Artificer Adventure Guide

Looking at the mechanisms on both sides of the passage, Ying immediately guessed why the two undead skeletons suddenly appeared.

Someone placed them here specifically. If someone passes by here, the breath of life will awaken the two undead.

This mechanism may not be as effective as imagined for professionals, but ordinary people may be killed if they are not careful for a while.

This trap was obviously not set by professionals, but deliberately installed by ordinary people living here.

"I didn't expect that someone would do such a thing, but that's right. The environment available for survival is so small. If you have more, I will have less. If there are too many people sharing the cake, there will not be enough to eat."

Looking up, Carl looked at the wide space in front of him, which was pitch black, and he was ready to face a group of unruly people.

"Follow me, there are footprints here."

After a quick check around, Ying immediately found some traces of people passing by.

Following the footprints, the three of them quickly came to a settlement along a path.

This settlement was excavated on the basis of a cave, but because the excavation was difficult and the space was limited, those who lived here almost used all the space to the extreme.

Looking around, except for the corridor that could barely pass two people, almost all places were set up with wood and other things.

"Wow, Kowloon Walled City is probably like this, right?"

After sighing like this, Carl was wondering why these people didn't expand outside, when he heard a hyena roar.

In the dark vision, six hyenas smelled the scent of strangers and crawled out of a "dog hole".

What surprised Carl was that these hyenas deliberately avoided the "Kowloon Walled City", but ran towards the three of them at an extremely fast speed.

Hope stepped forward and tried to tame these hyenas in the Druid way, but the death breath entangled in these hyenas was too obvious, and it was obvious that they had eaten a lot of human corpses.

"Just kill them directly, are you going to keep them for the New Year?"

Aiming at the hyena in front, a pulse cannon flew out.

The leading hyena had one leg broken directly, and half of its body was lying limp on the ground. Even if it didn't die, it would probably not live long.

Hope was a person who listened to advice. After a sigh, she took out the chainsaw that Carl had recently made for her.

With a "buzz", the roaring chainsaw instantly tore apart the second hyena that came to hunt.

All three of them had dark vision, which made Carl and his team at least not at a disadvantage when facing enemies in a dark environment.

The roar of the chainsaw scared the remaining four hyenas. They braked in time and maintained a position not too close to Carl and his team, but they just refused to leave.

Seeing this, Ying also took action.

Starting with a shadow step, Ying was directly teleported to the back of one of the hyenas through the shadow.

The chain dart flew out and pierced its waist and abdomen directly.

The successive deaths of their companions aroused the fear of the hyenas. They immediately scattered and tried to escape the attack of Carl and his team.

But at this time, Carl's pulse cannon was launched again.

In a moment, all six hyenas died in the hands of the three.

Maybe someone heard the noise, but someone in the "Kowloon Walled City" actually came out.

Carl thought the other party would thank him and others for killing these vicious dogs, but he didn't expect that he would suddenly fall beside the body of one of the hyenas, crying and sobbing.

"You! You actually killed my animal companion! You, you have to pay!"

When he shouted this, more than a dozen people ran out of the Kowloon Walled City.

They held steel forks and pickaxes, looking aggressive.

Turning around and looking at Hope on the side, Carl blinked, and for a moment he didn't understand what these people relied on to hit the car.

No, buddy?

How many dishes? Drinking like this?

Before Carl could speak, Hope next to him had already started the rage.

Blazing flames ignited from her eyes, mouth, nose and hair, and the two chainsaws in her hands also appeared with flames.

In the blink of an eye, a four-meter-tall tiefling appeared in front of these hit-and-runners.

"Tie, Tiefling!"

Seeing Hope's appearance, several timid people screamed and even rolled and crawled back to the fortress.

The rest of them were holding on, but they were obviously not so confident.

Staring at the guy who rushed out first, Hope "grinned" and started the chainsaw again.

With the help of the fire on her body, everyone saw the cruel thing clearly at once.

"Mercy, mercy..."

Before the other party could finish begging for mercy, Hope had already used a move to sweep away thousands of troops.

Blood fragments, bone residues and broken internal organs were splashed on the remaining people by the rotation of the chainsaw.

These guys who were already trembling immediately dropped the "weapons" in their hands and scattered.

Although Hope has lived in the Eludon Wilderness for more than three years, the style of Droum has not disappeared from her.

When she meets a good person, she will act like a serious druid, but when she meets a bad person...Hope never shows mercy.

"You're still a little too extreme."

Looking at the scattered pieces on the ground, Carl sighed.

"There won't be ordinary people in this kind of place. At least several of those people have committed murders. I can see that."

Hope, who had put away his weapons and rage and returned to his normal state, did not think that his killing was excessive, but instead taught Carl some criminal knowledge.

The guys who escaped had already disappeared into the fortress, but Carl did not intend to enter it.

"Let's change direction and see if there is any other place suitable for us to live. It's still too crowded here."

Waving to Ying, the three of them returned the same way and left in other directions.

The whole conflict happened inexplicably and its meaning was unclear.

However, when Carl and the others disappeared into the darkness, two hunched figures immediately walked out of the fortress and cast some kind of spell on the corpse.

Negative energy entangled with the corpse, although it did not have any effect for the time being, but if left alone, the corpse would probably become a ghost sooner or later.

"The six wild dogs have been killed. We can only train other things to attack outsiders, but it will take some time for the corpse to become undead."

"Fortunately, the three professionals left. After returning, calm down the speech first, and then continue to encourage the young and strong. The fortress can no longer accommodate more people."

"At least three tenths of the population must be reduced before the fortress can be spacious."

After talking to each other for a few words, the two figures returned to the fortress with the corpse.

...

As Carl and others chose an unknown direction to move forward, the monsters gradually became more and more.

After only moving forward more than a hundred meters in the dark, Carl and his three companions bumped into magical beasts and a group of violent rats twice.

"The fortress may exist by relying on some ancient mechanism. Wild beasts and ordinary monsters dare not approach there, but this effect can only cover a fixed range, so those people built the building like that."

After killing a few more violent rats, Carl guessed the reason for the formation of the fortress.

This is actually quite common in various ancient ruins, because after some high-level constructs go dormant, their cores are still running, and monsters and beasts below their level naturally dare not approach the range covered by the core power, so a safe zone is formed.

This kind of safe zone can actually be created by magic, such as stone wall magic.

"Go two hundred meters further, if we can't find a suitable place to live, we will use earth shaping magic to build one ourselves."

A pulse cannon killed a violent rat at close range, and Carl looked at the mess on the ground and sighed helplessly.

But what can he do?

His current combat method relies heavily on logistics supply. If he does not set up a production line for weapons and ammunition in advance in a spacious enough place, the combat effectiveness he can exert will be relatively general.

And this situation will accompany him until he reaches the 14th level of the Artificer.

"Look over there, it seems to be the remains of an ancient building. I wonder if it can be used."

Just after the three dealt with the monster, the sharp-eyed Hope found something strange in the direction of a seemingly earth slope.

The three approached and found that it was indeed the remains of a sunken ancient building.

However, it was already filled with soil, so it was impossible to live in it directly.

"Let's use the Earth Shaping Technique to clean up the space inside and see the effect."

Considering that the living place cannot be too far from the exit, Carl planned to live here first to try the situation.

Opening the dimensional bag, four round floating guns automatically flew out of it.

Carl took out the parts engraved with the magic pattern of the Earth Shaping Technique from the bag and replaced them with the floating guns, and then used these four floating guns to clean the soil in the building.

Hope took an empty dimensional bag and collected the cleaned soil and piled it outside, while Ying ran around to scout the terrain and check the distribution of species around.

However, when the cleaning work was less than one-tenth done, the Earth Shaping Technique seemed to disturb something sleeping in the soil.

"It's a clay golem!"

In the already dilapidated building, clay golems struggled to crawl out.

It is unknown how long these golems have been sleeping here. As soon as they woke up, they waved their clumsy bodies and launched an attack.

Clay golems are probably the most unstable type of golems.

Once their bodies are damaged, they will violently attack the surrounding objects.

The sudden appearance of the enemy did not make Carl and Hope too panic. Hope directly used the transformation and then turned on the rage.

In a blink of an eye, she turned into a four-meter-tall giant bear with two flaming chainsaws tied to her claws.

Carl's response was also quite calm.

A three-meter-tall power armor was summoned by him through the characteristics of the Arcane Knight. Before the clay golem approached, he had already merged with the Moon Spirit Armor.

As the eyes of the power armor lit up, this power armor, which was quite similar to Iron Man's "Anti-Hulk Armor" in appearance, punched the body of the clay golem.

The effect of the Thunder Fighting Fist was activated, and part of the golem's body shattered.