Star Forge Titan

Hearing this, the assistant lady standing behind Christina who was in contact with the Healing Institute of the Underground Research Headquarters couldn't help but widen her eyes and reveal an expression of disbelief.

"I'm really sorry, but I'd probably feel guilty if I dated the director," Armstrong added.

His words made the researchers in the command center look as if they wanted to laugh but didn't dare.

"Very good. Over the years, you are one of the few brave people who dared to joke about this matter." A bright smile appeared on Christina's face, but that smile seemed to be a cover for the outburst.

"Anna, I order you, if this idiot still has the courage to ask you out after the experiment is completed, you must use the most decisive means..." The twelve-year-old female mage paused and continued:

"Promise him."

"Huh?" The assistant girl made a surprised and doubtful sound.

"Great, I feel like I can hold on again." Mr. Lind Armstrong lowered his head and cheered weakly, but his spirit seemed much more excited.

"What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and record the data!" Christina shouted, waving her little fists without caring about her image.

"Yes, ma'am!" The researchers hurriedly continued their work.

So far, apart from the fact that the pilot is under greater stress than expected, the performance of the Titan Unit-03 has been normal in other aspects.

Researchers have confirmed that it is possible to connect the pilot to the mecha. Yes, unlike ordinary magic mechas controlled by joysticks and buttons, this mysterious giant mecha is actually controlled by another, more magical method.

That is synchronization of consciousness.

To be honest, even for a big country like Linde that masters many cutting-edge magic technologies and also has a new technology system called magical engineering, it is not easy to achieve this.

All of this is based on the origin of the Giant God Soldier Project, an unexpected discovery from an archaeological activity.

The current headquarters of the New Era Institute was just a natural underground cavity at that time, at least people initially believed that the cavity was naturally formed.

But with the discovery of a ruin, everything changed.

Christina's thoughts slowly drifted to the past. At that time, she had maintained the appearance of a twelve-year-old due to an experimental accident, but she was still a high-level magician.

She had no interest in the throne of Lind and chose to devote herself to archaeology and adventure. After concealing her identity as a royal family member, she joined an expedition team with an official background.

Although it has an official background, in addition to financial and material support, the main members of the expedition team are actually adventurers, and some technical advisors are archaeologists and wizards from the neutral magic city - the City of a Thousand Towers.

Therefore, the overall atmosphere is relatively relaxed.

But all this changed after entering this void...

With a slight sigh, Christina withdrew her memories of the past and refocused her attention on the experiment in front of her.

The Difference Engine continuously spit out punched paper, which is then converted into text by the converter and printed out.

From the data shown above, it can be seen that the seal of the divine skeleton is being further lifted, and the activation rate is also rising in an orderly manner, and is about to approach the upper limit preset by Christina, which is a very safe value of 0.1%.

But at this moment, an accident happened!

Chapter 84: Unexpected Incident

Praise Uranus, the giant god who supports the heaven and earth and gives the breeze.

Praise be to Uranus, the giant god who shaped the mountains and gave us the land.

Praise be to Uranus, the giant god who created the rivers and gave us the flowing water.

Praise be to Uranus, the giant god who holds the thunder and gives the warm fire.

Praise be to Uranus, the giant who laid out the forest and gave the seeds.

Praise Uranus, the king of the Titans who holds the sun in his palm, and the light shines through his fingers all over the world.

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[An external link request has been detected. Do you want to allow the connection to the external device?]

Looking at the system prompt that suddenly popped up in front of him, Ivan, who had almost forgotten that he even had a system, was completely dumbfounded.

Can someone explain to me what an external link request is? Is this a mistake?! Did I eat Bluetooth or swallow Wi-Fi? I was just evacuating during the earthquake, and suddenly there's an external link request?

Could it be that the thing that's causing trouble underground has something to do with me? How did this blame fly out of nowhere?!

Of course, Alvin would not completely forget about the system in his body.

He still remembered what he had seen in his consciousness space when he summoned the giant god form last time.

In addition to the divine emblem he obtained when he made a covenant with the great god Odin, there was another divine emblem in the shape of an Ouroboros floating quietly in his consciousness space. Judging from its appearance, it was an emblem of the ancient god of wisdom, and he was completely unaware of its origin.

After much thought, he concluded that the only possible connection was with his own system. Therefore, before he understood the other party's purpose, Alvin consciously avoided using the system.

At most, you can just browse the information of your current character card.

Anyway, he is the type of person who prefers to be down-to-earth and solve problems by himself.

The old player's familiarity with the world of Palladia is enough to put him far ahead of the times, although it seems now that he is not completely ahead.

Looking at the system prompt that popped up without warning, Alvin fell into silence.

To click or not to click?

Just like when the prompt "Do you want to know the meaning of life?" suddenly popped up on his computer screen, he was now very confused.

On the one hand, there is vigilance against systems of unknown origin, and on the other hand, there is curiosity about this sudden situation.

As a person who is naturally not too stupid, although the stability and rationality in Ivan's character usually prevail, but as a young man and a player, when faced with such a situation, sometimes the decision to act may not be rational, but may also be... intuition.

His intuition told him that, to be more precise, it was a hint from the genetic factors of higher beings flowing in their souls and blood in the form of information patterns. This was something very unfamiliar to him, but very familiar to the Blood of the Titans.

allow……

Just like operating the player panel in a game, Alvin used his consciousness to issue permission.

[Starting to connect to external device. The target application mana equation is incomplete. Unable to complete the soul network connection over a long distance. The link has been disconnected. Please configure the complete driver equation first or make physical contact with the target object.]

???

I understand the mana equation; it's simply a valid narrative constructed using ancient text and runes. Magical circle studies mention this information. But what is a driver formula? A magical driver? Could it be that the thing that just connected to me was... a mouse?

Or something like a keyboard, USB flash drive, or Bluetooth headset?

Although he pressed the confirm button, the result only made Ivan have more question marks in his head, so that he didn't understand what exactly happened.

His dazed look also made people around him feel a little strange.

"Evan?" Diana called out in a low voice but received no response.

Seeing this, Khayang also frowned. He poked the other party with his duel staff, but when there was no response, he muttered something in a low voice that only the two of them could hear.

"Barbarians from the north?"

"?" After coming back to his senses, Ivan glared at a necromancer fiercely, then looked at Diana who was looking a little worried.

"I'm fine, just a little distracted."

"You can even be distracted during an earthquake? You're really brave." Catherine, who was taking shelter in the same corner with several others, snorted and curled her lips, obviously not believing this reason.

"Oh, I was just wondering what caused this earthquake?" Alvin explained softly.

"Although earthquakes have rarely occurred in the Vulcan Basin, the location of Steel City Vulcan is close to the edge of the basin. It wouldn't be surprising if an earthquake occurred, right?" Catherine frowned, not understanding what the black-haired boy next to her meant.

Because her father died early, she succeeded to the throne as a Duchess at birth and naturally received a full set of elite education, including teaching on geography.

Although Lind's geography was still at the level of empirical science that recorded various phenomena and the research on the causes of geographical phenomena was relatively superficial, it had at least become a complete discipline.

So, of course there will be various records about the patterns of earthquakes.

"I just think this earthquake is a bit strange. Compared to a deep earthquake caused by geological tectonic changes deep in the earth, it is more like a shallow earthquake caused by a landslide or other sudden geographical changes." Ivan made this judgment based on the number and frequency of aftershocks.

Unlike the aristocratic elite education that Catherine received from her tutor, most of the geography knowledge he mastered came from high school textbooks. As for university, well, it was well known that most university majors did not require the study of geography.

The two people who were talking did not know that an accident was happening in a secret testing ground under their feet.

"Be careful!" Christina shouted into the communicator in a bad mood:

Just when the activation rate of the Divine Remains reached 0.1%, the pilot Armstrong inadvertently had a distracting thought, causing the Colossus Unit 3, whose range of action was gradually expanding due to the increased activation rate, to release a wave of disordered magic power.

This is no small matter. Not to mention the enormous magic power stored in the Giant God Soldier itself, the magic power generated by the super-giant magic engine designed and manufactured after the Star Furnace is already an astonishing number.

Therefore, the leaked magic fluctuations caused the entire secret testing ground to shake for a moment, and other areas of the underground headquarters of Truth Rock above would obviously be affected as well.

I hope this doesn't cause too much damage...

Christina thought helplessly.

However, at this moment, the real accident happened.

The 'young' director, who looked twelve years old, had originally thought that the frivolous man would apologize with a silly smile after his rebuke, but what came out from the audio speaker that maintained the communication was a creepy and inexplicable sentence.

"Praise to U...La...Nos..."

Chapter 85 Rampage

Everyone's expressions froze immediately.

"Hail U...La...Nos..." Armstrong muttered to himself with lifeless eyes, reciting a hymn in an unfamiliar ancient language that no one had ever heard of.

"Armstrong, please answer! Pilot, please answer!" Christina's voice came from the communicator.

However, Armstrong on the other end seemed to hear nothing, and continued to recite a strange hymn in an ancient language he had never learned before.

At the same time, the printing device connected to the difference engine was spitting out long rolls of punched paper like crazy. The researchers familiar with machine language did not have time to use a translator and directly forced the deciphering of the data content, but then came to a disturbing conclusion.

"Anomalous activation of the Divine Relic has been confirmed, and assimilation has occurred! The pilot's mind has been contaminated, and unfamiliar information is being imported!"

Just now, the divine skeleton, which should have been as quiet as a dead object under normal circumstances, suddenly became abnormal. Even the true blood originally stored in the deepest part of the divine skeleton began to flicker with a faint light.

"Praise, praise... Uranus, the giant god who supports the heavens and the earth..."

A strange red light lit up in the cockpit, and some luminous liquid was quietly flowing outside the cockpit. Armstrong, the pilot, lowered his head, blood was flowing from his nostrils, and the whites of his eyes were covered with blood.

The cable connecting the back of the helmet to the Colossus Unit 03, Bekas, flashed with moving spots of light at an unprecedented speed, indicating that the pilot's brain was exchanging information with the body at an extremely high frequency.

Christina in the other half of the command center seemed to be aware of this. She waved her folding fan without hesitation. The opened fan was covered with fine runes, and an expensive magic gem was inlaid at the end of the handle. This folding fan was actually a uniquely shaped staff.

"Tremor, Focus, Holy, Super Magic Conduction!"

The phrases spoken in the ancient language contained powerful magical power. Although she looked like only a twelve-year-old girl, she was able to complete the superb spell-casting skills in a short period of time, which was based on a fixed spell but the transmission medium was replaced by sound.

At this moment, the powerful strength of the Crown Mage was undoubtedly demonstrated.

"wake up!"

Christina's voice came into Armstrong's ears through the communicator, making him tremble as if he was electrocuted.

The hymns he was chanting finally stopped, but what followed was an unbearable pain. Even experienced warriors could not bear the feeling that went straight to the brain.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" Armstrong curled up on the driver's seat. The blood gushing from his nose dyed half of his face red, making him look extremely hideous and terrifying.

On the other hand, the command center also found that things were sliding towards an abyss that was getting worse and more difficult to control.

"The activation rate of the divine remains has further increased, 0.12%, 0.14%, 0.2%... 0.83% and is still rising!" The researcher who grabbed the punched paper to decipher it sounded like a scream, his face full of fear, and his hands trembled uncontrollably.

“0.89%, 0.92%, 0.99%…it’s about to break through the critical value!”

In previous startup tests, researchers at the New Era Institute confirmed that when the activation rate is below 1%, even if an assimilation phenomenon occurs accidentally, it will only affect the driver's own mind.

But when the activation rate of the divine corpse exceeds 1%, that phenomenon will break through the spiritual level and directly affect the surrounding matter.

Yes, if it exceeds this seemingly tiny quality by just 1%, the degree of danger of the situation will change drastically.

At this point, many researchers in the command center can already observe with their naked eyes through the crystal screen the assimilation phenomenon that directly affects the material level.

Like a rapidly growing strange plant, conical crystals with irregular edges emerged from the thick metal armor on the chest of the Colossus Unit 03 like stalagmites, as if the solid armor did not exist at all.

These crystals initially appeared to be a mixture of green and gold, but then, under the illumination of the ever-increasing light from within, they completely transformed into a dark gold color.

If Alvin were here, he would definitely not be unfamiliar with this color, because that is the magical glow produced when the Titan's core talent [Reshaping the World] is activated!

In addition to the chest, crystals began to form in the joints of the Colossus Unit 03, which increased in size rapidly as if crystals were precipitating.

At the same time, the metal armor on the surface of the Giant God Soldier and the outer wall of the laboratory it was leaning against became inexplicably dilapidated as if they were swallowed by some invisible object.

What was revealed afterwards was the internal structure of the Giant God Soldier beneath the armor.

In a sense, that is the real Giant God Soldier.

Even though it looked like just a...skeleton.

Looking through the damaged armor, one can see that the interior of the Giant God Soldier is filled with a large number of complex mechanical devices.

But what truly supports the entire machine is a huge skeleton that exudes a deep blue color and seems to be cast from blue-green rusted bronze.