21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 401 - 398 Life Metamorphosis and Soul Repair (2nd update, please subscribe, ask for monthly tickets)

After leaving the hospital ward and returning to Chen Yu’s office, Hiromi Jounouchi remembered the changes in Chen Yu’s eyes from earlier in the ward, so she asked him, "Mr. Chen Yu, what happened to your eyes just now? Was it a spell, or did you modify your own eyes?"

"It was a combination of both, but mainly it’s because my body has partly undergone a metamorphosis, and parts of my eyes and brain have ascended to a higher Life Level. Therefore, when my eyes were transforming, I followed the modification methods of the magic eye and made some small adjustments to them," Chen Yu explained to Hiromi Jounouchi. The life metamorphosis he mentioned had been subtly in progress since after completing the Promotion Ceremony to become a Certified Necromancer; it’s just that now he had completed the metamorphosis of his brain and eyes.

Upon hearing Chen Yu mention life metamorphosis, and being a fellow inheritor of necromancy herself, she naturally understood what he meant and asked with surprise, "Life metamorphosis? Mr. Chen Yu, are you about to ascend to Legendary-rank?"

"It’s still early for that! Life metamorphosis is a gradual process, and currently, only my neural system and eyes have undergone part of the metamorphosis. I am still far from a complete transformation." Chen Yu shook his head. Ascending to Legendary-rank was not so easy; not only did it require a complete transformation of one’s entire body, but it also required one’s power to undergo a qualitative change—a change that certainly couldn’t be completed overnight.

Chen Yu could complete the initial metamorphosis of the neural system and eyes in less than a year after the Promotion Ceremony to become a Certified Necromancer because he concentrated most of his power on his brain, which accelerated the life metamorphosis of his brain and allowed the initial transformation of his neural system to be completed in such a short time.

"Speaking of this, Hiromi, you are much closer to the threshold of Legendary-rank than I am. The Essence of Life from a Legendary Dragon is enough to make you grow to a Sub-Legendary level in a short time. Moreover, with Xiao Lan’s help, breaking through to Legendary-rank is simply no trouble for you at all," Chen Yu said, not without a touch of envy for Hiromi Jounouchi.

However, when Hiromi Jounouchi heard him say this, she gave him a helpless smile, shook her head, and responded, "You have a giant dragon’s corpse too, so why don’t you perform a Dragon Blood ritual on yourself? Besides, what do I have to be envious of? Giant dragons are powerful, but how many of them can break through to Legendary-rank and grow to the level of deities? The stronger a life is, the harder it is to cross that threshold."

Hearing Hiromi Jounouchi say this, Chen Yu helplessly raised his eyebrows. Although he didn’t believe that he couldn’t cross that threshold and become a deity, this kind of thing was uncertain until the very moment one becomes a deity—nobody could confidently claim success in advance. Entering Legendary-rank was merely possessing the qualification to launch an assault on that level.

Mending a soul might be a very difficult task for an ordinary transcendent, yet for Necromancers, it’s one of their quintessential skills—a basic operation.

Both Mr. Chen Yu’s "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium" and Hiromi Jounouchi’s "Crimson Hymn" recorded various methods that could mend souls.

However, the soul mending potion was difficult to concoct, and its ingredients were very precious. Even if Mr. Chen Yu and Hiromi Jounouchi were willing to use the soul mending potion to repair Keiko’s father’s soul, the potion’s effects were limited and unlikely to fix the massive damage to his soul.

The only way to mend Keiko’s father’s soul was the soul mending ritual Mr. Chen Yu had already prepared in advance.

Using a blank soul as raw material, he would integrate it into Keiko’s father’s soul, repairing the missing parts and restoring his soul to wholeness.

Although due to the severe trauma earlier, it was very possible that Keiko’s father would lose most of his memories, after the complete soul mending, he could recover and be like a normal person again.

In such a case, the loss of most memories was not an unacceptable outcome.

But to do this, a complex ritual had to be conducted, and the hospital clearly didn’t have a space for such rituals.

"Let’s adjust his physical body first, and make sure there are no lingering side effects," Mr. Chen Yu thought for a moment, then decided to first treat Keiko’s father’s physical condition: "As for the soul mending ritual, transfer him to the Regenerative Medicine Research Laboratory under my name, as part of the Regenerative Medicine treatment project. We can perform the ritual there—after all, that will be our own place."