Star Forge Titan

Immediately afterwards, a ring-shaped light quickly spread outward with Ivan as the center, and eventually turned into a huge light shield covering the vast space around it.

Even if the ordinary Ash Knight's [Sun Shield] is actively infused with magic power, it can only cover the prototype area with a diameter of three meters around it. But the protection in front of him seems to be more than just that space, right?

The young man, startled by this change, immediately had another thought in his mind: if he could actively retract the light shield inward...

The sun shield emitting white light gradually shrank, and its color became darker and darker until it turned into a pitch-black night.

Under this light shield, which I don’t know whether it should still be called the Solar Shield, even the originally pure white light-cured armor was covered with a layer of shadow, like the sun swallowed by the shadow!

The abilities [Ashe Armor - Lightforge Armor] and [Solar Shield - Eclipse Form] are thus achieved.

According to the information transmitted by the system interface, it was transformed into the [Solar Shield] in the form of a solar eclipse. Its opened light shield not only weakened the passing magic attacks, but also absorbed all external magic and kinetic energy impacts with a swallowing force.

When the shield shatters because it can no longer withstand the attack, the power accumulated in the light will transform into an indiscriminate omnidirectional magic shock wave that explodes in all directions.

At this point, all the talents, characteristics, and abilities of the second-level extraordinary job agency have been successfully acquired, but Alvin vaguely feels that the changes brought about by the ceremony are not limited to these.

The moment he subconsciously activated that hidden ability, the Eclipse Shield, which had shrunk to the extreme, completely merged with the Lightforged Armor, while conveying an ever-increasing sense of oppression.

The overwhelming magical pressure continued to rise, even the free magic in the atmosphere trembled.

Ai Wen was able to raise his right hand and point his open fingers and palm at the thick layer of soil above his head.

In an instant, the armor shattered, the shield exploded, and all defenses were completely abandoned and transformed into some kind of pure and powerful...attack!

In the National Library on the ground, Ka Yang and others who were drinking tea and waiting for Ivan to complete his promotion suddenly noticed the ripples spreading in the teacup.

"Are you kidding? Isn't he being promoted to the second level? But this noise..." Khayang murmured, staring at the increasingly obvious ripples in amazement.

"What?" Bryant, who didn't hear his words clearly, looked at him in confusion.

"By the way, it seems like there was an earthquake?"

"No way, Lutetia hasn't experienced many earthquakes in its history." Galar Knight, who came as a guide, said uncertainly:

The alarm quickly spread back and forth within the National Library. The scholars' faces were filled with astonishment. As they were being evacuated, they couldn't help but mutter to themselves:

No way... again!?!

The next moment, a column of pure white light rose from the ground, pierced through the soil, and shot straight into the sky from the deserted garden courtyard.

Chapter 187 Silver Bracelet

Ah, a battleship should have main guns after all.

Well, although I'm probably only at the main battle tank level now.

Uh, that's not what we should be focusing on right now...

Slightly clenching his fists and feeling his further enhanced strength and physical fitness, Alvin also noticed another thing.

Looking at the deep passage where a tiny bright spot could be vaguely seen in the distance, the black (flaming?) haired boy couldn't help but twitch his lips.

Originally, he chose the rare and ancient class of Embers Knight simply to leverage its magic blood transformation talent and two other defensive talents to further enhance his own advantages and prepare for the construction of a future combat system.

However, I didn't expect that the entire job description would undergo huge changes due to the high material specifications and the Titan bloodline.

Even the name 'Ember Knight' seems a bit inappropriate.

Although the previous attack caused the two defensive capabilities to be temporarily ineffective, its power has reached a level that is difficult to achieve even if an ordinary third-level warrior gives his all.

If caught off guard, it can even pose a threat to true superior transcendents, and it is not just a little bit of a threat, but a critical force that can affect success or failure.

In this way, perhaps my thinking on building a combat system can be accelerated a little bit...

Then, Alvin recalled his original plan, quickly raised his hand to summon the power of [Reshaping the World], and began to modify the various traces left by his promotion.

But as soon as he mobilized his magic power, he felt something was wrong.

If the original magic power flowing in his body before was a turbulent and violent river, then the magic power that was now activated by his will was an ocean stirred by a storm!

Normally, a Level 1 Transcendent's magic power reserves would increase by at least two times when promoted to Level 2, roughly four times that of a gifted trainee on average. Further advancement to Level 3 would increase the magic power reserves by sixteen times, demonstrating an exaggerated exponential growth curve.

Therefore, the promotion of fourth-order extraordinary people means that quantitative and qualitative changes occur simultaneously. Those upper-level extraordinary people who are called crowned ones will have their own magic reserves reaching 256 times that of ordinary trainees.

Once one becomes a fifth-order perfector, there will be a huge gap between a true mortal and a demigod. By then, the extraordinary person with the title of perfection will have a huge magic reserve of up to 65,000 times that of an ordinary trainee.

Of course, this is not an absolute value. The total amount of magic power of each extraordinary person will vary depending on their job title and experience.

But at this moment, the magic power that Alvin felt was far more than just doubling.

When he was still at the first level, his magic power was already several times that of other first-level transcendents. Compared with the average, it was probably close to five times.

In other words, Ivan's current magic power increase is naturally greater than that of other second-level transcendents, and the gap is further widened.

According to a rough estimate, in terms of magic power reserves alone, he is not much worse than an ordinary third-level person.

Feeling the magic power in his body that was twenty-five times that of the trainee, Alvin silently raised his hand, and his powerful will perfectly controlled the surging magic power in his body. The dark golden light emanating from his palm instantly expanded and turned into a huge ball of light that covered the entire ground within the surrounding wide area.

With a mana pool capacity far exceeding that of an ordinary second-level mana pool, he can now fully release the power of [Reshaping the World] to make changes in a large area.

The ground began to shift. The ritual array that had previously required the power of [Reshape the World] to complete was now being reshaped all at once into a completely different form.

Alvin did not completely eliminate all traces of the magic circle, but instead added further details and content.

Gradually, the entire array changed from a simple Ancient Ash Knight Promotion Array to another incomplete Promotion Array.

Referring to his memory of the magic circle used by his previous guild mates when they were promoted, Alvin deliberately made the magic circle on the ground look incomplete, as if he had hurriedly erased the few traces left.

As for the object of his reference, it was naturally the Genoa Passion School mage who also needed to use the promotion material such as 'Ashes of Destruction'.

It is a subclass of mage that excels at using fire elemental attacks and has a natural advantage in destruction.

After modifying all the traces, Alvin breathed a sigh of relief and turned his attention to himself.

Although the roots of his hair are still black, the ends and the middle part are glowing orange-red like flames, and are floating upwards against gravity, like a burning flame, or an exaggerated crown forged from flames.

The golden color rising from his eyes became even brighter, just like two small suns inlaid on a brass base.

Between the eyebrows, there was an oval crystal with a deep blue color, which flickered with light, and at the same time, it made the free magic power in the surrounding environment resonate with it like a tide, as if it was breathing in a different sense from the body's breathing.

In addition, the boy's skin was all pale like the northern ice field, but the paleness was now mixed with a faint cold light like silver. In addition, under the influence of the huge vitality of the [Phoenix Blood], his body reached a height of more than two meters and five.

He looked like a marble statue illuminated by moonlight, cold and hard, exuding an incomparable strong presence.

This is a bit too eye-catching...

Ivan muttered something and put his diplomat ring back on.

Then, the oval-shaped azure crystal between the boy's eyebrows sank back into his skin, and his height of more than two and a half meters shrank to one and a half meters.

Furthermore, as her magic power subsided, her flaming orange-red hair gradually turned back to black, like a dying fire, before slowly falling back to her shoulders. However, the texture of her hair still had a slightly crystalline translucence.

This point will not attract too much attention, because ordinary second-level extraordinary people will also undergo some physical changes after completing their promotion. Scholars call this sign extraordinary characteristics, and often consider it to be the external macro-manifestation brought about by the sublimation of life essence.

In short, physical changes after reaching the second stage are perfectly normal. On the contrary, it's the emergence of extraordinary characteristics at the first stage, like Ivan did, that's the abnormality that requires careful study.

Of course, in ancient texts, there are also sayings that this situation is called the perfect seed.

After calming down, Alvin suddenly realized a possibility.

If his magic power was already several times greater than that of an ordinary transcendent when he was promoted to the second level, then even if the rate of increase did not continue to increase, the gap between him and other transcendents would be even greater as he continued to advance.

Now that I'm at the second level, I might still be considered a genius. When I continue to advance to the third, fourth, or even higher levels...

Suddenly, Alvin began to understand why the Star-Forging Titan in the plot would become the world boss of an entire version.

Just looking at the magic reserves, Alvin Arian at that time had much more magic than the total amount of fifty dungeon players combined, not to mention the various bonuses brought by the Titan bloodline and various super-ancient technologies from the ancient Sky Dynasty.

"It's really exciting." Alvin chuckled, his thoughts wandering a little.

Then, he looked at the big hole on the ceiling of the sealed place, which looked difficult to fill, and fell into deep thought.

That Duchess with that weird hairstyle, is she going to ask me to pay her? No, the special materials used to build this kind of room are very expensive. However, thanks to this, the exaggerated magical fluctuations during my promotion should not have been leaked.

Tsk, fortune and misfortune go hand in hand.

Just as he was thinking about it, the door to the outside of the sealed place was opened.

The light from outside shone into the dark room, and a figure with golden diamond-shaped twin ponytails was trembling slightly in the backlight.

"Hi..." Just as Ivan raised his hand to say hello, he saw the man holding up a bracelet that reflected silver light and shouted in a high-pitched voice:

"Arrest! Must arrest!"

Chapter 188 Promotion to Level 2

It turns out that women still need to be coaxed, even those with blonde hair and a diamond head.

Perhaps it was also because he had to let this guy participate in the Magic Competition to represent the Carolingian royal family and win the championship.

Anyway, after Alvin apologized sincerely, although Catherine was still angry, she finally reluctantly forgave this guy for his unintentional mistake and did not drag him to the police station and handcuff him for a few days.

I was muttering in my heart that I had to let this guy build a car and participate in the competition. I couldn’t throw him into jail now, hehe.

After a long, speechless look up at the sky and a long sigh, the female sheriff with blonde hair finally kicked someone out of the National Library.

As for the scholars, they were initially a little dissatisfied because their research was interrupted, but after enjoying the show, most of them began to enjoy themselves.

Several of the old gentlemen who were once in charge of the education of royal members also said that apart from His Majesty Conrad, it had been a long time since they saw anyone who could make the Duke of Loire express his emotions so expressively.

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All in all, it's a relief that Alvin didn't incur any additional debt.

After driving someone away, Catherine looked at the various remaining traces in the sealed place and was silent for a moment, then began to struggle with her moral self-restraint.

After a long moment, she sighed heavily. Although her mind told her that she should investigate these traces carefully in order to better understand the origins of this young alchemist who suddenly appeared, she did not like to doubt her companions and subordinates in this way.

However, it is undeniable that there are indeed doubts about Ivan's identity.

Therefore, although Catherine could not convince herself to violate the principles, her responsibilities as a member of the royal family also prevented her from just turning around and leaving.

With a particularly conflicted and somewhat apologetic mood, the blonde girl with a diamond-like haircut, her brows furrowed, walked into the sealed place alone. She didn't ask any of her subordinates to accompany her, but simply picked up a lantern and carefully examined the various traces left on the ground.

"Flames...high temperature melting...even the special material of the obsidian powder was melted?"

After muttering to herself for a long time, Catherine stopped in front of the remains of the magic circle that had been hastily destroyed. After a quick look, she seemed to have come to a conclusion.

"The Passionate Faction. Humph, all men are liars. He's clearly a mage, yet he calls himself an alchemist. His disguise is also the type that wears heavy armor. Could it be that he's not good at close combat at all? Was his previous performance all a disguise using magic?"

After reaching a conclusion that was completely contrary to the correct answer, the Duchess raised her head and made a "hmmmm" expression, and her doubts actually dissipated a lot.

The mages of the Passionate Faction are not famous for their research, but rather for their very public inheritance style, claiming that they will accept anyone who pays.

In addition, the faction's spells are quite powerful, so many adventurers, wild mages or other spellcasters who are mercenaries will choose to pay to purchase their faction's promotion ceremony.

In this case, it is not surprising that the other party covered up their past behavior. After all, whether adventurers or mercenaries, they often have some little secrets and past events that are not suitable for official personnel to know, such as behaviors that have repeatedly jumped within the scope of the law.

"Next time, I'll make that guy thank me."

After saying that, Catherine hummed and jumped around, using her boots to wipe the traces left on the ground until they were unrecognizable.

At the same time, Ivan, who was being muttered to, couldn't help but sneeze.

"A-choo!" The black-haired boy sitting in the carriage wiped his nose.

"Who scolded me?"

"Huh? You caught a cold right after your promotion. Did you fail?" Ka Yang, who was standing across the carriage, asked with a wicked smile.

In fact, he knew from his appearance that Alvin had been successfully promoted, so he was just joking.

"Of course not, the ceremony went smoothly and I'm already at the second level." Ivan patted him casually, and then saw Ka Yang's face flushed red.

"Bones! My bones are breaking!" The necromancer covered his back with his hands, looking like he couldn't breathe due to the pain.

"Uh, sorry. I might not be able to control my strength well after my promotion." Alvin apologized awkwardly.

"Fortunately, I put hardened bone...steel plates under my robe." Khayon glared at Ivan and took out some white fragments from his robe.

Bryant, who was driving the car, couldn't help but twitch his eyes when he saw this scene. "Forget about you, a mage, hiding steel plates under your robes. Those things are clearly bone fragments, right? If you want to hide your identity as a necromancer, you should be more careful!"

Khayon was also secretly shocked. You know, the bones under his robe were not ordinary biological bones, but hardened bone plates after being cast with necromancy. Not only were they much lighter than steel plates of the same volume, but their defensive power was also not as good as those of solid metal creations.

But the savage northern barbarian only patted it half-jokingly...

It's actually broken at the [Elrond Exit]! It's broken!

It's not cracked, nor broken, it's shattered!!!

Although he didn't say anything on the surface, it was as if there was a peanut butter in Khayon's heart, roaring with its head held high.

Was this guy promoted to an Embers Knight or a Berserker? Huh!?!