After recovering a little, Shade restored his set of Golden Armor. When the four sides of the container fell away, the lion-shaped armor standing inside the box was still glowing. Faint Golden Miracle elements clung to it, making the golden lion design look even more lifelike and imposing.
"What happened?"
Grandma Sianode asked Shade. He shook his head and began recounting his experience during this outing to her and Ms. Sandel.
The round trip had consumed a great deal of time, and forty minutes seemed about to pass in the blink of an eye, so Shade's account was swift and brief. Once he truly left, Ms. Knight and Ms. Meister would probably tell it again.
"So the Compass Fragment is inside?"
After Shade finished, Ms. Sandel eagerly pointed at the coffin. Upon receiving the old elf's approval, she opened it. The Mermaid Girl leaned half her body inside, and just as Shade thought she was about to fall in, she happily straightened up with the piece of metal in hand:
"Look, I found it! This is it!"
She handed the new Compass Fragment to Grandma Sianode, while Shade also returned the one he had taken away. The two pieces of metal resonated as they drew near, then firmly snapped together like magnets.
This way, the round, disc-shaped black metal Compass now had two-thirds of its full size. If nothing unexpected happened, they would learn the location of the "Oasis Heart" once they found the final fragment.
"Grandma, hurry~"
The blue-haired girl urged her. Grandma Sianode smiled, then activated the Compass's resonant power again. After a brief wait, a steady point of light appeared once more on its surface.
Ms. Knight, who had removed her armor, also walked over. Combining the increasingly blurry records in Ms. Sandel's notebook, they quickly determined