How a Catastrophic Necromancer Retired

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What I learned through data research for a few days is that this is the Earth I know.

From the name of the president to the name of the region, there is a world map and so on.

But the difference is that there are gates, monsters, and awakenings.

It seems that something is twisted in the process of causality blah blah, but that’s not what’s important right now.

“Silver.”

The important thing is that my plans to spend money and live a luxurious retirement were completely ruined.

“The balance … 120,000 won.”

If you sell the gold pieces and jewels attached to the robes you’ve been wearing, it won’t be a problem for a while, but how long will it last?

“I need money.”

You have to either get a stable source of income, or pull large sums of money all at once.

I said with an empty expression.

“Do I have to worry about making a living when I come back here? at this age?”

Just imagining it makes me cringe and go crazy.

“A quick and easy way to make money.”

I pondered for a moment and murmured.

“gate. Awoken.”

Gates are divided into normal gates and unstable gates depending on when the monster vomits.

After spawning, leave the monster for a week to a month and spit out the monster to become a normal gate. And like I saw last time, if you vomit monsters as soon as they appear, it’s an unstable gate.

In any case, unstable gates have a low probability of creation and are usually handled by the emergency response team who are on standby all the time.

An awakener who makes huge money by hunting as many monsters as possible before reaching the threshold where the gate disappears and selling the byproducts obtained from the monster corpses.

“I have a high income, and I can use my magic skills.”

Clearly, there is no better option than this in the current situation.

However.

I said with a shriveled face.

“do not want to do it······.”

Since then, Vondo is a necromancer who has reigned as a symbol of fear by leading hundreds of thousands of undead legions in Seron.

Naturally, there are limbs all around me, so I, who used to solve everything with a single lift of my finger, suddenly asked me to make a living by hunting monsters myself and selling their corpses?

“Does that make sense at this time!”

I didn’t want to see battlefields and corpses, so I came to Earth to retire with money, but I have to earn more money than Seron.

I can’t stand my self-esteem and annoyance at all.

“Should I make an undead and carry me around to hunt myself?”

Of course, that’s not easy either.

People think that only the undead are dispatched by the necromancer and they are playing behind the scenes, but it sounds like a no-brainer.

In the first place, the undead is nothing more than a puppet with no intelligence that was created to be able to move with magical power using the residual morale left on the corpse.

Of course, it is the Necromancer who instructs this mindless doll to move and fight.

Therefore, as the number of controls increases, it becomes a huge burden on the necromancer, and there is a limit to the number of undead that can be controlled according to each necromancer’s individual ability.

So they couldn’t always be the main characters of the Seron Continent.

At that time, I was the one who broke through that limitation with my own ingenious method and led hundreds of thousands of undead corps, but it was by no means easy for me to recreate the undead corps from the ground up, no matter how such a country.

Of course, even if that were the case, it’s much less troublesome to have them undead than to go around and hunt on my own.

“okay. You can’t come to retire and do what you didn’t do at Seron! Go to the Undead!”

Although it will take a lot of work to rebuild it, it will make it very easy for me to fund my retirement by doing it anyway.

But after making that decision, one thing comes to mind.

“Will people accept the undead?”

In Seron, Necromancers were the object of loathing.

That’s why even me, a hero, was neglected and ignored by people.

“Ugh.”

I pondered for a moment, then got up and said.

“If you think about it, it’s a waste of time. Let’s just hit it.”

I had all kinds of abilities, but what would happen if I added one more undead?

Of course it may not be, but you can think about it then.

“Let’s make a retirement fund!”

*

Awakened registration is required to legally enter the gate.

That’s why the registry arrived with doubts about whether people would accept it…

“Oh oh!”

“Is this new again?”

It was surprisingly easy to accept.

It’s not a normal ability, so I went to a simple lab and took a separate test, but the researchers said they needed a monster bone, so they got it right away.

“Can you move?”

“Can you show me?”

When I communicated my will through magic, the skeleton started walking forward.

“Hey!”

“This is the first time this kind of summoning series has happened.”

oh

Is there any kind of summoning series?

I approached the researcher and said,

“Do you have similar abilities?”

“Um… it’s a little different from this one, but it has the ability to make golems out of clay or stones, or soldiers out of water.”

Summon Golem?

water soldier?

I thought with an interesting look.

‘Is there anything similar to magic?’

At the same time, I immediately understood why the researchers took it so easily.

Golem Summoning is an elemental magic series, and the water-made soldiers were probably similar to the spirits.

And here is the crucial difference from Seron.

‘The classification method is completely different.’

In Ceron, the golem summoning technique under the elemental class and the water spirit under the elemental class are vertically classified in this way.

However, on Earth, whether it is a golem summoning technique or a water spirit, they both summon something that can perform battles on behalf of the caster.

In other words, my skeleton is not a part of the Necromancer series, but is classified as a type of Summoning Art such as Golem Summoning.

‘It’s fine, I don’t have to bother explaining it.’

Then the researcher looked at me and said,

“What is the maximum number of summons? Do I have to take it with me once I summon it? Durability and combat power?”

It’s annoying because there are too many questions, but you should put the first button well.

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My goal is to quietly earn money and retire.

“First of all, I do not know the maximum number of summons. And after summoning…”

A subspace that was created when I reached out.

And the skeleton is sucked into the subspace as it is.

“You can keep it like this.”

“Oh oh!”

“Can I put something else in there?”

“I can’t put it in.”

You can put anything in it if it’s inanimate, but it’s cumbersome, so let’s skip it.

“okay?”

However, as soon as I finish my words, the researcher puts the pen in his hand into the entrance to the subspace to see if his doubts are passive.

But it doesn’t matter.

Because I can’t enter anything that I reject into the subspace.

Naturally, the hand of the researcher who broke through the entrance to the subspace with a pen.

“Really.”

“Trust me.”

“There are so many people trying to cheat. haha. sorry.”

“···Is that so?”

Anyway, I think it went pretty well. What was the last question?

oh Durability and fighting power.

As I waved my hand again, a skeleton popped out of subspace.

“Did you say combat power?”

“Yes.”

“Try it once.”

Then, the researcher’s eyes brightened, and he came from somewhere with a club and said:

“Then, without speculation….”

Just as the researcher was about to launch a full swing, I absorbed the morale injected into the skeleton.

to look as weak as possible.

Then the skeleton was hit by the researcher’s club and shattered in an instant.

“ah······.”

The researcher said with a sad expression on his face.

“It’s a little weak.”

“I know.”

The researcher looked down at the remains of the skeleton for a moment, said the researcher.

“The test seems to be enough. We’ll talk to each other in the conference room for a while.”

The researchers rushed into the conference room like that.

I looked at it and said quietly.

“Hearing enhancement.”

To be precise, it’s not about strengthening your hearing, it’s a basic magic that delivers sound waves from a specific location to your ears.

After casting the magic like that, I started to hear the conversations of the researchers.

– Something new and fresh.

-Iknow, right.

-However, his abilities are a bit vague. The durability is weak and the fighting power is not much to see. No matter how many bones there are, it seems difficult for an Awakened person to do anything.

If you look down on me, it’s me, thank you.

– A rare but obscure ability. Wouldn’t an F grade be appropriate?

– I agree. It’s F-class.

If it’s F-class, it’s the lowest Awakening class.

But it doesn’t matter.

I need qualifications to enter the gate legally, and I don’t care about grades or anything like that.

So said the researchers who came out of the meeting.

“As a result of the examination, it was judged as an F grade. Don’t be too disappointed, because there are a lot of people who started with F and made it to higher grades.”

What a disappointment.

“Also, be careful as summons in the city are prohibited.”

It doesn’t matter either.

“Then go out and tell the front desk your name, and we will issue you right away.”

great.

Now I am an Awakener who can legally catch monsters and earn money.

“thank you.”

So… then, do you want to make money?

*

In the test, I used magical power to inject my will into the skeleton to make it move.

And this is the representative way that necromancers control the undead.

But there were clear limits to that.

Because a person’s mental power and magical power are never infinite.

In other words, there is a limit to the number of heads that can be summoned and maintained.

So the method I devised is…

“good.”

The skeletons I made by applying a lot of magic to the bones I obtained from hunting myself listened to my orders and started to attack the 3 monsters according to the pre-injected method of fighting the great monsters.

“Let’s see······.”

I said while closely analyzing the battle between monsters and skeletons.

“The defense at the bottom is slow and awkward. This will need some patching.”

But then, the monster suddenly spit green spit at the skeleton.

Then, without any evasion reaction, the bones of the skeleton covered in green spit were slowly corroding.

“Are you attacking like that?”

I raised my hand and created a magic circle.

“The green spit is dodged 6 times.”

Dodge number 6 was a command to dodge backwards when the enemy did a specific action.

“If 6 dodge is interrupted, 7 dodge, then 8 dodge. If that gets in the way, I will block 11.”

Try to dodge once, and if it is impossible to dodge due to the surrounding environment, connect the 11th block that blocks with one arm.

“In a situation where it is impossible to block 11 times, attack 17 times … and…”

As we inject commands one after another and infuse magic into the magic circle, the magic circle disappears and melts into the skeletons.

Then, from then on, the skeletons started to move organically in response to the green spit the monster spit.

“Looks like it’s over.”

I sighed and said.

“under. annoying.”

This was my ingenious method that allowed me to command an enormous amount of undead corps.

Unlike necromancers that control the undead by transmitting their will through magic in general, I injected the undead with magic commands and made a kind of macro so that it can move automatically when it finds itself in a specific situation.

In this way, the burden of maintenance is overwhelmingly reduced because it automatically moves according to specific conditions without having to convey the will to each individual.

Of course, the process was never easy.

“I will do this again.”

At first, let alone battle, it was full of flaws, such as a bug caused by confusion of commands and smashed by itself.

However, as if the response method for green sting was injected a while ago, the final final version, which was created by repeating patches over several decades, was a near-perfect macro that could respond to almost any situation, and even a pincer attack.

Of course, there was a problem that the amount of magic required to make each one of the undead increased enormously in proportion to the amount of commands, but instead, there was almost no magic and mental consumption for maintenance.

In other words, the initial production is expensive, but the maintenance cost is almost low.

The problem, however, is that the macro that I completed over several decades flew away with the undead corps.

“shit. If there were any leftovers for backup…”

Even though I am a producer, there is no way I can memorize all the complex driving instructions and organically woven algorithms that have been created over the decades.

So, I put at least one or more of the original objects in a subspace, and if necessary, take them out, copy the injected magic commands, and shove them into other objects.

Fortunately, I have had time to do it, so I made it on the spot to be able to see it to some extent, but considering the original, it’s still not enough.

“I still have to. It’s easy after you make it at least once.”

Let’s work a little harder for a comfortable retirement.

At that time, the skeletons that dealt with the monsters lifted the monsters and lined up around me again.

I checked the time and sighed.

“I’ve been hunting for 4 hours already.”

In fact, for me, who has touched corpses for decades and moved from battlefield to battlefield, this is nothing.

Because there were times when I fought a battle without eating for several days and survived.

But this isn’t Seron, it’s the earth I came to for retirement.

In such a world, the fact that I have to do my job makes me exhausted.

“Should I stop today?”

I said with a tired look.

“Let’s go back.”

*

So when I went out with the skeletons, a merchant ran like a deokdal and said:

“Hehe. Are you here?”

At first, I thought about taking it to the by-product market and selling it myself, but there is no way that I, who is bothered by everything, will have to do such a troublesome job again.

So I picked a small merchant and asked for a business trip.

The merchant can buy the by-products at a low price, and since I have already reached the limit of labor, I can go back and rest quickly, so this is a win-win.

“Put it down.”

As the skeletons put down the by-products at my words, the merchant smiled and said with a tear in his mouth.

“Gosh. You’ve caught a lot today.”

“I haven’t touched it, so I don’t need to check it. Please calculate roughly.”

“I want to be sure.”

Since he has never played a prank on several transactions in the past, the merchant quickly calculates only the type of monster and the number of corpses, and then pays the money on the spot.

“It’s a total of 2 million won after tax.”

That I, who had trillions of dollars in subspace, had to do this to earn only 2 million won.

I hate to work even more for that low amount.

“Please put it in.”

“Yes. Then I will deposit the money right away.”

I sighed and thought as the merchant manipulated the phone to transfer money.

‘ha. I have a long way to go.’

The reason why I had to get a low rating and go in and out of the lowest gate was simple.

If you get a high grade, you’ll get attention and get annoyed, and it’s also difficult to make an undead that can deal with a higher level monster, so I’d rather make an undead optimized for a lower gate and make money comfortably.

‘Let’s hold on to the first time. You just need to make a good macro.’

Once the macro is complete, the undead will walk around and catch monsters, and I will sit back and make money comfortably.

Just when I was holding myself together like that, I heard a conversation about me around me.

“Is that person?”

“uh.”

Unlike the summoning series, which usually cannot summon more than a few, I can only stand out because I carry at least ten or more skeletons.

“Isn’t the page number a joke?”

“Instead, he was very weak.”

“I will. So, it wouldn’t have been an F grade.”

Talking or not, I don’t care

For me, who has received a mixture of fear and disgust from a lot of people in the Seron, I feel like this is rather likeable.

But then.

“By the way, if there are so many summons, it would be nice to be able to save the cost of the porter.”

“It is.”

“Honestly, isn’t 30,000 won per hour too expensive?”

With that said, I slowly turned my head toward him with a firm expression on my face.

“… 30,000 won?”

I have heard that a gate with a complex terrain is difficult to pull a cart, so a porter is used to bring monster by-products.

But the cost is 3,000 won per hour?

‘Wait a minute. A porter can’t fight directly. Shouldn’t it be enough to just hold it and follow it, and quietly avoid it only when fighting?’

An undead who neither eats nor complains.

There is no other porter more perfect and better than this.

Besides, if it’s only for carrying luggage, then the required magic commands and algorithms will be overwhelmingly less and simpler than for combat.

Then the Awoken shook his head and said.

“They say it’s a risk allowance, but honestly, how much does it cost when a death occurs at a low-level gate like this?”

“So. Then will you go and ask? Shall we do it together?”

“Man, I didn’t mean to work with the Summoning class. Hands and feet don’t fit, hands and feet.”

porter.

3,000 won per hour.

After beating the calculator in my head in an instant, I walked towards them and said,

“Excuse me.”

“uh?”

“Did you just say the porter?”

Then the Awoken said with a bewildered expression.

“Hey, did you hear that? sorry. Just in the middle of our conversation…”

“No, it doesn’t matter, did you find a porter by any chance?”

“Yes? I was just trying to save him right now…”

At that point, I pointed to the skeleton behind me and said.

“Would you like to try a new porter? As an opening event, I would like to do this for free.”