Chapter 21: CHAPTER 19

Ray

The world came back into existence through fits and starts. Honestly, Ray felt more than a little like he had when he was quasi-dead. Right after he had planted the core that is. Gasping, throat as dry as a desert, he opened his inventory and retrieved a bottle of water. Downing half the bottle he laid the rest of it on the … floor?

He cracked open an eye or tried to at least. Either the room that he was in was pitch black, or his eyes had been taken along with his … ah yeah. He waved his stump in the air. He could tell that it had been perfectly bandaged, but the feeling of his hand was still there. Even now, the phantom fingers and wrist were moving as his mind told his body that they were still there.

That sucked.

As his mind came back online fully, he could hear sounds from below him. Ah, he realized where he was now. He was in the barracks on the second floor of their base. Probably in a vacant bed.

Sitting up, he swung his legs over the side of the bed and onto the floor next to the water bottle he had dropped. As he did so, he stepped on a sleeping Goblin, who promptly woke up, looked at Ray in confusion, then began squawking loudly as it raced around in the darkness bouncing off bunks and various objects.

The response to the commotion was immediate, as he heard multiple sets of feet start coming up the stairs to this level. As the door opened, Grok, Gale, and Josephine walked into the room. Each of them was holding a candle as they moved over towards him. The extra illumination told him that he could, indeed, still see.

As they came closer, dozens upon dozens of notifications flooded his vision. He dismissed them all for now, as he had more important things to discuss with his … group. Mainly, that they were still alive. Squinting into the candlelight as they sat down around him, Grok remained standing, of course, he quirked an eyebrow.

“What’s with the candlelight vigil? I’m not dead yet,” he rasped out, picking up the bottle and downing the rest of the water.

Grok grunted as Gale responded for the group, “Thou hast been asleep nearly two days in recovery. It is no wonder thy body feels as if it were one of the undead,” the Drakling quipped.

“Oi, I can seez ya liked mah, alarm Boss,” Grok grunted out, grabbing the still screeching Goblin and tossing it over his shoulder and down the stairs. “Annoyin buggah.”

Ray gave a short chuckle at that, then turned his attention to Josephine. “Glad you could join us, you certainly showed up at the right time,” he related thankfully. “Good to see you up and amongst the living.”

Ray was about to ask something else, but a sudden thought stopped him cold. “You seem … to be much stronger than before,” he started cautiously. Then, lacking the ability to organize words at that moment in time he simply blurted, “Why?”

Josephine bowed to him deeply at the waist, “My apologies, Savior,” she said in a nearly panicking tone. “I was presented the opportunity to choose a class when you resurrected me. This made me significantly stronger,” she explained while holding the bow.

“Just uh, stand up please?” Ray said as the woman went from bent at a ninety-degree angle to ramrod straight. Then what she said clicked. “Oh shit, you’re a Resurrectionist are you?”

Josephine nodded as Ray put his face in his hand and rubbed his tired eyes. Resurrectionists showed up nearly a decade before his first death. It was an immensely popular, and highly prevalent, set of spiritual beliefs that revolved around reincarnation. Recent innovations in technology had allowed the transfer of a human consciousness from one body to another to greatly expand the human life cycle. However this came at the immense cost of time, money, and resources many didn’t have. However, those who had gone through the process viewed it as akin to a religious experience. Hence the Resurrectionist Religion was born.

The biggest issue, however, was that Resurrectionists tended to be hardcore fanatics. When sponsored by someone and brought back, they were loyal to that person or organization to the death. Many times the death of others. This had sparked several wars in the past, as well as made the religion nearly illegal in many countries.

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“Ok. Fine. Don’t kill anyone without my explicit permission. That’s my first edict,” Ray said. He was intimately familiar with the religion. Although having never followed it himself, he had been friends with many who had. Including one of the Resurrected themselves. Acolytes were common and served under the Resurrected. Sometimes in very large groups.

“Consider it done my Savior,” Josephine said seriously.

Knowing their relationship would probably never be the same, or normal in any way, Ray simply accepted what was happening. She had become his first Resurrectionist. Knowing what he did, he now had zero doubts that more would end up this way. He only hoped that it wouldn’t be too terrible in the end and that they could, and would, live normal lives.

Grok and Gale seemed unsurprised by how she was acting. So either Josephine had explained everything to them, or they had experience with something like the Resurrectionist movement in their lives. With the vastness of the cosmos that had been opened up, Ray had zero doubt there were many kinds of religions out there.

Shaking himself out of those deep thoughts he spoke. “So what happened when I passed out? You said that I have been asleep for two days? What’s the situation outside?” Ray asked in rapid succession.

Gale laughed while Grok snorted in amusement. Even Josephine cracked a small grin.

“Thou hast not to worry. Mine curiosity is greater in regards to the rewards the System has bestowed upon thee,” Gale said.

Grok grunted and Josephine explained, “We all received notifications and rewards. Even those little green … Goblins? Yes. Goblins. Even they got rewards. But it specified that you got something special,” clarified Josephine.

Nodding, Ray turned to his notifications. There were … a lot.

NEMESIS INCURSION DEFEATED

EVENT REWARDS: 50,000 NEX

EVENT AWARD: +3 TO ALL STATS

UNDEAD KILLED: 1,606

ITEM AWARDED: ADVANCED MATERIALS CONVERTER

ITEM AWARDED: HEX CLAIM BEACON X2

ITEM AWARDED: WAR CHEST

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