447 Gathering All The Necessary Materials
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Once all materials were gathered, the only thing left to do was actually working on it. For that we required Erika, Eric, and Elizabeth’s aid. And quite probably Erika’s father help too. He was quite good at Alchemy, the more alchemists are together doing this, the better. Eleanora will also help with the synthesis of a new body for Erika as she is connected to my Skills and can use them. It isn’t as if she was bad at Alchemy either, so she’ll suffice.
“Now that we’ve got everything what do we do?” Wondered Eric.
“Yeah I am kind of confused…” Elizabeth said.
“Follow me, let’s go to Erika’s home.”
Like that, we arrived at Erika’s home, quickly finding both her and her father awake. I had already told them yesterday about this whole plan, and her father ultimately agreed to it after learning of Ellergest’s last words. He also already learned the truth of everything, and how the destruction of his family and the death of his daughter were all orchestrated by the same royal family that he used to trust.
pAn,D a-n0ve1,c-o-m “So you’re here…” Erika’s father said, he had drank a Stamina Potion I left for him yesterday and seemed filled with more energy than before. “I can assume that tree you’ve grown there… It is Yggdrasil, isn’t it?”
“A Lesser Yggdrasil, and small at that.” I glanced behind me at the tree once more, even from distance it looked rather big, but it didn’t block the sun or anything of the sort, so people shouldn’t complain about it so much.
“Blake! You’re here…” Erika said, running towards me and quickly hugging me. She quickly noticed Eric and Elizabeth.
“Oh you guys are here too…” She said with surprise.
“Y-Yeah, we came to help.” Eric said. “We are friends after all, the least I can do is to help out.”
“Papa wanted you to have a new body, he said it was something like your destiny, I want to fulfill such destiny for you, Erika!” Elizabeth said with a smile.
“Yeah, I told you we were coming this morning to Synthetize your new body.” I quickly opened the bag I had, bringing out all the ingredients.
“Everyone… Thank you…” Erika said, trying to contain her tears.
“Incredible, freshly grown Lesser Yggdrasil’s Wood, a top-notch alchemy material! Ah! And this is the Dryad’s Core and the Blood? Amazing!” Erika’s father was happy to see all materials gathered. I had not seen such an excited face before in his face. It seemed that the Stamina Potion had brought him back to life almost miraculously.
“Then we don’t have any time to waste, let’s begin.”
With that, we immediately started.
Erika had cleaned the entire first floor for this since the morning, and now that most of it was empty, the cauldron was placed in the middle of the room. Mana flowed inside of this magic artifact, as Liquified Magical Essence quickly emerged from within its interior, starting to bubble rapidly.
I quickly wrote down several magical runes around the cauldron with the help of Eleanora, as we immediately started to scribble an entire Magical Circle with many layers. Such magic circle would invoke a powerful series of combined spells. We’ll need Elizabeth and Eric’s help in this regard, much like how I brought to life that branch into a whole living tree.
However, this time we are going to merge this powerful magic with the greater concepts of alchemy. And as the cauldron bubbled and boiled more and more, we finally finished the magic circle. At the same time, Erika’s father started to use his Alchemist Skills to meld the materials he poured inside.
Yggdrasil Wood, Dryad’s Spirit Core, Dryad’s Blood, a hundred Spirit Orbs of varied Ranks which we had bought from the market. Although I also donated a few of the ones I had in my stash.
“And this…” Erika’s father quickly brought something.
It was a leather bag filled with white bones; the bones were so small that they might had been those of a small animal. Except the skull was too big to be a rabbit or something, it was the skull of a baby.
“Those are…” Erika said.
“These are… Well, they are your bones.” Said her father. “I had them buried, but I quickly dug them out of the grave behind the house.”
“You never told me that grave was mine…” Erika sighed.
“I didn’t wanted to break your heart. Learning the truth… it would had done more bad than good to you. I am sorry. I was a foolish father. I’ve always been terrible…” Her father sighed. “I am not asking for your forgiveness, in fact, it is fair to hate me.”
“No… I don’t hate you papa… I am grateful because you didn’t simply let me die of that curse. Even if many people would think what you did was awful or something, I still am grateful because you allowed me to have a new life. I was able to meet Blake and everyone else thanks to this new opportunity.” Erika said. “Now that I learned that I actually died because those people killed me using a Curse… I am even more grateful that you did this, father.”
“Erika…” Her father sighed. “Then let’s do this… I will give you back the body you lost, once and for all.”
Her father quickly poured every single little bone of her daughter into the Cauldron, as Erika quickly took off all her clothes.
“Uwah! Why is she getting naked?!” Eric asked.
“Oh, so that’s how it is…” Elizabeth sighed.
“Yes, Erika is the last ingredient of this Synthesis.” I said, as Erika quickly walked inside the cauldron fearlessly.
“It is like bathing in warm and comforting water…” She sighed, closing her eyes. “I am counting on you guys!” She quickly submerged completely into the cauldron’s Liquified Magical Essence.
“Then, Blake, let’s begin.” Her father said to me.
“It will be an honor.” I pointed my hand into the cauldron.
This is the day Erika will finally and truly be revived.
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