Paint that reacts with their skin to make it tougher. Nida would have called that odd except he knew it wasn’t necessarily any odder than ‘magical spirits that eat memories who use other magic to make your skin harder’. To the point where most SeeDs chose to forego armor.

“And it just... happened? In danger and poof skin like steel or something? Sounds useful. So does taking down a boar. Thing I miss most about home is hunting down large ‘animals’, such as they were. Wonder if boar is as tasty eating as behemoth. The last wild one on my world died around... thirty years ago or something? I have read about them and the kind of spears people used to hunt them but well...”