Chapter 797: Do You Want a Normal Resurrection, or a Magic Stone Implantation Type?

Time rewinds to the first day the Battlefield Saintess Amide and the Goddess Golden Haize came to the Hearth Manor's Magic Laboratory on this side to provide technical support and assist research.

"This is Miss Fels; you may not have heard this name, but Sage Dio Orpheus, perhaps you have heard of him."

Broly introduced the true identity of Miss Fels, the Fool responsible for presiding over the Magic Laboratory's research, to the two of them.

The two of them also, unsurprisingly, produced doubts about Fels's identity: a figure from eight hundred years ago, how could she possibly live to this era.

"Among the magic I research, quite a few are related to life, and a portion of those research results allowed me to live until now, although in this manner……"

As Fels spoke, she flipped up her hood right there in the laboratory, revealing her current living dead appearance to the two of them.

In the Magic Laboratory, these two people would spend a not-short time researching together with her, tackling difficult problems together.

And at this kind of close distance, hiding her true face was a comparatively difficult and troublesome matter; therefore, Fels made the candid option.

"When Mr. Broly invited me, I thought it was the Sage's descendant presiding over the magic research; I didn't expect it to actually be the Sage from eight hundred years ago herself presiding……"

Fels's true identity was comparatively impactful for Amide, but after accepting the story happening on the skeleton before her eyes, Amide produced a sense of shared honor from the bottom of her heart.

Being able to do research in a magic laboratory with a senior walking the forefront of magic filled her heart with a surge of enthusiasm.

"So, Miss Fels, what specifically do you need me to do?"

"Please help research a container that can accommodate a soul long-term!"

"Eh?!"

After explanation, Fels finally made the Battlefield Saintess understand that they didn't want her to make a Lich's phylactery, but merely to research a prosthetic limb that a soul could attach to long-term.

"But a soul can't be seen or touched; how am I supposed to research a prosthetic limb that can accommodate such an intangible, ethereal thing?"

The premise of research is the ability to observe and interfere; but if observation itself can't be done, then there's even less mention of interfering to conduct research.

"Don't worry, Miss Amide, I have a tool here that can help you observe souls."

"What tool?"

"The Sheep Talisman; it can let your soul leave your body!"

Broly held the Sheep Talisman in his hand, aimed it at the Battlefield Saintess, and directly fired a beam of Magic Power for 【Astral Projection】.

Amide, struck, instantly collapsed; fortunately the youth stepped forward in time to catch her body, preventing her from falling face-first to the ground.

"Don't worry, this kind of Astral Projection won't let your soul be guided away by the Underworld; you can observe the soul-retention effect of the prosthetic limb you're making by turning into a soul state.

Additionally, manipulating Magic Power to circulate through the spirit body can make your soul form manifest before normal people, though affecting actual objects will have some difficulty."

Broly's eyes were clad in Qi, and in his field of vision, there were now two Miss Amides in the laboratory: one was her body, the other her soul; after a period of adaptation time, she calmed down again, controlling Magic Power to manifest in soul form inside the Magic Laboratory.

"Do I need to turn into a soul state too?"

Haize observed from the side and asked curiously.

"That's not necessary; what Miss Haize needs to be responsible for is assisting the other remains restoration research direction."

Fels led the person to the Magic Power Stabilization Device, pointed at the broken bones inside the device and said: "We need someone with sufficiently stable Magic Power nature and sufficiently fine Magic Power manipulation to help catalyze the broken bones' self-repair; I call this technique Bone Hyperplasia Restoration Surgery."

Under Fels's direction, Haize directly tried outputting Magic Power; the first attempt made the bones inside the stabilization device grow crooked, but she quickly grasped the knack, repaired the re-inserted broken bones, then turned back and asked with some puzzlement: "Just doing this kind of simple fine Magic Power manipulation, you didn't need to specially invite me over to work, right?"

"Uh, actually, this kind of thing is only simple for you; for us, it's very hard to achieve stable repair."

Broken bones coated in Fusion Solvent are very easily influenced by Outside World Magic Power; Broly himself also tried manipulating this thing to repair broken bones, and while his manipulation finesse for this energy called Magic Power was sufficient, the problem was his own Magic Power nature was comparatively active.

Just like hot oil hitting water directly explodes, no matter how carefully he output Magic Power, it would quickly cause the broken bones' repair to fail.

Fels was much better, but actual operation was still difficult, like a surgeon — steady hands are a necessary premise, but appendectomy and neurosurgery are two different levels.

Obviously, in broken bone repair, Fels does appendectomies, while Haize does neurosurgery; whether in repair speed or success rate, the latter is faster and higher than the former; Haize is like the Flying Knife Broly invited from the Freya Familia.

After witnessing the other party's broken bone repair ability, Fels quickly arranged a pile of bones from the same individual, deliberately broken and defective, for her to repair.

"Broly, it's your turn to cast Resurrection Magic."

And after the repair was done, Fels said to the Saiyan youth.

In this Magic Laboratory, Broly is the one responsible for providing Resurrection Magic.

Fels can also do this work, but she doesn't have the Saiyan youth's luck.

Even using Resurrection Magic, the majority would end in failure, and have no reference value.

Under the Resurrection Magic's radiance, accompanied by grunting sounds, a Second Disciple was resurrected by Broly.

Whether Haize or Amide whose soul had already returned to her body, both widened their eyes watching the Second Disciple in the laboratory, revived from bone state to completeness.

"Broly, don't let this pig run wild; I need to examine its condition."

The Fool directed the Saiyan youth to pin down the Second Disciple, and began a series of tests on the Second Disciple, mainly checking the working condition of the other party's various organs.

Later, Fels felt this kind of examination wasn't enough, and had Broly use the Sheep Talisman to give her an 【Astral Projection】 too.

Soul fire extinguished, the living dead body collapsed into a heap; conversely, a spirit body appeared on the spot, unscrupulously shuttling through the Second Disciple's body pinned by Broly to inspect.

"Mm, the current situation counts as no problem; this pig's soul and body are stuck very firmly, however, the possibility of problems appearing still cannot be completely ruled out, so it needs to be observed for a while longer."

Fels, having finished the examination, made a summary, then saw the two women beside her staring wide-eyed at her.

"Your Excellency the Sage, what is this form of yours?"

Amide couldn't help but ask.

"The soul's form relates to the person's own self-cognition, and my cognition of myself stopped at the time I researched the Philosopher's Stone……"

About 1.4 meters tall, long straight black hair in a hime cut, purple pupils set in an exquisite small face that was slightly expressionless.

Called a girl, yet somewhat childish; called a Pomegranate, yet larger than a Pomegranate; and this is the form of the Sage young lady who became famous young eight hundred years ago, praised as the Current Era's Genius.

The first time Broly saw the other party's Astral Projection form, he actually had a reaction similar to the two beside him.

Compared to the tall, mysterious Fool who gave a Bad Person feeling, the other party's appearance as a Sage had a contrast that was indeed a bit too large.

"Incidentally, Broly's soul form also doesn't match his current appearance, but is an extremely burly big guy."

The Sage young lady pointed at the youth and said, she was trying to shift the two people in the laboratory's attention regarding her own soul form.

These are some things that happened on the first day the newcomers joined the Magic Laboratory; time quickly arrived at one week later……

"Miss Haize's remains restoration technique is quite excellent; it has now been confirmed as having no problem, and Miss Amide's side has likewise discovered a material that can accommodate souls — that is high-quality Magic Stones, and individuals resurrected through implanted Magic Stone prosthetic limbs are actually able to, after resurrection, possess the ability to manipulate the Magic Power inside the implanted Magic Stone prosthetic limb's interior……"

Broly brought the returned Liu to the Magic Laboratory, where there were already many animal experimental subjects kept in cages, revived by resurrection magic.

Among them were two rabbits revived with magic stone prosthetics repairing their remains; originally ordinary rabbits, they displayed monster-like abilities after revival — one could condense ice, the other could spew flames.

That's right, Broly's side had researched the magic stone implantation technique used by the Fallen Fairy Spirits of the Dungeon to create monsters.

Essentially, monsters are just corpses implanted with magic stones, brought back to life through resurrection.

"Resurrection with implanted magic stone prosthetics adds a magic power hunger condition, requiring regular consumption of magic stones or magic power recovery potions to alleviate the state, but compared to the directly gained pseudo-magic abilities, it currently appears the pros outweigh the cons; only whether there are aftereffects remains unclear for now……"

Broly explained the situation.

"Liu, if you want your friend Miss Adi to be strengthened as a bonus when revived, then wait a bit longer, wait until we've fully researched the magic stone prosthetic resurrection route; but if you don't need her strengthened and just purely want her revived, then we can start preparing to revive her right now."

The surprise came too suddenly; the elf who had just returned from the Sword Capital, upon returning to Hearth Manor, received the notice that her good friend could already be revived.

"No need for strengthened revival; I just want her revived normally, plain and simple."

Regarding Broly's proposal of strengthened revival via magic stone prosthetic implantation, Liu took one look at the high-quality magic stones worth over a hundred million in the Saiyan boy's hand and passed directly; her earning ability didn't allow such an extravagant choice, plus she couldn't wait to reunite with her old friend.

"Alright, then we'll help repair Miss Adi's remains; that may take three to four days."

The Bone Mending Technique had been confirmed viable two days ago; the reason they hadn't directly started repairing Miss Adi's remains at home was because Liu hadn't returned yet, and now that she was back and her opinion had been sought, the preparation work for the revival affair could naturally begin.

"Broly, specifically, how many Valis will it cost?"

Amid her joy, Liu couldn't help but ask.

"After paying with the Valis you earned last time, you'll probably need to pay another two hundred million Valis."

Broly calculated the account and answered.

"Ah, how can it be so little?"

Liu's eyes widened.

"The magic power needed for the revival, I plan to cover with the energy provided by the Dragon Talisman, and that part doesn't require money.

So the only part that truly needs money is repairing the defective remains, but Miss Haize said she's helping out of friendship (actually it was Broly going to the Freya Familia daily to please Freya, incidentally helping train the Freya Familia combat members in exchange; of course, there was also Liu's reason — the Sora Freya played was her good friend), so you only need to pay for the fusion solvent required to repair the remains.

Hmm, calculating at cost price, it comes to this much."

"Then what about the previous research costs for repairing defective remains? Those aren't counted?"

Liu really wanted to ask that, but the words that reached her lips ultimately transformed into just two words.

"Thank you!"

Miss Adi's revival progress bar began to advance; the remains repair progress was slowly being pushed forward……

"Hestia, for this recent period, I may have to trouble you a bit."

"Not at all, Astraea; there are still many empty rooms at my Faction Residence, you can stay here as long as you like."

Returning with Liu was also the Justice Goddess Astraea, who had once been active in Orario; when updating Liu's ability value Panel, she discovered an extremely terrifying limit-break situation in the ability values that could once be updated behind the child……

After inquiring clearly about the situation from Liu, Astraea proactively proposed coming over to Orario to see things for herself, and after being brought to Hearth Manor by Liu, this Goddess discussed the matter of borrowing a place to stay temporarily with Hestia.

Hestia didn't object in the slightest; originally, she and Astraea were Divine Friends with a good relationship back in the Heavens.

"Then I'll be in your care."

Broly felt something strange; the Goddess brought back by Liu seemed to have great interest in him, her gaze constantly drifting toward him, faintly there yet not.

Every time Broly looked over, she didn't really avoid it, but instead showed him a gentle, beautiful smile, her eyes carrying some inexplicable meaning.

Broly felt like he had seen that kind of gaze somewhere before, but couldn't recall it for the moment, and with other things to do, he tossed the Goddess's strange attitude to the back of his mind.

In the evening, Loki and Freya came to visit; they had come upon hearing news of Astraea, one bringing her treasured fine wine, the other bringing her own Familia's Chef team, and a small welcome banquet was held at Hearth Manor.

"Astraea, are you planning to come back to Orario to develop again?"

Freya took a sip of red wine and asked.

"I'm just temporarily back to look after my child; currently I have no plans to return to Orario to develop."

Astraea shook her head; currently her Familia was developing over at the Sword Capital.

"If you want to come back, I can help."

Loki thumped her chest and said.

Liliruca ate bread beside them; she wondered how the Justice Goddess with decent divine connections had been driven out of Orario back then.

Of course, she had heard that the Astraea Familia had once suffered a Dark Faction scheme and been wiped out, but looking at the attitudes of Loki, Freya, and Hephaestus toward this Justice Goddess, however you looked at it they seemed like they could have lent a hand when the other's Familia declined.

Driven by curiosity, Liliruca leaned over to the elf's ear and voiced her doubt.

Liu fell silent for a while, but didn't evade the question: "Because I wanted to take revenge on the bastards who killed my Familia companions, by any means, uncaring of justice, only to vent the hatred in my heart.

And I believed doing so would tarnish Lady Astraea's name of Justice; likewise I didn't want Lady Astraea to see such an ugly me.

So it was me who requested Lady Astraea to leave Orario back then.

Hmm, Miss Lili, I'm very sorry; my behavior back then may have caused your past life to be unable to find someone who could help you."

"If the Astraea Familia were still around, those bastards wouldn't dare……"

This line was what the weak, suffering unfair treatment at the bottom of Orario and bullied by evildoers, often had on their lips after the Astraea Familia vanished from Orario.

With a group of girls who always liked meddling, standing up for the weak, and upholding justice present, some bastards with power and nasty personalities wouldn't dare act recklessly.

But after this group of justice girls disappeared, scum like Kanu of the Soma Familia dared run rampant bullying the Familia's small-person-race orphan girl.

One could say, if the Astraea Familia had still been around back then, Liliruca might have been able to find someone to help her.

Having stayed at Hearth Manor this long, helping her friend understand rival-in-love information, Liu more or less knew the situation of the women around the boy; she had also heard of Liliruca's situation.

So she apologized.

"Ah, the things that happened in my past weren't caused by you, Miss Liu has absolutely no need to apologize, right?

Besides, if I had been able to find someone to help me back then, how could I have met Broly-san now?"

The small-person-race girl waved her hands repeatedly; Liu responded with a sound, but her spirits remained low.

"Your child's personality is still this twisted, huh."

Freya glanced over and said to Astraea beside her.

"Liu's personality is stubborn, and somewhat too serious; even until now, it hasn't changed……"

Astraea nodded in agreement.

She suspected that if it weren't for the matter of resurrecting Adi, her own child might forever be trapped in the web of tension, believing that one who abandoned justice was unworthy to come and see herself.

"But it is precisely this stubbornness that makes this child of hers seem very cute, isn't it?"

"Freya, you seem to know my home's child very well?"

Astraea looked at her with some curiosity.

"It would be strange if she didn't understand, Freya she……"

Hestia's mouth was covered by Freya, and she smiled as she said to Astraea.

"I just appreciate your children whose souls are clean and pretty."

Xier's identity, she temporarily doesn't want to expose it to Liu.

Astraea blinked her eyes, not understanding what situation this was.

Did the other party have some secret she didn't want Hestia to say out?

But what did that have to do with Liu?

Chapter End