Ever since Bane and Thorin left the team, Carl has become increasingly surrounded by women.

Hearing Lisanna's teasing, Carl poked his finger on her forehead.

"This is not something you should worry about! By the way, don't you want to set up a chivalrous ranger team in Eclipse Harbor? Take Tina with you, so that you can take care of her."

"You said it! Let's go, Tina! Sister will take you out to play!"

When Lisana heard that Carl had assigned Tina directly to be his subordinate, she immediately dragged Tina out of the room.

Watching the two people leaving, Karl's face showed a trace of helplessness of a brother towards his playful sister.

However, shortly after the two figures disappeared around the corner, Karl's expression suddenly became strange.

Orange-gold lines emerged from beneath his skin, and the burning sensation penetrated from the skin to the bone marrow.

After more than ten minutes, this terrible symptom slowly subsided.

"Phew, this feels so bad!"

As Carl gained more and more knowledge from the Eternal Furnace, his body recently began to show such abnormalities.

After putting away the telescope, Carl went straight to Iris's room.

Ashley and Lauren had already left, and Elise was now holding a piece of paper, thinking seriously about something.

"How's the research going? Any clues?"

As soon as he entered the room, Karl asked impatiently.

Instead of telling his three girlfriends about his recent symptoms, he told Elise.

On the one hand, he was afraid that they would worry, and on the other hand, he felt that the patterns on his body were somewhat similar to the strange patterns mastered by the Rose Sect.

Iris is a dream-dispelling drow who is directly connected to the dream spirit consciousness. Her research in this area is definitely better than that of ordinary psionicists.

So Karl has only told her about this matter so far, and he traced the lines on his body and gave them to her to study.

Hearing Carl's question, Iris turned around with a playful smile on her face.

"You're not afraid that Hope and the others will suspect that we're having an affair~ I've already figured out a little about this thing. It's indeed a variant of the Dream Spirit language, and it seems to be a combination of some kind of psychic mutagenesis rune of the Mind Flayer.

I suspect they will continue to accumulate energy, and then at a specific time, transform your body to make you develop in a certain direction. This is similar to the way the mind flayers use psychic energy to bombard their bodies when they create slaves, but what you experience is more subtle. "

Hearing Iris say this, Carl inexplicably recalled the psychic foresight he had seen before.

He originally thought that it was some kind of transformation of himself after he had learned enough in the future, but he didn't expect it to be a "gift" from the giants.

Seeing that Karl seemed to have remembered something, Iris continued:

"Don't be too happy! I suspect that these lines were arranged by the Titan Emperor after he foresaw the disaster of the giants. Your body is likely to become a giant's bloodline in the constant changes, and you may even be turned into a loyal subordinate of the missing Titan Emperor!"

If the Giant King from that time made a comeback with the help of Carl, Iris could hardly imagine what the world would be like in the future.

"Don't worry! This is probably just some kind of genetic engineering of the giants. It's a way for the giants to circumvent the curse and continue their bloodline. The original owner of the giant notebook that Tina has also tried a similar method, but they gave birth to Goliath (half-giant) with humans in the Antarctic region of the main plane."

Hearing this, Iris's expression became a little strange.

"Your human bloodline is really convenient. Half-elf, half-orc, elemental, and now there are even half-giants..."

"Ordinary Goliaths cannot be compared with my complete form. I even suspect that after my life form is completely transformed, I will be stronger than ordinary giants. This seems to be a kind of... new life conceived by the Giant King?"

Touching his chest, Carl could feel the pre-provisioned stomach and third lung being born inside.

The tougher fascia and bone plates between the bones seem to be growing quietly.

If he fully developed, Carl even felt that he could compete with real dragons of the same age based on his physical fitness alone.

Carl turned his body awkwardly, wondering if he could grow another ten centimeters taller after this.

Thinking of Nia and Ying, who were already much bigger than him, some cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

'Do you want to try to help them transform? At least they should be as tall as Hope, otherwise you won't be able to hold their waists with one hand in the future?'

After imagining such a scene in his mind, Carl shuddered and decided to put this matter into the plan as soon as the spacecraft was almost modified.

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Eclipse Port, Sheriff's Bureau interrogation room.

Looking at the cloud giant sitting alone opposite him, the middle-aged sheriff blinked and grinned.

"Captain Manno, your actions of controlling the air pirates have been exposed. Almost all of us sheriffs who have returned know about this matter. We even speculate that you cloud giants are planning a rebellion. I was promoted by you, and I..."

Just as he was about to continue speaking, the cloud giant, whom he called Manno, raised his hand and stopped the middle-aged sheriff from speaking next.

"Mog, don't say such things. Some things are more complicated than you think. Don't worry, you won't be wiped out."

As he spoke, a medal was thrown over by the cloud giant Manno.

Touching the medal representing his inspectorate, the middle-aged sheriff Mog raised his head with an expression of disbelief on his face.

Seeing his expression, Manno explained, "Do you think the Cloud Giants can be uprooted so easily after being in Eclipse Port for so many years? This is just a dispute caused by different governing philosophies in Eclipse Port. Stay away from this in the future."

After saying that, Manno stood up from the two-meter-high chair and walked outside.

Mog looked at the medal in his hand and suddenly asked, "The original inspector..."

Manno did not answer directly, but just left a meaningful smile.

That afternoon, Mogg, who had once been ostracized by the Security Bureau, took office as the new security inspector. The original inspector was convicted of "damaging diplomatic relations and intending to provoke conflicts among the upper classes" and was declared to have committed suicide in the interrogation room with eight bullets in the back.

The storm died down within a few hours, but everyone knew that the real struggle would be more intense in secret.

The next day, except for the death of a security inspector, Eclipse Port returned to its previous track.

Carl's spaceship seemed to have become a wonder built overnight and was easily accepted by the residents of Eclipse Port.

The Public Security Bureau designated a new area for the adventurers and merchants of the main plane to live in, and lifted several bans that had been issued previously.

Items called illusion tapes and portable illusion devices, along with spirit cards, appeared in the market of Eclipse Port and spread quietly.

(End of this chapter)