21st Century Necromancer

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Cannon fodder seems to be something that a Necromancer will never run short of.

In the eyes of ordinary people, a Necromancer should be the one who raises an arm, and summons countless undead that transform into a sea of Skeletons, overwhelming all enemies.

But in reality, these cannon fodders need to be accumulated and manufactured. Even the cheapest Skeleton bones commonly seen in various films and TV shows are not conjured out of thin air.

To summon a Skeleton, you need at least a corpse, or at least a full skeleton that can be pieced together. Otherwise, if you summon a Skeleton missing arms and legs, you'd have to assemble a few to make a whole one.

Of course, for Chen Yu, there is no shortage of ways to mass-produce Skeletons. After all, even when thinking about creating a person, you only need 30 liters of water, 20 kilograms of carbon, 4 liters of ammonia, 1.5 kilograms of lime, 800 grams of phosphorus, 250 grams of salt, 100 grams of saltpeter, 80 grams of sulfur, 7.5 grams of fluorine, 5 grams of iron, 3 grams of silicon, and other trace elements. Making a pure Skeleton is indeed too easy.

Moreover, for Chen Yu, the cow bones piled in the backyard next to the Blood Pool are a better choice for summoning Skeletons.

However, this level of cannon fodder does not satisfy Chen Yu's needs. He wanted something more advanced.

After all, what he wanted to prepare for was the potential war of the gods. If the fighting power was only slightly stronger than that of ordinary people, these cannon fodders would probably not play much of a role on the battlefield.

Luckily, Chen Yu had already spread the Necromancy methods early on. Looking at the current situation, if he needed, he could harvest a wave of decent-quality cannon fodder.

But the number of this batch of cannon fodder might not satisfy Chen Yu.

Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu has been in charge of spreading the cultivation methods, and judging from his feedback, the number of this batch of cannon fodder could be around three or four thousand. Although the number is quite good, if deployed into the battle of the gods, this batch of cannon fodder probably wouldn't withstand several rounds of attrition and would be difficult to replenish.

Although there are methods to convert ordinary people into cannon fodder, and Chen Yu could, if willing, turn Tokyo's population of ten million into reservists at any time, as previously said, if not necessary, he wouldn't really want to do that.

What's the point of becoming a god and ruling the entire world if he destroys the current world and leaves behind a wasteland full of scars?

To live should not just be about surviving. Immortality as a pursuit is not wrong, but if the pursuit of immortality is solely for the sake of living longer, then what's the meaning of life?

However, fortunately for Necromancers, in the Multiverse, they often encounter situations that require high-quality and easily replenishable cannon fodder. Therefore, Necromancers have long studied an effective method to create such cannon fodder.

Put simply, it is through consuming large amounts of ordinary low-level lives or undead, allowing them to devour and merge with each other, to build stronger entities.

This is somewhat similar to the ancient Chinese practice of Gu cultivation. Of course, actual operation is not so straightforward, and if it's merely simple merging and stacking, that won't meet the Necromancers' needs.

This method of stacking is the most basic. For those Necromancers who have some expertise in creating Undead Servants, they will adjust the products according to their own needs or the condition of the raw materials, in order to make more practical and more powerful cannon fodder.

Chen Yu is no exception. In terms of raw materials, humanoid creatures have always been the most favored and versatile for Necromancers. Humans, a species widespread across the Multiverse and easy to reproduce with considerable potential, naturally make the perfect raw material for creating cannon fodder.

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But Chen Yu, unable to and unwilling to directly use living people, still needed to put in some effort to create the raw materials in a way similar to cultivating clones.

Luckily, the research materials he had accumulated while helping Jounouchi Hiromi study Artificial Wombs ended up saving him considerable effort.

Although the consumption of raw materials was high, in the end, using the original technology of the Artificial Womb to create Human Templates with the Flesh Womb spell, even if a soul needed to be infused, the remaining materials were merely biomass.

As for biomass, Chen Yu adopted a technique obtained by a Necromancer after conquering an Insect Race civilization, where the Insect Race cultivated a special type of unicellular algae in large quantities in water to obtain biomass.

These algae could absorb the nutrients in the sea water through photosynthesis and then reproduce massively. In a very short time, they could cover the entire ocean.

Once the algae reached a certain saturation point, the algae-filled sea water was extracted and transported to the Insect Race's nutrient pools for absorption, thus obtaining biomass synthesized by the algae. After being transformed by the pools, it provided nourishment for the entire Insect Race and was used to hatch more Insect Race individuals.

Using this technology, Necromancers were even more efficient in the utilization of biomass than the Insect Race.

The transformed biomass was directly supplied to the Flesh Womb, which then became a massive bio-factory, turning the biomass into template bodies at an assembly line pace.

These templates were standard human individuals, serving both as cannon fodder material and as casting material for various necromantic spells.

Chen Yu had previously refrained from engaging in these practices due to Jounouchi Hiromi's feelings, but now, faced with the possibility of a battle with the gods, this was the fastest way for him to obtain cannon fodder.

Human Templates were just raw materials, of course, and couldn't be used as cannon fodder directly.

The technique Chen Yu applied to these materials was his own unique technology.

He had previously studied blood enhancement and body strengthening with the help of Jounouchi Hiromi, and had even created the Dragon Blood Potion through studying her blood. Now, it was time for these things to come into play.

A Human Template was infused with an adjusted soul, then injected with the Dragon Blood Potion, followed by a Spell Ritual that controlled the body's mutations and enhancements, turning it into a cannon fodder with the strength of an Expert Extraordinare.

With enough biomass available, the entire mutation and enhancement process took only seven days.

Experience and combat skills came from memories woven into the soul beforehand, while the body grew a second heart, a third lung lobe, robust and enlarged high-density metal-ceramic bones, a new muscular system as strong as that of a giant dragon, an efficient blood circulation system capable of supporting the entire body, and a nervous system whose response efficiency was enhanced by more than tenfold...

When all the mutations were complete, a once frail Human Template had become a powerful warrior as tall as three meters, with bones protruding from the body to form bone armor and weapons, and having undergone the Dark Warrior Transformation Ritual, equivalent to an Expert Extraordinare.

And these warriors were being continuously born from the Flesh Womb, becoming the cannon fodder that Chen Yu was preparing for the impending battle with the gods.