21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 288 - 285: The Sealed Maeda Toshiie

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When Chen Yu and Hiromi Jounouchi arrived at Oyama Shrine in the Maeda Family’s car, the entire Shrine was already closed, and all the visitors had departed, leaving the vast Shrine in silence.

Passing through the Shrine’s main gate and entering its interior, it was now evening, and owing to the pond’s recent illumination, no lights had been lit within Oyama Shrine.

Because of the dim light, although the glowing pond and the faint luminescence of the surrounding vegetation had not reached their brightest, they could already be observed with the naked eye.

Standing beside the pond and closely feeling the pond built atop the Seal, as well as the plants emitting a faint glow around it, Chen Yu could clearly sense the abnormality here.

All the plants were affected. The reason they glowed was that they had internally been altered by the power emanating from the Seal below, and what was called rampant growth was merely the plants overtaxing their own life under the influence of this power.

"This power..." Sensing the power emitted by the "demonic creature" through the Seal beneath the pond, Chen Yu immediately furrowed his brow, rushed to the small island in the middle of the pond, and squatted down to press his hands on the ground, earnestly feeling the condition of the Seal.

"Mr. Chen Yu, how does it look?" Seeing Chen Yu’s serious and earnest demeanor, Hiromi Jounouchi also ran to his side, asking nervously.

Chen Yu slightly shook his head without responding, still sensing what was beneath the ground.

All of a sudden, his expression drastically changed, and his eyes widened as if he had received an enormous fright. He involuntarily jumped up, took a step back, and exclaimed with a shocked expression, "This is definitely not some demonic creature! What on earth did you imprison down there?"

"To prevent further disturbance to the other ancestors in the cemetery, the head of the Maeda Family at that time, Lord Maeda Yoshinobu, thus ordered the transfer of our ancestor’s remains to this place and had Oyama Shrine built to suppress and seal him.

I had not expected that in my generation such a problem would occur, truly a disgrace on my part!" Maeda Toshitoku sighed with bitter remorse, as the saying goes, "Family shame must not be spread abroad;" discussing his family’s scandalous affairs was indeed a sore point for him.

He had decided to solve the problem and had already disclosed the matter, so after speaking, Maeda Toshitoku watched Chen Yu intently and begged, "Master Chen Yu, I implore you to..."

"I should make it clear to you beforehand that if you want me to reinforce the seal, I can only keep that thing sealed for another hundred years," Chen Yu interrupted Maeda Toshitoku before he could finish, speaking very sternly, "Below is indeed Maeda Toshiie himself, but he must have been possessed by that entity sealed with him when he was resurrected.

The Maeda Family back then must have been unaware of its presence, and thus sealed it together with Maeda Toshiie below.

I do not know what it really is, but I can tell you for certain that I can maintain the seal for at most another hundred years, after which this monster is sure to break free from the seal. By then, things will not be as simple as now, and it could really result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people."

Upon hearing this, Maeda Toshitoku’s complexion became even grimmer, but he only hesitated for a moment before gritting his teeth and beseeching Chen Yu, "Master Chen Yu, if the seal is broken, are you confident you can eradicate that demonic creature? I can’t leave this problem for my descendants to deal with, so I beg of you!"

"Since you’ve said as much, then get everyone out of Oyama Shrine; the commotion is going to be big when we start," Chen Yu said, now regarding Maeda Toshitoku, the head of the Maeda Family, with a newfound respect.

Maeda Toshitoku nodded without further words, turned around to leave, and started notifying the people from Oyama Shrine to evacuate, and also moved out some precious ancient items from the shrine. It was clear that he had already prepared to give up the shrine.

"Hiromi, summon Xiao Lan," Chen Yu said to Hiromi Jounouchi as he watched Maeda Toshitoku directing the evacuation of the shrine’s people. At the same time, he summoned a deep purple flame that enveloped him.