Ma Han instinctively sensed that something was wrong and wanted to ask about it.
But Xu Xiao beside him had already begun wielding the power of her Authority.
They had assumed that resurrecting just one more target would not cause the woman much harm.
Yet the result far exceeded everyone's expectations!
As divine radiance surged continuously, the skull wrapped in white thorns swiftly changed from deathly pale to pink, then grew flesh and blood, gradually restoring the adorable face it had worn in life.
But just as the head was fully restored and the reconstruction was about to continue below the neck, something unexpected happened.
The spreading thorns seemed to have struck an invisible barrier. No matter how hard they tried, they could not extend even an inch below the neck.
Although Xu Xiao was indeed not as distressed as before, uneasy ripples appeared in the air around her body.
It was as though her body had become a lump of sugar in hot water, steadily melting away with time.
"W-what is going on?"
Nikita ran her fingers through the disturbed ripples and stammered:
"Is this normal?"
"I've never seen anything like this..." Ma Han frowned tightly, withdrawing his gaze from Smir and shaking his head. "Class Monitor, how do you feel?"
"Uh... it feels like something is stopping me from resurrecting Xiao Xuan..." Xu Xiao's brows drew together as she further mobilized the power of her Authority. "Something feels very wrong... I'll try harder..."
"Uh, if something feels wrong, how about stopping for a moment?" The moment Ma Han finished trying to persuade her, his pupils abruptly shrank as he looked at Xu Xiao.
Before his eyes, wrinkles rapidly crept across the woman's face, like the peeling, cracked surface of a wall left in disrepair for years!
Yet Xu