Chapter 309 - 242: Entropy Reduction

Chapter 309: Chapter 242: Entropy Reduction

"...Is it over?" Ye Qingniao asked in a low voice, thinking Lin Fan had just made a railing.

"Shh..." But Ye Qingzhou, who was standing beside them, noticed that the railing hadn’t solidified. Instead, it still seemed to be in some kind of energy state, with translucent fluctuations rippling around it. She quickly raised a finger to her lips in a silencing gesture.

As for Lin Fan, he had long since blocked out all external noise, completely absorbed in the "sculpting" process of this weapon.

This was a weapon for Chu Zhaozhao.

The piece of iron seemed to suddenly come to life. Its two ends slowly tightened and extended, gradually becoming sharp and pointed. They thickened into a rhomboid shape, as if two spearheads had been joined together...

Based on his recent observation of Chu Zhaozhao’s fighting style, he shaped the piece of iron into a Flying Shuttle with a grip in the middle and sharp, rhomboid blades on both ends.

What she needed was extreme piercing power, a streamlined structure, and sufficient mass.

"Zhaozhao, will this work?"

Lin Fan pulled his focus away from the shaping process. He glanced at the amazed looks from the others, his gaze finally landing on the stunned Chu Zhaozhao.

"Ah? It’s for me...? Yes, yes, yes!" She was instantly overjoyed, nodding her head vigorously. "It’s more than perfect!"

"Good."

With Lin Fan’s confirmation, the phantoms of several more materials appeared from the void and merged into the form. Then, the phantom of the Flying Shuttle, suspended in mid-air, seemed to gain a heart as it throbbed violently once.

The energy of the entire phantom began to slowly compress inward. Lin Fan reached out, grasped the handle, and solidified it completely.

A double-headed Flying Shuttle, about 1.2 meters long and a deep, matte black, appeared in his hand.

"Look."

This time, he didn’t lighten the weapon’s weight as he had before. Instead, he maxed it out at ten kilograms. For someone with her current 1,500 blue mana points, the drain from this bit of weight was negligible. Besides, Lin Fan knew all too well the kinetic energy boost that came from increased mass.

He extended his hand, offering the freshly forged weapon to Ye Qingzhou, but he met only empty air. Looking up, his eyes met hers, which were trembling wildly.

"Entropy reduction..." she mumbled, her lips trembling.

She then reached for the weapon. Her usually steady and calm hand was now trembling slightly, causing the nearby Ye Qingniao to look at her with concern.

But an unintentional glance from Lin Fan made his own pupils suddenly contract. His grip on the weapon tightened, and his whole body tensed up.

He had finally observed the phenomenon that had been troubling him until now...

His true secret.

Above Ye Qingzhou’s head.

The yellow health bar, which had been at [72/100], began to flicker and blur wildly, like the screen of an old television with a bad signal.

Even the numbers became indistinct. The yellow of the health bar, as if unable to withstand some immense internal change, began to slowly fracture with countless fine cracks, like splintering glass.

And the light seeping out from the depths of those cracks was green.

The green fissures expanded rapidly, swallowing the original yellow, like ink spreading across rice paper.

In Lin Fan’s eyes, this process was stretched out to infinity. It could have been a few minutes, or it could have been just an instant...

SNAP.

It was as if some kind of switch had been flipped.

The health bar above Ye Qingzhou’s head completely shattered and reformed, becoming a pure and stable...

green [72/100].

And her trembling hand finally passed through the cold aura radiating from the weapon. But instead of touching the blade, it slowly and firmly came to rest on the back of Lin Fan’s hand, which was still gripping the hilt.

Cool, yet soft.

As if grasping truth itself.