"Karl? Why do you look so hurried?"
In the house assigned by the old village chief, Hope looked at her boyfriend who was walking with the wind and asked curiously.
"It seems that a group of robbers came outside. Their purpose is still unknown. The old village chief is discussing it with other people in the village."
Sitting down on the sofa, Carl looked at the fantasy drama playing nearby, his expression slightly stiff.
No matter how classic a literary work is, he couldn't watch it repeatedly in a short period of time. The fantasy drama that Hope and others were watching had been replayed at least eight times, if not ten times.
"Do we need any help? This is Tina's hometown after all."
Nia suggested without even moving her eyes as she stared at the fantasy play that could not be more familiar.
Hope's tail was being held in her arms as a warm baby, and Ying went even further and lay directly on Hope's thighs.
“I would like to help, but I am worried that the villagers will think that I am plotting against the secrets they are hiding.
Alas, if it doesn’t work, just leave them some defensive constructs and leave immediately.”
Lying on his back on the sofa, Carl shook his head and spoke of his plan.
"Hehe, after all, if you really count it, you are the one who holds the biggest secret of the Giant King's treasure. If the Queen knew that you have obtained some rights to the Eternal Furnace and can observe it frequently, she might marry the princess to you!"
Holding Hope's strong and warm tail, Nia finally shifted her gaze from the fantasy show to Carl, but her tone sounded sour.
"Ha! You're talking as if I would abandon you after having sex with you. Tonight, you will be the last one in line!"
As he spoke, Karl put his hand into Nia’s clothes.
Relying on his familiarity with Nia's body, Carl poked her with his finger and Nia started laughing crazily.
"No! No! I was wrong!"
After laughing crazily for several minutes, Carl withdrew his hand and let Nia go temporarily.
Poor Nia collapsed in Hope's arms, with only the sound of heavy breathing remaining.
Just then, Mitris's voice sounded outside the window:
"Hey! It's still broad daylight! Why do I see something like this when I get here! Are you bullying Nia again?"
Pushing open the half-closed window, Midris jumped directly into the house like a nimble big cat.
Without responding to Mitris's words, Karl crossed his arms and asked, "Any news from Iris?"
After picking up the snacks on the coffee table and taking a bite, Mitris said, "Lisanna has also come to the Air Plane with Ashe and Lauren, as well as your former adventurer companion Bain and his friends. Lisanna has arrived at Eclipse Harbor and dealt with a group of sky pirates."
Carl: "Ah~, they have worked hard, but fortunately, we will be able to take them back soon. By the way, is there any movement from the Dragonmark Family and the Khorvaire Kingdoms?"
Mitris: "According to Ashe, the main plane seems to have invested a lot of manpower and resources to allow high-level professionals to adventure in the Air Elemental Plane. It is said that the recent rampant sky pirates are because the adventurers from the main plane have taken over the business of local adventurers..."
Hearing this, Karl looked at Mitris with amusement.
"Okay, this kind of talk can only fool those who don't know the truth. Who doesn't know that most adventurers also work as part-time bandits?
They are just looking for an excuse.
I think the locals have already learned that the goal of the adventurers from the main plane is the reason for the rampant sky pirates. Don't forget that there are cloud giants in the air elemental plane, and no one wants to find the treasure of the giant king more than them."
As he was talking, Tina came to the door with a dozen roasted sweet potatoes.
"Master! Master's wives! Sister Mitris! The sweet potatoes are ready. Let's eat some together!"
With a silly smile on her face, Tina opened the door and walked in without caring what the people in the room were doing.
"Why has your personality become more and more childish recently? I remember you were a very reserved child a month ago."
Reaching out to take a baked sweet potato, Carl tore off the skin, revealing the honey-like flesh inside.
After blowing twice, he took a bite directly from his mouth.
Most of the plants on the floating islands are not very sweet, because the air elemental plane does not have enough direct sunlight to allow the plants to accumulate sugar.
Although the texture of this sweet potato is good, it has no flavor.
Taking a look at the maple syrup jar that Tina brought back, the empty state of the jar seemed to indicate that the problem was indeed as Carl thought.
Reaching into his dimensional bag, Carl pulled out two more jars of maple syrup.
"Here, share it with your friends. Don't eat too much! Be careful of tooth decay!"
Before Carl could finish his words, Tina had already put down the baked sweet potato in her arms, picked up one of the maple syrup bottles and ran away.
As she ran, she still answered stubbornly: "No!"
The adults in the room immediately laughed knowingly.
They went next door to call Iris, and the six of them shared the roasted sweet potatoes with maple syrup and talked about how to provide some help to the floating island.
Nia: "I think we can give them some Iron Ant Constructs. You produced so many to build the spacecraft. Even if you want to inject them with spirits, that number..."
There are still many incomplete iron ants stored inside the spacecraft. It is undoubtedly a huge project to inject spirit into all of them.
This is not like building the hull of a spaceship. The summoning of each construct spirit needs to be done by the caster personally.
If one wants them to have the same intelligence level as Ada, Aer and Xiaoming, Carl can only complete the summoning and soul injection by himself.
Even if Carl worked without eating or drinking, it would take at least ten years to complete.
There's no way. I couldn't control it when I was rushing to attack the enemy.
Carl: "That's indeed a solution, but it's probably difficult to deal with vicious air pirates with just normal-sized iron ants. Anyway, these iron ants are made of cloud iron, so I might as well increase their size and make a few larger ones!"
Without wasting any time, the proposal was quickly accepted by several people.
Carl went back to the spaceship and brought back Ada, Aer, Xiaoming and 16 dormant constructs.
Except for 13 of them that were intended for the floating island, the remaining three were intended for Ada and the others to transfer their bodies.
Ordinary steel is inferior to fibrous iron in both hardness and ductility, not to mention that fibrous iron is light in weight, which allows them to fly better.
So, on the first floor of this three-story wooden house, Carl began the transformation of the Iron Ant construct.
(End of this chapter)