Artificer Adventure Guide

"Uh~ah~"

In the captain's cabin of the pirate ship, Carl yawned and stood up, covering Hope with his clothes.

The two originally planned to hold on until the storm subsided, but they were too tired halfway through, so they fell asleep.

Unexpectedly, instead of having an accident, the ship survived the storm.

Pushing open the door of the captain's cabin, it was pitch black on the sea.

The boundless dark clouds cover up the light of the stars, moon and golden crystal ring, making it difficult to judge the current position of the ship.

It's been about a day and a night since the storm first started, so it's still night time.

"I hope the ship is not too far off course. Let's raise the sails first."

Looking back at Hope, who was sleeping soundly, Karl did not disturb him, but closed the door and raised the sail on the mast himself.

There was still no land or ridge on the surrounding sea surface, which left Carl with nothing that could serve as a reference.

The re-raised sails were opened again under the agitation of the sea wind, and the ship began to move in a direction that Karl could not predict.

Looking in the direction of the bow, Karl sighed.

"It was indeed a bit reckless at the time. At least I had to ask those pirates if they had a compass or anything like that..."

While he was secretly reflecting on it, Karl suddenly realized that he was an artificer, why would he ask for props from others?

To put it bluntly, a compass just uses a magnetic field to determine direction. The principle is simple, and the structure is not complicated at all. He can make it himself!

Although the magic and magic network all over the world have completely cut off the possibility of radio communication, the geomagnetic field still exists.

After thinking about this, Karl immediately ran into the cabin to find some materials and began to try to make a compass.

First, he used the professional characteristics of the manual machine tool. Then Karl processed an iron plate and began to etch magic patterns on it.

Soon, an electromagnet formed by the weak current generated by the magic pattern was freshly baked.

The object was placed in a wooden bowl and filled with water, and a simple compass was formed.

"The direction of the current is this way, so this side is the North Pole and that side is the South Pole. Hiss~ the direction of this ship is a bit ridiculous!"

After measuring the position using the right-hand rule, Karl looked at the ship sailing in the southwest direction and couldn't help but sigh again.

According to the speed of the ship, if he had thought of a solution earlier, he might be able to see the boundary of the land now.

"Oh~, it delayed things."

Shaking his head and sighing, Karl adjusted the ship to head north again.

…

"Karl! An island is found ahead!"

Three days later, in the early morning, Hope went to the lookout for reconnaissance as usual. As soon as he looked forward with the telescope, he discovered the island in the distance.

Excited, she immediately loudly reported her findings to Karl on the deck.

Carl was also very excited when he heard the news.

Climbing along the mast to the observation deck, Karl took out his telescope and looked in the direction pointed by Hope.

Sure enough, there is an island with jungle growing on the distant sea.

There was a faint firelight on the island, and it looked like it was inhabited.

Although it is not yet known whether the people on the island are enemies or friends, in the eyes of Karl and Hope, as long as they can see land, it proves that there is not much problem with their current route.

If that doesn't work, they can live on this island temporarily.

"Wow~"

The waves were rolling, and with the help of the sea breeze, the ketch quickly reached the shore of the island.

Carl and Hope dropped the anchor, then plunged into the water and swam ashore on their own.

"Look, Carl, the beach here is pretty good!"

After kicking on the white beach, Hope seemed to be in a good mood.

However, after Karl squatted down and inspected it, he began to put some sand into the dimensional bag.

Seeing Hope looking at him with confusion, Karl pointed at the sand and said:

"This is quite high-quality quartz sand that can be used to make glass. If we had had this underground, I would have been able to make more props."

The two of them still don't know when they can return to the continent of Khorvaire, so Karl always feels that collecting these things may be used at some point.

When he was playing games in his previous life, he was a Scoia'tael (a player who likes to collect all kinds of things). After experiencing the wilderness survival in the dungeon, this sign became more serious.

Seeing this, Hope also helped Carl collect some quartz sand.

After confirming that the quartz sand was sufficient, the two continued to move forward.

On the other side of the island, a five-person adventure group was gathered around the bonfire with a gloomy look, staring at the bonfire in the firepit with dull eyes.

Seeing that everyone was silent, a dwarf warrior wearing heavy armor opened his mouth and said:

"Xen'drik can't survive anymore. We have offended the Storm Council of Storm Bay. No large organization will assign us tasks. If you ask me, we should go back to Khorvaire!"

But after hearing what the dwarf warrior said, a halfling barbarian next to him immediately quit.

"No! When we came out to explore, we told our family that we would not go back until we made a name for ourselves! Xen'drik is so big, can't we just not land in Storm Bay?"

Hearing this, the priest of the Silver Flame Church, who was wearing fire steel plate armor, rolled his eyes.

"Do you think you are the only smart person in the world? Xen'drik has only developed two ports in all these years. Do you think others can't think of this? If it works, the Storm Council can still dominate the Storm Bay?"

Seeing his teammates refute him, the halfling barbarian was immediately furious.

His 1.4-meter-tall figure instantly grew a little bigger, and his muscles swelled up.

He was so angry that he went berserk.

"Okay!"

At this moment, the half-orc ranger who had been sitting on the stone in silence finally spoke.

As the big brother of the team, as soon as he spoke, the half-orcs and human priests who were ready to fight immediately sat back on their own stones.

"There is no way the adventure group offended the Storm Council. Mordo did the right thing at the beginning."

Giving the priest a look of approval, the half-orc ranger patted the half-orc, and then sighed deeply.

The half-orc who had just argued with the priest opened his mouth and lowered his head.

"I'm sorry, I really shouldn't have meddled in other people's business, but the teachings of Silver Flame..."

The priest couldn't continue speaking.

Because there was a noise in the distance.

"Who is it!"

He instantly pulled the pulley bow on his back, aimed at the place where the noise came from, and shouted at the distance.

The wanderer who had been silent all the time escaped into the shadows and moved forward.

The next second, Carl and Hope slowly poked their heads out.

"Hello! We are adventurers in trouble. Do you know how to return to Khorvaire? I am a strange mechanic. If you need it, I can use the props I made as a reward!"

When you go out, your identity is given by yourself.

Carl felt that it would be better not to expose the fact that he was rich at this time.