Chapter 1006: Happiness Beyond Limit
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
As he took the initiative to fall, Meng Chao rotated himself 180 degrees and activated several spirit meridians in his right arm. He managed to create the spirit magnetic field for the Demon Subduing Pole’s upgraded version thanks to Battle G.o.d Lei Zongchao’s guidance.
As spirit energy gushed out, the arm guard of the totem armor seemed to perfectly fused with his right arm and expand several times at the same time.
The mysterious and complicated spirit tattoos that should have appeared on his skin also appeared on the arm guard that was several times thicker. It made Meng Chao’s right arm literally turn into a Demon Subduing Pole that could support the sky and the Earth.
The moment the Minotaur warrior swung his war hammer in the air, Meng Chao’s Demon Subduing Pole brushed past the guy’s chest from the bottom up, hitting him squarely on the chin.
The Minotaur warrior’s chest, which was covered in ordinary armor, exploded as if it had been hacked by a two-handed greatsword.
A red mark that was so deep that one could see the bones immediately appeared on his chest, which was even st.u.r.dier than metal.
Before the blood spurted out, his chin was completely shattered with a cracking sound.
His enormous body, which weighed half a ton, was also lifted up high and fell heavily on the ground. He collapsed in the ruins like a pile of mud.
When Meng Chao walked over to take a look, the pieces of the armor that had wrapped around the bull-headed warrior’s legs had already collapsed, leaving the unconscious “Master”who had completely lost his combat ability.
Ice Storm told Meng Chao that it was best not to upgrade the totem armor directly on the battlefield, because totem armor fusion involved a lot of risks and time.
If one was careless and the ancestral spirit backfired, it would be easy to be beaten pa.s.sively.
It was just like how pythons would become lazy and stupid after swallowing large prey. They would have to find a place to hide and slowly digest and absorb it.
However, if they only swallowed small fish, prawns, frogs, and toads, of course, it would not matter.
Totem armors also had pros and cons.
These clan warriors who gathered next to the slums were only “Team level powerhouses” between second and third-rate.
According to the standards of Dragon City, they were merely superhumans in the Earth Realm who had not even reached the three-star level.
Among them, there were not even half of the powerhouses who could gather a complete set of totem armor.
It was easy to imagine what kind of quality the armor fragments attached to their bodies could be.
Although Meng Chao had just recovered the battle strength of peak Earth Realm…
He had the battle consciousness of someone at the peak of Heaven Realm.
Furthermore, he had been tempered by the flames of the apocalypse, and his mental toughness was comparable to that of a G.o.d-level powerhouse.
In addition, he had already seen through the tricks played by the totem battle armor operating system.
Fusing with the lowest level of battle armor fragments was naturally not a problem.
Thus, the brand new battle armor fragments evenly covered his legs.
It made his strong and powerful legs, which were like rocket propellers, appear even thicker, and filled with explosive power.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Heavy footsteps came from behind him.
There was also an unusually sharp whistle.
It was a giant wild boar warrior who was more than four meters tall and had part of the barbarian elephant bloodline.
He was waving a meteor hammer that was nearly half a meter in diameter and covered in spikes.
He did not see Meng Chao defeating the Minotaur warrior.
However, he saw the highly abstract Minotaur pattern on Meng Chao’s chest.
Of course, other than the two horns that shot up into the sky, the current Minotaur pattern didn’t seem to be too closely related to the Minotaur Man.
The problem was that the relationship between this pattern and the wild boar man seemed to be even more distant.
After all, the bull had horns, and the wild boar man was famous for its powerful fangs.
Thus, the huge wild boar warrior immediately treated Meng Chao as an enemy. The meteor hammer tore through the dust, setting off a destructive storm, and smashed down on Meng Chao’s head.
In Meng Chao’s field of vision, the cuneiform characters instantly exploded like a broken kaleidoscope.
In response to the meteor hammer, he quickly calculated the constantly changing speed, angle, accuracy and strength of the attack.
Of course, even without the a.s.sistance of the totem armor, Meng Chao had more than ten ways to dodge the meteor hammer that was “as slow as a snail” in his eyes.
However, he still chose not to dodge. He crossed his arms and received the opponent’s attack head-on.
“Next, I have to test the defensive power of the totem armor!”
Boom!
The powerful meteor hammer struck the point where Meng Chao’s arms crossed.
Meng Chao felt as if a rocket launcher was aimed at his face at such a close distance.
Both of his arms suddenly felt a sharp pain.
His ten fingers were somewhat numb, and he could barely hold on to anything.
His shoulder blades were also burning, as if someone had inserted more than a dozen red-hot steel needles into the gaps between his bones.
In order to maintain his position, his spine was under extreme pressure, and it emitted an explosive “ka ka ka” sound.
However, after a few seconds, the intense pain and discomfort greatly subsided.
He moved his fingers. No matter if it was the muscle fibers, blood vessels, tendons, or the neural network, they were still unimpeded and were not affected by the heavy blow.
The price was that a large number of scarlet cuneiform words jumped out in front of him, flashing and flashing, warning him.
In the visual field, the lifelike three-dimensional model of the totem battle armor, the arm armor, had also turned into a dark red color that represented danger. Behind many numbers, there were downward arrows.
Behind them, there was a series of flashing numbers. Every time they flashed, the numbers would shrink a little.
It was like a countdown.
Meng Chao pondered for a moment. This was probably to remind him that after the gauntlet was heavily damaged, it had suffered damage and its performance had temporarily decreased. It needed a certain amount of time to repair itself automatically.
Of course, according to the principle of conservation of ma.s.s and energy, repairing the totem armor required a large amount of spiritual energy.
Meng Chao felt that the high-energy candy he had just swallowed from the energy secret medicine had been almost completely consumed in an instant.
He was now confident.
“This wild boar warrior’s meteor hammer attack is roughly equivalent to Dragon City’s ma.s.s-produced rocket launchers. At a distance of about fifty meters, the effect of hitting the target.
“The low-level totem armor worn by ordinary clan warriors should be able to withstand the direct hit of one or two rocket launchers.
“However, it will take a certain amount of time to repair itself and consume a large amount of spiritual energy.
“This means that totem armors are not immune to the attacks of rocket launchers and other heavy weapons.
“There will not be a situation where a low-level warrior wearing totem armors will be able to enter the flood of steel in Dragon City as if no one was there.
“By the same logic, even without rocket launchers, as long as there are enough heavy machine guns, grenades, and even semi-automatic rifles to form a dense bullet curtain, a high-level orc wearing totem armors can still be exhausted to death.”
This was very important.
It was not only related to how to form an effective balance between the Earthlings and high-level orcs.
It was also related to whether the Dragon City civilization could open Picturesque Orchid Lake’s blue ocean market with bazookas, grenades, grenade launchers, and semi-automatic rifles.
If a single hot weapon could not break through the defense of the totem armor at all.
How could it be sold?
Now it seemed that although there were a lot of mysteries on the totem armor that could not be solved by Earth’s technological level for the time being…
At the very least, it was not some “divine weapon” that was invulnerable to swords and guns, and had unlimited ammunition and energy.
While Meng Chao thought about it, the wild boar warrior had already retrieved his meteor hammer, and he tried to fiercely hammer Meng Chao’s chest once again.
Meng Chao gritted his teeth. This time, he simply let go of his arms and directly used his breastplate to meet the blow.
Bang!
The fierce collision between the meteor hammer and the breastplate actually created a dazzling fireball. The breastplate, together with the ox head pattern, was so deep that it could be seen with the naked eye. Even Meng Chao’s breastplate was deeply sunken, accompanied by the cracking sounds of his breastplate, faint signs of cracking appeared. It was as if his heart had been heavily pinched by an invisible giant hand. The pain was so painful that he almost could not breathe.
However, such a test was necessary.
At least, Meng Chao now knew how much damage the most ordinary totem armor could withstand.
Moreover, while the totem armor crazily absorbed spiritual energy from his body to repair the breastplate, it also injected a mysterious power into his cerebral cortex through his spinal cord and central nerves.
Meng Chao suddenly felt a clear spring gushing out of his brain.
The spring water turned into a sweet and refreshing stream and flowed into his internal organs, limbs, and bones, especially his arms and chest, which had been hit repeatedly.
The wound that was still painful to the bone a moment ago actually transmitted a weird… refreshing feeling with the “stream”?
“Is this… dopamine, norepinephrine, endorphins, and oxytocin?”
Meng Chao diverted 10% of his attention to deal with the wild boar warrior’s frenzied attack.
The remaining 90% of his attention was focused on a.n.a.lyzing the subtle changes in his body, mainly in the cerebral cortex and nervous system.
He discovered that under the stimulation of the totem armor, his body was crazily secreting all kinds of “happiness hormones.”
Whether it was dopamine, norepinephrine, endorphins, or men and women all secreted, the oxytocin known as pituitrin could maintain the normal physiological activities of the human body, it allowed people to maintain a sense of comfort, pleasure, and euphoria.
Therefore, it was collectively known as the “happiness hormone.”
Under normal circ.u.mstances, the happiness hormone could help people resist the effects of pain and maintain a positive mental state. It was an essential and important hormone for the human body.
However, if it was over-secreted, it was possible to destroy the normal stimulation and restraint mechanisms of the human body on the happiness hormone, raising the threshold of the happiness stimulation continuously, and causing people to sink into long-term depression, depression, and pain.
This was so-called withdrawal reaction, or “addiction.”
When superhuman individuals were training, because spirit energy stimulated the central nervous system and endocrine system, they would often secrete ten times more happiness hormone than ordinary people. They would feel a hundred times more intense pleasure than anything in the secular world.
Before the people of Earth built the theoretical edifice of spirit energy training, many extraordinary individuals did not know how to control the excessive secretion of happiness hormone.
They were addicted to the hundred-fold pleasure brought by cultivation. The more they cultivated, the crazier they became. They gradually embarked on the path of madness and inhumanity, from “superhuman individuals” to “lost individuals.”
Apart from the expansion of ambition, the lack of order, and the ancient ruins’ summon, the Blood union in the past committed the heinous crimes, and the loss of control of dopamine and endorphins was also an important reason.
Fortunately, with the constant exploration of pioneers such as Lei Zongchao, the Battle G.o.d, mankind finally realized the problem of addiction in cultivation and developed various physical and psychological therapies, they included secret spiritual techniques that suppressed the excessive secretion of the happiness hormone to control their thirst for endless pleasure.
However, Meng Chao discovered that the totem armor that was equipped with advanced technology had no intention of suppressing the high secretion of the happiness hormone.
Instead, it was stimulating his body to release an endless and unrestrained flow of “happiness” that was beyond the limit!