Star Forge Titan

The door of the inn was quickly opened by the impact of the zombies, and the piled up debris was scattered all over the floor. The large zombie, whose body was big enough to take up the entire door, jumped into the inn, opened its claws and let out a loud roar towards the sky.

This monster was 1.95 meters tall, much taller than an ordinary human. Its pale skin was cracked everywhere, revealing patches of bright red, swollen muscles, making it look particularly hideous and terrifying.

As a result, the zombie had just roared halfway when the kerosene barrel hanging above the gate fell over and poured the entire barrel of cold kerosene on it, even pouring a lot of it into its mouth.

The monster immediately stopped roaring and wiping the kerosene off its face.

When the ghoul opened its eyes again, it found a person taller than itself standing in front of it. It even had to raise its head and look up at the other person to see his full appearance.

For a moment, as if feeling an indescribable threat, the zombie, which had little intelligence, opened its mouth but could not make any sound.

Evan, with an expressionless face, did not hesitate at all. He held the sword high in one hand, and then simply chopped it down vertically. The blood-stained Elrond's northern-style longsword was as swift as thunder, leaving a perfect silver arc in the air.

With the sounds of flesh and blood separating and bones breaking, the tall zombie was neatly cut in two.

The sword stopped just one centimeter away from the stone floor, then rubbed the stone slab lightly, creating a trail of sparks and setting the bisected ghoul covered in kerosene on fire.

The flames devoured the flesh and blood, making a sizzling sound. Everyone in the inn took a deep breath in unison. Only then did they realize that everyone had subconsciously held their breath.

Through the open door and the light from the burning zombies, Alvin could finally see the scene outside the hotel door.

Thousands of zombies surrounded the building, and their eyes flashing red light looked like an endless ocean. Even the tough people of Elrond felt a chill when they saw this scene.

"Oh, great god Odin! What kind of monsters are these!" The small businessman holding the meteor hammer screamed in shock, and the pair of fox ears on his head stood up as if they had been electrocuted.

"...Damn it, we're in big trouble now." The innkeeper muttered to himself in shock, while tightly gripping the long-handled battle axe in his hand, as if this could bring him some comfort.

"Why are there so many?" Even Alvin was surprised to see so many zombies.

This is Elrond before the rise of the nations. Could it be that the School of Undead has already begun experiments with such dangerous things?

Alvin quickly thought of something and shouted to the others in the hotel.

"There's something wrong with these zombies. Don't get bitten by them. Everyone, get ready for battle!"

"Don't get bitten? Is it a poisonous monster? Got it!"

As expected of the simple folk of Elrond, although Alvin did not elaborate on the reason, they were not surprised by this order.

There are many kinds of dangerous wild animals and monsters in Elrond, many of which are poisonous, and even those carrying curses appear from time to time.

Seeing the first zombie that rushed into the hotel fall to the ground and turn into combustible garbage, the group of zombies outside did not feel frightened. Instead, they all rushed towards the door that was knocked open.

After becoming undead, these monsters have long lost all human emotions, unless they can become high-level undead with complete alienated souls.

The next second, several reinforced windows in the hotel lobby broke one after another, and the people who were holding the windows were knocked away by the wooden boards and fell to the ground, screaming in pain.

Obviously, there wasn't just one ghoul, but multiple ghouls! This also showed that the number of zombies out there was far greater than imagined, and it was definitely not a scale that could develop naturally.

Facing the horde of zombies pouring in, Alvin stepped forward and delivered a powerful kick.

The combination of his innate divine power and the increased strength brought by the ritual transformation made the ghoul closest to him involuntarily transform into a flesh and blood cannonball with this kick, crashing straight into the crowded pile of zombies outside through the open door of the inn.

The zombies that were knocked away were like pins hit head-on by a bowling ball, wailing helplessly as they flew in all directions.

Inspired by this, everyone in the hotel also stepped forward bravely.

The small businessman with a pair of fox ears hit a zombie's head accurately with a meteor hammer. When the zombie was dizzy, several pitchforks and spears pierced its body at the same time, and lifted the powerful monster directly into the air. Although it was showing its fangs and claws, it could not hurt anyone.

Then, the Centaur demon who was good at pulling goods roared and swung his scimitar vigorously, and it took several consecutive hits to chop off the zombie's head.

At the same time, Alvin also took action repeatedly, quickly eliminating several other zombies mixed in the group of zombies.

Under his leadership, the Elrond people in the inn relied on the terrain advantage to finally block this wave of attacks.

At this moment, there was a sudden dull sound of a heavy object hitting a wooden board from the second floor, followed by a series of screams.

Afrediya, who was comforting the others, had a slightly changed look in her eyes. She heard the crash coming from the outer wall. Since the windows on the second floor were small, there was no need to worry too much about monsters getting in through the windows. However, the outer wall of the second floor made of wooden boards was not very strong, and the stone tiles on the roof were not a very strong building material.

"Don't be afraid, everyone gather together and surround the children." The eldest princess shouted calmly in the face of danger.

The women and waitresses who had been in a panic finally regained some composure. They nervously grasped their daggers and knives and formed a circle, protecting the few children in the innermost circle.

Afrediya leaned over to the window and looked out, and was surprised to see that several zombies were using the zombies beside them as ammunition, throwing them towards the second floor of the hotel.

The previous few collisions were the sounds made by zombies crashing into the outer wall.

After realizing that there must be a necromancer controlling the situation outside, Afrediya quickly began to channel her magic power and chant spells. She knew that the zombie swarm with the necromancer could threaten the originally safe second floor of the inn.

We must do something to stop them! Even if it means exposing our own identities!

The magic light gradually gathered along with the eldest princess's complicated and orderly movements, and the exclusive skills of the second-level barrier mage were about to be activated.

Suddenly, there was another loud sound of tiles breaking from the roof, and a zombie unexpectedly broke through the roof and fell from the sky onto the second floor of the hotel!

The women did not scream immediately. They were also Elrond people. After being frightened once, they mustered up the courage to face the threat. All kinds of debris were thrown at the zombie that was paralyzed on one side of the body, and daggers and short knives were pointed at each other.

As the others held back the zombies, Afrediya opened her eyes and finished casting the spell.

The magic light in her hand spread outward in a spherical shape, and the wall of position quickly covered the entire second floor of the hotel.

Then, Afrediya raised her hand and pointed at the zombie with a broken lumbar vertebra, and recited a compressed and simplified spell.

"π?γο?"

The condensed blue magic power quickly solidified into an icy spear, whistling through the zombie's head and destroying it.

At this moment, Ivan, who was still downstairs, did not rush up in panic after hearing the noise. He had confidence in Afrediya, and he also knew that the open door was the key point that must be defended at the moment.

As expected, he soon sensed a magic barrier rapidly opening up, directly covering the entire second floor of the inn.

But out of caution, Alvin did not completely ignore it.

"Boss, take a few people up there to check out the situation." He said seriously to the innkeeper. Judging from the state of maintenance of the weapons, there was a high probability that the other party had been an adventurer or served in the military when he was young.

"Okay, follow me." The innkeeper didn't waste any words and walked up to the second floor quickly with a few low-level demons of medium build who were holding long swords.

Then, Alvin quickly issued a series of orders.

"Send a few people to the back door to check. The rest of you, form a circle and maintain formation! Arrange your long weapons at intervals, with your short weapons sandwiched between them, with the edges of your weapons facing outwards!"

The Elrond people, who had been somewhat confused before, quickly formed a semicircle, with their sharp weapons pointing outward like the spikes of a hedgehog. Among them was a hunter holding a bow and arrow who climbed directly onto two stacked tables, with his bow and arrow drawn, ready to provide support at any time.

After forming a formation, the zombies pouring into the hotel were eliminated more efficiently, but people's physical strength was also rapidly consumed.

Ivan's eyes focused, realizing that blindly defending was not a good idea. He made a quick decision and quickly rushed out of the formation. He killed several zombies with two swords and opened a path.

"We can't just hold on here. I'm going to go find that necromancer. You guys should strengthen your defenses and don't let the zombies get in!"

After taking two steps, he turned back and pointed to the ditch that had been dug in advance and filled with kerosene and continued.

"If all else fails, light a fire and be careful not to get burned."

After saying that, Alvin rushed into the dense pile of zombies without looking back.

He raised his hand and thrust his sword into the head of the zombie in front. The sharp sword, coupled with the tremendous force, split the human skull in two. But this zombie was just a drop in the ocean compared to the huge number of zombies around it.

What a pile of monsters! I sighed in my heart. The monsters rushing in from all directions were like a wall with no gaps.

But it doesn't matter, because he doesn't need the space anyway.

"Get out of my way!" Alvin drew out his sword and slashed horizontally from left to right.

All the zombies within his range were severed like trees cut by a circular saw. The bisected zombies fell to the ground in a chaotic mess, their blood and viscera pouring out, turning the ground into a muddy, dark red swamp.

But at the same time, Alvin heard a crisp sound of metal breaking in his hand, and the blood-stained sword broke into three pieces.

Oops, he forgot that this sword was not the high-level holy sword with an equipment level of 'Immortal' that he was used to using in the later stages of the game.

How could an 'ordinary' iron weapon withstand such damage? Moreover, the sword was already full of gaps after a long battle, and after two such rough blows, the fact that it broke before it was halfway through could be considered to be of excellent quality and well-maintained.

Looking at the zombies swarming towards him again, Alvin dropped the broken sword that had completely turned into scrap metal. He had no intention of retreating, but took another step forward.

The heavy footsteps stepped on the ground, and the surrounding small stones were shaken up.

The azure blue crystal between the eyebrows, which was usually hidden under the skin, protruded outwards, shining with bright magical light together with the pair of ice-blue eyes.

[Core·Reshape the World] is activated!

Dark golden light streamed into the ground beneath his feet, and the rocks in the surrounding soil flew toward Ivan like a flock of birds returning to their nests. Pieces of rock joined together, converging from bottom to top, on top of him.

Broad shoulder armor, a breastplate with a geometric angle, and a heavy helmet with a single horn.

In the end, the protection from the earth completely transformed into a complete set of extremely thick rock armor, wrapping the Titan descendant's strong body that was more than two meters tall.

And that's not all. In Ivan's hands, two balls of swirling debris gathered. Like fast-growing stalagmites, they turned into two two-handed giant swords nearly as tall as a person, held in his left and right hands respectively.

Ivan took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. The white mist from the corners of his mouth quickly dissipated in the cold winter wind. From a distance, it looked like sparks and gray smoke overflowing from the corners of a dragon's mouth before it exhaled.

"Huh, even though I've never played this class before, I know dual wielding with Berserk is the perfect Barbarian."

A slightly crazy smile appeared on his face, and Ivan, who had summoned the full version of the rock armor, swung his sword forward with both hands.

The professional talent of [Dual Wielding] makes his left and right hands equally flexible, and fighting with two weapons will not be affected.

At the same time, there was a burning rage that drove the magic power in his body to strengthen the muscles all over his body. The barbarian professional skill [Fury] gave him a double increase in physique and strength.

Although the greatswords made of rock have almost no sharpness, they are more like rock clubs that look like swords than swords.

However, the two weapons that looked like big swords but were actually big clubs still had extraordinary effects when hitting the zombies. They did not simply split the monsters in two like the long swords before, but smashed the targets into pieces with a powerful force full of cruel and violent aesthetics!

The flying broken bones and gravel hit the surfaces of other zombies like shotgun shells, turning them into slow-moving hornet's nests.

The occasional zombies that rushed up to block his way did not cause much hindrance to Alvin. He knocked down any zombie that dared to show its head with one sword, leaving a huge crack from the head to the lumbar spine, completely destroying the evolved undead with supersaturated and excessive damage.

If ordinary zombies are cut down and crushed wheat, then zombies are probably the small dead branches that make the lawn mower make a few clicking sounds.

At most, it would cause a few cracks in the rock club, but it would not cause any more trouble. Even these cracks would quickly recover under the flow of dark golden light generated when [Reshaping the World] was activated.

Moreover, no matter whether they were zombies or evolved ghouls, their attacks had no effect on the incredibly thick rock armor.

Even if the sharp claws of the ghouls broke, they would only leave a few scratches on the rock surface. As for the bites of the zombies, it was useless even if they were stuck on the armor and gnawed hard.

Alvin was like a heavy battleship riding the wind and waves, accompanied by surging waves of flesh and blood, forcing a new route through the dense and strange sea where zombies gathered.

"Damn! What is that!" Kelu, who was hiding in the darkness in the distance, pressed the telescope hard against his face in horror.

When he saw the magic barrier open, he was overjoyed and believed that he had found the eldest princess who was hiding her identity. In this area, only the eldest princess Afrediya, who was a barrier mage, could open such a large magic barrier.

But when Kelu saw the figure who created the rock armor and the greatsword out of thin air, his heart skipped a beat.

Although he was far away from the light shining from the hotel door, the dark environment made it impossible for him to see clearly what the other party was doing, but he could clearly sense the zombies and ghouls falling in groups.

"Dwarf Stoneshaper? No! How can there be a dwarf over two meters tall?" Kelu felt a chill. Wasn't it said that the eldest princess only had a temporarily recruited barbarian by her side?

Damn it! That guy Khayon is plotting against me again!

He had clearly guessed that the man must be hiding something, so he prepared so many zombies to be lenient with the enemy. Their consumption alone could kill an ordinary second-level warrior, but...

That's right, don't be nervous, calm down quickly. Even if you have some special abilities, you are just a low-level warrior.

I am a noble and intelligent spellcaster, a second-level spellcaster who spent over a decade to achieve my advancement! There is no way I could lose to a barbarian who only knows how to wield weapons!

Besides, the surrounding environment is so dark that the opponent will not be able to find me in a short time. As long as I use a large number of zombies and ghouls to exhaust his physical strength, I can easily deal with him like I did with the swordsman before.

Don't panic, it's okay, you can do it!

Damn Khayon! I want...

What Koru Wejes, who was trying hard to prepare himself mentally, didn't know was that Kayang, whom he cursed in his heart, was not just watching as he did before.

A magic with extremely weak magic fluctuations and completely harmless to the recipient was quietly released by Khayon onto Kelu.

Firefly Tail Light, this is a simple spell modified by Khayon. The firefly's light organ grows on its tail, which means that as a light source, the light is usually not noticed.

The original version of this spell was called 'Thieves' Candle', a special lighting spell that only teammates could see. However, Khayon reversed some of the spell's formulas, making it so that only the recipient could not see the light, hence the name Firefly Tail.

At this moment, a green light suddenly appeared above Koru Wejes's head, which was very eye-catching in the darkness, but he himself was completely unaware of it.

Ivan, who was still moving back and forth among the zombies, quickly noticed the rather obvious green light in the distant forest because of the darkness around him. Afrediya, who was observing the scene outside through the window on the second floor of the hotel, also noticed this scene.

Following the light, both of them saw a guy holding a telescope sneaking around here.

The Light of the Traitor? Wasn't this a spell invented by Khayon? Ivan pondered rapidly in his mind.

Wait, so that guy is also a member of the Undead faction, and Khayon hid nearby and tricked him? Tsk, it seems like another traditional performance of infighting among the Undead faction.

After coming to a conclusion in a split second, Ivan swung his sword with both hands simultaneously, repelling the surrounding zombies. He then dropped his rock sword and pressed one hand against the ground, lifting it upwards to pull out a thick stone spear.

Ivan's legs were spread out, one in front and one behind, and his whole body was bent backward like a drawn bow.

The gaming experience that was quickly transformed after actual combat allowed him to rush forward two steps without deliberately aiming, exerting force on all the muscles in his body at the same time, and hurled the heavy stone spear at the enemy with all his strength!

The stone spear rubbed against the air and made a sharp sound. The huge force made it move forward quickly in a nearly straight trajectory, comparable to the huge crossbow arrows shot from the city guards' crossbows.

Hearing the death-like roar, Kelu Weijies hurriedly wanted to cast a spell to stop it, but a counter-spell from the direction of the inn interrupted the process.

Before he could make any other move, the stone spear shot out and pierced through the man's chest in an instant!