Chapter 3143: Non-Replicable Super Item
Xu Huo was looking, and of course, no one else present would be tactless enough to crowd in, lest they be suspected of trying to snatch food from a tiger's mouth. They stood obediently behind, focusing their attention on other parts of the room.
Undoubtedly, this should be a study arranged by Carmen Field within the instance venue. There were traces of stickers on many parts of the walls, but now only some edges and corners without any characters remained. Nearby were some tools used for artifact crafting, most of which had already been destroyed.
"This should be Mr. Carmen's artifact crafting area," Upstairs said. "Could it be that the Battle Angel was created here?"
Xu Huo had already seen the design drawings for the Battle Angel—or rather, partial drawings. They showed hand-drawn limbs of the item, with some parts broken down, but the materials for the parts were not marked.
However, judging from the original concept, the Battle Angel should have looked like a robot, and not the kind of lifelike simulation common nowadays, but one with a metallic texture that could be clearly distinguished from a "human."
"Mr. Carmen had good taste," Fu Kuan said, glancing from a distance. "A robot should look like a robot."
The others did not express their opinions. In the current game, there were not only highly realistic simulations but also giant robots specifically used for combat or other industrial operations. For example, some economically well-off districts extensively used Armed Robots, though the common ones were not much larger than a person, in order to mitigate the intimidation and instability robots brought.
The controversy over simulation robots was also significant. Being too lifelike certainly represented the advancement of human technology, but it also made it easier to blur the boundary between humans and simulations.
"Was the Battle Angel really like this?" Xu Huo turned to ask the two bodyguards behind the young man.
The young man thought he was being asked and immediately said, "How would I know? I wasn't even born when Mr. Carmen passed away."
Xu Huo glanced at him but said nothing. The bodyguard he brought was quick to read the situation and replied, "We haven't seen it with our own eyes either. We heard that Mr. Carmen's Battle Angel was crafted by multiple top-tier Artificers working together. After it was completed, it was hardly ever used. As for that battle... some districts observed the battle situation via satellites, but when several Super Players clashed, the space was so distorted that key information couldn't be captured."
"It probably wasn't that it wasn't captured, but that it wasn't made public," Juno said.
"That is also a possibility," the bodyguard nodded.
But they had seen the partially remaining skull earlier, which showed that the Battle Angel's appearance was more like a robot in the conventional sense. However, the head had already fallen apart. Even if it contained some valuable metal, that little bit was nothing significant.
Moreover, the core power of the Battle Angel lay in Primordial Stones like the Angel's Eyes.
"With the parts, could a new Battle Angel be recreated?" Upstairs looked at the young man.
The young man paused, pretending not to hear.
Upstairs was slightly annoyed but knew the other party looked down on him and deemed him unworthy of a reply. He sneered, "You came here for the Battle Angel too. Haven't you thought about doing that?"
"Don't try to sow discord here," the young man snorted coldly. "I'll tell you the truth: the Battle Angel can never be replicated."
"Why?" This time it was Xu Huo who asked.
"Because the Battle Angel used an extremely rare Primordial Stone. I heard that even the current Game Government doesn't have that kind of Primordial Stone. Even if they did, they wouldn't take it out to build a Battle Angel," the young man said, adding, "This is what my family elders told me. It can't be false."
Xu Huo immediately thought of the stone preserved in the mirror. Of course, that stone had now become a game item, but there was no doubt it had the function of communicating with gravitational fields. It was the first time he had seen or heard of such a type of Primordial Stone, and it was beyond his understanding. Even when Pu Yu told him there were Primordial Stones in the game that could assist players in evolution, or the purple stone from the Wisteria Instance that promoted plant growth, none were as surprising as the one Carmen left behind.
This had already surpassed the simple concepts of time and space, existing as something else entirely.
Unfortunately, there were many claims about the Battle Angel's abilities under the Dimension. First, it certainly possessed the power that Carmen Field himself wielded. This could be seen from the pair of eyes and the finger bones modified into a Gravity Ring. Additionally, the core part involving "fate" that the Paper Servant Master took away should be able to predict the future.
As for what other effects it had, no one could provide solid evidence... Only the Super Players who participated in that battle would know. However, how many Super Players were actually involved back then remains an unsolved mystery. It is only known that more than one Super Player fell in that battle.
But the Battle Angel might not have been a single, unified item. It was highly likely a combination of many items that eventually formed a new one. Even if the whole was scattered, some of its parts could still be used as standalone items, though probably none were as dazzling as the Primordial Stone.
"Besides Super Players, have any other player families found the remains of the Battle Angel?" Xu Huo asked again.
"The bulk of it was recovered by the Field Clan," the young man said. His family background was decent, so he knew a bit of the real inside story.
Logically, when multiple Super Players go to war and a district is blown apart, there would be plenty of people wanting to scavenge the battlefield. But why did the Field Clan ultimately step in and receive relatively positive feedback? The reason was that a new Super Player of extraordinary origin had appeared in District 001. The Game Government was willing to give him face, and the other district governments had no choice but to bow their heads.
As for others trying to exploit loopholes to pick up scraps? Sorry, look up the Non-Game Area Simulator and Hyperdimensional Space Instrument.
Those who didn't want to die had to stand far away.
"Some people did pick up a few metal fragments," a bodyguard pointed to the collapsed half-skull nearby. "But even if they originally had some special effects, they were depleted after the great battle. To support a Super Item of the Battle Angel's level, the consumption of raw materials must have been enormous. This is probably also why the Battle Angel was hardly ever used after it was completed."
The group listened with a mix of sighs, both regretful and disappointed.
"This is quite different from the statue of the Battle Angel in District 001," Fu Kuan said. "Why did the district government set the Battle Angel's image as female?"
From the sketches Carmen left behind, the Battle Angel had no gender. And his life story was so widely circulated, yet it never mentioned the Battle Angel.
"Maybe because Carmen Field was a man," Juno said. "I've seen quite a few picture books sold in District 001 that add romantic plots for them."
Everyone fell silent for a moment.