Chapter 713

A light rub of his fingers and it was gone.

"The durability's not bad." Zhao Chi marveled.

"Yes, the durability should be very high. My lord, you don't need to hold back on purpose—come at me with full force!"

This time Tang Ruan wasn't hurt, and she hadn't had her fill.

Zhao Chi laughed: "Fine, then be careful. This time it's normal strength."

"Bring it on!" Tang Ruan grew expectant again.

100% force, a normal swing of the blade.

Smack!

Tang Ruan's body tilted, but her arm was still uninjured—only the blade-mark on her skin was a little deeper.

Touching it, there was a very obvious scratchy feeling.

But the defense still hadn't been broken.

Not bad—plenty of durability.

Continue!

After many blades, he even brought out a combat technique.

Finally, cracks appeared in the skin armor on Tang Ruan's body.

She had finally taken an injury.

She excitedly savored the pain Zhao Chi delivered.

Zhao Chi didn't stop, constantly trying different spots.

In the end, he could roughly summarize the properties of her skin armor.

First, the defense across her entire body was uniform.

Face, neck, chest, legs, feet—everywhere, the skin armor's defense and durability were the same.

Overall, the strength wasn't as good as iron armor, but much stronger than leather armor.

Roughly between leather armor and iron armor.

Or like thin iron armor.

"Not bad, this skin armor's strength is excellent. That gives you double protection. Today's test was very rough—let me think about how to test you in more detail."

Tang Ruan heard this and suddenly covered her mouth and laughed.

"Why so happy?"

Tang Ruan said with a coquettish laugh: "My lord, this skin armor has information on it. Just tap in and you can see it."

"Huh? Why didn't you say so earlier? I just hacked you dozens of times…"

Tang Ruan said with a playful laugh: "If I'd told you earlier, you wouldn't have come to slash me. It wasn't easy to get the chance."

Zhao Chi said helplessly: "Fine, let me take a look."

He opened the genetic information, and indeed the specific data for the skin armor appeared.

He'd thought there was only the gene description…

【Name】Hardened Scale Skin

【Quality】Standard

【Durability】188/300

【Defense】15→52

With the data, it was very intuitive.

The most ordinary standard leather armor has 150 durability; iron armor has 400.

This skin armor has 300—still quite a bit less than iron armor, but still very good.

300 durability is equivalent to 3 times the life of an ordinary person with 5 Constitution.

Tang Ruan has 8 Constitution, her base life is 160, so this is also equivalent to directly increasing her life by about 2 times.

Quite impressive.

This skin armor's base defense is 15.

The most ordinary leather armor has 7 defense; iron armor has 26.

15 defense on this skin armor is also not bad.

But these 15 defense are only the base defense.

Adding Tang Ruan's 144% defense boost from enhancements, plus the 100% defense from various fashion items, the skin armor's defense was directly raised to 52.

No wonder he had just swung with full force and couldn't break Tang Ruan's defense at all.

Only after he had hacked the skin armor's durability down did Tang Ruan finally take damage.

But even if the skin armor was broken, Tang Ruan still had a certain defensive ability.

For example, the -20% damage from her masochistic preference, plus the -20% damage from her 20 Martial Arts, for a total of -40% damage.

This little woman could really take a beating.

Now with this gene added on, her durability had risen another step.

This gene really suited Tang Ruan.

The effect was far better than Zhao Chi's own modifications.

"My lord, look."

Tang Ruan pointed at her body.

Her body was streaked with fresh blood, but the wounds had already healed.

Look where?

Zhao Chi looked her up and down, but didn't notice anything strange.

Her whole body was still glossy and lustrous.

Apart from the fresh blood, she looked like a work of art.

Huh?

How did she become so perfect?

Just now, for the sake of the experiment, he had hacked her skin armor all over with cuts and wounds, but now… almost all of them had vanished.

"You… recovered?"

Zhao Chi looked at the durability again.

【Name】 Hardened Scale Skin

【Durability】 261/300

Durability is recovering rapidly.

"Yes." Tang Ruan nodded repeatedly. "This skin armor should count as skin, and it's part of my body too, so it also gets the boost from Hyper-Regeneration."

Zhao Chi was dumbfounded.

That awesome?

In other words, Tang Ruan's skin armor, just like her body, could also hyper-regenerate.

This gene enhancement on her was really worth it!

Lucky he had held firm just now and didn't modify it onto himself.

However, Zhao Chi remembered the gene description stating that this Hardened Scale Skin consumed bodily condition.

"Tang Ruan, what does this skin armor consume?"

"It needs to consume 30 points of stamina."

"And then?"

"And then? Nothing else."

Good, good, good.

Very good.

The consumption is completely acceptable.

"Can you cancel it at any time?"

Tang Ruan nodded: "I can, but after canceling, I'll need to consume stamina again to re-harden it."

Zhao Chi raised his blade: "Hold on, I'll hack the durability off your skin armor, then you cancel it and re-harden it."

Tang Ruan looked at Zhao Chi raising his blade in pleasant surprise, and said sweetly: "Okay~"

Bang bang bang bang bang!