21st Century Necromancer

After dinner at the long dining table in the castle's dining hall, which spanned over a dozen meters, Misumi Mikoto, before returning home, asked Chen Yu if she could tour the place.

For Misumi Mikoto, elements like castles, Mage Towers, and private islands were deeply fascinating. Previously, she had been preparing for the transformation ceremony and didn't have the time or mind to tour, but now that the ceremony was complete and she was a true Necromancer, it seemed reasonable to tour her teacher's Necromantic Space and lay the foundations to set up her own in the future.

Using this notion as a pretext, Misumi Mikoto naturally made such a request to Chen Yu.

Chen Yu naturally didn't want to refuse and agreed to give her a tour of his Necromantic Space.

Though he agreed to the tour, Chen Yu didn't take her for a detailed visit. Instead, he summoned two Bipedal Flying Dragons and took Misumi Mikoto for an aerial view.

"Teacher, what is that white area over there? It looks so much like a dragon!" Flying in the sky, Misumi Mikoto was experiencing the sensation of flight for the first time. Despite the strong wind making it nearly impossible to speak, she shouted to Chen Yu, eager to know what the white expanse below was.

Chen Yu glanced down and explained offhand, "That's the Bone Dragon Summoning Array. When I was constructing the Necromantic Space, I had the good luck of tearing a Dragon Tomb from the Netherworld, obtaining three giant dragon corpses and their Dragon Souls. I used one to sacrifice to Hiromi, aiding her transformation into a Dragon-descent Blood Knight, and the other lies here, transformed from the Dragon Tomb into the Bone Dragon Summoning Array."

Even as the strong winds interfered with their flight, unlike Misumi Mikoto, who had to shout, Chen Yu didn't need to raise his voice. With just a small trick using Magic Power to vibrate the air and produce sound, he managed to deliver his voice clearly to Misumi Mikoto's ears.

As Chen Yu was explaining, a ghastly white Bone Dragon coincidentally spread its wings and flew up from below within the Summoning Circle.

The immense white Bone Dragon was larger than the Bipedal Flying Dragons that Misumi Mikoto and Chen Yu rode, but it was still considerably smaller than a real giant dragon.

Moreover, as a Bone Dragon, it clearly had no skin. Its ghastly white skeleton was enveloped in black mist, with only two purple lights where the eyes would be, serving as substitutes.

It must be said that there was a reason Necromancers were not particularly liked across the Multiverse. The mere ferocious and terrifying appearance of a Bone Dragon was enough to instill more fear and dread in people than a real giant dragon.

However, for Misumi Mikoto, she envied the large Summoned Creature that acted almost like a pet in front of Chen Yu.

Indeed, she had just used a Bipedal Flying Dragon as a sacrifice to complete her own transformation ceremony, but the rituals of Necromancers and Blood Knights were different. Necromancers couldn't obtain pets or mounts through sacrifice, and for Necromancers, these weren't necessary.

If one wanted something like a Bone Dragon, all they needed to do was to construct a Summoning Circle and they could have as many as they wanted.

As the first Bone Dragon appeared, several more Bone Dragons unfurled their wings from the white mountain range below and began to soar around the peaks.

It was only then that Misumi Mikoto realized that the mountain range below wasn't actually white—it was the abundance of bones and the Bone Dragons that lay upon them.

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Although turning an entire mountain white, with the last Bone Dragon taking flight, there were only seven Bone Dragons that appeared in total.

After circling around Chen Yu for a while, the Flying Dragons landed again, sprawling across the mountain range and turning the whole mountain back to "white".

Misumi Mikoto, after seeing these Bone Dragons take to the sky, finally got a clear view of what looked like a dragon on the mountain—it was the remains of a true giant dragon, twice the size of the nearby Bone Dragons.

The Dragon Bones formed a circle from head to tail, and in the middle of the circle, white bones piled up. For some reason, Misumi Mikoto felt that those bones were assembling into a new Bone Dragon.

"Teacher, what bones are those?" Misumi Mikoto asked Chen Yu. It was clear to her that the bones used to summon the Bone Dragons couldn't be real Dragon Bones, otherwise, the Bone Dragons wouldn't be less than half the size of that Dragon Skeleton.

Chen Yu smiled and said to her, "Do you remember the Blood Pool and cow bones you saw last time? Those cow bones are what were used for this."

"Using cow bones to summon Bone Dragons?" Misumi Mikoto was extremely surprised. Although she knew Chen Yu wouldn't use real Dragon Bones for the summoning, she had not expected him to use cow bones.

"Just find a slaughterhouse, and you can get a lot of fresh, high-quality cow bones every day, whether for making soup or..." As Chen Yu spoke, he raised his hand and shot a purple Light Arrow downwards, striking the Dragon Bone where the new Bone Dragon was almost formed.

Instantly, black mist boiled, enveloping the entire Dragon Skeleton and forming a black Whirlpool with a brilliant purple light shining in its center.

When the black mist gathered back to the center, a black Bone Dragon with eyes burning purple flames appeared within the circle of Dragon Bones, letting out a roar that shook the entire mountain range.

"...to summon Bone Dragons," Chen Yu finished his sentence, his face adorned with a profound smile.

Looking at the evidently larger black Bone Dragon below than the other Bone Dragons, Misumi Mikoto was so astonished she didn't know what to say anymore.

Riding the Bipedal Flying Dragon back, Chen Yu and Misumi Mikoto landed once again in the castle's square, where Jounouchi Hiromi awaited. With just a faint glance, she silenced the two Bipedal Flying Dragons that had just landed and intended to call out, making them suppress all their noise in their throats.

After hopping down from the Bipedal Flying Dragon, patting the creature now pressed to the ground by Jounouchi Hiromi's Dragon Might with its claws covering its head, Chen Yu then turned to Misumi Mikoto who had also dismounted and said, "As a Necromancer, you're still a mage, and mages are never sticklers for tradition. The only truth we need to follow is the fundamental rules of how the universe operates. Aside from that, there's nothing you are bound to follow.

However, I do hope you remember one thing: although mages are not constrained by worldly matters and are not controlled by old thoughts, this doesn't mean we can do whatever we wish."

"We can do anything, but we still need self-restraint?" Misumi Mikoto seemed to understand somewhat but hadn't fully grasped Chen Yu's meaning.

"You have to find the answer yourself now; each Necromancer's principles are different." After saying this, Chen Yu simply lifted his finger, tapped Misumi Mikoto on the forehead lightly, and she was pushed out of the Necromantic Space.

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