My Catastrophic‑Level Summon Devours Gates - Chapter 150

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Episode 150

After the meeting with the Phoenix Guild, I spent similar days continuously.

[Tigris’s performance has been improved.]

[Strength + 2%]

[Durability +1%]

I focused on performance improvement by disassembling and reassembling perfectly fine undead.

Clang! Bang!

“Hunter Park. Just relax your wrist a little.”

“Like this?”

“That’s perfect. If only our kids could understand instructions this well.”

“…”

I passed on techniques and skills at Hanil Forge.

Sometimes I joined the training Support Team and swung swords too.

“But why did you come?”

“Wow. Is it okay to treat the fan club president like that?”

“If you don’t like it, resign.”

“Hmph. You can enter freely but leaving isn’t up to you. Uncle doesn’t even know that?”

Yeon-du naturally joined the training too.

Since I had previously asked Sir Isra for guidance, it wasn’t strange for her to join.

“Mir Guild doesn’t say anything?”

“I told you they don’t. Don’t worry about it.”

If it were you, wouldn’t you be concerned about this situation?

The airport press conference spread everywhere, both online and offline.

When I glanced at restaurant TVs while passing by, my face was there!

It happened too frequently to laugh about “Mom! I was on TV!”

When I complained to my familiars about this hardship.

“The number of those praising my lord’s greatness grows daily!”

“Now everyone knows. Who truly deserves respect.”

Only completely unhelpful words came back.

Sigh.

What did I expect from you guys.

“Mir Guild couldn’t have missed it.”

“They just tell me to get closer to uncle. Don’t worry.”

Hmm.

Do they sincerely believe they can renegotiate with me through Yeon-du?

Fine. Whatever.

Since Yeon-du says it’s okay, let’s not think about it anymore.

If real problems arise, I’ll say something then.

Whoosh!

“You must not think of other things while swinging your sword.”

“Yes. Yes.”

[Your understanding of Imperial Swordsmanship increases.]

“Uncle. Let’s compete!”

“You’re terrible at it.”

“Argh! Holding onto one loss!”

“So you did lose, right?”

While swinging the bone knife, Ingrid gave me a stern look.

“Master.”

“Alright. Alright. I’ll practice magic too.”

“Must I always have to tell you?”

Flames flickered in Ingrid’s eyes.

This must be what it feels like to be scolded by a girlfriend you’ve never even dated.

Sob sob.

Being single is heartbreaking enough, but I’m only experiencing the downsides of being a couple.

“Blink.”

Flash!

I moved to a location dozens of meters away from where I was standing.

“Ugh.”

I feel nauseous.

This is the aftereffect of spatial sense disruption, Blink’s penalty.

“Try casting the magic 0.3 seconds faster.”

“Got it.”

“You lost concentration right after casting too, didn’t you?”

Eek.

She’s spot-on. Absolutely spot-on.

“Your eyes were spinning.”

“You need to get used to the sensation when Blink activates.”

“The nauseating sensation?”

“You must focus on the process of your body being reconstructed across space.”

Like this, occasionally training with the Support Team and Yeon-du.

Spending each day productively, time flew by like an arrow.

[Corpse Processing skill is enhanced to B-grade.]

[Corpse Crafting skill is enhanced to B-grade.]

Finally, the two enhanced skills!

“Will you resume external activities?”

“I’ll strengthen my foundation more.”

I’m going to analyze the Death Knight and Lich remains further.

Something.

There must be at least one way to strengthen undead.

“It’s best to maximize the understanding of both skills when I have time.”

Thanks to blocking the monster wave in the Tower of Chaos, my level increased quite a bit.

If I run Gates like before, I’ll quickly raise experience points too.

Before that, I decided to maximize my understanding as much as possible.

“Excellent mindset! Strengthening your foundation first.”

“Hmm. No. External activities weren’t particularly urgent.”

Like that.

Two months passed in the blink of an eye.

* * *

For two months, I completely stopped external activities.

I worked hard to strengthen my foundation.

The results were not insignificant.

First, what stood out were the two enhanced skills.

[Corpse Processing]

―When crafting equipment/undead with corpses processed by mana, final specs + 6%.

[Corpse Crafting]

―Zombie Commander[B-grade]

―Skeleton Guard[B-grade]

Final specs of crafted results + 6%!

Additionally, I acquired two more undead crafting methods as promotion rewards.

“Aren’t they weak compared to Tigris?”

“My theory has improved.”

“How could Iron Head understand the power of knowledge? Please understand, Master.”

“Gal!”

Ingrid was right.

Since I automatically learned how to create Skeleton Guards and Zombie Commanders.

The skills I could utilize when making undead had increased.

As the corpse creation skill grade went up, there were some changes to the formation as well.

Draco ― 3 units. (2 units enhanced)

Tigris ― 30 units.

Skeleton Guards ― 20 units.

Skeleton Wizards ― 20 units.

Zombie Commanders ― 5 units.

Armed Zombie Enhanced ― 20 units.

[Gale Knights]

Commander ― Sir Isra

Order Members ― 5 Abyss Revenants

[Eclipse Witch Coven]

Commander ― Ingrid Yggdrasil

Order Members ― 5 Skeleton Wizards (Soul Stone granted)

Materials came into the Hunter Market, so I created additional Dracos.

I maintained Tigris at 30 units.

I completely scrapped all Skeleton Mages and replaced them with Wizards.

I created the same number of Armed Zombie Enhanced and Skeleton Guards.

“Armed Zombie Enhanced are better for escorting our Lord.”

The Skeleton Guards had slightly better specs overall.

However.

He was saying to maintain Armed Zombie Enhanced because of their defense-specialized skill set and build.

Since Sir Isra was the expert in combat, I decided to follow his advice.

Lastly.

Zombie Commanders had weak pure combat power, but were undead that provided buff effects.

Each unit could give attack power increases to 30 units, so I generously made 5 of them.

“It would have been good to reinforce more troops. What a shame.”

Death Space ― 120 units.

Pit of Malice ― 40 units.

The maximum number of undead (or corpses) that could be stored was 160 units.

The undead I had created so far numbered 98 units.

Since undead belonging to the Knights/Witch Coven weren’t counted in that number, there was quite a bit of storage capacity left.

Even including the four Familiars, it was 102 units.

I could understand why Sir Isra felt regretful.

“I told you we need spare space if we want to stockpile corpses.”

“Hmmmm.”

“What’s with the ‘hmm,’ Iron Head. Did you forget that Master is storing Ogre corpses?”

That’s right.

Part of the capacity of the Death Domain and Pit of Malice was allocated to storing large monsters.

Precious monsters obtained from the Tower of Chaos!

I had no proper way to turn large species corpses into undead, so I just kept storing them.

【Master. Structure】

The structure Roan mentioned was the ‘Giant’s Tomb.’

[Giant’s Tomb]

A structure that allows you to create undead classified as large species.

It was a building I could build additionally when the Death Forge leveled up.

I had also obtained a large quantity of Ogre corpses from the Tower of Chaos.

I built the Giant’s Tomb without much deliberation, but…

[The Giant’s Tomb requires sufficient death energy to be activated.]

[Place large species corpses inside the tomb.]

[Charged death energy ― 0%]

Additional conditions were needed?

Good grief.

Even so, I didn’t put in the Ogre corpses.

How hard was it to obtain whole Ogre corpses?

Instead, I contacted President Baek and asked him to purchase monster corpses classified as large species as soon as they appeared in the Hunter Market.

[Currently digesting Owlbeast corpses.]

[Charged death energy ― 91%]

Thanks to putting in large species corpses whenever I had time, I was able to fill it up this much.

Soon I might find a way to utilize the Ogre corpses.

“Hehe. Hehehe.”

“Master’s smile is especially radiant today.”

“Mage. Don’t flatter me.”

“Oh my. Then it’s not true?”

“I didn’t deny it.”

The Two Vassals growling at each other wasn’t a one or two-day occurrence, so I pretended not to notice and moved on.

【Will you resume activities starting tomorrow?】

“Yeah. The money I saved up is starting to run low, so it’s good timing.”

I had only been spending for two months.

Creating, dismantling, and reassembling undead.

Mastering bone metallurgy.

All of these required money.

On top of that.

[Jeil Workshop Portable Forge]

I even splurged on the custom forge that Jin-woo had mentioned before.

From the moment fire was lit until heat built up became much faster than before.

Thanks to that, work speed also improved.

“Then how about resting well today?”

“Ah. Let me try doing something.”

“Was there something special you needed to do?”

It wasn’t something I needed to do.

Just.

I simply wanted to try out what I had been conceptualizing in my head for two months.

“I don’t know if it’ll work well, but if I had to categorize it, I’d say it’s something I want to try.”

I rolled up my sleeves and stood in front of the forge.

For the past two months, I had worked tirelessly to become familiar with the creation methods registered in [Corpse Creation].

From B-grade down to E-grade.

I attempted creation and enhancement of various undead.

In that process, the byproducts I wasted could probably fill several trucks.

Anyway.

Thanks to my earnest efforts, I was able to greatly increase my skill comprehension.

“What I gained wasn’t just comprehension.”

Lich and Death Knight.

Thanks to the experience accumulated over two months, I could understand the structure of high-grade undead a little better.

“I probably can’t make them though.”

Still.

I might be able to manage an imitation at least.

Since I decided to resume external activities starting tomorrow.

This would be the last day I could leisurely turn the ideas floating in my head into reality.

Ingrid tilted her head with a “Hmm―” sound.

“Won’t you have work time even when conquering Gates?”

“People, you see. Originally work best when they’re being chased.”

You shouldn’t underestimate the secret technique of our country’s students – cramming.

Even when I entered the Gate created by the Black Heaven Society last time.

Maybe because I was driven to the extreme, I unconsciously performed repairs.

“The results were quite good.”

Hoping for the same this time, I’m attempting this on the last day of reorganization.

When I turned my head left and right, a refreshing sound came out.

“Mm. Just right.”

The feeling like final exams are right around the corner but I haven’t studied at all!

Ah.

Though it’s an artificially created desperate environment(?), I was getting quite tense.

Good.

With this feeling, I felt like I could succeed.

“I’m. Concentrating.”

“Mage. Hold your breath.”

“Won’t you also hold out for just one hour?”

【I don’t breathe in the first place.】

“Shut up, you thief.”

“Be quiet. You thief.”

The familiars’ conversation passes by.

From the moment I decided to concentrate, I couldn’t hear anything.

Well then.

Shall we begin?

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