How a Catastrophic Necromancer Retired

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Yongdae Kim was once an office worker who worked for a partner company of KM Motors.

However, due to the sudden decision to close KM Automobile, the business partner was dismantled in the air overnight.

The CEO fled the night after paying his wages, so Kim Yong-dae became unemployed overnight.

The problem was that after losing my job, I couldn’t find a decent job.

“At that point, I really thought I was going to die.”

Like Kim Yong-dae, 10,000 unemployed people lost their jobs overnight.

The problem is that other industries have collapsed one after another because of those unemployed.

The restaurants in the industrial complex, which served as business targets for office workers, also collapsed, and the consumer sentiment in Gunsan shrinks and the commercial district shrinks.

As the commercial district shrinks, even part-time jobs decrease, continuing a vicious cycle.

When they were somehow enduring such a difficult time, it was Seron and their cooperative company that appeared.

Seron induced foreign factories to invest in Gunsan by saying that they were replacing workers with skeletons.

However, the citizens were skeptical.

It is said that the local economy is revitalized and tax revenue is increased by attracting investment, but it was not felt very much because skeletons are the most needed jobs for citizens.

However, as the number of such partners increased from 10 to 20 and 40, the situation gradually changed.

As the number of white-collar and managerial jobs, which seemed to be rare, multiplied several times, and the port usage of partner companies increased, the Gunsan Port also recruited additional staff, and more and more positive signals began to appear here and there.

And at a very fast pace too.

A situation in which an endless vicious circle is gradually turning into a virtuous circle.

Then Kim Yong-dae looked at his phone and said.

“a. fell.”

Kim Yong-dae, who submitted his resume to a new partner company, but was rejected.

In the past, I would have despaired and despaired again.

Because there was no hope.

But now it’s different.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. There are 5 companies that are planning to move in this month alone. Try again, huh?”

The bitterness of being eliminated is inevitable, but the next opportunity is still there.

This is possible because there is a belief that Gunsan’s job problems will continue to improve.

In this way, Kim Yong-dae and other Gunsan citizens began to slowly embrace hope as they felt their daily life changing little by little.

*

I left the existing Ceron factory and set up the headquarters in Gunsan.

Thanks to this, 800 new jobs were created in Gunsan including business partners.

Of course, the 800 jobs themselves are only a fraction of the 10,000 unemployed, which were mass-produced due to the collapse of KM Motors and its suppliers, but the ripple effect was never small.

Because there are only 800 jobs, and the production amount is not at the level of 800.

As truck drivers who will transport raw materials and thousands of skeletons 24 hours a day to transport the goods produced and poured out, spending money in and out of the factory every day, the commercial area is a little lively, but Gunsan Port also has a significant increase in logistics volume, which is positive for Gunsan City. The phosphorus effect occurred sequentially.

And above all, the key point is that all of this was achieved in just three months after Yulim Electronics first moved in.

The number of partners of Ceron continues to increase even at this moment, so it is inevitable that the situation is getting better from the point of view of the citizens of Gunsan.

“Here is a list of new companies. We only selected companies that met our criteria or were slightly lacking, but had potential.”

After receiving the documents from Kim Deok-bae, I looked at the list and said.

“I’ve been guessing and guessing, but it’s still this much?”

“Didn’t the first-tier suppliers like Yurim Electronics have a lot of fun? Many of them are competitors of our suppliers.”

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Most of the first-tier suppliers are companies with a fairly high proportion of the Korean domestic market.

Of course, both labor and logistics costs are much lower, so the price competitiveness has risen sharply.

Thanks to this, the products of the first-tier partners are made in Korea, which are cheaper than those made in China, and their market share is gradually increasing.

At this point, competitors who have been waiting for a while also send in offers.

“Please accept it regardless of whether it is a competitor or anything else.”

Healthy competition provokes development, and such a sly tale is a secondary matter.

In the first place, there is no case in which the country refuses to enter other industries just because it has entered a foreign country where labor costs are low.

The same goes for this.

To put it bluntly, a partner is like setting up a local factory in a country called Ceron and hiring a worker called a skeleton.

All I have to do is provide them with cheaper labor than abroad and take the money.

And frankly, with my help, the market share of Chinese products has been taken away, and the market pie itself is growing, as well as export competitiveness.

Then, instead of trying to hit a wall with competitors, we should focus on targeting overseas export markets occupied by China like SR Electronics.

“Shoes are the only way to ensure domestic demand by hitting a wall with the members of the association because we are directly engulfing the overseas market, but the companies here have a different position. If you have any complaints, tell them to focus on exporting overseas. Don’t be like a frog in a well in Korea, which is cramped.”

Go hard and think about selling.

“By the way, some people have been saying how about applying a giveaway event to partner products as well.”

Can you apply the giveaway to partner companies as well?

“Who says that?”

“It’s a story I’ve heard. Maybe it was too much to talk about in person, so it seems like a sneak peek.”

“Ignore it. If you spray it too much everywhere, it becomes less rarity. And in the first place, SR electronics are entry-level, so it’s to get people’s attention, and our partners have their own technological prowess, right? It would have been nice to have that technology and price competitiveness.

Of course, if you apply the giveaway, a huge increase in sales will follow.

However, SR Electronics and its partners have completely different positions.

The reason why we brought in our partners in the first place is to make up for the shortcomings of SR Electronics, which does not have its own technology. Likewise, if we rely on prizes and neglect technology development, there is no reason to have a partner.

“Let’s pretend you didn’t hear that”

I said returning the list back.

“For the rest, please decide if President Kim is okay with it.”

How long can we not just review these documents?

Now, there are no more than one or two partners.

“All right.”

The situation is very smooth.

Ceron shoes, which are directly pioneering the market, need to increase the skeleton according to the order quantity, but the partner company can bring the existing overseas factories and hit the skeletons with one shot.

In other words, once you move in, the factory can be fully operated from that moment on, and the fact that the skeleton is busy means more money coming to me.

There are even more companies that want to cooperate, so it is only a matter of time to cover the entire Gunsan Industrial Complex with Ceron’s partners.

And by that time, tens of thousands of skeletons will be working in the Gunsan Industrial Complex, and that will create thousands of human jobs.

“Let’s keep expanding. If you move in, your money will run out, so there is no reason to stop, right?”

“All right.”

That’s when I finished the report.

“Hey, representative Han!”

A new employee from Gunsan, who joined the company after setting up the headquarters in Gunsan, entered the CEO’s office with an urgent voice and said:

“A request for cooperation has come from the fire department!”

“A request for cooperation from the fire department? What does that mean?”

The employee said in a bewildered voice.

“There is a fire in a nearby warehouse!”

*

A logistics warehouse located on the outskirts of Gunsan City, where the staff turned on the navigation system and flew through the air.

“Wow. What kind of fuss is this?”

Flames are rising from the windows, and black smoke billows over the factory.

A fire of enormous scale as the size of the warehouse is large.

I looked around, then flew to the crowd of firefighters and landed on the ground.

Then a firefighter who found me and approached me.

“A representative!”

The firefighter who appeared to be the commander said in an urgent voice.

“I apologize for the sudden request for cooperation. But the situation was so urgent, and there was only one representative that came to mind.”

I shook my head and said.

“it’s okay. It’s not about anything else, it’s the fire department’s job, so if you can help, you should help. How can I help you?”

Then the fireman handed him a map of the warehouse he was holding and said.

“Now there is a large fire caused by stuff piled up inside, and there are 5 employees who haven’t been able to evacuate inside yet! The problem is that it’s so complex inside and the fire is so great that there’s no way to try to get in. That’s when I thought of Skeleton.”

“You mean let the skeletons get inside and save the people?”

“Yes.”

The fireman said in a desperate voice.

“Is it possible?”

No matter how much I’ve lived on the battlefield for 30 years and my emotions have worn out, I’m not cold-blooded enough to ignore the people I can save right in front of my eyes.

Besides, it is an added bonus that if I solve this problem well, the evaluation of me and the skeleton will be better.

“Of course it’s possible.”

It’s simple if the skeleton and transportable skeleton are covered with a shield and brought in, and I control them myself and pick up the staff.

Or, you can check only a certain location with a skeleton, attach a shield, and then float it with a fly and take it out directly.

Even if it looks like this, it’s kind of an archmage?

Although he is a necromancer.

“Tell me where it is.”

Then the fireman bit his lip and said:

“That… I don’t know.”

Eh?

“No, then you have to find 5 people in that large warehouse and even rescue them?”

“you’re right. Wouldn’t it be okay to send in hundreds of skeletons at a time and scour them?”

You know it’s so easy.

It’s moving Even so, do you think it’s normal to analyze the visual information sent by hundreds of skeletons connected to me one by one and judge the appropriate action at that time?

Even in a situation where visibility is difficult due to fire and smoke?

It’s not about magic, it’s about the human mind and willpower.

Of course, there is nothing you can’t do, but if you are distracted like that, no matter how much your country is missing, there is something you can’t do.

“Would you like to touch the algorithm?”

So, what I came up with as an alternative is to make the skeleton’s algorithm automatically rescue by tweaking it.

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My skeletons were the ones who roamed around the gate, which can be said to be more complicated than the logistics warehouse, so it’s not even a rough terrain, so the existing algorithm automatically puts in and out of the human-looking creature.

But then I shook my head and said.

“no. This is even worse.”

A situation in which there are so many variables that people may be hiding in a room or object, or even not knowing whether they are conscious or not.

As much as that, you have to open the door, dig through the structures that have fallen down, and search all over without missing a single possibility, but it is greed to expect that kind of performance from a hasty algorithm.

“uh······.”

I thought for a while and said.

“How about squeezing the fire hose to the skeleton and turning it off?”

How the skeleton puts out the lights in the front line and people go in and search after them.

“There are so many kindlings that it is not a fire that can be put out easily. There is also the risk of collapse of the warehouse itself, not a reinforced concrete structure.”

I thought about making a large skeleton and skimming it all at once, but then that doesn’t work either.

You say that if you touch it, it might break.

“after. I can’t help it.”

I have no choice but to control myself.

“It is a loan service.”

It’s been a long time since I’ve completed the algorithm, controlling hundreds of undead at the same time, but I’ll have to do it anyway.

That’s when I opened the subspace and took out the skeleton.

“uh?”

Then an idea flashed through my head.

The problem now is that the judgment and performance of the improvised rescue algorithm cannot be trusted, but if I control it alone, there may be parts I miss due to mental dispersion.

Then, shouldn’t it be done by several people, not me alone?

I was silent for a moment, then I hurriedly shouted.

“Everyone, take out your cell phone! If it breaks down later, I’ll ask for it, so firefighters or staff here, anyone!”

“Yes?”

“I don’t have time, so hurry up! Take it out and install the CCTV app!”

*

A skeleton with a cell phone that will act as a CCTV on its head is protected by a shield and enters the warehouse one after another.

And firefighters and warehouse staff who watch real-time video on cellphones that are connected to the cellphones hanging from the skeleton’s head.

“Number 14! You must open the front door!”

At those words, I immediately close my eyes and, according to the algorithm, take control of Skeleton 14, who was just wandering around the warehouse, and manually manipulate it to open the door.

So, Skeleton 14 opened the door and checked the inside, but the room was full of burning complaints.

After I confirmed that it was empty, I passed the control back to the algorithm, and the skeleton started walking according to the algorithm again.

“Number 56! The front is blocked! It needs to be removed to clear the passage!”

“Number 71! It looks like something is down! You should check it out!”

According to the algorithm, the skeleton walks inside the warehouse, and the people outside are responsible for judging appropriate actions at any time with the CCTV application connected to the cell phone on the skeleton’s head.

And if they judge it, I take control and put it into action.

It was literally a perfect joint operation between humans and skeletons.

I said with a smirk.

“How comfortable it is to do this.”

If I had done it on my own, I would have been in a dilemma of checking here or controlling there, but it’s much more perfect when people judge for me.

how long has it been

“Hey, it’s a man! 67 times! 67 times!”

I immediately took control of Skeleton 67 and checked the situation.

A middle-aged woman lying on the floor where the fire has not yet spread.

He drank too much smoke and seemed to faint, but luckily he seemed to be alive.

“OK!”

Once the location is confirmed, the next step is simple.

I immediately channeled magical energy to the middle-aged woman, put a shield on it, then cast fly magic and pulled it towards me.

And after a while, under the protection of the shield, a middle-aged woman was rescued out through the warehouse window.

“Wow!”

“Mrs. Kim!”

When a middle-aged woman who lost her mind sank to the floor, rescue workers who were waiting hurriedly put the middle-aged woman on a stretcher and transported her to an ambulance.

“One person rescued!”

I said in a confident voice.

“Let’s get the rest, too!”

*

A joint rescue operation between skeletons and humans.

The result was very successful.

Some people suffered serious burns, but their lives were not affected.

Then a firefighter who seemed to be the commander grabbed my hand and said,

“thank you! A representative!”

“What. Of course, people should help.”

“If it were not for one representative, a greater sacrifice would have occurred. It was because we were discussing with each other whether or not someone should risk entering before Han came.”

Fortunately, the warehouse did not collapse until the very end, but they tried to enter a fire pit like that, trusting only one fire-fighting suit.

I don’t really know anything else, but I admit that the firefighters are suffering.

By the way, I’m a firefighter…

I thought for a while and said.

“Fireman.”

“Yes, one representative.”

“How was the rescue work using the skeleton today?”

Then the firefighter smiled brightly.

“It was unquestionably the best! We were able to safely rescue people from behind.”

“Yes?”

The real value of skeletons lies in performing dangerous tasks on behalf of humans.

Like a battlefield in Seron or a fire scene like this on Earth.

“How many firefighters are there in Korea?”

“About 50,000 people.”

Ohh?

Quite a lot?

“What would it be like if we could not only share vision, but also directly control the skeleton like this time?”

“As far as direct control? Then there is nothing more to ask for.”

A skeleton like some kind of remote unmanned robot to take the place of dangerous rescue operations.

A skeleton like this would be in high demand and would not infringe on jobs.

It’s literally more like a piece of equipment.

Wouldn’t it be possible to sell at least thousands of firefighters with 50,000 firefighters?

In addition to firefighters, it can be applied to other 3D industries, so the commercial potential is sufficient.

An unmanned piloted skeleton that can save people’s lives by doing dangerous tasks for them, so it can get a good image from people, and even has commercial potential.

‘Instead of providing A/S, I think I can make a lot of money if I rent it cheaply in Korea, and rent it at a high price abroad.’

Renting it to Korea at a low price, getting recognition for its performance, and then making money abroad.

Of course, the price difference will be an issue overseas, but there is a reasonable reason.

Apparently, the greater the distance from me, the more magical power required for maintenance.

Of course, at most, it’s two or three times as much, so for me, who used to operate over hundreds of thousands of skeletons, it’s at a level that doesn’t really matter, but anyway.

Having gathered my thoughts, I looked at the firefighter and said with a smile.

“Firefighter, can you help me on my day off? Maybe the future of 50,000 firefighters depends on it.”