Chapter 160 - 126: Golden Ratio, A One-Man Army

Chapter 160: Chapter 126: Golden Ratio, A One-Man Army

As soon as he entered Chaos Square, Roy took off his mask, sat down in the center, and pulled out a few sheets of parchment.

The parchments contained the information on Fighting Qi Mimicry that the Flying Dragon Knight had just written down.

After taking out the parchments, he quickly began to read through them.

Skimming ten lines at a glance, he finished reading everything in under a minute.

Just as he’d guessed, the Flying Dragon Knight’s development of Fighting Qi Mimicry had hit a wall: the inability to flexibly control the form after it was created.

For any Great Knight, substantiating their released Fighting Qi into a desired shape was not difficult.

But unlike Fighting Qi Armor and Fighting Qi Weapons, which could be used normally as soon as they were formed, Fighting Qi Mimicry was far more troublesome.

To put it simply, the parts created through Fighting Qi Mimicry couldn’t be "inanimate objects" like armor and weapons. They had to be "living things" that could be freely moved and controlled, just like a part of one’s own body.

To use a more vivid analogy, creating Fighting Qi Armor and Fighting Qi Weapons was like Forging a weapon from metal.

Fighting Qi Mimicry, on the other hand, was like creating a robotic prosthesis.

Although both were techniques derived from Fighting Qi Substantiation, the difficulty of Fighting Qi Mimicry was several orders of magnitude higher than that of forming Fighting Qi Armor and Fighting Qi Weapons.

After reading the notes on Fighting Qi Mimicry, Roy put the parchments away, channeled the Fighting Qi in his body, and began his first-ever attempt at the technique.

Leveraging his precise control and Spiritual Power, which far surpassed that of other Great Knights, he effortlessly condensed the Fighting Qi arms described in the notes, causing a pair of thick, silvery-white arms to "grow" from his shoulders.

To be precise, he had "grown" a pair of Fighting Qi arms that were little more than decorations.

If a normal human arm had a dexterity of 10 and a control difficulty of 1...

...then the Fighting Qi arms he had just created were the exact opposite, with a dexterity of 1 and a control difficulty of 10.

After a brief attempt at controlling them, Roy immediately dispelled the mimicked arms.

After some thought, he decided to try a biomimetic approach, using his Fighting Qi to replicate the entire internal structure of an arm, from the inside out.

Although he didn’t know if this biomimetic method would solve the issues with the Fighting Qi arm’s dexterity and control, there was no harm in trying.

Without any hesitation, he immediately began his attempt.

First, the bones of the arm.

Humerus, ulna, radius, carpals, metacarpals, phalanges.

Drawing on his memories, he formed each of the arm’s necessary bones one by one.

With the skeletal structure complete, next came the muscles.

But when he tried to form the muscles, he immediately hit a problem he couldn’t solve.

He could indeed substantiate his Fighting Qi into any shape he desired, but using it to form muscles with normal functionality was asking too much not only of him, but of the Fighting Qi itself.

Unsurprisingly, his attempt to perfect Fighting Qi Mimicry through biomimetics failed almost as soon as it began.

With a helpless sigh, Roy began to think of other solutions.

Time trickled by.

After more than ten minutes of deep thought, he sighed once more.

Although he was a Transmigrator with knowledge from another world, it was obvious that nothing he had learned on Blue Star could solve the problem of Fighting Qi Mimicry.

As for the knowledge he’d acquired after arriving in this world, that was even less helpful.

If perfecting Fighting Qi Mimicry were so easy, the Flying Dragon Knight wouldn’t have spent over a decade researching it only to still be stuck at the very first stage.

’Forget it!’

’I’ll just have to take it slow.’

’It would be best if I could completely perfect Fighting Qi Mimicry and achieve Fighting Qi Wings.’

’But if I can’t, then I can’t.’

’This stuff is just like math—no matter how much you hate it, if you don’t get it, you just don’t get it!’

After composing himself, Roy stood up. He was about to head to the storage area in the corner to place the Fighting Qi Mimicry notes with the parchments detailing his Secret Techniques.

However, he had only taken a few steps when a voice echoed in his mind.

[Fighting Qi Substantiation is the preliminary stage of Fighting Qi Activation. It cannot achieve perfect Mimicry.]

[There are only two ways to achieve Fighting Qi Activation.]

[First, advance to the rank of Legendary Knight.]

[Second, perfectly fuse Spiritual Power and Fighting Qi in a 0.618:1 ratio.]

Roy stopped in his tracks, a look of surprise on his face.

This wasn’t the first time Chaos Square had provided an answer.

But he never expected Chaos Square to give him a solution for the problem of Fighting Qi Mimicry.

Not only that, but upon seeing the 0.618:1 ratio, a particular term immediately came to mind.

The golden ratio!

Though he didn’t know if it was a coincidence, Roy didn’t dwell on it. He sat down on the spot and immediately began fusing his Spiritual Power and Fighting Qi in a 0.618:1 ratio.

Fortunately, he had started practicing the Purgatory Dragon Meditation Method long ago.

Otherwise, even if he’d known the method, he wouldn’t have been able to fuse his Spiritual Power and Fighting Qi at the golden ratio to achieve Fighting Qi Activation.

Time trickled by.

After considerable effort, Roy finally completed the fusion of his Spiritual Power and Fighting Qi, gaining access to activated Fighting Qi.

Without any hesitation, he immediately began forming the Fighting Qi arms.

In just two or three seconds, a pair of arms that looked as if they were forged from Silver "grew" from his shoulders once more.

On the surface, the newly formed Fighting Qi arms looked no different from the previous ones.