580: Chapter 304: Upgrade Complete, Two Traits 580: Chapter 304: Upgrade Complete, Two Traits The Tank Guard ascending from B level to A level requires nine million, but now upgrading to S level needs one hundred million tal energy.
Having it absorb the tal energy from the Black Gold Source Stone directly cut the amount by half, and after subtracting the ninety million reserved for Dark Night, only a little over twenty million remained.
Even the tal energy from the Ascender’s Source Crystal wasn’t enough.
This calculation left Li Ming slightly dazed.
Just like that…
it’s gone?
But it was only a brief confusion.
After all, tal energy is ant to be used to enhance strength; it won’t grow on its own.
As for the control over the Ascender’s Source Crystal, there’s no rush.
Its more significant role is to assist, which looks very powerful in the long run.
But for now, he should focus on enhancing his strength first.
With a thought, the Tank Guard cha, which had followed him for a long ti and been through countless battles, appeared before him, its hefty tal armor reflecting a faint luster.
He felt a tinge of sentintality; this was not just a cha, but also his second body.
This upgrade would take it a level higher, and step by step, he, as the Azure Dragon, was making the bold claims he had once made a reality.
While thinking, his hands were already placed on the surface of the Tank Guard cha, with surging tal energy flowing out from his fingers and into the Tank Guard.
Golden electric arcs exploded suddenly, its tallic structure at the surface began to disintegrate, like dispersing catkins, yet encircling its body like a Star Ring.
Ionic fluctuations surged, the tal skeleton and energy pipelines were re-laid, transforming into brand-new tal materials and structures.
The recently acquired Titan Stone was being consud silently.
Perhaps because the upgrade path had already been chosen, this upgrade only needed continuous strengthening, therefore, there were no special prompts during the process.
Li Ming is now extrely familiar with the differences in upgrade paths.
The enhancent route for the Tank Guard is Materialization, so there won’t be any data-based buff, but the material strength will be proportionately enhanced.
Vice versa, if used for Internal Control, it would reduce material strength but increase data buff.
Of course, these reductions and enhancents are in comparison to items of the sa level.
The upgrade process wasn’t short; it took over ten minutes before the dazzling light gradually faded, and what appeared was a cha with a completely different grand appearance.
Its appearance had undergone significant changes, it was now nearly three ters tall, the entire cha was in the most intense, radiant gold color, with intricate black patterns adding to its splendor.
But it did not look bulky; the streamline cha, its armor joints fitting seamless, appeared more straightforward, and the chest had a hexagonal crystal structure flickering with faint light, finally upgrading to have an energy engine.
With sharp and clear angles, every piece of armor’s detail was exquisitely crafted, exuding the beauty of top chanical craftsmanship like an artwork.
[Tank Guard–S Level: Advanced Combat cha, focused on defense aspects.
…
Trait–Stone Skin: Obtains 30% damage reduction.
Trait–Thorns: Any form of attack will reflect 30% of the damage back to the attacker.]
Li Ming’s eyes widened slightly.
A second trait?
He thought the Titan Stone was nothing special, yet without any fanfare, it did sothing big and actually brought a second trait.
The [Thorns] trait ant damage reflection.
Coupled with already extre defense enhancents to the Tank Guard, it could achieve an effect greater than the sum of its parts.
Hitting is like hitting yourself.
However, enhancing the traits turned out to be much more difficult than he had imagined; the defensive damage reduction only increased by 5%.
“Could it be because of the route taken?
After all, the tal energy was used to strengthen the Tank Guard’s materials.
If it was the other route, the data enhancent would have been significant,” he pondered, but he was already quite satisfied.
Eagerly, he entered the cockpit right away and took possession of it.
In an instant, his field of vision expanded and a clear sensation of swelling strength ca from everywhere; Li Ming raised his tallic arm, slowly bringing his palms together, feeling like he had the power to shatter the starry sky in his hands.
Even though it was designed for defense, the strength of the cha itself was terrifying; one punch and no A level life form could withstand it.
He tried moving his hand and imdiately caused a gust of wind; the air exploded with a roar, and he hadn’t even exerted any strength yet.
But he quickly exited the possession, his face pale.
“The physical drain is too frightening,” Li Ming’s heart pounded.
Just that little movent had nearly drained him, causing him also to feel the pain, “Isn’t there an energy engine now?”
He looked at the energy engine in the Tank Guard’s chest and carefully tried again, only to find that even with the assistance of the energy engine, it still required a considerable amount of physical strength.
“This is the expenditure from taking possession of an S-level Control Object; it’s not because the Tank Guard itself needed it, I just confused the two when the Tank Guard didn’t have an energy engine.” Li Ming reasoned.
But without this energy engine, he probably wouldn’t have even been able to move at all.
After all, the fuel for the energy engine doesn’t appear out of thin air; it either needs to be filled from the outside in advance or it will still drain his physical strength.
Li Ming felt another pang of pain and then activated the Talos’ Heart, stacking all the boosts onto his physical strength, giving him the illusion of being able to stand tall again.
Indeed, it was an illusion.
Although he wasn’t incapacitated by just moving, he couldn’t last long either.
“I figure with an A level life form, combined with Talos’ Heart, I might be able to perform freely,” he estimated.
Li Ming felt helpless; this was an inevitable issue, as he himself was only a B level life form, and the gap is simply too vast.
“And this Titan Stone…” Li Ming pondered, reminiscent that the nas given by the Ascenders and the Control System were different.
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