Being a Hunter Is Too Easy for a Former Necromancer - Chapter 18

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The Reincarnated Necromancer Finds Being a Hunter Too Easy — Episode 18
“Boss! We’ve got a customer! The person you said you wanted to give work to! A Necromancer, but is that alright!?”
The demonic bartender called out from behind the bar.
Park Il-sang had a thought.
‘Not racism, but occupational discrimination—now that’s a demon for you. Tsk. Though I suppose it makes sense a demon would recognize what I am so naturally. Being a being from another dimension and all.’
A demon who discriminated with such ease!
Watching such a demon, Park Il-sang took a seat at the bar counter.
His head swiveled around as the demon bartender fixed his gaze on him—his body stayed facing backward while his neck rotated a full one hundred eighty degrees, making for a sight grotesque beyond measure.
“Come in, please.”
“Yes.”
“But you weren’t a Necromancer before, were you? How did you end up becoming one?”
“You remember me?”
“Ahem! Demons have excellent memories! You’re welcome to praise me.”
“Ah… that’s impressive?”
“Yay! I got praised!”
Just as he’d thought.
This demon’s energy was far too high.
In fact, Park Il-sang had not come to this shop for the first time. Most decent work in Yeouido went through Yu I-na, after all.
That is, even when working as an odd-jobber, he had used her shop to find employment.
That said, the fact that this demon remembered him from those days as a mere odd-jobber—he’d only visited this place three times at most, really.
After that, he’d found work through the website instead.
This shop.
They also operated a website called Ina Pocha, which functioned as an actual job placement and brokerage service.
So it should have been impossible for him to remember a face, and yet this demon bartender Seirun had remembered Park Il-sang.
One had to wonder about demons, truly.
“Then I’ll take the liberty of proceeding inside.”
Park Il-sang decided to head further in.
Click.
Opening the door deeper into the bar, he found himself in a lavishly furnished bedroom.
He had entered this place once before, years ago—Boss Yu I-na held her interviews here, an unusual practice to say the least.
Conducting interviews in a bedroom? That hardly seemed normal.
Even when he’d been hired as an odd-jobber, before his employment was finalized, he’d been interviewed in this very room.
And there, in one corner of the bedroom.
A beautiful woman sat half-reclined on a sofa before an antique table used for tea, her appearance striking in its elegance.
Draped in a form-fitting dress, her eyes carried an air of decadent beauty that captivated the gaze.
Her body appeared soft and supple, yet she stood taller than one might have expected.
At least one hundred eighty centimeters, judging by proportion—yet her frame possessed such artistic harmony that she possessed a breathtaking beauty all her own.
“It’s been a while. When I saw you before, I thought you were a special child. I never imagined you’d grow so quickly.”
“It’s been some time, boss. I didn’t expect you to remember me.”
Park Il-sang genuinely thought so.
After all, he had been nothing more than a common orphan working odd jobs.
“Special children aren’t common, you know.”
‘Special, she says… I may have memories of a past life, but outwardly there’s nothing remarkable about me at all.’
He did have memories of his past life, true, but he couldn’t access its power. The world was different, the laws and rules changed, which was his best guess—though he couldn’t pin down the exact reason.
So there was no reason for him to appear special.
Yet she saw him as special nonetheless…
Was there something only she could perceive?
“Coffee? Tea? I have alcohol too.”
“Coffee, please.”
“Seirun. One coffee.”
“Right away!”
Seirun’s reply echoed from beyond the door.
Boss Yu I-na had spoken in barely a whisper, yet the demonic bartender had heard her clearly and answered with gusto.
‘A demon indeed. To hear such a faint voice from that distance.’
Yu I-na. Her profession: Witch.
Her Rank was officially listed as B, though it was suspected to be higher in reality. Particularly her contracted demon, the bartender Seirun, was rumored to have once torn a C-Rank Hunter to shreds with his bare hands.
Moreover, her profession as a Witch meant she made contracts with demons and wielded Dark Magic, Curses, and strange Ritual Magic—things distinct from ordinary magic and Common Skills.
Indeed.
The striking woman with an enigmatic air who sat before Park Il-sang essentially ruled National Assembly Market Street in Yeouido.
“Right then. It seems our previous messenger conveyed things well. Do sit down.”
“Yes.”
Park Il-sang settled into the chair and spoke at once.
“I came hoping to hear the details of the matter….”
“You awakened as a Warrior not long ago, and now you’ve awakened as a Necromancer?”
“That is correct.”
“Most people don’t know what a Necromancer can do, but I’m not one of them.”
“Seirun must have told you, then.”
“Not at all. I learned it myself. Hunting down the world’s knowledge and studying it—that’s a pleasure.”
“I see.”
The concept of Necromancer wasn’t entirely absent from Earth. It had appeared plenty of times in games and novels.
There were indeed similarities, and even points of exact correspondence.
The only thing was that it didn’t align perfectly with Park Il-sang’s past life.
And in fact, he couldn’t use any of the powers from his past life at all.
For that reason, Park Il-sang had come to believe that different worlds meant different laws—yet the demon Seirun, existing as she did from another dimension, seemed to know quite a bit about Necromancers, which did raise a certain question.
Were the Necromancer that this demoness knew and the Necromancer from Park Il-sang’s past life truly the same thing?
They might be similar.
But they could also be wielding power in entirely different ways.
For that reason.
Park Il-sang paid close attention to her words—specifically the part where she said, “Most people don’t know what a Necromancer can do, but I’m not one of them.”
Did she truly know what he was capable of?
Even bound as he was by the Hunter System.
The power he wielded now bore a haunting resemblance to what he’d possessed in his past life.
“So. We hear our little corpse-puppeteer here is quite formidable. That you’ve created some rather large Undead Beasts?”
“I’m managing well enough. So then, might I ask what sort of commission this is?”
“Simple. A transport job.”
“A transport job? But surely there are already people doing that work….”
Currently, only twelve major cities survived in Korea, and the entire Korean population was concentrated in these twelve cities.
The world beyond the barriers was far too dangerous for that.
That said, the cities did exchange goods with one another. It was impossible for a single city to sustain itself through self-sufficiency alone.
And naturally, corporations existed that specialized in logistics and transport. There were also freelance couriers operating on an individual basis.
“It’s a private commission. Small-scale transport. I was looking for a Hunter who could provide multiple meat shields for the job.”
“Decoys, you mean?”
“That’s right. Decoys.”
“Are there high-rank Hunters handling defense and offense separately?”
“Of course. And the fee is three hundred million.”
Park Il-sang said nothing in particular.
Three hundred million.
A substantial sum, but not something Park Il-sang needed to accept at this point.
Just grinding F-rank Dungeons all day, he made a hundred million won daily—why risk something so dangerous?
“You’re not interested, then?”
“I’ve been earning quite well lately. Three hundred million seems a bit….”
“Hmm. I thought as much. Still, I think it would be good if you took this job….”
The way she was drawing out her words.
But Park Il-sang didn’t even blink at this level of pressure. He could simply leave this district if it came to that.
“Fine. If you take this job, I’ll give you this.”
With that, she produced a book and handed it over.
When Park Il-sang received it, the Hunter System responded.
[Skill Book: Spirit Power Increase]
Grade: Rare
Type: Passive
Description: Spirit Power rises one tier.
Function: Spirit Power advances one rank
Classification: Common Skill
A Rare Grade skill book!
And a Common Skill at that!
Common Skills could be learned regardless of profession or class.
Like the Broadcasting Skill or Internet Skill, they commanded decent prices.
Of course, with Park Il-sang’s recent earnings, there was nothing he couldn’t afford.
Common Skills tended to be rather unremarkable as a general rule.
Even something like the Broadcasting Skill or Internet Skill could be purchased for around one hundred million won.
But those are Common Grade, and this is Rare Grade.
Common. Uncommon. Then Rare.
Moreover, given that Spirit Power rises by exactly one tier… it had to be a skill worth at least a billion won.
“This is… an exceedingly precious item.”
“It’s an investment. And I’d like you to handle this particular task. As a note, if you agree to take it on, I’ll give you this as an advance. So will you do it?”
Park Il-sang paused to consider.
Could it be a trap?
No.
Park Il-sang himself wasn’t yet valuable enough to justify laying out a skill book worth over a billion won as bait.
“Very well. I’ll give it a try.”
Park Il-sang took the skill book.
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Spirit Power is, quite literally, spiritual force.
It can also be called the power of the soul — something a Necromancer would inevitably acquire in time.
To be precise, a Necromancer uses Necro-mana to “create” and harness Spirit Power.
Once a Necromancer reaches a sufficiently advanced stage, Spirit Power naturally generates on its own, though that takes considerable time.
At minimum, one would need to reach Tier 4 as a Necromancer.
For Park Il-sang, currently only an E-Rank Hunter comparable to a Tier 2 Necromancer, obtaining Spirit Power remained a distant dream.
Yet here was a Common Skill that could grant Spirit Power acquisition.
[Why is Strength Increase so expensive]
Posted by: ㅇㅇ
-Damn it! Even if it’s a Common Skill, isn’t this a bit much? Why is the Strength Increase skill book priced like this? My head’s spinning from how expensive it is.
-It’s a popular skill, isn’t it?
-Even a dried anchovy becomes a muscleman after learning it — wouldn’t it be strange if it weren’t expensive?
-Still, the supply’s steady enough. Let’s have a drink.
When you searched the Hunter Gallery for Common Skill-related posts, threads like these came up. In truth, he’d seen similar posts many times before.
If even Strength Increase commanded such prices, then in other words, this Spirit Power Increase skill book was something extraordinary.

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