21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 132 Looking for Methods (Please Recommend, Please Collect)

After dinner, Jounouchi Hiromi was washing the dishes, while Chen Yu sat down at the desk in his room, flipping through the "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium," hoping to find a method to heal paralysis.

It might sound incredible, but there was nothing strange about it.

For a Necromancer, controlling the movement of a corpse and making it move as fluidly as if it were alive was a common challenge when creating Undead Servants.

In the early days, Necromancers did not have a very effective way to solve this problem and were not particularly concerned about it, preferring instead more crude methods, such as stuffing souls into corpses and directly controlling their movements with Magic Power.

Such methods were not useless, the resulting Undead Servants could move normally, but they appeared stiff and rough, incapable of performing delicate tasks, and were only suitable for use as cannon fodder or for manual labor. Zombies and ghouls were representative of this type.

Although this brute-force approach was inefficient in terms of corpse utilization and lacked precision control, it had the advantages of simplicity and mass production.

It was extremely useful when Necromancers needed to quickly create a large number of Undead Servants or convert an Immortal Legion, as there was no need to consider delicate control—overwhelming the enemy with the "Sea of Corpses" tactic was all that was required.

However, as research into necromancy progressed, such crude methods gradually became inadequate for the needs of Necromancers.

After all, these Undead Servants... could hardly be considered crafted and were merely awakened bodies, either skeletons that were rotten down to the bone or zombies still decaying, incapable of performing any delicate tasks. They were even clumsy at simple tasks like cleaning, far from satisfactory for the needs of Necromancers.

Therefore, Necromancers embarked on more in-depth research, and the separation between the Schools of Corpse Studies and Bone Studies began around this time.

The School of Corpse Studies focused more on research into the corpse itself, utilizing the corpse's existing nervous system for control, while the Bone School focused more on control through Magic Power, believing that flesh is but a useless appendage and strengthening the skeleton to better accept Magic Power control.

Neither school was right or wrong; they simply had different research directions in necromancy. Most Necromancers would delve into both, as knowledge from both schools was very useful for creating Undead Servants.

What Chen Yu was currently looking for was research on the nervous system from the School of Corpse Studies, planning to use this knowledge to repair the damaged nervous system of a patient whose spine and nerves were injured due to a cervical spine fracture.

If Undead Servants were used in battle, injuries were inevitable. How to repair a damaged corpse was an important research topic of the School of Corpse Studies.

After all, corpses were not like skeletons that could simply be replaced with a new one upon destruction; they required reattachment of torn muscles, suturing skin, and most importantly, restoring damaged nerves to ensure the limbs remained controllable.

Although the "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium" was normally quite noisy, the content recorded within it had never let Chen Yu down.

With just a brief search, he found extensive research on the human nervous system by the School of Corpse Studies, including detailed descriptions of the human nervous system, numerous methods and records of nerve regeneration and reconstruction, as well as detailed theoretical explanations.

Chen Yu found the section he needed on cervical nerves and hurriedly copied down the details.

This knowledge about nerve regeneration and reconstruction, as well as its methods, is also quite precious and advanced in modern medical research. After all, modern medicine does not have very good methods for the repair of nerve damage, whereas the research of Necromancers in this area is simply peerless.

If they can reattach limbs that have already died, what's more, those that are still living?

The nerve damage suffered by the young girl was not too severe, and after the combined treatment from Chen Yu and Daimon Michiko, the risk of complete paralysis could be entirely ruled out, but since the spine was damaged, a certain degree of paralysis was unavoidable.

But with the information he had found, Chen Yu was confident that he could completely heal her.

As Chen Yu was taking notes from the book and tracing its illustrations, Jounouchi Hiromi had finished washing the dishes and entered the room.

Hearing the footsteps of Jounouchi Hiromi, Chen Yu calmly closed the black book that was spread open on the desk and locked it with a Magic Lock before setting it aside. He then picked up some prepared materials on the nervous system and put them next to him, pretending to be looking up information.

Although this was somewhat troublesome, to prevent Jounouchi Hiromi from seeing the contents of the "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium" and potentially going mad from its contents, Chen Yu had to go through a bit of trouble.

Perhaps he should take this book to the office and then lock it in the safe there? After all, the hospital had provided him with a safe for storing important research materials and the like. He was the only one with a key, and his assistant, Shirai Reina, was not a busybody. Being just a little careful at his own home was certainly more convenient than sneaking around.

Just as Chen Yu made up his mind, Jounouchi Hiromi had already come up behind him, wrapping her arms around his shoulders and sitting in his lap.

"Hiromi, have you finished washing the dishes?" Chen Yu looked at his girlfriend, suddenly feeling a pang of distress for her hands, worn from washing: "Why don't we get a dishwasher? You have so much work at the hospital every day, and you still need to cook and wash dishes when you come home, not letting me help you with the dishes. A dishwasher would save you some trouble."

"The esteemed associate professor from Eastern University Affiliated Hospital washing dishes at home, aren't you afraid of being laughed at?" Jounouchi Hiromi gave Chen Yu a coquettish glance, but she didn't reject his suggestion of buying a dishwasher. Instead, she turned to see what was spread out on his desk: "Is this... cervical nerves? Mr. Chen Yu, are you researching that case?"

Chen Yu nodded, picking up his notes from the desk: "She's a young girl not even twenty years old. It would be too cruel to let her live the rest of her life with paralysis as a sequela. I want to heal her, or at least not leave behind any serious sequelae that could affect her future life."