Chapter 930: The Mystery of Totems
In the end, Leaf managed to s.n.a.t.c.h two fried mandrake fruits during the chaos.
Some people wanted to pinch the soft fruit, but they were all scared away by his fierce gaze.
After the death trap just now, the youth would not make the mistake of being soft-hearted again.
His sudden attack on the number one brawny man’s ferocity and his seemingly thin figure formed a stark contrast. In addition, his right arm, which was twice as long as his left arm, was like a python that was lurking in the dirty water, leaving an extremely deep impression on people.
This was not some soft persimmon.
There were still plenty of fried mandrake fruits.
There was no need to risk his life with this little lunatic.
Leaf successfully returned to Meng Chao’s side.
He rubbed his bruised and swollen face and grimaced in pain, but he did not dare to look into the eyes of the Reaper.
“Actually, if you had decisively stabbed him in the throat, you would not have had to suffer like this,” Meng Chao a.n.a.lyzed emotionlessly.
“I… I don’t know if I should have killed him. After all, he wasn’t the one who destroyed half mountain village. His hometown might have been destroyed by the warriors of the clan, just like half mountain village.”
The youth lowered his head and said, “I’m sorry, Lord Reaper. Did I disappoint you?”
“I was indeed disappointed in your battle performance, but I’m not disappointed in you at all. I’m more and more surprised.”
Meng Chao smiled and said, “It seems that I can safely teach you some of the more powerful killing techniques, but I don’t have to worry that you will become a slave of the desire to kill.”
The youth was slightly stunned and let out a long sigh.
He had a vague feeling.
Although the killing intent that the reaper occasionally emitted was more ferocious and violent than that of the broken-horned Minotaur warriors, it was still different.
The Reaper was different from the warriors of the clan who shouted “glory” and slaughtered the weak wantonly.
Leaf took out two fried mandrake fruits, compared them, and handed the larger one to Meng Chao.
Meng Chao did not stand on ceremony either.
He had spent several days of spirit energy to open Leaf’s spirit meridian and activate his vitality magnetic field.
He had to find a stable source of food that was rich in nutrients and spirit energy in order to recover and restore his peak combat strength as soon as possible.
As he chewed carefully, Meng Chao pondered.
“Leaf, I know that you don’t want to recall those painful scenes, but I still want you to repeat the entire process of your brother’s death, especially the details of the broken-horned Minotaur warrior activating the totem. Believe me, this is very important to us,” Meng Chao said with an apologetic expression.
Leaf was not in too much pain.
For the Turan people, a glorious death in battle was a great honor, worthy of repeated narration and even praise.
This was especially true for the rat people, whose bloodline was low and did not have much chance of dying in battle during the prosperous era.
Therefore, Leaf had long imprinted the scene of his brother’s fight with the broken-horned Minotaur warrior in his mind, especially the fact that his brother had actually wounded the shoulder of a warrior from the clan. It was worth mentioning.
However, Meng Chao’s attention was all focused on the totem.
“So, the totem is a very exquisite, bright, gorgeous tattoo that seems to have a life of its own?” He fell into deep thought.
“It’s not a normal tattoo, but a tattoo that can be obtained by grinding the bones of totem beasts, adding on many ores dug out from the depths of the Earth, and then using a very mysterious method to make it. Finally, it can only be obtained by obtaining the blessing of the ancestral spirit.”
Leaf seriously said, “Only the priest knows how to create this kind of tattoo. It’s completely different from an ordinary tattoo.”
“I understand. Then, you said that when the broken-horned Minotaur warrior’s bloodline burst forth and his killing intent soared to the sky, the tattoo on his body also shone brightly. Liquid metal actually flowed out from his pores?” Meng Chao continued to ask.
“Liquid metal?” Leaf did not quite understand this concept.
Meng Chao thought for a moment and said, “Is it like gum, mud, and insect mucus that’s slowly flowing?”
Leaf nodded.
“That’s right. Now that you’ve mentioned that, Lord Reaper, I think the metal that comes out of the tattoo of the broken-horned Minotaur warrior is really different from the ores that we occasionally dig up. It seems to be alive and squirming slowly, just like animal mucus.”
“Alive and squirming slowly, animal slime, ‘biological liquid metal?’ Interesting!”
Meng Chao pondered for a moment and asked again, “After the extremely hideous shape was created, the ‘biological liquid metal’ quickly condensed and turned into a mighty and domineering armor? “Are you sure that it is a metal armor, something that truly exists, and not just a Spirit Armor?”
The youth did not understand the concept of a Spirit Armor.
Anyway, he knew it. “Of course it’s a real armor. I can see sparks from the friction between the armor and hear the sound of the armor colliding!
“It doesn’t have the characteristics of ‘shiny and translucent’ as Lord Reaper said. Of course, it can also be used against an opponent at my brother’s level. There’s no need to trigger too much power.
“After defeating my brother, the totem armor turned back into what Lord Reaper said… ‘biological liquid metal’, which was absorbed into the body of the broken-horned Minotaur warrior and turned back into a tattoo
“It’s like this…”
Meng Chao once thought that the so-called ‘totem power’ was an ability similar to the Spirit Armor.
It could release the incomparably dense spirit power in the body and condense a layer of gorgeous pure energy armor on the surface of the body.
However, judging from Leaf’s description and the memory fragments of his past life that were getting clearer and clearer, it was obviously not the case.
First of all, totems were not as simple as spirit energy.
Besides pure energy, it also had a large amount of ‘liquid metal’ as its material base.
Second of all, the Spirit Armor of superhuman individuals was a high-level technique that could only be performed when one’s cultivation had reached the level of six-star Spirit Armor.
This was a benefit that only a few people enjoyed, and it was unable to increase the strength of most people in Dragon City.
As for totems, although they could not be said to be everywhere on the streets at Picturesque Orchid Lake, they were not as rare as phoenix feathers or qilin[1] horns.
Basically, the warriors of the clan with a little inheritance all had their own totems.
Although there were strong and weak totems, large and small totems, they could all be condensed into armor—at least the parts of the armor could strengthen part of the limbs.
If converted into the power system of the Dragon City civilization, as long as they broke through the Earth realm, they would be qualified to implant totems.
And the senior warriors and High Priests of the five big clans often had more than one totem.
If they summoned three to five totems at the same time, not only could they put on layers of composite armor outside the body of flesh and blood, they could upgrade their originally strong body into a human-shaped main battle tank.
It would also be able to leave its master’s body and turn back into a totem beast that could move independently, just like the drones and thinking tanks that followed the powerhouses of Dragon City.
The scientific reasoning behind it was obviously not something that could be explained by “spirit energy stimulating the vitality magnetic field and resonating with the magnetic field of the planet.”
No matter how much it stimulated one’s vitality magnetic field, it was impossible to create so many ‘biological liquid metals’ out of nothing.
“So, where did the totem armor that enveloped the Turan warriors come from?”
Meng Chao looked at the fried mandrake fruit that was almost finished in his hand and fell into a long period of thought.
Thinking was thinking, but his mouth was not idle. A large fruit was quickly ground into the most delicate juice by his back teeth. It flowed down his throat and seeped into his internal organs, limbs, and bones, turning into the purest energy.., he frantically repaired the damaged and withered cells.
In the end, even the mandrake fruit’s core, which was as hard as iron, was chewed to pieces and swallowed by him.
Meng Chao sensed a large amount of metal elements in the mandrake fruit core.
To be more precise, the entire mandrake fruit, including the sweet and soft flesh and the refreshing and chewy skin, contained a very rich amount of metal elements.
The metal content of the mandrake fruit per unit weight was almost ten times higher than the high-energy nutrient and gene drugs in Dragon City.
Every fruit eaten was like swallowing a small iron nail.
The people of Earth who had not practiced could not bear such a high amount of metal intake. They would get chronic poisoning and damage their nervous system if they ate only a few.
However, during the prosperous era, when the Turan people had enough food, even three-year-old children had to eat several mandrake fruits every day.
Their digestive system naturally had a way to break down the metal elements and replenish their bones and flesh.
It made their flesh and blood expand crazily, and their bones were as hard as iron. They did not need to train, and the elderly, the weak, women, and children all had fighting strength above the level.
The nervous system also had strong resistance, and it could balance the side effects of consuming too much heavy metal, so that they would not become stupid.
Well, a certain degree of stupidity probably still existed.
Perhaps, because of the heavy metal poisoning, it permanently affected their nervous system and cerebral cortex, causing the Turan civilization to develop for tens of thousands of years, but it was still in the age of barbarism and ignorance.
It was unable to ignite the spark of industry and technology like the people of Earth.
“Could it be that by devouring the mandrake fruit and storing large amounts of metal elements in the body during normal times, and then activating it through totem energy during battle, it would become a biological liquid metal armor that enveloped the entire body?”
Meng Chao heard from Leaf that only lowly rat people would only use ordinary mandrake fruits as a source of food.
For clan warriors, apart from consuming large amounts of ordinary mandrake fruits, they could also enjoy the extremely sweet golden fruits and the flesh of totem beasts.
Every round of fruit from every mandrake tree would only produce one golden fruit.
The golden fruit was slightly bigger than ordinary mandrake fruits, but its weight was ten times heavier.
It could be reasonably estimated that the golden fruit contained ten times more metal elements than ordinary mandrake fruits.
The totem beast sounded like a monster.
However, it had metal scales, carapaces, fangs and sharp claws.
Its body was naturally rich in large amounts of metal elements.
“So, the Turan powerhouses stored an entire set of… steel armor in their bodies of flesh and blood by consuming large amounts of golden fruits and totem beasts?”
[1] A legendary hooved chimerical creature that appears in Chinese mythology