21st Century Necromancer
Chapter 987 - 980 Meeting

The United States Joint Chiefs of Staff is an organization composed of the chiefs of the United States Air Force, Navy, Army, and National Guard. Its primary function is to provide top military consultation services to the President and Secretary of Defense of the United States.

This organization was established by Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, initially to formulate joint operational plans with the United Kingdom's Joint Staff Committee, as the United States did not have an institution to coordinate and command the armed forces at that time.

The predecessor of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was the Army and Navy Joint Committee. Interestingly, it was established during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt's uncle, and one could say these two relatives together crafted the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The system was originally established to reconcile conflicts between the branches of the U.S. military and facilitate coordinated operations among them.

After all, conflicts often arose among the first-class Air Force, the second-class Navy, and the third-class Army due to different military branches and competition for military funds.

It is better to discuss a plan acceptable to all parties in the Joint Chiefs of Staff rather than letting conflicts accumulate, eventually leading to fragmentation among the military branches.

So even though this organization has always been criticized for its inefficiency, and some say it's wishful thinking to have the services abandon their own interests and serve the country wholeheartedly, it has nonetheless remained the highest body for military consultation for the U.S. President and Secretary of Defense since its inception.

Many important military decisions of the U.S. military are submitted to the Secretary of Defense and the President only after being discussed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. When it doesn't involve each branch's interests, these chiefs can work well together.

Now, upon receiving Major General Claire's report, the Secretary of Defense urgently convened the Joint Chiefs of Staff to discuss the information obtained by Major General Claire.

"Major General Claire, I would like to ask, how credible is the information you received from Mr. Chen Yu? Do you believe what he said?" At the beginning of the meeting, the Air Force chief, bearing three stars on his shoulder, first asked.

As first-class citizens, the United States Air Force has never really welcomed transcendent beings, instead preferring to believe in the power of technology.

In their view, no matter how strong the transcendent beings are, they can't surpass the Air Force's fighter jets. Demigods might withstand missiles with their bodies, but they still can't handle the most advanced fighter jets of the U.S. military.

One must remember that the atomic bomb that killed Japan's last demigod and forced Japan to surrender was dropped by the Air Force's bombers.

So from the start, the Air Force chief did not believe in this matter, feeling that rather than wasting resources and military funds on these unreliable transcendent beings, it would be better to equip the Air Force with more fighter jets.

In fact, this Air Force chief even thought the U.S. military does not need demigods at all, as long as they have fighter jets, and all the funds for supporting demigods and transcendent beings should be allocated to the Air Force.

If it weren't for the six existing demigods in the U.S. who hold stable positions and are in key positions, this Air Force chief might not only have thought this way but proposed the plan.

"Mr. Chen Yu's wife is indeed a pureblood giant dragon; I witnessed this myself yesterday. However, according to intelligence we obtained from Japan, his wife was just an ordinary person. This discrepancy should be the result of Mr. Chen Yu using a higher-level Dragon Blood Potion on his wife," replied Major General Claire, who belongs to the Navy and has always been at odds with the Air Force. Given the Air Force's opposition to demigods and transcendent beings, she did not offer this Air Force chief much respect, responding coldly.

In fact, Major General Claire's explanation was not intended for this Air Force chief, but for another demigod sitting at the conference table at the moment.

Sure enough, upon hearing Major General Claire mention that Chen Yu's wife is a pureblood giant dragon, the Army lieutenant general sitting next to the Secretary of Defense at the conference table's expression changed immediately. He quickly asked Claire, "Claire, are you sure that Mr. Chen Yu's wife is indeed a pureblood giant dragon?"

"Yes, Mike, you heard right. Mr. Chen Yu's wife is indeed a pureblood giant dragon of demigod level. These are the images taken by the USS Iwo Jima yesterday," Major General Claire responded much more kindly to the Army lieutenant general, a fellow demigod. She even displayed the footage captured by the USS Iwo Jima related to Jounouchi Hiromi.

Seeing the over a hundred-meter long dragon and the Dragon Horn Crown on her head in human form, the Army lieutenant general exclaimed in disbelief, "This is an Ancient Dragon... Dragon King?! How is this possible! How can there still be an Ancient Dragon, especially an Ancient Dragon King, on Earth?!"

Although this lieutenant general is just a Dragon-descent with relatively high bloodline purity, his innate Dragon-descent Bloodline instinctively recognized the significance of the hundreds of meters long dragon body and the Dragon Horn Crown on Jounouchi Hiromi's head in the video.

This left him extremely shocked because, as a Dragon-descent, he clearly knew that long ago, before the gods left the human world, the real Pureblood Giant Dragon Clan had already left this world. Currently, apart from various Dragon Beasts with Dragon Bloodline, only humanoid Dragon-descent like them remained on Earth.

But the appearance of a pureblood giant dragon was wildly shocking to him, as a Dragon-descent.

For Dragon-descent, the purer the bloodline, the more irresistible the higher dragons are. This intense bloodline fervor even made this Army lieutenant general want to immediately run to Jounouchi Hiromi and lick her boots and the ground she walked on.

This fervor comes from the Dragon Bloodline flowing within the Dragon-descent, not warping his thoughts, but deriving from bloodline fervor and reverence.

"So, does this mean Mr. Chen Yu possesses a method to turn ordinary people into true giant dragons?" After the Secretary of Defense tapped the table with his pen to draw everyone's attention, he inquired of Major General Claire. He had read the report on Chen Yu, which indeed stated clearly that his wife was just an ordinary person.

Thus, the reason Jounouchi Hiromi could transform into a giant dragon was simple; it was evident Chen Yu had a method to turn humans into dragons.

As for the Dragon Blood Potion, it is naturally a byproduct of this method.

"I think so. Mr. Chen Yu is extremely knowledgeable; it's not surprising he possesses such a method. You can see this from him being able to provide a complete set of Dragon Blood Potion," Major General Claire was extremely convinced of what Chen Yu produced. "In this matter, my suggestion is that we could obtain this set of Dragon Blood Potion from Mr. Chen Yu, and based on this, combined with data we have, we could cultivate our uniquely American system of transcendence."