The Regressed Necromancer Prepares for the Apocalypse - Chapter 18

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The Necromancer Who Returned Prepares for the End — Episode 18

Bang!!!

“-Ugh……!”
“Su—Su Chul?!”

The thugs’ eyes went wide. One of their own had just been hurled through the air right in front of them.
Hit by Do Jin’s attack?
Yes, he was hit.
But what kind of attack? A blade? An arrow? A hammer?
All wrong.
The attack that struck Su Chul and his gang came from Do Jin…….

“Scatter! Move!”
“That bastard!”

Boulders—boulders now tumbling down the slope of the Arena from above.

‘What the—what is this?!’

Hong Jin Gu clenched his teeth from the back of the group. This wasn’t part of the plan.

‘I have Earth attribute, so I came to this Rockfall Valley because I thought I’d have the advantage!’

Hong Jin Gu’s logic hadn’t been flawed. Arenas like this one—where the ground itself was unstable or stone-related quests appeared—were hugely favorable to Earth attribute players.
The problem was this:
They hadn’t logged into this Arena to clear a quest in the first place.
The notification window that kept blaring and updating at such a time was, frankly, infuriating.

Rockfall Destruction: 2/300

Rockfall Destruction: 5/300

Rockfall Destruction: 7/300

Most of the boulders were fragmented enough that simply blocking them caused destruction.

“This damn notification window is so loud!”

The tank spat out a curse. Hong Jin Gu agreed entirely.
Just as he was about to nod…….
Bang!

“Ugh!”

Another boulder flying in from the side!
And another!

“You bastard!!”

At the end of the direction the thugs glared toward with murderous intent stood Do Jin himself.

“Still not ready? You’re moving too slowly, aren’t you?”

As he spoke, Do Jin kicked another falling stone across the arena with his foot.
Bang!

“Ugh!”

Not just one—he’d hidden a smaller stone behind the larger one and sent them both flying in quick succession.

……

Do Jin watched the thugs, overwhelmed in momentum and snarling with rage, scramble helplessly to defend themselves. A thought crossed his mind.

‘No wonder this Arena has no popularity.’

Even in the Tutorial Season, where everyone was fixated on collecting Ma-stones and Gold, a player could still earn a decent haul if they put on a flashy, impressive stream.
But from a low-tier Arena with mediocre rewards? If you couldn’t even look good doing it—
Why would players, whose primary motive was profit, bother logging in?

Ever since the beginning, boulders had been raining down from above in an endless cascade.
Their sizes varied, as did their hardness.
Because of this, even if one failed to block or dodge, the risk of serious injury remained low. But instead…….
Thud!

“Kch!”

A sizeable rock dropped directly onto the head of the thug hunter who’d been wary of Do Jin’s attacks, waiting for an opening to strike back.
Fortunately, it was soft sandstone, so a player with durability far exceeding that of an ordinary human suffered no real harm.
He simply ended up covered head to toe in fragments of shattered sandstone.

Pfft!

The sight was so absurd that even the thug’s own crew burst out laughing.

“Hey! Don’t laugh!”

As the hunter player, his vision obscured by stone dust in his eyes, bellowed in frustration—
—a fist-sized chunk of rock struck him dead in the face with perfect precision.

“-Ghhk……!”
“Oh, sorry about that.”

Do Jin’s mockery fell like a blade toward the thug whose nose was now completely shattered, his face drenched in blood.
The crumbly sandstone served as misdirection.
The harder stones, scattered sparingly among the fall, were for the actual strikes.

“I’m just having too much fun using the Arena Quest, you see.”

Do Jin meant every word. And it was the truth of the world before his return as well.
When the Arenas transformed into dungeons and the safety net protecting players’ lives crumbled, skilled players had begun exploiting the surrounding terrain to its fullest in their fight for survival.

‘I thought criminals who ignored quests entirely might be a different breed, but apparently they haven’t evolved to that level yet.’

Then again, quests in the Tutorial Season tended to be fairly uniform anyway.

Then it happened.

“Clear the way!”

It was Hong Jin Gu’s voice. At last, the earth-attribute mage player had made his move.

“Earth Spear!”

Hong Jin Gu was a Level 48 mage standing on the threshold of C-rank advancement.
Because of this, the spells he commanded had already ascended to mastery across multiple disciplines—offense, defense, support, and beyond.

‘Though mastery doesn’t mean he excels at all of them equally.’

One corner of Do Jin’s mouth curved upward.
From the moment he’d logged into the Arena and the quest began, Do Jin had been observing the thugs’ reactions alongside everything else unfolding around him.

‘Hong Jin Gu stationed in the rear, the tank at the front, the hunter and assassin positioned side by side ahead of him.’

This arrangement revealed their true intention: they weren’t particularly concerned about the falling rocks during the quest—they meant to focus their vigilance entirely on Do Jin and engage him in combat.

‘Probably because this is a low-tier Arena quest, they’d figured the rockfall wouldn’t be all that dangerous, so they made their decision accordingly.’

The hidden reef in that otherwise flawless plan was Do Jin himself.
The thugs had likely assumed they could manage the occasional solid stones that tumbled down well enough.
The problem? What if those stones carried Aura?
Crack! Shatter!

“What—what is this? How did—?!”

Hong Jin Gu cried out in shock. It was an entirely reasonable response.

“The Earth Spear, hard as steel itself… shattered from being struck by a mere stone?!”

Earth Spear. The signature offensive skill wielded by earth-attribute mages.
A top-tier D-rank player could conjure spears from soil or rock indiscriminately, and their hardness matched steel, just as Hong Jin Gu had said.
Yet before an Aura-infused strike, even steel-grade hardness was no better than paper.

“Damn it… Earth Wall!”

After taking several hits, the thugs had apparently realized that Do Jin’s stone attacks posed a far greater threat than the falling rockfall itself.
Hong Jin Gu seemed to have abandoned his offensive strategy, opting instead to concentrate on reinforcing his defensive barriers. But it was the others who moved.
The tank, apparently resolved to weather the falling stones, began edging forward with his shield raised toward Do Jin—and behind him…?

‘Gone?’

Where was the missing one?

A sudden ambush materialized from thin air.

And the player who wielded it.

“…!”

Yet because of that specialization, virtually every other ability fell far behind compared to other classes—save for their Concealment skill.
And an E-rank one at that?

At that same moment, Do Jin’s gaze flicked toward his arm—the one that had just blocked the assassin’s short sword.

‘The sleeve’s torn and stained black…… they coated it with poison.’

Hong Jin Gu and the other thugs who witnessed it gnashed their teeth.

“What? Why didn’t the attack land?”
“Was he already wearing armor?”
“Damn it!”
……

The thugs’ reasoning was plausible, but reality told a different story.
It was the effect of Servant Armament.

‘Better than I imagined…’

Tutorial Season players could only unleash their true abilities after logging into the Arena.
Whether it was superhuman physical prowess from Stat Enhancement or skills themselves.
And the moment Do Jin logged into Rockfall Valley, he activated one skill.

‘My prediction was right.’

The skill Do Jin had used was Servant Armament.
It was a reward for clearing an Under Arena quest in Wolf’s Hunting Ground.
Though hidden beneath his suit jacket.
Do Jin’s body was now shielded entirely by a suit of armor—crafted from a crow skeleton he’d summoned as a servant.
Since he was only testing it now, he’d activated the skill with just a single servant, but
he could surely make good use of it in future Under Arena quests and various combat situations.

‘In any case, for now…’

Do Jin turned his attention back to the thug players in front of him.
At the same moment, the assassin clicked his tongue and tried to activate his Concealment skill again, but
Grab!

“…?!”

Do Jin seized the assassin by the collar, foiling his escape.

“Wh-what?”

The thug assassin’s eyes went wide.
Though inside, he was screaming silently.

‘No! Because this bastard’s holding me, I can’t use Concealment!’

A desperate lament from an E-rank player.
If this assassin had focused on leveling up, or experienced an early Awakening so that his Concealment had risen to C-rank, then perhaps even the still D-rank Do Jin might have been in danger—

‘How could I not notice someone leaking Mana like that.’

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