21st Century Necromancer

For Misumi Mikoto, being a forensic scientist was a job she loved.

To ordinary people, this job which required dealing with corpses every day unquestionably seemed arduous, dirty, smelly, dangerous, low-paying, and nauseating. Given any other option, no one would choose to be a forensic scientist, a career that nearly always accompanied by corpses for life.

But Misumi Mikoto chose this career due to experiences during her childhood, and all the dangers and difficulties she faced since joining never made her back down; she never once regretted her choice.

Finding the truth behind the deaths of the wrongfully deceased and giving justice to the wronged, such work seemed extremely meaningful to her! Even if it was hard to find a partner because of the job, the pay wasn't high, and she even couldn't wear makeup due to the frequent need to conduct autopsies, causing her to lose a boyfriend.

Yet even so, Misumi Mikoto still liked this disagreeable job.

And such persistence brought her an opportunity, a chance to touch the reality of this world.

Necromancer, this was a term Misumi Mikoto had only read about in fantasy works before. As the profession closest to a necromancer—forensic scientist, Misumi Mikoto had fantasized about becoming a necromancer herself, but she had never imagined that she would actually become one.

The necromancy Spell she had learned from Chen Yu had allowed Misumi Mikoto to touch a world utterly foreign and magical to her.

Wonderful Magic Spells, mysteries never before sensed, the reality of this world, powerful Transcendents… All of this fascinated Misumi Mikoto deeply, and she thirsted to understand more, to delve deeper into this mysterious world.

At first, she thought the Meditation Technique Chen Yu had taught her was something very impressive, but only after she truly started practicing the Necromancer's Meditation Technique did she realize the strength of necromancers and her own past naivety.

And just how wondrous and powerful necromancy Spells were.

"Pour me a glass of water," Misumi Mikoto instructed the Invisible Servant she had summoned before her.

This was one of the simpler Summoning Spells taught to her by Chen Yu, not very powerful, and the summoned Invisible Servant had no combat abilities. Plus, with only simple intelligence, it could only perform simple tasks.

But for Misumi Mikoto, this was still something very novel and interesting.

Watching the Invisible Servant obey her command to retrieve a cup from the kitchen, pour her a glass of water, and bring it to her, Misumi Mikoto excitedly took the cup from the Invisible Servant's hands, experiencing the convenience of Magic.

Strictly speaking, Invisible Servant was not categorized as an Undead Servant; after all, with such a degree of Summoning Spells, it was hard to define whether it belonged more to the Necromancy Series or the Curse System.

In fact, both factions had similar Summoning Spells; it's just that the Necromancy Series used Negative Energy to construct an Invisible Servant, whereas the Curse System used Arcane Energy.

And Misumi Mikoto's success in summoning an invisible servant also meant that she could now manipulate negative energy, truly qualifying her as an apprentice of a Necromancer.

The reason for attempting to summon an undead servant, a spell that neither had any magical effect nor any significant power, was firstly because among the spells Chen Yu had taught Misumi Mikoto, there were none that seemed cool in effect or strong in power. Secondly, as Misumi Mikoto had just begun her training, she hardly had enough strength to cast a powerful spell.

That little bit of magic power she had accumulated through diligent meditation was only enough to cast three low-rank spells like the summoning of an invisible servant.

However, Misumi Mikoto did not feel any dissatisfaction; on the contrary, even such a simple spell delighted her immensely.

Just as Kube Rokuro could play with Mage Hand all night long, for Misumi Mikoto, being able to cast by her own strength spells that had once seemed magical to her was an amazing thing, as if she had received that letter brought by the owl in Harry Potter.

That irresistible urge was enough to turn Misumi Mikoto, a mature and steady forensic scientist, back into an excited and curious young girl.

It is humanity's most primal curiosity towards the unknown, just like when we were children who, despite unstable steps and stumbling, still eagerly took our first steps to get to know the world.

In the world of magic, Misumi Mikoto was that toddler taking faltering steps, still walking unsteadily, but filled with curiosity and a desire to learn, eager to touch more of this world. Read exclusive content at My Virtual Library Empire

Perhaps we have forgotten the curiosity we felt towards everything as children, but in exploring mysterious fields, if one loses the desire for knowledge of the unknown, then one has reached the end of that path.

For a Mage, the thirst for knowledge, the exploration of the unknown, is the drive to move forward on the path of magic, the decisive factor determining the Mage's level of achievement.

The power of a Mage is never measured by how many powerful spells he knows or so-called forbidden curses but by how much knowledge he understands.

Armed with enough knowledge, a truly powerful Mage can develop new magic, research more powerful forbidden curses, much stronger than those who bury themselves in old papers, only knowing to stubbornly adhere to conventions and study the techniques of their predecessors, right?

Of course, Misumi Mikoto was not yet at the level where she could research new magic on her own; she had to lay the groundwork first. Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to learn anything if she was like Kube Rokuro, who couldn't even recognize magical runes.

Thinking of this, Misumi Mikoto hurriedly took out a black crystal and stored the summoned invisible servant inside, then took out the magical runes textbook Chen Yu had given her and started to study diligently.

Even though the magical runes textbook Chen Yu provided to Misumi Mikoto had been translated and simplified to just the basics, it still had the thickness of a large dictionary, and each rune's meaning was abstruse and difficult to understand. Even with Chen Yu's translations and explanations, Misumi Mikoto found it very tough; she felt it was more challenging than learning any other foreign language.

But even so, Misumi Mikoto studied with great earnestness. Even without supervision and encouragement, she studied very seriously because these magical runes are the foundation of a spell, the basis for entering the mystical world. Without understanding them, how could she learn those novel and interesting spells?