The fully enclosed heavy armor was still heavy armor, but its design had become more massive, more domineering, its aura sharper. The edges of the armor were blade-sharp, and the spikes protruding from its joints were over two feet long, curved like ox horns and etched with spiral patterns. One could imagine the terrifying damage they would inflict upon piercing a body.
Those spikes were also vibrating violently, periodically giving off a buzzing roar. In the span of a finger flick, they vibrated over a million times. With that vibration alone, the spikes could pierce every alloy and crystal currently known.
Wisps of heat rose slowly from the armor, while a faint divine might that made hearts tremble gradually spread outward.
Lin Qi clenched his fists. He could feel terrifying power brimming within the Blood-Soaked Tiger Soul Armor. Wearing this suit of armor had increased his physical strength by roughly twofold. Lin Qi was now a three-star Imperial Soldier-level powerhouse, yet the Blood-Soaked Tiger Soul Armor, having advanced into a divine artifact, could actually double his strength!
Beyond that, Lin Qi could sense this greedy armor frantically drawing in the surrounding magical elements and continuously storing them within the tiger-head ornament on his chest. Part of the magical elements it absorbed would also be injected into Lin Qi's body, increasing the speed of his cultivation.
It possessed several other wondrous abilities, but Lin Qi had no time to carefully study this armor that had just advanced into a lower-tier, lower-grade divine artifact. Nearly three hundred golden-armored warriors still stood before him, and Mithril Mountain was still feeding in rare materials. Whether it was the Blood-Soaked Tiger Soul Armor or the Army-Slaying Axe, both still had enormous room for improvement.
With a loud laugh, Lin Qi swung the Army-Slaying Axe and