The Martial God Becomes a Necromancer and Conquers the Tower - Chapter 12

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Episode 12
Episode 12
Then it came.
The boss monster emerged.
It was the Hobgoblin General mounted on a wolf.
He’d forged an Aura Blade on his sword, and with the Goblin Shaman’s aid, he’d swollen to enormous size.
The wolf and the Hobgoblin General—both had tripled in scale.
At that size, calling them monsters would be understating it.
Yet it wasn’t enough.
Hundreds of undead swarmed him like a plague of ants.
They choked the wolf’s mouth and nostrils with their bodies, and eventually the enlarged beast couldn’t breathe and collapsed.
The Hobgoblin General fought valiantly, but as hundreds more undead piled onto him, he was soon drenched in blood and fell.
“Everyone, did you see? The Hobgoblin General is dead! He pulled it off—he actually did iiiit!”
[Dimensional Tower Floor 1 has been completely cleared.]
The message appeared.
Hyeong-gang felt grateful for it.
He’d survived.
He’d bought himself one extra life—a precious second chance.
And on top of that, sweet rewards!
“Lee Mu-seon, thank you!”
‘Lee Mu-seon, thank you!’
He offered his gratitude aloud and in his heart alike.
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[Dimensional Traveler Lee Mu-seon has cleared the hidden trial of Floor 1.]
[Dimensional Tower Floor 1 has been completely cleared.]
The message bloomed, marking Floor 1’s conclusion.
And I was back in the Entrance Hall.
Phew.
For a first floor, that was brutally tight.
If I hadn’t obtained the Necron Emperor class and didn’t have the Corpse Lord’s Majesty skill, what would I have done?
I suppose I could’ve cleared it just by defending the temple.
But.
The hidden trial? Absolutely impossible without those.
Especially that bit where the Hobgoblin General and his pet wolf tripled in size—that seemed almost unfair.
Is that really a mechanic you’re supposed to overcome?
I only won because I’ve come this far. Otherwise, there’s no way I’d have pulled it off.
I would’ve wasted one of my precious lives for nothing.
“Well then. Everyone got to see that, yes?”
[Googly-Goop has donated 1DP!]
That ridiculous way of talking—finally dropping it?
“Hmph. Disappointed in my manner of speech? I’ll be dusting it off whenever I feel like showing off, so do keep that in mind.”
[ChickenOverTrotters has donated 3DP!]
This is making me dizzy, Teacher.
“Many of you seem to be getting dizzy… so, what about our wager? My victory, that’s what!”
Victory pose!
Victoryyyy!
-My eyes are rotting….
-Teacher, that’s a bit much….
“Today too, many of the faithful have offered up their DP to the Supreme One. I am pleased.”
-Next time I’m betting you lose, Zhen-jang.
-This isn’t easy….
-Kyaaaahoooo! I got iiiiit! I always believed in Lee Mu-seooon!
I’d teased the viewers for a moment. Of course, some of them were howling with glee.
At this rate, I’ll become a DP millionaire.
A quick glance showed I’d already accumulated over 400,000 DP.
Converting to dollars, that’s roughly 4 million. In Korean won at current rates, it comes to just over 6 billion.
Remarkable. I’ve made 6 billion won in just two days since becoming a Hunter.
“Now then. What will the reward be, I wonder?”
First! Fastest clear time!
The Dimensional Tower absolutely loves stuff like this.
I cleared the tutorial the same way, and it upgraded my job, didn’t it?
What’s it going to give me this time?
Doo-doo-doo-doo~ time for fabulous rewards~
I adjusted the system so the viewers could enjoy it too, letting them see everything.
And then came the message.
[An Extraordinary and Astonishing Achievement!]
[You have obtained a Mythic-grade Reward.]
Reward for clearing Floor 1 of the Dimensional Tower for the first time, with the fastest clear time.
It was a Mythic-grade Reward.
So it’s not Creation?
That’s a bit disappointing.
[A Corpse Pit is generated in the Town-class Undead Sub-dimension.]
[The Corpse Pit in the Town-class Undead Sub-dimension is upgraded to a Cemetery.]
[The Cemetery in the Town-class Undead Sub-dimension is upgraded to a Columbarium.]
[The Columbarium in the Town-class Undead Sub-dimension is upgraded to a Necron Columbarium.]
-A columbarium already? Seriously;;;-
-A columbarium? Already?
-What’s a Necron Columbarium? Is it different from a regular columbarium?
Since I usually watched videos and posts focused on close-range combat, I don’t know much about what Necromancers have.
My viewer count has already exceeded eighty thousand, and all these viewers are spouting off whatever they know.
Well.
I suppose it makes sense—after playing it that explosively, an overflowing viewership is only natural.
[You have obtained the Floor 1 Clear Reward.]
[You have obtained the skill ‘Undead Recycling’ from the job ‘Necron Emperor’.]
[Your level has increased by 1.]
[Your level has increased by 1.]
[Your level has increased by 1….]
[Your level cannot rise any further.]
This time the reward was ordinary, but my level shot up to 10 all at once.
Undead Recycling.
It’s a skill that consumes Undead to restore Necromantic Power.
Everyone had little to say about this skill.
Is it something every Necromancer has?
Besides, no one seemed interested that I’d reached level 10.
Well, I’d just cleared Floor 1 of the Dimensional Tower that spectacularly, so what’s a ten-level jump worth?
So I dived right into the columbarium discussion myself.
“What? Do you all know about columbariums?”
So what is a columbarium anyway, you nerds.
[Cheok-cheok Seoksa has donated 1 DP!]
It’s a structure you build in your Undead Sub-dimension, a tier-3 building. Any Necromancer can theoretically make one, but not just anyone can.
What kind of answer is that?
“If any Necromancer can make one, how can’t ‘anyone’ make it?”
-Ahahaha you want us to spoon-feed you everything!!
-Waah! Me cry baby Necro! Teach me everything!
-Teacher, wouldn’t even a quick Internet search help…?
That’s what the viewers were saying.
Ugh. Can’t these people donate and at least explain things?
With so many viewers, even my dynamic vision can’t keep up with the chat.
[Big Hands Uncle has donated 100 DP!]
Building a columbarium takes a lot of DP and requires special resources. Worldwide, there are maybe a hundred Necromancers who’ve built one, if that. If you build it, it’s extremely beneficial. Try opening your Sub-dimension and taking a look.
“Oh, Big Hands Uncle! Thanks! You’ve been such a good person—with the mission last time and all?”
My basic stance is casual speech anyway, so I just talked that way.
Strictly speaking, if you count my previous life’s age, speaking casually isn’t even a problem.
-Let’s see the columbarium ~~
-Show us the columbarium, please!
-Now that I think about it, what does a Town-class Undead Sub-dimension look like?
With the viewers’ enthusiastic support and my own curiosity, I decided to take a look at the Undead Sub-dimension.
[Big Hands Uncle has donated 100 DP!]
To display your Undead Sub-dimension, you need to go to your channel settings and….
With Big Hands Uncle’s help, I activated the function to display the Undead Sub-dimension and summoned it.
Pop!
And there it was.
An image materialized before my eyes.
It resembled a game screen rendered in quarter-view perspective.
The background was something like the void of space, and floating within it like an island sat a solitary landmass.
The earth was dark crimson soil, and atop it stood a single stone building the size of a university campus.
Apart from that, I could see hundreds of walking corpse goblins standing vacant—the very ones that had fought for me on Dimensional Tower Floor 1.
Ah… what a spectacle.
Now I understand why that cursed Necromancer from my past life was so fond of grand formations like this.
-OMG level 10 and already commanding an army in the hundreds.
-Insane.
-Mom! When I grow up I want to be a Necromancer! Mom! When I grow up I want to be a Necromancer! Mom! When I grow up I want to be a Necromancer! Mom! When I grow up I want to be a Necromancer! Mom! When I grow up I want to be a Necromancer!
I paid no mind to the viewers’ clamor.
Instead, I carefully examined what I now possessed.
[Town-class Undead Sub-dimension]
A sub-dimensional space of town-class proportions inhabited by the undead.
This is the repository for an Awakened One’s undead forces, and Necro structures can be constructed here.
[Necron Columbarium]
Stores corpses and souls.
Stored corpses and souls generate Necromantic Power.
A manager can be appointed to oversee the columbarium.
Wait. The columbarium works like this? So Necromancers essentially have a battery pack that other Awakened Ones don’t? Isn’t that absurdly overpowered?
-So that’s what makes the Necron Columbarium different—you can assign a manager?
-Jae-en! I’m so jealous!
-But what’s the point of having a manager? Genuinely confused.
“Well, they told me to try storing corpses, so let’s give it a shot.”
I issued a command to the undead, sending them into the Necron Columbarium.
Then.
Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud.
The walking corpse goblins filed through the entrance one after another.
And soon the Necron Columbarium began to emit a sickly glow.
Though “glow” suggests brightness, this was unmistakably grim and ominous.
[Necron Columbarium has been activated.]
[Awakened One Lee Mu-seon’s maximum Necromantic Power increases by 0.01 per walking corpse stored.]
[Awakened One Lee Mu-seon’s Necromantic Power regeneration increases by 0.01 per walking corpse stored.]
This feeling… it’s good and yet somehow not. What is this?
So what’s the math here?
Does that mean for every hundred walking corpses, I gain a total increase of 1?
Though I honestly can’t tell whether 1 is a lot or not.
The system window doesn’t even show stats or anything.
-This is absolutely insane;;;
-Is this pay-to-win?
-Jae-en! Some people get broken classes like this, and others are just stuck as Warriors….
Judging by the viewers’ reactions, they seemed impressed.
This isn’t going to work.
I need to find time to actually learn what a Necromancer does.
Then, all at once.
I noticed my first three undead—the ones queuing to enter the Necron Columbarium—and focused my attention on one of them.
Specifically, the one to which I had poured Necromantic Power before entering Floor 1, infusing it with inner force.
Let me see. Does this one still have any inner force left?
Huh? It still does?
Remarkably.
The inner force I’d instilled remained intact in the creature’s dantian—right at the core of its undead body.
But that wasn’t all.
[Walking Corpse]
Jiangshi Transformation in progress.

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