Artificer Adventure Guide

"Legend has it that Eberron was invaded by the 'dream world' in ancient times, and then the giant king who controlled the world cut off the connection between Eberron and the dream world. Could my cheat have any connection with the dream world?"

Feeling the connection between himself and the second layer of the dream world, Carl guessed in his heart.

After resisting the temptation of the gentle land of adult Hope, Carl could clearly feel the growth of his spiritual energy.

This allowed him to maintain his thoughts in the second layer of the dream and not interfere with the dream world.

However, Carl's spiritual energy was not sufficient to allow him to stay in the second layer of the dream all the time, so the time he could use the second layer of the dream stably was limited.

"Ah~, let me think, what is the top priority now? By the way, training! I need to try to become a warrior."

With a thought, Hope's phantom appeared in front of Carl.

But compared to before, Hope now has more clothes on his body.

"Okay, let's start the training. I hope I can gain something from it."

Putting a defensive posture, a struggle of will and skill began.

…

“Hua La La——”

After an unknown amount of time, Carl woke up from his dream.

His consciousness had spent a lot of time in the training of the second layer of dreams and the simulation modeling of the first layer of dreams, which made him feel that he had been away from reality for a long time.

The sound of rain outside the house continued, and it seemed that the influence of the water element plane would last for a long time.

Just as Carl was about to change his posture, he found that his lower body was covered by dry clothes.

“Hope?”

“I’m here, what’s wrong?”

Hope’s voice sounded from the corner at the other end of the room. Although it sounded similar to usual, Carl always felt that her tone was a little trembling.

“It’s okay, is the clothes dry? Then hand me the rivet, I’ll light it up again.”

Relying on the guess of the sound location, Carl stretched out his hand in the direction he thought Hope was.

Soon, a rivet was handed to Carl.

He performed the magic trick again, and the soft light spread from the rivet to the surroundings.

Putting the rivets aside, Carl put on his clothes in the diffuse light.

However, when he was putting on his pants, Carl's back suddenly hurt.

But he just thought it was a muscle strain caused by yesterday's high-intensity labor, so he didn't care much.

"It looks like this rain may last for a long time."

Walking to the side of the stone slab, Carl injected spirituality into it again.

The flame rune made the stone slab hot again, and Hope took out the remaining giant lizard meat from the dimensional bag and roasted it on the stone slab.

Thanks to the fact that living things cannot be preserved in the dimensional bag, the shelf life of the giant lizard meat has been extended a lot.

"What are your plans later?"

Flipping the steak with the chopsticks that Carl cut, Hope asked Carl with a wandering look.

"Next, use the remaining wood in the dimensional bag to make some furniture and utensils."

Speaking of this, Carl's face showed a confident expression.

In the dream last night, he modeled almost all the furniture that the two might use later in the dream.

If he hadn't had the right tools, he might have been able to carve out a rocking chair on the spot.

Nodding, Hope changed the liquid in the alchemy pot into salt water, and then poured some on the stone slab and steak.

The sound of "sizzle, sizzle" spread with the steaming water vapor. Hope picked up one of the pieces and tasted it, then said to Carl:

"It's ready to eat."

It's said that "salty" is the top of all flavors, and this is not an exaggeration.

Food with salt and without salt tastes very different.

Carl and Hope quickly finished their breakfast while baking and eating.

"If we have a chance, we can try to build a brick kiln. I remember that the hilly area before looked like there were mineral veins. Maybe we can make some metal utensils. If not, we can also use my armor to go back into the furnace or burn some ceramics."

Helping Hope clean up the tableware, Carl looked at the wind and rain outside and whispered to Hope.

"You can also make pottery and smelt?"

Hearing Carl's suggestion, Hope took a half step back and looked at his companion again.

"What are you talking about? Although I have no practical experience, I know the principle."

Seeing that Hope still had an expression of "disbelief" on his face, Carl simply told him what he knew.

"You people in the Eruden Plain know so much."

With a tone of primitive tribesmen envying the residents of the metropolis, Hope sighed.

"That's not the case. In addition to teaching people to read and simple mathematics, physics, and chemistry, the basic education in the Eruden Plain mainly teaches agricultural and animal husbandry breeding techniques. These miscellaneous knowledge are what I learned in Akanix."

It was too complicated to explain the concept of a traverser to a native of this world, so Carl had to lie that these knowledge in the previous life was learned in the magic school.

But after hearing the college where Carl studied, Hope's expression suddenly became confused.

"Where?"

"Akanix? What's wrong?"

"Akanix... is it the most famous magic school in the entire Khorvaire continent, Akanix, which has nine floating magic towers and is the gathering place of the eight major schools of magic?"

"If there is no other school like this, then it should be the one you are talking about."

Quickly taking a few steps back, Hope looked at Carl again.

But this time, she looked at him as if she was looking at a rare animal.

It's no wonder she was so surprised.

Because if we make an analogy between the two people's identities, Hope is equivalent to an Indian girl who grew up in the slums of Mexico, while Carl is an international student who went to Harvard from the Eastern country to study.

"Wait! Isn't Akanix a magic school in the Kingdom of Andel? How did you, an Eruden, get into such a school?"

Looking at Hope's wide eyes, Carl felt that he was being questioned.

Although he was lucky enough to get into this famous magic school because of the school's expansion, he did get in anyway!

"Huh? I'm from Eluden, so why can't I pass the entrance exam to Akanix? Wait! You can't be..."

Just as he was about to argue with the other party, Carl suddenly realized that Hope had been living in Zhoam.

This place doesn't even have basic education. Apart from practicing martial arts and becoming mercenaries in various countries, the people of Zhoam have almost no source of information from the outside world.

Thinking of this, Carl's expression suddenly became sympathetic.

"Please, the tension between the Kingdom of Aundair and Eluden has been more than 20 years ago. The two countries have signed an alliance agreement long ago. My mother is from Aundair."