Star Forge Titan

They were huge pyramids with quadrilateral bases and pointed tops, stacked one on top of the other, like staggered peaks of varying sizes converging into an undulating mountain range.

Looking down at the exotic fortress city floating on the sea of ​​magma, Alvin felt an emotion rapidly expanding in his heart.

This is the scenery on the other side of the mountain, a fantastic scene that can only be seen in another world.

And here I am, having such an amazing adventure right now.

"This is the city of the underworld - Abyss..." The boy whispered a name.

That name belongs to this island, this city, this fortress, and even more so to the First Giant Kingdom that never gave up until the very end a thousand years ago!

However, this incredibly magnificent city is disturbingly quiet.

It was clearly illuminated by the light emitted by the magma sea, and there was not even a trace of shadow.

But there was no sound in the city, no insects chirping, birds singing, or even the sound of any living creature. Alvin could only hear his own breathing, an extremely lonely breathing.

"The last fortress city..." At the same time, the activation adjutant also whispered the original purpose of establishing the underworld city Abyss.

"It is also the last mark left by the kingdom in this world."

A look of grief emerged on that silver-gray face made of fluid metal, and painful words poured out of his mouth.

"What kind of unbreakable fortress is this? It's just a city of the dead made up of countless tombstones!"

"What's the point of a city without people?"

Chapter 143: Celebrate Loudly

Speaker for the Dead.

A man-made object made of cold metal should not have any emotional fluctuations.

But the voice that came out of the mouth of the Revitalized Adjutant was like a relative who was suffering for the dead, filled with lingering sorrow and grief.

But as a citizen of the Kingdom, it inherited something from a soldier, a great soldier who chose to sacrifice himself for the Kingdom's victory. Therefore, even though his entire body was composed of liquid metal, the Animated Adjutant did not shed a single tear.

Silently hovering a meter above the ground, it turned to look at the descendant of the Lord, who gazed at it with concern. This was a scene it had never imagined in its own Kingdom Age, or rather, a scene the former captain had never imagined. In fact, it found it difficult to connect the young man before it with those noble beings.

It’s not that the other party is not noble or powerful enough, but it’s an attitude towards everything.

A descendant of the Lord, a star-caster who has begun to awaken the bloodline of the great Lord.

Such existence should be like the giant gods in the legend. Although they will spread universal love to the world equally, they should also cast their deep gaze full of power and philosophy to the equally deep and boundless starry sky, rather than being mundane things like themselves who have been rolling in the dust for thousands of years and still have accomplished nothing.

Compared with the former, the latter is really too small.

Touched, perhaps even sighing, the Activated Lieutenant's icy internal thinking module was now throbbing rapidly. Within the magical circuits used to record memories and simulate thoughts, the supposedly cold and solid metal wires were now slightly warm.

"Please set off, sir." Taking an unnecessary deep breath, the Activation Adjutant said calmly:

"We must put an end to the pure color legacy."

"Oh, that's true." Alvin nodded.

He didn't say any words of comfort because the other party didn't need those frivolous words.

What the two should really do is to use the blood of their enemies to pay tribute to their lost homeland!

"Let me state in advance that due to some unknown action you just took, the space transmission device actually had an uncalculated error, so that we directly entered the interior of the fortress city instead of appearing in the external inspection area as per the normal process." The activation adjutant paused when he said this, and a rather subtle expression emerged on his iron-gray metal face.

"In other words..." Its words gave Alvin a bad feeling.

"In theory, citizens of the Kingdom who engage in such behavior will be temporarily detained by automated guards until it is determined whether the situation violates the relevant provisions of the law."

Just like the most accurate crow's mouth, when the activated adjutant finished explaining these things, Alvin felt that the wisdom tablet he had placed in his pocket began to vibrate slightly.

"Hmm?" He hesitated and took out the stone tablet. He saw a conspicuous content marked in bright red words emerging on the crystal tablet wrapped in a metal frame.

[Warning! Citizens of the Kingdom, you have entered a military zone. Please remain where you are and wait for the relevant authorities to handle the situation...]

Along with this text message came a special magical fluctuation. Obviously, although the method of entering the city was a bit strange, when Alvin officially arrived inside the underworld city Abyss, some kind of wide-area detection magic had swept across the entire area where he was at the fastest speed.

Immediately afterwards, shrill alarms sounded simultaneously from the streets and alleys, and the tops of the towering pyramids around them also lit up with disturbing bright lights.

As expected, he and his adjutant were probably judged as high-threat suspects, ranging from smuggling to siege.

At least that's the way it should be until we figure out the real situation.

The corners of Ivan's mouth twitched, but before he could react, things suddenly took a turn for the better.

Not long after the warning message popped up on the wisdom slate, the lepton terminal located in the lepton space suddenly started operating on its own.

[Request remote communication with external system, is it allowed? ]

The spiritual terminal that he had mistakenly thought was a system that had traveled through the Golden Finger system made an application in a very rigid manner.

After a brief moment of thought, Ivan used his consciousness to issue a positive command. Then, his own magic power flowed into the spirit particle terminal and transformed into a wave of waves in a form similar to the transmission technique and transmitted outward.

Then, the shrill alarms around stopped immediately, and instead a solemn and majestic piece of music sounded, which made people feel that they should wear formal attire to listen to it.

The next second, even the activated adjutant beside him was taken over from the outside by some being with higher authority.

I saw it floating in the air, its eyes, nose, mouth and ears all shining brightly, turning into an RGB mobile speaker on the spot, an anti-gravity one at that.

While the activated adjutant sang the hymn, he also delivered a clear and melodious tribute in two channels.

"Celebrate! Let the mountains rise! Let the seas fill!"

"The one who reshapes the stars! The king who conquers the sky!"

"The great giant god, descendant of the Lord, has arrived!"

At this moment, the corners of Ivan's mouth twitched even more violently. He roughly guessed what the spiritual terminal had done, but this was not what he wanted to see right now.

Whether it was respectful or not was another matter, but a certain hybrid insect beast that had entered the underworld city of Abyss earlier must have known of his arrival.

Don't be formalistic at a time like this!

Is it true that even a kingdom thousands of years ago cannot escape this kind of ugly record?

NMD, WSM!

Before he could even curse, another message came from the Lingzi terminal.

[Map loaded. Dear Omega-class warrior, you have obtained the highest level of authority within the local clan civilization. Please explore how to use it yourself.]

The lepton space returned to silence, and a certain terminal was like a ten-year-old broken computer that had kicked its legs and died, without making any sound.

Raising his hand to support his forehead, Alvin, who felt a severe headache, looked up at the activated adjutant who was still singing praises.

Although it inherited the memories of the former captain of the kingdom's large vehicle, its current identity is probably no different from that of a street lamp on the roadside. They are all part of the kingdom's property, or public equipment, and at most they can be considered high-end military-grade goods.

"Stop, shut up, turn off the phone, and stop singing!" It was not until Alvin clearly said "stop singing" that the activated adjutant was freed from that strange state.

Both sides fell into unbearable silence. After a few breaths, Alvin coughed lightly.

"Where do you think that insect beast will go?"

The animated adjutant also coughed lightly, looking as if it couldn't say anything, but then immediately put on a serious expression.

"It's hard to say. We don't know what their goal is yet, but I think it's more likely to be somewhere else, somewhere used to store important items."

"For example?" Ivan asked quickly while calling up the Abyss map he had just obtained from the spiritual terminal:

"The Kingdom's Third Heritage Management Agency." The activation adjutant uttered a name in a heavy tone.

"It is the kingdom's most advanced research institute, and houses a precious legacy inherited from the great Titan Lord."

Stopping what he was doing, Alvin looked up at the activation adjutant with a solemn face.

Then, a familiar name came into his ears.

"The Immortal Giant God Creation - Black Hammer Lemnos!"

Chapter 144: Biochemical Weapons

"Immortal level..."

Ivan swallowed subconsciously. This primitive biological instinct was no longer in him. But when he heard the word "Immortal Level", the black-haired boy couldn't help but lose his composure.

In the world of Palladia, most magical equipment is categorized into the three most common levels: 'Common', 'Uncommon', and 'Rare'. There's no absolute technical difference between the three, differing only in performance factors like precision and battery life. Even in mortal realms, small-scale production is possible with sufficient manpower and resources.

In fact, the main factors that distinguish them are manufacturing hours and the number of units held.

The truly high-tech products that are difficult to mass-produce are legendary magical creations such as the 'Heavenly Greatsword - Burning Justice', which require precious materials, top-level craftsmen, and top-secret techniques such as 'Forged Steel Soul'.

For most people, a legendary magical artifact capable of mimicking soul power, possessing a higher energy level than most ordinary natural magic, is a rare treasure that one would never encounter in a lifetime. The total number of such artifacts in the various mortal realms of the material world combined would not exceed three digits, making them truly legendary.

Above that, there are the various mythological creatures that exist in mythological stories and have direct or indirect relationships with the major gods.

These legitimate holy objects were usually either held directly by the deities themselves or stored deep within the headquarters of various churches for worship. Their classification was also very simple and straightforward: mythical artifacts.

As for "immortal", this adjective itself is an existence that people will worship wherever it is used.

Creations that can be labeled with the prefix "immortal" have often surpassed the limits of mortal imagination and reached the ultimate fantasy called miracle.

Even gods may not possess a miraculous creation of this level. The last immortal treasure that Alvin had close contact with was called the 'Crown of Time', which is a national treasure passed down to this day by the northern demon kingdom of Elrond.

At that time, he simply couldn't imagine where a mortal kingdom could get such a precious treasure.

But now it seems that Alvin has some guesses in his mind.

According to the murals left by the ancestors of the Catworm Tribe and the information glimpsed from the memory fragments of the Frost Giants, the First Giant Kingdom was not completely destroyed. At least one group of survivors who inherited the royal bloodline successfully arrived in the north. It was they who later re-established the Northern Giant Kingdom in that frozen land.

Considering that the Giant Kingdom has some heritage that comes directly from the Titans, it is not completely impossible for the survivors who left to have an immortal-level Titan creation in their hands.

Although it is not clear why the Northern Giant Kingdom disappeared, it would be logical for the Elrond people who were next to explore the North to accidentally obtain relevant relics from the ruins.

As for the power of that exquisitely shaped crown, it's actually quite simple. It simply allows one to penetrate the barriers of time...

"Does the kingdom already know the power of that immortal treasure?" Ivan asked as he quickened his pace.

"Unfortunately, apart from a few giant kings who awakened the bloodline of the Lord, the kingdom at that time did not have the opportunity to officially activate that treasure. At most, it could only be briefly activated through the bloodline of the king, thereby releasing a small amount of power that was insignificant compared to the main body. After that, the kingdom possessed the shell transformation technology." The activated adjutant floated and increased his speed.

"The shell species actually came from this." Ivan sighed, then continued to say:

"Having said that, we must also ensure that this treasure does not fall into the wrong hands."

"Yeah." Alvin nodded in agreement.

Although he has never obtained precious treasures of this level in the game, he has learned a lot of relevant information from various channels.

Legendary magical artifacts possess a degree of autonomous consciousness, and treasures that reach the immortal level possess a unique wisdom distinct from that of sentient life. Like a thinking wind, a dancing fire, or a whispering spring, they will independently select users who truly meet their standards.

Like individual beings with distinct personalities, each Immortal-grade treasure has distinct requirements for its wielder. Even if someone unexpectedly acquires one, they won't be able to fully unleash its power, and may even mistake it for an ordinary item.

Under normal circumstances, a hybrid insect-beast wouldn't be able to use an Immortal-level treasure even if it had been obtained in advance. However, the terrifying assimilation properties of the pure power made him dare not let his guard down. Even with Ivan's current formidable strength, facing even a minimally powered Immortal-level creation would likely be a formidable challenge.

After all, he was only a third-rank Sky Fighter, far from reaching the end of the extraordinary road.

Well, if you include the power of Titan, the difference isn't that big.

Back to the point, each of them headed towards the Kingdom's Third Heritage Management Agency. Besides this location, the Revitalization Adjutant also marked several other points of light on the map. These were the most important departments of the entire underworld city, Abyss. They could be thought of as the bridge and engine room of a ship.

Without knowing the other party's specific plans, they prepared to go to these locations one by one.

Ivan paused, suddenly remembered something, and quickly released the Mountain King from the spiritual space.

The black horse nudged its owner in dissatisfaction, obviously feeling very suffocated.

A normal three-meter-high shell is not something that ordinary people can withstand even if it is just a playful action. Although Ivan's expression and movements did not change, his whole body lowered vertically and stepped directly into the ground under his feet, creating two deep depressions.

"I won't do it next time." Helplessly pulling his legs out of the pit, Alvin apologized repeatedly before riding on the back of the Mountain King.

Then, the wind began to blow, and the thousand-year-old city was broken by the sound of hurried horse hooves.

Although the surrounding buildings are all unique pyramid-shaped, the roads between the buildings are very flat and spacious.

This allowed Sanwang to run at full speed, and the power unleashed by the bionic metal muscles in the shell far exceeded that of mortal flesh and blood.

Having deeply awakened the power of the hull in the previous battle, Sanwang had improved in every aspect, completing an extreme acceleration from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in less than three seconds. At this moment, a streamlined shield was even deployed in front of its head to reduce wind resistance and protect the rider.

"This horse has actually been transformed into a machine-type?" The activated adjutant, who was once again hanging on the waist, said in a different tone:

"Well, it accidentally fell into a device in the ruins of the Sandworm King, and as a result, it was transformed from an ordinary flesh and blood creature into a shell species." Ivan patted the head of the Mountain King, and the latter let out a strange cry and increased its speed by another three points.

"That must be the casing sublimation device. It was originally a special device used by the super-large factory ship Herbert to produce casings for large-scale engineering operations. It stores a small amount of transformation power converted from the Black Hammer." The activation adjutant said with certainty.

"Could it be that the large sandworms wandering in the desert outside have all undergone transformation by the King of Sandworms? Are they all shell species?" After saying this, Alvin thought of something else and his expression became particularly wonderful.

"That's true." The activated adjutant was a little confused, but still confirmed his guess.

"That means the power stored in it has not been exhausted after more than a thousand years..." Alvin muttered to himself.