"Ding!"
The metal axe blade whistled through the air in a sharp arc, a flash of keen silver vanishing in an instant as it came down hard on the patch of pitch-black before it.
The Dark Snake Scale looked thin and fragile, as clear and smooth as glass, yet in the face of the axe blade's chop, aside from a fleeting shower of sparks and the crisp ring that followed, it did not react in the slightest.
With the powerful force he had trained through countless swings of a Forging Hammer behind it, that two-handed Great Axe could split a tree stump clean open.
Yet it could not even leave the faintest mark on the surface of the arm shield.
Even the impact itself was mostly spent after being buffered three times over by the snake scale, Corrosion-Etched Steel, and high-grade leather.
Holding the shield horizontally before him in his left hand, Xia Nan only felt a slight tremor in his forearm before he easily blocked the attack from the front.
"Hahaha, how is it? Not bad, right?"
A hearty laugh reached his ears.
His braided hair swaying, Barn laughed as he pulled back the Hand Axe that had landed on the arm shield, a clear look of accomplishment on his face.
"The quality of the scale you provided was already excellent. It didn't need much alteration. Just a simple polish was enough to give it outstanding defensive performance."
"Even among the Professionals of the entire Climbing Cloud Province, this arm shield would count as quite a fine piece."
Knowing the other man was only being modest, Xia Nan smiled and did not reply.
Of course the scale was high quality.
Through the fragmented description of the arm shield on his Attribute Panel, he had learned the source of this