After putting on the dark alloy armor, Weiwei's wine-red long hair flowed behind her head, and her entire bearing carried the crisp, valiant aura of a female warrior.
Seeing this, a glint of light flashed through Lin Fei's eyes.
He crossed both hands in front of his abdomen, his left wrist positioned forward, revealing the Illusory Scale Ability Lock.
"Armor—deploy!"
The Illusory Scale Ability Lock was like a key to a gate that unlocked the extraordinary energy within his body, instantly releasing the surging power sealed inside Lin Fei.
Like floodwaters bursting through opened sluice gates, the energy roared forth.
Lin Fei felt a rush of exhilaration from the depths of his soul and suddenly spread his arms wide.
Specks of crimson light radiated outward from him in all directions, as if a cosmic explosion were unfolding.
The scene behind him was no longer the brightly lit training ground.
Instead, it was replaced by a pitch-black backdrop.
Blazing, roaring flames surged upward, leaping around Lin Fei and illuminating his fully extended silhouette.
The scattered crimson motes of energy that had just fallen began to rise from below, drifting upward.
Armor formed over Lin Fei's left arm first.
The plates closed in from both front and back, locking into place with a sharp metallic clang the moment the assembly was complete.
Next came the legs.
Then the right arm.
After that, Lin Fei's front—his eyes still closed, his head slightly raised.
Waist armor, chest armor, shoulder armor—each piece descended and fused into place in sequence.
Only then did Lin Fei slowly open his eyes.
A dragon-scale-shaped phantom helmet drifted down toward his face.
The instant it made contact, the illusion solidified into a real helmet, covering his head completely.
A blue, horned visor obscured his eyes, leaving only the lower half of his face visible.
"Ha! Hah!"
Lin Fei threw a punch to the right. Flames erupted alongside crimson shockwaves, scattering red sparks of light.
Then he struck twice to the left.
"Yah—hah!"
Finally, he settled into a combat stance.
The flames and pitch-black backdrop dissipated, revealing Lin Fei's figure clad in the Illusory Scale armor.
The training ground lights shone down upon him, glinting off the armor—
From the domineering dragon-scale helmet on his head, to the blue visor, then to the center of the chest plate marked with a dragon-scale emblem,
All the way down to his lower body and combat boots.
"T-this… this is Lin Fei's armor?!"
Weiwei's eyes widened.
Lin Fei's transformation was truly shocking.
Even though she had been standing at a considerable distance, she could still feel the rolling waves of heat from the raging flames rushing toward her—
As if they were about to burn her to ashes.
Even with the dark alloy armor reducing the incoming heat, she still felt an intense scorching sensation.
And this was only the effect produced while Lin Fei was equipping the armor.
It was hard to imagine just how powerful Lin Fei would be now that he was fully armed!
"So Lin Fei really does have even greater power!"
Duka'ao's pupils contracted sharply.
He had long suspected that Lin Fei was anything but ordinary.
After all, even the De诺-3 system had no records on him, nor could it analyze any of his data.
However—
He hadn't expected that he had still underestimated Lin Fei's strength by such a margin.
In Duka'ao's view, even if Lin Fei was strong—perhaps even stronger than Weiwei, who possessed the Space-Time Gene and had already advanced into a second-generation Super Soldier—
The difference shouldn't have been this large.
Yet when Lin Fei activated the Illusory Scale armor, if Duka'ao hadn't sensed danger and withdrawn in time, he might have been caught in the energy shockwave and injured on the spot!
And although it was already night, the lights at the open-air training ground were bright enough.
He could clearly see a small crater beneath Lin Fei's feet—pressed into the ground by the sheer force of the Illusory Scale armor.
The pit was filled with cracks, its edges scorched black by extreme heat.
One had to know—this was merely the residual energy dispersing outward.
If all that power were fully released, it was impossible to imagine how terrifying it would be!
"General! De诺-3 has detected an extremely powerful energy surge! The location is at… the Super Academy?!"
"Could it be that Lena has arrived?"
At that moment, Duka'ao received a covert transmission from Qiangwei aboard the Juxia.
Her voice was urgent, until she saw the precise coordinates displayed on her screen—then doubt crept into her tone.
"It's not Lena. It's Lin Fei."
"Lin Fei?!"
Rapid keystrokes sounded through the channel, followed by Qiangwei's shocked voice.
"Energy analysis failed, but compared with the energy detected from Lin Fei before, the similarity is one hundred percent—"
"This explosive surge of energy… it's actually Lin Fei's?!"
"What on earth happened? Did someone at the academy provoke Lin Fei?"
No wonder Qiangwei reacted so anxiously.
After all, no one would casually erupt with their own energy—especially not at such a terrifying intensity.
The first thing that came to mind was that some kind of conflict must have occurred.
Duka'ao could understand her concern, so he calmly replied,
"Haha, don't worry. This is just Weiwei sparring with Lin Fei."
"Sparring?"
"Yes."
"In that case, I'll organize the energy-level data first. Once you return to the Juxia, General, we can discuss the details."
After all, Duka'ao had once been De诺's commanding officer, known back in the day as a war maniac.
Since he said there was no problem, Qiangwei didn't press further and instead began organizing the data—
So that when Duka'ao returned, he could gain a clearer understanding of Lin Fei's power.
After ending the transmission, Duka'ao's expression turned solemn as he once again looked toward Lin Fei at the center of the training ground.
"So this… is the power after armament."
Lin Fei lowered his head slightly. Behind the blue visor, his eyes stared at his hands as he clenched his fists.
Even without armor, he was already very strong.
Strong enough to overwhelm Liu Chuang, who had awakened one of the three great super-engineering genes—the Star God of War.
Even Weiwei, now a second-generation Super Soldier who could use micro-wormhole transport, was no match for him.
But compared to his current armed state, that strength was still far inferior.
The extraordinary energy within his body now amounted to the equivalent of 0.2 black holes.
Normally, without deliberate activation, that energy lay dormant like still water in a deep lake.
But through the Illusory Scale Ability Lock, the extraordinary energy within his body had been fully stimulated.
Those once-silent energies condensed into a tangible form—
The Illusory Scale Armor, now worn upon his body.
Armor, in essence, was simply a state of extraordinary energy.
And in this armed state—
The energy within Lin Fei surged like a boiling volcano, incredibly active.
At any moment, he could draw upon this restless power and unleash devastating might!
The boiling energy caused Lin Fei's emotions to surge as well.
He felt an overwhelming urge to vent the power roaring within him.
Raising his head, he looked toward Weiwei in the distance.
He clenched his fist in front of him.
"Weiwei—this is my armor. The Illusory Scale Armor!"
"Now… let's continue—"
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