THE POTION OF RESURRECTION
When we returned to the Sacred Grove, we sealed the entrance into the underground stream. Only we can enter this place from now on.
The Sacred Grove would become our new military base in Trogdol kingdom, so outsiders would not be able to come here to disturb my wives and friends' rejuvenation in the Realm of Life.
Melling city was destroyed completely without mercy. There was no need to pity the wicked.
All the bones buried in the Valley of Death and in the surrounding mountains were taken by my Malevolent. There would be no more skeleton magic in Trogdol kingdom.
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"Did we gain nothing from visiting the Realm of Life?" Ratatouille asked us regrettably.
"The living and healed don't benefit from the Realm of Life", Rinna reminded him.
"My transformation magic has improved. I can transform into living people now and not just animals and the library", Ratatouille told us with glee.
"That will be as useful as my Kishurra artifact", I replied to him.
The Kishurra artifact was an artifact face that gave me magic to change my face into people that I had contact with. That was the basis of my face changing magic before I augmented my bone magic with it which gave me a permanent face changing ability.
"What happened to your Kishurra artifact?" Ratatouille asked me.
"That is a good question", I replied to him as I searched for the artifact.
After I lost all my bone magic, all the artifacts that went into augmenting it were returned to me. However, most of the artifacts were destroyed as a result of the bone augmentation process.
"You can try using your Kishurra artifact again even without your bone magic", Rinna reminded me.
"But my Kishurra artifact was destroyed and besides, this artifact requires magic from Crocodile's skin to work", I replied to her before I brought out the Kishurra artifact.
"Your artifact seems okay and undamaged", Ratatouille told me to my surprise.
I inspected my Kishurra artifact again.
Indeed, my broken artifact face was repaired, and it doesn't need Crocodile's magic to work anymore.
"What happened to my Kishurra artifact?" I asked.
"The Realm of Life's magic must have repaired your Kishurra artifact. It probably doesn't require Charlie's shed skin anymore to replenish its magic", Rinna said to me.
I quickly put on the Kishurra artifact to try. To my surprise, I transformed into Orion again, and then Aldin.
"You are recovering your old face changing magic again. Eventually, you'll recover all the magic you've lost or obtain improved versions of them", Rinna told me to encourage me.
"This is the greatest gain from our travel to the Realm of Life, besides the chance to resurrect my wives and friends", I told them.
After I obtained the Black Heart of the Dark Angel, my magic was nerfed. I lost all my templar and bone magic. But with effort, I would regain all my lost magic and powers in one form or another.
"Mistral hasn't benefitted from the magic of the Realm of Life", Rinna reminded me suddenly.
"Yes, all my wives must be resurrected. No one should be left out", I replied to her.
"However, I doubt Mistral will enter the Realm of Life to be rejuvenated. There is too much attachment she has to her kingdom. She will not go", Rinna told me.
"That is true. We will find another way to heal her", I replied.
"What should we do now?" Ratatouille asked me.
"Now we return to Istiopolis city to discuss the troubles in the Ten-Kingdoms", I said to her.
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"Orion, where have you been again? Do you know we are at war with the demons again?" Queen Mistral asked me impatiently.
"I went to obtain a potion that will make you beautiful", I replied to her when Red Witch presented a potion to the queen.
"What is this? Will it make me more beautiful?" she asked me, momentarily forgetting her complaints about me.
"This is a divine potion. The first time that I made such a potion. It can resurrect the dead if the death didn't happen too long ago", Red Witch told us excitedly about the potion of Resurrection.
The potion of Resurrection was made from the waters of the River of Life that I brought back from the Realm of Life. Red Witch took them and made potions of Resurrection from them.
"Really, let me try it", Mistral asked as she took the potion of Resurrection and drank it.
Mistral was the Immortal Queen of Nyx.
She was dead a long time ago, but I revived her using puppet magic. She was her own puppet though and wasn't controlled by a puppeteer. Later, I gave her the immortal essence of the Anti-Saint Pride and she regained the appearance of a human.
However, she wasn't fully resurrected as a human.
I would get her to stay in the Realm of Life to be resurrected but she would never agree to it because she has a kingdom to rule. The only thing that I could do for her was ask Red to make the potion of Resurrection for her.
"My body…my body is healing", Mistral told me excitedly and came to hug me.
Mistral's body began to transform. Suddenly, her flesh and skin began to have life again.
"Yes, although this is not a real resurrection, the potion will return a human body to you for some time", Red witch told the queen.
"Red and everybody please leave us", Queen Mistral told Red and all the staff in our chamber.
"What is it?" I asked Mistral after we were alone in our chamber.
"Now I have a real body back, I want you now", Mistral commanded me to my shock and surprise as she dropped her gown.
She violently pushed me to the bed and tore off my clothes before kissing and scratching me like a wild cat.
"Damnit, Mistral. What has gone into you?" I asked my wife.
"You will never know the feeling of being in a wooden body for so many years. Now do your duty to satisfy me", the queen commanded me.
"Yes, ma'am", I replied to her and complied.
That was the unexpected benefit of the Potion of Resurrection.
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