Outer Gods invade, stuff them all into your equipment inventory.

The Forge Child was once again knocked away by Shane's shield as he raised his hammer to strike Shane's tower shield.

Suddenly, the tower shield changed shape and transformed into a two-handed greatsword.

Sean, wielding a two-handed greatsword, attacked in a kasaya-slashing motion, nearly disemboweling him.

The effect of switching royal powers lasts only 10 seconds.

Therefore, Sean must complete another state switch before the 10 seconds are up.

Only in this way can he maintain a continuous double-gain effect.

Fortunately, the Son of the Forge retreated in time, thus avoiding the attack.

In the ensuing battle, Sean constantly switched forms and relentlessly attacked the Son of the Forge.

The Forge Child is sustaining more and more injuries.

The battle lasted for 56 minutes before Sean finally finished off the exhausted Son of the Forge with a single sword strike.

"That was great, so great!"

As Sean watched the Son of the Forge crash to the ground, sending sparks flying across the metal floor, he couldn't help but throw his head back and burst into laughter.

This was arguably the most exhilarating battle of his life.

Even the previous battle against the mutated Iron Slime was far inferior.

"What a formidable opponent!"

They are strong, fast, have plenty of stamina, and are highly skilled in combat.

It seems this Son of the Forge has already stepped one foot into the realm of A-rank monsters.

Of course, during the battle, Sean did not use any abilities or spells other than the additional abilities of the Elite King's Body of the Sword Tomb.

If that weren't the case, the battle would have ended long ago.

He simply used melee skills to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Son of the Forge.

Sean was very clear about his shortcomings.

His growth trajectory was too fast; Sean didn't have much combat experience.

Even though his attribute panel is ridiculously high and his skill list is so long that it's dazzling to look at.

However, most of these items are obtained through "inheritance" from the equipment slots.

He didn't achieve this through his own hard work and gradual refinement.

The power gained in this way is too diluted and not easy to use.

He needs a whetstone to hone his fighting skills and squeeze out the excesses.

So he chose the simplest and most direct way to make up for this weakness—

Find a powerful melee opponent and engage in a pure, hand-to-hand combat battle that doesn't rely on any fancy abilities.

In battle, you can feel your opponent's fighting techniques, find their weaknesses, and gradually adjust your own fighting stance and power generation methods.

These are things that no fragment of memory could perfectly impart to him.

The true essence of combat can only be learned in real battle.

This son of the furnace is undoubtedly the best whetstone.

Sean did not look at the fallen items on the ground, nor at the portal that appeared next to the core furnace.

He went straight to the corpse of the Son of the Forge.

"It's time to abandon this mutated steel slime body..."

The mutant steel slime body is very strong.

That was certainly true when he first became an E-rank hero.

He defeated many opponents thanks to the attributes granted by his mutated Iron Slime body.

"This is the way I came."

But he's already level 30.

It's clear that for him at this stage, the mutated steel slime body is no longer enough.

It can be said that the only value of the mutated steel slime body to Sean now lies in the Metal Devouring skill and its special attack effect on metal-type life forms.

If Sean could equip more monster remains, he would definitely consider keeping the mutated steel slime body.

"But right now, at most, I can only equip two monster remains..."

"The body of the elite bladed sorcerer must be preserved."

This is the remains of the main monster that Sean currently possesses. All of his current plans revolve around these monster remains.

Without this monster's remains, his combat power will be reduced by at least three-fifths.

"Since this Child of the Forge is so powerful, the monster remains he transforms into will definitely be very strong as well."

In comparison, the mutated steel slime body is not of much value.

Don't blame me for being fickle.

It's entirely because the new one is better and more considerate.

What man doesn't love a new toy?

Heartbreaker?

What's wrong with that?

Sean's fingers touched the corpse of the Son of the Forge. The massive body transformed into a stream of light the instant his fingertips touched it, flowing down his arm and into his body.

In the equipment inventory, the body of the Elite King's Remains Sword Tomb disappeared, replaced by a new skeleton radiating a dark golden luster.

[The Body of the Son of the Forge]

Type: Special/Bodily Remains

Quality: Dark Gold (Boss)

Equipment requirement: Level 30

Basic attributes

Strength+50

Constitution +50

Agility+50

Intelligence +50

[Active Skill: Mimicry - Child of the Forge]

Once activated, your body will undergo a mimicry transformation within a short period of time, transforming into the Child of the Furnace form.

During the mimicry period, the remains' base attributes are increased by 20%.

[Active Skill: Furnace Strike]

Consumes 15% of current health.

Unleash an unblockable heavy strike in a fan-shaped area in front, dealing physical damage based on 300% of consumed health and knocking back all enemies within the area.

If the target is in a "burning" state, it will deal an additional 10% true damage.

Cooldown time: 45 seconds.

Passive Skill: Forge Body

When attacked by physical force, there is a 15% chance to trigger "Furnace Counterattack".

Deals fire damage equal to 50% of the attacker's strength and applies a "burn" effect (deals 5 fire damage per second for 6 seconds, stacks up to 3 times).

Passive Skill: Forging in the Furnace

You can use monster corpses as materials to forge temporary or permanent artifacts.

The quality of the forging is related to the level and integrity of the corpse consumed, as well as your intelligence attribute.

During the forging process, you have a certain probability of triggering "furnace resonance", which will improve the quality of the finished product by one level.

[Core Feature: Will of the Embers]

When health drops below 30%, the "Will of the Embers" state is automatically activated:

Reduces damage taken by 20% and restores 3% of maximum health per second for 15 seconds.

This effect can only be triggered once per hour.

Remarks:

"It was once the master of the furnace; now, the furnace is at your service."

"Awesome! This monster's remains are incredibly powerful!"

Even though Sean has seen plenty of good stuff.

However, seeing the attributes of the Child of the Forge at this moment is still quite shocking.

All four attributes increase by 50 points, for a total of 200 attribute points.

Even if most B-rank heroes added up all their attributes, they still wouldn't reach this value.

But this is merely the basic attribute increase from the remains of a monster within the body of the Son of the Forge.

Active skill: Mimicry - Child of the Forge.

Once activated, it not only transforms you into the Child of the Forge, but also increases the base attributes of the remains by 20% during the duration.

In other words, in the mimicry state, the four attributes that were 50 points will become 60 points, and the total attribute bonus will soar from 200 points to 240 points.

Grade A?

I'll kill him with one punch.