Tina and Joanna were shocked while Ronald was struck dumb. Arthur didn't look surprised by the result.
"Am I eligible to join the Special Community?" He asked.
"Yes, yes. You absolutely are." Tina nodded. Tristan yawned. "Okay, I'm heading back to sleep."
Tristan went back to his room and began browsing the internet randomly when he felt the tug from his connection with the Matrioshka egg. The egg was hungry and wanted to eat. Tristan took out a fragment of the Stolen Matrioshka Energy and fed it to the egg. Then he felt the emotions of happiness from his band and the egg was full again and went dormant.
He wondered what would happen when the egg hatched and the Matrioshka awoke again. It was a legendary beast after all that was said to look much like a human. It would decide for itself what it wanted to do.
At this moment Tristan remembered an object related to another Legendary beast. It was the painting he had received from the Frog King in the Frog World. It was a painting that depicted the Stymphalion Bird named Clua protecting Tea Master's Palace from a mysterious Dark Elf.
[Reality Depiction Illusory Painting]
This painting was painted by an ancient Frog called the first Frog King in the Frog World. However, when the painting was made, Frog World was still attached to the Deep Ocean World, so the ancient Frog was probably a legend who could actually manage to record a battle between two titans.
Tristan had noticed than even the weak frog people were all on the threshold of unlocking the first level of the mind and opening up access to mental energy. So he could imagine how powerful an ancient Frog legend could be in terms of mental energy.
Indeed when he had touched the painting at first, he had not broken through the mental limit and only felt like the painting was special. But now, after he had unlocked mental energy, he could feel that the painting was special. There was an entire world hidden in the painting.
Tristan began enveloping the painting with his mental energy and the painting absorbed 10 units of his mental energy. Then Tristan was directly sucked into the painting.
The sky was in chaos. A baleful energy spread through the world. A gigantic bird with metal for wings and a poisonous breath, the Stymphalion Bird Clua was clashing with a Dark Elf who threatened to explode the world.
Surprisingly the Dark Elf looked really heroic as he said. "The Tea Master will never be spared. He dared to lay hands on my Dark Elf race! Clua, do not interfere between this debt of blood."
Clua shrieked. "I don't care about your bullshit blood debt! I owed that Tea Master a favor for saving me in the Mirror Dimension and I have to repay that debt."
Suddenly Tristan saw the ancient frog drawing the painting beside him and he could move around. He looked at the Frog, which looked very ancient. From it an incredible mental energy poured into the painting like a sea. Tristan looked on as the fight between the two titans was destroying the landscape. A powerful blade slash from the Dark Elf cut a mountain in half.
Clua shed a lot of its metallic feathers and sent them like projectiles towards the Dark Elf, who repelled them with his tyrannical aura deeply piercing the depths of the mountains.
Tristan was suddenly stunned. "Aren't these the cliffs in the Frog World?"
Next he saw that the ancient frog was running away in the direction of the palace, but then went behind it. There, under a weird position of rocks was a small door. The frog pressed four numbers into the door, which Tristan remembered in his mind, but then he was pulled out of the painting.
"I ran out of mental energy!" Tristan grumbled. "I need a way to practice and improve my mental energy." He sat down to calmly recover his mental energy for a few hours and once he had recovered, he entered the painting again.
Once again it began at the same point as before. However Tristan did not wait. He ran to the place behind the palace, found the secret door and entered the four numbers, entering the secret area. Within, he found thousands of treasures. It was too dazzling. He wondered why the Frog knew about this room? Could it have been its own room? Was it left for the future generations of frogs but they never manGed to break the limit and forever remained tied down?
He did not stop because he was running out of time. He found the secret room leading to an underground cave which had thousands of gold colored mushrooms glowing. When he touched them, his system spoke up.
[Life Mushroom]
[Absorb? Y/N]
He could absorb items within the painting? He wished the System to Absorb the mushroom, but the absorption failed. He tried to eat it, but he couldn't taste it either. He kept exploring along the mushroom filled tunnel, until he came to a larger tunnel area. Here a rose was growing.
The rose was bewilderingly beautiful. It also had a vortex over it funneling energy into it. Tristan touched the rose.
[Bewitching Heart Rose]
It didn't say anything else. There was nothing else in the cave and it was a dead end. Soon he was kicked out of the painting again.
Tristan stopped and took a breath. He had been momentarily bewitched by that Rose, once again he realized how vulnerable he was to mental power. But right now, he had a different priority.
"I need to enter Frog World as soon as possible."