Buzzz—
The air slowly trembled at an extremely low frequency under some indescribable force.
From the far edge of the sky, beyond the Box Garden, streams of visible psionic radiance converged, finally pouring into Lubek's body like a spring surging upstream. He slowly rose to his feet and floated into the air.
The wounds on the Mountain Folk mercenary's body, along with the grayish-white sections that looked necrotic, all began to heal and regenerate, regaining their color.
After flashing with a pure white fluorescence for a while, the inscription circuits once carved across his body slowly faded back into Lubek's flesh.
This scene lasted several seconds. Then Lubek's body fell from midair, and the white psionic glow in his eyes gradually receded, revealing his original green eyes.
"This is..."
Lubek had come back to life. He looked around in confusion, clearly unsure what was happening—though he had not actually died before, he had not been far from it. Yet Light's Embrace's ritual had actually brought him back from the dead!
"Good!"
"The ritual succeeded!"
"Now we have another cleric... we have even more hope of completing the mission!"
"Not bad, Lubek. You actually made it!"
Lubek knew everyone on the rescue team, and they cheered with joy.
Come to think of it, the red-haired Mountain Folk had originally been a mercenary who sold himself to Light's Embrace. After sincerely converting, he had also served as logistics personnel, assisting with quite a few Church of Light's Embrace missions here in Southern Ridge Province.
Though he had not fought in a long time, this time, to stop the beast king of the frenzied Bison Mountains in the Blazing Flame Lands from ravaging Southern Ridge and the Western Border, to stop this "man-made calamity," he had resolutely returned to his homeland in his