It felt like an incredibly long time had passed.
Seiji's petrified body began to crack, and his dark and icy outer shell slowly fell off. Something heavy and dark slowly disappeared, and was replaced by a gradually expanding light along with a warm and bright world …
Seiji opened his eyes slightly.
My body hurts … my head hurts … it feels so heavy … the light is so bright …
'Where am I? What's wrong with me? '
He wanted to move, but even the slightest movement hurt.
"Brother!" Little Shi's voice called out next to him.
Seiji did his best to look and saw his adopted younger sister's face.
"Little … Shika-chan …"
"Brother … you've finally woken up. That's wonderful …" She had a delighted expression, but she also started tearing up.
'Finally?
'Did I sleep for a long time?'
Seiji wanted to ask, but it was difficult for him to even speak.
'I'm in such a terrible condition … how did my body become so weak?'
The last memory he had was of drinking the Challenger's Bloodwine that had been spiked.
He couldn't remember what happened after that.
…
After a while, Seiji's condition improved slightly. Only then did he remember what happened.
He drank the Mana Wine, cast a spell according to Yui's instructions, and successfully revived a portion of the tournament participants!
After that, they all collapsed.
His memories were quite hazy.
Seiji faintly remembered that he had loaded, but he couldn't remember how many times he had loaded, or how many times he had tried before he succeeded!
It was the same for the process of casting the spell. He couldn't remember the specifics. He only faintly remembered a few scenes.
What left him with a good impression was that he seemed to have seen all the souls of the deceased during the revival process. He saw their life memories, felt their thoughts, and judged whether or not he should revive them.
His power was limited. Seiji gave up on reviving those with bad personalities and actions, and instead did his best to revive those that he felt were worth saving.
Although he had an impression of the entire process, that was all. He couldn't remember the specifics of each and every one of the deceased's situations anymore. It was just like watching an anime when he was young, hazy and unrealistic.
Seiji learned from Little Shi, as well as Kanna and Izawa, that the scene at the time was quite spectacular.
"Seiji, you were just like a god at that time." Kanna sighed.
"He's floating in midair with his arms open like this. He's surrounded by black, white, and gray halos. Above his head are three large and complicated runes of the same color. His aura is very powerful."
Grand Mistress Fujiwara gestured with her hands as she spoke.
"The light emitted by the three-sided formation illuminated the world. When you chanted the incantation, it was as if you were singing a hymn. It sounded as if many people were talking at the same time … And every time you moved your hand, the ground … No, the entire space shook!"
"To be honest, I was shocked. At that time, I felt that you had already surpassed humans and become a god-like existence. I almost wanted to kneel down."
"Master indeed knelt down. He was so scared that his legs went limp," Izawa revealed.
"Ryuuno!"
Kanna angrily punched the talkative Spirit-branded Retainer.
Looks like I've been very impressive this time … Unfortunately, I don't remember. Seiji sighed in his heart.
Kanna and Izawa were astonished. On the other hand, Shika Kagura was not only shocked, but also worried.
In the ten days that her sworn brother had been in a coma, she had been guarding him in the ward.
More accurately, it had been thirteen and a half days.
Seiji had slept for a total of thirteen days in his hospital bed. During this time, many people had come to visit him.
Apart from Summer Night's group, the knight order members, Editor Yoshizawa, Kazufuru Ooike, and the Miyamoto sisters, Keiji Hoshihara and several other classmates had also visited. There were also the tournament participants who had been revived, such as Nobuhiko Kurosaki and Masao Yanagi.
They all knew that Haruta Seiji was the one who had revived them. Out of gratitude, they all came to visit him and gave him gifts.
Some people gave checks, some gave spiritual artifacts, some gave medicinal ingredients or tonics, some gave expensive gifts … and all of them left behind their contact numbers, indicating that Seiji should tell them if he needed any help.
Seiji was quite happy about their gratitude. However, Kanna pointed out that they were also trying to curry favor with him.
"You're the one who revived them! No matter how you did it, it means that you're someone who's worth being friends with. Even an idiot would know to keep in touch. "
That made sense as well.
Back then, Seiji had used up a lot of spiritual wine to revive the dead. However, he had still become much stronger thanks to the spiritual wine's effects.
First of all, his Spiritual Power had increased exponentially. His stats had exceeded 1200, more than three times what they had been before the tournament!
According to the hospital's accurate assessment, Seiji was now a low-rank level 7 Spiritual Ability user.
Spiritual Ability users at or above level 7 were the upper echelons of Sakura Island's spiritual world. Almost all of them were the leaders of various factions! Even if they weren't the leaders, they weren't too far away from the leaders.
That was to say, Seiji was now the equivalent of a high-level Spiritual Ability user in terms of Spiritual Power.
Although Spiritual Power wasn't the same as combat strength, his aura was more than enough to scare off low-rank Spiritual Ability users.
Then, there was a new ability …
"Soul World — Revival."
It was obvious from the name that this was a Soul World ability that could revive the dead.
There were three requirements to use this ability. First, the target had to have a connection rating of over 70. Second, the target had to have died within one hour of each other. Third, the target had to be in contact with the target's corpse. The corpse's head had to be in perfect condition, and the corpse's body had to be relatively intact.
Using this ability would require Mana, Spirit, and more than 100 points of Soul Energy. The exact amount would depend on the situation.
Resurrection! This was doubtlessly a powerful ability, but it was also one that Seiji didn't want to use.
"Soul World — Temporary Recharge."
This was a ability that converted Mana into Soul Energy. Using this ability would require Spirit and all of Mana to obtain a corresponding amount of Soul Energy. This Soul Energy would begin to dissipate after three minutes.
That was to say, using this ability would use up all of one's Mana. It would be best to use up all of the Soul Energy obtained within three minutes. Otherwise, it would disappear. Just as the name of the ability said, it was a temporary recharge.
Seiji currently had 287 Soul Energy points.
Before entering the tournament, Seiji had used [Interdimensional Locator] three times in total, leaving him with less than 10 Soul Energy points. Now, not only did he replenish his Soul Energy points, he even had 187 Soul Energy points.
These 287 Soul Energy points could be stored for a long period of time, just like a storage unit. Meanwhile, the Soul Energy obtained from [Temporary Recharge] was like cash with a time limit.
Seiji wanted to use the temporary Soul Energy points to test out the first Soul World ability that he had never used before, [Howling Wind Slash]!
[Howling Wind Slash] required 100 Soul Energy points. Seiji had only obtained 100 Soul Energy points from the very beginning. After using [Interdimensional Locator] to find Mika, he no longer had enough to use this legendary sword technique.
Now that he had [Temporary Recharge], he didn't need to worry about using up too much Soul Energy. He could test out just how powerful this ability was.
'It should be quite strong …' Seiji was looking forward to it. However, he couldn't rush it. He would have to wait until he was discharged from the hospital.
Mika, Chiaki, Ling Yang, Feng Wu, Nozomi, Summer Night, Hitaka, Rona, Mai … all the girls who had been worried about him all rushed over after learning that he had woken up. The number of beauties in the room was off the charts.
Kanna was astonished at this line-up, while Izawa commented, "As expected of Haruta-kun."
"Seiji, you're actually the male lead of a harem anime, right?"
"… Objectively speaking, I'm somewhat similar."
"It's far more than 'somewhat'!" Grand Mistress Fujihara retorted. "Everyone who came is beautiful. There's not a single male. This is the standard harem style!!"
"I'm a male," Izawa interrupted.
"Shut up. You don't count."
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