The group looked at each other, and Shiryu silently moved both of his injured wrists over the Pegasus Cloth. Mu also slightly raised his head; both sides remained silent on the matter, letting this awkward incident pass for now.
Shin remembered that Seiya and the others should have gone to deal with those Dark Saint on Death Queen Island. Later on, even a weakened Shiryu, who had lost too much blood, actually participated in the tail end of that battle—he didn't know how that fellow had such a big heart to be able to crawl back up after losing half his blood.
He wondered if his one sentence would cause some kind of butterfly effect?
But thinking about it, Shiryu was different from ordinary Saint. The cleaner he stripped off his cloth, the stronger his combat power became, so it shouldn't be a big problem.
After a while, Shiryu's blood loss reached about a quarter. Only then did Mu have Kiki bandage Shiryu up and let him go down to rest.
As for Mu, he turned his gaze to the Pegasus Cloth. However, before he could do anything, Shin spoke up, "Can you let me try my hand at it?"
Mu was slightly stunned and said with some hesitation, "You haven't had any repair experience before..."
"That's why I need to practice!" Shin said with a grin. Actually, he knew very well that if it were an ordinary cloth, Mu wouldn't have hesitated. But the implications of the Pegasus were too great; Mu actually wanted to use his best state to stimulate the Pegasus's potential.
At this time, Mu himself needed to adjust his state properly, so how could he let a beginner like Shin do it?
Shin had already thought of these issues. He reached out his hand, and with a clanging sound, a pile of metals dropped onto the ground.
adamantium, vibranium, Uru metal, chakra metal, Divine Metal, nth metal, Bat Metal, Electrum... a large number of top-tier rare materials immediately dazzled Mu's eyes.
Mu took a deep breath. "Fine, I'll leave this cloth to you. Repair it once and let me see!"
With these metals, even if the cloth Shin repaired had slight flaws, he could directly remedy them through these high-grade metals, and even add a layer to the entire cloth's potential!
In fact, Mu also felt it was quite tricky to repair these bronze cloth. He couldn't encourage growth prematurely by raising the entire cloth's level, making Seiya and the others develop a sense of dependency, while also maximizing the cloth's potential power at the bronze cloth level. This was definitely not an easy task for Mu.
But with these high-grade metals, he could completely strengthen the entire cloth again at the bronze cloth level!
Mu happily carried a large pile of high-grade metals into the warehouse, while Shin directly began the repairs.
Ordinary cracks in the cloth were actually easy to repair. Shin could completely use the power of the Gulp-Gulp Fruit to fuse them. The real problem lay in activating the cloth's dormant life force and absorbing the experience of this battle and the blood rich in Cosmo to further strengthen the cloth's own potential.
After repairing for a while, seeing Mu go to deliver those precious metals back to the warehouse and only Kiki watching boredly, Shin secretly reached out his hand, using Chakra to force some blood out of his pores, letting it drip onto the Pegasus Cloth.
"I wonder what effect this Superman's blood of mine will have on the cloth?"
In an instant, the entire Pegasus Cloth emitted a strong golden light. Kiki covered his eyes and shouted, "What's going on? What on earth is happening?"
Shin curled his lips. Logically speaking, since he was now wearing the Aries Gold Cloth and possessed the Eighth Sense Cosmo, the blood flowing out could be considered Gold Saints' blood.
However, to put it bluntly, this Cosmo should belong to the gold cloth rather than him. Moreover, he also had Superman's lineage, and the gold cloth represented the sun to some extent. Under the combination of the two, he didn't even know what effect his pseudo-Gold Saint plus Superman blood would have. That's why he wanted to experiment on the Pegasus first.
Mu, who was storing the metals, also hurried over. The golden light and the Pegasus Cloth's suddenly intense Cosmo clearly startled him completely.
"What's going on? Is this really a bronze cloth?"
Looking at the Pegasus Cloth that was constantly flashing with light and felt no worse than a gold cloth, Mu spoke up, looking a bit dumbfounded.
"Uh... I just added a bit of my own blood." Shin scratched his face awkwardly. "It seems... the effect was a bit too strong."
But soon, the golden light on the Pegasus Cloth gradually faded, and the originally powerful Cosmo also slowly vanished, returning to its original bronze cloth appearance.
However, not only were the original cracks in the Pegasus Cloth completely repaired by Shin, but the entire cloth had also undergone some changes. Its coverage area had increased significantly, and the entire cloth was filled with life force, as if it were about to fly away.
Looking at the cloth before him, Mu was slightly surprised. "God blood!?"
"Huh!?" Shin looked at Mu, confused. "What do you mean? Since when did I become a god?"
"No, it should be said that your blood has the same effect as God blood. Its powerful energy and life force directly stimulated the recovery and self-repair of the cloth's Cosmo." Mu looked at Shin with a complex expression. "By the way, are you really not some deity? Like a Sun God or something?"
Shin chuckled and didn't answer. At this time, he also recalled that before the battle with Hades in the original work, Athena's blood indeed had this kind of effect. There was no need for repairs; the cloth was directly stimulated to complete its repair and even evolved a bit.
"Doesn't this mean Mr. Shin doesn't need to learn any method to repair cloths at all? He just needs to shed some blood to repair them directly?" Kiki said loudly with a face full of surprise.
"It's more than just that," Mu said, and then remained silent. How could the effect of God blood be only that much?
Even if Shin's blood only had a similar effect to God blood and wasn't actually perfectly compatible with the power of the cloth and Cosmo, its effect would still far exceed ordinary people's imagination.
Although it was impossible to transform into the god cloth form when the Cosmo burned to the limit like in the original work, at this moment, the strength of this Pegasus Cloth already far exceeded that of an ordinary silver cloth.
If the Cosmo was burned to the limit, its strength would not be inferior to a gold cloth at all, and its bonus to the Cosmo would be even greater.
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