(Genichiro Ashina was the best teacher. Sekiro was starting to get the hang of it.)
"Welcome back, Doctor Anto."
Bai Ye handed over a blanket to cover the revived Operator Anto's body. Then he pressed on her shoulders and made her lie back down.
Reconstructing a body naturally could not restore its clothes as well, and Bai Ye had no clothing that would fit her, so he could only use the blanket as an emergency measure.
"..."
Doctor Anto looked dazed, meaningless murmurs slipping from her lips as though she had yet to awaken from a dream.
That was right. Anto did not actually know that she had died. The instant the blaze erupted, she had been swallowed by the flames.
After the searing pain came a long silence.
No one knew what would happen once the boundary between life and death had been broken.
However, Anto had only just been revived. She still needed to sleep, allowing her soul to fit this newborn body once more.
Bai Ye gripped the Holy Emblem and was just about to cast a divine sleep spell when his body suddenly swayed, his legs gave out, and he fell to the floor.
"Ugh—"
Only then did Bai Ye realize that his energy pool was nearly depleted. Casting the resurrection divine spell had almost drained his enormous reserves of holy light energy dry.
Even his power of nature had been wrung dry.
This was a first for Bai Ye.
Even reviving Patriot last time had not been this terrifying.
"So this is... the price of a [complete] resurrection?"
Everything came at a price. Using divine spells to grow flesh was easy, but completely pulling someone with not even a body left back from death required an immense amount of energy.
If Bai Ye unleashed all