Chapter 1: 21st Century Necromancer

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Chapter 1: Chapter 1: 21st Century Necromancer

Necromancers, also referred to as Necromancer Mages, Thralls, Spiritualists... Those who bear this title are masters of the art of death. They are able to summon the souls of the deceased and cause them to return to their decayed bodies, transforming them into Undead to be commanded and enslaved by the Necromancer.

Necromancers who study death can be either good or evil, but even the good ones can hardly be called righteous, for any Necromancer associated with death is ultimately an existence that cannot be accepted by conventional morality and ethics.

As for the evil ones, they enslave the dead, desecrate corpses, toy with souls, and control death at will, commanding armies of the Undead to destroy cities and obliterate nations, all for their own desires... Such Necromancers are often the antagonists in fantastical tales, always harboring unspeakable evil purposes.

But regardless of whether they are good or evil, one fact is universally recognized: Necromancers are grandmasters of death. They understand every detail of the human body better than the finest doctors and anatomists, knowledgeable about various diseases and toxins... The most skilled of Necromancers even transcend life and death, becoming Immortal Liches with endless time to delve into magic and seek the truth.

Necromancer...

"After all that, just tell me how in 21st century Tokyo I am supposed to become a Lich?" On the streets of Tokyo, a young man who looked no older than a recent university graduate was sitting on a bench in the park, holding an ancient-looking thick tome with a pitch-black cover and silver metallic decorations. With an impatient glance at the book in his hands, he spoke.

As the young man posed his question, the dark tome in his hand opened on its own. Pages that seemed to be made of parchment flitted rapidly, and soon stopped on one page that held mysterious information written in text incomprehensible to the average person. If an ordinary person were to glimpse the words on the page, they would be captivated by the magically potent mysterious script, but, unable to comprehend the knowledge recorded therein, an ordinary person would become mentally unhinged and unable to gain anything from it.

Observing the black tome, which evidently did not know how to gauge its speech based on the situation, the young man clearly wanted to either burn it or simply tear it apart. However, it had to be said that the quality of this tome was indeed exceptionally high. As a magic book that recorded various advanced necromancy spells, its pages appeared to be made of parchment paper, but in reality, they were a type of special paper treated with magic. It was not only resilient to damage but also impervious to both water and fire. The man had even tried to cut it with a paper cutter, only to have the blade of the cutter worn down.

After angrily snapping the tome that called itself the "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium" shut and locking the magic lock on its cover, the young man finally took a deep breath. He felt much more at ease, yet at the same time, a sense of despondency washed over him.

The young man's name was Chen Yu, a Chinese student studying abroad in Japan. Back in his middle school days, due to an accident, he had obtained this so-called divine artifact of a necromancy spell book. Driven by curiosity, he had inevitably opened the tome, hoping to gain magical powers from it. Since the book contained a vast amount of knowledge related to the human body, in order to better understand its content, Chen Yu resolutely chose to study medicine. Just like Mr. Lu Xun, he came to Japan to study and was admitted as a doctoral student at the medical faculty of The University of Tokyo.

But Chen Yu's academic journey turned out to be much like that of Mr. Lu Xun—for all his study of medicine, he came to the poignant realization that one cannot become a mage by studying medicine!

It was now the 21st century, and civilization had advanced to the point where society was no longer like the ignorant and wild times of medieval Europe. Not to mention how to use necromancy in modern society, the developed funerary system of the modern world—especially the cremation system widely promoted by the Celestial Empire—made it difficult for him to even find a single corpse, let alone summon skeleton soldiers without the materials.

Chen Yu, who was law-abiding and desired to become a mage, had never contemplated improving his strength through unlawful and disorderly conduct, let alone committing murder. Under such circumstances, becoming a competent Necromancer was exceedingly difficult.

The Age of Dharma Decline was not a time when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was cut off, but rather a time when the mysterious was no more, and the mystic spells had lost their fertile ground to thrive.