The Martial God Becomes a Necromancer and Conquers the Tower - Chapter 59

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Chapter 59
Episode 59
The blade rippled with Sword Energy—Aura Blade, in other words.
Aura Blade comes in grades.
When it’s dense and solid, with the form crystallized into sharp definition, that’s Strong Qi. But when it wavers like heat shimmer the way this one does, that’s just Sword Energy level.
Crackk used something close to Strong Qi Aura Blade back in the day, but this one isn’t anywhere near that tier.
“Gyaaaaah! Die!”
The orc chieftain hefted his Sword Energy-wreathed blade and charged straight at me.
His momentum matched that massive frame.
‘Ah. A telephone punch.’
How come nobody decent ever shows up?
Watching him barrel forward with an enormous haymaker—a crude, senseless attack that was the spitting image of Park Gang-chan’s signature move from three years of training—I clicked my tongue.
Sure, he comes at me, but it’s all so predictable.
I extended my Spectral Soldiers like fingers.
Thanks to the armor skill the Ghost Soldier swarm possessed, these things had become extensions of my own limbs.
Unable to deploy martial arts myself, I was using the Spectral Soldiers as proxies to manifest techniques from my past life.
Tai Chi 24 Postures. Cloud Hands.
True to its name—hands like clouds—the Spectral Soldiers met the orc chieftain’s charge with a gentle, swirling motion.
It was the perfect embodiment of Yielding Overcomes Strength in its purest form: the principle of using softness to suppress hardness.
Rather than meeting his driving force head-on, I simply guided it sideways and sent it back.
Whoom.
The orc chieftain’s charge momentum followed the flow of Cloud Hands and pivoted completely off course.
“Gyah?!”
Caught in his own inertia, the orc chieftain’s massive body spun through the air.
He was essentially doing a somersault on nothing but his own momentum.
Crash!
Then his head slammed straight into the ground.
All that oppressive force, rendered utterly pathetic as he crumpled in a heap.
“Now. Let’s finish this.”
I gathered the Spectral Soldiers and brought them crashing down on the orc chieftain’s skull.
“Piercing Heaven Palm of the Kongdong Sect.”
Living up to its name—a palm that pierces the heavens—a wave of force rooted in Spectral Magic Power came crashing down like a thunderbolt.
Kaboom!
A deafening explosion erupted.
The orc chieftain’s head burst like an overripe watermelon.
For a chieftain who’d just been showing off his Aura Blade, his end was rather anticlimactic.
Still… it’s weaker than my previous life.
Is it because I’m not drawing from the Kongdong Sect’s inner cultivation method, but using this strange Spectral Magic Power instead?
Maybe I should make Shi Ling’s martial arts my primary arsenal?
But honestly, that one’s techniques rank among the lowest in the Divine Skill Hierarchy….
I’ll need to think about this.
I might have to invent entirely new martial arts from scratch.
My current state is twisted unnaturally in too many ways.
As these thoughts occupied me, I gazed at the corpse and nearly sighed.
“Hmm. I should’ve used a technique that leaves them in better condition to kill.”
With his head burst open, the corpse was hardly worth salvaging.
The damage was too extensive to recycle as undead.
“Really, I got carried away and overdid it.”
Well, no use crying over spilled water now.
I immediately cast my newly acquired skill.
“Wide-Area Subdimension Storage.”
Zzzzzzzt!
My shadow expanded in an instant, swallowing all the corpses around me whole.
Without needing to gather them one by one, the entire orc settlement was sucked into the shadow at once.
Houses, debris, everything—cleaned up like a vacuum had swept through.
“Man, I’m glad I got this skill. Quality of life really does change.”
-Wait, he just swallowed an entire settlement??
-Is this what the vacuum skill’s power looks like ㄷㄷ
-Did the orc chieftain’s head really explode?
-A necromancer using Tai Chi and Kongdong Sect techniques;;)
-How many classes does this guy have?
The viewers erupted in shock across the chat.
Well, at this point, surprise was hardly surprising anymore.
“Alright then. Time for the party!”
The moment I finished storing everything, I opened the shadow again.
Screeeech.
The corpses I’d just swallowed began shambling out one by one.
They’d entered the subdimension and emerged reborn as ambulatory corpses.
In came an orc horde; out came a zombie legion.
That was true recycling.
“Go. Kill everything that lives!”
At my command, the zombies wheeled about in unison.
“Oh. Skip the village over there.”
I’d nearly ground up my own subjects along with the rest.
That would’ve been inconvenient.
Once I corrected my orders, the zombies shuffled into the forest on the opposite side of the village in a long column.
An entire forest was about to be incinerated—no, zombified—in a grand march of undeath.
* * *
Days passed as I swept through the surrounding monsters, clearing every last one—orcs, goblins, kobolds, even the trolls.
Meanwhile, the Village’s defensive construction hummed steadily toward completion.
First, the town walls were finished.
[The Village’s Safety Score increases.]
Safety Score +10.
Next came the moat.
[The Village’s Safety Score increases.]
Safety Score +10 again.
Here I had a cunning thought.
“Let’s install the Pure Water Collecting Bone Urn too. This place doesn’t even have water anyway.”
The urn I’d pulled from the Subdimension Workshop was a miraculous thing—it gushed forth clean water endlessly.
I installed it and flooded the previously dry moat with a rushing stream.
A full moat beat an empty one any day.
[The Village’s Safety Score increases.]
[The Village’s Prosperity Score increases.]
Safety Score +10 more.
The Prosperity Score climbed by 20 simultaneously.
I wondered why, but the viewers had the answer for me.
[ChukChukScholar has donated 1 DP!]
Looks like it’s because water showed up when there wasn’t any before? I’ve actually seen other Hunters clear this map and build massive wells—their Prosperity Score shot up then too.
Ah, I see. So Prosperity Score literally reflects how prosperous the Village is?
But this place is just a medieval European countryside village, right? If I install various things, the Prosperity Score would keep climbing.
If that’s how it works, I think I know how to push the Safety Score to 100.
“Let me grab something else from the shop. A Skull Crossbow Tower.”
I spent DP freely and purchased the Skull Crossbow Tower—a necromantic structure.
In game terms, it was like a defensive turret.
An unmanned defense facility that automatically fired crossbow bolts whenever enemies drew near.
Of course, as always, the material was bone.
Bone—the universal material of necromancy.
I installed the Skull Crossbow Towers strategically along the town walls.
[The Village’s Safety Score increases.]
By that point, the Safety Score had jumped a full 20.
And then.
[The Village’s Safety Score has reached 100!]
[Safety category at maximum!]
“See? In just a few days, I maxed out the Safety Score!”
On a stage where the all-time high was an average of 60, I’d already hit perfect marks on Safety alone.
This was easily worthy of being called a fortress.
-Insane. Safety 100 real or fake?
-Perfect score in days?? But the record was 60…
-My 6% hope circuit is igniting
-Wait, is he actually going to clear this whole thing?
-Those politicians aren’t going to be able to keep their composure together lol
-Aaaaghhh! Why is he so damn good at this?!
Some viewers erupted in cheers while others broke into wails.
As the momentum tilted toward my victory, the select few betting on the 6% minority went wild with excitement, while the opposition fell into despair.
[BigSpender donated 100 DP!]
A Safety Score of 100 is an unprecedented record. This stage’s conquest history is being rewritten as we speak.
[RunnerHanee donated 5 DP!]
Brothers in the 6%, chicken’s on us tonight!!
[PerfectScholar donated 1 DP!]
Real talk, this is cheating
“Is what BigSpender said true? An all-time first?”
Looks like I’d set another first-ever record. Then again, I was hardly unfamiliar with the word “first” at this point.
Speaking of which, doesn’t BigSpender run Haneul Nuri? Wasn’t this guy supposed to be busy?
“All right. Safety is cleared. So what’s next?”
There were still three metrics left to raise.
Health, Food, and Prosperity.
The real lord-management game was only just beginning!
* * *
“We’ve got Health, Food, and Prosperity left…. How should I approach this?”
As I stood there with my arms crossed, pondering, Zhuge Youran stepped forward with a flutter of her fan.
“Leave it to me. After all, you don’t know the first thing about matters like this, do you, Lord?”
“Ouch. You really know how to hit with the truth….”
It hurt precisely because I couldn’t deny it.
Sure, I was skilled enough in martial arts and commanding the undead, but administration and internal governance? That was my weak point.
In my previous life, I’d founded a martial sect too, but it had been a one-man operation.
“What exactly are you planning to do?”
“For health, we need to maintain sanitation, produce medicine, and have people undergo light Qi Cultivation Training.”
‘Hmm. She’s genuinely competent.’
Honestly, I hadn’t expected Zhuge Youran to be this thorough with internal governance.
I’d thought since she was a strategist, she’d only be good at tactics and military formations. But this was someone with universal talent.
“But how exactly do you maintain sanitation?”
“By constructing an aqueduct system.”
“You’re someone who lived in the martial world. How do you even know about aqueducts?”
Knowing the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and vital pressure points was normal, but water systems? That should’ve been outside the scope.
A martial strategist suddenly discussing civil engineering left me dumbfounded.
“The network is vast.”
“…Where exactly did you pick up that meme from?”
Here was the undead subject of a dead woman, and she was citing internet memes.
Zhuge Youran is terrifying!
“So. Should I take charge of this?”
“Yeah. Go ahead and do it.”
Delegating to the expert was the smartest move.
I stamped my approval seal without hesitation and stepped back.
And from that moment on, I got to witness something truly fascinating.
Zhuge Youran commanded the walking corpses, extracting aqueduct pipes from bone and setting them into place.
White bones fitted together in sequence to form pipes, and the process of burying them underground looked like some meticulous construction documentary.
‘Wow. She really is capable.’
I watched in amazement for several days, doing nothing else.
When I saw the finished product days later, my jaw dropped.

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