21st Century Necromancer

Although the incident in the coffee shop was unsettling, for Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi, it was merely an episode.

Would you kill a mouse, destroy its nest, exterminate the whole family, and even demolish the house it was in, just because a mouse scurrying by affected your mood?

Yu Chen felt he couldn't do such a thing. Seeing a mouse might disturb him, but the way to improve his mood wasn't to kill the mouse, but rather to quickly shift his thoughts and forget about the mouse altogether.

"Mr. Chen Yu, what exactly happened that you had to rush back to Japan so urgently? Is there something that Ryosen-kun and the others can't handle themselves, something so critical that you had to go back?" Hiromi Jounouchi inquired, her tone unable to hide some resentment towards Ryosen and the others.

She and Yu Chen had finally been enjoying a pleasant holiday. It was one thing dealing with someone in need of emergency surgery, but just when she could finally relax and go shopping with Yu Chen, he had to suddenly return to Japan for some matter. Even for someone as understanding as Hiromi Jounouchi, such situations were bound to cause some discomfort.

"It was just a little emergency; they couldn't control the situation. I didn't really do much when I went back, just confirmed the negotiating bottom line for them and provided the force needed to control the scene," Yu Chen explained to Hiromi Jounouchi, simultaneously trying to soothe her emotions: "Look, haven't I come back to be with you right away? Don't be too angry; how about I take you to try authentic Hunan cuisine? This is a Chinese specialty you definitely can't get in Japan!"@@novelbin@@

"Really? Then I'll have to give it a try." Hiromi Jounouchi's interest was piqued, her eyes sparkling with anticipation.

In fact, in Japan, when it comes to Chinese Cuisine, what's available is either modified or from Sichuan, and even the Sichuan cuisine might not be authentic. Now that she had the chance to taste genuine Chinese cuisine, it naturally aroused Hiromi Jounouchi's interest.

Arm in arm with Yu Chen, walking towards the authentic Hunan restaurant he mentioned, Hiromi Jounouchi suddenly asked with curiosity: "Mr. Chen Yu, you just mentioned that you provided Ryosen-kun and the others with the force to control the scene, but you yourself haven't broken through to Legendary-rank yet, right? How did you control the situation for them? Don't tell me you conjured up a Legend out of nowhere? Xiao Lan didn't tell me you commanded it to take action~!"

"Hiromi, have you forgotten what we gained in Kanazawa?" Yu Chen chuckled as he responded to her question.

Reminded by Yu Chen, Hiromi Jounouchi immediately recalled Maeda Toshiie from Kanazawa, who had almost left them both completely powerless, and quickly grasped what Yu Chen meant: "Mr. Chen Yu, did you transform that Maeda Toshiie into your Undead Servant?"

"Yes. While it took some time to repair his corpse and convert his will, overall, it went smoothly. I retained his self-awareness and combat experience, and also made him completely loyal to me." As Yu Chen spoke about this subject, he couldn't help but display a hint of pride: "Controlling the soul and will of a Sub-Legendary being really isn't an easy task, especially since I didn't want to destroy his self-awareness and turn him into a puppet."

"That does make sense, an Undead Servant with self-awareness is much more useful than a puppet without self-awareness." Now somewhat familiar with matters of the Necromancy School, Hiromi Jounouchi nodded in understanding of the advantages of a self-aware Undead Servant.

Still, she asked with some curiosity: "Would a Sub-Legendary being be enough to control the situation? Or are you saying... Mr. Chen Yu, did you elevate him to Legendary-rank?"

"Hmm, actually, I've been working on this since we returned from Kanazawa, using the collected essence of flesh and blood to repair his body's defects, allowing him to return to his optimal peak condition. To control his soul and ensure there would be no betrayal took quite some effort!" Yu Chen couldn't help feeling slightly sentimental as he mentioned his recent endeavors.

For someone at his current level, controlling a Sub-Legendary Undead Servant in just one month was almost impossible, but he did not only control Maeda Toshiie, turning him into a loyally devoted Undead Servant in his hand but also completed his promotion and transformation, turning him from a naturally formed natural Sub-Legendary undead into a Legendary-rank Undead Servant. This was something to boast about even among the Necromancer community throughout the Multiverse.

"Then how did you do it, Mr. Chen Yu? Logically, controlling an Undead Servant shouldn't take that long, should it?" Hiromi Jounouchi was visibly interested in Chen Yu's recent work, keen to know how he managed to complete all this while also helping with the Flesh Womb experiment.

"In fact, if I wanted to simply control a soul, it would be very easy to do so, whether by sealing it or destroying its self-awareness and then controlling the soul driven solely by instinct. It wouldn't take much time," Yu Chen nodded and did not refute Hiromi Jounouchi's words. Discover hidden content at My Virtual Library Empire

Destroying is always easier than building, and to control Maeda Toshiie without damaging his original self-awareness did require some effort and time. It was similar to the Lich King transforming stupid people; slaughtering a fool and making a Death Knight was easy, but ensuring willing corruption was far more complicated.

"The method I used is actually quite simple. The creation of a Legendary-rank Undead Servant requires a special ritual. I treated Maeda Toshiie's corpse and his soul as part of the material for creating an Undead Servant, transforming them during the ritual. At the same time, I used the energy accumulated by the ritual to wash over his will and tempt him," Yu Chen explained his method to Hiromi Jounouchi as if boasting about a proud achievement: "For someone like him who had been dead for hundreds of years, his self-awareness had already blurred into just a few obsessions. Reviving his self-awareness to a communicable state after he was corroded by that unknown monster for so long took up most of my time.

In fact, that's mostly where the time went. Once I was able to communicate with him, all it took was a bit of savvy persuasion to achieve my goal. Although Necromancers are not as adept as Devils in luring beings to corruption, power and immortality are always the greatest temptations that humanity can't escape."