The four ounces of "night-soaked sand of time" that Shade found from his own time point were used to buy a gear in this clock shop as one of the materials to piece together a compass pointing to the end point.
When the two returned to the counter and opened the product list, the price of the gear had not increased. After Shade proposed to buy it, the sound of gear rotation, shaft friction and piston pushing came from inside the wooden counter. Then with a click, a drawer popped out from the outside of the counter.
Shade placed the prepared Sand of Time in the drawer and then pushed it back to its original position. After waiting for a while, another drawer popped open, containing exactly the gear they were looking for. The inside of the gear is just the same size as Fiona's compass base, and the compass base can be stuck inside the gear.
"Now that we have the spoon from the cafe and the gear from the clock shop, as long as we find the last item, we can pass through the curtain and reach the palace in the deepest part of Evernight City."
Fiona said happily and carefully put the gear back into the inner pocket of her clothes.
"Oh, Fiona, look at this."
Before I left last time, I just hurriedly browsed through the watch store's catalog and didn't have the chance to see more products here. Therefore, although they had successfully obtained the huge gear at this time, Shade and Fiona were not in a hurry to leave.
Shade flipped through it and saw quite interesting goods:
[Time Stop Pocket Watch (disposable), a divinely created item that can stop time in the entire material world. 】
Although the illustration of the watch shop's inventory was in black and white, Shade could still tell from the illustration on the left that this was a pocket watch with very fine workmanship.
[Created by the ancient gods, you need to pay one drop of divinity to use it. Use at your own risk and is extremely dangerous. 】
[Purchase requires payment of the time key to the first era, or the frozen night. 】
"Why is the usage price so vague?"
Fiona asked curiously, and Shade realized that she couldn't see the word "divine".
"Even if we can afford such an extremely dangerous item, I think it's best not to buy it. Time needs to be respected."
Shade said seriously, and then thought of those time-stop movies he had watched in his hometown.
Continuing to flip through the pages hurriedly, he saw two more familiar items.
[Eternal Youth Leaves, relics, the best decoration to maintain youthfulness. 】
The illustration on the left is the leaf that Shade is most familiar with, and he still has two leaves in his hand.
[It is rumored that the leaves of the World Tree are very suitable for decorating clocks. 】
[Purchase requires a time key to the Third Age and before, or the corpse of the Time Worm. 】
"This is the reward from the Time Key mission. I got one."
Fiona said to Shade, who looked at her in surprise. He didn't expect that Fiona had also had an extraordinary experience.
[Backtracking·Imitation, alchemy items, backtracking the time in a certain area within half an hour, more than 90% of the time will fail. 】
The illustration on the left is the hourglass that Shade has seen.
[The exquisite imitation hourglass can only be used once, and will attract the prying eyes of hounds, and is cursed by time. 】
[Purchase requires payment of 100 years of life. 】
"I've heard that when authentic products are traced back, they are quite dangerous relics."
Fiona said to Shade, but Shade did not say that he had seen the genuine [Time of Recall] and even used its power.
The items sold in this clock shop are more powerful than most of the items in the Dragon Maid Cafe, so the prices are quite high. There are all kinds of strange selling prices, some of which even Xia De has never heard of.
Of course, although most of them are expensive, there are also a few that two people can afford. Even if he buys extraordinary items, Shade can't take them back to his own time, but some things are still very useful to Fiona:
[Sands of Time soaked in dragon's blood, 1 ounce, alchemical material. 】
The illustration on the left is a small handful of sand.
[Alchemy materials born under extremely accidental circumstances are precious, but not particularly precious. 】
[Purchase requires payment of light. 】
"The power of time possessed by the Sands of Time makes it difficult for it to be infected by other forces. Although dragons are powerful creatures, they are not yet above time. Therefore, I don’t think this kind of alchemical item can be found anywhere else. Arrived."
Shade expressed his thoughts:
"Fiona, since you have dragon blood, maybe this special dragon blood will be useful to you."
"It does look right for me."
The red dragon girl was also a little moved by this. She looked at the picture with her red-gold eyes, so Shade suggested:
"I'll pay for the light, just like last time, don't be polite to me. I'll buy three more everlasting candles later, and you can step into the night."
The drawer on the counter popped open again, and this time the inside of the drawer was filled with darkness that made it impossible to see directly.
Like last time, Shade used his own light spell to pay for the purchase of this material. Fortunately, the sand didn't look more expensive than Fiona. Although Shade was still a little exhausted due to the intense consumption of his spirit, his condition was much better than last time.
Next, Fiona paid for the freshly separated blood to buy three everlasting candles. While the two were busy buying items, the cat curiously jumped on the counter.
Because it was always within Shade's field of vision and not running around, Shade didn't care about it. So Xiao Mia came to the opened product list and stretched out her paw to turn the pages of the price list. This cat can read books. It often looks through the books that Shade put on the desk in the study room.
When Shade supported Fiona, who was dizzy due to blood loss, the cat was still flipping through the book. Shade could only pick it up with one hand:
"Mia, be good, we're leaving."
Fiona's blood loss was not particularly serious. After a few minutes of rest, the curtain created by Miss Fiona could be unfolded, allowing the two of them to go to the last location, the "Midnight Art Museum" in Eternal Night City.
At this time, Shade was still "fighting" with Mia, who was somehow not very obedient. He was trying to use a towel to turn the cat into a doll, which was very dangerous for a while, but the cat evaded deftly. When Shade was forced to prepare to use "Light of Confinement" to catch the cat as if to take a bath, Mia, who had already seen this trick, immediately walked up to Shade.
It used very cute movements, squatting on the counter with its four little paws together. The little cat's head was slightly lowered, and its big eyes looked up, looking pitiful.
"What exactly do you want to do?"
Shade asked angrily and funny, so the cat seemed to really understand and looked at Fiona's tail again.
"Since it's curious, let's let it take a look."
Although the kind-hearted red dragon girl was still a little weak, she still smiled and said:
"I will control the flame carefully so as not to burn it."
She pulled her tail and handed the tip of her tail to the counter. The cat still maintained its obedient squatting posture, but stretched its neck forward and its amber eyes widened, looking frightened.
The golden flames were reflected in Mia's big eyes. Shade continued to observe the cat, fearing that it would accidentally rush directly into the flames. At that moment, he clearly saw the real emotion in Mia's eyes. There are two slender flames shaking.
【Having the bloodline of "Son of the Sun", it is undergoing some subtle changes. 】
"She" said with a chuckle, but Shade didn't see any changes in his cat.
The cat's tail swayed behind little Mia, and then it actually wanted to reach for the flame on the tip of Fiona's tail. Shade hurriedly wanted to stop him, but the red dragon girl said gently:
"It doesn't matter. I'll control the flame. Let your cat have a try. Children of this age are always very curious."
Perhaps because of her red dragon bloodline, her understanding of cats seems to be very different from that of normal humans.
So, Mia's tail really touched
To the flames of the dragon's tail. At that moment, Shade thought something great was going to happen, but he stared at it all with wide eyes, but all he heard was Mia's cry of "meow~". Then, the cat retracted its tail, squatted obediently, looked up at Shade, and was turned into a toy by Shade.
This cat's thoughts are sometimes really difficult to understand.
He originally wanted to take Mia's doll with him, but then he remembered that the last time he and Fiona broke into the night, everything in his body turned black after he was swallowed by the night.
Therefore, in order to prevent himself from having to let Fiona go first this time, Shade did not carry the cat himself. Instead, he turned Mia into a toy and let Fiona take it with her.
The red-haired girl still unfolded the curtain at the door, and the wind and night rain soon wetted the fabric. After confirming that all the luggage was packed, Shade held Fiona's hand, and the two of them rushed towards the curtain together.
After breaking through the cold curtain, the pattering rain wetted my shoulders. The lights in the display window of "Yongye Jewelry Store" behind them provided a small piece of light for the two people on the street. The city of eternal night seems to be able to exist in this rain until the end of time, and Shade saw the signboard of "Midnight Art Museum" across the street at a glance:
"I'm so lucky this time, it's here!"
Shade smiled and said to Fiona, but the red dragon girl was very worried:
"The distance between us and the other side is farther than last time. Three candles may not be enough for us to reach the other side safely."
"It doesn't matter, I will throw you over in the end. Don't worry about me, don't forget that I will shine by myself."
Of course, that doesn't mean Shade can't be harmed in the dark. Even if he could shine by himself, he couldn't stay in the deep night for too long, but Shade didn't say this.
"Ok, I see."
The red dragon girl carefully put away the curtain hanging in mid-air, holding Shade's hand in her left hand, and holding a candle in her right hand. Then the tail wraps from the side to the front of the body:
"Shadow, please get ready. Three, two, one!"
