The heavy plate armor lost the support of magic, and the still swinging limbs fell to the ground with a "ping-pong" sound.

"Dead?"

After a long while, Thorin raised his head and asked his companion.

In his hands he was holding a pair of boots made of terrifying armor, and the sharp spikes on his breastplate had left several scratches.

Putting down the weapon in his hand, Carl walked forward to check it, then nodded.

"It should be dead. Phew. Things made by giants are always harder to deal with than normal ones."

These words resonated with everyone, and Scorpion even kicked the chest armor of the Terror Armor to express his emotions.

As creations of the giants, the drow elves still have some emotions towards the giants.

It is said that more than a hundred years ago, the Drow Tribe would organize people in the tribe to hunt lone giants wandering on the surface.

Of course, these things were just what Carl heard.

And Ying heard it from the elders in her tribe.

"What should we do next? Continue exploring? Even outside a room like this there is this level of security. It's hard for me to imagine what a place where treasures or important items are stored would look like."

After transforming from a black bear back into a human, Hope clearly expressed his pessimistic attitude towards the follow-up of this adventure.

"Well, so we can explore slowly. If we really encounter a problem that we can't get around no matter what, then we can go back. Don't take this adventure as a big deal. This is just an adventure I created to satisfy my curiosity."

After comforting everyone, Carl walked to the door and quietly stuck his head out.

Outside the house was a huge corridor, just as he had observed when he used psychic detection just now.

The walls are hung with lighting devices generated by the Eternal Flame spell. Stealth and invisibility in the illuminated area will reveal the original form.

In general, this building looks like an ordinary castle of a human noble lord, the only difference is that the one in front of us is larger.

It is said that trends are a cycle, and Carl doesn’t know whether the similarity before his eyes is a cycle in some sense.

"Put away the plate armor, and let's go out and take a look!"

The materials used to make the Horror Armor are also quite good. The mithril and refined gold that can be extracted from the materials are basically worth the money spent.

But people are always greedy, and what Carl wants is - more.

Walking out of the room, the dazzling firelight illuminated the surroundings so that there were almost no shadows.

Carl suspected that this was to prevent the elven rebels from assassinating giant politicians. After all, the elven wanderers were once notoriously sharp.

The two sides of the corridor seemed to lead to different places. After feeling the flow of air, Carl immediately chose the left side.

Accustomed to looking down on others, Carl felt a little awkward with the huge scene around him. Walking in this overly wide corridor, he actually felt like he was back in his childhood when he ran around the house on his short legs.

But soon, Carl woke up from his memories.

Because in front of them appeared a metal door reinforced with mechanisms and secret locks.

No matter how you look at it, this should be a sign that what's behind the door is very important.

"Hehe! We never had a good time before. Today, let those giant spirits see how powerful the Xiling Lishi is!"

Rubbing his palms quickly, Carl removed the power armor on his arms and helmet, put his ear against the mechanical door, and cracked the mechanism.

In order to open this mechanism, you need to unlock both the mechanical and magical locks.

The things sealed in the room are most likely stored in a special space similar to a dimensional bag. If the cracking goes wrong, the treasures inside may be scattered into the star realm.

Although Karl has accumulated a lot of wealth in Khorvaire, there is a difference between the hard-earned money and the windfall.

With a "click" sound, Carl quickly left the door and cast a spell to dispel magic on it.

As the effect of the secret lock was lifted, the mechanism on the door began to spin rapidly and then suddenly popped open.

Carl and Bane, who were standing at the front, closed the door as quickly as possible. Bane screwed the door shut frantically, while Carl released the secret lock on it again.

In the room behind the door, standard armors that were exactly the same as the terrifying armor just now stood neatly facing the direction of the door. As the door just opened, they seemed like reactivated robots, and scarlet magic power gradually condensed inside the armors.

"Run! You've disturbed a hornet's nest!"

While these guys were still not fully awake, everyone immediately ran quickly in the direction they came from.

There were clanging sounds coming from the door behind him. The heavy metal door was quickly deforming under the constant knocking and was about to break.

However, when Carl and others ran to the door of the room, they found that the original wooden door debris was flattened and replaced by an iron plate of unknown thickness mixed with refined gold.

Although the remains of the wooden door prevented the iron plate from completely closing with the ground, the tiny gap was not even enough for Carl to put his finger in.

"Damn it, I fell into the giant's trap!"

After cursing, Carl immediately led everyone to escape to the passage on the other side.

However, the room on the other side also seemed to have the same mechanical door. Carl's psychic power could not see through the thick metal wall to see what was inside, but according to the evil taste of the designer of this trap, Carl felt that there would also be a large group of terrifying armors inside.

Because if it were him, he would do the same.

Of course, Carl could also summon mechas here and fight a fierce battle with those terrifying armors, but with his retreat cut off, he must prioritize the safety of his companions.

Ying and Scorpion were also using their psychic powers to investigate the situation. Although their psychic powers were slightly weaker than Carl's, they were barely enough.

Just when those terrifying armors were about to break through the iron gate, Scorpion suddenly shouted loudly: "Karl! Something is wrong here!"

Carl, who had already prepared to fight a hundred people alone, immediately released his psychic energy in the direction of the scorpion. Behind the seemingly ordinary wall, a door large enough for a giant to pass through appeared in Carl's perception.

The gate was obviously mixed with refined gold, and Carl's energy was simply not enough to continue exploring further.

He elbowed the wall, causing rubble to fall and the metal door to appear in front of everyone.

Seeing the door lock, Carl was slightly stunned, then turned his head and shouted to Hope: "Hurry up and take out the golden key!"

Hope quickly understood what Carl meant and immediately inserted the platinum key into the door lock.

I turned the key and there was a click of the mechanism in the door lock.

Without considering whether there was a trap behind this door, Carl directly opened the metal door, revealing the tunnel behind it.

"Quick! Go in!"

Everyone filed in, and Carl pulled out the key and finally entered the metal door.

As the gate closed, a whole team of terrifying armors rushed out of the metal gate.

The patterns on the fine gold key were still emitting ripples like breathing.

But he didn’t know if it was Carl’s illusion, he always felt that the ripple frequency of this thing had become a little faster.

"Let's leave this thing outside for now. It looks like it should be the master key to the various secret passages in this ruins."

Just as he took a few breaths, he heard the friction sound of armor plates in action from the corridor outside.

The sounds were so dense that everyone could imagine what was happening outside just by using their imagination.

"Okay, now we have to explore forward. We have no way to retreat. Outside are candlesticks made of Eternal Bright Flame. It's impossible for Ying and I to sneak back, and there's also that iron plate blocking our way.

These giants are really rich. They even used metal mixed with refined gold to make a broken mechanism. No wonder the world's refined gold production is not very high. It seems that most of it has been mined by these guys, right?"

Twisting its neck, the scorpion looked a little anxious.

She didn't complain about Carl, who caused all this to happen.

"It looks like we have no choice but to move forward. I'll go ahead."

Realizing that his retreat was cut off, Bane immediately got into the state.

The ranger's perception was fully opened, and he began to explore forward amid the noise created by the terrifying armor outside.

However, the giants probably did not think that the elves or other creatures could find this secret passage. After walking forward for a while, they found that there were not only no mechanisms in the secret passage, but also no protection at all.

I don’t know how long I walked, but finally, another door mixed with a large amount of refined gold appeared in front of me.

Carl went forward and opened the door, but when he pushed, the metal door didn't move at all.

He thought the door was also hidden in the wall, so he called Bane and Thorin and pushed with all his strength.

"Caracalla"

Accompanied by the sound of stones rubbing against each other, the door of the secret passage was pushed open little by little.

Carl also discovered the reason why he couldn't push the door open just now - the other side of the door was hidden behind a stone statue, and they had to push the stone statue away to open the door.

Carl felt relieved when he thought that this secret passage was built by giants, and that giants generally have large bodies and at least 20 points of strength.

The three of them together are probably equivalent to an ordinary giant whose strength attribute is not fully developed.

"If I had known, I would have summoned the mecha directly. This place can accommodate it."

Shaking his sore arms, Karl whispered unconvinced.

"Alright, I know you're powerful now. Use your secret eyes to check out the situation outside. Don't be so reckless as to run out by yourself this time!"

Patting Carl on the head, Hope sternly admonished Carl.

"Got it, got it! I didn't expect the giant back then to be so cunning! Leave the rest to me!"

Taking out the arcane eye mechanism from the dimensional bag, Carl threw it through the opened gap, then controlled the mechanism to become optically invisible and took off for reconnaissance.

Outside the secret passage, towering stone pillars are lined up on both sides, and a huge long table runs across the lobby.

The walls on both sides are covered with various stone carvings, and the door to the secret passage is hidden behind one of the stone carvings.

Judging from the specifications, this should be the hall of a palace.

(End of this chapter)