Star Forge Titan

Alvin and Diana were shocked to see that the young man didn't even have time to open the car door. He jumped directly from three meters away, flew sideways, and made a diving posture in the air like a football, and dived into the back seat of the car through the open window.

"Woo, woo, woo, hurry! Drive! To Swan Castle! Hurry, hurry, hurry!" The blond young man's face was squeezed into a funny shape in the back seat, which made his voice unclear.

His legs were sticking out of the car window and shaking constantly, but he shouted out his destination without hesitation.

"This bus is temporarily out of service." Diana subconsciously pointed to the red sticker on the front window that was not turned over.

In Linde, every magic taxi has a red sticker on the front and green sticker on the back on the front window. Red means there are passengers or it is not in operation, while green means it is empty and can accept orders.

"Oh, for God's sake, I'll pay ten times the fare. Drive quickly!!!" Stunned, anxious, and a little aggrieved, His Majesty Conrad pleaded loudly:

Yes, the person who came was Conrad who had just escaped from the Moulin Rouge through the bathroom ventilation window.

No one dared to trust the young emperor at this moment, so instead of looking for his guards, he just picked up a taxi on the street.

He hoped that by doing this unexpected action, he could shake off the pursuers who might appear at any time.

To be honest, when Conrad was trapped in the bathroom just now, a kaleidoscope of thoughts appeared in front of his eyes.

Various memories from childhood to adulthood keep flashing through my mind. This is the instinctive way for living things to find ways to survive from past experiences.

Soon, an old gentleman with nail scratches on his face and a plaster cast on his arm appeared in front of Conrad, but he still looked dashing and elegant.

That was his etiquette and dance teacher, an old gentleman named Lind who was quite old but still very masculine.

"Mr. Donajean Alphonse François, your face..." Conrad, who was only the Crown Prince at the time, asked in astonishment:

"Your Highness, I'm sorry to appear before you in such an unseemly manner, but there's nothing I can do."

The old etiquette teacher, Mr. Donachant, first respectfully apologized to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, then continued with a beaming expression:

"You know, for an old man over 50, climbing down the drainage pipe from the third floor is not an easy task."

"Um, could I ask why you had to climb down the drainpipe from the third floor? And your face..." Conrad asked innocently.

"Oh, it was for a naughty and cute little kitten. I was playing with it for a while, but then it got angry and jumped up high and couldn't get down. As a gentleman, of course I had to give it a good beating."

Donashan raised his arm that was in plaster and shrugged helplessly.

"Unfortunately, something unexpected happened when I landed, so..."

Then, because the movement affected the wound on his face, he couldn't help but gasp.

"As for the scratches on my face, hiss, they were caused by my old female cat at home because I was playing around with some strange kittens outside, so she hit me hard a few times."

"My God, cats are really dangerous pets." Little Conrad sighed with a look of belief:

"..." Looking at the innocent smile on the face of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was still a naive child, Mr. Donachan was silent for a moment.

"Actually." The old gentleman paused, looked around, and whispered in Conrad's ear:

"Women are much more dangerous than cats."

Chapter 111: Fast and Furious

Perhaps it is the inevitability of fate, or a chain of coincidences.

Donald, whose ideal goal is to live a leisurely life like a tropical fish, meets Irving El-Erian, who aims to change the future.

However, this meeting between the two parties did not seem to be so pleasant. Considering that the last time they met, Donald was half drunk and in silly brother mode, this might as well be their first meeting.

And so, in this way, the Emperor of Linde and the Titan descendant from the frigid north met for the first time in an ordinary magic taxi. The conversation was friendly and cordial, and even the driver was fortunate enough to participate in this historic meeting.

Compared to Diana's calmness, who is "well-informed and has seen all kinds of passengers", Ivan seems much more surprised.

He almost didn't think and immediately asked a surprised question.

"Where did the naked man come from!?!"

"My friend, you should speak with reason and logic. Look, I'm not completely naked." Donald, who had finally sat up straight, said breathlessly. The shower curtain wrapped around his waist made him feel particularly confident when he said this.

This short distance wouldn't make a low-level transcendent who had completed the promotion to 'warrior' feel short of breath, but facing a large group of women chasing him madly and a lady with a skirt that was bigger and more curvaceous than his own, it was enough to make the self-proclaimed suave 'Earl' break into a cold sweat.

"Ha." Alvin was not angry at the man's sophistry, but smiled instead.

"Do you want to take this guest to his destination?" He asked casually, looking at Diana who was calm and composed in the driver's seat.

"Go ahead and send it off. We have to continue testing the car anyway." Diana nodded indifferently.

"However, ten times the fare, that's what you said." The girl glanced at Donald and noticed his indifferent look. The latter swallowed subconsciously and felt nervous.

He was very familiar with this feeling, because the respected current Grand Duchess of Loire, Miss Catherine, often showed such a speechless look after working overtime for her brother.

So, His Majesty the Emperor didn't say a word, nor did he immediately offer praises to beautiful women as he usually did. He just sat in the back row and nodded vigorously and obediently.

"We'll set off once the red light passes." After saying that, Diana didn't say much, but just held the steering wheel and felt the vehicle.

She thought he was probably another unlucky guy who had gone to the Moulin Rouge for some fun and ended up being found by his wife. Judging from the fact that there was only a shower curtain left to cover his private parts, he was probably trapped in the bathroom and finally escaped through the ventilation window and the outside drainpipe.

People like this appeared daily in the alleys behind the Moulin Rouge. The residents of the lower town, or even the ordinary people of Linde, had become accustomed to seeing them. Some would even be so kind as to sell them a few pieces of clothing, though at several times the market price.

As the saying goes, "Happy people always bring happiness to others." Since you have already had a good time, don't mind others having a good time too.

"Come to think of it, why do I feel that this gentleman looks familiar?" Ivan raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and asked without turning his head while sitting in the passenger seat:

His words made Donald's heart tighten, but on the surface, the current Emperor Linde did not show any change. He even shrugged with a relaxed attitude.

"Ah, although I am only a small-time figure with the title of Earl, I have at least written a few moderately successful plays. You must have met me by chance at the Popular Theatre."

Popular theaters, along with public baths, were a new type of public facility promoted by Donald after he came to power. They primarily provided entertainment, such as theatrical performances, to ordinary people. Because the Carolingian court largely covered the costs of hiring the troupes, these theaters offered much lower ticket prices than theaters catering to the nobility, making them accessible to ordinary people.

Although his ministers objected to this initiative, believing it was a waste of financial resources, Donald pushed it forward, even investing his own private treasury. As a result, this initiative rapidly boosted the Carolingian royal family's popularity among the people.

Although people jokingly called this young and playful emperor the "Happy King", they also liked this young man very much and even felt that he was more approachable than any emperor in the past.

To put it in more modern terms, the people's happiness index has increased significantly.

"Oh? Really? I don't remember any playwright as young and blond as you." Ivan's tone was a little strange, as if he was trying hard to hold back his laughter.

"..." Donald then remembered his disguise, which had disappeared long ago because the woman stripped off the magic items he was carrying along with his clothes.

In other words, his current appearance is his truest form.

A drop of cold sweat slid down the emperor's forehead.

"Ahahahaha, of course the audience will pay more attention to the actors. As for the playwright, even if the eggs are delicious, you don't need to know the hen that laid them. Sir, don't you agree?"

After saying that, he looked behind him nervously again.

"Anyway, please open it quickly..."

Before he could finish his words, a strange engine roar came from behind.

Although the sound was rumbling like most magic engines, it inexplicably sounded like a roar.

A huge, strange magic car covered in a dark green shell suddenly appeared behind the taxi and approached at a very fast speed, looking like it came with bad intentions.

The shape of this car looks somewhat similar to the off-road vehicle in Ivan's previous life. It has a square body, a chassis that is very high off the ground, and wide and strong tires. It looks like a muscular man and a land tiger among the magic cars.

In comparison, the little taxi Diana drove was like a beetle, small and weak.

"Huh?" Seeing this, Donald couldn't help but make a surprised sound.

He originally thought that the ones chasing him would be cultists or demons, but what appeared was a magical car that he had never seen before.

What's going on? Can even demons drive these days?

Chapter 112: Speed ​​and Passion

The people chasing behind were the three brothers Foster, Selde and Surt.

On the contrary, Mrs. Tiole just lay on the windowsill, holding her chin with one hand and watching Donald run away with his butt shaking.

She even blew him a kiss from a distance, looking like an ordinary noble lady standing at the window watching her lover go away.

"Things are getting pleasanter now," said the charming lady with a chuckle.

As a follower of another great being, her ways were different from those of the Nurulth cultists who had appeared in the capital of Elrond.

Compared to the latter's madness and distortion, this lady seemed much more emotional, which was why she let herself be manipulated by Conrad's "performance".

After all, in her opinion, happiness and pleasure are the most important.

Although I was born as a human being, my life is so boring.

So, let happiness come first!

By the way, it would be even better if we could do something that great beings would also like to see.

On the other side, seeing the roaring four-wheeled off-road magic vehicle breaking through the wall, Alvin and Diana immediately realized that the naked man sitting in the back seat was not experiencing an ordinary romantic incident, but something more dangerous and troublesome.

"Ah, it seems that this time it is really bad." Conrad's cheeks twitched uncontrollably. Looking at the off-road magic car that made a terrifying roar, the expression on his face was completely frozen.

God has mercy on him. He really just wants to live a leisurely life like the tropical fish in the aquarium, but fate is always so helpless.

Different from the decadent young emperor, the two young men and women sitting in the front row were very, how to put it, they could only be described as calm.

After witnessing the demonic factory owner fused with a steam engine, Diana, who was used to putting on a blank expression, was now calmer than before. As for Ivan, uh huh, that thing in the back looked quite unique.

The corners of the boy's mouth turned up slightly, but his eyes became dangerous.

"I didn't expect them to come up with that thing at this time." Carefully identifying the strange roar coming from the vehicle behind him, Ivan whispered to himself in a volume that others could not hear.

"Tsk, ten times." Diana glanced at the four-wheel off-road vehicle in the rearview mirror that knocked aside other vehicles and rushed towards this side.

The short-haired girl raised her eyebrows, smacked her lips slightly, chuckled, and repeated Conrad's price in a low voice. Her right hand quickly completed a series of operations including shifting gears and changing speeds.

She had obviously only just gotten used to the car, but her movements were so skillful, as if she was already fully familiar with all the features of this new car.

Under Diana's control, the magic taxi that looked like a beetle immediately made a loud roar that was completely inconsistent with its miniature body, as if there was a big heart of a tiger inside its small cat-like body.

The engine rumbled and rapidly increased its power. The alchemical fuel stored in the fuel tank flowed into the combustion chamber. Under the stimulation of the magic engine, it turned into waves of magic power that were transmitted into the cylinder and mixed with each other to produce magic explosions. The strong thrust generated by this drove the piston to continuously accelerate its movement.

In an instant, the gears were switched, the clutch was released, and the high-speed rotating gear sets engaged with each other, causing the wheels that were originally moving slowly to suddenly rub and slip on the ground as if they were whipped hard, making a series of sharp noises.

At this moment, the instantaneous explosive force transmitted by the engine has exceeded the maximum grip of the tires, so that all four wheels of the vehicle slip.

But under Diana's superb driving skills, the increased power of the engine quickly became the driving force for the vehicle to move forward, turning this ordinary civilian magic car with a docile appearance into a violent galloping horse, twisting its body and shooting forward.

"Woooaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Conrad was caught off guard and was suddenly pressed onto the back seat by inertia. The originally soft cushion now made him feel as if a dozen strong men were pushing him from behind.

"It's too fast, too fast!!!" Conrad subconsciously put his hands in a praying gesture, his whole face was pale, and his expression was as ugly as if he had been punched.

Damn it, the newly introduced traffic regulations clearly require that these civilian magic vehicles cannot exceed 30 yards when driving in the city. Uh, wait, it seems that the bureaucrats did not include the downtown area in the urban area when planning the city.

An emotion called 'regret' surged into the emperor's heart, but he quickly transformed it into a smile of relief.

Because as the speed of the car increased dramatically, this small rental magic car was like a nimble fish, shuttling back and forth between the vehicles and bypassing various obstacles in an extremely clever way.

On the contrary, the off-road magic car at the back was so huge that even though it kept knocking out other vehicles blocking its way, the distance between the two sides was widening at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Hahaha!" Diana, who usually has a calm expression, suddenly burst into loud laughter.

A rare bright smile appeared on her face, making the originally cold-looking girl with a stern temperament appear lively, just like a black and white painting suddenly having color.

Ivan turned his head and looked at the other person with a little surprise. Diana like this reminded him of the Valkyrie he had seen in the plot of his previous life.

Surprisingly, it makes me miss it a little.

The young man with black hair and golden eyes thought with a smile, then he looked up at the rearview mirror.

Through the image reflected in the mirror, Alvin stared at the vehicle that was chasing him from behind. He had already guessed the identity of the other party.

The roar of the engine, like the roar of a wild beast, was so clear that Alvin understood that although this thing looked like a magic car, the magic engine under the hood was not made of Linde's magic engineering, but something that seemed to be something else and was extremely evil.

At this stage, the only ones who could make this thing were the mages of the Blood Order who were good at concocting mystical monsters, and the followers of Narvus who also mastered the secret arts in the biological field.

I hadn't expected this group to reappear in Lutetia, the Lind capital. Clearly, in Ivan's memory, the villains the Lind faction had faced earlier were other than them. It seemed his actions since crossing over had already had a profound impact on the world's future.

Realizing this, Alvin couldn't help but smile.

Yes, the change is small, but it has happened.

Then, all he has to do is continue!

Suddenly, an inexplicable force caused the magic car's speed to drop sharply.

"What's going on?" Conrad asked nervously.

Even if it is a tropical fish, faced with the terrible fate of being put into the pot, it will try to jump a few times.

"Soul power." The black-haired boy muttered to himself, his eyes suddenly becoming sharp.

Alvin's perception, which had reached the extraordinary realm, allowed him to immediately realize that, with the off-road magic vehicle behind him as the source, a force more powerful than magic was rapidly spreading around.