Star Forge Titan

As an aristocrat with experience in various grassroots jobs, the Duchess is well aware of the Lind nobles' sophisticated tactics in using their privileges.

In this case, it seems that things may really get out of control.

Fortunately, there is still a short time to work hard before the worst situation occurs.

Alvin looked at everyone with different expressions, although he himself had no motivation to intervene in this matter.

But just like the promise the boy made to himself after coming into this world.

He has to do the right thing.

And doing the right thing is, in a sense, also equivalent to—

Don't sit idly by and watch injustice happen!

Under the light, the young man named Ivan Elian showed a heroic smile without any gloom.

"Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to get moving!"

Chapter 131 The Longest Night 1

Later, Catherine rushed out screaming.

The reason was simply that after deciding on their respective tasks, Alvin casually flipped through a page of his notebook...

That night, in a military base near Lutetia, a shocking change was taking place in secret.

There were clearly various checkpoints and surveillance magic, but a young man in ordinary clothes and wearing thick-framed glasses, like an invisible shadow that no one else could see, easily passed through the guards and protective magic and walked into the heavily guarded military base.

"You're truly a young man, aren't you? You're so careless as to leave the military base at this hour. Otherwise, we'd have to put in a lot of effort to stop the pilot from approaching the Colossus." The visitor said briskly, looking at the ancient ring on his hand.

A faint voice came from the ring, which made the young man smile slightly, and then continued to explain in a gentle voice:

"Yes, the authorities seem to have noticed something. However, Master Jaden, there's nothing we can do about it. After all, unexpected circumstances have arisen, forcing me to abandon my original plan and even my years-long position as a full-fledged researcher. I'm relying on fake death to divert attention from myself."

"Fortunately, no one would suspect a dead person."

As he spoke, the young man had already arrived at the weapons storage room inside the base, which was more strictly guarded.

There are more than twenty magic mechas placed here, each of which has the ability to cause chaos in the perfect city - Lutetia, but they are not the young man's purpose.

As he continued walking deeper into the warehouse, the smile on the young man's face grew more pronounced. Suddenly, he stopped and cast his gaze towards a low figure lurking in the shadows.

"What an unexpected meeting. I didn't expect a distinguished lady like you would be on duty here."

"I'm also surprised. I didn't expect that the suspicious person who might invade the base in the message from little Catherine would be a 'dead' person." It was the Crown Mage Christina who slowly walked out of the shadows.

She still looked like a twelve-year-old girl and did not seem threatening at all, but anyone who knew her identity would not think so.

Crown Mage, this title is equivalent to the Grand Mage, meaning that the holder has completed the Path of Fire Sword and become a true transcendent who has reached the peak strength of the fourth stage. Their soul power and complete awakening can even affect the vast space outside themselves.

In the era of the rise of various nations, the fourth-order strongmen can already be regarded as the top group of extraordinary people in the material world.

Even though they couldn't rival the fifth-tier strategic weapons, these powerful transcendents who had earned the title of Crown still possessed the power to destroy cities. If equipped with a complete legion battle group built specifically for their capabilities, they would be a fourth-tier battle group capable of sweeping across Lutetia.

Apart from the effects of its limited land area, one of the proofs of Lutetia's great power is the legion battle group led by a fourth-level crown wizard.

However, facing such an existence, the young man named Joseph did not show any surprise on his face.

"Madam, didn't you receive the invitation from that prince? I heard that he invited all the high-ranking nobles in Lutetia to a banquet tonight." Joseph maintained a gentle smile and asked calmly:

"That old guy is indeed problematic." Christina clenched the folding fan in her hand, and her tone of voice suppressed anger, and she even stopped maintaining her ladylike demeanor.

"Please don't blame His Excellency the Prince too much. After all, he is so old. It is understandable that he does some foolish things, isn't it?" Joseph still had that smiling look on his face, but he had no intention of making excuses for the butcher prince who was not here.

"However, from what the lady just said, it seems that it was the duchess who discovered the anomaly? Ah, it seems I did underestimate those young people. However, no matter how great their potential is, they will have to survive tonight before they can continue to show it."

"What do you mean?" Christina raised her brows and her eyes became particularly sharp.

"It's nothing. I'm just explaining something that is about to happen. If anyone is to blame, they should be blamed for staying in the city tonight..." Before Joseph finished speaking, a strong flash of light erupted in front of his eyes.

Although she looks only twelve years old, Christina is actually a great wizard who has lived for decades. How could she be easily disturbed by such words?

Moreover, no matter what conspiracy the other party has prepared, as long as he is subdued first, his plan can be stopped as quickly as possible.

The strong flash comes from a low-level magic - Flash, but this does not mean that it is not easy to use. On the contrary, due to its lower casting difficulty, the Crown Mage can maximize its special effects.

The burst of bright light temporarily took away the enemy's vision, and then the attack magic released by Christina hit Joseph's position.

However, when the smoke cleared, what appeared was not a knocked-down enemy, but only a dent in the ground.

"Madam, you are so anxious." Joseph's voice came from another location.

Did I see that wrong? Impossible.

Christina was very confident in her perception. In the previous second, both her magical perception and her five senses told her that the other party was standing there.

But now, the young wizard named Joseph appeared in a completely different place.

Joseph pushed up his glasses, his smile remaining unchanged, but the ring in his hand lit up with a strange cobalt blue magical glow.

"Soul power?" Christina narrowed her eyes and guessed the real reason at the first moment.

Although there are hallucinogenic spells or illusion spells in magic that can cause people to misjudge, they are ultimately spells developed by intelligent races after studying the characteristics of magic. The most advanced ones are just imitations of the soul abilities of previous extraordinary people.

There is another rule hidden in this, which is that soul power takes priority over magic power.

Even if the effects are similar, the collision and confrontation between spells and soul abilities will often result in the victory of the latter, unless the former has dozens or even hundreds of times the magic power support, it is possible to offset the latter.

"As expected of Madam Director, you actually guessed the truth of the matter right away." Joseph clapped his hands lightly, without any intention of covering it up.

"A soul power that can cause hallucinations? No wonder you were able to successfully fake your own death and avoid suspicion. So, those events at the institute were also manipulated by you?" Christina didn't continue her attack, but frowned and questioned:

She was not sure whether the other party was really in the position she saw. This was the tricky part of illusion abilities. It would make people unable to fully believe many of the things they saw and heard.

"Yes, to be honest, my strength is limited, and my soul ability is very simple. I can't even protect myself in the form of a super spirit like other extraordinary people, so I can only use some conspiracies and tricks that are not worthy of being shown on the public." Joseph pushed his glasses again, and this action caught Christina's attention.

She stared at the other person's glasses, then said coldly:

"That's your super spirit? You've abandoned even the most basic self-protection ability of the super spirit, but in exchange for a more powerful illusion ability, or even the ability to maintain the super spirit's appearance for a long time. It's an extreme choice." Christina shook her head.

Then, without waiting for the other party to reply, more than thirty glowing spheres shining with bright magical light appeared around the Crown Mage who was floating in the air without touching the ground.

These spheres orbit Christina in complex orbits, providing protection while also automatically attacking any enemies that approach.

“…” The smile on Joseph’s face finally faded.

"Silent liberation, batting game." The young man whispered the name of the other party's soul ability.

The ability to liberate power without reciting soul poems also proves that the other party has full control over their own soul power.

As a renowned veteran fourth-level expert, although the specific abilities of Christina's awakened soul have not been fully revealed, there is still some information about her.

But having intelligence does not mean that you can defeat the opponent, even if Joseph himself has soul power.

"This is really tricky."

According to the plan, the Butcher Prince was supposed to be responsible for holding back the fourth-level strongmen in the royal capital, and his task was to steal and transfer enough weapons to distribute to ordinary fallen people.

With the protection provided by the Butcher Prince's network of contacts and his own special abilities, this task was not too difficult. Then came the climax: Joseph would steal the ultimate magical weapon, the Colossus, which had been transported to a military base near Lutetia for the military parade.

But at this moment, the Crown Mage Christina, who should not be here, added an almost insurmountable obstacle to his mission.

Perhaps just as Joseph had not helped his collaborator conceal his identity before, the other party did not intend to carry out the established plan wholeheartedly.

As both were fallen people, although their personalities, abilities, and other aspects were different, they coincidentally thought alike when it came to scheming against each other.

In the downtown area, the young people who had just started the action unexpectedly saw that the streets that should have been peaceful were now ablaze with flames.

Following this, there were also gunshots and explosions. Two groups of unidentified people were engaged in a fierce battle, and it was a siege battle!?!

One of them had a numb expression, repeating strange prayers, and patches of black material reflecting the firelight could be seen on their bodies. Even more surprising was the fact that they were holding various military weapons.

Moreover, the way these guys moved was very strange. They were as fearless as zombies who were dead but not far from resting. They would break through the defense line set up by the other side even if they had to face stones and knife points. They were simply a group of lunatics who had completely lost their minds.

The other group of people who blocked them were actually all ordinary residents of the downtown area.

They had already skillfully erected barricades on the streets since some time ago, and were now using all sorts of crude weapons and even everyday items to fight against the group of strange people with strange movements.

Because neither side was professional, and one of them was clearly unconscious, the situation was quite chaotic, like a completely disorderly street brawl. From time to time, you could see people throwing down their weapons and tangling with each other.

Of course, what left the young people speechless the most was the short and fat figure standing on the barricade and smashing a clay pot hard at the enemy.

Just a dozen minutes ago, the other party was still chatting with them, but now he was holding a blackened Lindt baguette and knocking down the enemies who tried to climb up the barricade one by one.

"Mammy, didn't you say you were going to the coffee shop on the corner to meet an old friend?" Diana said blankly.

"I guess the old friend is talking about Mr. Patton..." Ivan muttered to himself.

He saw a familiar little Beetle-shaped magic car, ramming into a dozen lunatics. With its clearly welded-on horns, it looked like a runaway snowplow, clearing half the street.

Relying on his eyes that could directly observe magic, he even saw that Old Barton, who was sitting inside, was shining with magical light all over his body, and he no longer concealed his identity as a superhuman.

"Ah, this..." Catherine stared at the scene in amazement.

In the distance, old Patton jumped onto the roof of a car, pulled out a military sword of the model from ten years ago, and decisively stabbed a madman to death. There was even an old badge hanging on it with a thin silver chain.

"Come on, I'm not old enough to fall apart!" the old man in the brown jacket shouted.

With a sizzling sound, the steam pistol was fired, and old Patton rolled off the roof without hesitation. Then, flames of lead bullets and metal immediately burst out from there.

Although the scene before him was shocking, Alvin was not stunned for too long, because he saw a team that was obviously better prepared and was about to attack the barricades temporarily built by the residents.

Most of the crazy people before were holding cold weapons, but this group of people were clearly holding military magic steam guns!

"Diana, you and Katherine go move the children. Kayon, let's go!"

"Hey, hey, hey, why do I have to go too?"

Looking at the tall figure rushing forward, Khayon pulled out two dueling wands and hurried to catch up while complaining.

On the other side, Diana also dragged Catherine back to the orphanage. The children had been awakened by the explosion long ago, and were now leaning on the window with their eyes wide open, watching. As orphans in the downtown area, they were much braver than ordinary children.

Seeing this scene, Diana was both angry and amused, and quickly rushed up the stairs in two steps.

Then, Catherine, who was still a little confused, saw the silver-haired girl, holding one in each hand and another under her armpit, with a group of little kids following behind her running downstairs.

The next second, a little girl sucking her thumb was thrown into Catherine's arms. Although the Duchess had no idea how to hold a child, she still hurriedly helped.

The orphanage's cellar was a hard brick structure built more than a decade ago. It was very sturdy and also stored a lot of daily necessities, including food. So Diana planned to move the children there.

As for Ivan, who had already rushed to the edge of the barricade, the first thing he saw was the black muzzles of more than twenty magic steam guns.

In an instant, there was a loud gunshot, and more than twenty lead bullets, driven by high-pressure steam, tore through the atmosphere with a sharp whistling sound, and hit the tall young man directly with murderous intent full of death!

Chapter 132 The Longest Night 2

As the rifles opened fire, the infantry steam cannons that were pushed to the front of the barricade also roared.

This is an old infantry gun with a caliber of 95 mm and a barrel length of more than 1.5 meters. Although its power cannot be compared with heavy artillery, its relatively light weight and easy-to-move size make it very suitable for battlefield environments with complex terrain such as streets.

Moreover, even though it is small in size, it is still an absolute cannon, and its power is even comparable to the magic released by extraordinary people. Earlier, it was a magic weapon used by Lind of the Central Empire to make up for the limited number of mage troops.

If you are hit by a solid shell fired by an infantry gun, even leaving a relatively intact body will become a luxury.

however--

"For me now, if it's just infantry artillery, it's not enough."

In the smoke and dust, Ivan's voice, as cold as steel, rang out.

When the dust settled, the young man raised one hand and pointed it at the muzzle with his five fingers spread out, silently watching the cannonballs and lead bullets blocked by the Sun Shield in front of him.

The former was like hitting an indestructible wall of steel, bouncing back and collapsing half of a simple two-story building on the street. The latter was simply sucked into the air by a translucent shield emitting a faint white light and trembled continuously.

The shield was removed, and the lead bullets hit the ground with a crisp tinkling sound.

At a glance, Alvin saw the difference between these newcomers and the madman. Although their eyes flashed with ferocity, they were not crazy, and their movements were very smooth, obviously not under the same control as the madman.

Then, their origins are worth exploring in depth.

The prerequisite is to first deal with these guys carrying heavy weapons.

With his five fingers clenched, dazzling magical light gathered in Ivan's palm.

Light—Recast!

Pure white armor emerged from the void behind Ivan, and pieces of armor automatically flew forward, chasing the young man who had already stepped towards the enemy, and fixed one by one on his body that was as agile as a cheetah and as strong as a lion.

Ash Armor activated, Lightforge Armor donned!

The battle begins!

Gunshots rang out again, and lead bullets crackled against the surface of the armor but failed to even activate the shield. The armor, which was composed of the plasma light of heavenly fire and the highest purity of ash of annihilation, had extremely terrifying defensive power.