21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 436 Legendary (Seeking Monthly Tickets, Seeking Subscriptions)
Qingdai had not expected that Chen Yu, who looked completely inconspicuous and seemed only to be an ordinary person, would actually be an even more formidable being than the one whom she had called grandfather. Even less could she anticipate that Jounouchi Hiromi, who in her eyes was merely a middle-aged woman climbing the ranks through her association with Chen Yu, would turn out to be even more terrifying than Chen Yu himself.
This was indeed a source of immense surprise and shock for Qingdai. Her so-called grandfather had lived for nearly two hundred years, only just managing to stand at the threshold of the Legendary, and due to the affairs of the past, he had been unable to advance further. But how old was Chen Yu? He was already comparable to a Legendary Transcendent? How could Qingdai believe that Jounouchi Hiromi, whom she saw every day and had even offended several times, was actually even more exceptional than Chen Yu!
After all, that was Legendary, a realm which her so-called grandfather, despite two hundred years of time, unimaginable agony, and a terrible price paid, had never been able to enter. It was the highest realm that a Transcendent in the human world could achieve during the Age of Dharma Decline!
In the ancient times when myths flourished, perhaps there were those who could transcend the Legendary and ascend to higher realms. But in the modern society, an era where the mystical was concealed and technology thrived, becoming a Legendary was already extremely difficult, let alone surpassing it.
Ordinary people might find it hard to know about Legendary matters, but Qingdai, because of her own experiences and the deliberate cultivation of the man she called grandfather, knew quite a bit about such affairs.
In the current era, although Legends still existed, the world wars that had swept across history had greatly diminished the high-end Transcendent forces of various nations. During World War I, the British Empire, which once ruled the waves, along with European powers like France and Deutschland, had suffered heavy losses. This had allowed the differently-rising Red Giant to ascend.
And some Transcendents who had avoided the chaos of war, unwilling to join a battlefield akin to a meat grinder, sought refuge in the United States of America. This allowed a country that had previously gathered a trace of Transcendent heritage only through the slaughter of Indians and the asylum of Transcendent criminals exiled from various European nations to gain its own Supernatural Power and start to rise gradually.
As for Deutschland in World War II, it must be said there were reasons for the historical records of the Führer’s obsession with mystical forces. Indeed, it was through the tireless collection of such mystical forces that his iron lion was able to trample all over Europe, with even the Red Giant only managing to keep them at bay from its capital through countless sacrifices.
The two world wars had nearly exhausted Europa’s Transcendent heritage, and even after more than half a century, Europe had still not recovered. The current Legendary powers are mostly from those old immortals who survived the wars, similar to the situation of the man Qingdai called grandfather.
Only, those others were true Legends with lifespans of three to five hundred years, while her so-called grandfather was using a hair-raising method to extend his life. This is also why the Tashiro Family only had the generation of her grandfather and Tashiro Nanaori’s grandfather, and no one else.
However, not all countries suffered the same fate. The United States, which profited greatly from both wars, seized the opportunity to gain significant war dividends, resulting in a substantial increase in domestic Supernatural forces, possessing a number of Legendary individuals and strength that could rival the established powers.
Though the ranks included a mix of good and bad, with many in name only, it had to be admitted that dozens of Legends were enough to contend with all the existing Legends in Europa.
And that was why the United States was able to exhaust the Red Giant through the Cold War after WWII, because its Supernatural Power had completely crushed that of the fallen Red Giant even before its collapse.
Of course, aside from the United States of America, the truly powerful was still the ancient land known as Shen Zhou, which was across the sea from Japan.
Its incomparably long history and uninterrupted civilization provided this country with a supernatural foundation far surpassing that of any other in the world. Although it was severely affected in recent history due to barbarian rule, the Legendary Warriors who had survived from the Ming Dynasty were unwilling to fight for the invaders, which led to the invasion by the United Kingdom, at that time the world’s number one superpower, alongside various European nations. Subsequently, through internal strife and chaotic warfare, a great deal of Transcendent Power was depleted.
Even so, when Japan took the opportunity of World War II to invade that land with the full might of the country combined with Shinto, they were nearly annihilated. Not only were numerous Legendary Warriors continuously slain by the Transcendents of the Celestial Empire, but many deities also perished. After all, in terms of historical depth, even the mountain gods and river gods of the Land of the Divine were terrifying entities.
And that country, from the ashes of ruin, was reborn like a phoenix, once again flourishing and thriving.
In the war, a great number of new Legendary powers emerged, endowing the country with sufficient strength to stand against the increasingly overbearing United States of America and not have to bow and scrape before them like Japan, which had drained its national power.
However, even in the vast expanse of the Land of the Divine, there were hardly any Legends as young as Chen Yu, even if he had not yet broken through and was only a Sub-Legendary standing at the threshold of Legend.
A Sub-Legendary who was only thirty years old, what an astounding and brilliant existence he was. It could even be said that his breakthrough to Legend was almost certain, set in stone! It’s conceivable that, barring any accidents, Chen Yu could definitely break through to Legend before hitting fifty and perhaps even before his lifespan was exhausted, he could replicate the feats of the era of mythology!
No wonder he could produce so many medical research breakthroughs that could change the world. For a Sub-Legendary studying medicine, these things were indeed not so significant.
"Perhaps we can use his power to escape grandfather’s control and gain what we’ve always dreamed of," Qingdai mused, looking at herself in the mirror, her face alight with irrepressible excitement and fervor, which flushed her cheeks with a rosy hue from the excitement.
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Yet, when Qingdai spoke to her reflection in the mirror, the scene somehow seemed discordant and eerie.
"Perhaps we can, but a newly risen Sub-Legendary might not necessarily be able to deal with the old man," what was even more eerie was that the Qingdai in the mirror responded to her, and the voice came from Qingdai’s own mouth, but this voice sounded somewhat masculine.
"Don’t worry. If that girl Nanao hasn’t lied to us, besides Professor Chen Yu, his girlfriend Doctor Jounouchi, and the three leaders of the Mingyue Society, will all be our support," Qingdai’s voice returned to normal, her eyes gleaming with an indescribable brightness, as if flames were burning: "Nanao said that Doctor Jounouchi was an ordinary person before the New Year, but after the New Year, she had acquired great power. Don’t you find that interesting?"
