Huo Yuhao set down the forging hammer. A thread of Soul Power flowed from his fingertips, lifting the entire block of Black Crystal ore into the air and pressing it against the center of the workbench.
He held the fingers of his left hand together like a sword, and the keen edge of the Sentence of Life Judgment raced across the crystal's surface.
Where its tip passed, Soul Tool circuitry as fine as hair appeared, layer upon layer nested together.
No calibration Magic Formation. No engraving tools. Only his precise control of Soul Power.
A core Acceleration Array, an energy-buffering array, a compound energy-gathering array, a recoil-recovery array—
Five acceleration arrays and five energy-gathering arrays were spaced evenly along the gun's length, resonating with one another without interference. They overturned the Sun Moon Empire's established design principles.
Xuan Ziwen's breathing slowed for half a beat.
He had spent years immersed in Soul Tool engineering and engraved thousands of arrays, if not ten thousand. Never had he seen anyone engrave miniature arrays by hand with such precision.
A Level 4 Soul Engineer?
What a joke! Even a Level 7 Soul Engineer might not have shown such a steady, accurate, ruthless hand.
And the idea of combining five layers of acceleration with five layers of energy gathering lay entirely outside conventional Soul Tool design. He had never even heard of it.
After engraving the final safety-lock array, Huo Yuhao flicked a finger. The gun spun in midair as its energy chamber, trigger, and shock-absorbing stock snapped into place one after another. A few crisp clicks later, the jet-black Soul Tool Sniper Rifle was complete, its lines cold and sharp.
It had no needless ornamentation or exposed Magic Formation Runes. Every component was concealed within its Black Crystal casing. Simple and sharp, it