"What do you mean?" Thor pulled Luo Ye's hand away and plopped down on the ground.
He was so exhausted that all he wanted was to lie down. But mindful of the reputation he'd just earned, he settled for sitting, trying not to look too undignified.
Seeing that, Luo Ye dropped his own airs and sat down beside Thor. He looked dispirited and was in low spirits.
"Alfonso died?" he asked in return.
"Yeah. He drew most of the Black Tide Monsters away and was killed without a trace..." Thor paused, then asked, "Did you die too? Were you resurrected?"
Thor remembered that the Judgment Court forbade Wizards below Second Rank from conducting Resurrection Experiments. Tier 3 Wizards, however, weren't covered by that ban.
"Yeah." Luo Ye was still in low spirits. "I ran into some unknown Tier 4 Wizard and died without even knowing what happened. Luckily, my soul was stored in... Ah, there's no harm in telling you. It was stored in Lord Flim's Lost Corridor. As long as my body dies but my soul isn't corrupted or alienated, I still have a chance to be resurrected."
"I failed to carry out Court Master Flim's orders this time, so I should've been punished. But now that the Red Sea Tree has fallen and been damaged this badly, Lord Flim resurrected me right away and sent me back to figure something out."
"Will Alfonso be resurrected too?" Thor asked, though he knew in his heart that it was unlikely.
"...No." Luo Ye looked out at the Red Sea and, like an ordinary person, gloomily tossed a stone. "He made a mistake. Dying in battle was already the Court Master showing him leniency."
Luo Ye had been close friends with Alfonso for over a century, and it was hard for