Chapter 318 - Kingdom Of The Dead's Deep Sea (III)

I was anticipating her action on reviving her dead brother for a few days already. It took quite some time I didn't expect she will take action now. Thankfully, we are done with the clearing operation against the merfolk zombies and although they are still there, it was minimal to the point Atlas can handle it alone without our help. Gobu and the Desert Wolf Pack carried the dead body out of the summon's area and lay it down on the small slab of rock in the water. 

"Master, what are you trying to do?" Lina asked.

"I am also a bit curious. I know him as my brother but it was unexpected that he was a demon. I need to also know what you are going to do with the demon?" Tina seems to be also curious.

"It's kind of a ritual I know to at least make the people who are trying to revive them regret reviving the said individual. I prepared for this so it's going to be something beneficial to us."

Without further ado, I inspected the dead body. Since it was a long-distance revival, it takes quite a bit of time before the revival is done. It's what we always do in demons in the past timeline who has more than one companion and their bodies have not melted to goop after death.

Opening my inventory, I pull out several items that will make some exorcists familiar with my tools.

[Stake of Suffering], [Talisman of Anti-Revival] and a bottle of [Holy Water].

[Stake of Suffering]

Type: Item

Info: Stakes that contain curses that whatever or whoever was being pierced by this stake will suffer almost endless suffering. It also sucks the vitality of the target once pierced by this and will continuously 

Note: These stakes are used to nail the final nail to the coffin of a vampire or demons. They might look like sharpened bamboo but it works just fine.

After inspecting it if it was faulty or I grabbed the wrong stake, I didn't hesitate and pierce his heart with the stake. With the dead body already in the process of rotting, the stake of suffering just pierced through the body of the guy. The dead body is not reacting yet but seeing the small power influx around his body, he is still in the process of being revived. 

As for the Talisman of Revival, this item is something that I have learned from an Exorcist in the past timeline that I have helped before after the demons attacked. It's an easy talisman to use and usually, it's used on corpses that haven't been blessed to temporarily stop them from rising up back from the dead. Once the dead body is blessed, the talisman will no longer have any effect.

Since this guy is already dead, the only way to revive him is via necromancy first and after the revival is a success, he will have to choose another host to use a new body and abandon the old body, making it like an old shell. This way, he will be able to survive on another body without the injuries of the last body.

As for the Holy Water, it's already self-explanatory but anything related to dark-heavy monsters, and zombies, or even just a simple case of turning the dead into walking dead, the holy water is a must for everyone.

Since we are underwater and the holy water will just be useless if used usually, I just shoved the entire container on his mouth and push it in on his throat before putting the Talisman of Anti-Revival to his forehead.

"Now, we wait. We should keep a distance while she is still reviving him."

The magic power of the dead body is rising. It's higher than what I know most of the time and it is clear that they needed to implant a bit of a magic power to trigger his body. It was still slow due to how our distance was but it is gradually building up.

Soon, a magic circle appeared beneath his body and started to rotate rapidly.

"Master, isn't this bad?" Lina readies her weapon.

"Just observe. Things are about to get real."

Then, when an influx of great energy surges through the dead body, the dead body stood up from lying down, but it was soon interrupted by the [Talisman of the Anti-Revival]. The demon being revived is almost troublesome as the influx of energies swirling started to gather in the talisman. Then, as it got more and more powerful, more power is being stored in the talisman, like a glass full of flowing water.

Due to the excessiveness of the power being channeled through, the talisman that acted as the container ended up bursting, releasing the energy as an explosion to the dead guy. It was very quick so the moment it bursts out, the explosion was strong enough to break off the head of the demon.

"What the?!" the siblings were surprised and as for us, we checked what happened.

The big magic circle below the dead body was destroyed like a piece of glass, shattered to pieces and the dead body started to float in the water. In the last attempt, it exploded and the dead body is gone. Not a trace was left after it was thwarted. Not only does it get destroyed but the backlash from the revival will be great due to the failure of the revival and if it was done poorly, even the person who performed the revival process will be dead before they knew it.

"Wha- what did just happen?" Tina was baffled beyond belief.

"The dead body of the demon has been obliterated. Not a single revival can revive it now unless they have the ability to reconstruct his body again. Of course, that guy will no longer be the same. His core is gone to dust so the new one will surely be a disappointment if they ever do the trick again. Though that is impossible now."

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The former castle of the king of the Merfolk, now a base where the necromancer is staying.

Alexandria and the necromancer are still preparing the calculations and things needed for the revival process.

"How come the corpse is not on your possession? Did you just leave it to rot?" the necromancer asked as he started producing a few magic circles that will help with the revival magic."

"I wouldn't do that. I needed my brother to unleash the strongest potentials of his body. If he disappeared, the chances of winning against the insect woman are going to plummet. Therefore, his revival is vital. If not for that adventurer who has run away with his body, the revival will be much easier to do and I wouldn't need to even wait too long."

"An adventurer? That is a first. I didn't expect someone from the puny humans can do that. They don't really care about that most of the time and just go and do the most mundane tasks. How come you got beaten by them? Isn't that a bit embarrassing?" the necromancer laughs.

"What's funny? The guy who got my brother's corpse is someone that is hard to handle and is dangerous. It looks like they have expected it halfway."

"Alright, preparations are done, let's do the actual revival time. Miss Alexandria, I will need a drop of your blood, and as I do the pathfinding magic will find the dead body. That way, pinpointing it and teleporting it to us won't be a big problem."

Alexandria didn't hesitate and dropped a single drop of blood on the magic circle. The magic circle grow and started generating magic. 

"Please pinpoint where your brother is as I channel magic to his body," the necromancer ordered.

Alexandria was adept at finding things and it got easier for her as she easily found where they are. She quickly memorized the coordinates and waited for a sign.

"There!" Alexandria pointed and the necromancer immediately channels his energy to the area where the former pinpointed and immediately started working on the revival process. The magic circle that is just glowing red after everything started begins to spin quite fast that it resembles a spinning fan. Alexandria monitored the status changes on her brother's dead body via the connection she found during the search. She keeps the situation intact and just keeps on mentally looking out of every part of his.

Then, something odd occurs. The magic circle that seems to be functioning fine earlier, started to get wonky and the necromancer is already fuming in sending the magic energy. It should have been a stable run on the revival but he didn't understand what is happening at all. It was then, that when the necromancer is ready to hit the final nail, the unexpected happened.

BOOM!

The magic circle on the ground exploded and before it can even do anything, the connection he did, was cut off immediately before he can even salvage the failure in the process.