People are on the Ark, assisting Oma Zi-O

"No, I haven't agreed yet."

Holding the spears that were forcefully stuffed into their hands, the two infected people looked at each other, and then could only stand at the door in silence.

"Ah!"

Tallulah suddenly sneezed, and Alina next to her immediately cast a worried look at her.

"Have a cold?"

"No, my nose just suddenly felt itchy. It must have been brushed by your hair, Alina."

Even in the frigid environment of Ursus, it would be a joke to think that an adult red dragon would catch a cold.

"Let me see. To put the human soul back into the body, I need quite a few magical materials. Owl eagle nails, mouse eyeballs, toad venom... Luckily, I still have them in my material library. Otherwise, it would be really hard to find them in this icy and snowy place."

If all she needed to do was put the soul back into the body, the Sheep Charm could do it, but Alina's body was already dead, and putting the soul back would only result in a zombie that would no longer have any feelings.

Although vision and hearing can be retained, all senses such as smell, touch, and taste will disappear.

This is not what Ark wants.

Therefore, before putting the soul back into Alina's body, we must find a way to revive Alina's body first.

Because he has entered a state of death, the dog and horse spells are ineffective, and he still has to rely on the black magic knowledge he learned from the Holy Lord.

However, just as Ark was following Tallulah to her tent, a Sarkaz with white hair and red horns noticed Ark in the passing Sarkaz mercenary camp.

"That guy..."

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PS1: In the game plot, Alina had her right forearm and right leg chopped off after being attacked by the infected, but she did not die immediately. She died on Tallulah's back after being found by her. In the end, she warned Tallulah not to indulge in hatred and to be wary of Kosice's curse (Tallulah had told Alina about Kosice). However, for the sake of the plot, I advanced Alina's death time. The above is the above.

Chapter 8 is like a cult ritual

"Put her here."

Fang Zhou followed Tallulah into the tent.

This is Tallulah's tent. As the residence of a leader of a large organization, it is too simple.

A table, two chairs, a bed and a kerosene lamp—that's all there is in the tent.

Or should we say that even this configuration is considered luxurious within the Reunion Movement? After all, the Reunion Movement is ultimately a poor organization of infected people, and the extent of its current logistics is only enough to barely keep its subordinates from starving and to keep their stomachs from rumbling day and night.

However, Fang Zhou couldn't say for sure. After all, he had never seen the tents of other high-ranking officials of the Integration Movement, and his understanding of the Integration Movement was limited to what he knew in the original game.

Now he could only do what he was supposed to do, so after coming in and taking a look at the entire tent, he went straight to the center of the tent.

She took out a blanket from the four-dimensional pocket inside her coat. The blood-colored blanket was obviously not a natural color, but some special "pigment". Even though it had obviously dried up for a long time, Tallulah could still smell the obvious smell of blood.

Is this a blanket stained with the blood of some animal?

"It's mountainhorn blood."

The mountain goat, also known as the Terra goat, is the animal relative of Caprini. In Terra, horned beast is a relatively common name. Most animals whose biggest distinguishing feature is horns are called horned beasts. This is the naming of most animals in Terra. Others like cattle and dairy cows are called tumor beasts, and cattle whose biggest distinguishing feature is their strong carrying capacity, or horses, even rhinos and giant deer are collectively called pack animals.

"In the concept of black magic, the blood of the mountainhorn has special powers. Although chemistry and biology tell us that mountainhorn blood has no special properties, in some rituals, mountainhorn blood can give magical props special mystical meanings."

The blood-red blanket was spread on the ground. Tallulah was a little hesitant, but Alina beside her did not object, so she slowly placed her body on the blanket.

The pale and bluish face seemed to have a hint of blood color under the reflection of the blood-red blanket, and no longer looked so cold and lifeless.

Then came the candles. Fang Zhou took out four candlesticks from his coat, which seemed to have everything. No matter how Tallulah observed, she could not understand how he took out four burning candlesticks from a piece of clothing.

However, what Ark brought out next was beyond the bottom line of what Tallulah and Alina could accept.

It was a can of black, sharp objects, the cross section of which was white, and it glowed dark and eerie in the flickering candlelight.

It seems to be the nail of some kind of feathered beast.

For Tallulah and Alina who live in the snowfields, they can easily recognize that thing. After all, feathered beasts are very common in the snowfields and are a good source of fat and protein for the people of the snowfields.

Down below, Alina and Tallulah's faces turned pale.

It was a jar of eyeballs soaked in light green potion!

Each tiny eyeball was only the size of a middle fingernail. Judging from the size, it should be the eyeball of a small animal, but based on Tallulah and her friends' knowledge of biology, it was absolutely impossible to tell which animal it was by sight.

Later, Fang Zhou took out several strange-looking jars, which were filled with all kinds of weird things, including alive scale insects (snakes), dry and hard tentacles of unknown creatures, fluorescent stones, and about seven or eight kinds of strange materials.

"Mr. Fang Zhou, these are..."

"The magic materials are for restoring Miss Alina's body. After all, you don't want Miss Alina to wake up and find herself transformed into a zombie without any sense of touch, taste, or smell, right? Although after becoming a zombie, Miss Alina will definitely not be afraid of the cold and will be immortal."

Ark still had time to make zombie jokes, but Tallulah and Alina couldn't quite muster the laughter.

"Mr. Fang Zhou, do you really have a way to resurrect the dead?"

The resurrection of the dead was something that Tallulah and Alina had never thought of.

If there really were a way to resurrect the dead at will, wouldn't the world be in chaos?

“It can be done, but it can’t be done casually.”

“Are there any restrictions?”

"of course."

Fang Zhou turned around and looked at the two of them.

"The biggest limitation to resurrecting the dead is their soul. Without a soul, even if the body is resurrected, all you get is a zombie with the deceased's appearance. However, the soul of the dead cannot remain in the real world for long. The rules of the world will not allow the deceased to stay in the world of the living for long."

"So, the biggest technical barrier to resurrecting the dead is preserving their souls. We've already accomplished this most difficult step, and the remaining preparations for resurrecting the body are quite simple compared to the other preparations."

Terra's mechanism for the dead is rather strange. If the other side of the black hole is the so-called empire of consciousness, then what will happen to the soul after it goes there?

That vast ocean of consciousness always gave Ark a unique and strange feeling, it felt like... a pure whole.

But this is impossible for the soul recycling mechanism. For a world where the concept of soul exists, the recycling of souls is either used as fuel or firewood as the cornerstone of the world, or as the cornerstone of new individuals, erasing memories and undergoing so-called reincarnation to maintain the total number of living beings in the world.

Regardless of which one it is, each individual soul must exist as an independent individual. Turning all souls into a complete, pure whole without distinction between you and me is a strange sight that Ark has never seen in the more than forty different worlds it has traveled through.

As expected, as long as you keep traveling, you will always see some strange worlds.

Perhaps it is because Terra has its own national conditions?

Fang Zhou thought about what he had and took out various materials one by one to process.

"So, resurrection is actually a very simple spell?"

"No, don't think resurrecting the dead is easy just because I said resurrecting a body is quite simple compared to other methods. No matter what system of magic you use, resurrecting the dead is a difficult skill. As far as I know, on this land of Terra, the only ones capable of perfectly resurrecting the dead, besides the black magic I master, are the Sarkaz Absolvers."

Pardoner.

Talulah remembered this word. Bozhukasti had once told her that this group was a very eccentric and unpopular group among the Sarkaz. Moreover, the old man from Koschei had also told her about them in some knowledge about the Sarkaz. However, at that time, she basically had a strong rebellious mentality towards this adoptive father. Although she would listen to the lectures, she would never learn.

Did you learn what Black Snake taught Tallulah? Yes!

But after listening for many years, some knowledge will be engraved in your mind, that is, if you listen for a long time, you will remember some of it.

Just when Tallulah wanted to ask something else, heavy footsteps were heard outside.

It seemed as if some huge monster was stepping on the snow in the ice and snow realm and approaching this side.

In this camp, there was only one person in Tallulah's memory who could make such footsteps.

The curtain of the camp was drawn open, and the huge figure of the Wendigo squeezed into the tent. Also coming here was Carters with long snow-white hair.

"Tallulah, I heard Big Bear and the others tell me that you...you guys are..."

Frost Star stared blankly at the scene before her that looked like a cult ritual with her eyes wide open. Beside her, Bozhukast was breathing heavily, but her eyes, emitting a crimson glow, did not focus on anyone present. Instead, they were fixed on the strange blanket and the corpse on it, as well as the various strange-looking animal organs and the white candlesticks placed in a weird way.

"...Who are you?"

Bozhukasti turned his attention to Fangzhou.

As the only outsider present, and in addition to the testimony of the two snow monsters guarding the door when Big Bear, also known as Tallulah and the others, returned.

An outsider seemed to have tricked Tallulah.

Corpses, deception, rituals...

Simple logic took shape in the mind of this Wendigo, who was extremely familiar with the strange witchcraft of the Sarkaz.

The man in front of her had tricked Tallulah into resurrecting the dead Elafia woman.

The hostility showed its sharpest side to Fang Zhou without reservation, and that hostility came from the strongest person in the camp.

Bozhuocasti, the only and last pure-blooded Wendigo on the Terra continent.

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Chapter 9: Searching for the Demon King

"Who are you?"

The Wendigo's hostility was not concealed at all; it was so pure and sharp, like the cold wind in the Arctic tundra.

However, this hostility was nothing compared to Fang Ark. He had seen more terrifying malice, and even completely absorbed it into his own body for cultivation. If Fang Ark released those things, the entire Ursus tundra would probably become the Ursus volcanic plain.

"Ark, I'm just a traveler. I've long heard that the legend of the old Ursus resides beside the red dragon of the tundra. I didn't expect to meet you so soon. It's a pleasure to meet you, Captain Bozhukas."

"..."

Bozhukas looked at the masked man in front of him, and a trace of caution appeared in his heart.

This person knows himself, and those rituals...

First, the Ursus military was excluded. Although the military and political nobles of Ursus did possess a large number of war Originium skills and formed a war sorcerer formation with those who mastered these Originium skills, those people of Ursus did not understand things related to spells such as the dead and resurrection.

The only thing related to these things in Ursus now is probably the cannibalistic rituals brought by the Wendigos when they joined.

and so……

"You are...the Pardoner?"

The only people on this land that Bozhuokaste could think of who could be connected with the resurrection of the dead were the absolvers, a group of annoying fellows.

Although the Whiplash also possesses witchcraft related to the soul, they prefer to play with people's hearts rather than resurrect the dead. The only ones left are the Absolvers.

Those jesters who think they are of high status are actually dirty and despicable. They can only play with their own conspiracies and lives in the gutter.

Regardless of what the other Sarkaz think of this group of guys, at least Bozhukast dislikes them, and can even be said to hate them.

"Please don't insult me, Captain Bodracasti, and compare me to those insects. I'll be angry."

Yes, Ark also hates the Absolver.

However, he hated the Absolver not for the righteous reason he had for playing with lives and plotting schemes, as he did with Bodracasti.

It was simply because those guys used the collective will of the Sarkaz to oppress Theresa's self, wrapped human free will in the collective, and completely obeyed the collective will. This behavior was hated by the Ark.

He liked Decade's words.

Kamen Rider does not fight for so-called justice, but for human freedom.

Humans can follow the collective decision because they are social animals after all, but this is almost like kidnapping, completely binding a person's choice to the collective. Ark always has only one choice, to use Knight Fist Ola's group of beasts for 21 pages, and then drag them into the Shadow Kingdom to turn them into the Shadow Legion.

Ark bluntly called the Absolver a bug and expressed his outright disgust, which made Bozhukas hesitate to ask the question he wanted to ask.

"I know you have questions. Anyone who walks in and sees this scene will have questions. I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious. You'll understand soon."

This time, there is no need to use the Ghost Key, it is just necessary to show people that the spirit does not need to use the power of the legendary knight at all.

A can of crystal blue colloid appeared in Fang Zhou's hand.

"Please apply this to your lower eyelids and you will understand."

"what is this?"

Frost Star looked at the bottle of blue colloid and asked questions. Bozhukas looked at it carefully and gently pulled out the cork on the bottle. If he was not careful, the bottle mouth would probably be crushed.

“The taste of salt.”

Bozhuo Kasti briefly summarized.

"They are tears, the tears of female beasts of burden."

"Is this the color of tears?"

Frost Star had rarely seen pack animals. In the Ursus tundra, feathered beasts and horned beasts were the most common wild beasts. Pack animals were only occasionally seen on the trade routes traveled by some merchants, and they were responsible for carrying goods for those merchants. However, she had never seen a pack animal cry.

"The tears of female pack animals have occult significance, allowing people to see things that are difficult to see in daily life."

Psychic?

Mysticism?