The Regressed Necromancer Prepares for the Apocalypse - Chapter 27

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The Necromancer Who Returned Prepares for the End — Episode 27

“S-senior!”

Hae Won-i’s face drained of color. She had every reason to.

The booby trap had detonated directly beneath their chariot.

“Hold on tight!”

With that, Do-jin seized the chariot’s grip with his right hand and wrapped his left arm around Hae Won-i’s waist. Then he concentrated magical power into both his feet and——
Crack-crack-crack!!

– Oh! The booby trap has detonated again!
– This is as good as a victory for the Bandit Team, is it not?!
– ……Wait?

The spectators expected yet another chariot to go flying and its team to be eliminated.
In an Arena where D-rank or higher players couldn’t even log in, that was simply how things worked.
But this time, a single player existed who shattered that common sense.

Thud!
Do-jin drove his mana-infused feet hard against the chariot’s floor.
The force rippled through the entire vehicle.
As the suddenly lifted track came crashing back down, the chariot carrying him and Hae Won-i descended right along with it, never leaving the ground, and continued racing forward.

“…….”
“…….”

Silence filled the Arena for a moment.
Then an explosive roar erupted.

“That…… that can’t be real?!”
“Impossible!”
“Those two are absolutely insane!”

The commentators’ booth caught fire. Hong Jin-gu’s voice and that of another commentator rang out through the Arena with crystalline clarity.

– Did you see that?! Did you see it?! That chariot mastery bordering on sorcery!
– The two-person team making their debut today! Now we see they were dark horse champions all along!

The Arena trembled with fervor and cheers.
Naturally, this was unwelcome news to the existing favorites.

“Damn it…….”
“Where did these hicks come crawling out from?”
“We could’ve put them down already. Time to finish this.”

The three players on the other chariot all nodded. Then the player at the reins adjusted them, controlling the beast’s pace. And——

“Let’s go!”
“Get trampled, you bastard!”

Even having just witnessed that feat, the Bandit Team underestimated Do-jin.
Not a single piece of equipment visible on him—just a neat business suit, a clean face, and young to boot. His only ally was a single girl.
So they thought:

‘A simultaneous attack will finish this easily.’
‘Blocking the first strike is child’s play, of course.’
‘If I just take that one out, the kid’ll be easy pickings!’

One of them swung an iron ball with chain, while the other began preparing a magic skill.
They were confident. Eliminating opposing players in the Arena of the Vortex of Desire to secure first place was routine work for them.
Naturally, Do-jin had no intention of taking this lying down.
Rather, he’d been fixated on one thought all along.
Which was why he’d had no choice but to hold a purely defensive line up until now.

“That’s defense? You knocked out an entire team yourself!”
“That’s how it works—while a player’s running a Quest, they can eliminate opponents even while defending!”

Do-jin responded to Hae Won-i’s jab with casual indifference, then moved into action.
Immediately, his magical power began moving with surgical precision.

‘Don’t forget. My class is Necromancer!’

A Necromancer with four attributes, at that.

‘Bone, poison, blood, soul.’

Do-jin activated Servant Armament once more, and in the same moment, summoned another servant from the Pyramid.
The servant, conjured under exquisitely precise control, was none other than a Lesser Vampire Wolf.
Emerging from the Pyramid like a mass of blood itself, the Lesser Vampire Wolf fused directly into Do-jin’s body through the Servant Armament effect.
It was a reaction entirely different from that of the Raven Skeleton with its bone attribute.

“What just happened? What was that?”

Perhaps to Hae Won-i’s eyes, crimson liquid had slipped out from Do-jin’s wrist, then been reabsorbed back beneath his skin.
It would have looked much the same to anyone else watching.
They wouldn’t think to suspect he was a recently debuted Necromancer.

“Good. Seeing your reaction, I can use this without holding back.”
“……?”

Do-jin manipulated the magical power of the vampire temporarily fused with him through Servant Armament with meticulous control. And what manifested was……

– Oh! A whip! The Seo Hae-won Team has produced new equipment!
– Is it an item?

The commentators’ voices grew urgent, and the betting spectators erupted into clamor.

“Did he pull out a hidden card?”

“We didn’t see any items from either of them, so they had something stashed away?”

The Lesser Vampire Wolf, enhanced by Servant Armament and refined through Do-jin’s magical control, bore no resemblance to a wolf anymore.
It had become a whip forged from blood itself.
Connected in series with the Necromancer Do-jin’s magical power,
it writhed like a living serpent and lashed toward its target.
To Hae Won-i and any third-party observer, it was impossible to tell whether it was being guided by magical manipulation or wielded through raw strength and technique.
The blood whip that struck—

“Gasp!”

wrapped around the player who was about to unleash his magic attack and hurled him through the air.

“G-Gyeong-tae!”
“Ahhhhhhh!!”

A player screaming as he crashed violently to the ground.
It seemed the flying-capability item was not equipped on her person.
Yet even in that moment, Do-jin remained focused on the peculiar magical power he sensed emanating from himself.

‘Is this the player’s own magical power?’

Currently, Do-jin had two Servants equipped with Servant Armament—a skeleton and a vampire wolf, respectively.
The blood-aspected vampire wolf, purely under Do-jin’s control, had transformed its shape into something whip-like.

‘It can still use its blood-sucking function even in this state?’

While Do-jin marveled at this, his mind churned ceaselessly through calculations.
The commentators, meanwhile, were reaching new heights of excitement.

– My goodness! The Bandit Team has lost another member!
– But it’s not over yet! When a team is formed, doesn’t only one survivor need to remain to clear the quest?
– Struck down by that exquisite whip technique! What class could this player possibly be?
– An eliminated player who cannot move! That collision against the Arena wall must have dealt considerable damage!

Though in truth, the shock from magical exhaustion was likely far worse.
Do-jin, assessing the surroundings with cold clarity, caught sight of the Bandit Team’s next move.

“Damn! Gyeong-tae went down in an instant!”
“…We go at them directly.”
“What?!”
“Ram chariot into chariot! Smash them head-on!”

The next instant, the Bandit Team’s chariot barreled recklessly toward Do-jin’s.

“Ah!”

Hae Won-i cried out, but she had not yet grown skilled enough at handling the horses to adjust their position in time.
Crash-crash-crash-crash!!!
The chariot wheels collided with a terrible shriek of sound.
Unable to withstand the force, both chariots lurched violently toward the Arena wall.
At this rate, Do-jin and Hae Won-i’s chariot would be crushed between them.

“How amusing.”

In that instant, a chill-edged voice struck Hae Won-i’s ear.
It was unmistakably the familiar voice she had been hearing all along.
Yet as if the speaker had transformed entirely, both the tone and tenor of it had changed.

“…!”

Hae Won-i’s eyes widened as she turned her head without thinking.
Do-jin was smiling.
An expression utterly different from any she had seen directed at her before.

“What… what the hell is this bastard…!”

The unsettling shift was felt plainly by the Bandit Team as well.
Not cruel, but cold; smiling, yet devoid of feeling—almost arrogant in its emptiness.
As the Bandit Team’s momentum faltered at the sight—

Crack!
Do-jin’s mana-infused fist drove squarely into the Bandit Team’s charioteer’s face.
Of course, it was reinforced with a gauntlet forged from a Raven Skeleton—that went without saying.

“…Urgh—!”

The player who had suffered an injury nearly bordering on facial collapse lost consciousness atop the tank.
And the last player!

“Damn it! Damn it aaaaall!!!!”

Toward Hae Won-i on the Magic Stone platform, he transformed the iron ball with chain into a club shape and swung it wildly, as if thrashing in desperation.

“Aaahhh!!!”

Do-jin stepped forward protectively as Hae Won-i shrieked in alarm, and caught the club easily in his bare hand.
Enhanced by the Servant Armament, Do-jin’s grip strength crushed the club outright.

– This can’t be! This can’t be!
– The Bandit Team’s surviving player Jin Nam-su! Their prized item has been smashed to pieces!
– How is this possible? Jin Nam-su’s transforming weapon was surely a special item crafted from Magic Stone, wasn’t it?!

A moment of silence hung in the air.
Then the Arena erupted with a thunderous roar so deafening it seemed the very stands might take flight.
The spectators in the stands grew so frenzied that you could scarcely hear even the person sitting directly beside you.

“Magic Stone! He crushed Magic Stone Equipment with his bare hands?!”
“Wow! What kind of Quest is this today?!!”
“Damn! If only I’d recorded this—I’d be watching it over and over!!!”

But the Quest was not yet over.
Im Jeong-uk, the Bandit Team’s last player, gritted his teeth and sprinted toward the Magic Stone platform.

‘The Quest itself isn’t finished yet! If I can just complete my circuit first……!’

Today’s Quest, issued in the Arena’s Vortex of Desire.
Complete three laps around the Arena’s stadium first, riding the tank.
Both the Bandit Team and the Seo Hae-won Team had finished two laps now.
Whichever team finished the final lap would emerge victorious!

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