Chapter 197 - The Sage’s Revival Magic

“W-what is that…”

Youko had returned to Glendale from Faunust, her hometown, when the sight of a sky-high pillar of fire took her by surprise.

It was an enormous amount of mana.

Youko knew the owner of that mana.

“It’s Master. B-but he’s releasing mana to that extent...what on earth is he fighting with?”

The amount of mana was already beyond Youko’s understanding.

That pillar of fire was packed with mana that was multiple times more than Holy Lance.

The flaming pillar striked the ground.

It vanished around ten seconds later, and Youko could finally go to Halt’s side.

The sight of a charred, gigantic, dragon like thing greeted her.

“Ah, Master, what’s this?”

“Oh, Youko, welcome home. I defeated the dragon that attacked Ryuka and Hakua.”

Hakua and Ryuka were huddled together and hugged each other, cowering to the side.

They probably had been really scared.

Even if Hakua was a high-ranking dragon, she was still a child.

Compared to her, it was easy to infer that the dragon defeated by Halt was already an adult given its massive body.

“I-I see… It looks like a high-ranking dragon... Still, it’s not the Master’s opponent.”

“Yup. It’s not really a big deal, but its endurance was something.. It’s the first time I've used mana continuously like this.”

Halt could conjure ten thousand mana worth of Fire Lance now.

That would be 60, 000 mana for a minute of attack.

He continued doing that for 10 minutes.

So, the Fire Lance that he released totalled a whooping 6 million points of mana.

However, the dragon didn’t die.

Halt approached the dragon that had fallen to the ground to check whether it was still breathing, but it unexpectedly slashed at his belly with its claws.

Of course, Halt’s status was already frozen, so there was no way that attack would harm him.

If 6 million mana were not enough, then multiply that instead — Halt decided to do that, so conjured Fire Lance that was worth 15 million mana and compressed them, then brought it down to its head.

By the way, he added the 3 million as bonus.

The dragon finally succumbed until it lay unmoving, but even then, he didn’t manage to burn its entire body to ashes.

Well, that couldn’t be helped.

That’s because the opponent that Halt attacked with approximately 20 million mana worth of Fire Lance was in fact the Dragon God, one of the deities of this world

Halt didn’t notice even now that he defeated a deity.

Ryuka and Hakua were shaking because Halt had brought down the Dragon God, the deity that both of them prayed to.

Halt had suddenly appeared mid-air while they were flying towards his mansion.

Halt couldn’t fly that fast, so he used magic to create a path so he could chase after the Dragon God.

Hakua and Ryuka were over the moon when they saw Halt desperately soar through the sky.

They felt happy that Halt, their husband, was doing his best in order to protect them so he ran in pursuit.

However, Halt couldn’t keep up with the speed of the Dragon God’s flight, so the distance between them steadily increased.

They wanted to see Halt persevere for their sake.

That was what Hakua felt, so she called out to him.

*“Halt!!! Help!!” *— she said.

Hakua was now vehemently cursing herself for thoughtlessly screaming such nonsensical words.

Of course, Halt had been really cool.

He severed the dragon’s claws that were gripping them, and after rescuing them, he beat that dragon with an overwhelmingly powerful magic.

Their husband had gallantly saved them.

They were happy about that.

However, they couldn’t feel truly happy.

That’s because the dragon that he defeated was no other than a deity.

It wasn’t as if the Dragon God attacked them; he was just travelling with them.

Of course, the Dragon God wasn’t entirely blameless for this.

He could’ve let Ryuka and Hakua ride on his back.

If he did that, then Halt wouldn’t think that they had been attacked.

Moreover, the Dragon God wanted to take revenge on Haruto, the Guardian Hero, for their battle in the past, so he came here to do so.

However, as you see, it was a crushing failure.

He lost against him even though Halt didn’t even know he was here to take revenge.

The Dragon God was a deity, so he won’t die.

However, his manifestated body had been destroyed entirely, so he couldn’t move at all.

Halt confirmed that the dragon could no longer move, so he finally tore his eyes off the dragon’s figure.

“What’s that, Youko?”

He was staring now at the beauty confined in the huge block of ice on Youko’s back.

She looked like how Youko would if you remove her childishness, and she was truly a voluptuous, gorgeous woman.

She had that air that wasn’t present among the ladies of Halt’s harem.

“Actually...She’s my mother.”

“Eh!?”

“S-she died 200 years ago because of me and —”

A huge drop of tear fell from Youko’s eyes.

“Master, please, help my mother.”

“I also want to, but it’s been 200 years, so her soul probably…”

Death in this world occurred when the soul separated from the body.

However, as long as the soul was still within the body, the person could be revived by healing the body first and then binding that body with the soul.

Ryuka and Seira’s resurrection spell and the elixir made from the Leaves of Yggdrasil could somehow do that.

The matter of body recovery was also possible for someone like Halt.

The most problematic issue would be the whereabouts of the soul.

Generally, this world’s monsters and demon race had approximately one hour after death before their soul entered the cycle of life and reincarnated into the next living thing that they were destined to be.

Because of that, resurrection spells had to be done within the hour of death, because the soul was still beside its flesh.

Reviving Youko’s mother two hundred years after her death was a hopeless case.

“If it’s Mother’s soul, it’s still in here.”

“...Seriously?”

Halt touched the ice that contained the beauty.

“O-oh, it’s true. Her soul is still in there.”

Halt had already experienced how it was to be transmigrated as well as reincarnated, and he already mastered dark and holy magic. Before he noticed, he had already obtained the ability to feel the souls of other people.

“Amazing. Are you sure it’s been two hundred years? Her soul is almost perfectly intact.”

The soul of Youko’s mother Kikyou had been sealed along with her body right after her death, thanks to Youko.

Because of that, it didn’t enter the cycle of death and rebirth. It remained together with the body all this time.

Nine-tailed foxes could live for a few ten thousand months and years provided that they were not subjugated by the heroes.

Thus, the soul of Kikyou, being the nine-tailed fox that she was, wouldn’t dissipate within a mere two hundred years.

“Let’s see, any wounds…okay, seems like she’s not injured. It will probably be possible to revive her if we bind the soul and body as it is now.”

Halt poured mana onto the ice to check Kikyou’s situation.

Her body was preserved beautifully, as if she didn’t even die. It looked like she was merely sleeping.

Kikyou didn’t want to worry Youko, so she casted recovery magic on herself before she died.

She managed to restore her body, but because the sword that wounded her was a purification weapon, she couldn’t hold on to her life.

Her wounded soul had slowly and steadily repaired itself during those two hundred years.

Halt confirmed that Kikyou could be revived, so he started to release his mana.

And then —

“Heal!”

He chanted the Heal spell, considered to be the most basic among the recovery magic spells.

However, the result was the revival magic of Resurrection, which only a handful among the ones who practiced recovery magic could cast.

And Halt — a Sage — activated that magic.