The Martial God Becomes a Necromancer and Conquers the Tower - Chapter 57

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Chapter 57
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I decided to move quickly.
I had only one month, and the work piled up like a mountain.
The proper approach was to seize the reins first and get going.
“For now, you lot head back inside.”
I sent four Hopoong Hwanwoo and the Black and White Immortals back into the Subdimension.
These creatures were combat-specialized Corpse Demons, useless for administrative work like Territory Management.
Moreover, after evolving into Ghoul Branch Corpse Demons, their Control Authority consumption had become staggering, so keeping them around was a burden in itself.
I couldn’t have the sword masters do grunt work.
Instead, I summoned the others.
“Zhuge Youyan, White Ram, Asura. Come forth.”
Three Intelligent Undead appeared in a flash of light.
With Viharat joining them, I now had four thinking Undead to work with.
“The orc Death Mage… hmm. You stay put for now.”
I excluded the orc Death Mage from my summon list—I simply didn’t trust him.
Between his odd, loose-screw appearance and the feeling that any task I gave him would result in disaster if I wasn’t careful, he was a liability.
I couldn’t seat a meathead in an intellectual position.
There was a reason I’d summoned these four specifically.
They could issue direct orders to my walking corpses.
In military terms, they were positioned as middle management.
There were limits to how much I could personally control the entire army, so I needed middle managers to delegate command authority to.
It was the same principle as a conglomerate chairman unable to oversee every single employee.
“Zhuge Youyan. You’ve been watching everything, I take it?”
“Yes, my lord.”
“What do you think we should do?”
As I asked, Zhuge Youyan chuckled leisurely, waving his fan.
Where had he even gotten that fan? Had he bought it himself using the marketplace privileges I’d given him?
Now that I looked, his clothing was different from before too.
He wore Scholar Robes neatly arranged, and the Zhuge Clan Headgear sat upon his head.
Was this Zhuge Liang cosplay?
Good grief.
“It’s quite simple, is it not?”
“Simple?”
This total chaos was simple?
“We install Formation Arrays, and all problems are solved.”
“Formation Arrays!”
Classic military thinking.
That know-how of manipulating tens of thousands of soldiers with Formation Arrays in a past life wouldn’t have gone anywhere.
“But will the system even allow it? Will Formation Arrays work inside the Dimensional Tower, rather than the real world…?”
“Yes. I’ve already succeeded in experiments within the Subdimension.”
“Oho… that’s quite impressive.”
My strategist had run experiments without my knowledge and finished them.
The saying was true—one competent subordinate did the work of ten.
“We’ll test whether it works in reality later. For now, install Formation Arrays to encompass this entire village.”
“Give me one thousand Undead and I’ll handle it immediately.”
“Done.”
As I sent my will forth, shadows rippled, and one thousand walking corpses spilled out in a torrent.
“Then I’ll be off.”
Zhuge Youyan departed gracefully, leading the thousand-strong corpse legion.
Next.
“White Ram.”
“Yes, master.”
“How many Undead can you manage?”
“If you bear the Control Authority burden on my behalf, master… I can comfortably handle two thousand.”
“Good. I’ll give you two thousand then. Dig a deep moat about twice the current village area, and surround it with that. Use the excavated earth to build an Earth Wall.”
A moat and Earth Wall would establish basic defenses. And I was planning to make them generously wide.
Why?
To create more farmland.
“Viharat. How many can you manage?”
“I don’t know.”
“…What?”
There he goes again, playing it cool.
He doesn’t even know how many he can command—what kind of situation is this?
But then it struck me.
This creature had only just become an Undead knight.
Unlike White Ram or Asura, who were already Undead when they came to me, this one wouldn’t necessarily understand his own capabilities yet. That made sense.
“Sigh. All right, I’ll give you a thousand, then. Work with White Ram to build an Earth Wall. It needs to encircle the entire village comfortably. Understood?”
“Understood.”
Three thousand corpses rose from the shadows and trailed after the two of them as they departed.
Now it was time for farming.
“Asura.”
“Yes, Master. Did you call for me?”
“Do you know anything about farming?”
“Yes. A witch must be well-versed in agriculture as well.”
Asura answered with a slight smile.
“And I can manage three thousand Undead.”
“Well, that’s convenient.”
I’d thought witches only dealt in herbs, but it seemed she was an agricultural expert too.
Then again, if you’re going to cultivate herbs, you need to know how to grow things properly. Self-sufficiency matters, after all.
This is turning into the perfect all-purpose worker. I might even give her a body later.
“Then I’ll give you three thousand to till all the empty land and turn it into farmland.”
“I shall obey your command.”
Another three thousand walking corpses moved along in Asura’s wake.
Formation Arrays, defensive lines, farmland—
all three projects were now running simultaneously.
While others would have a hundred people gather and waste time in meetings, I’d deployed seven thousand zombies to launch a full infrastructure operation at once.
“No labor shortage means work flows like water.”
* * *
Park Il-chim was staring at the screen with his mouth hanging open.
“This… what is this….”
An overwhelming force.
Thousands upon thousands of Undead were turning over the entire territory.
They dug moats, raised Earth Walls, and tilled farmland—the sight was like a massive ant colony on the march.
In game terms, it was as if someone had spawned thousands of worker units and sent them all to grind away at once.
“Is that even possible?”
Most Hunters struggled with this stage, he’d heard, because they were short on manpower.
But Yi Museon was the opposite.
He didn’t just have enough workers—he had so many that the entire territory was being worked over!
Confronted with that impossible show of force, Park Il-chim stood dumbfounded, eyes fixed on the screen.
After a moment, he snapped to and immediately opened the Yi Museon channel.
“Of course… everyone’s the same.”
The forum was already in an uproar.
[Yi Museon’s Territory Being Plowed ㄷㄷㄷ] (89)
[Undead Quantity for Real???] (211)
[The Man Who Does Work for 100 People Single-Handedly] (147)
[At That Point They’re Not Zombies, They’re Construction Crew!] (95)
Everyone was shocked by the unrealistic display of manpower.
Park Il-chim joined in and left a comment of his own.
[Ah. Yi Museon. He is legend.]
It was a short line, but one that carried his complete sincerity.
* * *
“All right, everyone. This looks like it’ll clear itself….”
Watching the work proceed smoothly, I was starting to feel bored.
Times like this call for gambling, naturally.
“Let’s make a bet on how we clear this. Let me see….”
I browsed through the Dimensional Tower community.
“Community says the all-time high score on this stage is an average stat of 60? Then let’s go with this: all stats break 80 to clear, or they don’t.”
The record was 60, and I was declaring I’d hit 80—objectively speaking, it was a reckless challenge.
But that’s when the odds get interesting.
—Wow, this time it’s seriously tough conditions.
—The all-time high average is 60, and now it’s 80?
—This time I’m winning!
—Finally I’ll see the day Yi Museon’s smug face gets wiped clean.
[1. Clear with all stats at 80 or above. 10 DP]
[2. Fail to clear with all stats at 80 or above. 10 DP]
This time I’d raised the stakes to 10 DP and opened the betting hall.
And the result?
[Clear: 6%]
[Fail: 94%]
“Tsk… so you don’t believe in me, huh?”
Six percent—it was nearly unanimous. They’d bet on my failure.
During the Water Defense scenario it was 91%, but now 94%? The weight of their doubt had only thickened.
—Even for Yi Museon, this one looks impossible.
—Just because you’re using the Undead doesn’t mean everything works.
—The all-time record is 60, and 80 is just too much…
—This time we’re eating! Make my DP grow, Yi Museon!
—Let’s go get that profit!!
“Tch. You all don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Who am I?
A Martial God in my past life, the Necron Emperor in this one.
“Fine. Just watch. Of course, I bet on myself winning.”
I went all in confidently on a clear.
“Ready to start then?”
Yi Museon’s Territory Management was officially beginning.
The endless-stamina Undead legions were proving to be exactly as legendary as advertised.
Laborers who didn’t eat, didn’t sleep, didn’t complain—seven thousand of them running simultaneously meant the work speed was absolutely insane.
Zhuge Youyan’s Formation Array, in particular, was nothing short of extraordinary.
“The Formation Array installed in half a day?”
In my past life, setting up a single Formation Array usually took days.
But with a thousand sleepless zombies planting flags and laying stones around the clock, it was completed in half a day flat.
And immediately a system alert appeared.
[A Formation Array protecting the village has been installed.]
[Those attempting to pass through the Formation Array will fall into hallucinations if their Intelligence Stat falls below a certain threshold.]
“Oh. So the system recognizes this too?”
The Formation Array had been formally acknowledged at the system level.
It was strangely amazing that my martial knowledge from my past life worked perfectly even inside the Dimensional Tower.
While I was marveling at this, another message cascaded down.
[The village’s Safety stat increases.]
[Territory Population: 3,212]
[Health: 12]
[Safety: 50]
[Food: 23]
[Prosperity: 11]
[Administrative Orders: Corvée]
“Huh?”
The Safety stat that had been at zero shot straight up to 50.
The fact that just one Formation Array raised it by 50 meant Formation Arrays were incredibly powerful protective measures.
And then the clincher.
[You have achieved the village’s Safety stat clear condition.]
“Wait. 50 is enough to clear? That’s so pathetically easy?”
Hard Mode and all, I thought we’d need to hit 60, but Safety had already satisfied the clear condition at 50.
The conditions were looser than I expected.
While I was thinking that, the viewers started sending donations.
[ChuckChuckScholar has donated 1 DP!]
Isn’t that Formation Array something only Formation Array specialists can use? And who’s Zhuge Youyan? Why haven’t you shown him to us before?!!!

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