Artificer Adventure Guide

For any adventure group that is short of funds, if they can invite an artificer to join the team, more than 80% of their equipment expenses can be alleviated.

A long time ago, this news spread among many adventurers and mercenaries.

But it wasn't until today that Hope finally had a real understanding of this.

Looking at the alchemy pot that was turning from virtual to solid under the blue arcane energy state, Hope's eyes were straight, as if he was afraid that he would miss something.

Finally, as the energy gradually weakened, the alchemy pot completely solidified and slowly fell to the ground.

The alchemy pot looks like an ordinary pottery pot, and it looks like it can hold about 3 liters of liquid, but its weight is about 5 kilograms regardless of whether the pot is empty or full.

Regardless of whether there is liquid in the pot or not, the liquid will still make a sloshing sound when you shake it.

Looking at the strange prop he had copied, Karl reached out and touched the pot.

"Okay, I have set the liquid in the pot to fresh water. Drink some quickly. Wait until early tomorrow morning and we will turn it into salt water. Then I will extract some refined salt, so we don't have to worry about the salt."

The liquid in the alchemy pot can be changed according to the user's requirements, but only one liquid can be poured per day.

Generally speaking, an ordinary alchemy pot can pour out strong acid, oil, basic poison, vinegar, beer, fresh water, honey, salt water, mayonnaise, wine, etc.

Depending on the type of liquid, the volume of liquid it can pour out also varies.

Fresh water and salt water are the two liquids with the largest volumes that can be poured out of the alchemy pot.

Picking up the alchemy pot, Hope looked at Karl, then raised his head and drank.

She drank very hard, and her throat made a continuous "gurgling" sound as she quickly swallowed the liquid.

"ha--"

After a long time, Hope put down the alchemy pot and breathed a sigh of relief.

Karl took the alchemy pot and drank it too.

He didn't realize at all how suspicious his behavior of letting Hope drink first was for a person who grew up in Zhuomu. On the contrary, Karl himself felt that it was humility.

Seeing Karl finish drinking, Hope, who has rich experience in wilderness survival, began to talk about the residence.

"Although this cave is relatively hidden, the space is too small. We need to find another place to set up our camp."

Now that I'm ready to stay in this underground city for a long time, I can't be vague about the residence.

Karl nodded clearly.

"Do you have any ideas about the location of our official camp? Although I have briefly looked at the surrounding terrain before, it seems that the surrounding area is all hilly, and there is nothing too prominent."

As a human, despite the fluorescent plant lighting in this dungeon, it was still difficult for Carl to see the scenery further away.

In contrast, Hope, as a tiefling, has natural dark vision and can see darker places farther away.

"The fluorescence in the southeast is brighter than in other locations. I think that is the forest of this underground city. We can go there and have a look."

While saying this, Hope once again used the flexibility she had shown when she got into the hole, and got out of the hole.

Immediately afterwards, she moved the rocks outside the cave, and Karl took advantage of the opportunity for the other party to quickly adjust his little brother, and then put on the armor.

With Hope's help, Carl crawled out of the hole.

Looking at the scene outside that was the same as before, Karl stood up straight and stretched.

"Would you like to take a look at the giant lizard carcass we hunted before? Maybe we can find something."

Seeing that Hope seemed to be planning to go directly to the location of the official camp in her mind, Karl suddenly had such an idea in his mind, and said it outright.

"Yeah~, you're right, but I think we can only see two skeletons at most."

"Why?"

"Because monitor lizards will also eat the flesh of their own species."

Shrugging, Carl followed Hope towards the fluorescent mushroom forest she mentioned before.

At the beginning, the road was very rugged. If the two wanted to walk ten meters apart on a flat surface, they might have to climb a rock five to six meters high.

After the two of them walked a certain distance, although the road was still difficult, the two of them were almost used to it.

While traveling over mountains and ridges, Karl even learned how to use the hands of a mage to help the two of them climb high and low.

He already knew the magic hand, but after the mind flayer larvae became his physical plug-in, he gained psychic and telekinesis expertise.

With the blessing of spiritual energy, Carl's mage hand can be released directly without the need for spells, just a gesture.

Although the power of the mage's hand is not strong, it can help Carl and Hope stick to the rock wall more closely when climbing.

After walking and stopping, finally, the fluorescent mushroom forest that Hope mentioned was arrived.

"roar--"

The roar of wild beasts vaguely sounded in the huge mushroom jungle in front of him. Karl looked around and found that this "forest" composed of giant fluorescent mushrooms was actually quite big.

"Bang Bang Bang"

Knocking on the branch of a giant mushroom with his fingers, Karl was surprised to find that the material of this mushroom was actually better than ordinary wood.

"These mushrooms can be used to build houses after a little processing, but the material is somewhat flammable. I remember there is an alchemical potion that can be used as a fireproof coating. If I can settle here, I will make some."

The earliest mechanics were born out of the mages' in-depth research on alchemical potions, construction machinery, and prop making.

So although Carl is more proficient in the field of machinery, he is not lacking in basic alchemical knowledge.

"Let's take a look first. The choice of campsite often takes a while to decide. For us now, there is plenty of time."

Carrying two hand axes, Hope was the first to enter the territory of the fluorescent mushroom forest.

...

"Guji"

Deep in the fluorescent mushroom forest, a giant lizard staggered and moved slowly towards a hemispherical chitin building.

This building is at least 70% similar to the Mind Flayer base that Carl and Hope had just escaped from, but it is much smaller in size than that base.

When the monitor lizard crawled into the building and came to a pool of water with an orange-gold glow, its head suddenly began to swell and finally split apart with a tearing sound.

A brain-eating monster crawled out of its head and then swam to the edge of the pool.

Psychic fluctuations lit up, and a gate under the pool was opened. A group of mind-flayer larvae that were not even as big as a fingernail scrambled to float up and drilled into the monitor lizard's body.

The monitor lizard's body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the well-fed mind-flayer larvae drilled out again and swam back to where they were before along the gate.