He Caitou said, "Critical hit soul tools don't refer to any one particular soul tool, but an entire category. In the Sun Moon Empire, there's a very special metallic ore called violent dragon stone. Any soul tool incorporating it gains an additional property: critical hits, the ability to unleash power far beyond its normal limits in a single instant. However, violent dragon stone is incompatible with most soul tools. Incorporating it reduces their overall power, and its critical hit rate is extremely low, less than one percent. That's why critical hit soul tools are hardly known in the Soul Master World!"
"But among soul engineers, critical hit soul tools are highly revered. Countless capable soul engineers study them. I tried researching them myself, but without much success. The highest critical hit rate I could achieve was two percent. I never imagined East Cang Academy would actually develop a critical hit soul tool!" He Caitou sighed in wonder. Shrek's soul tools were not especially powerful, but they still ranked among the best in the three nations of the Douluo Continent. Yet even Shrek had made little headway in researching critical hit soul tools, while the obscure East Cang Academy had actually developed one.
"Your Majesty, this is a sharp blade for our nation! If our military soul engineers could equip these soul tools too, our army's fighting strength would increase by ten percent!" Up on the city wall, there were naturally people explaining the power of critical hit soul tools to the Star Luo Empire Emperor, Xu Jiawei. One military official spoke excitedly.
Xu Jiawei was somewhat tempted. "But East Cang Academy developed this critical hit soul tool, after all, and we still don't know how much it costs..."
The minister said, "East Cang is an academy of the Star Luo