"Did Fiona have wings on her back before?"
Seeing the small wings pressed under the clothes, Xia De muttered suspiciously in his heart.
No.
She gave a very clear answer.
"So, this is... Fiona, Fiona, wake up."
Xia De didn't quite understand what was going on. He knelt on one knee on the soft quilt in the tent and called out softly a few times, but the sleeping girl showed no intention of waking up.
So Shad apologized softly again, then grabbed Mia and used his tail to swipe Fiona's nose, but she still looked asleep.
Touch her.
Shad followed the advice and grabbed Fiona's slender wrist. She wrapped her arms around the big tail that passed through her buttocks, so that the tail wrapped around Shad's coat could be directly against her face. She looked like she was sleeping soundly.
Fiona's skin was warm, and her body temperature seemed to be a little higher than normal, but Shade was not sure if it was because she was asleep. And "she" also gave the answer:
The power of blood is growing.
"What's the meaning?"
Xia De blinked suspiciously, then understood:
"I remember the chapter about dragons in my textbook said that dragons sublimate their bloodline power through sleep. Although Fiona is a half-dragon, she does have dragon bloodline. That's why she grew a pair of wings during a relatively long sleep!"
Not only that, Shade put his hand on her forehead again, and after careful feeling, he found that the power of "Moon Dream" also promoted the awakening of the blood power in sleep. The magic information that Miss Danister gave to Shade wrote that this magic also has the ability to promote other sleep-related effects. I didn't expect that the "hibernation" of dragons could also be counted.
"But what now?"
The mission of the Treefather is to help the girl lost in the Evernight City to pass through the veil. Shade doesn't believe that he can carry her to the end by himself. But now let's not say that Shade can't wake her up. Even if he can force her to wake up, Shade will worry that this will destroy the blood awakening process of the Red Dragon Girl.
If it wasn't the Fifth Age, Shade could have gone to look for information about the sublimation of dragon blood and used rituals to accelerate the process, thus waking her up earlier. But now, the only normal creatures in the city might be Fiona, Shade, and Mia, who was scurrying around in the quilt. It was even unclear whether Shade and Mia, who came from the future, could be considered normal.
"This is going to be troublesome."
He pulled Mia, who was hitting the dragon's tail with her claws, out of the tent, and then he himself withdrew from it. With the idea of taking one step at a time, he walked to the front desk of the art gallery, intending to replace the last component of the compass, that is, the golden needle. Maybe if he waited a little longer, Fiona would wake up on her own.
The paint formula provided by Leicia is simply and straightforwardly named "Night Paint", which means that you can paint in the night.
In order to make it easier for Shade to carry, Old John made the finished product into a paste. When using it, just dissolve the paste in hot water to dilute the pigment, and different concentrations will produce different painting effects.
Xia De opened the exhibition manual at the front desk of the Lengqing Art Museum and found the item described as "the golden needle of the Goddess of Labyrinth-Lost Goddess" according to the page number. The effect of this needle itself is that when it stands on the ground and is illuminated by sunlight or moonlight, the shadow can guide the direction.
As for Xia De, he has no shortage of both sunlight and moonlight.
“I want to buy this.”
He expressed his wish to the exhibition brochure, and a drawer popped out from the side of the front desk, and there was nothing in the drawer.
"So how much is it?"
Xia De muttered that he didn't know the demand, so he collected as many materials as possible and asked Old John to do it. When he set out, he brought a full backpack of paste pigments, but Shu's father only let him bring three tubes.
Shade then tried to throw the heaviest tube of paint into the drawer, and the drawer immediately closed automatically, but nothing happened.
Xia De looked around and finally found a new line of text at the bottom of the page "The God of Labyrinth - The Golden Needle of the Lost Goddess" in the exhibition manual:
Purchaser Shad Suren Hamilton, please go to exhibition cabinet No. 154 in exhibition area B23 to pick it up.
The letter used here is certainly not English, but it is also the second letter in this script, so Shad regards it as "B".
"You want me to get it myself? Oh, let me tell you, the first page of this exhibition brochure says: Don't make loud noises in the museum! Don't damage the collections in the museum! Don't make eye contact with any of the collections in the museum for more than ten seconds! Three rules."
Xia De finally understood and turned his head slightly to look at the slightly dim corridor of the art gallery.
He left the manual there, then grabbed the cat from his shoulder and held it in his arms:
"It will be very dangerous soon. I will turn you into a toy and put you away. I will let you out when it is safe."
Mia cried out pitifully, but did not resist. After doing all this, Shade cast the Moon Thorn again to protect the sleeping red dragon girl, and then walked carefully into the art gallery.
The lobby of the art gallery is connected to a straight corridor, with oil paintings hanging on both sides of the corridor. The contents of the paintings are quite a lot. There are normal-style portraits, bizarre and bizarre depictions of hell scenes, and more of them are monsters peeping out of the picture in the dark.
Gas lamps only existed above each painting, and the paintings were hung sparsely, which resulted in a patch of light and darkness in the corridor. Xia De strictly followed the rules here, took a quick look at the contents of the paintings, and then lowered his head to concentrate on his feet.
He didn't tell "her" how to do it, and "she" never needed Xia De's instructions. Therefore, Xia De had no idea whether the people and monsters in the paintings were looking at him when he was not observing them.
In this way, they came to the corner in silence. When Xia De passed by, the armor standing at the corner shook slightly, but it was just a shake. Xia De just pretended that he saw nothing and continued to walk forward a few steps, and then he saw three forks in the road ahead.
Metal signs indicate the name of each area. On the left is Area A: Oil Painting and Statue Exhibition Area, on the right is Area C: Ancient Books and Other Exhibition Area, and in front is Area B: Gold and Silverware Exhibition Area.
Xia De chose the road ahead. After leaving the fork in the road, the temperature dropped suddenly, and the lights became dimmer. The darkness was not the night, but some strange dark power. Even Xia De's inspiration could not judge what else was here. He just wanted to leave as soon as possible.
Walking along the corridor to the exhibition hall, in the huge open square room, miracles, blasphemy, enlightenment, and whispering auras shine together. Xia De lowered his head to check the numbers on the booths, and quickly found booth 154 according to the numbers.
It was a glass cabinet against the wall, with a red cushion and a cardboard sign inside. The sign had the number and the same description as in the exhibit manual at the front desk, and the golden needle was inserted into the cushion. The miracle aura was so strong that it was not only much stronger than the butterfly flute, but could even be compared to the gift box of God.
"That's it."
All the cabinets here were not locked, so Xia De opened the cabinet from the side with a light push and took out the golden needle.
Outsider, you have come into contact with a "miracle".
Stranger, you have some understanding of the "maze".
The "maze" spirit rune is the simplest way to the thaumaturgical "mystery lock", which was mentioned in Professor Garcia's class.
After entering the exhibition hall, Xia De had been on edge because of an unknown sense of crisis, but now he finally breathed a sigh of relief. He turned around and wanted to leave as soon as possible, but at this moment he heard a man's voice coming from not far away:
"Hey, outsider, take me out too!"
He originally didn't want to pay attention to the voice, but the voice continued:
"I'm in the display case to your right!"
That was the only way for Xia De to go back. He walked forward a few steps and was surprised to see a man's golden head placed in a glass cabinet. The sign in the cabinet read:
The Thief's Head, collected here in 5E 389, contains a soul with the Sin of Greed (Rare 3.2 engravings).
He is the seventh sinner who has the courage to steal here since the establishment of Evernight City, so it is worth collecting.
Purchase requires payment of radiance.
"A treasure?"
Xia De recalled that he had come across the criteria for assessing sins in the Relic Sin Mansion (Chapter 699).
From low to high, sins are divided into four grades: "defective", "ordinary", "perfect" and "rare". Among all of Shad's sins, only "gluttony" obtained by devouring the divinity of the Lord of the Blood Feast twice is a rare one, with 10.5 points. The second-ranked sin of Shad is also greed, but it is only perfect, 9.9 points.
"Amazing! This guy actually has a rare level of original sin? And men from the Fifth Era don't have extraordinary abilities. What on earth has he come into contact with? Or is he just so greedy?"
Xia De sighed softly in his heart, and then wanted to leave, but the golden head called him anxiously. These collections probably also had to abide by the rule of not making loud noises, so the voice was kept very low.
Because of the rule that no one can look directly into the eyes of any artwork here, Xia De did not carefully observe the details of his face. Judging from the voice, this should be a man in his thirties:
"Save me, sir. If you save me, I can follow you forever. Not only do I know many secrets of this city, I also know information about many treasures in the material world. Take me out, I swear to you, I am willing to follow you until the end of your life."