21st Century Necromancer

After concluding the Divine Feast with the Inari God, Yu Chen remained in Kyoto to continue attending the academic conference, while Hiromi Jounouchi returned to Tokyo through the Necromantic Space.

"Then I'll just leave this thing in your lab for now, and remember to put it away later. Such a precious gift should be kept in a safe place," said Hiromi Jounouchi, holding the gift from the Inari God for Yu Chen. After saying this, she turned and stepped into the Necromantic Space.

Watching Hiromi Jounouchi disappear, Yu Chen stroked his chin. To tell the truth, he hadn't expected the Inari God to give away such a valuable gift in the end.

However, just like Hiromi Jounouchi said, it was indeed imperative to keep such a valuable item safe. After all, for his current self, it was still a bit too early to use that item. Furthermore, the item's attribute was somewhat incompatible with his own. To make effective use of it, it would be best to alter the attribute first.

Since Hiromi Jounouchi said she would leave it in his lab, Yu Chen thought about it and decided it was best to leave it there for the time being.

Moreover, aside from that precious gift, other gains from the Divine Feast with the Inari God also needed to be sorted out—especially since he had eaten so many foods grown in the Divine Domain, acquiring a fair amount of Divine Power and Divinity. But these powers were all filled with the Inari God's mark, and digesting them would also take time.

Yu Chen thought about these matters while also reflecting on his future plans.

After agreeing to cooperate with the Inari God, Yu Chen realized that some of his original plans needed to be adjusted.

For Yu Chen now, his life was divided into that of an ordinary person and that of a transcendent being.

The life of an ordinary person was not a problem—as long as he continued to play his role as a doctor, even if no changes were made and he merely maintained the status quo, with the launch of the Broad-spectrum anti-cancer drug, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was already beckoning to him. And there weren't other work-related issues that needed worrying about—it was simply a matter of saving lives and healing the injured.

On the other hand, as a transcendent being, and having become a Demigod, since he had already agreed to help the Inari God advance further, what he needed to consider next was how to execute this plan. And for his own part, the matter of Divine Enthronement also required contemplation.

To elevate the Inari God to the status of a supreme deity, the only direction available for Yu Chen was that of Death. However, Death was somewhat incompatible with the original domains of the Inari God—harvest, wealth, grains, and food. If the Inari God were to develop in that direction, the Underworld might actually be a more suitable domain for Him.

As for how Yu Chen himself should achieve Divine Enthronement, now that he had received the gift from the Inari God, he might indeed consider utilizing that river full of corpses in India.

The God of the Underworld River would be an excellent fit for a Necromancer like himself.

Besides, the prospects of this Divine Duty were broad. Even if Yu Chen could not become the God of the Underworld River of the entire Multiverse, just mastering the Nether River of a single world would suffice to make him a supreme deity. Although such endeavors would require countless years of accumulation and planning for Him, this did not prevent him from laying a good foundation starting from now.

Furthermore, with the gift from the Inari God, becoming the God of the Underworld River would not be difficult. As long as he planned well, it should be achievable.

But that river in India... Thinking of the terrifying hygiene habits of the Indian people made Yu Chen's scalp tingle. That nation was the only one in the world where the leaders believed cow urine could cure diseases and boost health, where the Ministry of Health publicly declared that smearing cow dung could treat illness. To people from other countries, those bizarre and frightening customs were simply incomprehensible.

For a Necromancer like Yu Chen, a country like India had its unique advantages and was as a fertile ground for the development of his arts.

In India, except for a few major cities showcasing a modern vista, the rural parts were still under the sway of traditional clan rule. Their mindset and understanding of science lingered in darkness. To them, deities and witchcraft, all deemed feudal superstitions in modern society, were still undeniably real.

If Yu Chen had not chosen to come to Japan to study medicine but had gone to India to become a charlatan instead... He felt that he might have either gone mad due to the horrifying Indian hygiene habits, unleashing a necromantic plague to create disasters of Lost Souls, or directly controlled the Indian people to worship him, ensuring his deification through their faith.

But the deities worshipped by the Indian people... Thinking about it, Yu Chen felt he would probably still go mad because he really couldn't learn the Indian gods' style of dancing and singing.

However, fortunately, due to the bizarre and peculiar hygiene and funeral customs of the Indian people, such a unique river had arisen, saving him a lot of effort. Otherwise, to imbue a river with the Death Attribute, it would indeed require the killing of many people.

Of course, if he were really going to use that river for Divine Enthronement, Yu Chen felt he should visit India to conduct an on-site investigation to determine precisely how to proceed. After all, that river was considered a holy and pure river by the Indian people, believed to possess the power of purification.

After all, this was a world where belief truly existed—so who could say whether the ancient worship of the Indian people wouldn't endow the river with some miraculous powers?

However, these were not urgent matters for Yu Chen. Compared to these issues which required careful preparation and long-term planning, there was a more important matter waiting for him to handle: his wedding with Hiromi Jounouchi.

Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi had originally planned to marry this year, with the wedding set for the latter half of the year. Hiromi Jounouchi had already begun preparations for things like the wedding dress and hotel. So for both of them, marriage was already on the agenda.

After returning to Tokyo, he decided to go through the marriage registration with Hiromi first. Yu Chen made up his mind, but currently, he was still of Chinese nationality, and Hiromi Jounouchi held Japanese nationality. For people of different nationalities to marry, the legal formalities were indeed troublesome. This was precisely why Yu Chen wanted to treat the marriage as a matter of urgency—he did not wish for the paperwork to delay the wedding date with Hiromi Jounouchi.

Though to two individuals who were no longer entirely human beings, transcendent as they were, a marriage certificate signified nothing. Yet, since they had decided to maintain the life of ordinary people, adhering to legal norms remained indispensable.