[Findings & I'm Famous!]

Dawn stared Emilia directly into her eyes with worry but only when she looked that the dragonfolk around her weren't in a daze Dawn sighed in relief, Dawn had quickly arrived at the castle in a hurry just in case something bad would happen if the dragonfolk looked at Emilia and had the same effect as her, but thankfully nothing happened. Around Emilia, there were a few priests and common folk that sneaked in but no more than 10, the guards outside were keeping people in check but Dawn easily managed to get in as she was the 'prophet'. The few commoners were praising the dragon while the priests were amazed by what Emilia just did, "Oh mighty dragon, thou have removed the curse from the castle?" An old dragonfolk spoke to Emilia who stood there for a few seconds before quickly nodding and sighing in relief, "Was that a curse? I thought they made the castle invisible on purpose.. Oh well, that means less trouble for me at least." Emilia thought and turned her head to notice Dawn looking at her with slight worry, she shook her head to try to make Dawn less worried. "I left you alone for a few hours and.." Dawn mumbled in a low voice, but not low enough for Emilia not to hear her, she then smiled and walked towards Emilia

Emilia first thought, of course, was to tell her that she is not a child, although she may look like one and she may act like one sometimes, but that may be because she is in a young dragon body but she could take care of herself! But then the crowd of dragonfolk surrounding and praising her for her -purposely- done good deeds. "Dawn i left some interesting letters for you in the third room of the hall!" Emilia shouted, she decided to tell her about the important things she had found but as she yelled down immediately everyone around her stopped what they were doing and looked at Dawn, Dawn felt discomfort at the situation, Dawn nodded and left at a quick pace towards the hall, "Not that one, the one with three big chandeliers on top!" Hearing Emilia shout once again, Dawn awkwardly made her way back and went the other way.

...

The castle itself wasn't really big in length but there were a lot of rooms everywhere, the main hall is where Emilia is currently which is also near the main gate, next there are rooms that lead to upstairs, bedrooms, bathrooms and two other halls that lead to the basement or a spiral staircase that lead upstairs as well, the one Dawn is heading to is the one that leads to the basement.

Dawn walked around taking a glance at everything that piques her interest because like Emilia didn't look into the castle too much but she knew where to go, Dawn kept on going further until she found a door with a broken handle as if someone had tried to open it but accidentally pulled the handle out by using too much strength, Dawn sighed and opened the door, the structure changed from clean stone to a dark blue stone with a staircase leading down to the basement, at the side right next to the door there was a table with a few things on it, Dawn turned her head to the broken door and sighed, "Chrono.. She didn't even try to fix it with her time shenanigans.."

On the table there were a few open envelopes, a letter and a wand with a red crystal on top of it, Dawn looked around to see if there was something to stand on but sadly there was nothing so she had to jump on top of the cabinet to reach the stuff on there, after two tries she managed to sit on top of the cabinet comfortably and grabbed a dirty open letter, the letter with holes that made it harder to read and it was dark on this room as it had no windows but that was not a problem for a kobold so Dawn began to read what she could understand, "The dark overlord- Dark overlords?!" Dawn was spooked, it had only been the first few words but it was already important information! The dark overlords as any aura practitioner call them, are at the pinnacle of the devils as they are ageless and surpass by far the Full Aura stage, they achieved this power through an immense consumption of life essence and it is said that each dark overlord has the objective of killing and consume the world to refine absolute darkness, "This.. talks about an awakening at the city of Pax-" Dawn looked at the rest of the letter but that was all that she could understand as some of the ink peeled off due to the age of the letter.

Next Dawn grabbed an envelope and opened it, inside there was a drawing of a room built with stone with an unknown language on the walls and the ground, forming some sort of circuit connecting it at the middle of the room with a fountain filled with red liquid, the name of this drawing was 'Grace'. "The one who drew this picture probably didn't know what that language was or meant, so it is badly drawn.." Dawn put down this envelope and opened another one, The next drawing showed a sculpture of a female elf surrounded by vegetation with its two hands together close to her chest holding something like a wand, Dawn looked at the wand next to her and grabbed it with her tail, the red crystal ball seemed to shine as Dawn tail hold it tight, Dawn could also feel that the wand had some patterns on the handle, Dawn tail handed the wand to her claws as she inspected it, the runes were Aura encrypts! That meant that the weapon can be enhanced with aura. "But only a caster can do it." Dawn put the wand down where it was and opened the third envelope, this time there was no drawing as purple dust fell off and a smell of something rot started to spread throughout the room, Dawn quickly closed the envelop but she began coughing up blood as her chest started to burn, "Poison? No.. It's more like.." Dawn enhanced her body with aura and soon enough the poison lost all its effects, "It made my aura slightly uncontrollable.. What is this?" Dawn put this envelope carefully down in the cabinet and looked once more at the door, she decided to pick up the two drawings envelops and the letter leaving the one that contained the purple dust behind.

"I should head to the aura guild of Pax city to figure this out, but first i need to give back this badge to Drake." Dawn took out a small silver badge the size of a normal human hand, bigger than Dawn's hand with a symbol of a dragon engraved on it.

...

Emilia stood silently in the hall alone, "They do leave pretty quickly if i raise my voice. I like that." Nodding to herself while thinking how cowardly the dragonfolk are, but she did not consider how scary a dragon is. Emilia's eyes darted around as she felt being observed once again, Emilia was about to stop time to deal with the pesky stalker but she heard the sound of someone approaching.

*Tap tap tap*

Emilia turned around head as the footsteps echoed throughout the castle until she could see a very big kobold! Emilia waited for Dawn to get close to her before speaking "Dawn so how-"

"Chrono, why did you make the castle visible, and where did you find this? And why didn't you fix the door you broke."

"I-"

"How did you make this castle visible after all?"

"Let me speak!" Emilia stared Dawn eye to eye, "..You have grown a lot, huh?"

"Chrono!"

"Oh yeah, stuff down the basement, there were some runes that configured mana what to do."

"'Configured?'" Dawn asked with curiosity.

Emilia looked at Dawn in confusion for a second before going 'oh' and explaining the rest, "Told mana what to do, like down there at the basement was a giant messy circle with the words 'Ignore' and 'Forget' so i just created another circle that did the exact opposite by mimicking the design, 'Attention', 'Remember'. That circle was so badly drawn that my circle took priority and the other got destroyed."

"And the door?"

"The door had also a rune on the other side locking it, so i just pulled the handle with the lock out."

"Mhmm, so why didn't you erase the rune and then fix the door?"

"..."

"Let's go fix it."

Dawn and Emilia made their way to the basement once again, while they walked they talked more about their new findings, "So what about the letter and envelopes?"

"I just looked around the rooms and picked a few things that piqued my interest."

"Alright so here are some important things, tomorrow morning their ritual to say goodbye to you should be done then we can part ways."

"What?!" Emilia looked at Dawn with a frown.