21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 706 - 702 HMS Hood (Request for Subscription, Request for Monthly Tickets)

706: Chapter 702: HMS Hood (Request for Subscription, Request for Monthly Tickets)

706: Chapter 702: HMS Hood (Request for Subscription, Request for Monthly Tickets)

Misumi Mikoto was eager to complete the test set by Chen Yu, which was the creation of a Space Ring.

She wanted to prove her capability to construct her own Necromantic Space.

Having visited Chen Yu’s Necromantic Space, with its castles and beach, Misumi Mikoto was extremely envious.

To her, it was a dreamy place for any girl.

When she first visited Chen Yu’s Necromantic Space and saw the huge castle, Misumi Mikoto felt envious.

Now that she had the chance to have her own Necromantic Space, and build her castle and garden, she naturally took the project to heart.

Moreover, after owning her own Necromantic Space, she wouldn’t have to sneak around at home to conduct her research.

She could openly carry on with her spell studies and attempt to create various Undead Servants.

Misumi Mikoto was genuinely interested in making Undead Servants, a common practice among Necromancers, but lacked an appropriate place at home to do so.

Now, with a sufficient experimental area awaiting her, Misumi Mikoto naturally erupted with intense enthusiasm.

However, mastering spells was not something that could be achieved with enthusiasm alone, especially since Chen Yu had just warned her to be moderate.

Therefore, Misumi Mikoto had to restrain her burning curiosity and proceed with her spell studies step by step.

But Spatial Magic was clearly not so easy to learn.

Even though the Book of Inheritance provided enough material and Misumi Mikoto had good aptitude, she still accumulated many questions during her study.

This made Misumi Mikoto eager to seek Chen Yu’s guidance, to receive directions from her mentor.

However, Chen Yu was too busy to attend to his disciple.

Busy preparing for a potential divine war, Chen Yu’s schedule was filled with various plans, leaving him no time to guide his disciple in her spellcraft.

“Move the Ghost Ship over there!

Be gentle and careful, don’t let it fall apart,” Chen Yu instructed the acolytes who were using Flying Dragons to lift the Ghost Ship from the harbor, while he was carefully checking the Magic Circle on the ground with blueprints in hand.

What Chen Yu was preparing for was the summoning ritual for a Ship-girl.

This ritual was designed by Chen Yu himself.

It converted World War II battleships into Ghost Ships, using the form of Ghost Ship summoning, and transcended mere symbiosis with crews by endowing the Ghost Ships with souls.

Instead of being just vessels, this would allow the creation of their consciousness, specifically female in form.

Thus, a Ship-girl would be summoned.

The reason for using these existing Ghost Ships was to leverage their accumulated presence, aiding the transformation of the World War II warships into Ghost Ships.

After all, becoming a Ghost Ship was not as simple as sinking and remaining underwater for a long time.

Watching the wooden sailing ship being lifted from the sea by the Flying Dragon and placed at the designated ritual site, Chen Yu did a final check of the Magic Array to ensure it matched the design without error.

Only then was he ready to start the first summoning.

The first wartime battleship used for the summoning was the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Hood.

The ship, which had been sunk in the Denmark Strait by The Bismarck and Prince Eugene, had its damages fully repaired by countless four-legged robots in the Necromantic Space, even the rust on its hull had been removed.

Now, HMS Hood looked as good as new.

The HMS Hood was the only completed battlecruiser of the Admiral class for the British Royal Navy and was the largest, costliest flagship in the navy at the time.

It was also the fastest and was regarded as the pride of the Royal Navy, symbolizing the maritime power of the British Empire.

Throughout its service, the HMS Hood drew attention by serving as a ceremonial ship that showcased Britain’s naval presence on multiple tours around the world.

Chen Yu chose it as the first ship to be summoned because of the Hood’s glorious history and his fondness for the ship’s spirit, but another key factor was that the pirate ships he had were all registered in the United Kingdom.

He felt that using British warships might be more compatible.

After all, combining British ghost ships with German, or even Japanese military vessels, would essentially leave no room for compatibility.

Due to the immense size of a battleship, Chen Yu chose a newly constructed shipyard and berth by the sea as the summoning site.

Considering just the HMS Hood itself was 263.2 meters long, any smaller space would simply not suffice.

If it weren’t for the necessity of drawing some of the magic arrays on the ground, Chen Yu would have preferred to perform the summoning directly at sea.

Clearing his mind of any unnecessary thoughts, Chen Yu took out his magic wand, unfolded the wings of an angel, and began the ritual in his full form.

The negative energy guided from the Mage Tower was infused into the magic circle, illuminating each rune inscribed on the dry dock.

Due to space constraints, most of the runes and magic arrays were drawn on both sides of the dry dock instead of forming a single giant circular array.

As the magic array was activated, the immense negative energy began pouring into HMS Hood and under the influence of the array, the steel that constituted the Hood starting to exhibit negative energy properties.

The once shiny and new HMS Hood began to darken in color and gradually emanated the unique eerie aura associated with negative energy.

Once the entire ship had undergone the transformation, the Hood, though seemingly unchanged at first glance, was unmistakably a “ghost ship.”

Ignoring the curses and screams of the spirit crew members who had long since become one with the ghost ship, Chen Yu used the power of the ritual to extract all of the spiritual nature from inside the ship, the very essence of the ghost ship.

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It was the spiritual nature formed from these emotions that was the key for a vessel to become a ghost ship.

Of course, it’s not to say that new ships can’t become ghost ships.

If a new vessel could absorb enough emotions and negative energy, along with sufficient opportunity, it too could become a ghost ship.

As for HMS Hood, as the pride of the Royal Navy, it already had a potent concentration of emotions.

Coupled with decades submerged in the cold depths of the Denmark Strait, the ship’s accreted history was more than enough to become a ghost ship.

Nevertheless, to be cautious, and to allow HMS Hood to skip the build-up phase and quickly form combat readiness, Chen Yu chose to dismantle the old-fashioned sail-powered ghost ships to acquire their spiritual nature.

As the old sail-powered ghost ships gradually turned into a pile of rotten wood, a sense of resentment and grievance began to rise aboard HMS Hood.

It was commencing its transformation into a ghost ship.