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Chapter 233: Back from the Dead

At one point, Aeris, Ragune, and Ankh despaired of his death, but Tauro's return to life was truly a miracle.

The group was hesitant to move Tauro, who had come back to life, so they decided to camp out in the mountains.

Since Tauro puts the tools for camping in his magic storage, they were literally camping out in the mountains.

Aeris put Tauro’s head on her lap, Ragune was putting her jacket on Tauro, and Ankh was on guard around the campfire.

Aeris’s warding magic around the bonfire ensured safety, but Tauro’s consciousness had not returned, so the tension continued to build.

"Even so, what happened to Tauro? I'm pretty sure he was dead at the time. ......"

Ankh, who was on watch, spoke to Ragune.

“Maybe Tauro had some sort of self-resuscitation ability.”

Ragune pulled from the back of her mind the knowledge she had learned in the village and formed a hypothesis.

“Self-resuscitation?”

“The “Grand Pontiff” has a fixed skill called “automatic self-resuscitation,” which means that when death comes to you, there is a very small chance you can resuscitate yourself, an extremely small chance, and a chance that depends on luck. However, even if this ability is activated, if the person who died is injured to the point of death, he will die immediately again even if he comes back to life, so with that “range instant death spell” that destroys the body this time, he should die immediately even if he comes back to life. ……”

Ragune was also troubled by the unknowns that her knowledge could not assist her with.

“…Tauro has the ability of ‘super restorative regeneration'. What if that ability continues to heal his destroyed body until the moment of his death, and even after he comes back to life?”

Aeris shared her own hypothesis about Tauro’s ability.

“Does Tauro have such an ability! It’s true that if you have “super recovery and regeneration”…. But I still don’t think there’s even a 1% chance of survival. ……”

Ragune was unable to explain the miracle-level odds of Tauro being brought back to life.

“…maybe it’s because I have the ability of ‘ luck’ attached to me.”

Tauro, who was sleeping on Aeris's lap, got up and said.

"Tauro!"

Aeris hugged Tauro and began to cry.

“I’m sorry for worrying you, guys. It looks like we’re all safe.”

Tauro apologized to the three of them as Aeris held him close.

“ Oh dear... Leader, how did you come back to life?"

Ankh decided to check with the person himself this time.

"I was listening to Ragune's explanation while I was sleeping, and I came to my own conclusion... Actually, I almost died when I made Ragune’s  magic spear--"

── Tauro's recollection.

When he made the magic spear with creation magic...

He almost died from depletion of magic power, but Aeris’s support saved him.

"Confirmed one of the conditions for activating the special skill [&%$#] <Those who have slipped through the lines of death many times>. Acquired [Automatic Self-Resuscitation Technique]" *See chapter 220.*

It was Tauro who heard a voice.

However, I understood right away that it was obviously a resurrection system that only works after I died, so I didn't have the chance, or rather, the courage to try it, so I quietly pushed it into the corner of my memory without telling Aeris about it.

“I think I was able to revive myself with ‘automatic self-resuscitation’ and ‘luck’ to fulfill the low probability activation conditions to revive, and ‘super recovery regeneration’ to solve the other bad conditions and come back to life, just as Ragune had guessed…That’s what it means. I really worried everyone.”

I lightly patted Aeris on the back, who was still hugging me, to comfort her, and she finally pulled away.

Her face was a mess from crying too much.

“…What happened in that village?”

While wiping away her tears, Aeris asked about the main topic of the conversation.

"...that's…”

Tauro briefly explained that the village seemed to be a training facility for the assassination guild, and that the sorcerer who attempted to assassinate Count Daredar had served as an instructor there.

He also speculated that the Assassination Guild, including Aeris’s case, had set up a large-scale trap to take the lives of Tauro and his friends, with one sick boy remaining to retaliate against Tauro for his continued interference in their mission.

“Leader, you were being targeted by the assassination guild....Well, if I had to guess, I’d say that the magical high-pitched tone the boy assassin emitted just before he died was a signal to his friends that he had succeeded, what do you think?”

I had witnessed the boy’s immediate actions, so I was almost certain Ankh was correct.

"I think so too. I think that was a way to contact his friends who were waiting outside the range of the detection system. Because of that high-pitched sound, I could see the birds from a wide range of the forest taking off all at once, even from a distance.”

Ragune calmly analyzed the situation.

“Right. They won't even come to check on him to make sure he's dead, so the leader is probably off the bingo list in the assassination guild, and that's a good thing.”

“What makes you think they won’t come back to check on him?”

Tauro, who had lost consciousness, didn't know the reason.

“If they were going to check from the beginning, there was no need to set the houses on fire after they had succeeded. The only reason they didn’t do that is because they are more afraid of the possibility of coming on site and running into the enemy."

Ankh explains to Tauro that the village had burned down.

"I see... Then I'm presumed to be dead, so I won't be targeted for the time being."

When Tauro said that, he smiled and reassured everyone.

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