“...Ugh…,” Kristina came to her senses with a groan.

She immediately tried to get up, only to be stopped by a surprise. Instead of lying on the ground, Kristina was currently resting horizontally in midair.

“Slept well?” Eugene asked as he glanced back at her.

Without replying immediately, Kristina first took a look around at their surroundings. They had just been inside of the World Tree. After she had cast the revitalization spell… she seemed to have lost consciousness. Kristina didn’t know what had happened after that, but she knew one thing for sure.

This wasn’t the inside of the World Tree, nor was it anywhere within the elven domain.

“...Did I fail?” Kristina first decided to ask about the result of her attempt.

Kristina was afraid that she had failed. She suspected — no, she was sure of it. Even before she had lost consciousness, she had foreseen her own failure. Kristina’s divine power could neither heal Sienna’s wounds nor wake her up.

Even so, the reason why Kristina couldn’t help but feel the need to ask this question… was because of the strange state that her body was in. In order to cast a divine spell of that magnitude, she had had to squeeze her divine power to its very limits and pour everything that she had into the spell.

‘...But my body feels light.’

Her mind didn’t feel overdrawn either, and was actually pretty refreshed. Her divine power was also fully charged, as if she hadn’t even cast a spell.

“It was a failure,” Eugene responded as he lowered Kristina to the ground. “You made quite a flash of light, but in the end, it wasn’t enough to revive Lady Sienna.”

“...As I thought,” Kristina said with disappointment.

“It looks...