Artificer Adventure Guide

"Hey! Look what I found? A giant lizard ready to go out for food!"

On a cliff somewhere in the dungeon, Carl patted Hope beside him and excitedly pointed to a cave below.

At this time, a large khaki lizard was crawling out of the cave and walking towards the right side of the cave with a step that did not recognize any relatives.

This was the only animal that the two had found in more than an hour that looked edible.

Seeing it, Carl felt that his eyes were almost green.

"Wait a minute, generally speaking, animals will go to the water source regularly to replenish water. We haven't replenished water for a while. Follow it first, maybe we can find a water source."

Seeing that Carl had taken out the crossbow, Hope hurriedly stopped Carl temporarily.

When surviving in the wilderness, water sources are more important than food.

"Then hurry up and follow it."

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, Carl stood up and chased down.

Following the route of the giant lizard crawling, the two soon came to a pool of water.

The shallow pool was now surrounded by monitor lizards, who were soaking in the pool, occasionally moving their claws to play with their companions beside them, looking leisurely and contented.

It was a pity that the pool was ruined because the monitor lizards kept stirring, and the water in the entire pool was a turbid black and yellow color.

Seeing the scene in front of him, the veins on Hope's forehead jumped.

"Do you want to do it?"

Carl added fuel to the fire at the right time.

He was starving now, and he wanted to kill a monitor lizard right now and have a wild barbecue.

As for water...

Doesn't the monitor lizard still have blood?

It's not impossible to replenish water by processing its blood.

As a traverser from the flower-growing family, Carl didn't have many taboos.

"Go!"

With a helpless low voice, Hope picked up the hand axe and threw it at the largest monitor lizard.

At the same time, Carl also raised his crossbow and pulled the trigger.

The magic arrow and the hand axe hit the two giant lizards one after another. The one hit by the hand axe was directly split open, but Carl's magic arrow failed to kill the giant lizard directly.

The injured giant lizard noticed the direction of the enemy, so it turned around and rushed towards Carl.

Quickly reeling the string, Carl pulled the trigger of the crossbow, and another magic arrow flew out.

This arrow did not hit the giant lizard directly, but it cut a long wound on its body.

Blood gushed out from the wound, drawing a long scarlet line on the black rock.

Seeing that the distance between the two sides was almost the same, Carl quickly recited the spell of lightning traction.

After the giant lizard entered his attack range, he directly hit it with an electric current.

The giant lizard, which had already lost a lot of blood, was knocked to the ground by the electric current. Hope on the side was not vague, and directly took the hand axe and cut the giant lizard's carotid artery.

The nearly three-meter-long monitor lizard lost its life just like that. Carl trembled all over and felt that his spirituality had increased to a certain extent.

The changes here naturally attracted the attention of the monitor lizards, but they just looked at the bloody scene here at this time without any resistance.

Not only that, they even took the initiative to stay away from the monitor lizard that was directly killed by Hope's hand axe, as if they were afraid of being associated with it and being killed by Hope again.

Seeing that this group of monitor lizards was actually behaving like this, Carl and Hope looked at each other and did not continue to attack. Instead, they cut off the tail meat of the two monitor lizards and some meat near their stomachs, and then ran to the cliff next to them to find a rock slab and started barbecue.

"Is the performance of this group of monitor lizards a little bit wrong?"

Looking at the monitor lizards still active near the pool, Hope cut the two tails into pieces of steaks while telling Carl his doubts.

"It's a bit strange. Even if the monitor lizards are not really social creatures and gather here just to occupy the water source, they shouldn't be so calm, right?"

As he said this, Carl used magic to draw a giant rune on a stone slab, then turned it over and injected some spirituality into it.

The rune representing the fire giant began to absorb the fire elements floating around with the blessing of spirituality, and the temperature of the stone slab began to rise rapidly as the fire elements gathered.

Putting his palm on the stone slab to feel the temperature, Hope nodded and put a small piece of meat from the monitor lizard's belly on it.

"Shh~"

The hot stone slab reacted violently the moment it came into contact with the meat, and the rich fat separated from the cells under the action of high temperature.

Pressing this piece of fat-rich belly meat, Hope scalded it back and forth on the stone slab.

In a flash, the whole stone slab became shiny and shiny.

Then, Carl began to spread the steak on the stone slab.

With a sizzling sound, the fat and protein formed a Maillard reaction under high temperature, and a fragrance began to spread.

"I always feel that those monitor lizards may have been domesticated by intelligent creatures, just like... just like cattle and sheep in the barn."

Seeing that the steaks were already grilled, Hope's attention returned to the previous question.

"Yes, and the meat quality is a bit abnormal. If you smell it, the fishy smell is not strong. It doesn't look like the meat of pure wild animals."

In his previous life, Carl could see people bragging about how delicious wild boar meat was on many e-commerce platforms.

But in fact, because wild boar meat has not been castrated, the meat is not only dry and woody, but also has a strong fishy smell.

In the same way, as a large beast, the meat of wild monitor lizards is destined to be not very delicious.

And if you want to make the meat of wild monitor lizards like it is now, you can eat it directly by simply roasting it, only through artificial domestication and breeding.

Carl and Hope have long been prepared to eat with their noses pinched, but the current situation makes them have to worry about the situation in this underground city.

"Forget it, don't think too much, eat meat first."

Sitting on the stone in silence for a long time, Carl called Hope to eat.

Don't worry about what will happen next, just do the current things first.

No one knows which will come first, the accident or tomorrow.

"Yeah!"

Nodding, Hope picked up a steak and ate it in big mouthfuls.

…

“Sniff, sniff!”

“Do you smell a good smell?”

In a simple settlement, a goblin sniffed and asked his companion.

“No, I don’t smell anything. You don’t want to eat, do you? I still have some meat bones left by the bear goblin a few days ago. Do you want to have a bite?”

As he said that, another goblin took out a bone with a little meat on it from the bag next to him.

The meat on it had already dried up and even exuded a rancid smell.

But this goblin still kept it like a treasure.

“No, no, I’ll go find some fluorescent mushrooms to eat later.”

“Oh! I won’t be polite with the remaining meat!”

After saying that, he licked the bone and sucked it happily again.