Artificer Adventure Guide

‘If the current situation continues, it won’t be long before we both have to change to another way and do exercise upside down. ’

After taking care of Hope for a while, Carl could clearly feel that the little unfamiliarity between the two had quietly disappeared.

If Hope was grateful to Carl because he saved her before, then now, she has slowly treated Carl as her real "companion".

At least in the past, Hope would not take the initiative to have such close contact with Carl.

In the mechanical exercise, slippery sweat flowed down the bodies of the two.

The fabric was wet with sweat and stuck to the body.

In the intense exercise, Carl clenched his teeth to prevent himself from letting out the air in his chest.

Once the air was exhaled, he would definitely collapse directly to the ground.

Time passed by minute by minute, and before they knew it, the two had done most of the exercise.

Finally, as the two began the last set of training, both sides took out their remaining little physical strength and launched the final sprint.

"97, huh~, 98, ha~, 99, um~, 100! Alright! After ten sets, you can take a break."

After hearing Hope say this, Carl fell directly on the floor.

Hope also rolled off his back, and the two of them lay side by side, greedily breathing the "sweet" air after exercise.

Sweat wet the floor, and only the heavy breathing of the two people was left in the room.

"I can't tell that you can hold on for so long. I thought you couldn't hold on halfway through."

"Ha! If you just stand by and supervise me, then I might not hold on halfway through."

His chest was heaving like a bellows, and Carl blinked his eyes, always feeling that something was wrong with the conversation between the two just now.

Hope didn't fully understand what Carl said, but she also knew that boys always have some strange desire to win in some aspects, so she just thought that Carl was competing with something.

"Strange desire to win."

After sighing, Hope lay down, closed her eyes, and adjusted her breathing.

'Humph! If we were to switch positions, I can hold on until you strain your muscles! '

Carl said this to himself in his heart very hard, and tried to turn his body over, but his arms were like noodles and he couldn't use any strength at all.

'It's broken, I exercised too much. '

Looking up at Hope who closed his eyes, Carl gritted his teeth and said nothing.

He always felt that if he asked Hope to help him turn over at this time, he would lose.

After squirming forward, Carl used his head to push the floor, and finally turned himself from lying flat with the help of the inertia of his body twisting.

After a while, Hope helped Carl do weighted squats.

Outside, the whistling wind and the sound of rain formed a monotonous song.

Inside, the young man and girl were sweating.

…

In the goblin tribe near the fluorescent mushroom forest, ordinary goblins, who were generally only about 1.4 meters tall, were curled up in the tribe tent, ignoring anything in the outside world.

These guys who were often bullied by the bear goblins and the big goblins always found opportunities to be lazy, and this kind of weather gave them all a reason to slack off.

No goblin noticed that while they were slacking off, a strange rusty red bug had quietly slipped into their tribe's arsenal and licked a rusty long sword happily.

Rust monster, an underground insect that mainly feeds on black metal ore oxides.

The Adventurer's Guild rated their combat power as one-half level, which is the level that ordinary people can barely deal with.

This strange creature can quickly corrode non-magical metals and is the underground creature that dwarf miners are most reluctant to see.

As the rust monster continued to lick the long sword, the dark red rust spread rapidly on the sword.

Soon, a long sword with decent workmanship went into its stomach.

But after eating all of this, the rust monster was still not satisfied.

It began to look for something "more exciting" in this warehouse.

Following the metal "smell" in the air, the rust monster crawled deeper into the warehouse.

In the increasingly dim cellar, a pile of small hills made of various metal parts appeared in front of the rust monster.

These parts looked well-made, but as the rust monster crawled through these parts, light rust began to spread on the parts.

The rust monster naturally would not miss the opportunity to feast, so it lay on the gradually rusting parts and ate them in big mouthfuls.

As the parts were gradually destroyed by it, a metal door panel covered under the parts gradually appeared.

The door panel was etched with magic patterns, and the magic power protected the metal from being easily affected by the rust monster's ability.

But the rust monster was not a stupid beast without intelligence. It raised its front limbs slightly and opened the trap door.

"Buzz--"

Some strange magic swept around after it opened the trap door, but neither the goblin nor the rust monster itself noticed it at all.

After opening the trap door to the side, the rust monster followed the tunnel below and crawled deeper into the cellar.

In the tunnel, strange crystals emitting dark blue or dark purple light are embedded in the walls of the tunnel. The surface of the crystals flashes with some special patterns, giving people a weird feeling that their souls will be sucked in at any time.

This is Khyber Dragon Crystal, the crystallization of the power of the Yellow Spring Dragon.

Unlike the highly versatile Eberron Dragon Crystal, Khyber Dragon Crystal has the ability to bind magic.

Eberron's current airships and lightning trains use it to make elemental binders to store elemental creatures for energy.

In addition, it is often used as a raw material for lich life boxes.

There are so many Khyber Dragon Crystals in this passage that it can be regarded as a veritable rich mine.

Crawling in this tunnel, the rust monster kept sniffing the metal smell in the air and kept moving forward.

Soon, it came to the end of this tunnel.

This is a place similar to a ritual field, but it is much rougher than the ritual field of the mind flayer.

The long-decayed corpses were wearing armor, surrounding a giant sword inserted into the rock, and distributed radially.

The blade of the giant sword was similar to some black rock, but it was rising with an evil energy.

What attracted the rust monsters to come here was the armor on the corpses.

These well-made equipment had already been damaged by the etched magic patterns, and lost the ability to resist the years.

But they were the best food for the rust monsters.

Running happily to the side of a corpse, the rust monster shook the insect tentacles on its head and was about to continue eating.

But a black and red energy shot out from the black stone sword in the center of the ritual field, piercing the rust monster's body.

A phantom floated out of the rust monster's body and slowly flew into the black stone sword.

The magic patterns on the sword body of the sword briefly lit up, but soon dimmed again.