Chapter 1286: Resurrection-Related, Soul Traction

After verifying his Magic Mark, Xia Duo finally entered the Library he had been longing for. Although it was underground and the interior space was somewhat smaller, the overall layout of the Library was not much different from the Academy Library on the surface.

Furthermore, most importantly, one only needed to confirm their identity when entering; once inside, there were no restrictions on any of the books or materials.

At the very least, Xia Duo passed by two or three rows of bookshelves in succession and did not find a single book he could not pick up.

At the same time, he also discovered that the vast majority of the books collected here were organized materials from various research projects within the Research Institute, while materials outside of specific projects were relatively scarce.

But thanks to a relatively reasonable book classification system, Xia Duo was still able to easily find a large amount of information related to Resurrection spells in the Life Domain and Soul Domain.

The situation he had worried about earlier—not being able to find information—did not occur, but most of these materials belonged to the branching technologies of Resurrection spells, or rather—support technologies.

For example, human tissue repair, vitality restoration, soul traction, soul summoning, and so on.

Moreover, from these materials, Xia Duo also sorted out the repair and development trajectory of Resurrection spells by the Empire Remnants; yes, there was also technical repair.

In the past Empire era, a body, or even a part of a body, was not necessarily required for resurrection, but in the current era, Resurrection spells could not reach that level and must have a certain amount of active body tissue preserved.

Blood or skin and flesh would both suffice.

Current researchers have conducted a great deal of research, and even after excavating the ruins of the Resurrection Department, they have still failed to restore the original Resurrection spell.

However, in this process, a large number of intermediate spells that did not exist in the past were invented, such as more efficient healing spells, and even human Clone Technique.

Yet, the current era is not without achievements that surpass the past, the most typical of which are the spells related to soul traction and soul summoning.

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During the Empire era, to resurrect a dead person, although a corpse was not needed, a soul was absolutely required, and obtaining the soul was quite troublesome.

Either one had to intercept the soul at the scene of death before it dissipated rapidly, or the deceased had to be carrying a 【Soul-Hosting Amulet】 at the time of death.

Regarding the former, if someone at the scene was capable of intercepting a soul, then saving the person in question would not be difficult, and there would be no need to wait for them to die before resurrecting them.

As for the latter, the 【Soul-Hosting Amulet】 was essentially a high-quality Magic Item, and if one wanted insurance, it would even need to have a teleportation function added.

Even during the heyday of the Empire, a high-quality Magic Item was not something most people could easily obtain.

This was also an important reason why the Resurrection spell could not be popularized at that time.

Of course, Xia Duo did not rule out that a small number of vested interests artificially set obstacles to the technical breakthrough of Resurrection spells to highlight their privileges.

But now, there are fewer people, and even fewer High Mages; those above only hope for the rapid development of Resurrection spells, not for obstacles.

Before "Maikade" left the survival base, a small vial of blood was collected from him for the purpose of resurrection, and a very critical point is that all High Mages' first resurrection is now completely free.

This is thanks to the emergence of spells related to soul summoning and soul traction.

For High Mages who die outside and still have a chance of resurrection, as long as someone in the know reports it, the rear base will immediately activate the summoning Magic Array to summon their souls and then resurrect them; the cost is more than a grade lower than in the past.

Of course, if no one reports it, as long as the time exceeds a certain limit, then they can never be resurrected.

As for soul traction, that is generally only deployed temporarily for major operations; it does not require someone to report it and then summon, but rather comes with a passive traction effect, so that as soon as a person dies, their soul immediately returns to be resurrected.

Like when Yilisi said she had a mission to go out, Xia Duo was certain that she must have had the soul traction effect applied beforehand; otherwise, as a Senior Arcanist, such a precious human resource would certainly not be wasted by those above.

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Inside the Research Institute Library.

Xia Duo flipped through the materials related to resurrection with near greed, but as he read, he discovered a problem, and a very important one at that.

Among all the materials, there were quite a few regarding soul summoning and soul traction, but they only contained descriptions of the effects, without the details of the technical implementation.

Even the final step of resurrection was there, but it was precisely the part about how to obtain the soul that was missing.

Additionally, there was another thing that Xia Duo suspected had been deliberately hidden, and that was the technology regarding soul healing.

In the memory of "Maikade", Keman had many special means to counter the resurrection of the Empire Remnants, such as the 【Negative Energy Erosion】 he had previously suffered.

People who die from Negative Energy Erosion cannot be resurrected because their souls are contaminated, so means to heal the soul are needed; correspondingly, Keman would also come up with further counters.

Furthermore, there might also be counters for soul summoning, or even for soul traction.

From this perspective, the Research Institute hiding the technical details might just be to prevent Keman from finding out.

However, here at the Research Institute, once one joins, they cannot leave the survival base; could it be that there is some "enemy in the heart of the Empire" trickery?

If there really were such spies, then Keman might have long since swept them away and completely cleared out the Empire Remnants.

But regardless, setting aside some greedy little thoughts, Xia Duo's mission for entering the Projection Plane this time could be said to have been completed!

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The so-called Resurrection spell has roughly three key technical points—

One is how to restore the body and keep it active;

One is how to collect the soul and keep it intact;

Regarding the two points above, Netheril on the Main Plane can also do roughly the same; it is merely a question of how high the degree of completion is. This has already solved the problem of going from 0 to 1, and going from 1 to 100 afterwards is essentially not very difficult.

The last one is the most difficult to solve, and that is how to put the soul back into the body and have it return to normal.

Under normal circumstances, after the soul leaves the body, the connection with the body is severed; in this situation, even if the soul is stuffed back in, the dead person will not be resurrected.

It is similar to taking out a heart and putting it back in; it breaks the original normal state of the human body, so even if it is put back, it remains a corpse.

How to reconstruct the link between the soul and the body is the absolute key to the Resurrection spell!

When Xia Duo previously entered 【Projection Plane: Arcane Empire】, he was unable to learn about the development history of the Resurrection spell at that time.

But now, he knows that the initial research on the Resurrection spell was conducted by repeatedly putting living people into a moribund state in various ways to summarize the laws of the link between the soul and the body; reversing this process is resurrection.

The more perfectly the link between the soul and the body is reconstructed, the fewer the sequelae after resurrection.