Artificer Adventure Guide

The giant civilization of ancient times created countless miracles. For thousands of years, humans and elves have tried to restore some of the technology of the past.

This also made the giant's hometown, Xen'drik, a place for adventurers to flock to.

When Carl was still receiving basic education, some experts and scholars had made statements that today's civilization is no worse than the giants of the past.

But after seeing this thing in front of him, Carl felt that people who said this were either influenced by some political factors or were just trying to attract attention.

"Oh~ What an excellent smelting technology! And this technique of etching magic patterns... If I can understand the technology on this thing, my power armor's combat effectiveness will definitely be able to reach a higher level!"

Excitedly stroking the shell of the machine, Carl did not notice that the huge drill was slowly rotating.

But he did not notice it, but Hope did.

So Hope kicked Carl's power armor.

"Look behind! That thing has started!"

"What?"

Before Carl could understand, Hope had already grabbed Carl's wrist and threw him away from the drill.

She also leaned on the rivets on the machine and quickly moved in the opposite direction of the drill.

"Gululu~"

As the drill stirred, the water flow in the cave began to change its direction.

"We must leave here quickly!"

After catching up with Carl again, Hope got close to Carl's helmet and shouted loudly.

The water flow in the cave was becoming more and more violent.

The silt at the bottom of the water was washed up and quickly spread to the entire cave.

The visibility in the water was getting lower and lower, and it was foreseeable that it would not improve for the time being.

"No! The visibility is too low! We might be sucked into that drill! Catch me! I have an idea!"

Realizing that the situation was not good, Carl quickly recalled the structure of the drill mechanism he had just seen in his mind.

In addition to the size of the body, there is actually not much difference between giants and humans in physiological structure.

Therefore, many mechanical designs of the giants are completely common with humans.

What Carl has to do is to find the entrance of this machine in a short time, and then open it through the ability of the mechanic, so that he and Hope can enter the machine.

Dragging Hope with one hand, Carl swam hard.

He remembered that there was a place that looked like a gate somewhere behind the drill machine.

Along the metal plate, Carl searched with his vague memory and extremely limited vision.

The water flow became more and more turbulent, and Carl and Hope were swept by the undercurrent, and it became more and more difficult to swim.

Seeing that the two were about to be carried away by the water, Hope was about to persuade Carl to leave, but Carl shouted loudly:

"Found it!"

With his palm on a metal plate, Carl felt that his spirituality had come into contact with a magic mechanism.

Using his spiritual energy, Carl tried to quickly understand the operating principle of this magic mechanism.

At this moment, a strong current of water swept over, and Carl, who was originally clinging to the metal plate, staggered and was about to be washed away by the current.

"Ha!"

At the critical moment, Hope immediately used her violent moves.

Her height of 1.6 meters suddenly increased, and her longer arms grabbed Carl and pressed him back to the metal plate.

But as her body grew larger, the resistance of the water flow to her became stronger.

The fingers that were originally holding the rivets tightly began to be unable to withstand the resistance of the water flow, and they slipped off the protrusions of the rivets one by one.

At the critical moment, Carl's body flashed with blue light, and the mechanism next to him immediately made a sound.

The huge gate opened, and the cavity inside instantly poured into the muddy water.

Carl and Hope were "swallowed" directly because they were too close to the gate.

Soon, the gate closed again, and with the operation of the mechanism inside the machine, the muddy water was gradually emptied out. Carl and Hope knelt on the ground, still in shock.

After a long time, the two of them recovered.

"Huh~ We're saved, so what on earth is this?"

Taking off the underwater breathing cap, Hope patted his chest with lingering fear, as if he felt that if he and his partner fell behind a little, they would be sucked into the drill and turned into meat paste.

"I think this should be the creation of the ancient giants. This machine may be the equipment they use to mine the dragon crystal of Khyber. Alas~, fortunately, the foreign languages ​​I chose to take were Giant Language and Giant Runes, otherwise we might really have to die here."

After taking off the power armor, Carl looked at the gate that was at least six meters high and secretly rejoiced in his heart.

The language of the giants is annotated with dwarven phonetics, just like the relationship between Chinese characters and pinyin.

After learning Giant Language, Dwarven Language is basically understood.

The reason why Carl chose this foreign language as an elective was actually a bit lazy.

Of course, the optimization effect of Giant Runes on magic props was also one of the reasons why Carl finally chose it.

"So what should we do next? Go deeper and turn off this machine?"

As he spoke, Hope's body gradually returned to normal.

The drill outside was still running. If the two of them went out now, they might be directly swept into the water.

So, what Hope said was indeed what the two of them had to do next.

"There's no other way, right?"

Shrugging his shoulders, Carl tilted his neck and began to check the magic mechanism inside.

The joint observation of the naked eye and psychic energy allowed him to quickly find the mechanism to activate the internal gate.

But looking at the crystal plate with several runes, Carl's expression became a little weird.

'I didn't expect that the giants used the unlocking mechanism of digital passwords tens of thousands of years ago, and it seems to be a touch screen! '

Feeling a little strange in his heart, Carl exuded psychic energy and touched the crystal panel.

Psychic energy connected Carl to the magic mechanism inside the crystal plate in a special way.

After touching the remaining spirituality inside the magic mechanism, Carl closed his eyes and began to analyze it.

'This mechanism is also set with a six-digit password using ten runes. Hmm~, judging from the magic patterns inside the mechanism, there should be no limit on the number of times the password can be entered. It seems that the exhaustive method can be used. '

After carefully checking the functions inside the mechanism, Carl narrowed his eyes and began to crack the password like a hacker.

Unlike purely mechanical mechanism locks, this special mechanism requires the correct rune password to be entered before it can be opened.

Many safes nowadays also use this anti-theft method, and there is even a limit on the number of inputs.

In addition to the artificer, probably only some wanderers dare to try to open this mechanism.

The psychic power quickly sensed the structure and magic patterns inside the mechanism. Carl looked at the runes that lit up on the crystal plate and frowned.

"Clouds, death, flying dragons, enemies, flames, friendship..."

Manipulating the psychic power, Carl injected magic power into the runes representing these meanings one by one.

"Swish~"

With the sound of the airlock opening, the gate leading to the inside of the machine slowly opened.