Chapter 173: Tiered Armaments

3 weeks passed with Jade stuck in his lab trying to apply the concepts he learnt about space in reality. At first the task was extremely hard because he knew so much but didn't know what to make from the knowledge he had.

He then gathered his thoughts 'I just want to fight well. I need armor and weapons, that's all. I can try at a Nuclear Fission weapon but I need to achieve spatial splitting. For the armor I need something that can stop any form of energy, but to make that I have the option of using State Space or Void… I should use Void since it is less complex'

The devices that allowed Jade to teleport were now useless to Jade now. His energy was space and he could control it to teleport anything in his energy zone and that was only just the most basic thing he could do with it.

After 3 weeks of work, Jade had created the 3 weapons that would now be his new main arsenal. The first was the spatial slashing weapon:

[Son Hak/Hack: The Final Form of the Ouki glaive series, Son Hak also known as Hack, is the sharpest weapon ever created. Hack is capable of spatial slashing (Both normal and flying slash) and was used to perform Nuclear Fission.]

Spatial slashing is possible to Hack because of its special form; its edge is shaped as a wedge with its tip being a single unit of Void. The Void doesn't replicate because its Dimension is permanently set for it to be at the tip of the blade. The body of the blade and the pole of the glaive were made from the bones of the Rank 20 Cloud Leaping Tiger. The bones were easy for Jade to carry with his pinnacle strength but were still heavy enough to put a lot of weight behind Jade's slashes.

The second weapon was a long range weapon:

[Deus Ex Machina: Nuclear Fission weapon. A Dimensional Long Range Beam weapon that shoots a beam of Nuclear energy through the portal used to access its separate dimension. The Nuclear energy can be transformed into various forms of energy including pure energy for Jade to absorb using state space manipulation]

After using spatial slash on a large amount of heavy atoms in a separate dimension a Supernova level explosion of energy happened in it. The Dimension was modified to contain and compress the energy in the Supernova and the State Space of the Dimension was changed to cause the energy in the explosion to change form depending on the mental signal Jade sent.

[Plot Armor: Full body armor made of Void. The armor is so named because it is a literal cheat. It cannot be broken or manipulated by any influence except extremely advanced space control. Any remotely controllable attack that hits Jade is disconnected from the controller when he fully wears the armor]

Plot armor is Jade's attempt at making solid space. A vast amount of Void was compressed with an ever expanding Dimension that was shaped as the body armor. This resulted in a lot of pure and empty compressed distance acting as a buffer for any attack.

When any attack hits the armor it seems to stop but in fact it is just traveling a large amount of distance to reach behind the armor. If the attack travels the distance in the dimension fully it would reach Jade. Sadly this is quite a hard feet since the Void in the expanding Dimension isn't restricted so it is always replicating hence the distance the armor represents is always increasing at an increasing pace. The armor already represented a distance of a few million light years when Jade finalized it and that distance is ever increasing.

If say a remotely controllable bomb is put in Jade's body, when he wears the armor it is equal to him being a few light years away from the controller of the bomb hence no communication is possible at all hence the bomb cannot be activated.

There are ways to break or control the armor. The first and hardest way is through teleportation, Position Manipulation. The armor represents a lot of distance so the person using any teleportation would have to teleport through all the light years to reach Jade.

The second and fairly tough way is through Void manipulation. Controlling the Void in the armor can create a tiny expanding hole in the armor where Void can be drawn out of. If the rate of Void loss is more than the rate of Void replication the armor would be rendered useless in a certain amount of time depending on the integral of difference between the rate of loss and the rate of replication But Jade can also control Void so he can always patch up the armor and stop the outflow of Void.

The third and easiest way is to control the Dimension that contains the distance. The Dimension of anything decides the maximum shape and size the object can reach. If the Dimension of the Plot Armor is controlled a hole can be made through it where attacks can pass through without having to go through the distance. What makes this method nigh-impossible is the fact that Dimensional control is extremely hard and even if someone else is capable of it Jade can still control the holes to close up since he also can control the Dimensions. Heck, to move the armor or even move in the armor Dimensional control was required since it was literally a separate dimension.

State space manipulation has no effect on the Plot Armor because it is made of Void; it has no state. Because of the nature of Plot Armor, using any form of space manipulation on it was very hard and required a lot of complicated processes and also using any form of energy manipulation when completely covered by it required a lot of advanced Dimensional manipulation. Hence Jade had to always leave a opening in the armor to ensure he could fight normally.

Jade stood in his lab filled with pride and anticipation as he looked at the glaive with a dark blue pole and a black blade, floating transparent full body armor, and the coordinates of the Dimension that contained the Supernova.

Jade thought 'With this killing that damned spider will be a piece of cake. Now it'll understand what it's like to be attacked out of the blue!'

Jade had lost more of himself to the point where he was taking a monster attacking him personal. This was due to the fact that the memory of him attacking and slaughtering many monsters was no more attached to his emotions as he only knew about that from the psychic message he recorded previously but it was just a fact not an experience to him.

Jade looked at his Soul Map and searched the country of Nigeria for the only Rank 20 monster in it. But he was greatly surprised when he found 11 Rank 21 souls and one Rank 22 soul. Jade was shocked still and left in confusion as he looked at the information.

He thought 'Could they have falsified their information on the Soul Map?' After a period of thinking he concluded 'No, if they wanted to falsify anything, they would make themselves low Ranks to bait me or anyone in. They found a way to increase their Rank as unbelievable as it seems. I have to kill them before they get too powerful'

Jade didn't know that monsters' Ranks are dependent on the amount of stats they have in general not the Rank of creatures they kill. The Champion Arachni had just killed a lot of other monsters and acquired en-code which it used to increase its stats.

As Jade was about to begin the complex procedure to teleport the Plot Armor onto his body, his IP gave him a notification.

[Assessment Complete]

[Congratulations! Your creation, Son Hak/Hack, has been deemed a Tier 1 Space Armament.]

[Congratulations! Your creation, Deus Ex Machina, has been deemed a Tier 1 Space-Nuclear Armament.]

[Congratulations! Your creation, Plot Armor, has been deemed a Tier 2 Space Armament.]

'You have completed some parts of the Hidden Quest Series: Creator'

[Create a Tier 1 [Attribute] Armament – reward: title: [Attribute] Artificer – status: complete]

[Create a Tier 2 [Attribute] Armament – reward: title: [Attribute] Blacksmith – status: complete]

[Create a Tier 3 [Attribute] Armament – reward: title: [Attribute] Technician– status: incomplete]

[Create a Tier 4 [Attribute] Armament – reward: title: [Attribute] Engineer – status: incomplete]

[Create a Tier 5 [Attribute] Armament – reward: title: [Attribute] Creator – status: incomplete]

'You have acquired the title Space Artificer'

'You have acquired the title Space Blacksmith'

[Title:

Space Artificer: You have made an armament that utilizes space to perform a function that basic space manipulation can achieve.

You get a Basic Space Craft manual volume 1/4]

[Space-Nuclear Artificer: You have made an armament that utilizes space and nuclear energy to perform a function that basic space manipulation and basic nuclear alchemy can achieve.

You already have a Basic Space Craft manual so you get a Basic Nuclear Alchemy manual volume 1/4]

[Space Blacksmith: You have made an armament that utilizes space to perform a function that intermediate space manipulation can achieve.

You get an Intermediate Space Forging manual 1/24]

Jade laughed for a while after he read the notifications. He said "Hell no! I'm not delaying killing that spider for any reason. It dies today along with the other spiders!"

Jade took about 3 minutes to teleported the Plot Armor onto his body after which he teleported Hack into his hand, he then used his energy to open a portal to the location around where the Champion Arachni was.