Artificer Adventure Guide

"Why did you follow me?"

Inside the Shadow Monastery, Ying looked at Carl and the other two behind her with a puzzled expression.

Lisanna shyly stroked her hair, poking her two index fingers at each other in front of her chest, looking a little embarrassed.

Seeing her like this, Carl had to take the initiative to speak.

"Lisanna wants to explore together."

This is a lie.

The real fact is that Lisanna felt that it was a bit "unkind" to let Ying explore the monastery alone, so she begged Carl to go with her.

If this girl joins a gang, she will either be sold and count money for others, or she will definitely achieve something.

Not everyone is so "loyal".

Sweeping his eyes over the three people, Ying looked at Lisanna and nodded and said "thank you".

Then, the four of them walked towards the depths of the monastery.

But after taking two steps, Carl and Nia frowned.

"There are so many mechanisms here, and they are well maintained? Is there someone who regularly maintains them?"

Stopping everyone, Carl reached out and pressed on a trap door, and a dozen spikes suddenly pierced out of the wall next to it.

Looking at the mottled bloodstains on it, it was probably attached to a soul ring.

But this trick is not enough for a strange machine master. Carl only took a glance and saw most of the traps around.

What's more...

"Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid! Attack!"

As Carl gave the order, the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid, which seemed like living mercury, seeped out of his body and quickly gathered into a ball outside the body.

The round body rolled on the ground, and most of the mechanisms were exposed.

When encountering those obstacles, Carl would control it to harden and directly destroy the mechanism.

Soon, the group came to the ancestral hall deep in the monastery.

There is a statue whose face can no longer be seen in the ancestral hall, but judging from the cane in the statue's hand and the cloak on the body, it may be a statue of the traveler.

Although the Dark Six Gods are an unofficial belief in Khorvaire, just like the Internet cafes in the previous life worshipping Guandi, the official does not care about it.

It is rumored that many kings believe in some of the Dark Six Gods, which is almost a semi-open secret.

"It seems that there is nothing here."

Looking around, Carl can no longer see any mechanism.

If Ying really came here to obtain the secret method of practicing the Shadow Sect, then this time she will probably return empty-handed.

But Ying seemed not to want to accept this reality. With a flicker of her body, she had jumped directly to the vicinity of the statue.

A faint psychic glow emanated from her eyes, and it seemed that she had used psychic energy to explore.

Just when Carl wanted to use psychic energy to explore, he heard Ying suddenly say: "Found it!"

Then, she actually threw the chain dart in her hand to the left eye of the statue.

With a "ding" sound, the chain dart made of mithril added by Carl was knocked back.

The blue magic pattern spread towards the body of the statue with the left eye of the statue as the origin.

The stone statue suddenly became alive, and its wide stone cloak was lifted, revealing a hole leading to the bottom.

"Hiss~, can it be done this way?"

The strange machine master also relied on his understanding of machinery to check the mechanism, but this situation was a bit beyond Carl's expectations.

Just when Ying wanted to go down, because of the delay for too long, the statue returned to its original state.

He hit the left eye again, and the statue was reactivated.

"I'll go down first!"

Summoning the power armor and putting it on, Carl jumped into the dark tunnel first.

As soon as he landed, two sounds of breaking air followed.

Although the defense of the power armor was strong enough, Carl was determined to exercise his ability to control the moon spirit marrow fluid.

The psychic energy moved slightly, and the moon spirit marrow fluid returned to Carl's side, and then extended like a water curtain, wrapping Carl in it.

"Ping! Pong!"

Two sparks exploded, and two kunai-like throwing weapons hit the Moon Spirit Marrow.

He pointed at one direction of the kunai, and the Moon Spirit Marrow suddenly turned into a long cone and shot out.

Following that, a crisp "click" sound came.

He turned around and pointed, and the long cone turned around and stabbed in the direction of the other kunai.

"Hoohoo~"

A series of flames ignited from both sides of this not-so-wide tunnel, and a road that continued to extend forward emerged in the firelight.

However, as a holder of the exploration dragon pattern with dark vision, Carl clearly found that there was an entrance on each side of this road.

However, these two passages were painted with some special paint, and they were easily overlooked under the bright contrast of the flames.

At this moment, Ying jumped down from above.

Drow elves also have dark vision, so she also saw the two passages next to them.

"You left and I right?"

Without much nonsense, the two walked directly into the passages on the left and right.

The tunnel was silent, even without rats and mosquitoes.

Carl walked all the way to the end, but he didn't encounter anything.

"Huh? A mechanical lock?"

At the end of the road, a mechanical door blocked the way.

Carl directly used the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid to penetrate into the keyhole to open the door lock, and a scroll popped out from the mechanism inside the door.

Simple.

"Huh?"

Not expecting that he could get it so easily, Carl was alert and carefully checked the mechanism, and found that this was indeed the only thing in the mechanism.

Helplessly, Carl had to turn back.

Then he met Ying who also turned back.

The other party also had a scroll in his hand, and it seemed that the two had similar experiences.

After looking at each other, the two put away their scrolls and walked side by side towards the road in the middle that was burning with fire.

"Hey? You are out! How is it? Is it dangerous down there?"

More than ten minutes later, Nia and Lisanna met Carl and Ying again.

Carl's power armor was blackened by the flames, and Ying was also covered in dust.

"It's okay, the things are already in hand, let's go back."

After laughing, Carl took the lead to walk towards the car, followed by Ying, and the two kept silent about the situation in the tunnel.

What to talk about? The two of them excitedly saw through the other party's conspiracy first, and then because the process was too simple, they fell into the trap and made themselves look humiliated?

Do they have no face?

Not knowing that Carl and Ying had suffered a loss, Nia and Lisanna looked at each other and followed the two back to the car.

Taking off the power armor, Carl and Ying each opened the scroll and checked the contents.

The content of this scroll is quite interesting. The beginning directly stated that there are people managing this monastery. The two scrolls are considered as clearance rewards. If you have fun, you can donate some money to the merit box outside when you leave to repair the damaged mechanism.

After reading this paragraph, Carl and Ying looked outside the car at the same time, and finally saw a stone pillar that vaguely looked like a merit box next to the gate of the monastery.

But looking down, the contents of the scrolls held by the two people are different.

Carl's side is a kind of monk school practice called the Eternal Death Sect, while Ying's is the Shadow Sect practice method that she has been thinking about.

Speaking of which, the basic training methods of various professions in Khorvaire are actually quite relaxed.

It is completely different from the situation in martial arts novels where a secret book can cause bloody storms.

But in fact, the founders of those schools are not stupid.

What is really important is the efficient training method. After all, the professions in Eberron are based on "attributes". Only when the attributes are sufficient can you have stronger combat power.

There are always people who think that they can become the best in the world immediately after obtaining a peerless secret book, but the textbooks of various subjects are there, and I haven't seen many people who have passed 600 points in the college entrance examination.

Teachers are sometimes more important than being smart.

If Carl is right, if Ying becomes a monk part-time and then practices one of the schools, it won't be long before someone contacts her and asks her to join some organizations.

"It's all routine."

With such a sigh, Carl put away the basic training methods of the Eternal Death Sect.

He doesn't plan to become a monk part-time, so he will keep this thing as a souvenir.

But just as he was about to tell V to turn to the shore of West Lake (Lake Galifar), a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

‘Since there are secrets hidden under this monastery, is there a possibility that there are some secrets under the abandoned factory? ’

Thinking of what Ying had mentioned before, that the old man guarding the factory was a little nervous about his approach to the remains of the Titan War Forged, Carl, combined with the stone statue that could be animated just now, became more certain of his thoughts.

As the saying goes: leather pants over cotton pants, he must have a reason.

The factory that has been abandoned for nearly ten years has been left there, which is not normal no matter how you look at it.

Even if the old man said that the Golden Power Association bribed the local officials, but...

‘Although Tonglu City is nominally a city of Aundair, it was assigned to the Tongxing Dragon Pattern Family by the Queen of Aundair for autonomy. Except for taxation, other matters are basically managed by the Dragon Pattern Family themselves.

The Golden Power Association and the Dragon Pattern Family are enemies! How did he bribe them?

No, such an obvious lie can be exposed with just a little investigation, so maybe there is indeed bribery? Then their purpose...'

With a flash of inspiration in his mind, Carl immediately thought of what the factory originally produced - Airbus.

If the factory at that time was going to give up the suspension function and transform the Airbus into an ordinary motor vehicle that runs on the ground, then not only the Passenger Dragon Pattern Family wanted to deal with him, but the Livestock Dragon Pattern Family might also get involved.

Industry upgrading is undoubtedly difficult, but downgrading is much easier.

"Nia, your mother seems to be involved in something that is not so simple."

After sitting in the seat for a long time, Carl raised his head and said this to Nia.

But Nia seemed to have expected it long ago, and just nodded gently.

After a long time, she said leisurely:

"I suspect that my father is the Eye of the Kingdom of Her Majesty the Queen. This time, my mother did not deliberately get involved, but she found out that my father was investigating this matter. Otherwise, she would not be likely to write me such an ambiguous letter."