21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 707 - 703 Summoning Ship-girls (Please Subscribe, Request Monthly Tickets)

707: Chapter 703: Summoning Ship-girls (Please Subscribe, Request Monthly Tickets)

707: Chapter 703: Summoning Ship-girls (Please Subscribe, Request Monthly Tickets)

Ghost ships in many stories refer to those mysterious vessels that disappear and then reappear empty and deserted.

But for a Necromancer, the so-called ghost ship is literally what it means—a ship’s spirit.

As a means of transportation, a ship is unlike any other because on the high seas, you can only trust the vessel beneath your feet carrying you, and the sailors’ emotional investment in their ships makes them different from other vehicles.

In the age of sail, every ship bore the sailors’ courage and faith; they believed that the ships they were aboard were part of their crew, companions who shared their fate and fortune.

After all, on the boundless ocean, one can only trust the ship beneath them because it is the ship that allows them to survive and chase after riches or dreams.

In such circumstances, every ship naturally became a vessel for the sailors’ trust in the ship itself, and this trust naturally equated to the power of faith.

However, this power of faith was not very strong, and given the vessels’ lifespan of just a few decades, it was difficult for the power to accumulate and endow the ships with souls or spiritual nature.

Nevertheless, for those shipwrecks lying deep in the sea, this spiritual nature was a form of sediment and accumulation, needing just a little catalyst to awaken it, alongside the sailors who perished beneath the waves, harboring resentment and unwillingness to pass on peacefully.

As for those ships whose crew had been killed and were then abandoned or scuttled in the sea, the situation was even more evident.

The ghost fleet that Chen Yu brought back from the United Kingdom mostly consisted of such deep-sea shipwrecks.

However, they were awakened by Captain Kidd and transformed into his ghost fleet, and now they served as the material for Chen Yu to summon ship-girls.

As all the spiritual nature and negative energy were extracted from the ghost ships, the hulls rapidly decayed, almost instantaneously transforming from complete ghost ships into piles of rotting timber, while the HMS Hood beside them began to emit a faint glow.

Compared to the ghost ships, which were only a few dozen meters in length, the 263.2 meter HMS Hood was undoubtedly a colossal vessel.

The force needed to animate a sailing ship was for The Hood merely enough to turn it from a pile of cold steel into a ship with spiritual nature, yet to completely transform it into a ghost ship and realize the summoning of a ship-girl, an extensive infusion of negative energy by Chen Yu was still required.

Fortunately, Chen Yu had specifically directed a vast amount of negative energy from his Mage Tower to this location, enough to saturate all seven battleships on the dock, let alone just The Hood.

With the continuous pouring of boundless negative energy, the luminescence on The Hood’s surface grew ever brighter.

The various meanings people had bestowed upon this steel behemoth, along with the wishes and beliefs attached to those meanings, under the influence of the negative energy and merging with the spiritual nature that Chen Yu infused from the ghost ships, gradually coalesced into an embryo, nurturing the soul of The Hood.

Yet the soul of The Hood, affected by the negative emotions within the ghost ships’ spiritual nature, began to develop in a dark and negative direction, and even the many positive beliefs that had coalesced within it were insufficient to reverse this trend.

Seeing this situation, Chen Yu frowned.

For him, what he wanted to summon was the incarnation of people’s positive beliefs and glorious experiences associated with these battleships, essentially their heroic spirits.

If he summoned grudge spirits tainted with negative energy, it would contradict his original intention.

However, fortunately, the design had taken this issue into account from the beginning.

Chen Yu simply adjusted the effects of a few runes in the magic array, drawing out the negative emotions from the forming soul of the HMS Hood.

At the same time, a massive surge of Power of Faith flowed from outside the Necromantic Space, through the channel opened by Chen Yu, into the Hood’s hull, turning the battleship’s original pale luminescence into a dazzling golden light.

With the vast infusion of Power of Faith, the soul of the HMS Hood also began to take shape gradually, and a female form started to appear.

Seeing this scene, Chen Yu became even more diligent and devoted all his attention to finely tuning the soul of the Hood, to avoid ending up with a ship-girl that wasn’t what he desired.

Of course, the most crucial part was to imprint his own mark on the soul of the Hood before it was fully formed, to make her his loyal ship-girl.

A ship-girl entails not only a body and soul formed due to the battleship but also their iconic ship equipment.

Chen Yu didn’t quite understand this aspect, but fortunately, there are many ship-girl games nowadays.

From official illustrations to fan works and even 3D models and cosplay, there is an abundance of material, and the players who believe in these things also provide a copious amount of Power of Faith for the Hood.

Now that this Power of Faith has gathered in the soul of the Hood, Chen Yu only needs to guide it slightly.

Using the Hood’s hull itself as a template, it’s naturally possible to summon a ship-girl equipped with her ship equipment.

The seven battleships chosen by Chen Yu were all famous in World War II history, with immense Power of Faith entrusted in them.

Coupled with the popularity of ship-girl games over the years, the collective Power of Faith of millions of players is also considerable.

After Chen Yu converted this Power of Faith into Divine Power and injected it into the Hood’s soul, she could even be described as a Divine Creature.

Unfortunately, people’s faith in the Hood is solely in the ship itself, without any Divine Duty assigned, and the concept of ship-girls themselves means that even if the Hood’s ship-girl is summoned, she can only exist as a demigod Divine Creature, never able to become a true deity through her own amassed Power of Faith.

This might not be good news for the soul about to be born in the Hood.

But for Chen Yu, it was neither good nor bad.

At the very least, he had gained four ship-girls, who as demigod-level beings were many times stronger than the legendary-rank ship-girls he initially anticipated, with the ability to summon their true form and harness the full enhanced power of a battleship through Divine Power.

This significantly increased his chances of victory in the potential divine conflict to come.

As Chen Yu pondered this, the soul of the Hood was finally formed.

With the golden light from the whole battleship converging, the soul of the Hood appeared on the deck in front of the main gun.

A sea blue navy coat with gold double-breasted buttons, a short red cloak with the Union Jack emblazoned on it draped over her shoulders, and a white saucer hat atop her golden hair, her eyes as blue as the ocean displaying both gentleness and determination.

“Are you the commander, my respects to you.

The glory of the Royal Navy—The Hood, along with Victory, has come to your side.” As the woman gestured, the four twin 15-inch main guns behind her pointed up at the sky.