Chapter 756

"Say, is there really a need to keep it secret when the Resurrection Magic caused such a huge commotion?"

After the man was taken away, Tiona asked in confusion.

"It is necessary. Think about it, if Resurrection Magic truly exists, and this news spreads, never mind ordinary people, what kind of reaction would those Adventurers who have lost important people have?"

"Hmm, those people would come looking for help, requesting Broly's assistance."

Ais continued the conversation.

"Or they would use coercion to force Broly to help."

Ryu added another possible scenario.

"No mistake."

Fels nodded.

But more importantly, this might thereby affect her investigation into the boy's Resurrection Magic.

Dead people have been confirmed to be able to be revived.

But why only Broly's Resurrection Magic can revive lost lives, there is still no answer.

"Miss Fels?"

Seeing the Black Robe person fall into deep thought, Broly couldn't help but call out to her.

"What's wrong with you?"

After Fels turned her head to look over, Broly asked again.

"I was thinking about the problem of why my Resurrection Magic cannot take effect."

"Then did you get an answer?"

"No, but I have reached a preliminary conclusion."

"What?"

"My Resurrection Magic seems unable to call back the souls of the deceased from the Underworld like yours can."

"Eh?"

"Although this is arrogant, Broly, could you please tell me, how exactly did you manage to do this?"

"I don't know."

"Please, you must think properly. If I don't know the answer to this question, I definitely won't be able to settle down and research the matter of repairing defective remains."

Hearing this, Broly frowned: "The matter of cooperating with you to use Resurrection Magic, I have already done it once. With your current wording, can I consider that you are using this matter to manipulate me?"

Sensing the hostility gradually emanating from the Saiyan boy, Fels reacted. She realized her words just now were a bit off, and hurriedly waved her hands: "Ah, that's not what I meant..."

"Then what did you mean?"

The atmosphere began to become sword drawn bow bent. Broly seemed like he might make a move at any moment.

"Broly, wait a moment. She doesn't seem to have any intention of deceiving you."

However, Hestia stopped him in time.

"Miss Fels, you just want to understand the situation of why your Resurrection Magic doesn't work, and have no intention of manipulating my family's child, right?"

Facing Hestia's questioning, Fels breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly nodded, giving a definite reply: "Yes, I absolutely have no such intention."

A person cannot lie in front of a God. Hestia's pale blue Divine Eyes reflected Fels' figure. Her gaze softened, and she nodded at Broly beside her.

"May I ask you some more questions?"

"What questions? Goddess Hestia, please ask."

"Your Resurrection Magic, even in my view as a Goddess, is a very miraculous kind of miracle. You say you cannot call back the deceased's soul from the Underworld. What I want to ask is, how do you confirm the location of the deceased's soul in the Underworld?"

"Uh, this, of course it is through the Lower World physical body of the resurrection target who had Resurrection Magic cast on them, to search for the location of the deceased's soul in the Underworld."

Fels answered.

"Then, is your failure because of exhausted Magic Power, or because you couldn't search out the soul?"

Fels fell into deep thought. After a while, she answered: "Both situations seem to exist, but regarding reviving people, exhausted Magic Power is the main reason."

"Then I roughly understand the reason for your Resurrection Magic failure."

"What?"

Fels looked at the Loli Goddess.

"You don't understand Resurrection Magic and don't have Resurrection Authority, yet you know the reason for my failure?"

Her tone was somewhat unkind, but she can't be blamed for it.

It's simply that her Main God in the past gave her a not-so-good traumatic experience.

Hmm, that's the one from over eight hundred years ago, the one who smashed the Philosopher's Stone she painstakingly created.

"This Sage Miss, do you know how big the Underworld actually is?"

Hestia didn't answer but asked back.

"How big?"

Fels subconsciously pursued the question.

"The vastness there, the quantity of existing souls. Even for a God themselves, wanting to find a specific child's soul inside is a relatively difficult matter. It might take a God decades, or even hundreds of thousands of years."

The Loli Goddess answered, then raised her volume: "And your Resurrection Magic searches for the corresponding soul in exactly such a place. One can imagine the difficulty existing within this."

Fels did not refute, because what Hestia said indeed made sense.

"But how was Broly able to succeed in searching out a specific soul in such a place?"

Immediately she asked again, and this is the crux of the problem.

"I think this should be related to his Development Ability: Luck."

"Luck?"

Hearing this, Fels froze for a moment, repeating Hestia's words.

"Yes, in a vast place filled with souls, searching for a specific soul — if your luck is good enough, you might find it quickly, but if your luck isn't enough, I'm afraid you might search for a lifetime and never find it.

And this so-called luck is a rather metaphysical thing; even we gods cannot fully understand the situation within it.

Of course, this is merely my personal opinion, but perhaps you can take it as a reference answer for why your resurrection magic failed."

Fels fell silent for a while, and when she spoke again, she shook her head and denied Hestia's reference answer.

"No, this isn't some reference answer. I think this is the true reason my resurrection magic failed to work. No wonder my resurrection magic received an evaluation of a useless magic back then."

Fels's mood was somewhat low, but her tone carried a sense of relief. She once had her own Main God, and when the resurrection magic appeared on her ability panel, that was the distant Former Main God's evaluation of this magic of hers.

The former her thought it was a god's mockery, but now, after hearing Hestia's words, Fels suddenly reacted — this might be the fact that Former Main God saw from herself.

【So, that Former Main God shattered my Philosopher's Stone just so I wouldn't fall into disappointment and drill into a dead end?】

The Former Main God's divine will can no longer be verified now. The Sage Miss quickly collected her complex mood, preparing to fulfill her promise to the Saiyan boy.

"Resurrection magic has a requirement for the body's integrity. Before repairing the defective remains, I feel we can first integrate and piece together the existing remains."

As the current bone monster, Fels made her own judgment.

"Broly, is Hestia alright?"

And just at this moment, the Hearth Manor's main gate was kicked open with one kick. An intruder burst in; the voice arrived before the person, asking tensely.

"Uh, Hephaestus..."

The Loli Goddess looked at her tense, bursting-in friend with some astonishment.

"Just now I saw a pillar of light rise from this side..."

Discovering her Divine Friend was fine, Hephaestus scratched her head and explained the reason she rushed over here.

"Thank you for caring so much about me, but that wasn't mine."

"Do you know whose it is?"

Hestia and Broly glanced at each other, then chose to tell the truth to Hephaestus.

"Eh, resurrection?!"

Hephaestus's reaction was about the same as Freya's last night upon learning Broly and the others were doing a resurrection magic experiment — both were somewhat astonished.

"Right, Hephaestus-sama, I wonder if your old injury has healed?"

Broly suddenly asked, pointing at his own cheek with a finger.

"Ah, that... it's already healed."

Hephaestus touched the eye patch on her face, lifted the eye patch to reveal the intact face beneath, and answered.

"It's just that I've already gotten used to wearing this eye patch thing.

Also, the kids in the Familia are also more used to my appearance wearing an eye patch.

So, I still wear it."

"Mhm, same for me."

The One-Eyed Craftsman also lifted her eye patch. Like her own Goddess, the wound under the eye patch had been healed by the Horse Talisman.

"What about the Horse Talisman?"

"Eh, Broly, where are you injured, that you need to use it?"

Chun asked with some surprise.

"No, I just want to take it to repair this."

Broly pointed at the box behind him, inside which the girl's remains were currently placed.

Although the Horse Talisman also cannot regenerate missing parts, at least in repairing the non-defective places, there is still no problem.

Chun made a pendant chain for the Horse Talisman. Learning Broly needed to take this thing back, she pulled it out from her chest.

The Horse Talisman pendant still retaining body temperature was directly returned to the Saiyan's hand. Broly could smell Chun's scent — this wife of his — from the pendant in his hand.

A bit salty, should be the sweat smell from forging iron that got stained on and wasn't cleaned off much. He didn't dislike it much.

Just like that, under the somewhat doubtful gazes of Fels and the others, he placed the Horse Talisman pendant on the remains in the box.

"Broly-sama, what are you doing?"

The Sage Miss asked with some confusion.

"This is a special tool, able to dispel illness, repair damaged objects, and make the holder return to a normal state."

"Eh?"

The Horse Talisman's cross-world use produced a very slow repair effect, but no matter how slow, it was still visible to the naked eye.

"Crack—"

One saw the bone fragments closest to the Horse Talisman, under the talisman's power removing abnormal influence from external force, knit together under everyone's gaze.

The linked bones were intact, just as if they had never been broken.

Fels leaned against the box side. Seeing this scene, she turned her head doubtfully to look at Broly: "So, with this kind of miraculous thing, you still had me come up with a way to repair the defective remains?"

"The repair effect it can exert is only repairing existing damaged parts. As for missing places, it cannot achieve the so-called completion."

Broly answered Fels's doubt. This is the limitation of the Horse Talisman's existence. Even in the world where the talisman originally belonged, it is the same situation.

The existing bone fragments are being knitted together. The Adi girl's resurrection progress has advanced slightly, but currently this deceased's life state is still very stable, with no possibility of revival yet.

"Broly, I plan to combine the forge room and the hot spring pool. A smith's furnace always needs to maintain a burning state. The excess heat emitted can just be used to heat the bath water..."

Since she's come all this way, Chun pulled Broly to the side and discussed the matter of expanding indoor functional buildings with him.

In the half-dwarf busty craftsman's plan, she would fully utilize the forge room's furnace energy, including but not limited to maintaining the hot spring pool's temperature, normal water boiling and cooking, and also whole-house heating for when winter comes.

And her words also attracted Tiona's attention: "Craftsman Miss's words sound like you're going to live here long-term too."

"Not 'sound like,' but exactly that. I'll come live here from now on too. Speaking of which, aren't you Loki Familia people? How come you're living at Hearth Manor too?"

Chun answered, then asked with some curiosity.

"Ah, we're accompanying Ais-sama. We came here to cultivate together with Broly-sama."

Lefiya explained.

"I see."

"Then why will Miss Chun come over to this side in the future?"

"Mhm, this is because Broly agreed to build a top-tier forge room for me on the Hearth Manor side."

Chun answered, and when she said this, she looked at Broly.

"Right, your sword and fist armor, I've already repaired them for you, but I forgot to bring them over."

"It's fine, anyway I haven't gone to the Dungeon recently, there's no place to use them."

"Uh, Broly, isn't this a bit too overbearing of you, to actually give an exclusive equipment smith a professional forge room within your own Familia?"

"Chun, she's worth me doing this for her."

Broly thought for a moment, then answered Tiona's words seriously.

"Haha, Broly, you kid, your mouth is really sweet enough."

Chun laughed heartily, directly picked Broly up, and hugged him in her arms.

If it weren't for the many people here, making it not too good to kiss in front of them, she might have started tasting him.

"But Miss Chun, aren't you the regiment leader of the Hephaestus Familia? If you come to the Hearth Manor side to reside long-term in the future, will Lord Hephaestus agree?"

Lefiya asked somewhat curiously, her gaze involuntarily also glancing in the direction of the red-haired goddess who was talking with Hestia over there.

"Agree, why wouldn't she agree? Lord Hephaestus is also coming over to this side to live long-term."

"Eh?!"

"She and Lord Hestia are very close divine friends, and in the future we will also become one family."

Chun answered honestly, and her words made Ais and the others feel surprised.

Even Liu, who was lying on the box edge watching her good friend's bones slowly fuse together bit by bit, looked over this way.

"The Hearth Manor side is being renovated? Then can you build a magic laboratory for me too?"

At this time, Fels walked over and asked the busty smith hugging the Saiyan boy.

"Eh?!"

Others' gazes looked at her, and Fels began to explain.

"Although I can also do research in my private magic laboratory, if the magic laboratory is built on the Hestia Familia side, it is instead convenient for me and Mr. Broly to exchange technical matters regarding repairing defective remains. Of course, regarding the cost of adding the magic laboratory, I will bear it alone."

Just like that, the people coming to live on the Hearth Manor side increased by one.

However, ones like Fels probably don't count as people, but count as undead creatures with physical bodies.

And if she counts as a lodger, then that deceased girl whose defective remains and bones were repaired by the Horse Talisman probably also counts as a special lodger.

Under the offensive of adding money, the Hephaestus Familia's engineering regiment, in only half a day's time, built a magic research laboratory whose protection level was not high.

Inside here, overly dangerous attack magic cannot be experimented with, but if it's just researching magic to repair defective remains, it is already enough.

"Good morning, Miss Fels, you got up really early."

This day, Ais, who got up in the early morning, met Fels in the corridor and greeted her.

"Is there a possibility that I simply didn't sleep at all?"

Fels really wanted to say this, but in the end only gave a vague response, and holding fresh bones ordered from the butcher shop and delivered before dawn, walked into her magic laboratory.

"Good morning, Miss Liu~"

When she arrived at the living room, Ais greeted the elf who got up even earlier than herself.

"And Miss Adi, good morning to you too."

Incidentally, she also politely greeted the somewhat defective, naked skeleton wearing a piece of female clothing beside the elf.

Of course, Miss Adi wouldn't respond; she was just brought out by Liu, saying it was to let her adapt to the feeling of being alive before resurrection.

Upon appraisal, this was merely a strange operation done out of the elf lady's anxious psychology hoping for her friend's resurrection, and the other party's spirit state absolutely had no problem.

(Chapter End)