Star Forge Titan

Especially Alvin, who mastered the stone tablet and gained the authority to the earth magic network with it, naturally understood the profound impact of the power symbolized by the fragment, which meant a detailed division of the authority to control the earth magic network.

The four people who knew about the existence of the treasure map exchanged glances quickly and reached a unanimous judgment without much explanation.

The legacy hidden by the Witch King Seened must be found as soon as possible to ensure that they have the upper hand in this unknown race.

At the same time, with the steady progress of the migration group, the city of rivers and flowing water - Nuenris is now within sight.

Chapter 4: Funeral and Laughter

More than a thousand men went out to fight, but less than a hundred returned.

The former city of the Witch King has now become the new hometown of fighters.

When the fighters who once again set out to fight for the freedom of the people of the greater desert returned to their new hometown, the bustling city also became extremely quiet at this moment.

The news of the Second Witch King's death spread quickly like a ray of light, which meant that the dark clouds that had covered the desert for more than a century were once again dispersed, and it also meant that the situation in the entire sea of ​​dust and the waterless ocean had undergone earth-shaking changes.

But all this was not without cost. Hundreds of fighters gave their lives, including the beloved Great Elder Rigor.

People still remember that the old man always walked through the streets with a smile on his face, without any trace of majesty. He was no different from the ordinary old people who teased their grandchildren on the street corners.

However, at this moment his coffin was lighter than anyone else's, because the Great Elder, who had fought with his life, had completely dissipated in the world as the last bit of his vitality was exhausted, without leaving any echo.

In this way, the coffin, which seemed to be extremely light as if it was empty, was surrounded by the crowds that filled the entire street and was carried to the unfinished Free Academy.

In contrast to the empty weight, people's hearts feel extremely heavy, as if they were being pressed down by a small mountain.

Even those warriors who could laugh and continue fighting the enemy even after their limbs were cut off, now let the tears roll down their cheeks. The air around the crowd who kept wiping their tears and sobbing softly became extremely solemn.

Ivan silently held onto the coffin and walked forward steadily. Not far away from him was the tall figure of Brad.

Alvin could feel a lingering fatigue and weakness from the other party, but the new leader of the Free Fist was extremely alert and kept his back straight.

He is like a brand new flag standing at the front of the team, and he cannot afford to slack off at all.

The intense sadness diluted the joy of victory, and the funeral procession arrived at Liberty College in silence.

This place is also known as Nuen Academy and Dahe Academy. In the future, it will not only become a training ground for young boxers, but also a comprehensive school that imparts knowledge to all young people free of charge.

During his lifetime, Rigor had tried his best to promote this matter. At that time, the Fist of Freedom and the people of the desert who had just been liberated had not yet completely solved the problem of basic food and clothing. However, as the great elder, he still used his efforts to convince opponents and made the Freedom Academy the first public building to be put into construction.

At this moment, the construction of the college has completed the first phase of the plan. Although those square buildings with a gray exterior are not very beautiful, they are definitely strong enough and can fully withstand the scorching heat of the desert sun.

The first group of young people who enrolled mostly learned simple knowledge related to carpentry, masonry and agriculture. Fighter apprentices who practiced boxing only accounted for a small part of them, and even fewer people studied subjects that required longer time, such as grammar, mathematics and history.

But there is no doubt that these young talents are the future and hope of the Fist of Freedom and even all the liberated desert people.

At this moment, future craftsmen, scholars, and young fighter apprentices all gathered in the center of the academy, around the hall made from the Witch King's huge rib.

Unlike the flesh and blood that had lost even its odor after rapid decay, the bones of the Witch King's remains were very solid, and their white color was like white marble, adding a touch of elegance and purity to this unfinished building.

However, what is strange is that there are also four exceptionally tall stone statues standing here.

The four stone statues are carved into hideous monsters of different shapes, but at the same time retain some very distinct human features, which makes them look even more terrifying.

After a quick look, Alvin recognized that they should be statues of the four wizard kings.

This made him feel even more puzzled as to why a statue of the Witch King was placed inside the academy, which symbolizes freedom.

Moreover, regardless of the placement or the height of the stone statues themselves, these sculptures will cast shadows directly on the entire entrance of the hall, making people who walk in feel extremely depressed.

In addition, in the slightly sunken circular area in the center of the hall, there is a small hollow sarcophagus.

The sarcophagus looked like it could only accommodate a child. There were no complicated decorations on the outside, only some simple carvings of plant textures that symbolized hope in the silent desert area.

Although the sarcophagus is placed in the center of the hall, the concave design on all sides makes it not feel high above people. Instead, it is lower than anyone passing by, inadvertently revealing a friendly feeling.

Alvin immediately realized that this sarcophagus was prepared for the Great Elder.

Sure enough, under Brad's leadership, the two men placed the empty coffin into a stone coffin that was slightly larger than the original.

Alvin knew that even in this coffin, which he had personally escorted all the way here, there was only a cane that the great elder held in his last days.

Apart from that, not even a piece of clothing was left.

Ah, come to think of it, that cane was a crude creation I made when I first started practicing boxing to practice the precision of controlling the force of formations...

Realizing this, Alvin suddenly felt a strong sense of sadness welling up in his heart.

I have only known him for a short time, and I haven't even told him my true identity, but why is the sadness in my heart so intense?

Silently clenching his fists, the black-haired boy looked up at the sky, without a single tear in his eyes. He just silently clenched his five fingers into fists, as if he was tightly grasping an invisible sharp sword, an invisible sword forged with love and sorrow.

boom!

There was a dull thud, and Alvin suddenly raised his head, and saw Brad holding a sledgehammer and hitting the surface of a stone statue hard.

This strong man clenched his teeth at this moment, his tearful eyes were red, and the blue veins on his forehead spread like vines.

The steel hammer struck the surface of the stone statue, immediately creating a crack that was clearly visible even from a distance.

Brad did not use any special powers of the extraordinary person, but just relied on pure muscle strength to swing the hammer in his hand, hitting the stone statue symbolizing the Witch King again and again.

Alvin noticed that the stone statue being destroyed by Brad was the one symbolizing the second Witch King.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

One after another, dull noises echoed in the originally silent academy hall.

People also became agitated from their initial silence, and finally began to make various excited shouts and sad cries in remembrance of the deceased.

Soon, the heavy and tall stone statue began to break and crumble. As pieces of debris fell to the ground, the sunlight that was originally blocked by the stone statue began to shine into the house, and the shadows that were originally cast on the heads of the crowd disintegrated piece by piece.

Finally, when Brad roared and smashed the hammer hard on the base of the statue, all the shadows disappeared, and only the completely shattered base of the statue remained in its place.

Sunlight shone into the center of the hall through the broken gap, completely bathing the sarcophagus containing the coffin of Elder Rigol in light.

It was clearly just a simple, unassuming gray stone coffin, but to everyone, it seemed to be radiating light.

"There are... three left!" Brad leaned the hammer hard on the ground and turned around to face everyone present.

Behind him was a bright sunshine, and beside him were three other gloomy statues of the Witch King.

Brad shouted again.

“Only… three left!!!”

The noisy crowd suddenly stopped.

After a brief silence, there was a burst of extremely loud cheers.

It was clearly a funeral, but the atmosphere became as noisy as a celebration.

Alvin was not angry about this because he knew that his master Rigor did not want to see people mourning.

The man who had lost his freedom and was once enslaved by the Witch King, the half-giant warrior who was once taller than anyone else, the boxer who was now as hunched as a child in old age...

What he always wanted to see was the liberated people laughing freely in the sunshine.

This is enough.

Chapter 5: Boxing Parallelism

A few days after the funeral, Alvin was in his room working on an exceptionally detailed prosthetic limb.

This is the new residence assigned to him. The overall area is not very large. The upper and lower floors combined are probably about the same size as a relatively spacious single apartment in his previous life, but it is quiet enough.

The house's exterior is also very simple, with a rectangular shape, except for the windward side, which is rounded. This is one of the architectural features of the quiet desert region, mainly used to reduce erosion and damage to the building during strong desert winds.

After Alvin moved in, he also made some renovations to the house.

He then used burnt ochre to paint the originally yellowish-gray exterior walls a brighter yellow. The interior was also plastered with lime and painted white with natural dyes, then casually painted with simple plant patterns in keeping with the local characteristics of the quiet desert.

Many of the materials used were dug by him from a nearby quarry, accompanied by the dwarf Thorin.

Especially ochre, a natural dye that can show various colors as the calcination temperature and time change.

Under normal circumstances, turning ochre into pigment requires many complex steps such as grinding, calcining, soaking, and drying. However, under the control of the Titan's talent [Reshaping the World], all of this can be compressed into one day.

In fact, the reason why Alvin went to the quarry to dig ochre was mainly to relax his heavy mood caused by the funeral, not because he could not decorate the house without these materials.

By the way, the quarries around Nunnris are also a source of local resources.

The reason why the former Witch King Thaned chose this city as his territory was because it had some of the few mountains and quarries in the desert, which could mine the stones necessary for the construction industry and the minerals necessary for the metallurgical industry. After all, he was a dwarf after all, at least he used to be.

However, even the building materials have to be dug by themselves, mainly because Nunnris is a city that was reborn a few months ago. It cannot be said that there is no business at all, but it can only be said that it is a novice just starting out.

This is also one of the reasons why Heidi's eyes lit up when she arrived. In the words of the businesswoman who works as a part-time wizard, nothing is easier to paint with new colors than a blank piece of paper.

Leveraging pre-purchased venture capital and the solid reputation they'd built up, Heidi and her Golden Sands Chamber of Commerce had a relatively good reputation within the Free Fist community. Furthermore, she had also used this to win over and even indirectly control a number of small and medium-sized chambers of commerce. This woman possessed a strong sense of ambition and dedication.

Shaking his head and collecting his thoughts, Ivan loosened his clenched palms. The material, which was originally in the state of raw iron ore, had now been reshaped into pure metal by him.

Like kneading plasticine, the black-haired boy used the metal to make a complete metal shell and installed it on the metal prosthesis in front of him.

Previously, although Alvin had thought of using a more sophisticated metal prosthesis to serve as a carrier of the extraordinary combat elemental shell and thereby release the power of the boxing configuration, he did not actually apply it in combat due to lack of time.

Now, he can give it a try.

In addition to the two metal prosthetic limbs, Irwin also created a 'backpack' that connects the two limbs. It looks like a metal butterfly, with a perfectly symmetrical structure that fits snugly behind the back and moves with the shoulder blades.

By the way, this also used up the last bit of mithril that Alvin had.

But this is also necessary. Those expensive materials are used to complete the contact port between the metal prosthesis and the human body. Only this rare metal with excellent magic power conduction efficiency can allow Alvin to smoothly transmit the magic power in his body into the prosthesis, thus achieving the conjecture of using the prosthesis to perform boxing configuration.

If it is feasible, then a boxer equipped with this set of metal prosthetic limbs will be able to use the power of two or even more boxing configurations at the same time during combat, which will be an extremely important breakthrough.

"The first parallel boxing experiment begins."

As he spoke, the black-haired boy took off his shirt, revealing an extremely sturdy physique. Streamlined muscles, perfectly in accordance with the golden ratio, were evenly distributed across his tall, sturdy frame, exuding a powerful beauty.

Lifting the fully connected metal prosthetic limb, Ivan secured it securely behind his back. Feeling the coolness, he began to channel his magic power into it.

The extraordinary combat skill called Elemental Shell was activated, and a faint magical light flowed rapidly between the gaps in the metal prosthesis.

Soon, the steel fingers trembled slightly. Although they were two extra arms, they now felt like they were being controlled smoothly.

Ivan smiled slightly and began to adjust his breathing method. As his boxing skills improved, his understanding of breathing methods also changed.

We no longer simply think of breathing techniques as a tool to assist in regulating boxers’ cognition, but realize that there is another hidden meaning in it.

The reason why boxing can mobilize various natural forces may be because boxers understand the various "breathing" in the outside world, etc. Could this be related to...

A wonderful idea came to his mind. Alvin remembered it silently, and then began to try to use the power of two boxing configurations at the same time.

The black-haired boy first skillfully formed the core configuration of the Flowing Stone Fist. At the same time, he put his palms together on the metal prosthetic limbs extending upward from the back of his shoulders, and with extremely smooth movements, he formed a configuration different from his natural hands.

The next moment, half of Ivan's body was covered with a layer of black crystal dragon scales, outlining an incomplete armor that resembled the shape of an evil dragon.

At the same time, a strong wind blew around him without warning, and the whole person floated in the air.

The core configuration of the Fist of Flowing Stone - Hard Rock and Ancient Dragon Rock Scale Form.

The core configuration of Lan Dou Steel Wind Flow - the structure of steel wind flying iron.

The core configuration power from two different boxing styles appeared on Ivan at the same time.

Experiment, success!

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

After putting down his equipment and opening the door, the person who came in was Brad, who had been very busy recently.

"Senior Brother?" Alvin looked surprised.

Although he was a little surprised, he still moved aside to let Brad in, and asked with some curiosity.

"How come you have time to come to my place today?"

"Because I found the teacher's suicide note." Brad sighed softly.

"..." Upon hearing this, Aiwen's face became serious, and then he also sighed.

"Come in and talk slowly."

Chapter 6: Boxing Original

Rigol's suicide note...

Unexpectedly, the little old man who was always smiling and silent actually wrote a lot of rambling in the suicide note left after his death.

Judging from the last recorded time, Rigor had begun writing this suicide note a month ago. The contents of the letter were quite ordinary, mainly giving away some of his personal belongings to his relatives, friends, and acquaintances.