Chapter 753

The Blue Pharmacy was rather quiet at night; the dog-girl sat behind the counter propping her cheek with her hand, as if waiting for a customer who might come by.

Ever since the Soma Familia placed a long-term order for the Alcohol Addiction Medicine, the Mia Familia's days have become much easier.

With stable income, the Familia's debts are being repaid bit by bit; Naza did a quick calculation — in about five to six more years, her own Familia should be able to escape its current straitened circumstances.

Naza had already decided: when the Familia emerges from its difficulties, she will confess her feelings to Lord Miach; if Lord Miach is willing to accept her, then she…

"Miss Naza, Miss Naza…"

The sudden voice interrupted the dog-girl's reverie.

"Who?"

She looked around in some panic.

"Right here."

The voice's owner prompted her; Naza tiptoed from behind the counter and poked her head out, only then spotting the Saiyan boy who had just been hidden by the counter.

"So it's Mr. Broly. Coming here so late — is there something you need?"

Naza felt her face grow hot, but forced herself to ask calmly.

"I want to buy some Magic Power Recovery Potions with the best recovery effect."

Broly stated his requirement.

"No problem. How many bottles do you need?"

"The amount I need is quite large; can I buy by the case?"

"Case?"

For the pricey Magic Power Recovery Potions, this is a niche term.

"Why do you need to buy that many Magic Power Recovery Potions?"

Naza asked with some surprise.

"I'm testing the limits of a spell; its magic consumption is enormous, so I need this many potions."

"I see. However, our shop currently only has 35 bottles of Magic Power Recovery Potions in stock — roughly one and a half cases — and I don't know if that will be enough for you."

This is a big order; Broly is also the Blue Pharmacy's major patron, a lucky star bringing steady business, so Naza's attitude was very enthusiastic.

"If it's not enough, you can place the order first, and Lord Miach and I will work all night to brew potions for you; roughly by tomorrow afternoon we can deliver one case's worth."

"35 bottles of potion — roughly how much magic power can that recover?"

"You want the best potions; one bottle can fully restore all the magic power consumed by a Level 5 Mage-specialization Adventurer."

Broly did a quick conversion: this recovery amount roughly equals restoring twelve or thirteen times his current magic capacity, so he nodded: "Not needed; just take this many for now."

"Top-Grade Magic Power Recovery Potions — our unit price is 1.2 million Valis per bottle; 35 bottles total 42 million Valis. However, Broly, you are our shop's long-term customer, and Lord Miach and Lady Hestia are friends, so I'll round it down for you — you only need to pay 40 million Valis."

Broly: "…"

Good thing he'd kept some money from the last gold-farming run and hadn't spent it all on the Familia base expansion construction costs.

He paid decisively, then carried a case of Top-Grade Magic Power Recovery Potions back to the Familia.

However, that night Broly did not use Resurrection Magic again; instead he waited until after a night's sleep, when his spent magic power had naturally recovered fully, before beginning the next day to attempt resurrecting that chicken which had not yet been thrown away — the one reduced to leftover bones.

Under the surrounding girls' watch, Broly popped Magic Power Recovery Potions while maintaining the Resurrection Magic; by the time the thirty-first bottle was downed — roughly equivalent to ten times his current magic capacity consumed — the magic drain finally gradually ceased.

And the chicken reduced to eaten bones, too, at last appeared before everyone's eyes in intact posture, clucking "cluck-cluck-cluck" from its beak.

The chicken — it lived.

This scene made Ryu, who had been watching tensely, widen her eyes.

The miracle of resurrection — it truly exists!

Last night's failure to resurrect was merely a matter of insufficient magic power.

As long as magic power is sufficient, one can directly force a miracle into being.

And to have sufficient magic power, one only needs to purchase enough Magic Power Recovery Potions, letting Broly drink them while casting Resurrection Magic…

Thinking of this, Ryu's train of thought suddenly paused; even though she hadn't been an Adventurer for many years, she still knew the approximate price of Top-Grade Magic Power Recovery Potions.

The Tavern Elf looked at the thirty-one empty Top-Grade Magic Power Recovery Potion bottles on the ground, then at the Resurrected Chicken now being held up by Tiona and having its body examined.

A chicken like this, its value while alive should not have exceeded 250 Valis, but its value now that it has been resurrected absolutely exceeds 25 million Valis.

And even she knows clearly that resurrecting a dead person is absolutely harder than resurrecting a dead chicken; the cost involved is probably unimaginable.

"What's wrong, Ryu? Resurrection Magic succeeded — aren't you happy?"

Broly detected that Ryu's expression was a bit off, so he asked.

"No, I'm very happy."

Ryu moved her lips, then said those words with a determined gaze.

【No matter the cost, as long as there is hope of resurrection.

Then I must strive to bring my former friends back to life.

Even if only Adi remains.】

Her past companions — the others left no corpses; only Adi has a corpse.

【Though I'm sorry, Xier; sorry, Mother Miya…】

To earn enough money, Ryu was already thinking of quitting the tavern.

She would return to her old trade, become an Adventurer again.

Only as an Adventurer could she possibly earn that astronomical resurrection fee.

As for having Broly help shoulder the cost — that thought merely flashed through Ryu's mind.

The boy has already helped her this much; how could she let him bear expenses unrelated to him?

"Speaking of which, the chicken's resurrection succeeded — so when can we go resurrect a person?"

Tiona asked.

"Hmm, this still requires considering another issue."

"What?"

Broly took the Resurrection Chicken from the Amazon girl's hand and twisted its neck again.

"Ah, Broly, why did you kill the chicken again?"

"Liu's friend Adi was blown to death by a Flame Stone; the corpse was incomplete. I am now preparing to confirm whether Resurrection Magic can still take effect when the corpse is incomplete."

As Broly spoke, he tossed the chicken head aside, opened a new Magic Power Recovery Potion and drank it down, then began Resurrection again.

And this attempt quickly produced a result: the dead chicken that had lost its skull, after being revived, would be a living Headless Chicken, but would soon die rapidly because it had no head.

After drinking up the remaining several bottles of Magic Power Recovery Potion and attempting to revive dead chickens missing different bone parts many times, Broly obtained a very important conclusion:

Missing bones do not affect the casting of Resurrection Magic, but if the missing bones are from vital parts — the kind that would doom a normal person — then the revived creature will soon fall back into death because it cannot sustain life.

"Liu, there is a problem now. I need to confirm whether your friend Adi, at the time of burial, had all the important bones of her body collected."

"Ah, this... I don't know..."

Liu froze, then came to her senses and shook her head in reply.

"Eh, wasn't your friend's corpse prepared by you?"

"No, it wasn't me. At the time, because of Adi's death, I suffered a huge blow..."

As Liu answered, she stole a glance at Ais beside her.

【After that, I even sought out Miss Ais, who was only eight years old at the time, and fought her because of the sorrow of losing my friend...】

"Alright then. Before reviving your friend, we may need to first confirm whether the other party's remains are intact."

"Eh, so that means we have to go..."

Tiona made a motion of bending down to dig soil.

"That's right. We have to go dig up a grave first, exhume the coffin and perform an autopsy."

Broly nodded; with his high initiative, he prepared to go out and buy tools to dig up the grave.

"Ah, although it is a matter of wanting to revive a deceased child, after all, resurrection is something far too sensational and hard to believe for children of the Lower World..."

Hestia hurriedly stopped Broly.

"As for digging up the grave, if you don't want to attract unnecessary misunderstandings from others, it's best to do it at night, taking advantage of everyone being asleep."

Liu thought so too. Although she could explain the situation to Adi's older sister, the current Captain of the Ganesha Familia, the effort to persuade the other party to let her dig up Adi's grave would absolutely not be small.

So, rather than honestly explaining the situation, it's better to do things secretly. Once the matter succeeds, everyone is naturally happy; and if it fails, doing it secretly means others won't know either.

Broly accepted Hestia's advice and waited until deep in the night when all was quiet, then he and Liu put on nightwear and went out.

"Ah, why do we have to come too?"

"That's only natural — more people dig graves faster!"

Facing the elf girl's inquiry, Hestia explained it this way.

Although the shared memories created together now included the strange matter of digging up graves in the dead of night.

But Ais and Lefiya, the two of them, were still pushed out of Hearth Manor by Hestia and came together to the cemetery to help.

"Heave-ho, heave-ho~"

As for Tiona, who dug soil energetically upon arriving at the cemetery, she came voluntarily to help.

With the combined efforts of several people, the girl Adi's grave was quickly dug open.

The coffin below was then lifted up by Broly and Tiona.

"Crack~"

The coffin buried for many years, reopened in the cemetery under the moonlight, instantly released a foul, rotting stench.

Lefiya hurriedly covered her nose; her face also turned somewhat pale after seeing the situation inside the coffin. Although she is an Adventurer and has seen some dead people over the years, that doesn't mean she has seen a corpse buried for many years, now re-excavated, with the coffin reopened to reveal the body inside.

And the situation inside was indeed bad. It was not an intact corpse, but a pile of rotten flesh mixed with bone fragments.

There wasn't even a complete skull; one can imagine what kind of terrifying explosive attack the girl who died back then suffered.

"With the current situation, how to confirm whether the remains are intact?"

Tiona pinched her nose, leaned close to Broly, and asked.

"We can only take all the bones inside back and try to piece them together."

"Eh, pick the bones out directly in there?"

"I'll do it."

Liu stepped forward voluntarily.

"Ah, Miss Liu, can you?"

The Amazon girl looked over in some surprise.

She knew that elves all have cleanliness obsessions — it's just a matter of whether the obsession is heavy or light.

"This is my friend from the past."

Liu only answered with one sentence, and at this moment, she who possessed a cleanliness obsession heavier than many of her kin, surprisingly no longer had the so-called cleanliness obsession.

Even if it meant searching for bones with bare hands in rotten flesh, she was already prepared.

However, just as she prepared to reach her hand into the coffin, she was stopped by Broly.

"Picking by hand, when would you finish picking?"

"Ah, then what to do?"

"At a time like this, of course we must use Magic. Water Creation..."

Broly directly poured water into the coffin; rotten flesh is light and bones are heavy. The rotten flesh quickly floated up and was washed away by the water.

Then he used Gravity Magic, grabbed the bone fragments in the water, put the bones into the paper bag he brought, then buried the coffin back in the pit, refilled the grave, and covered the stone slab.

Finally, Wind Spirit Magic was used to blow away the rotten stench here, and the girl's grave returned to its original appearance, even looking newer than before.

However, as long as no one digs up the earth to excavate the grave and check the situation below, the fact that the remains inside have been taken away will absolutely not be exposed.

Returning to the Familia residence at midnight, everyone went to bathe once more.

"Tomorrow, let's assemble the remains again."

"Ah, why can't we assemble them now?"

Roli was somewhat confused; she seemed a bit urgent, wanting to obtain the answer about her friend's remains.

"Because if we assemble them now, the smell on the bones will be somewhat strong."

Broly answered.

"Better to wait until they've soaked in clear water overnight, the smell lessens, and they're washed clean; tomorrow we'll assemble them, and our noses won't suffer."

Hearing this, Roli only felt the other party's words seemed quite reasonable.

The next day, Roli took leave from the tavern side and returned to Hearth Manor, assembling their friend Sensei's fragmented body together with Broly.

Hmm, some large pieces of bone that hadn't shattered were manageable, but some bones shattered into small pieces — those were truly difficult to assemble.

【If only a pile of shattered bones could be used to directly attempt resurrection.】

During the assembly process, Broly couldn't help but think.

Resurrection, resurrection — whether it's this world's resurrection or the KonoSuba World's resurrection, all require first getting the body out.

Broly began to envy his own Aqua Master a little — that fully automatic resurrection magic that can directly restore a dead person's corpse.

In comparison, the resurrection magic he currently possesses has a large part that requires him to conduct manual operation.

It looks just like a clumsy imitation of God Resurrection Magic, but perhaps it's also because of this that Broly couldn't learn his own Goddess Master's resurrection magic, yet could easily master this world's human-created resurrection magic just by reading a Grimoire.

Based on this point, manually assembling remains — this kind of thing — seems instead to be acceptable.

"No, this bone — isn't it missing a bit excessively?!"

And after experiencing ten hours of difficult 3D puzzle assembly, as Sensei's shape gradually took form, Broly also discovered the problem.

The corpse of the girl named Adi — her bones were missing quite a lot.

"Ah, how could it be like this?"

Looking at Sensei still missing nearly a quarter of her skeleton, Roli found it somewhat hard to accept for a moment.

This situation is no longer a question of whether Broly's Magic Power is enough to revive a person.

Rather, it's that Adi's corpse has too high a degree of deficiency; even if Broly has Magic Power, it's a problem of being unable to revive her.

"Adi, sorry. If back then I had been the one to collect your corpse..."

Roli knelt on the ground, both hands clenched into fists pounding the ground.

But in reality, who would have thought there would be a thing like resurrection?

Back then, facing the threat of the Dark Faction possibly continuing to launch attacks at any time, being able to collect and bury the bodies of those sacrificed by being blown to pieces was already no easy matter — it was fundamentally impossible to demand the remains be collected completely.

And regarding this, Broly also had a bit of a headache; the corpse doesn't satisfy the prerequisite conditions for revival, so he also has no way.

The only result of forcefully using DIO Resurrection Magic to revive the other party would be letting Roli watch her revived friend die once more with her own eyes.

Of course, the current situation isn't without a way either, but it's still that same sentence — have to go ask Aqua Master. If Aqua Master makes a move, even if the girl Adi only has a skull left, with his own Goddess Master's Resurrection Jutsu, she'd probably be able to repair the rest of the body's tissues back.

"Roli, don't be sad. There's still a way."

"Broly..."

The Tavern Elf raised her head, eye sockets somewhat red, looking at the boy.

"There really can still be a way?"

She asked with some hope.

"Of course."

Broly gave an affirmative reply.

"What way?"

The Elf pursued the question; others also looked over at him.

"Since this world has Resurrection Magic, why couldn't there be magic to repair corpses?"

Aqua Master can't come over temporarily; Broly felt he could first look for a way in this world.

"Yeah, since there's even Resurrection Magic, why couldn't there be magic to repair corpses?"

Roli murmured to herself, eyes gradually brightening.

Compared to the miracle magic of revival, mere magic to repair corpses is completely possible to exist.

"However, where would we go to find this kind of magic? I've never heard of it?"

Lefiya asked.

As stated previously, this world's Magic Development, because of the appearance of Falna and the rise of Magic Stone Technology, has fallen into a stagnant state.

In the current era, aside from a very small number of Mages, there are basically no more people who would go research and innovate Magic.

(Chapter End)