21st Century Necromancer

After the Promotion Ceremony had concluded, Chen Yu changed into the clothes he had prepared earlier and cleaned up all traces of the ceremony before returning home with the Black Leather Tome and the Amethyst Skull.

Of course, when passing the Shrine, he didn’t forget to worship again and offered incense money as thanks to the unknown deity for blessing the smooth progress of the ceremony.

Once home, Chen Yu tossed the Black Leather Tome and the Amethyst Skull aside, flopped onto the bed, and after cuddling and playing with Audis who had jumped over to him, he finally let out a long sigh of relief.

Although tonight’s Promotion Ceremony went smoothly, Chen Yu’s exhaustion was very real. This wasn’t just the Magic Power expended in presiding over the ceremony, but also the mental stress endured during the process. Even though he had achieved a sublimation of his being and reconstructed his body, the fatigue on his mind was not so easily dismissed.

Petting the cat could only serve to refresh his spirits a smidgeon to review the gains made after his ascension.

If one were to speak of the greatest gain from this Promotion Ceremony, for Chen Yu, it was the vision he witnessed the moment after his flesh had been consumed and his soul sublimated. Such an experience was invaluable for a Necromancer... no, for any mage. Despite the pain of his soul burning, Chen Yu still couldn’t forget the beauty he felt in that instant.

As for the elevation of the body and soul, that was considered a secondary gain.

Naturally, the sublimation of body and soul was also significant for Chen Yu. After the promotion, his bodily strength had increased to five times that of a normal human, and both his regenerative abilities and strength had greatly improved, with his lifespan extending beyond two hundred years.

The benefits for the soul were even greater. Not to mention that after obtaining Necromantic Power, he could progress further on the path of a Necromancer.

The mere sublimation of his soul alone allowed him to exist for a long time after physical death, and by relying on it, he could use Mystery Spells detailed in the Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium to live again, or possibly even become an eternal being like a Lich.

As for unlocking new Spells and knowledge from the Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium after being promoted to a formal Necromancer, that was to be expected. Chen Yu had already skimmed through it on his way home. Although he had only glanced through briefly, the newly unlocked knowledge was quite an eye-opener.

Not to mention the rest, the knowledge and research of the School of Corpse Studies on corpses alone left Chen Yu in awe. The technique of slicing a corpse into parts and reassembling them at will was not something that could be compared to the crude creations of stitched monsters in fantasy tales.

It was a truly delicate art, ranging from the finest capillaries to the connections of muscle fibers and nerves, assembling various organs, tissues, and limbs as easily as building blocks.

To attach hands to feet or feet to heads, such descriptions would normally exist only in various fantasy novels, but in the School of Corpse Studies section of the Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium, such technology was simply the basics.

Transplanting the hearts of cattle and horses into humans, joining the upper body of a human to the lower body of a horse, replacing human arms with eagle wings... such outlandish techniques were a challenge to Chen Yu’s understanding.

Chen Yu didn’t know how such technology applied to human medicine would impact the current surgical medical system, but just the idea of making transplanted organs not trigger rejection reactions was enough to write several world-class medical papers, and perhaps even win a Nobel Prize in Medicine.

As for Inomata Naoki’s illness, after Chen Yu unlocked the knowledge of the School of Toxicology and the School of Hematology, it was no longer a problem.

The potions Chen Yu had been using were based on a modified version of a necromantic potion recipe. Now, with the knowledge of these two schools unlocked, he found more than twenty different methods to improve the necromantic potion in the "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium," covering a wide range of applications.

For someone like Inomata Naoki, whose bodily activity had decreased due to the use of necromantic potions, a healing potion designed to treat undead creatures was enough to restore his vitality. As for the suppression of cancer, there were specially targeted potions for specific parts of the body and formulas for specific organs.

With some modifications, potions to suppress cancer could easily be created.

And the removal of cancerous tumors... For a Necromancer, hollowing out a person until only the shell remains while still keeping them alive is quite feasible, let alone just cutting away some diseased tissue and organs.

Of course, this knowledge was still just text in books and hadn’t yet truly transformed into Chen Yu’s scholarship and abilities, but with some time, careful study, and learning, he was well able to make all this knowledge his own.

Beyond these gains, the final skull, transformed into an amethyst during the promotion ceremony, was also a rare find.

Imbued with necromantic power and calcined with Chen Yu’s body during the last stages, the essence of this skull had been sublimated. Now, the skull, just like an amethyst, had transformed from a regular skull into a rare necromantic material.

If it were used for casting spells, to describe it in gaming data terms, it would have at least one attribute of spellcasting power increased by a percentage, and that percentage was at least in the double digits.

Of course, it would be somewhat wasteful to use the skull in such a way. Whether fashioned into a necromantic instrument or used for another purpose, it would be much more worthwhile than simply as casting materials. Materials that had been calcined by pure necromantic power were hard for a Necromancer to create and required a lot of effort, and the quality of the product would not be as pure.

After all, this was a substance calcined by the necromantic power directly from the Nether Plane and the sacrificial flames, inherently pure and sublimated.

However, Chen Yu had no interest in thinking about how to use this item at the moment; he simply tossed the amethyst skull into Audis’s cat bed, threw Audis in as well, and collapsed onto his bed, falling into a deep sleep without even removing his clothes.

New Spells? New knowledge? New Magical Instrument? Forget it all; first, he needed a good sleep, and he would think about everything else when he woke up the next day. With that thought, Chen Yu pulled over the blanket to wrap himself up and finally drifted into dreamland...