The Chief Swordsman clearly remembered the smile that had appeared on the Countess's face when the news arrived last night-
"Guiding the undead to the 'Land of Eternal Rest,' and now there's another undead who seems to have crawled out of it?
It seems our Mr. Credos is a gentle soul, too!
He...
Is trying to find a way to resurrect his parents!"
Resurrecting the dead had always been regarded as taboo on the mystical side.
Because-
It was far too dangerous!
Since the Imperial Age, every attempt to resurrect the dead had ended badly.
In the milder cases, the person performing the ritual died.
In the more typical cases, their entire family died with them.
In the worst cases, everyone sharing their bloodline died.
The once-powerful Edward family, for instance, had met with utter destruction in the middle of the Silver Age because the Edward brothers wanted to resurrect their mother.
Every member of the Edward family who shared that bloodline had died overnight.
As a result, Bette-a distant relative of distant relatives, with virtually no blood ties and only a nominal connection-had inherited the Edward family's title and lands, or what remained after others had carved them up.
Nobody had expected this "Count Bette" to restore the Edward family's glory.
After all, what Bette had inherited was not even a farm.
It was a...
Mill.
One so dilapidated that none of the various powers had wanted it.
Yet with that mill alone, the "Count Bette" dismissed as a country bumpkin had spent ten years becoming a count in more than name, establishing a Bette family that nobody could ignore.
Some rumors claimed that the country-bumpkin Count Bette had inherited the Edward family's secret legacy.
Others claimed that Count Bette truly carried the Edward family's bloodline and therefore enjoyed