21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 716 - 712 Dian’s Refusal (Please Subscribe, Please Vote for Monthly Tickets)
716: Chapter 712: Dian’s Refusal (Please Subscribe, Please Vote for Monthly Tickets)
716: Chapter 712: Dian’s Refusal (Please Subscribe, Please Vote for Monthly Tickets)
“Commander!
The 6th Destroyer Squadron has returned from completing its mission!” The 6th Destroyer Squadron lined up in front of Chen Yu with Akatsuki taking the lead.
After giving him a salute, Akatsuki reported back to him.
Chen Yu nodded, and although he wasn’t quite accustomed to it, he saluted back and said with a smile, “You’ve all worked hard, especially Dian-chan, you deserve the most credit today.”
As he spoke, Chen Yu took out a piece of chocolate he had bought especially for the occasion and handed it to Dian.
“Commander, is this for me?
Thank you…” said Dian, accepting the chocolate from Chen Yu.
Even though she had been upset for lying earlier that day, a smile immediately spread across her face upon receiving the sweet treat.
Still, amidst her happiness, Dian hesitantly looked up at Chen Yu and said, “Um…
Commander, next time, can you please not make Dian do such things…
Dian doesn’t like to lie!”
After speaking, Dian felt perhaps she had been too forward, so after hesitating for a moment, she regretfully held the chocolate back out to Chen Yu and said with her head lowered, “If the Commander thinks that what Dian did was wrong, Dian will give the chocolate back!
Dian wants to be a good child!”
Watching Dian standing before him with her head bowed, Chen Yu couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows.
He squatted down in front of her to be at eye level and looked straight into her eyes.
Dian felt somewhat shy under Chen Yu’s gaze and lowered her head, but still couldn’t resist giving him a glance, her eyes filled with a reluctance mingled with her desire to remain a good child.
The other children of the 6th Destroyer Squadron quickly gathered around, wanting to explain for Dian, but seeing the way Chen Yu was looking at her, they all fell silent, not daring to speak.
The other eight ship-girls also watched Chen Yu in silence, waiting for his decision.
To the ship-girls, Chen Yu was more than just their commander whom they called to give orders; in their hearts, he was their creator, akin to their father, the most respected and closest person to them.
The 6th Destroyer Squadron was summoned by Chen Yu as a test to refine the technique of summoning ship-girls.
While they did not possess the mighty powers of the other ship-girls, the personalities and emotions of the four young girls originated from the condensation of the Power of Faith rather than being artificially crafted by Chen Yu.
That was because, as the prototype of summoning ship-girls, the construction of the Heroic Spirits relied upon the condensation of the Power of Faith—a miracle where the souls of the dead come into being from the convergence of positive energy and the best aspects of the world.
But more importantly, Chen Yu did not wish to alter their characters and souls.
As a Necromancer, his control over his Summoned Creatures was absolute.
Memory, emotions, character, even thoughts—all factors that allow a soul to be an independent entity—are, in fact, controllable by a Necromancer.
If one cannot fully control their Summoned Creatures, how can they ask them to do various tasks and even sacrifice their lives for them?
It is not the case that all Necromantic Summons are mindless, thought-incapable beings that might not even possess souls—they are lowly existences.
Higher-level Necromancers possess emotional and cognitive abilities similar to or even richer than humans.
After all, for a Necromancer, high-class undead are usually very important assistants or the middle and upper echelon leaders and commanders of the Undead Legion.
Hence, they not only need to possess their own independent souls but also require superior cognitive and judgment abilities that surpass ordinary people.
This would enable them to better serve the Necromancer and command the Undead Legion to unleash their combat potential effectively.
However, a high-class undead is, after all, a summoned creature of the Necromancer and is absolutely not allowed to betray or disobey the Necromancer’s orders.
For every Necromancer, when summoning their creatures, the first and foremost thing to ensure is loyalty and absolute obedience.
Otherwise, what if the creature supposed to protect them stabs them in the back at a critical moment due to some utterly idiotic “democratic” idea?
Who could they turn to for reasoning then?
Yet, for these Ship-girls, Chen Yu had only implanted the concept of loyalty within their souls and hadn’t completely controlled their thoughts.
In a sense, as a former player of the Ship-girls game, those beautiful Ship-girls with diverse personalities are Chen Yu’s memories.
He hoped to summon real Ship-girls, not just necromantic creations.
He wished for them to have true souls, not to be his marionettes.
For a Necromancer, such a thought is considered heretical, but Chen Yu’s method was astoundingly effective.
Not to mention the 6th Destroyer Squadron used for experiments and Shinano, whom herself lacked sufficient Power of Faith.
Each of the seven Ship-girls formally summoned by Chen Yu had their own unique personalities and Demigod Level strength.
More critically, they possessed real souls.
This was a true method of mass-producing Demigod Level combat abilities.
Although the Ship-girls’ summoning ritual was complex and the materials hard to find, it was indeed much simpler compared to using Divine Flesh to craft a demigod’s body.
The souls of the Ship-girls were miraculous crystals born from the convergence and condensation of spiritual nature and the Power of Faith.
Souls can only be born from the Endless Styx, and no person or deity in the world can create true souls.
The limit of what they can do is merely to transform one soul into another.
Even a Necromancer merely extracts blank souls from the Nether River.
Otherwise, Necromancers wouldn’t need such powerful souls to create high-class undead.
Nevertheless, a soul that genuinely has the ability to think brought Chen Yu unnecessary trouble.
For example, the actions of Dian at this moment, in the eyes of a traditional Necromancer, would be no different from disobedience and identical to betrayal.
Even from the perspective of the Ship-girls’ thinking as military personnel, it’s not suitable to disobey orders.
Although Dian’s refusal of orders appeared childish, it undoubtedly also made a statement to the other Ship-girls – that Ship-girls are beings with their own thoughts.
But this also caused them concern.
They were all acutely aware that they were Chen Yu’s creations.
If Dian’s behavior caused his dissatisfaction, making him feel that summoning them was a mistake and he needed to re-summon all the Ship-girls, what would they do then?
However, as they watched nervously, Chen Yu raised his hand and placed it on Dian-chan’s tea-colored head, gently rubbing it as he smiled and said, “Sorry for making Dian-chan do something you didn’t want to.
It won’t happen again, I promise.”
