Waking up from his dream, Carl took out his pocket watch and checked the time.

It was already two o'clock in the morning, but for the goblins here, it seemed to be just the right time for them to go out.

Seeing Carl wake up, Hope, who was still alert in his sleep, also woke up.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing the happy expression on Carl's face, Hope couldn't help but smile.

"I've thought of a way for us to return to Eberron! Banishment! As long as we can create an automatic device that can stably maintain the effect of Banishment, we can return to Eberron!"

"So when do we start making the device you mentioned?"

After hugging Carl for a moment, Hope asked this key question excitedly.

Then, Carl's car suddenly stalled.

Making a magic item is like making an electronic chip. Both materials (semiconductors) and magic patterns (integrated circuits) are indispensable.

Theoretically, as long as a machinist can carve a magic pattern with the same magical effect, he may be able to create a corresponding magic item.

But this is as unreliable as someone who knows the mass-energy equation trying to make a nuclear bomb with his hands.

Magic items are divided into five levels: common, uncommon, rare, extremely rare and legendary.

Common and uncommon items require the user to have a career level of at least 1, rare items require at least 5, extremely rare items require at least 11, and legendary items require at least 17.

Common and uncommon magic items can be created by an artificer apprentice.

The production threshold for precious magic items is generally a level 3 artificer.

Only a 7th-level wizard or priest can cast Banish, so a magic item that can cast the Banish effect is of rare level.

If Carl had not been a part-time fighter, but had focused on upgrading his artificer, it would be easy for him to make the corresponding magic items now.

But alas, if is just if.

"Well, that's a good question. In fact, I'm facing some technical problems right now, but don't worry, the problem is not too big. Even if we use the dumbest method, it will probably only delay us for half a month."

Patting his forehead, Carl tried his best to organize his words.

According to the internal evaluation criteria of Akanix for the ability of artificers, if he wants to create a magic item with a 7th-level spell effect, he only needs to have a 5th-level artificer to try.

This is much lower than the 14 levels required to activate the portal to another world.

"Ah? Not now?"

The expression on his face froze instantly, and Hope suddenly realized that he might have been happy too early.

"If you're in a hurry, I can try to modify the teleportation array for use."

Although Carl said it seriously, Hope was sure that the other party was joking with him.

Punching Carl on the shoulder, Hope glared at him.

"Don't worry, I will make a device to get us home as quickly as possible. The reason I woke up now is because I have a solution to the more troublesome problem. Now, I only need to solve a less troublesome technical problem!"

After hugging Hope again, Carl lay back on the bed.

…

In the next few days, whenever Carl had a little time, he would simulate the creation of a device for banishing magic in his dreams.

The rest of the time, he would take advantage of the absence of goblins to run to the building to observe the array of portals to other worlds.

Although the effect brought by the plug-in allows Carl to perfectly replicate his waking memories in his dreams, he always feels that on-site observation is more conducive to the manufacture of the device.

It was the fifth day since the two arrived at the goblin city. Carl began to make magic devices, while Hope hid on the second floor, guarding the surroundings.

"Karl! There's movement at the ceremony site!"

Upon hearing Hope's news, Carl immediately put down his work, ran to the second floor and looked into the distance.

In the ritual venue of the circular building, one of the 12 plane teleportation arrays suddenly lit up.

A common goblin in an animal-skin robe emerged from the portal with a panicked look on his face.

Seeing that there was no one around, his legs went limp and he collapsed to the ground.

"Is this a priest who believes in travelers? What is he doing back here?"

Hiding in the obsidian attic, Carl tried to analyze what the goblin who suddenly returned to the tribe wanted to do.

If the battle had already been decided, there shouldn't have been only one ordinary goblin priest running back.

So the more likely possibility is that this guy is a deserter.

And this also means that the war between the goblins and the mind flayers may not be ideal.

When he told Hope his idea, a look of excitement appeared on Hope's face.

"Can we use this incident as a threat to force this goblin priest to open the alien portal array for us, or cast the banishment spell on us?"

Looking at Hope, who was extremely satisfied with his idea, Carl tilted his head, his face full of question marks.

"Sister, what right do you have to threaten him? He is a deserter, and we are spies! If we really encounter the goblin army returning, do you think they will believe him or us?"

Carl rolled his eyes at Hope and was about to go back downstairs to continue working, but Hope grabbed the corner of his clothes.

"Hey! Wait! What is that guy doing?"

Returning to the window, Carl looked up and found that the goblin priest did not leave the ceremony site. Instead, he was standing on the alien portal array, performing some kind of adjustment on the metal tuning fork in the middle of the array.

Before Carl could figure out what the other party wanted to do, the goblin put down the tuning fork and activated the magic circle.

A ray of light lit up from the magic circle, and when the light dissipated, the figure of the goblin priest had disappeared from the magic circle.

"In order to escape his responsibilities, could this guy have run away to another dimension?"

Looking at the magic circle that had returned to calm, Carl felt a little speechless.

However, the flow of magic power on the rune array when the magic circle was activated just now gave him some inspiration, so he did not continue to pay attention to this place, and ran back to the first floor to continue making magic devices.

In the next ten days or so, goblin priests would come back from the front line one after another.

They are either alone or in groups.

Some hid directly in the city, while others, like the goblin priest at the beginning, used the teleportation array to leave the dungeon demiplane.

This made Hope very anxious.

He almost took Carl to guard the teleportation array, wanting to wait for a goblin priest to escape and then let him take Carl and escape together.

Fortunately, Carl completed the manufacture of the magic device in time. Although it could be used a limited number of times, it was indeed completed.

After a test run without an explosion, Carl took Hope into the magic device.

As Carl injected all of his existing excess spiritual energy into the device, the device started and the banishment spell took effect.

Carl and Hope voluntarily gave up resisting the spell's effects, and in a flash of white light, they disappeared into the dungeon's demiplane.

The magic device continued to run in the same place for a minute, until Carl and Hope never returned, and then it finally stopped working.

(End of this chapter)