Necromancer’s Tower is too Easy - Chapter 105



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Episode 105

Two gates open to the void.

One was the gate that led to the 22nd floor where I was staying, and the other was the gate that led to the safe area.

“That’s all for the request, Mephet.”

Of course, it wasn’t the gate that I opened to go to the safe zone, but the gate that Mephet opened to complete the quest.

“Keheng…… This isn’t a dream, is it……?”

Mephet muttered in disbelief, tears streaming from his red eyes.

Leona, who was watching the scene, patted Mephet’s shoulder and comforted him.

“Now that we’re in the safe zone, let’s reconsider climbing the tower.”

“Ke, keheeeng…….”

Knock, knock.

Mephet nodded her head while shedding tears without saying a word, and then glanced at me before entering the gate and bowed her head.

“Thank you so much. Really…….”

It was funny that he was expressing his gratitude so much when he had been paid for the request, but I just nodded without saying it out loud.

After saying thank you to each of us, Mephet stepped through the gate, and now all that was left was the gate leading to the 22nd floor.

“If the 21st floor is like this, the 22nd floor might be the same…….”

“It’s probably certain.”

These guys did this to prevent anyone from entering any floors in order to protect the 25th floor, so what difference would it make if it was the 22nd floor?

I headed straight for the 23rd floor, vowing to take every precaution so that I wouldn’t be caught on the 22nd floor.

Ssuk.

I felt it every time I crossed the gates, but even though the floors looked similar, the air was different.

Previously, both the 2nd and 21st floors were equally densely forested worlds, but on the 21st floor, the smell of the earth was a little lighter and the air was a little warmer.

In that respect, the air on the 22nd floor was clearly different from any other floor.

“……Wow, are these guys still doing that?”

The cool air that was neither cold nor hot, and the thick smell of stone and earth mixed in with that ordinary air.

And the giant towers that seemed to be the source of the smell were erected in dozens, just by looking at them.

Among them, the largest tower was still being built by someone who appeared to be a laborer, working diligently.

“Do you know these guys?”

When I asked Leona, who seemed to know about those guys, she muttered with a trembling expression.

“Well… you’ll know what kind of guys they are once you get the quest anyway.”

As Leona spoke, a system window appeared as if by design.

[22nd floor quest.]

[This is the world of those who wish to reach God.]

[One day, people began to believe that there was a god in the sky and began to build a huge tower to reach him.]

[But one day, the tower suddenly collapsed and many people were crushed to death.]

[Rebuild the broken tower and relieve their sorrow.]

[Reward: Determined by the height of the tower.]

[On failure: ???]

After reading the quest window and looking at the laborers again, I immediately noticed something translucent about their bodies.

“You’re undead.”

You could tell by the numerous wounds on his body, the awkward movements, and the way he moved at the same time that he was a living human.

“I knew there were Bone Fortress guys on the 22nd floor, but I didn’t know they’d show off so brazenly.”

Perhaps because they thought they wouldn’t be able to get to the 22nd floor since they were well hidden on the 21st floor, they were openly advertising that they had intervened.

“Let’s go somewhere else quickly before they catch our eye.”

I had a hard time avoiding the gaze of the bone fortress on the 21st floor, so I couldn’t get caught now.

I immediately went somewhere else to avoid the eyes of the undead, but something was strange.

“……what.”

Wherever you go, wherever a tower is built.

All the guys who looked like laborers were undead.

Just in case, I looked up there with the spider’s eyes, but it was the same.

Looking at the sight of everything made up of undead, I even had this thought.

“Is this place originally inhabited only by undead, Leona?”

When I asked Leona, who had already passed this floor once, she also looked around in confusion.

“No way. Of course, the necromancer has the advantage here… but has there ever been this many undead?”

“Necromancers have the advantage?”

Leona seemed to hesitate for a moment after hearing what I said, but then she made a decision and started explaining to me.

“As you can see from the quest window, what we need to do here is to relieve the sorrow of those who died while building the tower, so a necromancer who can resurrect the dead is advantageous.”

“……So those guys are the ones who died while building the tower?”

As I spoke, looking at the undead, Leona nodded.

“But originally, there weren’t only undead like this…… Originally, there were survivors, even if they were a small number, and there were people who built a tower around them, and I was one of them……”

“I bet the Bone Fortress guys are up to something.”

For example, they tricked or forcibly killed people who were originally alive, turned them into undead, and then made them build the tower.

If that’s the way the guys think, they probably would have done it that way.

“Then there’s no point in wandering around any more. It’ll just increase the chances of you being caught in their sights.”

The area was so flat that we could be seen from hundreds of meters away, and there wasn’t even a single bush to hide us, so if it hadn’t been for the spider’s eyes, we might have been discovered long ago.

“If you want to hide, why don’t you just go into any of the towers nearby? When I looked, most of the towers were empty.”

“It’s a tower built by the Bone Fortress guys. Do you know what’s inside before you go in?”

As seen on Floor 21, the Bone Fortress guys were trying to capture and kill the players on the current floor.

Should we just let players use the tower, which is littered with such guys, as a dormitory?

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Perhaps some action could have been taken to make it so that players would be immediately detected when they entered the tower, or the tower itself would eliminate them.

“Then what are you going to do?”

“We’ll either have to dig a hole or find another place to hide from their eyes.”

At first, all I could see on the horizon were plains and towers, but if I kept walking, I might find a new place.

Of course, considering the possibility of being caught walking like that, it would be safer to hide as quickly as possible.

‘Dracolich, please.’

[Leave it to me, Father.]

That’s why what I chose to do was to dig into the ground below.

Of course, the dracolich had cast a perception-impairing spell on them, as there might be a bone fortress watching them from the surrounding area, and thanks to that, they were able to dig a large enough space under the floor in the blink of an eye.

“It’s not even a mole, what the…….”

Leona looked dumbfounded as she said that, but thanks to the surprisingly spacious space, she didn’t complain again.

However, I had some doubts.

“So what are we going to do now? If what you say is true, it seems like there are guys watching us from all directions. If we want to leave this floor, we’ll have to build a tower. Then we’ll almost certainly get caught.”

The question is whether it is possible to build a tower tall enough to pierce the gaze of the Bone Fortress and exit this floor.

Of course, that was nearly impossible.

“Of course I’ll get caught, so let’s gather information first.”

“Information? How do you gather information?”

“We have to collect them from those guys who died while being crushed like you mentioned.”

According to Leona, they are the natives of this world who were crushed to death by the tower.

Since those guys currently have the most contact with the Bone Fortress, there was a high probability that they would be deeply involved in the situation and such information.

“That’s easy to say, but how do you approach those guys? And even if you do, will they give you information that you like?”

Of course, Leona countered that those guys wouldn’t cooperate with me, but I wasn’t only thinking about the guys who had been resurrected as undead in the first place.

“There may be more guys who died under the tower that the Bone Fortress guys haven’t been able to revive yet.”

“……Are you really going to ask those guys right now?”

Leona muttered as if she couldn’t believe it.

Before Leona could say anything, I immediately began pouring my energy into the ground through my feet.

‘Fraud detection.’

Choaak.

With the fraud spreading out in all directions, Leona’s absurd words could be heard.

“If you’ve found it, you probably already found it all in the Bone Fortress…? Why can’t you just build a big tower far away where the Bone Fortress can’t see it?”

“That too will be discovered when the tower gets taller.”

All the towers around me were so enormous that I couldn’t see where they ended with the naked eye.

But even so, judging from the way they continued to build the tower as if it were not enough, it seemed that no matter how far they went, a tower of that size would inevitably be discovered.

“Then even if we get information from them anyway, there’s no way we can build the tower without them finding out, right? It’s obvious we’ll get caught…….”

“That’s something we don’t know yet.”

If I have a record of perfectly fooling the guys on the 21st floor, why wouldn’t I be able to do it on the 22nd floor?

Once we gather the information, we will definitely find a solution.

Thinking like that, I continued to search around for fraud, but… … .

‘I guess not.’

No trace of a corpse buried in the ground was found.

Given the number of people they mobilized, they probably dug up all the corpses that could be dug up and revived them.

Of course, that didn’t mean I could give up.

-Tattadak… … .

He took out a skeleton of similar build to the laborers and secretly placed it where they were rebuilding the tower.

The fact that even the Bone Fortress guys themselves couldn’t tell the difference between my undead and their own undead was also useful on this floor.

“Won’t you get caught then?”

Of course, Leona had such worries, but I was confident.

I was confident that they would never discover my undead.

“Are you worried that you might lose a battle of wits against a three-year-old?”

“……You are brimming with confidence, very much.”

The experience of reaching the pinnacle of being a necromancer is not going anywhere.

Naturally, the guys didn’t notice my undead anomaly, and what’s more, I got another bounty from an unexpected place.

“This is…….”

A corpse that has completely rotted away, with only a hand bone remaining.

The Bone Fortress guys also left these bones as they were, perhaps because they felt it was a waste of money to revive them, but for me, it was an opportunity.

After a long time, I took out the Hand of the King of Cognition from my inventory, and injected my spirit into it while focusing on the hand bones.

Knock, knock.

Although it was said that only the hand bones remained, it was clearly made of undead and began to move.

Moreover, the soul that had disappeared because only a part of the body remained was not of a high rank, so it immediately took possession of this hand in a matter of seconds.

[You have acquired Soul Reconstruction.]

[Rebuilding the soul.]

[Reconstructs a shattered soul using fraud as a medium. The higher the level, the faster it is.]

After trying several times, I finally got used to it and finished rebuilding my soul.

Thud, thud.

The undead, with only hand bones left, soon began writing on the floor.

-Did you bring me back to life?

Maybe it was because his rank was low, or maybe it was for some other reason, but it seemed difficult to communicate directly with him, but it didn’t really matter.

‘I’ve finally got a clue.’

Finally, there is a chance to find a clue to break through the 22nd floor.

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