r18novel Chapter 40 The Journey, Part 3
Chapter 40 The Journey, Part 3
At this moment, after exchanging a few words with Elder Yi about his experience of casting necromancy, Huo Yuhao refocused his attention on the corpse of the evil soul master in front of him.
However, he did not immediately walk over to the corpse in front of him to see what spoils it had.
Instead, he picked up the soul-guided ray gun in his hand, checked whether it could be used normally, and then took out a metal bullet the size of a little finger from his storage soul-guided device.
After glancing at the soul guidance array engraved on the bullet, he loaded it into the soul guidance ray gun in his hand, producing a crisp metallic clanging sound.
Although the enemy in front of him had been completely eliminated, the boy's mental detection was not turned off, and the soul-guided ray gun in his hand was ready to attack at any time.
This was a habit the boy developed in the wasteland: always be prepared for battle and always have a weapon in hand. After all, he would never forget what Captain John had said when he first joined the Ranger squad and tested his shooting skills.
Tianmeng and Elder Yi within the spiritual sea did not object to Huo Yuhao's current state; it was always better to be cautious.
During these four months, the boy did not slack off in the slightest.
After burying his mother's remains in the Demiplane of the Dead, he left.
In the time that followed, in addition to traveling towards the far north, Huo Yuhao also cultivated his soul power, studied soul tools and learned necromancy. He even continued to refine the details of the plan he would implement later.
In short, the boy had very little time to rest during this period, and his schedule was packed every day, whether he was outside or in the Sea of Spirituality.
The results were remarkable. His soul power had reached level 20, and he had made significant progress in both learning soul tools and necromancy.
If we say that the results of the battle just now can be seen from the boy's mastery of necromancy and his cultivation of soul power, then...
Therefore, the soul-guided ray gun in Huo Yuhao's hand, and the metal bullet engraved with soul-guided magic arrays, represent the results of his learning about soul-guided devices during this period.
There was no way for the boy to go to a certain academy or study under a certain soul master, since he had to keep traveling towards the far north and rarely stayed in one place for long.
For this reason, the only way he could learn about soul tools was to buy some books about soul tools and some soul tools themselves.
So the boy frequently searched for and bought these things along the way, but books that actually recorded in detail how to learn advanced soul guidance arrays were rarely sold.
The high-end soul tools were priced beyond Huo Yuhao's means. After all, high-end soul tools cost anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions or even tens of millions of gold soul coins. Even if the boy took out all his gold soul coins, he still couldn't afford such soul tools.
Therefore, he could only collect fragmented knowledge about soul tools along the way. Incomplete books and various defective or broken soul tools were all ways for him to learn about soul tools.
At this time, Huo Yuhao was the only Soul Master in the entire history of Douluo Continent who learned Soul Tools through such unorthodox methods.
There was no formal learning process, no academy or teacher to guide them; they were simply using these cobbled-together materials to learn about soul tools.
Because of this situation, Huo Yuhao was also unaware of his current Soul Master level, since he had never received formal Soul Tool training or undergone a Soul Master level assessment.
Therefore, he did not have any Level 1 Soul Master badge to indicate his Soul Master level.
However, the boy's soul power has now reached level 20. He has not yet absorbed a second soul ring to become a Great Soul Master, but he has already mastered the use of soul guidance arrays of level four and below.
Even so, Huo Yuhao spent a considerable amount of money on this.
After all, apart from occasionally getting some soul tools from bandits or evil soul masters, the rest have to be bought with money.
Even defective or scrapped soul tools are not trash thrown on the ground. Ironically, the boy has never bought a normal soul tool so far, all to save money.
In addition to the mathematical and scientific knowledge in the boy's mind, Elder Yi also helped him understand the principles behind the construction of these soul-guiding arrays.
Although Elder Yi had never studied soul tools, he was an absolute authority in the fields of magic and alchemy.
Of course, Elder Yi also taught Huo Yuhao these things during this period, but now the young man is learning too much, so these things can only be touched upon superficially, and will be explained slowly later.
However, the boy still studied those things diligently, mainly focusing on necromancy. He listened to the alchemy that Elder Yi mentioned, but did not study it in depth.
As for his success in learning about soul tools, it was thanks to the soul-guided ray gun in his hand, and those metal bullets.
This soul-guided ray gun was made by the boy himself, but it is significantly different from the soul-guided ray guns on Douluo Continent.
The difference lies not in the appearance, but in the overall structure. In addition to engraving a large number of soul guidance arrays on the gun barrel made of rare metals, he also adopted mechanical principles and used many mechanical parts to replace many of the tasks that originally required soul guidance arrays.
The guns the boy had encountered in the wasteland, apart from some laser or plasma weapons, were mostly made of mechanical parts, so he was no stranger to them.
The result was quite obvious: compared to the scrapped and defective soul-guided ray guns the boy had seen before, this ray gun, which could be called a level four soul-guided device, was superior.
Without weakening the original damage, the mechanical mechanism was used to reduce the amount of soul guidance arrays depicted, thus reducing the amount of rare metals used.
At the same time, due to the use of a large number of mechanical structures, the number of soul guidance arrays that need to be driven by soul power has been reduced, which greatly reduces the soul power required to use the weapon, allowing Huo Yuhao to use it normally at this time.
As for the metal bullet that the boy just used, it wasn't made together with the bullet from the beginning.
Originally, Huo Yuhao bought a defective level 2 fixed-position soul guide cannonball from a merchant for over a hundred gold soul coins.
According to the merchant, this item was probably the work of a low-level Soul Master practicing making fixed-position Soul Guidance Shells. Since level two fixed-position Soul Guidance Shells don't do much damage, not many people pay attention to their whereabouts.
And since it was a defective product made as a practice piece, it was neglected and ended up in their hands.
That's what the merchant said at the time, and he didn't have much doubt about it.
During this time, as the boy traveled towards the far north, he also witnessed the attitudes toward soul tools within the original Douluo Three Kingdoms territory.