Nine-Character Ultimate Battle Armor Speculation

With a swish, the plastic sheets were lifted.

Six meticulously drawn blueprints lay layered across the jade-white round table.

Tang Ziran looked as though he had rediscovered the long-lost Tang Muran.

He struggled to suppress his excitement as he circled the table, introducing them to the Dragon Emperor and the Holy Dragon King. "This is the conceptual design for Five-Word Battle Armor."

"It was an upgraded product created by the Federation through extreme improvements upon Four-Word Battle Armor."

"But it has not been realized, mainly because three conditions have yet to be met."

"First, across Douluo Planet today, no material has been found with suitable strength and sufficient spirituality. Or rather, no more advanced forging technique has been developed to combine existing materials into the ideal God Rank metal."

"Second, according to our current findings, Five-Word Battle Armor must be nurtured and improved with genuine divine power and divine consciousness before it can possibly advance from Four-Word Battle Armor."

"Third, it must incorporate the source bloodline of a God Rank Soul Master. This source bloodline is precisely the origin from which Martial Souls awaken. Therefore, the higher the quality of a Soul Master's Martial Soul, the better the effect of integrating it into Battle Armor. Ideally, it should be a God Rank Martial Soul, one in a hundred million!"

"After all, the highest-grade Four-Word Battle Armor today is already the pinnacle of technology, something only experts above Titled Douluo are qualified to wield. As for Five-Word Battle Armor... only the legendary hundred-level gods could possibly forge and wear it."

"God Rank metal, God Rank divine power, God Rank Martial Soul." Listening to these three conditions, the Dragon Emperor's brows furrowed, then lifted. He silently raised both hands.

In his left hand was that segment of Dragon Remains Amethyst; in his right was a piece of accompanying Crow-Absolute Stone.

God Rank Body Martial Soul, residual God Rank divine power, and God Rank materials.

He had all of them.

Thus, the Dragon Emperor fell silent...

How could it be such a coincidence?

Afterward, as he listened to Tang Ziran's detailed explanation, the Dragon Emperor nodded faintly and used the Will of Destruction to imprint all the information from the blueprints into his mind.

While recording it, he also used the wisdom and intellect he had accumulated since the dawn of chaos to attempt to turn this conceptual Five-Word Battle Armor design into reality using Dragon Remains Amethyst and Crow-Absolute Stone.

In other words, he began gradually shaping and materializing a complete set of Five-Word Battle Armor within his mind.

Suddenly, while Tang Ziran was explaining with great enthusiasm,

the Dragon Emperor asked at just the right moment, "Suppose there were a possibility that..."

"a gemstone-attribute Beast Soul Master found a gemstone-attribute soul beast corresponding to his Martial Soul in reality."

"And he used the gem-like, mineralized bones of this hundred-thousand-year soul beast—no, this million-year soul beast... or even a divine beast with God Rank cultivation—to forge a set of Battle Armor."

"Would that set of Battle Armor have the potential to reach six words?"

The Dragon Emperor's gaze was bright.

He believed that, as a core mecha designer of the Federation, the other man would surely provide a constructive answer after giving it serious thought.

Yet Tang Ziran answered without hesitation, "Yes. It absolutely would, because this is one of the hypothetical concepts the Federation's core design team has for Six-Word Battle Armor."

"Six-Word Battle Armor would no longer have separate components, much less any need for assembly, because it itself would become highly integrated with the Soul Master."

"Because we want to use Six-Word Battle Armor to correspond to—and surpass—the legendary... divine attire!"

As he spoke, Tang Ziran's eyes gleamed.

Clearly, all those years spent hidden away in seclusion had nearly suffocated the heart of this top-tier designer.

The Dragon Emperor fell silent...

After a long while, he once again posed a question with world-shaking wisdom. "Now suppose there were two fictional materials."

"One of them was formed from the fall of a true god, rich with genuine divine power—the divine power derived from the 'God King divine spark' recorded in the history books."

"The other was formed from the Martial Soul of a God Rank Soul Master. It possessed extremely high spirituality, could even construct mental illusions, and could freely assume all sorts of forms according to the Soul Master's will. It could even switch freely between liquid and solid states in its material form."

"Most importantly, these two God Rank materials could completely merge into this Soul Master's body and become part of his own tissues."

"Finally, this Soul Master was a God Rank Soul Master with an exceedingly profound God Rank Martial Soul origin. He was also a Twin Martial Souls Soul Master, and furthermore, one of his Martial Souls was a Body Martial Soul while the other was a beast Martial Soul."

"Then, if an alloy were created from these two materials and paired with an ample source of God Rank bloodline, could it forge Seven-Word or even Eight-Word Battle Armor?"

Tang Ziran's breathing caught.

The first material completely fulfilled the requirement for divine power;

the second material completely fulfilled the condition of spirituality;

these two materials, which no one would even dare fantasize about, could even fuse into an alloy. Moreover, this alloy could freely shift between solid and liquid states, and was practically part of that God Rank Soul Master's body.

Finally, this God Rank Soul Master possessed Twin Martial Souls, and his Martial Souls were essentially the living, Martial Soul manifestations of these two materials.

Most crucially, the Body Martial Soul was also the type of Martial Soul most suited to bringing out the combat power of Battle Armor.

There were too many conditions. Even Tang Ziran, a mecha scholar, fell into prolonged silence for a moment.

In the end, he could only force out an ambiguous reply. "If this God Rank Soul Master's spiritual power is insufficient, then it still..."

The Dragon Emperor cut him off directly. "This God Rank Soul Master possesses the highest level of spiritual power: God King realm spiritual power."

Tang Ziran stammered again, "Then this alloy, if it can switch independently between solid and liquid forms, theoretically speaking, its density may not be sufficient. It may not be enough to forge Battle..."

The Dragon Emperor interrupted him again. "What if there were a divine artifact capable of producing a flame that could harm a God King?"

"If that flame were used to increase the alloy's density, could it create Seven- or Eight-Word Battle Armor?"

Tang Ziran was somewhat unable to withstand such an aggressive momentum.

Because the other man had described conditions that no practitioner in the entire mecha industry had ever dared to imagine.

Those conditions weighed on his chest until he felt stifled, his steps unsteady.

Only after thinking for quite some time did Tang Ziran finally recover.

Then, panting, he reached a conclusion. "If all the conditions you described are true and can be realized."

"Then I believe that the ultimate form of Battle Armor—Nine-Character Battle Armor..."

"No! It should be called Ultimate Battle Armor!"

"It would be the combination of all the conditions you mentioned."

"And theoretically, if all these conditions truly existed in reality, then this set of Battle Armor should be able to... kill a God King!"

Only after the words "slay a god" left his mouth did Tang Ziran brace himself against the table, his ten fingers trembling as he accepted his own wild fantasy.

Because just now, he might have envisioned the ultimate pinnacle of the mecha designer profession.

The Dragon Emperor's gaze grew deep.

He drew both hands, clutching the Crow-Absolute Stone and Amethyst Skeleton, behind his waist.