Star Forge Titan

Before the female angel could break free, two sharp spears attacked her quickly, but she did not panic. She saw a shield constructed by a force field suddenly appear in front of her to block the attack of the spears.

"Thanks, little Frey." Gabrielle smiled, but soon her expression became serious again.

From the short spears that were close at hand, she smelled a fishy-sweet odor, indicating that these were two insidious weapons soaked in venom.

Carefully avoiding the short spear attacks, Gabrielle and the bulky Hades Guard circled around. The lightweight armor allowed her to move freely. The flaming longsword in her hand hit the undead from time to time. Although it could not cause any substantial damage, it caused black mist to emanate from it.

"How cunning." Khayon sneered and released a defensive magic - Death Armor - to the Iron Guards of the Underworld.

Black energy with explosive sounds gathered on this undead puppet. Every time Gabrielle approached, a magical shock would burst out to force her back.

Khayang saw that the other party did not want to forcibly destroy the Iron Guard of the Underworld, but planned to rely on the mutual neutralization of positive and negative energy to make the undead puppet run out of magic power in advance and stop working, so he released the Death Armor to interfere with the other party's behavior.

As a result, the female angel and the Hades Iron Guard were forced into a stalemate. The former could not cause effective damage to the latter because it was a projection, and the latter could not catch up with the speed of the former.

In addition, the Hades Iron Guard relied on its huge size to block the two people's way out and made it difficult for them to directly attack Khayon himself.

However, the two mages were not idle either. They were not good at attacking magic or seemed not to be good at it, so they chose to impose negative status on the enemy, or dispel the negative bonuses on their teammates, or use defensive magic to assist.

Seeing that the battle could not be ended in a short time, Afrediya became anxious.

It was obvious that Khayon's actions were just to delay them. From what he said, it was not difficult to guess that high-level mages from the School of Undead were coming from other areas.

At this moment, Ka Yang suddenly said:

"It seems that you haven't reached the true third level, Your Highness." The black-robed wizard judged this information from the magic duel.

"......!" Afrediya's face changed slightly. The battle between mages of the same level is often an information war. Whoever knows the opponent's spells better will be more likely to defeat the opponent.

It took almost all of her willpower to resist looking at the jewel bracelet on her wrist.

"In other words, whether it is summoning angels or controlling an astonishing number of summoned creatures, it is due to other reasons?" Khayon smiled coldly.

"Royal secrets? Bloodline? Humph, Your Highness, you truly make me jealous!"

Despite having a certain information advantage, he still did not let his guard down. After all, the barbarian mentioned in the intelligence had not appeared yet.

Is he lurking, or is he truly unable to strike? Or has he already left? Should we give him a try?

Several thoughts flashed through his mind just before Khayon released his next spell.

The wall beside me suddenly exploded!

A strong arm suddenly stretched out and firmly grasped the black-robed wizard's head!

who is it? !

Chapter 18 Star Soul Forging

Descendant of the One who forged the stars, may your soul burn forever like a star.

A vague voice echoed in Ivan's mind. He fell into unconsciousness and felt like he was walking on a long road that seemed to have no end in sight.

Surrounded by fire, rocks, flowing water and strong winds, they either transform into various forms of elemental life forms such as earth golems, fire lizards, water elves, wind eagles, etc., or appear in the most original form of elemental power.

But no matter the blazing fire, the howling hurricane, the high-speed rotating vortex, or the scattered and crumbling rocks, none of them could cause any harm to Alvin.

Instead, these forces closely surrounded him like garrison troops guarding a king or honest servants serving their master.

Looking down, Alvin discovered that his current body was a turbid spirit made up of dark shadows, and his thinking ability seemed to be blocked by something, making him unable to understand what all this meant. He just walked forward firmly.

At the end of the road in the distance, an iron crown made of molten metal radiated dazzling light to the surroundings. Above the crown was a large red star floating quietly, which was the source of all light and fire.

In an instant, a term emerged in Alvin's mind - the Road of Fire Sword!

Wait, isn't this the Trial of the Heart that only appears when you're promoted to the fourth level?

The moment the doubt arose, Ivan's consciousness fully awakened. A hymn of praise could be heard from afar, and a dark golden light emerged from the depths of his soul. The power of [Core: Reshaping the World] made the spirit of the traverser shine from the inside out.

The azure light completely dispelled and tore apart the originally pitch-black shadow, and in its place was a brand new spiritual body as deep and bright as the night sky dotted with stars and gems.

The most striking feature is the dazzling cross star between the spiritual body's eyebrows, which is like a cluster of leaping sparks, constantly rising upwards and emitting bright blue flames.

[Star Soul forging is complete, bloodline awakening degree is 30%]

In the world of consciousness that should have been empty, the system panel popped out like a foreign object. Ivan, who had regained his ability to think, felt his scalp tingling. This thing seemed to be above all the rules of the world, and it showed its existence silently and abruptly at all times.

Forget it. I haven’t even reached the fifth level. There’s no point in thinking about such issues involving deep power. Let’s see what changes have occurred before considering other things.

Quickly getting rid of useless thoughts from his mind, the pragmatic Alvin lowered his head and began to browse the information prompts on the system panel one after another.

Name: Irwin El-Erian

Race: Hybrid Titan (Your blood carries the genetic genes of higher beings, racial adjustment value of all attributes +3)

属性：力量23敏捷19体质25智力16魅力19感知19

Neither the bloodline that began to show obvious characteristics nor the change in race surprised Alvin. This was a normal phenomenon when the physical attributes of an individual with hidden bloodline exceeded 20 points.

Apart from sighing that I was right, I didn't have any special feelings.

As for the attribute increase, he had completely given up on considering himself a Tier 1 class. An ordinary Tier 3 who had only undergone the class advancement ceremony would probably cry out in disbelief when seeing such attributes.

Such exaggerated values ​​come from the further increased racial bonuses on the one hand, and the additional bonuses from the Space Marine transformation ritual and various talents on the other.

Because the ritual included as many as nineteen almost comprehensive spell transformation projects, Ivan was not like the lower-level demons who underwent ordinary Elrond secret rituals and only had one or two attributes additionally improved.

This complex transformation ritual has surpassed the transformation rituals of the upper demons, allowing him to comprehensively enhance the four body-related attributes of strength, agility, physique and perception.

Compared to the current Elrond Mysteries, this is close to an impossible miracle.

In addition, the biggest changes are in the talent and characteristics panel.

Leaving aside the common items brought by the Barbarian class, this ceremony gave Alvin two rows of new talents and characteristics.

[Immunity to Conventional Toxins] The internal organs strengthened and transformed by spells and the implanted artificial organs together construct a brand-new internal circulatory system, which makes you resistant to most common toxins in the mortal world.

[Immunity to conventional poison gas] The third lung created by the spell has filtering ability, allowing you to breathe normally in an environment filled with poison gas.

[Increased Recovery Ability] A strong body allows you to increase your daily health recovery by an additional level.

[Increased Injury Resistance] The implanted organ created by the spell allows special cells to flow in your blood, which can quickly stop bleeding, thereby reducing the severity of the injury by one level. Fatal injuries become severe injuries, severe injuries are reduced to moderate injuries, and so on.

[Extra Fire Resistance] The sweat glands created by the spell can secrete large amounts of sweat in emergency situations to resist fire damage and some special damage.

[Underwater Breathing] The third lung created by the spell has filtering ability, allowing you to breathe underwater.

[Low-light Vision] The eyeballs transformed by the spell can see things in dim light environments.

[Always Alert] The spell-modified neural tissue allows your brain to partition into rest zones to stay alert at all times, giving you an extra boost in identifying sneak attacks and preventing you from falling into fatigue due to lack of regular sleep.

[Detection Perception] Your sense of taste and smell undergoes comprehensive changes, allowing you to track and analyze residual scent in the air or the enemy's blood. This talent can be further upgraded.

[Acidic Saliva] The spell-modified organ implanted in your lower jaw allows you to selectively secrete acidic saliva that corrodes metal. The neutralizing substances contained in your own cells make you immune to this damage.

[Neural Interface] Gain a special equipment slot, allowing you to use special equipment with neural access properties and activate its full functions.

[Inner Skeleton Armor] The ribs transformed by the spell can be regarded as a built-in breastplate, which adds additional defense according to the strength of the bones. At the same time, piercing damage cannot hit your vital parts before breaking through the inner armor.

【Chameleon】You can change your skin color and protect yourself from external light and radiation damage by adjusting pigments.

[Elf Ear] The auditory system transformed by the spell can keenly capture various tiny sounds and shield and filter out noise.

[Iron Stomach] The pre-set stomach created by the spell will prevent you from suffering from food poisoning, and you can eat and absorb some substances that ordinary people cannot eat, such as ceramics and some metals.

[Eagle Eyes] The eyeballs transformed by magic enhance your observation ability and increase your visual range.

[Suspended Death] The meninges transformed by the spell allow you to enter a state of suspended animation by reducing your metabolism until your body is treated and returns to normal.

All of the above were basically within Ivan's expectations. He already knew the details through the information in the game. Although the improvement was extremely astonishing, without this level of increase, how could the Space Marines who served as the reference prototype for the ritual be called demigods on earth?

In addition, the breakthrough of strength and physique in both levels of 20 also allowed Alvin to obtain two extraordinary attribute bonus talents.

[Born with Supernatural Power] You possess immense strength beyond your physical size. Try wrestling with a dragon; you won't lose.

[Super Double Strength] A new talent evolved from Double Strength. You possess endurance and vitality far exceeding that of creatures of the same size. Low-level curses have little chance of harming you, and injuries below moderate damage will heal in a short time and be repaired quickly.

These two talents were also in the plan, but the additional talent that appeared later surprised him a little.

[Heaven-Given Armor - Invisible Scales] The ancient dragon blood factor strengthens your body, causing a layer of invisible transparent scales to appear on the surface of your skin. Ordinary iron cannot attack you, and malicious magic will bypass you.

???

Alvin felt as if three materialized question marks appeared above his head.

Ancient Dragon Blood Factor?!? This kind of thing either comes from the blood of an old dragon or the blood of an ancient dragon clan, but this is only the first version and it hasn't even been passed yet, right?

The former was extremely valuable, as most adventurers would never encounter an old dragon, and even if they did, they wouldn't be able to defeat one. Even if the black market management in Flanders was blind and couldn't resist such a thing, they themselves weren't qualified to receive such a rare and high-level material.

The latter is even more unlikely, as all ancient dragons live in other planes far from the material world and are unlikely to appear until the next few versions. According to the official forum, ancient dragons shoulder a special mission and usually do not descend into the material world.

So, what's going on?

Could it be that the Flanders black market was incredibly lucky and got a bottle of ancient dragon blood first, and then all of their appraisers were collectively blind and couldn't recognize the difference between the dragon blood emitting a light golden glow and the ordinary dark red dragon blood, and then it was their turn to be incredibly lucky and write dragon blood as an item in the list of materials, so they sent over the bottle of ancient dragon blood, which anyone except a blind person could see was abnormal, as ordinary dragon blood.

So the question is, is it possible that Afrediya can't tell the difference between ancient dragon blood and ordinary dragon blood? Is she also blind?

This kind of coincidence, this ultimate nesting doll of chance, is probably even less likely to happen than the fantasy event that an ancient dragon lies next to me every day.

Alvin looked at this feature in disbelief and felt completely unable to understand it.

To be fair, the more of these rare talents that increase both physical and magical resistance, the better, but the fact that he couldn't figure out their origins still made him a little worried.

You should know that in the previous life game, almost none of the tasks related to the ancient dragon clan were less difficult than the nightmare level, which was second only to the difficulty of legendary and epic tasks.

The number of inexplicable problems has increased! The number of hidden dangers of unknown origin has also increased!

Forget it, too many lice won’t bite, too many debts won’t worry...

Feeling the ambient brightness in his conscious world gradually increasing, Alvin knew that he was about to wake up, so he had to put this confusion aside for the time being and turn to look at the most critical core talent.

Core·Reshaping the World: A core talent that is beginning to recover. The owner can reshape and rebuild all elements of the material world by consuming their own magic power. It has now unlocked the earth realm (rock, metal...) and obtained some information about the fire realm.

He began to recover. This should be a change brought about by strengthening his physique. Alvin secretly judged that this kind of powerful talent often requires a strong body to match it to carry it, otherwise it will self-seal to protect the holder.

When the word "Resurgence" appears in the talent description, the "Core Talent" will show the real reason why it is called "Core".

The core talent of successful resurrection will bring about related subordinate branch talents. The two sides complement each other and build another ability system independent of the profession.

At this time, Alvin already had two more branches of talent.

[Branch Talent: Blessing of Steel - Immortal Iron Bones]: The Titan's Bones are the backbone of the world. The holder's bones are greatly strengthened, and the spine can be used as an additional mana pool to store magic power.

[Branch Talent·Star Soul-Perpetual Motion Core]: The soul of the one who reshapes the world shines eternally like a star.

Open the official mana pool, filling type - raw mana (1200/1200), special attribute - perpetual cycle.

Peace of mind.

An unprecedented sense of security came over me.

After coming into this world, Alvin finally felt truly at ease at this moment.

Of these two talents, the first one represents a magical storage capacity far exceeding that of individuals of the same rank and a stronger physique.

The second one is even rarer. Raw magic is the most violent mana. No spellcaster below level four will come into contact with this kind of magic. Only a few hidden professions are qualified to try to control this kind of magic at a low level.

When this kind of magic appears in the official mana pool, it means that the holder can control it, which also means that the holder has stronger and more precise control over other magic.

As for the special attribute - perpetual cycle, this means that external magic power can maintain a circulation flow with the holder's own mana pool. In simple terms, except for special areas, this can be regarded as a permanent BUFF that continuously increases magic power.

That's why that guy was later thrown into a 50-person dungeon as the final boss.

No, now that guy is me...

Looking at the two rows of new talents, Alvin couldn't help but sigh as he felt the power surge up.

At this moment, his world of consciousness had been completely enveloped by white light, and he could even vaguely feel his own body.

Before completely leaving the conscious world, Alvin took the time to look at the last system message.

Obtained some information about [Giant God Form]: You have briefly touched the unpolished ultimate power.

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Wait, how come I don’t know that I…

The strong feeling of dizziness made Ivan's consciousness blurred. When he woke up again, all he saw was a broken glass container.

The broken glass reflected the current appearance of the black-haired boy, with more mature facial features and golden ratio muscle lines. His two-meter-three-meter-tall body did not look bloated or thick at all, but instead had a nearly perfect tough aesthetic.

It is worth noting that Alvin discovered that there was an oval-shaped azure crystal stone between his eyebrows.

Was this a change in appearance brought about by the resurrection of his bloodline or the fusion of his star soul? Feeling the violent, primal magic surging within him, he secretly wondered if this body might have further potential waiting to be discovered.

Because of the change in height, Alvin noticed that his perspective had also become much higher, and he was able to keenly notice many details that he had previously overlooked.