21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 520 - 516: Past Ceremony (Please Subscribe, Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Following three days of preparation, Misumi Mikoto's job transition ceremony was ready.

Within the ritual chamber of the Mage Tower, a silver Magic Circle drawn on the ground was completed, with symbols representing the eight schools of magic also duly painted. The green Bipedal Flying Dragon that had been sleeping for the past three days was awaiting the beginning of the ceremony to become a sacrifice.

"So Mr. Chen Yu, what was your job transition ceremony like? According to you, you must have first obtained the Book of Inheritance of the Necromancer, and then gathered sufficient materials to complete the ceremony, right? Was there an interval of more than a decade between these events?" Watching Misumi Mikoto making final preparations before the ceremony, Hiromi Jounouchi suddenly asked Chen Yu about something she was very curious about.

"Hiromi, do you remember when you went home with me for the New Year, the place where my family lives, known as the Land of Xiang and Chu?" Chen Yu, upon hearing Hiromi Jounouchi bring up this matter, revealed an expression that was both smiling and reminiscing, shook his head, and then asked her in return.

"I remember, when we went shopping at that time, you told me the local popular cuisine was called Xiang cuisine." Of course, Hiromi Jounouchi remembered the events from a few months ago, but she did not quite understand why Chen Yu brought this up.

Faced with Hiromi Jounouchi's confusion, Chen Yu simply smiled and explained: "More than two thousand years ago, the Land of Xiang and Chu had an ancient state called Chu. The Chu people were fond of witchcraft, hence, they left behind a wealth of legends and myths that are still widely told today. Customs and legends like corpse-driving and Witchcraft and Gu Art are still very prevalent in the minorities' areas of the Xiang Region.

Among these stories, there are both truths and fabrications. Naturally, over thousands of years, people have taken these stories seriously and sought to investigate. I've told you that I found the Necromancer inheritance in an ancient tomb, haven't I?"

"I remember, you went there with two classmates. One ran away, and the other stayed to wait for you. The one who ran away was the one you operated on with me at New Year; he had taken your seat." Hiromi Jounouchi remembered well Chen Yu's classmate, who had both gastric cancer and bile duct cancer at the Hepatic Hilum.

Thinking of his classmate, Chen Yu touched his eyebrows and then continued: "Yes, I've told you about it, but I didn't talk about what happened inside the tomb."

Seeing Chen Yu touch on this topic, Hiromi Jounouchi did not urge him, but waited eagerly for what he would say next; she was very curious about how exactly Chen Yu had started on the path to become a Necromancer.

"That tomb was an ancient grave more than three hundred years old. The tomb's owner was a local scholar addicted to Witchcraft and Gu Art. He devoted himself to studying it for decades and finally found a method to resurrect the dead. Overjoyed, he spent considerable effort applying this method to his own tomb, hoping to resurrect himself after his death." These details were discovered by Chen Yu within the notes left by the tomb owner: "The method the tomb owner found to resurrect the dead was actually the Necromancer's job transition ceremony. However, the information he found was incomplete. Although he spent many years completing it, he still made one mistake: he had not prepared a sacrifice for the ceremony."

"No sacrifice prepared?" Hearing Chen Yu say this, Hiromi Jounouchi involuntarily shifted her gaze towards the slumbering Bipedal Flying Dragon next to them. She suddenly realized and looked at Chen Yu: "Doesn't that mean, Mr. Chen Yu, when you entered the tomb, you..."

"Indeed, I became the sacrifice," Chen Yu nodded, affirming Hiromi Jounouchi's guess, and continued: "The tomb had been silent for three hundred years, and the Ritual Magic Circle had become damaged over time, but it could still be used. What it lacked was a sacrifice, and by chance, I was the only living creature to stumble into the ceremony in three hundred years."

"Ah!" Even though Chen Yu was standing right in front of her, Hiromi Jounouchi couldn't help but cover her mouth and exclaimed, worrying for Chen Yu.

Touching Hiromi Jounouchi's cheek, Chen Yu continued narrating his experience, an event that to this very day, he still found chilling: "At that time, because I had entered, the ceremony had been initiated, and the tomb's owner had come back to life. I was about to be used as the sacrifice for his resurrection and transformation into a Necromancer. I thought I was certainly going to die, but either due to my good luck or the owner's bad luck, the Ritual Magic Circle was too severely damaged, so it didn't kill me right away, nor did it strengthen his body.

After three hundred years, he had decayed into nothing more than a skeleton and barely retained any cognitive ability. He let the Magic Array operate on instinct instead of controlling it to kill me, which gave me the chance to free myself from the Magic Array's control and place him in the position of the sacrifice."

"Then how did you become a Necromancer, Mr. Chen Yu?" Listening to Chen Yu's story, Hiromi Jounouchi realized that he apparently had not been transformed into a Necromancer at that time.

"After your first visit to my home," Chen Yu said with a smile, revealing an answer that surprised Hiromi Jounouchi: "At that time, I defeated the tomb's owner. The ceremony, having lost its master, continued to run because it had received a sacrifice. However, the power meant to transform the master into a Necromancer had lost its target, so in the end, that power converged on the Book of Inheritance, enhancing the book's power.

That's why my 'Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium' has a consciousness of its own and is a Divine Artifact. In theory, the book is a Necromancer, but its nature means it's still a book, and I became its owner, acquiring it."

As he spoke, Chen Yu gestured, summoning his Book of Inheritance, touching the black cover of the book as if still contemplating that moment when his life had hung by a thread.

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"As for what happened later, possibly because I was more or less influenced by the ceremony, I could understand the contents of the book and it recognized me as its owner. So I began to self-study necromancy step by step, slowly building up my knowledge until I was accepted into the University of Tokyo and became a doctor. Only then had I saved enough resources to perform the ceremony once more, successfully completing the job transition ritual to become a true Necromancer. And that time was just after your first visit to my home," Chen Yu looked at Hiromi Jounouchi, his smile filled with tenderness.

"Teacher, the ceremony is ready, can we begin now?" Misumi Mikoto interrupted the tender moment between Chen Yu and Hiromi Jounouchi, indicating she was ready to start the ceremony.