Damn Necromancer - Chapter 93

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Spendthrift Necromancer (93)
Limbs, and then the neck.
Wei Long Gang’s entire body was separated.
[Your Level has risen by 3!]
Every one I hunted, my level surged upward. I’d climbed to 196 after taking down O-ho, Chil-ho, and the trainee earlier.
Three more brought me to 199. Considering I’d been Level 180 when I entered, it was insane growth.
A massive level gap.
The Awakener bonus experience was factoring in as well.
‘Easy.’
Without Merhen, it would’ve taken far longer. She’d have thrashed about using every spell in her arsenal.
But things were different now.
A mage who can’t cast magic?
She deserves to die.
[You hunt the first Prey!]
[The demons rejoice!]
[You obtain 20 Demon Points!]
I looked over the shadow army.
The second one chosen was……
“Satoru!”
A Japanese man.
I didn’t know his name.
But I knew his skill level.
I’d confirmed it when I threw my summons at him earlier. Nothing remarkable—just a hollow S-rank swordsman. I had a rough idea why he’d received votes.
Han Baek-gil and Il-ho through Sa-ho.
All Korean.
Wei Long Gang and that Japanese swordsman, meanwhile, were foreign.
If you’re going to use someone as a sacrifice, might as well start with the outsider.
The frantic Japanese swordsman was dragged toward the center.
[The second Prey participates!]
[Combat begins in 5 seconds! Prepare yourselves!]
Dol-soe and Cedric.
And Merhen and the rest of the summon horde—the Japanese swordsman, Satoru, saw that staggering number, and his eyes trembled.
It’d been a long time since his last job.
The pay wasn’t bad, so he’d joined lightly, thinking of it as tourism.
‘I’m done.’
He’d seen Kim Min-woo’s skill.
He was decent enough with a blade himself.
He could see the gap in ability at a glance.
Even if he cleared all the summons and fought one-on-one, he couldn’t win.
The gap was that vast.
He’d never thought this would become his grave.
Halting Korean tumbled from his mouth.
“Sh, shit……”
[Combat begins!]
Kim Min-woo and Cedric rushed forward.
His neck was severed in less than ten seconds.
Crunch!
I shouldn’t have come.
That was his last thought, spinning in a darkening world.
[You hunt the second Prey!]
[A clean slaughter!]
[You obtain 25 Demon Points!]
[Your Level has risen by 2!]
And then, after two more levels——
A message appeared.
[Cedric has reached Level 201!]
[First Seal is released!]
[Ability Scores are adjusted!]
[Merhen has reached Level 201!]
[First Seal is released!]
[Your ability scores are being adjusted!]
‘What?’
Cedric and Merhen.
Both of them began to change.
Cedric first.
His frame swelled noticeably, as if he were sprouting upward and outward all at once.
His bones thickened, and his eyes darkened to a deeper black.
Merhen’s appearance shifted as well, though not in the same way as Cedric’s muscular augmentation.
The Parasol she held—
Strange magical circles began etching themselves across its surface. At first glance, it resembled some kind of sinister occult artifact.
And then:
[Cedric’s ability scores are being adjusted!]
[Previous: +1 to all stats per level ―〉 +2 to all stats per level]
[Merhen’s ability scores are being adjusted!]
[Previous: Mana multiplier ×3 per level ―〉 Mana multiplier ×4]
‘……?’
What in the world was this?
I checked Cedric’s status window.
[Cedric]
[Job: Dragoon Knight]
[Level: 201]
[Loyalty: 100]
[Skills: Master of Spear (SS), Shadow Spear (SS), Dragon Strike (S)]
[Special Note: First seal has been released. Physical abilities have risen significantly.]
[Strength: 634(+317)] [Agility: 590(+295)] [Stamina: 620(+310)] [Mana: 636(+318)]
[* Great Success special effect]
[* Movement speed increased 10%]
[* Mini-Breath activation enabled]
[* Reflex speed increased 10%]
[* Arm strength increased 20%]
Kim Min-woo’s eyes went wide.
‘The ability scores—they’ve skyrocketed.’
Cedric.
He was a summon capable of using Bone Exchange. Ever since I embedded that ancient dragon’s skull, I’d been steadily grafting bones into him whenever capacity allowed.
The twenty-percent increase in arm strength came from implanting an ogre’s arm bone, and the boost to reflex speed was the result of grafting a raptor’s spinal column.
There was the Great Success stat adjustment, the equipment bonuses from his gear—
Even factoring in all the Death Lord’s multipliers combined, his average stats had hovered around 600.
But now it was different.
‘They’ve ballooned to 900?’
The per-level stat increase had doubled, and since the Death Lord’s effect now applied to those boosted gains as well, everything had compounded.
‘Insane.’
Honestly, I’d always felt something was lacking. Higher-tier summons naturally received larger per-level stat bonuses—that was the baseline.
Even Dol-soe proved the point.
‘Strength and stamina at 2× multiplier. Agility at 1×, mana at 0.5×.’
His mana growth lagged, but in exchange he specialized in strength and stamina with those boosted coefficients.
So his total per-level gain came out to around 5.5.
Compared to a basic skeleton gaining just 4 stats per level, that was substantially superior.
Deathknights and liches operated similarly—they each gained more than 4 per level.
And Cedric, being a legion commander?
He should have been receiving far greater stat adjustments by right.
But until now, he wasn’t. He’d been locked at a base increase of just 1 per stat per level—barely 4 total, like the weakest summon.
I hadn’t assumed it would stay that way forever.
He was sealed, after all.
Eventually it would come undone.
That’s what I’d believed.
‘I never thought it would happen now……’
A 2× multiplier on all stats.
And this was only the first seal breaking.
Later, he might become even more monstrous.
‘Actually, it makes perfect sense.’
SSS-Rank.
It was strange that in the past, he’d only been consuming a single multiplier.
Even with this rate of increase.
‘The Death Lord effect is applied across the board.’
When you factored that in, it came out to a whopping triple multiplier. Thanks to that, these insane ability scores had emerged.
“Now I’m starting to look like a proper legion commander.”
Kim Min-woo nodded with satisfaction. Merhen’s magical power had inflated just as dramatically.
[Merhen]
[Class: Grand Warlock]
[Level: 201]
[Skills Possessed: Grand Warlock (SS), Cry of Terror (S)]
[Loyalty: 100]
[Strength: 201 (+100)] [Agility: 201 (+100)] [Stamina: 201 (+100)] [Magic Power: 1020 (+510)]
[Special Notes: Her first seal has been released, resulting in a significant increase to her magic power stat.]
Level 201.
A quadruple multiplier magic power base of 800.
With equipment boosts from armament upgrades, roughly 200 more magic power added.
Combined with the Death Lord effect, magic power had climbed close to 1,500.
‘Damn.’
Mana pool swollen to absurd levels.
Strength, agility, and stamina lagged far behind, but she was a mage to begin with—a class that was dead weight without magic power. The other stats only needed to be baseline; nothing else mattered.
Shock wasn’t limited to Kim Min-woo alone.
The Awakeners from the Shadow side, waiting on the opposite path, were equally horrified.
Cedric and Merhen.
The summons they’d been watching. Not only had their forms suddenly changed, they’d begun radiating an oppressive aura—visibly stronger than before.
“……Damn it!”
Sa-ho stomped the ground with his feet, thud-thud. That’s how infuriating the situation was.
What was even more despairing.
Was the fact that even after sacrificing those two to buy time, they’d found no clear way to escape this place.
Han Baek-gil stared hard at Sa-ho.
“……You’re going to have to go.”
“Goddamn…….”
No foreigners left now.
Only native Koreans remained.
It seemed Han Baek-gil intended to send them out in order of weakness.
Naturally, the captain and Il-ho, I-ho, and Sam-ho would be fine. But not him.
Growing desperate, Sa-ho spoke while looking at them all.
“Hey, you’re really going through with this? At this rate, the captain will be going last.”
“……Are you saying we should send the captain first instead?”
“Doesn’t it feel unfair? We all agreed to come here together. So shouldn’t the vote be fair too? How can we just shove someone in and have them pick who dies?”
“……Stop spouting nonsense, Sa-ho. We’ve already discussed the matter of sacrifice long ago. If we find a way out in the meantime, we’ll naturally need someone strong to escape. That’s the logic.”
“Bullshit! We couldn’t find one till now, so how will we find it now? Listen, Sam-ho! I-ho! You really going along with this? Next it’ll be your turn!”
“……I’m sorry.”
Sa-ho.
Sam-ho.
I-ho.
The three of them went out, and all had their heads severed within a minute.
Il-ho and Han Baek-gil.
Only two remained.
“……Damn it. Captain, is there really no way to escape? Try offering a damn prayer or something!”
“……Prayer isn’t something one can do at any time.”
“Damn it, damn it!”
But what happens now?
A voting system to nominate a sacrifice.
But each of them held one vote.
It was as the two men tilted their heads in confusion that it happened.
[Winner Takes All!]
[Fight!]
[The victorious prey receives one vote!]
“……This Gate is truly goddamn ridiculous.”
“I agree.”
Han Baek-gil and Il-ho rushed toward each other.
To buy even one more minute of life.
Han Baek-gil, having felled Il-ho, exhaled deeply and spoke.
“I’m sorry.”
“Tch…….”
Il-ho, dead.
Han Baek-gil, the sole survivor, surveyed his surroundings.
A Gate is a mass of variables.
So he’d been searching desperately for any escape, but none of his plans had worked.
Then.
[You are the only remaining Prey!]
[The demon is growing bored with this one-sided match!]
[* One of the demons makes an offer!]
[Deal terms: Pledge your soul]
[Payment: Demonic power]
[Will you accept this deal?]
Han Baek-gil swallowed hard.
‘Perfect!’
As expected.
Just as it seemed there was no way out but death, an astounding proposal arrived. Give your soul, and they’d grant him power.
‘Either way, I’m dead if I don’t.’
Soul?
What did that matter?
Staying alive right now was all that mattered.
Han Baek-gil nodded without hesitation.
That instant.
[Your soul has been mortgaged!]
[In exchange, demonic power is granted!]
[Your race has been transformed into a demon!]
Han Baek-gil’s body began swelling grotesquely.
* * *
‘He sold his soul.’
Kim Min-woo watched the scene unfold with perfect calm. This was something he already knew. The last time he’d discovered this hidden piece, it had played out exactly the same way.
Kill them one by one, and the last one standing turns into a demon.
It got a little tougher, but he still took it down. This time would be no different.
‘Will this one add to the Death Sword stack?’
Trainees and S-rank Awakeners.
Unfortunately, they hadn’t been worthy enough; the sword had drunk none of their blood.
But Han Baek-gil…….
‘It might just feed on him.’
And he’d get plenty of Achievement Points for it too.
His heart was already racing.
[The final Prey enters the arena!]
[Battle commences in 5 seconds! Prepare yourself!]
He fixed his gaze on Han Baek-gil.
Just then.
The demon’s body began trembling violently.
[The effect of ‘Stolen Eye of Vulcan’ activates!]
[The ‘demon’ before you feels overwhelming pressure!]
Cold sweat poured from demon Han Baek-gil’s body.
‘This title hits perfectly.’
This was why he’d wanted to come here.
This Gate was the perfect stage for that title to shine.
―No, this is impossible…… Why am I…….
Han Baek-gil’s panic was evident.
He’d sold his soul.
But the situation only worsened.
A suffocating oppressive force.
His heart hammered violently, his spine crawled with ice. Even before combat began, Han Baek-gil was already drowning in despair.
What good is it becoming a demon and strengthening my stats if I can’t even fight?
I can’t land a blow to save my life!
[Battle commences!]
Three minutes into the battle.
Han Baek-gil’s limbs, now sturdier from his demonic transformation, were severed one by one, and his head followed shortly after.
[You have risen 5 Levels.]
● You are the ‘Horizon Opener’ of mankind!
● You perceive the world’s transformation!
● You have hunted Han Baek-gil, one of the world’s major villains!
● You receive 300 Achievement Points.
● You possess an Achievement Vending Machine! Your points are doubled!
The Achievement Points message, followed by—
[The Death Sword absorbs the prey’s blood! (1/10)]
A blood absorption message.
And on top of that—
[You gain 50 Demon Points!]
[Total points acquired: 200]
[Remarkable score!]
[Selecting a demon worthy of reward…….]
I had acquired Demon Points.
Beside Han Baek-gil’s corpse, I could see several items scattered on the ground.
Among them was a peculiar-looking black Orb.
I recalled Han Baek-gil’s words.
He’d said he obtained an Orb imbued with tremendous power through prayer, and then activated an experience points duplication bug.
‘Could that be the Orb he meant?’
I felt I should verify it.

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