CHAPTER 757: 594 [CREATE IMMORTALS]

Before long, the corpse of Queen Yuloli was placed back into the stone coffin.

Reiger stood in front of the stone coffin, gazing at the corpse within, preparing himself.

As for Liz, she was utterly bewildered.

There was no helping it.

Reiger’s recent words were still echoing in her mind.

"I’ll try to see if I can resurrect this queen."

Yes.

Reiger was preparing to resurrect Queen Yuloli.

This left Liz in a constant state of confusion from the beginning, completely unable to react appropriately.

What Reiger had said was simply too fantastical, so much so that even the normally trusting princess couldn’t help but harbor doubts now.

"Can... can this really be done?"

To resurrect the dead was something that had never happened on the continent of Akasha.

Thus, whatever Reiger said had already exceeded Liz’s understanding, causing her to remain disoriented and slow to respond.

Actually, even Reiger didn’t know if Resurrection Magic would work on Queen Yuloli.

Because it’s not just a matter of having a corpse; resurrection isn’t that simple.

Lower-level Resurrection Magic not only greatly depletes the life force (experience points) of the deceased but also requires a corpse and items such as gold as a medium to activate. In contrast, high-level Resurrection Magic does not have such limitations. The life force (experience points) lost by the resurrected individual is greatly reduced, and if necessary, even the need for a corpse as a medium can be waived, thus making resurrection possible.

This was enough to show that the target of Resurrection Magic is not the corpse, but the soul.

Not just Resurrection Magic, but Healing Magic operates the same way.

In the original story, an experiment was conducted in the Nasalik Underground Tomb.

They severed the limbs of the living, then applied Healing Magic, and it was found that as the severed limbs grew back, the previously cut limbs vanished on the spot.

Unless the shape or form of those limbs was changed, such as by using them to make other items or consuming them as materials, the limbs would not disappear. Otherwise, once Healing Magic was applied to their owner to grow back the limbs, the old limbs were bound to disappear.

With that being the case, it’s clear that the object of Healing Magic is not the body but the owner of the body, the soul itself.

If this is true for Healing Magic, how much more so for Resurrection Magic?

Therefore, casting Resurrection Magic on a corpse does not necessarily bring the individual back to life.

If there is no soul in the body, then even using Resurrection Magic is likely to be futile.

And Queen Yuloli had been dead for at least eleven thousand years. Could her soul possibly remain in the body after such a long time?

That was naturally impossible.

Therefore, Reiger’s plan to resurrect Queen Yuloli had an almost zero chance of success.

Even if he used a transcendent spell like "Wish Upon a Star," wishing for Yuloli’s resurrection without the soul as a medium, it would probably still not work.

But this did not mean Reiger was out of options.

"If it doesn’t work without a soul, then how about calling the soul back?"

Reiger prepared to make such an attempt.

So, Reiger finally activated the transcendent Magic he had learned but never had the opportunity to use until now—"Wish Upon a Star."

"Hum—"

Accompanied by the vibration of Magic Power, a huge dome-shaped three-dimensional Array unfolded above Reiger.

The Array expanded at a visible rate, not only enveloping Reiger’s entire body within the three-dimensional magic formation but also spreading to the surroundings, quickly covering a space with a radius of dozens of meters.

"Such a huge Array!"

Liz was jolted awake by the sight of such vast and complex magic formation, feeling the tremendous Magic Power rising from Reiger’s body, her delicate face filled with a shocked expression.

Under such circumstances, Reiger, who had set up the dome-shaped three-dimensional Array, experienced a peculiar sensation.

He felt as if his mind was being flooded with external inquiries, causing an almost instinctual sense of rejection and displeasure.

Yet at the same time, he felt an overwhelming sense of bliss as if connected to something mysterious and colossal, giving him the feeling that he had become omnipotent.

It was at this moment that Reiger understood.

He could make a wish now.

He could fulfill a wish now.

He could make reality out of what he desired in his mind, rewriting everything that did not satisfy him.

As long as he spent enough experience points, he could turn the impossible into the possible.

This is the power of transcendent Magic—"Wish Upon a Star."

In this moment of casting the spell, Reiger even had a premonition that if he spared no expense, he could sink the entire continent of Akasha into the sea if he so desired.

However, making such a wish would cost him up to five levels of experience points, bringing him down from the lofty heights of Lv. 7 to just above the level of a novice at Lv. 2.

This was a permanent de-leveling that could not be undone unless Reiger worked his way back up, accumulating enough heroic deeds for the necessary experience to level up again; otherwise, he would never return to Lv. 7.

"What a terrifying spell."

Reiger forced himself to shake off the feeling of omnipotence.

If he became trapped in that sensation, he might misuse the transcendent Magic "Wish Upon a Star" in the future, leading him into a vortex where he continually sacrificed his power to fulfill wishes.

Once that happens, it would be putting the cart before the horse.

Reiger reminded himself in his heart, maintaining his composure, he began to make a wish.

"I wish to call back the soul of Queen Yuloli Reinayier."

When this wish was made, the dome-shaped magic array bloomed like the flower of the world, slowly unfolding.

Vast Magic Power transformed into streams of particles that rushed into the sky, rewriting the world, fulfilling the wish of the one who cast the magic.

Reiger could feel that as the super-tier magic was activated, something accumulated inside him was also being drained away.

It was the experience points that came as a price for activating the magic.

Every time Reiger fought with others, defeating enemies, he would accumulate these experience points within himself.

They would nurture Reiger’s growth when he updated his ability values, allowing his ability values to increase.

Now, however, Reiger was using them as a price to activate "Wish Upon a Star" without updating his ability values.

Owing to this, if Reiger were to update his ability values now, he would find that his ability values had not grown at all.

If it was only this, it would still be okay.

The worst-case scenario would be, if the experience points were insufficient for consumption, then Reiger’s ability values might also decrease.

Fortunately, Reiger had activated "Wish Upon a Star," a super-tier magic, merely to call back a soul.

The wish didn’t seem to be so difficult as to require Reiger to lower his ability values to fulfill it, and thus, when Reiger’s accumulated experience points were nearly exhausted, his wish was finally granted.

"Clang..."

Particles of light wandered out of the void and entered into the body of Queen Yuloli.

Seeing this, Reiger’s spirits lifted, and without hesitation, he cast the highest-level resurrection magic.

"True Revival."

As the soul took its place, the resurrection magic could finally take effect and was cast on Queen Yuloli.

However, at this moment, Reiger’s brow furrowed tightly.

"Master?" Liz sensitively noticed this sign and asked, "What’s wrong?"

"...It’s nothing," Reiger relaxed his brow and said, "It’s just that the magic didn’t work."

Indeed, Reiger’s resurrection magic had not worked.

This wasn’t particularly strange.

Resurrection magic isn’t omnipotent.

In some special circumstances, resurrection magic will fail.

For example, when the target of magic is killed by a specific power, resurrection magic will become ineffective.

Within ninth-tier magic, there is an instant-death spell called "True Death," which, once used to kill an enemy, the enemy cannot be revived with a lower-tier resurrection magic.

Similarly, if someone is killed by a power with special properties, and those properties can interfere with resurrection magic, then the magic will fail.

This is one scenario.

Another scenario is that if the object to be revived rejects resurrection, then the resurrection magic will also become ineffective.

In other words, resurrection magic can’t work on those who accept their death with equanimity.

If a person is at peace, leaving no regrets in life, then resurrection magic cannot be effective on them.

Furthermore, if someone has suffered a great trauma in life, feeling that death is a release and living again would be a torment, then resurrection magic will also fail.

Therefore, unless the individual to be revived had regrets in life, and their soul does not resist being revived, even using more advanced resurrection techniques would be useless.

"Could it be that the Queen had no regrets in her life?"

At first, Reiger thought this, but then he shook his head.

"No, if she had no regrets, then her soul would not have responded to the call of ’Wish Upon a Star’."

Since the soul had responded to the call, it proved that the other party did not resist resurrection.

If so, the reason for her inability to be resurrected was probably only one.

"She was killed by a power with special properties."

Perhaps it was a curse that even gods would fear.

Perhaps it was a power that could kill even a soul.

Such causes of death led to the resurrection magic being ineffective on this Queen.

"This is going to be troublesome," Reiger couldn’t help but mutter under his breath.

Seeing Reiger like this, Liz tugged at his clothes and said softly,

"If it’s not possible, then just let it be, Master."

Hearing this, Reiger thought for a moment and ultimately decided to give it one more try.

"I have one more magic."

Reiger cast another type of magic toward the Queen in the stone coffin.

"Magic Level Ascension·Creation of Undead."