Star Forge Titan

Over time, even a large sandworm will collapse from exhaustion due to excessive blood loss.

Then, it's time for the sandworm hunters to reap the spoils.

Because the number of catches is so small, the skin, fat, muscle and even internal organs of each sandworm can be sold at a very high price.

Moreover, because of the rich magic power in the sandworms, all these materials are classified as magic materials, which makes the prices rise further.

Not to mention the unique scent gland on the giant sandworm that can extract the mysterious "Fragrance of Time".

So, a sandworm is almost a living gold mine that can breathe and move.

Although he had never tried hunting sandworms himself, Alvin listened with great interest.

This gave him the same feeling as when he listened to his seaman friends talk about their work experiences.

Compared to the unpredictable ocean, the desert also has its own mysteries.

Just how to accurately identify one's own location in a constantly changing desert is enough for ordinary people to spend a lot of time learning.

"Oh, I understand." Alvin looked carefully at a small wooden stick stuck in the ground, and then began to distinguish the directions of east, south, west and north according to the method taught by the adventurer.

After a moment's thought, he connected the two marks on the sand, took the middle point as the median, and then raised his hand and pointed to one side.

“This is the east side.”

"Yeah, that's right... It's okay, you're a newbie and learn quickly." Lilith was stunned for a moment, then patted Ivan on the shoulder.

Although the other person was half-kneeling on the ground, as a halfling she still had to stand on tiptoe to pat his shoulder.

Noticing this, Alvin thought that he should find some materials to repair the diplomat's ring if he had the chance, otherwise he would indeed encounter some unfavorable situations.

With his current height, unless he activates his innate ability of [Perfect Appearance] all day to reduce his presence, he can forget about sneaking in or something like that.

Besides, the method of reducing the sense of presence is not 100% effective. My current proficiency in using this skill is not high enough, and I cannot reduce the sense of presence while keeping the surrounding magical environment in the most natural state.

For high-level transcendents, the sudden loss of a piece in their perception range is itself an anomaly.

Speaking of which, the reason why the diplomat's ring is ineffective is actually due to its own reasons.

The further awakening of his bloodline resulted in a greater control over his magic power. Simply put, this powerful control over his own magic power began to extend beyond his body. Therefore, it became more difficult for external magic power to affect his body. The continuous spatial transfer also caused some damage to this lower-level magic item.

Fortunately, the power of the Crown of Time that Frey infused into it has not been lost, which makes it possible to repair the diplomat's ring. We just need to find some suitable materials to replace the damaged parts, and the ring should be able to return to normal.

As for the other props that might be needed during this process, they were no problem at all for Ivan. Just kidding, the descendant of the Titans who held the power to [Reshape the World] was himself the most sophisticated processing instrument.

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It seems that after this mission, I have to go to the magic item market in Ismailia City to look for it.

Just as they were thinking about it, the group had already arrived at the ancient river channel.

Looking at the riverbed, which had dried up and revealed a unique landscape, Alvin couldn't help but marvel at the power of nature. Even the gentlest droplets of water, after gathering together, could carve out such a wide path through the solid ground.

According to data collected by adventurers from the Adventurer's Guild who specialize in topographic mapping, the ancient river is over 6,000 kilometers long. If it had not dried up, it could be said that this river is the longest river in the world of Palladia.

Judging from the existing traces, the ancient river basin once covered an area of ​​280.2 million square kilometers. The widest part directly formed several large lakes, and there were a large number of lakes of varying sizes scattered downstream near the estuary.

You can imagine what a beautiful scene it was.

But at this moment, the completely dried-up ancient river channel is like a huge scar carved on the earth, exuding a desolate and sad beauty in silence.

Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath, even the adventurers who were not seeing the ancient river ruins for the first time.

"How spectacular." Ivan muttered to himself:

"Yes, this is the beauty of the Sea of ​​Dust." Andre couldn't help but lower his voice.

At this moment, Alvin suddenly noticed that the ground was shaking slightly, and the amplitude of the vibration was increasing over time.

Gradually, even the camels the adventure team was riding sensed something was wrong and began to stamp the ground restlessly.

On the contrary, the strange horse Shanwang tilted his head, twitched his ears, and still stood there stupidly like a mountain.

"Something's wrong here!" the orc shouted immediately, but his tone contained surprise and uncontrollable ecstasy.

"Could it be that..." The half-elf mage's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood what his teammate wanted to express.

"Ah!" Lilith screamed, and her already bright eyes widened like two gold coins.

"Today may be the first time I can see a giant sandworm!!!" Even the middle-aged Andre couldn't help but get excited.

"Get ready to hunt!" the captain of the tracker team shouted, and everyone started taking out various tools.

Sharp javelins were taken out in bundles and placed in an open wooden barrel, and special dyeing devices that looked like footballs were hung in piles in net bags.

All kinds of tools were spread out on the ground, and everyone had an expression of great excitement on their faces.

When the shaking of the earth became like an earthquake, the sand dunes in the distance began to collapse and change, and cracks as thick as canyons appeared on the surface of the dried-up ancient river channel.

It was not until this moment that the members of the Tracker Team finally realized that something seemed to be wrong.

Even if it is a sub-adult or even adult sandworm, it shouldn't cause such a shocking noise during its "floating" period, right?

The next second, the earth collapsed!

For a moment, this adjective was the only one that came to Alvin's mind.

It was as if a basin appeared out of thin air, and a large area of ​​land several kilometers away suddenly sank, and a large amount of sand and dust was raised in tens of seconds.

Then, with a deafening roar like hundreds of whales singing together, the dust rushed straight into the sky.

That sound alone stirred up a hurricane on the spot, creating a small sandstorm with its own power.

However, this swirling sandstorm did not last for more than five seconds before it was defeated by a huge figure rushing out from the center.

It was like a mountain rising from the ground, with two long claws at the beginning, which looked like the bowsprit at the front of a huge sailing ship, but its size was many times larger than the latter.

Then, accompanied by dust rising into the sky, a huge head covered with scars and grooves, reflecting a bright luster like metal, was suddenly exposed to the sunlight.

The head alone is as big as a mountain, and the body connected to it is comparable to the supertankers that Alvin had seen in his previous life, and there are several of them connected together!

A supertanker is a huge ship with an unimaginable carrying capacity. People usually call supertankers with a total carrying capacity between 16 tons and 32 tons large tankers, while supertankers with a carrying capacity of more than 32 tons are called ultra-large tankers.

These ships are often over a quarter of a mile long, or about four hundred to five hundred meters.

The behemoth before us, the part that popped out of the ground alone was as big as a super-large oil tanker, and half of its body was nearly 500 meters long. This part of its body alone almost completely filled up the wide ancient river channel!

This is an absolute thousand-meter-long legendary sandworm!!!

Bang!

The bucket of javelins that the orc Gaoshan was holding fell to the ground, and the metal spears collided with each other, making a harsh sound.

Alvin glanced down at the length of the javelin, then looked up at the kilometer-long sandworms that still blocked out the sky even though they were several kilometers away.

The stark contrast plunged the Titan descendants into silence.

Everyone in the Tracker Team fell silent.

Then, they all looked up at Andre.

Captain, how can this be so naive?

Chapter 30: Meeting the King

Officially known as the Eratos Sandworm, it is a special creature capable of producing the ultimate fragrance, the 'Scent of Time'.

It is a segmented creature with a body similar to that of an earthworm, but it has a hard shell on its body and sharp chelicerae on its head.

Its oral cavity has a special shape and is generally circular. There are multiple rows of circularly distributed internal teeth in the esophagus. Through the interlaced movement between different rows of teeth, it can easily crush the prey and rocks swallowed into it.

There are complex organs on both sides of the sandworm's head that integrate multiple sensory functions. They look like large round gems embedded in them. They can sense light, vibrations and magic power, and do not look like creatures living underground at all.

Sandworms continue to grow in size throughout their lives.

The current maximum observation record is 450 meters, which was witnessed by a legendary adventurer in the desert area, Johnny the Big Sand Crab, 37 years ago and preserved the corresponding magical image.

In addition, according to legends whose authenticity cannot be verified, there are even larger sandworms active in the deepest part of the silent underground.

They are the ancestors of all sandworms and are astonishingly large as moving mountains.

Therefore, it is also called the King of Sandworms.

These giant sandworms, which only exist in legends, would spend hundreds or even thousands of years continuously digging tunnels of astonishing size underground.

Those complex passages intertwine with each other, just like a huge maze buried deep underground.

Every once in a while, rumors of the discovery of the entrance to the maze spread throughout the Silent Desert.

The actual situation needs further detailed investigation.

The above is the sandworm-related information recorded by the Adventurer's Guild - Silent Desert Region Branch.

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Subconsciously recalling the relevant internal information of the association, everyone in the tracker team was stunned where they were. They even forgot to escape.

The orc Gaoshan still had his hands raised, his muscles tense and in a state of shock. The half-elf mage's distorted face was completely stiff, as if he was wearing a mask.

Lilim's twin ponytails stood up slightly, like a frightened kitten with its fur standing on end.

As for Alvin, he gave up thinking, or rather, he fell into thinking.

A sense of déjà vu came over him, causing him to stare intently at the giant sandworm in the distance that was as huge as a mountain.

This was the first time I had seen this kind of creature, but why did I feel such an inexplicable sense of familiarity?

Could it be from Ishtarli's memory?

Thinking back to the conversation that took place across a long period of time, and the huge amount of information that was instantly transmitted during the brief contact, Alvin couldn't help but feel confused.

Sandworms, life forms that don't look like natural products, might actually be related to the Giant Kingdom thousands of years ago, or even to the even earlier Uranus civilization created by the Titans...

Just as he was thinking hard, Andre's dry voice sounded in his ears.

"The largest recorded size is 450 meters? It's said to be the largest sandworm recorded in the past two hundred years? If that's the largest, then what is this... what is this?"

As he said this, the middle-aged adventurer's weathered square face was twitching constantly.

"Yes, it is jumping. This, um, sandworm, should be much longer than 450 meters." Lilim stammered.

"Perhaps, this is the legendary... King of Sandworms!" Andre struggled to squeeze out a word from between his clenched teeth.

According to normal logic, as the captain, he should have called everyone together and run away.

Even if the newcomer had performed exceptionally well before, even if his team had successfully captured several juvenile sandworms (considering the rarity of sandworms, this was already considered a veteran among sandworm hunters; after all, most sandworm hunters would retire after catching a large one).

But the existence in front of him was so bizarre that it was beyond the ability of ordinary people to handle it.

Even if a sandworm that is over a kilometer long just rolls in place, the aftermath is estimated to be enough to cover several square kilometers of surrounding land.

Facing a terrifying monster of this size, with less than half an hour to evacuate, running or not, or having a mount or not, wouldn't really make much of a difference...

To monsters that are over a kilometer long and over a hundred meters in diameter, humans are as small as a grain of sand. A single breath can crush them in an instant as if they were being crushed by a mountain.

Time flows quietly, the desert wind blows up gusts of dust, and the kilometer-long sandworm that exists only in ancient legends whose truth or falsehood is unknown, just quietly maintains the posture of sticking part of its body out of the ground and standing upright.

Suddenly, Alvin noticed that on the sandworm's body, which was as broad as a hillside, pieces of shells as big as sails seemed to be slowly opening.

The open shells are like towering buildings, pointing themselves in the direction of the sun. The surface does not reflect any light and looks pitch black, as if it has completely absorbed all the sunlight that shines on it.

It looked like a huge flower with a very strange shape that had emerged from the ground.

Soon, fine luminous lines appeared on the black shell of the Sandworm King, which looked like circuit boards with conductive circuits engraved on them.

Immediately afterwards, the giant sandworm's skin and the ground in contact with its skin began to light up with luminous paths of varying thicknesses, like a vine covering the entire ground, extending from the surface straight to deep underground that was invisible to the naked eye.

When the light converged on the surface of the sandworm, the behemoth once again let out an astonishing roar like hundreds of whales singing at the same time.

Along with the sound waves generated by the loud noise, new changes immediately appeared.

An extremely strong magical fluctuation suddenly arose from the body of the kilometer-sized sandworm, which had originally not emitted any magical fluctuation.

Although it was just a simple fluctuation of magical power that did not constitute any magic, due to the interference between the high concentration of magical power and the most basic aspects of the material world, it still had an astonishingly large impact on the surrounding natural environment.

The magical fluctuations mixed with the roaring sound directly set off a strong wind that blew in all directions at the same time.

The sand and dust deposited on the ground were blown high into the air, forming a circular sand wall of astonishing thickness. It began to spread rapidly outward with the kilometer-sized sandworms as its source.

The members of the Tracker Team came to their senses and bent down to resist the impact.

"Newbie, get down!" Lilith only had time to shout before the sand blowing in her face made her speechless.