"You're level 4?"

Carl walked over quickly and looked at Hope who was standing on the bank of the lava river, and asked with concern.

Hope's previous actions frightened Carl, and she was now only a few steps away from the lava river.

If she hadn't braked in time, she would have fallen into the lava river.

After a few seconds of reaction, Hope's eyes regained their luster.

“Karl! I seem to have sensed my spiritual core! I feel… I seem to be able to mobilize the spiritual energy I have accumulated!”

Physical professions are not always unable to perceive their own professional spiritual core. As long as the perception or intelligence attributes reach a certain standard, they can also see their own experience bars like spellcasters.

But generally speaking, most of them can only do this after reaching level 5.

Of course, there are people who are unable to sense the spiritual core of their profession, but it is still quite rare in the continent of Khorvaire.

Carl gave Hope a thumbs up and was about to praise him, but was interrupted by the flying tomahawk.

Catching the battle axe, Hope pointed at the lava river and said:

"It seems like the things that guy dropped can't be retrieved."

In the orange-yellow lava river, a group of fire snakes were surrounding the elemental core left by the fire lizard.

They soon gathered into a huge snake ball in the lava river. The pure fire element energy overflowed from the elemental core and became the nourishment for their evolution to a higher level.

"Forget it, just be more careful next time. I feel like if I kill two more of these, I'll be able to advance to the next level."

Karl knocked on his helmet, endured the soreness between his eyebrows, and spoke with all his strength.

Continuous casting is very energy-consuming, and Carl also copied a lot of information from the soul of the fire lizard.

All he wanted now was to get back to the Giant Mine Cart and sleep.

"Okay, let's go! Let's go home!"

Although his body was a little sore from the previous battle, Hope's spirits were extremely high.

They returned to the giant mine cart along the underwater tunnel. The two men simply dealt with the corpses of the few fire snakes they had harvested, and then went to bed.

…

In the second layer of the dream world, Carl was looking at the memory scenes floating in the air and analyzing them frame by frame.

"This should be his memory when he was still in the Fire Snake state. This is the memory of the Fire Elemental Plane. This..."

The memories obtained from the salamander were not coherent. After a simple sorting, Carl found that the life experience of this salamander could be roughly divided into two stages.

One was his experience in the Elemental Plane of Fire, and the other was after he was summoned to this dungeon.

Yes, this fire lizard is not a native of this dungeon, but was "tricked" here from the elemental plane of fire by a group of goblins through an alien portal.

This discovery lifted Carl's spirits.

Because if the other party can open a portal to the Fire Elemental Plane, then they will definitely be able to open a portal to the main plane.

It's just that the coordinates are different.

But what puzzled Carl was that this kind of portal to another world should have very high requirements in terms of both theoretical knowledge and spellcasting.

The goblins in Salamander's memory didn't seem as powerful as Carl thought.

After arriving at the dungeon, the fire lizard escaped from the goblin tribe, then jumped into a lava river on the surface and swam here.

If that goblin tribe had a powerful wizard, such a thing would never have happened.

To be honest, Carl always finds it amazing when he sees something like this.

Because there is indeed a race called Elementals in this world.

The only difference is that the elementals are humanoid creatures, while this salamander creates snakes.

"According to the memory of this fire lizard, the goblin tribe that controls the portal to another world should be to the west of the dungeon..."

As Carl muttered to himself, a simulated map immediately appeared in front of him.

The memories from the fire lizard marked a lava river leading to the vicinity of the goblin tribe on the map. Later, the cave and mushroom forest where Carl was currently located also appeared on the map.

Most of the map was dark and unknown, but it did point Carl in a general direction.

"It would be nice if these guys were nearby."

After complaining like this, Carl shook his head and sighed.

This idea is a bit too shameless.

Judging from the approximate location on the map, the other party is quite a distance away from here.

What kind of crisis could make them come here over mountains and across rivers? To provide Carl with the technology to return to the main plane? Although he had obtained the biological plug-in of the Mind Flayer Larva, Carl still had some self-awareness of his luck.

"Forget it. Let's go to the lava cave tomorrow to train and level up. If Hope and I both reach level 6, we can find a way to escape the woods after we return to the surface."

With a snap of his fingers, the map was instantly moved to the side.

Carl raised his hands and constructed magic patterns in mid-air.

This is the magic pattern used in conjunction with the Khyber Dragon Crystal to seal elemental life. Carl hopes to encounter another fire lizard in the next hunt and then seal it.

…

In the next few days, Carl and Hope began to immerse themselves in hunting.

After killing the fire lizards, the source of the fire snakes, no one in the entire lava cave could be a match for Carl and Hope.

However, the number of offspring left behind by the other party over the years is simply outrageous. Carl and Hope have been hunting for three consecutive days, but the number of fire snakes in the lava cave has not decreased at all.

It was as if they had just killed one, and after a while another fire snake would spawn nearby.

On the fourth day of the hunt, salamanders appeared in the lava cave.

The other party's size was obviously not as exaggerated as the previous one, but it also reached the standard of being large.

Hope guessed that the other party had absorbed the elemental core that had fallen into the lava river before and transformed. Carl felt that this guess was quite reliable.

Salamanders have extremely violent tempers, which can be seen from the fire snakes.

The two men had experience this time, and as soon as they attracted the hatred, they lured the fire lizard to a location far away from the lava river.

Carl set a trap at the target location in advance, and after great efforts, the two finally sealed the fire lizard into the dragon crystal.

The fire lizard that transformed from a semi-elemental fire snake has completely transformed into an elemental life and lost its actual form, so after being sealed, nothing was left of the other party.

After each battle with the Salamanders, Carl and Hope's spirituality grew considerably.

After killing the fourth salamander, both of them were promoted to level 5.

When the number of fire lizards hunted reached 16, Carl was finally promoted again and reached the critical node of level 3 machinist and level 3 warrior.

(End of this chapter)