Necromancer’s Tower is too Easy - Chapter 117



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Episode 117

Geral and Leona were looking at me with wide eyes as if they had a lot to say, but I intentionally responded with a more expressionless look.

Even if I reacted emotionally like this, the situation would not calm down, and instead, there was a high possibility that it would get worse.

‘… … At times like this, it’s a shame that Leona isn’t undead.’

If they were both undead, it would be easier for me to control them, but Leona was still a living human, not an undead.

That’s why I had to break the ice between them with words.

“Leona, your method is not wrong. No matter what those guys do, we just have to climb the tower.”

“I’m glad you know.”

Perhaps feeling slightly relieved that he was taking her side, Leona’s expression, which seemed to have a lot to say, soon turned to Geral with a triumphant expression, and Geral’s face was about to distort at the sight of her.

“But there’s not enough information about those guys to use your method right now. There’s no guarantee that they’ll use the demons any time soon.”

Leona retorted for a moment, clearly taken aback by her opinion being rejected.

“That’s true, but still……!”

“Don’t you remember the favor you asked me before you went up to the 20th floor?”

I already had the card to put Leona to sleep.

Before she and I had even climbed the floors, she asked me to accompany her to the already cleared floors after she climbed the 25th floor.

As soon as I brought up that request, her face quickly hardened.

“That’s true…… but.”

“Neither you nor I nor Geralt will benefit from climbing the stairs slowly. Just calm down a little.”

After I silenced Leona like that, I looked at Gerald.

“Don’t forget, Garriel. It was I who brought you here and told you the truth.”

“……that.”

At first glance, it sounded like coercion, but Gariel’s face quickly hardened.

“I did it to my own kind, so I can do it to the demons, right?”

As soon as he realized that it wasn’t that, Garriel’s face quickly began to relax.

To be honest, if I had to be picky, my heart was actually a bit more inclined towards Gariel than Leona.

But I couldn’t show that in this situation, so I asked for one thing.

“But keep in mind. We cannot save everyone. Even if something happens, I believe you will not abandon the salvation of your race to save a demon who has nothing to do with you.”

“I know that much…….”

After barely calming them down, I felt like my mind, which had been at a loss as to what to do next, was finally starting to clear up.

‘First, I need to find out what connection these guys have with the Bone Fortress.’

Those guys are also players from the top, so it’s only natural that they are destined to kill the Demon King.

But how did these guys not only end up mixed in with the demons’ village, but also hang out with them?

Of course, considering what they had done up until then, it was almost certain that their intentions were impure, but what was important was not their intentions but their means.

Considering their methods up until now, it was more likely that they had made direct contact with the Demon King rather than the demons.

‘The problem is that I have to kill that demon lord.’

According to Leona, the 24th floor quest is considered to have been completed by everyone on that floor once the Demon King dies, so it was natural that I would be discovered when I killed the Demon King.

In that case, the only way left for me is to bypass the quest.

As we have done so far, this completely overturns the very foundation of the quest itself.

for example…….

‘Or end the war between the Celestials and the Demons.’

If that happens, I will no longer have a reason to assassinate the Demon King, and the quest will naturally end.

But even if that happened, it was clear that the quest for the Bone Fortress on this floor would also have to be completed.

‘No matter what I do, the Bone Fortress guys get in my way.’

If it weren’t for those guys, I would have been able to finish off the Demon King and everything in an instant.

As I thought about that, my thoughts gradually began to change.

‘There’s only one floor left anyway, so what’s the big deal if they find out?’

Was it because of the frustration of not being able to do my best because of them? My thoughts were gradually changing to a way where I didn’t care if I got caught by them.

‘Yeah, even if they’re in the Demon King’s Castle anyway, I’ll get to the 25th floor right away anyway, so if I quickly destroy them and proceed… … .’

As I was thinking that, I instinctively turned my head towards the sensation of being touched.

“……Dracolich?”

I thought it would be either Bona Mana, Gerald or Leona, but I was about to ask what was going on when the Dracolich suddenly appeared.

[I… … believe what Knight Leona said is right, Father.]

Suddenly, Dracolich expressed his agreement with Leona’s opinion.

‘That’s the end of the story, Dracolich.’

There’s no point in bringing up a story that’s already over, and I was afraid that Geral and Leona might end up fighting again, so I tried to change the subject…

[Come to your senses, Father. Why are you acting so uncharacteristically?]

Rather, Dracolich made me dumbfounded with those words.

‘……what?’

[The father I know always pursued rational judgment. He always did everything in a way that benefited him, and I thought that was cool.]

The look on Dracolich’s face as he spoke was extremely serious.

Maybe it was because this was the first time I was standing in front of her and looking her straight in the eye and talking to her, but she looked very unfamiliar.

[But now, Father is worrying too much about things that he would not have worried about before. What is that Demon to you? Why would you care so much about a race that you are meeting for the first time?]

‘that.’

[Calm down, Father. I also feel sorry for their sacrifice. But in the end, they are still others. It is just a quest.]

Just a quest.

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As soon as I heard that, I looked at Garriel for a moment.

“…….”

Whether he heard Dracolich or not, Geral was staring blankly at the sky.

‘Dracolich.’

[Yes, Father.]

‘Can you say that to Garriel too?’

At those words, Dracolich muttered with a slightly distorted expression.

[That’s not the story, Father. It’s just… . . ]

only.

With those words, Dracolich’s voice grew quieter and quieter.

When silence finally came, I cautiously spoke.

‘Do you remember when I met you, Dracolich, when you were still an undead dragon?’

[1st floor… … was.]

1st floor quest, escape from the dragon and reach the safe zone.

Thinking back to that first meeting, I recited it calmly.

‘If I hadn’t killed you on the first floor and made you undead, you probably would have stayed on the first floor your entire life and never escaped.’

[… … What does that have to do with this, Father?]

To the Dracolich who asked as if he was genuinely curious, I continued to recite in a calm tone.

‘If I had just cooperated in sealing the great magic on the 11th floor, if I had just avoided the Bone Fortress guys on the 22nd floor and somehow built the tower… … Even Spider and Geral wouldn’t have made it this far.’

And all of these undead had something in common.

‘If you had not died once and become undead, you would have been bound to that level forever, am I wrong, Dracolich?’

[you’re right.]

The undead are, after all, my soldiers and limbs that I have resurrected.

That’s why my undead could skip the lower floors that I had already climbed and climb with me.

Isn’t it unfair? Players literally risk their lives, sometimes more than their lives, to climb the tower, only to be able to skip it all in exchange for becoming undead.

Even if we assume that it’s true for players who died on the tower, is it right for the natives of the floor, who weren’t even the players who originally climbed the tower, to end up like that?

Will Top and the manager just let it be?

‘As the manager always says, the top is fair.’

Of course, I didn’t think there was any truth in those words, but at least there were two meanings to those words that Jeren and Henette had emphasized over and over again.

‘If you give me compensation for what I’ve done, you don’t get compensation for what I didn’t do.’

If not, why would Henet make me an offer and make a contract with me to deal with the gods and rankers outside?

They would have just given me all kinds of rewards and power and told me to deal with them.

‘Dracolich, I think it’s good that you’ve been thinking and worrying as deeply as the average player.’

As a necromancer, it is rare to find an undead with this much self-development, so it is a bit gratifying, but perhaps it is because she keeps calling him father.

There was definitely a feeling that she felt some kind of inexplicable satisfaction, different from watching the undead I had created grow.

‘But don’t be confined to the perspective of ordinary players. If you want to call me father.’

As Leona had said earlier, for the average player, the floors were ultimately nothing more than another world they did not belong to.

They were strangers to us, just as the natives of the layer called us strangers.

But not for me.

As I went through their events and gradually brought them into the undead, they became no longer strangers to me.

‘You are my child. If you want to call yourself my child who has conquered a world, you must broaden your perspective.’

[… … You are telling me to go wide.]

They were just trapped within the framework of the world, but they were ultimately just like us, fellow human beings who could also become players.

And the reward I received for saving them was my undead.

That’s probably why the tower didn’t stop me from carrying this many undead, and why I tried to accumulate achievements on each floor as much as possible.

‘Do you understand now?’

[… … I understand.]

‘really?’

When I asked Dracolich, who seemed to agree, I immediately got an honest answer.

[Actually, I still don’t understand, Father.]

‘I knew it.’

Sigh, I burst out laughing.

Of course, there was the reason mentioned earlier, but in fact, there was another reason why I decided to save the Demon Clan.

‘I don’t like it.’

I never once thought of myself as good.

That’s why I’m not a saint, and I don’t want to be, to react to every single thing that happens in places I can’t see.

Even to my eyes, the actions of the Bone Fortress are so disgusting that I don’t like them, which is probably one of the biggest reasons why I try to sabotage them.

‘Still, I’m glad that my thoughts have come together a bit.’

My confused mind became calm.

Talking to Dracolich, I felt like I had a clear idea of ​​what I should do.

‘Thank you, Dracolich.’

[yes?]

I immediately called the spider over, leaving the dracolich, who was shaking as he didn’t know English, behind.

[Why are you calling?]

‘There’s something I need to find in my mind for a moment.’

I feel sorry for Leona, but at least I won’t be abandoning the Demons and completing the quest like other players.

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