Hyper-Dimensional Player

Chapter 370 - 9: Mechanical Soul (Part 4)

It was almost just over an hour.

Duncan’s Mana Bar was completely exhausted.

He had to stop his cultivation because there was no Mana to drive the nanobots to enhance himself, which was a bit contrary to his understanding of cultivation, as strengthening through cultivation actually consumed Mana.

During this process.

The mechanical nanobots in his body seemed to undergo a slight split, but the overall quantity didn’t increase much because when the nanobots were enhancing the lungs, some of them directly disintegrated. They integrated into the human cell level, somewhat like carbon fibers, or possibly an unknown structure of metal fibers.

"If this focuses on strengthening the muscles, then they will really turn into steel wires!"

"And worse, it would be steel wires!"

When Duncan got up, there was a series of crackling explosions in his entire skeletal structure, and the chest muscles of the number three Human Form appeared overnight, the effect was no less than other ordinary people working out for several months because with the assistance of mechanical nanobots, they automatically stimulated muscle growth and development, and disintegrated to become part of the muscle during operation.

But this was just the power of a mortal.

Basically, those with marks below three-star looked almost like ordinary people, only three-star silver-grey units would exhibit some unusual metallic features, the most common of which was a change in skin color.

If you kill a three-star Mechanical Cultivator and dissect his corpse, you’ll find his skeletal muscles contain certain active metal components.

Giant Dragons supplement metal substances by gnawing on minerals, mainly concentrating on dragon scales, dragon claws, and other parts.

Mechanical Divine Sect’s cultivators can’t directly consume metals, but they inject various alchemical injections, and even without the sect’s injections, trace metals in the daily diet can be digested, making heavy metal poisoning unlikely.

Sometimes they drink a bit of machine oil to lubricate their throats, it’s no joke.

Duncan murmured, "If they cultivate to the end, won’t they become almost like the liquid robots in Terminator?"

Compared to other Mechanical Sects, the Steel Cast Sect takes a slow approach to produce finesse, and in the end, they still maintain the appearance of humanoid creatures. And those Mechanical Sects focusing on mechanical transformation and construct implants eventually don’t remain human-like at all, some install various mechanical arms for efficiency, making them look like Dr. Octopus.

For the Insight Sect and such modification sects, as long as you have money, you can quickly improve your strength.

They can even install Source Power Circuits inside your body.

This is similar to installing a Mana Pool implant in you. Typically, your Mana Pool expands bit by bit through self-cultivation, but they provide all sorts of battery (Source Power Circuit) models as long as you have the resources and money.

A level 1 mage can have the Magic Circuit of a level 10 mage installed, drastically enhancing Source Power computing capacity for explosive output.

However, doing so usually makes it very challenging to improve your Source Power through self-cultivation in the future.

Just focus on earning money and accumulating resources.

As long as your resources keep up, you can upgrade from a number 5 battery all the way to a new energy battery. If you become the sect’s principal, they directly give you a miniature nuclear battery.

Poor people rely on cultivation.

Rich second-generation individuals are directly modified, first enhancing the brain, then the Source Power Circuit, completing an all-inclusive process, instantly transforming from an unmarked unit to a three-star combat unit.

Of course, saying they are very powerful isn’t necessarily true.

Duncan’s general’s personal guard from the Middle Ages, with two-star silver-grey marks, their physical fitness gets beaten here, but if given similar physical conditions and various modification plugins, their strength would likely advance explosively.

Combat Skills are not completely mastered through downloaded knowledge.

It’s the world’s ceiling and the power of technology that caused their strength to have explosive enhancement.

Their overall strength is actually at the level of 5 to 10-grade professionals.

The next day.

When Duncan walked out of the room, his height had increased by two centimeters, and at the same time, his previously thin physique had become a bit more muscular, appearing slim yet all muscle under the clothes, comparable to the result of a fitness enthusiast after years of effort.

This is because various growth hormones in the body have been activated by the Mechanical Nanofluid, super enhancing training efficiency, showing very evident changes in the early stage, becoming progressively harder later.

When Tassia saw Duncan, she gaped with shock and stammered, "You... how did you change so much!..."

"Could it be you’ve already perceived the Mechanical Soul?!"

If this were at the Insight Sect, you would qualify to compete for the sect’s elector status.

The Steel Cast Sect focuses on internal cultivation while the Insight Sect extends outwards, the stronger the perception of the Mechanical Soul, the more mechanical constructs they can control, potentially even capturing mechanical servants controlled by others.

The Mechanical Soul is a very complex concept.

Say you’ve installed a Mechanical Arm, the first thing you have to do is tame the implanted Mechanical Arm in your body, making it submit to you and comply with your will.

Without mastering the Machine Spirit, your Mechanical Arm might not follow commands during battle.

Duncan underwent substantial changes due to two factors: one is perception, not perceiving the Mechanical Soul, but resonating with the Mechanical Soul.

Secondly, he possesses Primordial Magic Power, which is essentially a default Source Power Circuit.

At the same time.

After a night of cultivation, Duncan’s Dragon Bloodline seemed to be activated in a certain ’mutation’ manner.

——"Dragon Skin (Activating): The Dragon Bloodline has undergone unknown mutation, initiating the Giant Dragon Gene that should only be activated by the Scales Race. Your skin shows signs of metallized fusion, resembling dragon scales with metallic features."

Normally, lizard people, kobolds, snake-men, and other scaled creatures can trigger it, but now Duncan has passively activated the mutated Dragon Bloodline.

Skin remains the same with not much change, yet toughness is approaching leather armor.

At the same time.

Duncan’s bones show slight signs of active metalization, sometimes even making him want to gnaw on rocks, though he doesn’t have a dragon’s stomach and can’t digest everything.

It appears his engraved Dragon Bloodline indeed triggered a chain reaction with the Steel Cast Sect’s cultivation method.

The physical quality has explosively increased, though calculating power is still unknown.

Maybe it will only be possible to perceive the existence of calculating power once he implants the first Mechanical Nerve Bundle. According to Duncan’s understanding, possessing calculating power equates to being a computer, like remotely controlling a drone swarm, controlling mechanical servants under his command.

From a mechanical army to a mechanical arm, everything requires calculating power support.

The Mechanical Divine Sect’s cultivators don’t rely on computers to control machines, they transform themselves into humanoid computers emitting command signals.

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