Artificer Adventure Guide

"There seems to be a light ahead, let's go take a look?"

Carl tried to communicate with Hope through bubbles and water.

But the two different media made Carl's voice a little out of tune, and Hope took a long time to react to what Carl said.

"Okay!"

Nodding, the two walked towards a cave at the bottom of the pool.

This cave looked like the spring of this pool, roughly circular in shape, and slightly shorter in diameter than Carl's power armor.

The inside of the cave faintly emitted an orange-yellow fluorescence, as if fluorescent moss and mushrooms had grown here.

Against the current, Carl and Hope struggled to move forward inside the cave.

At first, the cave was a little narrow, but when Carl and Hope moved forward for a distance, the space began to gradually expand.

Continuing forward, after passing a corner, Carl and Hope came to a new world.

The inside of the cave turned out to be a fairly wide cave, with countless fluorescent mosses growing on the walls of the cave, reflecting the underwater "brightly lit".

‘If we can build a place to live here, we won’t have to worry about the mind flayers and goblins.’

Looking at the strange underwater beauty in front of him, Carl thought regretfully in his heart.

The entire cave is about the size of a football field. If this place can be used effectively, Carl feels that he can stay here for a long time.

However, the underwater environment limits the value of this place, so Carl can only sigh at this treasure land.

“Okay, let’s get ready to go back. Those brain-eating monsters are about to leave.”

Turning his head, Carl was about to take Hope away from here and return to the ground, but found that Hope was actually washed away by the undercurrent.

Poor Hope is very bad at swimming. No matter how she swings her limbs, she can’t swim over.

Seeing Hope’s funny look, Carl laughed twice in a very unkind way.

“Okay, okay, I’m coming, grab my arm.”

Seeing Hope staring at him with anger, Carl stopped watching the fun and drove the power armor towards Hope.

"You should have reminded me. If I hadn't noticed, you might have been swept away by the undercurrent."

Coming to Hope's side, Carl teased and dragged him, intending to walk towards the cave entrance.

Just then, a strong undercurrent hit.

Even Carl, who was wearing power armor, was swept away by the undercurrent for several meters.

The entire power armor flew out in the water, while Hope was hanging upside down in the water, paddling with his limbs.

"Ah! Damn! Where did such a strong undercurrent come from? Is this the gathering place of the underground river in the dungeon?"

Waving his arms, Carl finally regained his center of gravity in the water, but he felt a burst of pain in his brow, as if he was seasick.

As a student of Akanix, it is impossible to get seasick.

After all, Akanix is ​​located in the largest freshwater lake on the continent of Korvale, and you need to take a boat to travel.

Carl had long been accustomed to the feeling of being on the boat, and even developed good swimming skills.

"Ugh~"

Although he didn't believe that he was seasick, Carl's body was very honest and began to dry heave.

In order to prevent himself from vomiting in the power armor, Carl immediately took a deep breath and then took off the power armor.

"Hulu~"

The warm water flow that hit Carl made him feel much better, and the dizziness just now seemed to have been relieved.

His palm was placed on the power armor again. Carl was about to put it on again, but the dragon pattern on the back shoulder suddenly stung.

At the same time, an inexplicable feeling made Carl look towards the center of the cave.

The dragon pattern of the exploration had a sense of something in that position.

'Dress up! '

With a thought, the power armor was put on Carl again, and the magic pattern inside the helmet was activated again, and the liquid inside the power armor was discharged.

"Hope! There seems to be something over there! Come with me!"

Swimming to Hope, Carl dragged him and moved towards the center of the cave.

The center of the cave didn't look like anything special. Thick silt accumulated at the bottom, and even the turbulent undercurrent could hardly wash it away.

However, the dragon pattern exploration was precisely inspired by such a place. Not only that, this time the induction was much stronger than before, as if there was a huge dragon crystal hidden under the silt.

Such a strong induction made Carl reluctant to give up.

There was no way, so he had to bend down and dig.

The sticky silt was dug up, and the water flow drove the silt to muddy the surrounding waters.

Hope on the side even took out her beloved hand axe to help dig together, but the two worked hard for a long time, but did not find anything valuable at all.

Just when Carl was thinking about whether to give up digging.

A "sizzling" sound of metal friction sounded.

As the water flow slowly took away the surrounding mud and water, a metal plate hidden under the silt was exposed.

Looking at each other, Carl and Hope seemed to be injected with power and began to clean up the silt more vigorously.

Hope was fine, but the amplitude of the movement became a little larger.

But Carl even activated the Thunder Fist of the Guardian Power Armor, trying to use thunder damage (sound waves) to shake off the mud.

"Bang"

Because he failed to control the force, Carl attacked the huge metal object below directly.

The interference pulse formed by magic was released, and the metal object hidden under the mud suddenly began to tremble by itself.

The mud and sand covering it were lifted up by the vibration, and the surrounding water became extremely turbid for a while.

Carl only had time to hug Hope, and then he could only let the metal object move on its own.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the muddy water was carried away by the undercurrent.

When the nearby waters became clearer, Carl and Hope saw the general appearance of the metal object under their feet.

It was a huge machine with a huge drill at the front, and its length was almost as long as the entire cave.

Looking at this strange machine, Carl suddenly remembered an episode of "Ultraman Tiga" that he had seen in his previous life.

That was the plot when Tiga fought against the monster Gorzan who tore the earth for the second time. In order to find the monster, the Victory Team used a special vehicle that could go deep underground.

That vehicle was similar to the machine in front of him.

"It looks like a machine for mining underground minerals, but who would use this type of machine? Giants? But giants have lost their civilization now and only exist in the form of tribes."

In terms of size, this thing does look like a giant's thing, but Carl really finds it hard to believe that the thing under his feet may have been lying here for tens of thousands of years.

Through the power armor, Carl stroked the material of the drill under his feet.

The hardness of this thing is visibly stronger than Carl's power armor. Based on Carl's understanding of metal materials, it is mixed with at least several kinds of magical metals.

It is hard to imagine what kind of person would spend so much precious metal just to make such a thing.

While thinking, Carl looked up and saw the pictographic runes gradually lighting up on the metal plate in the distance.

"Wait! This is indeed a giant's rune. Could this thing really be the [mine cart] used by ancient giants to mine underground Khyber Dragon Crystal?"