Star Forge Titan

But they shouldn't have any intentions against them. After all, an ordinary team like them doesn't have anything worthy of being coveted by someone with such power.

Maybe after this adventure, everyone will go their separate ways.

"I think we can give it a try. It's best to leave here as soon as possible. Those monsters don't look like ordinary beasts. Perhaps they have a division of labor similar to that of ants. If that's the case, the trouble in these ruins may be even greater than we imagined."

Ivan quickly expressed his judgment.

Upon hearing this, before the others reacted, the half-elf wizard immediately frowned.

As a wizard with rich knowledge, he has realized the profound meaning of the other party's words.

"Let's go, let's leave here first." Kalani spoke first.

"I think so too." The orc nodded.

"I second the motion, but we need to make some preparations."

Under the questioning gazes of the others, Lilim chuckled and took out a bottle of mint green deodorant and began to spray it everywhere.

Afterwards, with a series of "meep, meep, meep" calls, everyone in the adventure team quickly left the corridor.

Not long after they left, a large number of parasitic beasts emerged from the depths of the corridor. They were covered with hideous shells, and most of them were black and brown. A few of the stronger-looking ones had yellow and black tiger stripes.

But even the elite insect beasts with tiger stripes all over their shells will actively make way for another monster, and even appear very fearful.

It was a huge monster that was over six meters tall and could not fully enter the corridor for the time being.

Although it does not have the exaggerated large mouth that occupies one-third of the body of ordinary parasitic beasts, the sickle legs growing in the front of its body are wider and sharper, and the wide back shell covered with thorns makes it look as domineering as a crab.

The huge, unknown monster stretched out its neck, and the rows of breathing holes on both sides of its head kept contracting to inhale, but in the end, because of the strange smell in the air, it couldn't help but shook its head violently like a human sneezing.

Then, the huge monster let out an angry roar on the spot, like a defeated dog in a state of impotent rage that had not gained anything.

On the other side, Ivan and others who followed the cats and bugs out of the corridor also encountered some unexpected minor troubles.

"...That's true." Lilim's eyes twitched.

"I guess even our mini chef can't get through."

The orc looked at his broad chest muscles and couldn't help but slap his forehead.

The expressions of the others were equally strange.

Because they all saw that groups of cats and bugs were leisurely taking small steps, following a square passage surrounded by metal grids close to the ground, and passing safely under the constantly rotating gear machinery.

The advantages of these little guys, such as their low chassis and small size, were clearly demonstrated at this moment. No matter how high-speed gears and machinery were spinning around them, they couldn't even cut a single hair of theirs.

Alvin also felt speechless, because above the grid passage that was exactly in proportion to the catworm's body, he saw a metal sign marked in ancient Norse with a few very simple and clear words written on it.

"Maintenance Department dedicated employee passage..."

Chapter 43 Hidden Passage

"There must be other passages. It's unlikely that these little guys could have created such an exaggerated ruin by themselves."

Andre made this judgment based on the experience of a seasoned adventurer.

"Indeed, let's look around. Perhaps there are clues to other passages nearby."

Ivan nodded slightly in agreement.

"Hmph, then it's my turn." Lilim said confidently:

Come to think of it, as a professional thief, how could she not know how to find hidden passages in the ruins.

The thieves here do not refer to those rats who are good at stealing, although they generally understand this technique. It is mainly a positioning of the distribution of functions of different personnel within the adventure team.

It usually refers to those special experts in the adventure team who are agile, good at using various small props, and proficient in the arrangement and cracking of many common or rare mechanisms and traps.

Among the tracker team, Lilith is an expert in this area.

Several people dispersed and used their own methods to search for possible secret passages.

Seeing that they didn't follow in, the white cat meowed a few times in confusion, then followed Ivan stupidly.

After being rescued, the cat became particularly close to Alvin.

"Heh, little guy, let's form a temporary team."

As he spoke, the black-haired boy put the cat bug, which was not much bigger than his palm, into his shirt pocket. It was smaller than its peers and was perhaps still a cub that had not fully grown.

On the other side, other adventurers have begun looking for a passage.

The orc sniffed constantly, his sense of smell being more acute than that of many races.

The barbarian orcs living on the desert border are particularly good at finding targets by smell. The best among them can even find water sources and oases within a large area around them by smelling the moisture in the air.

The wizard Kalani cast a spell to enhance his vision. Combined with the excellent natural vision of a half-elf, which was not much worse than that of an elf, the dim environment in front of him could not cause him much trouble.

Compared to these two gifted companions of different races, Andre's actions were much more ordinary.

Relying on his experience as an adventurer, he wandered back and forth in some places where secret passages might exist, trying to use the old method to find the possible secret passages.

As for the team's expert Lilim, she very skillfully took out a hammer head and a wooden handle from a row of waist bags hanging around her waist, and connected the two items to each other, turning it into a small hammer that was easy to carry.

Then, the halfling thief took out a hollow metal tube with different sizes at both ends from his waist bag. It looked a bit like a horn, with one end big and the other end small, and the overall shape of a cone.

Lilith placed her ear against the smaller end of the hollow metal tube and pressed the other end against the wall.

Then, she gently swung the small hammer in her hand, rhythmically hitting the nearby walls and the ground.

At the same time, the halfling thief's ears moved, listening carefully to the echoes of the hammer hitting the walls and the ground.

So professional...

Looking at his companions' behavior, Alvin couldn't help but sigh.

In the game, he certainly has a lot of experience in exploring ruins.

However, as the tough guy who specializes in fighting in the guild, the task of exploring the dungeon is often given to the thief player who is better at this.

As for his responsibilities as a powerful party member, where does he usually go? Which boss does he kill? How does he kill this boss?

Simpler and more straightforward parts like this.

As for the puzzle part, he usually won't take the initiative to intervene until his other companions are tortured by the mazes and puzzles designed by the game company and cry out for help like Nobita in the wild.

This is respect for the experts, not laziness.

Of course, he'll be happy to step forward and solve puzzles when asked.

So, Alvin wandered around the surrounding area while playing with the cat with peace of mind.

As an old player in the game in his previous life, Alvin could recognize that this relic had a very typical style of Giant Kingdom ruins.

Although the various reliefs and murals decorating the walls had become faded due to the ravages of time, he could still recognize some familiar style features.

After going through so much, Alvin is no longer the ordinary boy who was a little flustered when he first arrived.

Although he had not seen the most direct information about the relationship between giants and Titans, he had a rough guess.

The giants in the world of Palladia should be an extraordinary race trained or specially modified by the Titans to increase their own strength.

It is also possible that, precisely because they are artificial products transformed by external forces, the giants' powers gradually become erroneous due to inheritance, just like a program that develops bugs after running for too long.

If this is true, then the Titans' technology can definitely be described as god-like.

Because now, thousands and millions of years later, some humans who only have weak giant blood at the level of a few gene fragments will show dominant genetic characteristics that are stronger than ordinary humans in terms of body size, strength and magic resistance.

The giants who initially received the Titan transformation would even immediately master a certain degree of extraordinary power after the transformation, and would continue to grow stronger like growing trees.

Because of the heritable modifications from the Titans, their bodies are much stronger than naturally evolved species. Even the vacuum environment of the universe cannot kill them immediately. This can be seen from the strength of the remains of the former second-generation giant, Akkad.

The most important thing is that the giants also have the special ability to cultivate a second body.

This is a large, non-daily-use body designed for combat and various tasks.

The powerful body can efficiently complete various construction tasks.

In battle, they will also deeply integrate with their second body in order to exponentially amplify their original extraordinary power, revealing exaggerated power that is enough to change the terrain.

Although it is not clear why the Uranus civilization established by the Titans suddenly fell into silence.

But the giants who served as their assistants and helped them transform the world and fight against unknown enemies obviously obtained some technological heritage from the Titan civilization.

In addition, there was the previous communication across time with the founder of the Giant Kingdom, the Eye of Prophecy - Ishtarli.

Alvin was certain that the ruler of the Giant Kingdom was the last remnant of the Uranus civilization.

As for why the ruins of the Giant Kingdom appeared in the desert.

It is possible that during the heyday of the Giant Kingdom, the center of the kingdom established by the giants was not in the cold north, but in the warm east where the silent desert was located.

So, if this was once the center of the giant kingdom, why is it now such a harsh desert?

Alvin's intuition told him that the truth of the matter might be very shocking.

Just as he was pondering the history shrouded in mystery, Lilith finally made a discovery.

“I found it! (o?o?)”

The halfling jumped high and waved his hands to signal the other companions to come over.

"There's a hidden door here!"

Chapter 44: Scenery of Cat Country

Following the direction pointed by Lilith, everyone realized why they didn't discover the door at the first time.

The reason is very simple, even enough to make people wonder if they were drunk and actually ignored such an obvious door.

That door…

Very big.

So much so that at first glance, most people of normal size would think it is a wall, and would not think in the direction of "this is a door".

"What a blind spot in thinking." Rubbing the cat bug in his hand, Ivan said with some surprise:

"A gate of this size is indeed the remains of a giant." Andre shook his head helplessly.

Even an experienced adventurer like him didn't notice it. Obviously, experience cannot be fully trusted.

"Occasionally, a fat rabbit pops up in an unexpected place." The orc shrugged and said an orc proverb that expresses the meaning of "an unexpected surprise."

He also understood why he hadn't smelled anything unusual. Originally, the orc had intended to use the strange smell carried by the air flowing through the crack in the door to find another possible entrance. But that would require getting close to the crack first.

I kept sniffing the door, but naturally I couldn't smell anything unusual.

The half-elf wizard next to him also held his forehead in shame. This time, his behavior was on the same intellectual level as the orcs.

Staring at the door, no matter how good your eyesight is or how many strengthening spells you cast, you can't find the difference in the point where the door touches the wall.

Seeing such a staggeringly large door, Ivan finally understood a question he had previously raised. The cats and bugs in the maintenance department could enter through a dedicated passage, but if this department also had giant employees, how would they enter the office?

The answer is simple, there is another door.

It's just that this door is unusually large for ordinary people.

The passage door, as wide as a wall, was locked tightly. Fortunately, after discovering the existence of the door, Lilith continued to find a mechanism similar to a keyhole.

The door had been significantly damaged due to a lack of proper maintenance. Through the several large cracks in the outer shell, the halfling thief intended to try to disarm the mechanical lock inside and open it in a more normal way.

It would take some time for Lilith to unlock the door, so the other people who had nothing to do just started chatting casually.

"It seems that the reason those little guys were not eaten by the other group of ferocious guys is obviously because they have such a safe shelter." Ivan said with emotion

"That's what's going on. They don't look like the type that are good at fighting." The orc stretched his neck and glanced at the small animals in his teammates' hands with a look that made the cat and cat bug's hair stand on end.

The same goes for cat-worms, which can't fight or escape. Besides using rock fragments to disguise themselves as giant monsters, they can only weave a cocoon and deceive predators by saying "you can't see me."

The reason why these artificially modified organisms that are not adapted to the natural environment have not fallen into the situation of extinction is naturally because they have such a safe house.

The metal door made by the Giant Kingdom is not as easy to break through as the previous corridor. In the area where the cat and bug special passage is located, the mechanical structures that have been running continuously for thousands of years are enough to crush all those who dare to break in into dumpling fillings.

"Hmm, it seems to be stuck." Lilim's eyes suddenly widened and she made a frustrated sound.

She gripped the lock picking tool she took out from her multi-functional waist bag tightly, but found that although she had clearly identified the parts that opened the lock, she was unable to pry it open at all.

"Let me do it." Alvin took the initiative to speak.

Throwing the white cat-worm that was curled up in his hand because of fear of the orcs to Lilim, he stepped forward, grasped the lock picking tool that had been inserted into the gap of the mechanism, and then gently applied force as if breaking OO broken ice in half.

Click, the sound of machinery turning was heard, and the door that had been closed for who knows how many thousands of years was opened.