Seeing the exaggerated column of fire, everyone, including Carl, changed their expressions.

But soon, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Because the creature that was spewing fire just now flew towards the giant eagle, the people with better eyesight clearly saw that the creature had no forelimbs, only two claws on its wings.

This is a standard dragon beast appearance. If it weren't for the dark red scales on its body, it would be a super pterosaur.

"Luckily it's not a dragon. As long as it's not a dragon, we can fight it!"

Carl let out a long sigh and felt a little relieved.

But Hope on the side was not so optimistic.

Hope: "But the opponent's breath looks no weaker than that of an ordinary red dragon. If you run into it, it's best to take fire prevention measures in advance."

Carl: "Hehe! You underestimate me! Don't worry, the Artificer will never fight a battle without preparation. Just give me some time and these things will be easy!"

After quietly getting out of the car, Carl and his companions quickly scouted the nearby terrain.

After a brief search, Bane found a cave.

Carl operated the micro-floating cannon and used earth shaping to build a temporary camp in the cave.

Bain and Thorin helped out, while the remaining three were responsible for cleaning up the excess dirt and gravel with dimensional bags.

Carl had no idea whether the wyvern would patrol its territory after eating, so they quickly dug the cave to a size that could barely accommodate a truck, and then hid their companions and the truck in it.

It has to be hidden, because any dragon beast, like their dragon blood relatives, has a special liking for glittering metals and gems.

After all, Carl's mecha is mixed with refined gold and mithril. Even if this wyvern doesn't know the value of it, it will not let it go.

After hiding all the things in the cave, Carl used the extra rubble and dirt to build a few shelters outside to prevent the wyvern from accidentally injuring everyone in the cave when it breathed.

At this time, Carl missed his engineering construct very much.

In particular, they are able to compress and compact the soil into concrete.

If there was such a thing now, Carl's workload could be reduced by at least half.

As soon as the most basic defensive fortifications were completed, the roar mixed with the power of a dragon began to echo in the mountains.

It seems that the dragon beast has finished enjoying the flesh and blood of the giant eagle and is now patrolling its territory.

"Hiss~, this roar is really scary. Why don't we explore Lonely Mountain by digging holes?"

Listening to the roar outside, Scorpion frowned and presented his ideas to everyone.

It is said that every mouse has its own way, and today Carl finally saw it.

“Bang!”

After slapping his wife on the back, Bain looked at Scorpion speechlessly, and said angrily:

"Do you think this mountain is as easy to dig as ordinary soil? If this cave wasn't so large, we wouldn't be able to dig such a large space even if we died of exhaustion! Don't make suggestions next time!"

The irregular cave could only barely accommodate a truck. Carl and the others just sat sideways in the remaining space and almost filled the place.

Fortunately, the interior of the truck is spacious enough to be used as an RV.

So everyone quickly moved back to the car.

For any team used to taking risks, this is a pretty good situation.

But Carl still felt a little awkward.

After thinking for a moment, Carl got out of the car with two micro-floating guns.

"Hey, Captain! I was just joking!"

Seeing Carl get off the car, Scorpion thought that Carl wanted to try the method he had just used.

But Karl just gave her a speechless look in response, and then replaced the magic pattern plate on the floating cannon.

Manipulating the power armor on his body to deform slightly, Carl revealed the liquid nitrogen sprayers on his limbs.

"Snort~"

Thick white mist gushed out from the nozzle on the arm and hit the rock wall nearby.

The hard rock wall was quickly covered with a layer of white frost.

Seeing that the situation was almost over, Carl closed the jet nozzle, and then used two micro-floating cannons to release flaming arrows towards the rock wall.

Between cold and hot, the structure of the rock wall changed due to rapid expansion and contraction.

The sound of "crackling" and cracks spread rapidly on the rock wall.

"Is this all right?"

Looking at the scene in front of him in disbelief, Bane felt as if his brain was not enough.

Before this, he always thought that the only ways to dig into the rock were explosives and magic.

"Physical changes, my friend!"

He placed both hands of the power armor on the rock wall, activated the vibration function of the Thunder Fist, and the rock fragments fell even faster.

However, the noise was quite loud, so Carl quickly turned off this function to prevent Smaug from coming.

Of course, this Smaug cannot really be the Smaug in the movie "The Hobbit", but since the dragon beast outside looks similar to Smaug and is guarding this lonely mountain, it seems there is nothing wrong with calling it that.

Judging from the strength of its breath and the size of its body, Carl felt that this guy could easily hunt those purebred copper dragons in their growth stage.

"It's a pity that we don't even know which direction the gate of the ruins faces. Otherwise, we might be able to sneak in like in the movies."

Muttering something under his breath, Carl looked up again and saw only more rocks ahead.

Sighing, Carl called the rest of the people over to dig with him.

This job was quite interesting at the beginning, and Thorin seemed to have his racial talent activated, and he worked extremely hard at the excavation.

But as they dug, everyone, including Carl, felt a little tired.

But no matter how tired you are, you have to persevere. After this tiring experience, you will feel comfortable afterwards.

At about two o'clock in the morning, the originally bumpy and extremely irregular cave was finally carved out into a more regular shape. The crowd also dug out a part of the space deeper so that everyone could set up tents.

By the time everyone finished the remaining work, cleaned the stains on their bodies with magic tricks and went to bed, it was already eight o'clock in the morning.

Scorpion finally realized how stupid his previous words were.

…

While Carl and his team finally found their target, far away in Storm Bay, the northernmost part of Xen'drik, Joanna and Kasha also completed the purge of those who had been recruited.

The battle between Kasha and Yale a while ago was not actually that intense.

As a layman who has not honed his fighting skills since entering the professional field, Yale's fighting ability can be imagined.

He may have wanted to calm down and study hard when he reached the bottleneck of Level 4, but unfortunately time waits for no one.

During the battle, he tried more than once to interfere with Kasha with what he believed to be justice or ideals.

But obviously, his charm attribute is not high enough, and compared with Liu Bei, he is not even qualified to carry shoes.

How could a paladin, whose main attribute for spellcasting is charm, be easily shaken in his sanity by just a few words?

When Yale tried to shake Kasha's will with words for the third time, Kasha used the Furious Slash to split Yale in half.

As soon as Yale died, all the people he had gathered naturally fell into chaos.

A small number of them tried to avenge Yale, but after comparing the strength of both sides, they quickly gave in.

Most people just lived up to the saying that when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. They simply gave up resistance and even shamelessly wanted to surrender to Kasha.

And these are the people that Joanna and Cassia want to purge.

"Mr. Moore, I have placed the recent financial statements and account books here. Please remember to take a look."

On the second underground floor of the Bastion Base, Joanna handed in her latest work report to Moore's class and then left the workshop.

She has become more and more adept at this kind of work recently, and she also sincerely admires the master and apprentice of the Tower of Strange Machinery who use this method to work.

While working continuously, Joanna even summarized the tricks of this working method and tried to teach it to her classmates.

Before they knew it, the management of Kolanburg had been sidelined by this group of students.

Joanna and her classmates' teachers are naturally happy to see this happen.

After all, she couldn't stand the way the manager bossed everyone around.

This steward came from Throne Castle after the incident in Storm Bay. He got this position because of his connection with the top leaders of Castle Kolan.

The person in charge is also a noble of Throne Castle. He came here this time to represent the noble group of Throne Castle and wants to get a piece of the pie in Storm Bay.

This guy was one of the people who forced Joanna to seize power from Karl.

On the other side are Joanna's family elders.

What do these adults say?

He is good at cooking and loves to play.

After all, Throne Castle is not big. Although the nobles there have industries, few of them have actually managed even a small town.

Doing business and ruling a territory are different after all, but they obviously have not yet adapted to the change.

So when they tried to use their so-called elder status and noble titles to steal the power of Storm Bay, they finally discovered that the so-called power would not be transferred so easily.

Joanna and Kasha were recognized by some people because of Carl. As long as they don't want to, the steward of Kolan Castle will never get any power.

His own strength is indeed stronger than Joanna and Kasha, but the Dragonmark Family, the Son of Winter and Moore's class are also stronger than him.

He also wanted to learn from Carl and find a construction team to build homes for the people of Storm Bay in order to win their hearts and minds, but not to mention the efficiency. Even if he did it, others would just think that he was hired by Carl to do the job, and no one would listen to him.

After leaving the bastion, Joanna quickly returned to the base in Kolan Castle.

The students who came to Xen'drik for the adventure were handling their respective affairs in an orderly manner, while the person in charge who was parachuted in was standing aside, looking at everyone with a gloomy face.

Joanna habitually ignored the other person and walked to her classmate and discussed government affairs with him.

"Part of the second round of construction work has been completed. In a few days, you can gather the helpers and let them draw lots to choose houses. Remember to bring more people and constructs with you."

Hearing this, the person in charge narrowed his eyes slightly, and as his eyeballs moved, I don't know what idea he came up with.

(End of this chapter)