Surprise (Thank you to "we all have a bright future" for becoming a patron)
How was Ye Xian supposed to describe Ji Jue's creation?
Even with Ye Xian's years of experience and discerning eye, she found herself at a loss for words...
You couldn't say it was completely worthless. The operation of directly shaping mercury through implanted spirit-intelligence was genuinely brilliant—turning complexity into simplicity and maxing out Cost-Effectiveness.
The Spiritual Substance Ji Jue needed to consume was only for hardening certain parts and increasing their toughness.
Not to mention Fluid Alchemy's overall enhancement. For temporary applications detached from Workshop support, it was indeed far more flexible than Modern Alchemy.
As long as the essence was high enough, Fluid Alchemy could compensate for the shortcomings of its vessel to a certain extent. Besides, Ji Jue possessed something as utterly unreasonable as Primacy of Spirit.
But if you called it exceptionally brilliant, its shoddy appearance, completely makeshift Spiritual Substance power source, and numerous designs that did not even begin to qualify as ergonomic were all hard to overlook. Its output was nowhere near military Powered Armor, its defense relied entirely on external steel plates, its fire control relied entirely on both hands, and its radar relied entirely on his eyes... Wait, Ji Jue's ability acted upon machinery, then extracted spirit-intelligence through technique. It was by no means water without a source or a tree without roots.
In other words, he had actually used commonplace street junk at home to make this thing!
A full-face motorcycle helmet, a welder's mask, an old cargo-assist exoskeleton model from ten years ago, externally mounted motors at the joints to boost output, and steel plates welded directly onto it...
No need to look closer. It was all trash.
But the problem was that he had cobbled together