One of the hallmarks of an SS-class is the awakening of special abilities in their battle armor.
When a Soul Wielder steps into the SSS-class, their battle armor will also be slowly elevated to the SSS-class through the immense power of their soul, through subtle influences over time.
At this point, the path of the Soul Battle Armor reaches a certain apex!
Firstly, the battle armor abilities awakened at the SS-class will no longer be limited to being released only when wearing the armor; even the Soul Wielder themselves can unleash special abilities.
Of course, this is only as it should be!
Because the most iconic characteristic of SSS-class battle armor is its complete unity with the Soul Wielder!
The person is the battle armor! The battle armor is the person!
At this stage, the lifespan limitation of the physical body has almost vanished. As long as the battle armor exists, the Soul Wielder's physical body will not perish!
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According to Nine Dragons' latest findings, the special abilities that a Soul Battle Armor might develop after advancing to SS-class are influenced by an individual's personality and a combination of various factors.
Four years ago, when her parents were murdered by Nine Dragons, Lin Yue was just an ordinary child.
After learning of their parents' deaths, Lin Qing took control of the entire family and did her best to shield her younger sisters from the excessively cruel news.
Lin Qing even handled the burial of their parents' remains alone.
At that time, the plain-looking and cheerful Lin Yue noticed nothing amiss.
But when she later learned of her parents' deaths, this girl who loved her elder sister the most had a huge argument with Lin Qing and then sat alone at their parents' grave for an entire night.
The next day, Lin Yue returned, crying and collapsing into a sleep in the arms of Lin Qing and Lin Xin'er.
From that moment on, Lin Yue knew that in this world, only her sister and younger sister remained most important to her.
In fact, her original destiny was also too cruel to her.
Her elder sister's death was exchanged for her successful escape to the rebel stronghold.
Her younger sister's death was exchanged for her stepping into the Apostle realm.
And after these sacrifices, under the guidance of fate, as the hero who opposed Long Jiu, she possessed the power to control time!
Furthermore, unlike the undead expert who accelerated time and whom Chen Luo encountered in the mother world,
Supported by the "Sunfire," Lin Yue, who only possessed Infernal-level strength, could even transcend time for extended periods!
Her only limitation was the strength of her own soul power!
And this power, which was beyond the norm, was once born to counter Long Jiu!
However, due to the intervention of an unnamed Conqueror, the flow of destiny changed.
The weary Lin Yue leaned against Lin Xin'er's legs. Waves of azure light scanned Lin Yue's body, allowing her to recover slightly from her near-drained state.
While Lin Yue rested, in the sky not far from Fang Xue, a glazed sword suddenly slashed through space!
Immediately after, a hundred-meter-tall glazed battle armor emerged from the space that had been cut open!
If Lin Yue's crystal battle armor looked like a deadly beauty, then this glazed battle armor exuded an undeniable majesty!
Time is supreme, space is king!
This was Lin Qing's True Guard Battle Armor, "Azure Sky"!
The Azure Sky Battle Armor stood tall in the firmament, and Lin Qing's cold voice echoed throughout the entire city:
"This is the end!"
"All chaos will return to order!"
"Soul Warrior Skill! Celestial Cycle of the Azure Firmament!!"
Silence,
No breath.
Within the city, the spatial rifts that had been continuously opening trembled violently!
The next moment, the edges of the rifts flashed with streaks of silver light, and within the light, the rifts rapidly closed!
And the monsters attempting to pass through the rifts had no power to resist in front of the suddenly closing spatial rifts.
In an instant, countless monster blood splattered from the sealed rifts.
But what was even more astonishing was that the monsters that had already descended, densely filling the entire city, also vanished one after another after a flash of silver light!
On the streets and within the buildings, the stunned people looked at the city, still littered with blood and remains but conspicuously devoid of living monsters, and were momentarily dumbfounded.
Thus, the crisis triggered by the sudden appearance of spatial rifts quietly dissipated after the arrival of the spatial battle armor.
But for the entire world, the anomalies were becoming increasingly severe.
...
After resolving the crisis within the city and handing over the aftermath to Luo Xue,
Four True Guard Battle Armors hovered in mid-air. The group gazed at the situation outside the city with heavy hearts.
Unlike the city, which had returned to normal, the scene outside the city could only be described as a demonic dance.
Countless spatial rifts were densely spread across every corner of the world, and countless monsters continuously poured in from beyond the rifts.
Even True Guard-class monsters were not uncommon in the monster tide outside the city.
From within the glazed battle armor at the forefront of everyone, Lin Qing's voice came:
"With our strength, we can withstand any monster tide, no matter how large, or how many True Guards there are."
"The problem lies with those guys above True Guard!"
Upon hearing this, the four looked further out of the city.
Across the vast plains, amidst the surging monster tide, all the monsters were packed densely together.
Even True Guard-class monsters often had to step on the corpses of other monsters to find a foothold.
But within this crowded tide, there were conspicuous empty zones.
There, monsters of unique appearances and varied forms exuded palpable and terrifying fluctuations.
It was not that monsters did not dare to approach; rather, those that did approach died.
Even True Guard-class monsters, upon getting close, would immediately flee with heavily injured bodies, pushing aside other monsters to escape into the distance.
These were Abyss-class, the pinnacle of the first tier, and what this world defined as Apostle-class!
However, what brought some relief to the four was that these peak monsters, unlike other monsters, did not relentlessly pursue humans.
They moved resolutely towards the center of the continent within the monster tide, paying no attention to the humans along their path.
But soon, their hearts sank.
There were far too many of these Apostle-class monsters than they had anticipated. They were coming from all directions.
Although these monsters shared the same objective, one or two of them were on a path that directly led to the rebel army's headquarters!
Gazing at the blood-red knight riding a skeletal warhorse and clad in tattered armor in the distance, the expressions of the group turned grim.
It could be seen that all ordinary monsters that approached within a thousand meters of this blood-red knight were effortlessly cut into pieces by an unknown force.
If it were allowed to pass through the city, countless people would likely be killed!
"Damn it, we must stop him! Sister, Xin'er, Ah Xue, cover me! I'll go and test him out!!"