Star Forge Titan

However, although this event is called racing, no one limits the means of winning the entire championship to racing alone.

"Humph, it runs very fast indeed." Inside the Borgasos, which belongs to the General Magic Company, the young driver with a beautiful mustache had a ferocious look on his face.

"The magic engine is overloaded!" The driver roared and pulled the joystick suddenly. The second alchemical fuel was added to the magic engine. After the two fuels mixed with each other, a preset violent alchemical reaction suddenly occurred, causing the engine to burst out magic output far beyond the normal state in a short period of time.

The engine speed suddenly soared to a level close to the limit, and the rapidly spinning tires even left charred marks on the ground. The silver Bergassos suddenly rushed forward in a short period of time, and the front of the car quickly approached the Hope, which was ranked second.

At the same time, the red round crystal in the center of the driver's helmet suddenly shot out a red light forward.

Under the red light, a small, inconspicuous light spot appeared on the right side of the rear of the Hope vehicle, and a metallic sound like a bowstring being pulled and a crossbow being pulled could be heard from the front of the Bergassos vehicle, giving rise to an invisible sense of crisis.

Besides the Bogasos, the other drivers followed suit. As long as they ran fast enough, any unnecessary equipment would be ineffective. Therefore, they had to eliminate those who excelled in speed one by one at the start.

Taking factors outside the track into consideration, they couldn't directly attack it in public, so they planned to wait until the uninhabited area in the second half of the track to take action. But this small, broken team from the grassroots actually dared to run so fast, so don't blame them for attacking it in groups!

The muscular driver, who came from the Daimler workshop, curled up in the cab, which was spacious for ordinary people but very narrow for him, and roared like a beast with all his might.

"Crush it! The bronze chariot!"

From that exceptionally muscular body, a chaotic and complex but exaggerated amount of magic power was rapidly released. It flowed along the metal output port implanted in the back, along the connecting pipe, into the pre-installed interface in the cab, and all the way to the magic engine connected to it.

If Alvin was present, he would immediately notice that this guy's extraordinary promotion ceremony had obviously been interfered with.

Although he is at the second level, he does not have any talents or abilities that come with his job. Instead, he focuses all the upgrades and transformations brought by the promotion ceremony on his magic power reserves.

This almost abnormal method of advancement made him lose the power to continue advancing while becoming a second-level transcendent. However, he was able to rely on the large amount of magic power stored in his body to forcibly increase the operating power of the magic engine several times, allowing a heavy magic vehicle like the bronze chariot to burst out at a speed comparable to other magic vehicles in a short period of time.

The essence of this behavior is to use the driver as a pure consumable, but there is no hesitation on the strong man's face, only a crazy desire for victory.

If I win the championship, I can pay off my debts and no longer need to continue working as a low-level experimenter for the Universal Mage. This will allow my father, mother, and younger sister to move out of the downtown area and become real Lutetias.

His beautiful fantasy of the future made him smile with an almost unreal happiness, and tears of joy kept flowing from his eyes.

The feeling as if a balloon was slowly inflating in his chest made him shout out again:

"Crush it! The bronze chariot!"

With two loud clicks of springs unlocking, the front section of the heavily armored bronze chariot suddenly sprang upwards. The two-stage offensive armament, like a gaping maw, rapidly bit towards the right side of the Hope as the vehicle accelerated.

Unlike the two guys who attacked Hope from both sides, the other car chose to attack from the sky, which is difficult for ordinary cars to notice!

"The air blade is fully charged. Sorry, handsome boy~" A female voice full of energy sounded above his head.

The Victory Tornado, which was gliding at a height of five meters above the ground, suddenly dived downward. A violently shaking transparent arc blade suddenly appeared in the front of the arc-shaped vehicle. It was a high-pressure air blade formed by a special magic device and a high-speed dive state.

There are enemies everywhere, but that's not all.

"Hold them, lightning chains!"

The triangular lightning with red flame patterns painted on the blue car body did not show any mercy. Although he did not activate acceleration methods such as overload operation, a magic chain composed of several arcs of electricity suddenly burst out from the conical spiral coils erected around the racing car without any warning.

These magic chains, glowing with blue electric light, connected the Triangle Lightning to the other magic vehicles one by one, just like real metal chains, forcing them to drag the speed of the former like horses pulling a cart.

Only the Golden Thought, which belonged to the Linde Alchemist Association, was not disturbed and continued to move forward at a high speed, keeping a distance from the other cars.

"What the hell!"

"You guy!"

"Damn Tesla rotors! They really are licking the butts of those alchemist masters!"

The other pilots cursed loudly, but before destroying the Hope, these guys didn't have the time to care about the Triangle Lightning, and the latter's actions in a sense helped them restrain the Hope's actions.

At this moment, inside the Hope, which was under siege from many sides.

Neither Diana, who was holding the steering wheel, nor Ivan, who was sitting in the back seat of the cockpit, showed any nervousness on their faces.

Diana clenched her knuckles slightly and her pupils shrank slightly. Her intuition told her that there were huge threats coming from all directions, enough to destroy the Hope and herself as the pilot!

But before the girl could react, the black-haired boy's voice, as steady as the earth, rang in her ears.

"It's okay, Diana, all you have to do is look forward." Ivan sat in the back seat with a calm expression, slowly bringing his fingers together.

"As for the rest, leave it to me."

As he spoke without any sense of urgency, the black-haired boy touched his ten fingers together, forming a triangle hand shape that symbolized extreme stability in magical terms.

Then, in that empty hollow space, a perfectly round transparent ball of light suddenly emerged, forming a nested triangle and a circle.

At the same time, under the influence of the Steel God's casting meditation method, the primitive magic power gradually revealed its heavy and solid characteristics and surged in Ivan's body.

Flesh, blood and bones are the channels, will is the core, and light is the raw material.

Magic infusion complete! Shield activated!

Force field——Full force!!!

Chapter 198: Shield Charge

With the New Hope as its center, a white ball of light quickly spread out.

Until the spherical light called the 'Sun Shield' enveloped the entire magic car.

The Ash Knight promotion ceremony, which was held using the unprecedented solidified crystalline "Light of Skyfire" as the material, gave Alvin the same almost materialized light pressure protection field.

At this moment, the highly concentrated "actinic positive energy" even spread outward to form a large-scale force field protection that was enough to cover the entire magic car.

All this happens in just a tiny fraction of a second.

Immediately afterwards, the long conical spikes from Bergassos hit the Sun Shield first.

"Hahaha, my Deadly Lancer system is a magic-breaking weapon made of inert magic metal... This is unacceptable, poof!"

The impact of the collision left the young driver with a mustache speechless. The magic-breaking weapon in his mouth, which was made with inert magic metal, bent and deformed instantly when facing the force field constructed by pure light, just like hitting a steel barrier.

The resulting reaction force caused the silver-gray Bergassos to spin 360 degrees on the spot, falling into a completely uncontrollable rotation. It soon broke through the fence and rushed out of the track.

Next, the Bronze Chariot was hit by the Sun Shield and was bleeding.

The pair of sharp steel teeth on the front of this heavily armored magic vehicle, which were strong enough to crush a full body of plate armor like a can, immediately shattered when faced with the translucent spherical light shield, as if they were tiger teeth biting into stone.

The flying parts almost fell into the audience seats in the distance, causing other audience members to scream.

"This, this is impossible! My bronze chariot ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!" The muscular driver couldn't help but cry out in pain as his eyes suddenly lit up. The deformed shell caused the speed of this heavily armored magic chariot to drop again and again, and it was soon left far behind by the leading group.

Compared to the two reckless men above who rushed in and launched direct attacks, the Triangle Lightning and the Victory Tornado were much luckier.

Whether it is a high-pressure air knife or an electromagnetic chain, it can barely be classified as a long-range attack range.

So, apart from the ineffective attack, their magic car itself did not suffer much damage.

However, the pressure in the hearts of these two people did not decrease at all.

Just now, the attacks launched by both Borgasos and the bronze chariot had exceeded the limits of ordinary lower-level transcendents. They were modern magics that could only be performed with the power of magical engineering, and they were definitely not something that lower-level transcendents could resist by simply opening their shields.

Taking into account the strict rule that participants of the Youth Magic Car Competition must not be over thirty years old.

In other words, inside that blue, white, and red magical vehicle up ahead sat a high-ranking transcendent who was under thirty years old!?! A third-tier, or even... a fourth-tier, who was under thirty years old!

The creepy feeling doubled the pressure on other drivers, but Golden Thought, who was in the first place, was not affected at all. He still handled every turn and straight line with the most perfect route, and from time to time he changed his appearance through high-speed alchemy to adapt to different road sections.

In addition, the Wheel of the Father, which belongs to the Temple of Light, did not seize the opportunity of the melee among other magic cars to speed up and overtake. It even took the initiative to slow down and distance itself from the chaotic leading team, as if it would be satisfied as long as it completed the race, and it looked like what mattered was participation.

Seeing its appearance, the other magic cars didn't care, and had no intention of actively attacking, just giving face to the Temple of Light.

As for Alvin and Diana, who still remained in second place, they set their sights entirely on the Golden Thought, which was currently ranked first.

When the Hope entered the first long straight track, Diana suddenly warned:

"be prepared."

"Are we going to speed up?" Alvin raised his eyebrows.

Then, he subconsciously glanced at the luminous bracelet on the girl's wrist.

This bracelet is not made up of gems or pearls, but transparent glass beads reinforced with several circles of metal frames on the outside, and a small blue light ball floats inside each bead.

These things are exactly the solidified critical element gem power catalysts prepared by Khayon in advance, referred to as "critical light stones"!

Then, Alvin saw Diana pull a glowing ball off the bracelet without hesitation.

Holding the critical light stone in her palm, the short-haired girl, concentrating on driving the vehicle, smiled.

Then, she used her thumb to flick open the brass pipe-shaped launch port cover on the left side of the cockpit with ease, and without hesitation, dropped the 'Light Stone' into it and closed the cover again.

Immediately, a whistling sound was heard from inside as solid matter was pushed and swept away by air pressure. Then, a familiar tremor came from the rear of the car. At the same time, both of them felt a push on their backs that was even stronger than before, and it was still intensifying!

"What an impatient girl." Alvin showed a helpless look, while pressing his own special conduction device with both hands.

Those were two operating levers located at the back seat, made entirely of expensive mithril, which could transmit various magical powers very well.

Along with the roar of the original magic power in his body, a dark golden light shone on the palm of the black-haired boy. Using the expensive and rare metal mithril as the medium, the mighty power of [Reshaping the World] was immediately transmitted to every part of the magic car.

In an instant, Diana's face suddenly turned red. The special talent of Steel Soldier's machine soul resonance made her feel that Ivan's magic power and her own magic power were blending with each other.

This feeling made the girl inexplicably shy, but it was followed by a strange sense of security, as if she was in the embrace of the mountains, making her feel completely isolated from the outside world.

At the same time, the magic power in Ivan's body was rapidly consumed. He immediately opened the extra mana pool located in his spine. The spine, with a hint of golden electric light, seemed to be made entirely of gold. The raw magic power that surged out of it immediately filled his whole body and showed an endless momentum.

Then, the drivers of the other magic cars were horrified to see that the Hope, which had just taken the second place, began to rapidly change its appearance just like the Golden Thought before!

The two pairs of four tires in the front row are tightened inward, and the rear tires are completely wrapped by the inward-folding deflectors. The whole car gradually becomes like an integrated metal arrow, presenting an extremely perfect air-superiority shape.

"High-speed alchemy!?! This is impossible!" In the cockpit of the Triangle Lightning, the pilot, who was wrapped in a protective suit, made an incredulous sound.

Originally, relying on the extremely special auxiliary ability of the electromagnetic chain, the Triangle Lightning, which was affiliated with the Tesla rotor, did not let the Hope be left far behind, but instead caught up closely behind the opponent.

Considering that it is impossible for any extraordinary person to activate the shield endlessly, the reason why he kept a close distance with the opponent was that he planned to try to slow down the opponent's speed with the electromagnetic chain again after the pilot of the Hope released the shield.

But the changes happening before his eyes made this guy hesitate.

Tesla Rotor, to which the Triangle Lightning belongs, has a very close relationship with the Linde Alchemist Association. Its founder is a senior alchemist who left the association, and the association even holds a portion of the company's shares.

As a tester involved in the development and manufacturing of the magic car, he also has some knowledge of alchemy.

You know, high-speed alchemy, a technology that can quickly complete alchemical reactions in any place, is only possessed by the Linde Alchemist Association.

Even looking across the entire Central Empire, no other organization or force has developed similar technology.

Could it be that there's a traitor within the association who's defected to another faction?!

A drop of cold sweat rolled down his forehead, but soon the driver of the Triangle Lightning no longer needed to worry about this problem.

Two brilliant white lights appeared behind the Hope, which was in second place. The source of the light came from the two olive-shaped thrusters at the rear of the magic car.

Inside the thruster, the fire element crystals of astonishing quantity and quality were fully activated by the broken critical light stones.

When Diana, who was sitting in the front seat of the cockpit, pushed up several buttons on the dashboard one by one, the inert metal rods that were inserted into these large elemental crystals were quickly pulled out under the operation of the mechanical structure.

All locks are released and the entire passage is unobstructed.

At this point, the power of the fire element crystal was finally released without any worries.

The vector nozzle, which can switch directions at a large angle, tightens its diameter inward, and a wisp of red flame as thick as a silk thread shoots out from the depths of the nozzle, and then turns into circles of ring-shaped flames that spread backwards one after another.

Finally, the raging fire and the strong light combined to form an extremely powerful conical flame, which spewed out towards the rear!

"Great Jupiter, could that be the spear you dropped on earth..." the pilot of the Triangle Lightning murmured to himself.

Then, a strong light like a wave came from the front, instantly drowning the Triangle Lightning that was following closely behind the Hope.

The entire magic car was blown into the air and disintegrated, and the half that was directly hit by the light beam shattered and melted immediately.

What followed was the screams of excitement and shock from the audience along the way.

But soon, the two people sitting in the cockpit of the Hope could no longer hear the noisy sounds outside, as if even the sound could no longer catch up with this magical racing car with its hurricane thrusters activated!!!

Chapter 199: Harnessing Fire

In the Tungut region, one hundred kilometers away from the small town of Daksela.

Unlike the not-so-distant town of Daxella, the land here is severely desertified and suffers from perennial droughts and strong winds. The specific reason for this can be explained in one sentence: strong landform.

"Arbitration 13, Arbitration 13, this is Arbitration 11. Attention, the first echelon of cars is about to arrive in your area. Please record the observation data."

Although the magic communication device occasionally made a hissing sound due to interference from external magic fluctuations, one could still roughly hear the information that the other end of the intercom wanted to convey.

After hearing the words coming from the intercom, Referee No. 13 was stunned at first, and then showed a look of surprise.

"The arbitration was received on the 13th. Wait, why not the 12th? His jurisdiction should be before mine."

"Because those two cars are too fast! The military magic car driven by No. 12 can't catch up at all!" The tired and collapsed voice of referee No. 11 came from the communicator.

"Jupiter, how could this happen!?!" Referee No. 13 said in astonishment.