Artificer Adventure Guide

After finishing his third meal of the day, Carl finally turned off the smelting furnace.

He melted the rusted metal parts into 16 metal ingots and some waste slag.

These metal ingots will be processed into the armor parts that Carl needs in the future, and the waste slag will be mixed into the clay embryo to make stronger pottery or refractory bricks.

But before that, Carl decided to make some harmless gadgets first.

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"Is this for me?"

Looking at the exquisitely crafted pocket watch in her hand, Hope blinked, feeling a little flattered in her heart.

This is the first time someone has given her a gift since she can remember.

"Of course! And with this thing, it will be convenient for us to check the time, so that we don't have to know where we spent the whole day."

Opening the pocket watch, Carl pointed to the scale emitting blue fluorescence and explained to Hope:

"This pocket watch uses dragon crystal as energy. When the scale is blue fluorescence, it means that it is night time; when the scale is orange fluorescence, it means that it is daytime now."

"It is a completely mechanical structure, and the raw material is mithril alloy, which is light in weight and high in hardness. But try not to use it to smash nut shells or cushion table legs."

Hearing this, Hope glared at Carl with some dissatisfaction.

Who would use the first gift they received to do that?

"By the way, if you feel uncomfortable sleeping on the floor, I can make you a bed tomorrow after I start smelting iron. We have enough wood to make you a spacious double bed."

"Not for now, let's build your room tomorrow. The longer you sleep in the hall, the more guilty I feel."

The pocket watch was stuffed into the pocket of the pants, and the tight leather made Hope frown.

Seeing this, Carl hurried forward, stuck the chain on the pocket watch on the left chest of Hope's shirt, and then stuffed the pocket watch into the chest pocket of her shirt.

Although it was stretched tighter here, Hope was not as uncomfortable as before, at least the pocket watch in this position did not affect her walking.

"You civilized people's things are really a bit difficult to deal with."

Trying to take the pocket watch out of his pocket and look at it, Hope put it back into the left chest pocket, and then sighed with some meaning.

This is probably a unique way of self-deprecation for people from Zom.

"In fact, it can also be made into a watch, so you can wear it on your hand. But it's better to install a piece of glass on the dial for protection. We don't have the raw materials for glass now."

Due to material limitations, the pocket watch made by Carl is the kind that can be moved directly by hand. If there is no flip cover, it is easy to cause time deviation due to accidental touch.

This is also the reason why he made the watch into a pocket watch.

In fact, he originally wanted to make a wall clock in the hall to tell the time, but when he thought that the wall clock could not be carried with him, he turned to design and manufacture a pocket watch.

"Okay, according to the time shown on the pocket watch, it's almost midnight now. Go to bed quickly. There is still work tomorrow morning."

After leaving Carl out of the right wing without saying anything, Hope closed the door, pressed her palm on the position of the pocket watch, and her heart was pounding.

"If I live here with him all the time, it seems..."

Whispering her thoughts in a low voice, but before Hope finished, she suddenly shuddered and closed her mouth completely.

"Huh~, how come I'm so weak after just a few days of comfortable life? Sleep! Sleep! I must have stayed up all night and ruined my brain!"

After mumbling a few words, Hope took off her clothes, folded them, and then laid a piece of leather on the floor and fell asleep peacefully.

The claustrophobic and sealed environment made her feel particularly at ease. When she opened her eyes again, she hurriedly took out her pocket watch to check, but found that the time was already ten o'clock the next morning.

"Is this thing really accurate?"

Hope, who had never stayed in bed, now had deep doubts about the creation made by Carl.

But when she put on her clothes and went out, there was not only a plate of lizard steaks that were almost cold in the living room, but Carl was already outside tinkering with his broken brick kiln again.

"Have I been a little too decadent recently?"

Thinking back to everything that had happened since the two of them came to the dungeon, Hope sighed and felt that this would not work.

So, she could only put all her energy into exercise.

When her muscles were sore, she stretched her muscles according to the health exercises taught by Carl.

Feeling that she had rested enough, she continued to practice.

This kind of day lasted for about three days, during which time, Carl's left wing and the beds for two people were also built.

Then, time came to the morning of the fourth day...

"Hmm~, it's ten o'clock again, I don't want to get up..."

Hop picked up the pocket watch and looked at the time on it. Hope reluctantly closed the cover of the pocket watch, and her voice was full of a weak "worker" atmosphere.

Unlike Carl, who had a clear promotion direction and development plan, Hope's barbarian profession was obtained by accident. In addition to the wild fighting ability and throwing skills trained in the wilderness, she did not have a systematic training method.

The training during this period was more like "torturing" herself in order to prevent herself from forgetting the hard days in the past.

But she also knew that the past days were gone and she could live a good life now.

After putting on her vest and shorts, Hope stood up weakly, but soon lay flat on the leather again, staring blankly at the ceiling. She felt that she had no motivation today, like a salted fish that had lost its dream.

After a while, Hope stretched out her right hand towards the sky, holding the air in vain.

Looking at her well-proportioned but powerful arms, she pursed her lips and raised her thighs and the tail with an arrow at the end.

Her legs kicked twice in the air, and this meaningless behavior made Hope smile.

Outside the house, Carl was firing new crucibles and fire bricks again.

Hope closed her eyes and listened quietly to the sound of bricks that began to transform under high temperature.

"Crack, crack..."

Along with this sound that seemed to be close to her ears, a faint orange-red light lit up in her chest.

It was as if a fire was burning in her body, and even the temperature of her body surface began to rise.

Suddenly, Hope opened her eyes.

The fire in her chest continued to grow stronger, which gave her a premonition that it was about to be released.

Pulling open the door, Hope ran out of the house at the fastest speed in her life.

Finding a direction where there was nothing, Hope followed her body's instinct and pushed her hands forward.

The fire extended from her chest to her arms, and then a flame rushed out from between her palms.

In the cone area 15 feet in front of Hope, the fire lasted for nearly four seconds before it finally dissipated.

After doing all this, Hope staggered and collapsed on the ground.

And Carl also ran over after seeing the scene just now.