The Martial God Becomes a Necromancer and Conquers the Tower - Chapter 2

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Episode 2
Episode 2
[You have acquired the Job ‘Necromancer’.]
[You have acquired the basic Skills of the Job ‘Necromancer’.]
A completely blank white space surrounded me.
In my hand lay a piece of chicken I’d been eating. Nothing else.
“Sigh… I’ve barely touched this chicken, and already I’m supposed to Awaken?”
I’d only eaten half of it. What a waste.
With that thought, I popped the rest of the chicken into my mouth. The crispy, savory flavor spread across my tongue.
As I savored it, I kept my eyes fixed on the message window that continued to appear before me.
I know what a Necromancer is, roughly speaking. In my past life, I knew those pearl-jade bastards could command something like walking corpses.
I’ve lived a good long while in this present life too, and I’ve played games enough to know a thing or two.
But when it comes down to it, a Necromancer is nothing but a corpse-dealer, isn’t it?
Me? This body that was once a Martial Saint, reduced to a corpse-dealer!? No. What is this, System? A corpse-dealer!?
Commanding walking corpses from behind, sending them out while I hide in the back like a coward!
“Hah… No. Fine. Getting angry won’t change anything. Let me check the Skills.”
Thanks to the various channels on GodTube, the entire Tutorial process has already been laid bare to the public. Though the Tutorial is supposedly random, I know all the basics that an Awakener needs to handle.
When I checked my Skills, the ones I’d acquired appeared before me.
[Skill: Corpse Control]
Transform corpses into Undead and command them.
[Skill: Small Undead Sub-dimension]
Create and maintain a sub-dimension for storing Undead.
[Skill: Spiritual Power Arrow]
Shape Spiritual Power into an arrow form and strike enemies.
[Skill: Spiritual Power Operation]
Gain the ability to manipulate Spiritual Power.
Simple, even austere. I understood immediately because I’d spent plenty of time watching Dimensional Tower videos.
The problem was that I mainly watched close-quarters damage dealer videos, so I knew almost nothing about Necromancers.
[The Awakener has confirmed their Skills.]
[You are now an Awakener of the Job ‘Necromancer’.]
[Three basic corpses are provided.]
“Damn it. Forget the service—just let me change my Job.”
Light flashed, and three corpses materialized before me.
They stood at around 180 centimeters—shorter than me. Their bodies had little muscle, little fat, and they weighed perhaps eighty kilograms each.
In other words, they were slightly taller than average but otherwise entirely ordinary—and they looked absolutely identical to each other.
Male triplets, in essence.
Their clothing was simple: black T-shirts and black shorts.
This… These weren’t corpses taken from somewhere. They were created.
That’s the Dimensional Tower for you.
The way they hand out corpses is extraordinary.
[Create Undead.]
[The Tutorial will begin once you create an Undead.]
[Even if you die within the Tower, you will be revived.]
[If you die 100 times within the Tower, you will lose the right to climb.]
[May fortune be with you.]
The messages ended. Nothing more appeared.
They were giving me time to prepare before the Tutorial started.
I’d already seen this in several broadcasts, so I knew what was happening.
Once I entered the Tutorial, the broadcast would begin too, wouldn’t it?
Yes.
The Tower must value entertainment above all else.
Everyone who enters is broadcast for all to see.
You can watch it on GodTube.
Thanks to that, there aren’t many who dare to commit shameless acts within the Tower without fear.
Well… that’s neither here nor there.
“Let me see…”
Whoosh.
“Hmm…”
Passive-type Skills supposedly activate automatically without any conscious effort, or so I’ve heard.
You can use them by willpower alone.
So I tried it out.
This feeling… it’s really that feeling, isn’t it?
It’s similar to Shiryeong Ma-gun’s Shiryeong True Qi.
Shiryeong True Qi. Shiryeong True Qi, then….
Wait. Could it be?
I settled into a seated meditation posture and took a moment to steady my breathing.
I decided to test out the divine technique I’d stripped from that bastard Shiryeong Ma-gun—the Shiryeong Cheongang Ilshin Gong.
If I could dissolve the Spiritual Power clinging to my body using the method of the Shiryeong Cheongang Ilshin Gong….
[An illegitimate method incompatible with your Job has been attempted.]
[You cannot accumulate strength through this method.]
And then.
The Spiritual Power that had been gathering in my dantian scattered in an instant.
Oh ho.
So it’s not that it can’t be done? It’s just that it doesn’t work because it’s incompatible with my Job.
Is that it?
Why does this… feel so entertaining?
“Hmm… I was just trying to live at a leisurely pace like a sloth, and you’re making this fun for me?”
I’d been enjoying this borrowed life quite a bit.
And now you’re making it even more enjoyable.
Tower. I really like you!
Let’s go!
I sprang to my feet.
I concentrated my will.
The moment I acquired the skill, all the knowledge of how to use it flooded directly into my head.
It was as if understanding had been forcibly crammed into my mind. So I reached out my hand immediately and used the skill.
“Corpse Control.”
Thup-thup-thup-thup.
[An Undead ‘Walking Corpse’ has been created.]
[The Undead ‘Walking Corpse’ is being controlled by your spirit.]
The corpse lurched to its feet.
The sensation was quite different from a jiangshi. Its body was stooped, it let out groaning sounds, there was hatred for the living, and most importantly—its body wasn’t stiff and rigid but moved with flexibility.
Normally, a corpse would be stiff due to rigor mortis, but this corpse was moving with a strange fluidity despite being dead.
So this is one of the Undead—a Zombie?
“Check information.”
[Creature: Walking Corpse]
Classification: Undead
The lowest-grade Undead, even lower than a Zombie.
Literally just a walking corpse.
Possesses abilities lower than it did in life.
Fragments of a shattered soul remain, allowing the body to move.
Fragments of a shattered soul remain, granting it animal-level consciousness.
A Necromancer controls it through spiritual command.
Detailed explanation. Weaker than in life, and it does possess the consciousness of a vengeful spirit that hates the living.
I suppose manipulating corpses one by one isn’t something you’d normally do, is it?
[Skill use of Corpse Control confirmed.]
[Your first Tutorial is beginning.]
[Higher rewards can be obtained based on the number of Tutorial stages you complete.]
[Broadcast of your Tutorial is starting.]
[May fortune favor you.]
Along with the formulaic greeting, something materialized in the empty void along with light.
A rat about the size of a small dog.
“The first opponent is just a single monster rat.”
Tutorials are also called Placement Exams, I’ve heard. If you perform well here, your later growth as a high-ranked climber becomes exponentially greater, like rolling a snowball.
And there’s only one way to achieve a good score on this Placement Exam.
Clear the Tutorial infinitely.
The highest record so far is the eighth stage.
I wonder how far I can get.
[An enemy will be summoned shortly.]
[Your broadcast climbing the Tower has begun.]
The broadcast started automatically as well.
I could instinctively tell where the camera was.
The Dimensional Tower was feeding that information directly into my awareness.
Convenient, isn’t it?
And then.
-Newbie? What’s this? A Necromancer? Necro’s solid, ceiling’s high. Floor’s a bit rough though….
One person had entered my stream.
Anyway. Necro’s ceiling is rough? Makes sense. That’s how corpse-handlers are, yeah. They don’t strengthen themselves—they lean on external things. All dependents end up the same.
And at the same time.
[Combat begins.]
“Squeeee!”
A monster rat came charging at me.
-Newbie, fighting!
Still, the viewer’s got a good heart. I’ve heard there are plenty of people who curse you to die during the Placement Exam.
While I was thinking that.
A Walking Corpse bared its fangs and lunged to attack.
“Hmph.”
But I had the Walking Corpses bound to me by my spiritual will, and I threw them both to the sides.
Then I grabbed the chicken bone I’d eaten earlier and was still holding, gripping it tight.
The Sacheon Dang Family’s secret throwing technique—the Ilyelp Bi.
Even without Internal Power, just knowing how to move your wrist and arm made it remarkably effective.
Whip!
Thwack!
“Shrieeeeek!”
The chicken bone pierced straight through an eye.
The charging monster rat shrieked and flipped over in front of me.
-Huh? What, what is this? What was that? Weren’t you a Necromancer?
I could feel the viewer’s bewilderment.
Welcome to it. First time seeing a secret throwing technique from a past-life master of Kangho?
“Become a star!”
I rushed in and delivered a soccer kick!
Boom!
“Shrieeee!”
The monster rat shrieked and went flying, sent spinning through the air.
Oh. That was stylish.
Then it crashed down and died.
In moments it vanished in a flash of light.
Crack-crack.
I rolled my neck to loosen up my body.
Man. It’s been so long since I’ve killed something. My blood’s really pumping.
Truth is, in my current life I’ve never killed anything except mosquitoes and cockroaches.
Well, in this twenty-first century Korea on Earth, there’s no reason to kill anyone.
-What, what!? How’d you do that?
With only one viewer, and that single presence standing out, I threw them a reply.
“Sacheon Dang Family secret throwing technique. The Ilyelp Bi. Hehehehe. You’re fortunate, viewer.”
-This is so confusing… what’s this concept… Wait. Old man. You weren’t a Necromancer?
“I am a Necromancer. I just mixed some martial arts into it. What? First time seeing martial arts?”
-What kind of hybrid is this?
Whether the viewer was amazed or confused, time marched on.
[Next enemy summoned.]
This time something bigger than a monster rat appeared.
A Ratman.
In Korea they usually call them Rat-Fighters.
And this one was holding a crude sword.
Damn. A sword already on stage two? Guess my luck isn’t great.
I’ve watched Tutorial videos enough to know this—normally enemies with weapons show up around the fourth stage.
Mostly Goblins.
But a Rat-Fighter with a sword in stage two? That’s pretty rough.
-Wow, a sword already? Are we at stage four now?
“No. Stage two, but one with a sword just appeared. Maybe because I killed the last one too easily?”
[Combat begins.]
The Rat-Fighter’s eyes rolled back as it charged forward.
Its frame stood about one point two meters tall, and the blade it wielded was short—little more than a fruit knife in size.

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