The Regressed Necromancer Prepares for the Apocalypse - Chapter 10

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A Regressor Necromancer Prepares for the End — Episode 10

‘Good.’

Level twenty-five in E Grade after just two Arena clears—impressive progress.
Do Jin checked his status window.

Name: Lee Do Jin
Level: 25 (E Grade)
Class: Necromancer
Title: Regressor

Strength: 35 (+1)
Agility: 35 (+1)
Mana: 35 (+1)
Stamina: 35 (+1)

Attributes: Bone, Poison, Blood, Spirit
Unique Skill: Death Aura (EX)
Class Skill: Necromancy (E)

Item: Pyramid (B+)

There was more that had changed.

Necromancy Leveled Up: Lv.3 → Lv.7

Notifications continued to scroll past. The leveling wasn’t happening to Do Jin alone.

Crow Skeleton (Soldier) received shared experience from its master.
Level Up (Lv.19).
Attack power and mobility increased.

Crow Skeleton (Common) received shared experience from its master.
Level Up (Lv.15 – Soldier).
Resilience and mobility increased.

The same notification appeared for the Wolf Skeletons as well.

Wolf Skeleton (Common) received shared experience from its master.
Level Up (Lv.13 – Soldier).
Attack power and defense increased.

Wolf Skeleton (Common) received shared experience from its master.
Level Up (Lv.13 – Soldier).
Mobility and resilience increased.

The moment the notification window appeared, Do Jin’s minions transformed in appearance as well.
The crow skeletons’ wings and beaks grew larger still. Of course, the largest among them remained the Apostle, and now when he spread his wings, they stretched longer than one of Do Jin’s arms.
The wolf skeletons, however, each changed in their own way. One grew larger overall, its fangs extending further. The other showed no outward transformation, but its bones became far more durable and its movements more precise.
These undead, docile and affectionate as pampered pets, crept closer to Do Jin’s side and rubbed their heads against his shoulders and legs.

“Not bad at all.”

But Do Jin was waiting for one more thing.
A new skill from the quest clear reward!

“However, viewers, wouldn’t things be a bit dull this way?”
– ???

……That was not what emerged. Something else did.

“The Under Arena, among all arenas, is what you might call a special zone! But…… simply clearing the enemies right before your eyes…… doesn’t that seem far too predictable and simple?”
– Surely not
“Oh! Now it begins!”

Condition 1: First login to Under Arena
Condition 2: Monster Overflow

Conditions met.
Hidden Quest triggered.

Grade: D Grade
Clear Method: Slay or neutralize the boss (Time limit: 15 minutes)
Reward: Hidden System Unlocked (Boss neutralized–1 / Boss slain–2)
Penalty: All Stats -10

A new notification window suddenly materialized in the arena’s empty sky.
The viewers who saw it were stunned.

– A Hidden Quest?
– There’s something like that?

Do Jin explained it as such, but in truth, few people knew of things like bosses or Hidden Quests.
Do Jin recalled his memories from before his regression.

– Clearing an assigned quest through Overflow triggers a Hidden Quest in the Under Arena at high probability.
– The Under Arena’s Hidden Quest is something that must be cleared if one wishes to break through humanity’s limits.

A secret revealed too late, discovered by a high-ranked player possessing foresight during the height of the Main Scenario’s progression.
Only then did the survivors lament that they hadn’t dragged every player to the Under Arena, even if it meant beating them senseless.
But by then, everything was far too late.

“…….”

Do Jin shook his head, lost in thought of the past.
There was a reason he’d chosen the Under Arena as his first arena the moment he’d joined the guild.
If he could only encourage players to log into the Under Arena through this broadcast, they wouldn’t face the helpless defeat that the past had brought.
That was as far as the reminiscence went.
Two wolf skeletons came forward, each carrying the corpse of a gray wolf in its jaws.

‘I can create three more minions going forward.’

Description: Active type. Can enslave small animals or monsters among the dead as minions.
Mana consumption: 5 / 1 use
Minion roster: 7 / 10
Minion types: Skeleton (bone attribute), Lesser Zombie (poison attribute), Lesser Vampire (blood attribute)

The number of minions hadn’t increased, nor could I awaken medium-sized ones yet, but in exchange, the range of undead I could raise had expanded dramatically.

‘It looks like using minions in a scouting capacity accelerated my skill level-up.’

Thanks to that, Necromancy had reached Lv.7, allowing me to create three different types of undead!
Before the hidden boss arrives, I should build up my forces first.

“Awaken.”

In that moment, Do Jin’s mana connected to the ash-grey wolf corpse rolling dozens of meters away.

Currently available minion types
1. Wolf Skeleton (bone attribute): Available
2. Wolf Zombie (poison attribute): Available
3. Lesser Vampire Wolf (blood attribute): Available
4. Wolf Ghost (spirit attribute): Unavailable (Required level – 10)

Three wolf corpses in the best condition that the Wolf Skeletons had gathered.
Their eyes open.

[Lesser Vampire Wolf]
A Necromancer’s minion.
Possesses vampiric ability. Capable of absorbing a small amount of the opponent’s health and mana (–3% per use).

[Wolf Zombie]
A Necromancer’s minion.
Possesses toxicity. Upon successful infection, gradually depletes the opponent’s health (–5% per minute).

– Wait, those aren’t skeletons?

A viewer who had been watching Do Jin with bated breath threw a message into the chat.

“Thanks to your support, I’ve become able to awaken a wider variety of undead.”

Two ash-grey wolves rose to their feet with neither hide nor flesh falling away.
One of them moved with unnatural jerking motions and gave off a faint, though not overpowering, stench.
The other, meanwhile, moved with perfect fluidity and carried no foul odor, yet its frame seemed subtly smaller and its fur appeared oddly desiccated.

– Wait. Did he just summon minions of different attributes?
– How is that even possible? He’s not a ranker, he doesn’t have dual attributes, and triple attributes doesn’t even make sense!?

The viewer forum erupted into debate in an instant.
Do Jin opened his mouth with a slight smile.

“Then shall we move on to the next event? It seems our uninvited guest has finally arrived!”

At that same moment, a wave of magical power pressed down upon the air.
And poison saturated every breath.
One of the viewers posted a panicked comment in the chat.

– Already?!

The guild master’s chat erupted in response.

– Bright Mask: What are you doing right now? Do you really mean to fight?
“Have I ever lied to you?”
– Bright Mask: No, I’ve been baffled since you said you’d go to the Under Arena, but now…!
“Oh, it’s beginning!”

The words had barely left Do Jin’s lips.
Another notification window materialized.

Warning!
You have been exposed to poison!

Warning!
The arena is engulfed in toxic fumes!

– Poison?
– Is the boss poison-attributed?

The viewers’ predictions were correct.
The monster Do Jin and his undead would hunt from this moment forward was nothing but a concentrated mass of lethal venom.

Boss [Three-Eyed Wolf (D Grade)] has appeared.

A breath that seemed to fill the entire space. Thick gray fur reminiscent of a lion’s mane. Three orbs that gleamed with an unsettling iridescence.
Do Jin’s lips curled upward slightly. Then, in a voice too low for anyone else to hear, he murmured:

“It’s been a long time. Or… is this our first meeting?”

The pack leader of the gray wolves that ruled this dungeon. A beast of towering size—easily three times the bulk of any ordinary gray wolf.
With every exhale, thick toxic fumes poured from its maw.

“In the old times, when you broke free from the dungeon, civilians and players in the surrounding areas fell like dominoes. All because of the poisonous gas you exhaled with every breath.”

Before the Regression, when the Main Scenario began, all arenas had transformed into dungeons. Among them, the monsters that emerged from the Under Arena’s transformation were especially lethal.
Take the Three-Eyed Wolf, for instance.
Simply by moving through the area, it scattered poison in every direction, and the casualties were beyond counting.
But this time, you will never appear in the Main Scenario.

“It ends here.”

Your magical power resists the poison’s intrusion.

A smile played across Do Jin’s lips as he read the notification window.

“The timing works better than I expected.”

He already knew he’d receive a new skill as a reward for the quest to hunt a hundred ashen wolves.
He also understood that when a player acquired a new skill, it could be influenced by the player’s class and quest content.
Was it because Do Jin possessed the “Poison” attribute among his attributes?
Or had the toxin of the three-eyed wolf approaching from afar affected the outcome?

<Wolf Hunting Ground> Clear Reward: <Poison Heart (D)>

<Poison Heart (D / Lv.1)>

Description: Passive type. Absorbs external toxins and converts them into the skill owner’s mana or stamina. (Mana – +10% per minute / Stamina – +5% per minute)

More than simply gaining poison resistance, this skill transformed poison into his own strength.
It was an exceptionally effective ability against monsters that spewed toxins.
Was that why the man before it seemed so eerily undisturbed by the poison gas?
As the three-eyed wolf hesitated.
The Apostle and raven Skeletons shot forward like arrows, their targets the wolf’s eyes.
Behind them, the wolf Skeletons burst forth in pursuit, aiming for the three-eyed wolf’s front legs.
The three newly subordinated wolf Undead circled around to strike the beast’s right hind leg in concert.

“Roooaarrr!!!”

But a boss was a boss. The Skeletons’ fangs could not pierce the creature’s thick hide, and the raven Skeleton’s beak failed to accurately strike the thrashing wolf’s eyes.
Yet Do Jin’s Undead did not retreat. They circled endlessly around the boss wolf, harassing it without relent.

‘Now!’

In that instant, Do Jin’s mind calculated with cold precision.

‘My arsenal now: a spear and ten Undead.’

As if answering his will, the Undead’s movements grew sharper still. In response to his skilled command, they struck in sequence and withdrew in practiced rhythm.
Do Jin’s spear, sheathed in his enhanced aura, swung through the air.
Its tip—

“Kraaaaahhh!!!”

Indeed, a boss was a boss. The three-eyed wolf twisted its head with a razor’s margin and evaded Do Jin’s thrust.
But—
it could not escape the Apostle’s beak, which had been waiting for precisely this moment.

“Grrrrrrrr……!”

Whoooosh!
Sensing the danger, the three-eyed wolf began spewing toxin more aggressively.
But it was in vain.

Toxin absorbed by <Poison Heart (D)>.
Recovering mana (+10% per minute).

“Tingling, even…”

Do Jin smiled faintly. The magical energy consumed by controlling his minions was being steadily replenished.
The boss wolf, suddenly wounded in the eyes and struggling with impaired vision, had apparently decided to blanketing the area with poisonous gas as a precaution.
Thanks to that, Do Jin received a steady, abundant supply of the toxic miasma he needed.

“Grrr……?”

The three-eyed wolf sensed something amiss—as if Do Jin were subtly drawing out the battle.
But it was already too late.

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