Damn Necromancer - Chapter 110

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Donzirah Guild Necromancer (110)
Class Change
Summoned creatures grow at certain level intervals.
Skeletons were no exception.
101, 201, 301…….
As their average level increased in this pattern, their frames grew larger, their bones became sturdier, and their basic weapons improved correspondingly.
In other words.
‘There was never supposed to be a class change system?’
Warrior or Archer classifications didn’t emerge from a skeleton’s natural growth.
Those were skills obtained separately through bound Skill Books.
‘But now a class change exists?’
It was thanks to their powerful learning capacity—their ability to acquire techniques rapidly.
And one of the Dragonrider Title effects was that skeletons could reach the rank of Dragon Soldier.
Perhaps that latent potential had activated a class change system in the skeletons themselves.
Either way.
Since class changes had become possible, I decided to look at what options were available.
[Available Class Changes]
[1. Skeleton Apprentice Warrior]
[2. Skeleton Apprentice Blacksmith]
[3. Skeleton Apprentice Alchemist]
[Multiple class change options are available.]
[A new growth possibility for the skill has been discovered!]
[Calculating…….]
[All skeleton summons will be cancelled!]
Thud!
The skulls vanished in an instant.
Then.
[The contents of Skeleton Summoning (F)+9 have undergone major changes!]
A message appeared stating the skill had been altered.
I checked the skill description.
[Skeleton Apprentice Summoning (E)+9]
[Consume 10 Mana to summon 2 (1+1) desired Level 101 Skeleton Apprentices.]
[* Currently available summon list (3/10)]
[1. Skeleton Apprentice Warrior]
[A skeleton more proficient in close combat.]
[* Summoned with Close Combat Weaponry (E) equipped.]
[2. Skeleton Apprentice Blacksmith]
[A skeleton more proficient in equipment crafting.]
[* Summoned with Dwarven Crafting Method (E) equipped.]
[3. Skeleton Apprentice Alchemist]
[A skeleton more proficient in alchemy.]
[* Summoned with Elven Alchemy (E) equipped.]
[4. Undetermined.]
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[10. Undetermined.]
The skill had changed dramatically.
The rank had shifted from F to E, for starters.
‘Apprentice Summoning?’
Apprentice.
It meant learning and mastering something.
Calling them apprentices made sense—the skeletons were still in their learning phase.
‘So that means…….’
Boiling it down to the essentials.
The summoning cost remained the same.
But now I could summon skeletons tailored to the situation and stage—whichever suited my needs best.
“It’s like specialization?”
In combat, naturally I’d want to summon Warriors. But for crafting, it made sense to summon Blacksmiths or Alchemists instead.
‘Could it be…… that switching between them is free?’
Kim Min-woo’s eyes lit up.
The mechanism of skeleton summoning was simple enough.
If he could summon ten, they’d be numbered one through ten.
Once his mana increased and he could summon twenty, the original one through ten would appear as fixed summons.
Then new skeletons numbered eleven through twenty would be added on top.
These newly added skeletons would spawn at a fixed Level 101 as indicated in the skill description.
His current level was 230.
His mana pool stood at roughly nine thousand.
His maximum summon capacity was approximately 3,600 skeletons.
Skeleton number one, Hae-il.
He activated the summoning skill to test whether his theory was correct.
[Ten Skeleton Apprentice Warriors are summoned!]
Skeletons one through ten pulled themselves up from the ground.
‘This is quite different from before.’
When they’d been ordinary skeletons, they were small and scrawny, but now they had a warrior-like bearing and substantial frames.
“Hey, Hae-il.”
Clatter!
Hae-il snapped to attention with a sharp salute.
‘So this is warrior mode.’
He dismissed the summons.
[Ten Skeleton Apprentice Blacksmiths are summoned!]
This time he summoned a unit of blacksmiths.
They were slightly more compact than the warriors.
The blacksmiths held bone mallets in their hands as standard equipment.
“Hey, Hae-il.”
Clatter!
Hae-il saluted sharply again, this time clutching the bone mallet.
“Are you the same skeletons that were summoned as warriors earlier?”
Clatter!
Ten skeletons nodded in unison.
He was beginning to grasp it.
Skeletons one through ten.
They appeared with their professions freely switched—blacksmith, alchemist, warrior.
The remaining 3,590 would work the same way.
‘This is insane.’
Normally, he’d expected one to one thousand to be warriors.
One thousand one to two thousand, blacksmiths.
Two thousand one to three thousand, alchemists.
He’d thought the class progression would follow that pattern, but the structure was nothing like it.
All 3,600 skeletons could be summoned as blacksmiths or alchemists when he needed to craft, and all as warriors when he needed to fight—it was a mad degree of flexibility.
The potential didn’t end there.
[* Current Summon List Available (3/10)]
Seven slots remained open in the summon list.
In other words.
‘I can perform ten class changes total.’
Seven remaining professions.
By giving the skeletons relevant training to acquire the necessary skills, he could unlock as many as he wanted.
They could become skeleton archers, tailors, leather workers, or chefs—anything was possible.
‘I need to think about what to add.’
Space was limited.
It would be best to fill those slots with the most efficient professions.
‘Though honestly, anything I put in there would be useful.’
Skeletons had overwhelming numbers.
Combined with their learning ability, their combat effectiveness was hardly lacking.
Combat roles like archers or assassins could be deployed efficiently.
‘Production roles aren’t bad either.’
Assigning creatures like Durahans to blacksmithing work would be hideously inefficient.
It cost enormous amounts of mana just to summon a handful of them.
There was no comparison to the cost-effectiveness of skeletons.
‘Production might actually be the better choice.’
Combat could be supplemented by other summons, but production was a different matter—it was a structure that resisted supplementing. Of the remaining seven slots, it seemed I’d need to dedicate at least five to production roles.
‘Then… would the mages undergo a Class Change too?’
These mages had studied magic diligently and were among those receiving the Cedric Title effect.
There was a chance they might undergo a Class Change as well.
And that wasn’t all.
The Merchen Title’s effect explicitly stated that all spirits could reach their ultimate form, so ghost-type Undead like Specters might eventually undergo a Class Change too.
Specters possessed superior intellect compared to skeletons, so there was nothing stopping me from having them learn as much as I wanted.
‘Damn, really.’
He offered up a reverent prayer.
“Amen.”
The Death Lord is a god, and I am invincible.
* * *
The time remaining before the preliminaries.
He threw himself into leveling up, clearing A-Rank Gates one after another.
Having revealed a fair portion of his capabilities through the guild tournament, he entered Gates without further pretense of secrecy.
‘No point hiding anymore.’
Before, when his level was low, excessive attention would have been problematic, so he’d kept a low profile.
But that was then.
If assassins came calling, he’d welcome it. Each one meant guaranteed level gain. Nothing leveled faster than hunting Awakeners.
Park Si-woo and Seo Ye-rim pursued Gates in the same manner.
Both of them circulated through A-Rank and B-Rank Gates, leveling up in succession.
The Donzirah Guild’s consecutive solo clears.
It was a story that could not help but become a sensation. While others gathered by the dozens to clear a Gate, he went in alone and destroyed them.
—(Breaking News) Kim Min-woo Solo Clear of A-Rank Gate Blue Nighttree Forest Succeeds Again lol Also beat his time record lol
—How much faster?
—5 hours 48 minutes 23 seconds. Cut 20 minutes off his previous record.
—Crazy bastard for real. Didn’t even lap the scorched plains three times?
—Yeah. Just eats, sleeps, and hunts lol really is obsessed with leveling up.
—Must’ve broken 200 level by now?
—Probably way over that already lol
—You hear? B-grade Skill Books are completely sold out in the United States.
—Yeah and Korea ran through them all not that long ago lol
—This seems like…
—Yeah; looks like Il-seong’s side is buying up all the Skill Books? Probably about to learn Durahans Summoning lol
—B-grade in 3 months after awakening? I’m in my 3rd year and still stuck at D-grade, is this even real?
—Should’ve been born with money and talent then lol
—For real lol
—(Curious newbie) How much stronger do you get when you learn Durahans Summoning?
—(Info) Durahans Summoning is where the Necromancer class truly blooms. These creatures actually have intellect.
—(Info) Durahans buff your meat shields. Buffed meat shields are pretty damn strong.
—Before B-grade, Necromancers are basically useless, but from B-grade onward they’re at least functional. That’s assuming you’ve subdued the Durahans though.
—Yeah. But subduing them is rough apparently. Their minds are just too proud—act too submissive and they’ll eat you, but try to assert dominance too quickly and they draw their swords lol
—How do you stop a sword-wielding Durahnans?
—Stop it? lol Just summon meat shields to buy time or hit it with a desummoning spell lll
—Can’t a Necromancer beat a Durahans?
—They’re smart enough to target the master, so how’s a fragile Necromancer supposed to survive? lol
—I’m a Necromancer and it’s rough going for sure. But once you subdue that first one, it gets easier after that oo
—Sir/Ma’am, why even play Necromancer?
—If anyone asks you of the Necromancer’s future, raise your head and point them to Kim Min-woo.
—KIA~ Leader~
—Though honestly that’s not just Necromancers. Whenever summoner-class players subdue a strong summon, it’s standard to get absolutely destroyed oo
—Yeah. That Chinese lightning emperor or whatever, didn’t he get completely scorched trying to tame some top-tier thunder spirit? lll
—If it was Kim Min-woo, the spirit gets one-shot in 5 seconds yeah?
—Yeah. A Durahans? One flick of Merchen’s fingers and it’d turn into charcoal BBQ lol
—Come to think of it, Kim Min-woo probably doesn’t struggle much with subduing anything. Cedric and Merchen and the guy himself is a sword prodigy lll
—Dolsoe? That golem’s there too~
—Is that really the same wimpy Necromancer I used to know? My heart feels so proud…
As countless posts flooded the Gate forums, green light burst from the Gate shown on the news broadcast, and Kim Min-woo emerged.
As always, reporters swarmed him like a pack of hounds, firing questions.
“Kim Min-woo! Is it true that B-grade Skill Books are completely sold out in the United States? Are you trying to learn the Durahans Summoning skill?”
“That’s correct.”
“Good heavens…… So you’ve reached level 251…….”
“Why are you so surprised? Everyone must have suspected as much.”
He’d been demolishing A-Rank Gates left and right—it would be strange if his leveling pace weren’t fast.
Level 251, classified as B-grade.
He’d reached it long ago.
‘Since Hyeong-seok said he was coming anyway…….’
Once he got the Skill Book, he’d learn Durahans Summoning.
“Then I’ll be on my way.”
He exited the Gate and boarded a vehicle.
Not long after, he arrived at the airport—Incheon Airport, where Hyeong-seok would be returning.
“You worked hard.”
“This much? It’s nothing.”
He handed over the Skill Book.
[Durahans Summoning (B)+9]
[This skill has already been reinforced to its maximum level.]
[Consumes 200 Mana to summon 2 Level 1 Durahans (1+1).]
‘Two hundred Mana.’
It struck him anew.
Summoning Merchen and Cedric.
How efficient those two skills were.
It cost only 100 Mana to summon the legion commanders.
Yet summoning just two Durahans ate up 200.
‘With the Death Load discount, it’s 100, but still.’
Even accounting for that, the cost was substantial.
Not that he wouldn’t summon them anyway.
“I’m heading out.”
“Right. Study hard.”
Hyeong-seok nodded and boarded the flight to the United States at once.
After seeing him off properly,
he headed toward the Training Ground at his family estate.
‘I should handle this in one stroke.’
He immediately used the Durahans Summoning skill.
The Death Load’s Mana cost reduction.
Which meant summoning two with 100 Mana instead.
[180 Durahans have been summoned!]
Countless headless knights filled the Training Ground, their blank stares fixed on him—a horde of Durahans.
Loyalty: 40.
Still an abysmal level.
He drew the Commander’s Sword.
“Come at me. All of you.”
Training time had begun.

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