Star Forge Titan

As a time traveler who inherited the Titan's genetic meme, he knew better than anyone the miraculous power the Titans possessed. Something capable of battling the Titan Uranus civilization could even bring destruction to the entire existing civilization of Palladia.

Therefore, even if there was only a tiny bit of residue, Alvin did not dare to relax at all.

Even if my heart longs more and more to return to my family and friends, someone has to do the work.

Maybe this is what growing up is...

The boy who once chose to hide in a nutshell to escape setbacks suddenly felt an exceptionally clear understanding at this moment.

Some things must be done, not because I am forced by something, but because I am the only one who has the ability and the willingness, and I am the only one who can do it!

Something in his mind seemed to shatter. In an instant, the surging soul power silently penetrated through layers of barriers and sensed a vast area around him that was measured in kilometers.

Ivan's face showed an expression of disbelief as he slowly lowered his head to look at his outstretched right hand. Although his palm was empty, he felt as if he was holding something extraordinary.

Over a vast area, the sun's light began to flicker. It wasn't because something was wrong with the sun itself, but because the light traveling at the speed of light within this area was disturbed by some force.

Interfere with light, harness light, dominate light...

I want to illuminate the whole world and dispel the darkness, even the darkness lurking in people's hearts.

What? Why would I have such a ridiculous idea...

The black-haired boy put down his hands, smiled and shook his head. With this simple action, the natural light within a radius of several thousand meters around him returned to normal.

Feeling the burning gaze coming from beside him, Alvin couldn't help but look sideways slightly, only to see Heidi looking at him with a curious look as if she were looking at a rare and exotic animal.

"Your soul power has become stronger." Without using any professional terms, the female mage's words were full of incredible surprise.

After being promoted to the third level and becoming a true superior transcendent, if you want to continue to move forward, you must embark on the so-called Road of the Fire Sword.

It is a path of constantly tempering one's own will in order to tap into more powerful soul energy. Only by following this path to the end and completely awakening all of one's soul power can one wear the crown of power called the fourth level and become a glorious crown wearer.

But just now, it seemed as if after some silent thinking, this young northerner who had just reached adulthood actually used this method to awaken his soul power a little more deeply.

Noticing that the female mage's eyes were getting brighter, Alvin couldn't help but cough lightly.

"I just figured out some things."

"Ha! If those old wizards in the City of Thousand Towers who have been stuck at the third level for decades heard this, they would probably go crazy with jealousy." Heidi muttered in a strange tone.

In the current world of Palladia, a Level 3 is already the most core supernatural force within a major power or even a nation, a high-level participant qualified to have a say and participate in key decision-making. For smaller supernatural organizations, a Level 3 can even become their leader, or at least a member of the decision-making body.

However, due to the illusory nature of soul power, it is more difficult for a third-level transcendent to make further progress than breaking through from the second level to the third level.

Reaching the third level is inherently difficult, but there are also many transcendents who remain at this level their entire lives. Some even believe that the current limit of mortal races is the third level. Even if one miraculously comprehends the power of the soul, it is difficult to obtain full power. This is a transcendent power that does not belong to the material world, and it is an additional force that life does not need in a normal ecological environment.

Of course, having seen the future, Alvin knew that this was complete bullshit, an excuse for mediocre people who casually set so-called "limits" for themselves and others to escape.

Extraordinary people are those who transcend mediocrity. If they stop because of a mere sentence, it would be a betrayal to themselves, to the self who once refused mediocrity and chose to embrace miracles.

beep!

The obvious prompt sound attracted Ivan's attention, and the highlighted mark on the holographic topographic map appeared again and suddenly came to the surface.

"You finally couldn't help but come out of the cave?" The black-haired boy sighed, and then a strong wind blew up in the bridge without any warning.

"What an impatient fellow." Heidi complained helplessly, covering the hem of her pajamas.

At the same time, Ivan's figure had disappeared from the bridge.

Chapter 118: Wind Shield

Howling!

Accompanied by a neigh, a giant horse as dark as the night and over three meters tall kicked up its four hooves and galloped quickly along the smooth top deck of the Rogilas.

Such a tall horse is naturally not an ordinary colt, but was accidentally transformed into a masked mount after experiencing the adventure with the Sandworm King. Oh no, it is the Dark Horse Mountain King who became a new-age shell species.

The already tall alien horse was modified to a height of three meters. Even when it was controlled by Ivan, who was still more than 1.9 meters tall in the energy-saving state, there was no sense of incongruity. Instead, it showed a natural complement to each other, making both the rider and the mount more majestic.

The broad horse hooves stepped on the metal deck, making a sound louder than thunder.

When the man and his horse arrived at the end of the deck, a red light immediately lit up around them.

However, the armor on the back of Sanwang's calves and thighs opened outwards, and the magically generated camouflage automatically came into contact, allowing the metallic luster to replace the original biomaterial texture.

Inertia prevented the high-jumping Mountain King from falling to the ground immediately. During this brief hovering period of less than a second, a total of eight sets of sophisticated vector engines extended from the back of the opened armor.

The conical collision joint connected to the engine can be flexibly expanded and reduced and rotated. When all angles are quickly adjusted, the high-pressure flame flow spewed out from the inside with magic as fuel is like a red fire cloud rising on the spot. The surrounding air becomes extremely hot in an instant, and the reaction force generated by this completely offsets the drag from gravity.

Finally, the pitch-black steed ran freely in the boundless blue as if its feet were firmly on the ground.

Ivan's golden pupils spanned a long distance and accurately locked onto the small black dot moving on the ground. The three suspended pointers of the divination compass were simultaneously aimed at the target, indicating that the other party was the source of the magical fluctuations emitting from the Gaia Disc.

"King of the Mountain, let's go!" Pulling the reins, Alvin rode on the horse and dived from the air to the ground.

The oncoming air was completely ripped apart by the charging steed, transforming into a continuous, piercing cry that spread in all directions. But as the distance closed again, Ivan, who saw the target's appearance more clearly, was stunned.

Something's wrong with the shape? It seems like it's just...

Ivan, the rider, suddenly yanked the reins, and the Mountain King neighed, rising into the air. Then, he raised his hand and swung a punch. The power of the new style of Lan Dou's boxing technique controlled an invisible gust of wind, sweeping the fast-moving insect beast high into the air.

When Alvin got closer and took a closer look, he found that this insect beast was actually just an ordinary soldier-level insect beast, but it was indeed emitting some special magical fluctuations similar to the fragments of the Gaia Disc.

The magical pressure unconsciously emanating from the black-haired boy turned into substance and pressed the ordinary insect beast to the sand. The chitinous shell of the creature, which was difficult for swords to break, was covered by the invisible force and gradually showed signs of cracking.

It turned out to be just an ordinary insect beast...

Realizing this, Alvin had no intention of torturing the enemy. The magical pressure suddenly increased for a moment, and the insect beast was completely crushed. As the yellow-green body fluid splashed, the magical fluctuations that were almost similar to the Gaia disc fragments also died of laughter.

There is no doubt that this is a freshly made bait.

Seeing that there was only one of them, I didn’t expect that it could actually produce insect beasts.

wrong!

Ivan suddenly looked up at the crushed soldier-level insect beast.

Unlike the twisted and hideous mutated insect beasts under the Witch King Horhara, these are ordinary soldier-level insect beasts without any mutated features, and are exactly the same as the regular ship-borne combat insects in the Sandworm King's body.

Could it be that the strange hybrid insect-beast did not produce this bait itself, but instead modified a ready-made soldier-level insect-beast?

This meant that the escaping hybrid insect beast had already gained control of at least part of the insect swarm. Even if it had not completely escaped the monitoring range of the Rogilas's aurora compass, it already possessed unexpected power.

In fact, this destroyed soldier-level insect beast was not just bait, but... part of a trap!

Entering the realm of perfection—intellectual attributes meant a brain developed beyond the ordinary, allowing all of the aforementioned thought processes to be completed in a matter of a few breaths. When a rustling sound came from the surrounding sand, Ivan and his mount, the Black Horse Mountain King, leaped high into the sky.

Without any hesitation or delay, the new desert overlord raised his right hand with five fingers clenched into a fist high in the air, and his majestic golden eyes cast their gaze towards the vast yellow sand below that was gradually trembling.

The new style of Storm Fight, Storm Spear!

The strong wind wrapped around his raised arm and gathered into a huge conical storm spear that seemed to reach the sky and the earth. The new style of Lan Dou boxing that could control the atmosphere directly made the surrounding gas rotate at high speed, until the originally light air turned into a hurricane as solid as steel.

Like the knight in the legend who raised his spear high and stabbed the dragon, Alvin smashed the Storm Spear wrapped in his right arm into the ground, and it was like a high-speed rotating conical drill that easily sank into the ground.

Then, the moment the Storm Spear pierced the sand, the entire area began to spin like a whirlpool on the sea stirred by a strong wind!

Immediately afterwards, countless yellow-green liquids burst out from the originally golden sand, followed by a series of shrill roars from the mouthparts of numerous insects and beasts.

However, contrary to expectations, the ambushing insect swarm was not completely annihilated. Led by twelve distinct figures, a total of three hundred specialized insect beasts resembling humanoids roared and broke through the whirlwind spears, charging directly towards Ivan and his mount, the Mountain King, suspended high in the sky.

At the same time, inside the cabin of the Rogilas, a massive cocoon that had been dormant for dozens of days suddenly began to tremble slightly. A crack could be clearly seen running from the inside out across the surface of the thick silk cocoon, which had been formed months earlier.

In the darkness, you can still hear the dull heartbeats like drums coming from the cocoon.

Outside the cabin, facing the simultaneous attack of more than 300 individuals, Alvin simply put down his right hand calmly, and then raised his previously empty left hand slowly but quickly.

With the five fingers of his left hand stretched out, a fist technique distinct from the Storm Spear was swiftly completed. Furthermore, the boy's eyes radiated golden light, and a golden-red crown silently emerged from his forehead. The moment his soul power was activated, a barrier formed entirely of wind and light, originating from the center of his palm, unfolded.

Arashi's new style - added wind shield!

The high-speed rotating airflow and the solidified light together formed a vortex shield with an imperceptible thickness.

Although it looked unimaginably thin, more than a hundred attacks directed at Alvin were completely blocked by this seemingly fragile protective wind shield.

"It's been a long time since we last met."

Looking at the twelve familiar figures leading the group, Alvin's expression became somewhat solemn.

"Kindred of Hercules."

Chapter 119: Thousands of Light Fists

Bone spurs as hard as steel, acid that can corrode metal quickly, and high-temperature flames that can burn through armor...

The collective attack of the swarm of insects was like a tide of murderous intent, and every drop of sea water was composed of various deadly attacks. The murderous intent as cold as a machine fully infused every attack.

Even if there is a mountain or a skyscraper blocking the way, it will be torn apart bit by bit like the prey in the path of marching ants.

But the seemingly thin circular light shield in Ivan's hand blocked every attack. The soul power focused on it even forcibly transformed the materials used as ammunition into exceptionally gorgeous streams of light that dispersed in the surroundings.

However, Alvin's attention was not at all attracted by the dense swarm of insects drilling out from under the sand. Instead, he stared at the twelve strange figures rising into the sky with great seriousness.

A single arm merged with a spear, its entire body covered in a bright yellow shell. Its seemingly slow-flying form left a trail of afterimages, a sign of rapid movement. This was Perseus the Wasp, one of the Thirteen Ghost in the Shell.

Its body is covered in a turquoise shell, its wings are broad and long, and in its hand it holds a strange weapon that resembles both a longbow and a scimitar. This is Atalanta, the dragonfly, one of the Thirteen Ghost in the Shell.

A single horn shoots skyward from its head, and its size is over three times that of its predecessor. Its limbs, covered in armor, are as sturdy and powerful as steel machines. This is Achilles, the rhinoceros beetle, one of the Twelve Ghost in the Shell.

In addition, the other nine figures also exuded extremely powerful magical pressure.

Among them was a dark yellow figure that looked like a locust, holding a pistol, and could leap to a height of more than ten stories.

There is a black poisonous fly with a body as black as ink, a pair of compound eyes as bright as rubies, and a front limb holding two extremely poisonous short blades that it rubs back and forth continuously.

There were slender, turquoise mantises whose forelimbs merged into two blades. There were deep purple scorpions, wielding a long, poisonous whip with another long, poisonous tail extending from the end of their tail vertebrae. There were also spiders weaving webs to pull and control several large insect beasts, flying mosquitoes wielding blood-sucking spears, and bullet ants, small in stature but with well-developed mouthparts.

As for the last figure, it looked inconspicuous, and there was nothing special about its overall structure. The only difference was that the ends of its forelimbs, which resembled human hands, were attached with two pieces of metal armor like brass knuckles.

Except for Hercules who decisively surrendered after unexpectedly waking up, the Zerg's top combat units - Ghost in the Shell have all appeared.

Moreover, compared to when they encountered them in the Sandworm King, the twelve Ghost in the Shell now exuded even more powerful magical fluctuations. In addition to the exoskeleton that was naturally attached to the insect beasts, each of them was also wearing a magic armor specially customized with ancient technology, and even faintly emitted pseudo-soul power fluctuations similar to those of cast steel souls or soul-made weapons.

Relying on his own perception ability to enter the perfect realm, Alvin clearly understood that this group of Ghost in the Shell was no longer inferior to any superior transcendents, and because of the insect beasts' special targeted evolution, they could far exceed the average in their areas of expertise.

Plus the telepathic talents that the Zerg units have among each other.

Once surrounded by them, even if the person is a fourth-level crowned one, he may be defeated miserably if he does not master the more potential soul abilities.

Ivan's intuition told him that this wasn't Ghost in the Shell's limit. This group of high-level insect beasts specialized in combat would have likely been a Tier 4 combatant a thousand years ago.

If it weren't for the millennia of corrosion from the Pure Color Poison that had prevented them from retaining their full combat intelligence and their ability to utilize their abilities with imperfect precision, he would now be facing a situation where he was besieged by twelve quasi-fourth-level combatants with a shared mind.

The situation was very serious, but Alvin had a thoughtful look on his face.

After using the secret of his new boxing technique to defend against the tidal wave of attacks, he sensed that the protective wind shield in front of his left hand, which was reshaped with whirlwind and light, seemed to have undergone a slight change in quality.

If it weren't for his core talent [Reshaping the World] being extremely sensitive to material changes, even Alvin, the user, might not be able to detect this extremely tiny difference.

The change in mass is nothing to worry about, but this side, which is made of the configuration power of the new Lan Dou flow that controls the atmosphere, combined with Ivan's own soul ability to control the ambient light and give it new physical properties, and finally combined with the core talent [Reshaping the World] to temporarily create a protective wind shield, seems to have produced almost undetectable changes in the physical properties it exhibits.

To describe it in the simplest terms, the hardness of this light shield has increased.

Because of the matter that was decomposed into light and the magic contained in it?

With almost no time to think, Alvin intuitively came to a positive answer.

Verifying the answer was simple: simply repeat a similar action. But another possibility also occurred to Ivan: besides this improvised wind shield, could his other creations also be strengthened using this method?

Is it possible to wear a fighting steel armor?

Can the Golden Knights?

Furthermore, if magic equipment is used directly as consumables, can the degree of enhancement be made more obvious?

Being distracted during a battle is a very deadly bad habit, but the prospects contained in these conjectures made Alvin involuntarily divide part of his thinking process.

But he quickly forced himself to refocus. With the Zerg's strongest force now before him, the escaping hybrid likely had already found Herbert, the Sandworm King, and seized control of the Zerg, thus mobilizing such a large force to attack him.

Time is running out. No matter what the other party wants to do, the Sandworm King is obviously an extremely important part of it.

If you want to destroy the other party's plan, you must speed up your entry into the Sandworm King, or at least prevent it from taking control of the Sandworm King.

His mind raced, and when Alvin finished all his thoughts, only less than half a second had passed, but the attack from the twelve Ghost in the Shell soldiers was already imminent.

Their numbers are far fewer than the surging Zerg army, but the force of their attacks and their exquisite coordination with each other can unleash a terrifying threat that is dozens or hundreds of times greater than the attack from the forward army.

Ivan's expression remained unchanged, his eyes still shimmering with thought. In a fleeting moment, he advanced with unstoppable momentum, boundlessly striving for greater strength.

Only the loose right hand suddenly clenched, and the fist formed by the five fingers suddenly lit up with dazzling light.

The light was so bright, it was like holding the sun tightly in the palm of one's hand. Even the part that shone through the fingers was enough to illuminate the earth for thousands of kilometers.