Chapter 240: The Strange Changes on Lonely Mountain

Just when everyone felt that Storm Bay would get better and better, at noon one day, a high-level adventure group that suffered heavy losses returned to Storm Bay from the adventure area.

Most of them were missing parts of their bodies, and some could only use life-sustaining techniques to maintain a state of suspended animation and were carried back by their companions.

As soon as this team came back, it attracted the attention of many adventurers.

"Go find the priest! What happened to you?"

Several adventurers who had a good relationship with this adventure group quickly found someone to invite the priest to come for treatment, and they themselves protected the adventure group to prevent anyone from taking advantage of this opportunity to add insult to injury.

"Mutation! A mutation occurred near the core area! A red dragon dragon beast that looked like a bipedal flying dragon activated a volcano for some reason. A huge storm surrounded the surrounding area. We were involved in the storm. cough……"

Before he could finish speaking, the warrior who had seemed healthy just now suddenly bent over and coughed out a mouthful of thick black-red blood. His knees bent uncontrollably, and he fell to his knees on the ground, losing consciousness.

Amidst the noisy noise, several priests rushed over and cast several healing spells in succession. Only then did the injuries of the escaped adventurers gradually stabilize.

Those adventurers who use life support techniques to maintain a state of suspended animation can only wait for their companions to wake up and spend money to be resurrected.

The continuous commotion quickly attracted the attention of many forces in Storm Bay, and some adventurers soon received the task of exploring the changes in Xen'drik's adventure area through their respective channels.

At the same time, the Druid of the Son of Winter, who had spread the plague in Storm Bay, also turned into a giant eagle through his transformation ability, hovering over the continent of Xen'drik, trying to find the so-called mutation.

But things were much simpler than he imagined, because the mutation was as conspicuous as a huge ink dot on a piece of white paper.

When he flew high into the sky and approached the middle of the Xen'drik continent, a swirling storm appeared with a strong presence on a strange and lonely mountain covered in darkness.

A huge bipedal flying dragon with dark red scales hovered around the storm, unwilling to leave.

"What's going on here?"

Transforming back into human form, the Druid of Winter looked at the natural disaster in the distance, feeling a little confused for a moment.

At this moment, the red dragon beast, which Carl nicknamed Smaug, charged towards the lone mountain inside the storm.

It flapped its huge fleshy wings and tried to rush into the storm.

However, violent lightning emerged from the storm as Smaug approached.

The thunderstorm almost turned the storm into blue-purple, and poor Smaug fell from the mid-air twitching and hit a rock.

This vibration probably touched part of the structure in Gushan.

With a rumbling sound, a violent volcanic eruption began.

Hot magma spewed out of the crater along with thick black smoke, and the loud sound caused the creatures in the surrounding area to flee frantically.

Vaguely, the Winter Druid saw the figure of the giant wind element in the storm.

"It seems that it may take a long time for the surrounding ecology to stabilize again. Could it be that there was a giant relic hidden here before, and it happened to be activated some time ago?"

With doubts and joy, the Druid of Winter transformed into an animal again and flew away in a direction away from the center of Xen'drik.

Two days later, due to the turmoil caused by volcanoes and storms, Xen'drik's adventure area, which had a somewhat chaotic ecological niche, became much more dangerous than before.

The adventurers who tried to penetrate deeper returned to the safer outer zone, while those who had little confidence in their own strength simply returned to the interior of Storm Bay.

This situation indirectly led to something not so friendly - it was difficult to make money.

Although money was originally difficult to make, now it is even harder to make money.

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"We must find a way for ordinary people to have a source of money. Otherwise, I am afraid that the security of Storm Bay will gradually deteriorate."

In the newly established Government Affairs Office, Joanna looked at her companions and newly recruited subordinates and said in a serious tone.

Unknowingly, this originally aristocratic girl had a majestic feeling that came from power.

This is something that those aristocratic ladies and young masters who claim to have extraordinary destiny, but who have been unable to control ordinary people except family servants since childhood, cannot imitate them no matter what.

"Regarding this, Mr. Carr has left several solutions, such as the fantasy drama shooting plan."

Adjusting his glasses, the dwarf of the Sivis family replied calmly.

Out of his duties as a lawyer and clerk, he read through all of Carl's plans for the subsequent construction of Storm Bay from the very beginning.

The vast majority of people only read the previous renovation plan for Storm Bay.

Even Joanna didn't know much about Karl's plan as much as the dwarf.

"Fantasy show?"

Hearing this term, everyone in the conference room had different expressions.

Several people who were promoted locally looked confused. They didn't even know what a fantasy drama was.

Those who came from Khorvaire were confused and thoughtful. Although they knew what a fantasy drama was, they did not understand how such entertainment could make a living for low-level adventurers who did not have enough combat power.

Seeing that everyone did not understand the deeper meaning of this plan, the dwarf groaned quietly, and then took out a novel written by a well-known writer of the Sivis family.

It was a novel about adventure, and its popularity was roughly similar to the well-known martial arts novels in Carl's previous life.

"Mr. Carl hopes to hire many low-level adventurers to shoot fantasy dramas during special periods. They are not required to have strong strength, as long as they can complete specific actions according to the description in the novel.

For this purpose, he specially invented a special machine called motion capture device, which can allow illusionists to modify the image and special effects of the characters in the fantasy drama in the later stage."

When they heard the term "illusionist", everyone remembered that the dwarf in front of them was not only a lawyer, clerk, and someone sent by the Sivis family, but also an 8th-level wizard of the illusion school.

"Although there are many characters in the novel, enough for us to recruit those low-level adventurers to work, but how to make a profit? Do we have to pay them out of our own pocket? If that's the case, why bother? Just pay them directly!"

This time, the person who spoke was a member of the Storm Dragon Mark family. This straightforward and unthinking character made the meeting members frown.

"Stupid! Such a large-scale fantasy drama must use those best-selling novels that have long been verified by the market as the script! As long as we can restore the plot and settings as much as possible, those fans of the original novels will not buy it?

If you don't want to participate, you don't have to invest!"

As he said, the representative of the Exploration Dragon Mark family poked the ground with the scepter in his hand.

With the previous rejection of Carl's residence in the Exploration Dragon Mark station, this representative now actively supports most of Carl's plans.

"Alas, that's not what we meant. We just want to know what to do after the fantasy drama is finished. Take it back to Khorvaire and sell it?"

"What else?"

"How to divide the profits? Besides, we don't seem to have the talent to shoot fantasy dramas now!"

As soon as this sentence was finished, many people present immediately turned their attention back to the dwarf of the Sivis family.

Those who have a certain understanding of fantasy dramas know that every illusion master will definitely be the best fantasy drama director, because building an illusion is much simpler than shooting a fantasy drama.

This dwarf, who is shorter than most people present, couldn't help but straighten his body under the gaze of everyone, and then wrote something in the notebook in front of him with the pen in his hand.

After a moment, he raised his head and said in a complicated voice: "Let's talk about the equity dividend later. The most important thing now is to set up the stage first. According to the current situation, in two weeks, a large number of adventurers will not have food to eat."

At this time, everyone recalled that they and others had originally held a meeting to solve the current employment problem in Storm Bay.

So, everyone started discussing again.

On that day, the City Hall posted a hiring notice in the Adventurer's Association at the Storm Bay Port.

Some young adventurers who came to Xen'drick because of the adventure novels immediately became interested when they heard that they were going to shoot a fantasy drama.

Coincidentally, the recent adventure activities began to decline, so they went there in groups.

At the beginning, everyone thought that the other party might be a competitor and they were not on good terms with each other.

But the person in charge of recruiting actors hired everyone without even looking at them.

The news quickly spread throughout Storm Bay through the hired people.

The news about the fantasy drama suddenly became the topic of discussion in taverns and various related places.

And soon, the City Hall, which had an in-depth discussion on Carl's plan, released more news.

For example: they would select the male and female protagonists and important roles that best fit the novel settings through an open audition; the actors who starred in this large-scale fantasy drama might become the top of the acting career, become guests of honor of the nobles, and gain great prestige among adventurers.

In short, the pie was drawn so dizzyingly.

The low-level adventurers who were somewhat confident in their own conditions were immediately attracted.

Not only that, this special form of art communication also attracted the attention of the bards.

Just being able to sing is not enough to become a bard. Every bard has an extremely outstanding level of performance and other skills.

In this way, the adventure business of the entire Storm Bay, which was originally weakened by the Lonely Mountain incident, developed towards the direction of the Hengdian filming base because of the fantasy drama plan left by Carl.