Lord of the Truth

618  Beast Armor

After an hour--

Emily quickly entered the covered hall again and found the scene completely changed, all the soldiers sitting without the upper half of their clothes while the Rune Masters were moving around like crazy, mixing inks and trying to finish developing the engravings as quickly as possible.

After a quick scan of the area, she found Robin on the side drawing something, and next to him, Zara, pointing towards the scroll in front of Robin, saying in an audible voice, ”I think we need to develop the bone crown armor more, just making it more solid wonʼt help much.”

”Youʼre right, but how do I develop it further? In the end, this area should provide pure defense for the rider... Hmmm, Right! What do you think if I added the feature of creating an energy shield around the bone crown to double the area of protection for the rider? this would also give him more space to dodge the attacks coming from the sides.” Robin spoke, tapping the pen on his chin

”The idea is not bad... Hey, why not add a feature that allows energy shields to merge if there are two or more Terra Beasts standing next to each other? Imagine a wide row of Terra Beasts forming a massive energy wall, this would be a mobile fortress!” Zara suddenly greeted her with excitement evident in her voice

Robin furrowed his eyebrows slightly, then lowered the pen again and began drawing a new part in the rune in front of him. It was clear that he liked Zaraʼs idea.

When Zara saw her father finished adding that part and went back to looking at the design from top to bottom again to find any other loopholes or ways to improve, she extended her hand and pointed towards the terraʼs head, ”Dad, how does the beast receive its orders?”

”By saying it, of course, even ordinary beasts understand human language if you interact with them for a while, so how can creatures with this intelligence not understand?” Robin spoke, still tapping his chin

”But during battles, the sounds of explosions and screams are everywhere. How could the Terra rider have the time or effort to shout his instructions to the beast? Secondly, wouldnʼt the enemies also realize what the Terra would do after receiving the order?” Zara placed her palm under her chin and tapped on the drawing, ”Secondly, how does the Terra Beast communicate with its rider if it detects something or wants to warn it of something?”

”...The beasts usually canʼt speak, you know that, but the Terra beast is smart and might be able to find a way to point with one of its claws or something...” Robin furrowed his eyebrows slightly, then looked at Zara, ”Do you have a suggestion on this part?”

”Thought Transfer Technique! I know that the consciousness of humans and beasts is not the same, but not to the point of being completely different. Place a rune on the forehead of the Terra Beast to act as an intermediary between the consciousness of the Terra and its rider, so that they can exchange orders and information at all times!” Zara spoke excitedly

”This will--” Robin almost argued further, but he stopped and used the pen to scratch his hair for a few seconds. Then he started drawing something. Zara knew that he had started to design the communication rune that she had nominated.

After another unknown time after he finished adding that part, he was about to ask Zara about her opinion on another part when he felt eyes on him, so he looked at his sides, raising his eyebrows, ”Emily, how long do you plan to stay there?”

”I did not want to interrupt Your Excellency and Her Highnessʼs train of thought. I only came to inform Your Excellency that your orders have been fulfilled and all the reinforcements have returned to their posts.” After Emily finished her short report, she bowed slightly, ”Now I ask your permission. I will return to the headquarters and leave Your Excellency and Her Highness to finish what you are doing.”

”There is no need to wait a little while, you have come at your right time...” Robin looked at Emily from top to bottom for a moment, ”When did you achieve your breakthrough?”

”In response to Your Excellency, I became a Martial Empress almost two years ago.”

”Good, youʼve got used to foundation number 41 long enough.” Robin nodded, then took out a metal plate and a small vial from his ring and passed it to her, ”Understand this technique and practice it a little. This vial contains an important liquid for using the technique, so use it at the right time... Remember, just understand the technique and make sure you can use it but donʼt try to do anything crazy with it. Weʼll conduct an important experiment together when youʼre familiar with it.”

”Yes!” Emily accepted the metal plate with both hands, then found herself a relatively quiet spot and sat down

”Dad, what exactly is this technique? Did you invent something new?” Zara raised her eyebrows slightly and asked in a low voice after Emily left

Robin laughed and shook his head, ”No, itʼs the superior energy control technique. Itʼs something Jabba invented years ago.”

”Hmm? superior energy control?” A puzzled facial expression appeared on Zara, ”What is the use of this technique?”

”Jabba was creative with it, frankly. Its idea is to use the inner sap of the Earthʼs Twilight Tree in order to give a feeling of euphoria. What is important about that feeling is that it enables the person to feel the movement of his energy very clearly, and thus the technique comes into play, which is a way to control the movement of very small energy strands in the bloodstream.” Robin returned to focusing on the scroll in front of him and tapping his chin with the pen, ”It cannot be used again for the purpose it was made for, so here we are trying something new... Letʼs pray it works~”

”A feeling of euphoria? This... drinking something that gets you high in the middle of a battle? That doesnʼt seem like a good idea...” Zara said with some concern

”Haha, youʼre right. Maybe thatʼs why Jabba couldnʼt move or change his attack style during his battle against the Warlord at that time.” Robin laughed out loud, ”The technique is really missing a lot, but I donʼt want to waste time adjusting it without making sure whether there is any hope of its success or not. Just let the experiment succeed and I will try to modify it to suit our needs more... Now come and help me complete this armor. This is the first time Iʼve made armor specifically for a beast, Itʼs all supposed to work automatically, and this is really annoying!”

Zara raised her shoulders slightly, then returned to pointing at the Terra Beastʼs pointed horns and began happily giving new suggestions

The whole day went by so quickly--

The 2,200 saints arrived after a few hours, and the 100 Rune Masters began working on them and were almost finished with them as well. Emily was still sitting in a corner in a meditative position, emitting an oppressive energy that forced everyone to move away at least 30 meters from her.

However, the chaos caused by the Rune Masters, the large crowd inside the covered training hall due to the large number of soldiers, and Emilyʼs suffocating aura did not affect the session between Robin and his adopted daughter. Rather, from Zaraʼs ever-present smile on her face, it seemed as if she wished that this moment would last forever.

How not? The last time she spent such a long time with Robin, chatting and was able to help him with something was during Caesarʼs absence to participate in the Eight Kingdoms Tournament, that was decades ago!

Immediately after that, the war on Dolivar began, and Robin returned to the stricken city of Jura and named them his children. Since then, he has been alone most of the time and no longer asks her for help. Rather, he even advised her at that time to go out and play with children her age.

Sometimes while she was leading the Seventh Legion or currently while she was sitting in the warehouses, she wished that her adoptive father had followed what he had said when he took her and Peon in for the first time, when he told Peon to go and cultivate and told her to always stay by his side to help him in his research... Wouldnʼt that have been wonderful?

But at this moment, a strong rumbling sound froze everything

*Rumble* *Earthquake*

”What is happening?” Zara stood up and started looking around cautiously, the rest of the soldiers and the Rune Masters also furrowed their brows tightly

As for Robin, he closed his eyes for a moment to communicate with Evergreen, then opened them and began to laugh angrily, ”Hmph, Tree Father Labikan has finally decided to make a warlord. It seems that the gravity field has really tired him out.”

”A new Warlord? But reports say that Governor Alexander and the rest are already fighting against a Warlord, now there are two?!” Zara shouted in fear, one warlord has been terrorizing all the True Beginning Martial Emperors for days and might kill them at any time, what if another one appears?

Robin stood up and looked away with furrowed brows, ”Itʼs Alright, theyʼre not the only ones who can make warlords.”

Carsonʼs voice came from behind Robin at this moment, ”Your Excellency, the old Divine Tattoos have been developed and we have tattooed the new soldiers. You now have 7,000 saints and 700 sages and two array Hearts ready for the second test.”

A big smile appeared on Robinʼs face, ”Excellent, just in time.” Then he put the scrolls in his ring and took a few steps towards the soldiers. Zara was also excited about what would happen now

Robin looked around for a few seconds then nodded satisfied, ”I see youʼve organized yourselves like I taught you last time, good... Letʼs get started!”