Star Forge Titan

At this moment, Alvin's gaze suddenly stopped on a wall in the passage that was covered with insect and beast secretions.

Through the part of the wall that was barely covered, he seemed to see something that looked like words.

Signaling Shanwang to stay alert, Alvin walked to the front of the wall.

The magic power was driven to create a cluster of elemental flames, which quickly dried up the secretions of the insect beasts and fell off, revealing the wall hidden behind them.

After deciphering the content engraved on it, an expression of surprise quickly appeared on Alvin's face, and he exclaimed with a smile.

"What? It turns out we are not the first adventurers to enter these ruins."

There were a few lines of words engraved on the wall, written in a sloppy but vaguely visible handwriting.

At the top of those words is the name of the adventure team they belong to.

Brave team, here we come!

Chapter 74: Wasp Knight

Below that line of somewhat messy carvings, there are several lines of text in different handwriting.

These messages written in the "Xuma language" obviously did not come from the Giant Kingdom period, and were most likely left by adventurers who entered the ruins later.

The first sentence seemed to be carved with a dagger, and the handwriting carried a spirit of advancement and advancement as sharp as a sword.

"I want to become the strongest thief and swordsman!"

Putting aside the thief and the like, the name of the job at the end immediately made Alvin raise his eyebrows.

Oh, the Magic Swordsman, known as the hidden class that is closest to the hero positioning in traditional RPG games.

Not everyone who knows a little bit of magic and swordsmanship can be called a magic swordsman. To give an inappropriate example, the magic swordsman of Palladio is a guy who uses his sword to perform turtle O Qigong.

They can integrate high-level magic into swordsmanship, shorten the chanting, omit the hand gestures, and directly swing the blade while sending special slashes filled with different types of magic power to the opponent's head through the air.

The most crucial point is that the Magic Swordsman is also the profession that is best at inventing extraordinary combat skills in the entire world of Palladia.

Although this profession has extremely strict promotion requirements, every extraordinary person who meets the conditions and successfully advances to the Magic Swordsman can almost be regarded as an extraordinary combat skill with a high probability of reaching perfection.

In other words, apart from a few basic abilities, every magic swordsman has his own unique combat methods.

This kind of character appears at the beginning, worthy of being an adventurer who can enter the body of the Sandworm King.

It was obvious that the members of this adventuring team named 'The Brave' must have been quite powerful, otherwise they would not have been able to break through the magic storm surrounding the Sandworm King, let alone survive in a mobile fortress filled with dangerous insect beasts, or even come to an area so close to the insect nest.

Perhaps, it would be necessary to review the various records about this adventurous team after I return.

However, judging by the age of the handwriting, this team was probably formed a hundred years ago. I hope the guild still retains the information they left behind.

Time is indeed the most powerful force in this world.

With a feeling of deep emotion, Alvin continued to look down.

'Humph, this guy is dreaming again.'

The second line of text was written in beautiful handwriting, with a touch of rounded softness at the end. This style reminded Alvin of Kalani, the half-elf wizard in his team.

However, the other party engraved the text by directly burning it into the metal using magic.

The precise use of magic power and the extreme enhancement of magic are both amazing.

In addition, someone drew a heart around the second and first lines of text. Although there were obvious traces of smearing, the person who smeared it carefully avoided the two lines of text.

This made Alvin, who saw these traces after who knows how many years, couldn't help but smile knowingly, and an expression of understanding appeared on his face.

The third line of text was also carved with a dagger or short knife, but the handwriting was much more sloppy and messy, and even looked a bit like a beginner who had just learned to use the Xuma language.

"I want to be the tribal warrior who gains the most glory!"

As soon as Alvin saw the name Tribal Warrior, he knew that the person who carved the words was most likely a barbarian orc.

Glorious? Barbarian orcs regard a fair fight as the greatest honor, so they often duel with each other, and they also like to duel with others.

It seems that Gao Shan, the gentle and friendly member of the Tracker Team, is indeed an outlier among the Barbarian Orcs.

"I want to create the strongest armor in the world, but only for dwarves."

"I want to open the best restaurant in the Shire and eat my fill every day."

Well, a dwarf and a halfling, standard features in fantasy novels.

Especially the latter dream, which is almost exactly the same as Lilith's. It can only be said that they are worthy of being fellow halflings from the Shire region, and their ideas are the same.

Apart from these optimistic words expressing his own ideals, what Alvin saw next was a passage similar to a suicide note, but not as pessimistic as an ordinary suicide note.

'Hello to the latecomers who read this message.'

"We are a brave adventure team. We stumbled upon these ruins and found some clues to a mysterious underground city. Perhaps the king of this incredibly long sandworm has built his lair there. I just wonder if sandworms, like dragons, would pile up tons of gold in their lairs. I hope they do."

'Sorry, I've strayed off topic.'

"While my teammates and I are proud of this, we must admit that this journey will be filled with various dangers."

"But only those who constantly explore the unknown are true adventurers. Those who come after us, if we fail, please be sure to join us in searching for the unknown treasure hidden beneath the earth!"

From these records that were left behind who knows how long ago, Alvin could feel an exceptionally positive aura. He seemed to have traveled through time and saw the magic swordsman who left the message giving him a thumbs up with an extremely bright smile on his face.

As for the outcome of this adventure, he, standing on this side of time, has no way of knowing it at this moment.

But since there are no stories related to this circulating in the Silent Desert now, they must have failed.

Pity……

Alvin sighed softly, feeling a little regretful about this.

He did not feel uncomfortable because he was not the first person to discover the ruins. Instead, he felt a slight joy of finding someone to travel with him.

Among adventurers, those with a true adventurous spirit are becoming increasingly rare. Most are merely mercenaries in the guise of adventurers. Even worse, some, despite being called adventurers, perform work that falls into a shady gray area.

Sighing and taking two steps back, Alvin's ears suddenly moved. At the same time, the Mountain King also let out a neigh as a warning.

There was no vibration from the ground, no sound in the air, but the dangerous attack appeared silently behind the black-haired boy.

A sharp conical weapon shaped like a knight's spear silently stabbed into the vital part of Ivan's vest.

Not only did the attack come without warning, but it was also extremely fast, almost touching the boy's skin on the vest in the blink of an eye.

hum-

A sharp vibration suddenly sounded, and the virtual scale steel armor running at full power made a sound of tearing the air at high speed, but the sharp weapon ignored the magic defense and continued to move forward almost unaffected.

At this critical moment, the gun tip suddenly stopped.

The sharp weapon of the Form Knight's Spear stopped less than three centimeters away from Ivan's vest.

"It's unexpected. I didn't expect to see Ghost in the Shell here."

The black-haired boy slowly turned around and looked behind him.

"I shouldn't have made a mistake, right?"

There was a questioning look in those disturbing black eyes, and Ivan's subsequent address to the visitor was also full of provocation.

"Strange bugs."

In the pitch-black passage, he could vaguely see a tall figure with its feet off the ground, staring at him fiercely with a bunch of compound eyes that were also filled with turbid black colors.

It can be seen that a large number of reshaped metal walls have been transformed into metal chains of the same material, extending from all directions, tightly binding the unknown attacker, making it unable to move at all like a fly caught in a spider web.

Alvin no longer needed to hide his abilities. He used the further enhanced power of [Reshaping the World] to lock the attacker firmly in place.

After carefully looking at the other person's appearance for a moment, Alvin felt as if he saw a human-shaped wasp.

However, the attacker had bright orange and black parallel stripes on his body, and a pair of thin wings flapping continuously at high speed on his back. Unfortunately, this little propulsion could not help him escape from the predicament.

In addition, the opponent's appearance is similar to humanoid hybrid insect beasts such as Shell Knight, but he far surpasses ordinary knight-level elite insect beasts in strength, magic reserve and even agility, and even possesses unique flying ability.

The "spear" that made no sound when attacking was directly transformed from its forelimb. The conical black spear looked like a bee stinger, bringing an extremely strong deterrent effect to people.

"Aren't you going to tell me your name?" Alvin glanced at the spikes that were so close to him.

"Or, are you planning to just..."

"Go, die."

Chapter 75 High-Speed ​​Duel

A wasp is an agile insect that can fly.

At the same time, this insect has a sharp and poisonous stinger that can cause severe pain or even death when it attacks.

In short, just like the yellow and black dangerous warning color on its body, this is a very dangerous insect.

Like the Ghost in the Shell Hercules that appeared before, the Ghost in the Shell in front of Alvin is also based on an insect in nature.

The prototype of Hercules is the stag beetle, and the prototype of the unfamiliar Ghost in the Shell is the wasp.

It has a three-section body similar to a wasp, but has a roughly human-like shape, with only an additional structure with a stinger at the end of the tail vertebrae.

This is exactly the kind of hybrid insect design that Ghost in the Shell has, as if it is a fusion of humans and other animals, and it looks weird and uncomfortable.

But unlike Hercules who was covered in heavy outer armor, the Ghost in the Shell in front of him also had a shell for protection, but the shell with yellow and black stripes only covered vital parts such as the shoulders, chest and tail, and looked like the light armor often worn by extraordinary people such as the Wanderer.

Moreover, its left arm still retains the claw-like appearance of an ordinary Shell Knight, but its right arm has a very obvious alienation.

The five-finger structure was completely twisted, intertwined with each other and extended forward for a long distance, completely deformed into a sharp conical shape similar to a knight's lance.

The entire texture of this mutated spear is a translucent crystal that is almost black. You can see a hollow thin tube inside, in which flows a sticky liquid emitting a light purple magical glow. It is obviously not a harmless thing.

"How did you find me?"

Ivan asked slowly, while the muscles all over his body tensed and relaxed slightly in a steady rhythm, quickly adjusting his overall state without realizing it.

The black-haired boy's words received no response, and the dangerous guy in front of him was like a fly caught in a spider web, tightly entangled by metal chains extending from all directions, unable to move at all.

But its attitude did not soften at all, and it was still as aggressive as its sudden attack.

"Enemy...eliminate!"

A turbid ancient Norse language came out from the mouth of this unknown Ghost in the Shell. It suddenly opened its mouthparts and wanted to make a howl, but Ivan, who was prepared, reacted faster.

Snap, the black-haired boy snapped his fingers with ease.

Dark golden magic glowed, and the metal chain that wrapped around Ghost in the Shell like a spider web suddenly raised its head like a spirit snake, and then wrapped around the head of the hybrid insect beast at an extremely fast speed, making it unable to make any sound.

Although they were made from local materials, these metals that had not been completely corroded or rusted for thousands of years were originally the military alloys of the Giant Kingdom. The chains made of this type of alloy had extremely good hardness and toughness, and no matter how Ghost in the Shell struggled, he could not break free from the restraints.

It seems that this flying Ghost in the Shell is not as good at frontal combat as Hercules.

However, Alvin did not take it lightly.

In fact, the fact that he used the power of his core talent [Reshaping the World] without hesitation already showed how much the young man valued this hybrid insect beast.

However, as a fighting race created by the giants who are the direct followers of the Titans, the high-level beings among them are obviously more difficult to deal with than expected.

This guy seems to be even less rational than the Hercules I met before. Could it be that my guess is correct that the insect beasts, which were originally members of the Giant Kingdom's battle sequence, had already gone out of control a thousand years ago or even earlier?

So how have they persisted until now?

Alvin felt that the mystery surrounding this factory-type mobile fortress was growing thicker like the dark clouds before a storm.

At this moment, Ghost in the Shell, which was wrapped in layers of metal chains and looked like a big iron ball, suddenly began to struggle violently, and a sharp "ding ding" sound of metal breaking could be faintly heard from inside.

Ivan frowned. He saw movement in the insect nest in the distance. Clearly, the unusual situation here had attracted the attention of the insect beasts. He knew that the vanguard would soon arrive to investigate.

"Let's go, Shanwang. Now is not the time to confront them head-on." Alvin retracted his gaze and waved to Shanwang.

According to the plan that has been set, whether considering the safety of White Wrench V or out of caution, now is not the right time to directly clash with the regular army of the Zerg.

Sanwang nodded like a human, then folded his limbs and mechanical structure and reversed in a "cool khaki" manner, transforming into a motorcycle with black armor and golden mechanical structure. Even though the interior space of the mobile fortress built by the giant was very spacious, compared to the three-meter-tall horse form, the heavy motorcycle form was still more convenient and flexible.

Climbing onto the horse, Alvin twisted the handle, and the engine started with a slight buzzing sound.

The various mechanical structures inside the Sanwang, which had undergone a transformation of its shell, directly utilized the advanced magic engineering technology originating from the Titan Uranus civilization. The magic furnace that constantly operated in its chest was not as noisy as the magic engines manufactured by modern new magic technology, and its output power was even much stronger than that of magic engines of the same size and specifications.

However, Ghost in the Shell behind him obviously did not intend to let this enemy go.

The sound of the chains breaking rang out like a series of firecrackers, accompanied by a large amount of flying debris, and a figure that was completely different from the previous one jumped out like lightning.

The already limited light shell flew everywhere with blood. The whole body was pitch black with only a few bright yellow stripes on the sides. The Ghost in the Shell looked even thinner than before and hovered in the air.

Behind it, two pairs of transparent membranous wings vibrated at high speed, reflecting a dazzling rainbow light under the light.

A name echoed in the muddy roar. It was the name of Perseus from Ghost in the Shell, which was once full of glory. It was also the name that it had not completely forgotten from its memory even now that it had been polluted and ravaged by the enemy and turned into a beast.