Inside the underground research laboratory.
A girl expressionlessly thrust a short knife into her chest, the bright red blood dripping like flowers.
The scene before her was like an exquisite painting; as long as one is good-looking, everything they do is beautiful, and even self-harm has a unique elegance. However, if she hadn't been through Wakaba-san's hellish training back then, she probably wouldn't have been able to endure the pain brought by such self-harm.
And without the state of mind as calm as still water in this state, she would definitely not have the confidence to perform such a brutal experiment. As the blood flowed out and her vitality ebbed away, her body gradually turned cold.
Her breathing gradually became negligible, and finally, she leaned against the chair and lowered her head, her long hair spilling over her pale, cold arms. The blood beneath the stool turned into small rivers, and looking down from the ceiling, it seemed like a pattern blooming outward.
The girl's life gradually turned into a blank. At that moment, a faint Aura of the twilight of doom began to emerge from her body, but immediately after, an incomparably strong vitality appeared out of thin air, and that Aura disappeared again. The wound on the girl's chest emitted a warm white light, the power of which was healing the dead corpse, restoring vitality to the body. The girl's soul, which had fallen into a deep sleep due to death, also woke up at this moment.
Resurrection Magic:
——[Phoenix Rebirth Art].
A rebirth magic improved based on the principles of resurrection magic. Even if the body is severely damaged, one can return from the dead. More importantly, after rebirth, it heals all injuries sustained by the body and brings one back with full health.
However, the effect of this magic has not yet reached the ideal effect Tsukasa envisioned. In her ideal, it would be most perfect if the corpse could be resurrected even if it were crushed, but this rebirth art still has certain requirements for the corpse. Although a certain degree of damage can be recovered, if the corpse is destroyed over a large area or directly burned, there is no way to resurrect again. Although the improvement is not entirely satisfactory, it only eliminated the side effects of resurrection magic, improved the time required for resurrection, and added the ability to automatically resurrect after death without needing someone else to cast the spell; the weaknesses of the magic are still very obvious.
But this is already the limit of what can be done.
As for how to improve this point, she has hit a bottleneck. There are methods, but unfortunately, she has no way to achieve them. One method is to give the soul the ability to materialize, so that even if the body is destroyed, a new body can be created through the materialization...
...ability. But if she had that ability, she wouldn't need to laboriously research resurrection magic. The remaining method is to obtain high-speed regeneration, the kind that allows for rapid regeneration even if one is destroyed down to a single cell. However, humans certainly don't have this kind of ability. The only way to obtain it is:
I'm throwing away my humanity! (Cough!)
"Ah, what a headache. Let's stop the research here for now. What I lack now is not technology, but my own hardware is not up to standard. As expected, I'm still too weak. If my soul were strong enough to materialize, if my will were strong enough to interfere with reality and give every cell the ability to regenerate, if I had the determination to stop being human, this problem wouldn't be difficult to solve at all. In the final analysis, it's because I'm too weak that I find it so difficult."
Tsukasa knew very well that this wasn't something that could be solved in a short time. Although she wanted to become stronger, she had indeed reached a bottleneck at the moment.
Even though the Sword Saint State can increase her combat power, her own level has not increased.
To say what her current bottleneck is.
It's actually similar to the Demon King from the previous world.
Of course, her current attributes are not as strong as the Demon King's, but their situations are the same. That is, although they can both improve their combat power and attribute values by acquiring more Skills, they cannot achieve a qualitative leap in their own level.
Although Tsukasa's current attribute values are not as good as the Demon King's, she has undoubtedly touched that layer of film now. If she can break through this film, her life form will evolve and become a so-called 'god'. But unfortunately, she can't find a way to break through. Kumoko's method of evolution is not something she can learn; she can't possibly swallow bombs raw, and even if she wanted to try, those bombs aren't something that can be made just because she wants to. After all, she hasn't researched this technology, nor does she have the design drawings for those bombs. She doesn't even know how to extract and utilize the world's energy now, let alone use the world's energy to manufacture bombs.
Well, after all, becoming a god is equivalent to transcending the world; how could it be that easy?
Tsukasa was quite open-minded about this. Anyway, her current strength hasn't reached its true upper limit; she's still at least several tens of thousands away from the Demon King.
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