Star Forge Titan

When she first joined the laboratory, she developed some feelings for Joseph because he took good care of her and had rich academic knowledge.

It was precisely because of her admiration and longing for Joseph that she still could not accept the fact that Joseph Kerr was a black wizard who secretly cast evil spells on innocent people.

"Every day after Joseph comes to the lab, he takes the initiative to maintain the frequently used instruments and tools before leaving get off work. Perhaps because of this, everyone thinks he is a very serious person. After all, I heard from the seniors in the lab that after Joseph came, even the old magic steam engine that often broke down has not had any major problems." Meni sighed, his face still with an expression of disbelief.

An old-fashioned magic steam engine?

Ivan was attracted by this term.

Although he had not paid special attention to various settings in his previous life, after coming to the real Palladio, he learned a lot about the history of the development of magic engineering technology through self-study.

The old magic steam engine was invented early and has low operating costs. Even after the invention of the magic engine, many places still use it as a power source or backup power source.

Since the laboratory where Joseph worked before was not equipped with the most advanced technology, it was not surprising that the old magic steam engine was used instead of the magic engine.

However, this type of machine has a characteristic: if it is not maintained regularly, it will easily malfunction. Usually, it is not a big problem. Generally, it is a minor problem such as reduced air tightness of the pipeline, resulting in insufficient air pressure and insufficient output power.

Even so, the maintenance of this machine requires an engineer with a mastery of engineering or an alchemist with a sufficient level of magical engineering skills.

Simply put, laymen would not touch this old-fashioned machine with a complex structure and difficult maintenance.

So, how come Joseph Kerr, a wizard skilled in illusion magic, was able to complete the regular inspection of the old magic steam engine while performing routine maintenance on laboratory equipment?

Does this mean that the other party actually has mastered a fairly high level of magical engineering technology?

In Ivan's mind, the image of Joseph Kerr became increasingly complicated, as if this person was shrouded in a mysterious fog, making it impossible to see his true side.

It feels hazy and like a hallucination.

Chapter 77 Hard Light Shaping

After finishing the conversation with Miss Menie Kaye.

Ivan and Diana left the confinement room and began to return to the Sagittarius area, which was responsible for the research on magical mechas and also used to accommodate the students.

They were riding in a public magic car. The underground headquarters of Truth Rock was so large that this type of transportation had to be arranged internally, otherwise it would affect the efficiency of the staff traveling between different areas.

At this moment, since this bus was heading to the security department and it was not yet the rush hour, the carriage seemed empty. Apart from the boy and the girl, there was no third passenger.

The driver of the public magic car in front was not in the mood to chat, and just hummed a traditional Lind folk song in a tuneless voice.

The lyrics roughly tell the story of a little girl and the lamb she raises. Although it is not very nice to listen to, at least it makes the car feel less cold.

"Do you think Miss Maynie and Mr. Joseph are both innocent?" Diana suddenly asked.

"Miss Mayni may be innocent, but Joseph..." Ivan shook his head.

"The more I investigate, the more I feel I can't see through this person. I can't even guess his purpose."

"Is that so?" Diana's voice was a little low.

"What's wrong?" Alvin couldn't help but look at the girl beside him.

At this point, due to regular trims and no further dyeing, Diana's hair had turned completely silver.

Although she had short hair that reached her ears for easy movement, it did not affect the girl's appearance at all. With her straight nose and sharp eyebrows, she looked more heroic than ordinary women, just like a white horse galloping in the snow, with a strong posture and high spirits.

"I just feel sorry for Miss Menie. She must be in love with Joseph." Diana sighed.

"Maybe, but if you want to fully understand a person, you can't just rely on the emotion of liking him. Or rather, pure liking will make it even more difficult for people to understand the other person." Alvin unexpectedly said a few more words.

"Really?" Diana glanced at the tall and handsome man beside her, and suddenly puffed up her face in dissatisfaction.

"?" Seeing her like this, Alvin was also a little puzzled. In the end, he could only sigh that no matter what age a woman is, there are probably some things about her that are as mysterious and difficult to understand.

In addition, this is a side he has never seen in his previous life. It is not a side of Valkyrie Diana, nor a side of White Knight Diana.

Surprisingly cute...

With this thought flashing through his mind, Ivan turned his head to look out the window, and at the same time secretly reminded himself that there was another lady waiting for him far away in Elrond. After all, Frey might be a girl who could really spit fire when she was angry.

At some point, the folk song the driver was humming changed.

The lyrics describe a young Linde boy who, because of seeing a girl on the other side of the river, fell off his horse foolishly and rolled down the grassy hillside like a barrel. As a result, the amused girl on the other side of the river invited him to her home in the evening with her singing, and also hoped that he would bring a beautiful lute.

Just like that, the public magic car arrived at the platform in a subtle atmosphere.

As soon as I got off the bus, I heard the voices of a group of female students nearby.

"Ah, it's Miss Diana." They chattered and surrounded her, and Diana was immediately trapped among them, but she smiled at the first moment.

After being responsible for collecting clues among the female students for a period of time, the silver-haired girl has developed this habit, which makes the voices of the nearby female students become more and more excited.

Not long after, they made an appointment to go to a cake shop in the living area together. It was said that the owner of the cake shop launched a new flavor of fruit mousse cake today, which was very worth trying.

Ivan shrugged and gave Diana a helpless look. Then the two of them nodded goodbye and went about their business.

In fact, Alvin did have some things of his own to deal with.

During the practical class on wearing power armor, he had suddenly had some ideas, so he booked an ordinary laboratory and planned to try it out on his own.

Since the students are all extraordinary people, in addition to their studies, they also need to conduct training and experiments based on their own abilities. Therefore, like most researchers, they can make reservations to use empty laboratories.

Just pay a certain amount of deposit and security deposit, and be careful not to damage the instrument when using it.

This morning, Alvin received a message saying that the laboratory he had reserved was vacant and he could use it after noon.

After receiving the key to the door from the lab management office, Ivan immediately went to the vacant lab. He closed the door and activated the locking spell with the key engraved with the activation information. Then he walked to the center of the lab and began his experiment.

Before, the inspiration that Alvin came up with was not complicated.

He had originally intended to use the knowledge of the Colossus to strengthen his own Colossus form. Could the information about Power Armor also be used to strengthen his own Lightforge Armor?

It is based on this idea that Alvin plans to conduct some experiments on his own.

Lightforged Armor, a new form formed by combining the original Ash Armor with the Sun Shield.

The most crucial point lies in Alvin's core talent of [Reshaping the World].

It was precisely because of this talent derived from the blood of the Titans, whose strength seemed to be an operational accident, that he was able to fuse the high-purity light of heavenly fire that surpassed the records in ancient texts with the ashes of annihilation made of celestial metal, and then shape the solid hard light produced by the unknown reaction, thus finally forming a light-cast armor in the style of armor.

It is clearly light, but it can produce a solid-like touch. This is the most unique property of solid hard light.

In this case, if this material is made into the form of power armor and used in some way, can the light-cast armor, which is originally mainly for defense, have the performance of power armor?

He did it as soon as he thought of it. After clearing an area in the laboratory, Alvin began his first attempt.

"Light—Recast." Murmuring the ancient language from memory, the black-haired boy's magic power began to flow.

The violent original magic power has become more stable under the influence of the Steel God Forging Meditation Method, while also not losing its original violent characteristics.

Like high-voltage electricity flowing in cables, the original magic possessed both violent and stable characteristics. Under the influence of the power related to the Ash Knight class, it turned into a ball of white light and lit up at Ivan's fingertips.

Bright as light, hard as steel.

A hard light that has the dual effects of light and steel is thus revealed.

Looking at the unique existence on his fingertips, Alvin couldn't help but smile slightly. It seemed that the first step in obtaining experimental materials was very successful. As for what to do next, it was to try to shape the materials into the structure he wanted.

"Then, let the experiment begin."

As the boy whispered, a dark golden magical glow appeared, enveloping the white hard light on his fingertips, and his will was also infused into it.

Core Talent [Reshaping the World]————

start up!

Chapter 78: Giant Shadow

The solid hard light was stimulated and gradually became unstable, emitting a large amount of white light in all directions.

The overwhelming light, like a tsunami, illuminated the entire laboratory in white, making it almost impossible to see any other colors.

Before starting the experiment, Alvin checked the laboratory for any surveillance equipment or magic, but in this situation, even if there were surveillance facilities that he had not discovered, those things probably could not see anything now.

In this space completely filled with white light, Ivan's eyes were not closed. Instead, he emitted a golden radiation that was no less than the light from the outside world.

It was like two golden suns piercing through the white sky, shining brightly and gazing at everything within the field of vision with incredible clarity as usual.

The solid light that originally gathered at the boy's fingertips finally began to change its form under the continuous effect of the dark golden magic of [Reshaping the World].

Alvin concentrated all his attention, trying hard to recall the relevant knowledge and memories about the power armor in his mind, and relied on the power of [Reshaping the World] to reshape the solid white light that had lost its stable form into another structure.

This is a very dangerous behavior for others.

The combination of the Sun Shield made of highly concentrated Skyfire light and the Ash Armor condensed from the ashes of annihilation gave the latter a new form called Lightforged Armor.

However, that stable and solid substantial light, although incredibly hard, once it loses its stable structure, it will definitely explode to the outside world in the form of a magical shock wave full of destructive power.

The destructive white light sword that Alvin wields is a killing move formed by further compressing and strengthening this magical shock wave.

Fortunately, with a sufficiently high willpower attribute and the newly added magical properties of the Steel God Casting Meditation Method, although it was a bit hard and laborious, Alvin finally restored the stability of the unstable solid light and reconstructed it into another form.

A thick white gauntlet completely covered Ivan's right palm.

Because the one I've been dealing with recently is mainly the 'Test No. 34 Magic Steam Driven Power Amplification Armor', the appearance of this pair of gauntlets is almost identical to the gauntlets of the Special 34 Power Armor.

The Central Empire's Linde, apparently, has yet to develop artificial muscles like electromagnetic muscle bundles, which combine both power transmission and power generation. Therefore, the Linde power armor currently relies primarily on relatively traditional power transmission methods like hydraulics, transferring the mechanical force generated by a small steam engine on the back to the wearer's limbs to provide amplification.

Compared with other parts, the structure of the finger part of the power armor is even simpler.

Apart from the outer armor, there is basically only a simple terminal power transmission device inside, or in more professional terms, only an actuator.

Other more complex components are mostly placed on the forearm and upper arm, and the fingers are only responsible for converting the transmitted power into mechanical force to increase the wearer's hand grip.

Therefore, Alvin is not sure whether the gauntlet he constructed has the same power amplification function as the power armor.

However, he at least confirmed that the Lightforge Armor could indeed change its own structure. As for the magical steam engine required for the power armor, it could be replaced by infusing it with one's own magic power.

In this way, the purpose of the first experiment has been achieved.

Next, although there will certainly be many more complex problems to be solved, at least the first step from nothing to something has been completed.

Thinking of this, Ivan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. At the same time, he also realized that completing this experiment seemed to be easier than he had imagined.

When making the plan, I clearly considered the upper limit of my ability.

Suddenly, Alvin stopped all his movements, frowned, and a look of deep thought appeared on his face.

He did make plans based on the limit of his ability, but that limit seemed to be his limit before the time travel.

After experiencing the Mysteries of Elrond's Angel of Death and partially awakening the genetic genes belonging to the Titans, shouldn't he hold himself to higher standards, standards closer to perfection?

If my better self were to handle this matter, I wouldn't stop and feel complacent after only achieving the first step.

Although I used the development of Virtual Palladia in my previous life as a reference, my current self had developed well, even quite well. Not only had I laid an exceptionally solid foundation for the future, but I had also prevented a major event that could have affected the entire world of Palladia.

But this does not mean that those evil entities will stop, they will only use more cunning ways to advance their conspiracy.

And time is the most critical point.

"Should I say now..."

Looking at the newly completed gauntlet, although Alvin was a little tired mentally, he still spoke in a half-joking tone, saying something that only he understood in this world.

"Frei, I'm not a human anymore~"

While retaining a human heart, he also identifies with the self that has become a superman.

Ivan suddenly had this realization in his mind, and then the fatigue brought by the previous experiment disappeared like an illusion.

His will became stronger, and his inner understanding of himself became clearer. The constraints he had set for himself were grasped by the young man's hands, and the invisible chains began to crack inch by inch under the power of thought.

The gauntlet made of solid light suddenly dissipated, and Alvin raised his right hand again and pointed at the sky that was temporarily invisible through the ceiling.

At this moment, all the magical knowledge he had been studying hard during this period emerged in his mind, as well as the various information he had obtained in the fully immersive game Paradia in his previous life.

Imagination. The key to freeing ourselves from the constraints we place on ourselves lies in imagination.

Imagination is also the key to breaking through the old and creating new things.

"Light—Recast!"

A large amount of unstable white light suddenly appeared, making the entire laboratory brighter than before. The strong light even made the papers placed in the distance appear burnt.

The next moment, all the energy was controlled by an even more powerful force, which was the core authority of the ancient giant Titan clan, called [Reshaping the World]!

The light still gathered and transformed from empty energy into a solid entity.

Strands, beams, lines, layers, all the bright white light gathered on the surface of the black-haired boy.

At this moment, all the magic power in his body was surging wildly, and the magic power stored in his spine, which served as an additional mana pool, was also flowing into it.

In addition, the golden-red phoenix blood transformed into a flame-like state within the blood vessels, flowing with the incomparably powerful ocean of vitality that had surpassed the physical fitness by thirty points and entered the realm of perfection, and was converted into additional magic power in large quantities.