Thronehold is a small country with only one main city within its territory.

Forty percent of the main personnel in the city are former Galifar nobles of all sizes, and the rest are their servants, butlers and knights.

It is nothing but a pipe dream for such a tiny place to rise.

Because of this, obtaining ancient technology from the exploration of the Eternal Furnace has become their only hope.

Faced with the mocking words of the dwarf explorers, the faces of these noble representatives, who had strong self-esteem but no strength to rely on, turned red.

Although they boast of their extensive network of contacts, when faced with tangible interests, who would recognize you, a group of distant relatives who are only in name only?

In order to ease the awkward atmosphere, the representative of the Financial Power Association quickly stepped forward and tried to smooth things over.

But at this moment, the alarm on the airship sounded.

"What happened!"

Although it was indeed unpleasant to be interrupted, the representative of the Jinquan Club also knew the seriousness of the matter and quickly asked what the watchtower had discovered.

"We found an airship at eight o'clock. No! Two large airships. They appear to be the expedition team of Eruden and Andel."

When they heard the owners of the two airships, some people immediately became excited.

The fact that Carl was an Eruden was no secret among these people, and his identity as a student of Akanix College was even more widely circulated.

At this moment, two forces closely related to him came together. If you say there is no trick, even the cook in the kitchen would not believe it.

"Would you like to come over and ask?"

Seeing that Eruden and Andel's airship stopped directly in front of the invisible force field, as if they knew in advance that this thing would be difficult to deal with, a sponsor of the expedition team suggested shamelessly.

However, everyone present ignored him and just watched quietly to see what the two airships on the side were going to do.

The explorers from Eruden and Andel didn't seem to care about the waiting here. As soon as they arrived, they started to get busy.

Four small boats were quickly separated from the cabin of the large airship. Some professional explorers followed a few tall men and boarded the small boats, then began to sail towards the invisible force field.

Just as the representatives of Throne Castle and several other forces were about to mock this group of people for overestimating their own capabilities, one of the small boats that came into contact with the invisible force field suddenly began to sway as if out of control.

It floated downwards like a leaf, but in the process the hull strangely penetrated the invisible force field directly.

When the boat completely passed through the invisible force field at a certain moment, the swaying like fallen leaves finally stopped.

"They, they just passed by like that?"

At this moment, everyone in the joint expedition team was dumbfounded.

The representative of the Golden Power Society immediately had a small boat prepared, intending for someone to "float" in like Eruden and Andel did.

However, although they prepared their things quickly, when it came time to put them into practice, they still ran into an invisible force field.

"Damn it! There must be some trick to this! And the artificer has already informed Eruden and Andel of the news! Only we don't know! This is a conspiracy!"

Seeing that people had already started building temporary residences opposite the invisible force field, the representatives of the joint expedition team became furious.

On the contrary, those explorers who were passionate about exploration were all analyzing the differences between themselves and the other side with frowns.

Decryption is also an integral part of adventure life. Solving an unknown problem through one's own thinking is a very challenging task for explorers.

"What? You want us to attack those two airships and threaten them with the lives of the people on board to hand over the method to pass through the invisible force field? Are you crazy? This will only make us hunted down by Eruden and Andel's people!"

The second after the representative of the Golden Power Association made his suggestion, the loud-mouthed dwarf explorer almost smashed the businessman's head with the hammer he was carrying.

Another half-elf explorer also spoke up at this time: "Do you think they are all fools? We didn't hide our bodies just now, how could they not be on guard against us?

Perhaps when they spotted us, their airships had already reported the news to their companions in Eclipse Harbor.

If something happens here... I can't even imagine what will happen in the main plane."

These words were a wake-up call to the representatives who were originally ready to commit evil.

Now we haven't even seen the shadow of the Eternal Furnace, and the result is that we are about to offend the two major nations of Khorvaire. Is it possible for us to survive in the main plane in the future?

Not to mention Aundair, even if it was just Eruden alone, as long as he closed the food exports, the forces present would immediately suffer from famine.

If you want to grab it by force...

The druids of Bixin City are no pushovers either.

"So what should we do now? Should we really go back and look for the Artificer Carl? Will he give us face? Besides, didn't we already see his status in Eclipse Harbor when we came here? If we really use force, he can turn us into ashes with just one shot!"

The meeting that threatened Carl seemed to have given the representatives of certain forces the illusion that Carl was easy to talk to, but now some of these people still remain sober.

Seeing that some people seemed to be thinking of turning back, he quickly spoke out to dissuade them.

Some of them recalled the oppressive feeling brought by Carl's huge spaceship, so they immediately stopped talking and said no more.

But there are indeed many people at the scene who are ready to make a move.

Seeing this, the more rational people stopped trying to persuade them and said, "It looks like everyone has different ideas, so let's disband from now on! Whoever wants to do something can do it, and the rest of us won't interfere, nor will we stick with them afterwards."

After spending a whole night communicating, the representative of the Financial Power Association paid for the airship and prepared to return to Eclipse Harbor to join other forces in asking Carl for a way to enter the invisible force field. The rest of the people stayed here and figured out a way on their own.

…

Eclipse Port, inside the spaceship.

Considering that there was nothing to worry about on the floating island, Carl called Tina over to help him debug the spacecraft's protection system.

This was a great learning opportunity and Carl didn't want his apprentice to miss it.

"Wow! Master! You are so amazing!"

Looking at the intricate magic patterns and giant runes that gradually lit up under the primordial magic power in the elemental pool, Tina's eyes lit up, and she felt that she had made the right decision in following the right master.

With the activation of the protection system, a teleportation-forbidden effect similar to that in Mordenkainen's private chamber has been created inside the spacecraft.

Soon, the hull of the spacecraft will have multiple protections such as force field protection and elemental energy protection. By then, ordinary attacks will no longer be enough to pose a threat to the spacecraft.

But at this moment, Carl received a message from Eclipse Port.

"What? Someone wants to see me?"

(End of this chapter)