21st Century Necromancer

"Endless Styx, please respond to my call!" Chen Yu used divine power to loudly recite the necromantic holy words, praising the Nether River and summoning its power.

This move was once used when he and Jounouchi Hiromi opposed Maeda Toshiie, who was possessed by the Star's Brilliance. At that time, Chen Yu was just an ordinary Formal Rank Necromancer, not yet breaking through the threshold of the Legendary level.

Back then, using this move merely projected the battlefield to the banks of the Nether River, leveraging its power to dissolve the Star's Brilliance.

But now, with Chen Yu's power having broken through to Demigod, using this move again directly summons the power of the Nether River to his side.

The power of the Endless Styx manifested from the void, pouring down like a waterfall, instantly surrounding the temple in the Garden of Osiris where they were located, turning it into an isolated island in the surging river.

If not for the divine power of Osiris, Horus, and Anubis, which filled the Temple of Osiris and blocked the Waters of the Nether River summoned by Chen Yu, the temple would have already been engulfed.

But even as the two grand statues on the temple's plaza emitted dazzling divine light, and the temple itself radiated a luminous glow, the power of the Endless Styx wasn't something so easily resisted.

Moreover, as the Waters of the Nether River covered the Garden of Osiris, the pharaohs and nobles buried there were also affected.

Although protected by the statues of Horus and Anubis at the entrances of each tomb, their souls were temporarily unharmed, but as soon as this force dissipated, their fate would mean a return to the Endless Styx.

Faced with this situation, Anubis, who had just emerged from the temple, wore an angry expression on his jackal face, but more than that, there was repression.

As a defense mechanism of the temple, and as one of the Nine Pillar Gods of Egypt, Anubis' divinity was meant to make a grand entrance, harvesting the souls of wrongdoers in terror-stricken repentance to atone for their disturbance and desecration of Osiris.

But now? He had to first mobilize the precious divine power accumulated here to resist the torrent of the Nether River, preventing the entire Garden of Osiris from being washed away, and also protect the temple behind him from the effects of the Waters of the Nether River.

One must know that Osiris' only hope for resurrection lies here; if his body were to be washed by the Waters of the Nether River, then Osiris would have no hope of returning.

Indeed, Osiris had already fallen, and his body, buried in this temple, was his only hope for resurrection.

In fact, besides Anubis, the other eight deities of the Nine Pillar Gods of Egypt had also already fallen, even the most powerful Sun God Ra had perished with the fall of the ancient Egyptian empire.

Although Chen Yu did not know whether Anubis had fallen, he saw Osiris' fall earlier when at Abydos.

The difference between breaking into the temple of a living deity and that of a fallen deity is vast; the former means you have offended a mighty god, while the latter means abundant gain, especially when the deity is an ancient Nether God, and his corpse lies within the temple you're in.

Now, standing between Chen Yu and this bountiful gain is none other than the Anubis before him.

Chen Yu could tell that this Anubis wasn't the deity himself; he was merely a trace of divinity residing within a statue, assuming a form after absorbing divine power.

To ordinary people, there was no difference, he was even as powerful as a Lesser Deity, but to Chen Yu, the distinction was significant.

A Lesser Deity, especially a statue possessed by divinity like this, Chen Yu didn't think he couldn't kill it.

With a quick turn of thought, Chen Yu didn't give Anubis more time to absorb the divine power of the grand statues, and directly summoned his ship-girls, then with a wave of his hand, cast a Death's Finger towards Anubis.

Facing the Death's Finger cast by Chen Yu, the statue of Anubis showed no response; when the gray-black light reached in front of it, a golden shield blocked it, only causing a ripple without any effect.

Chen Yu initiated the attack first, and Anubis naturally wasn't willing to be outdone. With a roar at Chen Yu, he swung the scepter in his hand, summoning a vast cloud of sand, forming a giant jackal face behind him biting towards Chen Yu.

However, before the jackal face could reach Chen Yu, it was directly shattered mid-air by a large-caliber naval gun.

Beside Chen Yu stood seven ship-girls in a row, who had all unveiled their ship equipment, with dozens of main guns pointed at Anubis.

"The era has changed, Death God." Chen Yu chuckled, feeling amused by Anubis's use of such flamboyant moves and did not hesitate, commanding the ship-girls to launch a barrage while a series of curses hurtled towards Anubis.

Colorful curses swept toward Anubis like a storm, but necromancy had little effect on this ancient Egyptian Death God; even after enduring Chen Yu's curse storm, it merely darkened and mottled the surface of the golden statue a bit.

Yet, Chen Yu's intention was never to harm Anubis, but to impact the statue where his divinity resided.

Anubis himself wasn't afraid of necromancy, but this statue was different; even gold could be eroded by a Necromancer's curse.

This battle was extremely frustrating for Anubis.

At the outset, Chen Yu summoned the Waters of the Nether River, forcing him to focus most of his energy on resisting its corrosion. Meanwhile, Chen Yu's summoned ship-girls continuously bombarded him, forcing him to fend off their shells, lest they fall on Osiris's temple or himself.

This undoubtedly prevented Anubis from fully unleashing even half of his power, causing this mighty ancient Egyptian deity to be utterly overpowered by Chen Yu.

Feeling his anger steadily rise, Anubis shot several golden beams from his scepter, disrupting the ship-girls' bombardment and forcing Chen Yu back, then let out a loud howl.

With Anubis's howl, a layer of sand spread out on the ground, and beneath it, jackal-headed warriors emerged, roaring as they brandished their weapons and charged toward Chen Yu.

Anubis's Army of the Death God, his most formidable force, was thus summoned.