“He can bring people back from the dead. That’s dangerous. Execute him.”
Did anyone in this meeting hear the first sentence?
In Cheat Skill “Resurrection” Awakened, and I Revived the Ancient Demon Lord’s Army, Richt belongs to an S-rank adventuring party and has a very inconvenient skill: he can resurrect the dead. The king fears what that power could do, orders Richt’s companions to betray him, and has him executed.
Richt comes back. Using his own ability.
The king has somehow funded the most convincing demonstration of the threat he wanted to eliminate.
The diagnosis was reasonable. The treatment was not.
To be fair, a ruler has plenty of reasons to worry about resurrection. If someone can undo deaths, that could change the balance of any conflict. Soldiers, punishments and even the idea of a decisive victory become much harder to understand.
But a conventional execution only works if death actually ends the problem. Richt’s ability attacks that assumption directly. The plan treats the one man who breaks the death rule as though he were bound by it.
It is like trying to get rid of a fire extinguisher by setting it on fire. Perhaps hold one more meeting.
Did the king know Richt could revive himself?
This distinction matters. The publisher’s official synopsis confirms the betrayal, execution and self-resurrection. It does not establish that the king knew self-resurrection was possible in advance.
So the joke is not “the king knowingly chose a useless punishment.” It is that he feared a poorly understood ability and acted as though its limits were obvious.
If you are frightened by a power that can overturn death, finding out whether it also protects its owner seems like an important question to ask before conducting the experiment.
And there is a second consequence. Richt survives and turns against the people who condemned him. The execution fails to remove a threat and supplies him with a motive for revenge. An impressively bad two-for-one deal.
Resurrection changes the rule, not just the health bar
A powerful healer restores someone's condition. Resurrection can go one step further: it challenges the point at which a loss becomes final.
That is what makes Richt’s ability scarier than a character who simply hits harder. Raw strength might help you win a fight. Being able to return after a fatal outcome raises the question of what “winning” even means.
None of this means the skill has no limits in every conceivable situation. The exact conditions matter. The point is that the kingdom did not have an ordinary problem, and an ordinary response was not enough.
The paperwork must have been fantastic
The king identified a dangerous power. Then he chose an action that demonstrated that power, left its owner alive, and gave him a reason to seek revenge.
Imagine the report:
Execution completed.
Subject: alive.
For an ability named “Resurrection,” that is a spectacularly bad outcome to forget about.
Story premise and confirmed sequence: Ichijinsha's official series page. The king's prior knowledge and hypothetical limits are not presented as established canon.
