The altar was ready.
The bodies were all in place as well.
The ritual could be performed at any time, so Luo Zhen decisively announced its commencement in front of everyone.
Beside Luo Zhen, Tenzen and Raizen both looked grave.
"Are you really sure there won't be any problems?"
Raizen still couldn't help speaking up.
"Resurrection is dangerous to begin with. Even with your abilities, reviving the entire clan all at once is pushing it too far."
Even Tenzen said so.
Clearly, now that things had reached this point, both of them had grown uneasy.
There was no helping it. The bodies of every member of the Akaba Clan lay before the brothers.
Looking at those faces, each one exactly as they remembered, Tenzen and Raizen could not hide the emotions surging within them.
The owners of those faces had been devoured by a sea of flames right before the brothers' eyes nearly three years ago, and had long since vanished from this world.
Now that they were seeing the familiar faces of their clansmen again, watching them lie there in neat rows as though peacefully asleep, Tenzen and Raizen simply couldn't help feeling anxious.
Especially...
"Fujiko..."
Looking at the girl lying in the very center of the group, Raizen clenched his fists.
That girl was none other than Akaba Fujiko.
Fujiko's body had also been created by Luo Zhen using the "Alchemy" inherited from Atlas Academy. It currently lay together with the bodies of the other clansmen.
Originally, Fujiko's body had been preserved inside the bodies of the girls of Snow Moon Flower. There was no need to create another body; they could simply extract the living body from within the girls and piece it back together, after which it could be used exactly as it was. However, that