All these years, Linna had lived with pain.
Back then, when she fled Yulan, she had watched Hogg die with her own eyes.
At the time, her heart had truly turned to ash. She had even thought of joining Hogg in death.
But when she thought of her young children, Linna had endured her grief and carried on.
After arriving in the Federation, she had devoted herself to caring for the children, while making sure not to neglect her cultivation.
Hogg's death had made her realize that strength was all that mattered. Everything else was fleeting.
Later, young Wharton became a Dragonblood Warrior and joined the Academy's warrior division, while young Linley became an excellent mage thanks to his magical talent.
Now that the children had grown up, Linna had begun to wonder whether she should try to save Hogg.
She had stumbled upon this material by chance. All these years, she had needed to work and earn money.
Eventually, she found a job at a research institute. There, she happened to learn about a project concerning souls and the Underworld.
That was when she learned that death, as ordinary people understood it, was not true death.
When beings of the Saint Realm or below died, their souls went straight to the Underworld and became undead.
If so, was there any way to find the undead and restore their memories?
At the thought of this possibility, Linna felt her whole body trembling. She took the documents to an expert to ask about it, then returned home in a daze.
There was still hope, but very little.
According to the expert, resurrecting an undead required the personal intervention of an Underworld Sovereign.
Linna had never seen a Sovereign, but she had some idea of what they were like.
Sovereigns were legendary