Reborn with Steve Stand - Chapter 602: Dark Resurrection BUG

“What… is this?”

Upon hearing Fang Mo’s statement, the crowd also seemed a bit shocked.

They glanced at each other, unsure whether they were astonished that Fang Mo really knew the art of resurrection, or hesitant about the matter of the sacrifice.

However, unlike the others, Tatsumaki’s character was very assertive.

So before the others could figure it out, she had already started interrogating loudly.

“What do you mean by sacrifice, you jerk?” Tatsumaki folded her arms and frowned slightly as she looked at Fang Mo: “Do you really have a way to resurrect the TankTop Master?”

“Big sister, could you think about my hero name before you speak?”

Facing Tatsumaki’s questioning, Fang Mo pointed to his chest with his thumb and said, “Me, the Priest, the number one dad in the Hero Association, do you understand the value of the word ‘dad’ here? If I were in the neighboring Arad Continent, I’d have to… ”

“Dad?”

Tatsumaki was a bit confused: “What’s the connection between a dad and a priest?”

Not only was Tatsumaki confused, but the other heroes were also baffled, except King seemed to understand something.

“He’s probably referring to the settings in the games.”

After some thought, KING couldn’t help but explain: “In some games, clergy usually take care of healing companions… and for combat professions, being healed at critical moments is very important, like having a new parent, hence they are also called ‘mama’ or ‘papa.'”

“Is that so?”

After hearing KING’s explanation, the heroes finally understood: “Mr. KING truly is the strongest man on Earth, understanding even such obscure knowledge.”

“…”

KING didn’t know what to say after that.

He was just a gamer; this stuff was simply common knowledge for him, whereas becoming a hero was something he almost couldn’t keep up with, you know?

“So, you really can resurrect the TankTop Master?”

Upon hearing this, Atomic Samurai also looked surprised: “So you were serious at the meeting earlier, but what’s the deal with the sacrifice?”

“Oh, that.”

Fang Mo began to explain seriously: “You see, as an agent of the Original God, using divine powers requires communicating with the gods, and as resurrection can break the boundaries of life and death, it cannot be used lightly… You understand this, right?”

“That makes sense.”

Atomic Samurai nodded subconsciously: “If resurrection could be performed without any cost, that would be absurd.”

“Yes.”

Fang Mo smiled and said: “So a sacrifice is needed to the Original God, and only after receiving the deity’s promise can I perform such an act.”

“I see.”

Upon hearing Fang Mo’s explanation, everyone seemed to understand.

Only Tatsumaki still seemed a bit skeptical, but at that moment she didn’t say much, only asking: “What’s the price? You mentioned a sacrifice… it’s not life for a life, is it?”

“Usually, it is indeed a life for a life.”

Fang Mo spread his hands and said: “This is resurrection, after all, it’s normal to trade lives, but considering the Original God is quite satisfied with the speed of my preaching, sometimes I can use something else instead.”

“Can something else be used?”

Upon hearing this, everyone felt a bit relieved.

After all, if there’s an alternative, who would really want to trade their own life for someone else’s?

“What is needed?”

Tatsumaki thought for a moment and asked: “I’ll send someone to prepare it right away.”

“No need to prepare, it’s already here.” Fang Mo shook his head and then pointed directly at the altar: “Take it off.”

“…Huh?!”

Tatsumaki widened her eyes: “What did you just say?”

“Safety pants.” Fang Mo said matter-of-factly: “Didn’t I say we need a sacrifice? Now you’re backing out?”

“Who’s god would use that kind of thing as a sacrifice?! You’re definitely playing me, right?! I’ll twist you into a pretzel!!”

“Come on, twist to the right.”

As Tatsumaki spoke, Fang Mo stretched his neck forward.

“You…”

“Alright, alright, Tatsumaki…”

Just as Tatsumaki was about to explode, the other S-Class heroes quickly held her back, and Child Emperor even looked up at Fang Mo: “Mr. Priest, can’t the sacrifice be something else?”

“It could be.”

Fang Mo spread his hands helplessly: “But this is the most convenient.”

“Please change it to something else.” Atomic Samurai hurriedly added: “Otherwise, before the aliens destroy A City, it’ll be destroyed by an internal fight among the S-Class heroes.”

“I really can’t choose.”

Fang Mo shrugged and said: “The Original God has specified many possible sacrifices: Tatsumaki’s safety pants, Child Emperor’s intelligence, Atomic’s sword, Prisoner’s girlfriend, Genos’s body, Darkshine’s freedom, Ancient One’s hair, and KING’s strength… any of these would work, come on, tell me, how should I choose?”

“…Nani?”

The heroes were stunned at his words.

Yes, these sacrifices were obviously a trap. Except for Tatsumaki, it seemed others really couldn’t offer anything… either they didn’t have it, or it would have a significant impact on them.

“…Wait.”

Despite some shock, someone still noticed something off.

The Puri-Puri Prisoner looked around: “Did someone just mention Darkshine? Where is he?”

“Super Alloy Darkshine?”

Upon hearing this, Atomic Samurai said instinctively: “He seems to have been sitting in the meeting room the whole time. When I came out earlier, I saw him sitting there quietly.”

“Eh?”

The Puri-Puri Prisoner scratched his head in confusion: “Really, he’s been acting strange ever since we left Priest’s house. It’s not like him not to be the first to show off his muscles at such an event.”

“…Did you send him to pick cotton again?”

Ancient One suddenly turned to look at Fang Mo.

“I didn’t.” Fang Mo immediately denied: “Maybe he got stimulated seeing how easily Prisoner became stronger.”

“He got stimulated after visiting your house?”

Tatsumaki looked suspiciously at Fang Mo: “I’m saying, you’re not one of those, are you?”

“Don’t think nonsense,” Fang Mo replied without turning his head back: “Do you think a person who takes your pictures would have an issue with their orientation?”

“Who knows.”

Tatsumaki snorted and turned her head away.

“So are you giving it or not?” Fang Mo didn’t want to dawdle and raised his hand: “You’d better make a decision soon, or I’m going home.”

“You jerk!”

Hearing this, Tatsumaki was clearly a bit flustered, but she still intentionally showed a fierce expression: “I…”

“Mr. Priest, please let me do it.”

Before Tatsumaki could finish speaking, Child Emperor suddenly stood up, his face serious.

“What?”

Seeing Child Emperor stand up, the others were also taken aback, and Atomic Samurai couldn’t help but speak up: “Mr. Priest, aren’t you making this too difficult? Many of these things are simply impossible for us to bring forth.”

“Yeah, Mr. Priest.”

The Puri-Puri Prisoner nodded in agreement: “You’re asking me, a gay man, to find a girlfriend… Isn’t this sacrifice too harsh? And I remember you didn’t use a sacrifice when you performed the resurrection in J City.”

“I did use one, you just didn’t notice.”

Fang Mo replied casually.

“Don’t worry, everyone.” Child Emperor seemed to notice everyone was speaking for him, but his decision was well-considered, and he smiled and said: “The master was a good person, and I didn’t manage to stop him from rushing forward… This was my mistake, so let me do it.”

“Child Emperor, you…”

“Tsk! Annoying!” However, at that moment, Tatsumaki couldn’t hold back any longer: “Shut up, I’ll handle this.”

With that, Tatsumaki gritted her teeth and was about to take action.

However, just as she reached out her hand, Fang Mo turned his head to look at KING not far away and waved to him: “That thing, KING, come here for a moment.”

“Me?”

KING was startled, but to maintain his strong image, he still walked over calmly: “What’s up?”

“Look at Tatsumaki hesitating like a woman, why not just use your strength.”

Fang Mo spoke up.

“What?”

Before KING could even express his opinion, the other heroes exploded, especially Tatsumaki, who couldn’t help but yell: “You know what you’re saying? KING is considered one of the strongest in the S-Class, this is just…”

“I think it’s possible.”

However, contrary to Tatsumaki’s expectations, KING suddenly nodded.

“…”

Tatsumaki was stunned.

Of course, not only was Tatsumaki shocked at this moment, but the other heroes were also dumbfounded, all looking at KING incredulously, unable to understand his thoughts.

So do you think KING really wanted to do this?

In fact…

He really did.

As mentioned earlier, KING was just a gamer. His hero title was entirely because he was lucky; every time he went out to buy games, he would encounter monsters beaten to death by Saitama, and then bystanders would mistakenly think it was his doing.

Frankly speaking, KING himself was also in a difficult position now.

You say, if it was to pretend to be another level of hero, that’s fine, but with these S-Class heroes… it’s really unpredictable when someone else’s battle aftermath might just kill him.

So now there was an opportunity for him to retire legitimately, which seemed like a good thing.

With that thought.

KING also made up his mind immediately.

“Please let me do it.” Only saw KING with a stern face saying: “Among those present, only I am the most suitable for this task.”

“Alright, alright.”

Fang Mo was amused and placed a single hand on KING’s body, then began to throw name tags and various monocrystals onto the altar. Soon, abyssal magic was activated, and blasphemous characters seemed to come alive, continuously emerging from the book.

And because KING was scared, his heartbeat also began to speed up.

Of course, in the eyes of the others, what they heard was the so-called King Engine’s sound.

Because of what Fang Mo had said earlier, everyone understood that this was probably the last time the King Engine would sound, and everyone looked at KING solemnly, their faces filled with respect.

Even the haughty Tatsumaki.

At this moment, she couldn’t help but look at KING with a face full of surprise: “Worthy of being the strongest man on Earth, you can even be a gentleman to this extent…”

“Mr. KING…”

And Child Emperor also looked at him with immense respect.

The ceremony was not long, and as the potential began to converge inside the altar, a bewildered TankTop Master walked out from inside.

“Is this…”

TankTop Master looked around blankly: “Wait, wasn’t I just on the spaceship?”

“Master is resurrected!”

Seeing TankTop Master walk out, the heroes seemed to relax a bit, but this made him even more confused, having no idea what had happened.

But soon, other heroes took the initiative to explain the situation to him.

“What? I died?”

Upon hearing this news, TankTop Master also felt a bit shocked: “And then I was resurrected by Mr. KING using his strength as a price?”

“Yeah.”

The Puri-Puri Prisoner nodded and then held up his vest: “You see, this was the vest you were wearing before, right?”

“It really is my vest…”

TankTop Master took the vest and examined it, then touched the new vest he was wearing, showing an incredulous expression: “Only this, I could not possibly make a mistake.”

“Say, Mr. Priest, your resurrection technique is really miraculous.”

After watching this scene, Atomic Samurai also felt a bit amazed and walked up to Fang Mo: “It can even replicate the clothes he was wearing, I thought he would come out naked, or maybe resurrect somewhere like in a hospital.”

“Yeah.”

Hearing this, Child Emperor also asked curiously: “So what about the master’s body at the hospital shore after he was resurrected?”

“It’s still there.”

Fang Mo shrugged and said: “You guys just make a call to the hospital, let them burn that corpse.”

“Burn it…”

Everyone listened and felt a bit speechless; Fang Mo made it sound simple, but if they really burned TankTop Master’s body, and he appeared on TV the next day, the hospital staff would be scared crazy.

“Don’t burn it dry, huh?”

Seeing the heroes’ expressions, Fang Mo also shrugged: “Keep it for a BUG?”

In fact, this wasn’t just nonsense from Fang Mo, because the dark resurrection in games indeed had a BUG like that.

That is, placing a box or something on a llama, putting items inside, and then killing the llama with a single cut.

This way, the items stored in the llama would burst out, but once the player performed the dark art, the llama would resurrect with an identical set of items again, isn’t that a BUG?

Of course, as a man who could flexibly switch features and BUGs.

Fang Mo himself had secretly tested this dark art.

However, unfortunately, the MC world on Fang Mo’s side seemed a bit different from the one in the game, so he hadn’t been able to successfully trigger this “benign” feature.

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