The fighting power of the barbarians in Giant's Way is still quite strong.

When they reach level 6, they will also gain the properties of elemental battle blades.

With this feature, they can cast effects similar to the third-level spell [Elemental Weapon] during the rage, and the weapons they hold will directly gain functions similar to those of rebound weapons during this period.

Although the rage was limited in time, Carl felt a chill at the thought of a three or four meter tall giant throwing out two two meter long axes with flames attached to them.

Gradually, the water temperature began to drop. Carl threw his clothes in and continued to soak. Then he got out of the bathtub, changed into dry clothes, and drank the broth.

After eating and drinking, Carl came to Hope's room and checked on his condition.

Hope's temperature was still high, but this seemed to have become her standard temperature.

An orange-red light shone from her chest, and even though her front armor was incredibly thick, it still couldn't cover up the light.

"This is probably the change brought about by the characteristics of Hellfire."

Karl poked at the spot where the fire was coming from and studied it with a scientific eye.

But of course he didn't figure out anything, after all, biology was not his specialty.

Carl poured some clean water on Hope's body and cooked some broth to feed Hope.

Afterwards, Carl returned to his room and entered the dream world.

…

Carl habitually glanced at his attribute panel, and was a little discouraged by the data that was no different from level 2.

The attribute values ​​in this world will not automatically increase with the level, and professionals need to train themselves.

Many professionals are stuck at level 4 because they are unable to improve their attribute values ​​at level 4.

Fortunately, each professional core has an increase in the growth of the professional's specific attributes, otherwise, there will be even fewer professionals who can reach level 5.

As a machinist whose main attribute is intelligence, Carl's intelligence attribute is enough for him to move smoothly before level 8.

However, the ability of the artificer at levels 4 to 8 does not significantly improve combat power, so Carl plans to upgrade his warrior level during this period.

"Okay, let the battle begin!"

As Carl muttered to himself, two Hopes with flames on their chests appeared in the dream space.

Their figures and appearances are exactly the same as Hope in the outside world, and even their body temperatures are higher than that of ordinary people.

Taking a deep breath, Carl condensed armor on his hands and legs, then rushed towards the two Hopes.

It happened in a flash. As soon as Carl made a move, Hope pulled out a hatchet from his waist and threw it towards Carl.

The speed was so fast and the force was so strong that it directly cut off the arm armor that Carl raised for defense.

The intense pain made Carl twitch, but the armored division's level 3 feature took effect, and the armor automatically connected his severed arm, directly turning it into a steel prosthesis for him to use.

Carl crouched down, rolled on the ground, and moved some distance toward one of the Hopulas.

Using the strength of his waist and abdomen, Carl flipped his body when his arms touched the ground and "projected" himself out with a somersault.

The two Hopes, who had not yet retracted their weapons, moved forward, and one of them even put his hands in a position as if to release Kamehameha, seemingly wanting to use the Burning Hands to give Carl a hard blow.

The racial characteristics of Hellfire make the Burning Hands used by the Tiefling at level 3 directly have the power of the second ring. If Carl takes this blow head-on, he might wake up from his dream in pain.

But fortunately, a tiefling can only use this ability once a day.

“Whoosh!”

While the opponent was posing, Carl tripped him with a sweeping kick.

The axes, which also had the characteristic of rebounding weapons, had returned at this time. With two "puff" sounds, they directly hit the two Hopes and then fell to the ground.

The phantom of Hope who was about to release the Burning Hands had already finished her preparations. She completely ignored the lives of her companions and directly released the spell towards her fighting companions and Carl.

“Huh~”

After a brief pain, Carl looked at himself falling back into the first level of the dream world, and his body trembled for a moment.

"It's still a bit difficult to fight two level 3 Giant Path Tiefling Barbarians using only part of the Artificer's abilities."

Covering his face, Carl gritted his teeth, letting the phantom pain of being burned to death gradually dissipate in his consciousness.

A fully automatic rifle materialized beside him, and Carl infused it with a rapid-fire weapon infusion, preparing to return to the second level of the dream to fight again.

“Bang, bang, bang!”

As soon as he appeared in the second level of the dream, Carl fired at the location where the two Hopes were in his memory.

At the same time as the bullet flew out, two illusions of Hope had already appeared in the air and threw flying axes at Carl.

"Ping! Pong!"

Relying on the "gun sense" acquired from delivering couriers in his previous life, Carl raised his hand and fired two bullets to shoot away the flying axe. Then he aimed at the two Hopes and started the strafing mode.

Relying on their agility and intuition without armor, the two Hopes advanced some distance amidst the hail of bullets.

As the saying goes: Seven steps away, the gun is fast; within seven steps, the gun is both accurate and fast.

Even though Carl didn't aim specifically, the two Hope phantoms were still hit when he shook the gun quickly.

Watching them disappear, Carl did not feel happy about his victory, but instead had an indescribable feeling of emptiness.

"Sure enough, if a game is cheated, the fun will be reduced a lot."

"But then again, this is indeed an ability I can use, so it's not completely cheating, right?"

Scratching his hair, Carl canceled the weapon in his hand and reconstructed the illusion of Hope.

It’s not that Carl doesn’t want to change to another illusion, but mainly because he knows too little about others and the illusion’s combat power is not very stable.

The giant lizard and the hideous mutant Carl can be transformed, but the challenge level of those two things is one quarter and one half to one third respectively.

There is really no value in training.

"If I have the chance in the future, I can go find those goblins to practice with, but I don't know what level they are... To be on the safe side, I'd better raise my warrior level to level 3 first!"

…

In the real world, Hope slowly opened his eyes.

Feeling her body temperature which was now much higher than usual and her abundant strength, she raised her hand, clenched it, and then released it.

Looking at the ceramic bowl with a little broth left in it, she blinked and stood up from the bed.

Opening the pocket watch, the pointer is pointing to the 2 o'clock mark and the color is blue.

"Is it two o'clock in the morning? I've been sleeping for almost a whole day?"

Touching her belly, Hope opened the door and looked into the hall.

On the shelf next to the bathtub, a pot of broth simmering on a low fire with rune stones was still emitting a slight steam. Carl deliberately used shiny rivets to illuminate that place, as if he was afraid that Hope would not be able to find it.

(End of this chapter)