The Regressed Necromancer Prepares for the Apocalypse - Chapter 6

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The Regressed Necromancer Prepares for the Apocalypse — Episode 6

“There’s so much to do. So much.”

Do Jin stood in a deep mountain forest, where not a soul could be found.
He stepped into a cheap, single-person tent he’d bought for a pittance. Though it was shabby, it suited him perfectly since he planned to use it only once or twice.

‘Compared to before the Regression, when I slept fitfully and lived rough in the open, this is practically a hotel.’

Sado and the other Familiars were scattered across the branches around the tent, their gaze sweeping constantly across all sides. If anything so much as approached, they would alert Do Jin immediately.
With his Familiars standing guard, Do Jin relaxed and checked his Overflow Reward window.

“Where is it…….”

The Reward window appeared, and the screen advanced.

Seventh Overflow Reward in progress
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Reward: Level Up (Lv.1→3)

Description: Active type. You may designate small animals or monsters among the dead as Familiars.
MP Cost: 5 / use
Familiar List: 5 / 10
Familiar Range: Skeleton (Bone attribute)

“A skill level-up already.”

In the F-rank Arena, Do Jin had already gotten a taste of how useful multiple Familiars could be. So if their number increased, there was every reason to welcome it.

“Still, I’d prefer the next Familiar to be something other than a bird.”

He turned his attention to the next Reward window.

Debut Match Overflow Reward in progress
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Reward: Pyramid (B+)

“What?”

At the sudden appearance of a B+-rank item, Do Jin’s composure wavered for a moment.
Whirrr—
Mana began to coalesce in the empty air, then fell into his palm.

“A bracelet…….”

An item fashioned as a simple, ordinary metal circular bracelet.
The moment Do Jin fastened it around his left wrist, a reaction rippled through him.

“……!”

The bracelet melted into his wrist as soon as he put it on, and in its place, a faint triangular mark appeared on the back of his hand. It resembled a Pyramid.
A new window materialized before him.

[Pyramid (B+)]

Description: An extra-dimensional storage item for the owner’s familiars. Expandable through mana stone fusion.
Classification: Slave-type, Growth-type
Effect: Familiar Storage
Restriction: Requires Lv. 1 or higher to use. Limited to owner’s familiars only.

“This is better than I expected.”

If familiars were the most useful thing about becoming a Necromancer, they’d been equally the most burdensome. In plain terms, it meant more baggage to haul around.

“But with this item, carrying familiars around will be far simpler.”

In essence, he’d acquired a dedicated familiar inventory.

“What’s next…….”

Receiving the reward wasn’t the end of the day. There was still more for Do Jin to examine.
Splat!
A handful of business cards tumbled onto the tent floor. All of them were ones Do Jin had received from guildspeople and Awakening Bureau agents during today’s Arena matches.
And most of them were nothing but rubbish.
They’d make decent kindling when he boiled water tomorrow morning.

“Let me see…….”

Only a few cards were actually worth examining. The organizations that survived into the future and remained active were that scarce.
Do Jin scrolled through his phone’s news feed, cross-checking the information he remembered against what was being reported now.

[Miracle Guild’s Rookie Cha Yuri Makes Spectacular Debut!]
[Kim Sanghwan Awakens as a Magic Swordsman! Korea Now Has Its First Magic Swordsman Class……]

Today’s F-rank Arena quest, Breaking the Disk, was being plastered across every news outlet. Do Jin, naturally, was no exception to the coverage.

[The World’s First Necromancer Appears?]
[Player Do Jin Demonstrates Exceptional Potential……]
[Spearman or Necromancer? The World’s First Dual Class Emerges?!]

The media was flooded with high expectations and rumor-tinged speculation about Do Jin’s remarkable debut.
But the information Do Jin was actually seeking was different. His sharp, jade-green eyes flashed as he scrolled further down the news homepage.

“Cosmo Guild…….”

There it was. Do Jin fixed his gaze on the headline like a predator eyeing its prey.

[Cosmo Guild’s Player Kim Suho Finally Challenges an A-Rank Arena?]

Cosmo Guild. Kim Suho.
The name Do Jin, having regressed, needed to prioritize first in Korea.

‘A removal target, in other words.’

While Do Jin’s eyes remained fixed on the knight like stone, his mind worked at fever pitch.

‘Three years until the main scenario opens.’

Two years of the five-year Tutorial Season had already passed.
In the remaining three years, he had to calculate day by day and grow as much as possible during the Tutorial.
That’s why Do Jin had revealed his full strength from his debut—the abilities of the world’s first Necromancer, and the spear technique and martial arts he’d honed through eight years rolling in the hell that came before the Regression.

[Competition intensifies among guilds, government, and young Players over contracts…….]
[Babel Guild announces unprecedented contract terms! Other guilds push back…….]

There were many Players, but truly talented Players were rare. So whether government or guild, everyone dangled tempting conditions to attract superior talent.

‘It has to be a place that can stand in for me against the guilds, the Awakening Bureau, and the media—a place that guarantees me genuine freedom.’

For Do Jin right now, even a second of time felt precious.

‘I have to calculate everything carefully.’

There were already many high-level Players.
Some might think it easier to lay bare the truth to them, seek their cooperation, and entrust the future to their hands.
But the truth couldn’t be revealed.

‘If I’m careless, they might make their own moves.’

Before the Regression, humanity’s enemies were powerful. And it was true that Players were relatively weak. But that wasn’t the whole picture.
When cornered, Betrayers always emerge from among humans.
He didn’t know exactly how it was possible, but those Betrayers who concluded humanity had no chance made some kind of contract with the System and shed the Player framework.

‘That’s exactly what happened—the Betrayers, humanity’s new enemy after the monsters.’

From then on, they functioned as essentially new monsters until the final absolute evil appeared.
The leader of the Betrayers who emerged in Korea was Kim Suho, guild master of the Cosmo Guild.
A so-called golden child who’d been riding high in every way.
Until the terror of inevitable defeat and destruction, the weight of responsibility crushing him down, finally drove him to surrender to humanity’s enemy—a Betrayer.

“……Thanks to him, even his followers wavered and lined up to defect one after another.”

The terror of death, the terror of annihilation.
When those who should have stood firm as humanity’s pillars went over to the enemy first, the worst era unfolded: losing even the spiritual anchor, they wandered, and one by one followed suit in betrayal.

“So this time, I’ll move first.”

Betrayers had emerged from famous guilds overseas too.
But before dealing with them, Do Jin decided he’d first take care of the domestic Betrayer properly.

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Do Jin continued silently scanning the article.

[Kim Suho, exemplary Korean Player!]
[Representing Korea in the International Arena—medals assured. Domestic experts respond……]
[Cosmo Guild signs with Hero Guild, North America’s largest! Domestic netizens erupt in celebration……]

As it had been before the Regression, Kim Suho and the Cosmo Guild’s reputation was immaculate. Without a shred of evidence, stepping forward would only bury a single Player in society’s eyes.

‘Right now, there’s no way to stop him socially or by force.’

Anyway, making the information public carelessly would only backfire, and he couldn’t predict how the Betrayers before the Regression might respond.

“…”

Having sorted through his thoughts, Do Jin gazed down at the two business cards lying before him.
One belonged to the Cosmo Guild, operated by the Betrayer Kim Suho.
The other was the Test Guild—a name that felt somewhat unfamiliar.
Naturally, the Cosmo Guild’s offer was the superior one. The headhunter from Cosmo who had approached Do Jin earlier in the day had said this to him:

– Our guild holds your potential in the highest regard, Do Jin.
– We will spare no effort in providing comprehensive support for your level advancement.

‘If I had the chance, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to join the Cosmo Guild and strip them of everything they have.’

But what about the Test Guild?

“Right. It’s been so long since the guild itself dissolved that I’d forgotten—but that was the Test Guild.”

That woman who had come searching for him that afternoon, holding just a single business card after countless others had passed through him.
Her face carved like finely polished marble, she had said:

– If you wish to operate freely, our guild would be your best choice.
“…”

It came back to him. The granddaughter of the Han River Group chairman.

“Around that time, the Han River Group was trying to cultivate their own independent Player guild. And one of the people assigned to that role was…”

Choi Rahee—one of the last Players and one of the few compatriots Do Jin had left.

“Well, back then we had nothing left to lose anyway, so all the survivors maxed out their skills.”

The Classes provided by the System could be divided into four broad categories.
Warrior, Mage, Monk, and Rogue.
Choi Rahee’s Class was Monk. A Monk’s specialty lay in healing and support.
Then what was the skill that made Choi Rahee worth Do Jin’s attention?

“Blessing of Prosperity (S)… Maybe I’ll monopolize it for a while.”

Blessing of Prosperity was, without question, a skill specialized in Player growth and buffing.
It raised all stats of the Player to whom the skill was applied.
Moreover, it increased the experience acquisition rate by fifty percent across the board—stats, skills, level, everything.

‘Of course, there are restrictions on the skill’s target range.’

If the range of applicable targets had been unlimited, Blessing of Prosperity would have been EX-rank rather than S-rank.
Likely Rahee knew as much, which was why she wasn’t aggressively expanding her guild without restraint, but instead carefully selecting Players.
All while posing as nothing more than an ordinary spectator, not a Player herself.
Do Jin’s eyes moved back and forth between the two guild cards.
Then they fixed on one.

“I’ll go meet her soon. Bright Mask.”

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