Chapter 233: Improving Oneself


    The young Titan hesitated but eventually epted Adam''s gift. "Let''s exchange the me Vibration. If I advance sessfully some day, I will return these to you many times over!"


    A dayter, Windme 222 found Adam and handed him something simr to amunication plugin. Its function was to constantly record Honors in battle. By attaching it to the Vital Generator, the Honors earned from defeating Metal Eaters could be directly recorded.


    At this moment, the number disyed on the Honor module was 227. Adam was puzzled, knowing his railgun shot couldn''t have killed so many Metal Eaters. "How can there be so many?"


    "There are also spoils of war. The spoils we don''t need can be turned in, and those can also be converted into Honors."


    Adam knew even with the spoils being converted, the number seemed too high. After all, they were the main force in the battle, and he had only yed a minor role during their brief rest. It must have been the Titans in the patrol squad who had secretly allocated a portion of their rightful share to Adam.


    Windme 222 smiled and said, "You are an Intelligent. Intelligents are very powerful. Bluewater 457 and the others think that you will be even more powerful once you be a Commander or a Warlord, so... yeah, we''d better be nice to you."


    Adam didn''t expect these Titans to have such thoughts and epted the Honors with a chuckle. "If I really am an Intelligent, I won''t forget you guys."


    Windme 222, looking pleased, tried to pat Adam but Adam quickly dodged. Unembarrassed, Windme 222 touched his head and continued, "I and Bluewater 457 have introduced you to other Commanders. They mighte to find you before they go on missions in the next few days. If you have time, you can go with them. Don''t worry, they will definitely protect you."


    He hurriedly added, fearing Adam might be reluctant since Titans usually don''t send newborns to the battlefield, "Honors are very useful. The more you have, the sooner you can advance to a Knight. It''s very hard for other newborns to get Honors."


    Adam nodded in understanding. Being a Novice, he had few things he could do on his own.


    No matter what he wanted to do, reaching the knight level as soon as possible was the current main goal. He thought of the newborn made of alloy and impurities and asked, "How do other newborns umte resources for advancement?"


    "They work for other Titans. Ironburg is at the front line, and there are very few newborns born here. There are also not many Titans willing to take in new ones. Oh, I know who you are talking about---the little iron guy? He will be sent to the ind soon."


    "And me?"


    Windme 222 looked at Adam curiously and said, "You are an Intelligent. How can an Intelligent be the same as a normal newborn? Look, the Honors you''ve umted on this mission are more than what a normal newborn could earn in a whole year."


    After a silent goodbye to Windme 222, Adam walked towards the interior of Ironburg. Over two hundred Honors were indeed very useful; they could help Adam understand the Titans'' advancement methods.


    The Original mes, the Vital Generator, and the body were the mainponents of a Titan. Each advancement required all three to undergo changes together.


    There wasn''t much to say about the Vital Generator and the body because their strength entirely depended on the energy of the Original mes and the strength of the alloys that made up the body.


    To strengthen the Original mes, one needed to intensify its burning and ''program'' within the spark.


    The more intense the burning, the more energy could be released in a given time. This was entirely a matter of resource umtion.


    These concepts were easy to understand, but ''programming'' was a more abstract concept.


    Titans called themands that drive their bodies "Spark Code."


    The Original mes were akin to a Titan''s soul, heart, brain, neurons, sensors, and other main structuresbined. Or more figuratively, it was the processor of thisrge robot, issuingmands to control the body.


    The Original mes needed to understand the properties of the metals making up the body and the functions of energy circuits to fully unleash a Titan''s strength.


    For instance, if Adam has enough Honors, he could directly exchange them for Windme alloy, a metal thatbines wind and fire energies, to make up his body. But doing so would result inplete paralysis since Adam''s Original mes didn''t understand Windme alloy and thus couldn''t control the body to exert power.


    The same went for energy circuits. If the mes don''t understand the principles, even if circuits are built in the Vital Generator, not a bit of energy can be activated.


    In a way, this was simr to mages, except that mages needed to understand moreplex knowledge and had more powerful means of using energy. But there were also differences. In the world of mages, there are ''magic ck boxes'' that some mages can use without understanding the principles.


    ...


    The Spark Code was worth fifty Honors. After the exchange, Adam was even more convinced that Titans had the potential to be a civilization.


    The Spark Code simtes the fluctuations of the spark and summarizes the unstable fluctuations into special information.


    This wasplex to exin, but Adam could think of it as a variant of runes. By creating a conversion algorithm, Adam could freely activate abilities under the rune system with Spark Code.


    After learning this code system, Adam realized that his previous method of directly inscribing magic arrays into his body was too crude. He was entirely relying on knowledge from another ne to forcefully output energy, first activating the mes, then the Vital Generator, and only then could the energy be transferred to the circuit.


    For a true Titan, activating energy required only one step: starting the Vital Generator. Once the Vital Generator was up and running, energy naturally flowed and activated within the body.


    Learning this code was easy for Adam. After mastering it in a day, he began to modify it himself.


    The modification took five days. Adam exchanged all his remaining Honors for high-purity mithril and standard energy blocks. Then he threw them all into his mes. This caused Adam''s height to surge to twelve meters.


    Hepletely destroyed the numerous and mixed attribute circuits in his body and Vital Generator, leaving only the electromaic parts. He knew that it was best to specialize in the early stages of advancement, as being tooplex would only slow down the advancement speed.


    After incorporating this knowledge into the Original mes using Spark Code, his body changed ordingly. Adam could clearly sense every mithril atom in his body and their maic fields.


    By controlling these maic fields and the free electrons in the atoms, the repulsion between them was minimized to the greatest extent possible with Adam''s current abilities, resulting in a morepact body.


    He shrank from twelve meters to six meters.


    Reducing in size did not mean bing weaker. At this height, Adam''s physical strength had more than doubledpared to before. Now, Adam could freely control the hardness of his body. He would no longer find himself being easily ttened by a casual p from Windme 222."