"Legend has it that Eberron was invaded by the 'Dream World' in ancient times. Later, the Giant King who controlled the world cut off the connection between Eberron and the Dream World. Could my cheat be related to the Dream World?"

Feeling the connection between himself and the second dream world, Carl guessed this in his heart.

After resisting the temptation of the adult Hope's tenderness, Carl could clearly feel the growth of his spiritual power.

This allowed him to maintain his thoughts in the second level of dreams and not interfere with the dream world.

However, Carl's spiritual energy is not sufficient to allow him to stay in the second level of dreams all the time, so the time he can use the second level of dreams stably is limited.

"Ah~, let me think, what is the most urgent thing now? Oh, right, training! I need to try to become a warrior."

As soon as he thought of it, Hope's illusion appeared in front of Carl.

But compared to before, Hope now has more clothes on his body.

"Okay, let's start the training. I hope I can gain something from it."

Taking a defensive stance, a battle of wills and skills begins.

…

“Hua La La—”

I don’t know how long it took, but Carl woke up from his dream.

His consciousness spent a lot of time in the training of the second level of dreams and the simulation modeling of the first level of dreams, which made him feel that he had been "away from reality for a long time".

The sound of rain outside the house is still continuing, and it seems that the impact of the water elemental plane will last for a long time.

Just when Carl was about to change his position, he found that his lower body was covered by dry clothes.

"Hope?"

"I'm here, what's wrong?"

Hope's voice came from the corner at the other end of the room. Although it sounded the same as usual, Carl always felt that her tone was a little trembling.

"It's all right. Is the suit dry yet? Hand me the rivet and I'll light it up again."

Based on his guess about the location of the sound, Carl reached out his hand in the direction where he thought Hope was.

Soon, a rivet was handed to Carl.

Once again, he performed his magic trick, and a soft light spread out from the rivets to the surroundings.

Putting the rivets aside, Carl put on his clothes in the diffuse light.

But when he was putting on his pants, Carl's back suddenly hurt.

But he just thought it was a muscle strain caused by the high-intensity labor yesterday, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

"It looks like this rain may last a long time."

Walking to the stone slab, Carl injected spirituality into it again.

The fire rune made the stone slab hot again, and Hope took out the remaining monitor lizard meat from the dimensional bag and roasted it on the stone slab.

Thanks to the fact that no living things can remain in the dimensional bag, the shelf life of the monitor lizard meat has been extended significantly.

"What are your plans later?"

Flipping the steak with the chopsticks that Carl had sharpened, Hope asked Carl with a wandering look.

"Next, let's use the remaining wood in the dimensional bag to make some furniture and utensils."

Speaking of this, Karl's face showed a confident expression.

In his dream last night, he modeled almost all the furniture that the two of them might use in the future.

Nodding, Hope changed the liquid in the alchemy pot to salt water, and then poured some on the stone slab and steak.

The sound of "sizzling, sizzling" spread out along with the steam. Hope picked up a piece and tasted it, then said to Carl:

“You can eat now.”

It is said that "salty" is the king of all flavors, and this is not an exaggeration.

There is a world of difference in the taste of food with and without salt.

Carl and Hope quickly finished their breakfast by grilling and eating.

"If we have a chance, we can try to build a brick kiln. I remember that hilly area before seemed to have mineral veins. Maybe we can make some metal utensils. If that doesn't work, we can also recycle my armor or burn some ceramics."

After helping Hope clean up the dishes, Carl looked at the wind and rain outside and whispered suggestions to Hope.

"You also know how to make pottery and smelt?"

After hearing Carl's suggestion, Hope took a half step back and looked at his companion again.

"What are you talking about? Although I have no practical experience, I know the principle."

Seeing that Hope still had an expression of "disbelief" on his face, Carl simply told him what he knew.

"You people of Eruden Field know so much."

Hope expressed this with the tone of a primitive tribesman envying the residents of a big city.

"That's not the case. In addition to teaching people to read and do simple math, physics, and chemistry, the basic education in the Eruden Wilderness mainly teaches agricultural and animal husbandry techniques. I learned all this miscellaneous knowledge in Akanix."

It was too complicated to explain the concept of a time traveler to a native of this world, so Carl had to lie and say that he learned this knowledge from his previous life in magic school.

But after hearing the college Carl attended, Hope's expression suddenly became confused.

"where?"

"Akanix? What's wrong?"

"Akanix... is it the one with nine floating wizard towers, the gathering place of the eight major wizard schools, and the most famous magic school in the entire Khorvaire continent - Akanix?"

"If there's no other school like this, then it must be the one you mentioned."

After taking a few quick steps back, Hope looked at Carl again.

But this time, she looked at it as if she were "looking at a rare animal."

It's no wonder she was so surprised.

Because if we were to compare the identities of the two, Hope would be equivalent to an Indian girl who grew up in the slums of Mexico, while Carl would be an international student who went from the Eastern country to study at Harvard.

"Wait! Isn't Arkanix a magic school in the Kingdom of Aundair? How did you, an Eluden, get into such a school?"

Looking at Hope's wide eyes, Carl felt like he was being questioned.

Although he was lucky enough to be admitted to this famous magic academy because of the academy's expansion, he was admitted anyway! "Huh? I'm from Eruden, so why can't I be admitted to Akanix? Wait! You can't be..."

Just as he was about to argue with the other party, Carl suddenly realized that Hope had been living in Zom.

There is not even basic education in this place. Apart from mastering martial arts and becoming mercenaries in various countries, the people of Zhuomu have almost no access to information from the outside world.

Thinking of this, Karl's expression suddenly became sympathetic.

"Please, the tension between the Kingdom of Aundair and Eludin happened more than 20 years ago. The two countries signed an alliance agreement long ago. My mother is from Aundair."

(End of this chapter)