Most of them were missing parts of their bodies, and some could only be kept in a state of suspended animation using life-sustaining techniques and were carried back by their companions.
As soon as this team returned, it attracted the attention of many adventurers.
"Go find the priest! What happened to you?"
Several adventurers who had a good relationship with this adventure group quickly asked someone to invite a priest to come and provide treatment, while they themselves protected the adventure group to prevent anyone from taking advantage of this opportunity to add insult to injury.
"Mutation! A mutation has occurred near the core area! A red dragon beast that looks like a two-legged flying dragon has activated a volcano for some reason. A huge storm has surrounded the surrounding area. We have been caught in the storm, cough..."
Before he could finish his words, the soldier who looked healthy just now suddenly bent over and coughed out a mouthful of dark red sticky blood. His knees bent uncontrollably and he fell to the ground, losing consciousness.
Amid the noisy clamor, several priests hurried over and cast several healing spells, such as healing spells, before the injuries of the adventurers who had escaped gradually stabilized.
As for those adventurers who managed to maintain a state of suspended animation by using life-sustaining techniques, they could only wait for their companions to wake up and then spend money to revive them.
The ongoing unrest soon attracted the attention of many forces in Storm Bay, and some adventurers soon received missions through their respective channels to investigate the anomalies in the Xen'drik adventure zone.
At the same time, the Druid of Winter who had spread the plague in Storm Bay before also transformed into a giant eagle through his ability to change, hovering above the continent of Xen'drik, trying to find the so-called mutation.
But things were much simpler than he thought, because the change was as conspicuous as a huge ink spot on a piece of white paper.
When he flew high into the sky and approached the center of the continent of Xen'drik, a vortex-shaped storm appeared with a strong presence above a strange, pitch-black mountain.
A huge two-legged flying dragon covered with dark red scales hovered around the storm, unwilling to leave.
“What’s going on here?”
After changing back into human form, the Winter Druid looked at the Scourge in the distance, feeling a little confused for a moment.
At this moment, the red dragon beast nicknamed Smaug by Carl launched a charge towards the Lonely Mountain inside the storm.
It flapped its huge fleshy wings, trying to rush into the storm.
However, violent lightning emerged from the storm as Smaug approached.
The thunderstorm almost turned the storm into blue and purple. Poor Smaug fell from mid-air, twitching all over, and hit a rock.
The vibration probably touched some structures within the lonely mountain.
With a rumbling sound, a violent volcanic eruption began.
The scorching magma spewed out from the crater along with thick black smoke, and the huge noise caused the creatures in the surrounding area to flee frantically.
Faintly, the Winter Druid saw the figure of a giant wind element emerging from the storm.
"It seems that it may take a long time for the ecology around here to stabilize again. Could it be that the remains of a giant were hidden here before and happened to be activated some time ago?"
With confusion and relief, the Winter Druid transformed into an animal again and flew away from the center of Xen'drik.
Two days later, due to the turmoil caused by volcanoes and storms, the ecological niche of the Xen'drik adventure zone was somewhat messed up and became much more dangerous than before.
Those adventurers who tried to go deeper returned to the safer outer areas, while those who had little confidence in their own abilities simply returned to the interior of Storm Bay.
This situation indirectly leads to a not-so-friendly thing - it becomes difficult to make money.
Although money has always been hard to make, it is even harder to make money now.
…
"We must find a way to make money for ordinary people. Otherwise, I'm afraid the security in Storm Bay will gradually deteriorate."
In the newly established government office, Joanna looked at her companions and newly recruited subordinates and spoke in a serious tone.
Unconsciously, this originally noble girl had acquired a sense of majesty that came from power.
This is something that those noble ladies and gentlemen who claim to be blessed with extraordinary talents but have never been able to command even ordinary people other than their family servants can never imitate.
"Mr. Karl left several solutions to this problem, such as the fantasy drama shooting plan."
Adjusting his glasses, the dwarf of the Sivis family answered calmly.
As a lawyer and clerk, he read through all of Carl's plans for the subsequent construction of Storm Bay at the very beginning.
Most people only read the previous transformation plan for Storm Bay.
Even Joanna didn't know as much about Carl's plan as this dwarf.
"Illusionary drama?"
Several people who were promoted locally were all confused; they didn't even know what a fantasy drama was.
As for those who came from Khorvaire, they were confused but also a little thoughtful. Although they knew what a fantasy drama was, they didn't understand how such an entertaining thing could allow low-level adventurers with insufficient combat power to make a living.
Seeing that no one understood the deeper meaning of this plan, the dwarf tutted softly, then took out a novel written by a famous writer from the Sivis family.
It was an adventure novel, and its popularity was roughly similar to the many well-known martial arts novels in Carl's previous life.
"Mr. Carl hopes to hire many low-level adventurers to film the fantasy drama during a special period. They are not required to have strong strength, as long as they can complete specific actions as described in the novel.
He invented a special device called a motion capture device, which allows illusionists to modify the image and special effects of the characters in the illusion play in the later stage. "
When they heard the term "illusionist", everyone remembered that the dwarf in front of them was not only a lawyer, clerk and person sent by the Sivis family, but also an 8th-level wizard of the illusion school.
"Although there are many characters in the novel, enough for us to recruit those low-level adventurers to work, but how about the profit? Do we have to pay them out of our own pocket to subsidize them? If that's the case, why go through so much trouble? We might as well just pay them out directly!"
The person who spoke this time was a member of the Storm Dragon Mark Family. His straightforward and thoughtless personality made all the meeting members frown.
"Stupid! Such a big-budget fantasy drama must use those best-selling novels that have long been proven by the market as the script! As long as we can restore the plot and settings as much as possible, those fans of the original novel will definitely buy it, right?
If you don’t want to participate, you don’t have to invest money! ”
As he spoke, the representative of the Exploration Dragon Pattern Family poked the ground forcefully with the scepter in his hand.
Having previously refused Carl's permission to live in the Exploration Dragonmark Station, the representative now expressed active support for most of Carl's plans.
"Alas, that's not what we meant. We just want to know what to do with this fantasy drama after it's finished filming. Should we take it back to Khorvaire and sell it?"
"What else?"
"Then how do we divide the profits? Besides, it seems that we don't have anyone who can shoot fantasy dramas right now!"
As soon as these words were spoken, many people present immediately turned their attention back to the dwarf of the Sivis family.
Anyone who has some understanding of illusions knows that every illusion master must also be the best illusion director, because constructing an illusion is much simpler than shooting a illusion.
This dwarf, who was shorter than most people present, couldn't help but straighten himself up under the gaze of everyone, and then wrote something on the notebook in front of him with the pen in his hand.
After a moment, he raised his head and said in a complicated voice, "We'll talk about the equity dividend later. The most important thing right now is to set up the stage. According to the current situation, a large number of adventurers will not be able to eat in two weeks."
At this time, everyone recalled that they had originally held the meeting in order to solve the current employment problem in Storm Bay.
So everyone started discussing it again.
On the same day, the City Hall posted a recruitment notice in the Adventurer's Guild at Storm Bay Port.
Some young adventurers who came to Xen'drik because of those adventure novels immediately became interested when they heard that a related fantasy drama was going to be filmed.
It just so happened that the recent adventure activities began to wane, so they went there in a group.
At the beginning, everyone thought that the other party might be a competitor and they were not getting along with each other.
However, the person in charge of recruiting actors hired all of them without even looking at them.
The news quickly spread throughout Storm Bay through hired men.
The news about the fantasy drama suddenly became the topic of discussion in taverns and various related places.
Soon, more news came out from the city hall, where Carl's plan was discussed in depth.
For example: they have to select the male and female protagonists and important roles that best fit the novel's settings through open auditions; the actors who star in this large-scale fantasy drama are likely to become the top of the acting career, become guests of honor of the nobles, and gain great prestige among adventurers.
All in all, the pie is so confusing.
The low-level adventurers who were somewhat confident in their own conditions were immediately tempted.
Not only that, this special form of art communication also attracted the attention of bards.
You can't become a bard just by being able to sing. Every bard must have an extremely outstanding level of performance and other skills.
In this way, the entire Storm Bay adventure business, which had been weakened by the Lonely Mountain incident, developed towards the Hengdian filming base because of the fantasy drama plan left by Carl.
(End of this chapter)