"Sure enough, it worked!"
Shade finally let out a sigh of relief, then suddenly kissed the cat on the head in his arms:
"Mia, you were a huge help this time. When we get back, I'll take you somewhere delicious!"
Only then did the cat realize Shade had kissed her, and she stretched out her paws to claw at him.
Just now, he had traded one tube of paint for the Golden Needle. This time, however, he had traded away both tubes of blood before finally seeing the Dragon Shell Book's number and location.
Covering Mia's eyes and mouth, Shade entered the art gallery again with the cat. After finding the enormous stone slab that stood half a person tall, he tied it to his back with chains and carried it back.
This Eggshell Fossil came from the First Epoch. As Shade carried it back, the Thaumaturgy Ancient Voice was triggered.
The earliest Ancient Dragons of the First Epoch had lifespans approaching ten thousand years, while the strongest among them could live beyond ten thousand years. When the First Epoch ended, dragons were affected not only by the deterioration of their own bloodlines, but also by the changing of epochs. No Ancient Dragon could successfully survive into the next epoch.
It was described lightly, but the truth was extremely cruel. Shade still did not know what the changing of epochs truly meant, but for dragons, each transition was a systematic racial extinction.
"So just how powerful were the Ancient Dragons of the First Epoch?"
Holding the cat and carrying the stone slab, he returned to Fiona's side. With his ability to understand all languages, he was also able to read the strange writing on the slab.
Though the half-human-height stone slab could only hold a limited number of letters, the