A full moon hung high in the sky, the bright and clear moonlight spilling over the earth.
Kenichi, Erza, and Mirajane sprinted through the palace.
"This way!"
Led by Kenichi, the three passed through a long corridor.
Boom-
Soon, a loud explosion came from the far end of the corridor, followed by Natsu's furious roar.
Hearing Natsu's furious roar, Kenichi's expression shifted slightly.
And the eyebrows of Erza and Mirajane, closely following Kenichi, both furrowed slightly.
Kenichi, Erza, and Mirajane knew that Natsu didn't usually get angry.
Once Natsu was angry, it definitely meant someone was hurt.
"Natsu!"
As they spoke, the three quickened their pace.
When Kenichi, Erza, and Mirajane turned a curved corner of the corridor, they saw Natsu fighting a man.
The man had black-and-white long hair and was emitting a very evil magical power.
"This is the magical power!"
Sensing the evil magical power emanating from the man, Erza and Mirajane immediately recognized it as the same evil power they had sensed earlier.
And Kenichi also recognized the man as Future Rogue.
"Gray, you have to be okay!"
Just as Kenichi, Erza, and Mirajane focused their gaze on Future Rogue, who was fiercely battling Natsu, Happy's sorrowful weeping suddenly reached their ears.
Hearing Happy's voice, Kenichi, Erza, and Mirajane immediately shifted their gaze from Future Rogue to where Happy, Lucy, and the others were gathered not far away.
Happy, Carla, and Lucy were huddled together.
Happy was crying his eyes out.
Carla wore an expression of disbelief.
And Lucy was pale-faced.
"What happened?"
Kenichi, Erza, and Mirajane approached and asked in a serious tone.
Hearing Erza's question, Lucy, Happy, and Carla all turned around.
Before Wendy could answer, Kenichi, Erza, and Mirajane saw that in front of the group huddled around Lucy, Happy, and Carla, a robed figure was supporting Gray, who lay on the ground, while Wendy was using healing magic on him.
Seeing Gray seemed severely injured, Kenichi, Erza, and Mirajane were all shocked.
But when they clearly saw the robed figure supporting Gray, Erza and Mirajane were even more astonished.
"Lucy?!"
"What in the world is..."
Seeing the robed Lucy, Erza and Mirajane exclaimed.
Perhaps Erza and Mirajane felt a bit dizzy looking at this incomprehensible scene, but Kenichi understood what was happening.
The robed Lucy was naturally Future Lucy.
Future Rogue came from the future to open the Eclipse Gate and release the dragon horde from 400 years ago.
But Future Rogue knew that Lucy in this era would close the Eclipse Gate, preventing the dragons from emerging.
To prevent Lucy from obstructing his plan, Future Rogue chose to kill Lucy first.
In the original work, when Future Rogue attacked Lucy, Future Lucy took the fatal blow for her.
But now, Future Lucy was unharmed, while Gray was injured.
Clearly, Gray had taken the fatal blow meant for Lucy.
Just as Kenichi was thinking this, Carla also explained everything to the three of them.
The facts Carla recounted indeed matched Kenichi's speculation.
After hearing Carla's words, Erza looked at Future Rogue over there, her pretty face full of suspicion.
"He tried to kill Lucy just because she wanted to close the Eclipse Gate?"
"This guy is filled with evil magical power. Whether we can believe what he says is still a question!"
Not long after Erza spoke, Wendy, who was healing Gray, said:
"It's no use. The injuries are too severe. Healing magic is completely ineffective!"
Hearing Wendy's words, the faces of Happy and both Lucys fell.
"How could this be?"
Happy wept, his voice trembling.
And Lucy's legs gave way, and she slumped to the ground.
"Let me try!"
Just as the two Lucys and Happy felt hopeless, Kenichi spoke.
"Kenichi-nii?"
Hearing Kenichi's words, Wendy immediately looked up at him.
And Happy and both Lucys also looked at Kenichi.
During the battle against the Oracion Seis, Kenichi had used healing magic to treat Gray.
Therefore, Happy and Wendy also knew Kenichi could use healing magic.
Although Wendy trusted Kenichi completely, she still said sadly: "Gray is already... Even your healing magic probably can't bring back the dead."
As soon as Wendy finished speaking, Gray's hands, which had been over there, fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Happy burst into loud sobs: "Gray!"
And Lucy also covered her mouth, tears streaming uncontrollably.
Kenichi's mind sharpened. He didn't hesitate and immediately used Territory and Arc of Time.
In the original work, Ultear used the Arc of Time to turn back the time of the entire world by one minute.
Gray and the others, who had already died in battle, were miraculously revived after time was reversed.
Clearly, Ultear's Arc of Time magic could revive someone who had just died.
But the cost was also quite enormous.
The originally young Ultear became extremely aged after reversing time by one minute.
When Kenichi obtained Ultear's Arc of Time, he had been contemplating.
If he used the Arc of Time combined with Minerva's Territory, could he achieve reviving the dead while minimizing the cost?
Minerva's Territory could create a small dimension. If he only reversed time within that small dimension by one minute, the cost would definitely be much less than reversing the time of the entire world by one minute.
Of course, this was just Kenichi's speculation. Whether it would work required experimentation.
And now, Kenichi was using Gray for this experiment.
And in Kenichi's view, this experiment must succeed.
However, since Gray had just died, the chance of revival was very high.
The moment Kenichi used Territory, Gray's body over there was enveloped by a transparent spherical space.
"Kenichi, what are you trying to do?"
Seeing Gray enveloped by the spherical space, Erza looked at Kenichi and asked seriously.
"I want to revive Gray."
'Revive?!'
Hearing this, Erza, Mirajane, Wendy, Lucy, Happy, Carla, and the others all looked at Kenichi with astonishment.
"Revive? Kenichi, are you joking? How is that possible?"
Erza asked with disbelief.
Although Mirajane, Wendy, and the others didn't speak, they thought the same.
In their hearts, Kenichi was very strong.
But no matter how strong, he couldn't bring back the dead!
After all, reviving the dead seemed impossible no matter how you looked at it.
Back then, Jellal spent over ten years creating the R-System just to revive Zeref.
But it ultimately ended in failure.
Kenichi didn't answer their doubts. After activating Minerva's Spatial Magic attribute to envelop Gray in a small dimension, he immediately activated the Arc of Time magic attribute.
As the Arc of Time magic attribute activated, time within the small dimension began to reverse.
The wounds on Gray's body visibly healed at a rapid pace.
Soon, Gray, who had his eyes closed, suddenly opened them.
"Gray?!"
Seeing Gray open his eyes, Happy and Lucy were first shocked, then overjoyed.
"He's revived?"
"He actually revived!"
Erza and Mirajane, seeing Gray actually revived by Kenichi, were both filled with disbelief.
But soon, the disbelief on their faces vanished, replaced by smiles.
"You can even do something like this!"
"How did you do it? Does a revival magic truly exist in this world?"
Erza and Mirajane looked at Kenichi and asked.
Seeing Gray revived, Kenichi first breathed a sigh of relief, then dispelled the spatial magic on Gray and said with a smile: "I just reversed Gray's time. I didn't use any revival magic."
"Reversed time? What do you mean?"
Erza, Mirajane, and the others all looked at Kenichi with confusion.
Kenichi moved his hand, and the next second, a stone appeared in his palm.
Kenichi moved his hand, and the stone shattered.
But when Kenichi activated the Arc of Time, the shattered rock fragments began to retrace their paths and eventually restored themselves into the original stone.
"Just like this stone, when the stone's time is reversed, it returns from its shattered state to its original state."
"When Gray's time was reversed, he returned from his dead state to his state before death."
"However, this time reversal normally cannot be directly used on people. Just now, I reversed the time of the entire space Gray was in."
Hearing Kenichi's explanation, Erza, Mirajane, Wendy, and the others felt immense joy.
"Kenichi-nii, you're really amazing to think of this method for revival!"
"Bringing someone back from the dead... that's too heaven-defying!"
At this moment, Wendy, Lucy, and the others were completely immersed in joy and shock.
And Gray also learned that Kenichi had revived him: "Kenichi, you saved me again."
While everyone was rejoicing, Kenichi also turned his gaze to the virtual screen.
Looking at the Arc of Time and the Territory on the virtual screen, Kenichi clenched his fist tightly, a fiery light flashing in his eyes.
Through the experiment on Gray, Kenichi had confirmed that using these two magics together could achieve reviving the dead.
Since Gray had just died, Kenichi only needed to reverse time in Gray's space by about ten seconds to revive him.
And the cost Kenichi paid was roughly only a dozen or so days of his lifespan.
Kenichi could achieve complete Dragonization. His lifespan was as long as Acnologia's and Irene's.
The cost of a dozen days of lifespan was negligible for Kenichi.
Of course, if he wanted to revive someone who had been dead for months or even years, the cost would definitely be enormous. Even with hundreds or thousands of years of lifespan, Kenichi would probably have to think twice.
However, being able to revive someone who had just died was already incredibly heaven-defying.
Besides reviving the recently deceased, the combination of Arc of Time and Territory could also achieve limb regeneration, instant recovery from injuries and stamina, and many other things, with endless wonderful uses.