In front of them stood shelves tens of meters high, and the tops, which were difficult to see from the soles of their feet to their heads, were filled with all kinds of collections, and the light of magic shrouded them and protected them.

After seeing the scene in front of him, Wren realizes that he may have switched places with the back figure in the TV in the janitor's room and made his way to the museum's warehouse, but it could also be just a fantasy created by Alexia.

"But this place is so big, where should I go now?"

Wren looked around, the warehouse looked like an aircraft assembly workshop he had seen in the past, slightly lacking in height, but just as large in size. Separated by shelves, it is like falling into an infinite mirror image.

Next to each shelf is marked with the type of collection, which is divided into categories, such as the one in front of Wren, which contains most of the rare books.

His eyes swept over the books in the collection, and Wren suddenly felt that standing in front of them, it seemed that people had become smarter.

Wren shook his head, it must have been just an illusion.

Suddenly, the afterglow swept by, and he noticed a small white dot on the semicircular magic barrier of a book. It is about the size of the tip of a little finger and is diamond-shaped. If you look closely, you can see that it has a unique luster like a nail, like the scales of something.

For example, snakes.

"How can there be snake scales in a place like a warehouse, still stuck to the magic barrier of this book?"

Although it may have been a snake mixed in here, or it was caught in other collections, the most likely reason why this scale appeared here is related to Alexia.

So after a moment's hesitation, Wren cautiously reached for the scales, even though he was a little worried about whether he would violate the protective magic alarm.

However, before he could touch it, the small scales began to move in a strange route.

It's like, it grows on an invisible snake!

Wren retracted his hand in shock, and his body involuntarily took a few steps back.

The scales did not stop, as if the hibernating snake had completely awakened. It began to wander along the magical barrier and the shelf, sometimes circling around something twice, and even if he couldn't see anything, Wren could imagine a snake entrenched there.

After a while, the scales will move again, and generally go in one direction.

Wren's eyes lit up, this is the clue left by Alexia!

He hurried after him to see where the scales were taking him.

But he also had doubts in his heart, he had seen Alexia use magic a few times, and it could be said that it was endless, and each time it was an extraordinary means.

The first time was when he was pestered in a museum, and Alexia immobilized everyone with her amethyst pendant.

The second time was when Wren went to inquire about the wolf she had encountered during an archaeological event, and she used a pile of waste paper to create a vision for Wren.

Later, when Wren left Brica, Alexia "compressed" the safe containing the armor, and now thinks that the other party used some kind of magic to stuff the armor and sword into her body.

Now that he was using a piece of scale as a guide, Wren was very curious about the meaning of the other party's actions, and it was obvious that he could achieve the same effect in an easier way.

……

After about ten minutes in the warehouse, White Scales finally stopped.

Wren froze, and found himself in the painting area, where the scales were resting on a painting.

Wren stepped forward and took a closer look.

"Is this what Alexia wants me to see?"

Because it is not an exhibition area, it is just a warehouse, so unlike the outside exhibits, there will be an introduction on the side. The only thing stored here is a small card with some rough information such as name and author.

At this time, the painting in front of Wren was called "The Victor", by Golan.

The scene is roughly a study, with a luxurious rose-backed chair facing away from the frame, only the elbows of the figure resting on the armrests, and a portrait of a woman hanging on the wall opposite him.

If you don't know the origin of this painting, you will probably think that the man is admiring the portrait of his wife, but Wren happens to know this painting because it is so famous.

The man sitting in the chair is the author of the painting, Golan, but the portrait of the woman he is admiring is not his wife or lover.

Golan is a painter in front of more than 700 people, and of course, his strength as a great magician is more widely known than his identity as a painter.

He had a friend who was also a painter and a magician, but in contrast to Golan, this gentleman was more talented in painting than Golan, but slightly inferior in magic.

The two men were friends and rivals until Golan and his friend fell in love with the same woman, the elegant lady in the picture-in-picture.

Both men pursued her at the same time, and the lady eventually chose someone who was better at drawing, and Golan became a feud with his friend.

One day, Golan suddenly had an idea: I am not as good as him in painting, but I am better than him in fighting!

Golan then challenged his friend to a duel, killing them in the duel.

After the victory, Golan also took away the painting his friend had made for the lady in front of him, and then used magic to imprison her in his own painting.

The name of the painting is "The Victor", and the meaning is self-evident.

It's a pity that Golan didn't get the beauty in the end, and the other party still rejected his pursuit.

It is said that after ten rejections of his proposals, Golan returned home that day and was furious when he saw the painting he had named "The Victor".

The painting becomes a little difficult to understand from then on, because the person in the painting is just a back with his elbows exposed, and the person who sits, that is, the "victor", can also be understood as the friend who has won the heart of the beauty.

But there are other understandings that the "winner" is the smiling lady in the picture-in-picture, to whom both men have given their inheritance.

Of course, just a ridiculous statement.

This painting is so famous that even Wren knows it, in addition to the story behind it, the main thing is Golan's operation of stuffing other people's paintings directly into his own paintings with magic, and there are many imitators in later generations, and many fame seekers will get some classics into their own paintings.

Later, he derived the routine of stuffing his own paintings into famous works, and even the practice of putting other people's paintings over and over again.

After that, a culture was formed, and the more famous the paintings used, the more pompous they became.

It is said that not long ago, a big boss bought a painting called "New Brica: The Birth of a New World", and if you look at the name, you can tell that it was a painting created on the day of the establishment of New Brica, and the painting records the scene of the builders meeting with various ethnic delegations.

The paintings themselves are also from the hands of famous masters, which can be called a rare and precious collection.

Then the big boss scribbled a self-portrait with a pen, asked the mage to seal his portrait in, and renamed it "Anthony in New Brica". As a result, Clement has been standing beside him a distorted character composed of rudimentary black lines.

I heard that after this, this boss has done a lot of the same thing, and even made a series, appeared on various historical occasions, and became a real "historical witness".

This is much worse than the random PS on the Internet, since the advent of "Victor", there have been countless famous paintings that have been ruined, and museums feel disgusted to collect this thing.

Then they were thrown into the warehouse to eat ashes.

Wren was curious, and Alexia took great pains to draw herself to see what the painting was for.