21st Century Necromancer

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When Chen Yu and Hiromi Jounouchi arrived at Oyama Shrine in the Maeda Family's car, the entire Shrine was already closed, and all the visitors had departed, leaving the vast Shrine in silence.

Passing through the Shrine's main gate and entering its interior, it was now evening, and owing to the pond's recent illumination, no lights had been lit within Oyama Shrine.

Because of the dim light, although the glowing pond and the faint luminescence of the surrounding vegetation had not reached their brightest, they could already be observed with the naked eye.

Standing beside the pond and closely feeling the pond built atop the Seal, as well as the plants emitting a faint glow around it, Chen Yu could clearly sense the abnormality here.

All the plants were affected. The reason they glowed was that they had internally been altered by the power emanating from the Seal below, and what was called rampant growth was merely the plants overtaxing their own life under the influence of this power.

"This power..." Sensing the power emitted by the "demonic creature" through the Seal beneath the pond, Chen Yu immediately furrowed his brow, rushed to the small island in the middle of the pond, and squatted down to press his hands on the ground, earnestly feeling the condition of the Seal.

"Mr. Chen Yu, how does it look?" Seeing Chen Yu's serious and earnest demeanor, Hiromi Jounouchi also ran to his side, asking nervously.

Chen Yu slightly shook his head without responding, still sensing what was beneath the ground.

All of a sudden, his expression drastically changed, and his eyes widened as if he had received an enormous fright. He involuntarily jumped up, took a step back, and exclaimed with a shocked expression, "This is definitely not some demonic creature! What on earth did you imprison down there?"

With that, Chen Yu turned his gaze toward Ken Toshitoku and Okumura Eren who had accompanied them, as if questioning them.

"This... Master Chen Yu, is there a way to reinforce the Seal and keep it sealed?" Ken Toshitoku was clearly still reluctant to reveal the truth, only hoping to reinforce the Seal and continue to suppress whatever was underground.

"At this point, I'd advise you to tell the truth, because that thing below... It, or rather, He, should be maturing soon." Chen Yu shook his head, took Hiromi Jounouchi's hand, and led her back to the shore from the small island in the pond.

He then looked at Ken Toshitoku, who was visibly conflicted, and said, "I don't know what exactly you sealed initially, but it's clear that in addition to that demonic creature, something else is attached to it. And it is this very thing that has broken through the Seal and is currently in a state of development or growth.

Its power is breaking through the Seal and affecting the outside world, causing a series of bizarre incidents in Kanazawa City recently. If you don't want to cause greater harm in the future, it would be best to open the Seal and release whatever is below to destroy it.

Otherwise, even if I help you reinforce the Seal now, the next time that thing matures, I'm afraid it really won't be containable."

"How could this happen!" Maeda Toshitoku's face showed shock, and after struggling with various expressions, he eventually came clean to Chen Yu, "What is sealed below is the first ancestor of the Maeda Family, Lord Maeda Toshiie himself. I implore the two of you to keep this a secret!"

"You mean that Maeda Toshiie, one of the Council of Five Elders under Toyotomi, the founder of Kaga Million Koku, the unparalleled spear of Japan, known as 'Spear of Toshitoku Left'?" Hiromi Jounouchi was taken aback by the reality revealed by Maeda Toshitoku, and she finally understood why he had always seemed so reluctant to speak—it was because no one wanted others to know that their ancestor had turned into a ghost and had been sealed away.

The series of prestigious titles and names spoken by Hiromi Jounouchi made Maeda Toshitoku's face even more unpleasant, but now that it had been said, he couldn't deny it anymore. He just nodded with a grim face, "Indeed, it is our ancestor Lord Toshiie."

"But wasn't Maeda Toshiie supposed to be buried in Nodayama Cemetery at Houenji Temple, which belongs to your family? How come he ended up being sealed here?" Hiromi Jounouchi's thoughts raced to the information she had gathered during her last visit to Kanazawa City, leaving her bewildered by Maeda Toshitoku's admission.

"According to family records, originally a meteorite fell from the sky onto Houenji Temple, causing a great fire which disturbed the ancestral tomb, bringing the ancestor back from the dead. The Maeda Family spent a great deal to suppress the resurrected ancestor, but due to his status, they couldn't destroy him, only choosing to seal him."

"To prevent further disturbance to the other ancestors in the cemetery, the head of the Maeda Family at that time, Lord Maeda Yoshinobu, thus ordered the transfer of our ancestor's remains to this place and had Oyama Shrine built to suppress and seal him.

I had not expected that in my generation such a problem would occur, truly a disgrace on my part!" Maeda Toshitoku sighed with bitter remorse, as the saying goes, "Family shame must not be spread abroad;" discussing his family's scandalous affairs was indeed a sore point for him.

He had decided to solve the problem and had already disclosed the matter, so after speaking, Maeda Toshitoku watched Chen Yu intently and begged, "Master Chen Yu, I implore you to..."

"I should make it clear to you beforehand that if you want me to reinforce the seal, I can only keep that thing sealed for another hundred years," Chen Yu interrupted Maeda Toshitoku before he could finish, speaking very sternly, "Below is indeed Maeda Toshiie himself, but he must have been possessed by that entity sealed with him when he was resurrected.

The Maeda Family back then must have been unaware of its presence, and thus sealed it together with Maeda Toshiie below.

I do not know what it really is, but I can tell you for certain that I can maintain the seal for at most another hundred years, after which this monster is sure to break free from the seal. By then, things will not be as simple as now, and it could really result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people."

Upon hearing this, Maeda Toshitoku's complexion became even grimmer, but he only hesitated for a moment before gritting his teeth and beseeching Chen Yu, "Master Chen Yu, if the seal is broken, are you confident you can eradicate that demonic creature? I can't leave this problem for my descendants to deal with, so I beg of you!"

"Since you've said as much, then get everyone out of Oyama Shrine; the commotion is going to be big when we start," Chen Yu said, now regarding Maeda Toshitoku, the head of the Maeda Family, with a newfound respect.

Maeda Toshitoku nodded without further words, turned around to leave, and started notifying the people from Oyama Shrine to evacuate, and also moved out some precious ancient items from the shrine. It was clear that he had already prepared to give up the shrine.

"Hiromi, summon Xiao Lan," Chen Yu said to Hiromi Jounouchi as he watched Maeda Toshitoku directing the evacuation of the shrine's people. At the same time, he summoned a deep purple flame that enveloped him.