I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

The airship disappeared into the thick white fog.

The massive wall of flesh and blood that was visible just a moment ago was now completely swallowed up by the thick, gray-white fog.

Nothing could be seen outside the porthole; only the fog was constantly being torn apart and then closed by the airflow, emitting a series of muffled whistling sounds.

Lu Yuan turned his gaze away from the window and then had time to examine the interior of the airship.

He had only noticed the machinery and gears scattered around when he boarded the cabin in a hurry, and hadn't had time to examine them closely.

Upon closer inspection, he realized that the airship's structure was far more sophisticated than he had imagined.

The main deck is made of metal mesh, beneath which are layers of tightly meshed gears made of some unknown metal. The larger ones are half a person's height in diameter, while the smaller ones are embedded in the gaps and rotate with it.

Wisps of steam escaped from the gaps in the gears, flowing outwards along the pipes coiled on the walls of both sides, leaving faint white trails on either side.

The pipe walls are covered with inscriptions and metal valves, and pipes of varying thicknesses are twisted together, extending all the way to places that cannot be seen.

My feet felt slightly hot, and the entire airship was trembling continuously.

The control room in front has glass on three sides, offering an unobstructed view in front, left, and right, but it is currently covered by a thick gray-white fog.

Several pathfinders each took their positions, constantly turning the metal valves on the pipes, carefully maneuvering the airship forward.

Green was pacing back and forth with great interest, as if he had never been on an airship like this before.

From the moment he stepped through the hatch, he started touching and looking around, his short legs moving quickly, and he had already moved to the left side of the tube wall.

He reached out and traced lines in the grooves of the inscription, his white beard twitching, and a barely concealed smugness on his face.

"I personally embedded all these inscriptions." He patted the tube wall, making a clinking sound. "The arrangement of the core inscriptions, the hundreds of inscriptions on the air bladder—all of them were done by me. I even participated in the drafting."

Seeing that no one responded, Green didn't care. He touched the pipe wall with his little hand again, and the small tools on his apron jingled.

"Do you know what this thing is called? It's called the Sky-Seeking Fortress." He turned around, scanning Klaus and Lu Yuan.

"This is a weapon the Empire specifically designed for the skies, with two main cannons and six secondary cannons, and the rear compartment is filled with gunpowder. While it might not be able to raze a city under normal circumstances, it would be more than enough to destroy half of your Bronze City's inner city."

When he said the last few words, Green's voice rose noticeably, his gray eyebrows twitched, and he looked quite proud.

But no one in the cabin was happy about it.

While the firepower is considerable, in the current situation, ordinary artillery fire landing on the flesh and blood of that forbidden entity probably wouldn't cause much damage.

Besides, the airship is suspended in mid-air and its speed is not very fast. If it is really targeted by that thing, where can it hide?

Logan walked over from the control panel at that moment.

Seeing the seriousness on everyone's faces, he took over the conversation, which helped to ease the atmosphere.

"Green is right, the firepower of the Sky Fortress is indeed sufficient under normal circumstances," he said calmly, "but it's not quite enough right now, because we only managed to bring one this time."

Logan's tone was grave. "If Klaus hadn't spoken up, I'm afraid not a single ship would have come."

Klaus did not respond.

"The Imperial archives say that Bronze City was invaded by ghouls," Logan continued.

"I didn't expect this to involve a forbidden entity. A single aerial fortress has no chance against this thing head-on, so we didn't bring many weapons this time; they're mainly for you to use to clear out the large-scale ghouls."

"It probably won't be of much use against beings of this level."

Klaus's lips moved, but he didn't say anything.

Logan glanced at the gray fog ahead and continued, "As for safety, there's no need to worry. The hundreds of runes on the airbags are strong enough to withstand a direct attack from an ordinary fourth-tier enemy."

"However," he said with a hint of seriousness, "during our earlier maneuvering, we confirmed that the situation in Bronze City cannot be resolved by reinforcements alone."

"Our original plan was to help relieve the siege, clear out the ghouls, and hold out until reinforcements arrived. But the best we can do right now is to escort you. Since you insist on going to the Tower of Learning, we'll have to fly to the top and rappel you down."

Logan spoke slowly and deliberately, but everyone in the cabin could hear him clearly.

Klaus glanced at Logan and nodded.

"That's enough."

Lu Yuan remained leaning against the porthole, not saying a word, as his attention had been drawn to the gray and white text in front of him.

At this moment, the gray text was frighteningly dense, pouring out in large swaths, crowding into the field of vision, jumping out line after line, all of it information about increased experience points, many times denser than the previous fragmented information.

【进阶·诡异铭文学 +1...+1...+1... 43.5/50】

【诡异鍊金学 +1...+1...+1... 27.6/50】

[Pharmacology +1...+1... 91/100]

[Medicinal Herbs +1... 47/50]

The messages were jumping around so fast that Lu Yuan could barely keep up; before he could finish reading one, the next one had already appeared.

Clearly, those were the Worms of Knowledge. The swarm had been feeding on flesh and blood in the outer city, and by now they had probably gone quite deep, accumulating a large amount of experience before rushing back all at once.

Among them, the Advanced·Strange Inscription skill saw the most dramatic increase, with over a dozen +1s popping up in a row, causing the experience bar to jump forward significantly.

The bizarre alchemy is even more extreme, soaring from single digits to double and then skyrocketing.

Lu Yuan clenched his fist. But that wasn't all; two more lines popped up.

[Pharmacology score: 100/100, maximum reached.]

[Herbal Medicine skill level 50/50, maximum reached.]

The two experience bars reached their peak almost simultaneously.

The gray text paused slightly, and all the previous scattered +1s stopped.

After a rare moment of silence, a line of text that Lu Yuan had never seen before appeared.

Your understanding of medicines and medicinal herbs has reached a new level, and you also have your own insights into pharmaceutical manufacturing.

[Unlock new knowledge: Pharmaceutical Science 0/50.]

Lu Yuan stared at the line of text for a moment.

Pharmacology and medicinal materials science are actually combined.

These two skills have been with him for quite some time; he used them back when he was a doctor in Grimport.

He hadn't intentionally tried to gain experience along the way, but unexpectedly, he managed to fill up the gaps first and merge them into one.

Lu Yuan pulled up the profile and scanned it.

[Pharmaceutical Science 0/50: Born from the integration of pharmacology and medicinal materials science. Understanding herbs, identifying materials, compatibility, decoction, and finished medicine—from raw materials to finished products, all with complete knowledge.]

Before I could take a closer look, the gray and white text reappeared.

[Forbidden Studies - Seeker of Knowledge +1...+1... 86.9/100]

Taboo studies also saw a slight increase, though not a large one.

This experience bar is always difficult to increase. Normally, to increase it, one needs to come into contact with some special beings or strange things that Lu Yuan has never seen before.

The current price increase is clearly due to the fact that the worms of knowledge have already gnawed deep into the flesh and blood.

Or perhaps, that piece of flesh and blood wasn't truly endless; it did indeed contain many things related to taboos.

At this moment, all the experience bars were fluctuating slightly, but the sanity remained unchanged, and the status of Bronze City did not increase accordingly.

Lu Yuan was also aware of this. For reason to grow stronger now, relying solely on the "worm of knowledge" was probably useless;

There's been no movement in Bronze City, so if we want to push this line forward any further, we'll probably have to see the person on the wall in person.

He pressed the gray text down, preventing the jumping characters from continuing to block his view.

Normally, he would be happy for a long time, but he doesn't have that kind of time right now.

The airship was still flying towards the inner city, and the fog was gradually thinning.

The thinning fog is not good news. This fog can obscure reconnaissance and visibility, and it is a layer of cover for the airship.

A few streaks of dark red light were beginning to pierce through the gray-white glass window ahead, getting closer and closer.

The thick fog almost dissipated, but it didn't completely dissipate.

Everyone had gathered in front of the control room.

The moment the airship emerged from the thick fog, the view of the inner city unfolded completely before the glass windows.

Previously, when they took off from the outer city, everyone could only get a general view through the giant wall of flesh and blood.

But now that the airship has penetrated deep into the inner city, everything is finally revealed to everyone, a completely different situation from what they had seen from afar before.

Lu Yuan stood in front of the glass window, looked down, and his heart sank.

At this moment, the flesh and blood, interwoven with dark gold and dark red, had filled the entire inner city to the brim.

The inner city of Bronze City is so vast that it takes half an hour to walk from the Earl's Mansion to the Tower of Learning. But now, all the streets, squares, and stone pavements are covered by this dark red flesh and blood, leaving almost no empty space.

The towering walls of flesh and blood on all four sides continued to cascade downwards.

New waves of flesh surged down the wall, layer upon layer, flowing down the wall and into the inner city, landing on the pile of flesh that had already reached three or four stories high, and then continuing to spread forward, filling every place that could be filled.

The buildings in the city were almost completely invisible, except for the taller noble mansions of the Earl's Mansion, whose black spires and eaves peeked out from the dark red flesh. All the other buildings had vanished without a trace.

Numerous veins and twisted plant roots are clearly visible in the gaps between the flesh and blood, connected to the flesh and blood and completely integrated into one. In some places, it is even impossible to distinguish which part is flesh and blood and which part is plant roots.

The roots were still slowly wriggling, spreading towards the areas where the flesh and blood were thinner.

The Blue Knight's hand rested on the hilt of his sword, his fingers clenched tightly.

She stared intently at the sea of ​​blood below, her lips pressed into a straight line.

Clearly, she was also taken aback by the sight before her.

Is this something that humans can truly contend with? I doubt even a fifth-order being could handle it.

Klaus's face was also frighteningly gloomy.

His gaze swept across the inner city and landed in the direction of the Tower of Learning.

Green, too, lost all his joking enthusiasm after seeing the scene below.

He peered out the window, his gray eyebrows furrowed, muttering a few words in a dwarven language, but no one could understand what he was saying.