Star Forge Titan

All clues indicate that the mastermind holds a high position in Linde.

The ambitions that the other party desires are obviously not something that can be achieved by power alone.

To the extent that it was even necessary to borrow the power of the evil gods from outside the domain to disrupt the thousand-year-old capital of Lind, the Central Empire, and plunge the perfect city - Lutetia into the terrible chaos tonight.

As for what kind of conspiracy requires the power of the Giant God, this is also information that Ivan and Conrad cannot know for the time being. But as long as they prevent the other party from obtaining the Giant God, it will surely play a great hindering role. After all, it falls into the category of "important props" no matter how you look at it.

Several suspects had slowly emerged in Conrad's mind, but he was unable to confirm them for the time being due to insufficient information.

On the other side, perhaps because he saw that Emperor Lind seemed to have something confidential to discuss, the beautiful young man from Elrond took the initiative to step back a distance, and the court wizard cast the isolation wall spell.

So, Ivan directly said to Conrad:

"Your Majesty, everyone in Linde who can reliably pilot the Colossus stands before you. The most feasible way to prevent the mastermind behind this whole thing from obtaining the Colossus is for us to seize control of it first. That way, no matter what their goal is, we'll have the upper hand."

When the black-haired boy said this, his words were clear and without any hesitation. He seemed to have no selfish motives at all, revealing a pragmatic style that just wanted to solve the problem as soon as possible.

This deeply moved Conrad and he agreed with it. After all, he himself was an extreme procrastinator who would delay things as much as possible, while people always envy and even admire what they don't have.

"Okay, there's no time to think about other more reliable methods now." Conrad rubbed his brows. His rare talent and wisdom allowed him to quickly recognize the current situation and realize that what Alvin said was indeed the most feasible method.

Then, His Majesty the Emperor, who was wearing hollow golden armor, suddenly straightened his back with force. Even though he was wearing armor with locked joints, his whole body made a tinkling sound.

At this moment, Conrad's expression was extremely serious. He said to Ivan in a very serious tone:

"Mr. Ivan Elian, I, Konrad Karl Drusus Carolingian, will now act in the name of the current Emperor Lind..."

Suddenly, the serious expression on the blond young man's face could not help but change, and he showed his usual look again.

"This expression really doesn't suit me." Conrad shook his head helplessly and continued:

"So, as a Lindean who hopes the disaster ends quickly, I implore you to lead an elite detachment to secure control of the Colossus. Your only goal is to protect this city! Please protect my home and the homes of countless Lutetia residents."

"This is a request from a Linde, a Lutetia."

Hearing this, Alvin couldn't help but look surprised.

But at this point, his goal had been preliminarily achieved. He took a subtle look at Catherine, or to be more precise, at something the Duchess was wearing.

Now is not the time...

Alvin shook his head secretly. Although he had his own plan, it was obviously based on not violating principles.

Right now, the key is to find a way to calm the chaos and then deal with the corrupt individuals hiding behind the scenes. As for the rest, we can leave it for later.

After all, what he wanted to do in this life was the right thing, not simply stuffing everything of value into his own pocket.

Thinking of this, Alvin no longer hesitated.

The habits from his previous life prevented him from bowing solemnly to Conrad to show his seriousness like the people in the world of Palladia did.

The tall man with messy black hair like a lion's mane just smiled slightly, then stretched out his hand and shook hands with Emperor Linde, just like two friends of the same age.

"I promise you, but I won't ask for less compensation afterwards."

Conrad was a little surprised at Ivan's performance at first, but then he adapted very well and shook his hand vigorously, winking at him at the same time.

"No problem. The Carolingian royal family's treasury is quite large."

"Also, if what you want is not that kind of treasure, but another treasure of the Carolingian royal family, it is not completely off the table." Although Conrad's expression at the moment was smiling, it was subtle... making people want to clench their fists.

The Duchess, who was commanding the guards, suddenly felt a chill on her back, but then she found nothing.

"Your Majesty, this is not the time to joke." Alvin sighed helplessly.

The emperor's unreliable bottom line always refreshes his judgment, making people wonder if he has no bottom line at all.

"Perhaps the situation at the military base has become very serious. Although Ms. Christina is in charge, any intelligent person behind this would have found a solution to this 'problem' before launching the plan."

"So..." Alvin, who made the above inference, took a deep breath.

"We have to speed up!"

At the same time, Ms. Christina, who Alvin speculated was likely to be plotted against, was indeed being plotted against at this moment.

"You...you are also level four?" Christina, who was being slowly dragged into a space maze by a twisting spell, stared at Joseph, who was standing not far away and seemed to have not moved at all.

In response to her question, Joseph raised his head and gave a flawless, gentle smile, then wiped the ring on his hand.

"No, I just secretly brought a..."

"Good helper."

Chapter 138 The Longest Night 8

"Human, perhaps you should say thank you to me?"

A somewhat weak voice came from the ancient-looking ring.

"Yes, I must thank you, respected Lord Jaden." Joseph said in a low voice, covering the wound on his side.

In the previous fight, although he used his strange illusion to prevent Christina from killing him immediately, after the opponent activated her soul power, those offensive and defensive magic balls just brushed past him and took away two of his ribs and part of his lungs.

Even for a superhuman, this is a very serious injury that can even be fatal.

But at this moment, Joseph just muttered to himself with his eyes blank:

"It's nothing serious, it's just a fatal wound."

Although he was saying ridiculous words, his serious injuries did gradually stabilize, and even his breathing became not much different from that of a normal person.

"No matter how many times I see it, I always feel that your ability is quite strange." The trickster in the ring couldn't help but sigh:

"As long as you believe something to be true, you can transform from a state of illusion, where you don't know what's true or false, into reality. This has already transcended the boundaries of illusion and is approaching some more fundamental ability."

“…” A trace of pain suddenly appeared on Joseph’s face, and the wound that had already stabilized began to bleed again.

"Shut... up..." He shouted with difficulty:

"Heh, the human spirit is still too weak to truly control this ability." Kil Jaden, who was sealed in the ring, sneered, revealing his undisguised mockery.

However, bound by the contract, it did not continue speaking.

Without any external interference, Joseph quickly used his soul power to stabilize his injuries.

Seeing this, Gil Jaden in the ring immediately urged:

"Let's go. Although the library's labyrinth spell has temporarily exiled that woman to another dimension, the temporary strength of the alternate dimension created by the spell is limited. For a Crown Mage, it can only last for a short period of time."

"Okay." Joseph pursed his dry lips and said briefly:

At this moment, the gentle smile of the past was gone from his face.

Walking quickly into the secret hangar deeper within the weapons vault, Joseph suddenly whistled at the three massive machines standing in the darkness. Then, a scorching hound with glowing red eyes scurried out from the darkness. It was Little Q, the man Ivan and his companions had left behind at the base.

"This is the temporary carrier you chose for me? Mortal, you are insulting the great Lord Kil'Jaden!" The demon sealed in the ring suddenly became furious.

"I know that as a subordinate of the Lord of Change, you may hate this canine-like form. But there is no room for choice in the current situation. Please believe that I did not choose a dog on purpose." Joseph curled the corners of his mouth, but what he said sounded particularly sincere.

However, both of them were extremely bad, so his words were naturally met with only a sneer.

But in the end, the ancient ring that sealed the demonic consciousness flew up on its own and slowly landed on the head of the scorching hound. Accompanied by a flow of cobalt blue magical light, Little Q immediately let out a wail and gradually lost control of his body.

"Interesting, a soul I've never seen before. Let's keep it for now. I can study it carefully later." The voice of the Trickster came from the sound-generating device of the Scorching Hound.

"Time is running out. Let's split up. I'll start the white Unit 3, and you'll take care of the golden Unit 1." Joseph didn't care about a mere tower spirit. He immediately pointed at the three giant soldiers standing in the darkness in the distance and said:

"What about the remaining one?" asked the fraudster Gil Jaden as he took action.

"After we activate the machine, we will use the power of the Giant God to destroy it. We can't leave it to others. Although, I don't think those two pilots can survive the plague riot caused by the followers of the Eternal Sore, but just in case..." Joseph shook his head and walked towards the white Giant God Unit 3, Bekas.

After the two sides separated, he suddenly stopped and looked at Kil Jaden who was about to enter the cockpit of another Giant God Soldier, and the expression on his face gradually became cold.

"The Giant God Soldier is not so easy to control." Recalling the relevant memories he dug out from the mind of the young man named Limore, Joseph's words were filled with sarcasm.

"But now that things have come to this, we can't stop." The young man laughed and shook his head.

Just as he was about to board the machine, a loud shout suddenly came from behind him.

"Joseph!"

The young mage turned around and saw a tall figure covered in blood staring at him coldly at the entrance of the armory in the distance.

"Ivan Elian? You finally made it here alive."

Joseph was a little surprised at first, but then he smiled.

"As expected of Mr. Variable. Although this may be the first time you've heard of it, I must admit that you always manage to bring about variables that surprise me."

As he spoke, he slowly turned around and looked at the other person. The magic light above his head, which had been turned on at some point, illuminated the entire hangar, like a pure white world.

"I'm surprised too. After all, no one thought of suspecting a dead person." Alvin walked slowly into the hangar alone.

The road from the palace to here was not peaceful. He chopped down at least twenty hybrid demons along the way, and the number of madmen who were knocked down was too numerous to count, so that his armor was dyed bright red.

"There's no need to doubt a dead person. Unfortunately, the real things you thought you saw were actually just illusions created by information asymmetry." Joseph was not in a hurry to board the machine. Instead, he looked at the other party with interest.

"Is that so?" Alvin frowned and walked forward with a firm step.

"So, the train robbery is also related to you?"

"That's right." Joseph clapped his hands lightly, the smile on his face growing more intense.

"Thinking back, all the changes started with that incident. I never imagined my plans would be disrupted by a small change. Although I tried to forcibly reverse the situation, even the demons that descended later, the most bloodthirsty and warlike Terror Demons, couldn't stop you. So much so that in the end, I had to fake my own death to divert attention."

"This is indeed a development that I did not expect at first."

"It's just like the fate that mortals cannot understand but cannot resist."

"Yes, just like fate..." Joseph sighed and said quietly:

"Fortunately, even fate is not something that cannot be changed." As he said this, his expression suddenly changed, and his whole temperament became weird.

"The plan's ending is still as I imagined. The final curtain will eventually be drawn. The power of the Giant God Soldier is enough to crush any shackles of fate imposed on mortals!"

As he spoke, Joseph suddenly opened his arms and laughed out loud.

The pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose were like a vague shadow, passing through the young man's head and falling to the ground.

Small particles of light emitting psychedelic light continued to float down from above. The glasses fell to the ground with a crisp sound, bounced upwards for a while, and then completely turned into nothingness in the air.

Joseph, who had thrown away his glasses, covered his face with his right hand, then slowly stroked it back. His originally neat hair became messy, making him look wild in contrast to his usual gentle appearance.

"And I, a humble illusionist from an ordinary background, will become a truly great person worthy of standing high above all others. Oh, even a great being that completely transcends the limits of humanity!"

"Destiny? Shackles? What nonsense are you talking about? All I see is the despicable ambition of a selfish person!" Alvin was not disturbed by those mysterious words, and there was always a burning anger in his heart.

How many innocent people have been caught up in this turmoil? How many people will lose their families in this turmoil?

Yes, he didn't know most of them, and those people didn't know him either. In essence, both sides were strangers and unfamiliar with each other. It was very likely that their fates would not intersect until one of them died.

But Alvin was still angry about it because he saw people like him being trampled on and experiencing things that were absolutely wrong and distorted.

But what he wanted to see was definitely not this kind of alien world.

"I can feel that you are angry, but why?" Joseph looked at Ivan with a smile.

As a terrifying illusionist who is good at hallucinogenic spells, his understanding of people's inner emotions is no less than that of the best psychologist in Ivan's previous life, so he quickly realized what kind of mood the black-haired boy in front of him was in.

"Is it for those mortals? Those ordinary mortals? Those mortals who are powerless to change and can only endure the pain silently? Those mortals who will not even frown no matter how many die?"

"Yeah." Ivan answered in a low voice.

"Because, I was once a powerless mortal like them!"

The next second, the black-haired boy suddenly rushed forward, his entire body like a moving chariot! He quickly crossed the distance between the two and slammed down with the hand axe he had been holding tightly in his hand!

The axe blade chopped into Joseph's shoulder with great force, almost splitting him in two!

But as blood splattered, there was no pain on the young man's face, and he still had that strange smile on his face.

"It was a terrible blow, but unfortunately, everything you see now is still not the real scene."

Joseph's broken voice under the axe gradually became blurred. His voice seemed to come from all directions, making it impossible to confirm his true location.

"This is a lie."

“This is false.”

“This is false.”

After three words were spoken, a wave of power beyond magic began to unfold.

Alvin knew that it was the fluctuation caused by awakening and releasing soul power.

Remember, the images you see before your eyes, the sounds you hear in your ears, the smells that fill your nose, and even the touch your skin feels, all external information is being rapidly distorted and transformed into false existence.