The Necromancer Who Was Despised

‘Even if it’s small, I can use it by recharging it.’

It’s not something I can use forever. There’s a limit to each jewel, and when that limit is reached, it shatters.

Even the powder of that shattered jewel will have greatly reduced efficiency, but it can still be used at least once. That’s what a jewel is.

As long as I have it, I can use it usefully.

A moment later, the jewel Sammer brought was not so small.

It was about half the size of a baby’s fingernail, and something of that size would be worth more than 10 gold.

“Jimnis. This is a reward for your suffering. Take it.”

“Thank you. If you need anything, please call me anytime. If it is the Lord’s command, I will do my best.”

It’s hard to refuse when the Lord calls anyway.

So what I said was just a kind of lip service.

Since I had passed on the necessary information, there was no reason for me to be here.

Therefore, I was able to leave the Lord’s mansion naturally and headed straight home.

‘At this rate, I don’t know when the request will end.’

This is a bit of a shame.

I was hired to protect Mutrue…

‘It’s possible to guard him while repairing the underground passage, but it’s impossible to go up the return route.’

It’s a miracle that I even brought him this far.

But you’re taking me with you again?

“Even if we use a secret passage, the destination is set.”

Somehow, it might be possible to get out of the Barony of Ovalan, but it’s impossible to get into the Earldom of Siglen.

I couldn’t predict what judgment the Baron would make.

As I returned home, I was met with a warm welcome from Athena and Tia.

“You’re back?”

“Yep, I’m back.”

“I heard it was dangerous. Are you hurt anywhere?”

“Didn’t Kaila tell you? “I’m fine.”

“But they said even the knight went missing… ”

“The atmosphere in the territory will probably be tense for a while.”

“… We just barely got into the pioneering territory… ”

Athena seemed a little depressed, as if she didn’t expect something like this to happen.

“There won’t be a war or anything, right?”

This was a big incident, to the point that the territory’s only knight had gone missing.

It was reasonable to think that way.

“Well, it’s not impossible.”

It might not be a full-scale territorial war, but if the mercenaries affiliated with the Merchant Alliance decide to attempt a robbery, it would be no different from war.

‘Since I provided the information, the Lord will respond.’

In the process, there was a high possibility that we would be conscripted under the name of a request.

Even if I have the title of Honorary Soldier, it probably won’t mean much in an emergency of that scale.

Athena must have been worried about a situation like that.

Well, there was nothing we could do about it now, even if we worried about it in advance.

Tia led me to have dinner, and since it was dinner time, we were able to have a comfortable dinner together for the first time in a while.

At that moment, even Athena erased her worried expression and showed a relaxed face.

After dinner, Athena called me out separately.

“First of all, I’ve finished everything you asked me to do. I also moved all the items I received from Kuman to the basement.”

“Oh? You worked hard. “I’ll have to go over there tonight.”

Since I was still in the middle of a request, I had to go there in secret.

‘They won’t come looking for me in the middle of the night.’

“Tonight?”

“Yeah. I’ll be back before daybreak.”

“You must be tired… ”

If the preparations went well… I might be able to make the Specter today.

‘The Skeleton will be difficult though.’

The funny thing is, the difficulty of making a Skeleton is dozens of times lower.

The situation was very ironic.

“I understand. I’ll keep that in mind.”

Athena couldn’t stop me.

In the current uneasy situation, it would help their survival if I became stronger, so she couldn’t bring herself to stop me.

After telling Kyla that I would visit her at night, I secretly left the pioneering village.

When I opened the basement of the place that was once Nenson’s house, I felt magic much stronger than before I left.

‘At this concentration, it’s difficult to completely cover it with the barrier I put up?’

It was close.

I thought that Athena did a good job.

On one side, there were reagents purchased from Kuman piled up, and on the other side, the staff that I hadn’t seen in a long time was steadily spewing out magic.

‘Goblin’s hand, deer’s horn, monster’s cheek… ‘

Each of them was what I ordered.

‘Good. It’s perfect.’

She must not have had much time, but it’s beyond my expectations.

‘You must have worked hard.’

There must have been some resistance, too.

But she prepared all of this for me.

She has properly compensated me for the trust I gave her.

‘Then, I should reward her just as much.’

Athena and Tia, who were in the war or when a monster wave occurred, will not die.

In particular, I was worried that Athena would go to war, and I thought that I couldn’t stop it from happening, but I at least wouldn’t let her die.

‘I have to make it that way.’

It’s preparation for him and power for him.

Survival and freedom. I never forgot these two things in any situation.

I need power for that.

I immediately began to draw a magic circle on the basement floor.

The material was the monster’s bodily fluid that Athena prepared.

I additionally infused the drawn magic circle with magic.

And I filled the prepared offerings in each part of the magic circle.

‘In the center… a shadow of the soul.’

It was preparation for creating a specter.

It doesn’t end here.

[Death aura.]

It was a crooked method, but there was nothing as good as this to greatly increase the magic concentration.

An aura denser than usual enveloped the surroundings.

Of course, the staff I obtained from the cave was gripped in my hand.

I caught my breath for a moment and waited for enough magic to fill up inside the magic circle.

When it was ready.

I arranged the magic in the air and cited the trigger word.

Then, the magic circle began to shine with a murky light.

Magic began to rapidly drain from my body.

The magic moved to the staff, was greatly amplified, and was additionally supplied to the magic circle, and soon the magic began to be completed.

‘Did it succeed?’

The offerings that I had placed on the magic circle began to crumble into dust one by one.

The dust was sucked into the gray bead in the center, the shadow of the soul, and soon the bead began to crack.

Crackle.

-Kyaa!

A familiar voice could be heard.

Kumar. The pitiful soul that had died and become the shadow of a soul was letting out its last scream.

And soon, that voice changed.

-Kyaa!

It changed into a voice completely different from Kumar’s voice when he was alive, a voice closer to a woman’s.

And at the same time,

Clang!

The gray bead shattered, and at the same time, the magic circle lost its light.

“Hahaha… .”

I let out a small laugh.

A transparent ghost floated in the air.

The amount of magic I felt was greater than I thought.

A success, a great success considering the sacrifices I used.

‘Specter.’

A ghost-type undead.

A being that could never be harmed by ordinary physical strength.

Only attacks that included mana, divine power, or aura could harm a specter.

On that note, it was a considerably excellent undead that could exert physical strength if it grew, and if it grew further, it could even use mental attacks.

I had finally gotten my hands on it.

That wasn’t the end.

At the same time as I got my hands on the specter.

Whirrrr.

My circles began to resonate.

Affinity

I had succeeded in creating an undead that shouldn’t be possible to create with my current level.

For your information, it was common sense that creating a specter usually started from class 5.

That was because it was possible to intentionally create a shadow of a soul from then on, and the creation of a specter itself was a high-difficulty spell.

But I ended up succeeding using the quality of the materials, excellent staff, and the special privilege of the 2nd round, and the result of succeeding in an overwhelmingly high-level spell was that my body began to react.

My current self was a body that was only at the end of class 2, but with that body, I succeeded in a spell that was 3 stages higher, and as a result, the vessel of my body expanded.

As the vessel expanded sufficiently, preparations for the formation of a higher circle were naturally completed, and I naturally noticed it.

Although it was a shortcut, my body couldn’t help but react since it was such a high-level spell.

I naturally absorbed the magic flowing out of the tension into my body, and as I filled the vessel with that magic and made it mine, I slowly began to form a circle.

‘The vessel… has expanded tremendously.’

In the process of forming the circle, I didn’t feel any danger at all.

The higher the level, the more dangerous it becomes to form a circle.

Since you have to maintain the existing circle while forming a new circle, it was almost impossible to reach a level of 5 circles or higher unless you found enlightenment and formed a circle all at once.

Still, even with about 3 circles, there would be some danger… .

‘The vessel is too large… The stability of the existing circle has risen tremendously.’

Since the vessel itself was full of magic power, the existing circle didn’t waver during the process of forming the circle.

That’s why the process of forming the third circle was so stable.

‘It feels like I’m using a potion to create a circle.’

When the number of circles is small, the size of the vessels is usually similar.

There are a few exceptions, but they are literally a few.

Most people are around the same point.

Exploiting this, there was a way to forcibly form the fourth circle using a large amount of potions, which could also be called a kind of shortcut.

‘If you look at it broadly… Well, it’s similar.’

I also created five specters using shortcuts, which resulted in the vessel being forcibly expanded.

However, since the number of circles was only increased forcibly, in the worst case, the circle could not be properly utilized, and there could be a terrible incident where the fourth circle could not use the fourth class magic.

Of course, I am an exception.

‘At this size… It’s 1.5 times larger than when I formed the third circle in my first round.’

Even if my level is low, I can form the third circle with a vessel of this size.

However, it is still insufficient to challenge the formation of the fourth circle. I needed to grow the vessel more.

Still, since the formation of the circle itself requires caution, I took my time to complete the third circle and opened my eyes only after repeatedly confirming that the circle was stable after its completion.

‘Finally… 3rd class.’

Using full-fledged attack magic starts from the 3rd class, whether it’s an elemental wizard or a dark wizard.

The one I just used was Dark Ball, a dark magic, and it was a 3rd class attack magic that dark wizards mainly used.

It is a magic with strong explosive power, boasting destructive power not inferior to Fire Ball, which can be called the representative attack magic of the 3rd class of the fire system.

‘Now I look like a wizard.’

A wizard is considered a wizard only after reaching the 3rd class.