Chapter 2287: Glowing Armor

After recovering a little, Xia De restored his set of golden armor again. And when the four sides of the box fell, the lion-shaped armor standing in the box was still glowing. Faint golden miracle elements were attached to it, making the golden lion shape look more realistic and fierce.

"What happened to this?"

Granny Sianode asked Xia De. Xia De shook his head and began to tell her and Miss Sandel about his experience going out this time.

The round trip consumed a lot of time, and forty minutes seemed to pass in the blink of an eye, so Xia De narrated very quickly and briefly. After he truly left, Miss Nite and Miss Mester should tell it again.

"So, is the compass fragment inside this?"

After Xia De finished speaking, Miss Sandel looked forward to the sarcophagus and opened it after getting the old elf's permission. The mermaid girl poked half of her body into it, and just when Xia De thought she was going to fall in, she stood up again very happily holding the piece of metal:

"Look, you guys, I found it, it's this!"

She handed the new compass fragment to Granny Sianode, and Xia De also returned the one he had taken away. After the two pieces of metal approached, they resonated, and then firmly adhered together like magnets.

In this way, the circular cake-shaped black metal compass now had two-thirds of its volume. If nothing unexpected happened, as long as they found the last fragment, they would know the location of the "Heart of the Oasis."

"Granny, hurry~"

The blue-haired girl urged. Granny Sianode smiled, then activated the resonance power of the compass again. After waiting for a moment, a stable light spot appeared on the surface of the compass again.

Miss Nite, who had taken off her armor, also walked over. Combining the contents recorded in Miss Sandel's notebook that had begun to blur, they quickly determined the orientation of the next compass fragment.

"This is a bit tricky."

The old elf said to Xia De:

"The information there is not clear, or rather, it is not a ruin at all. Although it does not show supernatural power directly like the mausoleum you just returned from, there must be danger there."

"What is that area specifically like? Who explored it at the time?"

Xia De asked. Miss Sandel raised her hand embarrassedly:

"It was me. I said before that after I came to this desert, I was trapped in a cave for a long time. After realizing that my soul would decay sooner or later, I left the cave at dusk, fainted in the cold night, and was saved by Granny. I encountered that place when I was running in the desert at night. At that time..."

She tried to search for the blurred and chaotic memories again:

"I was extremely cold at the time, and I saw something pitch black in the distance. I thought it was a building, so I wanted to go over to hide from the wind and sand. After getting closer, I saw that it was..."

She shuddered violently again:

"I saw a huge rotten head lying in the sea of sand in the dark night. The mouth of the head had been transformed into a door. And what was connected behind that huge human head was the corpse of a sand worm."

Listening to her description, Miss Nite's face was already very bad, and Xia De also frowned slightly:

"Is it a product after transformation, or is there really a monster with a human head and a worm body?"

After asking, he suddenly realized that the "sand worm" that Professor Drake turned into, which he encountered in the 【Past · Sixth Era】, seemed to have such an image.

"The mouth transformed into a door should be man-made."

The blue-haired girl said, shivering slightly:

"I was running wildly in the night at the time, and suddenly saw that rotten head. I was scared to death. I even suspected that I had already gone crazy at the time. I didn't dare to get close but turned and ran in the other direction, and then I fainted while running. When I woke up again, Granny had already brought me here, and it was already dawn at that time."

"Is that area very far away?"

Xia De asked. Granny Sianode nodded:

"A little further than this time."

That is to say, Xia De did not have time to see it with his own eyes this time.

"Is the compass fragment in the worm's belly... Miss Sandel, what else did you see at the time?"

Xia De asked again. The blue-haired girl stuffed the notebook directly into Xia De's hand:

"After I woke up, Granny asked me to record everything I could think of. Granny knew that this desert would make memories unreliable. However, later when I went to look at what I wrote myself, there were some things that even I didn't remember."

Xia De looked down and read, seeing a hand-drawn sketch in the relevant records. The mermaid girl seemed to want to depict that door, but what she drew was quite abstract.

"What is this symbol?"

Xia De pointed to the symbol on the door again. Miss Sandel leaned over to take a look:

"This also belongs to the things I can't remember clearly now. It's probably just the symbol on the door."

Xia De then noted down the symbol, intending to investigate it when he went back. After all, this was the only thing that could be investigated now.

"We will set off together next time."

The old elf said to everyone again:

"Let's go find the last compass fragment together, and then use the complete compass to find the 'Heart of the Oasis' together. Next time I won't leave any retreat for everyone. Either we find it together, or we die together. If there is no such determination, we won't be able to find it."

"Okay, Granny."

"I have no opinion."

"Yes, Granny Sianode."

The three girls answered like this. Xia De naturally had no opinion either; he had to go for a trip anyway.

"I don't have much time left either, so before I come back next time, please prepare yourselves. Miss Sandel, try your best to recall what else you saw at the time. And this coffin, the things inside belong to everyone, and can all be used for preparation."

Those in the coffin were the personal belongings of ancient heroes, as well as precious materials used for burial when the ancients built this mausoleum church.

The ordinary items among them decayed after Xia De opened the sarcophagus, and the rest were genuine good things. There were four relics, and Xia De was very sure that he saw a "Philosopher's Stone." But he could not take these things away, so it would be good if they could be used up.

"And this."

He picked up the stone sword placed on the long bench beside him again. Of course, before lifting the sword, he had to take the cat squatting on it down:

"This is the long sword of that ancient hero, now it's just ordinary stone. I want to take it as my souvenir, but I don't know if it will be of any use next. So I will leave it here this time. If we can successfully find the 'Heart of the Oasis' next time, I will take it away then."

After speaking, he smiled and said:

"We will definitely be able to find it."

The stone long sword was also put into the sarcophagus by Xia De, and then he saw that one of the relics in the sarcophagus was none other than the 【Demon Hunting Seal】.

"Sure enough, where there is a demon, there is this... Wait, that demon actually lay with this seal for so long..."

What was finally handed over to Granny Sianode was the white mist glass bead that sealed the demon. Xia De took all the credit for himself, claiming that he had sealed it, and hoped that Granny Sianode could hand it over to Saint Byron's for processing.

So the old elf took the glass bead very nervously and put it into the sachet she hung around her neck.

Of course, if this glass bead could be taken away, handing it over to Doctor Schneider would actually be the best choice. It was a pity that it could not be taken away, and even if the Outsider lived in the Sixth Era, this glass bead was still in the academy, and Xia De could not think of a way to ask for it back.

"Perhaps when I reach the thirteenth ring, I can go and ask for it back."

In short, this adventure in the Gravel Sea of Sand finally came to an end after a series of accidents.

Although he lost the final opportunity to obtain "a gift" because he asked for help from a deity, Xia De was very satisfied that he did not let the demon go and give it a chance to harm others a thousand years later.

Of course, he was even more satisfied that Miss Nite did not really sacrifice herself to obtain the compass fragment.

The female knight was still resting at this time. The burden brought to her by this trip was greater than anyone else's. And noticing Xia De looking at her, Miss Nite nodded slightly again.

Compared to their first meeting, her expression had become much softer, clearly because the illusion in the mausoleum had also made her understand something.

It was already very lucky for her to be able to walk to this point as an ordinary person. The only belief that supported her to continue living in this terrible environment was probably that persistence. That persistence was like steel, like fire. Xia De hoped that this persistence would not burn her out in the end.

Of course, for the remaining few minutes, Xia De had one last thing to deal with, which was his own set of glowing armor.

"I don't know what's going on with this armor either."

Miss Mester and Miss Nite were both sitting and resting, and Miss Sandel was curiously counting the funerary items in the sarcophagus. Xia De stood up with Little Mia and came to the armor with Granny Sianode.

The golden lion-shaped armor looked majestic even in the slightly dim room. The glowing bright gold made it more attractive than its original dark gold appearance. This reminded the Outsider of the armor in the story of "a woman and her 88 bodyguards" he had seen in his hometown, but clearly, his set of armor was not that powerful.

"This was given to me by a friend of mine. I have always suspected that my friend is not an ordinary person either."

Xia De explained to the old elf, and after speaking, he took a look at Little Mia.

Granny Sianode did not discuss the topic of "friends." The elf, who was rich in life experience, pointed out:

"You have also felt the light of this desert yourself. It is indeed possible for it to make things that would not glow glow. The sand outside is glowing itself, haven't you discovered it?"

"Granny, do you mean that this armor happened to be illuminated by the sunlight and glowed?"

This phenomenon could also be found in the Moon Bay of today. The white light packed into the "Empty Bottle Fruit" had such an effect. ===== CHAPTER 2288 =====