“They're so poor, let me...”
Li Xiuman looked at the corpses on the ground.
It seemed he hadn't fully squeezed out the value of these guys yet.
“Arise, my loyal servants!”
“Tier 2 Magic: Multiple Undead Reanimation!”
The wand pointed at the corpses, and a pitch-black magic circle expanded.
Then, the corpses twisted and stood up, emitting a thick, rotten odor.
After all, he still had the Necromancer class.
Don't think you can rest in peace after death—with Li Xiuman, that was absolutely impossible.
Still, this appearance...
...really didn't fit his public image as a righteous skeleton.
Li Xiuman looked at the zombie-like figures and took a disgusted step backward.
“Walk in front of me.”
“Gah... gah...”
“'Gah' belongs to this skeleton! You're not allowed to steal my sound effects!”
“Wuu... clack.”
The zombies dejectedly walked in front.
Li Xiuman specifically took out the weakest of them, the third brother—the 'something thief something'—to perform an experiment.
The contents of the experiment were magic attacks and physical attacks.
The resistances displayed by the zombie left Li Xiuman quite satisfied.
Although the zombies' attack power was much lower than when they were alive, since they felt no pain, they wouldn't die even if their hearts were pierced.
Such zombies were truly the ideal meat shields.
In the future, during group fights, he could make his opponents' dead comrades get right back up, inflicting emotional damage on them.
He really was a genius.
He continued his descent.
The differences between the dungeons of Iron River City and White Bear City weren't that significant.
After the eleventh floor, the temperature of the dungeon noticeably spiked.
The primary monsters active here were gnolls.
Hunched frames topped with wolf-like heads, their bodies covered in thick fur.
Some gnolls even held the weapons of deceased adventurers, looking as though they could pose quite a threat to ordinary adventurers.
“Kill it.”
“Clack, clack, clack!”
At Li Xiuman's command, the three zombies stumbled forward, swaying as they charged at the gnoll that had appeared before them.
Although the three zombies had been weak when they were alive, that was only in comparison to Li Xiuman.
Being able to rob other adventurers on the eleventh floor meant their strength wasn't completely negligible.
Even though their strength had decreased after turning into zombies, bullying a single gnoll was naturally a walk in the park.
Very quickly, the gnoll in front of them was reduced to a corpse.
[Ding! Killed Gnoll Lv. 11. Experience +10]
“Since it's a monster created by my own Necromancy, the experience from the kill counts as mine?”
“In this regard, it's just like a Golem.”
Thinking this, Li Xiuman walked over to the gnoll's corpse.
After digging out the magic stone, Li Xiuman stared at the gnoll's corpse and raised his wand once more.
“Arise, my loyal servant!”
“Tier 1 Magic: Individual Undead Reanimation!”
Using up a bit of mana, a smaller pitch-black magic circle opened and enveloped the gnoll's corpse.
Then, just like the three brilliant thieves from before, the gnoll's corpse twisted as it rose to its feet, its flesh turning putrid.
However, perhaps because its magic stone had been extracted, this gnoll's strength was even more depleted compared to when it was alive.
“It looks like I can build my own undead army in this dungeon!”
Li Xiuman retrieved a weapon from his storage space and tossed it to the gnoll in front of him.
Next, he threw the original gear of the three brilliant thieves back to them.
After all, rather than letting this gear gather dust in his storage space, it was better to hand it back to the three brilliant thieves to let them pull their weight again.
Besides, it seemed his storage space full of looted equipment was finally going to be put to good use.
“Let's keep descending.”
The four zombies shielded Li Xiuman from behind as they continued to march into the depths of the dungeon.
Any gnolls they encountered along the way were swarmed and beaten to death.
Then, Li Xiuman would step forward, apply his Necromancy, and draft them into the glorious undead army.
“Damn it, don't tear them apart so badly! Piecing them back together is a pain!”
“Their guts are spilling all over the place. Honestly...”
Li Xiuman used magic to stick the pieces of the gnoll's corpse back together, then ordered the Eldest Thief to step up, grab the guts, stuff them back in, and cast his Necromancy.
Sure enough, its strength plummeted.
It appeared that when using Necromancy, one had to keep the corpses as intact as possible.
Right now, they were on the nineteenth floor of the dungeon.
Li Xiuman was currently controlling thirty zombies, which was also his limit.
If he resurrected any more, they would escape his control and become neutral monsters.
These thirty zombies were arranged around Li Xiuman, organized in their chaotic way.
Of the original three brilliant thieves, only the eldest brother remained.
The other two had been torn into too many pieces during battles, so Li Xiuman stripped them of their equipment and replaced them with higher-level gnolls.
The initial gnolls had also been cycled out.
“...Though it's a bit embarrassing to only realize this now.”
“Looking at it this way...”
“Could it be that the Necromancer is actually a cheat class?”
Looking at the undead squad before him, even Li Xiuman realized something was off.
Initially, because Necromancy's combat capability felt somewhat lacking, Li Xiuman had looked down on this class.
But now...
This power level was absolutely insane. In the past, the only thing that had been wrong was himself—treating a summoning class like a front-line combat class.
Besides, having dual classes was already absurd enough.
Therefore, this undead squad that was completely sweeping through the dungeon had to be put to proper use!
A moment later.
Ten zombies carried a bone palanquin, with five zombies guarding each side and ten zombies charging ahead to clear the path.
The bone palanquin looked exceptionally eerie.
Constructed entirely of white bones, each of its four corners was adorned with a hideous, horned skull with its mouth wide open.
Such was this zombie squad that looked bizarre no matter how one stared at it.
“This is absolute bliss~”
Li Xiuman sat atop his bone palanquin, looking thoroughly satisfied.
In this entire world, who else but him could ride in a palanquin inside a dungeon?
Still, putting on such a grand show made it rather easy to be mistaken for an elite boss and hunted down.
But that didn't matter.
In fact, that was exactly what Li Xiuman wanted.
As a righteous skeleton, how could he possibly make the first move on adventurers?
But if adventurers came to subjugate him, and he was forced to defend himself...
...and then, quite accidentally, used excessive force, killing the adventurers who had come to hunt him...
...and then, quite accidentally, while burying them, their coin pouches and equipment happened to fall into his storage space...
...and then, yet again accidentally, his hand slipped and he cast reanimation magic, causing those adventurers to suddenly stand up during their funeral...
Well, there was simply no helping it, was there?
This was the real struggle of chantless magic.
For someone like him who was constantly casting magic by mistake, who else in this world could possibly understand the pain in his heart?
At this thought, Li Xiuman couldn't hold it back anymore.
“Damn it, why hasn't a single adventurer come to hunt me down yet?”
“I've already put on such a grand show.”
“Isn't this obvious enough? This clearly screams 'elite boss'!”
“No wonder they're stuck being adventurers for their entire lives.”
Rate on N.U.
