Chapter 642: Stares

Chapter 642: Stares

The illusory violet armor solidified over Sylas' body. It was still possible to see right through it, but the power it gave him was anything but intangible.

Sylas could feel the pieces of the armor working together to give him strength, but by the same token he felt that even if he lost any one piece, it would hardly impact its overall strength.

Not only did he feel his Physical shoot up by a full 1000, but beyond that, he felt a strong boost to his Aether skin.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The Scorpion Warlord Armor and his Aether skin worked seamlessly in tandem, taking an armor that was meant to be a blackened red and turning it into a dark violet instead.

As a result, his Aether Skin, which had 1000 Defense on its own, increased in strength by a further 50% to have 1500 Defense when the armor was active.

This was honestly not as impressive as Sylas thought it would be. But when he thought about it, it made sense.

It likely wouldn't be until the pieces of the armor truly linked together that it could begin displaying a strong defensive ability. Right now the bits and pieces were too disjointed even if it looked like a single unit.

Still, even if it was "just" a +1000 boost to Physical, Sylas would be more than content with that. But, there were two other things of interesting importance.

The +1000 boost only referred to what the Runes provided themselves. What it didn't account for was the Blood Essence that Sylas had used to draw them.

The Blood Essence itself seemed negligible, and only added what seemed to be an extra +50 to +100 Physical on top of the +1000 Sylas already received, but Sylas knew why this was.

For one, he had only used a small portion of the scorpion beast's overall Blood Essence, there was still a great deal remaining. Sylas bet that if he used all of it, or transferred it through a medium other than the air, it would be even more powerful.

The best part was that the armor was flexible. So long as Poison affinity was its foundation, it would work. Although Sylas Advanced Freeze Ice-Poison Rune wouldn't work with it, his Advanced Slow Ice-Poison Rune would!

Well, his weakened versions of them would.

At its current state, his Scorpion Warlord Armor wouldn't be able to use 70 Foundation Runes. But Sylas was confident he would be able to easily find 40 Foundation Runes for him to make use of.

And the instant he did, he would have poison even stronger than the Woodland Spider Queen. Yet, this was just the beginning.

That was because the Warlord Stinger didn't have a limit of just one poison type. What made it so powerful was that it could swallow several types of Poison Runes and emit something particularly powerful from the strengths of them all.

So right now, what Sylas was most interested in wasn't even his own Ice-Poison Runes. He wanted to see just how powerful he could make his poison from a collection of 40 Foundation Runes.

Sylas exhaled a breath and felt much lighter all of a sudden. A new path lay out before him.

Of course... what Sylas didn't know was that the use of Blood Essence to draw Runes wasn't a new path at all. There were some very powerful Rune Masters in the universe that did exactly that.

However, the ability to extract Blood Essence was rare and often hidden away in some very exclusive inheritances. It could be said that Sylas had just stumbled into something truly

shocking purely by accident.

Finally, Sylas awakened from his stupor and looked around him. The sand had finally settled down and he could lay eyes on the carnage.

What was unfortunate was that many of the carriages were destroyed in the attack, along with the camels that had been leading their way.

And yet, everyone seemed dead set on staring at him for some reason.