If Lancer intended to join the 'Onmyōryō', the procedures would probably be quite troublesome, but if he simply wanted to become an employee, it would be very simple. After all, a nice way to put it is 'employee', but a not-so-nice way is 'cannon fodder'. However, Lancer didn't care at all. Anyway, he didn't intend to act with these Onmyoji. He just intended to use the Onmyōryō's intelligence to complete his mission.
And because Lancer had the achievement of 'slaying the Tsuchigumo alone', the Onmyōryō didn't mind handing over some ordinary tasks to Lancer to handle after 'hiring' him. After all, the reward Lancer needed was very simple —————— knowledge.
Lancer himself didn't care about money and didn't want to be an official. The only thing that could attract him was the knowledge about 'Onmyōjutsu' (Yin-Yang techniques) within the Onmyōryō.
In fact, the head of the Onmyōryō was initially reluctant to let Lancer see these documents, but when he found that Lancer had basically no talent for Onmyōjutsu, he didn't bother with it anymore. After all, if he couldn't even communicate with a Shikigami, it was basically impossible for the other party to become an Onmyoji.
But Lancer didn't care at all. After all, he didn't plan to cultivate a Shikigami to fight like most Onmyoji. Besides having no talent, the main reason was that he was too lazy to spend so much time cultivating a 'pet' whose combat power would take who knows how long to develop.
That's right, a pet. According to Lancer understanding, the strength of these simple Shikigami is actually not much stronger than ordinary Youkai. The truly special thing is that they can be strengthened by their master using special techniques, and Lancer talent in this area... sigh.
When Lancer completed his sixth task and killed the 17th type of Youkai, he still couldn't manipulate a Shikigami and could only communicate with it using special techniques at most.
Undoubtedly, for an ordinary Onmyoji, this basically means they should give up this path directly, but Lancer himself did not take this path, so he didn't care. This special method was instead used by Lancer in other areas to develop an ability that was only suitable for him, or rather, it imitated the ability he possessed under the 'Heroic Spirit Template'.
"Enslave Undead"
Simply put, due to the special existence of 'blood energy', any human, Ghoul, Youkai... that Lancer killed, as long as they had a soul, if the soul fragments chose to cling to Lancer after death, and their strength was weak enough compared to Lancer, they could all be forcibly enslaved by him.
Those dead spirits who originally resented him could directly become his 'weapons'.
Perhaps it wouldn't have much effect on the front line, but it could provide him with some useful 'cannon fodder'.
But what he didn't expect was that just when he finished researching his new ability and was preparing to find an opportunity to try it out, the people from the Onmyōryō came knocking on his door.
"You want me to be a bodyguard? Heh, do I look very idle to you?"
Lancer, who had stopped his spear stance training, exhaled and showed a displeased expression as he looked at the handsome middle-aged funashiyaku (middle manager) waving a bat fan in one hand.
And the funashiyaku, seeing Lancer reaction, also had a headache and tapped his own brow with the bat fan in his hand. The reason he came to notify Lancer this time was because he was Lancer recommender, but having met Lancer many times, he knew that this seemingly normal task would not be easy to complete.
In his opinion, his colleagues just found an excuse to dump a troublesome matter on him.
Although Lancer would not cause trouble casually, he was the type who would only listen to orders but not obey the general call. He didn't care about anything except Youkai extermination, and most of the time he was practicing spear arts in the small rented courtyard. This desireless way of living was truly headache-inducing.
During this period, there were people who intended to stop the 'employment relationship' with Lancer, but after thinking about it carefully, the cooperation between the two sides was a win-win situation. Even if they unilaterally breached the contract, the other party would not suffer any losses. On the contrary, their work volume would increase significantly due to the lack of a powerful executor according to the rules.
Finally, the two parties maintained this strange supply-demand relationship. This is probably the so-called 'strong because of no desires', right?
But this task was indeed quite helpless.
"Of course not, but we are indeed short of staff this time."
Short of staff?
Lancer scoffed at this. Although there were only about a hundred Onmyoji in the Onmyōryō, plus the subordinate samurai, the total number of the entire Onmyōryō was over a thousand. Plus the Onmyoji on duty in various places and the monks in the temples, there was a significant amount of extraordinary power available in the entire Japan.
Seeing that Lancer seemed intent on continuing his spear stance training, he quickly blocked the other party's path.
"You should have heard of the 'Celestial Maiden' who was born in the bamboo forest before, right?"
"Of course, I always suspected she was a bamboo spirit before, but later didn't you show me your investigation report? So I stopped paying attention. What's wrong? Did you confirm that she is really a bamboo spirit and plan to subjugate her? If so, why didn't you say so earlier? Count me in!"
Seeing Lancer getting excited, the corner of the funashiyaku's mouth twitched again.
Bamboo spirit? How much hatred do you have for Youkai?
Although Lancer never talked about his past, looking at Lancer scarred body and his ascetic life of only hunting Youkai and practicing spear arts, he couldn't help but sigh.
'What has this young man been through.'
But complaining is complaining, he didn't forget the serious business.
"Of course not. That 'Celestial Maiden', oh, by the way, a scholar named Imi no Akita just gave that 'Celestial Maiden' a name, 'Kaguya-hime'..."
The funashiyaku had just spoken halfway when he noticed that Lancer, who was originally breathing heavily, suddenly held his breath.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, continue."
Although Lancer tried his best to stay calm, his expression was still a little strange.
Lancer indeed had little research on Japan mythology and Youkai, and whatever he knew was learned through games and animation, but he had heard of the name 'Kaguya-hime'. He didn't think much of it when he only heard of 'the girl born from bamboo' before, but the three words 'Kaguya-hime' were solid evidence. The other party should be the protagonist of Japan traditional myth, 'The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'.
'It seems that the other party is not a 'reincarnation of a God or Buddha' at all, but the other party is 'God' itself...'
Lancer became interested for a moment. He could stay in this world for a year, and it had been less than a month. The number of 100 Youkai has already exceeded 1/10, so the task progress should not be a problem. So, wouldn't it be interesting to witness the legendary 'God'?
Moreover, in the myth, this 'Kaguya-hime' did not harm ordinary people. The opportunity to personally see a 'God' without taking risks is rare.