The Necromancer Who Was Despised

I had only cast Slow on three of them.

However, their speeds were different, so they could not recover their disrupted formation.

As the ones who were supposed to move together in unison to create a strong ‘wall’ scattered here and there, their paths became tangled, creating numerous gaps.

In that situation, they were approaching me…

It would have been better if they had stopped.

The Minotaur, who seemed to be the leader, seemed to have made that judgment, but I didn’t give him the chance.

Skeletons 1 and 2 came out, followed by the Living Armors.

Kayla supported them, and Athena also aimed for the gaps.

Seeing the approaching undead, the Minotaur, who was in the lead, got into position.

However, there were no colleagues to guard his flanks, and instead, he realized that he had to hold out until the rear, which had fallen apart, could recover the situation, and his body stiffened with a sense of burden.

The two skeletons rushed at him.

Thud! Thud!

He blocked the attacks of Skeletons 1 and 2 with his shield.

Compared to his stiff body, his reaction was quite agile.

However, he couldn’t block the subsequent attacks of the Living Armors that attacked from the left and right.

Swish! Crash!

“Moooo!”

Other colleagues rushed out in a hurry, but since it was not a trained situation, they could only show instinctive movements.

Athena took advantage of that gap.

Woosh!

The Minotaur, who was focused on the Living Armors and was moving forward, had his breath cut off, and the other Minotaurs, sensing an instinctive threat, howled.

[Critical Wounds]

Poof!

The Minotaur in the lead, who was already injured, suffered a sudden worsening of his wounds and fell to his knees.

As the first two collapsed at once, the Minotaurs finally began to awaken their instincts.

They branded their weapons and shields indiscriminately and rushed towards me, and Kayla, as if she had been waiting, charged into the gap between them.

Thwack!

The Minotaurs glared at Kayla, but she was not easy to catch.

Far from blocking with her shield, she dodged their attacks with ease and presented them with sword strikes to their ankles.

In an instant, the Minotaurs’ mobility was shattered.

Then, I aimed for the vital points of those who had been slowed down by my magic.

The slow ones didn’t even resist properly and as they collapsed, the battle turned into chaos.

Contrary to expectations, Kereos’ party was disconcerted by the ensuing battle.

Usually, when chaos ensues, it’s disadvantageous for the weaker party.

Moreover, no matter how skilled one is, anything can happen during chaos.

Even strong people can die meaninglessly during chaos.

Therefore, it was inevitable that there would be many losses, and it’s common practice to avoid chaos, especially with monsters, but we induced chaos without hesitation.

Of course, we didn’t cause chaos unknowingly.

‘The damage… I expected it.’

As expected, as we entered the chaos, damage began to appear on our side as well.

Kwa-thud! Kwa-thud!

The Living Armors began to lose their form and collapse.

Skeleton No. 1 fought hard against the one Kayla had worked on, but it couldn’t withstand another one that targeted the back of its head in the chaos, and Skeleton No. 2 was in a slightly better state, but it still suffered damage that cracked its body.

However, this was a situation I had fully anticipated, and it wasn’t a problem for me.

[Restoration]

Click, snap.

I used my aura of death and even mana to repair the ones that were damaged.

As the ones we had killed rose again, the Minotaurs hurriedly attacked the undead that were being restored, and the ones that had been damaged were destroyed again.

However, the restoration didn’t stop, and the undead, which had only slowed down for a moment, entered the battle again.

Some of the Minotaurs glared at me, the culprit, but they had lost their mobility and couldn’t do anything in the situation where the ones protecting me were in a large group.

“Moooo!”

As the Minotaurs fell one by one, the impatient chieftain moved himself.

It was noticeable because it was a head taller than the other Minotaurs.

A boulder was smashed to pieces by the club it swung roughly.

It seemed unable to contain its anger.

‘You should’ve come out sooner.’

However, it was a little too late to come out.

Half of them had already fallen.

Their front line had shields and wore full armor, but their rear line was a bit lacking in armor.

Therefore, they couldn’t fully protect their bodies in the chaos.

In addition, most of them had lost their mobility due to Kayla’s handiwork.

As it tried to enter the chaos, Kayla, who had pierced through the Minotaurs, blocked the chieftain’s path.

“Mooo!”

Facing Kayla, their most threatening enemy, the chieftain roared in anger.

Kayla calmly blocked the chieftain’s attack and wounded its ankle, just like the other Minotaurs.

However, it was different.

The wound on its body healed quickly.

“…Troll?”

Kayla muttered in disbelief.

It was definitely a regeneration ability reminiscent of a troll.

However, that wasn’t a characteristic of Minotaurs.

“Sword and armor… even in a sealed state, it has that much effect?”

Honestly, it was a little surprising.

I heard that even if the seal was released, it wouldn’t be that much….

“Is the monster’s regeneration amplified even more?”

Or perhaps it could be the influence of the divine power that feels weak.

‘No, it must have affected both.’

In fact, that is most likely the case.

The battle definitely changes as soon as Kyla gets out.

Half of the minotaurs had fallen, but Kyla was the main force on this side.

She’s gone.

Athena is doing her best, but the minotaurs who have already recognized her existence are no longer easily surprised.

‘…It seems they can regenerate too.’

Slowly but surely, the wounds inflicted by Kyla were healing.

That must have definitely been the influence of divine power.

“…I think I should join.”

Valdur mutters.

Certainly, my undeads are starting to get pushed back little by little as Kyla’s performance disappears.

Originally, even if the minotaurs interfered, they would slowly but steadily regenerate and return to the front line, but that is no longer possible.

Skeleton No. 1 was unable to return to the front line after killing two or three minotaurs, and No. 2 was still holding on, but it was half-surrounded.

Two minotaurs were constantly interfering to prevent the undead from resurrecting.

Valdur was not trying to get out for nothing.

‘…It seems like Kyla will take some time….’

The Minotaur chieftain’s skills were not ordinary.

To be exact, he used his armor very well.

‘Kyla’s aura can’t penetrate it.’

It wasn’t a hero-grade relic for nothing.

Athena seemed to be in considerable trouble.

Judging by the way she was looking at Kyla, it seemed like she was wondering if it wouldn’t be better to give up on the undead and deal with the chieftain first.

It’s not wrong. However, the chieftain is not an easy guy to deal with.

I spoke to Valdur, who was about to run.

“No need to come out.”

“…But.”

I didn’t answer any more and released more magic.

‘…Slowly….’

I arranged the released magic and amplified the power of the magic using my staff.

Black energy spread throughout the area and soon permeated the bodies of the dead minotaurs.

“…This is….”

Land of the Dead.

The magic that I used to protect my underground dungeon in the past, reappears.

‘It doesn’t have the same power as it did back then….’

All the undead created there are at the zombie level, and they’re even temporary undead with a time limit.

There aren’t many of them, either.

But they’re enough for the current situation.

Groan.

One by one, the corpses of the dead minotaurs start to rise.

And then they charge at the minotaurs who are hindering regeneration, and then ambush the minotaurs who were fighting Athena.

“W-what?!”

‘This divine power… is getting in the way.’

I would have been able to use it a little earlier, but unfortunately, it took some time because of the divine power remaining in their bodies.

I had to wait for the magic power to enter the body of the corpse and naturally weaken the divine power.

However, some of them didn’t have enough time, so only about 10 were raised.

‘This is enough.’

But it was enough to turn the current situation around.

I would lose in a 1:1 fight, but interference is possible.

Thanks to the undead minotaurs buying me time, my living armor and Skeleton No. 1 have risen, and Athena has regained her freedom.

Kayla, who noticed the situation, quickly finished her opponent instead and started to hang on to the chief’s neck.

“Ugh! Uuuuuugh!”

The chief, who was getting impatient, tried to shake Kayla off, but it was meaningless.

She maintains her aura of death and continuously supports her allies.

In addition, I weakened their power by adding the corpses that had completely lost their traces of divine power and slowly joined them.

“…My goodness. Without any attack magic….”

Spearman Phlina muttered in surprise.

In a broad sense, Critical Wounds is also an attack magic. However, it’s only to the extent of worsening an existing wound, and you have to be at least class 6 to be able to directly wound someone who doesn’t have any wounds.

I’m currently more of an indirect attacker than a direct attacker, so Cereo and his party didn’t bother to refute Phlina’s words.

“…An immortal army….”

That’s an exaggeration.

‘An immortal army….’

You have to be a high-ranking necromancer to refer to something like that.

No, to be honest, even a high-ranking necromancer wouldn’t be able to casually call something an immortal army.

I’m still far from that.

‘Someday….’

At the same time, it was something I wanted to achieve someday.

An immortal army.

If I could get my hands on something like that… how many beings would be able to threaten me?

I could wipe out any territory by myself, and if I could get my hands on a legion commander, I could even go to war with a country by myself.

It’s a long way off.

‘It’s not impossible, though.’

For that, I definitely need the corpse of a dragon.

“Mwaah!”

At that moment, the minotaur roared.

I frowned.

‘… Divine power… .’

So what?

The mana used for disguise was decreasing, but it couldn’t harm the essence.

Some of the Minotaurs recovered from their injuries, but the battle was already leaning towards the end.

The Minotaurs were annihilated, and the ones that became undead approached the chieftain.

The chieftain cleanly cut off the heads of the approaching undead Minotaurs, but in return, he began to sustain fatal wounds on his body.

I kindly cursed him every time he was injured, and the wounds with Critical Wounds applied didn’t regenerate.