At that thought, Xiao Hongchen squeezed out a sliver of soul power, took a gauntlet from his Storage Ring, and put it on his right hand.
This was Xiao Hongchen's only close-combat soul tool, the level seven close-combat soul tool-the Flame Demon Fist.
For a soul master like him, there was almost never a moment when he needed to fight at close range.
His enemies either disappeared beneath his blanket of firepower, or charged through his artillery fire and crushed him. There should never have been a situation in which he would use a close-combat soul tool.
Only because the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy's grading examinations generally required all-round development had he specifically crammed the methods for making close-combat soul tools and produced one of the simplest, least powerful energy-storage types.
The power of a close-combat soul tool like this did not depend on the soul power its user poured into it. With just a little guidance, it could directly unleash the power stored inside beforehand. Although this guaranteed a minimum level of damage, stored-energy attacks could not benefit from amplification, so their maximum attack power was quite poor.
However, with his soul power now completely overdrawn, what he needed most was precisely this kind of close-combat soul tool that could unleash a powerful attack without requiring soul power!
This gauntlet could cover the user's entire forearm. The section wrapping around the forearm boldly used soul beast leather rather than rare metal, while the head of the soul beast Lava Lord was carved onto the back of the hand, giving it a rather ferocious appearance.
The next instant, Xiao Hongchen clenched his right fist and injected a trace of soul power into the gauntlet. Three irregular red High-Energy Soul Power Crystals shot out from its tip, like the