Whispering Verse

"Did Fiona have wings on her back before?"

Seeing the small wings pressed under the clothes, Xia De murmured suspiciously in his heart.

【No. 】

"She" gave the answer clearly.

"So, this is Fiona, Fiona, wake up."

Shade didn't quite understand what was going on. He knelt on one knee on the soft quilt in the tent and shouted a few times, but the sleeping girl showed no intention of waking up.

So Shade apologized softly, then grabbed Mia and used his tail to brush Fiona's nose, but she still looked asleep.

[Touch her. 】

Shade followed the advice and grabbed Fiona's slender wrist. Her arms were wrapped around the big tail that passed through the two strands, so that the tail wrapped around Shade's coat could be directly attached to her face. This look was indeed Sleeping soundly.

Fiona's skin was warm and her body temperature seemed to be a little higher than normal, but Shade wasn't sure if this was because she was asleep. And "she" also gave the answer:

[The power of bloodline is growing. 】

"What's the meaning?"

Shade blinked suspiciously, and then understood:

"I remember that the chapter introducing dragons in my textbook said that dragons sublimate their bloodline power by sleeping. Although Fiona is a hybrid dragon, she does have dragon bloodline. Therefore, she is relatively In the long sleep, those wings grow!"

Not only that, Shade put his hand on her forehead again, and after feeling it carefully, he found that the power of "Moon Dream" also promoted the awakening of blood power during sleep. The thaumaturgy information that Miss Danister gave to Shad stated that this thaumaturgy also has the ability to promote other sleep-like effects, but I didn't expect that the "hibernation" of dragons would also count.

"But what now?"

The mission of the tree father is to help the girl lost in the Evernight City pass through the veil. Shade doesn't believe that he can get to the end just by carrying her on his back. But now, not to mention that Shade can't awaken her, even if he can forcefully awaken her, Shade will be worried that this will destroy the red dragon girl's bloodline awakening process.

If it were not the fifth era, Xia De could have looked for information about the sublimation of dragon bloodline and used rituals and other means to promote the whole process, thus allowing her to wake up early. But now, the only normal creatures in the city may be Fiona, Shad, and Mia, who is crawling around under the quilt at this time. It's even unclear whether Shad and Mia who came from the future can be considered normal. .

"This is going to be troublesome."

He pulled little Mia out of the tent, who was slapping the dragon's tail with her claws, and retreated from it himself. With the idea of ​​​​taking it one step at a time, I walked to the front desk of the art museum, planning to replace the last component of the compass, that is, the golden needle. Maybe Fiona would wake up on her own if she waited a little longer.

The name of the paint formula provided by Lecia is the simple and straightforward "Night Paint", which means that you can paint at night.

In order to make it easier for Shade to carry it, Old John made the finished product into a paste. When using it, just dissolve the paste in hot water to dilute the pigment. Different concentrations will have different painting effects.

Shade opened the exhibit manual at the front desk of the Deserted Art Museum and found the item described as "The Golden Needle of the God of the Labyrinth - the 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, its shadow can guide the direction.

For Shade, he has neither sunlight nor moonlight.

"I want to buy this."

He expressed his wishes to the exhibit manual, and a drawer popped out from the side of the front desk. There was nothing in the drawer.

"So how much does it cost?"

Shade muttered that he didn't know the demand, so he collected as much material as possible and asked Old John to do it. When he set out, he brought a full backpack of paste paint, but in the end the tree father only asked him to 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.

Shade looked around and finally found a new line of text at the bottom of the page "The God of the Labyrinth - The Golden Needle of the Lost Goddess" in the exhibit manual:

[Purchaser Shad Suellen Hamilton, please go to the exhibition cabinet No. 154 in the B23 exhibition area to collect it yourself. 】

The letter used here is of course not English, but is also the second letter in this script, so Schade treats it as a "B".

"You want me to get it myself? Oh, let me tell you, on the first page of this exhibition brochure, why do it say [Don't make loud noises in the museum!], [Don't damage the collections in the museum!], [Don't interact with any museum. The eyes of the items inside look at each other for more than ten seconds!] Three rules.”

Only then did Shade understand. He turned his head slightly and looked towards the slightly dark corridor of the art gallery.

He left the manual in place, and then took the cat on his shoulder into his arms:

"It's going to be very dangerous for a while. I'll turn you into a toy and put it away first, and then let you out when it's safe."

Mia screamed pitifully, but did not resist. After doing this, Shade once again cast the spell [Thorns of the Moon] to protect the sleeping red dragon girl, and then carefully walked into the interior of the art museum.

The front hall of the art museum is connected to a straight corridor, with oil paintings hanging on both sides of the corridor, and the oil paintings contain quite a lot of content. There are portraits of characters in a normal style, as well as bizarre depictions of hell scenes, and most of them are monsters peeping out of the picture in the dark night.

Gas lamps only exist on top of each oil painting, and the oil paintings are hung quite sparsely, which causes the corridor to be dark and light. Shade strictly abided by the rules here. After a cursory look at the contents of the oil painting, he lowered his head and focused on his feet.

He didn't tell "her" what to do. "She" never needed Shade's instructions to do things. Because of this, Shade had no idea whether the characters and monsters in the oil paintings were also looking at him when he was not observing.

Just like this, they came to the corner in silence. When Shade passed by, the armor standing at the corner shook slightly, but it was just a shake. Shade just pretended that he didn't see anything and continued to take a few steps forward. Then he saw three forked roads on the left and right in front of him.

Metal signboards indicate the name of each area. Among them, the left side is [Area A: Oil Paintings and Sculpture Exhibition Area], the right side is [Area C: Ancient Books and Other Exhibition Area], and the front is [Area B: Gold and Silverware Exhibition Area].

Shade chose the road ahead. After leaving the fork in the road, the temperature dropped suddenly and the lights became darker. What is in the darkness is not night, but some strange dark power. Even with Shade's inspiration, he couldn't tell what else was here. He just wanted to leave as soon as possible.

Along the corridor we came to the exhibition hall. In the huge open square room, miracles, blasphemy, enlightenment and whispers of light all reflected each other. Shade lowered his head to check the numbers on the booth, and quickly found booth No. 154 along the numbers.

It was a glass cabinet against the wall. Inside the cabinet were signs made of red soft cushions and hard cardboard. The sign had the number written on it, along with the same description as in the exhibit manual at the front desk, and the gold pin was stuck in the cushion. The miraculous aura is so powerful that it is not only far stronger than the [Butterfly Summoning Flute], it is even almost comparable to the [God's Gift Box].

"This is it."

All the cabinets here were unlocked, so Shade opened the cabinet from the side with a slight push and got the gold needle.

[Outlander, you have come into contact with a "miracle". 】

【Foreigners, you have some insights into the "maze". 】

The "maze" spiritual rune is the easiest way to access the "mysterious lock" of thaumaturgy, which was mentioned in Professor Garcia's class.

After entering this exhibition hall, Shade had been tense because of an unknown sense of crisis, but at this moment 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 exhibition cabinet on your right front!"

That was the only way for Shade to go back. He took a few steps forward and was surprised to see a man's golden head placed in a glass cabinet. The sign in the cabinet reads:

[The head of the thief was collected here in 389 of the Fifth Era. It contains a soul with the original sin of greed (Treasure 3.2). 】

[Since the establishment of Yongye City, he is the seventh sinner who has the courage to steal here, so it is worth collecting. 】

[Purchase requires payment of light. 】

"Treasure?"

Shade recalled that he came into contact with the evaluation criteria of sin in the relic [Sin Mansion] (Chapter 699).

From low to high, sins are divided into four levels: "flawed", "ordinary", "perfect" and "rare". Among all Shade's sins, only the "Gluttony" obtained by devouring the divinity of [Lord of Blood Feast] twice is a treasure, which lasts for 10.5 seconds. Shade's second-ranked sin was also greed, but it was only perfect for 9.9 moments.

"It's amazing. This guy actually has a treasure-level original sin? And men in the fifth era don't have extraordinary abilities. What has he been exposed to? Or is he so greedy to begin with?"

Shade sighed softly in his heart, and then wanted to leave, but the golden head spoke again and anxiously stopped him. These collections are probably also subject to the no-loud-noise rule, so the voices are kept low.

Because there is a rule not to look at any artwork here, Shade did not carefully observe the details of his face. Judging just from the voice, this should be a man in his thirties:

"Help me, sir. You rescue me, and I can follow you all the time. Not only do I know many secrets in this city, I also know information about many treasures in the material world. Take me out, and I will tell you I swear, I am willing to follow you until the end of your life."