The voice beside my ear sounded at the right moment:
Under the deep night, the lonely and helpless girl prayed to the world for change. And the one who responded to her was you who had made a promise to her. The pumpkin carriage and the crystal shoes were not important, nor was the prince in the palace high above. The only thing you valued was her at this moment.
You listened to the fairy tales you were told, and you gained the enlightenment of civilization.
Instantly, the golden light on the life ring even dispelled the "hand" extended by the God of Night. Most of the night hall was illuminated by the spiritual light behind Shade at this moment, and Fiona, who was holding Shade's hand tightly behind him, also felt an unusual power in this light.
As the steam gushed out, the letters suspended in the air gathered towards the Life Ring. Shining with the brass-colored light of enlightenment, all the words overlapped on the Life Ring and condensed into a whole new force.
Outsider, you have inscribed the Brass Rune of Inspiration - Cinderella.
You have acquired the magic - Mystique Cinderella.
On the scorching life ring wrapped in steam, the enlightenment spirit rune belonging to the fifth ring quietly emerged.
Miracle - Moon Thorn, Moon Shadow, Blasphemy - Arrogance, Enlightenment - Cinderella, Whisper - Puppet. The four spirit runes of the five rings were finally complete at this moment, and Shade could already vaguely feel the power of the six rings.
He did not pray to the next ring for strength. Instead, as the power of the old gods approached and his own divine afterglow state almost reached its limit, he followed the movement in his heart and asked the girl behind him very seriously:
"Ms. Fiona Drago, the clock has struck midnight. As promised, shall we go home?"
The Red Dragon girl was slightly stunned, looking at the young man in front of her whose body was covered with golden light:
"Yes, we should go home."
As soon as the words fell, the bell that symbolized the arrival of midnight actually rang in this silent temple of God. At this moment, a large hole was melted away in the ceiling above, and then a full silver moon appeared in the starry sky at night.
There has never been moonlight in the castle of eternal night, but at this moment, the silver moon shines on him and her.
Speaking of which, the initial form of each of Shade's mazes seems to be marked by the appearance of the silver moon.
"My princess."
As Shad called softly, the moonlight shone on Fiona's body. As the witch Fiona's resonance in Shad's soul trembled, a dreamy silver light appeared from under her feet, swirling and sweeping over her whole body.
As the young witch opened her arms and looked at the light spots in surprise, a bright red long skirt replaced the original dress and appeared on Fiona's body. The rotating light spots passed over her waist, and the originally thick tail became even bigger, but it fit her figure so well; the rotating light spots passed over her back, and the small and thin wings automatically stretched out, then crossed the limitations of blood and age, and turned into real dragon wings; the rotating light spots passed over her head, and the curved dragon horns grew from both sides of her forehead toward the sky.
Twelve golden steps automatically appeared behind her, piercing through her twelve life rings.
Silver dots of light also entangled the two. As Fiona herself changed her clothes like a "transformation", the thirteenth step appeared at the end of the twelve steps, and a closed door appeared at the end of the thirteenth step. As the twelve rings turned into thirteen rings and spun rapidly, at the end of drawing power from the witch's resounding Fiona, the twelve-ring Fiona directly skipped the middle process and touched the power of the demigod in the maze.
The surrounding night was further pushed back by the light of the silver moon above, and Fiona's dreamy glow spread outward like a tide.
The empty palace changed its appearance. A long dining table with gold and silver tableware and delicious dishes appeared first, followed by glittering crystal chandeliers, landscape paintings depicting the scenery of the moon and the sea of trees, portraits of Luvia and other seven demigods who were either shy or flamboyant, green and silver silk tapestries, an unmanned band playing soothing music, and guests made up of shadows in the distorted night.
Outside the window is a city with falling snow under the silver moon. The streets where the match girl wanders are deserted. The giant trees in the sea of trees outside the city are swaying, and the bonfire under the treetops is burning lonely. In the center of the silent forest lake, on the island in the middle of the lake, there is only an illusory sword piercing the soil. And higher up in the castle, in the palace illuminated by the silver moon, the princesses in the coffins are still waiting for the prince to come again.
Facing the power of the divinity's afterglow inspired by the old gods and the initial seasonal movement after obtaining the maze lock supported Shad in using the maze lock.
And his fifth "Fairy Tale Puzzle" Cinderella actually has two characteristics. The first and most important characteristic is that it gives the girls that Shad has met the strongest power that Shad understands they can master.
As for Fiona, it was the posture of a demigod witch that was enough to leave a lasting echo.
The maze was successfully built, but the god silently "reached out" to the two people for the second time. The banquet scene that had just taken shape, in which the shadows in the night participated, was quickly corroded by the deep night.
This time, Fiona pushed Shade behind her. The demigod witch, with her feet off the ground and flying in the air, faced the god directly, and then used the power that should be used most at this moment:
“Run!”
Time stood still. Fiona spread her wings and took Shad's hand. She resisted the pressure from the gods, turned into a stream of red light and directly broke through the door leading to the "Place of Dusk", bringing Shad to the sky above the City of Eternal Night.
The scenery of the "Fairy Tale Town" inside the maze was perfectly integrated with the City of Eternal Night, so that even if they left the temple of gods, they were still within the influence of the maze.
"What now?"
Even though she possessed the power of a demigod out of thin air, Fiona's soul was still that of a weak twelfth-level witch.
The silver moon was gradually illuminating the Eternal Night City under the night sky, but she knew that with the power of a demigod alone, she still could not take the two of them away from here.
The power of the divine afterglow in Shade's body had not faded. He passed through the smashed door and looked across the terrace at the god sitting behind the curtain in the deep palace. She did not let the two go, or let Fiona go. The battle continued:
"Can you sing that song?"
"What song?"
"The princess in the castle wouldn't understand..."
"Yes, but here, it is impossible to open the door to..."
"Then fly with me and sing. Fiona, trust me, sing for me, and take us home."
Hearing what Xia De said, the girl with the big tail pursed her lips and hugged Xia De with both hands, then flew towards the distance of the city with him at the fastest speed.
The full moon above their heads was gradually being swallowed by the shadows, like a lunar eclipse, and the city illuminated by the silver moon was quickly falling into darkness again. This represented the collapse of the maze. No matter how powerful Shade's maze was, he would never be able to use it to fight against a complete god in his mortal state.
Fortunately, in addition to the "witch transformation", the Mystic Lock Cinderella has a second effect, which is to ignore any conditions and situations, consume different spirits, and let Shad carry the surrounding entities or non-entities back home.
If it was in the Sixth Era, and his spirit was strong enough, he might even appear in Tobesk with the entire Randall River Valley, but the consequences would be hard to say. But in the current Fifth Era, No. 6 St. Teresa's Square, as his "home", did not exist at all, so Shade was not sure where he would end up.
"The princess in the castle will never understand that the freedom to walk in the world is what we pursue."
"If you meet a witch at a road crossing covered with lavender, where will you go to pick a handful of herbs?"
"Holding up the snow on the top of the snow, watching the sun in the depths of the desert."
"If you could meet us, dear girl~~"
“Please call our names softly and ask any questions you have.”
"Where the lilies are in bloom, or, westward where the sunflowers are."
"Please wear your beautiful dress and hold the purple thyme."
"The people who love you and the people you love are all here, in this palace filled with sunshine."
The night chased the two of them, and with the power of a demigod witch, Fiona could better sense how great the gods were.
But hugging Xia De seemed to give her unlimited strength. She thought her singing voice would tremble, but in fact, the singing was so perfect that she was not even sure if she could repeat it again.
But it didn't matter, because Shad had already recorded it with "The Sound of Music". And the warmth Fiona felt was not from him, but from the cat who somehow transformed himself from a toy back into a cat.
The kitten's head popped out of Shade's pocket, looking curiously at the chessboard-like city below in the night, which meant that the cat was not afraid of heights.
And Shade had no time to take care of it. He was trying his best to maintain the effect of the maze.
But just like Fiona said, the witch's song could not open the passage to the parliament in Evernight City, because the requirement to open the passage was to be out of combat; and Shade's maze Cinderella could not function because of the Evernight City's restricted spatial power.
So, his hand moved to Fiona's waist.
When Fiona's song came to an end, his puzzle was about to collapse, and the night behind them was about to touch their backs. He pulled out the curtain of night, and then suddenly spread it out in front of the two people against the wind:
"Fiona, get through!"
Whether the curtain of night, the power of the demigod witch and Shade's fairy tale puzzle can lead the two to leave the Evernight City is actually not certain. But Shade looks at the process from the answer. The road that the elf girl Emilia took him on has clearly told Shade what he needs to do.