Star Forge Titan

"Do you know the Feather Fall Technique?" the Vice President asked in a low voice, without any emotion in his tone.

"Sir? I don't quite understand what you mean." The young alchemist was stunned and obviously hadn't reacted yet.

"I'm asking, do you know the Feather Fall technique?!" Mr. Nicolas Flamel slammed the long, ornately decorated staff in his hand, and suddenly raised his voice and asked:

"Yes! Your Excellency, I have learned it!" The young alchemist shuddered rapidly from the soles of his feet to his forehead, subconsciously straightened his back and shouted loudly.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of shattering glass suddenly came from the top floor of the Linde Alchemy Association's headquarters building. A screaming figure was like a baseball, being thrown out along with a chair by the extremely enhanced force field hand.

"three minutes!"

Flamel's furious voice echoed throughout the hall.

"Within three minutes, I want to see the 'Golden Thought' that cost him [Linde swear] so much return to first place!"

Chapter 201 Canyon Chase

Thunder and lightning!

Lightning like tree branches suddenly flashed across the sky.

After entering the canyon, the weather suddenly turned bad. Through the transparent fairing of the cockpit, you can see the heavy rain suddenly falling outside.

Drops of rain fell on the smooth fairing, turning into strands of water droplets that rolled rapidly backwards and disappeared from Ivan's sight. The sound of the wind became increasingly sharper and sharper as it continued to reach his ears.

The slippery road surface caused some trouble for driving. Even a skilled driver like Diana had to slow down. The autonomous thinking magic car 'Golden Thought' that was closely following the 'Hope' also made some deformation.

"I'll adjust the car's structure and tire tread. Get ready." Ivan said, holding the mithril handle used for magic transmission with both hands.

"Yeah." Diana nodded.

The Hope's body began to adjust slightly, and a dark golden magical light of [Reshaping the World] lit up above the tires.

The rapidly rotating tires are modified into another form with stronger grip and less chance of slipping the moment they are exposed to light.

The most intuitive manifestation is that the number of grooves on the tire surface has increased and the depth has become deeper. Even the sound made when the tire rolls on the ground is louder than before.

Relying on her almost supernatural intuition, Diana only needed a second to familiarize herself with the 'feel' of the new tires, which allowed the speed of the Hope car under her control to remain almost unchanged.

"Before replenishing the Fire Element Crystal, the Hurricane Thruster can be used once more. It's up to you to decide when to use it."

After saying this, Alvin, who had consumed a lot of magic power to complete the reconstruction, breathed a sigh of relief, and the phantom of the giant god soldier outlined in his mind through meditation lit up with fire on the chest.

Just like taking a deep breath, the magic power that was previously restored by instinct became faster than naturally under Ivan's interesting control. A large amount of free basic magic factor Mana in the environment quickly poured into the boy's body as if it were torn into the eye of a storm.

There were even tiny specks of light of various colors flickering in the air, causing the alchemists who were observing remotely from the 'Golden Thought' in the rear to look at each other in bewilderment.

"Then... who was in that car?" an alchemist couldn't help but whisper:

"Full-spectrum magic absorption, isn't he afraid of the uncontrollable raw magic generated by the mixing of multiple bands of magic? That would cause the magic circulation in the body to go haywire!"

"Everyone!" Vice President Flamel stomped his long staff on the ground.

"Isn't this the time to worry about your opponent? You still have two minutes!"

"...Should we activate attack mode? But letting the mechanical tower spirit decide on its own to attack humans is too dangerous, isn't it?" The alchemist looked at the vice president in disbelief.

"Don't ordinary tower spirits activate traps and golems to deal with foreign enemies invading the Mage Tower?" Flamel asked with wide eyes.

"That essentially just activates the defensive magic device connected to the tower spirit. But if we put the Golden Thought into attack mode, that would lift the first prohibition against mechanical tower spirits attacking humans on their own."

"It doesn't matter. After all, the 'Golden Thought' and the mechanical tower spirit aboard it were originally testing machines in preparation for the autonomous thinking chariot."

"But didn't the president forbid us from deploying the Computing Tower Spirit into offensive magic vehicles at this stage..."

"I'm the one in charge of the Magic Competition!" Nicolas Flamel interrupted his subordinate directly.

The hall fell into silence, and the cold wind from outside blew into the house through the broken window, making a sharp whistling sound.

Seeing that his subordinates were slow to act, Flamel snorted coldly, let go of his staff, and let it float behind him. He then walked down the steps himself and came to the control platform.

Because the mechanical tower spirit built into the Golden Thought needs to be remotely debugged, there are more than two hundred buttons on the control platform, and the overall structure becomes very complicated.

To facilitate operation, the alchemists referred to the structure of a church organ, using three layers of black and white keyboards stacked in sequence, multiple pedals, and seven pull pins to form a very complex control platform.

Flamel pushed his subordinate aside and sat down in front of the organ-like control platform. He first took his glasses from his pocket and put them on carefully, then stretched his hands slightly.

Then, the alchemist's ten fingers, which bore some marks of chemical corrosion, flew across the keyboard at a speed even more skillful and faster than that of a pianist.

That speed was comparable to that of the most skilled twenty-something programmer in Ivan's previous life!

Woo-woo-woo-woo

With a resounding whistle-like sound, the large magical steam engine installed in the Alchemist Association's headquarters building increased its power.

Thick white smoke belched out from the top of the tower-like building. In the central atrium of the hall, the super-large differential engine, whose height almost penetrated the entire building, quickly began to operate at full capacity. The crisp sound of the gears spinning and jerking merged into one, like a symphony that could only be played by a large orchestra composed of multiple instruments.

A large amount of magic power was compiled into a special communication magic and sent into the distance. The Golden Thought, which was hundreds of kilometers away, responded immediately.

【First key confirmation】

【Second key confirmation】

【Third key confirmation】

[Self-disciplined thinking racing car Golden Thought starts hidden mode]

【Armed Alchemy Expansion】

hum~

On the originally pitch-black cockpit cover of the Golden Thought, the golden Alchemist Association's circular logo suddenly turned into a halo emitting a dangerous red light.

Then, the originally streamlined shell of the car suddenly changed, and ripples appeared on the liquid shell, and various weapons gradually emerged like the dorsal fin of a shark emerging from the water.

Large, multi-shot magic guns protruded from either side of the vehicle's front. These unminiaturized, multi-shot weapons were typically mounted on magic vehicles. Furthermore, an exceptionally long, 88mm high-pressure magic cannon with a long barrel protruded from the rear.

【Armed Alchemy Completed】

[First target locked]

【Attack——Start】

Ding!

Whether it was Ivan or Diana, the boy and girl turned their heads to look behind them almost at the same time. They both sensed a sharp feeling coming from behind, as if a sharp weapon was approaching.

"Diana!" The short-haired girl responded as soon as the black-haired boy called out his companion's name.

Even in such a narrow canyon with many dangerous bends, Diana did not hesitate to insert the critical light stone into the activation device. The strong light of the magic reaction lit up instantly, and the entire magic car burst out at an extremely high speed again!

The whole car almost floated through the curve ahead quickly in a suspended manner.

The next second, the location where the Hope was originally located suddenly exploded!

Debris flew everywhere, the rock wall collapsed, and then, the temporary barrier created by the falling rocks was directly pierced and blasted away by the more powerful artillery fire!!!

"A 88mm cannon? Ha, those alchemists are really brave!" Alvin looked at the picture reflected in the rearview mirror with shining eyes.

A torrential downpour of bullets instantly shot towards the Hope, the momentum even more violent than the wind and rain outside!

However, a barrage of bullets could not catch up with the Hope, which had fully activated its hurricane thrusters.

The target is moving away

[Overload Magic Engine]

Lightning burst out from the interior of the Golden Thought. It was the disordered magic power emitted by the magic engine that was on the verge of losing control but was precisely stabilized at the critical point.

At the same time, the special terrain of the canyon made it difficult for the referees, who were army observers, to follow, so they had to hold their noses and borrow a small airship from the Air Force to watch from high altitude.

Although the airships couldn't keep up with the racing cars that used various advanced magical technologies, thanks to their height advantage and the help of expensive enchanted telescopes with the "Eagle Eye" spell, the army observers who also served as referees were able to barely catch a glimpse of the Hope and the Golden Thought.

However, the scene that came into their eyes afterwards made them tremble so much that they could hardly hold the telescope in their hands.

"Jupiter, what the hell are those two cars!?!"

"I've never seen..."

The referees were completely shocked by the unimaginable high-speed chase.

One in front and one behind, two white and golden shadows were chasing each other rapidly in the canyon. There were also a lot of red lights flashing between them. Those were the attacks launched by the Golden Thought.

"Just taking a beating is not my style." Alvin gripped the mithril handle on the back seat.

"Diana, control the car, I'm going to give the guy behind me a hard time!" The black-haired boy gritted his teeth and showed a dangerous smile.

"Okay." The short-haired girl answered concisely, while gripping the steering wheel and turning sharply to the left.

The Hope quickly passed the next bend, and the Golden Thought also rushed through the bend with an efficiency that was not typical of the former. Both ships came to an extremely short straight track at the same time.

Ivan's eyes narrowed, and the violent primitive magic power surging in his body was poured into the car body in large quantities, and the vector nozzle at the end of the Hurricane Thruster quietly retracted inward.

The enchanted structure engraved inside the thruster, which mimicked the structure of a magic shock wave, instantly lit up with a white light that was even stronger than during normal operation.

But this white light was easily covered by the strong golden-red light that came on afterwards!

Mixed with the power of fire elements, two crimson magic shock waves were suddenly shot out towards the Golden Thought that was continuously firing from the rear!

[High-energy reaction detected ahead, defense mode activated]

[Alchemical equation input, Golden Fleece Shield urgently deployed]

A magical device inlaid with rare golden pearls rose from the front of the Golden Thought. Light diffused outward through the originally opaque pearls, quickly forming a translucent force field shield shining with golden light.

Circles of runes immediately appeared on the light shield, outlining a rather complex magic circle pattern.

In a very short time, the massive amount of magic power from the magic engine was instantly consumed, so that the speed of the Golden Thought dropped slightly.

Then, the red beam of light collided with the golden light shield, and the strong light instantly illuminated the entire canyon!

Chapter 202: The Wind Chaser

The Shield of the Golden Fleece, named after an alchemical weapon in mythology.

This is the strongest defense device implanted by the Linde Alchemist Association inside the autonomous thinking magic car - Golden Thought.

When a large amount of magic power is infused into it, the originally small and light metal box will open a strong force field shield that is strong enough to withstand close-range bombardment from medium-caliber cannons.

Although the cost is a large consumption of magic power and the main body overheating and becoming unusable for a short period of time, this level of defense is completely super-standard armor for a light magic vehicle.

However, at this moment, the interior of the Golden Thought, which had fully deployed the "Golden Fleece Shield", was filled with overwhelming overheating warnings!

[Warning! Warning! The force field shield generator has exceeded the dangerous temperature and is overheated by 85%!]

[Warning! Warning! External main observation lens is broken!]

[Warning! Warning! Magic Engine Overheating!]

Faced with the bombardment of the scorching high-temperature and high-speed magic flow generated by the instantaneous activation of a large number of fire element crystals by the critical light stone, the force field shield that could withstand direct attacks from close-range cannons only lasted for a few seconds before completely exploding with a crisp sound like breaking glass.

Although most of the power was offset by the shield, the remaining heat still made the magical car, Golden Thought, which was originally pure gold in color, emit a dark red luster all over the car, as if melted steel.

All the alchemical weapons deployed after entering the attack mode were completely destroyed, and the deflector on the right side of the tail was completely melted, with only the basic support frame on the left side barely remaining intact.

The entire Golden Thought became tattered, like a defeated knight who had lost all his armor and weapons.

As the car's speed dropped significantly, black smoke continued to emerge from the cracks in the damaged shell.

Start self-repair

[Automatic Alchemist System Online]

[Error, the automatic alchemist system cannot be launched]

Stop overload mode

[Engine operating power has dropped to 70% of the base value]

【Self-repair and restart】

【fail】

【Third start】

【mistake! 】

【mistake!!!】

【Error! Error! Error!!! Error, error, error, error...@...#%! *#)%###########!】

The huge error in the data caused a rattling noise of broken gears to be heard from inside the small differential engine on the vehicle. As countless gears collided, the mechanical tower spirit body that recorded a large amount of racer data emitted an ominous red light.

Originally, the personal information of each racer had been deleted by the alchemist as useless data, but the few fragments left by them were always retained deep in the differential machine that carried the mechanical tower spirit.