After Kallen finished chanting, the chains appearing beneath his feet began deliberately encircling the Pirate Ship Tombstone. There were more than before, and their arrangement was more orderly.
During their last meeting, Earl Recar had told Kallen that although the Order God Church excelled at the art of "Awakening," awakening an existence of his level would require at least the Archbishop of the Vien Region, and even then, an enormous price would have to be paid.
This was also why Earl Recar addressed Kallen so respectfully, and why he believed the Allen Family was developing so well.
The churches, especially the major orthodox churches, truly looked down on family faith systems. The Order God Church's standing went without saying, and now an Archbishop of York City from the Order God Church had become his family's son-in-law. Wasn't that the best proof that the family was flourishing?
Only when you were powerful enough would those who considered themselves nobly born and above others hold their noses and consent to associate with you.
Kallen had also gained plenty of useful information from his last conversation with Earl Recar. He had always known he possessed a special ability to awaken corpses, one unrelated to his "level," since he had not even completed purification at the time.
So, if the Order God Church's "Awakening" was a high-level conversion of power, using a spell as a medium to make one's own power resonate with the spiritual power inside a corpse...
Then, because he had "returned from the dead," he needed no such medium and could resonate directly with the residual spiritual power inside a corpse.
To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy, the corpse was a cage, and spiritual energy was held inside it;
The Order God Church possessed a way to open the cage, but