How a Calamity Necromancer Retires

Kim Yong-dae was once an office worker at a partner company of KM Motors.

However, the sudden decision of KM Motors to shut down the business partner disintegrated into the air overnight.

The CEO ran away at night while not paying his wages, and because of that, Kim Yong-dae became unemployed overnight.

The problem was that after losing my job, I couldn’t find a proper job.

“At that time, I really thought I was going to die.”

Like Kim Yong-dae, 10,000 unemployed people lost their jobs overnight.

The problem is that other industries have collapsed one after another due to the unemployed.

The restaurants in the industrial complex, which catered to office workers, also collapsed, and the consumer sentiment in Gunsan shrank, and the commercial district also shrank.

A vicious cycle in which part-time jobs are also reduced as the business district shrinks.

It was Seron and its collaborators that appeared at the time when I was somehow enduring the time of hardship.

Seron induced foreign factories to invest in Gunsan, claiming that skeletons would replace workers.

But the citizens were in a state of trembling.

It is said that the local economy will be revitalized and tax revenue will increase by attracting investment, but it did not feel much because skeletons occupy the most needed jobs for citizens.

However, as the number of such partners increased beyond 10 to 20 and 40, the situation gradually changed.

The number of office and managerial positions, which seemed to have taken place recently, has multiplied several times, and as the use of the port by partners increased, Gunsan Port also began to recruit additional staff, and positive signals began to emerge from here and there.

And that too at a very high speed.

The endless vicious cycle is gradually changing into a virtuous cycle.

At that time, Kim Yong-dae looked at his cell phone and said.

“no way. It fell.”

Kim Yong-dae, who submitted his resume to the newly relocated partner, but was rejected.

If it was like before, I would have despaired and despaired again.

Because there was no hope.

But now it’s different.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. There are 5 companies scheduled to move in this month alone. Try again, what.”

The bitterness of being eliminated can’t be helped, but the next opportunity still remains.

It is possible because there is faith that Gunsan’s job problem will continue to improve.

In this way, the citizens of Gunsan, including Kim Yong-dae, began to slowly embrace hope while feeling their everyday life changing little by little.

*

I left the existing Seron factory and set up a headquarters in Gunsan.

Thanks to this, 800 new jobs were created in Gunsan, including those from partner companies.

Of course, the 800 jobs themselves are only a fraction of the 10,000 unemployed that were mass-produced when KM Motors and its partners collapsed, but the ripple effect was by no means small.

There are only 800 jobs, but the amount of production is not at the level of 800.

When truck drivers, who will deliver raw materials and goods produced and poured out by thousands of skeletons 24 hours a day, spend money by visiting the factory every day, the commercial district is lively, albeit a little, and Gunsan Port also significantly increases the logistics volume, which is positive for the entire city of Gunsan. The phosphorus effect occurred serially.

And most of all, the key point is that all of this was accomplished in just three months after Yurim Electronics first moved in.

Seron’s partners continued to increase at this moment, so the citizens of Gunsan had no choice but to feel that the situation was getting better.

“Here is a list of new companies. We selected only companies that met or fell short of our standards, but looked promising.”

After receiving the documents from Deokbae Kim, I looked at the list and said,

“Even after guessing and guessing, is it this much?”

“Didn’t the 1st phase partners like Yurim Electronics have a lot of fun? Many of them are competitors of our partners.”

Most of the 1st phase partners are companies with a fairly high proportion of the domestic market in Korea.

Of course, both labor and logistics costs are much cheaper, so price competitiveness has risen dramatically.

Thanks to this, the products of the 1st phase partners are Korean-made, which are cheaper than Chinese products, and are gradually increasing their market share.

At this point, competitors who had been watching the situation scrambled to send proposals.

“Please accept all of them, regardless of whether they are competitors or not.”

Such sham stories as healthy competition spur development are of secondary importance.

Isn’t there a case where a country refuses to enter other industries in order to keep its loyalty just because it entered a foreign country where labor costs are cheap in the first place?

The same goes for this.

If you have to compare the partner company, it is like setting up a local factory in a country called Seron and hiring a worker called Skeleton.

I just provide them with a cheaper labor force than overseas and I just need to make money.

And honestly, with my help, I took away the share of Chinese products in the domestic market, and the market pie itself was growing, as well as export competitiveness.

Then, instead of thinking about hitting a wall against competitors, we should focus on targeting the overseas export market occupied by China like SR Electronics.

“As for shoes, since we are directly swallowing the overseas market, we put a wall on our association members and only guaranteed domestic sales, but the companies here have a different stance. If you have any complaints, tell them to focus on overseas exports. Don’t be like a frog in a well in narrow Korea.”

Go out and think about selling.

“By the way, some people said it would be nice to apply a giveaway event to partner products as well.”

Do you want to apply the giveaway to partner companies?

“Who says that?”

“This is a story I have heard. Maybe it’s hard to talk about it directly, so I think I leaked a rumor.”

“Ignore it. If you spread too much everywhere, it becomes less scarce. And since SR electronic products are low-end in the first place, they do it to attract people’s attention, and our partners have their own technology, right? It would have been nice to have the technology and price competitiveness, what else, and what about the prizes…”

Of course, if the giveaway is applied, a huge increase in sales will follow.

But SR Electronics and its partners have completely different positions.

The reason for attracting partners in the first place is to make up for the lack of SR Electronics, which does not have its own technology.

“pretend you didn’t hear that”

I returned the list and said.

“The rest, Mr. Kim, can decide if he likes it.”

How long can we not just review these documents?

Now, there are not just one or two partners.

“All right.”

The situation is very smooth.

Seron shoes, which open up the market directly, need to increase the number of skeletons according to the amount of orders, but partners can bring in the amount of existing overseas factories as they are, and hit the skeletons one at a time.

In short, it means that once you move in, the factory can be fully operational from then on, and the fact that the skeleton is busy means more money coming in to me.

In addition, the number of companies that want cooperation continues to increase, so it is only a matter of time before the entire Gunsan Industrial Complex is covered with Seron’s partners.

And by that time, tens of thousands of skeletons will be working in the Gunsan Industrial Complex, and at that rate, thousands of human jobs will be created.

“Let’s keep increasing. Money runs out once you move in, so there’s no reason to stop, right?”

“All right.”

That’s when I finished the report.

“Ha, CEO Han!”

A new employee from Gunsan, who joined the headquarters in Gunsan, entered the CEO’s office with an urgent voice and said.

“The fire department has requested cooperation!”

“Request for cooperation from the fire department? What do you mean?”

The employee said in a puzzled voice.

“There is a fire in a nearby distribution warehouse!”

*

At the words of an employee, I turned on my cell phone navigation and flew through the air to arrive at a logistics warehouse on the outskirts of Gunsan City.

“and. What kind of fuss is this?”

Flames shoot up from the windows, and black smoke billows above the factory.

A fire of enormous scale as the size of the distribution warehouse is large.

After looking around, I flew to the firefighters and landed on the ground.

Then a firefighter spotted me and approached me.

“Representative Han!”

The firefighter, who seemed to be the commanding officer, said in an urgent voice.

“I apologize for the sudden request for cooperation. However, the situation was so urgent that the only thing that came to mind was CEO Han.”

I shook my head and said.

“it’s okay. It’s nothing else, it’s a fire department job, but you have to help if you can. How can I help you?”

Then, the firefighter handed over the map of the distribution warehouse he was holding and said.

“A large fire has started due to the items piled up inside, and there are 5 employees who have not been able to evacuate inside yet! The problem is that the inside is so complex and the fire is so great that there is no way to try to get in. What I thought of at that time was the skeleton.”

“Are you saying we’re going to use the skeletons to enter and save people?”

“yes.”

The firefighter said in a desperate voice.

“Is it possible?”

No matter how much I’ve lived on the battlefield for 30 years and my emotions have been worn out, I’m not cold-blooded enough to ignore the person I can save in front of me.

Besides, it’s a bonus that if we solve this problem well, the evaluation of me and the skeleton will be better.

“Of course it’s possible.”

It’s simple if I put a shield on the skeleton and the transport skeleton and bring it in. I control it myself and pick up the staff.

Or you can just check the exact location with a skeleton, hang a shield on it, and then float it with a fly and bring it out yourself.

Even if you look like this, you’re a great wizard?

Although he is a necromancer.

“Tell me where you are.”

Then the fireman bit his lip and said.

“That… I don’t know.”

Eh?

“No, then you say we have to find and rescue 5 people in that large warehouse?”

“you’re right. Couldn’t we just send in hundreds of skeletons at a time and search them all over?”

I know it’s easier said than done.

Even so, do you think it’s normal to analyze the visual information sent by hundreds of skeletons connected to me one by one and determine the appropriate action at the time?

Even in a situation where it is difficult to secure visibility due to flames and smoke?

It’s not magic, it’s a matter of human mental strength and willpower.

Of course, there’s nothing I can’t do, but if I’m distracted like that, no matter how much I am, there may be a part that I miss.

“Shall we touch the algorithm?”

So, what I came up with as an alternative is to roughly tweak the skeleton’s algorithm to automatically rescue it.

It was my skeletons who roamed around the inside of the gate, which could be said to be more complex than a distribution warehouse, without hesitation, so it was not a job to go through rough terrain.

But I shook my head and said.

“no. This is even worse.”

A situation where there are so many variables, such as where people may be hiding in which room or object, and even whether they are conscious or not.

As such, it is necessary to open doors, dig through fallen structures, and rummage without missing even a single possibility, but it is greedy to expect that level of performance from a hastily prepared algorithm.

“uh······.”

I thought about it for a while and said.

“How about passing the fire hose to the skeleton and turning it off?”

Skeleton puts out the fire in the forefront, and then people go in and search.

“There are so many kindling sticks, it’s not an easy fire to put out. In addition, the warehouse itself is not a reinforced concrete structure, and there is a risk of collapse.”

I thought of making a large skeleton and skimming it all at once, but then that wouldn’t work either.

Are you saying it might break if you touch it?

“after. I can’t help it.”

I have no choice but to control myself.

“It’s a major blood service.”

It’s been a long time since I completed the algorithm and controlled hundreds of undead at the same time, but I still have to do it.

That’s when I opened the subspace and took out the skeleton.

“uh?”

Then an idea flashes through my mind.

The problem now is that I can’t trust the judgment and performance of the improvised rescue algorithm, and that’s why I can’t control it by myself, so there may be parts I miss due to mental distraction.

Then, shouldn’t it be possible for many people to make that judgment together, not me alone?

After being in a daze for a while, I hurriedly shouted.

“Everybody take out your phones! If it breaks down later, I’ll ask you, so whether it’s a firefighter or an employee here, anyone!”

“yes?”

“There is no time, so take it out quickly! Take it out and install the CCTV app!”

*

Skeletons hanging cell phones that will serve as CCTVs on their heads enter the warehouse one after another while being protected by shields.

And the firefighters and warehouse workers who watch real-time video on the mobile phone connected to the cell phone hanging from the skeleton’s head.

“No. 14! You have to open the door in front of you!”

At that, I immediately close my eyes and, according to the algorithm, take control of skeleton number 14, which was just wandering around the warehouse, and directly manipulate it to open the door.

Skeleton number 14 opened the door and checked inside, but the room was filled with roaring discontent.

After confirming that it was empty, I handed control back to the algorithm, and the skeleton started walking according to the algorithm again.

“No. 56! The front is blocked! We have to get rid of this to secure passage!”

“Number 71! It looks like something is on it! We need to check!”

Skeletons walk inside the warehouse according to the algorithm, and people outside take charge of appropriate action judgments at that time with the CCTV application connected to the cell phone attached to the skeleton’s head.

And if they judge, I take control and put it into action.

It was literally a perfect joint operation between humans and skeletons.

I said with a smirk.

“How comfortable it is to do this.”

If I had done it alone, I would have been distracted, checking here or controlling there, but it’s much more perfect when people make the judgment for me.

how long has it been like that

“Sah, it’s a person! No. 67! Number 67!”

I immediately took control of Skeleton 67 and checked the situation.

A middle-aged woman lying on the ground where the flames had not yet spread.

He seemed to have passed out from drinking too much smoke, but luckily he seemed to be alive.

“okay!”

Once the location is confirmed, the next step is simple.

I immediately channeled my mana onto the middle-aged woman, shielded her, and cast fly magic to pull her towards me.

And after a while, a middle-aged woman was rescued through a warehouse window under the protection of a shield.

“Wow!”

“Aunt Kim!”

As the unconscious middle-aged woman gently landed on the floor, the waiting rescuers hurriedly carried the middle-aged woman on a stretcher to an ambulance.

“One rescued!”

I said in a confident voice.

“Let’s get the rest quickly!”

*

A joint rescue operation between skeletons and humans.

The results were very successful.

Some people suffered serious burns, but their lives were not threatened.

At that time, the firefighter who seemed to be the commanding officer grabbed my hand and said.

“thank you! Representative Han!”

“What. If you are a person, you should definitely help.”

“If it wasn’t for CEO Han, there would have been a bigger sacrifice. Before CEO Han came, we were debating whether someone should take a risk and enter.”

Fortunately, the distribution warehouse did not collapse until the end and survived, but to believe that they tried to enter such a fire pit with only one fireproof suit.

I don’t know if it’s really different, but I admit that firefighters are having a hard time.

By the way, I’m a firefighter…

I thought about it for a while and said.

“Fireman.”

“Yes, Mr. Han.”

“How was the rescue operation using the skeleton today?”

Then the firefighter smiled brightly.

“Without a doubt, it was the best! We were able to safely rescue people from the rear.”

“Yes?”

The true value of skeletons lies in performing dangerous tasks on behalf of humans.

Like the battlefield in Seron or this fire scene on Earth.

“How many firefighters are there in Korea?”

“About 50,000 people.”

Ohh?

Are there quite a few?

“What would it be like if you could directly control the skeleton instead of just sharing your vision like this time?”

“As far as direct control? Then there is nothing more to ask for.”

A kind of remote, unmanned robot-like skeleton that takes over dangerous rescue operations.

Skeletons like this are in high demand and won’t infringe on jobs.

Because this is literally close to equipment.

With 50,000 firefighters alone, wouldn’t it be possible to sell at least a few thousand?

In addition, it can be applied to other 3D industries besides firefighters, so it has sufficient commercial potential.

An unmanned skeleton that can save people’s lives by doing dangerous work, get a good image from people, and even have commercial potential.

‘Instead of providing A/S service, I think I could make quite a bit of money if I rented it cheaply in Korea and rented it expensively in other countries instead.’

Renting it to Korea at a low price, getting recognition for its performance, and then making money overseas.

Of course, the price difference will be an issue overseas, but there are reasonable reasons.

Apparently, as the distance from me increases, the magical power required to maintain increases.

Of course, at most, it’s two or three times, so it’s a level that doesn’t show much to me, who used to operate hundreds of thousands of skeletons, but anyway.

After organizing my thoughts, I looked at the firefighter and smiled.

“Fireman, could you help me on my day off? Maybe the future of 50,000 firefighters is at stake.”