21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 917 - 910: Don’t Know What to Name It (Seeking Monthly Tickets at Month’s End!)

Chapter 917 -910: Don’t Know What to Name It (Seeking Monthly Tickets at Month’s End!)

Although deep down, Chen Yu wanted to swallow this Divine Rank and ascend to godhood on the spot to become an Ancient God, he ultimately resisted this temptation.

Even though the Storm Divine Core’s power was immensely strong and the rules it represented were extraordinary, this was not the path Chen Yu wished to choose. After a period of inner struggle, Chen Yu still firmly adhered to his original decision.

In truth, Chen Yu had already prepared a divine pathway—for himself, for Jounouchi Hiromi, and even for the child in her womb.

According to the agreements and plans between Chen Yu and the Inari God, they would seize the opportunity brought by disruptions in world rules to extract the principles associated with death and the Netherworld, forging them into Ancient Godhood.

The Inari God, as one of the most powerful deities in the Japanese Deity system, second only to the Three Precious Children, already possessed immense Divine Power. To progress further, she could only aim at the foundational rules underpinning the world system.

For only these fundamental rules supporting the operation of the world could elevate the Inari God’s rank, potentially allowing her to rival or even surpass the Three Precious Children.

After all, while the Three Precious Children are undeniably powerful and noble, they are not singular gods. Each Pantheon has its own Sun God and Moon Goddess, who are often pivotal members or even leaders of their respective pantheons, indicating how fragmented these world rules have become among the gods.

Ironically, Susanou—the least favored among the Three Precious Children—because of his destructive Divine Duty, possesses some degree of uniqueness as a singular god.

However, once foundational rules, the cornerstones of the world system, are disturbed, the repercussions will far exceed the scale of a mere catastrophic typhoon. Therefore, neither Chen Yu nor the Inari God targeted those core rules that would greatly impact the mortal realm.

During Chen Yu’s discussions with the Inari God, Chen Yu chose Nether River as his Divine Duty, while the Inari God planned to become the God of the Underworld.

Ironically, although the Netherworld and Nether River rules correspond to the foundational structure of the world, they are not essential for the world’s functioning.

Both the Netherworld and Nether River were not naturally created entities of the world but were instead established by various pantheons for their own benefits.

Originally, the Endless Styx flowed through the world, bringing forth souls. When living beings died, their souls naturally returned to the river, with no need for a Netherworld as a resting place, nor any concept of rebirth or reincarnation.

Yet, driven by self-interest, the pantheons diverted branches of the Nether River, delineating boundaries of life and death for their domains, creating Netherworlds and harvesting the souls of the deceased, thereby introducing the concepts of Netherworld and Nether River to the world.

Here, the Nether River being referred to is not the Endless Styx itself or its naturally flowing tributaries. Instead, it refers to the branches forcibly diverted by the pantheons and assigned as the boundary between life and death. These branches were endowed by mortal faith with the notion of being rivers of the Netherworld, demarcating realms of life and death and becoming part of the world’s foundational concepts.

The Netherworld, this constructed realm of death, similarly, became a cornerstone of the world system because of the pantheons’ establishment of such structures.

This explains why, during Chen Yu’s ritual at the Sanzu River Bank, the world consciousness could influence the Stygian Water of the Sanzu River, causing it to overflow. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

The Endless Styx itself does not belong to this world, so the world consciousness cannot affect it. However, the diverted branches used as boundaries between life and death are undoubtedly part of the world, thus subject to the influence of the world consciousness. Correspondingly, the rules within the world system linked to these branches can be extracted to forge divine ranks.

There’s an additional advantage to this approach: although the Nether River and Netherworld are integral to this world’s system, their rules’ changes have minimal impact on the mortal realm and can sufficiently mitigate the consequences of resistance from the world consciousness.

As for the Divine Duties prepared by Chen Yu for Jounouchi Hiromi and their unborn child, they were Reincarnation and Judgment.

These rules were originally non-existent and were only birthed from pantheon-constructed Netherworlds, accompanied by myths describing souls entering the Netherworld after death to endure judgment by the Nether God for their sins and merits. The souls were then said to reincarnate after redemption. Faith in these myths eventually caused these two rules to manifest within the world system, becoming critical components of it.

However, due to their myth-and-faith-based origins, disturbances to these rules have even less impact on world operations compared to Nether River and Netherworld rules.

The real issue is that these rules are essential to supporting the structure of various pantheons. If a pantheon’s foundational rules were shaken, their powerful deities, who’ve been expelled to the outer layers of the world due to resistance from the world rules, would undoubtedly act aggressively to preserve their pantheons. This might result in the pantheons forming alliances to wage war against Chen Yu.

Chen Yu, however, felt no fear regarding this. Should his plans succeed, his side—comprising the Inari God, his wife, his child, and himself—would boast four singular Supreme Gods. With the Nether River’s power at his disposal through his divine rank, he did not consider the possibility of pantheons’ war an insurmountable challenge.

Instead, what concerned him more was the intrusion of Yomi from Japan during his deification process, as the boundary between life and death was disrupted due to shifts in world rules.

Without godhood, his strength would remain limited, and while the strongest in Yomi—Izanami and Susanou—might be restricted from entering the mortal realm by the world rules, their subordinate deities were not opponents a mere demigod like Chen Yu could contend against.

This was the greatest threat Chen Yu faced in his entire plan.

Thus, Chen Yu chose to collaborate with the Inari God, leveraging Her power to draw in other allies, while continuously strengthening himself by summoning ship-girls and preparing armies—all in anticipation of the impending invasion from Yomi.

As Chen Yu struggled with the lure of the Storm Divine Core, Ni Nasu, harnessing its power, amplified the typhoon she summoned, successfully weakening the naturally formed catastrophic typhoon to a significant degree, reducing its destructive force by half and transforming it into a severe tropical storm.

Compared to a Category 15 typhoon, a severe tropical storm with wind speeds of only 8-9 levels still carried considerable force, but its destructive power was far less. For cities, such levels of wind were within an acceptable range.

As her control over the typhoon diminished after its clash with the natural storm, Ni Nasu reluctantly withdrew her power, watching as Chen Yu carefully reclaimed the Storm Divine Core.