Holding a metal cube in front of Hope, Carl pressed on the surface of the metal cube.

Lines of magic power flowed quickly across the surface of the metal cube, and the mechanism started to operate, causing the metal cube to quickly deform into a shield with a bladed edge that was almost as high as the power armor.

Holding up the shield, Carl took a forward lunge stance, followed by a sweep of a large fire snake.

"Bang--"

A dull crashing sound was heard, and the attack of the large fire snake was perfectly blocked by Carl.

The small Khyber dragon crystal embedded in the center of the shield contains some additional fire elemental energy.

He pressed the mechanism on the shield again, and a long sword popped out from under the shield.

“Wow!”

Raising his hand to catch his new battle axe, Hope looked at the weapon in Carl's hand, then looked at the one in his own hand, and suddenly felt a little dull.

"I want such a cool weapon in the future!"

Muttering quietly, Hope rushed out of Carl's protection and rushed towards the fire snake, whose body was briefly stiff after the attack.

At this moment, the fire snake was in a state of stiffness due to the great force it had just exerted. Hope seized the opportunity and stepped directly on its scales and ran onto the fire snake.

Although his strength increased significantly after he grew in size, his bulky body actually hindered his agility.

Seeing Hope stepping on its body and rushing towards the snake head, the fire snake had to roll on the ground, trying to shake Hope off.

But Hope is also a greedy guy.

Even though he knew he couldn't chop off the fire snake's head directly, he still swung his battle axe, leaving two deep scars on the opponent's body that were visible to the bone.

Unfortunately, these two wounds healed almost immediately, leaving only two shallow scars, as if the creature in front of him was a completely elemental life form.

"Karl! This guy can't be hurt by non-magical weapons!"

After kicking the fire snake, Hope did a backflip and jumped back behind Carl.

"It's okay. I've roughly anticipated it. I'll add magic patterns to your weapon when we get back."

Although the battle axe with the rebound weapon infusion magic pattern can barely be considered a magic weapon, it is not the type that increases damage, so the effect is not that good.

Hearing Carl's promise, Hope uttered a "tsk".

"Then why didn't you add it to me at the beginning! Ha!"

With a low shout, Hope unleashed his Berserk ability and transformed into a three-meter-tall giant.

"I didn't expect you to fight with me so soon!"

Carl used the shield to block the fire snake's attack again, and then inserted the long sword in his right hand back into the shield.

He rotated the handle of the knife slightly, and with a "click", the shield changed its shape again.

The shields on both sides extended to the sides, and the original shields actually transformed into double-edged axe.

"laugh--"

As Carl placed his hands, wearing power armor, on the axe handle, the dragon crystal in the center of the axe blade was activated, and raging flames spurted out from the grooves on the surface of the axe blade.

Taking advantage of the impact force brought by the flames, Carl stepped on the ground and jumped towards the fire snake.

“Swish!”

The long-handled axe infused with two magical patterns, [Enhance Defense] and [Enhance Weapons], chopped down vertically, cutting the fire snake directly into two pieces.

The fire snake's tail was still swinging relentlessly, but Hope chopped it to pieces with two axes.

Unfortunately, Carl only manipulated it slightly, and the axe in his hand turned back into a large shield and a long sword, blocking the bite of the fire snake.

"Bang!"

The power armor landed on the ground again. Carl shook off the non-existent blood on the long sword and sheathed it like a veteran soldier.

"What's the name of your weapon?"

After getting rid of the snake's tail, Hope carried his weapon and asked curiously.

Similar weapons are rarely seen on the continent of Khorvaire, at least never seen in Zom.

"Shield Axe! I created this mechanical weapon based on other people's ideas. I installed dragon crystals on it so that it can absorb the elemental power released by the enemy to strengthen the weapon."

Because he was dealing with a life form that was clearly resistant to the element of fire, Carl converted the energy that was supposed to be used for elemental attacks into additional power for the weapon.

This thing was naturally made by Carl based on the "Monster Hunter" game in his previous life.

However, wanting to restore its abilities as much as possible did indeed consume a lot of Carl's energy.

Fortunately, the dream world plug-in gave Carl enough time and materials to repeat the experiment, otherwise he would not have been able to make the product in such a short time.

"Why? You want to use it too?"

Seeing that Hope was staring at the weapon in his hand, Carl took the initiative to hand it to Hope.

"No! I still think the battle axe is more suitable for me. Yours is too complicated to use. I guess only warriors who know everything will like it."

The warriors in the DND series are not only good at using knives to chop people, in fact, many of them are weapon masters who are proficient in all kinds of martial arts.

Swords, spears, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, basically anything that can be used to attack will be used by warriors.

One of the warrior's sub-classes, the battle master, is designed to strengthen this development tendency. It is said that he has a very high survival rate on the battlefield and can be regarded as a replica of the furniture city god of war.

However, Carl was not very interested in this. The warrior sub-class he wanted to choose was the Arcane Knight.

The Arcane Knight can learn spells from the schools of protection and evocation, as well as a small number of spells from any school, which can well make up for the lack of spellcasting ability of the Artificer.

Although the highest level of spells that an Arcane Knight can learn is 4th-level spells, what Carl wants most is actually the Arcane Knight's level 3 class feature - weapon connection.

As long as he possesses this characteristic and establishes a connection with the power armor, Carl can summon the power armor and wear it at any time, even if he is separated from the power armor by an entire continent.

Besides, the Arcane Knight is a powerful combat profession comparable to the Paladin, and does not have as many restrictions as the Paladin.

The Paladin class in the game is certainly brave, but if people were to really take up this job in the real world, this class would be a pitfall.

Without deep faith and strong convictions, a paladin's career is essentially over when he chooses to take a sacred oath at 3rd level.

After confirming that Fire Snake was dead, Hope opened his backpack and put Fire Snake's body into it.

This time they don't have to worry about not being able to fit the things in, because the giant's dimensional bag is incredibly large in both diameter and capacity.

Of course, its normal weight is also heavier than that of an ordinary dimensional bag.

"Karl, I feel like I'm at level 4. Next, you can help me kill a few more fire snakes. It's still early now. Maybe we can get a lot of improvement during this time."

"Okay! We will improve our professional level here in the next period of time. If you feel uncomfortable anywhere, tell me."

So, Carl and Hope began their leveling journey, until... the boss of the fire snakes showed up.

(End of this chapter)