Mu frowned, a troubled expression on his face, as he looked at the cloth unexpectedly repaired by Shin.
The cloth was repaired and became stronger, which was indeed a good thing. But if it was too strong, it wasn't necessarily good.
An overly powerful cloth would hinder a Saint's strength improvement. Think about the original work: Seiya, wearing the Sagittarius Gold Cloth, even defeated Aiolia of Leo without comprehending the Seventh Sense.
Meanwhile, Deathmask, the Cancer Gold Saint, didn't even defeat Shiryu, who also wasn't wearing a cloth, after taking off his gold cloth—this was almost the only Gold Saint in the battle of the 12 Temples who was defeated without holding back or fighting to a near mutual destruction.
To a large extent, while an overly powerful cloth boosted a Saint's combat power, this sudden increase in power was like a castle in the air, leaving the Saint with an unstable foundation, making it difficult to advance further.
Throughout the entire Saint storyline, it can be seen that the cloths of the Five Bronze Saints were gradually strengthened: the ordinary cloths, the strengthened version before the 12 Temples battle, the gold blood cloths before the war with Poseidon, and the god blood cloths before the war with Hades. The strengthening of the cloths was basically synchronized with their strength.
This time, Shin strengthened the Pegasus cloth in one go to a level close to a god cloth. With this cloth, Seiya could easily sweep through Death Queen Island and the Silver Saints, but what if he encountered Gold Saints later?
After a long period of distress, Mu couldn't think of a solution. He looked up at Shin and simply said, "Shin, you've strengthened this cloth too much. Now, a single bronze cloth has far surpassed the silver cloth, even approaching the strength of a gold cloth. This is a shock to the rules of the entire Sanctuary."
"Do you have a way to reduce the strength of this cloth?"
Shin completely scoffed at the so-called Sanctuary rules. There were so many messy rules in the Sanctuary, but in reality, few truly cared.
For example, the rule that if a female Saint's face was seen, she had to either kill the person or marry them. But in reality, masks were broken on the battlefield far too often. If an enemy saw it, so be it, they were fighting to the death anyway. But what if a comrade saw it? Should they start a civil war first?
Only women like Shaina, who had been in the Sanctuary for too long and had no brains, would believe such words. In reality, that was an old custom from who knows how many years ago.
There was also the foolish rule about the Twelve Zodiac Temples, 'intruders die.' Perhaps it had some use in the past, but now, it only highlighted that the people who made the rules had problems in their heads.
For example, in the first Aries Temple, there wasn't even a single person. What was the point of this rule now?
Moreover, Mu himself was half a fugitive from the Sanctuary; it would be truly strange if he cared about these rules.
After thinking it through, Shin vaguely understood this guy's concern: he was afraid that an overly powerful cloth would hinder Seiya's growth.
As a former disciple of the Pope, Mu knew perhaps not much less about the various secrets of the Holy War than Dohko, who sat on Mount Lu. He might not even know Seiya's name, but he certainly knew the importance of the Pegasus Saint.
Thinking this, Shin slightly frowned, stretched out his hand, and black mist immediately sucked the entire cloth in.
If all Saint from ancient times to the present were brought out, the Pegasus Saint would definitely be the most dazzling one in every era.
Among the past owners of Pegasus, their Cosmo never fell below the Seventh Sense; most were at the Eighth Sense realm. Their strength and quality were enough to completely overpower the 12 Gold Saints.
After all, most Gold Saints possessed the Seventh Sense, and those with the Eighth Sense were considered elites. Unlike Pegasus, once fully developed, they were masters who could contend with gods.
The profound heritage of such a cloth was naturally imaginable. The Pegasus cloth had absorbed Athena's god blood countless times. Any ordinary person, even without awakening their Cosmo, without any training, and with extremely poor talent, could immediately possess the peak Eighth Sense Cosmo if they could gain all the insights contained within this cloth!
Of course, whether they would explode from the rapidly increasing Cosmo was another matter. A body without any training might not be able to withstand such a terrifying increase in Cosmo.
Mu looked intently at Shin, only to find the Aries cloth on Shin's body gradually disappearing. What appeared on him, instead, was an extremely intricate Pegasus cloth with astonishing brilliance!
The terrifying Cosmo constantly reverberated, causing Mu to involuntarily step back two paces, his face full of surprise. "This is—the god cloth mode of the Pegasus cloth!"
The god cloth is not a permanent mode for a Saint's cloth. This mode heavily consumes the power of the cloth itself, granting the Saint power capable of rivaling or even harming gods for a short period!
However, after the intense burning of the Cosmo, the energy of the god cloth itself would also be completely consumed, becoming a mysterious accumulation that increases the cloth's foundation and spirituality, allowing it to reach greater heights in the future. But at the same time, it would also cause the cloth to revert to its original mode.
Compared to the stability of other battle armors, this burst mode of the Sanctuary cloths offers infinite possibilities, with as many advantages as disadvantages. But it is undeniable that this mode has indeed increased the success rate of past Holy Wars.
After all, if Bronze and Silver Saints cannot break through their limitations, they won't even be considered cannon fodder in a Holy War.
But for someone like Shin, who breaks through the ultimate limit of a cloth as easily as eating and drinking, isn't that a bit too much?
Mu watched for a moment, then saw the original Pegasus god cloth almost completely unleash its power, finally reverting to its original bronze cloth.
Although the strength and Cosmo of this bronze cloth had returned to their original state, its accumulated foundation and the activity of the Cosmo contained within had greatly improved. To some extent, wearing this cloth long-term would definitely lead to faster strengthening than other constellation cloths; even gold cloths couldn't compare.
There's no helping it; this is the advantage accumulated by successive Pegasus Saints. To some extent, the cloth can also be called a Saint's true teacher, akin to a weakened version of a personal and portable master.
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