Master of Kaidan
Chapter 239 Masked Rider - Orca

Beaker, gel, metal support—all shattered at that moment, replaced by a Masked Rider donning a semi-transparent armor with wave patterns, dorsal fins, and stripes.

"POOOOOOWER!"

"KILLER WHALE IN WEIGHT-D? The power of the Orca–Deep Sea Heavy Pressure form?" Feng Xue clenched his fist abruptly, producing a crisp sound. It wasn’t the light crackling of bone friction but the boom of air compressed and ignited in the palm of his hand in an instant.

Wearing this suit of armor didn’t feel cumbersome at all. To Feng Xue, it felt like he was wearing a slightly thick garment, and in his field of vision, a virtual screen constantly flashed various pieces of information—

That was not an analysis of combat conditions as in the original work, but instructions and operation guidelines for this toy.

"This sort of power amplification... are 22nd-century kids this scary?"

As the Kaidan holding the rule of Martial, Feng Xue could clearly feel his own power transforming. Under the Masked Rider state, his physical attributes had at least tripled. To put it simply, with Libra Kaidan’s blessing, he could finally draw a three-hundred-stone Strong Bow!

"If combined with martial arts skills, the force of this punch could exceed twenty tons!" Feng Xue swung his arm, and just listening to the sound resembling fabric tearing, he knew the strike would achieve that fantastical, exaggerated effect where someone’s head would fly off while their body remained standing.

In comparison to strength, the increase in Speed was much less significant. Without considering Qinggong bonuses, he could reach speeds of about 100 kilometers per hour, which equated to approximately three and a half seconds for a hundred meters.

"Although it doesn’t seem like the data has increased dramatically, in actual combat, without considering the resistance to phantom entities and the problem of Base Boxing’s Burst Seed, I’m afraid I could beat a hundred of my former selves..."

Feng Xue estimated the damage he could deal with Base Boxing at present, ultimately feeling it was an ability not suitable for demonstration in this kind of place.

"It just so happens that two levels of guards are left in the Tower of Babel that I haven’t challenged. I’ll go test the power in the Trial Space later." Feng Xue suppressed his eager desire to attack and walked in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror in the bedroom, his expression suddenly stiffening—

"Damn! Why does it look so earnest!"

Feng Xue glared at his reflection, looking at the handsome Knight design in the mirror with a trace of distaste.

Fairly speaking, this design, compared to the usual overwhelming aesthetics of the Masked Rider series, definitely belonged to the category that would be considered quite nice whether you’re familiar with the Masked Rider or not.

The primary color scheme was black and white, while the shoulder and chest armor with wave elements were deep blue. The helmet incorporated the orca’s design, which looked like a plunging orca, the dorsal fin extending forward from the forehead, and the pectoral fins stretching diagonally backwards from the sides. The two white patches on the orca’s head formed the eyes, giving off the impression of being looked down upon from above.

If anything was amiss, it was the black leather pants with two white patches on the inner thighs, always reminding him of Scatty’s split pants.

But these details were actually not important. What was important was that the design of this thing was more like that of an honest man, as opposed to Long Wo and Red Daddy’s tight-squeeze Energy Bottles.

"Forget it, as long as the power’s good, what’s wrong with being honest? Honest people get partners, too!" Feng Xue shook his head to cast aside the stray thoughts from his mind, and continued reading the instructions.

As described, this was merely a toy. Although it had really cool Killing Skills, it was just a light and shadow effect and wouldn’t actually increase the force of his punches and kicks. More bafflingly, it came with an anti-addiction system, limiting transformation to one hour per day, with any unused time not carrying over to the next day.

"Regardless, as long as it’s useful, that’s all that matters." Feng Xue pulled out the Energy Bottle and issued the command to exit the transformation. The armor on his body flowed back into the Transformation Device rapidly like a liquid, and when Feng Xue relinquished the authority again, the Gel Bottle returned to its blank state.

"I wonder if filling this gel bottle with inner strength or demon attribute energy could enable me to transform..."

Feng Xue pulled out a blank gel bottle and was struck by a wave of new ideas, so he once again played... cough, conducted experiments.

...

An hour later, after trying everything he could possibly fill into the gel bottle, Feng Xue finally ran out of transformation time.

Speaking of the experimental results, aside from the [Orca] authority, all of Feng Xue’s abilities failed to cause a qualitative change in the energy bottle, meaning he couldn’t develop any new Masked Rider forms. However, if he channeled killing intent, inner strength, or fairy energy into the gel bottle while transformed, he could create corresponding killing skills, but again, it’s just a toy, and those skills only had visual effects with no actual amplification.

But based on Feng Xue’s tests, these created killing skills were actually very consistent with the powers infused into them, and if he followed the logic of those killing skills, Feng Xue was confident he could develop corresponding "martial arts."

Feeling elated with his new toy... new equipment, Feng Xue was quite happy, but since the transformation time was up, he had to settle down.

With three months left until the Babylon Tower challenge, he planned to refine his power and mental state, in other words, he was preparing for secret training...

...

"Tea house by the roadside~ silhouette..."

Feng Xue, hearing his self-sung ringtone, immediately pulled out his phone. Gazing at the unchanged screen, he then remembered he was in Infinite City and promptly took out his work badge, which displayed the name Old Li.

"Hello? What’s up?" Feng Xue narrowed his eyes and answered the call, immediately hearing Old Li’s voice, which sounded pleased by the misfortune.

"Dead! Another one’s dead!"

"Who’s dead... Oh, those real world envoys?" Feng Xue was stunned for a moment before he caught on, but Old Li on the other end was clearly excited as he said,

"Exactly, man, you have no idea, this place is total chaos now, a mess of ominous signs!"

"Wait a second? A mess of signs? Weren’t there dozens of people?" Feng Xue immediately picked up on the discrepancy, to which Old Li replied,

"There were dozens, that’s true, but this time there were quite a few Kaidan involved, and while I don’t know how Hundred Tales manages to kill real world people under these conditions, at least half were saved. It’s just that the person in charge is dead, and whether the rest, who obviously look like underlings, are of any use is anybody’s guess."

"Why are you calling me, then?" Feng Xue frowned, wondering if this guy wanted to get him involved in poaching people, but then he heard Old Li say,

"Hehe, I just so happened to run into a lost soldier, and he said that in the real world, Yan Country has a super urban legend, ’Everyone in Yan Country knows martial arts!’"

"..." Feng Xue’s brow twitched, and he said frowning, "What does that have to do with us?"

"Hehe, don’t play dumb..."

Hearing this, Feng Xue was almost ready to hang up right there and then, but then he heard Old Li continue,

"You’re from Yan Country too, right? Don’t worry, so am I. Yan Country exists in many parallel worlds, you see, and if this kind of group urban legend meets the standard, it can draw upon power. Although it can’t resurrect through it, martial arts can still greatly amplify combat power. I’ve already made plans with quite a few ’fellow countrymen’ to go to the real world and leech off the urban legend. Do you want to join in?"