Star Forge Titan

Chapter 184 A Certain Type of Driver

The new theory made everyone extremely excited, and they began to explore related possibilities.

But Ivan was pondering something else. If this hypothesis were true, and the ruins of the old tower could truly send people or objects into the stars, then there would be another explanation for why the followers of the Whisperers attached such special importance to the City of a Thousand Towers.

An explanation that makes people shudder just thinking about it.

They were not targeting this city-state, but something above it, namely the super-large space building in low-Earth orbit - the Star Ring, which was also the final line of defense established by the upper plane - the Fire Realm!

The Calamity Clan...

The latest version of the major event that Alvin was experiencing before he traveled through time, the four major events before that, the rise of nations, the rebellion of a thousand towers, the skeleton frenzy, and the sublimation of the machine world, have all been declared dead. The reason is a certain little butterfly that is too strong. Who made him start flapping his wings with all his strength as soon as he came to this world.

So, the whole major event was brought down.

The iconic event that marked the beginning of the Scourge Clan was the Fall of the Celestial Realm, where the Fire Realm's defenses, home to the True Gods, were suddenly breached. Hundreds of Celestials descended upon the Material Realm and formed an alliance with the nations of Earth to jointly confront the invading legions from the Four Deep Hells.

After that, there were almost endless wars. Countries continued to develop new technologies and invest in wars. The number and quality of extraordinary people increased rapidly at an unprecedented rate.

If this pace can be maintained, Palladia in a hundred years will likely attract more than three digits of completers for the first time.

Wait, a hundred years?

According to Ishtarri's prediction, that is also the time when a large group of Ultra Beasts will arrive at the planet Palladio.

This number is too coincidental. Could it be that the destruction of the Star Ring was not just due to foreign invasion and the outbreak of hidden dangers? Is there some deeper reason?

Warrior Lord, the power of the king's soul, what does this mean?

Countless thoughts came to his mind almost in an instant, but Alvin quickly calmed himself down.

The future of this world is destined to be different from that in the game, for no other reason than that I have arrived.

There were many questions that Alvin wanted to know the answers to, but he knew one thing more clearly: no matter what the answers to those questions were, they would take a back seat.

Slowly close your five fingers, as if holding something invisible.

Although there was nothing in his palm at the moment, Alvin was very clear.

The future must be in your own hands.

After learning the content of the prophecy, he knew that there was only one real problem he needed to face, and that was how to win the decisive battle of the century a hundred years later!

Otherwise, people would no longer have the right to look towards the future. The consequences of failure would be despairing. Not only would they and those around them be consumed by the swarm, but the entire planet would cease to exist, leaving them with no future to speak of.

He quietly walked out of the bustling conference room, his control over his presence making it so that no one else noticed his departure. Only Heidi noticed, but she glanced at Ivan's back and didn't immediately follow.

This Khan was becoming increasingly enigmatic, seemingly harboring a heavy burden that he wouldn't share with anyone. She needed a way to untie his knot, thought the sorceress, about to be promoted to Grand Witch.

After all, even with unparalleled power, there are always some things that can't be easily solved by strength alone. For example... midlife crisis.

At least in the City of Thousand Towers, a city-state with a large number of extraordinary people, similar cases were not uncommon. Even the tabloids circulating among the lower classes would occasionally publish interesting stories about the mutiny. Although they were often listed afterward, there were always those who were not afraid of death and continued to do so tirelessly.

"A natural born king, this is a test." Heidi murmured to herself, and then she casually took out a little mouse-like doll from the space extension equipment shaped like a wallet.

"Your Majesty, there is something I don't know whether I should tell you or not..." The female wizard cast a soundproof spell and then revealed the secret to the little mouse-like doll Balabala.

The mouse doll nodded from time to time as if it really understood. Hmm, it seems that it will become a very good little informant.

Ivan, unaware of the concerns surrounding him, had already reached the ancient pagoda ruins. As he approached, he could sense more clearly the sheer size of the dilapidated structure.

Even though it was severely damaged, the remaining portion of the ancient pagoda's ruins still reached a staggering size and height. Ivan secretly guessed that even if he activated his Titan form, he could still walk right in. It would probably feel like an ordinary person entering an elevator.

Speaking of elevators, could this thing really be a rail elevator?

Subconsciously sensing the lepton terminal within his soul, Ivan detected no new external signals. Could it be that it was completely broken? Or were the magnificent ruins before him not a Titan creation?

From what we know, the civilizations that followed the Giant Kingdom didn't inherit the assets left by the Titans on this planet. While they occasionally unearthed fragments, it was difficult to analyze them to find anything useful. However, this wasn't necessarily a bad thing, as the newly emerged civilizations gradually forged their own paths.

For example, the magical technology developed by the Ancient Empire based on the legacy of the Giant Kingdom, while also influenced by previous civilizations, still possesses its own unique characteristics. Meanwhile, the nascent magical industry of Lind in the Central Empire and the red magic developed by Elrond in the Northern Kingdom based on the Lifeline Theory both have considerable potential.

If they are given enough time to develop, there is a possibility that the splendid flowers of civilization will bloom.

Give civilization time and witness the light of possibility.

This sentence suddenly popped up in his mind, and Alvin vaguely had some new insights into the ancient Titan's thoughts.

Coming back to my senses, I continued to observe the remains of the old tower. The entire building was remarkably simple, displaying a very elegant and efficient geometric form, with virtually no decorative patterns or carvings to be seen. This ruled out the possibility of it being a creation of the Giant Kingdom or the Ancient Empire.

The creations of these two civilizations have very obvious stylistic characteristics, and simple and efficient buildings like the old tower are obviously inconsistent with them.

So, could it be a Titan creation? Although the psychic terminal didn't display any external information, it's possible that the ruins themselves were severely damaged, resulting in the loss of even their most basic functions. This can be seen from the exterior design: the top of the old tower is in ruins, showing very obvious signs of damage from external forces.

It was like a piece of wood that had been broken by someone, and the broken end was uneven and strange.

Should we go in and take a look? As Alvin was pondering this, he suddenly heard something approaching at great speed. He looked up and his eyes widened.

Why the hell were Fleury and Diana flying the carpet at 120 mph? And it was [Titan swearing] straight towards me!

What are you doing?! What are you doing!?!

Brake! Brake! Brake!

Step on the brakes!

Chapter 185 Mud-Head Flying Carpet

A flying carpet is a soft thing, and a girl is also a soft thing.

But when two soft objects rush towards you at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, anyone's first reaction at this time is "I must make a precise and awesome dodge immediately."

No, there were Afredia and Diana up there. While moving out of the way might have saved some trouble, Diana aside, Frey would definitely be bitten on the head and swung around, followed by a full set of dragon-like ground throws.

The above thought process happened in a flash, but the outward manifestation was that Alvin seemed to have not reacted at all, and was directly knocked into the ruins of the ancient tower by the flying carpet with two beautiful girls as passengers.

Boom!

Gulu gulu gulu gulu——

Bah!

The flying carpet had a built-in emergency procedure. Upon impact, it rapidly curled inward, attempting to protect both the passengers and the driver, minimizing the damage. However, this retraction also dragged the "car accident" victim into the air, and the three of them were instantly wrapped up in the carpet like a triple-stuffed Mexican O'Brien chicken roll.

Alvin kept his eyes wide open the whole time, and made a decision in his mind for no reason: he must invest a large sum of money in the alchemy workshop that produces flying carpets, a huge sum of money!

Due to the previous application to investigate the ruins of the ancient pagoda, the guards and other scholars who were supposed to be here were deliberately withdrawn to a farther location. Therefore, this old ruins is now very quiet, and there are almost no outsiders.

At this moment, two pretty faces of different styles appeared in front of Alvin, one was cold and elegant, and the other was soft, moist and bookish.

Before he could even feel the surprise, Alvin immediately smelled a strong smell of alcohol in his nose.

"Who was driving the car? No, I mean, who was driving the flying carpet while drunk just now?" Cheating Titan took the initiative to speak.

"...Little Moon, this man is so mean to me!" Frey was stunned for a moment, then immediately puffed up her cheeks and used the tactic of 'you fight yours, I fight mine'. While leaning her head towards Diana, tears as big as beans began to flow from her eyes.

Damn, she was actually drunk, but what kind of alcohol could possibly get a female dragon so drunk she couldn't control her emotions? She's a fourth-level dragon and a former demon lord. Are you kidding me? I'm going to plant that bastard who delivered the wine upside down into the winery's vineyard.

Far away in the Great Wild Forest, the old black dragon, Pomor, shuddered for no apparent reason. Unable to understand who was scolding him, he shook his head and returned to his task of addressing the local dragonborn. He hoped the gift he had given to curry favor with the ancient dragon lord would have some effect. Otherwise, a hundred years of community work would be too much to bear. Pomor still had his own brewery to deal with.

On the other side, although Alvin was roaring in his heart, he immediately comforted Afrediya.

"It's dangerous to do this. I don't want to see anything happen to you."

Then, he turned his head quickly to look at Diana who was silent.

"Diana, are you okay?"

Diana? Diana said nothing. This girl had a calm face that made people suspect she was apathetic. In fact, she was completely dumbfounded.

Talk? She didn't exercise now, relying on her iron-like willpower after being promoted to extraordinary.

"..." The silver-haired girl shook her head, a blush slowly rising on her stern face. Despite the alcohol, she was actually much more sober than she had been at some point last night.

Thinking back on everything that had happened, Diana wanted to find an empty room and scream for half an hour. Unfortunately, the three of them were crammed in close like a triple-stuffed Mexican chicken roll, so close that they could clearly feel each other's breath and even their body temperature.

"I..." Diana finally mustered up the courage to say something, but suddenly saw Ivan's expression change.

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[Confirmed that the relay platform has been transferred to 239487@*sad＆ewgbd world]

【Coming soon...cross-border delivery...】

Most likely due to the detection of Titan's supreme authority, the ancient tower ruins unexpectedly broke its long silence. Lights began to illuminate from the bottom of the tower upwards, and a series of prompts reached the ears, but the content seemed extremely fragmented.

This seemed to indicate that some device that had suddenly begun to operate was in poor condition. This wasn't surprising, considering the ancient pagoda ruins were far from intact; at best, they looked dilapidated.

God knows what unexpected situations will occur if it is forced to operate?

"Cancel!" Alvin shouted the command subconsciously, but his spiritual terminal showed that no external device was connected.

Wait, is this thing completely broken!?!

Or is it the console that's broken?!?

Now Alvin was really panicked.

You know, what’s more terrifying than a car that won’t start at all is that after it starts, the people sitting in it realize that the car has no brakes!

His first instinct was to break the flying carpet and get the three people out of the teleportation range, but the information transmitted from his sensory field indicated that the surrounding space had begun to fluctuate the moment the prompt sounded. Even if he forced the teleportation at this moment, it would only cause more serious problems.

At that time, the conflicting spatial fluctuations might split people into countless pieces and send them to different areas.

At the moment, Ivan didn't even dare to open the protective force field too wide. He could only use his arms to hug Frey and Diana at the same time. The light-forged armor instantly covered his whole body, and the cloak attached to his back extended inside the flying carpet until it completely covered the three of them.

There was a series of earth-shattering changes that only people with spatial perception could perceive. Just when Alvin's face turned pale and he was cursing in his heart whether this broken thing was so broken that only the steering wheel was left, the bumps from the outside finally subsided.

Bah!

Like a cork popping out of sparkling wine after being shaken violently, three flying carpets appeared out of thin air, rolled over and crashed to the ground.

Shaking off the restraints of the flying carpet immediately, Ivan finally had a chance to take a closer look at his surroundings. Perhaps due to the forward collision, his vision was filled with thick smoke and dust, making everything obscured appear particularly hazy, as if separated by several heavy veils.

Seeing this, Alvin raised his hands and clapped them lightly.

Applause erupted, and simultaneously, an invisible force surged outward like a wave. All the smoke and dust were blown away by the air current, allowing the three to finally see the scene before them clearly.

Countless buildings are stacked on top of each other, forming a building complex that is countless times more complex than the City of a Thousand Towers. And it's not just a single building. The world in front of us, apart from the gray sand filling the sky and the ground, is a collection of countless buildings of the same color.

The buildings resembled mountains, crisscrossed by a complex network of winding elevated roads, creating a man-made mountain range made of piled-up buildings. At first glance, it looked countless times more complex than the three-story, two-way, ten-lane Xi'omen Interchange.

"What... is that?" Afrediya, who was still a little dizzy even after the space teleportation, did not fully sober up. However, the scene before her made her wonder if she was dreaming.

"City, probably." Alvin also stood there in a daze.

As for Diana, she had not yet recovered from the aftermath of the sudden space teleportation.

"Look there!" Afrediya suddenly raised her hand and pointed to the five o'clock direction.

Alvin's eyes focused, and he saw some kind of structure lying quietly on the horizon, which was different from the other buildings.

From a distance it looks no bigger than a palm, but when you consider the long distance, you will find that its actual size is beyond imagination.

Unlike other "mountains" that consisted of multiple buildings, this one could essentially be considered a single structure. Furthermore, even from a distance that felt like an entire continent, the structure's outline still showed a skewed tendency, rising in the east and falling in the west.

It's as if... it's as if this thing was dropped from a great height, rather than built from the ground up!

Anyone with competent thinking skills would instantly connect it to the remains of the old tower. Alvin's thinking ability was naturally above the passing level, so he immediately thought of a pattern he had seen on the surface of a piece of pottery.

There is a high probability that the ruins of the ancient tower teleported the three people to the area where the lost part of its structure is located.

Turning around, Afrediya happened to cast her gaze at Ivan. The two looked at each other and then nodded at the same time.

"The space teleportation just now was definitely not a normal mode, which caused our landing point to deviate significantly from the default target point."

"If I want to go back, I probably have to find the default target point first. I think maybe we can go there and take a look." Pointing to the super-large single building on the horizon, Alvin casually shook open the flying carpet.

This thing was surprisingly durable. A slight infusion of magic power would cause it to sway and re-levitate. However, the simple act of infusing it with magic power caused Ivan to stop his movements immediately.

"You sensed it too?" Afrediya walked over with Diana in her arms.

"The concentration of ambient magic is very low, and it appears somewhat inert."

Then, the two of them came to the same conclusion almost at the same time.

"There's something seriously wrong with this place!"

Chapter 186: Ruins Everywhere

The total amount of free magic power in the surrounding environment is very low, and it exhibits a kind of inertia that is difficult to mobilize.