

Sun Po had to seize the opportunity to increase his strength so that he could have a chance to pull chestnuts out of the fire and obtain the greatest benefits.

Moreover, these monsters seemed to range from White to Green quality, and their strength was superior to the Grey-quality Yin Soldiers and Water Ghosts.

But within Tianhe Budu, even if a Yin Soldier died, the Ghostly Water River effect would still trigger, producing a Water Ghost just the same.

The Water Ghosts would then go ashore via the Ghostly Water Boat to turn back into Yin Soldiers and fight the enemy,

Essentially, as long as the secret realm was not broken, these things would never truly die, and their numbers would not even decrease.

Faced with a boundless ocean of monsters, the defensive line of these thousands of Yin Soldiers was clearly being gradually compressed.

Just now, Changyou's divine ability to summon wind and rain from the clouds made slaughtering them as easy as crushing ants.

If those few Water Soldiers were still around, they could have organized these Yin Soldiers to mount an effective defense,

but at this moment, Changyou had taken a few Water Soldiers to conduct experiments on the Tianhe Naval Forces,

so this situation naturally had to be held down by Sun Po's new general—the Tianhe Naval Forces.

The Tianhe Naval Forces indeed lived up to the name of a deity card; the bright silver spear in his hand danced so fast that not even wind could pass through,

A horizontal sweep of his spear was like the Tianhe River flowing backward, shattering the bones and scattering the flesh of over a dozen monsters.

A vertical thrust of his spear was like a startled dragon emerging from a ravine, piercing through the chests of another dozen monsters and blasting open a long vacuum zone.

With every strike of the spear, waves of water exploded, blowing the surrounding ring of monsters into bloody pulps.

Even when the Yin Soldiers' defense was occasionally breached and those monsters' wild claws struck the Tianhe Naval Forces, it only left scratches on his armor and slightly dirtied the hem of his clothes.

It posed absolutely no threat; let alone killing the Tianhe Naval Forces, it couldn't even trigger the recovery effect of his Tianhe Divine Body.

With this, Sun Po felt at ease to decompose all the materials into spirituality points.

Although they were all White and Green quality materials, their sheer volume made up for it, and Sun Po managed to raise his stored spirituality points to 11,000.

Sun Po watched as more and more Yin Soldiers gathered, making their defense against the onslaught of these Deep Ones increasingly stable.

Ahead, the Tianhe Naval Forces was completely slaughtering his way through, as if Zhao Yun had activated his Musou mode to mow down grass.

One could only say that the value of the deity card was still rising.

"It seems the environment is barely safe enough. It's time to start experimenting."

Sun Po opened the mod loading system in his mind once again and entered the familiar custom MOD interface.

At the same time, he confirmed the target he wanted to craft and load in his mind.

That right! It wasn't Changyou, but Sun Po's Black Rhino Armor.

The Black Rhino Armor was outstanding in terms of functionality, combat power, and compatibility with Changyou.

But there was only one issue—it consumed too much spirituality.

Thinking back to when Sun Po dueled Yagyu Ichiro,

The Black Rhino Armor was summoned and just stood there without moving.

What Meteor Raging Waterfall Pierce, what Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros Horn Slash, what Cold Jade Black Ice Shield—

Sun Po didn't dare to use a single skill! He only threw one punch, a completely ordinary punch.

With such a minor action, the Black Rhino Armor drained all of Sun Po's spirituality in just 5 minutes and 21 seconds.

When Sun Po first crafted the Black Rhino Armor, it was to make himself, a Card Maker, safer.

Since it was for safety, it naturally needed to provide constant protection.

But with such a rapid rate of spirituality consumption, it was really hard for Sun Po to keep it active constantly.

And upon seeing the battle between Liu Jianren and Bai Yu, Sun Po vaguely guessed that Bai Yu's exclusive talent should be of an energy conversion type.

This gave Sun Po inspiration:

"If my spirituality isn't enough, increasing my spirituality isn't necessarily the only way. Maybe energy conversion is also a good idea?"

Furthermore, the calamity qi from this fish-ization disease incident in Jinyang City was so dense that Sun Po had to plan ahead and strengthen his self-preservation capabilities.

As for the choice of energy conversion, Sun Po had already made up his mind.

"I choose you, Tony Stark!"

Of course, Sun Po wasn't trying to hand-craft Iron Man's creator,

what he wanted to make was Iron Man's core—the ark reactor.

The ark reactor was essentially a cold fusion device, which similarly converted high-level energy into low-level energy using the most advanced cold fusion technology.

This technology differed from traditional energy conversion; it was more like a mass-energy release.

In the movies, it was roughly nuclear fusion at normal temperature and pressure.

Lightweight, convenient, highly efficient in conversion, and free of pollution and waste, it was a highly ideal power supply mode.

In the movie, this thing was first co-developed by Iron Man's father, Howard Stark, and Anton Vanko, and was later perfected and improved by Tony Stark, ultimately becoming Iron Man's energy core.

Of course, Sun Po didn't understand the principles of the ark reactor. After all, trying to figure out the theory of cold fusion in his head and provide it to the mod loading system?

That was something Sun Po absolutely could not do.

But it didn't matter. In the custom MOD panel,

Sun Po was the client, responsible for wild ideas. As for whether it could be realized?

Sorry, but that wasn't Sun Po's concern.

Moreover, the contractor, the mod loading system, was too powerful. So far, there had been no situation it couldn't realize—only situations where Sun Po couldn't afford the spirituality points.

The appearance design of this thing wasn't difficult; it could be described as extremely simple.

A triangle enclosed in a circle, emitting a blue light, with some mechanical clips on the back.

Therefore, this could be called Sun Po's easiest custom MOD creation,

but he suddenly felt that putting this thing on the Black Rhino Armor wouldn't look very good once it was made.

At the same time, Sun Po also wanted to test what the consequences would be if a custom MOD underwent a major change in appearance.

What if the internal energy properties also changed at the same time?

Without another word, Sun Po began to conceptualize in his mind.

"This shape is unnecessary. It's better to place it directly on the chest of the Black Rhino Armor, where there happens to be a bright yellow hexagonal groove."

"The pattern doesn't have to be a triangle either; it could be something else. For example, the icon from whenever the Black Rhino Armor transforms would be pretty good.

This icon can also have a glowing effect—dimming when there's no energy, and displaying the rhinoceros icon when there is."

As for the power attribute to be converted, Sun Po had plans for it long ago.

[Cards] required calamity qi, field cards required calamity qi, and the surroundings were full of calamity qi.

There was no power attribute more suitable than calamity qi.

"The power properties of calamity qi should be relatively high. If this device can be configured to store a large amount of calamity qi,

and then convert that calamity qi into spirituality, it should greatly alleviate the spirituality consumption issue of the Black Rhino Armor.

At the same time, I will spend all my spirituality points to reach maximum storage! It's decided!"

Immediately, the jelly in the center of the MOD crafting panel began to twist.

Soon, the ark reactor as Sun Po had envisioned was completed.

It was a bright yellow, hexagonal gem-like object, within which a faint rhinoceros pattern was vaguely visible.

"[MOD [calamity qi reactor] has been successfully crafted, with a quality of [Orange 1-Star].

A total of 10,000 spirituality points were consumed, leaving 1,000 spirituality points. Obtained 100 system EXP, remaining 1856/10000]"

"[The compatibility between the custom MOD and the host's own MOD is naturally increased by 20%]"

"[This MOD loading is a double composite MOD loading, reducing the success rate by 10%]"

"[Compatibility between MOD [calamity qi reactor] and Black Rhino Armor: 65%]"

"[Success rate of loading MOD [calamity qi reactor]: 50%]"

"Damn! This success rate is a bit low, fifty-fifty? I really wish I could borrow Liu Jianren's crazy luck right now!"

Sun Po hesitated; this success rate felt like a bit of a gamble.

After all, he was no longer at the end of his rope like when he held the Changyou skeleton.

Suddenly, a sharp, needle-like pain shot through the back of Sun Po's head. Before his consciousness could even withdraw from the spiritual space,

he was already nearly suffocated by the intense, stabbing pain!

He didn't know what had happened, but he knew he couldn't hesitate any longer.

Sun Po screamed frantically in his mind:

"Load MOD [calamity qi reactor]!!

Black Rhino Armor!! Equip!!"

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