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"F*ck!!!"
After seeing the items in Steve's inventory, Fang Mo felt his brain go blank for a moment.
Then, an indescribable excitement surged in his heart.
This was the Longbow of the Heavens!
It was one of the ultimate end-game items in the Avaritia mod, crafted from the legendary Infinity Ingots. Although a bit underwhelming in the game, if realized in reality... it would definitely be a true artifact.
You should know.
The material for this bow is the Infinity Ingot.
In the game, an Infinity Ingot is made from eleven Infinity Catalysts, twenty-four Cosmic Neutronium Ingots, and ten Crystal Matrix Ingots.
Among these, the Crystal Matrix Ingots and Cosmic Neutronium Ingots are manageable.
Fang Mo can slowly accumulate them.
But as for the Infinity Catalysts...
Honestly, they're not something a normal human could create by hand. They require fifteen different metal singularities, a large amount of other mod's top-tier materials (including but not limited to Red Matter, AE2's Storage Components, Lingbao, Awakened Draconium Blocks, Xuan Steel, Slime Crystals, Magma Stone, Reinforced Iridium Plates, Primordial Pearls...), and items like Super Soup, Cosmic Meatballs, End Hope Pearls to be combined.
Originally, Super Soup was easy to make.
It's just some vanilla vegetarian food plus a bit of Cosmic Neutronium Dust.
But if the player adds Pam's HarvestCraft mod, then this recipe spirals out of control, requiring Pam's ingredients to fill a 9x9 ultimate crafting table.
This means you need to gather ninety-nine different materials just to craft one Super Soup.
And you can't mess up the order.
And then there are the Metal Singularities. In the server Fang Mo previously played on, a singularity required about ten thousand metal blocks, then crafted in a Neutron Compressor.
What does this mean?
If Fang Mo wants to make this bow himself.
Not counting other consumptions, just the iron consumption alone.
He would need to use nine million, nine hundred thousand iron ingots, and that's just for the iron singularity... What about the Emerald Singularity? The Iridium Singularity? Pam's eighty-one types of crops?
Moreover, many of these recipes are too complex, Fang Mo can't even remember how to make them.
Of course, this might be a bit of a tangent, but what's certain is that equipment made from Infinity Ingots is truly terrifying, almost embodying the power of most mods, genuinely encompassing everything, and calling it an artifact is not an exaggeration.
Originally, Fang Mo wanted to open seventeen lucky blocks in one go.
But the first one already exploded this artifact.
Honestly, Fang Mo no longer has the mind to draw any more prizes. He just wants to find a place to study the Longbow of the Heavens.
He briefly reminisced.
Then, Fang Mo activated the Space Stone's power.
The next second, a blue light flashed, and Fang Mo appeared on a desolate planet.
This is a planet near a jump point in Orion, barren and without even minerals, so it just quietly floats here, unnoticed.
"Phew, hope nothing goes wrong..."
Fang Mo took a deep breath and then summoned his Stand, Steve.
He planned to actualize the Longbow of the Heavens for a test.
There's no other way, because the attributes of this bow in the game are not very ideal.
Even though it's one of the Avaritia end-game items, the Longbow of the Heavens doesn't possess the code-level power like the Sword of the Cosmos or the Infinity Armor Set.
You see, the Sword of the Cosmos has infinite attack power, instantly triggering a death judgment upon hitting an entity, effectively killing with a command. Of course, the Infinity Armor Set also has a similar damage immunity effect, blocking all damage. But the Longbow of the Heavens is a bit weak. It doesn't have any code-level instant death judgment.
So having Steve wield this bow is pretty much the same as having him hold a Tinkers' Construct dagger or dart.
But actualization makes it different.
According to MC's judgment, the prestige of this Infinity Ingot is almost hitting the ceiling. At the very least, it should be on par with the Infinity Stones, and if we go further, it's almost catching up with the Heart of the Universe.
Fang Mo is also very much looking forward to the real-world manifestation of the Longbow of the Heavens.
But at the same time, he's a bit nervous. After all, the density of the Infinity Ingot is too high. If the cosmic neutron ingot is made of neutrons, then the Infinity Ingot is composed of countless singularities...
Its volume is infinitely small, and its mass is infinitely large.
Fang Mo is somewhat worried about being crushed to death by the gravitational field of the Longbow of the Heavens.
However, after giving it some thought, the Longbow of the Heavens is already a divine artifact, and it probably shouldn't be judged by common sense. At the very least, this thing should be able to maintain its longbow shape. If it collapses as soon as it is pulled out... Wouldn't that be a severe bug?
For safety's sake.
Fang Mo still paused time in advance.
Then, after that, Fang Mo tentatively reached out to the Longbow of the Heavens.
The next second, as the ability to materialize activated, a white light shone, and Fang Mo immediately felt a heavy weight in his hand, as if he was holding a mountain.
Fortunately, this weight was still within his acceptable range.
Not feeling any terrifying gravitational field, Fang Mo breathed a sigh of relief and began to carefully examine the longbow.
It's a giant bow.
The height of the bow arms on both sides exceeds two meters.
The bow arms seem to be made of an unknown black material, but inside, there is an Infinite galaxy flowing slowly.
If you look closely, you can see countless galaxy clusters rotating and flowing inside the bow arms, as if they were not bow arms at all, but the essence of the Infinity universe's spacetime, reminiscent of Marvel's cosmic entity Eternity, whose body also flows with a star-like texture.
At the point where the two bow arms cross, which is the center of the longbow.
There lies a constantly changing blue-green material, which looks a bit like some kind of crystal, but also vaguely has a futuristic high-tech feel.
As for the bowstring.
This is also not a traditional material.
It's not wool, hemp rope, dragon tendon, or any kind of metal wire.
It's a faint rainbow light, looking a bit like Asgard's Rainbow Bridge, but the Rainbow Bridge is not on the same level compared to it. This bowstring seems to be woven from countless star clusters, resembling a beautiful dream, swirling with a myriad of colors and light halos.
Fang Mo tentatively pulled the bowstring.
It wasn't as difficult and heavy as he imagined, but had a just-right resistance.
As the bowstring was pulled, Fang Mo felt as if something was being drawn out of him, like his mental or physical strength. Soon, a terrifying purple-black light was pulled from the bow body.
Once Fang Mo released his hand, the bowstring instantly returned to its place.
The black-purple energy loaded on the bow turned into a streak of light, flying towards a nearby mountain range.
Then, with a flash of white light, an astonishing explosion occurred in the mountain range. Soon, the smoke cleared, revealing a huge hole nearly a hundred meters wide in the center of the mountain, and the whole mountain began to collapse with a roar.
"This power..."
Seeing the collapsing mountain range in the distance, Fang Mo frowned.
Clearly, the real-world power of the Longbow of the Heavens seemed a bit weak. If it could only penetrate a mountain, then the Tailed Beast Bomb and the Cero (from Bleach) seemed capable of doing the same.
"Wait a minute."
But after thinking of the Tailed Beast Bomb and Cero, Fang Mo suddenly paused.
"The energy on this bow just now... should be my own, right?" A thoughtful expression appeared on Fang Mo's face: "Is it my mental power? Or something else? What if I replace this energy with something else... or simply use a real arrow to shoot?"
With this thought in mind
Fang Mo also quickly tested it out.
He drew his bow again, and a purple-black glow emerged once more on the bow.
However, this time Fang Mo did not shoot directly, but with a thought, he activated the Nine-Tails Chakra Sword within his body.
Soon, the chakra energy merged with the purple-black energy on the bow, turning into a golden-purple energy that was burning fiercely.
Fang Mo released his hand, and the energy turned into a streak of light, flying towards the nearby mountains.
With a loud 'boom', the effect this time was much more significant. After the dust settled, the entire mountain had disappeared, leaving a huge dark red trench on the ground, still emitting puffs of blue smoke.
"So that's how it is."
Seeing the large area in front of him flattened, Fang Mo's face showed a look of realization.
Yes, he had understood the principle of the Longbow of the Heavens becoming reality.
This thing is indeed a genuine divine artifact. Its function is actually very simple: to turn everything into arrows, piercing through the cosmos and stars... Besides that, it's also a bow, so it can amplify the power of its own arrows, whether you are a weakling or a deity, it can amplify your power several times or even dozens of times.
Just like the Void Ring in Fang Mo's hand.
The stronger you are, the more powerful its amplification effect on you.
If you are 1, you might become 50, but if you are 100 million, you might directly become 50 billion.
The first time Fang Mo drew the bow.
Since there were no arrows, the Longbow of the Heavens drew upon Fang Mo's own strength.
Perhaps it was mental strength, or simply physical strength, or the destructive power of a punch, in short, it converted Fang Mo's own strength into an arrow and shot it out.
As mentioned before.
Fang Mo's own strength is still very limited.
Without using any items, or borrowing any external force, even a nuclear bomb could blast him half to death or something.
Previously in the world of Bleach, the normal Fang Mo would be broken through by captains like Aizen, Gin Ichimaru, Kenpachi, etc. At the same time, his attack power was also very limited. Although he could destroy a city with a bit of effort, he definitely couldn't level a city with one punch, or destroy a planet, which would be too absurd.
The reason Fang Mo can easily destroy worlds or something.
On one hand, it is because his weapons and items are extremely strong, and on the other hand, it is because in Marvel he has five Infinity Stones.
Therefore,
The power of the first arrow shot by Fang Mo was somewhat unsatisfactory.
Because that was a part of his own body's strength, and Fang Mo's body is not like the Nine-Tails or other creatures that naturally shoot lasers or waves, so achieving such power was already quite good.
But when he shot the second arrow, because it was mixed with the tailed beast chakra, its power greatly increased, directly blowing up the mountain not far away.
"If that's the case..."
Fang Mo pondered for a moment, then drew the longbow in his hands again.
This time, he first unleashed the power of the full-power beacon on his body, followed by the activation of the Void Ring, Ring of Arcana, Magma Amulet, Laevatein, Storm Axe, and Nine-Tails Chakra in succession.
Very soon, a heart-pounding, colorful energy condensed on the bow.