Looking at Tina standing in front of him, Carl mercilessly flicked her head.

He glanced at the children in the village who were following him, then slowed down his tone and said earnestly:

"I can let you visit the spaceship, but if I ask you to drive a spaceship... can you really drive this thing? You haven't even memorized the power armor blueprints I gave you, and you still want to drive a spaceship? I think you look like a spaceship!"

Karl was able to remain restrained in the first half of the speech, but when he thought of Tina’s request just now, he regained his somewhat harsh tone.

"But I see you seem to be very relaxed when you're flying the spaceship~"

With her head lowered, Tina kept touching and separating her two fingers little by little, her voice full of grievance.

Hearing this, Carl picked up a stone.

Using a trick of magic, he inscribed a giant rune on the smoother side in the blink of an eye.

As the rune began to emit light, the temperature of the entire stone began to rise rapidly.

The stone was thrown into a nearby puddle, and with a "hiss" sound, a cloud of white mist rose up.

Pointing to the stones in the puddle that were getting hotter and evaporating water, Carl said expressionlessly: "Do you understand? Try it."

"Oh, this is difficult. I haven't mastered the use of magic tricks yet..."

Tina understood what Karl really meant just after she finished speaking half of the words.

Her expression immediately became a little embarrassed, but thinking of the promise she had made to her friends, she held on and stopped talking.

Seeing her like this, Karl sighed helplessly.

"Forget about taking the spaceship out for a spin. I'll use the shuttle to take you around. In terms of speed, the shuttle is much faster than the spaceship itself."

As a person with good empathy, Carl understands Tina's desire to show off after having a powerful master.

But showing off is one thing, but it’s best not to do anything that may cause danger.

So he decided to take these children for a flight in the sky twice.

"Really!"

When Tina heard that Carl agreed to take her and others on the spaceship, she immediately raised her head, and her big blue-green eyes seemed to have regained their luster.

With a helpless sigh, Carl turned and walked towards the Shuttle, waving to the children with his back to him.

"Wow, that's amazing!"

Following Carl onto the spaceship, a group of little kids looked here and touched there, and everyone was extremely excited.

In order to prevent them from accidentally touching the operating console, Carl directly blocked the corresponding mechanism and used his own psychic power to directly control the mechanical center and spirit intelligence of the Shuttler.

After turning on the gravity adjustment, Carl sat in the driving seat and controlled the spacecraft to slowly take off.

Amid the children's exclamations, the spaceship suspended in the air suddenly accelerated and flew out.

The surrounding scenery was rapidly receding, and only by looking at the distant sky could the children inside the spaceship keep up with the speed of the spaceship.

However, after just two circles in the sky, Carl's brows began to frown.

It wasn't that operating the spacecraft was a burden for him, but the shuttle's radar detected a suspicious "signal" in the distance, or in other words - a magical aura.

"It looks like a fleet of airships, at least sixteen of them. Although the ships are small, they seem to be hiding a lot of magic items... Wait! Why does this reaction look like a construct? Hiding in the clouds, it looks like it has bad intentions."

Reading this information directly from the control center, Carl controlled the spacecraft at the same time.

It just so happened that Karl suggested going back to the village to roast the sweet potatoes, and they should eat them the way Eruden did in his hometown, Hongye Township.

So the children nodded their heads quickly.

The spaceship was parked again at the previous location. The rune stone was still emitting heat, but the temperature was not as high as at the beginning.

Carl simply used clay shaping to build a stove, then used the same technique to make a few rune stones and placed them inside, and then threw the sweet potatoes in.

Leaving a can of maple syrup, he asked Tina to look after the children while he returned to the village.

The adults in the village had just noticed that Carl was taking the children on a spaceship, but before they could worry, Carl drove the spaceship back.

This action relieved the village chief who was worried that he would kidnap children and threaten the village.

But just as the old village chief was relieved, Karl came to visit him and brought some not-so-good news.

"Old village chief, there are sixteen medium-sized airships hidden in the sea of ​​clouds southeast of the floating island. Do you know about this?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Karl got the answer from the old village chief's surprised expression: he didn't know.

At least judging from the expression on his face, he "probably doesn't know."

But soon, the old village chief proved that he "really didn't know".

Because he asked his wife to find several other old wizards and sorcerers in the village.

Retelling Karl's words verbatim, the old village chief asked worriedly, "Those kids who are out on adventures probably wouldn't want to drive so many airships back home, right?"

As he said this, he secretly glanced at Karl.

"Who is a good person who returns to his hometown with so many ships? This is not the way to show off to his fellow villagers! They must be pirates! When I was mailing something for Mr. Karl, the people in Eclipse Port told me that the pirates have been very serious recently. I suspect these people are pirates!"

In the crowd, the wizard who had helped Carl mail the video tape home to report his safety was swinging his arms and speaking excitedly.

He admitted that he could not defeat Carl and his crew, but he still had the confidence to fight these pirates whose origins were unknown head-on.

"If it really is air pirates, our group is happy to provide assistance."

After saying that, Carl took out a portable phantom device and played the phantom map of the location of the sky pirates and the floating island.

After expressing his willingness to lend a helping hand, Carl made the excuse that he was still roasting sweet potatoes with the children, then turned and left.

Watching his back disappear into the street, the old village chief turned around and sighed, "This young man seems to have guessed what we are hiding here... Alas, when Tina left, I shouldn't have let her take the notes that our ancestors got from the giants."

"Who would have known that the girl would go out and take a risk and run into a level 12 artificer who specializes in giant runes? Look at that spaceship in the sky. My god, even if the ancestor is resurrected, I don't think he can take that thing down!"

In the crowd, a muscular arcane knight spoke in a muffled voice.

The others also nodded subconsciously.

Looking at the reactions of the villagers, the old village chief was overwhelmed.

"Now is not the time to talk about this! What about the fleet that seems to be pirates? If Carl and the others helped, how can we repay them? Let them know about the Giant King's treasure and those antiques? But what if they think we have hidden part of the treasure? Although our ancestors did make some achievements in finding the Giant King's treasure, they still didn't find it. But even if we say so, they have to believe it!"

As he spoke, the old village chief raised the staff in his hand again and slammed it hard on the ground.

(End of this chapter)