Chapter: 418

“Some sort of bladder holding my mana is not an option, I can only manipulate bone.” he scratched his chin as he tried to come up with solutions.

Jay crouched and looked around the other side of it.

“Somehow it must use the energy of an escaping soul to power the shield… damn this is advanced…” he furrowed his brows, looking at the numerous tiny connections.

“Maybe I’ll understand it one day.” he shrugged, “But not today.”

After gaining at least some understanding of the concept, all he could do now was try, persevering in experimentation until he got it right.

Of course, this wasn’t the time or place, and he wasn’t in the right state of mind.

With no more analysis to do, the only way to get any more knowledge about the skull now was to destroy it and look at its parts.

Gently placing his hand on the skull, he took out his trusty butcher knife and lightly tapped it.

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“Phew. Glad I kept this.”

Thankfully, he was gentle enough and the teepee structure didn’t even collapse. Pulling the skull off, there was a strange structure underneath, it was like a honeycomb, having a hexagonal structure.

Some tiny hair-like bones were snapped off as he lifted the skull up, breaking the connection between the skull and the hexagonal honeycomb structure.

Jay shook his head, “There’s no way I can scrimshaw something this technical…” he thought as he looked inside the skull.

“I’ll definitely need to level that skill up.”

The honeycomb structure was filled with the many tiny hair-like bones. They were almost like hair but incredibly brittle.

Holding the skull in his hand, he looked into the eyes more closely.

“It seems that the honeycomb structure is merely for support of the delicate bone-hairs… The hair-like bones pass through it and connect to the inside of the skull.”

“Interesting…” he nodded.

Finally, Jay cracked the skull open. He didn’t see much else – just the hair connecting to the inside of the skull.

“Hmm…” he set it aside, turning his attention to the teepee.

The bone-like hairs wrapped around a hexagonal sphere sitting at the top of the teepee, while more hairs flowed out from the inside of the sphere and went downwards to attach to the soul stone.

Each face of the hexagons on the sphere was like an empty window going into the middle, it was more like a scaffolding, or a ball of chicken wire.

“Everything seems pretty straightforward except for that strange angular sphere.”

Jay gently put his hand on it, while slowly cutting the hairs on the top and bottom sides.

During the cutting process, he found that the hairs from the bottom attached to the inside of the sphere, while the hairs wrapping around the outside all went upwards to the skull.