21st Century Necromancer

After work, Jounouchi Hiromi did not start cooking dinner as usual; after Chen Yu had summoned two Ghost Maids, these servants had become permanent fixtures in the household, taking care of all the chores, including cooking for the two of them.

Not having to come home from work and cook dinner significantly reduced the burden on both Jounouchi Hiromi and Chen Yu. Although neither of them was incapable of cooking, and making dinner together felt intimate and cozy, who would refuse the convenience of a ready-made dinner after work?

However, today Jounouchi Hiromi hadn't had the chance to enjoy her first experience of coming home to a ready-made dinner, as she hurriedly flipped through her "Crimson Hymn" without regard for Chen Yu's surprised expression, searching for the information she needed.

Seeing Jounouchi Hiromi so engrossed, Chen Yu watched her in surprise and called out to her, "Hiromi, what are you looking at? Can't it wait until after dinner? Let's eat first, the food is getting cold."

At the sound of Chen Yu's voice, Jounouchi Hiromi finally looked up at him and set down her "Crimson Hymn," taking a seat at the dinner table.

"What's the matter, Hiromi? I see you flipping through a book as soon as you get home from work. Did you encounter some problem?" Chen Yu picked up a piece of softly boiled fish and put it in his bowl, eating while he inquired with Jounouchi Hiromi.

Although sushi is wildly popular in Japan, in reality, Japanese home cooking is primarily cooked dishes, and as Chen Yu himself wasn't accustomed to eating raw food, the meals prepared by Jounouchi Hiromi at home were also cooked dishes, which now included the Ghost Maids as well.

"Mm, there is a patient, I'm thinking about her treatment plan and need to verify an idea." Jounouchi Hiromi nodded, eating much faster than usual, clearly intending to finish quickly in order to get back to work: "Today's fish tastes really good! How was it made?"

The flavor of the fish pleased Jounouchi Hiromi, prompting her to curiously ask the nearby Ghost Maid for the recipe.

"The purchased fish is deboned, then sprinkled with a little Green Salt, drizzled with light soy sauce and Mirin for 15 minutes to marinate, after which the fish is pan-fried in olive oil until the skin is golden brown. Then take a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, light soy sauce, Mirin, tender ginger, and spring onion, bring to boil, add the fish, and continue to cook for fifteen minutes.

After cooking, remove the fish to plate, reduce the sauce over high heat, and pour it over the fish."

The Ghost Maid on the side seemed somewhat mechanical. Upon being asked by Jounouchi Hiromi how the fish was cooked, she recited the method in detail, but with a tone that seemed very stiff, much like a machine.

Jounouchi Hiromi, who already knew the Ghost Maids were lower-tier Undead Servants lacking much Spiritual Intelligence, did not find this odd and nodded in acknowledgment while quickly finishing her own dinner.

Watching Jounouchi Hiromi put down her utensils and pick up the "Crimson Hymn" again, Chen Yu couldn't help but shake his head slightly. However, he did not mind and continued to savor his dinner at his own pace, not intervening with Jounouchi Hiromi's matters.

While Chen Yu could easily have answered Jounouchi Hiromi's questions, learning magic is itself a process of seeking knowledge. If one always relies on ready-made answers instead of searching for them, one cannot grasp the true essence of knowledge. Therefore, he did not directly ask Jounouchi Hiromi what her question was but let her seek the answer herself first.

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After leisurely finishing dinner and setting aside his cutlery, Chen Yu left the table for the Ghost Maid to clean and walked over to Jounouchi Hiromi, who was engrossed in the hefty volume of "Crimson Hymn." He sat down beside her and peered onto the page she was reading, curious about the content.

Unlike Chen Yu's "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium," the text of "Crimson Hymn" was influenced by the power of a giant dragon, and all its words were in Dragonic Language. Although Chen Yu was not completely ignorant of Dragonic, he was not proficient, managing only to make out that Jounouchi Hiromi was reading about a spell known as "Flesh Z Palace."

Chen Yu did recall this spell, as it was also recorded in his own "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium." However, since his school of magic was "Death," the content was not as detailed as Jounouchi Hiromi's school of "Blood." Nevertheless, it gave him a sufficient understanding of the spell.

It was a particular Flesh Magic that involved creating an Artificial Z Palace from flesh and using it to incubate life. Usually, this spell would be paired with other spells like Sacrificial Rituals to obtain a large amount of Essence of Life. This essence would then be infused into the embryos within the Flesh Womb to nourish and grow them.

Typically, these embryos were either the subjects of various forbidden experiments by the Necromancer or the Necromancer themselves. Liches even used this spell to assist their own resurrection and create a vessel for their spirits to inhabit.

It must be said that there's good reason why Necromancers are denounced as evil in many places across the Multiverse.

The most extreme state of this spell is known as "Flesh Lu Fu." Uh, Chen Yu was unclear if this was an issue with translation and pronunciation between languages, or if the Necromancer who invented this spell came from a parallel world to Earth, with a Louvre of its own. In any case, the phrase did sound very much like the pronunciation of Louvre.

As for the effects of the spell, it involved using a vast amount of flesh to construct a Flesh Palace on the scale of the likes of the Louvre, within which an embryo comparable to deities would be incubated.

Of course, what was bred in the Flesh Lu Fu was not a true deity, but could only be called a Godly Abomination.

"Mr. Chen Yu, do you think that using the Flesh Z Palace spell, one could normally incubate a human fetus?" Jounouchi Hiromi lifted her head from the book and asked Chen Yu, seeking his opinion.

Taken aback by Jounouchi Hiromi's question, Chen Yu looked at her in surprise, uncertain why she would ask such a thing out of the blue, yet he answered, "The Flesh Z Palace spell itself is designed to create an incubation chamber out of flesh, simulating a female's womb to incubate embryos. In theory, it could also be used to incubate a human fetus, but why do you ask, Hiromi?

You surely aren't thinking of..."

"Where did your mind go!" Jounouchi Hiromi knocked Chen Yu lightly, interrupting his wild conjectures before continuing to explain, "I met a patient today who has been diagnosed with gynecological cancer, yet she is also pregnant. I was wondering if there's a way to save her child while treating her."