Chapter 1606: Chapter 122: Driven Personal Armor

Seeing that bright, burning light in Mu Fan’s eyes, Nuonuo wrinkled her cute little nose. "I need to write the inspiration down. I can’t just say it all here, right? Come on, come on."

After she spoke, the girl was even more enthusiastic than Mu Fan and the others. With a whiff of fragrance, she ran toward the council tent in the village.

A quarter of an hour later.

A heavy pounding sound came from the central main tent.

...

"So it really was those Red Stone Clan bastards!"

Alva slammed a fist down on the raw-wood table with a bang, rage burning in his eyes.

"Before this, the Red Stone Clan never revealed they also had the ability to drive beast tides. Bone whistles... bone whistles... that’s the Rain Clan’s signature technique."

"But with those four elders getting killed, the beast tide completely out of control, Brother Mu Fan’s surprise attack helped us a lot."

"Which means the Red Stone Clan probably didn’t expect it to end this way. And that ambush with the Black Wood Cannon Beasts... what a vicious trick."

Listening to Mu Fan’s account, Alva quickly linked each previous incident together, and the Red Stone Clan’s attack strategy was thus exposed to everyone.

Seeing Alva respond one point after another in an orderly, clear manner, Isaiah’s eyes showed relief, and he kept nodding.

This is what a real man should look like!

He had seen all the changes in these past few days. Alva was transforming from a pure warrior into a true leader.

The catalysts in this process, Wang Nuonuo and Mu Fan, played an irreplaceable role.

"Mu Fan, you said afterward you killed another person. Was it also one of those old fossils whose bodies were about to be buried in the dirt?"

"No. That person was thin and lanky. The obvious thing was he had two little mustache patches on his upper lip..." Mu Fan described the man’s appearance.

As they listened, the light in Alva and Isaiah’s eyes grew brighter. After exchanging a glance, they both burst into loud laughter.

"Hahaha, so it was that insidious guy Basham. He didn’t die by Alva’s hand but instead died in Brother Mu’s hands—this really is the guidance of the Stars."

"Since we’ve already figured out the source of the beast tide and found the mastermind behind it, then not launching a Counterattack next would really not be in line with our White Armor Clan’s style."

At this moment, flames were burning in Alva’s eyes. Having let go of his obsessions and broadened his heart, he devoted his entire mind to the tribe.

To fight for the survival of their race!

The few of them exchanged looks and nodded. Today’s battle was the turning point for the White Armor Clan, from passive defense to active assault.

Filling in their intelligence gap had finally strengthened the White Armor Clan’s confidence in this war.

"Nuonuo, what are you drawing..." Mu Fan turned to the girl who had been drawing non-stop on a piece of bark paper ever since entering the main tent. The moment his gaze landed on the faintly emerging outline on the sheet, his heart gave a heavy thump, and for the first time his eyes burst with an unbelievable brilliance.

"A Mecha Diagram, is it?"

The girl lifted her face and let out a long breath. Right now, those bright eyes of hers held astonishing confidence and beauty.

Mecha Diagram?

Under Isaiah’s and Alva’s confused stares, Mu Fan strode to Nuonuo’s side. The girl smiled softly, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and moved aside to make room for him.

"It really is... a Mecha Diagram! But this isn’t a large Mecha. It seems... more like the standard-issue single-soldier Armor widely used in the star domain. The design leans toward an exoskeleton? But it doesn’t quite look like one either... is it a micro Mecha or an exoskeleton?"

Mu Fan frowned at the drawing on the bark paper. He felt a vague train of thought being stirred within him, and he also had this sense that he could truly grasp the key to that fleeting inspiration...

It was right here on this blueprint!

"Nuonuo, you really are a genius. Can you explain your idea to me in detail?" Mu Fan took two quick, tense breaths as his mind began to race wildly.

"My lord, you’re praising me so much you’re making me blush."

The girl giggled, her eyes curving into two pretty crescent moons.

She liked hearing praise from the one in her heart the most.

"This is a driven personal armor distinct from an exoskeleton. It belongs to a fringe field in weapons and equipment research, focusing on two major features: lightweight and portability. This was a spark of inspiration that suddenly flared up when I saw Brother Alva forging the Bone Gold Battle Axe just now."

As she said this, Nuonuo glanced at Mu Fan and discovered he was staring straight at her. Two red clouds instantly rose on her cheeks.

"Driven personal armor is a derivative branch of micro Armor. Because it doesn’t have the heavy firepower of an exoskeleton, nor any real defensive ability, it doesn’t perform well in actual combat, and later research in this field was shelved. I heard my grandpa’s analysis by chance before. He said the limitation came from the materials, since under current conditions it wasn’t feasible to use those rare alloys that are both ultra-light and ultra-tough to make this kind of chicken-rib equipment."

"In short, first is that the raw materials are too scarce; second is the cost-effectiveness of manufacturing."

Mu Fan watched that fair, slender finger Nuonuo had raised, and her expression as she explained with total focus, and a knowing smile appeared in his eyes.

"But these two limiting factors no longer exist here!"

"First, Bone Gold’s Energy-absorbing and ultra-sharp traits surpass all alloys of the same mass, and we already have a stockpile on hand."

"Second, there are no other, more powerful weapons that require Bone Gold as a material!"

By this point, Nuonuo’s voice was starting to tremble with barely contained excitement.

"All battles here are tied directly to the combatant’s personal strength. On this land, once driven personal armor is successfully prototyped, its wearer will gain an undisputed, absolute advantage."

"Reinforcing the critical areas makes up for the real weak points. It will be war machinery enough to change the balance of power!"

Nuonuo finished speaking, her chest heaving as she tried to steady her breathing after that excited outburst.

The huge tent fell so silent that a pin drop could be heard.

Alva and Isaiah were both staring at Wang Nuonuo with shocked eyes.

They didn’t understand those technical terms at all, but that didn’t stop them from grasping the final conclusion.

If warriors wore War Armor forged from Bone Gold, it would absolutely change the shape of war!

However...

"We still have some Bone Gold in storage, but using that Bone Gold to forge weapons has a higher payoff."

After carefully comparing the tribe’s situation, Alva’s brows furrowed.

He knew that the driven personal armor Miss Nuonuo spoke of must be different from their War Armor, so he didn’t question a field he didn’t understand.

"Nuonuo, about... the Energy source for driven personal armor, have you considered that?"

Mu Fan narrowed his eyes. In that instant, his thoughts snapped into crystalline clarity as he raised the most critical link in Nuonuo’s concept.

"Without engines or reactors, the Energy source is the user themselves."

Nuonuo seemed to have thought this through in advance, but after speaking, she looked back down at the blueprint and murmured softly to herself, "But in that case, mass production will probably be a problem..."

If they had the industrial base of Loki Heavy Industry, mass-producing these driven personal armors would only be a matter of minutes.

But right now... 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

What they lacked most was time.

"I’m sorry."

Thinking of this, Nuonuo lowered her head in dejection.