Artificer Adventure Guide

"If the teacher knew that I made such a thing with such high-end materials, he would definitely scold me for being a spendthrift!"

Carl carefully piled the mud bricks into the shape of a furnace, looking at the brick kiln that had already taken shape, and muttered to himself helplessly.

But there was no way, who let Carl have nothing but mithril in his hand now, and there was nothing decent raw material?

Taking out the most delicate ball of mud, Carl kept beating it on a wooden board.

The mud ball was kneaded like dough, and then gradually formed into the shape of a crucible in Carl's hands.

The mud ball that became a crucible was smooth and shiny because of repeated beating. Carl made six in a row, and then stopped because of insufficient raw materials.

Walking back to the brick kiln, Carl injected a little spirituality into the four mithril alloy plates one by one.

In an instant, the heat wave that hit his face emanated from the metal plate.

Although there was no flame, the color of the four mithril alloy plates had gradually turned orange-yellow.

After putting the extra mud bricks and crucible clay embryos into the brick kiln, Carl sealed the hole of the brick kiln with the discarded mud.

Next, these mud embryos will face the fate of transformation or destruction under high temperature.

"Thanks to this giant mushroom that has been completely petrified, otherwise I really dare not perform high-temperature firing on it."

Washing off the mud on his palm, Carl sighed, and then walked into the house to process wood.

The firing of the brick kiln will take some time.

"Ka, Carl! Have you finished your work over there?"

Seeing Carl walk into the house, Hope, who was measuring his body there, put down his hand in a panic and spoke incoherently.

"Well, it's over for now, let's process the wood!"

Pretending to see nothing, Carl asked Hope to turn the gears, and he continued to process the wood.

'If there is a chance, I should use those materials to make two pocket watches to check the time. The current time is roughly calculated based on the node of the alchemy pot to update the cooling time, and I don't know how much time has passed. ’

Time passed by little by little as he processed the wood at the same time.

When the room was almost full of processed wood parts, Carl signaled Hope to stop turning the gears.

“Okay, this should be enough to build the right wing, let’s get started.”

“Huh? Why build the right wing first?”

“Because men have left and women have right, haven’t you always wanted a separate room for yourself? Then build yours first.”

Carl’s teasing made Hope’s already red skin even redder.

Looking at Carl’s expression that didn’t seem fake, Hope pursed her lips and wanted to say something, but she didn’t know what to say.

She couldn’t say, “Because my chest and hips have been growing recently, I feel a little embarrassed to live in the same room with you, so I’m in a hurry to sleep in separate rooms”, right?

Opening the door, the two transported parts one by one.

Carl had already reserved the framework for the left and right wing positions, and all he had to do was fill them with parts from each part.

Once is new, twice is familiar.

With the experience of installing the building on a rainy night, Carl was much more skilled in installing the mortise and tenon parts this time.

With Hope's help, the right wing was soon installed.

Using Hope's axe to remove a part of the wooden board between the right wing and the lobby, Carl used a lathe to directly process a door and installed it back.

Coincidentally, after doing all this, the spirituality in the four mithril alloy plates was almost consumed.

Carl left Hope to clean the right wing, and he ran to open the brick kiln.

As soon as the mud blocks were opened, a wave of heat forced Carl to retreat several steps.

Seeing this, Carl had to use the magician's hand.

From a distance, a brick in the brick kiln was "pulled" to him.

Put the brick directly into the water tank next to it, and as the water vapor rose, the temperature of the brick also dropped rapidly.

So, a green brick was made.

After taking the finished product out of the water, Carl bent his fingers and knocked on the brick.

"Dangdangdang"

The crisp sound sounded like knocking on iron blocks, which proved that the material of the bricks was quite good.

Nodding with satisfaction, Carl followed the same method and did the same with the remaining bricks.

However, not all the bricks in this kiln were successful. In addition to some bricks that were broken just after the kiln was opened, some were also broken during the water cooling process.

Total, the success rate was only about 40%.

Only two crucibles succeeded, but it was actually a good thing to succeed, because it meant that Carl could smelt metal.

Recalling the position of the broken bricks in the kiln when they came out of the kiln just now, Carl felt that he could consider the impact of the distance between the mud bricks and the rune plate on the yield rate when he fired bricks next time.

Using the magician's hand to take out four rune plates, Carl built a smelting furnace with intact blue bricks that was very consistent with the textbook regulations.

Injecting spirituality into the rune plate again, the scorching temperature rose.

Throwing the broken parts and sawdust from the goblin weapons into the crucible, Carl controlled the wizard's hand and put the crucible into the smelting furnace.

Under the constant high temperature, the sawdust turned into carbon powder and began to react with the rusted metal parts.

Not long after, the solid metal began to melt and turned into a cup of molten iron emitting orange-yellow light.

Seeing this thing, Carl finally smiled with relief.

…

"Gujiji~"

It was another good hunting day. In the heart flayer base deep in the woods, the brain eaters left the base one by one and searched for fresh brains in the forest.

However, in the deepest part of the base, several brain eaters were surrounding a transformation chamber and talking with psychic energy.

"It's coming out, it's coming out soon! After half a year, we finally successfully transformed a heart flayer!"

In the chitinous transformation chamber, a heart flayer with the characteristics of a hobgoblin still on its body was sleeping with its eyes closed.

The tentacles on his chin were slightly wriggling, as if reflecting his experience in his dream.

"The old master hasn't contacted us for two weeks. It seems that something unexpected happened. We must let the new heart flayers develop more of their own kind and strive to cultivate a main brain as soon as possible, so that the old master's thinking can be revived in the main brain!"

Directly opposite the transformation chamber, a brain floating in an orange solution was floating up and down.

This was the mind backup left here by the heart flayer who captured Carl and implanted the heart flayer larvae.

According to his plan, even if he died outside, as long as the base here develops normally, his mind will be reborn in the main brain here!

The brain-eating monsters discussed enthusiastically. In the transformation chamber, the mind-flayer, who had completely accepted his memories of being a hobgoblin, opened his eyes.

Surging spiritual energy emanated from his body. The door of the transformation chamber opened, and the brain-eating monsters prostrated themselves on the ground, as if welcoming the birth of a new king.

"I'm hungry~"

Looking slowly in the direction of his former tribe, the mind-flayer narrowed his eyes and slowly floated up.