Star Forge Titan

At this point, His Majesty the Emperor couldn't help but smile completely from the heart, and Galar outside the window also clenched his fists from the heart.

As for Catherine, who was far away in the steel city of Vulcan, the blond, drill-haired duchess couldn't help but sneeze.

"Ah—choo—!" Catherine rubbed her nose and looked confused.

"What's wrong? Have you caught a cold?"

Chapter 114 The Hunt is Over

The demon with many tentacles was actually just a human cultist.

The evil rituals held in the manor magnified the twisted beliefs in his heart. Through this, the power or more accurately the influence of the evil god caused a huge change in his life form.

Although the existence of the Wall of Sighs blocks the possibility of evil gods directly releasing their divine power, their existence itself is a kind of power, a kind of information that contains power. When the belief in evil gods reaches a certain degree of purity, cultists and corrupt elements will be able to receive some information through the Wall of Sighs.

Then, individuals whose willpower is insufficient to withstand the power contained in the information will be forcibly twisted into demon-like beings.

However, this is a kind of degraded and uncertain random transformation, which will not make them become exactly the same as the real demons in hell. At best, it is just a distortion and mutation in the eyes at the physical level.

Only a few fallen people who can accept and understand that information can use it as a basis and, through progressive demon-ascension rituals, gain power almost identical to that of a real hell demon, or in other words, become a real hell demon.

But even if the mutation only occurs at the physical level, it can sometimes cause considerable damage.

Especially large individuals like this that rely on specific rituals to further intensify the degree of distortion.

"Tentacles and supernumerary secondary sexual characteristics are basically distortions caused by the fourth erroneous existence." The white-haired paladin, the commander, made a calm judgment.

Although the anti-demon weapons they carry can cause targeted damage to the enemy, the current situation is still in a balance.

Because the demon's recovery ability was astonishing and its size far exceeded that of a typical target, the Paladins of the Temple of Knowledge, who were carrying out the capture plan, did not carry any special equipment to inhibit the Hell Demon's self-healing. Their swords were standard models, so for a moment they could not find a way to completely kill it.

Moreover, this capture operation has failed. The real high-level corrupt elements have obviously moved away early, and the demon left behind is essentially just a trap.

Therefore, the Paladin Commander decided to take advantage of this incident to train the new recruits in the team.

Seemingly tired of fighting with the nimble paladin, the twisted demon covered with tentacles and indescribable things looked outside the manor.

Although nearby residents had already begun evacuating before the mission began, the size of this demon meant that it could move a distance that others would need to run for a long time to reach with just a few strides.

In other words, this demon could easily catch up with the residents who had not yet had time to evacuate completely.

"Strike hard! Buy time for the civilians to evacuate!"

The commander of the Paladin team fixed her eyes. Her rich experience in demon hunting allowed her to immediately judge the demon's plan. Although it was a pity that she could not use this time to continue training new recruits, she still decisively issued the order to attack.

The three paladins holding anti-demon swords immediately increased the frequency of their attacks. Known as Vanguard Paladins, they not only had a higher extraordinary rank than ordinary paladins, but also mastered superb sword skills.

The pain caused by the paladin to the demon and the subsequent pleasure temporarily diverted its attention, but this obviously could not last long, because even the vanguard paladins had limited physical strength after all.

However, the senior Paladin who is the commander has the ability to make the final decision.

"Number IX Nochilu, restrictions lifted."

The number also represents the strength ranking within each batch of Paladins. Therefore, a Paladin Vanguard with a single-digit number naturally possesses more power than other Paladins.

Pure white curved horns longer than those of the three vanguards grew from the Paladin's forehead. The rapidly increasing magic power in her body caused her silver hair to float upwards automatically without wind, and the red light emanating from her eyes was as bright as a torch.

The strong magical light continued to gather along the handle of the Morning Star towards the hammer head covered with spikes. The resulting magical pressure immediately attracted the attention of the large demon.

But when it turned around and tried to break away from the vanguard's entanglement to attack the Paladin Commander, it was too late.

Waves of magical power, surging violently like flames, converged on the Morning Star held in the Paladin Commander's hand, making the originally metal-forged hammer head look like a small burning sun, continuously emitting strong white light in all directions. In the center, a digital emblem similar to the Vanguard Paladin's sword seal could be vaguely seen.

"Hah!" With a roar of anger, the Paladin Commander suddenly disappeared from the spot.

The next moment, accompanied by strong wind and loud noise, she appeared above the giant demon's head.

The falling Morning Star Hammer was wrapped in layers of ice as it fell, just like a thorny frozen asteroid, and it hit the demon's head, whose outline was almost unrecognizable, in an instant with lightning speed.

The regenerative power was not able to repair the damage this time. At least one-third of the demon's head tissue exploded instantly. The splattering blood and flesh accompanied by the broken ice were like a scarlet hailstorm, filling the area within hundreds of meters with a pungent smell of blood.

Such a heavy blow immediately caused the large demon to fall down with a scream, its tentacles of varying thicknesses dancing wildly and disorderly, and its swollen and fat body twitching violently.

Although it has a twisted nerve perception that can transform pain into pleasure, such a strong impact, even if it is transformed into pleasure, is like a thunderbolt, making this large demon unable to recover in a short time.

The three vanguard paladins immediately seized the opportunity. They leaned forward as if they were about to fall, and sprinted quickly, dragging their astonishingly large anti-demon swords to a position close to the head of their hunting target.

Then, the three paladins simultaneously struck a peculiar posture of exerting force. They raised their greatswords high above their shoulders until the tips of the swords completely touched the ground.

Just like the Meteor Hammer combat skill released by the Paladin Commander before, this is a skill that is difficult to use in normal combat because it requires about two seconds of magic power accumulation.

But at the moment, the large demon was in a state of confusion and almost fainting due to the damage to its head, which created a very good output opportunity for the three vanguard paladins.

Two seconds passed quickly, and the large demon's head was only half-repaired. The damaged brain tissue made it impossible for its thinking ability, which was almost non-existent, to recover at all, while the vanguard paladins had already swung the greatswords in their hands to fight against the demon.

With exaggerated gestures as if they wanted to throw away the sword holders as well, they swung the greatswords that had accumulated magic power to the peak and were already flashing with strong white light. The swords of astonishing size violently tore through the air with their blades, making a loud noise like the roar of a dragon, and then smashed down heavily!

Yes, that could no longer be called a slash from a sharp blade, but rather a furious smash from a blunt weapon!

a bit!

Twice!

Three times!

The big swords that fell one after another were like three heavy hammers, directly crushing the entire head of the large demon. The residual power even tore apart a lot of flesh and blood on its upper body!

The scene suddenly became extremely tragic, with red blood splattering radiating outwards and scattered everywhere. The entire manor seemed to be filled with a rapidly spreading red blood mist, dyeing everything a faint scarlet.

The commander, the Paladin, raised the shield in his hand upon seeing this. One of the magic gems embedded in the center of the shield immediately exploded, and the strong white light released from it enveloped the entire manor. Immediately, an extremely sharp scream was heard in the air. It was the twisted soul escaping from the severely damaged flesh.

The magical impact containing strong positive energy caused the twisted soul to dissipate before it could turn into an evil spirit.

It was not until this moment that the senior Paladin, who was the commander, breathed a sigh of relief.

Putting down the heavy shield in her hand, she shouted to the other paladins:

"mission completed!"

"The hunt is over!"

The young paladins couldn't help but cheer, and even the three vanguard paladins smiled.

Then, regardless of the filth caused by the demon's flesh and blood on the ground, the paladins formed a circle and half-knelt, and began to silently recite prayers in praise of the ancient god of wisdom.

Gradually, as the prayers continued to be chanted, a circle of faint white light slowly rose, originating from these white-haired, red-eyed paladins.

As soon as the polluted and twisted demonic flesh and blood came into contact with the light, it immediately turned into ashes and pure water without impurities, as if it was forcibly decomposed and reduced to harmless substances by some invisible tiny existence.

The light continued to spread until it enveloped the entire manor. Before long, except for the flesh and blood corpses left by the large demon, even the remaining demonic aura in the air was purified.

At the same time, the warm and bright white light like the sun also makes the female paladins who are praying silently look more dignified and sacred, which makes people admire them.

Conrad, who saw this scene from a distance, couldn't help but sigh in amazement:

"Tsk tsk, professional, that's what you call professional. I wonder if our Linde can also find a group of beautiful girls like this to form a formation for the military parade at the end of the year." His Majesty the Emperor slapped his thigh repeatedly and said happily:

These words made the guards who had been staring straight ahead couldn't help but look at him in surprise.

"Rather than confronting Elrond's massive mystical monsters head-on, I think this is a wise move that will earn praise from the vast majority of Linde gentlemen, as it is a super-large local decisive battle weapon that can calm the people's concerns."

"No, Your Majesty, that will only make your reputation worse." Galar said bluntly:

"Impossible." Conrad waved his hand violently.

"My reputation couldn't possibly get any worse."

Galar was stunned for a moment, then he used all his will as a third-level warrior to hold back from roaring out loud the complaints in his heart.

You! Don't be so confident in yourself in a place like this!

Chapter 115: God's True Blood

The dark wind flowing in the night sky of the capital is just a slight sound coming from a distant city to the whale fall ruins research base far underground in the steel city of Vulcan, and it cannot cause much obvious impact for the time being.

More importantly, since the last successful experiment, Christina couldn't wait to replace a group of drivers and conducted another comparative experiment on the activation of the Giant God Soldier.

In a sense, this test was a success, but it did not successfully activate the Giant God Soldier, but rather verified the protective function of the special driving suit on the "Knight".

When the assimilation reaction exceeded the safety threshold, the first thing to be damaged was the safety device on the driver's suit. However, this bought the command center valuable time to deactivate the Giant God Soldier, suppress the activation of the True Blood, reseal the Divine Remains, and most importantly, rescue the pilot. This was truly a cause for celebration.

"What on earth could have gone wrong? Why is there such a huge discrepancy?! The machine didn't even move, so why did the assimilation reaction speed increase so quickly?"

Christina held her head and spun in the air, muttering resentfully.

"Is the consciousness synchronization technology not perfect? ​​Try to improve it?" a researcher asked tentatively:

"Not in the short term." Christina immediately denied it.

"Until we make a breakthrough in ruins excavation, it will be extremely difficult to further improve our consciousness synchronization technology with our current magical engineering technology. You see, we are like a monkey who found a steam gun. Although we know how to pull the trigger to use the weapon, we don't understand why a simple pull of the trigger can kill the enemy."

"Bang, just like this." Christina made a shooting gesture, hanging upside down and said self-deprecatingly:

By the way, as a Crown Mage, her skirt is naturally affected by magic in perfect sync, so there will definitely be no such thing as something that goes against the image of a lady.

"Improve the seal control device related to the Divine Remains?" Another researcher made an uncertain suggestion from another angle:

"It makes sense, but it's not very likely either." Christina held her folding fan against her forehead and shook her head helplessly.

"This outer layer is made entirely of the divine metal Orichalcum. We have almost no way to modify it. The existing seal control device is made using secret treasures discovered in several other whale fall ruins. It is also the part of the structure that cannot be improved at this stage."

"Don't the young knights have enough backbone? We need to give them more backbone! Double the training time tomorrow!"

Armstrong snorted as he spoke, and stood there, posing like he was temporarily muscular in a bodybuilding competition. His originally well-fitting uniform began to make a ripping sound as if it was about to fall apart.

Honestly, he probably just wanted to lighten up the rather heavy atmosphere, but this was clearly not the right time to joke.

"Shut up!" Christina roared, and swung the folding fan-shaped staff in her hand forward.

“Wait a minute, I just, ma’am, don’t aa ...

Facts have proved that the magic released by the Crown Mage, even if it is just the hands of an ordinary wizard, its effect is definitely not ordinary.

The invisible hand formed by the force field easily threw the guy who didn't understand the atmosphere of the scene or understood it too well, backwards.

Baron Armstrong's strong and powerful body was like a muscular baseball, flying far backwards along the door of the command center that had suddenly opened. Even the screams from his mouth produced a Doppler effect due to the rapid movement of the sound source.

On the other side, Alvin, who had watched the entire process, coughed lightly, then quietly put down the thick stack of information he had just read.

As the equivalent of a next-generation fighter test pilot in his previous life, he now had far greater authority than an ordinary trainee. Therefore, in order to better offer advice as a pilot with firsthand experience, he was granted access to some information related to the Colossus.

On the one hand, Alvin was finally able to read information about the operating principles of the Giant God Soldier.

On the other hand, you won’t know until you see it. It’s shocking to see that these three earliest produced Giant Gods are completely different from the Giant Gods he has in mind in some aspects.

Although the basic structure and general operating principles are relatively consistent, the key parts used inside the body are completely different.

If I were to describe the specific surprises in detail, I would probably have to stand and talk for three days and three nights and still not be able to finish.

But to put it simply, the research institute used a secret treasure discovered from the Uranus civilization as the core of the humanoid weapon.

In the subsequent mass-produced versions of the Giant God Soldier, only about 10% of similar things will be used, and the rest will be replaced with substitutes imitated by Lind using modern magic technology.

This is the 'divine skeleton', or rather, the divine skeleton framework.

The unearthed treasure, codenamed "Remains of God," takes the form of an enormous human skeleton.

But unlike ordinary skeletons, it is not a simple supporting structure, but also has many functional components with unknown principles. It is the most critical component to support the movement and combat of the Giant God Soldier, and even gives people a vague feeling of being alive.

Although Alvin knew about the existence of this thing in his previous life, he even once suspected that it was simply a skeleton left behind by the Titans.

But after learning some real information about the Titans, he was certain that it was definitely not the skeleton of the Titan left behind in the mortal world.

Because real Titans aren't necessarily as massive as those in myths and legends. Only when they activate their Colossus form will they transform themselves into unimaginably massive energy bodies through complex mechanisms based on their core talent, [Reshaping the World].

But even if a Titan were to be defeated in battle in its giant form, its life form, closer to energy than matter, would simply dissipate completely into the world along with itself, transforming into the dancing basic magic factor - Mana.

Therefore, he was sure that it was not the 'skeleton of a giant god', but something left over from the Uranus civilization, or a tool they built for some purpose.

In the last experiment, because Diana was present and there were other people watching, Alvin did not have the opportunity to synchronize his consciousness and explore in depth the relevant information about the Titan or Uranus civilization remaining in the remains of the god. He only roughly browsed some of the surface information.

As for the specific contents of the things hidden deep inside, he would have to find an opportunity to board the Colossus again to find out.

But there was one thing Alvin was very sure of.

Those skeleton-like structures made of azure Orichalcum are tools that take a lot of time to make, even for Titans.

Putting aside the fact that the indestructible Orichalcum was already extremely precious, the 'true blood' contained within it was a substance that only Titans could obtain, and the assimilation reaction emitted by the Colossus, similar to the light of [Reshaping the World], was based on this substance.

In the information obtained by Alvin, the so-called "real blood" was described as follows.

When the world was born, from that pitch-black dimension that even the wisdom and eyes of humans and gods could not penetrate, the umbilical cord blood belonging to the world flowed out. It was the ultimate creation, the precious legacy flowing in the body of the Titan, and the ultimate destruction that symbolized the death of the previous world.

In response, Alvin just sighed secretly.