>>200282044Semantics: it would be essentially natural armor that was stripped off the creature. Still inferior to crafted chainmail or scalemail.
>It could even be layered to be strongerAnon layering more material isn't a justification for a method: you could also always just craft thicker armor how does that prove anything?
>Think modern military armorIrrelevant modern armor made specifically to stop modern weapons. It can't even stop mailbreaker arrows all that well either because it's so specialized against bullets and shrapnel.
You're proposing to insert intermediate parasite between raw materials and produce and arguing that it could be, in any way, more efficient.
Just stop.