The two people in the fog hugged each other tightly, trying to vent some unspeakable emotions caused by "desire" in this way. In the end, Shade was the first to wake up and wanted to push Megan away, but the body dominated by the sorceress instantly changed to the witch's, and she continued the kiss more passionately.
Apparently both Megan and Audrey were affected.
Finally, Shad succeeded in separating from Audrey. They were both completely sober at this time, but Shad still felt a fire jumping in his heart. He just hoped that Luvia's horoscope would not last too late tonight.
The witch didn't know what Shade was thinking. She wiped her lips and felt her heart was about to jump out of her chest:
"You're very skilled."
She said, biting her lips again, and put her hand in front of her face. The appearance covered by the illusion disappeared, revealing her true appearance. In fact, it didn't change much, but the face became more delicate. It was also a beauty beyond the normal level. Even because of her pale complexion, she had some special charm that other witches didn't have.
The golden eyes looked at Shade:
"Am I pretty?"
"very beautiful."
Shade praised, and after thinking about it, he revealed his real face. However, neither Megan nor Audrey could recognize who it was. Although Shade's photos had appeared in newspapers, they were mostly side or back photos. In addition, the black and white photos had distortion problems, so she did not immediately associate it with Tobesk's detective.
"Are you feeling better? If you are, we will set off."
Xia De suggested, and the witch nodded slightly, hooked her little finger subconsciously, and then felt the vibration of the golden thread:
"Much better. Let's go. We still have a lot to do today."
As she spoke, she stepped forward again and touched Xia De's lips. She coveted this warmth that made her soul vibrate:
"If today's operation goes well, come to my place for dinner tonight. Let's discuss what you will wear when you attend the banquet with me on Friday. I see that you are not good at preparing a banquet dress for yourself, right?"
She was indeed right. Shade's clothes were prepared by the girls around him, and Leisia was particularly interested in this.
"At the banquet, I will tell you everything and let you meet my friends."
She held Xia De's hand, and Xia De turned to look at her and said cautiously:
"As long as you don't get mad at me, I can do anything."
He became increasingly worried about what the red-haired Duchess was planning.
The terrain of the central island of Green Lake is generally flat in the north and mountainous in the south. The island is not large, Green Lake Town is located in the north of the island, and the Edwards family mansion is almost in the center of the island.
Today, in order to obtain the key, Audrey did not take Shad to the Green Lake Town Cemetery in the forest again. Instead, she walked through the forest path into the deserted Green Lake Town, and then took Shad to the southeast of the town, finally stopping in front of a very ordinary building.
Most of the buildings in Green Lake Town are low-rise. The two-story building in front of him is located on the edge of the town, but it doesn't look much different from other buildings. When Shade first came to the island with Megan, he walked around the town but didn't enter this building.
"This is the residence of Mr. Rudy McMahon, a mineralogist. I researched his life. He was a mineralogist who lived more than a hundred years ago and made great achievements in the academic field. He moved to the island five years before Green Lake Town was destroyed, and died half a year before the town was abandoned."
Megan looked at the building and said:
"I found the descendants of the townspeople who survived that year, and after much inquiry, I confirmed that the scholar was not dead, but missing. After the townspeople searched for him in vain, they could only assume that he was dead. Therefore, he has no grave and his remains do not exist."
"I remember that this key of yours requires precious metals such as adamantium, mithril, and orichalcum... Is the scholar still in the house?"
Xia De asked, and Megan nodded slightly:
"Yes, I even suspect that his disappearance is related to my ancestor. Come with me. If you want to see him, you don't have to be lost in space like the blacksmith, but it's definitely not easy."
She opened the door and walked in with Xia De.
The house was not big, and Megan was very familiar with the internal structure. She led Shad through the living room to the stairs, and then took him to the bedroom on the second floor.
Because this is just an ordinary house in the small town, even the explorers who came to the island did not come here specifically to search, and everything in the room is still there.
Megan brought Shade to the desk and pointed to the painting hanging on the wall above the desk:
"That's it."
More than a hundred years ago, there was no mature camera technology like today, so if people wanted to record their appearance, oil painting was a good choice. The oil painting on the wall was a portrait of the mineralogist. Although it didn't look special at first glance, when Shade reached out and touched it, he could indeed feel the traces of the elements:
"How do I call out the soul?"
Shade asked, and Audrey pointed to the display case on the side of the room, which displayed various stones:
"Solving a puzzle, yes, don't look at me like that, I'm not kidding. Every time I come here, the placement of the stones is slightly different. You need to pick out the stones with extraordinary properties and place them on the desk, and then the soul of the scholar will appear. The reason why it is called a puzzle is because there are clues in the room."
"Hmm... How did you know these rules when you first came here? Did someone put the rule book on the desk?"
"From my father's belongings, I know that the Edwards who left at that time should have similar key clues."
Megan's tone was a little depressed, but she shook her head to dispel the emotion. Judging from the current situation, the descendants of the Edwards family would be more relaxed if they died than if they lived:
"Stop talking so much. There are 23 stones in total. Let's do it."
There is a special power in this room, which is used to prevent the ring magicians from directly sensing whether the stone is an ordinary stone or not, and they can only use knowledge to distinguish it. Shade was actually very curious. If he broke the display cabinet and put his hand directly on the stone, would his perception work? But he was cautious and did not do so.
Audrey was obviously not here for the first time, and she knew most of the 23 stones. The remaining stones that stumped the Great Witch of Wisdom and Knowledge were mostly precious minerals that were rarely seen in this era, and some of those stones were also very familiar to Shade, who possessed the Witch's Remnant - the witches' potions and alchemy knowledge mostly contained materials that could no longer be found in this era.
The two of them finally identified a total of 20 stones. Although they could not recognize the remaining three stones, Audrey relied on her experience of solving puzzles here several times and found their names and functions in the room in less than an hour.
So five stones were placed on the desk. After a while, as the stones turned into sand and scattered on the table, the man frozen in the painting suddenly blinked and moved in the frame:
"Descendants of Edwards, you are here again?"
His tone wasn't as rigid as the blacksmith that Shad and Audrey had come into contact with, but unfortunately he couldn't reach the spirituality of a normal soul.
The witch nodded slightly and took out the materials she had prepared for the key:
"You requested any one of the three special metals, and I found orichalcum for you. There are also black pearls, steel ingots with the specific carbon content you requested, Edwards family memories of research experiments, blood of family members, flawless deep orange gemstones, and green ridge ore."
Among them, Shade had come into contact with the Green Ridge Ore. He found a piece in the Water Ghost's Lair and still kept it at home. This ore can allow people without spatial talent to temporarily gain spatial talent through special means. The ore is mostly produced in areas with unstable space. And "Family Memories of Research Experiments" is a yellowed notebook page with densely written words.
"Give them to me."
The man in the picture frame said, and with a click, the picture bounced slightly from the wall. Flip the picture to the right, and behind it is a secret compartment in the wall where items can be placed.
Shade looked at Audrey and asked if she needed help putting the ores and materials in, but the witch signaled Shade not to worry:
"You said last time that if I was willing to give you something more, you would be willing to reveal some other information to me?"
She frowned slightly:
"Now can I tell you what I'm going to give you?"
She reached for her bag, obviously having prepared a lot of things in advance.
The man in the portrait nodded:
"The Philosopher's Stone."
"Are you kidding?"
Audrey asked sternly, so the man said:
"Or any other two of the three special metals. The more you give me, the more I can tell you."
That is to say, "fine gold" and "mithril".
The brown-haired lady heaved a sigh of relief and first took out the mithril, which was only half the size of a fingernail and was placed in a small glass bottle. As for the refined gold, Audrey looked at Shade, who nodded:
"Just use mine."
His refined gold came from the life-saving money of the ringmaster who wielded the invisible sword during the group mission. Later, when he asked Megan for blood, he left it with the witch and never took it back.
Audrey nodded again:
"I will make it up to you."
She had already smelted and purified the gold ores into pure gold. The amount was very small, only the size of a full thumb.
So all the materials were transferred by the two to the secret compartment behind the portrait. When Xia De pushed the portrait back to its original position, the man in the portrait had a key in his hand.
He tossed the key and looked at Audrey outside the portrait with pity:
"You can't defeat your ancestor. You can't imagine how terrible he is."