Star Forge Titan

He had vaguely guessed something.

"It will only get more exaggerated~"

Christina stood with her hands behind her back, still smiling.

So, the two of them left the R&D department one after another.

Chapter 100: The contract is established?

What Alvin gave was actually just a direction.

Or, call it a simple technical guide to the next generation wide-area-view cockpit.

The now finalized experimental mass-produced magic mecha, the Iron Cavalry 1886, can already use magic machinery and observation magic to synchronously project the images captured by the external observation lens on the crystal screen installed in the cockpit, but the size and number of the screens obviously limit the driver's field of view.

Considering that the curved crystal screen has not yet been invented, even Alvin cannot directly build a higher-level spherical skylight cockpit.

However, by splicing several flat screens together, at least the effect of a second-level wide-area viewing cockpit can be achieved.

In fact, this is not difficult from a technical point of view. It is purely a transformation of ideas. As long as we liberate our minds, we will naturally achieve technological progress.

As for why Alvin made such a choice, it was a conclusion he came to after rational thinking.

Although he was the first in the last selection, in order to further ensure that he could become a Giant God pilot, he decided to put in more weight, and this was one of them.

In addition, although the wide-area perspective cockpit technology can reduce the difficulty of operation for the pilot to a certain extent, it will not be so exaggerated as to affect the current relatively balanced international situation.

That's why it's said that this is the future technology that Alvin carefully selected to "spoil" others.

Christina's subsequent performance also made the black-haired boy vaguely realize that he was very close to the expected top-secret project - the Giant God Soldier Project!

In the corridor, Christina was floating in front. Yes, she was floating in the air without touching the ground.

Taking into account the relationship between her height and stride length, when Christina needs to move quickly, she does not walk or run like an ordinary person. Instead, she chooses to use the great wizard's superb spellcasting skills to allow herself to float in the air and fly continuously with very low energy consumption. The distance from the ground is generally maintained at a height that is roughly eye-level with her companions.

This way of moving made Alvin look sideways frequently, because he had many similar scenes in his memory, such as a certain master in the Star O War, a subsidiary of a company that cannot be mentioned and has a powerful super-extinction law department, and the old magician grandmother who was born in the long-eared tribe on the moon in the Light O Messenger.

Huh? Do I have some attributes that are duplicated with someone else?

Oh, anyway, the sense of déjà vu is just too strong.

Ivan thought to himself with a sigh, and his overly direct gaze also made Christina aware of it. So, the director, whose appearance remained forever at the age of twelve, shook his skirt, turned around and flew forward, while holding his folding fan to his lips and asked with a smile:

"Any questions?"

"No, not at all." Alvin shook his head decisively.

"I just miss you a little." When saying this, the black-haired boy's expression was not false at all, so much so that Christina could not find a reason to be angry.

The meaning of these words might be misunderstood by the director who looks twelve years old.

After all, flying wasn't something most transcendents could do. Anyone who could manipulate flying magic as freely as he did was at least a powerful spellcaster who had completed the Path of the Fire Sword and achieved soul awakening.

Being able to know such a person, perhaps the identity of this black-haired boy in front of him is not just an apprentice of a retired alchemist.

However, it doesn’t matter. These are things that the intelligence department needs to pay attention to. I am just a pure scholar.

Chatting casually, the two quickly walked through the corridor and took the elevator to an office deeper in the underground headquarters.

When Ivan entered the office, he found three familiar faces already waiting. Diana, dressed in black trousers and a white shirt, stood elegantly by the bookshelf with a faint smile on her face. Katherine, who was standing side by side with Diana, whispering quietly. And Rimore, with his blonde hair slicked back, kept his back straight even when sitting on the sofa.

In addition, there are three classmates who are also students of the first batch of the Magician Program.

While Alvin was greeting the others, Christina had already flown behind the desk and landed.

Then, she coughed softly to draw everyone's attention to herself.

"Everyone, you will be participating in the New Era Institute's most confidential research project. Now is your last chance to opt out."

Diana hesitated for a moment, but after she stole a questioning glance at Ivan, the silver-haired girl remained silent after receiving a positive answer.

As for the others, they remained silent, apparently they were all very interested in the so-called top-secret project.

This is especially true for Alvin, whose original purpose was to do this.

"Well, it seems everyone has made up their minds. Then, let's sign the contract."

As she spoke, Christina waved her folding fan and summoned out of thin air a piece of parchment covered in words written in golden ink, with the holy emblem of the Temple of Light in the lower right corner.

Golden ink is most likely a magical ink made by mixing in mineral materials containing positive energy from the upper plane. Using this ink to write a contract according to a fixed format can summon the Discipline Celestial Clan to notarize it after all the people have signed it to ensure that the content is fulfilled.

The holy emblem of the Temple of Light indicates that the Discipline Celestial Clan that conducted the notarization is affiliated with the God of Light Jupiter, and also indicates that this contract is a formal contract notarized and guaranteed by the Temple of Light.

Later, Alvin also noticed that the language used above was ancient Saga, which is the predecessor of the current common language of human countries, Xuma. It is an ancient magical language in which even the pronunciation and written text have magical influence. Writing the contract in this language can further strengthen the bondage.

The content of the contract mainly concerns confidentiality and is written very directly without any vagueness or ambiguity. It is a very standard formal confidentiality contract.

So, everyone signed their names one by one. Alvin paused for a moment when signing the contract. His experience as a mortal in his previous life made him subconsciously overlook one thing.

That was the characteristic of Titan blood being excessively strong in various aspects. He was suddenly unsure whether the name 'Evan Elian' would cause any anomalies when signing the contract. Furthermore, in a sense, this name wasn't his real name as the one who possessed the transmigrating soul, at least not his full name...

Oops, now was not the time to hesitate. To avoid doing anything that might arouse others' suspicion, the black-haired boy quickly wrote down the name 'Evan Elian' with a natural expression.

Christina took the parchment with everyone's signatures and examined it briefly. When her fingers brushed over the names written by everyone, each confirmed real name would light up with a faint golden light, and the name signed by Ivan was no exception. This made the boy who seemed indifferent secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

After confirming that everything was correct, the director recited the words in ancient Saga to finally activate the magic contract.

“AggregatioMentium (A contract is formed when there is consensus).”

The next moment, all the texts lit up with golden light, and the shadow of an angel holding a scale appeared above the contract. After nodding to Christina, the crown wizard, the angel grabbed the parchment and turned into a stream of light and disappeared in the room.

At the same time, a circle of runes written in ancient Saga language appeared on the second joints of the index fingers of the students who signed their names. This circle of lines, shining with a faint golden light, was imprinted on the skin like a fine tattoo, and it took several seconds for it to completely disappear.

The triangular area formed by the index finger, thumb and tiger's mouth has a very important meaning in mysticism. The contract that leaves a mark here is obviously of a very high level.

"A first-class holy contract produced by the Temple of Light." Christina turned around and nodded to everyone.

Without further ado, everyone present understood what she meant.

The sacred contract guaranteed by the Temple of Light is a first-class high-end product, and naturally it is not something that can be easily violated.

However, when golden rune rings appeared on the index fingers of others, although a circle of the same halo also appeared on Ivan's fingers, the problem lay in the last step of imprinting.

The scenery rune ring generated based on the sacred contract seemed to be blocked by something and could not be imprinted no matter what.

This made Alvin very upset, but fortunately everyone was watching the changes in his hands, so he couldn't do anything to avoid attracting unnecessary attention.

Finally, the rune ring vanished into thin air like the others, but it didn't melt into the skin. Instead, it vanished with a crisp, almost self-destructive sound...

Seeing this scene, Alvin subconsciously widened his eyes. He once thought that the Discipline Angel who had just left would immediately turn around and fly back to check the integrity of the contract.

As a result, he never saw the angel return until Christina told everyone the level of the contract.

What is this? In this river? Was there negligence? Or do underage Titans lack the authority to sign contracts?

Ivan looked at his fingers in confusion until he heard Catherine's voice at the door, then he came to his senses and followed everyone.

Although I don’t know what happened, at least there was no accident.

The black-haired boy could only comfort himself in this way.

Just like that, under the personal leadership of Director Christina, everyone boarded a medium-sized magic car with all-black windows and began to head towards a top-secret laboratory somewhere deeper underground.

Chapter 101 Crystal Courtyard

The magic weapon in the box is still sleeping peacefully.

The sword flashes when it is unsheathed, destroying cities and countries.

———By a bard who survived the Tide of Bones.

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There was a heavy atmosphere in the air, and no one was in the mood to chat.

The black magic car drove quietly in the spacious internal passage of the underground headquarters, and it took about fifteen minutes before it stopped on a flat ground.

Through the brown window glass, Ivan saw a neat circle of circular marks on the ground beneath the car. Furthermore, Director Christina hadn't asked anyone to get out of the car, so it was clear that this wasn't the end of the journey.

Sure enough, when the magic car stopped, the ground below immediately changed.

Everyone could feel the car body shake slightly, and the downward-concave mechanism closed like a clamp, fixing the four tires of the magic car.

Then, the circular trace on the ground began to descend. It turned out to be a large elevator that could move a medium-sized magic car up and down.

Ivan approached the window curiously, but it was pitch black outside, with only the occasional flash of a long-lasting magic lamp illuminating the surrounding rock walls.

Relying on his good vision, he discovered that this large elevator was actually surrounded by rock walls, and the passage it passed through was forcibly dug out from a very thick rock layer!

In the brief moment when the outside light shone into the car, Alvin and Catherine exchanged a quick glance, and both saw a solemn look on each other's faces.

Considering the current level of magic technology in Lind of the Central Empire, creating such a channel would definitely require the use of expensive high-level magic.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to do this without affecting the 'natural' hollow structure above by relying solely on machine excavation or relatively low-cost magic blasting.

This shows how much Linde invested in this underground base. Such an astronomical cost is not a small amount even for a country.

Therefore, in this huge underground cavity, there are obviously benefits that are worth Linde's huge investment, and that benefit may be related to the top-secret project they are about to participate in.

The elevator continued to descend, and its depth soon exceeded the height of the underground headquarters of Truth Rock, which meant that everyone had entered an area deeper than the underground headquarters.

Sunlight could no longer penetrate here through refraction, but the surrounding darkness was gradually receding. Instead, a large artificial light source emitted a wide range of illumination.

Through the light with a faint orange-red hue, like the warm light emitted by the setting sun before night falls, Alvin saw the ruins again.

However, this time he didn't need to hide carefully, because he didn't sneak in quietly, but was invited in by someone.

So, should I act righteous?

Alvin thought with some amusement.

"Welcome to the Whale Fall Ruins Excavation Center." At this time, Christina, who was sitting in the front row, turned around and motioned everyone to look outside.

Just like what Alvin had seen before, the special metal building, which was very different from the architectural styles of modern countries and even most ancient civilizations, still remained tilted and half buried in the soil.

If you look closely, you will find that its height is even higher than the height of the underground cavity itself, because in addition to the exposed parts, a large part of the building is still under the soil.

The other buildings built by the New Era Research Institute around the ruins have a very distinctive modern style, which is the minimalist style that has become increasingly popular after Lind launched the Magic Revolution in the Central Empire.

The square, dark grey buildings have almost no decoration on the exterior. They are built side by side and look like an extremely thick city wall that surrounds the entire ruins.

The largest building among them has a semi-underground structure, and its volume is estimated to be not much smaller than the pyramid-shaped underground headquarters of Truth Rock above.

From this we can see that the actual volume of the entire underground cavity is much larger than expected.

So you only need to use the first level absolute forbidden magic when you self-destruct?

Ivan thought silently:

"Everyone has taken the course on the history of the development of magical technology, right? I'm honored to tell you that this is the birthplace of magical engineering."

Christina's voice rose slightly. Even as a crown mage, she couldn't help but feel excited when talking about this matter.

"God is above!" Some students couldn't help but exclaim.

"So, the Star Furnace was discovered here?" Ivan asked in surprise.

"Yes, it seems that your teacher also said something that is not written in the textbook." Christina smiled and continued to introduce the ruins.

"The ruins unearthed in the underground cavity are very special. If you have any knowledge of architecture, you will find that the architectural style of these ruins has little connection with most known ancient civilizations. Moreover, it is made of a very special alloy. We even found mithril in it."

The director's words stunned everyone present, and they couldn't help but look again at the huge ruins building in the distance that looked like a small hill.

In comparison, the circle of houses built later around it is just a circle of low fences, which in a sense only highlights the size of the former.

And such an astonishingly large ancient relic is actually made entirely of metal. How many mines must have been dug out to complete the construction of this building!

Furthermore, its construction materials actually contained mithril. Even if the actual content was only a fraction of the total mass due to the alloy, considering the overall size of the ruins, it was still a terrifying number.

Even if all the mined and unmined mithril in the entire Palladia world were added together, it might not reach this number...

Then, here comes the problem.

What powerful civilization created this ruin? How did it manage to build it on such a massive scale? Why is this civilization completely absent from history books?

The thoughts that came one after another made the young people look shocked. Even Rimore, who had kept his back straight and sat in an aristocratic posture because of the presence of Christina's aunt's aunt (grandmother), looked like he couldn't close his jaw at this moment.

Seeing this, Christina couldn't help but smile.

Decades ago, when I and the other members of the expedition team learned the results of this analysis, we all seemed to have had similarly amusing and exaggerated expressions. It really makes me... nostalgic.

After introducing the general situation of the ruins, the vehicle continued to move forward and was followed by several inspections. Even with Christina present, it still took a lot of time.

Moreover, seeing the magic mecha soldiers standing on duty outside with weapons in hand, the students became more deeply aware of the high level of confidentiality of this relic.