Chapter 810

Public opinion tends toward whichever side tells the better story.

Since the protest march, within Orario, public opinion has been clashing between accepting the heretic adventurers who rescue them and rejecting heretics while claiming these magic beasts possess intelligence and will surely become a major threat to Orario in the future.

On every street and alley, people of all classes can be heard discussing this topic every day.

Overall, most people refuse to accept heretics.

After all, the inherent impression of magic beasts is not good, and claims that they possess intelligence and will save people are mere hearsay.

"However, there's no need to kill those magic beasts just because they aren't accepted."

"After all, the Guild isn't wrong either."

"No matter what, those intelligent magic beasts did save some adventurers who were nearly killed."

", haven't you heard that this guy might have staged it himself?"

"I've heard, but didn't the Guild say they would investigate this matter strictly?"

"They haven't found anything yet; perhaps this is just conspiracy rumors deliberately spread by extremists."

The Guild still has public credibility in Orario, and when two Orario residents, one supporting conspiracy theories and one denying them, began arguing in the street over their differing views,

news that an adventurer requested the Hestia Familia to help resurrect a dead magic beast swept in like a whirlwind.

"What the hell, resurrect a magic beast?"

"Yeah, I heard that guy came out covered in blood, but he clutched a magic stone in his arms and refused to let go."

People had heard plenty about resurrecting adventurer companions, but resurrecting dungeon magic beasts was a first; upon hearing the news, people with differing views who had free time rushed to Orario's Central Square to see the situation.

Soon, the Central Square was packed to capacity.

On Babel Tower, seeing the scene of crowds outside through the Resurrection Room and knowing the audience was in place, Broly, the lead actor, pretended to have just finished his work and was now coming downstairs.

He walked straight to the male adventurer actor, the other lead, and asked directly: "I heard you want me to help resurrect a dead magic beast?"

"Yes, Mr. Broly, Nol saved me in the dungeon——"

The male adventurer acted serious, oh no, it should be said that this fake-turned-real event truly happened, and in front of a crowd of spectators who came to see the excitement, he loudly recounted how he met and befriended an intelligent magic beast girl in the dungeon, and how during this dungeon labyrinth exploration adventure, she leapt to block fatal damage for him.

"Mr. Broly, please save Miss Nol!"

After telling a story that was scripted but truly happened, the male adventurer knelt before Broly and begged.

"You know your resurrection insurance can't be used for others, right?"

"I know."

"Then do you know the pricing standard for resurrection services?"

"I know, but I'm willing to bear it."

"I must remind you, I've never resurrected a magic beast before, only dead people; this kind of resurrection might not be possible at all, and even if it is, the resurrected magic beast might not be the one you know—the other party might become an irrational, unintelligent magic beast and attack you directly after resurrection. So, are you still sure you want to resurrect your magic beast friend?"

"I——"

The adventurer's face showed conflict and hesitation, but finally, as if making a determination, he firmly said: "She saved my life, I must repay her with a life."

Hearing this, some spectators who came to see the excitement immediately cheered: "Although the one to be resurrected is a magic beast, this attitude of repaying kindness makes that guy a real man among adventurers."

Lorne, hidden in the crowd, incited them, and upon hearing such words, many spectators who didn't know the truth immediately agreed.

", are you guys idiots? That guy wants to resurrect a magic beast?"

"Hmph, he's willing to bear a heavy resurrection debt for a magic beast that saved his life; if the one who saved him were a normal surface-race teammate instead of a magic beast, then since even an intelligent dungeon magic beast is willing to be resurrected, it shows he'd be willing to resurrect normal teammates too—and how many adventurers can do that?"

"Magic beast or not, that guy dares to bear a huge debt for his savior; I respect him as a man."

Adventurers' bottom lines are actually quite low, so when someone with a high bottom line appears, it immediately draws cheers from the audience.

At this moment, who was being resurrected didn't matter; what mattered was the adventurer willing to bear a huge resurrection debt for another.

However, just then, someone in the crowd mentioned the intelligent magic beast conspiracy theory again, but was quickly shouted down.

"You say adventurers were rescued by those magic beasts in a self-staged conspiracy, I won't say much about that, but you say those intelligent magic beasts are now using their own lives to perform a so-called conspiracy?"

"Not knowing if they can be resurrected by resurrection magic—are you fucking stupid for saying that?"

The shills of the Hermes Familia hidden in the crowd, however, sang in unison, bringing up Orario's hottest dispute issue at this time.

In front of everyone, using the method of walking others' paths and leaving them no way, they shattered the so-called conspiracy theory rumors.

"If the resurrection fails, that guy is absolutely finished—a resurrection fee of over ten million Valis is an astronomical figure for a low-level adventurer; he'll probably be a slave to debt for the rest of his life——"

Someone in the crowd said this.

In the center of the square, the Saiyan boy, as if hearing these words, timely showed a sympathetic expression on his face, looking at the adventurer kneeling before him clutching a magic stone, and said: "Here's what, I can help you resurrect your magic beast friend for free."

"?"

The adventurer raised his head, his surprised expression very natural, looking at him.

"However, not now, and not here, but in a specific place."

Broly said loudly, then looked at the large crowd of onlookers around him.

"Hasn't Orario been arguing endlessly about whether to accept intelligent magic beasts from the dungeon?"

"Just right, now there's an opportunity; afterward, I will resurrect the magic beast represented by the magic stone in this person's arms at the Ganesha Familia's beast-fighting arena."

"If the resurrection fails, so be it, but if it succeeds, it will just let Orario's spectators witness with their own eyes the specific situation of an intelligent dungeon magic beast that has been resurrected——"

Broly, as if moved by the attitude of the adventurer requesting resurrection, publicly said he would help resurrect his magic beast friend for free, but also proposed to perform this act of resurrecting a magic beast in front of more Orario citizens.

And the Ganesha Familia and Hermes Familia then jointly announced publicly that they would broadcast the scene of intelligent magic beasts and heretics being resurrected to all Orario residents via commentary and Divine Power Screen live broadcast.

When Dionysus saw the Ganesha Familia's full live broadcast preview and teaser on the Divine Power Screen appearing above his own Familia, he knew his public opinion plan was useless.

Don't know if resurrecting a magic beast can succeed?

That's really talking nonsense with eyes wide open.

Through Fiery Wine, Dionysus had long known that the Hestia Familia side had already successfully resurrected a batch of dead heretics.

This made him realize that his own self-righteous opposition and meddling were all within someone else's plan; an intelligent magic beast dying to save an adventurer, and an adventurer with loyalty and righteousness wanting to resurrect the dead intelligent magic beast—this was fundamentally a publicity show carefully planned by someone.

As Dionysus expected, that day, this god was invited to attend the resurrection show of the magic beast.

In the arena, Broly resurrected the heretic actor who was a half-bird person; the one resurrected did not act irrationally after being brought back to life.

After showing a panicked expression on her face, her gaze locked onto the male adventurer calling her name from the side.

"Miss Nol!"

"Mr. Chad!"

One person and one monster, as if performing a stage play, rushed toward each other; the half-bird monster girl directly flew into the male adventurer's arms.

Under the close-up shot deliberately given by the Divine Power Screen, the two said to each other: "You're alright, that's wonderful."

"Clap clap clap—"

In the arena, applause gradually rose, while Dionysus sucked in a breath of cold air.

Love that transcends species, transcends life and death, transcends the surface and the Dungeon, between humans and monsters.

The person who planned this play truly understood the personalities of the Gods too well.

"Love has infinite possibilities!"

The blonde, blue-eyed Goddess symbolizing love and beauty, Aphrodite, praised loudly.

"Praise love~"

The Gods cheered; for wonderful things, they were never stingy with praise.

And under the lead of this group of Gods, even ordinary people changed their view of monsters themselves.

After all, the resurrected half-bird person was quite beautiful in appearance.

(An actor specially selected to represent the heretics' external image and perform publicly)

There is a saying: one's worldview follows one's features; this moment was clear proof.

Dionysus could feel the change in the atmosphere of the mortals at the scene; they were no longer filled with prejudice and hostility toward intelligent magic beasts, and in his heart he could only sigh that the other side's methods were well done, capable of putting on such a visually impressive play.

If it weren't for his knowledge of some inside details here, and he were merely a spectating God, he might also have been influenced by this play, believing that intelligent monsters understand so-called love, and that they cannot be compared to ordinary monsters.

"A wonderful performance."

Dionysus was also clapping, and he was praising from the bottom of his heart, simply because he too was a God who liked designing scripts and secretly laying out grand performances in reality.

Although he did not like this kind of comedy play where mortals and monsters are one big happy family now, preferring mortals struggling to survive while being hunted by monsters, mortals and monsters slaughtering each other, showing the most ferocious and most painful appearances, in tragic epics and dirges fighting for their lives, he would not deny the cleverness of the design of a grand play that could stand on its own.

"Everyone, I have a major discovery here—"

After the performance by the person and the monster, Broly spoke these words again.

"I know the reason for the birth of these intelligent monsters, the heretics!"

Meeting the audience's surprised gazes, he spoke directly.

"It is well known that monsters are born in the Dungeon, but when I used Resurrection Magic to resurrect this half-bird lady, I still opened the Gate of the Underworld."

Therefore, I have a guess: the so-called intelligent monsters of the Dungeon, the heretics, are actually not mutant individuals appearing in the Dungeon, but may be adventurers who died in the Dungeon, whose souls had not yet had time to return to the Underworld and were intercepted by the Dungeon Labyrinth, thus giving birth to monsters possessing intelligence and possessing love and other emotions originally only we have—"

The fermentation of the monster topic in Orario during this period, and today's performance of this grand play of monster resurrection, were all to introduce this guess and make it reasonable to announce widely.

As for whether the existence of the heretics is a miracle born of the Dungeon, or truly appeared because there are too many adventurers who died in the Dungeon, no one knows, including the heretics themselves, and including Uranus who discovered the existence of heretics fifteen years ago.

Broly's side explained in a direction favorable to the heretics being accepted by surface races; anyway, as long as the situation is not truly verified, no one can refute it, and in this world now, only his side can truly go to the Underworld to verify the situation.

In other words, the right of investigation and the final right of interpretation are both on his side.

What, you say Gods can also go to the Underworld to investigate the truth?

That is indeed true.

However, Gods who returned to Heaven cannot return to the Lower World in a short time; if a God truly wants to investigate the specific situation, then please have the other party return to Heaven, go to the Underworld to investigate, and after there are discoveries, wait a few hundred or thousand years of Lower World cooldown time, then come to the Lower World again to speak with mortals who don't know how many generations have been updated and replaced.

If by that time the heretics still cannot be accepted by the surface races of this world, then Broly will accept it.

After a grand play ended, the reputation of the heretics among Orario residents began to change, especially Broly's public explanation of the origin of heretics as partial soul reincarnation bodies, directly changing the heretics from hateful monsters of blood feuds into possibly the reincarnated existence of deceased relatives.

This caused Orario residents who originally had relatives die in the Dungeon and be killed by monsters, from hating monsters and firmly refusing to accept the heretics, to directly have their ideas shaken.

"I think, accepting the heretics as members of Orario is not impossible; after all, they might have been our own people in their previous lives—"

"Lady Penia, do you think my dad and mom might have become intelligent good monsters?"

The orphans of the Daedalus Street Orphanage asked the Poor God this question somewhat naively.