21st Century Necromancer

Under the insistence of Okumura Eren, Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi did not immediately leave the Omi-cho Market. Instead, they patiently waited until Maeda Toshitoku, head of a branch of the Kanazawa Maeda family, along with a high-ranking official from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, finished inspecting the situation at the market.

Then, guided by Okumura Eren, they boarded a car provided by the Maeda family and left the Omi-cho Market together.

"Sorry, Doctor Chen Yu, Doctor Jounouchi, the official from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is here to investigate the issue with agricultural products in the Kanazawa region.

Therefore, I had to accompany him for the investigation first, my apologies for neglecting you two," Maeda Toshitoku appeared in front of Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi right after sending off the high-ranking official, expressing his apologies to them.

Looking at Maeda Toshitoku who was bowing to him, Yu Chen did not engage in excessive politeness but directly questioned him, "Head of the Maeda Family, I don't think you had us come all this way simply to apologize, did you? Please state your purpose clearly. If it is within my power, I won't refuse."

Indeed, Yu Chen already had a guess regarding Maeda Toshitoku's purpose for seeking him out, therefore he didn't give off a refusal attitude.

"This..." Maeda Toshitoku glanced at Hiromi Jounouchi beside Yu Chen, seemingly hesitant to speak about the matter in front of her. In Maeda Toshitoku's mind, Hiromi Jounouchi was still a normal person, not suited to know about supernatural events.

Hiromi Jounouchi naturally noticed Maeda Toshitoku's hesitation and with a slight smile, turned her own eyes into blue, vertical pupils, and released a hint of the aura that she could now control slightly. She enveloped Maeda Toshitoku with it, successfully changing the color of the head of the Maeda family's face and involuntarily making him tremble.

Humans were still too fragile when facing the might of a giant dragon.

Perhaps Maeda Toshiie, Maeda Toshitoku's ancestor who had lived through life-and-death battles during the Warring States period, might have been able to face the Dragon Might of a giant dragon, but Maeda Toshitoku, born in an era of peace, simply could not withstand this pressure which was on a whole different level of Life.

"Can we talk now?" Hiromi Jounouchi's aura retracted as quickly as it had been released, and she didn't embarrass Maeda Toshitoku. However, the look in both his and Okumura Eren's eyes had changed when they looked at Hiromi Jounouchi.

"Yes, it's like this..." Although Maeda Toshitoku did not know exactly what Hiromi Jounouchi was, the non-human aura still made him uneasy, so he didn't dare to delay any longer and revealed the whole story.

The origin of the issue was just as Yu Chen had deduced, and indeed, the root of the problem lay with the Oyama Shrine.

Oyama Shrine was built during the Meiji period with the purpose of sealing away a demonic creature that had greatly affected the Maeda Family during the Bakumatsu period.

It was precisely because of this demonic creature that the Kaga Domain, despite having a Koku of a million, remained passive during the great Bakumatsu era when all of the Maeda Family's energy and manpower were exhausted suppressing this demonic creature.

Till this day, over a hundred years later, the once-solid Seal had developed cracks, and the aura of the sealed demonic creature had begun to leak out. This leakage caused the local crops in Kanazawa to be affected and grow wildly, becoming bitter in taste, and it also led to local residents hearing murmurs in their sleep, making it difficult for them to rest peacefully.

After listening to Maeda Toshitoku's explanation, Yu Chen frowned slightly and asked the question he was most concerned about, "Who is this demonic creature? If it was able to have such a vast impact on the number one powerful domain possessing lands of a million Koku during the Bakumatsu period and just a leakage of its aura can affect the whole Kanazawa region, then it cannot be an unknown being.

Who is it? Or who was it when it was alive?"

"This... please forgive me for my inability to disclose that," Maeda Toshitoku stalled, clearly reluctant to reveal the identity of the demonic creature.

Hearing Maeda Toshitoku's response, Yu Chen slightly furrowed his brows, "If you're entrusting me to deal with that demonic creature, you should at least tell me relevant information about it, right? Without knowing anything, how do you expect me to deal with it?"

Although for Yu Chen, if he could confirm that the creature sealed beneath Oyama Shrine was an Undead being, he could easily handle it even without its name. Clearly, having more information would make the task much easier for him.

"Since it involves the secrets of the Maeda Family, I must ask you, Doctor Chen, not to inquire further.

The Maeda Family is willing to offer double the reward if only you, Master, would help suppress the demonic creature before it breaks the Seal," seeing Maeda Toshitoku in a difficult position, Okumura Eren immediately knelt before Yu Chen in a dogeza posture, begging him, "Please, Master, consider the lives of the hundreds of thousands of residents of Kanazawa City, and lend your assistance!"

"This..." Okumura Eren's 'cornering-the-duck' attitude upset Yu Chen somewhat. Although he had no intention of standing idly by, Okumura Eren's tactic of using the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Kanazawa as leverage, and suggesting that tens of thousands would die because of him if he did not act, left Yu Chen very displeased.

Hiromi Jounouchi could sense Yu Chen's mood at the moment. Not wanting him to fall out with the Maeda family members, she quickly advised at his side, "Mr. Chen Yu, earlier didn't you say you wanted to visit the Oyama Shrine in person? Why don't we go and take a look first? Maybe it just needs a simple repair of the Seal? If you don't want to do it, Mr.

Chen Yu, I will. You can teach me how, alright?"

Maeda Toshitoku naturally also noticed that his words had made Yu Chen very uncomfortable. Seeing that Hiromi Jounouchi wanted to visit the Oyama Shrine, he quickly suggested on the side, "Why don't you first go take a look, Master? I will call the Shrine and ask them to temporarily close it to the public. This way, you can observe the condition of the Seal up close."

"Alright, let's go take a look first, but I won't guarantee anything," Yu Chen looked at Okumura Eren who was still kneeling and dared not raise his head, and finally spoke after Hiromi Jounouchi tugged at him, "Please refrain from using other people's lives as a threat so casually. 'Hundreds of thousands' is nothing; if necessary, I don't mind taking action myself." Read new adventures at My Virtual Library Empire

After saying that, Yu Chen left for the Oyama Shrine accompanied by an awkwardly faced Maeda Toshitoku and Hiromi Jounouchi. Okumura Eren, still kneeling on the ground, was frightened into a cold sweat by Yu Chen's words, because he clearly heard the seriousness in Yu Chen's voice that he was indeed prepared to act personally.