Kubei was just an ordinary pencil and button pusher working a day job, hating his boss and making horrible speeches when one day he fell asleep after pushing an all-nighter. When he woke up, he was bound to a chair, facing three creepy robed women and in a body way too young and way too weak to be his own. As he slowly came to, he realized that he was no longer in the same universe as he was before. He had teleported to the Kingdom of Helius, where an all-powerful church rules its lands and wages war against the elusive group known only as Mages. Armed with an incredibly cocky neural interface that just won’t shut up and his own sheer wit, our MC will find himself not just fighting to survive, but maybe even something bigger than himself.
The method for releasing revenants was simple enough, this bird held on for so long, that it already reached its limits and started to decay. As soon as it ran out of magic to prolong its life any further, in another half an hour, it will be completely sucked dry of its life force.
Then, the revenant will appear before them.
"Why not just kill the bird?" Suddenly, a mage at the side asked.
Benjamin shook his head.
"Killing its prey during its feeding would only anger the revenant." He explained, "Although we made thorough preparations, who knows whether the spiritual energy barrier from the glass container could hold against the spirit? Besides, the spirit is fragile at the moment, what if when the prey is killed, it didn’t stockpile sufficient energy, plus the dark elemental environment wasn’t good enough, leading to its instantaneous demise?"
The spirits were unlike any other revenant lifeforms, it would be best for them to take some precautions in the matter.