How a Catastrophic Necromancer Retired
Episode 1
moon crack. moon crack.
Skeletons lined up endlessly are rushing towards each other.
“Chur hoo!”
And at the forefront of such a skeleton corps, a huge meat golem with all kinds of flesh connected like rags.
When the meat golem wields a hand as huge as its size, the Demon King’s army falls like a fallen leaf.
Terrified by the overwhelming majesty and the endless attack of the Skeleton Corps, the demon king army fled and shouted.
“Aww! Run away!”
I was escorted by the Death Knight and watched the scene, and said with a grin.
“The hard work is worth it.”
How hard did it take to make that meat golem?
It looks like it was just pasted together without thinking, but it is my masterpiece that I made with the right and left symmetry and skin color in mind.
“The Demon of Theros!”
The demon of Theros was the nickname the Demon Kings called me.
And Theros was the name of the Archmage of the Allied Forces of Humanity who summoned me and the person who was sweating next to me.
“I… Jihyuk-sama?”
“yes?”
“Why do you come with me in every battle…”
I said with a puzzled look.
“Did you summon me? Then you have to watch how well I fight.”
I was summoned as a hero candidate 30 years ago under the leadership of Theros.
In other words, I am a warrior.
Of course, as a hero, I know that something is not right visually or in terms of atmosphere, but what can I do?
Due to the nature of my dislike of dangerous things, the Necromancer, who can entrust the battle to the Undead Legion and watch it from behind, is the best fit for me.
“Chuu, I’ve seen enough. so······.”
Theros knows why.
Because I was the object of fear not only for the Demon King Army, but also for the Allied Forces of Humanity, who could be called our allies.
It’s only now that I’ve gotten stronger, and in the early days, I really struggled to live by touching my allies’ corpses without hesitation.
The hearts of those who hate me?
I understand enough.
A comrade next to me suddenly turns into an undead and wakes up, who wouldn’t be scared?
But that’s why he takes Theros with him even more.
“no. not enough look more did i always say If you bring someone from Ammon, feel a sense of responsibility. After taking a nap at home, I was called in, and I risked my life to get involved in an unknown war and have been fighting for 30 years. I didn’t even have time to sympathize with the cause of your allied forces or anything. So why did you call me?”
As Theros hesitated, I said with a grin.
“So, take a look. As I always said, if I hadn’t returned to Earth, my opponent would have been you, not the Demon King. To be honest, they are demon kings and aggressors, in my eyes, they and you are the same.”
When I first came, I was so scared that I thought it was a real horned devil… but it wasn’t.
The Demon King Army is just an intelligent creature from the Demon Realm.
They were just another race who wanted to escape the barren Demon Realm and settle in the Human Realm.
Of course, it is true that many human beings were slaughtered in the process, but that is something that can happen during a war.
Anyway, the reason I’m still on the side of mankind is not because I hate the Demon King Army, nor because I sympathize with the cause of the Allied Forces of Humanity, but because this is the most efficient way to return to Earth.
“I don’t think about anything other than efficiency. If I had fought each and every one of those things in the first place, even if I had died, I would have died right away.”
I’m a necromancer dealing with corpses, and the Demon King Army, the Human Allied Forces, and the situation in which he looks like him.
What I chose to survive in such a situation was to judge everything based on efficiency.
That’s the only way I could survive.
“Anyway, stop nagging and be quiet.”
But then.
“The Demon King! The Demon King!”
“uh?”
When I turned my head, I saw a demon king with blood in the hands of the meat golem.
A cute meat golem that caught the Demon King while turning his head for a moment.
“what. Is it so absurd?”
Then Theros said.
“Chuu, congratulations. You have finally defeated the Demon King!”
I said, gazing again.
“Are you weaker than you think? If I had known it would be this weak, I would have dealt with it in advance.”
“···Yes?”
“In addition to the Meat Golem, I made about 4 more as the Great Demon King’s decisive weapon, but if I had known it would end in vain, I would have just taken them all out and finished them quickly.”
Then, Theros’ pupils shook as if an earthquake had occurred.
“You mean there are four more of those things?”
“To be precise, there are four more things stronger than the Meat Golem, but that doesn’t matter now, is it?”
I said with a bright smile.
“Is the demon king dead? Will you keep your promise?”
*
“Heh heh heh.”
Gold bars and jewels piled up like a mountain.
I said, stroking the gold bars.
“I am rich now.”
Take these back to Earth and enjoy a leisurely, peaceful, and luxurious retirement life.
“I play games and watch movies. nice. okay! Should I buy a yacht? Luxury villas around the world!?”
The life of walking around the battlefield on a fictional day and touching only corpses is now over.
As the king of wealth and flex, I will live with goodwill for the rest of my life!
Then Theros approached cautiously and said,
“The preparations are over. Are you going right away?”
“why. Would you like to go sooner?”
“Oh, no. Even if not, His Majesty the Emperor will prepare a feast for you.”
“Don’t say anything you don’t mean. What kind of celebrations are people who don’t even come close, sweating profusely when they see me?”
There are many reasons why I want to go back to Earth, but one of them is that it is not fun.
There is nothing to enjoy, and people hate me but at the same time depend on me, so the 30 years I spent here were all about loneliness and boredom.
“wait. I’ll get it right away.”
When you shake your hand, a huge subspace is created, and the gold bars and jewels piled up in the warehouse are sucked in in an instant.
Converting these into money alone would exceed at least several trillion won.
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Maybe over ten.
If this is enough, I will be able to eat well and live well while doing what I want to do without worrying about money in the future.
“ruler. Send it.”
At my words, Theros held out a magic crystal the size of a human head and filled with complex magic formulas.
“This Ma Jeong-seok twisted causality and made Ji-hyeok possible to be here all this time. That’s why you’re not old.”
The key to bring me back to Earth, which Theros had been hiding for so long.
“If my calculations are correct, the moment Ji-hyeok breaks this, he will return to the point in time when he came here due to the regression of causality.”
“I don’t know about causality or anything like that. I’m an undead expert. Anyway, is it okay to break this down?”
“Yes. And do not resist the regression of causality, but accept it.”
“okay okay.”
I don’t know what you’re talking about, but is it okay to just stay still?
I accepted the magic stone and said.
“From now on, don’t call people carelessly. If I call you again, will you kill me first?”
Theros said in a cold sweat.
“…it won’t happen.”
“Of course it is. How can I break it?”
“It’s already the limit because we’ve been twisting causality over decades. Even the slightest impact will break it.”
“okay?”
I raised my fists high and slammed them down.
“Then I go! It was like a dog, so let’s not see it again!”
*
After giving my body to the twist of something, I opened my eyes and said with a bright smile.
“I’m back.”
The earth that I have missed even in my dreams for decades.
“Hey!”
An earth where there is no battlefield where blood is splattered, and there is no one who encourages and hates me.
At the same time, if you have a lot of money, this is my homeland, Korea, where I can live better than any other country in the world.
I said, stroking the game console that was connected to the TV with an ecstatic expression.
“Did you wait long?”
A new title came out, I played all night and took a nap for a while, but when I woke up, it was the Seron Continent.
“You don’t know, how much I missed you.”
I started playing the game machine with a reverent attitude, tracing old memories.
And the save file that was loaded after 30 years.
However.
“…I can’t remember the story.”
I don’t remember anything about playing the first part.
“uh······.”
In addition, I lifted the pad, but I can’t remember the control keys, so it’s a total mess.
“I think I’ll have to start over with this tutorial again.”
But I quickly smiled and said.
“I’ll just do it again later, from the beginning, what’s out there is time.”
I put down the pad and thought of a bucket list of 1,000 things I wanted to do when I came to Earth.
“First, kimchi fried rice, kimchi stew.”
Just thinking about it makes my mouth water.
“ah. I thought I was going to die because I didn’t have real rice and kimchi.”
The staple food of the Seron Continent is a potato crop, which is sauerkraut, and although the taste was not bad, it was not enough to satisfy my accustomed mouth to rice and kimchi.
“okay. From today, let’s eat and play!”
Isn’t that why he brought a lot of gold and precious stones?
I said as I changed the black robe I was wearing for eating out to the style I enjoyed wearing 30 years ago.
“I also like the Earth.”
I mean, the texture of the clothes is different.
natural ingredients?
I’m sorry, but clothes made in an earth where basic material engineering is extremely advanced are overwhelmingly good in terms of finish and feel.
I said with a smirk.
“ruler. Shall I take the money out now?”
I reached out to take out the gold I had put in the subspace.
Then, the entrance to the subspace appeared naturally.
By the way.
“···what.”
I thought of gold bars, but nothing came out.
And even after thinking of jewels and all sorts of things one after another, the subspace does not respond.
“What? Why aren’t you coming?”
Putting my hand into the subspace with such a bewildered expression, I said with a pale face.
“no?”
None.
It is not simply that there are no specific items, but it is a state of being completely empty, in which no object is felt in the subspace.
The gold bars and jewels that were looted from the treasury of the empire, as well as the undead corps made one by one over the decades, have completely evaporated.
“Hey, what is this! Where have you all gone!”
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My Meat Golem!
Death Night!
No, that’s not important right now.
“My money….”
The severance pay that I received from the Seron Continent for my leisurely retirement life is completely gone.
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My 30 years of hard work disappeared in vain without knowing the reason.
“Wait… I don’t have any money without this?”
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My goal was to leave the battlefield and live a quiet and peaceful life, but now I’m starting to worry about food before that.
“Damn it. You don’t need money to retire!”
Although his body age is still in his late twenties due to distortion of causality, the contents in it are said to be an old man who is approaching his 60s!
It’s retirement age!
“no! Where the hell have you all gone!”
I cried out with anger to the point of my head.
“Theros, you motherfucker!”
I don’t know what the real Theros did or what, but he’s the only one who can get my wrath out right now.
“Ahhh!”
That’s when the road ran wild like that.
“···uh?”
From a distance, I felt something magical wave.
“Magic Waves on Earth?”
I don’t know what the hell it is, but once I feel it, I can’t stand still.
I kicked the window out and tried to cast the fly magic, but stopped.
“You can’t stand out. It’s a retirement life.”
He went out through the door again and ran to the place where he could feel the magic wave and said.
“shit. How long does it take to run?”
Since I was always riding on a sedan using skeleton pedestals, the act of running like this would be awkward.
“Aww!”
“Run away!”
The closer you get to the magic wave, the more people run away in fear.
“What the hell is that?”
So that’s where we finally got to.
As soon as I got there, I immediately knew where the magic wave was coming from.
Something that looked like a huge subspace entrance emitting a brilliant light.
“Civural… what is this again?”
And then, strange-looking creatures appeared one after another in the subspace.
“Why is there such a thing on Earth!? Theros, you motherfucker, where did you send me!”
It is not enough that the undead corps and severance pay, which have been crystallized over decades, have disappeared, now the earth where strange monsters appear.
But then, from here and there, people with armor and weapons jumped down and rushed at the monsters.
“People should evacuate!”
People who slaughter monsters in an instant with skills that even ordinary people cannot believe.
“What else is that?”
Are there people like that on Earth?
Almost like a Seron Continental Knight?
If you make it into a Death Knight when you’re in a hurry, it’s quite useful… No, this isn’t it.
I said looking up at the sky with a blank expression.
“My retirement….”
I don’t know what it is yet, but one thing I know for sure.
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My retirement life was messed up.