"Hope! Are you okay?"

Carl stepped over the scattered things around him and didn't even bother to put on his clothes. He rushed up and hugged Hope.

As soon as their bodies touched, Carl discovered that the other person's body temperature was frighteningly high.

"Did he get injured before? That's not right. Hope didn't get injured during this hunt..."

Anxiously checking the source of the blood, Carl's mind quickly recalled the previous hunting scenes.

But soon, Karl stopped moving and his face began to turn red little by little.

"She, her aunt..."

Menstruation, also known as female period and sunflower water, is a normal metabolic phenomenon after women enter puberty.

The amount of bleeding varies according to the health of the body.

Hope's situation is already quite serious.

"Fortunately, it wasn't some sudden illness or hidden injury. In that case..."

Putting Hope back on the floor, Carl turned around and took out his wrench from his dimensional bag.

While chanting the spell, Carl gestured in the air with his free hand. As a soft energy emerged from his fingertips, he immediately squatted down and pointed his fingers at Hope.

The energy quickly penetrated into Hope's body. The conscious Hope suddenly curled up, then slowly relaxed.

"Ka, Karl..."

Opening his drowsy eyes, Hope looked at Carl in confusion, only to feel that his body was very heavy.

"Do you know your menstrual period?"

"Period?"

At this point, how could Carl not know that Hope probably didn't know much about female physiological hygiene and didn't realize that she was "out of shape" recently.

"Forget it. I'll tell you about this after you recover. I'll make you a recliner later. It's a bit cold to sleep on the floor."

After that, Carl took out the alchemy pot and the wooden bowl carved out of a log from his dimensional bag, and mixed some diluted salt water for Hope to drink.

After massive blood loss, electrolytes should be replenished in a timely manner.

“Da da da…”

The sound of Carl chopping wood with flint continued to echo in the room. Hope, who had recovered a little strength, leaned against the wall and watched Carl work quietly.

This kind of atmosphere made her feel a little bit like "home".

After a while, Carl placed a recliner that was barely flat next to him.

"Just lie down on this for now. I'll refine it once I reach level 3."

The artificer will experience a huge improvement at level 3.

Because after reaching this level, the artificer can choose his own specialization, which is a sub-profession.

There are currently 4 sub-professions in the Artificer class, namely Alchemist, Artillerist, Battlefield Craftsman and Armorer.

The sub-profession that Carl chose in the academy is the armorer. When he reaches level 3, he can start to train the occupational characteristics of the armorer and evolve his ability as a machinist towards the specialization of an armorer.

This kind of evolution cannot be easily changed, just like the job change in some games.

After acquiring the characteristics of an armorer, Carl could no longer acquire other sub-classes of an artificer.

However, thanks to the magical property that the mechanic can use any magic item, Carl can also teach himself the abilities of other sub-professions.

"You know so many things, why were you only level 1 when we first met?"

Lying on the recliner, Hope looked at Carl who continued to get busy and asked the questions that had always been in his mind.

Rolling his eyes unhappily, Carl turned around, looked at Hope and said:

"Because when I was in school, I spent most of my time learning theoretical knowledge. Spellcasters need to learn a lot of theoretical knowledge!"

"Why do you think I can use the corresponding ability soon after I upgrade now?"

"Even before I became a formal artificer, the theoretical knowledge required for artificers from level one to level four was already a compulsory exam item for us!"

Recalling the experience of being busy with exams all day on campus, Carl's eyes actually became moist.

"It seems like it's not easy for you either..."

Seeing Carl's burning expression, Hope's mouth twitched. For the first time, he felt that being a spellcaster was not easy.

“Alas, it’s not easy for those of us who have decent talents. People with high talents can understand it as soon as they hear it, while people with low talents can’t even step through the threshold.”

The foundation of mages and artificers covers knowledge in mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry and many other fields.

The runes of spells are somewhat similar to computer codes.

As for science subjects, except for chemistry and biology, which can be learned by rote memorization, if you can't learn mathematics and physics, you really can't learn them.

The reason why Carl was able to get a job as an artificer with an intelligence of around 12 points was largely because he was a computer major in his previous life, and he succeeded in getting the job after he found the trick to learning spells and runes.

When Hope heard Carl talking about life in college, she also became curious.

"Highly gifted? How high?"

This question made it difficult for Carl to express himself for a moment, and even made him put down the work in his hands.

"Hmm~, how should I put it? In the second half of the first semester, there was a classmate who wanted to be a part-time mechanic. I learned the basics for a semester, but she only attended one week of class and then stopped coming. In the final exam, she ranked first and I ranked sixth."

"Sixth? That's still okay, right?"

"Ahem! There are only ten people in the whole class."

“…”

Thinking of her poor performance in learning carpentry, Hope regretfully discovered that even if she was not a tiefling and had received a good education, she might not have the talent to become a wizard or an artificer.

Seeing that Hope had almost recovered, Carl mixed some salt water and asked Hope to go to the corner to wash himself.

He started making a wooden basin and preparing to tan lizard skins to make some replacement clothes for the two of them.

Traditional tanning of leather requires wood ash, and Carl just happened to still have some sawdust from making wooden houses and furniture.

Carl used magic tricks to light a wooden stick in advance, and then used the wizard's hand to gather a large group of sawdust into the air.

Put a wooden stick close to the sawdust, and the flames will spread to the entire sawdust ball in an instant.

Because of his awakened psychic powers, Carl's Mage Hand can last almost indefinitely unless he loses focus.

When the wood chips were completely burned into ashes, Carl put the ashes into a basin of water and continued this operation until all the wood chips were burned.

Carl picked out two incomplete pieces of cut lizard skin and threw them into the wooden basin. Then he stood up again and started processing the lizard's meat and bones while the alkaline solution was transforming the leather.

(End of this chapter)