Chapter 494: Reviving the dead (2)

Zachary POV

'Trial: Survive'

'Time Left: 7 days'

Fuck. In front of me, was a black haired Perseus, similar to the one of him as the lord of fantasy and destruction, but no silver and gold eyes, red eyes like when he stopped using the power of his lifted restriction.

I remember him calling the guy Theseus or something, the personality of his berserker state, the personification of his ability 'ferocity'. Not gonna lie with you, and don't you dare tell anyone this, he look like exactly my type of man, not too tall, and a nice body, not too muscular, and overall good looking. The bad boy type, my favorite.

IF ANY of you readers even let a letter about this out, I will spend another thousand years to find a way to escape this novel and strangle you.

But damn...survive...not win. This trial is mocking my abilities, I may have chosen upon myself to not fight, but that doesn't mean I can't fight, I'm the strongest in my organization, Perseus rose up too quickly though, damn those bloodlines and ancestors of his.

But as the trial went on, it was obvious, no magic, his specialty in close combat overwhelmed me, so all I could do was run, luckily we're in some sort of dense forest where there are several hiding spots.

Perseus apparently had to overwhelm the guy by crushing the balls, which now, as a guy, I can understand, the pain is terrible. Man, apparently that stupid selfless brother of mine will revive if 3/4 people passed the trials, but there's gotta be a penalty for one failure.

And I'm sure as hell that there will be some sort of penalty after him coming back to life...but all I gotta worry about is to survive the next six days as his hot looking alternative chase me down.

If you put it that way, it doesn't sound that bad.

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Protagonist POV

Whew, finally, my time to shine. And now there is a second person who is hugging me while crying after I managed to calm Kenny down. Auntie Elektra came, she looked worse and besides...unlike Kenny, I'm not gonna try to push her away.

"My son..." she cried

That's...the first time she has called me that. Every time I called her mom or mother, she would scold me not to do it. And never once has she called me her son.

"Does this mean I can call you mom now?"

"You can call me anything." she replied as I hugged her back "The trial was horrifying."

"I'm sorry, but thanks to you, I'm one step closer to coming back."

"Papa." Eislyn called "The other 2 are almost finished with their trial."

"I see, how long is it on the outside?"

"It's been almost a month."

"Fuck. It felt like 3 times as long."

Kenny spent more than 3 years if we include the trial, Elektra spent months as well. It took like a few days, but Zach finished and Dabria finished right after, I didn't even get to greet them as the void then turned black, it means the reviving process is starting.

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3rd person view

Eislyn collapsed on the ground passing out where Zach then watched over her and checked up on her, since she's a plotinum equipment from the beginning so she didn't suffer anything serious apart from mental exhaustion, but it won't be long till the void goes out taking Perseus' soul away.

But she the woke up abruptly with fluttering eyes and there was a sliver glowing light in her right palm where she then gave to Dabria before reverting back to her sword form.

"His soul." Dabria said "Man, I'm gonna so regret reviving him."

"Dabria, I maybe able to manipulate souls, but reviving a dead person from here on out is all on you." Zach said

"I know, I'm trying." Dabria replied "Elektra, you take Kenny back to Valhalla to help the battle, him and his new sniping rifle is useful since it can manipulate people's feelings, Zach will stay here just in case he can help or something goes wrong. Perseus is going to come back and I swear that on my title as the goddess of life and death."

"The protagonist better make a good return, the only guy who has ever came back from the dead after it was restricted...you sure are something bro." Zach chuckled

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1st person view

I felt wind breezes and the grass on my back, my body felt really weak, I felt thirsty and hungry, food in a dream is still a dream, my eyes were fluttering and I felt a smile creeping up on my face.

"I'm back."

There were tear drops falling on my face, I saw Dabria crying and gritting her teeth.

"I'll go back and announce that you're back." Zach said as he got up "I'm not gonna disturb your private moment, your underlings have been panicking and trying their best to hide your death, it should slowly start to come back though."

"Thanks man, I can't use magic for 3 days, even my eyes right now should be my original brown color, I'm just a a regular dhampir for now, not even a celestial. 4th day will be painful for me as all my powers will start to come back to me at once."

He then left.

"I'm sorry that I made you cry."

"Did you even know how worried I was?" she cried "Why? What if I fail? There was a chance at failure, you knew that!"

"I had faith, the author doesn't make things easy even when he allow a rule to be broken, I knew you would be able to do it."

"I lost my brother...and I almost lost you too...what would you do if you had actually die?!"

I sat up and smiled a bit, I wiped her tears along with the ones which dropped on my face earlier.

"I'm sorry, I know you will never forgive me, but I will apologize until you do or until my life ends, I'm sorry, but...thank you."

She just buried her face in my chest and I hugged her. We stayed like that for a while.