Chapter 338: The Titans Who Could Forge Anything!

[ANVIL TITAN]

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Rank: SSR

Type: Origin Skill

Classification: Origin Authority

Status: Awakened

Previous Evolution:

"NEXUS TITAN — SSS+"

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[DESCRIPTION]

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"The Origin Skill born from the Titans who forged impossibility itself."

Beyond the realities known to Valtharion once existed an ancient universe inhabited by a Titan civilization that did not depend upon gods, predetermined paths, or any single natural law.

They were known as—

"THE ANVIL TITANS"

Unlike ordinary Titans who specialized in particular elements, bodies, Authorities, or laws, the Anvil Titans devoted themselves entirely to Forging, and to them, ordinary metal was merely the simplest material that could enter a forge.

Fire, gravity, bloodlines, abilities, souls, curses, techniques, divine power, celestial bodies, Authorities, natural phenomena, and even forces that should normally be incompatible could all be treated as forging materials.

Through this path, they eventually created an Origin Method that surpassed every conventional form of fusion.

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[ORIGIN AUTHORITY]

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■ "HEAVEN FORGE"

"The forge does not care what something once was; it only cares what it can become."

Heaven Forge allows the wielder to treat powers, abilities, techniques, energies, substances, phenomena, and other valid existences as forging materials, then merge and reforge them into a completely new result.

The process does not simply activate several abilities at the same time, because once the forging is completed, the original materials are combined into a single unified phenomenon that carries properties from everything used to create it.

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[ANVIL TITAN LORE.....]

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"Okay, this is even more broken than the previous one."

Luke muttered in genuine surprise as he continued reading the new Authority, because what Heaven Forge allowed him to accomplish reminded him of the attack he had created inside the artificial world, yet the principle behind the two was completely different.

Back then, Luke had forced several techniques and abilities to work together at the same time, using Cosmic Eclipse, Heaven’s Palm, Severance, Absolute Strength, and the support of multiple Cosmic Systems to create the **Cosmic Severinity Eclipse Punch**. The result had been absurdly powerful, but achieving it had required several different conditions to align, along with enough control to keep all those powers functioning together without collapsing.

More importantly, Luke had only been able to attempt something on that scale because he was using an Atlas-based physique, and even then, Vorthar had been the better choice because its body could endure far greater backlash than his other Titan forms.

If Luke had attempted the same combination through one of his weaker Titan bodies, the strain alone would likely have overwhelmed the transformation and forced him back into his human form long before the attack was completed.

Heaven Forge completely changed that problem.

Instead of forcing several independent powers to cooperate temporarily, the Anvil Titan’s method could take those abilities, techniques, energies, or other materials and genuinely forge them into a single unified result, meaning the finished technique would no longer behave like several different powers being maintained at once.

Even better, because Heaven Forge had become part of his Origin Skill, Luke could access it through any of his Harmonized Titans rather than being restricted to Atlas Titan or Vorthar whenever he wanted to create a complicated combination.

’System, thanks for finding me such an amazing Titan.’

Luke praised the System sincerely while continuing through the palace corridor.

[It’s fine.]

[You should also read their lore. Understanding where these Titans came from and how they used their abilities may help you grasp their methods faster, and you might even learn something that isn’t immediately obvious from the Authority description.]

Luke paused for half a step before continuing forward as though nothing had happened, while several servants passed through the corridor without paying him much attention.

Recently, he had noticed that the System had begun providing far more detailed lore concerning the Titans connected to him, just as it had done after Sevaroth awakened, and although Luke had originally treated those histories as additional information, he had gradually realized how useful they actually were.

Knowing how a Titan civilization had developed its methods, what problems those methods were created to solve, and how their strongest members had used them gave Luke far more insight than simply reading an ability description.

"Alright, show me."

The System responded immediately, and the previous screen disappeared before another page unfolded in front of Luke.

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[ANVIL TITAN — LORE]

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Long before the rise of many known civilizations, somewhere beyond the realities connected to Valtharion existed a universe called *Vorgael*, a realm where an ancient Titan race developed along a path completely different from ordinary elemental, physical, or Authority-based Titans. These beings eventually became known as the *Anvil Titans*, although the name had little to do with ordinary blacksmithing, because by the height of their civilization, metal was considered one of the simplest materials their forges could handle.

The foundation of their civilization was an ancient Origin Method known as *Heaven Forge*, a technique born from a simple belief that defined their entire species: if something existed, then under the correct conditions, it could become material for something new.

Anvil Titans could certainly forge weapons, armor, cities, and artifacts like ordinary craftsmen, but those were merely the earliest applications of their power, since their true mastery allowed them to forge things that other civilizations did not even consider physical materials. Fire could be placed inside their forge alongside gravity, while bloodlines could be combined with elements, curses could be fused with weapons, and techniques could be reforged together with supernatural Authorities until the original distinction between them disappeared.

This was the true nature of **Heaven Forge**.

When several things entered the Forge, they were not simply attached together or activated at the same time, because Heaven Forge broke them down to their fundamental properties before rebuilding them as a new and unified existence. A blade forged from fire and lightning would therefore not merely possess flames surrounding electricity, because the finished creation could become something whose very nature carried both properties as one, while more advanced Anvil Titans could perform the same process with abilities, souls, divine energies, celestial phenomena, bloodlines, natural laws, and even powers belonging to completely different systems.

Because of this, the Anvil Titans never developed a strict classification for what could or could not become forging material, and their only true limitations were the strength of the smith, the stability of the materials, and the amount of energy required to complete the forging.

As their understanding grew, Vorgael itself gradually changed alongside them.

Stars were converted into furnaces whose heat could temper powers that ordinary Titan flames could not affect, while black holes became compression chambers used to force incompatible materials together under gravity that few living bodies could survive. Dead planets were reshaped into planetary anvils, and entire nebulae became reservoirs containing matter, elemental energy, and rare cosmic substances collected over millions of years.

Their cities were forged instead of constructed, and some of their greatest structures were created from materials taken from several different worlds, causing entire continents to possess properties that had never naturally existed in Vorgael.

Eventually, the strongest Anvil Titans learned to carry living forges inside their own bodies.

At that level, they no longer required stationary workshops, because their hearts became furnaces while their bodies served as anvils capable of containing the pressure produced during supernatural forging. During battle, such Titans could seize an incoming attack, combine it with one of their own Authorities and material taken from the battlefield, then forge everything into a new technique before the fight had even ended.

This ability made encounters with high-level Anvil Titans increasingly unpredictable, because revealing a powerful technique before them could potentially provide another material for the Titan’s next creation.

Their civilization reached its highest point after the completion of **The First Grand Forge**, a structure located at the center of Vorgael and connected to countless lesser forges throughout the universe.

According to the surviving records, the First Grand Forge was constructed using the core of Vorgael’s first star, the gravitational remnant of a collapsed galaxy, fragments of several natural laws, and the remains of three divine beings defeated during the Anvil Titans’ expansion. The soul-fire of their first emperor was eventually added as the final component, turning the Forge into something that behaved less like a machine and more like a living extension of their entire civilization.

With the First Grand Forge, projects that no single Anvil Titan could complete became possible.

Thousands of Titans could contribute power simultaneously while the Forge processed materials on a universal scale, allowing Vorgael to create new supernatural phenomena that had never naturally formed anywhere within their reality.

Among their greatest smiths were beings who earned titles such as **World-Smith**, **Law-Forger**, and **God-Anvil**, with each title representing achievements rather than simple positions of nobility. A World-Smith could use planets and celestial structures as forging material, while a Law-Forger possessed enough understanding to place fragments of natural laws inside the Forge, and those known as God-Anvils had developed bodies capable of enduring forces that could destroy ordinary divine beings during the forging process.

Standing above all of them was the ruler of their civilization, remembered only as **The First Smith**.

The First Smith was considered the greatest practitioner of Heaven Forge ever born among the Anvil Titans, and legends claimed that he could simultaneously control forging processes that would normally require entire groups of Law-Forgers. One surviving story described him taking seven incompatible Authorities belonging to different cosmic beings and reforging them into a single attack, after which he used that creation against something located beyond the boundary of Vorgael.

No surviving record explains what he struck.

However, something answered.

That event became the beginning of the end for the Anvil Titans.

Their success had gradually convinced them that everything capable of interacting with existence could eventually be understood as material, so after detecting something beyond the borders of their universe, the greatest smiths of Vorgael made a decision that later records described as their final forging.

Instead of merely observing the unknown existence, they opened the First Grand Forge toward it and attempted to drag a portion of whatever existed beyond Vorgael into their universe.

Their intention was simple.

They wanted to forge it.

For the first time in the history of their civilization, the First Grand Forge rejected the material.

Before the connection could be closed, something crossed through instead.

No complete record exists of what followed, because the destruction of Vorgael did not resemble an ordinary war or universal collapse. Stars began disappearing without explosions, while forge networks went silent one after another, and several Anvil Titan cities were later found completely intact despite every inhabitant having vanished.

There were no corpses left behind.

There were no souls waiting to be recovered.

There was no residual energy suggesting that those Titans had fought or fled.

Even unfinished weapons remained resting beside active anvils, as though their smiths had simply disappeared between one hammer strike and the next.

The First Grand Forge eventually stopped burning, and soon afterward, Vorgael itself vanished from the pathways connecting realities.

Whether the Anvil Titans were destroyed, transported somewhere beyond their universe, or transformed into something through the very principle they had spent their existence mastering has never been confirmed.

Only fragments of their teachings survived.

Among those remnants, one principle appears repeatedly within every surviving record of Heaven Forge:

**The forge does not care what something once was, because its purpose is to decide what that thing can become.**

That principle eventually became the Origin Law associated with the Anvil Titans, and it explained both the greatness of their civilization and the mistake that ended it.

They believed there was no absolute incompatibility between powers, no final state that could never be changed, and no material that could not eventually enter the Forge.

For most of their history, they were right.

Until the day they tried to forge something that should never have been brought into their universe.

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"..."

Luke fell silent after finishing the Anvil Titan’s lore, because despite becoming a civilization capable of forging abilities, laws, celestial bodies, and almost anything else they could understand, the Anvil Titans had still disappeared in the end because of the same philosophy that had driven their entire race forward.

They had believed that anything could become material for the Forge, and eventually, they had tried to prove that belief against something they didn’t understand.

"Sigh..."

Luke released a quiet sigh as he continued walking through the palace corridor, while the System screen floated beside him and the last lines of the Anvil Titan’s history remained visible.

He was still curious about what the First Grand Forge had refused to process, and even more curious about what had actually happened to the Anvil Titans afterward, because the records never clearly stated whether they had been destroyed, taken somewhere else, or transformed into something through their own final forging.

Still, there was no point thinking too deeply about a mystery he couldn’t solve right now, especially when even the System hadn’t provided an answer.

’Maybe I’ll find out someday, or the System will tell me whenever it feels like it.’

Luke dismissed the lore page and looked toward the next notification waiting in front of him.

"Alright, let’s see what the third Fragment gave me."

With that thought, he opened the information belonging to the next Titan Legacy.