The Treasure Vault of the Shannon Royal Family is an underground palace, divided into a front Secret Treasure Room and a primitive earth cavern deep within.
Angel saw the skin scroll in the Secret Treasure Room.
On the skin scroll was a very crudely drawn map, divided into many sections. Each section had a depiction of an elemental creature. For example, in the southeast corner, within a dashed-line separated area, there was a depiction of an elf with wings; in the northwest corner, within a dashed-line separated area, there was a lurking tortoise...
This is the map of the Tidal Realm, and the elemental creatures on it represent the iconic creatures corresponding to different regions of the Tidal Realm.
Angel memorized this map thoroughly and then returned the skin scroll to Rosé.
Shannon Princess: "Sir, don’t you need it?"
Angel shook his head: "No need, this was left to your Shannon royal family by Feng."
The reason Angel said this is because Feng had actually left the information on this map open, therefore, Angel, using the Eye of Nalda, could see the information Feng left on the skin scroll—
Title: "Tide World Map (Abridged)".
Creator: Mirafell Feng
Information: A rough distribution map of the representative creatures of Tidal World.
Effect: Activated by the Shannon royal family’s bloodline, and supplemented by an energy source, can summon the corresponding creatures’ simulated structure.
Note: "Oh dear, I’m not good at drawing maps, just make do with it."
Although this is a map, it can also be considered a special summoning artifact.
From the effect description, it’s clear that the Shannon royal family can use their own bloodline to summon the elemental creatures depicted on the skin scroll to fight enemies.
However, summoning elemental creatures requires the consumption of blood and an energy source. Previously, the Shannon royal family didn’t know what the energy source was, and each time they summoned an elemental creature, it was completely fueled by their own blood. This kind of singular consumption required huge life energy as a backstop; hence, every summon would claim the life of a royal family member.
After returning the skin scroll, Angel said, "Let’s go, take me to the place where the stalactites are."
Rosé nodded.
Throughout the journey, Angel noticed that Rosé was much quieter than the last time he saw him.
Angel actually had quite an impression of this king of the Shannon royal family. In his memory, Rosé was quite talkative, and he had a trait of never getting to the point, often digressing from east to west. Sometimes, unwittingly, he would reveal many royal secrets.
But now, Rosé had become almost non-verbal, which puzzled Angel. However, he didn’t inquire but merely speculated that perhaps something had happened within the Shannon royal family recently, causing Rosé’s personality to change drastically?
While Angel was secretly speculating, he didn’t notice that from the shadow behind him, a crimson gaze was glaring at Rosé.
Rosé wasn’t silent voluntarily; he was completely intimidated by Earl Mi and dared not speak.
Soon, they arrived at the depths of the earth cavern.
There was a stone gate here, weighing several thousand pounds, requiring multiple Death Warriors guarding the Treasure Vault to exert force together to push it open.
Out of courtesy, Angel did not help, allowing Rosé to gather nearby Death Warriors to collectively push the gate.
Meanwhile, Angel himself raised his head to look at the top of the earth cavern.
His destination was indeed a stone hole deep within the stalactites beyond the gate, but he knew this stone hole wound and twisted, even extending out of the Treasure Vault.
If nothing unexpected happened, hidden within the stone layer above his head lay the paper gate drawn by the Magic Painter Wizard.
When he came initially, he was just an apprentice, a young calf with reckless courage, and without any consideration of danger, used spiritual power to probe the overhead stone layer, which resulted in backlash and mental injuries.
Now, when Angel looked again, he discovered the dense hidden patterns within the stone layer.
These patterns were neither magic patterns nor inscriptions but were drawn with a brush.
There was no energy fluctuation, but under the Eye of Nalda, these patterns formed a dense net, rejecting any probing spiritual power.
This should be Feng’s handiwork, using these patterns to conceal the existence of the paper gate.
These patterns also led later seekers to the only path into the paper gate within the stone layer, which was through the stalactite stone hole.
As Angel pondered, the stone gate was already pushed open.
Inside was almost empty, the only item being a knight’s sword hanging under the stalactite.
Sometimes, stalactites would drip "Treasure Liquid," which possessed elemental properties, allowing ordinary weapons to gain elemental power.
The Shannon royal family hung the knight’s sword beneath the stalactite, clearly to wait for the drips of "Treasure Liquid."
Angel didn’t give much thought to the knight’s sword but focused his gaze on the stone hole at the stalactite’s center, extending his spiritual power along the stone hole, successfully reaching near the paper gate.
After confirming the paper gate was intact, Angel withdrew his spiritual power, turned, and said to Rosé, "I will stay here for a while to explore the secret behind the Treasure Liquid. I hope the King will permit it."
Rosé agreed without hesitation. Angel had once saved his daughter, and previously, he intended to give the skin scroll to Angel, which Angel refused. From these details, Rosé could confirm that Angel was not the kind of evil, greedy wizard.
Even if Angel were indeed evil, they wouldn’t be able to resist. So, it wasn’t necessary to act pretentious and refuse.
Maintaining a good relationship with a powerful wizard, especially one who is also a noble within the Empire, was definitely not detrimental to the Shannon Royal Family.
"Honorable Wizard, do you need me to assign someone to guard here?" Rosé asked.
Angel shook his head: "No need, the only request is, before I leave here, I hope no one enters the underground palace."
Rosé nodded. He wanted to say something more, but seeing that Angel had already focused his attention on the stalactites, he thought for a moment, then simply led the Shannons and Death Warriors out of the Treasure Vault.
When Angel snapped out of his thoughts, he found he was the only one left in the vast earth cavern.
Angel had originally planned to find an excuse to have Rosé and the others leave, but before he could say anything, Rosé had already led them away, saving him the trouble.
Looking around the empty earth cavern, Angel rubbed his chin with his fingers and muttered to himself, "Even though it’s unlikely anyone will discover it, let’s set up some protection measures."