Became a Mechromancer - Chapter 105

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Chapter 105.
A Hunter Management Bureau Without Vision
Ripple.
I emerged from the Gate.
A canyon with towering red sandstone cliffs stretching endlessly on both sides.
Oh….
Admiration flowed unbidden at the sheer grandeur of it all.
-It’s just iron oxide oxidizing and turning red, ribbit.
My wonder evaporated in an instant.
Hmm….
‘Of course our Bom-i would say something like that.’
As if reading my thoughts, Bom-i was being petulant.
Master.
-Two steps back, one step forward… and then to the left….
“Wait, wait. How many steps back?”
-Get your head in the game, ribbit.
“Got it. Sorry.”
Only then did Bom-i carefully guide me through the directions again, and I followed her instructions precisely.
And then.

[Main Quest A]
◈ Subjugate the “Mineral Glutton” in the Red Hematite Zone
Reward: Stats +20

[Main Quest B]
◈ Subjugate the Nest in the Canyon’s Depths
Reward: 50 Magic Stones
I examined the Main Quest alongside Super Intelligence.
This was the first time our choices had been unanimous.
-A it is!
-I concur.
-Magic Stones as a Layer 7 reward? That’s either brilliant or ridiculous.
Still, I scrutinized it carefully.
I wanted to see if there was any hidden meaning.
Fortunately, there didn’t appear to be.
‘Feels like a breather layer.’
“…A.”
At that single word, Hawkeye immediately activated the beast detection device.
A three-dimensional topographical map materialized in the air, with crimson dots scattered near the edges of the terrain.
Hawkeye spoke.
-The beasts are about 1.5 kilometers away. Without the detector, we would’ve had a rough time tracking down their traces.
Then he gave me a thumbs up.
Just as Isto was narrowing his LED eyes to join the conversation.
Sling.
Hawkeye drew an arrow.
-W-what?!
-Prevention against nonsense.
-Tch.
Hawkeye, having confirmed the beast positions on the three-dimensional map, spoke.
-I’ll head out.
Whoosh!
He vanished before my eyes.
“He really is fast.”
That’s when Bom-i asked.
-Master, can I check the transport ship’s detector?
I nodded, and Bom-i quickly retrieved the transport ship from the Garage.
Hop. Patter patter. Thud thud.
The three of us boarded the transport ship together.
Bom-i, seated at the controls, quickly activated the ship’s beast detection system.
The terrain of Abyss Layer 7 spread wide across the screen.
The crimson dots were clearly visible.
Whoooosh.
Excited, Bom-i turned around with puffed cheeks.
-With such a wide detection range, we can mine resources without worry!
Doo-ho smiled as he spoke.
Everything’s good, but….
“Let’s not write letters on the ground, yeah?”
At that moment, Bom-i looking at Isto.
Isto was flustered.
Doo-ho!
-2070 is a mischievous brat who….
But before he could explain, Hawkeye’s voice echoed in his mind.
-Save point installation complete, Mechanomancer.
Good grief….
Already found it?
The two of them entered the Garage.
And Doo-ho planted the save point on the ground, then stepped over it.
.
.
.
Before Doo-ho’s eyes, the Red Hematite Zone mining area spread out.
Beneath the rocky cliffs where red ore veins were exposed, pits were scattered here and there.
In each crevice, a single beast was clinging.
Large and gaunt frames.
Skin charred black like lumps of coal.
Faces with grotesquely split corners of mouths.
Scritch-scratch….
They gripped tridents shaped like shovels in their hands, stabbing and digging at the pits as if mining the red hematite.
Doo-ho’s expression turned sour as he watched the creatures wielding tridents.
“Why am I thinking of a dentist?”
It was because they resembled the bacteria characters from dental clinic advertisements he’d seen as a child.
Isto emerged from the Garage and stretched.
Doo-ho.
-Should I go with “It’s Showtime”?
“Yeah. But… I want to try handling a few myself.”
-Uh….
Isto, as if experiencing a momentary lag, waved his hands dismissively.
-Absolutely not!
“Then how will I know how much stronger I’ve become?”
Shake, shake.
Isto shook his head.
“Would you be like this even if I became S-rank?”
Nod, nod.
He nodded his head vigorously in agreement.
I stepped forward and extended my Soul Bot in a long arc.
Thwack—
The pointed tip of the Soul Bot pierced through the head of the beast closest in the pit.
[You have gained experience points]
I was more startled than anyone by the sheer force of the blow.
“Is… is that all it takes?”
Then Bom-i, perched on my shoulder, chimed in.
-If you’re going to eliminate them like this, I approve, ribbit.
Moreover, having dealt with them silently, the other beasts remained oblivious.
Isto answered, his LED eyes narrowing into slits.
-…Understood, sir.
Patter, patter.
With my permission, Isto walked toward the mining area.
“Are you upset?”
-Seems like it, ribbit.
“I mean, how much longer am I supposed to just be protected?”
-But Master, if you die, that’s the end for us too, ribbit.
Well…
I understood that much, at least.
Click.
Just then, Isto stopped before a massive ore vein.
Looking closer, heat shimmer rose around his body.
“What’s happening?”
Isto’s torso grew increasingly crimson.
Hawkeye rushed to my side in alarm.
-Get down, Mecromancer, sir!
With those words—
BOOM———CRASH!!!
Isto brought his fist down upon the ground.
Rumble… rumble rumble.
In an instant, the earth trembled and the ore vein collapsed!
[You have gained experience points]
[You have gained experience points]
[You have gained experience points]
[You have gained experience points]
[You have gained exper…]
Moments later.
The mining area fell silent.
As the dust settled, the corpses of beasts lay buried beneath what had been the red ore vein.
Writhe.
A single beast trapped in the stone thrashed desperately.
Squelch. Thud.
Lim Doo-ho severed its lifeline with his Soul Bot.
Then….

[Main Quest Complete]
◈ Red Hematite Zone ‘Mineral Glutton’ Subjugation
Reward: Stats +20
Gasp!
Isto’s LED eyes widened as he cried out.
Ooooooh!
-Doo-ho sir has done it!
“….”
A Hidden Quest materialized before the bewildered Doo-ho.

[Hidden Quest]
◈ Grand Mineral Glutton Annihilation
Reward: Gigantification Necklace
Accept / Decline
The Quest window was simpler than before.
“Huh?”
-Is something wrong, Mech Manser sir?
Doo-ho rubbed his eyes and looked again.
“…There’s no penalty?”
-Isn’t that a good thing?
“Well, I suppose….”
Doo-ho murmured to himself.
‘Did the administrator hear what I said on the 6th Floor?’
Then Bom-i asked.
-If that’s the case, couldn’t you just decline the Hidden Quest, ribbit?
Doo-ho shook his head.
There was no reason to refuse.
Even without a penalty attached, the reward remained the same.
Above all, clearing the Hidden Quest would make the Seoul Abyss safe.
Five whole months of reprieve, and forced difficulty reduction across other layers.
“Where else could I find such a reward.”
Now I understood.
Isto and Hawkeye alone were more than sufficient to clear the lower layers.
And I’d just proven that I could attack beasts with my Soul Bot as well.
Furthermore.
“I’m curious about the Gigantification Necklace too.”
-It makes you grow when you put it around your neck, right?
“Wouldn’t that be the case?”
So then.
“Agreed.”
Hawkeye, narrowing his scope, summoned the Save Point that Doo-ho had brought over and immediately opened the detector.
Whirring, clang, clang….
Before long, Bom-i’s transport ship, retrieved from the Garage, was clearing away the collapsed debris and extracting ore.
“It feels like a system is taking shape.”
Hawkeye said.
-I’ll depart right away.
“Yes, be careful.”
Soon after Hawkeye rushed off, Doo-ho looked around and felt something was amiss.
‘Wait, where’s Isto?’
As I glanced around.

[Hidden Quest Complete]
◈ Grand Ore Glutton Annihilation
Reward: Gigantification Necklace
Along with the sudden reward window.
Ding.
Light gathered in the air, and a heavy necklace dropped onto Doo-ho’s palm.
The moment Doo-ho looked down at it.

[World Announcement]
South Korea Abyss Layer 7 Destruction Reprieve
※ The Necromancer’s Return.
Gasp!
How… how is this possible?
‘And why is the Necromancer’s Return showing up again?!’
Unable to comprehend what was happening, that’s when it came.
Isto’s voice echoed in my mind.
Lim Doo-ho.
-Shall we descend to the next layer?
‘You… you did this?’
-….
‘Isto?’
Hawkeye cut in on behalf of the hesitant one.
-That iron-headed fool clung to my back, Necromancer.
It was a subtle jab, but there was no hiding that the two had conspired together.
Ha….
I couldn’t help but laugh.
‘They’re not giving me a chance at all.’
The moment I said I’d catch the Demon King myself, they pulled something like this.
There was no need to check the time.
From the Main Quest to the Hidden Quest, everything combined took barely fifteen minutes.
So then.
‘Strike while the iron is hot.’
Shortly after.
I summoned the ones who’d finished cleaning up to the Garage. And the moment I was about to unfold my Dimensional Control skill to descend to Abyss Layer 8.
A system window appeared.
[Maximum clearable layers per day: two.]
※ Different Abyss entry possible with Dimensional Ticket usage.
I can’t descend?
The ones in the Garage came out and read the contents written below the system window together with me.
‘Dimensional Ticket?’
Hmm….
Suddenly, I recalled the ticket I’d left on the Garage shelf.
“But wasn’t that supposed to take us to a different dimensional Abyss?”
-There’s a misunderstanding on your part, Necromancer.
“…?”
-While each country’s Abyss may feel like the same world space, they are actually independent dimensions.
Simply put.
Using a Dimensional Ticket allows entry into another country’s Abyss.
The problem was.
“There’s no reason to go back to Layer 1. We won’t even gain experience fighting Ratkin.”
-Ratkin aren’t even worth our time. Hehehehe~.
That’s when Bom-i interjected.
Master.
-If you’re curious how much stronger you’ve become, testing yourself on the safe Layer 1 isn’t a bad idea, ribbit.
Tempting.
That was a perspective even Doo-ho hadn’t considered.
Meanwhile, Hawkeye and Isto glared at Bom-i.
-That would be a waste of time, Macromanser.
-Doo-ho. If we descend to the next layer, I’ll make sure you hunt down several Demonic Beasts!
The two of them acted as if they’d had a seizure button pressed.
In the end, Doo-ho left the Abyss with reluctance in his heart.
* * *
Luminescence gathered, and a red-haired dwarf avatar materialized.
The dwarf avatar gazed upward into the void.
Beneath the starlight, countless streams of news data drifted slowly.
Avatars connected through dive ports filled the Agora Plaza one by one.
There were always many users online, but today was especially crowded.
This was the data plaza where information about Abysses from every nation spread fastest.
Thanks to automatic translation, English, Chinese, Arabic—all sounded like the same language.
The reason so many gathered at dawn was singular.
It was because of Ghost from South Korea.
“My brother said Ghost cleared the second layer in about 15 minutes.”
The plaza erupted instantly.
“15 minutes?”
“Insane.”
“Even a normal quest takes at least an hour if you’re fast?”
“And usually just entering and exiting a single layer drains you completely.”
“Ghost is seriously incredible.”
Another voice cut through.
“Wait, doesn’t it seem like he’s finding and eliminating the layer boss?”
“What do you mean?”
“Look at all the global announcements so far. Queens Ratkin, Black Dragon—they’re all names we’ve never heard before. If eliminating the layer boss makes the layer disappear, that would explain it, right?”
“Oh~ that makes sense!”
A brief silence.
Someone raised a question.
“What’s this Macromanser that just appeared?”
“Isn’t that a compound word for machine and mage?”
“So if it’s the return of the Macromanser… does that mean the Mechanical Mage has come back?”
“Isn’t that Ghost’s unique class?”
“Does that make sense? Electronics don’t work in the Abyss!”
A cauldron of chaos.
Which is why it’s even louder.
Right at that moment.
A voice close to a shout echoed from the corner of the Plaza.
“Our Qingdao Abyss isn’t a joke—we’ve only got half a month left!”
All eyes turned toward the source.
A red-haired dwarf avatar was venting his frustration as if losing his mind.
“The government blocked all immigration applications and is forcing people to relocate to cities they designated—I’m about to go insane!”
The surroundings fell silent.
The dwarf avatar continued, breathing heavily and roughly.
“And on top of that, the government colluded with Zhang Wei and messed around on Chiko Island, and when that bastard died, everything got twisted up….”
Whoosh.
The avatar caught in the lag vanished like a dying flame.
Silence.
Someone muttered quietly.
“Isn’t that the same phenomenon that happens when a dive port is forcibly extracted?”
“…If that happens, the shock to the brain could kill you.”
“Is that the Chinese secret police…?”
An eerie silence swept across the Plaza.
After a moment.
Someone spoke very softly.
“I envy Korea too… but how desperate must that person have been?”
No one could respond.
* * *
The next day.
The Hunter Management Bureau executive conference room.
Na Manager stood before the table.
Before him sat Director Kim Tae-sung and Director Park Soon-kwon, with Director General Ma Jeong-seok at the head seat.
Director Kim Tae-sung frowned as he examined the document Na Manager had suspended in midair.
“…Na Manager. I understand what you’re saying, so withdraw your resignation.”
Na Manager shook his head.
“Why are you really doing this?”
“….”
A brief silence.
Na Manager asked calmly.
“It’s been a week since I submitted my report. What have the three of you been doing all this time?”
At those words, Director Park Soon-kwon’s eyes widened.
“This guy keeps saying it’s fine! In front of the Director General, no less….”
“Stop this at once!”
Na Yong-seok, who had been squeezing his eyes shut, countered directly.
“Lim Doo-ho, there’s less than ten months remaining until your contract expires.”
The air in the conference room grew cold.
Na Manager pushed the resignation letter displayed as a hologram forward with his fingertip.
“Yet in this situation, you won’t invest, and you’re thinking of letting others steal you away?”
When no one answered immediately, Na Manager shook his head.
“If you leave, I have no further attachment to the Hunter Management Bureau.”
What’s the point of continuing at this vision-less Hunter Management Bureau?
Became a Necromancer
Author |
Gungang E
Published |
February 25, 2026
Publisher |
Talesyx
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ⓒ Gungang E, 2026
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