American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

“Stop it, be quiet, listen! We're here for something important this time! We need to check Peter's health, you understand? If you really want it, you can mention it to the boss later.” Gwen's will was fighting with Quiet for control of her body while she spoke.

“What's wrong?” Peter, seeing his girlfriend's uncoordinated movements, forgot about Quiet and quickly came over to support her, asking with concern.

“I'll only eat a little. Let me open it, I'll only eat a tiny bit!” However, Gwen didn't answer her boyfriend. Instead, Quiet's voice came from Gwen's mouth.

“No food! You'll be cut off!” Gwen, with great effort, regained a little control of her body and immediately used her trump card against Quiet. To her relief, the trump card was still effective. Gwen clearly felt Quiet's hesitation and the return of control over her body. She quickly followed up with coaxing and persuasion, finally calming the restless Quiet down.

“Are you okay now?” Peter asked, watching the blackness recede back under his girlfriend's skin.

“I'm fine. Let's go.” Gwen waved her hand at her boyfriend, breathing a sigh of relief.

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“Ordinary People's Emotion Essence Collection Report.”

Inside the lab, Luke perused the verification report provided by White Queen.

“Ordinary people can only have their mental fluctuations captured and collected by the instrument during periods of intense emotional fluctuations.”

Below were various emotional indices and corresponding data on the condensation time of the emotion essence.

“It seems the sensitivity of the instrument needs to be adjusted again to accept lower levels of emotional fluctuation.” Luke said to himself. Compared to the relatively strong mental power of the elite vampires, the mental fluctuations of ordinary people were indeed lacking in quality. Currently, the biggest contributors to this new energy were actually the imprisoned vampires.

Of course, the collected emotion essence was mostly negative emotions. Luke even suspected that if anyone dared to come into close contact with these essences, they might go insane, corrupted and directly fall into darkness?

Luke even discovered that perhaps because the source was the mind and emotional energy of living beings, this new energy had its own consciousness! The more it gathered, the more obvious this consciousness became. Of course, the consciousness referred to here was not the thinking of intelligent beings, but a simple consciousness of the heart and emotions.

In five days, the elite vampires in Hebron contributed more than six hundred milliliters of emotion essence. In one experiment, Luke sensitively perceived the birth of a "consciousness" within it. It was quite immature, like a candle flame in the wind, seemingly so weak that it could disappear in the next second. It had no language and could not be communicated with in any form.

Even with the consciousness sharing of a symbiote, all one could feel was blatant chaos and madness.

If no filtering or other measures were taken, anyone who came into long-term contact with these negative energies, no matter how strong their will, would probably be eventually corrupted and fall, becoming a destroyer and mentally deranged person controlled by the chaotic consciousness within the emotion essence.

With such significant side effects, its effects were correspondingly delightful.

As a new energy, Luke could not yet determine whether it could replace the power of dimensional demons to provide mana for mages, but it could affect people's minds, strengthen their physical qualities, and respond to a certain extent according to their thoughts and imaginations.

To say that it could make thoughts become reality would certainly be an exaggeration at this point.

However, by using thoughts and imagination to exchange for a certain response in reality, as long as it did not exceed the consumption limit of the essence, it could be successful most of the time.

For example, if you want to gain faster speed, stronger strength, more flexible agility, or even the ability to fly, etc. That's no problem.

Or if you need a hammer, or some other tool, weapon, etc., that's also no problem.

The problem is when you give an instruction that cannot be achieved even with all the emotion essence consumed, or when you create something that even you yourself cannot understand.

It can indeed fulfill many ordinary people's wishes, as simple and convenient as magical power, but if you really treat this new energy as an all-purpose wish-granting machine, that would be your mistake and cognitive error. In the direction of a wish-granting machine, it might greatly disappoint you.

These are only the results obtained after preliminary testing. More specific results require more experiments to verify one by one. But Luke was already quite satisfied. At least this new energy, after enduring the long initial accumulation period, should be able to match the so-called emotional spectrum power in terms of growth ceiling.

It's too early to say anything now, and everything is just a beautiful future. All said and done, Luke currently has only less than a meager thousand milliliters of emotion essence energy. What else can this energy do besides being consumed in lab experiments? It probably wouldn't even be enough to support Luke in a prolonged and intense battle.

After all, its power is not low, but its consumption is indeed large.

The amount collected now is only enough for Luke's lab to use. He doesn't dare to use it freely. Luke is now working hard to optimize the emotion essence energy collection devices, upgrading and replacing them as much as possible in a short period of time. Other things can be ignored, but the improvement of collection power must be placed first.

It took Luke, in a state of inspiration, burning the midnight oil for more than half a month to create the prototype and then upgrade it to version 2.0.

A ring with a water-like, flowing crystal embedded inside was placed on Luke's right index finger. He now had three layers of battle armor on his body. One layer was an upgraded version of the early Iron Man armor, a weapon meme of modular armor. The second was a symbiote armor made of symbiote factor fusion material, and the last was the energy armor composed of the ring, the energy core that crystallized one hundred milliliters of emotion essence, and the matching energy output device.

The three formed a circle under Luke's careful configuration.

The materials needed to activate the weapon meme were provided by the symbiote factor fusion material, which, like the symbiote, could be hidden in the body, and had all the characteristics of the symbiote, except that it had no consciousness and no weakness to fire and sound waves. The new energy armor and the holy light power transformed from the soul crystal existed as a trump card to resist some mysterious forces.

Of course, it would be even better if it could be proven in the future that this new energy could indeed replace the power of dimensional demons, so that mages could also use it as a source of mana. At least this was the best result Luke wanted to see, and according to the energy evaluation, this possibility was not small.