Chapter 755

The hellish joke about having no eyes was a bit cold, but Broly immediately agreed to the deal Fels proposed.

"Then, no time to lose..."

Just as Fels was about to directly start researching resurrection magic, Broly's stomach growled.

"I haven't eaten dinner yet, let's start again tomorrow."

At this, Fels could only nod in helpless agreement.

Broly left the Guild, and just as he was heading toward the Hostess of Fertility, Ryu was in the tavern's back kitchen telling the Little Giant Miya, who was stir-frying, about her intention to resign.

"What, tired of working as a waitress here?"

Miya asked without turning her head.

"Not at all. It's just that I have something I absolutely must do, and it requires a lot, a lot of money."

Ryu lowered her head. When she was at her lowest, it was Miya's Hostess of Fertility that took her in. Now, her act of resigning and leaving felt to Ryu like a betrayal of the benefactor who had once sheltered her.

"Alright, I agree."

However, the Little Giant Miya only said this one sentence.

"Ah, you don't blame me?"

"What's there to blame? You need a lot of money to do something you absolutely must do, and I can't pay a waitress that high a salary here.

People wanting to move higher is no problem. As long as you don't take a crooked path, and as long as the path you walk won't make you regret it in the future, that resignation reason is already enough.

Although I don't know what happened to you, Ryu, seeing you pull yourself together and have something you want to do, I'm still very happy."

"Thank you, Miya-mama."

"Although you've resigned, don't forget you're someone who came out of the Hostess of Fertility. If you encounter any difficulties outside in the future, absolutely don't stay silent and bear it alone. Don't treat me and Anya and the others as outsiders. Just speak up. Even if we can't guarantee we can help you..."

Miya-mama's words came from behind. After listening, Ryu turned around, replied with a "Yes," and bowed deeply toward the Little Giant's back as she stir-fried.

After that, Ryu found Syr and seriously apologized to the Quest Board girl, saying she could not fulfill the task the girl had previously entrusted to her.

"Eh, why? Could it be that you, Ryu, have also fallen for that kid Broly and want to steal him away while guarding him?"

Helen Syr asked jokingly in the Quest Board girl's tone.

"Ah, it's not like that. Rather..."

Being closer with Syr, Ryu didn't hesitate and told her about Ais and the others' attitude toward her in the hot spring pool, and about her wanting to resurrect a past friend.

"Hmm, I can understand the feeling of not wanting to stalk someone who treats you sincerely. But does a miracle magic like resurrection magic really still exist in this world?!"

Ryu nodded seriously and roughly recounted what had happened at Hearth Manor these past two days, including that she had already resigned and wanted to go earn money.

"Eh, Broly won't help you for free?"

Hearing Ryu resigned, the Quest Board girl couldn't help but ask.

"I don't want to owe him too much..."

Ryu replied with a somewhat red face.

"It's exactly the current situation. I already feel like I can't repay his kindness. If even the expenses for resurrecting my past friend have to be borne by him, then I really wouldn't know how to repay him in the future..."

【Then you just have a few more kids for him?】

Helen retorted in her heart. And in her view, with Ryu's personality of repaying kindness, as long as Broly truly resurrected her friend, she would absolutely not be able to escape. Never mind Broly just wanting to step on multiple boats to encounter her; even if he held a collar and made her his exclusive cannon fodder, Ryu would probably bite her lip and agree.

In a certain sense, Freya-sama's plan to push Ryu into the embrace of that boy from the Hestia Familia counts as having succeeded.

"In the future, if you need help, remember to tell me. Although I can't guarantee anything, I'll do my best to help you too."

Understanding the degree to which Freya-sama valued this friendship, Helen spoke the words the Quest Board girl would say, in Syr's tone.

"Mm, thank you, Syr."

At this, Ryu expressed her thanks once more.

And when Ryu returned to the table where Hestia and the others were, Broly also just happened to arrive at the tavern.

"One piece of good news and one piece of bad news..."

Broly spoke the bad news first.

"On Miss Fels's side, there is no magic to directly repair defective remains."

Then, before Ryu's Happiness Value could decrease, he directly spoke the good news.

"However, Miss Fels said she can assist in research, to try to create such a magic."

"But new magic isn't that easy to research, right?"

Lefiya just subconsciously said this, but after finishing, she reacted, hurriedly covered her mouth, and carefully looked toward Ryu's direction.

"Mm, indeed. However, resurrection magic was also created by her. Since she could even create resurrection magic, one would think she should be able to create magic to repair defective remains too."

"Eh?!" x6

Seeing everyone surprised, Broly explained to the others.

"I only found out tonight when I went to find her. Miss Fels's real identity is actually the Sage Dio Orpheus from over 800 years ago."

A man's name, a tree's shadow. Once Sage Fels's identity was revealed, Ryu also let out a long breath of relief.

Early the next morning, without waiting for Broly to take the initiative to go to the Guild, the Ghost Miss impatiently came looking. She checked the remains packed in the box, and after confirming the degree of the remains' defectiveness, she nodded and said: "I will work hard to think of a way to repair these remains. But before that..."

Fels made a fly-rubbing-hands gesture.

"I want to first research the reason your resurrection magic takes effect."

And as for the excuse's reason, Fels had one.

"Only by understanding why your resurrection magic can take effect, and to what degree it can take effect, can I determine to what extent the remains need to be repaired to meet the minimum conditions for resurrection. Hmm, Broly, you also want to resurrect the remains in the box as soon as possible, don't you?"

Broly glanced at Ryu, then nodded in acknowledgment of Fels's words.

"Sage-sama, what preparations are needed?"

Ryu inserted herself to ask. She wanted to help as much as possible.

"No need to call me Sage, just call me Fels."

"The preparations needed to verify the conditions for successful resurrection, I've already brought them all."

Fels clapped his hands, and the Guild Staff in black suits who followed behind carried some things inside.

Among them, there was something that looked like a coffin.

"Wait, that's a coffin, right?"

"Yes, that's correct."

"Then what's inside it?"

"A human corpse."

"Ah~"

Lefiya let out a cry of surprise and took a step back.

Beside her, Ais also subconsciously reached for the sword at her waist.

"Of course, this was obtained through regular channels."

Seeing this scene, and knowing the two might have misunderstood, Fels hurriedly began to explain.

"The owner of the corpse inside was a mason worker; yesterday, he accidentally fell from a roof while working and died.

Last night, I had people search all night for someone who had just died and found him; then I proactively went to his home, spent money, and bought his remains from his family."

"Ah, buying and selling corpses... isn't that a bit too evil?"

"Evil?

Why do you say that? As far as I understand, his family is not wealthy, and losing the breadwinning man of the house is equivalent to losing their economic pillar.

If I hadn't gone to their door and spent money to buy the remains, the remaining wife and children might have had to move to Daedalus Street to reside due to poverty.

On the contrary, I spent money to buy that family's father and husband's remains; the money I gave out is enough to let that family tide over the difficult time of losing their man."

"Ah, this..."

Fels's words left Lefiya unable to refute.

However, she seemed able to understand the clean freak nature of the Thousand Elf's existence.

Pausing for a moment, he added another sentence: "Besides, Thousand Elf, my buying this corpse itself isn't to do some evil magic experiment; on the contrary, I intend to use it to verify just to what extent Mr. Broly's Resurrection Magic can reach.

If it can truly resurrect a dead person, and the resurrected mason wants to return to his family, I won't stop him either.

At that time, the wife who lost her husband and the children who lost their father will see their important family member return from the land of death; isn't that something worth being happy about?"

With things said to this extent, the matter of Fels bringing a corpse wasn't too hard to accept anymore.

"Come now, Mr. Broly, please show me the miracle of magic once again!"

Resurrecting a dead chicken can only prove Resurrection Magic is indeed effective, but whether it can resurrect a dead human is the key question.

Broly didn't hesitate either; he directly stepped forward, aimed his hand at the male corpse inside the open coffin, and began chanting the spell for Resurrection Magic.

And resurrecting a dead person and resurrecting a dead chicken are indeed different; if resurrecting a dead chicken's Magic Power consumption is equivalent to opening a high-pressure water gun nozzle, then resurrecting a dead person's Magic Power consumption is equivalent to directly opening the sluice gate of a small reservoir.

Broly, with 11s stats, discovered he was starting to feel dizzy before the Resurrection Magic chant was even halfway done; this was a sign his body's Magic Power had hit bottom.

And just as he planned to temporarily stop, have Hestia level him up, release the Super Weighted Training Skill's restriction, and use his true power to cast Resurrection Magic.

"Pop~"

Fels directly opened a large box beside him and pulled out a Large Blue Bottle from inside.

"This is a top-tier Magic Power Recovery Potion..."

She introduced it like that, and handed the Large Blue Bottle in her hand to the Saiyan boy.

"Come now, Mr. Broly, these potions, you just go ahead and drink them!"

Fels had made ample preparations; she herself knew the Magic Power consumption of Resurrection Magic better than anyone.

It can be said, without Magic Storage Equipment and without the help of Recovery Potions, it is almost impossible for anyone to use it.

And for this situation, Broly hadn't anticipated it, but he didn't refuse either; he directly started chugging the Magic Power Recovery Potions.

As bottle after bottle of potion was drunk by him like water, Broly's exhausted Magic Power was also restored.

The Resurrection Magic continued to take effect; maintained for about five minutes, the white Magic Power light enveloping the corpse suddenly became blinding.

The next moment, it turned into a pillar of light soaring into the sky, ignoring the Hearth Manor's Building, shooting straight toward the Sky.

"God sent back?"

Even though it was early morning at this time, the soaring pillar of light still caught the attention of many people.

"Has Hestia-sama been sent back?"

Because of the Forge Room's Construction, Tsukasa, who was coming to Hearth Manor this side today to supervise the project, saw the giant pillar of light appear on Hearth Manor's side and his face instantly changed drastically.

"No, this is the Gate to the Underworld being opened."

Under the Black Robe, Fels's voice was trembling, because the next moment would reveal the answer to whether Resurrection Magic can resurrect the dead.

After the sky-piercing pillar of light appeared, it maintained for five seconds, then began to shrink, and Broly's surging Magic Power also stopped at this moment.

As the pillar of light disappeared, revealing the man inside the coffin who had been laid out, his motionless chest began to rise and fall again.

Eyelids trembled, the next moment, the man in the coffin opened his eyes...

"Where is this?"

The man sat up in confusion; when he discovered he was inside a coffin, he crawled out in some panic.

"Who exactly are you people, why did you put me in a coffin?"

The man looked at the surrounding people, his somewhat panicked gaze finally settling on Fels, who looked most like a Death God.

"Do you still remember who you are, the things before death, and the things after death?"

Fels asked the man.

"I am..."

The man stated his name, and his complexion gradually turned pale.

"So, I'm already dead, this is the afterlife, the Underworld the Goddess spoke of?"

He seemed to recall the events of his past life.

"Uh, actually, this is still the Lower World, the mortal realm."

Hestia reminded.

"Eh?!"

The mason worker was surprised, but from the faint Kamui emanating from Hestia, he recognized her identity as a Goddess.

"Ah, unknown Goddess-sama, please don't comfort me with false lies. I clearly remember stepping into empty space while working and falling directly from the rooftop. From such a height, and now I've come out of a coffin..."

The man's voice trembled more and more as he spoke, finally turning into wailing sobs. He called out his wife and daughter's names, and his mouth began to say sorry.

"Hestia-sama, this uncle doesn't seem to believe your words at all."

Tiona looked at the Loli Goddess and said.

"No memories of after death?"

Fels, from the other party's behavior, discerned this point.

The revived mason worker, because he believed he had abandoned his family, was emotionally collapsing.

He clearly realized what kind of predicament his family might face after losing him.

However, this person's emotional collapse was quickly terminated.

Because Broly stepped forward and directly used his specialty — persuasion — on this person.

Only two *pa pa* sounds were heard, two moderate slaps landed.

Dazed but not brain-damaged, he quickly made this person recognize the reality of being alive again.

"That's how it is. You don't need to pay the resurrection fee, but if you want to return to your family, you must first sign this Confidentiality Agreement..."

Fels quickly examined this man who had returned from the dead. After confirming he was exactly the same as a living person who had never died, he disposed of the matter regarding him.

Mm, not allowing the other party to speak of returning from the dead; publicly he could only say he fell and suffered severe injuries, then was healed by a kindly Adventurer physician.

If violated, he would have to pay a resurrection fee as high as 120 million Valis. This doesn't even count Broly's labor fee — just the cost of the consumed Magic Power recovery potions.

And upon hearing 120 million Valis, the mason worker who had already realized he was revived instantly turned pale.

Because this was an exorbitant amount he couldn't repay even if he sold himself. The mason worker nodded repeatedly, indicating he would absolutely keep his mouth shut about this matter, and was taken away by the black-suited Guild Staff who had accompanied them, seemingly to be sent home.

(Chapter End)