Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 796 Do you want a normal resurrection, or a powerful resurrection with implanted magic stones?

Rewind to the first day when the battlefield saintess Amid and the goddess Golden Haci came to the magic laboratory of the Hearth Palace to provide technical support and assist in research.

“This is Miss Fels. You may not have heard of her, but you may have heard of the sage Dio Orpheus.”

Broly revealed to the two of them the true identity of Miss Fool, who was in charge of the magic laboratory research.

Unsurprisingly, the two questioned Fels's identity: how could a person from eight hundred years ago be alive in this era?

"Many of the magic I've studied is related to life, and some of the results of my research have allowed me to live to this day, albeit in this way..."

As he spoke, Fels lifted his hood in the laboratory, revealing his current appearance as a living being to the two of them.

In the magic laboratory, the two of them will spend a considerable amount of time conducting research together, tackling difficult problems together.

At such close range, concealing one's true identity is a difficult and troublesome matter, so Fels chose to be honest.

"When Mr. Broly invited me, I thought it was a descendant of a sage conducting magical research, but I never imagined it was the sage himself from eight hundred years ago who was in charge..."

Fels' true identity was quite shocking to Amid, but after accepting the story that happened to the skeleton in front of her, Amid felt a sense of pride from the bottom of her heart.

Being able to conduct research in a magical laboratory with her predecessors who were walking the path of magic filled her heart with enthusiasm.

"So, Miss Fells, what exactly do you want me to do?"

"Please help us develop a container that can hold souls for a long time!"

"Huh?!"

After some explanation, Fels finally made the Battlefield Saintess understand that they didn't want her to make a lich box, but only to develop a prosthetic limb that could be permanently attached to a soul.

"But the soul is invisible and intangible, so how can I research prosthetics that can accommodate such an ethereal thing?"

The premise of research is the ability to observe and intervene, but if even observation is not possible, then there is no point in talking about interfering with research.

“Don’t worry, Miss Amid, I have some tools here that can help you observe souls.”

"What prop?"

"The Sheep Talisman can make your soul leave your body!"

Broly, holding the Sheep Charm, aimed it at the Battlefield Saintess and fired a magical ray of [Astral Projection] directly at her.

Amid was hit and immediately fell to the ground, but fortunately the boy stepped forward in time to support her body, preventing her from falling face down.

"Don't worry, this out-of-body experience won't lead your soul to the underworld. You can observe the effect of the prosthetic limbs you made on the preservation of your soul by becoming a soul."

Additionally, manipulating the flow of magical energy through your spirit body allows your soul form to manifest in front of normal people, although affecting physical objects would be somewhat difficult.

Broly's eyes were filled with energy, and in his vision, there were now two Miss Amed in the laboratory: one was her body, and the other was her soul. After a period of adjustment, she calmed down again and controlled the magic in the magic laboratory, manifesting in soul form.

"Do I also need to transform into a soul state?"

Haici observed from the side and asked out of curiosity.

"No need for that. Miss Haici, your responsibility is to assist in research on another direction of remains restoration."

Fels led the people to the magic stabilization device, pointed to the broken bones inside, and said, "We need someone with sufficiently stable magic properties and a delicate grasp of magic manipulation to help catalyze the self-repair of the broken bones. I call this technique the Bone Hyperplasia Repair Technique."

Under Fels's command, Heather tried to output magic directly. Her first attempt caused the bone in the stabilizing device to grow crooked, but she quickly mastered the trick and repaired the broken bone that was put back in. Then she turned around and asked with some doubt, "You don't need to hire me to do such simple and delicate magic operations, do you?"

"Well, actually, this kind of thing is simple for you, but for us, it's very difficult to achieve a stable repair."

Broly's broken bones, once coated with the antidote, are easily affected by external magic. Broly himself had tried to use this substance to repair broken bones. While his control over magic was precise enough, the problem was that his own magic was quite active.

Just like hot oil will explode when it comes into contact with water, regardless of whether you are careful when using magic, it will quickly cause the repair of broken bones to fail.

While Fels is much better, it is still difficult to perform in practice. Just like a surgeon, a steady hand is a necessary prerequisite, but appendectomy and neurosurgery are two different levels.

Clearly, in repairing broken bones, Fels is like an appendectomy, while Haici is like a neurosurgeon. Whether in terms of repair speed or success rate, the latter is faster and higher than the former. Haici is like a throwing knife that Broly brought from Freya's Familia.

After witnessing the other party's ability to repair broken bones, Fels quickly arranged for the other party to repair a bunch of bones from the same individual that had been deliberately damaged.

"Broly, it's your turn to cast your resurrection spell."

After the repairs were completed, Fels spoke to the Saiyan boy.

In this magical laboratory, Broly is the one responsible for providing resurrection magic.

Although Fels could also do this job, she wasn't as lucky as the Saiyan boy.

Even if resurrection magic is used, it will mostly end in failure and is not a reliable reference.

Under the glow of the resurrection magic, and with a groan, Broly resurrected one of the second senior brothers.

Both Haici and Amide, whose soul had returned to his body, stared wide-eyed at their second senior brother, who had been resurrected from a skeletal state to a complete body, in the laboratory.

"Broly, don't let this pig run around. I need to check on it."

Miss Fool directed the Saiyan boy to hold down the second senior brother and began a series of tests on him, mainly to check the functioning of his various organs.

Later, Fels felt that such an examination was not enough, so he had Bro use the Sheep Charm to perform an astral projection on himself.

The soul fire went out, and the earth-born man's body collapsed into a lump. In contrast, a spirit appeared on the spot and brazenly traversed and examined the body of the second senior brother, who was being held down by Broly.

"Well, the situation is fine for now. The pig's soul and body are very firmly attached. However, we cannot completely rule out the possibility of problems, so we need to observe it for a while longer."

After completing the examination, Fels gave his summary and noticed that the two women next to him were staring at him with wide eyes.

"Sage, what kind of image do you present?"

Amed couldn't help but ask.

"The image of the soul is related to a person's self-awareness, and my self-awareness is still stuck at the time when I discovered the Philosopher's Stone..."

She was about 1.4 meters tall, with long, straight black hair styled in a princess cut, and purple eyes set in a delicate little face with a slightly plain expression.

She was described as a young girl, yet somewhat immature; she was described as a loli, yet even older than a loli. This was the image of the wise young lady who had achieved fame at a young age and was hailed as a genius of her time, eight hundred years ago.

When Broly first saw the other person's out-of-body experience, his reaction was similar to that of the two people next to him.

Compared to the tall, mysterious, and villainous Miss Fool, the contrast between her appearance as a sage and her appearance as such is indeed quite striking.

"By the way, Broly's soul image doesn't match his current appearance either; he's actually a very muscular, big guy."

The wise woman pointed at the boy and said that she was trying to divert the attention of the two people in the laboratory from their own soul image.

These are some of the things that happened on the first day the newcomer joined the magic laboratory. Time quickly passed, and a week had gone by...

"Miss Haici's reconstructive techniques are superb, and it has now been confirmed that there are no problems. As for Miss Amid, they have also discovered a prosthetic material capable of containing a soul: high-quality magic stone. Moreover, individuals resurrected through the implantation of magic stone prosthetics are able to manipulate the magic power within the implanted prosthetics after resurrection..."

Broly, with Ryu back, went to the magic laboratory, where there were already many animal test subjects in cages, resurrected by resurrection magic.

Among them were two rabbits whose remains were repaired and resurrected using magic stone prosthetics. Originally ordinary rabbits, they displayed monster-like abilities after being resurrected; one could condense ice, and the other could breathe fire.

That's right, Broly has researched and developed the technology for implanting magic stones into the Fallen Fairy in the dungeon to create monsters.

Essentially, the monster was just a corpse implanted with magic stones that had been resurrected.

"The resurrection through implanted magic stone prosthetics will result in a magic thirst condition, requiring regular consumption of magic stones or magic recovery potions to alleviate the condition. However, compared to directly gaining magic-like abilities, it currently seems to be more beneficial than harmful. It's just that whether there will be any side effects is still unclear..."

Broly explained the situation. "Ryu, if you want your friend, Miss Ady, to be resurrected and also strengthened, then you should wait until we figure out the resurrection route for the magic stone prosthetic. But if you don't need her to be strengthened and just want her to be resurrected, then we can start working on resurrecting her now."

The surprise came too suddenly. The elf, who had just returned from the City of Swords, received a notification upon returning to the Hearth Hall that his friend could be resurrected.

"I don't need enhanced resurrection; I just want her to be resurrected in a normal way."

Regarding Broly's suggestion of implanting a magic stone prosthetic limb for enhanced resurrection, Ryuko immediately dismissed it upon seeing the high-quality magic stone worth over 100 million in the Saiyan boy's hand. Her earning power did not allow her to make such a luxurious choice. In addition, she was eager to reunite with her old friends.

“Alright, then we’ll help Miss Adi with the restoration of her remains, which may take three or four days.”

The bone repair technique was confirmed to be working properly two days ago. The reason we didn't start repairing Miss Adi's remains directly was because Liu hadn't returned yet. Now that she's back and we've asked for her opinion, we can naturally begin some preparations for the resurrection.

"Broly, specifically, how many fares will it cost?"

While Liu was overjoyed, she couldn't help but ask the question.

"After paying the fari you earned last time, you'll probably need to pay another 200 million fari."

Broly did the math and then answered.

"Oh, how could there be so little?"

Liu's eyes widened.

"I plan to use the energy provided by the dragon talisman to cover the magic required for resurrection, and this part will not require any money."

Therefore, the only thing that really requires money is the repair of the damaged remains. However, Miss Haici said that she came to help out of friendship (actually, it was an exchange between Broly and Freya Familia, who went to Freya Familia for a daily dose of Freya's pleasure and helped train the Freya Familia's combat members. Of course, there was also the reason on Ryu's side, as Freya, who played Seele, was her friend). The only thing you need to pay is the cost of the fusion potion needed to repair the remains.

"Well, that's about the cost price."

"What about the costs of researching and restoring the damaged remains? Aren't those included?"

Liu really wanted to ask that, but in the end, the words that came to her lips were just two words.

"Thank you!"

The progress bar for Adi's resurrection has begun to move forward, and the restoration of her remains is slowly progressing...

"Hestia, I may have to bother you for a while."

"Not at all, Astrea. My clan's residence has plenty of empty rooms. You can stay here as long as you like."

Accompanying Ryu back was Astrea, the goddess of justice who had once been active in Orario. When Astrea updated Ryu's stats panel, she discovered that the updatable stats behind the child had exceeded their limits in an extremely terrifying way...

After finding out the situation from Ryu, Astrea offered to come to Orario to see what was going on. After being taken to the Hearth House by Ryu, the goddess told Hestia about borrowing a place to stay temporarily.

Hestia, on the other hand, did not object at all. She and Astrea had been good friends in the heavens.

"Then please guide me."

Broly felt something was strange. The goddess that Ryu had brought back seemed to be very interested in him, and her gaze kept glancing in his direction.

Each time Broly looked over, the other person didn't seem to mind at all; instead, she gave him a gentle and beautiful smile, her eyes carrying a slightly enigmatic meaning.

Broly felt like he'd seen that look somewhere before, but couldn't quite place it. With other things to do, he put the other person's strange attitude out of his mind.

That evening, Loki and Freya came to visit. They had come after hearing about Astrea. One brought his treasured wines, and the other brought her family's chef team. They hosted a small welcome dinner at the Hearth House.

"Asteria, are you planning to come back to Orario to develop your career?"

Freya took a sip of red wine and asked.

"I'm only back temporarily to take care of my children, and I have no plans to return to Orario at the moment."

Astrea shook her head; her kin were currently developing in the City of Swords.

"If you want to come back, I can help you."

Loki patted his chest and said.

Lilyluka was eating bread nearby, wondering how the goddess of justice, who had such good fortune, had been expelled from Orario back then.

Of course, she had heard that the Astrea Familia had been ambushed and wiped out by the dark faction, but judging from the attitudes of Loki, Freya, and Hephaestus toward this goddess of justice, it seemed that they would lend a hand to the other family when it was in decline.

Driven by curiosity, Lilyluka leaned close to the elf's ear and asked her question.

Ryu was silent for a while, but did not avoid the question: "Because I want to take revenge on the guy who killed my clan members, regardless of the means, regardless of justice, just to vent my hatred."

I believe that doing so would tarnish Lady Astraea's reputation for justice, and I also do not want Lady Astraea to see such an ugly version of myself.

Therefore, it was I who asked Lady Astrea to leave Orario at that time.

"Yes, Miss Lily, I'm sorry, my actions back then may have caused you to struggle to find anyone to help you in your past life."

"If the Astrea Familia were still around, those guys wouldn't dare..."

This phrase was often uttered by the weak and vulnerable members of Orario who suffered injustice and were bullied by evil people after the Astrea Familia disappeared from Orario.

With a group of girls who always like to meddle in other people's business, stand up for the weak, and uphold justice around, some powerful and wicked guys don't dare to do whatever they want.

But after these righteous girls disappeared, villains like Kanu from the Soma Familia dared to bully the orphaned little girls in the family.

It could be said that if the Astrea Familia were still around, Lilyluka might have been able to find someone to help her.

Having lived in the Hearth House for so long and helped her friend learn about her rival, Ryu had some understanding of the women around the young man, including Lily Luca.

So she apologized.

"Ah, what happened to me in the past wasn't caused by you, so Miss Ryu doesn't need to apologize at all, right?"
Besides, if I had found someone to help me back then, how would I have met Brother Broly now?

The little girl waved her hands repeatedly and said something. Liu responded, but her interest remained low.

"Your child's personality is still so awkward."

Freya glanced over here and then said to Astrea beside her.

"Ryu is stubborn and a bit too serious, and that hasn't changed even now..."

Astraea nodded in agreement.

She suspected that if it weren't for the resurrection of Adi, her own child might have been forever trapped in a web of indecision, believing that he, who had abandoned justice, was not worthy of coming to see her.

"But isn't it this stubbornness that makes her such a lovely child?"

"Freya, you seem to know my child very well?"

Astraea looked at her with some curiosity.

"Of course I know, Freya, she..."

Freya covered Hestia's mouth and said to Astrea with a smile.

"I just admire your children whose souls are pure and beautiful."

She didn't want to reveal Seele's true identity to Ryu yet.

Astraea blinked, not understanding what was going on.

Does the other person have some secret they don't want Hestia to reveal?
But what does this have to do with Ryu?
(End of this chapter)