Surviving the Apocalypse as an All-Time Best Overpowered Necromancer - Chapter 6

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Episode 6
6. The Special Zombie
‘Don’t panic just because he’s an electricity-type Awakener.’
There was nothing to fear.
After all, the opponent was just another person like himself.
Someone who felt pain when struck.
Besides, if he just held out until the Male Awakener’s Mana ran dry, he’d win in the end.
Unlike the Male Awakener, whose Mana depleted with each skill use, Lee Ganghyeok only consumed Mana when taming Zombies, making it far easier to sustain his reserves.
Moreover…….
‘He just used Mana again, so he doesn’t have much left. This one’s mine.’
With that thought, the irritable Male Awakener suddenly seemed like a yapping Chihuahua to him.
Perhaps he was growling and posturing excessively to hide his own insignificance.
“Attack!”
Lee Ganghyeok, who’d been watching for an opening, shouted, and the Male Awakener responded at once.
“Don’t be ridiculous! You think you can catch me with these slow-as-molasses Zombies? Lightning Bolt!”
“Gack.”
Whoosh.
Anticipating that the Male Awakener would use a different skill, Lee Ganghyeok threw himself behind a Zombie without even waiting to see the effect.
Crack-crack!
Boom!
“Grraaah.”
When the Lightning Bolt struck true, the Zombie’s skin blackened as if burned, and it fell to one knee again, paralyzed.
But the Zombie endured it.
The Spark hadn’t killed it.
Neither had the Lightning Bolt.
Both skills merely paralyzed the Zombies—their power was weaker than expected.
‘Weaker than I thought. I can win this.’
With that conviction, Lee Ganghyeok sent all the remaining Zombies except the one paralyzed by the Lightning Bolt charging forward.
“Keep attacking!”
“So you’re truly courting death! I’ll grant your wish! Spark!”
Zzt-zzt-zzt.
“Grraaah.”
Another Zombie fell to one knee, but nine remained.
“Gack.”
Shwooosh!
As nine Zombies that Lee Ganghyeok had tamed charged forward wielding Bone Axes, the startled Male Awakener retreated.
Fast.
No—it wasn’t that the Male Awakener was fast; the Zombies were slow.
They’d always been sluggish, and now, armed with Bone Axes, they moved even slower.
“What could you possibly do with creatures this slow? Die in despair at your pathetic abilities! Lightning Bolt!”
Zzt-zzt-zzt.
The Male Awakener, apparently still rich in Mana, immediately retreated and unleashed a Lightning Bolt at the Zombies. As the leading Zombie fell to one knee again, the Male Awakener’s expression shifted from panic to a smirk.
“Weak. Is this why Necromancers are such easy prey? Hehehehe. You must’ve thought yourself invincible, sweeping through Zombies like that. But that’s only good against Zombies—you’re basically a one-trick pony. I’ll show you the vast difference between an Awakener and mere Zombies!”
“…….”
Hearing this, Lee Ganghyeok recalled the person who’d mocked him that very morning.
Why was everyone so obsessed with comparing him to some legendary warrior?
It infuriated him.
To have his desperate six-month struggle for survival disregarded like this.
To have his very existence denied.
He wanted to seize the Male Awakener and make him pay.
But the Male Awakener seemed to have considerable experience fighting Necromancers.
And he’d apparently won every time.
Which was why he’d come here so casually today—thinking this time would be no different—just to loot some Food Supplies.
“Spark!”
Zzt-zzt!
“Grraaagh…….”
“!!”
As Lee Ganghyeok’s mind roiled with frustration, one Zombie finally fell to the Male Awakener’s relentless assault.
Now only ten remained.
Of those, two were still paralyzed and out of the fight.
‘Just how much Mana does that bastard have…….’
Even after more than five skill uses, the Male Awakener’s Mana showed no sign of depletion.
Was his Level that high? Or did he have a skill that recovers Mana?
“Kehehehe. So you’re planning to wait until my Mana runs out, eh? How naive……. Attribute-type Awakeners like me don’t rely on Mana alone—we draw power from our Core, so we consume far less Mana.”
“……What?”
“You didn’t know? You’re definitely a fresh recruit, just recently awakened. Poor thing. You must’ve thought your life had finally turned around, but here is where it ends.”
Core?
He’d never heard of it.
But through those words, he grasped why the Male Awakener’s Mana seemed so abundant.
‘Even so…….’
Even if the Male Awakener was borrowing power from a Core, his Mana was still depleting.
So he just needed to keep pressing.
“…….”
Suddenly, Lee Ganghyeok’s gaze shifted to the Zombies outside the Main Entrance.
If he ran short on Zombies, he could simply tame more.
The moment that thought crossed his mind, the Male Awakener—noticing it—blocked the Main Entrance.
“You all think alike. Isn’t it ironic? The world is being destroyed by Zombies, yet you Necromancers are helpless without them. What a pitiful contradiction.”
“……I can do other things besides that.”
“What?”
As Lee Ganghyeok muttered deliberately under his breath in response to the continued mockery, the Male Awakener’s expression twisted.
That instant.
Lee Ganghyeok’s eyes gleamed as he stretched his hand toward the Zombies outside, intent on taming them.
“Corpse…….”
“I won’t let you add more Zombies! Lightning Bolt!”
The Male Awakener reacted and unleashed his skill, and Lee Ganghyeok hid behind the resulting sphere and turned his power not on the Zombies, but on the Male Awakener himself.
“……Flesh Melting!”
“What?”
In that instant, the Male Awakener’s expression contorted.
It was as if he’d never even heard of the Flesh Melting skill before.
Did other Necromancers not have it?
He couldn’t say.
What mattered was…….
‘If you don’t know it, you suffer it.’
Sizzzzzzle.
“Aaaaaargh!”
Zzt-zzt.
“Gck.”
The Male Awakener, who’d expected Lee Ganghyeok to tame Zombies as usual, screamed in agony as his ankle flesh began to dissolve.
Overconfident in his own power, he’d dropped his guard and allowed the attack through.
But Lee Ganghyeok had also taken the brunt of it.
To land his counterattack, he’d deliberately run through the Lightning Bolt rather than dodge it, using it to obscure the Male Awakener’s vision.
Zzt-zzt-zzt.
“Gack.”
The counterattack succeeded, but his body went numb from the Lightning Bolt’s impact.
Still, he wasn’t completely immobilized.
Even if he were, he’d have to force himself backward somehow.
“Grraaah.”
“Grraaagh…….”
Hearing the cries of both men, the Zombies entering the Building accelerated, forcing Lee Ganghyeok to drag his paralyzed body urgently toward the Emergency Exit to get away from the Main Entrance.
“Y-you crazy bastard……. V-Volt Step!”
Zzt-zzt.
Whoosh!
As Zombies from outside poured in, the panicked Male Awakener cursed and deployed his skill, distancing himself from the Main Entrance.
His form vanished the instant he used the skill, reappearing far from the Main Entrance—it looked like the teleportation magic of mages in games.
“Ugh. Aaaaaargh! You bastard!! I’ll kill you for this!”
But unlike a mage’s teleport, the skill seemed to be mere rapid movement, because the Male Awakener’s form soon reappeared, and his screams intensified as the pain in his ankle worsened.
His flesh was dissolving as he moved at high speed, tearing the wound wider.
Regardless.
“Flesh Melting!”
Sizzzzzzle!
“Aaaaaaaaargh!!”
Lee Ganghyeok deployed Flesh Melting again, melting the Male Awakener’s other ankle as well.
As his screams grew louder, all the Zombie aggression inside the Building shifted entirely to him.
Lee Ganghyeok thought he’d escape again with Volt Step.
But with both his ankles melting away, the Male Awakener collapsed to the floor and unleashed his skills desperately on the Zombies.
Right now, his urgent priority was dealing with the approaching Zombies, not Lee Ganghyeok.
“Spark! Lightning Bolt! Ugh. You bastard! I’ll kill you!”
Watching the Male Awakener—so confident mere moments ago—now shrieking in desperation, Lee Ganghyeok let out a sigh.
This wasn’t right.
If he left the Male Awakener alone, he’d be consumed by the Zombies, and a Mutated Zombie would spawn.
Better to kill him before the Zombies do.
“Kill him!”
At Lee Ganghyeok’s command, his tamed Zombies approached the Male Awakener faster than the wild Zombies and raised their Bone Axes.
“No! P-please! W-we’re both Awakeners! We’re the same kind! You can’t……. I only wanted Food Supplies! Please, spare me!”
“You brought this on yourself. Next time, try being better.”
With those words, Lee Ganghyeok slipped into the Emergency Staircase to avoid the Zombies now inside the Building and shut the Emergency Exit.
At the same time…….
“Noooo! Please, you bastard!”
Crunch!
The Bone Axes of his tamed Zombies drove down into the Male Awakener’s body, and his form went limp as his life fled.
[You have eliminated a Chaotic Disposition Awakener.]
[You receive a large amount of experience points as a reward.]
[Congratulations. You have leveled up. All physical stats increase by 1.]
‘He’s dead.’
Hidden in the Emergency Staircase, Lee Ganghyeok hadn’t seen the Male Awakener’s final moments.
But the notification that appeared before his eyes confirmed the Male Awakener’s death.
His Level had risen. He’d also learned that Awakeners possess something called Disposition.
‘So do you earn experience for killing Awakeners of a different Disposition like in a game? Or only for Chaotic ones?’
He couldn’t say.
But somehow, he suspected it wasn’t the former.
If it were, the Male Awakener would’ve killed him outright when he first found him instead of asking where the Food Supplies were.
Having killed other Awakeners before, just as he’d attacked Lee Ganghyeok.
There’s no way the Male Awakener would’ve been ignorant of this.
The fact that he hadn’t killed Lee Ganghyeok suggested he’d never gained experience from killing Awakeners before.
‘Whoever awakened these people must dislike Awakeners fighting each other.’
Having organized these thoughts, Lee Ganghyeok headed straight for the second floor.
He needed to drive the Zombies that had entered the Building back outside.
‘They’re all dead.’
Ascending to the second floor, Lee Ganghyeok surveyed the situation below and exhaled deeply.
All the Zombies he’d left in the Lobby to kill the Male Awakener were dead.
But since they’d been killed before being fully consumed, no Mutated Zombies had spawned.
“Whew.”
Relieved, he began counting the Zombies in the Lobby.
‘One, two…….’
The count came to twenty.
This was manageable. His recent Level increase from killing the Male Awakener made the difference.
“Corpse Control!”
Lee Ganghyeok then tamed the Zombies in the Lobby while hidden behind the second-floor railing.
Was it because his Level had risen so much?
Before, taming even five Zombies had cost him almost all his Mana. Now, taming the same number left him with more than half his reserves intact.
‘I’ve grown so much in just a day.’
Satisfied with his rapid progress, Lee Ganghyeok nodded—but then froze.
He’d spotted the Male Awakener’s corpse lying motionless on the floor, and a new question surfaced in his mind.
‘Zombies change when they eat people, so what happens if I turn an Awakener into a Zombie?’
He became genuinely curious.
Simultaneously, ethical concerns arose—was it right to turn a dead Awakener into a Zombie?—but
another part of him worried: would he ever get another chance to turn an Awakener into a Zombie? The hesitation gnawed at him, but
remembering the Male Awakener’s initial assault and subsequent mockery, Lee Ganghyeok made his decision and reached out.
“Whatever. He deserves it anyway. Corpse Control!”
“Grraaah…….”
Crunch.
Zzt-zzt-zzt.
“!!”
His action was somewhat impulsive—born of irritation at the Male Awakener’s taunts—but the moment the transformed corpse rose, crackling with electricity, Lee Ganghyeok’s eyes widened in shock.
‘Seriously?’
He was genuinely surprised.
He’d expected the Male Awakener as a Zombie to be like any other, but it actually possessed abilities—like a Mutated Zombie.
His shock didn’t last long.
‘Ah! Could it be……. Because of the Core he mentioned?’
The Male Awakener’s earlier explanation of the Core returned to his mind.
The Core that all attribute-type Awakeners supposedly possessed.
That seemed to be the cause.
He’d learn the precise mechanics if he killed another Chaotic Awakener later.
“Clean up the Lobby.”
Unwilling to investigate further by killing innocent Awakeners, Lee Ganghyeok ordered the electricity-spewing Zombie and his newly tamed Zombies to clear the area.
Some time later.
Once all the Zombies in the Lobby were dead, Lee Ganghyeok descended and transported all the Food Supplies from the Convenience Store back to his home alongside his tamed Zombies.

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