"Huh? A druid brought Karl's latest prosthetic body?"

In the restaurant, while the deer Lisanna brought back was still being prepared, Mitris told Lisanna what had just happened.

This naturally attracted the attention of Nia and Lisanna, but the two of them paid attention in very different directions.

"Ah~, that's great. I also want to go on an adventure to Xen'drik. I wonder what kind of treasures Brother Carl can find. I'm so curious! Brother Carl hasn't mailed me any local specialties for such a long time. He must be having a blast over there."

The somewhat heartless Lisanna was naturally focused on adventure, but Nia's thoughts were much more profound.

After looking at Mitris again, Nia asked in a low voice, "Is there any hindrance?"

Hearing what Nia said, Mitris quickly explained:

"No, it seems that person has no ill intentions. He just wants me to help experiment with the effects of the prosthesis."

After a pause, Mitris continued, "But based on his attitude, he seems to be very familiar with Carl. I don't know what Carl encountered in Xen'drik."

Just when the two were discussing serious matters, Lisanna on the side suddenly took over the conversation and set a trap for Carl.

"Humph! Xen'drik is the homeland of the drow. Brother Karl hasn't written to us for such a long time. He must have learned bad things over there!

Sister Hope obeys him in everything, and even Ying can't control him! Maybe when he comes back, he will bring a group of drow concubines with him!"

After saying that, Lisanna felt as if the temperature around her had dropped by several degrees out of nowhere, and she couldn't help but shivering.

She also realized that what she had just said was a bit inappropriate, so she shut her mouth obediently.

Mitris's eyes shifted back and forth between Lisanna and Nia several times, a little unsure of the current atmosphere.

"It was me who was tricked by Carl and lost my body. I didn't even say that I had set such a trap for him. Why does Lisanna, Carl's good sister, always say these things in front of Nia? Did Carl often bully Lisanna in the past? Or is this what Carl meant by natural black?"

Just as we were silent, the restaurant owner brought over the braised venison jerky.

"Have a meal!"

Finally, Nia gave the signal for dinner.

Lisanna and Mitris felt as if they had been pardoned and began to eat.

That night, the School of Transmutation received Nia's travel application, as well as one from Lisanna.

The acting director of the Tower of Wonders naturally knew the relationship between Nia and Carl, so he gave the green light all the way.

The next morning, the three of them left the city of Akanix on a lightning train bound for the port of Sarn.

…

Carl, who had no idea that Nia was coming with Lisanna and No. 18 to kill him, had just woken up.

During this time, they explored most of the rooms in the giant ruins.

But they soon discovered something that was worth pondering - so far, they have not explored a passage that can lead them out of the giant ruins.

"At present, we can roughly confirm that this ruins is the residence of a cloud giant. According to the character of the cloud giant, I suspect that there is something wrong with the area we are currently in."

Sitting in the huge chair in the spacious hall, Carl analyzed various possibilities.

The entire Giant's Mansion has now been roughly constructed into a three-dimensional map in Carl's mind, but Carl finds that the areas led by the secret passages are mostly independent of each other and do not look like a normal mansion at all.

In other words, the place connected by this secret passage should be a hidden area that has no intersection with the normal giant mansion.

If they want to leave, they need to find the intersection of the two and then leave from the normal area.

According to Carl's guess, he felt that this place was most likely near the bedroom or study of the Cloud Giant Lord.

"We have explored all the main secret passages, but still haven't found a way to leave. It seems that the cloud giant must have hidden this place."

After saying that, Karl leaned back, indicating that he could do nothing now.

The hall fell into a brief silence, but Bain quickly said, "Don't worry, sometimes it's like this when you look for something. When you try hard to find it, it just doesn't appear, but when you relax, it will suddenly appear in front of you.

We have sufficient food supplies and enough time to find a way to leave."

Having said that, he still sighed secretly when he finished saying this.

Not knowing how to leave is bound to make people feel a little anxious.

At this time, Ying seemed to have something to say.

She raised her right hand like Carl had done before and stood up straight.

Carl nodded towards Ying, signaling her to speak.

But Ying's height was much shorter than that of the giant, so she could only try to stand on a chair.

But when she tried to get up from the giant's chair, the sole of her shoe hit somewhere on the edge of the chair.

The chair that seemed to be connected to the ground suddenly made a slight sound, and the seat sank in all of a sudden, almost swallowing up the shadow.

Fortunately, Ying was very skilled and she jumped off the chair with a somersault.

Karl and the others paused for a moment, then quickly stood up and rushed towards the chair where Ying had just sat.

"It looks like some kind of mechanism was used."

After quickly checking the chair, Carl took out the secret eye mechanism and threw it into the passage under the chair.

Moving quickly along another secret passage, the Mystic Eye soon arrived at a dark space.

Just as Carl was about to control it to move forward, a skeleton suddenly appeared in his sight.

"Bang!"

The bone stick smashed down, and the secret eye mechanism was knocked away.

"Undead?"

Carl, who was sitting next to the chair, muttered in confusion, but Bain and others beside him suddenly changed their expressions.

There are undead in this ruins that has existed for who knows how many years. What level are they? If it is a giant undead, it is still unclear whether they can defeat it! Karl noticed the uneasiness of his companions and explained: "Don't worry, it's just a very ordinary undead. It's not even level 3, and its size is only medium."

These words calmed Bane down, but then another question arose in everyone's mind - where did this thing come from?

Without further delay, Carl called Ying, and the two of them went into the secret passage under the giant's seat and walked towards another secret room that the secret passage led to.

In his previous life, Carl once saw a blogger on a short video platform who built many small secret rooms in various places in his hometown. He was very envious at that time.

So he felt that the owner of the ruins might have the same idea as that blogger.

There are so many secret rooms and secret passages inside each other that Carl is almost sick of it.

Soon, the two of them jumped into the room where the Secret Eye mechanism was attacked along the secret passage.

The skeleton was still holding up a piece of thigh bone as a weapon, but looked a little dazed.

Flying down, Shadow used Shadow Step to instantly move behind the skeleton. The psychic blade shone brightly in the dark environment, and the skeleton's soul fire went out in a swaying manner.

"This guy's soul strength is probably only around level 2."

Shadow commented matter-of-factly as he looked at the skeleton that had fallen to the ground.

There were almost no other exits in the room, which made it difficult for Carl to determine how this guy got in.

He reached out and knocked on the walls around him. The solid sound let Carl know that there was no secret compartment here.

"The entire wall is forged from metal mixed with refined gold. What is the necessity of this room?"

Carl analyzed it to himself, but he felt that he could not keep up with the thinking of the designer of the secret room.

But soon, Carl realized something was wrong.

"The duration of the Enlargement and Shrinkage spells is only one minute. It's almost the limit for him to jump down from above and walk here. If he returns to normal size here, won't he be squeezed to death?"

After a brief moment of confusion, Carl seemed to have thought of something and took out something similar to a jack from his dimensional bag.

Then he took out two metal rods that were also mixed with pure gold.

Put the things together and you have a deformed version of the jack that can be supported between two metal walls.

Carl cranked the handle and the jack slowly opened.

A teeth-grinding sound of metal friction was heard, and the wall facing the entrance to the secret passage was pushed out little by little! "What kind of conspiracies is this! Was the cloud giant a mole in his previous life?"

Karl cursed at the wall silently, and suddenly saw a corpse whose bones were almost rotten.

The corpse was missing a thigh, which looked like the leg bone that the undead had used as a weapon.

"It's probably because he didn't have time to run away when the mechanism rebounded, so his leg was broken."

After inspecting the scene, Ying gave his opinion.

Walking out through the gap, the passage outside indeed became much larger.

A huge button is placed on the wall, which seems to be the mechanism for controlling the wall.

Carl simulated it with a few gestures and found that if the wall was fully stretched open, a giant would be able to reach out and press the button.

Carl pressed it without hesitation, then turned back to the room and took out the jack and metal rod.

Sure enough, the metal wall no longer returned to its previous position, as if it was stuck.

"Everyone, come down! It seems like we can leave here!"

After shouting upwards, Hope and others who had been waiting came in one after another.

Following the secret passage at the back, the group quickly walked out from the corner of a gorgeous room.

There is also a stone wardrobe connected to the outside of the vent. It seems that this is how the cloud giant entered and exited here.

Walking out of the closet, the group immediately noticed the open door.

Walking carefully to the door, Bane made a quick reconnaissance and found that there was no danger outside.

"It looks like we've finally figured out how to leave!"

Just as he was saying this, a dragon roar came from the passage outside the door.

The smile on Bane's face suddenly froze, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.

(End of this chapter)