21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 598 - 594: The Crown of Blood (Please Subscribe, Please Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Having her centuries of accumulated power swiftly drained by Jounouchi Hiromi, Queen Mary's strength plunged rapidly, and even her semi-formed domain collapsed along with it. The Frankenstein's Monster she had summoned dissipated into the air.

Yet, in the face of her ever-weakening aura, Mary Shelley harbored not the slightest desire to stop it, and her face even bore the smile of someone who had stumbled upon an unexpected delight.

"You can actually strip me of my Primal Matter? That's just wonderful! How much do you want? Take it all! I give it all to you!" With her words, charged with excitement and agitation, the Primal Matter that she should have cherished separated continuously from her body, pouring like a crimson river onto the altar below, causing the Blood Flame on the altar to burn ever more fiercely.

Chen Yu watched all this, having flown out from the Angel Statue, and landed on the shoulder of the Angel Statue. He looked at Mary Shelley, who was continuously extracting her own Primal Matter, and asked her, "Can you really bear to part with it?"

Primal Matter is a term extremely unfamiliar to those who are transcendent but below Legendary, because it is only after surmounting Legendary and realizing an elevation in Life Level that such essence emerges from the underlying power source of a Legendary warrior.

The essence birthed from the power source is the most direct explanation and understanding of Primal Matter.

Ordinary transcendent beings need their life to undergo a transformation and their power to change in nature to break through Legendary status, whereas Legendary warriors must refine Primal Matter from their power source. Only by filling their souls with Primal Matter, forging the steps to ascend, can they achieve the transition from mortal to deity.

And this path from mortals toward deities is known as the Path to Divinity; those who walk this path are called Demigods.

In the soul, Primal Matter builds the steps; belief serves as the kindling to ignite the Divine Flame that lights the way ahead. Ultimately, crossing the barrier between mortals and deities, ascending the Divine Throne—is the method for a mortal Becoming Divine.

As for the strength of a Divine Rank, it is dependent on the reach of the Divine Flame's light, the more powerful the Divine Rank, the farther the path ahead it illuminates, and the higher one can climb on the steps to deity.

And the weaker ones... don't even need to climb at all.

For Chen Yu, of course, there are more than just this one path to godhood.

The Underworld Feather Angel, as the pinnacle of the Necromancy School, inherently contains a ladder to divinity. Should Chen Yu wish, by infusing this ladder with Primal Matter, he could become a deity.

However, the type of deity achieved in this way would be nothing more than a deity without a Divine Duty or Divine Rank, inferior even to the weakest of deities.

Yet, such a promoted Underworld Feather Angel could still be called a true deity, capable of accommodating a Divine Rank, bearing a Divine Duty, absorbing belief, and exerting its utmost usefulness by slaughtering other deities in a war of the gods.

After all, the Underworld Feather Angel was created with the purpose of serving as a war machine.

This Path to Divinity, which can be said to have no prospects, is naturally not the one Chen Yu would choose, nor does he even want to engage in collecting belief to ignite a Divine Flame.

Chen Yu chose to plunder rules from the world and used them to forge an Ancient Godhood that was not constrained by faith. This approach was akin to snatching a map with a design blueprint: while others were still groping for the direction to proceed, you already knew which path to take and how the ladder should be set up. All that left was to build the ladder properly.

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Having said so much, in essence, it boils down to one thing: Primal Matter is the cornerstone for a mortal to become a deity, and now Queen Mary is giving away her foundation for Becoming Divine, for free, to Jounouchi Hiromi—letting her complete her own transcendence and forge the cornerstone for her Path to Divinity.

"Since the power of blood has become an obstacle that prevents me from advancing further, then forsaking it has become inevitable," Queen Mary said, ironically seeming all the more delighted. As she continued to escalate the extraction of her own blood primal matter, she also felt the shackles that had bounded her for two hundred years begin to loosen.

Realizing this, Queen Mary grew more convinced that what Chen Yu had said was true because it was the heterogeneous nature of her powers that had prevented her from breaking through the Demigod threshold for two centuries.

Indeed, the loss of centuries of accumulated primal matter was painful, but if discarding them could exchange for a chance to become a Demigod, Queen Mary felt it wasn't a difficult decision to make.

To be sure, losing these accumulations, meaning she would have to spend a protracted amount of time re-accumulating to reach this immense power close to that of a Demigod, wasn't important for her. She had waited five hundred years and didn't mind waiting a few hundred more; the key was whether she could break through the barrier between mortals and deities.

As Queen Mary made her decision in an instant, forgoing centuries' worth of accumulation, Chen Yu couldn't help but feel admiration. She was indeed a former queen, surpassing the majority of people in decisiveness. After all, not everyone has the courage to forsake hundreds of years of accumulation just for a further possibility.

Chen Yu did not stop Queen Mary's actions but calmly waited for her to transfer all the blood primal matter within her to the altar below, to serve as fuel for Jounouchi Hiromi's transformation.

In the end, compared to sealing Queen Mary, his wife's successful transformation was more important.

Although Chen Yu was a bit annoyed by Jounouchi Hiromi disrupting his plans with her mid-battle transformation, such matters were minor issues between spouses. A good "lesson" was all that was needed, and if once wasn't enough, then twice.

At this critical moment concerning his wife's life and safety, Chen Yu would by no means interrupt Queen Mary's transfer of primal matter. In fact, if necessary, Chen Yu would seize Queen Mary and completely drain her of primal matter, allowing Jounouchi Hiromi to achieve greater growth.

For a time, the situation fell into a momentary deadlock.

Queen Mary continuously extracted primal matter from herself and transferred it to the altar below while Chen Yu stood guard against any potential moves she might make.

As for Jounouchi Hiromi, enveloped in Blood Flame, she had already reforged her body and was now transforming the blood primal matter obtained from Queen Mary into her own power.

Within her soul, the knowledge from the "Crimson Hymn" had been fully inscribed. The Blood Flame was refining and distilling the primal matter from the blood on the altar, then infusing it into her soul. When this primal matter filled her soul, she would possess the foundation for Becoming Divine.

Gradually, the Blood Flame began to extinguish, and the originally blue Dragon Scale Armor on Jounouchi Hiromi's body had shifted its shape. Not only had its color changed to golden red, but the structure made of Dragon Bone and Dragon Scale had also transformed into a more elegant and magnificent form. It bore no signs of its original material and instead resembled something forged from a certain metal.

When a lavish skirt covered with armor pieces appeared on Jounouchi Hiromi, all the Blood Flame had already died out, leaving behind only the last bit of embers gathering above her head, forming a vivid blood Crown.