21st Century Necromancer

Since Chen Yu never intended to hide his plans from his disciple from the very beginning, he naturally did not keep them secret, and told Misumi Mikoto directly about his plan, helping her understand what exactly he was doing.

Upon learning about what Chen Yu was doing and the plans he had in mind, Misumi Mikoto felt a shock as if her entire world turned upside down, just like when she learned for the first time that Chen Yu was a Necromancer.

A living person and a dead spirit in love would shatter the boundaries between life and death and incite a terrible disaster, and instead of trying to stop it, her teacher was actively aiding and abetting, even orchestrating a series of events, all to enable a human and a ghost to fall in love?

Misumi Mikoto felt as though either she was not fully awake, or there was something wrong with the world.

But after listening to Chen Yu's entire plan, Misumi Mikoto also felt that such a method for Divine Enthronement was the least impactful approach.

Misumi Mikoto was not ignorant, owning the Book of Inheritance, she clearly knew how much destruction a Necromancer would need to cause to achieve Divine Enthronement by conventional means.

A Legendary-rank Lich's transformation ritual would require tens of thousands of people as sacrifices, and creating Heavy Spirit Land would need hundreds of thousands...

Divine Enthronement, as one might imagine, would require a massacre of unimaginable proportions.

Although it was not essential for a Necromancer to create a slaughter to attain Divine Rank, the Divine Position that Necromancers pursued was naturally also related to death.

Just like Chen Yu's original plan which was to contaminate a river with death qi, and then use it as a leverage point to pry the rules of the world, and thereby ignite the Divine Flame to forge a Divine Rank. At first glance, it seemed harmless, as long as the source of the death qi did not involve slaughter, it wouldn't affect the world.

However, the damage a river polluted with death qi could cause was far more extensive than merely a large massacre.

A massacre—tens or even hundreds of thousands of deaths—might have a severe impact, but compared to a whole river being polluted or utterly dried up and disappearing, the effect of the latter was significantly more profound, making the lives of several hundred thousand seem almost trivial.

The rivers chosen by Necromancers for deification rituals would naturally be no mere streams, so who could say how many people lived in the entire area a whole river traversed?

The river Chen Yu originally planned to use for Divine Enthronement, the Ganges River in India, supports a population of over 300 million people in the Ganges Delta, while around 400 million people live in the Ganges Basin, which is one of the world's most densely populated river basins.

If the Ganges were to be contaminated with death qi, or the entire river were to be drained after Chen Yu's Divine Enthronement, hundreds of millions would be affected. The areas through which the Ganges once flowed would no longer be suitable for living, and hundreds of millions would be displaced and countless lives lost beyond reckoning.

Exchanging the lives of several hundred thousand for the stable living of hundreds of millions, though cruel, did not seem an impossible choice to Misumi Mikoto.

As for sacrificing the love and happiness of two people and one dead spirit, even if it meant a possible outbreak of a war among gods and disasters, it was still a profitable transaction.

Indeed, from a saintly perspective, every life is a life, with no rank of importance or nobility, and lives should not be measured by their cost-effectiveness.

But when faced with the choice of saving one person or sacrificing a hundred, saving just one and sacrificing a hundred becomes selfish.

Because the selfishness of a hundred people is far more terrifying than the selfishness of one, and when a hundred people are all selfish, it's no longer selfishness but a matter of collective interest.

Misumi Mikoto's character wasn't that of a saint who would save one person or even a hundred; she clearly understood that sometimes choices and sacrifices needed to be made. Moreover, Chen Yu's plan didn't endanger the lives of Tokairin Yūko and Inomata Naoki—it would only cause a little turbulence in their relationship.

So, after learning of Chen Yu's plan, Misumi Mikoto only wrestled with it briefly before choosing to cooperate with her teacher.

After all, in Misumi Mikoto's view, with her help, she could at least offer some protection to Tokairin Yūko and prevent any real accidents. She valued her friend very much.

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"Meiqin, why did you suddenly want to invite me out for the weekend?" In the office, Tokairin Yūko was somewhat surprised upon receiving Misumi Mikoto's invitation.

Lately, due to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare pushing forward a nationwide implementation of the UDI system to increase the autopsy rate for unnatural deaths, the entire UDI operation had been extremely busy. Aside from the regular autopsy work, there was also the need to compile the work experiences into a publication for national dissemination.

Misumi Mikoto had a puppet provided by Chen Yu; she just needed to multitask to keep up with her work while studying with Chen Yu. But for Tokairin Yūko, it was becoming overwhelming.

"I just felt that everyone has been so busy recently, so I wanted to relax together," Misumi Mikoto said nonchalantly, but her hands moved quickly. Two hot spring tickets were already placed in front of Tokairin Yūko: "Someone gave me some hot spring tickets, and Tokairin, didn't you just get a boyfriend recently? This is a great opportunity, you know!"

Blushing at Misumi Mikoto's words, Tokairin Yūko firmly grasped the hot spring tickets in her hands.

"Thank you, Meiqin!" Tokairin Yūko held the hot spring tickets and thanked Misumi Mikoto.

Facing Tokairin Yūko's gratitude, Misumi Mikoto just smiled and dismissively said, "Don't mention it to me."

Despite saying so, a twinge of guilt passed through Misumi Mikoto's heart. Even though she had convinced herself that she was protecting Tokairin Yūko and many innocent people, the idea of manipulating a friend still left her feeling somewhat remorseful.

Kube Rokuro, who was nearby, watched Tokairin Yūko and Misumi Mikoto discussing their weekend plans with interest and asked, "Dr. Misumi, which hot spring are you going to? I was planning to take my girlfriend out this weekend as well. How about we all go together?"

"Eh? Rokuro, you're coming along too? Is Doctor Qingdai free this weekend?" Tokairin Yūko asked curiously upon hearing Kube Rokuro's suggestion.

"Yeah, Qingdai has the weekend off, so we were planning to go out together. Since everyone is heading to the hot springs, it'll be more fun with more people," Kube Rokuro answered Tokairin Yūko.