21st Century Necromancer

Having been reminded by Jounouchi Hiromi, Chen Yu realized that he had indeed searched for the wrong entries.

For a Necromancer, there is no such term as a "vegetative state." To Necromancers, brain damage is just brain damage, and soul separation is just that; they do not entertain the concept of a vegetative state. Persistent comas, to a Necromancer, are defined and categorized differently based on their causes and are not all lumped into one group.

This was why Chen Yu had failed to find any information on vegetative states—he had been thinking with the mindset of a medical doctor and had only searched for information on that subject, hence finding nothing relevant.

Since Necromancers do not recognize the concept of a "vegetative state," naturally, when Chen Yu searched for information on it, he couldn't find anything.

Once he realized his mistake, Chen Yu changed his search queries, and this time he quickly found the information he had been looking for.

The brain is the most important organ in the human body, and this holds true for both corpses and the undead.

While Necromancers can summon spirit-type and skeleton-type Undead Servants and can even stuff souls into dirt to create golems, it is the Undead Servants that possess brains and can think autonomously that are most useful to them.

Skeletons and Zombies are typically low on intelligence. It is only after they evolve into high-level Undead Servants that they possess a more complete self-consciousness and cognitive abilities. Therefore, in a standard Army of the Dead, skeletons and zombies are usually the expendable bulk.

Spirits are a bit wiser than skeletons and zombies, making up the middle-to-lower units in an Army of the Dead. However, spirits' self-awareness is usually not intact, and unless specifically adjusted by the Necromancer, they are obsessed with their hatred for the living and the greatest fixation from their living days—the only thing on their minds.

As for golems... they are nothing more than robots with simple programming.

Those undead creatures that have complete brains and can think independently at the initial stage of revival are very precious to Necromancers.

Generally speaking, these thinking undead creatures inherently have better potential than their counterparts, as they are able to understand the existence of the self and consider the meaning of that existence, which undoubtedly can help them grow and survive better.

Undead creatures do not have the concept of a lifespan; the longer they live, the more experience and wisdom they accumulate, and the stronger they become.

This innate gap is something that cannot be compensated for later.

This is why all high-stage undead creatures are intelligent individuals because without intelligence and thought, an individual is ultimately just a "beast," a controlled servant, who regardless of its power, can never escape the controls of the Necromancer.

Only those who truly possess cognitive consciousness can be called "people" and are recognized as peers by Necromancers.

Since the brain is where consciousness germinates and all processes of listening, feeling, and thinking ultimately occur, Necromancers have conducted very thorough and in-depth research on the brain, as they are never short of dissection samples and experimental materials.

"Brain Tissue Damage Repair Fluid? Is there really such a thing?" Chen Yu scratched his head as he saw a formula listed in the "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium," wondering if it was wise to release so many things that could change the current understanding of human medical research.

A few cross-era studies can be attributed to one's exceptional talent, as history has seen its fair share of brilliant geniuses. However, consistent production of cross-era research might raise suspicions.

After all, scientific research does require accumulation.

Modern society is not like during the early Industrial Revolution when the modern scientific system was still being established, and many disciplines were interconnected. For renowned scientists like Madam Curie to have achievements in multiple subjects was not unusual.

However, modern society is entirely different. The modern scientific system is a vast and complex structure. In one's lifetime, making even a slight advancement in a small branch of a discipline is a remarkable and difficult feat.

To progress in these disciplines, one first needs a systematic knowledge base. Human learning efficiency dictates that one can only establish expertise in a particular branch in a lifetime. Perhaps a super-genius can establish cross-disciplinary knowledge bases, but that doesn't mean they could produce so many breakthroughs that would typically require a lifetime, or even decades of dedicated research by the entire medical field.

Present one or two cross-era studies, and you might be hailed as a genius, showered with honors. But present three or five, and people start questioning if you really did the research or might even think you're some sort of monster or extraterrestrial. Read exclusive chapters at My Virtual Library Empire

If it's ten or eight... congratulations, the doors of the laboratory open for you, not to conduct research, but to be researched.

Geniuses like Einstein had theories that formed a system and were interconnected throughout his life. Newton's three laws of motion are inherited from the same thread of mechanical theories. Even the legendary Tesla, whom some nicknamed the "wizard of electricity," spent his life conducting research related to electricity...

Thus, research findings do not appear out of thin air; they must be based on the existing scientific system.

That was exactly what troubled Chen Yu because the research outcomes he proposed, whether nerve reconstruction surgery, broad-spectrum cancer healing potions, less known healing potions, or the Brain Tissue Damage Repair Fluid he considered releasing, were not based on the existing medical research system of humanity.

While Chen Yu had tried to explain these originally necromantic spells using the existing knowledge system of modern medicine as much as possible, he knew that too many would raise suspicion.

Even if he wanted to release them, it should be done gradually, one at a time.

With this in mind, Chen Yu discarded the idea of releasing the Brain Tissue Repair Fluid. As for the treatment plan for Keiko's father, he decided to wait until he had seen Keiko's father and diagnosed him in person.