I became a vampire princess and then a dragon girl?

"indeed."

As he spoke, an elf took out a few drops of moon dew and placed them on the table for comparison for everyone present.

Among them, the rainbow-colored and multicolored moon dew are much stronger in energy fluctuation than the single-colored one, and the rainbow-colored one even overwhelms the multicolored one.

"At least the quality of the Moonlight Dew has improved, right? I'll send it to the festival preparations to replace it later."

"We can just send it over now. After all, only the small ball is still unknown."

"Okay, I'll leave first then."

As people left the table, everyone looked at the two balls on the table and Ashley, who was flipping through the heavy ancient books, and then looked at each other in confusion.

Now we can only wait and see when Ashley can find the records. (Spreading hands)

§170 Core

"I have to leave for a while, and tell me the results later."

After a while, as Ashley could not find any record about the colorful beads in the thick ancient book in his hand, several people at the table chose to leave first.

Firstly, they had to coordinate with everyone and check the situation of the Wonderland ruins. After all, this was the first ceremony after the Wonderland incident and there were many places that needed to be checked.

Secondly, someone just came to inform them that magic balls were beginning to gather again on the small castle outside, and they might need to prepare for the ceremony again.

They just wanted to say that they were already numb, and this full-moon night was really lively for them.

On the first day, a big change occurred inexplicably and the entire wonderland ruins were completely changed. Then on the second day, the ceremony happened twice inexplicably, and now it seems that there will be a third time in a row.

As for the rest of the people, they were all looking for things to do to kill time.

For example, Eve was playing a guessing game with Melchis.

"about?"

Eve threw up a small bead, slapped it in the air, then quickly turned her hands over, and finally clenched her fists and placed them in front of Melchis, asking her to guess where it was.

"Um...right side."

After observing for a long time and finding no flaw in Eve, Melchis pointed at Eve's right hand.

"On the right? Are you sure?"

While slowly turning over her right hand, Eve stretched out her voice to make the final confirmation.

"Hmm...Hmm...OK! No changes!"

Although she hesitated at first, Melchis answered decisively in the end and had no intention of changing her mind at all.

"Sorry, wrong again!"

brush--

At the same time, she turned over her hands and saw that the small ball was lying safely in the palm of Eve's left hand.

Seeing this, Melchis immediately showed a lost expression.

"Hmm... Wrong again..."

"Hehe, it's seven to zero now, do you want to continue~"

"continue!"

Before she was lost for a few seconds, Melchis was once again aroused by Eve and she was determined not to give up until she won once.

"Okay, then you have to be careful this time~"

"Ok!"

And Istina, who was watching the two people playing the game, was holding her forehead helplessly.

It seems that her hero is very good at calculating Melchis's mentality. There were several times when Melchis had clearly chosen the right hand, but she was induced by Eve's various intentional or unintentional hints and gave up her choice, so the final result was this score of 7 to 0.

And just then...

bang——

With a muffled sound, Ashley excitedly slammed the ancient book in his hand, which was so powerful that it could almost kill someone, on the table.

"found it!"

Following her surprised cry, the remaining people at the table also turned their eyes to her.

"This bead has no name because it appears so rarely. It's only mentioned briefly in the appendix at the end."

In order to make it clear that it was not that he did not want to find it quickly, but that the situation did not allow it, Ashley first explained why it took so long to find the clue, and then continued.

"Sometimes, after all the materials are collected, the source tree does not disappear, but instead condenses into a core in the center of the crown."

Ashley gave an explanation halfway through his speech.

"The Source Tree is what the person who left this message called the giant energy tree. There are many other similar names. All you need to know is what it is, and the core refers to this small ball."

"The core has many uses. It can be used as a material for crafting weapons and armor, and it can also be used to power magic array cores. It's also the best all-purpose concoction agent discovered so far. Unfortunately, no pattern has been found to the appearance of the core, and its frequency is extremely rare. With the appearance of a core, the pressure on the source tree increases significantly, so it requires someone with a certain level of strength to collect it."

"That's all there is to the little ball in the entire book."

Closing the ancient book in his hand, Ashley turned his gaze to the two small balls on the table.

"As for the rainbow-colored ball, the book doesn't mention it at all. Even other materials have never appeared in more than five colors. Normally, five-color materials are already the best quality."

"So this is a very versatile material, especially suitable for blending?"

After a moment's thought, one of the elves asked.

"It's like this."

Then Ashley answered some questions from others.

Although Ashley was a shy and reckless girl when she was alone with Eve and the others, she behaved very calmly in front of everyone.

What is this? Uncontrollable seriousness?

"Anyway, let's hand over the core we harvested today to the Sanctuary for processing. As for what Miss Eve harvested yesterday, you will continue to keep it. Does anyone have any questions?"

So, after some discussion, the final plan was finally finalized by the person in charge of this wonderful relic.

"Ah."

"no problem."

All the elves present readily agreed. As for Eve, after asking again, she accepted the core along with the other materials. For some reason, she had a feeling that this thing would be of great use to the people around her in the future, and she would definitely regret it if she didn't accept it.

As one of the top strongest people on the continent, such a premonition is often not groundless, so Eve did not make excuses anymore and directly put these materials into the demiplane for safekeeping.

By the way, these materials did come in very handy at the end of this elf journey.

After allocating the destinations of the materials, the supervisor of the Wonderland Ruins looked at Eve again and asked.

"Excuse me, Miss Eve, can you stay for another day? If the core appears again, it will take us a while to get the last one."

It's not that it's impossible, but with their strength, it will take a lot of time to obtain the core under such pressure. If they fail to obtain it before dawn and the core disappears due to lack of moonlight, they will have nowhere to cry.

Because the incident happened suddenly, even if she requested someone to come over, they might not be able to make it in time, so it’s better to be direct and ask for help.

Although the records say that the core appears very rarely, you might encounter two in a row.

It’s better to be prepared for everything.

"Yeah, no problem."

It just so happened that Eve also offered to accept the materials, so naturally she readily agreed.

"Okay, then... let Ashley take everyone back."

With everything that needed to be said finished, this small meeting came to an end.

But Ashley was at the point of crying but had no tears.

Wow... why did you let her come even though you knew she was shy?

"Okay, let's go back and catch up on some sleep."

Eve clapped her hands and looked at Melchis beside her.

"Yeah! Eve's lap pillow! We agreed on that!"

"Okay~ no problem~"

§171 Departure

On the last day of the full moon night, Eve and her group stayed for another day as they were commissioned by the manager of the Wonderland ruins. The energy tree reappeared in Yueyang Lake as people predicted, along with the strange little ball that appeared very rarely in the records.

However, the energy tree appeared a little slower this time than last time. As for the small ball, it was collected smoothly with Eve's help.

After this incident, the speed at which the magic ball condensed above the Crystal City returned to its previous level. Although it was still a little faster than recorded, at least it would no longer take twelve hours to transmit continuously.

The moon elves stationed here also breathed a sigh of relief. After all, they were still a little tired after two busy nights.

Although they still have a lot of things to investigate in the next month, they just need to proceed step by step. At least no new problems will arise, right?

New strong men are on their way here, so they won’t have to worry about the time-consuming process of collecting the balls on the next full-moon night.

In short, although this wonderland has undergone some major changes due to Eve and her friends' visit, it's all a good thing overall.

As for whether the word "ruins" in the "Wonderland Ruins" can be removed, it depends on future situations.

"Ms. Eve, thank you very much for your help this time. I wish you a pleasant journey."

On the shores of Yueyang Lake, some high-ranking officials from the Wonderland ruins were saying goodbye to Eve.

"Well, thank you for the blessing."

After saying this with a smile, Eve looked at the people beside her and clapped her hands lightly.

"Okay, everyone, just send them here. I think everyone still has a lot of things to deal with. Ashley, don't stay up late anymore. You have dark circles under your eyes."

During these few days, Ashley was the person who had the most contact with Eve in the entire Wonderland ruins. After all, she was often sent by various people to show her the way, but her shy and reckless look did not change much.

Maybe a few days is too short for the elves.

But before leaving, Eve gave her some small trinkets from the vampires as souvenirs. Even now, when she thought about how flattered she was when she received the gifts, Eve couldn't help but chuckle.

"Um, um, Miss Eve, bye!"

Faced with Eve's teasing, although her face was already red with embarrassment, Ashley still waved to Eve.

"Well, bye then!"

After saying that, Eve and the others flew into the night sky, turning into several streams of light and flew towards the southwest, to the border between the moon elves and the gold elves.

"call--"

Taking a deep breath, the manager of the Wonderland Ruins also called on everyone to dive back under the lake and return to the Wonderland Ruins.

Just as Eve said before she left, they still had a lot of work to do, and they had to make all the necessary preparations before the next full moon night.

Fortunately, the elf researchers were relatively calm. Even though their research topics came to nothing overnight, they remained calm and immediately plunged into new topics. Otherwise, they would probably still be busy appeasing everyone.

By the way, part of the reason they remained calm was that Eve had cut enough crystals for them before the mutation occurred, allowing them to do a slightly sloppy finishing touch. Otherwise, their mentality might have really collapsed.

After parting with the moon elves, Eve led everyone into the forest at dawn, took out a map and began to look for their location.

"Uh... well... okay!"

Snapped--

Eve suddenly closed the map in her hand and announced a "good news" to the people who were setting up tents.

"We are about to enter the territory of the Golden Elves!"

"Eh? Really?"

"Really? We're already near the border. If we fly, we'll be in the Golden Elf's territory in no time."

"Great"