The Martial God Becomes a Necromancer and Conquers the Tower - Chapter 69

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Episode 69
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The 3rd Floor was the perfect stage to put those achievements to the test.
Of course, the viewers had no idea what I was thinking—they’d just see it as a reckless gamble.
Which made it all the better to open a betting pool.
“All right, everyone knows the deal, yeah?”
The moment I broached the subject, the chat erupted.
1. Clear Success 1DP
2. Clear Failure 1DP
I laid out the betting pool cleanly.
“So. You’re all in again, right?”
A necromancer sealing away the undead and clearing a floor—it was an insane promise.
The odds were about to be absolutely delicious.
-Wait, is he actually gonna fail this time?
-But this guy always pulls it off somehow…….
-This is learned trauma. I can’t just throw money at it
-The guys who believed in that 6% last time got rich though
-Ugh, I genuinely can’t decide what to bet on
The viewers were already scratching their heads in confusion.
That struggle itself was part of the beauty of the betting pool.
‘Heh heh. Worry all you want.’
Whatever you’re expecting, I’m about to smash every last bit of it to pieces.
* * *
I laid out the precise rules for my broadcast challenge.
First: undead use is completely forbidden.
Sealing away the undead—which form the backbone of a necromancer—was the core of this challenge.
“And because of that, I’ve also decided not to use the Armor of Phantom Legion.”
It’s a defensive skill, but when you break it down, it’s really about commanding phantom spirits—which are undead.
Of course, these creatures are oddly independent and don’t consume domination stacks.
But they’re still undead either way, so I banned them too, per viewer consensus.
If I’m going to do this cleanly, I might as well seal everything properly.
“Which means all I can use are pure necromancer skills.”
Since it had come to that, I decided to show the viewers my skill roster.
I was fighting without undead anyway, so there was no harm in showing my cards.
“All right. Should I reveal them?”
Pop!
[Skills: Corpse Control / Intermediate Undead Subdimension / Necrotic Power Arrow / Necrotic Power Operation / Majesty of the Corpse Lord / Undead Recycling / Self-Reclamation / Corpse Processing / Soul Curse / Soul Binding / Necro Item Crafting / Necrotic Barrier / Life Force Absorption / Touch of Decay / Confused Self-Formation / Armor of Phantom Legion / Wave of Death / Corpse Explosion / Wide-Area Subdimension Storage]
I folded my arms as the skill list scrolled out before me.
“Now, if I narrow it down to pure offensive skills alone…”
Necrotic Power Arrow, Soul Curse, Wave of Death, Corpse Explosion.
Those four, give or take.
“But even that’s questionable when you think about it.”
Soul Curse is a debuff—it doesn’t deal direct damage.
Corpse Explosion requires actual corpses to use, which makes it half-useless in a challenge where undead are forbidden.
Touch of Decay and Life Force Absorption do have attacking power, but they’re not particularly strong, and I’d need to make contact to use them.
“So really, what’s left is just the Necrotic Power Arrow.”
-Wait, your offensive moves are seriously limited?
-So this class was literally a one-tool undead job
-Without undead you’re just a bread with no filling?
-And you’re gonna clear the 3rd Floor with that????
[Cheok-cheok Seoksa has donated 1DP!]
Dude I told you. The Three Great Necromancer Skills are missing.
“So what are those, Cheok-cheok?”
[Cheok-cheok Seoksa has donated 1DP!]
Argh, so frustrating! Curse of Pain! Corpse Poison Arrow! Corpse Control! You’ve got Corpse Control but you’re missing Curse of Pain and Corpse Poison Arrow!!
“Oh, you were talking about that?”
Actually, I’d already looked that up. I knew exactly what Cheok-cheok meant.
The skills known as the Three Great Necromancer Skills.
Curse of Pain.
A skill that inflicts inexplicable agony on your opponent.
That pain restricts the opponent’s movements.
Of course it does. Who can move properly when they’re in agony?
Corpse Poison Arrow.
A skill that gathers the toxic fluid from corpse rot, shapes it into an arrow, and fires it.
When it hits, the affected area rots, becomes infected, and the poison seeps through the nervous system.
It’s not instantly lethal like cobra venom, which kills in minutes if bitten.
Instead, it’s agonizing, and the nerves near the struck area become paralyzed.
And since it carries Necrotic Power, it also boasts solid physical piercing power as a pure arrow.
Corpse Control is essential for creating undead anyway.
“So you’re saying the Three Great Necromancer Skills include Corpse Control, but you’re missing Curse of Pain and Corpse Poison Arrow?”
[Cheok-cheok Seoksa has donated 1 DP!]
Yeah that’s it, finally got it
“Alright. So we’ll buy both and head in. Everyone good with that?”
-Oh the money god descends here?
-Rich Necromancer class as expected
-Buying before entering is basically law
-Just blow your gold on both
The moment the viewers agreed, I purchased both skills from the marketplace right away.
Common skills, apparently—the price was cheap.
I’d expected the Three Great skills to be expensive, but since they’re so mainstream, they cost pocket change.
“Now then, before we enter, let me introduce the equipment.”
Since I was already laying my cards on the table, I figured I’d show off the gear too.
“First, this Emperor’s Crown—you all probably know it. My disciples gave it to me as a gift.”
It was one of the pieces of equipment Park Gang-chan and Yu Hye-yeon had brought in a bundle.
Then I pulled out a set.
A robe with a staff, gloves and shoes, and a belt to match.
A complete set.
[Full Combat Necromancer Equipment Set]
Rarity: Rare
In some dimension long past, Necromancers fought in wars against the Demon Lords.
To protect their world, they raised the corpses of demons to fight.
This is the armor of those Combat Necromancers.
Effect: All skill power +15%
Effect: All status abnormality resistance +25%
Effect: All skill mana consumption -15%
Effect: All stats +5%
-Wow those options are insane??
-Rare grade but the set bonus is that good?
-Power, stats, resistance—full optimization
-Look at the scale of disciples’ gifts
-I want disciples like that too
The viewers erupted at the sight of the set’s options.
For Rare grade, the options really were solid.
Combat-focused Necromancer gear—it fit my current concept perfectly.
“Right then, shall we head in? Entering the 3rd Floor!”
I attempted entry to the 3rd Floor immediately.
But then—
[We offer this to an Awakened One who has completely cleared a floor of higher difficulty.]
[Will you enter the Despair Difficulty floor?]
“What!?”
An unexpected message appeared.
“A Hidden Route!? There’s a Despair Difficulty!?”
I never imagined there’d be another tier above Hard Mode.
It was a hidden ultra-high-difficulty route that only opened for those who’d cleared it.
-Despair Difficulty???
-There was something like that??
-So there’s a hell difficulty above hard mode ㄷㄷ
-Why does this guy keep discovering stuff nobody’s seen before?
-Alert! New content discovered!
Here I was, breaking through Hard Mode for the first time, and now I’d uncovered yet another unknown realm: Despair Difficulty.
Huh… what’s this…?
Despair Difficulty.
Just hearing the name felt ominous, yet my heart pounded with strange excitement.
Seal away the undead and challenge Despair Difficulty too?
That’s effectively doubling the difficulty.
“Might as well see what happens. Enter!”
I pressed the accept button without hesitation.
I came here to test this stronger body anyway—might as well go big.
-Yi Museon’s gone crazy!
-He’s not even using undead and he’s going for Despair Difficulty??
-This guy’s seriously lost it lol
-But that’s exactly why I can’t look away
-How much are the betting odds right now
Leaving the viewers’ frenzied screams behind me.
I stepped into the 3rd Floor of Despair Difficulty.
* * *
“Oh… this is quite impressive?”
The last 3rd Floor was a character rescue mission.
I could enter it again, but there’d be no fun in that.
So I just came in at random, and found myself in a space I’d never seen before.
“That height is……”
[Cheok-cheok Seoksa has donated 1 DP!]
Six meters high. Three meters wide. Classic labyrinth layout. Greek style, so most likely the Minotaur Labyrinth.
“The Minotaur Labyrinth! Thanks, Cheok-cheok.”
I know it too. The Minotaur Labyrinth.
A dungeon where the Minotaur appears, filled with mazes and traps inside, with the Minotaur wandering among them.
The problem is that the Minotaur is known to be unkillable.
Whether it’s that strong or just marked as immortal, I don’t know. Every streamer who tried died horribly.
Besides, the Minotaur Labyrinth is famous for only appearing below the 10th Floor.
Yet here it is on the 3rd Floor of Despair Difficulty…
As I was thinking that, a message appeared.
[You have entered the Hide-and-Seek Game on the 3rd Floor of the Despair Difficulty Dimensional Tower.]
[Hide from the seeker or escape.]
[If the Awakened One dies, the 3rd Floor trial is a failure.]
[May fortune favor you.]
Hide-and-seek!
So it really is the Minotaur Labyrinth!
[Cheok-cheok Seoksa has donated 1 DP!]
A hide-and-seek with the Minotaur? lol You’re dead this time for sure.
That’s the whole concept of hide-and-seek.
You have to hide.
Because the monster playing seeker is invincible.
And the Minotaur Labyrinth works that way too.
So throughout this maze you’ll find plenty of places to hide. Gaps between walls. Wooden crates. Spaces in stone statues and so on.
“Now, now, Cheok-cheok—no need for the fuss. So, how many of those people betting on me clearing this are there?”
Let me check.
“What? Do I have so little trust from you all?”
Only 3%!
Only 3% of them wagered that I’d clear this.
Tsk. Not much faith in the crowd, is there?
-No way you’re clearing this one though
-This time I’m winning for sure!!
-Yi Museon please die for us!!!
“Hmm… you all have so little confidence in me… This won’t do.”
I need to show them.
I, Yi Museon, shall show you the true might of my former life as a Martial God.

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