Artificer Adventure Guide

"What's wrong with you?"

Hope noticed that Carl frowned not long after entering the mushroom forest.

"I don't know, but I always feel like there's something bad in this place."

Rubbing his brows, Carl looked around nervously, as if on guard against something.

There are fewer beasts in the mushroom forest than the two expected.

Along the way, Hope and Carl haven't encountered any tricky monsters.

But it is precisely because of this that Carl has become more cautious.

Powerful beasts will mark their territory.

The environment of this mushroom forest should be considered quite good in this underground city, but there are not many beasts living here.

So this may mean that there is a powerful creature in this forest.

Most people on the continent of Khorvale are actually a bit superstitious about psychic power.

They believe that people who have awakened psychic power can predict good and bad luck, and even the future.

Because he grew up in Zoram, Hope's understanding of psychic power also carries such a prejudice.

"In that case, let's camp here first. The mushrooms here look very strong. We can build a cabin on them."

"Which one do you mean?"

Without waiting for Carl's confirmation, Hope had already climbed up a sturdy mushroom with a stem radius of at least three meters.

The cap of the mushroom she chose was relatively flat. Carl roughly estimated that the area of ​​the entire cap was at least more than 200 square meters.

As long as some of the surrounding mushrooms were cut down as wood, a good cabin could be built on it soon.

The only problem is that its stem is very high, and it is quite troublesome for Carl and the materials to go up and down.

"Have you ever thought about building a camp in another place?"

Climbing up with Hope, Carl looked at the butt swaying left and right in front of him and asked in a muffled voice.

As soon as the voice fell, Carl bumped into Hope.

"Please, do you think everywhere is as peaceful and stable as your hometown?"

"There must be a reason for the existence of this forest. If we want to gain a foothold here, the best way is to rely on the special features of this forest."

As she said this, Hope's devil-like tail suddenly swung and hit Carl's face lightly.

I don't know if it was to retaliate against Carl's behavior of contradicting her just now, or if it was accidental.

"Okay, you have more experience in wild survival than me, I'll listen to you."

Following Hope's crawling position, Carl followed obediently and soon came to the place where the cap and the stem of this huge mushroom were connected.

The material of this mushroom has been completely woody, but it seems that because of this, there are some cracks on its cap.

Just when Carl was below, he didn't notice it, but once he climbed up, these cracks were very obvious.

Following one of the cracks, Hope and Carl climbed onto the cap.

Looking up, fluorescent mushrooms taller than this mushroom were growing unevenly around them. The two looked like little people who had strayed into the land of giants, looking extremely small.

"To be honest, if we really set up a camp here, it would not be very obvious."

Looking at the scene around him, Carl spoke after more than ten seconds.

"Humph! Now you know how correct my choice is, right? I'll go down to chop wood for hunting later, you get ready, let's make a fire and cook."

Seeing that Carl realized his good intentions so quickly, Hope put his hands on his waist, left such a sentence very firmly, and then turned around and climbed down the mushroom.

Compared to climbing up, Hope went down much faster.

She didn't see any movement, she just "slid" down along the stem.

"It seems that she was not joking when she said she often lived in the tree before."

Looking at the figure disappearing in the crack, Carl felt a lot.

But he quickly got into the state and began to write and draw on the ground.

"I remember that we were taught how to build a wooden house in the wild in school. Then we can make two climbing ropes to transport materials. It would be great if I were at level 3 now. A level 3 machinist can use magic to make a set of tools. I can definitely make a processing machine tool!"

While planning the work that needs to be done later, Carl looked forward to a higher level.

Not long after, Hope came back with a dimensional bag.

"Monitor lizard meat, stones, and some relatively tender fluorescent mushrooms... Are you sure we can eat this fluorescent mushroom?"

After counting the things in the dimensional bag, Carl found that Hope actually brought back many palm-sized fluorescent mushrooms.

"I don't know, but I saw this young monitor lizard eating it."

Hope frowned and answered Carl's question while washing the blood off his body with fresh water from the alchemy pot.

He drew the giant rune representing fire on the stone slab brought back by Hope, and Carl roasted the monitor lizard meat as before.

He did not touch the fluorescent mushrooms rashly.

In his previous life, there were many cases of Southwest cousins ​​being poisoned by eating mushrooms. He himself was not proficient in alchemy and did not understand the toxicity of plants, so he did not dare to try it rashly.

As for why the monitor lizard did not die after eating it?

There is a big difference in the absorption capacity of reptiles and mammals for various substances.

Even if they are all mammals, the diets of different creatures are not the same.

Take dogs, which are the most familiar to people, for example. Chocolate is highly toxic to them.

However, Carl did not waste the fluorescent mushrooms that Hope brought back.

After removing the moisture from them, Carl used their plant fibers to weave ropes and tried to make them into magic props - climbing ropes.

A general climbing rope is about 20 meters long and can bear objects weighing nearly 1 ton. The user can activate the rope through a command and command the other end of the rope to move to the destination you specify.

The user can also command the rope to be firmly tied to a specified object, or to be untied, knotted, untied, or rolled up.

For adventurers who need to climb up and down, this thing is a very convenient prop.

If Carl can rub a climbing rope with fluorescent mushrooms, their subsequent work will be much easier.

"Wait!"

Just as Carl squeezed out a handful of fluorescent mushroom juice with a stone, Hope on the side suddenly stopped Carl's next move.

Following Hope's gaze, Carl discovered the reason why the other party stopped him.

Because Carl's action just now was a bit rough, the juice of the fluorescent mushroom was splashed on the cap of the giant mushroom.

At this time, the cap was emitting a brighter light at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Not only that, a cluster of crystals was piercing the epidermis of the cap and slowly growing out.

There seemed to be an orange-red energy vortex inside the crystal, and the surrounding magic power gathered because of its growth.

In Eberron, such things have a standard name - Eberron Dragon Crystal, the power crystal of Eberron, the dragon of the earth.