Star Forge Titan

"Is there any problem? The materials used may not be cheap, but if we omit some steps added due to the designer's personal interests, the rest should be able to be found in the black market that sells magic materials. After all, it does not require materials from powerful beasts or rare monsters. The only rare one is dragon blood." Alvin clapped his hands and let out a sigh of relief.

After this trial, he has a better understanding of the specific operating details of the talent "Core: Reshaping the World", and perhaps he can use it in actual combat next time.

With such a free and unrestricted talent, even if he could only control a portion of matter because it had not been fully awakened, and the maximum range of influence was also limited by the power of magic, he could easily think of seven or eight effective ways to use it.

Simple ones include temporarily creating a set of self-repairing rock armor, or making the weapon in your hand suddenly deform, while complex ones include changing the surrounding environment and actively creating favorable terrain.

Even if I continue to develop my talents in the future, maybe it won't be impossible to manually assemble equipment. In this way...

Just as he was thinking about it, Afrediya suddenly grabbed his hand.

"Do you really want to stop the war?" she shouted excitedly.

"This kind of thing, this kind of thing was not developed to prevent war!"

"Power has no good or evil, only people have it." Compared to the eldest princess's excitement, Alvin seemed very calm.

"Besides, the person who sees this blueprint now is a scholar, not a demon king, right?" Looking at the red-haired girl in front of him, the black-haired boy's tone was as calm as ever.

Before writing down the blueprint, Alvin had thought of everything.

He trusts his own eyes more than the characters portrayed by the game's plot.

Under the gaze of those ice-blue eyes, Afrediya gradually calmed down. She could feel the other party's trust, as if they had known each other for a long time.

"I swear that I will not tell or use this blueprint to anyone else without Avenierian's permission. This is the oath of the Demon King candidate who inherits the bloodline of Gusmith." The eldest princess said solemnly.

Then, they both smiled brightly at the same time.

"What? So serious?" Alvin said with a chuckle.

"Who told you to suddenly take out such a scary thing?" Afrediya rolled her eyes at him unhappily.

"By the way, even the Black Knight doesn't have to stay by the Demon King's side. What do you think? You really don't want to become my knight?"

"Not for now. I have something to do later. If I have Elrond's official identity, it will definitely cause you trouble." Alvin shook his head and still did not agree.

"It is the lord's duty to protect his knights," Afrediya said seriously.

"After signing the contract, no matter what you do in the future, I will stand by your side."

This kind of overly honest and naive person cannot be left alone.

This thought inexplicably arose in Ivan's mind.

Besides, considering the various powerful enemies that will be faced later, the support of a demon king of Elrond is extremely important.

But before he could answer, Afrediya suddenly became flustered.

"Wait, is it because I'm not attractive enough that you keep refusing to agree?" The girl thought about it and felt that the other party should have no reason to refuse again.

In this case, the only reason is most likely yourself.

Although she was somewhat confident in her appearance, Princess Afrediya knew very little about matters between men and women because she had rarely come into contact with anyone other than maids and attendants since she was a child. Even when she was studying in the City of a Thousand Towers, she mostly communicated only with older scholars.

She had only a smattering of it from unreliable chivalric novels and the love poems of troubadours.

But most of the descriptions of the heroine were nonsense like "slender as a lark, slender as a swan" or "gorgeous as a peacock".

"Oh, don't be like this. I know I'm not as slender as other noble ladies. I have too much fat on my chest, and the fat on my arms can be lifted up." The eldest princess held up her chest with a sad face, and pinched her fair and round arms, but she didn't know how much damage this action would do to someone who had been single since birth.

"No, no, no." Alvin quickly waved his hands to deny it.

"It's not that you're fat, it's that they use a corset. You don't use one, and it looks more natural."

"Then sign a contract with me!" Afrediya burst into tears and rushed over.

Outside, the blizzard brought by the white tide was still raging, but the hunter's cabin with only two people was becoming increasingly lively, just like Palladio, which had been silent for a long time but was about to usher in a world of great strife.

At this point, the last December of the new calendar year 1885 is drawing to a close.

And the new calendar year of 1886, the year when all nations rise, is about to arrive!

Chapter 11 Rock Armor

As if foreshadowing something.

The white tide at the end of 1885 was longer than any other in the previous decades.

The snowstorm, which was originally thought to be over in three days, raged for nine days before gradually subsiding.

In the hunter's cabin, lying on the animal-skin rug, Afrediya's eyelids trembled slightly, and then she felt something moving on her body. Although her eyes were still closed, a visible blush spread from her neck up to her entire face.

Due to the scarcity of resources, there were neither expensive velvet nor thick quilts in the hunter's cabin, only a few tanned beast furs to keep warm while sleeping.

The extreme cold brought by the white tide made the two people, who knew what "reality" was, quickly throw away their reserve and etiquette.

On the first night, they each covered themselves with a blanket but were both too cold to sleep. On the second day, they huddled together on the carpet in front of the fireplace. On the third day, they even huddled together with two blankets stacked on top of each other to keep each other warm.

In this situation, it's completely understandable that Afredia, who woke up in the morning and felt something, would have all sorts of bad assumptions popping up in her mind.

However, when she quietly pressed down the wandering thing, a creepy feeling instantly surged into her heart. Although the hands of a certain coward had distinct joints and slender fingers, they shouldn't be covered with hair!

This furry touch, could it be...

"Ah ah!!!"

"What's wrong? Are you late for work? Is there a pop quiz today? It can't be that the opposing alliance dog is attacking you?!" Ivan, who was half asleep, was also awakened by the scream.

After a bunch of nonsense, the black-haired boy, who had completely sobered up, saw Afrediya trembling and huddled in the corner. Not far in front of her, lying on the ground was a small animal that was also very frightened.

"Uh." Alvin looked at the scene in surprise, not knowing what to say.

"Is it, is it a mouse?" Afrediya closed her eyes tightly and hugged her head with both hands, almost curled up into a ball.

"Mice can't survive the northern winter." Alvin shrugged.

"This guy is the Demon King of the North." The black-haired boy said jokingly.

"What?" Afrediya opened her eyes curiously.

"A kind of gray squirrel. When they can't find food in the winter, they will go to human villages to steal food. And because they are good at climbing, it will be useless even if people hang food high. These little robbers will change into gray-black winter fur in winter that is not easy to be discovered. At that time, the ear feathers growing behind their ears are like a crown, so they are also called demon squirrels." After saying this, Alvin sat up by himself.

Sensing some movement, the demon squirrel with red and black fur and long ear feathers behind its ears quickly jumped onto the beam.

"Come to think of it, since even squirrels are willing to leave their warm nests, that also means..." The black-haired boy opened the tightly closed wooden window, and the cold wind blew into the house, bringing a breath of fresh air.

Ivan looked out the window with an expected look.

"The white tide is over."

Without the obstruction of the snowstorm, the cloudless blue sky under the sun was like a huge piece of silk, without a single speck of color.

"It's time to go."

A few minutes later.

Two sets of footprints started from the door of the hunter's cabin and extended straight out into the woods.

"Are you sure this will work?" Afrediya, wearing a black fur cloak, looked at Ivan doubtfully.

"That little fellow's fur is shiny and glossy, and it's obvious that he has no shortage of food. He must have stored food in several tree holes before winter. Since he didn't find any food here today, he must have dug his own small warehouse to replenish the energy consumed during hibernation. That's probably it... I guess." The black-haired boy hesitated. After all, the scene in the fused memory was just a memory, and there was still some difference compared to his personal experience.

Just like after reading the game guide, you still need skills to play the game yourself.

"Anyway, this is the direction to Elrond." Ivan relaxed his shoulders and glanced at the red-haired girl.

"Besides, don't you want nuts?"

"Yes." The eldest princess answered without hesitation.

"That's right. These thieves always steal from us. This time they should collect some interest as breakfast."

The two men, who shared the same hatred for food, followed the figure jumping back and forth in the woods from a distance.

Soon, the furry demon squirrel landed on the snow next to a huge granite rock.

It sat back, tucked its furry tail under its body, and carefully used its hands to push away the snow on the surface and the fallen leaves and soil below, slowly digging a shallow pit on the spot.

"Now," Ivan said, jumping out from behind the tree where he was hiding.

He stretched out his arms as wide as possible to make himself look bigger than he actually was, and then let out a strange cry of "Ula Ula".

Although this was somewhat shameful, it was one of the best ways he could remember to drive away wild animals. Stretching his arms and limbs could make him look larger than usual, and even if the strange cry from his mouth was unclear, it was a strange sound that wild animals had never heard before.

The combination of the two would frighten any domesticated animal that wasn't already accustomed to human presence.

As expected, the little squirrel, having just taken a nut from the storage room, suddenly felt its fur puff up, and the nut in its mouth fell to the ground. Without even bothering to pick it up, it scurried off like a flash of gray lightning, swooshing to the top of the nearby rock.

"Hahaha!" Of course, at the same time, Alvin also heard Afrediya's uncontrollable laughter coming from behind him.

Pretending not to hear, he dug out the squirrel's entire storage room.

I saw that the burrow, which was carefully covered with a layer of dry fallen leaves, was filled with various nuts. It was obvious that it was the product of the squirrel's painstaking and hard work before the end of autumn.

The fat squirrel who witnessed the whole process let out a cry from the soul, just like an old farmer who saw his stored grain being taken away by bandits.

"Is it really okay to take them all?" Afrediya looked at the fat squirrel jumping up and down and shouting with some reluctance.

"Do you think it will only have this one warehouse?" Alvin shrugged and crushed the shell of a nut with his fingers.

Although not roasted, the tempting aroma of the oil-rich nuts still spreads quickly in the air as the shells crack.

"Haha, you really know how to eat. There's not a single fruit that's worm-eaten or blackened." Alvin picked up the pieces, raised a nut and threw it to Afrediya.

The eldest princess, who was not good at sports, showed amazing reaction speed at this moment. She accurately judged the falling direction of the nut and thrust her chest forward, causing the nut to bounce again after falling and fall directly into her mouth.

But before she could taste it, her eyes suddenly widened and she looked behind Ivan.

"What's wrong? You can't choke on nuts, right?" Alvin looked at the other person in confusion.

"Woo woo woo." Afrediya, whose throat was stuck by a nut, was speechless for a moment. She could only stand there and gesticulate, as if she wanted to express something very important.

"Huh?" Alvin didn't understand what she wanted to say for a moment.

"Ah, bear!" The eldest princess, who had swallowed the nut whole by patting her chest hard, finally shouted out.

"There's a bear on the hillside behind you!"

On the distant hillside, a wild bear with yellow scales covering its forearms and back and snow-white fur all over its body was staring at Ivan fiercely.

Although the white tide has passed, the cold winter in the north has not ended. Many animals will seize this period of slightly warmer temperature and try to replenish the nutrients consumed while hiding in their nests during the white tide period in order to survive the second half of the winter.

In other words, this white bear beast, unique to the north, is currently in a hungry state.

Roar!

The white bear beast coming down the mountain was like a snowplow. Its huge body rushed towards Ivan at high speed with a whistling sound. Its four claws fell in turn, constantly stirring up snow, mud and even rock fragments.

When Alvin looked back and saw this scene, he did not show any fear.

He suddenly laughed.

"What a coincidence! I'm hungry too."

Raise your hand and press the huge granite beside you, and activate "Core: Reshape the World"!

The squirrel lying on the top of the rock screamed and jumped away quickly, and the hard rock turned into a lot of rubble, attached to the dark golden light emitted from Ivan's palm, and then rolled like water, wrapped around the boy's forearm and extended all the way to the surroundings.

Eventually, it solidified into a set of heavy armor covering the entire body.

This set of gray armor made of rock texture might be too heavy for ordinary people, but the descendant of Titan, whose strength attribute reached 19 points, felt it was just right, and this was when he did not activate "Rage".

Therefore, when faced with the white bear beast charging down the mountain, Alvin not only did not dodge but took the initiative to meet it.

Heavy charge is a skill that can be activated when a knight has a mount, but the black-haired boy relies on his extremely high basic attributes to make his running speed not inferior to that of a horse. The heavy rock armor even makes his charge more ferocious than that of an ordinary knight.

Boom! The two figures collided head-on without any hesitation!

The result was that the even taller and heavier white bear fell back several steps and almost fell to the ground. However, the beast did not flee. After a moment's hesitation, it swung its paws vigorously and pounced again.

Five yellow claws scratched across the surface of the rock armor, leaving five deep parallel grooves with a harsh sound, but failed to hurt Ivan who was protected by the armor.

As stone powder scattered everywhere, the black-haired boy raised his hand and clenched his fist. The rolling rocks on the surface of his fist were reshaped into the shape of a spiked meteor hammer, followed by a heavy and swift straight punch!

Ouch!

The white bear beast let out a scream, and the white hair on its face was dyed bright red by the gushing blood from its nose. The severe pain caused by the severe injury to the tip of its nose made it completely crazy.

With a burst of brute force, the White Bear Beast bit its opponent madly, but in the end, apart from knocking out all its own teeth, it still couldn't break through the defense of the rock armor.

The most despairing thing is that even the scratches originally left on the surface of the rock armor are constantly recovering under the influence of the continuous activation of "Core: Reshaping the World".

"Is the fight over?" Ivan smiled slightly as he raised his arms and stood in front of him to block the white bear's counterattack.

His ice-blue eyes gleamed with a cold and ruthless light like the northern glaciers.