Chapter 4231

The spiritual rune Xia De chose for his Tenth-Ring sublimation is 【Change】, and Flora is a master of transformation. Although her transformation was initially obtained by relying on the core spiritual rune 【Mimicry】 (Chapter 2622), after advancing to the Middle Ring and obtaining the 【Transformation】 and 【Change】 spiritual runes, Flora has truly embarked on the path of a transformation master.

She is very willing to teach Xia De to obtain the 【Change】 spiritual rune, and even recommends that Xia De go to the 【Academy of All-Form Transformation】 for the transformation master assessment after obtaining ten transformation postures.

The title is secondary. Flora, who has participated in the assessment, told Xia De that transformation masters who pass the assessment can read in the library of that obscure academy. Although the collection of this academy is definitely not as good as the three major academies, they master the deepest mysteries of human body transformation and can allow transformation masters to integrate a series of strange arts they possess called "Transformation: So-and-So" into a strange art called "Transformation", thereby completely transcending the shackles of different forms.

Of course, these are still a bit far from Xia De. Although it is not difficult for Xia De to learn four additional techniques for transforming into ordinary creatures besides cats, wolves, snakes, dragons, unicorns, and red butterflies, he can feel that the six forms he currently masters all have unusual significance and power. He is not willing to learn other transformation techniques casually and "pollute" his transformation list.

"Isn't your 【Body of Courage】 able to be judged as transforming into a Titan giant? This can actually be counted as your seventh transformation posture."

Flora reminded again. Princess Lei Qianya and Dorothy hope to let Xia De obtain spiritual runes by combining "Bloody Deception", while Flora does it through the purest transformation technique.

A long time ago, she said she wanted Xia De to learn "Partial Transformation" with her, which is to allow partial transformation changes in the body while maintaining the basic form of the human body.

During his time in the Vesta Woodland, Xia De had already learned the basic principles and practice methods of partial transformation from Flora. Although Xia De rarely tried this technique for various reasons afterwards—except for the giant form—he found this afternoon that he could already skillfully use the partial transformation postures of other forms:

"Transformation: Moonlight Dragon."

In the strange art training ground on the second floor of the underground palace of the Fragrant Residence, Xia De's body did not change after casting the spell, but two silver moonlight rays emerged from his back. Xia De, who suddenly realized he was careless, hurriedly took off his coat and shirt before the dragon wings were fully spread, so Flora, whose face was red, could clearly observe the pair of silver dragon wings growing from Xia De's shoulder blades.

The wings were not particularly large, and silver moonlight debris fell as they flapped. Flora even reached out and touched them:

"Even by my standards, this is a perfect partial transformation technique. I know you are very talented, but I originally thought you would have to try three or four times to succeed. Xia De, how do you feel now?"

Xia De tried to flap his wings to make himself fly. From a purely physical point of view, wings of this size could not support a human of Xia De's size to fly off the ground, but he really left the ground without using flight magic:

"I feel like I have grown an extra body that I can control at will. This feeling is not strange to me; I have the same feeling when I manipulate those special cards."

Flora looked up at Xia De flapping his wings and flying two circles:

"You look very skilled. It seems I still underestimated your talent. You can completely impersonate a Dragonborn in this appearance."

Xia De soon landed back on the ground:

"The speed of flying by flapping wings is faster than me just using flight magic, but the consumption is also greater. However, I still prefer flight magic. I have vaguely noticed the technique of partially turning myself into moonlight during flight recently. The development value of flight magic is greater than pure transformation."

"This is not my research field. Then Xia De, continue to try partial transformation techniques of other postures. Let me see if you have completely mastered this technique."

Facts proved that Xia De's mastery progress of different transformation forms is indeed different. Probably because of proficiency, the giant, moonlight dragon, red butterfly, and cat forms that are often used by Xia De can be skillfully partially transformed.

The Titan form goes without saying. Growing dragon wings, dragon horns, dragon claws, and even turning his head into a dragon's head is very simple for Xia De, and the use of butterfly wings is even more of an instinctive reaction for Xia De, and the speed of butterfly wings is actually faster than dragon wings.

Titans, dragons, and red butterflies are all supernatural creatures. The cat form is the first transformation form Xia De obtained and the form he uses most often in daily life. Because the proficiency is high enough, Xia De can make his hands turn into cat claws or simply let his skin grow cat hair when trying partial transformation.

However, he refused Flora's suggestion of "try growing cat ears and a cat tail". The artist lady obviously had ulterior motives. After finding that Xia De was unwilling to do so, she showed the partial transformation technique of the cat form first to lure Xia De.

But the Outsider still refused. Flora did not insist, but until the end of the teaching that day, she did not lift her transformation posture... The little thoughts of witches are really very interesting.

Besides the four commonly used forms, although Xia De is not unable to exert the partial transformation techniques of the wolf, snake, and unicorn forms, the fluency and transformation quality are completely incomparable to the other four forms.

So Flora took advantage of this afternoon to patiently teach Xia De. Especially for the partial transformation of the unicorn form, Flora gave many valuable suggestions and usage experiences. Before obtaining the "Undead Dragon" form, unicorn transformation was Flora's proudest transformation form.

And when Xia De and Flora transformed into unicorns together that day, his body size problem was truly exposed:

"In front of Ellie and Little Liana, I never felt that I was so short."

The shorter unicorn spoke, while the unicorn Flora, who was a head taller than Xia De, gently rubbed her furry side against the side of the unicorn Xia De:

"I am also very strange. Except for the Titan form based on yourself, why are all your transformation forms young life forms... But small is indeed very cute, don't hide, unicorns express intimacy like this. Don't the unicorns in St. Byrons often rub against each other like this?"

Flora's teaching this afternoon was very effective. Although Xia De's spiritual rune acquisition progress did not improve much, at least in the field of partial transformation, Xia De improved a lot.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Vigo, who returned from outside, saw the two in the underground palace. Although she did not see the scene of the two being disheveled as expected, Vigo's eyes still stayed on the cat ears on Flora's head and the cat tail behind her:

"Flora, you... what are you doing?"

"Teaching Xia De to practice partial transformation to help him obtain the 【Change】 spiritual rune, is there any problem? Although Xiwei can also partially turn into a mermaid, her kind of transformation technique is not orthodox at all. Xia De can only ask me for advice."

Flora answered with a smile, and the black cat ears also shook, attracting Xia De's gaze like a magnet.

Vigo looked at Flora and then at Xia De, feeling that the methods of her colleagues were indeed very unusual.

Since Vigo was back, Xia De and Flora also left the underground palace. Vigo's trip out in the afternoon was not worth sharing with Xia De, but after she came back and just changed her clothes and sat down in the study, the followers brought new news.

"Sleeping Sickness?"

Vigo was also stunned when she saw the information:

"Is it that serious?"

"What's wrong?"

Flora asked. Under Vigo's request of "don't lower the impression my followers have of great witches", she had already retracted the cat ears and cat tail.

"Do you remember the people who slept without waking up that I mentioned in the morning? At noon today, a larger-scale sleeping sickness broke out among the refugee group. The specific manifestation is that they cannot wake up after falling asleep. However, this is not forced sleep, but only has a probability of not being able to wake up after active sleep. Also because of this, most of those who have symptoms now are children and the elderly."

"There are also a very small number of local residents in the outer city who have similar symptoms, but the number is much smaller than the number of patients in the refugee group. There are only three cases reported in the lower city, and no cases reported in the upper city for the time being."

Vigo told Xia De and Flora the information. Flora was very puzzled:

"Is it a problem that breaks out according to the region? Could it be that the area where the Sea of Origins is about to descend is the periphery of the outer city where refugees gather? So people living in that area are more affected."

Xia De shook his head:

"No, Vigo's point of view in the morning is correct. This matter may have nothing to do with the Sea of Origins at all. The information shared with me by the 【Light-Guiding Secret Cult】 mentioned the situation before the Sea of Origins descended in the past. People did dream, but there had never been a sleeping sickness outbreak, and the group dreaming of the Sea of Origins would not be so large, nor would there be such an obvious distribution trend according to the region."

"Even because of the Chosen One battle, this descent of the Sea of Origins might be different from before, but the current difference is a bit too big."

Vigo nodded:

"My girls have already gone to the scene to visit the situation. Those sleeping people all have very slight whisper element reactions. It can be determined that the cases reported by the church in the morning are the same situation as the cases that broke out after noon. I think this is probably still related to relics, but we cannot immediately rule out the suspicion of the Sea of Origins."