21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 587 - 583: Attending a Banquet (Please Subscribe, Request for Monthly Tickets)

After receiving an invitation from Queen Mary I, Yu Chen, who had intended to meet the Crimson Queen of his own accord, naturally did not refuse her invitation. Lord Nelson offered to provide both of them with the appropriate attire for the banquets and everything else related.

For the nobility, social gatherings like banquets were indispensable, where they would share information with other nobles, showcase their wealth and strength, and finalise various agreements and exchanges of interests... All of this took place during one banquet after another.

These extravagant and opulent events, also filled with schemes and conspiracies, became an essential part of the classical European court dramas.

In the Victorian Era, attending a noble's banquet was not an easy task. Aside from a suitable gown, a woman's jewelry, her carriage to the banquet, and servants were all necessary for maintaining appearances. Moreover, the expense of these items was not insignificant.

As nobles, it was unthinkable to travel in an ordinary carriage - a luxury carriage and matching horses at that time were equivalent to today's Rolls Royce and Maserati. Without these, one wouldn't even qualify to attend a banquet; having an invitation but lacking the means was nothing but a source of embarrassment.

These items were, of course, beyond the reach of commoners like Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty. Only Lord Nelson, a noble himself, could provide them.

Fortunately, this space was not a real world, allowing the items that would have taken a considerable amount of time to prepare to be quickly readied and brought before Yu Chen and his wife.

Yu Chen originally did not plan to bring Hiromi Jounouchi with him to the banquet. He wanted to go with Gilles de Rais instead. While he kept Queen Mary occupied, Hiromi Jounouchi and Lord Nelson would handle the other "prisoners". However, both the noblemen Gilles de Rais and Lord Nelson opposed Yu Chen's idea.

At a noble's banquet, unless one was single, the invited noble was expected to bring a female companion, even if it meant finding a socialite.

The presence of a female companion was also a part of the men's display of status—her beauty, luxurious attire, and precious jewelry. In the era ruled by feudal nobility, women were merely an accessory to adorn a man's side, even more splendid and valuable.

Although not fond of this aspect, Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi still dressed in noble-style garments according to the Victorian customs and rode in the fine carriage drawn by four purebred black horses provided by Lord Nelson to Queen Mary's residence, Hampton Court.

"Wife, do you actually carry these jewels with you?" Yu Chen, dressed in a black nobleman's suit and topped with a high hat, held a black cane with silver inlay in his hand as he sat in the carriage.

Hiromi Jounouchi, whom he had asked, was dressed in a silver-gray crinoline-style gown, the exaggerated skirt and off-shoulder bodice touted as one of the most beautiful dresses. Naturally, a woman's smooth neck needed the embellishment of jewelry, and around Hiromi's neck was the necklace Yu Chen had given her on their wedding day.

"Of course! It's a little trick of the giant dragon clan, taught to me by Xiao Lan. It's a method used by dragons of legendary rank to carry their treasures with them," Hiromi Jounouchi explained with a smile to Yu Chen and took out their "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium" and handed it to him: "I know we can't open the Necromantic Space, so I had Xiao Lan use this little trick to pack our spellbook from the real world. Since my soul is connected to Xiao Lan's, our treasure storage spaces are also linked. I can take things out from it on this side."

Yu Chen marveled at the capability of the magic of the giant dragon clan that allowed such a feat and took his spellbook, transforming it into a pocket watch that he hung on his clothes.

Seeing Yu Chen turn a thick spellbook into a pocket watch amazed Hiromi Jounouchi: "Husband, when did you learn to do this? What magic is this?"

"Transmutation, a kind of common magic amongst mages. Of course, turning a spellbook into something else requires very profound magical skills," Yu Chen explained briefly and then redirected the conversation towards today's banquet: "Bloody Mary's banquets are no trivial affair. Although I don't know why she invited me, there's a high likelihood that this banquet is no ordinary event. Later, wife, stay close to me to avoid any danger."

"I understand, but is this Queen Mary really that dangerous? Even you are unsure of dealing with her?" Hiromi Jounouchi nodded as she took note of Yu Chen's words but also asked curiously.

"Bloody Mary is one of the most famous female ghosts in European legend; her powers are infinitely close to a demigod's, especially in her palace, similar to how I am in my Mage Tower—it's her home ground, providing her with significant support," Yu Chen explained the reason for his caution against Queen Mary: "Moreover, have you not noticed, Hiromi? The 'prisoners' locked in this space aren't just ordinary lost souls or ghosts and monsters; it seems they've all absorbed power from faith in their respective legends, becoming a sort of nearly immortal entities."

With Chen Yu mentioning this, Hiromi Jounouchi's eyes widened as she realized, "Right! How did I not notice that? Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty are both fictional characters, not to mention Frankenstein and others... But how did they become real? We didn't encounter such strange things in Japan! Isn't it a bit too bizarre here in the United Kingdom?"

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"This is what I'm interested in. While there have been yokai and elves born from the power of faith, the concentration of these beings in this space is too dense. Especially this Queen Mary, even if she historically had the nickname Bloody Mary, how did she merge with Elizabeth Bathory and Lee Kester? It cannot simply be explained by the theory that all three were rumored to be the origin of Bloody Mary," Yu Chen's fingers tapped on the carriage window, his lips curled up in a meaningful smile: "There must be something supporting and guiding all this from behind. Moreover, the key point is that everything stops at the Victorian Era. You see beings from before and during Victorian times here, but distinctly none from after. Clearly, something must have happened during that period which led to all of this."