FVN Case 20: Resurrection.
Case 20: Resurrection.
Case 20: Resurrection.
Staring at the female cultivator struggling on the ground, Kierra could not help but feel a bit guilty. She was careless.
Kierra frowned and pulled her witch hat down to conceal her face.
She didn't consider herself as the advent of justice or the cop of morals, but she definitely wasn't an evil person by any means. Nevertheless, she failed to consider the strangeness of this universe and casually made a judgment based on little information. If she hadn't thought of recruiting this 'demon,' she would have blown off everything in one swoop, and that would have been a sure disaster.
Kierra wanted to save this cultivator, both to make up for this woman and to fulfill her basic duty as a fellow human. She wasn't confident in practices related to this field, but she had to try. Only now did she regret not paying attention when the King of the Underworld discussed this topic with her.
Regardless, she would first need to eliminate the corrupted entity before anything else.
''Ovi.'' Kierra stood up. ''Can you take care of that?''
Following the archwizard's line of sight, the lich stared at the old table briefly.
[Please leave it to me]
''Good.''
As Ovi stretched out its body to envelop the table whole, Kierra approached the female cultivator.
''Don't move.''
Ignored.
''I said do not move.''
Ignored.
Alas, it seemed this person had lost almost all of her reasons. Kierra pinned her on the ground with telekinesis before pouring out her mana. It soon split into thousands of strands and stabbed into the cultivator's body. This provided Kierra with an accurate diagnosis of her body, which turned out to be rather grim. As the condition of the exterior might have suggested, the body was completely dead.
How it could have even been fighting earlier was a mystery, and if Kierra wanted a proper resurrection, she would have to use another vessel to shove this person's soul in.
She reached into her space bag and pulled out various trinkets. These were gifts from the church back in her old world, which she intended to use for a purification ritual. Now, for the vessel...
''Oh.''
Now that she thought about it, didn't she have a phoenix egg that she got from its mother a long time ago? The space bag could freeze the time of the items inside it, so inside the egg should still be something that was in the state of a 'blank' body.
Good.
While searching for the egg, Kierra used telekinesis to arrange the trinkets in their correct locations and drew the magic circle simultaneously. When she finally found the egg and took it out, the ritual was also ready.
''To the King of Underworld, I call.''''Your claws shall not reach us, nor your temptation.''''Hereby, I vow—to defy death.''
[It is my honor]
The lich reversed-summoned itself, leaving only the deer skull behind. Kierra put it back into her space bag and announced to the people. ''The anomaly is gone. Feel free to leave, Lightning Tiger sect.''
There was a certain attitude in the archwizard's voice, one that screamed, 'No objection is accepted.' The confused cultivator couldn't do anything other than obey.
''Um... what about my test result, Master Kierra?''
Kang Shuren raised her question.
''You pass. I will take you to White Lotus later.''
''Yes...!''
Kang Shuren gladly left with her sect's people.
With that, only Kierra and Tian Yun were left in the cave. The former looked below briefly before speaking up.
''...Tian Yun.''
''Oh, yes?''
''Do you want to go to a hot spring?''
''A hot... what...?''
In truth, Kierra could peer into the capsule, and for whatever reason, it was a hot spring. The archwizard had been washing herself with water magic for the longest time, so a hot and slow bath right now was too alluring for her. Shooing the others away was also because of this, and as for Tian Yun... Kierra somehow felt like it was fine, probably.
''There is a hot spring below us.''
''What a rare thing...! Of course, I will gladly join you, Kierra!''
Deep in Kierra's mind, a bad thought suddenly crept in.
''...''
No, she couldn't be seeing that woman in Tian Yun. Same flowers, different types. It was time to move on...
Kierra straightened herself up and set a barrier around the room to prevent anyone from going in or peeking in. Then, she used earth magic to remove the patch of rock underneath her feet, revealing a bunker-like structure that stuck out.
Inside there was a hot spring... no, there was the fox, yes. There was the fox demon as well.