What Chen Mo held was only a small component from the war elephant's forehead armor. The patterns on the armor therefore felt both familiar and unfamiliar to him.
Chen Mo also found the metals forming those patterns somewhat familiar, but perhaps because too much time had passed, or for some other reason, he could not identify them by sight.
Since Tina was nearby, he refrained from using his Spiritual Sense. Though the metal felt familiar, he simply could not recall what kind of metal it was related to.
Because the piece in his hand was merely one component, he turned over all the armor on the elephant's forehead one by one and removed the inner lining. With that, the patterns inside the armor were naturally revealed before his eyes.
The entire pattern looked extremely beautiful, and all of it was like the pattern on the piece in his hand: the etched grooves had been filled with the same kind of metal!
Chen Mo crouched on the ground and carefully felt it with his hand. There was no Spiritual Energy when he touched it, nor did he feel any unevenness. The two metals had been polished together, making the inside of the armor extremely smooth.
He could not tell anything from the feel of it, but the patterns inside the armor looked somewhat similar to the array runes used by cultivators. Such runes were the foundation for constructing arrays.
However, array runes required Spiritual Energy to function. These runes had none, and they also differed from the rune circuits he knew. It seemed someone had altered them, creating another kind of rune.
Since the rune patterns here were only one part of the war elephant's forehead armor, Chen Mo could only speculate that they had evolved from cultivators' runes. Since Earth