21st Century Necromancer

The time has already been set, and both Chen Yu and the Inari God have begun to prepare wholeheartedly for the Deification Ritual with the forces they command.

Although all conditions are technically in place, only lacking the actual Deification Ritual, the preparation for the ritual still requires complex arrangements.

The location for the ritual will not be the Sanzu River Bank as last time, but has been chosen at Yomotsu Hirasaka, the famous connection point between the Human World and Yomi-no-Kuni in Japanese mythology.

However, this place is quite different from the previous Sanzu River Bank. As the site where Izanagi and Izanami split life and death in mythology, blocking the path between the realm of the living and the realm of the dead, it holds a significant position in Japanese mythology and is not a place that just anyone can tread upon.

In Japanese mythology, Izanagi left two deities here: the Great Immortal Peach God and Dosen Daimyojin, the peach used to repel the Yomotsu Oni Gun and the Senzui Stone sealing the Yomotsu Hirasaka during his escape from Yomotsu no Oni Kuni.

Both became deities for their assistance to Izanagi, guarding Yomotsu Hirasaka, each preventing the passage of the living and the dead through the Hirasaka Ridge.

The Great Immortal Peach God would send any living entity mistakenly entering Yomotsu Hirasaka back to the world of the living, while Dosen Daimyojin, transformed from the Senzui Stone, would block all demonic creatures from Yomotsu no Oni Kuni from entering the world of the living.

If Chen Yu wishes to hold the ritual at Yomotsu Hirasaka, he must confront these two gatekeepers of Yomi-no-Kuni.

Even though Chen Yu has Amaterasu's tacit approval and the support of the Inari God, these two deities will not allow him to breach the boundary between life and death, releasing the Army of the Dead and Izanami.

Fortunately, the Inari God has promised to help control these deities, allowing Chen Yu to carry out the ritual smoothly.

However, according to Chen Yu's predictions, Senzui Stone should be an embodiment of the boundary rules between life and death. Thus, if Chen Yu breaks these boundaries, Senzui Stone should collapse under the influence, and Dosen Daimyojin would fall with it, leaving only the Great Immortal Peach God to face.noveldrama

As for the preparation of the altar before the ritual begins, there's no issue. Regardless of the Great Immortal Peach God or Dosen Daimyojin, their Divine Duties are to prevent life or death from crossing the Hirasaka Ridge. As long as they don't cross, merely being at Yomotsu Hirasaka doesn't draw the attention of these deities.

Of course, not just anyone can simply stay at Yomotsu Hirasaka.

Even within various Japanese mythological stories and legends, only Mage Ashiya Douman, who is as reputable as the Great Onmyoji Abe no Seimei, has once hid at Yomotsu Hirasaka, using its death aura to conceal his living entity aura to avoid Abe no Seimei's pursuit.

If an ordinary person mistakenly enters Yomotsu Hirasaka, they will inevitably be eroded by its death aura, either turning into demonic creatures sealed by Dosen Daimyojin or being sent out by the Great Immortal Peach God.

So, to stay at Yomotsu Hirasaka, one must be a living entity able to resist the erosion of Yomi's death aura.

Though this is not a big deal for Chen Yu, as he has people in his command capable of this task, and the Inari God promises assistance, yet such an important matter still requires complex handling with numerous disturbances to sort through even after ample preparation.

Especially since there's an upcoming Nobel Prize award ceremony, Chen Yu and Hiromi Jounouchi will also have to visit Sweden, adding to the list of matters he needs to attend to during this period.

Luckily, Chen Yu is not like an ordinary person who can't multitask; a few puppets can be summoned to handle tasks, and the ship-girls under his command can also manage individually, keeping everything under control and orderly.

Except for the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony, which Chen Yu and Hiromi Jounouchi decided to attend personally, other events like media interviews or academic lecture invitations, Chen Yu would decline if possible, or send a puppet to attend if unavoidable.

While he himself focuses on preparing for this ritual earnestly.

After all, compared to previous rituals, this one differs greatly in both scale and difficulty.

Crucially, this time, Chen Yu intends to seize four fundamental world rules, leading to a frantic backlash from the world consciousness. Without thorough preparation, the outcome would be exceedingly disastrous.

This upcoming ritual differs significantly from his previous attempt. Not only aiming at deification for himself but also preparing divine ranks for Hiromi Jounouchi and Little Yixi, fulfilling his agreement with the Inari God to aid the deity in ascending to a higher divine position.

Therefore, it is a task that must succeed without room for failure, burdened with grave responsibility for Chen Yu.

Should he fail, it's not just an opportunity for deification that's lost.

Due to disrupting world rules, Chen Yu would face the world's contempt and rejection, even being expelled from it.

Hence, for Chen Yu, success means forging divine ranks through rules, becoming the singular Supreme God, counterbalancing the world consciousness's rejection.

Otherwise, he would have to roam the multiverse with his wife and children.

Certainly, Chen Yu could choose to emulate his dreams by slaughtering countless people for a blood ritual, forcibly achieving deification while summoning evil gods from beyond the domain to destroy this world altogether.

Yet such a step bears an enormous cost, one that Chen Yu would avoid unless left with no alternatives.

To address the challenges of this Deification Ritual, Chen Yu not only prepares an Army of the Dead but has crafted new weaponry for all ship-girls under his command, enhancing their power significantly despite being limited to humanoid use.

As for Chen Yu himself, he has upgraded all his personal gear, transforming demigod artifacts back into their original forms and thus becoming genuine divine artifacts.

This significantly boosts Chen Yu's power but exhausts a vast amount of his precious magical materials.

If not for the substantial earnings from previously plundering Osiris's garden, he might have depleted his resources.

Meanwhile, the metal formula research and mechanical mage design Chen Yu previously commissioned at the Metal Research Institute have been completed on schedule, allowing him to successfully form his Mechanical Mage Corps and Dragon Transformation Mage Corps.

Furthermore, the Dragon Lich Mage Corps, transformed by Hiromi Jounouchi using bone dragons, is finalized; over a hundred bone dragons are transformed into more than a hundred legendary peak Dragon Liches and grouped into mage corps. It's a lavish mage corps, whose casting forbidden curses can even deter deities from taking them lightly.