Star Forge Titan

"Furthermore, it's an improved version of the Ash Knight, inheriting its enhanced magic power and vitality more completely, while also retaining the potential for further advancements."

Looking at Kayang who was extremely serious, Alvin couldn't help feeling a little surprised.

Is this guy really the "everyone's traitor" he later became? How come he actually has such a considerate side?

Ka Yang suddenly stopped talking, and he was also surprised to notice that he was different from usual.

Logically speaking, he wouldn't care what others choose. Let those who are willing to walk on the narrow road go ahead. Just remember to choose the best and widest road.

But what is this particularly unpleasant feeling?

Although he didn't want to admit it, the other party did help him avenge his death.

As a young man, Khayon is not the kind of mage he once wanted to be, who can make absolutely rational and even selfish choices at any time.

At this moment, the wizard's usual fake smile was gone. He opened his eyes, which were usually narrowed into slits, very rarely, and stared at Ivan with a distorted expression, as if the second-best student in the class heard the first-best student say, "I don't plan to go to college."

The relationship between the two is a bit strange now. It's not quite right to say they are superiors and subordinates, but it's also not enough to say they are friends. Moreover, there are irreconcilable conflicts between them involving a third party.

Could this be the legendary enemy?

"This matter is difficult to explain." Alvin chose his words carefully.

He couldn't tell anyone about the descendants of the Titans, but he didn't want to lie. After all, Khayon had provided a lot of help, either overtly or covertly, since he and Afrediya had fled together.

If he really wanted to treat the other party as the professional jumper in the game, it would obviously not conform to the reality, and it would not conform to his principles in dealing with people.

I have a headache.

Ivan scratched his cheek.

"Forget it, as long as Your Excellency is happy." A fake smile appeared on the wizard's face, and he turned and walked out of the captain's room.

For the next few days, Alvin stayed in the captain's room and carefully studied the information and promotion ceremony about the Ash Knight.

Khayon stayed in the engine room to supervise the blood servants to prevent them from doing anything hidden.

To be honest, if he were alone, he would definitely choose to turn all the blood servants into undead creatures such as zombies, and then indirectly control the ship through their remaining instincts.

However, Alvin felt that it would be more appropriate to hand over this group of low-level blood servants to Lind for trial. After all, not all of them voluntarily surrendered to vampires, and there were also ordinary technicians who were forced to convert.

This further reduced their daily interactions to a minimum, and instead, former sheriff Frank became familiar with them.

This sheriff, who was both righteous and flexible, got along well with both Ivan and Kayon, and even took the initiative to invite them to his home after they arrived in Linde.

Coincidentally, Frank had been prepared to die in the line of duty to investigate the true cause of his daughter's death. However, upon learning that the entire ship's crew was food prepared by vampires, he felt immensely devastated and hopeless, and what followed left him even more stunned.

After all, it was unbelievable that two low-level transcendents could wipe out an entire group of vampire pirates, even to an experienced old sheriff like Frank.

Although no one witnessed how Alvin killed so many vampires, when people cleaned up the battlefield afterwards, they found the remains of at least thirty vampires.

One against thirty, this is a scene that only appears in knight novels.

Frank even seriously suggested that the two join the special agency in Lind's police department that specializes in dealing with crimes committed by extraordinary people.

Unfortunately, neither Ivan nor Kayang intends to be exposed to the official view of Linde so soon.

So, one night before the steamship was about to dock.

The two sneaky guys quietly packed their luggage and appeared in front of the lifeboat on the side of the deck at the same time.

Looking at the guys opposite who almost reached the lifeboat at the same time, Ivan and Kayon fell into awkward silence.

After a while, Alvin took the initiative to speak.

"I'll row the boat."

"Thank you." Ka Yang nodded and said briefly.

So, the boat pushed through the waves, and the two "stowaways" from Elrond quietly approached the coastline of Lind in the Central Empire.

But things did not develop as smoothly as they had imagined.

Just as they were about to reach the shore, a ball of light created by magic suddenly shot up into the sky, illuminating the surrounding sea.

"Attention, ships ahead! We are the Linde Coast Guard. Please stop immediately for inspection!"

Chapter 19 An unexpected encounter

Time goes back a few minutes.

Splash, splash, the sea water makes a rhythmic sound disturbed by the oars.

The sea was extremely quiet before dawn, with only the subtle sound of waves rolling around.

Because of the previous conflict, the tall boy rowing the boat and the young wizard sitting on the boat both seemed very silent.

"Sorry." x2

They both said this at the same time, and then were stunned.

"Ha." Alvin shook his head and felt that the oars seemed to have become a little lighter.

"Oh, what a loss of composure." Khayang held his forehead with one hand and couldn't help but smile.

It wasn't the fake smile he usually wore, but a slightly mocking yet genuine smile.

"I have some secrets, so I don't need the path of the extraordinary to complete my sublimation." Alvin explained the reason first.

At the end of the Burning Night, Khayon also saw him transformed into a giant god. After obtaining key information from these words, it was enough for the other party to make the most accurate guess.

After all, Khayon was an extremely good mage and would not be inferior in anything related to intelligence.

As expected, the young wizard's expression became subtle as soon as he finished speaking. He looked up and down at the tall, black-haired boy in front of him with disbelief, and then showed an expression that was as if his teeth were sour and painful at the same time.

"Secret Keeper Hela is my witness. You shouldn't have told me this." The mage said irritably, and couldn't help but raise his hand to ruffle his already messy yellow hair until it looked even more like a bird's nest.

"Because, I don't want to deceive...um...my friends." At the end, Alvin's tone was a little uncertain, but he still said the word.

"Friends?" The necromancer chewed on the word over and over again.

Finally, Khayon raised his head and looked at the pair of eyes that shone with a faint golden light in the dark night, and sighed in a very helpless voice:

"For me, this is a very luxurious title."

Recalling his previous experiences in Elrond, the young wizard felt a headache, but couldn't help revealing his unique sarcastic smile.

"Ahhh, damn, in a way, you and Frey are exactly the same! I have a feeling that I'm going to get into bigger trouble because of you."

At the end of his words, Khayon simply put his hands on his head, arched his body backward like a twitching caterpillar, and shouted without resistance.

"Ha, I will try my best to avoid that situation." Alvin laughed and rowed the boat happily, making the speed of the boat increase.

"Great God! Aren't you afraid of running aground in such darkness? Are you planning to swim over?!" Ka Yang hurriedly supported the side of the boat with both hands, his skinny arms stretched straight.

"Don't worry, I'm quite good at swimming."

"But I only know how to doggy paddle!"

Amidst the noise, the previous estrangement disappeared without a trace.

"By the way, after arriving in Linde, where do you plan to learn the relevant knowledge of magical engineering?" Alvin turned and asked about the other party's future plans.

Honestly, referring to the original plot, he had an idea that would allow him to access the most advanced magical engineering knowledge in a short period of time, so he wanted to bring Khayang along. Perhaps he could develop a new fifth-order extraordinary sequence earlier than the plot indicated.

"Find a mage tower to sneak in. After all, if a second-level mage is willing to work, many mage organizations will welcome him." Khayang shrugged and said seemingly relaxedly.

But honestly, this isn't easy. Any mage organization is wary of outsiders, and truly acquiring their core knowledge requires a significant price to pay. At the very least, one must be an honest employee for several years.

"So you haven't thought about it yet?" Alvin raised his eyebrows.

"Okay, I admit, I haven't thought it through." Khayang raised his hands in surrender.

He actually just wanted to leave Elrond because there were too many helpless memories there for him.

"Have you heard of the Lutetia Youth Magic Car Competition?" Alvin suddenly mentioned something unfamiliar.

"What is that?" Khayon asked with interest.

"On the surface, it's a vehicle racing competition organized by the Linde royal family to promote the development of the magic industry. In fact, it also aims to discover young people with potential from the public. Whether they are pilots who drive magic cars or technicians who design and manufacture magic cars, they are in great need." Alvin said with certainty.

"In other words, they will select young people from among them for intensive training?" Ka Yang immediately grasped the key point.

"Yes, it's even possible to join a confidential project." Alvin nodded.

But there is one thing he didn't actually say clearly.

In reality, the Linde royal family also intended to use this event to subtly unify the various industry standards within the domestic magical industry, allowing the emerging corporate groups that originally evolved from various extraordinary organizations to be integrated into the same set of standards.

And this will also be the key factor for the further rise of Linde in the Central Empire.

"In this case, it is indeed worth trying." Ka Yang thought seriously and then noticed a problem.

“What about identity issues?”

"Can we try to forge it?" Alvin frowned.

This is indeed a problem. However, due to the industrial revolution caused by the technological revolution and the subsequent social unrest, many new policies have not been fully implemented in Linde.

In other words, Lind's lower class is relatively chaotic.

It is not too difficult to obtain roughly usable identification by using some practitioners in the gray industry.

Moreover, after looting Count Lesombra's private vault (the Shadow Chest), he had ample cash reserves. In the short term, any problem that could be solved with money was not a problem.

"If you really want to become Linde's key training target or even join a confidential research project, an ordinary fake identity is definitely not enough." Ka Yang shook his head.

"I know someone who, considering the unexpected incident involving the vampire pirates, should arrive in Lutetia, the capital of Linde, before us. By then, we can consider obtaining a more reliable forged identity from her."

"You're not talking about a half-elf..." Alvin asked with a strange look on his face.

"Huh? Do you know each other?" Ka Yang looked at the other party with some surprise.

"It was just a chance encounter, yes, just a chance encounter."

Ivan thought about it. He was wearing a mithril mask at the time, and his height was about 2.3 meters. If he were wearing the "diplomat ring" now, the other party would not recognize him.

Suddenly, the black-haired boy's ears moved. He stopped paddling and began to listen carefully to all the sounds within a few kilometers around him.

Noticing his companion's actions, Khayon stopped talking and instead drew out his wand very cautiously.

Faintly, Alvin heard a slight sound of water coming from the distant sea. It was not the sound of waves, but obviously another ship moving.

But in such a dark night, the ship did not hang any lighting equipment to avoid collision with other ships, which means that it did not want to be discovered by anyone.

In addition, after Lind began to carry out the reform of magic engineering, the total volume of the country's import and export trade began to increase significantly. In order to increase interests, protective tariffs continued to rise, and smuggling was inevitable.

Moreover, considering their identities as "stowaways", the two men deliberately chose a landing site on a coastline that was rarely visited by people.

If another ship appears here for the same reason, then it is very likely a smuggling ship that needs to avoid the crowd!

Ivan and Kayon looked at each other, both feeling speechless.

Actually, the smuggling ship is nothing to them, but if something else is attracted by the smuggling ship, it will be a big trouble!

Sure enough, the next second the illuminating light ball rose into the sky and instantly penetrated the darkness of dawn.

The smuggler's boat and the lifeboat the two men were on were exposed to bright white light.

At the same time, this also made the black-haired boy and the necromancer curse loudly.

Chapter 20: Ocean Knight

The time traveler, Prince Elrond, descendant of the Titans, was something Alvin Arian had never expected.

You can row the boat and sing songs by yourself. Although there is no hot pot, you can also consider catching some fish and cutting some sashimi.

Why were they suddenly caught by the Linde Coast Guard?

This is the current situation.

Under the illumination of the magic light bullet, a medium-sized black three-masted sailboat was located behind the lifeboat the two people were riding, and in front of them was a SEAL-class patrol ship belonging to the Linde Coast Guard.

Unlike general-purpose steamships developed for ordinary people, this patrol ship with a length of about 100 meters is also called an unprotected cruiser. It is equipped with a standard magic engine, which can be driven entirely by magic power.

Therefore, this new type of warship can enter a state of pure magic propulsion without preheating, showing a starting speed far exceeding that of traditional sailboats.

However, the magic engine must be activated and operated by a superhuman, which means that the patrol ship must be equipped with a superhuman from the Linde official.

Moreover, in the view of the Coast Guard, the two people rowing the small boat were most likely sailors sent by the smuggling ship behind, who were responsible for landing on the shore in advance and guiding the rear ship to dock smoothly by lighting bonfires or other methods.

In other words, they were considered to be in the same group as the group of smugglers behind them!

"Do these guys even know anything about smuggling? They were blocked off the coastline. Is there a mole in the team?!"