21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 573 - 569: Bizarre Mysteries (Seeking Subscriptions, Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Chen Yu did not agree to Gilles de Rais's request to resurrect Joan of Arc, even when Gilles offered his loyalty in exchange, Chen Yu showed little interest.

On one hand, the old priest by his side was watching him very vigilantly, already prepared for battle, fearing that he would agree; on the other hand, Chen Yu simply did not want to get involved in such matters.

Although Joan of Arc was defamed as a heretic in life, and it took five hundred years after her death to be canonized, she was still recognized as a saint by the church.

Resurrect her? The church would not think you are allowing a Holy Spirit to return to the world, they would only think you are desecrating God.

Although the decline of theocracy due to the flourishing of science means that the church is no longer the massive entity that controlled all of Europe, the accumulation and heritage of a thousand-year-old religious sect still made Chen Yu not want to provoke them.

True, he was a demigod, but a priest in Paris, France, had the strength of a Legendary Peak. Who could guarantee that the church didn't have demigods as well?

Especially after Chen Yu communicated with the old priest and learned that the church possesses a special Divine Descent Technique, where devout believers could summon angels by using their bodies as vessels, significantly enhancing their own combat abilities, he was even less willing to provoke the church.

You must know, the stronger the user of this Divine Art, the stronger the angel they can summon. Although it requires Master Rank to use, and the summoned angels are only of the Lower Tertial Holy Spirit Rank, not exceeding Legendary-rank in power, if someone like the old priest, who is at Legendary Peak, were to use this Divine Art, the results would be completely different. He is capable of summoning angels of the Middle Tertial Sub-Rank, and if he burns his life, even Upper Tertial Rank is not impossible.

Angels are divided into three ranks and nine different levels: Holy Spirit, Sub, and Holy. The angels we often speak of, Angel, are just the lowest-ranking guardian angels. As angels advance in rank, moving from Low Rank (Holy Spirit Rank) to High Rank (Holy Rank), they gain an additional pair of wings every two levels (Angels have one pair of wings), and upon reaching High Rank (Holy Rank), they gain an additional pair of wings with each level.

The number of wings determines the strength of the angels. The lowest-ranked angels, Angel, may not even be Legendary in strength, but with four wings, they can match a Legendary, and with six, they can be compared to a demigod.

While the Catholic Church is monotheistic and believes in God as the only deity, aside from God, the higher-ranking angels also possess Divinity and are deities themselves.

Legendary angels like Michael, who will blow the horn of Judgment Day; Gabriel, the guardian of the Tree of Life in Eden; Raphael... these famous angels are likely true deities. If the church is able to invite one of them to descend, even just an incarnation of Divine Power would be beyond the current Chen Yu's ability to withstand.

Moreover, Joan of Arc once received revelations from God, saw Archangel Saint Michael, Saint Magdalene, and Saint Catherine in her youth. Who can guarantee that such a legendary hero with mythological color from six hundred years ago did not enter Heaven after death and is not now an angel?

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To provoke such a massive entity as the church, all for Gilles de Rais, a Legendary-rank vampire, and perhaps Joan of Arc after her resurrection—two people causing trouble—is it worth sacrificing the scarce honeymoon time? Chen Yu had no such leisure; there was a big trouble waiting for him to deal with back in Tokyo, and he did not want to create new problems at this time.

"Honey, the book that Vampire gentleman is holding seems different from ours! Do you know what's going on?" Back at the hotel, Jounouchi Hiromi spread open her "Crimson Hymn" and flipped through the pages. Even though the book that Gilles de Rais had given her the impression that it was related to the Blood School, there was something about it that seemed off.

Her question interrupted Chen Yu, who was contemplating issues related to the Church, but he still answered his wife, "It's probably because that book is a spellbook created with the knowledge of the Mysticism School, which is different from the Book of Inheritance that we obtained through rituals."

"Mysticism School? The strangest among the Eight Great Factions?" Hearing Chen Yu mention the Mysticism School sparked Jounouchi Hiromi's curiosity even more.

While her "Crimson Hymn" also contained knowledge about the Mysticism School, she still knew very little about this most mysterious and inscrutable School of Magic among the Eight Great Factions.

Of course, it wasn't that the "Crimson Hymn" had incomplete knowledge about the Mysticism School, but rather it was due to the very nature of the Mysticism School itself.

Out of the eight Schools of Magic in necromancy, apart from the Mysticism School, the others could actually be seen as another nature of science. Although their methods of manifestation differ, fundamentally, they all study and explore the rules of the universe. They summarize empirical laws and can deduce new structures of knowledge from existing experiences and accumulations.

Be it science or Magic, we can summarize existing experiences, deducing laws and theorems from them, knowing that 1+1=2; we can infer that 1+2=3. However, the Mysticism School does not operate in this way. Their knowledge is more a fragmented accumulation, with no connection between the fragments and no discernible patterns.

Knowing that 1+1=2, one cannot infer 1+2=3 from the perspective of the Mysticism School, because in the Mysticism School there is no connection between 1 and 2. The equation 1+1=2 applies only to 1+1=2, not to 1+2=3. In the Mysticism School, 1+2 could equal 3, or it could equal 2, 4, or even 10. There are no connections, and you can't summarize any universal laws.

The research of the Mysticism School is usually such that you know what to do to achieve a certain result, but why you do it, and the changes it causes, can't be explained. Everything mastered by the Mysticism School exists independently.

Other Schools of Magic can create Undead creatures that are replicable and alterable, but the Undead creatures created by the Mysticism School are immutable and unreplicable. Rather than saying what is created is an Undead creature, it's more accurate to describe it as a phenomenon.

This phenomenon exists according to certain laws, with its own unique mechanisms, but it's unanalyzable and incomprehensible. You can only follow its rules, and if you break the rules, it becomes unimaginably terrifying.

Because of these mysterious and baffling characteristics, the Mysticism School is the School of Magic Chen Yu likes the least and is the least adept at within the Eight Great Factions.

"Yes, the strangest among the Eight Great Factions. That book Gilles de Rais had is likely made using a common method of the Mysticism School to create spellbooks. But why would it contain knowledge of the Blood School, and not the Mysticism School's own knowledge?" Chen Yu stroked his chin and became increasingly curious about the book.