The Martial God Becomes a Necromancer and Conquers the Tower - Chapter 13

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Episode 13
Episode 13
A walking corpse.
The lowest-tier Undead, one stage before becoming a zombie.
But apparently it’s undergoing Jiangshi Transformation.
What on earth is this?
This creature had a simple description attached to it that the others didn’t have.
I browse the Dimension Tower Community regularly enough in my former life.
So I know quite a bit about Awakeners.
But I’ve never heard of Jiangshi Transformation before.
I know there are a lot of Martial Arts-related Awakeners in China, and there are Taoist and Sorcerer classes too, but as far as I’m aware, Jiangshi have never appeared once.
Why has this happened?
Is it because I forcibly embedded the Corpse Spirit Heavenly Jiangshi Body Technique into the Undead body?
So Jiangshi Transformation is progressing because of that?
It’s already Undead—what gets better if it becomes a Jiangshi?
Jiangshi, of course, are sturdier than zombies or ghouls in terms of raw toughness alone.
Looking purely at specs, they’d be superior.
But the problem is their limbs are rigid—they can’t use Martial Arts.
The Corpse Spirit Heavenly Jiangshi is a type of Active Jiangshi, so the body moves as smoothly as a living person and can use Martial Arts, but….
This.
If it just becomes a regular Jiangshi, it’s actually a downgrade in power.
Because my specialty is controlling Undead like avatars and actually using Martial Arts through them.
Plus I have formation techniques on top of that.
What do I do? Stop it? Or just let it go ahead?
-Jiangshi Transformation? What’s that?
-Was Corpse Spirit Sovereign actually real then….
-So the Necron Emperor was actually a Jiangshi Sorcerer?
While the viewers were bewildered,
I reached a decision.
Go ahead regardless.
Because I need to run an experiment.
I need to see whether it’s becoming a regular Jiangshi, or whether despite the name changing to Jiangshi, it still moves with the same fluid motions as before.
If it becomes a Jiangshi in name and maintains flexible movement,
then its specs are rising, and I absolutely have to proceed.
Fine. From now on, your name is Experimental Jiangshi No. 1.
[You have named the walking corpse.]
[Experimental Jiangshi No. 1]
The name above its head had changed.
-Could you give it a cooler name though….
-Experimental Jiangshi No. 1 is direct and all, but….
-Master, this is a bit….
The viewers grumbled, but I paid them no mind.
Once this creature shows proper results, I can always give it a fancier name later.
[Park Ilchim has donated 1 DP!]
But shouldn’t you be managing the Subdimension? You should set it up now so it’s worth using later.
-That’s the real strategy.
-If you’ve got Subdimension-tier abilities, especially territorial management type, early investment is the right call.
-Let’s see what’s actually in the Subdimension first? Is the Necron Emperor different from regular Necro Items somehow?
“Thanks for the donation, Park Ilchim! I was just about to open the Undead Subdimension management window anyway.”
-See, the tone just got cheaper again.
-Still better than acting like a big shot though.
-So what’s in there?
Supported by the viewers’ enthusiastic encouragement, I opened the Undead Subdimension management window.
[County-tier Undead Subdimension]
Size: County-level area
Assigned Undead: 698
Production:
→ Corpse Spirit Mana: 6.98
[Construction]
[Environmental Modification]
Simple and straightforward.
Let me press Construction and see what options appear.
[Production] [Military] [Commerce] [Diplomacy] [Research]
“I’ve mostly focused on close-range combat, so I’m wondering—do Necromancers and Summoners all have access to something like this? Anyone watching, fill me in.”
What is this… an actual territory?
The Undead Subdimension was like this?
-This is something only people with lord-class jobs have;;;-
-Isn’t it because he’s the Necron Emperor?
-He’s an Emperor, so of course he gets stuff like this.
With tens of thousands of viewers, the chat was moving at an incredible pace. My spatial awareness was sharp enough that I could roughly follow the flow and piece together what was happening.
My class.
The Necron Emperor is apparently anything but ordinary.
Well, it’s a Genesis-tier Reward—if it wasn’t good, that’d be a real problem.
Still, my honest feeling was, ‘How nice would it have been if they’d just given me a normal Jianghu warrior or martial artist class?’
I wanted to train in Martial Arts!
Sigh… can’t be helped.
Experimental Jiangshi No. 1.
At least you can fulfill my regrets.
[Park Ilchim has donated 1 DP!]
You should level up Production first. Floors 1 through 10 look like they’ll be manageable from what I can see anyway.
-That’s the way to go.
-Yeah, just like in StarCraft—whether you secure early worker production or not makes all the difference~
-But what exactly are you producing?
“Right? What does this even make? I have no idea.”
I tapped on the Production tab.
[Multidimensional Corpse Pit] [Corpse Processing Plant]
Two options came up.
“The Multidimensional Corpse Pit—five bodies randomly spawn each day? Insane. What kind of facility is this even? A body farm or something?”
[Multidimensional Corpse Pit]
Summons and stores corpses from other dimensions.
Randomly generates five corpses per day.
-Five bodies a day, randomly lolololol
-This looks like something straight out of a horror story!!!!
-That’s insane.
“And the Corpse Processing Plant… what’s that? Processing corpses into materials? But where do those materials go? Oh. Maybe an item crafting building will show up later in the Production tab?”
[Corpse Processing Plant]
Manufactures components for crafting Necro Items.
Corpses must be consumed to manufacture components.
I was stunned.
Not only was I randomly stealing bodies from other dimensions, there was actually a place to chop them up into parts.
So if you feed human bodies into this, it just… processes them?
Good grief.
To be fair, if human corpses weren’t actually being used as materials, it wouldn’t be that surprising.
We eat cattle as food and process their bones into art, after all.
But doing that with humans… that’s a bit much.
“From now on, no human corpses go into this place. That’s final.”
-That makes sense….
-Gotta draw the line somewhere.
-Aw, humans are useful though.
-But did you see how much building this costs?
There really are a lot of crazy people in the world.
I decided to build both facilities anyway.
The problem was that each one cost a whopping 10,000 DP.
10 DP equals 10 dollars—that’s a $100,000 building!
At current exchange rates of around 1,400 won per dollar, that’s about 140 million won per building.
It’s funny, really. The cost feels cheap in some ways, expensive in others.
Still, I was grateful. My winning streak from the betting rounds had helped, and the big donor’s recent gift brought my current DP to just over 400,000, so construction was possible.
“Build.”
Kumkumkumkum!
The Undead Subdimension trembled slightly, and two buildings materialized. The Multidimensional Corpse Pit was honestly just a pit—calling it architecture felt like a stretch.
The corpse processing facility, at least, looked rather impressive—a two-story building constructed by joining together countless bleached bones.
Once the two buildings were complete, the construction options shifted.
[Bone Workshop] [Flesh Workshop] [Spirit Workshop]
We could now build any of three structures.
“Hmm, it looks like building one thing unlocks more options?”
-Seems like it.
-But bone and flesh? Are we talking skeletons or zombies here?
“So what should we build? Let’s put it to a vote.”
1. Bone Workshop 1DP
2. Flesh Workshop 1DP
3. Spirit Workshop 1DP
“Fair warning—my vote runs on money. You can vote multiple times if you want. Got a preference? Shell out!”
The chat erupted at my words.
-Teacher, do you get paid for voting?
-This insane plutocracy! Terrifying!
-I get the bone workshop, but what the hell is a spirit workshop?
The voting proceeded rapidly, and a decision materialized in moments.
“Everyone picked the Flesh Workshop? Fine. Going with the Flesh Workshop!”
Crack-crack-crack-crack!
As the Flesh Workshop materialized, another building rose in the empty space.
It was decidedly revolting and grotesque.
They’d constructed a house by weaving together multiple living creatures.
Goblins, kobolds, rats, and countless other corpses—things I’d seen and things I hadn’t—all jumbled together in one nauseating mass.
-Ugh;;;
-Whatwhatwhatisthatkillmearghhhhhhhh.
-Um… could you please turn the camera away?
-Turn it away now!!
“Oof… repugnant facility indeed. But you lot chose the Flesh Workshop. Grin and bear it, I suppose. First, I need to figure out what this building actually does.”
I adjusted the display settings and threw a mosaic filter over the Flesh Workshop.
Invisible to the viewers, but perfectly clear to me.
When I clicked on the Flesh Workshop, a message appeared.
[Please assign staff to the Flesh Workshop.]
Staff. So it needs employees.
I immediately tried issuing a command to the walking corpse goblin.
[This Undead lacks intelligence.]
[It cannot serve as staff.]
Huh. So it’s too stupid to be useful as an employee.
But walking corpses don’t have intelligence to begin with. So what’s the point?
No immediate use for them?
[Kkosida has donated 1DP!]
Why build the structure if we can’t even use it… and here I thought my luck was good today.
These guys really enjoy messing with me.
Besides, it doesn’t seem like there’s anything more to do on the production side. Now that I think about it, didn’t the Necron Ossuary also ask me to assign a manager?
This is tricky. Where am I supposed to find intelligent Undead? Or does leveling up let me create Undead with intelligence?
“That wraps up today’s broadcast. Everyone, have a good day.”
[Halbaeo has donated 1DP!]
Since the Undead do everything anyway, shouldn’t we just clear another floor of the tower?
“You there! I’m still human! I eat! I use the bathroom! That’s why! So everyone, have yourselves a good day.”
With that, I ended the stream.
By the time the broadcast concluded, viewers numbered over one hundred thousand.
* * *
One day after Awakener Lee Museon’s appearance.
His information had spread far and wide in that single day alone.
This was, after all, a country where all three telecommunications companies had been hacked and citizens’ personal data had become public property.
His information becoming known was an inevitability, a foregone conclusion.

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