21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 261 - 258 Ceremony

As the fireworks scattered across the sky and everything quieted down, Jounouchi Hiromi, who was resting in Chen Yu’s arms, looked at the snow-covered castle outside the terrace and asked Chen Yu, "You said earlier that the evening banquet is just the beginning, but now the midnight bell has already tolled, and the banquet has ended.

Isn’t it time we started on the main event you were talking about?"

Hiromi was completely satisfied with the banquet Chen Yu had arranged tonight, and with all the programs during the banquet. It was a true royal feast, not very different from the ones in fairy tales featuring princes and princesses, except that all guests were wearing masks and crowded around her like stars around the moon, making her the protagonist of the feast.

For Jounouchi Hiromi, this was like the fairy tales of her childhood, such as "Cinderella," "Snow White," and "Beauty and the Beast," turned into a vividly beautiful dream come true.

Therefore, even if this was all Chen Yu had arranged for the day, she already felt extremely satisfied and pleasantly surprised. Even if there were no other plans and he simply took her to the bedroom to sleep, Jounouchi Hiromi felt she could accept it and was willing to give Chen Yu a memorable night.

This was also the reason why, when she spoke of starting on the main topic, her voice unconsciously carried a touch of ambiguity and seduction.

However, contrary to Jounouchi Hiromi’s expectations, Chen Yu indeed had other arrangements in mind.

Carefully lifting her dress, she followed him through the beautifully carved and decorated corridors and stairwells inside the castle, and Chen Yu led Hiromi to the underground of the castle.

Confronted with the tightly closed black door in front of her, and the complex patterns on it that looked like a seal, Jounouchi Hiromi couldn’t help but feel somewhat intimidated, a natural fear of the mysterious and unknown. But seeing Chen Yu still smiling at her, she felt greatly reassured, which diminished her fear.

"Mr. Chen Yu, why have you brought me here? What’s behind this... What exactly have you prepared?" Although she wasn’t scared, her tone was still involuntarily shaky. Her fiance was a Necromancer, and there was no guarantee he wouldn’t come up with something like spirits or Skeletons, with the Ghost Maids in the castle being the best evidence, although they didn’t look like ghosts at all.

"A ceremony, and also a gift, the Christmas gift I want to give you today," Chen Yu said with a smile to Jounouchi Hiromi, then he pushed open the door before them.

Behind the door was a rather spacious room, almost as large as the hall upstairs where the banquet had been held, except this room was a peculiar nine-sided structure, which looked somewhat sinister.

In the center of the hall, on the floor, there was a Magic Circle made of grooves, which looked like eight lines of different lengths crisscrossing to form two staggered crosses, one large and one small. And at the end of each line was a circular stone slab slightly raised from the floor, engraved with different symbols.

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In the center of the Magic Circle were two concentric grooves forming a ring. However, right in the middle of the ring was a pit, recessed downward to match the nine sides of the room, with Skeletons carved at each corner, and different symbols etched onto the Skeletons’ foreheads.

But this was not the most surprising and eerie thing within the hall, because outside of the Magic Circle lay a giant dragon, a dragon that one could tell was already dead just by looking at it.

"This..." For the first time truly seeing a giant dragon, a fantastical creature that would only appear in works of fantasy, Jounouchi Hiromi was so shocked she found herself speechless, completely at a loss for how to express her emotions at that moment.

"This is the Christmas gift I prepared for you. It took a bit of effort to get it out of the Dragon Tomb, but thankfully the people from the Mingyue Society are efficient, so we didn’t miss Christmas," Mr. Chen Yu said as he supported Jounouchi Hiromi’s shoulders from behind to prevent her from falling, while explaining to her.

This giant dragon was approximately fifty meters long, its once beautiful blue scales now dull due to its death, but due to the dragon’s strong life force, its corpse hadn’t decayed despite being dead for a long time. Occasionally, a spark of lightning surged over the pair of winding and fierce dragon horns on its head, giving the impression that the dragon could wake up at any moment.

From the Dragon Tomb that he had snatched from the Netherworld, the transcendents sent by Mr. Chen Yu from the Mingyue Society had found a total of three dragon corpses; this was the most intact one. The other two, one was reduced to bones, and the other one was severely decayed, obviously unsuitable as a gift for his fiancée.

In fact, even this dragon corpse had suffered significant damage and Mr. Chen Yu repaired it using the School of Corpse Studies magic, making it look this intact. For this purpose, all the flesh and blood from the severely decayed dragon corpse was consumed, turning it into a skeleton like the other one.

Moreover, to replenish the spiritual nature of this giant dragon corpse and to ensure it was not just a moving corpse, Mr. Chen Yu had expended one of the two dragon souls he obtained from the Dragon Tomb.

He had also extracted the essence of a Spectral Dragon caught by the transcendents of the Mingyue Society, almost causing it to dissipate, which supplemented the soul for this dead dragon corpse to meet the needs of the upcoming ritual.

"This... I..." Jounouchi Hiromi looked at the giant dragon and the magic circle, unsure of what to say or do: "What should... I do?"

Mr. Chen Yu heard Jounouchi Hiromi asking and didn’t explain, but reached out and took off the red dress she was wearing.

Instantly stripped of her clothing, Jounouchi Hiromi immediately became shy and covered herself, shouting indignantly at Mr. Chen Yu, "Mr. Chen Yu! What are you doing!"

"Don’t misunderstand, it’s a requirement for the ritual. You wouldn’t want to bathe with your clothes on, would you?" Mr. Chen Yu said with a smile as he countered her question and explained, "Didn’t you say before that you wanted to become a Female Knight? This is the ritual to become one.

You need to step into that pit and bathe in dragon blood to gain the extraordinary traits of this dragon corpse, and transform the dragon corpse into your mount, weapon, and armor.

Of course, it’s not a problem if you go down wearing clothes, but I’d rather not waste the ritual’s power on strengthening a meaningless dress."

Hearing Mr. Chen Yu say this, Jounouchi Hiromi’s embarrassment lessened considerably, although she had already done everything there was to do with Mr. Chen Yu, being naked before him still made her feel very shy.

Nevertheless, Jounouchi Hiromi still pouted and gave Mr. Chen Yu a resentful glance before taking off her high heels and the rest of her clothes, stepping down into the pit in the center of the room and standing inside.

Seeing that Jounouchi Hiromi was now standing in the center of the pit, Mr. Chen Yu snapped his fingers. Eight acolytes donned in black robes appeared on eight circular stone slabs. He then grabbed the black tome that materialized in his hand, flipped open the pages, and said, "Let the ritual begin."