At the moment when Chu Ge had just grasped the shoulder armor with his right hand, a bone-chilling turbulence suddenly rushed into his body from his fingers.

In just an instant, his entire arm was completely numb, and he could neither let go nor clench, but could only maintain a grasping posture and continue to accept the baptism of the turbulence.

In just two seconds, the crystalline ice had already wrapped around his palm, and it was still spreading upwards little by little, if it continued like this, it wouldn't be long before his whole body would be covered in ice armor.

"Warning: If the host comes into direct contact with the high-level armor [Shiva's Guardian], the Register Soul will awaken, and the host will be tested by the Instrument Soul!"

"Warning: The host is directly affected by the high-level ability [Extreme Cold Law], and the host's current law data template is detected to be missing, and the constitution attribute judgment is ......"

"Warning: If the constitution attribute is lower than 15 points, the judgment fails, and the host will be damaged by the ice attribute of 10% of the maximum health per second, and the damage priority is the fourth order!"

"Hint: There are 299 seconds left in the Soul Test, and after successfully supporting that time, you will receive a Soul Approval and Response, which will tell you everything you want to know!"

After receiving Noah's prompt, Chu Ge didn't even have time to scold his mother, and directly clenched the short knife in his hand!

10% of the maximum health deducted per second, and it is also a fourth-order priority, most of the defense reductions on his body cannot take effect, in this case, he has to hold on for five minutes, even if he is given ten lives, it is not enough to die!

With his current strength, no, even if he doubled his attribute value and directly reached the middle stage of the third order, it would be difficult to survive this test!

'No way...... Hopefully this will make it stop! ’

Looking at the frost that had spread to his elbow, Chu Ge raised his short knife and slashed towards his shoulder, wanting to directly cut off his right hand alive and ending this so-called "test" in this way.

However, just as the blade was about to be cut off, a small crack suddenly opened in the center of his eyebrows, and the lapis lazuli that had been buried in it flashed with a strange halo, shining on the pair of shoulder armor!

The message from Noah again also made him stop his movements immediately.

"Hint: [Lapis Lazuli Feia]'s passive ability [Divinity] takes effect, and the host's current state is affected!"

"Hint: The host has a strong resistance to the effect of [Law of Extreme Cold], reducing the health deducted per second to 1%, and reducing the soul test time to 150 seconds!"

After being illuminated by the halo of lapis lazuli, Chu Ge suddenly felt that the cold current coming out of the shoulder armor had weakened a lot, although it still made him feel uncomfortable, but it was already within the range of tolerability, and even the tendency of the ice crystals on his right hand to spread was suppressed.

"It's only 1% per second, but if you keep going for 150 seconds, you're still not out of danger......

After glancing at the fact that he still had less than 70% of his health left, Chu Ge forcibly suppressed the sense of crisis in his heart, put away the short knife and swam towards the hole on the ice at full speed.

'If you put it together, it's not like you don't have a chance......

Because of the burden of his right hand, he didn't swim very fast, and the effort he spent was not much different from that of diving, and while searching and waiting under the lake, the small hole that had broken was sealed again, but fortunately, the refrozen ice was thin and shattered by his punch.

By the time he resurfaced, less than 20% of his health remained, and the coverage of the ice crystals had spread to half of his body, and it wouldn't be long before he was close to his heart.

Chu Ge crawled out of the hole with difficulty, lying on the ice wet, panting and holding back the pain in his body, while taking out Barka's injection box from the storage space, placing it on the left side of his neck, pressing the upper twist and maintaining this position, staring at his health fluctuations.

【α type slow injection? Artificial Life Liquid, the current remaining content is: 60ml/90ml].

[The injection must always remain stationary, in this state will restore 2% of your maximum health and 1% of your maximum source energy per second, and the injected state will consume 1 ml of artificial life liquid per second, each injection will last for at least 30 seconds or until the life liquid is exhausted, forcing interruptions will lead to unknown accidents!] 】

Finally, the decreasing lifeline stopped at this moment, and there was a rebound, also up by 1% per second!

"Fortunately, the injection was not interrupted, otherwise I would have really cut off my hand this time."

After looking at his current data template, Chu Ge breathed a sigh of relief, just a little calculation, he knew that the remaining artificial life liquid was enough to survive the strange "test".

Even if there wasn't enough of it in the box, there was still more than a tube of surplus left in the storage space, and the harvest in the frozen prison was quite rich.

He lay on the ice with a stiff body, carefully observing his data, the lake on his clothes had begun to slowly freeze, absorbing the heat of his body.

One second, two seconds, ten seconds, twenty seconds......

The long time passed bit by bit, inflicting double torture on Chu Ge, both physically and mentally.

Finally, after two consecutive tubes of artificial life liquid were injected, Chu Ge finally escaped from the shadow of death, and the mechanical synthetic female voice came out again:

"Hint: The host successfully passed the [Shiva's Guardian] Soul Test, and the usage condition decreased, but for unknown reasons, the Soul refused to respond to the host's summons."

"Hint: The host has successfully passed the [Shiva's Guardian] Soul Test, and the Ice Elemental Attribute has been strengthened, and the affinity has been increased by 25%!"

"Hint: The host has successfully passed the [Shiva's Guardian] Soul Test, increasing the strength attribute by 0.3 points and the Constitution attribute by 0.5 points!"

After successfully passing the test of the soul machine, the pair of shoulder armor shook slightly, and the large piece of hard ice crystal armor on Chu Ge's body seemed to resonate with this, and began to disintegrate and shatter from the inside, and a small part of it was integrated into Chu Ge's body, not only healing the frostbite on his body, but also bringing him some favors.

After seeing the words "the conditions of use have been reduced", Chu Ge immediately re-adjusted the attributes of the shoulder armor.

[Usage conditions: Ice elemental affinity is not lower than the second order, and the constitution attribute is not less than 7 points.] 】

"The affinity of the ice element is enough, and the physique attribute is still a little worse than 7 points, if you can increase the blood lockin to about Lv8, maybe it's okay."

After gaining 0.5 points of strengthening, Chu Ge's current constitution attribute is 5.5, and it is not difficult to increase to 7 if he tilts his resources with all his strength.

"I passed the test of the Instrument Soul, but I didn't get the approval of the Instrument Soul...... It's really interesting. ”

For Noah's explanation, he was more or less self-conscious, knowing that he did not use his real strength to resist the test just now, and it was understandable that he could not be recognized by the soul, but fortunately, none of the abilities on [Shiva's Guardian] appeared "unusable" mark, which did not affect his future use.

"Ahem, there's not much time left......"

Although his physical condition had not fully recovered, Chu Ge still insisted on standing up and walked towards the periphery of the upside-down area.

He touched his forehead and saw that the crack had been reclosed.

"I remember that Noah's prompt just now showed a description of [divinity], huh...... Has changed? ”

When he turned his gaze to the attributes of Lapis Lazuli Feia, the passive skill [Divinity], which had been showing three question marks, had finally changed!

[Passive ability: Divinity, all equipment requirements are forced to decline,??? 】

There is one more attribute than before, and the specific effect is also unclear, and there are still three question marks hanging behind it.

In addition, Lapis Lazuli's [Spirituality] ability has also changed, and the blessing of wisdom/will attribute value has been increased from 1 to 1.5, but the 50% ability consumption reduction has not been increased.

"There's a long way to go...... If there are no external prompts, then you can only grope forward a little by yourself. ”

Chu Ge shook his head, gave up thinking about lapis lazuli, and turned his gaze to the newly acquired armor while speeding up his pace.

Before, when he was transformed from a projection to a physical object, although the shoulder armor continued to become clear, but because of the shining light, it always seemed to have a hazy feeling, and now he could finally take a closer look.

The shoulder armor consisted of two layers of silver-gray metal, each with a thin layer of down under it, and each shoulder armor was inlaid with a cut azure gem with strange runes engraved around it, which looked arrogant and gorgeous.

In terms of attributes, the effect of 12 defense points and [Passive Ability: Rined's Warmth] will not be hated by anyone, and [Aura: Call of Winter] is an extremely powerful control skill, which is very good both in attack and defense.

But what Chu Ge likes the most about this equipment is the maximum source energy increase of 50 points and the two attributes of [Active Skill: Energy Storage Release].

After obtaining that silver quality short knife, Chu Ge's attack ability was also made up, and the last shortcoming was the source energy value that was in short supply at any time.

In fact, among second-order melee players and even the residents of Orlanca, his current maximum source energy value of 66 points is already a bit excessive, not to mention the reduction of lapis lazuli's special effects, which can actually be used as 132 source energy points, even if it is a second-order mage, he may not have so much source energy value.

It's just that his two active abilities are both big blue consumers, and normal melee professionals won't match skills like this at all, and abilities close to the dark gold rating like [Ghost Shadow Step] generally only have the capital to learn after reaching the third order, and the source energy in the third order period will naturally not be as tight as it is now.

After gaining a 50-point increase in the maximum amount of source energy and the ability to instantly restore the source energy value, you can use the two active abilities without having to be as careful as before.

"Speaking of which...... Does Röntgen know what to expect after getting this spaulder? ”

Chu Ge recalled the remaining contents of Röntgen's backpack, which did not seem to be able to resist the [Law of Extreme Cold], and he did not think that Röntgen could survive the "test" by relying on his own body.

Even with the enhancement of the power of the ancient gods, it will not work, unless he has some other hole cards.

"That kind of test of difficulty...... It's not reserved for freshmen in the National Academy at all, is it possible that the emperor deliberately set up a killing game to achieve some unknown purpose? ”

Thinking of the three skeletons sunk at the bottom of the lake, Chu Ge speculated with ill intentions.

"Oh, are you waiting for the young man who shoulders the Arkaya Empire......"

Looking at the last two sentences of [Shiva's Guardian], Chu Ge showed a sneering smile, the price of failing the test is death, if it weren't for the hints of Lapis Lazuli Feia and Noah, maybe he would have to be with those three unlucky guys.

"Unless it's an extraordinary and outstanding person like Aya, I'm afraid no one will be able to get this equipment on the freshman reward, our Emperor His Majesty is really harsh."

"The hero you are looking forward to has indeed appeared, but the rise and fall of the empire is not enough for a young girl......"

******

A minute before the end of the reward trial time, Chu Ge finally walked out of the upside-down zone.

Not far away, the two leading teachers were resting beside a ruined wall, and next to them were two students who had left the upside-down area early.

One of them was You, she seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and immediately walked up to meet Chu Ge after seeing her.

At the end of the bonus time, bounty missions are also distributed:

"Hint: Detected that the host has successfully killed the bounty targets [Stasis Aquilis] and [Revenant Merkel]!"

"...... in task data calculation"

"Hint: Co-Coordinator 0701 accepted the bounty mission (task difficulty B-) and successfully completed!"

"Hint: The host has been detected to select a gold reward, the number of mission targets killed is two, the additional reward is 5%, and the reward is being distributed ......"

"Reward: The host is rewarded with 480 Universal Coins."

'480 gold coins...... In terms of funding, it is time to breathe a sigh of relief. ’

After receiving the injection of funds from this bounty mission, Chu Ge was finally able to pay off Magma's arrears.

"You're okay, you look weak......"

Looking at Chu Ge's pale face, You's face showed a distressed expression.

In the process of rushing just now, in order to leave the upside-down area as soon as possible, Chu Ge passed through the earth element area, and the ice ballast on his clothes and hair had melted and evaporated, but his body was not in good condition, and he had not been able to recover from the "test" of the shoulder armor soul until now.

With You's support, he walked to a flat place and sat down, and said with a smile:

"It's nothing, I'll just rest for a while, but you, how is the harvest this time?"

You was stunned, a gentle smile appeared on her face, and after touching the foreign object on her collarbone, she sat down next to Chu Ge, her shoulder gently pressed against Chu Ge's arm.