Became a Mechromancer - Chapter 103

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Chapter 103.
The Necromancer’s Return
Duho’s vision shifts as he passes through the save point.
A dim forest.
The moment he draws breath, the forest air strangles his throat.
‘…What is this?’
A sharp ringing fills his ears.
His head reels, and his vision lurches violently.
…What?
Why is this happening all of a sudden?
As Duho staggers and his knees begin to buckle, Hawkeye quickly steadies him with a supporting grip.
Hawkeye’s scope trembles slightly.
-This… this can’t be….
Isto bursts from the Garage and seizes Duho’s arm, pulling him along.
Duho!
-Get back to the Garage!
In an instant, Duho’s vision floods with crimson. The taste of iron spreads across his tongue.
Poisoned, Duho recalls the hidden quest mission.
…So that’s it.
‘That’s why it’s called the Forest of Death.’
A hidden quest with far more meaning than before.
Just as Isto, cradling Duho, moves to enter the Garage—
[Poison Resistance skill activates]
A system window materializes before his eyes.
His blurred vision sharpens, and strength floods back into his body.
Tap, tap.
He pats Isto’s shoulder.
“…I’m fine now. You can put me down.”
-Huh?
Unlike Isto, Hawkeye bows his head.
Necromancer!
-This is my fault. Since I couldn’t sense anything, I never imagined this forest would be toxic.
“You saved us.”
-Pardon…?
“You were the only one of the three who suggested we choose Route A instead.”
Isto chimes in.
Exactly!
-Tall one here came through big time!
“Right, if I’d listened to Isto and chosen Route B, we’d have been in serious trouble.”
Isto’s LED eyes narrow to slits.
Duho chuckled softly and patted Isto’s head.
The camera bothers me slightly.
‘For some reason, it feels like I’m being watched. Unsettling.’
Honestly, clearing B and receiving this hidden quest made my spine tingle with unease.
Sigh.
‘I almost lost one of them.’
After steadying my breath, I realized I couldn’t afford to underestimate the administrator.
I looked at Hawkeye.
“Are you nearby?”
-You just need to follow me.
I sent Isto back to the Garage once more.
I moved deeper into the Forest, following Hawkeye.
‘Assassination techniques really do come in handy at times like this.’
I was suppressing my presence as much as possible as I advanced.
With my level increased, my footsteps felt lighter.
But.
The deeper I ventured into the Forest, the thicker the toxic miasma became.
I mentally called Hawkeye to a halt.
-Why do you ask?
‘I need to check my skills.’
I immediately opened my status window.

[Main]
Rank: E-Rank Lv.48
Experience: 5814 / 5864
Available Stats: 192
‘So I’ve accumulated 192 stats….’
I examined the newly acquired poison resistance skill. Just as I’d expected.
‘This one levels up too.’
Looking at the details, using 10 stats would raise it to level 2.
‘Then, I should level it up.’
[Poison Resistance Lv.1 → Lv.2]
The effect manifested immediately.
My condition returned just from leveling up the skill.
“This is really fascinating….”
And shortly after.
At Hawkeye’s hand signal, I came to a halt.
I rolled my neck side to side and loosened my body.
And I looked ahead.
In the middle of the forest, a grotesquely twisted ancient tree stood alone.
A demonic beast was perched upon it.
Grrr.
The Knoll Lord exhaled dark crimson breath from its mouth.
Wherever its breath descended to the ground, the grass withered away.
‘So the Knoll Lord was the source of the poison.’
I immediately raised poison resistance to level 3.
And I gazed ahead once more.
The Knoll Lord looked completely different from ordinary knolls.
White mane covered its entire back, and its body appeared to be at least four meters tall.
It was watching me with its chin resting on the handle of an axe.
A chill ran down my spine.
Just from looking at it, I felt an inexplicable coldness wash over me.
I wanted to retreat into the Garage.
‘The summoner’s participation is mandatory, so there’s no choice.’
That was when.
Isto emerged from the Garage.
-Is that it?
Patter, patter.
Isto swung one arm in a circle and advanced toward the Knoll Lord.
Duho.
-I’ll finish this quickly….
CRAAAAAASH!!!
Before I could even register when the axe was swung, Isto flew sideways through the air.
Clang! Crack, crack, crack, crack….
Two Ancient Trees snapped loudly as Isto crashed into the ground.
Hawkeye immediately grabbed me and leaped up into the trees.
“I, Isto!”
My eyes wavered.
Grrr….
Knoll Lord looked down at me with a contemptuous sneer.
In that instant, my face went blank like a machine.
My mind raced frantically, searching for a way to kill that creature.
Then.
A memory from the Workshop a few days ago flashed through my mind.
「If I reach my peak, will I be able to see Seo Woo-jin’s movements from a few days ago?」
「The Necromancer will be stronger and faster.」
That’s what they’d said when I reached the Necromancer’s peak.
And….
‘I already have a skill to experience the Necromancer’s peak.’
I muttered.
“Wrathful Charge.”
Screeeech─.
With a strange metallic sound.
I stood before Knoll Lord.
Hawkeye stared blankly at me, slipping from her embrace.
This was the first time she’d ever lost sight of someone’s movements.
* * *
As I spoke the skill’s name.
[Wrathful Charge activates.]
[All restrictions are lifted for 10 seconds]
[Temporary Rank: S]
Grrr…?
Knoll Lord’s crimson pupils turned downward.
The Soul Bot, having reached temporary S-rank, scattered iridescent light.
Knoll Lord, startled beyond measure, hastily raised the axe, but—
Snap─.
The arm holding the axe was severed by the iridescent Soul Bot.
Kuuaahhh….
Knoll Lord tried to scream, but the Soul Bot’s elongated snout coiled around it and crushed it instead.
Soul Bots continued pouring forth from my body.
Shwaaaack
In an instant, dozens of limbs extended and lifted Knoll Lord into the air.
Screeeech! Crack!
Crimson venom sprayed from the creature’s mangled maw.
Thud, thud-thud….
Another arm.
This time, both legs were torn away as easily as stripping limbs from an insect.
Knoll Lord shrieked.
Yet.
The five-colored luminous hands did not stop.
My eyes read the flow of mana bleeding from Knoll Lord like an open blueprint.
Perhaps because I had entered the S-rank domain. The mana structure of the demonic beast connected to the mana stone unfolded in my mind like a schematic.
Knoll Lord’s life.
Its skills.
And the very source of its power!
All of it could be read in the single language of mana.
And soon.
My gaze turned toward the axe that had fallen to the ground.
One of the five-colored luminous hands seized the axe. The remaining hands drew the mana flowing from Knoll Lord’s body and channeled it across the axe’s surface.
Whoooosh!
Light erupted.
The Soul Bot converted Knoll Lord’s mana into mana circuits on the axe, engraving them at incredible speed.
As if its very life were being copied onto the axe, its soul transferred.
[Furious Charge has ended.]
[Available again in 30 days.]
Thump. Collapse—.
As the skill released, I collapsed to the ground, my tension finally breaking.
Simultaneously, Knoll Lord’s lifeless body tumbled into the grass.
It had lasted only ten seconds, yet the power was staggering.
I had interpreted the mana dwelling within a living being and overlaid it upon a tool, creating an entirely new item.
“So it wasn’t just for becoming a robot.”
Kiii-ing, kiii-ing….
At a sound like a whimpering dog, I rose and picked up the hand axe.
Wisp, wisp.
The axe wafted poison to make itself visible to me.
I recoiled in horror.
Ugh.
“A poison-spewing axe? I can’t even sell this thing.”
Whine….
The axe cried out pitifully.
Regardless, I surveyed my surroundings.
“I’ll need to bury this somewhere around here.”
No Hunters would venture this deep into the Forest, so discovery was impossible.
But at that very moment.
Shhhhh….
The hand axe began absorbing the toxic miasma surrounding it.
And with tremendous ferocity at that.
To avoid being buried!
The toxic miasma that filled the Forest was drawn endlessly toward the hand axe.
Even the dark clouds were gradually thinning.
Good heavens.
Those clouds were poison too?
Soon, light began filtering through the branches.
Duho’s eyes widened as the Forest air cleared as if it had never been poisoned.
‘This changes everything.’
Come to think of it, the Knoll Lord’s pack hadn’t wanted to enter the Forest either, which meant the axe’s toxin worked on magical beasts as well.
Then a sudden thought struck me.
‘They say some items can communicate with their wielders—could these have been crafted that way?’
Meanwhile, Hawkeye descended from the tree and knelt on one knee.
His scope remained fixed on Duho.
Ah!
-Oh great Macromanser!
He gazed at Duho with reverence as if possessed by religious fervor.
At that very moment.
Crash!
Isto burst upright from between the splintered trees.
-What shame before Master Duho!
Isto’s LED eyes blazed red as he charged forward.
His fists clenched as if he would pummel the Knoll Lord into pulp.
He froze.
-…What?!
What had been the Knoll Lord lay scattered across the grass.
His LED eyes flickered wildly as he surveyed the surroundings.
-What… what happened?
Confused, Isto looked up at Duho, who held the hand axe.
Glancing to the side, he saw Hawkeye kneeling.
Only then did Isto’s LED eyes display an exclamation mark.
Ooooooh!!!
-Master Duho has vanquished them!
Duho stared down blankly at Isto’s exclamation.
Then.
Clang—! Caw caw!
I drove the head of my hand axe straight into Isto’s skull.
“You startled me!”
-…!
“Any damage?”
Isto moved around experimentally.
-My waist axis is slightly misaligned.
Which meant.
Knoll Lord was an extraordinarily powerful demon beast.
Until now, not once had a single blow ever damaged Isto’s central axis.
Whoosh.
I quickly repaired Isto’s waist axis using my Soul Bot.
As soon as I withdrew the Soul Bot.
The system notifications cascaded.

[Hidden Quest Completed!]
Reward: 10,000P
[World Announcement]
South Korea Abyss Layer 6 Destruction Reprieve
※ The Necromancer’s Return.
Hawkeye hurried over with words of congratulation.
-Congratulations! Necromancer.
“We all did it together, so what’s there to congratulate?”
-No sir! Didn’t you alone defeat Knoll Lord!
Honestly, I was shocked too.
‘An S-rank Necromancer capable of that much….’
It wasn’t that I thought and then moved—my body reacted instinctively in the strangest way.
However.
‘A cooldown of a whole month….’
I’ll need to save it for the absolute final moment.
Moreover, the skill duration was only ten seconds.
When I checked to extend the duration, it was merely 0.1 seconds per level.
Even raising it to level 10 would only add one second.
So rather than investing in Wrathful Sprint, the real answer was to strive to reach true S-rank.
Meanwhile, Cop watched me through the camera.
He muttered to himself.
I thought the boss was a monster….
-But his master was an even greater monster!
He realized that the rumors about Ghost were absolutely not exaggerated.
Above all else.
‘I’ll make my move and enter the Abyss myself!’
Cop, the android, began to dream new dreams.
However, no system window appeared before Cop’s eyes.
‘…What are those three doing gathered together?’
As if to prove it, Duho, Isto, and Hawkeye were all looking at the same window.
None other than.
[Super Intelligence summoning is now available]
[Would you like to summon?]
Accept / Decline
Ooh!
-Is that a Newcomer?!
-Congratulations, Macromanser.
Duho stared at the summoning window before closing it.
“Let’s try that later.”
-Understood. Gacha requires mental preparation. Hehehehe~.
Duho chuckled softly, half-leaning into the Garage as he checked the time.
‘…23 minutes?’
The fastest Abyss clear time yet.
The efficiency of the save point had been proven. Yet something other than time occupied Duho’s mind.
Merely ten seconds.
When I stood before Knoll Lord.
‘Just as Hawkeye said, I was faster than Seo Woo-jin.’
Tremendous speed and power, and the absurd abilities of the soul bot.
It wasn’t intoxication from strength.
Because the Macromanser’s objective became crystal clear.
And.
The demon’s mana readable like a blueprint, the sensation of transferring life into a tool and creating something new.
All of it was the domain of an S-rank Macromanser.
‘I want to reach it quickly.’
Not through skills.
But through my own true power.
And I have time to spare.
I can go deeper today.
Duho turned to look at the two of them.
“Let’s summon Bom-i to the Garage first.”
Isto blinked his LED eyes.
-The sword heading to Layer 7?
“Not right away.”
Watching Isto tilt his head in confusion, Duho smiled broadly.
“First, let’s consume the Seongmaek Blooming Pill in the Garage.”
Then we’ll head down.
I Became a Necromancer
Author |
Keongang E
Publication Date |
February 25, 2026
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TalesYX
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© Keongang E, 2026
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