He planned to use the rock wall to see if he could make the dragon beast crash into it, causing it to become dizzy.

Amid the howling wind, Bane could hear the screams of scorpions and the roars of dragon beasts.

His adrenaline was surging like never before, and the spell of melting into stone had been released.

Although Stone Melt allows the ranger to merge into the stone to escape, if the stone breaks, the caster can easily be injured by the subsequent damage.

Bane didn't know if he could survive, but he decided to take a chance, just as he always did.

Just as he was about to touch the rock wall, Bane felt his body, which was not covered by leather armor, being burned by the flames.

He knew that the dragon beast was not far away from him.

Bane gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and exerted all his strength to leap towards the rock wall.

At this moment, an angry voice suddenly sounded.

"grass--!"

Almost at the same time as he heard the voice, Bane suddenly felt the heat behind him ease.

In the eyes of Scorpion and another drow, a steel giant suddenly appeared in the cave, and then punched away the dragon beast that was trying to kill Bane.

The body of this steel giant was almost 9 meters tall, and thick white mist emanated from its limbs, bringing with it a hint of coolness.

After knocking the dragon beast away, the iron giant's limbs glowed red, and its huge body suddenly became much more agile.

Fists as big as the dragon's head rained down on the body of one of the dragon beasts, knocking it flying sideways.

Then, the colossus suddenly made a dragging motion towards Bane and the other two.

A gentle but powerful force instantly pulled the three people in front of the iron giant.

At the same time, the Colossus shrank instantly and turned back into the mecha familiar to Bane and Scorpion.

Carl jumped out of it directly without asking who the extra person was, and ran towards the tunnel with the three of them.

The mechas were blocking their way, and even if the two dragon beasts reacted, they could not cause direct damage to them.

The four of them were silent, then quickly passed through the tunnel and ran back to the team.

It was not until this time that Carl activated his ability again and summoned the mecha back.

At this point, parts of the mecha had already shown signs of being corroded by the strong acid, but as Carl came into contact with the mecha, those areas were quickly repaired.

"Phew~, don't take such risks next time."

Carl let out a long breath, covered his forehead, and grinned at Bane.

"Sorry, I was a little too impatient. I didn't expect there were actually two dragon beasts in the cave."

Speaking of this, Bane looked at Iris with a bit of resentment in his eyes.

Iris bowed apologetically, then looked at Zhuoer who was standing next to Baine and Scorpion, looking around the camp curiously and asked, "Who is this?"

As she asked, everyone present focused their attention on the drow.

"Ah! I haven't had the chance to introduce myself yet. Hello everyone, my name is Ashe, and I'm a psychic. Hmm, why does your team look so much like the one on the Rose Cult's bounty order?"

She greeted everyone gracefully and introduced her name. Calling herself Ashe, the drow looked at everyone and spoke bluntly, making people a little nervous.

She was wearing a set of off-shoulder leather armor and a battle skirt that allowed for easy movement.

This equipment appears to be very light, but its defensive effect is far less than its aesthetic effect.

Seeing her, Carl shamefully remembered a black-haired, dark-skinned elf wearing a purple bikini armor.

"Are you a killer hired by the Rose Cult?"

Putting the nitrogen injection device of the power armor back into the standby state, Carl looked at the drow elf and his tone gradually became solemn.

After glancing around a few times, the drow who called herself Ashe raised her hands and put on a charming and mercenary smile on her face.

"If you can give me more treasures, I don't mind being bribed. In fact, since the development of the Rose Cult, our business has become increasingly difficult."

Hearing the other party's confession, the corners of everyone's mouth, including Karl, twitched slightly.

It was also the first time they had seen such a frank and greedy guy.

"What do you want treasure for? Although the Underdark also relies on property transactions, food and equipment are the hard currency, right? Also, your equipment only has the minimum defense enhancement, right?"

As a machinist, Carl could tell at a glance that the other person's clothes had no defensive capabilities.

In the dangerous Underdark, it seems strange that a guy who thinks about treasure all day long does not have any decent equipment.

"Hmph! When I save enough money, I will go to Sharn in Khorvaire and become a rich woman, and never come back here! As for the equipment! Hey! After all, I am an eighth-level psionicist, so it doesn't matter whether I have this set of clothes or not!"

Ashe proudly introduced his profession and rank, with his head slightly raised, looking very self-important.

Unconsciously, everyone's vigilance towards her was reduced a lot because of her behavior.

Carl winked at Hope, and Hope walked forward and took out a box of gold, silver and jewelry from his dimensional bag.

"These, hire you to go back to Storm Bay with us. You know Storm Bay, right?"

Before Carl could finish his words, the drow who called herself Ashe had already pounced on the treasure.

His figure, which was big enough to compete with Hope, was pressed against the treasure chest, and was fully displayed in Carl's eyes.

Quickly collecting the treasures, Ashe put on her charming and mercenary smile again, nodded repeatedly and said, "Sure! Sure! Not to mention sending you back to Storm Bay, even if you want to support me, that's fine!"

As she spoke, she bit a few coins, as if she was identifying the texture of the gold.

After confirming that the gold content was high, the smile on her face became even brighter.

"Rest here! Head towards the Earth Gate in two hours!"

Seeing Ashley's money-grubbing look, Carl did not completely relax his vigilance. Instead, he planned to secretly observe this guy's background under the pretext of repair.

After transforming the mecha back into a truck, Carl walked in first and sat directly in his seat.

Just now, when he was rescuing Bane, he used the giant growth technique and the acceleration technique successively.

The latter was fine, but the former made Carl extremely mentally exhausted because he made the mecha too huge.

As time went on, Carl began to feel a little overwhelmed.

This is also the reason why Carl did not kill the two dragon beasts, but escaped with a few people.

The opponent's health is still high, but Carl can only deal this much damage.

If we stay any longer, the effects of Carl's enlargement and acceleration will all disappear, and he himself will feel dizzy due to the side effects. We might all die there.

Hope, who had a very good understanding with Carl, immediately realized that something was wrong with Carl. She winked at Ying, then got into the car and sat next to Carl, holding Carl in her arms like all gentle girlfriends.

Two hours later, Carl was almost recovered.

Everyone got on the bus one after another, and the team marched towards the Gate of the Earth in a mighty manner.

Ashe was placed in a construct far away from the truck, but considering her level eight strength, Carl arranged one with a more luxurious internal space for her.

She didn't seem to mind it. Instead, she happily treated it as her own little home.

Just over ten minutes after the team left, several drow wearing matte light armor came to the place where Carl and his team had stayed.

These drow released spiritual energy from their bodies, as if they were looking for something.

After a long time, a drow finally found their target on a hidden rock.

Several people gathered together and found something written on the rock using stripes similar to spiritual writing.

The drow looked at each other, and then directed their spiritual energy towards those lines.

The lines carrying information were activated as they were covered by psychic energy. In the hazy hallucination, a person who looked very similar to Ashe told everyone about Carl and others and the arrangements for certain things.

After a moment, they opened their eyes.

"Very good, the Saint has successfully infiltrated the target's team. Although the target is still very wary of the Saint, with the Saint's charm, it is only a matter of time before she captures the target. Next, it depends on how our colleagues at the Earth Gate act."

After saying this, the drow quickly cleaned up the words on the rocks and then disappeared.

Apparently, Ashe is not Ashe, but an alias for Elohine.

…

Storm Bay, Bastion Base.

On a stormy night, Mitris, wearing a dress that looked like an evening gown, was reporting the situation in the bar to Nia.

In just a few days, this bar has already collected far more information for them than ever before.

Joanna and her friends used some of this information to arrange corresponding tasks for adventurers who were not strong enough to complete.

The low-level adventurers stranded in Storm Bay now have a way to survive, and the vitality of the city has begun to improve again.

And those adventurers who were eliminated in the auditions also gradually rejoined the adventure mission.

Nearly a week had passed, and the ecology of the Xen'drik adventure zone had become stable again. All that was left was for the senior adventurers to roughly explore the new biological distribution map, and then the novices could try to go out on adventures.

"Well, according to the current situation, it will be almost stable in a few weeks, but..."

Looking at the information about the hidden casino, both Nia and Mitris couldn't help but raise their hands and rub their foreheads.

"What Karl said is true. Gamblers don't deserve sympathy. We have already eradicated those gambling houses that are open to the public, but these people have spontaneously organized gambling again. Forget it, just let Joanna pay attention to their scale."

After writing her opinions on the document, Nia handed it to Mitris, only to find that she had not left and still looked worried.

"What's wrong?"

Looking at Nia, Mitris said with some embarrassment: "There's not much fun in the bar. I was thinking, should we have some non-gambling games?"

(End of this chapter)