Stella received the Winter Shard, while Claire picked up the final spear fragment. After weighing it in her hand, she passed it to Shade.
"Here, it contains the Power of the Stars."
The spear fragment possessed an icy gentleness. It resembled the Power of the Moon, yet was not entirely the same. Shade had initially assumed that the spear from the Temple, capable of shattering stars, contained the Power of Fate. But the moment he touched it, he understood that this spear was also powered by the stars. It might even have been a legendary Astral Creation.
But the spear had long since shattered, and the power contained within it was like the last foam on the sea before it dried away beneath the sun. It was no longer enough to help them.
"Can you reverse time and restore it?"
Matilda beside Emilia suddenly asked the elf softly. She had expected a negative answer, but the Pointy-eared Elf frowned and thought for a moment before answering uncertainly:
"Maybe. I can."
Of course, Emilia did not currently possess the power to restore a weapon from the Fourth Epoch to its complete state. She had not been a Chosen One for long, and even though the elf tribes possessed many secret arts for her to study, reversing the time of a supernatural weapon by two entire epochs was asking too much of her.
What Emilia meant by "can" was this:
"Give me some time to communicate with the lingering temporal information within the fragment. If I have enough time, I can permanently consume the remaining power in the fragment to summon this weapon's phantom from the river of time.
"The phantom can be used, but it will be weaker than the original, and it can only be used once. If we really