After burning for a full half hour, the hundred-meter-tall "Demeter's Flower" was finally reduced to ashes, leaving only a patch of black ash on the ground.
"What's that?"
Stanley Longfellow had been idly looking around when he suddenly spotted a glint of gold amid the ashes left by "Demeter's Flower."
Not daring to pick it up himself, he cried out.
Everyone's attention was immediately drawn to it, their eyes turning toward that barely noticeable golden glimmer.
At Professor Kazel's signal, the "Black Steel Puppet" walked over and picked up the glint from the pitch-black ashes.
As they looked at it from afar, strange expressions gradually appeared on their faces. That golden glimmer was actually a golden key!
No one had expected that burning away "Demeter's Flower" would really reveal a key!
Was this the "key that opens the door" from the prophecy, or merely a coincidence?
Even Stanley Longfellow himself stared wide-eyed at the key.
No one knew what the key was meant for. But in any case...
"Who gets it?" Count Stanley Longfellow suddenly asked. Bishop Sabrina Melville could not help looking toward Professor Kazel. Clearly, she had once again excluded Stanley Longfellow as an option.
With a solemn expression, Professor Kazel said, "How about I keep it for now?"
Bishop Sabrina Melville said, "Naturally, I would prefer to keep it on my side. But there is no need to argue over it. After all, no one knows what this key can actually do. It may simply be an ordinary key that someone dropped by accident."
Professor Kazel nodded slightly. "No matter what it unlocks, I can only promise that once it opens a door or lock, I will share the information with everyone as much as possible and provide whatever convenience I can."
"Hey! I found that!" Stanley