Star Forge Titan

Although he could originally extract the power of fire elements through the flawless gem to create fire element crystals, he was unable to accurately control the degree of precision of the combination of elemental power and material world minerals, so he could only produce flammable and explosive materials that could not remain stable for a long time.

But now that his abilities have improved, Alvin can produce fire element crystals that can be preserved stably for a long time.

This crystalline gem with balanced internal elemental power will not easily release the fire elemental power contained within to cause explosion or combustion, even if it falls to the ground or is hit with a hammer, unless it is stimulated by magic in a specific way. It can be said that it is quite safe in every sense.

Moreover, Ivan, whose magic capacity limit has increased several times, uses the power of [Reshaping the World] to create gems that are better than before in terms of both volume and quality.

The prerequisite for this method is to possess the talent of [Reshaping the World] and a flawless gem of inestimable price that can connect to the elemental world. Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he will not regard selling elemental gems as a way to get rich for the time being.

But looking at the olive-shaped thrusters at the rear of the vehicle on the blueprint, the smile on the black-haired boy's face gradually turned playful. He came up with a new idea that could further improve the vehicle's short-distance burst capability.

It is now the third day since we started making the prototype, and there are still fifteen days before the competition officially begins. Considering the time Diana needs to get familiar with the new car, this number of days is not very generous.

Therefore, everyone in the workshop started working overtime.

Due to the new requirements put forward by Ivan, Kayon moved his bedding into the laboratory. His job was to produce the second generation of high-efficiency and high-quality catalysts to ensure the rapid start-up of the auxiliary propulsion device at the rear of the racing car.

Although Diana usually has to help Mother Theresa manage the orphanage, Mother Theresa and her brothers and sisters there all expressed their support for her to prepare for the battle with all her strength. They drove the hesitant girl over and were currently practicing her driving skills outside in Old Patton's magic taxi, which had a shockwave engine installed by Ivan.

Although the Beetle was completely unable to withstand the full power operation of the magic engine after Ivan's further strengthening, which would cause the car to disintegrate on the spot, it was still no problem to use it as a training car to familiarize people with the characteristics of the new engine.

Moreover, since the victory in the last game, old Patton, who was originally a little hesitant, seemed to have made up his mind. During this period, he began to secretly teach Diana some skills that had never been mentioned before.

But if anyone came a little closer, old Patton would immediately drive them away with a glare.

But Alvin still found some clues from the strange driving route of the magic car Beetle he rented.

However, he did not say anything, but secretly wondered what this old man who went to the orphanage to give flowers to Mother Teresa every day did?

On the other hand, Bryant followed Ivan's instructions and transferred many antique collections from the Vampire Count to the black market and handed them over to the gang leader "Don" who came from Maria Orphanage to sell in exchange for the additional funds needed to build new cars.

Although Catherine could provide some assistance, in order to prevent others from speculating on the characteristics of his racing car from aspects such as cost consumption, Alvin did not pin all his hopes on the investment of the Carolingian royal family.

The hairy druid, who was originally just an employer, once took the initiative to ask Alvin why he trusted an adventurer like him who was not very familiar to him.

With such a large amount of money, for most ordinary adventurers, the probability of them choosing to run away with all the money is very high.

At that time, the black-haired boy looked at him in surprise, and then replied:

"Aren't you a disciple of the Archdruid Kakarom, the White Ape? Given your mentor's personality, if a disciple did something like this, he would personally arrest you without anyone saying anything, right?"

"Huh? Did I say...?" Bryant looked at Ivan in surprise.

"Your last name is 'Oak', right? This surname is typical of the Great Wild Forest Druid tribe. And the druid school that can master the transformation of multiple animal forms at a low level is not something that can be achieved through any common promotion ceremony." The black-haired boy spoke in a very casual tone, speaking of this knowledge that most ordinary extraordinary people might not necessarily master.

At the beginning of this new era where information exchange has not yet accelerated, even extraordinary people often only know the various knowledge and information passed down by their own schools. The former can still rely on the school's own efforts to research and develop, but information is something with a strong timeliness and needs to be circulated to ensure its effectiveness.

The reason why Alvin knew so much was mainly due to what he had seen and heard in the game. After all, a fifth-level player, even if he didn't visit forums often, could passively learn a lot of information that ordinary people couldn't grasp during the game.

"Plus..." Alvin paused and stopped what he was doing.

He looked at Bryant's hairy orc-human hybrid features and smiled in a way that made the other person feel a little uneasy.

"Among the many ancient druid tribes, there seems to be only one whose members are mostly mixed-race. Is that right? The Oak Guardian of the Friends of the Forest."

"Aha, haha, hahaha." Bryant laughed dryly a few times, said no more, and immediately ran to work seriously.

Are you kidding? Your employer knows everything about you and pays you readily. He never uses you as cannon fodder and always rushes to the front in dangerous tasks.

If he had any other ideas, the other party would not have to do anything. The teacher who hated evil would have turned his hairy head down and buried it next to the oak tree roots as fertilizer.

"Speaking of those antiques, don't you plan to keep a few for your collection?" Ka Yang's voice suddenly came from beside him.

"Have you finished your work?" Ivan continued with his work and asked without turning his head.

"It's just a small matter, very easy." Ka Yang answered in his unique sweet voice with a casual tone.

However, judging from his messy hair that was 200% designed to resemble the Bird's Nest and the heavy dark circles under his eyes, the actual situation was obviously not as easy as he said.

"Antiques! I can't appreciate those paintings or artworks. They're not high-quality magical equipment. It's better to exchange them for practical and usable materials to advance the plan. After all, our goal has never been to make a lot of money." Ivan said softly.

"Indeed, Linde's hidden knowledge of magical engineering is his real purpose." Ka Yang sighed. Although he already knew the other party's character, he was still somewhat impressed by the pragmatism of the young man in front of him.

"Have you ever considered keeping a few pieces to take back as gifts? People in noble families generally like those things, right?" The necromancer scratched his head. Although he didn't say it explicitly, he believed that the other party must understand who the gifts in his words were for.

"She won't care." A smile unconsciously appeared on Ivan's lips.

"Compared to a few meaningless gifts, wouldn't it make her happier to complete her goal and return safely?"

“…” Ka Yang’s face darkened.

Tai, are you saying that you are the best gift?

[Elrond swears! Beep—beep—beep beep! Elrond swears! Beep beep! Elrond swears!]

Although I was angry in my heart, when I thought of the people far away in my hometown, my mental fatigue was inexplicably less.

"Okay, bring the catalyst, let's test the strength of this new guy."

Alvin took two steps back and looked at the olive-shaped thruster he had made with his own hands out of alloy material.

Relying on the naturally unbreakable secret alliance between the descendants of Titans and the dwarves, even though the other party was willing to offer a lower price, he still got a lot of high-quality materials from Kamler's workshop at a price equivalent to the market price.

Anyway, the money was stolen.JPG

The thruster itself was luxuriously constructed from a strong yet lightweight mithril alloy. The internal combustion chamber, in particular, was made from a special alloy that was resistant to high temperatures and pressures, incorporating other rare materials.

At this moment, Alvin embedded a fist-sized fire element crystal into the combustion pressure chamber.

The structure of this thruster is actually not complicated, and its opening can be divided into three main steps.

First, the combustion pressure chamber activates the fire element crystals stored inside, and then uses inert magic metal rods with low magic conductivity to slow down the explosion of this power.

When the explosive force generated by the fire element crystal is transmitted backward, it will pass through the enchanted acceleration chamber with magic equations and magic circles engraved on it, where it will be further constrained and transformed into a form similar to a magic shock wave.

Finally, this fire element impact will be ejected outward along the high-intensity variable vector nozzle at the end, forming a powerful propulsion with controllable direction.

Simply put, it's a magical version of a jet engine.

Something similar will probably not appear in the magic engineering system until about thirty years later.

Considering that the technology used in this thing is not advanced magical knowledge, the key can be easily understood as long as it is disassembled, so Alvin directly designed this pair of thrusters into disposable products with an extremely short service life.

After the competition, even if someone forcibly took the original, all they would get was a pile of nearly molten scrap metal.

The reason why he did this was naturally to ensure that the balance of power among countries on the mainland would not change too much at this stage.

As for Elrond, considering the harsh climate in the north, the first thing they have to solve is the domestic production problem. Even if the arcane transformation technology has made a qualitative leap, the primary goal is to solve various internal needs.

Coupled with the traditional ideas of the Elrond people and the natural fear of food shortages among residents in harsh areas, under the premise that internal technology can solve the problem, radical policies such as outward expansion to transfer internal pressure, which require time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly policies, are unlikely to be the first choice of the rulers.

I'm busy farming, I'll beat you [Elrond swear] beat you.JPG

More importantly, Alvin has 100% confidence in Frey.

As he finished his recollection, he heard Kayon's uncertain voice beside him.

"Are you sure this thing can be experimented in the yard?" The necromancer carefully took out the catalyst he made. Unlike the previous solid tablets with a metallic luster, which had been extracted and purified many times, the catalyst he made this time was simply a magic crystal emitting a faint blue light.

"Don't worry. I've deliberately increased the number of inert metal rods to slow down the reaction, and also reduced the amount of fire elemental crystals to one-tenth of the designed capacity. To be frank, this experiment is simply to see if the conversion jet mechanism can operate smoothly."

"Besides, this thing is our trump card for the competition, and we can't just expose it to the public."

As he spoke, Alvin took the solid catalytic tablet made of blue crystal material and took a look at it.

The full name of this thing is Crystallized Heavy Metal Magic Catalyst, which can ensure that the entire fire element crystal can fully stimulate the elemental power in a short period of time, and prevent the internal structure of the crystal from being unbalanced due to insufficient activation of elemental power, and eventually cause an uncontrollable explosion when the crystal breaks.

To put it simply, it is to turn an uncontrollable big bang into a controllable big bang.

"That's what you said last time when you were testing the new engine." Khayang muttered, and without waiting for Ivan to continue explaining, he dived behind the shelter prepared in advance.

"Just kidding, I'm absolutely sure this time, you have to believe me!" Alvin shrugged and raised his hand to stuff the crystallized tablet into the olive-shaped thruster.

"You said the same thing last time..." Khayon's words gradually faded away, and he had obviously gone deep into the bunker.

Pursing his lips, Alvin raised his hand and pressed the activation button.

In an instant, visible light emerged from the nozzle behind the olive-shaped thruster.

At first, there was only a wisp of red flame as thick as a silk thread, followed by circles of ring-shaped flames that spewed out backwards one after another, gradually superimposing into a conical jet of flame that was thicker in the front and thinner in the back.

At the same time, the propellers, which were firmly fixed to the ground with metal frames, began to vibrate, and the whistling sound of the wind in the air turned into a sharp whistling sound almost like an arrow breaking through the air in a very short time.

"Huh?" Alvin was stunned for a moment and subconsciously took a step back.

This speed seems, perhaps, a little too fast...

In less than a second, the jet flame behind the thruster turned directly into a conical shock wave, and the screws on the metal frame began to move outward due to the increasingly intense vibrations, and soon burst into fragments under the excessive stress and flew everywhere.

The 'explosion' inside the thruster was indeed stably controlled as Ivan had planned, but the resulting propulsion force was beyond his imagination, causing the metal frame that fixed the thruster to be unable to continue to support it.

The most serious accident occurred as a result.

The olive-shaped thruster turned into a missile and rushed straight out, about to break free from everyone's control and run towards the freedom in the distance.

At this moment, a tall figure stood in front of the out-of-control thruster.

"Why are you running!?!"

Chapter 191: Birds of a feather flock together

Although there was no reason, Ka Yang felt that these words were also spoken to himself.

Anyway, he was now staring in amazement at a barbarian from the North, who, like a wild horse that had broken free from its reins, grabbed the thrusters that were about to break free from the metal frame and fly out.

By the way, in Kayang's opinion, this thing is simply a flying and dangerous explosive.

Ivan raised his hand to grab the thrusters, and his legs were pulled forward by the strong man on the ground, leaving two deep grooves.

But the distance of the ravine was less than fifty centimeters, and he accurately found a sufficiently strong support point, and then his whole body was like an ancient hero wrestling with a huge beast, with his legs firmly fixed on the ground, one in front and one behind.

Ivan grabbed the arm of the violent metal beast as if it were made of the same iron and steel, and with an unshakable momentum, he tied the roaring thruster firmly to his side.

The power released by the fire element crystal was transformed by the steel into a powerful propulsion shock wave, which, under the constraint of the vector nozzle, turned into a long and narrow tongue of fire that spewed out violently backwards.

But all this did not allow it to run towards freedom.

"Hey, hey, hey, man, do you know how valuable you are? Don't even think about running away secretly."

Amidst the deafening roar, Ivan jokingly shouted at the out-of-control thrusters:

Then, the black-haired boy's eyes moved rapidly, and his gaze quickly swept across the countless papers that were rolled up by the air flow.

Then, without arrogance or impatience, he raised his other free arm and seemingly casually grabbed a piece of calculation paper that happened to float to his side.

"Ah, so I made a mistake here. Was it just a stupid mistake I made while my mind was wandering? Hey, ever since elementary school, those few times I didn't get full marks seemed to be because of this. As expected, I shouldn't think about numbers when my mind is wandering."

"I thought I could avoid this situation by improving my intelligence, but it seems I'm still far from it."

After muttering to himself as he corrected his mistake, Alvin calmly held the calculation paper with the incorrect formula next to the tail flame spewing from the thruster.

The high-temperature and high-pressure magic flow generated by the power released by the fire element crystal immediately ignited the thin manuscript paper.

He released his fingers and let the burning manuscript fly high into the sky, burning with the strong wind blown out by the engine.

Ivan watched the other party turn into sparks and ashes that could no longer be seen and disappear at the end of his sight.

"Okay, it's time for you to shut up."

The black-haired boy cast his gaze towards the frantic propulsion device beside him. His slightly curly, half-long hair danced wildly in the wind, and the ends gradually turned a flaming orange-red, as if dyed red by the fierce tail flames of the propulsion device.

"That guy... is becoming less and less like a human being." In the bunker, Khayon muttered to himself in amazement:

As a participant in the experimental program, he knew how terrifying the thrust that thruster could produce, even though there was only a small amount of fuel filled in it and the thrust power was not raised to the maximum.

But it is still a terrifying force that ordinary people and even most low-level extraordinary people cannot shake!

however……

The arm holding the thruster slowly bent inward.

The moment the muscles bulged, there was an extremely loud sound as if steel was bending.

Ivan's movements were neither violent nor fast, but they silently revealed an unstoppable firmness.

The out-of-control thruster designed to propel the entire racing car forward at high speed was actually dragged to his side by him using the strength of a single arm.

Amidst the howling wind, the black-haired boy raised his hand and pressed the olive-shaped shell of the thruster, his fingers reaching for the emergency brake button steadily without any trembling.

That was the safety device he had temporarily installed before the test, but for some reason, it was not made into a remote-controlled type, but a type that required one to get close to the thrusters to press it.

Just like popping open a beer bottle cap with one hand, Alvin used his index finger to pry open the safety cover above the brake button, then knocked it down with his fist.

Boom! The deceleration rod made of expensive inert magic metal inside the thruster quickly extended inward, and the rod body was completely immersed in the activated elemental power that was trapped in the combustion chamber like a fireball. The resulting obstruction disturbance effect gradually calmed down the explosive fire elemental power.

At the same time, all the emergency exhaust vents on all sides were opened, spewing out the remaining fire elemental power. The temperature of the surrounding air rose rapidly, but the tongues of fire spewing out from behind the thrusters gradually extinguished until they turned into wisps of incompletely burned smoke rising into the sky.