Chapter 229: Unexpected Gains

"Did you hear that?"

After shaking his head hard, Carl turned around and asked his companions behind him.

But everyone was still blinded by the white light. After hearing Carl's words, everyone blinked quickly to regain their vision and shook their heads blankly.

After recounting what he had just heard to everyone, Carl did not get any valuable answers as expected.

"Could it be that you wanted to know what the storm giant said at the end so much that you had auditory hallucinations?"

Although Hope was happy to believe Carl's words, it sounded a bit incredible.

Thinking back quietly, Carl couldn't confirm whether the words really rang in his ears or he was hallucinating.

Besides, who knows when the storm giant's prophecy refers to?

The invasion of the mind flayers and the mutated demons into Eberron was also an attempt by the Yellow Springs dragon Khyber to break free from the shackles of Eberron.

Although the incident ended with the orc druids sealing the monsters in the Khyber domain, it is said that it seemed to be successful because of the abnormal movement of the Siberys Golden Crystal Ring.

If the storm giant was referring to that, then this prophecy is thousands of years out of date.

"Forget it, it's not important. Maybe I once dreamed of becoming a key figure in determining the fate of the world. Hey! Does that look like a page from a spell book?"

Just when Carl was about to make up for himself, his eyes suddenly found something unusual in the room.

It was a huge rectangular "sheet" sewn together with unknown fur, on which many contents were written in giant runes emitting azure magic light.

The only thing that everyone could understand was some of the geometric figures used to explain the content.

"Hiss~"

A sound of sucking in cold air suddenly sounded behind Carl, and he even felt that the temperature around him had risen a little.

The value of this page is inestimable to the mages, but if it is only measured by gold coins, it can probably be equivalent to a good and extremely rare item.

No way, deciphering the meaning of the giant rune is a big project, and no one knows when there will be results.

However, if this thing is donated to Akanix or some other university, even if a person has no magic talent, at least he can get a place in the corresponding university.

Take Bane and Scorpion for example. If they have children in the future, they can use the favors of donation to let their children directly enter any university except Akanix.

Even if it is Akanix, as long as the child has a little talent for academic research, he can become a member of the magic theory researchers.

"Good guy, I didn't expect to get this thing! Bane, put it away first!"

It was not until Carl spoke that Bane and others remembered that the thing was not in their hands yet.

Anxiously running into the house, Bane and Thorin rolled up the unknown parchment and put it into the dimensional bag, as if they were afraid that the thing would grow legs and run away.

At this time, although the exit was still not found, with this thing, everyone's enthusiasm for exploring the ruins suddenly increased.

Like Pac-Man, everyone opened all the forks and gates in the secret passage and checked them out. They returned to the original hall and changed to another secret passage to continue exploring until they were sure that there was nothing valuable here.

It was not until the roar of the dragon beast came from the ruins that everyone suddenly realized that it was time.

Returning to the hall, everyone hurriedly made a meal, and then set up a tent here and fell asleep.

Outside the ruins, the dragon beast Smaug also started a new day.

…

Khorvaire, the suburbs of Akanix City.

Just as Carl and the others were preparing to rest, No. 18 stood next to a tree, waiting cautiously.

As one of the trees in the forest lit up with a halo, she looked at it with some vigilance, and even faintly turned the mantis knife hidden in her elbow to a waiting state.

A few days ago, when she and Lisanna completed the task, they accidentally saw the contact information left by the druid of the Son of Winter.

That was a contact method that only senior members could master. No. 18 didn't know why, but took advantage of the time today to come and take a look.

"I remember your name is... Mitress, right!"

Suddenly, a steady and a little indifferent voice came from the surroundings. No. 18 turned around and found that a middle-aged man with gray hair had appeared not far behind her.

"Ah, that's the name my master gave me. I don't know what my real name is."

Hearing this, the druid chuckled.

"That sounds more like a serious name than No. 18. Who gave you that?"

Speaking of this, No. 18's face became a little tangled.

But she quickly returned to her usual expression, just asking with limited patience: "What are you doing here?"

"Try this!"

As he said that, the druid took out many bionic hands and feet from the dimension bag and threw them to Mitress.

The bionic prosthesis was obviously the work of Carl. As the first wearer of all Carl's bionic prostheses, Mitress could find this out without trying it herself.

This made her wonder what the relationship was between the person in front of her and Karl.

As if seeing Mitrice's hesitation, the druid explained: "This is a bionic prosthetic body that I asked Karl to help develop that can be used by druids. It just so happened that I heard about yours from Morban. It exists, so I want to try it with you first.”

Looking at the druid opposite, Mitris nodded, then removed the bionic skin from the prosthetic body provided by the other party, and then removed her own arm.

Then, with the squirming movement of the ooze in sync with it, the new prosthetic skeleton made of carbon fiber merged with her.

"Try transformation!"

As soon as the fusion was completed, the druid couldn't wait to give the order.

Mitrice's eyebrows wrinkled slightly, and then she used the transformation technique for the first time in a long time.

To her surprise, she actually transformed!

The ooze transformed into a lynx along with her carbon fiber prosthetic skeleton.

It's just that the most lethal thing on the two forelimbs of this lynx are not the claws, but the two mantis knives.

Although the size of the mantis knives has been reduced due to the transformation technique, this does not prevent them from being sharp and deadly.

There was a strange light shining in the Druid's eyes, and before Mitris could say anything else, he walked directly towards the trees that had just emitted the faint light.

In a flash of light, his figure disappeared, as if he had never been there.

Mitrice, who was in the form of a lynx, shrank her pupils.

"Wood Escape Technique?"

Even in Mitrice's heyday, she had never mastered this Druid spell, which made Mitrice feel lucky that she had not attacked rashly just now.

After adjusting her breathing, Mitrice transformed again and returned to her human form.

Although she was jokingly called No. 18 by Carl, Mitrice's appearance at this time was closer to that of Cammy White in "Street Fighter" than No. 18.

At this time, Mitrice's golden ponytail hung loosely on her shoulders.

The gray close-fitting training uniform paired with blood-red gloves will make anyone who sees her think that she is a warrior monk.

The slightly bulging muscle lines are somewhat similar to Hope's figure, but the size of some places makes her shorter than Hope.

Looking at the position where the druid left, she frowned and said in a somewhat puzzled tone: "Why is this guy so weird? But forget it, my monk's practice has reached a bottleneck. Now that I can use the druid's ability again, Ability, then upgrade the Druid level again."

After muttering to herself, Mitrice was about to leave, but after thinking about it, she turned into a sparrow again and flew towards Arkanix City.

Between the wings of the wings, black carbon fiber material is faintly exposed from the feathers.

This gives this sparrow a bit more cyberpunk flavor out of thin air.

Flying was much faster than running, and Mitrice returned to the city gate in only one-sixth of the time it took to arrive.

Transforming back into her human form, she skillfully walked into the city gate, and then stopped at the door of a potion store.

"Nia, I'm back after finishing my work."

She knocked on the door, reported, and then walked straight into the store.

Next to the alchemy equipment, Nia in a robe was making a potion.

Compared with three years ago, Nia has grown in both height and figure, which makes her look a little more mature.

Nia turned a deaf ear to Mitrice's report. It wasn't until the test tube in front of her eyes lit up with the glow of magic power that she seemed to just pick up the topic and nodded calmly.

"You didn't have any trouble."

"No!"

Because she has to assist her father in her work, and Mitrice, a monk, can always assist Cass and the others in completing some difficult tasks, so Nia and Mitrice now have a good relationship.

Even Nia already knows Mitrice's true identity.

Compared to Karl, Nia's moral bottom line is much lower than she expected.

Because Mitrice didn't harm Nia and Carl's family, Nia calmly accepted the villain who once used tourists as experimental material in the storm as her helper.

In this respect, Nia is actually very much like her father.

The two of them stayed in silence until lunch time. Finally, an energetic voice broke the silence.

"Sister Nia! It's the 18th! It's time to eat!"

Outside the house, Lisanna was still making noisy noises like an immature child.

Her thinking didn't seem to have changed too much with the passage of time. At most, her figure became taller.

"Coming!"*2

Putting down their work, Nia and Mitrice walked out of the potion shop together.

Outside the house, Lisanna was dragging a long-dead deer on a magic motorcycle and had been waiting at the door for a while.

"Today I went to help the village to the west clean up the overrun deer herd. It seems that a lot of wolves were hunted there a while ago, which resulted in the overrun deer herd. Alas~, if there was a druid here, it wouldn't be possible. That’s it.”

After a decent sigh, Lisanna chatted with her two good sisters and walked towards a restaurant in the city.