The Regressed Necromancer Prepares for the Apocalypse - Chapter 2

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The Regressed Necromancer Prepares for the End – Episode 2

Game reset complete.
Player Lee Do-jin’s status window initialization in progress…….

Error! Error!
Player Lee Do-jin’s status window initialization failed.
Unique Skill cannot be deleted.

Retry. Failed.
Retry. Failed.
Retry. Failed.
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Unique Skill cannot be deleted.
Errors predicted across multiple fronts: Class selection, Skill acquisition, and more.
Searching for alternatives.
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Search complete.
Hidden Class selection window unlocked.

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“Ugh……!”

Gasping for breath, Lee Do-jin’s eyes snapped open.

“Hah… Hah……!”

Collecting himself, Do-jin slowly looked around the space.

“Where is……?”

Yellowed walls and ceiling, a single small window in the cramped room, and a worn-out mattress with a single folding table.

“…….”

Do-jin’s memory stirred, and after a moment he nodded slowly. It took him a moment to place it—the distant past—but this was unmistakably a scene from his memory.
The one-room apartment in Dal-dong Village where he had lived eight years ago, back when he was still an ordinary person.

“I’ve returned…… truly.”

Could this be illusion? No—this is all real, tangible.
Do-jin’s senses, honed through five years of the Main Scenario—five years of struggling at the razor’s edge between life and death—had long transcended the bounds of ordinary human perception.
The reset is real. This apartment is real.
He had returned.

“Kh…… Kheuk……!”

Several minutes passed like this.
The faint laughter that had filled the small room vanished without a trace.
The moment Lee Do-jin reached for his Smartphone lying carelessly on the bed.

Regression successful
Current date: August 25, 2026

A notification window materialized before him.
The original Lee Do-jin would have fainted dead away. Or else rejoiced that he too had awakened.
But Lee Do-jin’s dark eyes remained cold, unmoved.

Congratulations.
You have awakened as a Player.

Name: Lee Do-jin
Level: 1 (F)
Class: X
Title: Regressor

Strength: 5
Agility: 5
Magic Power: 5
Vitality: 5

Attribute: X
Unique Skill:

“…The Death Energy still remains?”

Why?
Yet Lee Do-jin could not dwell on that one point alone. The notification window was far from finished.
He read through the cascading windows with clinical precision.

Remarkable Achievement!
You are the first Player to undergo Regression.
A reward has been granted.

Do you wish to confirm and claim it?

Yes / No

“…”

Lee Do-jin did not hesitate. He pressed [Yes].

Reward confirmed.
1. Skill Slot Addition (x4)
2. Four-fold Composite Attribute

“This is actually quite good.”

A smile spread across Do-jin’s lips—cynical, perhaps, but undeniably a smile.
For Players, four things mattered: Class, Skill, Item, and Attribute.
Among these, Skills operated under one universal rule that applied to every Player: you were given exactly three Skill Slots.

‘Occasionally someone would get an extra Skill Slot as a reward, but such Players weren’t common.’

Attributes were rarer still than Skills. While Skills were common enough, he’d never even heard of someone gaining an Attribute later on.

‘Most Players are born with only one Attribute, naturally.’

This would surely prove invaluable even after Do-jin selected his Class.
So he’d moved at once to choose his own Class.
But then something unexpected occurred.

“What’s this?”

A luminous window appeared before Do-jin’s eyes—one that hadn’t existed before the Regression.

Hidden Class has been unlocked.
Do you wish to confirm?

Yes / No

“A Hidden Class?”

Was this because Do-jin himself was a Regressor, or because of the Skill that hadn’t vanished?
But in an age of great transformation, the cardinal rule was to accept the changes before your eyes without suspicion. There was no point in needlessly overthinking it—the window wouldn’t disappear either way.
The moment Do-jin’s finger selected [Yes], the next window appeared.

To you, who bear a fate that defies heaven, I speak truth.
Do not deny your destiny,
but walk the path prepared for you.
The restless dead, their grievances unresolved, shall gladly become your army,
and those who fall before you shall kneel, transcending all kinship and race,
becoming the blade and shield that shall never betray.

……

A Necromancer.
Even for Do-jin, who had weathered countless trials, it was a choice he’d never foreseen.

“……Was Necromancer even a Class Players could choose?”

It was almost absurd. If other Players noticed him, he’d be mistaken for a Monster without question.
Before the Regression, there had been Monks among Players, Mages, Spirit Speakers, Tamers—
but never a single Necromancer.
Before the Regression, Necromancers appeared only as Monsters.

“……It must be because of the Death Energy.”

Before the Regression, Do-jin was the only Player who possessed Death Energy. If that was the case, the System had likely detected it and offered him the Necromancer Class in response.
Most of all, what held Do-jin’s gaze was the text on the Class window.

……

– An army for you alone.
– A blade and shield that never betray.

Perhaps because of his memories from before the Regression, Lee Do-jin found himself unable to tear his eyes away from those words.

……

Before the Regression, as enemies grew ever stronger, most Players found themselves powerless against them.
Eventually, intelligent Abominations began to emerge, and the Players themselves became hunted prey.
Some Players attempted to surrender to these intelligent Abominations, seeking safe passage.
Others infiltrated the Player ranks, assassinating promising recruits and sowing division and discord from within.
By the time the Players belatedly uncovered the traitors’ identities and dealt with them—

……”Those things appeared.”

The Players, already decimated to catastrophic numbers by the traitors, could only fall back helplessly. In the end, humanity had no choice but to walk the path to annihilation.
Those things.
Abominations.
Formless entities bearing multiple eyes and mouths.
They were the decisive reason Lee Do-jin had to choose the Necromancer class.
Without Death Energy (EX), other Players had virtually no means to eliminate the Abominations.
Lee Do-jin himself had obtained Death Energy (EX) only through brushes with death and the slimmest stroke of fortune.

‘Some Spirit Summoners and Golem Artificers certainly shared their Spirits and Minions through magic, didn’t they? And every Necromancer that appeared as a Monster fought commanding numerous Minions.’

If that were true.
If Lee Do-jin himself, who possessed Death Energy (EX), became a Necromancer class.
Could his Undead army also use Death Energy (EX)?

“If only that were so……!”

He would never yield against the Abominations that appeared in the game’s late stages!

“All right.”

Lee Do-jin made his decision.

You have selected the Hidden Class ‘Necromancer’.
Do you wish to proceed?

Yes / No

Lee Do-jin’s hand chose [Yes] without hesitation.

……!

In that moment.
Pitch-black darkness coiled around Lee Do-jin and burrowed into his being.
And at the same time……

– ■■■■■■■■■■■■!

With a sound utterly beyond words to capture.
Every human in Dal-dong Village felt an inexplicable chill run through them.

Class : Necromancer

Attributes: Bone, Poison, Blood, Soul (Four-fold Composite Attribute)
Base Skill: Necromancy (E / Lv. 1) – Active type. All attributes. Can subordinate small animals or monsters among the deceased.
Mana Cost: 5
Minion List: 0 / 5

The moment Lee Do-jin locked in his Class, he pushed himself to his feet.

“Should we go find some minions?”

His eyes gleamed, now a vivid green.
He stepped out of his one-room apartment without hesitation.

“Dead animals come up on the Back Mountain near here now and then.”

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