21st Century Necromancer

Watching the Robot Octopus adeptly carve a crystal with its eight arms, Jounouchi Hiromi's voice unconsciously lowered quite a bit, and she asked Chen Yu in a whisper, "Mr. Chen Yu, what's it doing?"

"This is a workshop for making soul cores. The cores you saw last time, which control the robots, they are made here." Chen Yu walked with Jounouchi Hiromi to the side of the robot to closely observe its work: "It is currently carving a soul crystal, the most important component of the soul core that controls the robots.

By cutting and inscribing Runes, ordinary crystals are processed, souls are filled in afterward, and then encased within a shell to make a core that can control the robots."

"Filling with souls…" Jounouchi Hiromi went silent for a moment upon hearing Chen Yu's words, and after some hesitation, she gathered her courage to ask, "Mr. Chen Yu, do you mean that inside every robot, there is a soul?"

"Yes, not just the robots; every clay doll you see is also made by stuffing a soul inside," seeing the hesitation in Jounouchi Hiromi, Chen Yu guessed what she was thinking, but he didn't rush to explain; instead, he patiently waited for her to continue.

Hearing Chen Yu's words, even if she had already guessed as much, Jounouchi Hiromi's face still turned slightly pale. However, out of trust for her fiancé, she still looked up at Chen Yu with eyes full of hope and asked, "Then, Mr. Chen Yu, where do these souls come from? You didn't... kill people, did you?"

"What are you thinking about, Hiromi!" When Chen Yu heard Jounouchi Hiromi voice her concerns, not only was he not angry, he even laughed, and within that laughter was a sense of relief, "Do I seem like the type to kill people to seize their souls and use them to make clay dolls and robots? You're thinking too poorly of me."

Jounouchi Hiromi didn't immediately believe Chen Yu after hearing what he said, and instead, she looked into his eyes for a long time. Seeing that Chen Yu's eyes were calm, she nodded and chose to believe his words. However, she was still somewhat skeptical as she asked, "Then where do these souls come from? You're not going to tell me they're all animal souls, are you?"

Faced with Jounouchi Hiromi's suspicions, Chen Yu didn't answer directly, but said earnestly, "Hiromi, I know you are a kind-hearted person, but there are some things I need to remind you. I am a Necromancer. I respect life and death, but in the eyes of a Necromancer, whether it's a soul or a body, they are just materials.

If you were to remain an ordinary person, I wouldn't let you come into contact with all this. But since you said you want to learn necromancy from me, then you must understand that some things, in the eyes of a Necromancer, have a different meaning and value than they do to ordinary people. The moral views that ordinary people hold dear are also entirely different in the eyes of the Transcendents."

The words of Chen Yu made Jounouchi Hiromi bite her lips, visibly struggling internally, but she quickly made up her mind. She still looked firmly at Chen Yu and asked, "I understand all that you've said and have prepared myself mentally. I just want to know, how exactly do you obtain these souls? I don't want you to be killing indiscriminately!"

Seeing the slightly agitated Jounouchi Hiromi, Chen Yu couldn't help feeling moved. If she didn't care about him, she wouldn't take such matters to heart.

"These souls are all wandering ghosts." Chen Yu did not tell her that he had seized these souls from the Nether Plane, knowing that this was perhaps too early for Jounouchi Hiromi to know, but he did reveal everything else: "The tall tower outside is called the Spirit Gathering Tower.

There's a spirit gathering array at the top of the tower that gathers all the souls within the island's range to the tower and transforms them into blank souls. These blank souls are the raw materials. After processing, they can be infused into the soul crystals to create control cores, or they can be stuffed into clay dolls."

Hearing Chen Yu's explanation, Jounouchi Hiromi finally breathed a sigh of relief. She had accepted that Chen Yu was a Necromancer and, though she found it hard to accept his view of bodies and souls as materials, she was not resistant to it. In fact, she was even willing to learn necromancy from him and become a Necromancer like him.

She had even mentally prepared herself for the possibility of killing.

But that didn't mean Jounouchi Hiromi wished her future husband to be someone who killed indiscriminately.

This was why, when she heard Chen Yu say that he used souls as materials, she insisted on questioning the origin of the souls. If Chen Yu had obtained the souls by killing innocents, Jounouchi Hiromi, even as an ordinary person, intended to do everything in her power to stop him from continuing to do so.

While she had no intention of leaving Chen Yu, she did not wish to live with someone who killed without remorse.

Fortunately, Chen Yu clearly wasn't someone who killed indiscriminately, and this allowed Jounouchi Hiromi to let go of all her worries and throw herself into his arms.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Chen Yu! I shouldn't have doubted you! It's just that I..." Jounouchi Hiromi hurried to apologize to Chen Yu, and she began to cry, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have doubted you, but I really didn't want my husband to be someone who kills indiscriminately!"

"Alright, alright, I'm not mad, it's just a trivial matter, Hiromi, why are you crying." Chen Yu comforted his fiancée softly, not taking the matter to heart.

Or rather, for him, it was a happy thing that Jounouchi Hiromi expressed her stance so clearly. It showed that she didn't make wild guesses or harbor unnecessary doubts, but asked him directly, which was an indication of her trust in him. Moreover, the questions Jounouchi Hiromi asked were out of concern for him, which gave him no reason to mind or get angry. Continue your adventure with empire

After consoling Jounouchi Hiromi for a while and helping her stop crying, Chen Yu saw that she seemed somewhat tired. They had indeed had a long night and it must have been hard on her. So he suggested, "Hiromi, why don't we stay here tonight? Although it's not completely finished, the master bedroom has been decorated, and I've also prepared a hot spring. Do you want to try the private hot spring?"

"Private hot spring?" A look of surprise appeared in Jounouchi Hiromi's eyes, mixed with eagerness. Although Japan has many hot springs, she had never experienced what a private hot spring was like.