Star Forge Titan

"Is it done? Will there be another explosion?" A dull voice came from behind the bunker.

Turning his head, he saw Khayang wearing a heavy helmet popping his head out from behind the cover and looking over here cautiously.

The helmet has no decorations at all. It is just a metal cover with the thickest part reaching 15 mm. There is even a wide mask that can be pulled down to provide protection in front of the wearer's face. It can be said that it provides the most comprehensive protection.

By the way, this thing was made by Alvin using scraps when he was free.

It was originally intended to be part of the driver's uniform, but Diana strongly resisted it on the grounds that it would interfere with driving.

Therefore, it is now used by Khayang as personal protective equipment, and it is said that he plans to use it as inspiration to manufacture a full set of matching armor.

A set of heavy armored mage armor, if put into the game, would probably get a name like "Dead Iron Lich's Early Level 3 Armor Set"...

Ivan, who almost laughed out loud at the random thoughts in his mind, first placed the thruster on the ground with ease, then turned around and jokingly shouted into the observation window left in the semi-underground bunker:

"It won't explode. Come over and touch it yourself if you don't want to." As he said that, the black-haired boy pressed his hand on the scorching thruster.

呲!

In an instant, the high temperature evaporated the remaining sweat on Ivan's palm into white mist.

Of course, his skin was not harmed at all.

"Please allow me to refuse!" Seeing this, Khayang behind the observation window immediately crossed his hands into an X shape and expressed his refusal righteously.

After a while, after Ivan confirmed that the thrusters themselves showed no signs of damage, Khayon walked out of the bunker with extreme caution. On his head was his equally vigilant magical pet, the flying squirrel Peanut Butter, and their expressions at the moment were almost identical.

"Is this a failure or a success?" Khayon's cheek twitched slightly, and he asked uncertainly:

"Let's call it a success, but the output power of this thing is higher than expected. The body structure may need some modifications to increase the strength of the connection parts and disperse the supporting pressure... In short, there are more things to do." At the end, Alvin's expression became ugly.

There was nothing wrong with the thruster design or operation; the only problem was that they had to work overtime again.

While the vehicle manufacturing team members were working overtime, Diana was also working overtime to practice her driving skills.

"Don't separate yourself from the vehicle, you are a whole." Sitting in the passenger seat, old Patton emphasized the point that made Diana a little strange.

"Are cars and people one?" A thoughtful look appeared on the short-haired girl's face.

Driven by intuition, she did not directly question this statement that went against common sense, but instead calmed down and silently sensed the various information conveyed to her by the vehicle.

Vibrations, roars, and pauses, Diana realized that beneath all these appearances there was something deeper hidden.

Surge, flow, and advance. Although this is just an ordinary magic car for rent, which has been modified by the descendants of Titan, there are still some essential features that cannot be ignored.

"You may not understand the meaning of this sentence now, but when you become a real armored cavalry..." Old Patton chattered, recalling what happened when he first joined the army.

Back then, I seemed only a few years older than Diana was now. When I heard the instructor's strange description of 'human-machine integration,' I thought he was a liar. I was simply filled with joy as I watched the magical cavalry that excited the boys...

Old Patton's memories did not last long. The words he heard made him almost jump out of the car.

"It's magic, right?" A rare hint of excitement appeared on Dai Aina's face.

Although her expression hardly changed, only her very familiar family and friends could notice it.

"..." Old Patton didn't know what to say for a long time. This child obviously hasn't become a superhuman yet. Even if the magic power in his body is higher than that of ordinary people, it shouldn't be like this.

After a long while, he suppressed his shock and said calmly:

"Yes, you are right."

"Man and car are one..." There was a bright light in Diana's eyes. Although she already had the reputation of dominating the racing field like the Witch of Salt, she was extremely excited at this moment, like a traveler who discovered a new world.

New areas and new paths have emerged. What we need to do next is to accelerate forward!

In an instant, Old Patton felt that the magic power flowing in the car body and the roaring furnace in the magic engine seemed to jump, as if overlapping with the driver's heartbeat.

A dumbfounded expression almost appeared on the face of this old driver.

Damn it, it looks like I have to contact those old friends in advance and ask them to prepare the relevant materials in advance.

Looking at the scene outside the window that was flying backwards at an increasingly rapid speed, old Patton couldn't help but think so.

Then, he said calmly and with an exceptionally mature and sophisticated tone:

"Slow down! Little Moon, slow down! This car can't handle that kind of power!"

"Oh, Jupiter, I don't want to see you so early!!!"

Chapter 192: New Hope (Part 1)

Materials are fully prepared.

Design and optimization completed.

Manpower: an awakening Titan, a future Dead Iron Lich (probably) and several friends.

Everything is ready, just waiting for overtime!

In fact, the few people in the courtyard were so busy that they even borrowed Peanut Butter's claws. Even the half-finished black warrior who had fallen into the trap a while ago was originally forgotten by Khayon in the deep cellar.

Now that thing was dragged out by Khayang and slightly modified, it was directly sent out to serve as a coolie to carry materials.

As for Alvin, he directly used the elemental shell to create several extra arms and began to work hurriedly.

The tinkling sound continued for a long time, which made some uninvited guests outside feel very strange.

"What on earth are they doing?" A spy looked puzzledly at the nameless alchemy workshop in the distance that was completely blocked by a wall.

Just like Ivan and his team had thought of spying on other teams, other participating teams were also doing similar things, not to mention those teams with large backing.

In addition to hired adventurers and mercenaries, their own secret hidden departments are also making efforts.

However, most of the intelligence gathering teams sent out focused their attention on a few well-known teams. Civilian groups like Aiwen's, even though they performed well in the qualifying rounds, were not given much attention.

This also shows that Catherine, or more accurately, the Carolingian royal family, did a very good job of controlling intelligence.

Of course, another reason is that no one would have thought that the civilian whom Emperor Conrad accidentally met after sneaking out and encountering an accident would be directly chosen as the royal agent.

In short, after discovering that there was no way to easily sneak into the alchemy workshop, most spies chose to observe from afar in order to obtain some intelligence to report.

Of course, it’s not that no one wants to play hardball, but the presence of their peers around them makes them restrain their temper and not intend to be the first to take action.

Although the nameless alchemy workshop looks simple, there are two extraordinary people inside, and no one knows what hidden methods they have.

But just waiting was not a solution, so the first brave man soon appeared.

Before it got dark, a man dressed as a gas lamp cleaner carrying a folding ladder came forward and knocked on the door of the alchemy workshop.

Frankly speaking, the reason for this man's choice was not very good. As a gas lamp cleaner, door-to-door sales service was not a strange thing, but don't forget that this was the outskirts of Lutetia. It was hard to say whether the underground gas pipelines were laid here, not to mention the gas lamps that needed to burn gas for lighting.

Therefore, his purpose was very clear, which was to find a reason to trick the door open, and if necessary, he would naturally use some tough measures.

Anyway, this identity is fake, so it doesn’t matter even if the other party reports it to the Public Security Bureau later.

Soon, the door of the alchemy workshop was opened from the inside, and Khayang, with a messy head of hair, looked out the door tiredly.

Then his eyes focused on the cleaner's uniform and the folding ladder tucked under the man's arm.

A very subtle expression appeared on the Necromancer's face.

"Is there a problem?"

"Gas lamp cleaning service, sir. The first service is free." The visitor smiled and said, showing his good teeth.

As a result, a brilliant smile that was no less brilliant than the other person's appeared on Kayang's face.

"Yeah, I love free stuff."

The gas lamp cleaner was joyfully pulled into the room by the necromancer. The other spies outside the courtyard were a little surprised and regretful. If they had known that the people inside were so easy to deceive, they should have taken action first.

Before this thought could even wrap around his head, the sounds of punching and kicking were heard from the courtyard outside the workshop, followed by various groans and screams, and faintly there seemed to be a strange roar similar to the bleating of sheep.

The chaotic noise soon died down.

Not long after, a man who had been stripped of his cleaning uniform and left with only a pair of underwear on his body was thrown out, tied up.

He now looked bruised and battered, and his once bright white teeth had become scattered and incomplete, like gnawed corn. There was also a clearly visible hoof print in his eye socket, as if he had been attacked by the hoof of some even-toed ungulate animal.

The stripped spy did not lie on the cold ground for long before unidentified men dragged him away.

After all, even if he was discovered, he had at least entered the courtyard. Maybe he saw something and could get some information.

But even after waking up, the person could only make incoherent screams of terror, and the only few words that could be discerned were meaningless.

Like, sheep, bleating, axes, fists, what is that? What the hell is that???

It was obvious that the spy who was talking nonsense would not be able to provide any useful information until he fully recovered.

What on earth did this guy encounter in there to make him look so miserable and unlucky now?

For a moment, everyone's eyes looking at the nameless alchemy workshop became complicated.

A while later, before the spies withdrew, a magic taxi, driving in a crooked manner and spewing out puffs of smoke from under the hood from time to time, slowly drove out of the courtyard.

Two people, an old man and a young man, both covered in dust, got out of the car. The short-haired girl went forward and knocked on the door. This time, the person who opened the door was not the man with the bird's nest hair, but another extremely tall black-haired boy.

Seeing the traces of dust and smoke on Diana's face, Ivan couldn't help but twitch his mouth and almost laughed out loud.

He had never seen the Valkyrie, who was known for her bold and straightforward personality, in such an embarrassing moment in the game.

“…” Diana stared at Ivan expressionlessly.

Although she didn't say anything, the latter coughed lightly to cover up the fact that she almost laughed out loud.

Afterwards, Ivan opened the door and let Diana and Old Barton walk into the courtyard of the alchemy workshop together. At the same time, he also ordered the initially materialized Calbant to fetch a towel. Although the latter cursed and said things like "I am not a maid", because of the contract or because he gradually got used to it, he finally obeyed his master's orders and did his job honestly.

Passing through the gate, Diana found that the courtyard was very different from before.

Relying on [Reshaping the World], one person's productivity is equivalent to that of a lathe. A temporary workshop was quickly built by Ivan and his companions in the originally open-air courtyard.

The walls outside the courtyard were also raised and thickened, and the temporary workshop was covered with an arched metal roof.

When they walked into the closed workshop, both Diana and old Patton were stunned.

What appeared before them was a racing car that was not yet completed, but the prototype alone was already quite astonishing.

Unlike the high chassis of existing magic cars, this arrow-shaped flat racing car has a very low chassis. The whole body looks like a crouching ferocious beast, with the chassis close to the ground. Even the height of the tires on both sides is almost higher than the car body itself.

In addition, what is strange is the two olive-shaped devices installed at the rear of the vehicle.

Although she had seen the design blueprint, Diana couldn't help but walk forward and take a closer look at the two thrusters.

"..." Touching the thruster that had become a physical object from a blueprint, the short-haired girl suddenly turned around and looked at Ivan with wide eyes. Although her expression remained unchanged, her eyes seemed to be about to shine.

"Well, this is the enhanced propulsion device I mentioned on the blueprint before, in addition to the second-generation V-type shockwave magic engine."

As he spoke, the black-haired boy raised his thumb with great pride and stated the official name of the device.

"Cyclone Thruster!"

Chapter 193: New Hope

After proudly introducing the good stuff he had made, Alvin scratched his cheek a little embarrassedly.

"To be honest, this car isn't completely finished yet. While the current basic structure is functional, it's only suitable for driving on flat tracks. The several transformation modes needed to handle the special terrain sections of the competition require further accessories."

"Besides." The black-haired boy looked at Diana.

"If you want to maximize the performance of this car, you will find it difficult to bear the load brought by such a high speed at your current level. Although it may sound a bit cruel, that realm, that world, belongs to the extraordinary."

Ivan's meaning is very simple. If Diana wants to fully control the power of this racing car, then she must become a superhuman, but this requires the person involved to make the decision herself.

The life of an extraordinary person doesn't necessarily mean happiness and glory. Power can bring more choices, but it also brings corresponding responsibilities and risks. Just like someone who can't drive, under normal circumstances, it is unlikely that they would drive a van into a university cafeteria.

Sometimes, being ordinary is not necessarily a bad thing.

Looking at the short-haired girl who fell into silence, Alvin did not take the initiative to persuade her. He hoped that she would make a choice based on her heart.

At the same time, old Barton also showed a hesitant expression. Although he had similar ideas, he also hoped that Diana could choose her own future path.

"Little Moon, you can also think about yourself. Everyone in the orphanage..." Old Patton took off his hat and crumpled it into a ball, not knowing what to say next.

"Grandpa Patton, I want to win." Diana's expression was very calm, and it was obvious that she had thought about this issue seriously.

"It's not just for the orphanage, but I want to win myself." The girl's voice was not loud, but there was no hesitation.

Then she looked up at Old Barton, and a barely perceptible smile rarely appeared on her expressionless face.

"At first, I only participated in racing for the prize money. But gradually, I began to like the feeling of holding the steering wheel."

"So..." Diana took a deep breath and turned her gaze to the black-haired boy standing next to the brand new racing car.

"I want to see... the accelerated world!"