Chapter 296: The Price of Death
In the face of Phil's constant questioning, even Crete found it difficult to tell the truth at this time.
Lukka walked over and put his right hand on Phil's shoulder, trying to say something, but he couldn't get a word out of his mouth.
Ever since he rescued Lind on Gale Wind, the half-giant hasn't caught Luca's attention.
Linde seems to be just a symbol following Phil, and despite his huge size, everyone always uses him as a background, consciously or unconsciously. Even though he greets everyone with a silly smile every day, from the bottom of his heart, probably no one really treats him as an equal companion.
Until now, his massive body lay motionless among the masonry and rubble. Lukka realized that the mild-mannered half-giant had been trying his best to protect the team in his own clumsy way - not just Phil, but everyone.
Phil still clutched Crete's sleeve and kept asking, as if as long as his questions didn't stop, Crete couldn't tell that Lind was dead.
But Crete finally spoke: "He's really dead." ”
Phil stopped all his movements, and Crete was clearly standing in front of him, but to him, the voice seemed to come from a long distance.
After being stunned for a long time, he shook off the sleeve of Crete's coat and shouted, "You are lying!"
He took two steps back, opened the pouch around his waist, and rummaged through it. But all the potions with energy had been thrown to Lukka just now, and all he could find now was some empty bottles and notebooks that never left him.
"There must be a way, Linde is not an ordinary human, there must be, there must be some formula, I just didn't find it! Imperial Laboratories must have done such experiments!" he kept flipping through the small leather cover book, trying to find a recipe that he hadn't tried before from his usual messy notes.
Daniel walked over, half-crouched beside Phil, and whispered, "You calm down first." ”
Phil glared at him with bloodshot eyes: "It's easy for you to say, it's not you who died!"
"I was meant to be dead. Daniel scratched his head, "Moreover, even if alchemy is useful, the current materials can't make potions." Even if you want to bring Linde back to life, you have to go back to the lab first. ”
Lukka frowned, no matter how magical Phil's alchemy is, it is taboo to bring the dead back to life, he remembers shutting up and mentioning that this kind of thing, from the point of view of magic, belongs to the scope of necromancy, even the wizarding world prohibits anyone from studying such spells, and there is no shadow of necromancy in the six major magic factions.
And now the weather is so hot, when I return to the laboratory on Tata Island, Linde's body doesn't know how much it will decompose, and if Phil still insists on resurrecting the half-giants at that time, the scene will not be so good.
But now, as the person who was saved by Linde with his life, how could Luca speak out to stop it?
"Phil," Crete never flinched when he should have spoken, "even if you could resurrect him with alchemy, it wouldn't be the Lind you knew." ”
"Then try it too!" Phil couldn't listen to any dissuasion now, "If you don't do this, do you have any other way to bring Lind back to life?"
Lukka's heart fluttered, and his right hand left Phil's shoulder, reached into his trouser pocket, and touched a money bag made of flannel.
"Maybe I really have a way. As he spoke, he walked over to the half-giant who had fallen to the ground, crouched beside him and opened the money bag.
It contained a ring, and the antler-wrapped pattern was covered in brown rust.
"Is this the ring that kept Captain Marlowe immortal?" Crete recognized at a glance.
Lukka nodded.
Captain Marlowe was not on board when he arrived, so he didn't know what the ring was for. He speculated from the antlers of the ring, "This is Covey's thing?"
"Yes," replied Luca, "the last man who wore the ring on his hand has suffered numerous mortal wounds, but none of them have died, and have lived well for more than a hundred years. ”
"Does this really work?" Phil still couldn't believe it, it was inconspicuous at all glances, and far beyond his knowledge.
"To be honest, I'm not sure. Lukka rubbed the ring twice, and the rust on it was not rubbed off at all.
"Not sure?"
Lukka sighed and said:
"That's why I just said 'maybe'. ”
"First of all, we've all seen what Covey looks like now. This ring was made by it, and no one can say whether it will still be effective in this state. ”
"Moreover, Marlowe was the ring he wore alive, and Linde has stopped beating now, so it's hard to say whether this thing can still work on a dead person. ”
"Finally, there's one toughest question!"
Lukka said, reached out and picked up Linde's bloodless left hand, and gestured: "The size of this hand is too exaggerated, the fingers are thicker than ordinary people's wrists, how can you put this ring on?"
The other concerns can be ignored, and only this last point makes him not know what to do.
"You compare and see how much worse," Ollie came up with an idea, "No, isn't there a shrinking technique?"
Luca smiled bitterly, Linde's own bloodline and medium are messy enough, and if you want to use this ring to resurrect, it will be even more chaotic, and if you want to use magic effects, it is really beautiful. This level of confusion makes sense to say that they are fans of the nihilistic.
However, neither the Void nor the Creator, any chaos and order in front of Lukka and them were as important as getting their companions back to their side.
He compared the ring to Linde's index finger, obviously, the little finger was thinner, but Marlowe was wearing it on his left index finger in the first place, whether the other fingers also worked, Luca was not sure, and he didn't want to risk it.
"That's three times worse. As he spoke, he was about to take the ring back when the brown oxide-covered antlers suddenly swung, and with a few touches on Linde's fingertips, the distance between the antlers quickly widened, automatically adjusting to the size of Linde's fingers.
"Does that mean it's useful?" Lukka had barely spoken, and before he could send his hand forward, the ring slipped onto Linde's index finger.
The half-giant's body shook slightly, and he sat up abruptly, looking back and forth with his eyes wide open, and a few inexplicable growls came out of his mouth.
Lukka quickly took two steps back and said nervously, "Is there something wrong? He doesn't seem to be able to communicate normally! Death always has a price, right?"