When the Snow Leopard Warrior saw Meng Chao's dumbfounded expression, she finally felt satisfied.
"It turns out that this seemingly mysterious and omnipotent guy also has times when he's dumbfounded!" She thought delightedly.
She had used the Mithril Shredder to devour the Million Steam Hammer's breastplate fragment in front of Meng Chao because she wanted to show off her strength and intimidate him so that she could seize the initiative.
But Hailstorm soon noticed that something was wrong.
Meng Chao might be dumbfounded, but there was no respect in his eyes. Instead, they were filled with great interest.
His gaze became sharper, and it was like two thin blades that wanted to cut her totem armor into pieces to study it.
'Wh-What kind of monster is this guy?'
Hailstorm was stunned again. 'Does he not have the concept of fear at all?'
Meng Chao had seen the flames of the apocalypse and the ancient battlefield. No matter how strange and monstrous the totem armor was, he did not think that there was any need for him to be afraid of it.
He just became more and more interested in this super individual weapon system that contained a lot of advanced technology and clearly surpassed the era of the ancient races. In fact, it even surpassed the information era Dragon City lived in.
'So, totem armors level up by devouring each other?'
He asked Hailstorm excitedly, turning into a curious baby.
Now, Hailstorm was certain that the harvester was not a spy from the Land of the Holy Light.
The Land of the Holy Light and Turanze had been fighting for millions of years, and they were mortal enemies who would not stop until one of them died. They had a deep understanding of each other.
In the Land of the Holy Light, the magicians, the Light Chasers, and the night watchers might have a more detailed understanding of the totem armor than Hailstorm did.
It was impossible for her to ask such a childish question about the harvester.
In truth, everything about the totem armor was never a secret.
The Turanze people were straightforward people who were willing to seize any chance to show off their strength, and they rarely kept secrets.
'Of course. The totem armor is a gift from the ancestral spirits. In fact, it's the incarnation of the ancestral spirits. It's a living armor, so of course it can devour other armors and become stronger!'
The ice tornado told Meng Chao that different totems had different characteristics. As long as he devoured a brand new totem, he would have the chance to obtain a brand new characteristic. The prerequisite was that the totem armor fragment he devoured had to be big enough, like the one she had torn off Poison Spike's chest.
If it was only a fragment the size of a finger, it would be useless. At most, it could slightly strengthen the inherent characteristics of the totem armor.
Her Mithril Ripper originally had the characteristics of sharpness, freezing, acceleration, and so on.
After devouring the fragment of the Million Steam Hammer, and with the addition of compressed air and the "shock" feature of high-frequency vibration, his combat ability was naturally greatly improved.
This was the reason why she did not hesitate to offend the Ironhide Family and destroy and snatch the Million Steam Hammer.
Of course, the more characteristics a totem battle armor had, the harder it was to control. Moreover, it needed to devour more energy to maintain the stability of the totem.
It was very difficult for ordinary clan warriors to grasp it. The slightest carelessness would cause a backlash.
Just as Meng Chao said, the hailstorm was in a desperate situation, and it had to stake everything on this one attack.
Luckily, she won the bet!
As she spoke, Hailstorm turned the Mithril Ripper back into liquid metal after she finished devouring it, and put it back into her body.
The shining totem tattoo that spread from her chest to her shoulders also went through an interesting change.
Originally, her totem was only a silver-white leopard head baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, with six crisscrossing claw marks.
Now, three streams of steam shot out from the leopard head. There were also circles of dense ripples that spread out in all directions, which represented the "shock" feature.
Hailstorm gently touched the brand new totem tattoo and felt very satisfied. The cold expression on her face turned into a smile.
However, her stomach was growling non-stop.
It was clear that the fierce battle just now and the devouring of the totem battle armor had used up too much energy.
Without hesitation, she cut open the second Golden Fruit and sucked the jelly-like fruit flesh into her mouth.
Even after sucking three Golden Fruits in a row, she was still not satisfied, so she grabbed another totem beast core.
Whoosh!
From her palm to her forearm, she was once again enveloped by liquid metal.
Dozens of metal threads crawled out of the silver-white liquid and sank deep into the totem beast core.
In an instant, the totem beast core was sucked dry.
As the liquid metal continued surging, in the end, the entire core disappeared into Hailstorm's body.
Meng Chao had studied the Golden Fruits carefully just now.
He knew that it was said that each Mandala Tree could only bear one fruit each time it bore fruit, and the spirit energy contained in it was even greater than the supreme-grade gene medicine in Dragon City.
Even he had to meditate and exercise for half a day after eating one Golden Fruit before he could completely digest and absorb the rampaging spirit energy.
Hailstorm's body was not as strong as his when he was at the peak of his condition. It was impossible for her to instantly digest and absorb all the spirit energy contained in three Golden Fruits.
Then, did the totem armor in her body digest and absorb them?
What was the item that had complicated, natural stripes on the surface and was as colorful and translucent as marrow crystals but was neither made of metal or iron? Could it be directly absorbed by the totem armor?
Meng Chao grabbed one of the totem beast cores and studied it for a long time.
He felt that this thing was not something that could grow naturally in a carbon-based creature.
But Hailstorm told him that this "core" was indeed the center of a totem beast's life. It was the most important organ, and it determined the totem beast's behavior and brutality.
Besides, the totem beast cores contained weak totem power, and they were the best "food" for the totem armor.
During the prosperous era, there were not many chances for a totem warrior to eat an opponent's totem armor fragments.
Most of the time, totem warriors relied on hunting totem beasts to collect and eat their cores to continuously strengthen their totem armor and slowly gain new characteristics.
"Is it really that amazing?"
As a veteran harvester who had dissected thousands of monsters, Meng Chao swore that he had never found any cores in the bodies of monsters, superbeasts, abnormal beasts, or even Supernatural Entities.
A monster's crystalized neurosphere was rather similar to a totem beast's core.
However, compared to a natural crystalized neurosphere, a totem beast's core had a cold, metallic feel to it.
It did not seem like a living organ. Instead, it seemed like some sort of man-made object, like … a control chip.
'They eat the control chip to become stronger? That's a very humane operation. It's no wonder why the high-grade orcs, whose civilization has regressed to the era of clans, can still control totem armor so skillfully! '
When he thought of this, Meng Chao grinned and asked Hailstorm how he could get a totem armor.
This was within Hailstorm's expectations.
All Turanians, even the lowliest rat people, longed to become totem warriors.
However, Hailstorm warned Meng Chao that aside from great glory, becoming a totem warrior also meant great danger.
And the most dangerous thing was not from the outside world. It was the totem armor itself.
"If you aren't strong enough or aren't devoted enough to your ancestor's spirit, you might really be devoured by the totem armor."
Ye had also warned Meng Chao about this before.
But to Meng Chao, who longed for greater power to save Dragon City, this warning was not that much stronger than the warning from the FBI in the life science research videos.
"Then, I'll take you to see how to obtain totem power!"
Hailstorm thought for a while and said, "It just so happens that I've obtained a new batch of seventy slave soldiers, so I can expand my team. I should go around the Blood Skull Arena and choose stronger soldiers."
Apart from the open-air arena that could accommodate tens of thousands of spectators,
The Blood Path Gladiator Arena also had indoor arenas of various sizes.
It was mainly used for one-on-one battles, or for small teams of three to five people.
Compared to the open-air arena, where thousands of people were charging at each other, the life-and-death fight between two gladiators might not be as exciting, but since the auditorium was close enough to the arena, the splashing blood and broken bones of the gladiators could even splash on the faces of the audience.
The thrill of seeing flesh and blood flying everywhere still attracted countless people. They watched, bet, and cheered day and night, and when their blood was boiling, they personally went into the ring to vent their violent energy.
When Meng Chao and the ice storm arrived at the small arena, there were already no empty seats.
The gladiators' roars and the audience's shouts were like subwoofers bombarding the arena, and the atmosphere was so intense that it was as if a volcano was about to erupt.
In the arena were three people who had the characteristics of a minotaur and a boar person. They were covered in blood and had bulging muscles, and they were fighting against a huge monster.
Even though they were built and did not lose to the warriors of the ancient clans.
Furthermore, there were also metal armors wrapped around their bodies with chains as thick as arms.
The swords, axes, and scimitars in their hands also shone with cold light. They were supreme-grade weapons that could cut through metal as if it was mud.
But Meng Chao could tell with just one glance that they were not trained professional warriors based on their nervous expressions, their Adam's apples that kept rolling, their large amounts of sweat, and their leg muscles that were trembling slightly due to the uneven distribution of their strength. They had exhausted themselves beforehand and were cramping up.
Instead, they were rat people, just like Leaf and Spider, who had been forcefully recruited by the masters a few days ago.
Just as Meng Chao expected, the ice storm told Meng Chao that these rat people were lucky people who had fought against the recruitment team and showed astonishing potential during the recruitment operation. They were chosen by the ancient clans.
If they were like Leaf's older brother and died in battle while fighting back, the ancient clans would give him a drop of blood and bring his corpse back to offer to the ancestral spirits.
If they were still alive, they would get a chance.
A chance to prove that they had the right to get the blood of the ancient clans' glory.
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