21st Century Necromancer

Perhaps it was the change in the Queen's mood, the following ball became cheerful and lively, neither indulging in excess nor marked by ghostly spirits, but simply a joyous feast.

Yet the more it was like this, the more vigilant Chen Yu felt, maintaining an appropriately polite response on the surface, but in reality, he was always on tense guard against this Queen Mary.

However, his mission tonight was merely to stall the Queen. As for the other "prisoners" in the city who did not obey the rules, they would be suppressed by Lord Nelson and his Royal Navy. With the addition of Gilles de Rais, a Legendary-rank Vampire, suppressing those disobedient "prisoners" would not be a difficult task.

Moreover, their plan did not involve provoking those ranked in the top ten on the list; they aimed merely at the weaker ones, who had only been left alone previously because the Royal Navy had been too busy to deal with them.

"Is His Excellency the Demigod concerned about Lord Nelson's actions tonight?" Perhaps sensing Chen Yu's emotions, Queen Mary asked him while sipping her tea.

Chen Yu was not surprised that Queen Mary was aware of this. After meeting the Queen, he could confirm that Queen Mary was indeed the most crucial entity within this space, or rather, this space largely existed because of her. This prison might have been created to confine her, with the other prisoners as nothing more than an afterthought.

Gracefully setting down her teacup and playing with the red folding fan in her hand, Queen Mary began with a slight smile, "Even if it's merely to thank His Excellency the Demigod for attending my banquet tonight and granting me a delightful evening, I would not interfere with Mr. Nelson's actions. Besides, the noise those fellows are making has somewhat bored me; cleaning up to bring a little peace to London might not be such a bad thing."

At Queen Mary's words, Chen Yu raised his eyebrows slightly and asked her, "Does Her Majesty the Queen know everything that happens in this city?"

"You could say that, but unless there's something that I find interesting, I'm not in the mood to monitor those tedious matters all day long." Perhaps, as Queen Mary claimed, she was in good spirits while spending time with Chen Yu, "I initially kept those fellows around to see what kind of drama they could stage for me, but sadly, aside from adding a bit of amusement in the beginning, they have become so dull over the years that they bore me."

At this point, Queen Mary's face lit up with a radiant smile again, smiling at Chen Yu, "Fortunately, Your Excellency the Demigod has arrived, making all that was once boring and dreary interesting."

Chen Yu couldn't deny what Queen Mary had said, but after thinking it over, he still asked her, "Is there really nothing in the vast City of London that can entertain Your Majesty? This is the capital at the peak of the Empire, and the opening of the World's Fair has brought all sorts of novel items to London; can none of this cater to Your Majesty's preferences?"

"They did indeed once satisfy my tastes, but if you see the same things for two hundred years, even the most novel and interesting things will become boring and monotonous," Queen Mary shook her head, seeming somewhat surprised that Chen Yu would ask such a question. "Your Excellency the Demigod, as an immortal being who lives forever, don't you ever feel lonely and isolated during the long years, despite having a partner who can accompany you eternally?"

Facing Queen Mary's question, Chen Yu shook his head somewhat awkwardly, indicating that he indeed didn't understand loneliness or isolation: "After all, although I have achieved demigod status and possess an almost immortal life span, I am actually only thirty years old this year. I can't yet comprehend the solitude that comes with such a prolonged life span."

When Queen Mary heard that Chen Yu was only thirty years old, she was immediately shocked, her mouth agape and even forgetting to cover it with her fan: "A demigod at thirty? Are you a reincarnation of deities? To reach the realm of a demigod at such a young age is truly... astonishing!"

Looking at Chen Yu's youthful appearance, a strong jealousy arose in Queen Mary's heart. She had spent hundreds of years and countless efforts, and even after being sealed here for two hundred years, she had not achieved demigod status, always unable to cross that final threshold. How could she not envy Chen Yu's fortune in becoming a demigod at merely thirty years old?

With a thought as quick as lightning, the magnificent palace transformed once again, this time into a cage filled with crimson bloodlight.

"Why can't I become a demigod even after spending four hundred years and three lifetimes, while you only needed thirty years to do so? Why can you have an eternal soul mate to be with you forever, while I can only be forever sealed in this miserable cage, suffering the pain of loneliness and isolation?" Queen Mary roared.

Her originally beautiful face immediately became hideous and terrifying. Four sharp fangs protruded from the corners of her mouth, transforming her inviting red lips into a fearsome gaping maw. Her seductive figure morphed into the shape of a monster, with arthropod limbs piercing through her elegant gown, and an exaggerated insect-like abdomen protruding from beneath, while multiple eye-covered tentacles extended from her back, each tipped with sharp mouthparts. Her once delicate waist burst through the corset, revealing four faces on her abdomen, and a gilded skull embedded in the center, surrounded by the four faces.

Looking at those four closed-eyed faces and the gilded skull, Chen Yu finally understood what Queen Mary had done and why she had become this way.

"So this is yours," Chen Yu said, taking out the Human Skin Book from his possession. As soon as he took it out, the book resonated with the gilded skull in the Queen's abdomen and another object in the palace.

The moment the gilded skull and the Human Skin Book resonated, the four faces with closed eyes also opened their eyes and howled at Chen Yu: "Give it back to me!"

The Crimson Queen finally launched an attack on Chen Yu at this moment, aiming not only to devour his demigod flesh to break through the shackles that had troubled her for hundreds of years but also to consume Jounouchi Hiromi, the source of her envy, and to reclaim a part of her own body, thus truly resurrecting!