In Storm Bay, a former civilian residential area, a young adventurer wearing old leather armor raised his arms and led a group of people behind him to rush towards the twisted tree spirit that was destroying buildings.
If the young holy warrior was here, he would definitely recognize that the leading young adventurer was the guy who had used the traps in the fortress to kill several waves of people.
Not far from the battlefield where this ambitious young man and his companions were fighting, a group of people who had lost their homes and were huddled in the ruins were looking at them with hope.
These tall tree spirits are not something that ordinary people can easily deal with. Even a team of adventurers around level 3 finds it difficult to deal with them.
But the young man was holding things accumulated by several robbers in his hand. As soon as he approached, the group of people generously shot all kinds of special arrows and ammunition at the tree spirit.
For a moment, these twenty-odd people formed a formation similar to that of the Magic Archer Squad.
But ordinary people are ordinary people after all. Without any special features, those arrows and ammunition only have the most basic functions.
Even though they threw more kerosene bottles at the tree spirit, the tree spirit still managed to kill six people in the young people's team and seriously injured three of them despite the flames all over its body.
The young man buried those people with great sorrow, and then used advanced medicine to heal the seriously injured patients.
Then, during his impassioned speech, the group of ordinary exiled people joined him.
Although his appearance is average, this person's charm is definitely not too low.
False Succubus: Uses her tall stature and gorgeous looks to seduce men and suck their essence.
The real succubus: uses justice and ideals to trick others into working for her.
Coincidentally, although there are not many young men like this one nowadays, he is not an isolated case.
Those intermediate adventurers who were attacked and chased to the adventure zone by the tree spirits have now chosen their new leader. The other adventure groups in the underground ruins have now merged into one and are planning to cleanse the world.
They were all targeting the power vacuum in Storm Bay at the moment.
The small Storm Bay actually presents a three-way confrontation.
The temple is small but the evil spirits are great.
On the other hand, Carl, with the support of his master, began to devote all his energy to transforming his power armor.
The number of infusions available to an ordinary level 10 artificer is 4, but as an armorer, Carl can add two more infusions to his arcane power armor.
Carl first added the helmet infusion of alertness to the helmet. As long as Carl wore it, he could not be ambushed by anyone.
Then there was a pair of combat boots, on which he infused the Boots of Reversal spell, which enabled him to flash back and forth within a space with a radius of five meters.
The power armor itself was structurally modified and reinforced with enhanced defense infusion by Carl, and the arms were given enhanced weapon infusion.
After level ten, the effects of the two infusions, enhanced defense and enhanced weapons, are greatly improved. The damage protection capability of power armor alone is no weaker than that of extremely rare armor.
In addition, Carl's main fighting style is defense, and ordinary people cannot even cause effective damage to Carl.
However, due to the limit on the number of synchronizations, Carl had to release the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid. Although he was reluctant, the current material performance of the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid could not keep up with Carl's combat intensity.
In the previous battle with the level 16 druid, part of the Moon Marrow Fluid's structure collapsed several times because it could not effectively resist the opponent's impact. Although Carl repaired it quickly, it also exposed the problem of the Moon Armor.
Therefore, Carl plans to return to his original intention and use ordinary mechanical power armor as his main weapon for the next period of time.
Of course, corresponding adjustments must also be made for large mechas.
The pairing of the two is similar to the relationship between Kabuda and the Kabuda Giant in "Iron Man".
"Huh? You're going to combine this mecha with this truck? If you do that, you'll lose your ability to fly fast."
When Carl's modification reached the mecha, Mooreban quickly discovered that there was something wrong with his apprentice's modification idea, so he hurried forward to stop it.
But Karl said: "Master, with my current fighting power, I don't need to run away from opponents I can defeat; and I can't run away from opponents I can't defeat."
Moore thought about it carefully and found that it was indeed the case.
His apprentice's combat power was indeed quite brutal, but when facing high-level professionals, especially enemies like mages and druids, even if he could escape temporarily, they would definitely catch up with him.
From this perspective, the function of the mecha transforming into a fighter jet seems a bit useless.
After all, its flight time is limited, and it is difficult to escape the tracking range of mages and druids in a short period of time.
Instead of thinking about how to escape, it’s better to bring more weapons and blow him to death.
As for carrying spare fuel and increasing flight time...
The knowledge Carl has does not currently support his needs in this regard.
A few days passed in a flash, and on this morning, Mooreban received news from Andel and learned about Queen Andel's attitude towards the matter.
"Well, the Queen hopes you can help. Even if the people in power here are really the nobles of Sayre, you must at least hold some power. As long as the matter is successful, the Queen will grant you the status of honorary noble, so that you can have a wife in Aundair."
The countries in Khorvaire generally support monogamy. Although the mistresses of high-ranking officials can form an independent battalion, they can only have one wife in name.
However, this matter is not without loopholes, that is, within a single country.
Countries that signed the Throne Castle Agreement recognized the official certificates of other countries, so that one could have two legal wives.
"Um, Queen, you don't think that I can take the risk of pretending to be in good terms with that druid, right?"
After taking a look at the letter sent back, Carl frowned with an embarrassed expression.
"Alright, stop acting. You don't have any acting talent. Compared to those ministers, your acting skills are too immature.
We are master and apprentice, how can I not know you? What did you say? You have to pay more, right?
Let's talk about something practical. I can find you a piece of land in the city of Akanix, and you can open a branch of your family's weapons workshop."
Compared with the previous condition, a piece of land located in the city of Akanix is much more practical.
Carl didn't try to be arrogant. He just grinned and nodded in agreement.
Carl: "In that case, I have no choice but to go out and take a look. The underground facilities in the fortress have been completed. If you are interested, you can go and take a look at the head of the cobalt gold construct."
Mooreban: "What? Cobalt-gold construct? You're hiding this good thing from me?"
Carl: "Uh, I forgot. In fact, I even forgot that I helped Joanna hide a group of adventurers. It's just right. I'll take them out for some fresh air later."
As they were talking, the master and the disciple walked out of the bastion base and headed towards the fortress.
Not long after, Carl came out of the castle with a group of experienced adventurers equipped with updated equipment.
This movement immediately attracted the attention of another force in the underground ruins, especially when they discovered that the leader was the strange mechanic Carl.
"Even if he wants to compete for the position of the future master of Storm Bay now, isn't it a bit too late?"
The new boss recommended by several major adventure groups was not optimistic about Carl's behavior.
During this period of time, the hearts of the survivors in Storm Bay had been won over by the young man who had just become a level 1 warrior. The adventurers wandering in the adventure zone were integrated by an 8th level warlock, and the most powerful adventure groups elected him as their temporary leader.
No matter how you look at it, that artificer has no competitiveness at all!
However, what surprised the leader of the adventure group was that Carl actually brought people to visit the leaders of the Twelve Dragon Marked Families and the managers of other large forces.
What surprised him even more was that Carl was not driven out by the guards of the Dragon Mark Family, but was sent out by those in charge.
…
"Want to know why they suddenly changed their attitude?"
Coming out of the last force's base, Carl looked at the group of experienced adventurers behind him who were still confused, and prepared to explain.
"Because we are good people?"
An adventurer who looked the most honest scratched his head and directly expressed his opinion. To Carl's surprise, several adventurers actually nodded in agreement.
This made Carl understand that there was a reason why these guys were so hot-blooded and directly fought against the Storm Council. With their brains, they would never be able to plan anything in their life.
"No, it's because my transformation plan is in their best interest!"
As he spoke, Karl took out several copies of the plan documents and handed them to everyone.
Universal education enables most people to read, but only to the extent that they can read.
Some adventurers understood the value of this plan and imagined a bright future for a while, but more rough guys looked at the people around them in confusion and asked questions about this and that.
"In general..."
Just as Carl was about to explain to them, a flaming arrow suddenly flew over from a distance.
Everyone instantly entered combat status, and Carl directly summoned power armor and grabbed the arrow.
"+1 quality enchanted elemental arrows? How dare you use something of this quality? You might as well just use ordinary arrows for a sneak attack. At least that thing is cheaper!"
After saying that, Carl exerted a little force with his gauntlet and directly broke the still burning arrow.
And the attacker was also coming from a distance.
"Hand over those people behind you, and I can let you go!"
On the opposite side, a man dressed as a pirate with a patch covering his left eye and holding a long sword spoke to Carl in a grim tone.
They are the remnants of the Storm Council. It can be said that it is because of this group of people behind Carl that the Storm Council has fallen to the point where everyone is calling for its destruction.
But it is undeniable that this group of guys who will eventually be swept into the garbage dump still retain a certain combat effectiveness.
(End of this chapter)