Chapter 1033: The Murals in the Main Hall
After Odkras took the dragon scale, his whole body shook unconsciously.
Angel vaguely saw that the flames on Odkras' body became a little dimmer.
He was sure that the white dragon scale should come from an abyss frost dragon. Frost dragons are naturally incompatible with flame dragons. Odkras probably suffered some damage when he got the scale.
But he did not hesitate when he took the dragon scale, and he was happy to do so.
When Odkras carefully examined the dragon scale, Angel finally saw the gorgeous murals in the hall in front of him.
The entire ice crystal hall was almost blue and white, and only the mural was so gorgeous that it did not look like it was made by an abyss creature.
The mural was a white jade abyss dragon.
Angel had seen Fafnir's true form before, and now Odkras was in front of him. Whether it was a wind dragon or a fire dragon, their appearance was hideous and terrifying, but the abyss dragon on the mural was pure white like crystal, clear and shining. Even the double horns of other abyss dragons, which looked like giant tumors, felt irresistibly beautiful on it.
On the mural, the scales of the abyss dragon were also white and transparent, exactly the same as the frozen dragon scales before.
Could it be that this was the abyss frost dragon named Bina Jones?
From the fact that Odkras looked at the mural affectionately before, perhaps it was true.
Angel continued to observe the mural. From the perspective of the painting style, the true appearance of this abyss dragon used the mainstream realistic style. Perhaps it contained the beautification of subjective consciousness, but it looked at least more realistic.
But the background of the mural——
The abyss dragon spanned the night and the day. During the day, the sunlight was like golden quicksand, and at night, fireflies were like stars.
This change between day and night clearly had the color of abstract art. Especially in the night scene, the starry sky is like a whirlpool, directly impacting the visual senses, making people indulge in psychedelics unconsciously.
Multiple painting styles are combined, but there is no conflict at all. It is free and easy, and it is done with a stroke of the brush, as if the painter already has ink dots in his chest, just waiting for the tip of the brush to spread it.
This painting is not very exquisite, and the color processing in many places is relatively elementary, but the painter's feelings are deeply condensed in the painting. Although the appearance of a painting is very important, the inner context is the soul of the painting. This painting, even if the technology is not top-notch, at least has a soul.
However, what Ingres pays more attention to is what is conveyed outside the mural: "This mural is obviously not in the abyss style. Some of the techniques seem to be used by human painters."
- As a traditional aristocratic, Ingres's level of identifying paintings is much higher than his level of painting.
After discovering that this painting contains human techniques, Ingres has doubts in his heart. Maybe this mural is not painted by the abyss dragon? But that's not right. It's actually very difficult for humans to paint strong emotions for the "Abyss Dragon", especially in this mural, where the emotions are strong and complex, and there is even a hint of love.
Could it be that a human has become a dragon knight?
Even if it is a dragon knight, the aesthetics of the Abyss Dragon must be very different from that of humans.
From Odkras's affectionate gaze at the mural before, Angel felt that perhaps this mural was painted by Odkras, and the reason why it has human skills may be that it has learned from humans?
While Angel's thoughts were flowing, Odkras suddenly exhaled a dragon's breath.
The terrifying flames floated in the air.
Angel was startled, thinking that his value of use had disappeared in the eyes of Odkras, and it was ready to burn itself to death... However, these flames did not attack Angel, but slowly gathered into a small flame.
Under Odkras's control, the flame gradually faded from fiery red, from red to purple, and finally turned into a faint ice blue.
The temperature around dropped suddenly. This fire was not a hot and dense flame at all, but an ice flame that could freeze everything.
This ice flame floated in the air for a while, as if absorbing the surrounding frost breath, making its ghost flame gradually deepen, and then it slowly merged into the ice block that had frozen the dragon scale before.
Under the erosion of the ice flame, the ice block gradually changed its form and turned into liquid, falling drop by drop to the floor, and finally only the white jade-like dragon scale was left, floating in front of Odklas with a faint light.
After absorbing the ice flame, the dragon scale became more dazzling.
Part of the frost breath in the dragon scale was transformed into an "ice dragon shield". This was the powerful breath of the dark gold gargoyle, which stimulated the dragon scale.
Now, through this ice flame, the consumed frost breath in the dragon scale has been replenished.
Although Angel didn't understand the purpose of Odkras's doing so, it was a powerful fire dragon, so carefully controlling the dragon's breath to turn into ice flames that were completely contrary to its attributes, just to make up for the breath consumed in the dragon scale.
From this, we can really see how much Odkras cherished this dragon scale, or in other words, how much he loved Bina Jones.
Perhaps, as he had guessed before, Odkras and Bina Jones were a pair, otherwise Angel couldn't imagine why Odkras cherished it so much. Moreover, the strong love in the mural didn't seem like family affection.
Angel was not curious about Odkras's love, but he was a little confused. Why did Fafnir have Bina Jones's dragon scale?
The unbridled thinking made Angel instantly imagine the lingering love and hatred of the three abyss dragons.
On the other side, after Odkras regained the frost breath of dragon scales, it did some things in the palace that made Angel confused, summoning frost, opening the cave, attracting streams of light... and so on.
When it did all this, it did not shy away from Angel.
In other words, it seemed to completely ignore Angel's existence. In its eyes, Angel was no different from the bricks and tiles in the surrounding ice crystal palace.
Being ignored at least means that his safety seems to be guaranteed. But if he continues to be ignored, what should he do about the problem he wants to solve?
Angel carefully observed Odkras's movements. He wanted to find a gap to ask about Toby.
However, Odkras was completely immersed in his own world, and there was no gap for Angel to drill.
Later, Angel even thought that he didn't need to wait for a gap and asked directly. As a result, before the psychological construction of this idea was completed, Odkras was wrapped in a flame and disappeared in the hall.
Angel was left alone in the lonely palace hall.
Angel: "..." He completely ignored me.
When Odkras heard the name "Fafnir" before, there was a flash of anger in his eyes. At that time, Angel thought he might be taken out and turned into cannon fodder. However, Odkras did nothing and did not communicate with him, which made Angel a little overwhelmed.
What should he do now, go out, or stay here?
Angel hesitated for a moment and came to the side of the ice crystal palace. There was an open window here, and he could see the situation outside.
When Angel stood in front of the window and looked out, he found that he was now in an ice valley.
The ice wind was howling outside, and there was almost no scenery.
And this ice crystal palace was located in the middle of a cliff.
"Is this... the Unmelting Ice Valley?" Angel looked at the dark scene outside and the ice wind that kept blowing, and suddenly felt a little unreal.
It is said that entering the ice valley will be cursed, but Angel carefully checked himself and it seemed that there was no curse.
He tried to condense the "ice wall" trick model in the mind space, which was very smooth. In fact, because the ice crystal palace was full of frost, he constructed it much faster.
Could it be because he was brought into the ice valley by Odkras before, so he was not cursed?
While Angel was thinking, a black shadow suddenly appeared below the ice valley. In the violent whistling ice wind, Angel could not see the specific situation of the black shadow, but it looked very large.
"Could it be Odkras?"
Angel tentatively extended his mental tentacles to sense more carefully.
But at the moment when the mental tentacles stretched out of the window, Angel felt a strange force drilling in from the tip of the mental tentacles, and wanted to smash Angel's mental sea with overwhelming force.
Angel was startled and immediately cut off this section of mental tentacles and gave up.
As the mental tentacles broke, Angel felt that his brain was about to explode, and the pain was unbearable. While stumbling, Angel felt as if he had leaned against a hard wall and fell into a coma.
This time, Angel didn't know how long he had been unconscious.
When he woke up, he still felt a tingling sensation in his brain from time to time. The thinking space seemed to be fine, but the spiritual sea was in a mess.
He wanted to extend his mental tentacles again, but for now, he couldn't do it.
Although the pain in his body continued, Angel was still somewhat fortunate. He had now reacted. The strange power that had penetrated his mental tentacles before should be the chaotic curse that existed in the ice valley.
Angel estimated that this ice crystal palace was not affected by the curse, but once he went outside the palace, it would immediately cause the invasion of the curse.
Although he was glad that he was not infected with the curse, he still didn't know what to do next.
Angel looked around and found himself leaning against a column. He was still in the palace hall, and the surroundings were still quiet, without any human figures.
He sighed, and when he didn't know what to do, a flash of light suddenly flashed in front of the mural not far away.
When Angel turned his head to look at the arc of light, a man who seemed to be bathed in flames stepped out from the arc of light.