After leaving the hospital ward and returning to Chen Yu’s office, Hiromi Jounouchi remembered the changes in Chen Yu’s eyes from earlier in the ward, so she asked him, "Mr. Chen Yu, what happened to your eyes just now? Was it a spell, or did you modify your own eyes?"
"It was a combination of both, but mainly it’s because my body has partly undergone a metamorphosis, and parts of my eyes and brain have ascended to a higher Life Level. Therefore, when my eyes were transforming, I followed the modification methods of the magic eye and made some small adjustments to them," Chen Yu explained to Hiromi Jounouchi. The life metamorphosis he mentioned had been subtly in progress since after completing the Promotion Ceremony to become a Certified Necromancer; it’s just that now he had completed the metamorphosis of his brain and eyes.
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Upon hearing Chen Yu mention life metamorphosis, and being a fellow inheritor of necromancy herself, she naturally understood what he meant and asked with surprise, "Life metamorphosis? Mr. Chen Yu, are you about to ascend to Legendary-rank?"
"It’s still early for that! Life metamorphosis is a gradual process, and currently, only my neural system and eyes have undergone part of the metamorphosis. I am still far from a complete transformation." Chen Yu shook his head. Ascending to Legendary-rank was not so easy; not only did it require a complete transformation of one’s entire body, but it also required one’s power to undergo a qualitative change—a change that certainly couldn’t be completed overnight.
Chen Yu could complete the initial metamorphosis of the neural system and eyes in less than a year after the Promotion Ceremony to become a Certified Necromancer because he concentrated most of his power on his brain, which accelerated the life metamorphosis of his brain and allowed the initial transformation of his neural system to be completed in such a short time.
"Speaking of this, Hiromi, you are much closer to the threshold of Legendary-rank than I am. The Essence of Life from a Legendary Dragon is enough to make you grow to a Sub-Legendary level in a short time. Moreover, with Xiao Lan’s help, breaking through to Legendary-rank is simply no trouble for you at all," Chen Yu said, not without a touch of envy for Hiromi Jounouchi.
However, when Hiromi Jounouchi heard him say this, she gave him a helpless smile, shook her head, and responded, "You have a giant dragon’s corpse too, so why don’t you perform a Dragon Blood ritual on yourself? Besides, what do I have to be envious of? Giant dragons are powerful, but how many of them can break through to Legendary-rank and grow to the level of deities? The stronger a life is, the harder it is to cross that threshold."
Hearing Hiromi Jounouchi say this, Chen Yu helplessly raised his eyebrows. Although he didn’t believe that he couldn’t cross that threshold and become a deity, this kind of thing was uncertain until the very moment one becomes a deity—nobody could confidently claim success in advance. Entering Legendary-rank was merely possessing the qualification to launch an assault on that level.
He fell silent for a moment, shook his head, and changed the subject, "Let’s not talk about this anymore. Let’s discuss Keiko’s father’s condition instead! The situation turned out to be much better than I expected, but it was indeed fortunate that his soul was damaged."
"Yes, the situation is indeed much better than we expected. However, the severity of his soul damage was beyond my imagination," Hiromi Jounouchi said as she rested her chin on her hand, falling into thought, "What could have caused such severe soul damage to a person? A car accident absolutely couldn’t have inflicted this level of soul damage."
"Let’s put that question aside for later. He must have been affected by some extraordinary event," Chen Yu naturally also noticed this issue but didn’t want to delve into it, "Right now, we should focus on how to heal his soul damage. Such a degree of damage cannot heal on its own; to cure him, we must first mend his soul."
During the previous examination of Keiko’s father in the hospital ward, both Chen Yu and Hiromi Jounouchi had noticed that Keiko’s father’s soul had suffered heavy damage and had even been torn apart at one point. Now, although most of his soul was still intact, what remained was not enough to support his will.
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This was also why, even though he had recovered in every other aspect, he still remained in a coma for a year.
It wasn’t his body that was the problem, but his soul that, having been severely traumatized, had fallen into a self-protective slumber. Without mending his soul first, it was impossible to awaken him.
"But if we were to mend the soul..." Hiromi Jounouchi furrowed his brows when he heard Mr. Chen Yu mention the issue of mending souls, "Such work cannot be done in a hospital, right? Moreover, given his current condition, even if we use a soul mending potion, it is hard to achieve satisfactory results.
To awaken him, we must employ a soul mending ritual, using a blank soul to fill in the gaps in his own, and replenish his soul completely. Only then can he be awakened. But such a ritual cannot be performed in a hospital!"
Mending a soul might be a very difficult task for an ordinary transcendent, yet for Necromancers, it’s one of their quintessential skills—a basic operation.
Both Mr. Chen Yu’s "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium" and Hiromi Jounouchi’s "Crimson Hymn" recorded various methods that could mend souls.
However, the soul mending potion was difficult to concoct, and its ingredients were very precious. Even if Mr. Chen Yu and Hiromi Jounouchi were willing to use the soul mending potion to repair Keiko’s father’s soul, the potion’s effects were limited and unlikely to fix the massive damage to his soul.
The only way to mend Keiko’s father’s soul was the soul mending ritual Mr. Chen Yu had already prepared in advance.
Using a blank soul as raw material, he would integrate it into Keiko’s father’s soul, repairing the missing parts and restoring his soul to wholeness.
Although due to the severe trauma earlier, it was very possible that Keiko’s father would lose most of his memories, after the complete soul mending, he could recover and be like a normal person again.
In such a case, the loss of most memories was not an unacceptable outcome.
But to do this, a complex ritual had to be conducted, and the hospital clearly didn’t have a space for such rituals.
"Let’s adjust his physical body first, and make sure there are no lingering side effects," Mr. Chen Yu thought for a moment, then decided to first treat Keiko’s father’s physical condition: "As for the soul mending ritual, transfer him to the Regenerative Medicine Research Laboratory under my name, as part of the Regenerative Medicine treatment project. We can perform the ritual there—after all, that will be our own place."