Dragon Ball: Saiyan's Gourmet Journey

Chapter 755 The Resurrection Magic That Unlucky People Should Not Interfere With; The Undead Guests Added to the Hearth Hall
"Speaking of which, given the huge commotion caused by the resurrection magic, is there still any need to keep it a secret?"

After the man was taken away, Tiona asked in confusion.

"This is necessary. Think about it, if resurrection magic really exists, and this news gets out, putting aside ordinary people, how will adventurers who have lost someone important to them react?"

"Yes, those people will come looking for Broly and ask for his help."

Ais continued the conversation.

"Or threaten Broly with force to get him to help."

Ryu then added another possible scenario.

"Yes."

Fels nodded.

But more importantly, this could affect her investigation into the magic of resurrecting boys.

The dead have been confirmed to be able to be resurrected.

However, there is still no answer as to why only Broly's resurrection magic can revive the deceased.

"Miss Fells?"

Seeing the woman in black deep in thought, Broly called out to her.

"what happened to you?"

After Fels turned to look at him, Broly asked again.

"I'm wondering why my resurrection magic isn't working."

"So, did you get the answer?"

"No, but we have reached a preliminary conclusion."

"what?"

"My resurrection magic doesn't seem to be able to summon the souls of the deceased from the underworld like you do."

"Huh?"

"It may be presumptuous of me, but Broly, could you please tell me how you managed to do this?"

"I do not know."

"Please, please think about this carefully. If I don't know the answer to this question, I definitely won't be able to settle down and study the restoration of the damaged remains."

Upon hearing this, Broly frowned: "I've already done it once to cooperate with your use of resurrection magic, and now you're saying this, can I deny that you're using this to manipulate me?"

Sensing the growing hostility emanating from the Saiyan boy, Fels realized her mistake and quickly waved her hands, saying, "Ah, that's not what I meant..."

"So what do you mean?"

The atmosphere became tense, and Broly seemed ready to make a move at any moment.

"Broly, wait a moment, she doesn't seem to be trying to deceive you."

However, Hestia stopped him in time.

“Miss Fells, you just want to understand why your resurrection magic isn’t working, you don’t mean to manipulate my child, right?”

Upon hearing Hestia's question, Fels breathed a sigh of relief and quickly nodded, giving an affirmative answer: "Yes, I had no such intention."

No one can lie before God. Hestia's azure eyes reflected Fels's figure, and her gaze softened. She nodded to Broly beside her.

Can I ask you a few more questions?

"What is the problem, God Hestia? Please ask."

"Your resurrection magic is a miracle, even in the eyes of a god like me. You say you can't bring back the souls of the dead from the underworld, but I want to ask you, how do you determine the location of the souls of the dead from the underworld?"

"Well, of course, it's about using the physical body of the person who was resurrected by the magic in the lower realm to search for the location of the deceased's soul in the underworld."

Fels answered.

"So, was your failure due to the depletion of your magic power, or because you couldn't retrieve the soul?"

Fels fell into deep thought, and after a while, she replied, "It seems that both situations exist, but in the case of resurrecting people, the main reason is the depletion of magic power."

"Then I think I understand why your resurrection magic failed."

"what?"

Fels looked at the Lolita goddess.

"You who neither understand resurrection magic nor have the authority to resurrect, do you know the reason for my failure?"

Her tone was somewhat unfriendly, but it's understandable why she was like that.

It was simply that her former god had given her a rather unpleasant experience.

Yes, that's the one who smashed the Philosopher's Stone she painstakingly created more than 800 years ago.

"My sage, do you know just how vast the underworld truly is?"

Hestia didn't answer but asked a question in return.

"How big is it?"

Fels instinctively pressed for an answer.

"Given the vastness of that place and the sheer number of souls there, even for a god, finding the soul of a specific child would be quite difficult, potentially taking a god tens, hundreds, or even thousands of years."

The loli goddess raised her voice in response: "And your resurrection magic searches for the corresponding soul in such a place, so you can imagine how difficult it is."

Fels did not refute, because Hestia's words did indeed make sense.

"But how could Broly have succeeded in finding a specific soul in such a place?"

Then she asked another question, and that was the crux of the matter.

"I think this is related to his ability to develop [luck]."

"Lucky?"

Upon hearing this, Fels paused for a moment, then repeated Hestia's words.

"Yes, in a vast, soul-filled place, you might find a specific soul quickly if you're lucky, but if you're not, you might never find it in your entire life."

Luck, as it is called, is a rather mysterious thing, and even we gods cannot fully understand the situation involved.

Of course, this is just my personal opinion, but you might consider it a possible answer to why your resurrection magic failed.

Fels remained silent for a moment, and when he spoke again, he shook his head and rejected Hestia's answer.

"No, this is not a reference answer. I think this is the real reason why my resurrection magic failed. No wonder my resurrection magic was rated as a useless magic back then."

Fels was somewhat downcast, but her tone carried a sense of relief. In the past, she also had her own supreme god, and when the resurrection magic appeared on her stats panel, it was the evaluation of this magic by the supreme god from the distant past.

She used to think this was a mockery from the gods, but after hearing Hestia's words, Fels suddenly realized that this might be the truth that the former chief god had seen in her.

So, did the one who shattered my Philosopher's Stone simply not want me to fall into despair and get stuck in a rut?

The will of the past gods can no longer be verified. Miss Fool quickly composed herself and prepared to fulfill her promise to the Saiyan boy.

"Resurrection magic requires the integrity of the body. Before repairing the damaged remains, I think we can first integrate and piece together the existing remains."

As the current Bone Monster, Fels made his own judgment.

"Broly, is Hestia alright?"

Just then, the door to the Hearth Hall was kicked open, and an intruder burst in. Before he even arrived, his voice preceded his arrival, and he nervously began to ask questions.

“Uh, Hephaestus…”

The loli goddess looked at her friend, who had rushed in nervously, with some surprise.

"I just saw a pillar of light rising up over here..."

Upon discovering that his divine friend was unharmed, Hephaestus scratched his head and began explaining why he had rushed over.

"Thank you for your concern, but that's not mine."

Do you know whose it is?

Hestia and Broly exchanged a glance and then chose to tell Hephaestus the truth.

"Huh, resurrected?!"

Hephaestus's reaction was similar to Freya's last night when she learned that Broly and the others were conducting resurrection magic experiments; both were somewhat surprised. "By the way, Lord Hephaestus, I wonder if your old injuries have healed yet?"

Broly suddenly asked, pointing to his cheek.

"Ah, this one, it's already healed."

Hephaestus touched the blindfold on his face, lifted it to reveal his undamaged face, and answered.

"However, I've gotten used to wearing an eye mask."

In addition, the children in the family are more used to me wearing an eye patch.

So, I'll keep wearing it.

"Yes, me too."

The one-eyed craftsman also removed her blindfold; like her own god, the wounds beneath the blindfold had been healed by the horse talisman.

"What about the horse charm?"

"Hey, Broly, where are you hurt? Do you need this?"

Chun asked, somewhat surprised.

"No, I just want to use it to fix this."

Broly pointed to the box behind him, inside which lay the remains of a young girl.

While the Horse Talisman cannot regenerate missing parts, it can at least repair the intact parts.

Chun made a pendant for the horse charm, and after learning that Broly needed to get it back, she pulled it out of her chest.

The horse charm, still warm from the body, was returned to the Saiyan. Broly could smell Tsubaki, his wife, on the pendant on his hand.

It was a bit salty, probably from the sweat he absorbed while forging iron, a smell that hadn't been completely cleaned off, but he didn't seem to mind.

Under the somewhat puzzled gazes of Fels and the others, he placed the horse charm pendant on the remains in the box.

"Mr. Broly, what are you doing?"

Miss Fool asked, somewhat puzzled.

"This is a special item that can dispel pain, repair damaged objects, and restore the holder to a normal state."

"Huh?"

The healing effect of the Horse Talisman when used across worlds is very slow, but even so, it is still visible to the naked eye.

"Click~"

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, some bone fragments closest to the horse talisman began to heal, thanks to the talisman's power that removed the abnormal effects of external forces.

The bones were linked together, perfectly intact as if they had never been broken.

Fels, who was clinging to the side of the box, turned to Broly in confusion upon seeing this scene: "So, with such a magical thing, you still want me to figure out how to repair the damaged remains?"

"It can only repair existing damaged parts, but it cannot fill in missing parts."

Broly answered Fels's question, explaining that this was a limitation of the Horse Talisman, even in the world where the talisman originally existed.

The existing bone fragments are healing, and the resurrection of the girl Adi has progressed slightly, but the deceased's life is still stable and there is no possibility of resurrection.

"Broly, I'm planning to combine the forge and the hot spring. The blacksmith's furnace always needs to be kept burning, so the residual heat can be used to heat the bathwater..."

Since they were already there, Chun pulled Broly aside and started discussing the expansion of the interior functional buildings with him.

In the half-dwarf big-breasted craftswoman's plan, she will make full use of the furnace energy in the blacksmith's workshop, including but not limited to maintaining the temperature of the hot spring pool, boiling water for cooking, and heating the whole house in the winter.

Her words also caught Tiona's attention: "The way you're saying that, Miss Craftsman, it's as if you're going to live here permanently."

"It's not just like, it's like this. I'll be living here from now on. By the way, aren't you from the Loki Familia? Why are you living here at the Hearth?"

Chun answered, then asked with some curiosity.

"Ah, we came here with Miss Ais to train with Mr. Broly."

Rafia explained.

"I see."

"Why did Miss Chun come here in the future?"

"Yes, that's because Broly promised to build me a top-notch forge here at the Hearth."

Chun answered, then looked at Broly.

"Oh right, I've repaired your sword and gauntlets, but I forgot to bring them to you."

"It's okay, I haven't been to the dungeon recently anyway, so I haven't needed them."

"Uh, Broly, isn't this a bit too extravagant of you to actually provide your personal equipment craftsman with a dedicated forging workshop within his own clan?"

"Tsubaki is worth doing this for."

Broly thought for a moment and then answered Tiona's question seriously.

"Ha, Broly, you have such a sweet tongue, kid."

Chun laughed heartily, picked up Broly, and held him in her arms.

If it weren't for the crowds here, making it difficult to kiss in person, she might have already started to taste it.

"Miss Kotsubaki, aren't you the leader of the Hephaestus Familia? If you plan to stay at the Hearth House for an extended period of time, will Lord Hephaestus agree to it?"

Lefia asked out of curiosity, her eyes involuntarily glancing in the direction of the red-haired goddess who was talking to Hestia.

“Agreed, why not? Lord Hephaestus, you’re coming here to stay for a long time too.”

"Huh?!"

"She and Lady Hestia are very close friends, and we will become family in the future."

Chun answered honestly, and her words surprised Ais and the others.

Even Ryu, who was lying by the box watching her friend's bones slowly coming back together, glanced over in this direction.

"Is the Hearth Hall under renovation? Could you build me a magic laboratory there too?"

At this moment, Fels walked over and asked the craftsman with the large breasts who was hugging the Saiyan boy.

"Huh?!"

When other people turned to look at her, Fells began to explain.

"Although I can also conduct research in my private magic laboratory, building the magic laboratory here with the Hestia Familia would make it easier for Mr. Broly and me to exchange ideas on the technology of repairing the damaged remains. Of course, I will bear the cost of building the magic laboratory myself."

And so, one more person came to stay at the Kitchen God's House.

However, beings like Fels should not be considered human, but rather undead creatures with physical bodies.

If she can be considered a guest, then the deceased girl whose incomplete remains were restored by the horse talisman can also be considered a special guest.

Under the pressure of additional funding, the Hephaestus Familia's engineering team built a magic research lab with a relatively low level of protection in just half a day.

It's not feasible to experiment with overly dangerous offensive magic here, but it's sufficient for researching magic that repairs damaged remains.

Good morning, Miss Fells. You're up very early.

That morning, Ais and Fels met in the corridor and greeted each other.

Is it possible that I didn't sleep at all?

Fels wanted to say that, but in the end he only gave a vague reply, then took the fresh bones he had ordered from the butcher shop and which had been delivered before dawn, and went into his magic laboratory.

Good morning, Ms. Ryu~

When Ais arrived in the living room, she greeted the elves who had gotten up even earlier than her.

"And Miss Adi, good morning to you too."

Incidentally, he also politely greeted the somewhat mutilated, skeletal skeletons next to the elf, who were dressed in women's clothing.

Of course, Miss Adi wouldn't respond; she was simply brought out by Ryu, supposedly to let her get used to what it felt like to be alive before being resurrected.

After investigation, it was determined that this strange action was simply due to Miss Elf's eagerness for her friend to be resurrected, and that the other party's mental state was absolutely fine.

(End of this chapter)