I Can Program My Body? - Chapter 381

Chapter 381: Aegis Core
“This is the Aegis Core, a treasure that can generate a barrier covering our entire territorial range.” Nash began, introducing the shelter treasure.

“A defensive barrier?”

“How strong is its defensive power, Commander?”

“I’m not certain about its exact strength, but by my estimate, it should withstand the siege of trillions of dark beasts.”

“Trillions of dark beasts? This—”

“How could it be so powerful?”

“Is that even possible?”

Although they expected a shelter treasure to have exceptional abilities, this exceeded all their expectations!

Still doubting his words, they thought Nash was just making a guess.

“I’m not joking. However, the energy needed to power it certainly won’t be low.” Nash smiled.

“If this shelter treasure of yours really has such an ability, Commander, then we’re willing to conquer the impossible!” they declared seriously.

With such a strong defensive fortification, why worry about enemy numbers?

As long as they could kill the enemy, they could outlast any siege.

“Haha, then let’s test its defensive power first. We’ll see for ourselves if my estimate was right.”

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Wanting to determine the power of the Aegis Core, the Star Alliance quickly prepared to relocate.

Before that, however, Nash went on the back of Tsuka.

“You’ll have another accessory.” Nash stroked its back.

Trumpeting in delight, Tsuka began urging him to hurry.

To it, having a shelter treasure was like receiving a new toy to play with.

It could even improve and experiment with its own innate abilities by imitating the power each treasure generated.

From its innate ability sonar map, gravity manipulation, and the healing field.

Although not as powerful as the shelters currently, Tsuka could see what level it might reach.

Thrilled to have another one, it continued urging Nash.

“Alright, alright, settle down.”

Smiling, Nash quickly merged the Aegis Core into its back.

Merging with its flesh, the core began to expand as if wrapping Tsuka in crystalline defense.

Feeling the unique power being born within it, Tsuka couldn’t help but stomp its feet, trumpeting toward the sky.

Hearing the commotion, everyone quickly turned their attention to the Nova Team.

Watching the light begin to expand, the top leaders knew it was their Commander’s doing.

Thinking the Nova Team already had two shelter treasures, while they didn’t even have one, they couldn’t help but feel jealous.

Fortunately, remembering they were all on the same team, the jealousy quickly diluted and turned into confidence.

The stronger the Nova Team was, the stronger their Star Alliance would be!

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After fusing the Aegis Core with Tsuka, the team began proceeding on their journey.

Traveling for days, they quickly arrived at the closest resource point.

“Now let’s see how strong its defensive power is,” Nash thought.

Because it was an external power, like the Aura Mirage, Tsuka couldn’t control it while moving.

Needing to stay still, they came to a stop before a dark beast nest.

Instead of instantly attacking like they previously did, they began provoking the enemy, waiting for the Nova Shelter to make its move.

Soon, as a grand barrier swept across the area, they began to watch in anticipation.

Covering the entire shelter, the dark beasts they’d attracted finally reached them.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Coming close to the barrier, they were suddenly stopped.

Seeing the barrier stand solid without even a ripple from thousands upon thousands of dark beasts, the crowd grew more excited.

As the number of dark beasts increased from thousands to hundreds of thousands to millions, they finally couldn’t hold back their excitement.

“Amazing! This barrier is incredibly strong!”

“With this, we can conquer anything!”

“Haha, Commander is truly great. We’re invincible!”

“No—the Star Alliance is invincible!”

Unable to restrain themselves, they began laughing in celebration, marveling at the sturdiness of the barrier.

Although it was still far from Nash’s estimate of trillions, it already filled them with hope.

Furthermore, they wouldn’t be entirely withstanding the attack of an entire horde of dark beasts, but only those that strayed off course.

With the Aura Mirage’s concealment, the dark beasts that could reach them should be less than ten percent.

If they were lucky, it might even be only one to three percent.

With the capability the barrier showed, the fire in their hearts had already ignited.

Imagining conquering such a dangerous yet resource-rich land, their expressions couldn’t help but be eager.

However, Nash, who was overseeing the operation of the Aegis Core, was anything but happy.

“This thing is really expensive!”

Although he’d already deduced that it would cost significant energy to maintain the barrier, he didn’t expect it to be this expensive.

Besides the cost for activating and maintaining the barrier, each attack from the dark beasts was like monsters gnawing away at their energy reserves.

Although they had plenty of disposable merits, thinking of the trillions of dark beasts that might attack them, Nash felt helpless.

This is all money! Energy he needed to further his void capacity.

Although it didn’t cost much to increase his void saturation to 1,000,000%, the same couldn’t be said for Void Fortification and Void Condensation.

Especially the Void Condensation phase, remembering the energy he’d spent to reach 10,000%, he felt that a quarter of their current energy wouldn’t be enough to take it to a million.

“Huh… There’s nothing I can do…”

Compared to the energy spent, the benefits they could gain from conquering a cluster-type resource were enormous.

The only pity was that Nash couldn’t use the Aegis Core as regularly as the Aura Mirage.

Thinking that it cost almost fifty million merits, yet he could only use it in critical situations, left Nash feeling disappointed.

“Tsk, what a waste.”

Stopping the test, Nash reminded everyone to start attacking.

Heeding his order, everyone snapped out of their daze and began razing the ground.

Such a dark beast nest no longer posed them any problem.

Mobilizing all their power, it didn’t take an hour to clear all the dark beasts.

Then, setting up base and mining all the resources in the ground, they quickly proceeded to the cluster-type resource point.

Now that they had power, they no longer needed to waste time on those single resource points.