Hope pushed Carl away without saying a word, covered his chest with his hands, and got up from the bed.

"It's unfair! Isn't this a natural reaction after waking up? By the way, where is that Iris?"

Seeing Hope get out of bed, Carl hurried to follow.

However, as soon as he stepped on the ground, Hope came over.

"Why are you looking for her?"

Staring at Carl with a dangerous look in his eyes, it was obvious that Hope seemed to have thought wrongly.

Seeing this, Carl had no choice but to tell the truth about what happened in his dream.

"My high fever this time may be due to the Eternal Furnace. It appeared directly in my dream, and I also..."

A moment later, Hope finished listening to Carl's story, ran out with a serious expression, and called Iris.

"Hope said that you found the Eternal Furnace in your own dream world?"

As soon as she entered the door, Iris went straight to the point with a serious expression.

And Carl also understood why Hope showed a wary expression when she heard that he wanted to find Iris.

It seems that Iris has found other uses for the cotton cloud and has actually knitted it into a white sweater.

This sweater is knitted with great care, loose where it should be loose, and tight where it should be tight.

She also deliberately lengthened the hem of her sweater, which made her look like she was not wearing any underwear.

In Carl's memory, sweaters of similar style seemed to have the nickname "Virgin Killer".

"Yes! And it seems that I got some benefit from it. By the way, Hope! Where is the adamantine key?"

Turning his head away from Iris's clothes, Carl remembered the key that inexplicably appeared in his dream.

Hope immediately took out Carl's dimensional bag for storing miscellaneous items and began to rummage through it.

Soon, she took out a key with strange patterns on it and handed it to Karl.

In an instant, golden light burst out from between the key and Carl's palm, and a force that made people feel comfortable physically and mentally spread out in all directions with Carl as the center.

This force seemed to be unobstructed or hindered. It actually penetrated the spacecraft directly and acted within a radius of more than ten kilometers.

When the light faded, the huge golden key had changed its appearance.

Rather than a key, it is more like a big sword with a strange shape.

'Why does he look like Wang Lujian in the FGO game?'

Looking at the complex structure of the fine gold sword in his hand, Carl thought subconsciously.

However, compared to the one in the game, the "blade" of the adamantine sword in Carl's hand is longer.

Including the handle, the entire key was almost as high as his shoulder.

"What happened!"

Just as Carl and the other two were looking at the "key", Nia and the other two, who had woken up when the light burst out, appeared at the door.

Seeing Carl, the three of them showed a "relieved" expression on their faces.

"What are you doing? You just had a serious illness, you need to rest well!"

Nia walked forward without saying anything, and was about to send Carl back to bed, but she discovered the weird atmosphere between Carl and the other two.

Hearing this, Karl and the other two nodded at the same time.

Nia added: "And this matter is related to the Eternal Furnace?"

The three continued to nod.

Nia's eyes immediately focused on the adamantine key in Carl's hand, and she said jokingly, "You guys are not thinking that this thing is the key to the Eternal Furnace, right?"

This time, Hope and Elise did not shake their heads, but turned to look at Carl.

"No, ah~, how should I put it? I don't know how to explain it to you. In my dream, I seemed to have consumed something of this thing's function as a key, and in reality it has become what it is now."

Picking up the key, Carl weighed it twice and was surprised to find it fits nicely in his hand.

However, the material of high-purity refined gold made the key extremely heavy. To wield it, even Carl needed to use all his strength.

After looking Carl up and down, Nia asked in disbelief, "So, you got the Eternal Furnace?"

Before she could continue guessing, she met Karl’s slightly helpless gaze.

"What are you dreaming about! Why don't you just say that I have directly broken through to the legendary level? In comparison, this may be more reliable! I seem to have come into contact with the Eternal Furnace and gained some kind of authority and knowledge from it. Hiss~, I seem to have directly advanced two levels?"

When Carl came into contact with his spiritual core again, he was surprised to find that it had become even more powerful.

Although he did not confirm it directly through the dream attribute panel, Carl felt that his judgment was not wrong.

However, Nia was not that surprised to hear that he had been promoted twice.

"You have been working day and night to build this spaceship. If the spiritual feedback from this project still cannot help you level up, then I should really doubt whether you have become brain damaged due to exhaustion."

After a pause, her expression suddenly became a little awkward, and then she asked in a low voice: "Can the knowledge you got from the Eternal Furnace..."

Halfway through his words, Karl had already placed his palm on Nia's head.

"I'll compile a copy for you later, but there doesn't seem to be much knowledge about the School of Transmutation, so you probably won't be able to use much."

"Karl! You're so nice!"

Nia happily hugged Carl's waist and rubbed him happily, her joy beyond words.

At this moment, Mitris, who was standing by with her arms around her shoulders, asked, "So can we leave this damn restricted area now? After all, haven't you obtained some authority?"

Mitris's words woke everyone up from their dreams, and Carl even closed his eyes, ready to try his "authority".

However, after a moment, he opened his eyes in loss.

"No, that authority cannot control the problem of the teleportation restricted area. This seems to be a spontaneous effect of the energy field of the Eternal Furnace. As long as the Eternal Furnace is not extinguished, it will not disappear."

Although they had been mentally prepared, everyone still felt a little disappointed after hearing the news.

The scene suddenly became depressing.

But after a moment of silence, Mitris asked again: "Then what can you do with your authority?"

This time, Carl answered without any lag: "It allows me to pass through my own dream world and go to the furnace every once in a while to gain some knowledge."

Although it is impossible to actually obtain the Eternal Furnace, the learning opportunity represented by this authority is really quite good for an artificer or a mage.

Especially for a machinist like Carl who specialized in Giant Runes, after receiving the knowledge passed down from the Eternal Furnace, he felt that he had a deeper understanding of certain abilities.

(End of this chapter)