"There really is a problem."
Jia Xiu said seriously.
"Our research direction is wrong? We've been off track from the very beginning?"
Margaret said, somewhat dejected.
Her train of thought had been forcefully dragged back and blocked by the matter of three confirmations.
"The problem is that it's too simple!"
"Huh?"
Jia Xiu spoke with a straight face, showing no sign that he was joking.
"As a mysterious, high-end power of planar laws that should theoretically be incredibly formidable, it only confirms things three times at most. And if it confirms a conflict first, then the conflict is removed and the function returns, it cancels the forced retrieval, and then that's it."
"Wait, wait. What do you mean, returns?"
"Uh, say a demon triggers its near-death state. A spell from some plane confirms the demon's condition. If it discovers that the demon can still survive, it doesn't retrieve it. If it discovers that it's completely dead, it takes away its consciousness, or perhaps its soul—I'm not sure—and then destroys the body."
Margaret nodded.
That part did indeed sound very simple.
She had simply never considered that returning to one's original plane after death was actually an inherent effect of the planes of Hell and the Abyss.
And it only applied to creatures native to those planes.
Adventurers who went exploring in Hell, no matter how long they stayed there, had no chance of returning to Hell after they died elsewhere. Only creatures born there received such treatment.
Why should they get that?!
She had always thought it was a racial ability of demons. Only now did she realize it was a blessing from their plane.
Look at their plane!
Margaret felt like her own plane never gave them anything good.
She conveniently ignored Hell and the Abyss's natural environments, which