The axe, which Hope often maintained, embedded itself neatly into the skull of a monitor lizard. Red and pink sticky substances spurted out from the wound, dyeing the surrounding water red.

The smell of blood aroused the wildness of several monitor lizards around. Instead of running away, they pounced on Hope.

How could Carl dare to continue firing crossbow arrows at such a close distance?

The psychic energy was released, and a chantless mage's hand pushed out, pulling the giant lizard flying in the air closer to the direction where Carl was, causing it to deviate from the predetermined trajectory and miss Hope.

These big, sturdy guys are quite powerful. If you are knocked down by them, even a professional like Hope will find it difficult to break free.

Holding the dimensional bag in one hand, Carl chanted the spell quickly.

The giant lizard that he was controlling changed direction and flew towards him.

Without even a pause, Carl raised his pulley crossbow and shot at the head of the charging giant lizard.

The body weighing more than 200 pounds fell to the ground with a loud bang. Carl put away the pulley crossbow and started chanting again.

As the spell drew to a close, Carl's voice rose in pitch.

This was a reminder to Hope that he was about to cast a spell.

Coincidentally, Hope had just finished a round of violence and her body was a little exhausted. After noticing this, she flew to the side and took back the two axes she had thrown out before.

【Tasha Acid Brew】

Finally, Carl's spell was released, and a 30-foot-long and 5-foot-wide line of acid shot out from him and flew forward.

Every monitor lizard within the linear area was covered in acid.

Their scales and skin corroded rapidly, but the acid was quickly washed away by rain and surface water.

The damage was not fatal and did not even cause much harm to the monitors.

However, after nearly a minute of acid spitting, the claws and scales of these monitor lizards were softened by the slightly diluted acid.

Raising the pulley crossbow again, Carl looked at the giant lizards tumbling in the water, and drew the string and pulled the trigger without mercy.

One after another, the crossbow arrows formed by magic pierced the bodies of the giant lizards. In the end, all seven giant lizards died on the spot.

"Let's keep the monitor lizard skin this time. After tanning it, we can have two more sets of replacement clothes."

The skin of the monitor lizard is similar to crocodile skin, and if it is processed properly, it is more than suitable for wearing as clothing.

Carl had watched a lot of popular science videos in his previous life, and he also knew some of the steps of traditional leather tanning.

"As expected of a student of Akanix, you know so much."

Looking at Carl with envy, Hope's eyes flickered with a light, and no one knew what he was thinking.

“Knowing more is not as good as actually doing more. Practice is the only criterion for testing truth.”

Carl took out the pre-prepared backpack from the dimensional bag, hung the backpack next to him, took a hand axe from Hope, and started cutting.

Because they had to consider the monitor lizard's skin, the two of them moved much slower.

Fortunately, this place was located under the cap of a giant mushroom. Although the two were occasionally caught in the rain, they could still cut meat peacefully most of the time.

The bones of the monitor lizard were also packed up and taken back by the two. Carl planned to try making bone china after he was promoted to level 3.

Eating barbecue all the time will make you tired.

"It would be nice if you could make a few more dimensional bags."

Carrying a basket of meat and bones, Hope trudged through the rapids with a somewhat unsatisfied look on his face.

"I would like to, but the craftsmanship of this thing is a bit complicated. I can't make it now."

Also carrying a basket of meat and bones, Carl followed behind Hope, his body swaying from time to time.

These bones weigh at least 100 pounds. Even Hope cannot carry them long distances.

Tying the backpack to the climbing rope, Hope pulled the end of the rope and was the first to return to the top of the mushroom cap.

Fortunately, the climbing rope has a load capacity of more than 1 ton, otherwise, the two of them would have to use dimensional bags to transport it up and down back and forth.

However, even so, the mechanism designed by Carl still operates quite obscurely.

It took it almost three times as long as usual to pull Hope and the two backpacks up.

This forced Carl to think about the possibility of optimizing this mechanism.

Soon, another climbing rope was lowered from above. Carl waited for a moment before pulling the rope up.

"Next time, I might consider using a pulley system and installing a cable car or something, but that would require digging a hole..."

After shaking off the rain on his body, Carl walked into the house, shivering all over.

Once again giving the stone slab some spirituality, Carl pinched out the shiny rivets, skillfully took off his clothes, and prepared to bake it on the stone slab.

But when he had only taken off half of his clothes, Karl suddenly stopped.

Because in his eyes, the world is still "bright".

He could clearly see the grain of the wooden planks next to him, as if there was still a light in the room.

But this should be impossible. Carl has not had time to make window openings in the house. Only a little fluorescence can be seen from the door of the living room.

According to Carl's previous eyesight, he definitely couldn't see clearly.

As I was lost in thought, Hope had already taken off his clothes and walked over to me as if he was familiar with the place.

Crystal clear water droplets slid down her fiery red skin one by one. As she walked, Hope's body trembled up and down, which was dizzying.

The impact of this picture was too great for Carl. In order to prevent himself from having too many bad thoughts, he was so scared that he quickly closed his eyes.

However, although he closed his eyes, he did not stop moving.

Soon, he took off his wet clothes, wrung out the water, and hung them above the stone slab.

Inadvertently, Carl opened his eyes slightly for a moment and caught a glimpse of Hope out of the corner of his eye.

The girl was staring straight at Karl's lower body at this moment, and her already fiery red skin looked even brighter.

With his attention focused, weak spiritual energy radiated from Carl's body in all directions.

Then, a feeling of shyness mixed with curiosity was captured by psychic power.

'Can she see me clearly too? Can dark vision see to this extent? Doesn't this mean she is born with infrared vision? No! Infrared vision is only black and white, while dark vision is still in color in dim conditions.'

Carl sat down next to the stone slab with a somewhat stiff body, his eyes closed, and his mood was somewhat complicated.

Just as he was about to enter the dream world to check on his condition, Hope came over at this moment, and his cool fingers stroked Carl's back, making the already excited Carl even more "excited".

Karl suddenly opened his eyes, stared at the direction of the stone slab and asked, "What are you doing?"

Out of the corner of her eye, Hope seemed not to have expected Carl's reaction to be so "intense," and her expression became a little panicked.

She tried hard not to look at Karl, but her eyes stayed on Karl again and again.

After a long while, she finally said, "Your back seems to be injured, right here..."

As he spoke, Hope placed his palm on the spot where Carl had occasionally felt pain before.

There, a twisted pattern had protruded from Carl's skin.

(End of this chapter)