Necromancer’s Tower is too Easy - Chapter 97



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Episode 97

A sight that, even though you are seeing it with your own eyes, seems like it would be lost in the forest if you look away for even a moment.

As I stared at the mirage-like scenery, Mephet approached me, muttering.

“Ke…… Keheng…… Really…….”

Thud, thud.

As I followed Mephet, who seemed to be stepping into a painting on a wall, I felt like I was being watched by someone in the green village.

[Father, this is… … .]

And at that moment, the Dracolich noticed my gaze and approached me from behind as if he had noticed something.

“Ke, keheng! Stop it!”

Mephet shouted.

As she spoke urgently, figures that looked like people began to emerge from inside the village, one by one.

Apart from the fact that their expressions were all grimaced, there didn’t seem to be anything particularly suspicious.

“……Mephet?”

And among them, the muscular man at the very front muttered like this.

“Ke, keheng! I remembered keheng!”

Mephet ran towards him, speaking with emotion.

Their expressions, which had been full of wariness, but soon relaxed as they saw the man talking to Mephet, and the tense atmosphere gradually subsided.

After Mephet had been talking to the muscular man for a while, the man turned his gaze towards me.

“hmm.”

As soon as I faced him without avoiding eye contact, he began to approach me.

“I heard the story from Mephet. He said he followed our trail and arrived here.”

“Yeah, is there a problem?”

Is it because my attitude is absurd, or is there something else going on?

Despite my blunt answer, the guy kept smiling and asked me.

“No way. Why don’t you go to the village and talk to them? It wouldn’t be polite to keep them waiting outside.”

“Hmm.”

I don’t know if that was a real laugh or not, but since I had something to do with them, I obediently followed his instructions and headed towards the village.

“Excuse me.”

As I was guided inside by the man, Mephet began to explain the village to me one by one as if she missed me.

“Keheng…… This is where we stayed the longest. And this is where we ate…….”

Despite moving around, the village’s scenery remained the same, and Mephet knew every nook and cranny of the village without knowing anything.

“……Even after several months, everything here is still the same.”

When I heard those words that were said in passing, I became convinced.

As you can see from the outside, this town is a strange place.

After walking for a while, we followed the man’s instructions and arrived at what appeared to be the largest building in the town.

Of course, even though it was called a building, it was nothing more than a landscape made by piling up trees, but it was definitely unique in that it had two floors, unlike other houses.

“Come on, come in and sit down.”

Squeak.

As soon as the man, Mephet, and I sat down with the sound of chairs being dragged, the man continued speaking.

“First of all, I’m sorry that I don’t have anything to offer you due to the current situation. Let me introduce myself. My name is Markan.”

“I don’t know.”

He identified himself as Markan and said as he closed the door to the building we had entered.

“Honestly, I was really surprised. That dragon behind you. It definitely resembled the servant horse of the guys who were working with those guys.”

“……I heard the story roughly.”

It seemed like those guys already knew that there was a guy in the Bone Fortress who handled dracolichs like me, or undead dragons.

I thought they were just cowards who always hide away, but I wonder if there’s a way to get information.

They might not be as weak as we thought.

“Yeah, so honestly, I don’t trust you.”

Ssuk.

With those words, dozens of people began to jump out from what had been a wall just moments ago.

Sasa sasa sak!

“Ke, Keheng!?!”

It was a completely unexpected sight, and Mephet was so startled when he saw them that he almost fell over in his chair, but things were a little different for us.

[father!]

chuck.

The dracolich looked at them, wrapping its wings around me and hugging me to the chair, and the spider looked at them with a look of bewilderment.

[… … Are you planning to threaten us with such weaklings? Are you really crazy?]

be weak.

Those who heard those words flinched, but Markan ignored their reactions and continued to look at me and ask questions.

“Normally, we wouldn’t be able to spare you since you discovered our base… but I can see it. Your power is not something we can dare to oppose.”

Shiver.

As he spoke, Markan’s voice and hands were shaking slightly.

It was pitiful how he would stop every now and then, as if he was desperately trying to hold it in, but then start trembling again.

“Have you come to instruct us by following the words of those prophets? If not.”

Still, he glared at me and asked,

At least until I heard the answer, I was trying to suppress my trembling somehow, not even realizing that my fingernails were digging into my hands.

“As Mephet said, you have come to cooperate with us.”

I opened my mouth to face him, who was speaking desperately to me.

“I’ll tell you up front that I hate those guys, and I hate being treated like the same guys as those guys even more.”

After being treated like those bone fortress guys so many times, at first I just tried to treat them like nothing special, but now just hearing those words makes my head hurt.

“And of course, I hate those prophet guys who are connected to those guys, do you get it now?”

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Of course, to me, it’s just a quest target that needs to be destroyed, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to give it some proper packaging here.

“I ask again, does this answer your question?”

“……What can I do? If you say it like that, I can’t help but believe it.”

At those words from Markan, the people who had been threatening us just a moment ago immediately fell to the ground and gasped for breath.

I guess you took up arms even though you knew you couldn’t win.

“And even if you don’t believe us, we can’t beat you, right?”

Sigh, the expression on his face as he smiled like that was one that made it seem like he had given up on everything.

The only difference is that it is giving up on understanding, not giving up on hope.

“It’s a good thing you figured out the situation quickly. I have one request to make of you, and one thing I can give you.”

“……What do you want?”

Since I had already said that I would accept whatever he said, I told him what these guys had to do.

“It’s simple. Get the attention of those so-called prophets. Make it big enough that they can’t help but notice it.”

As soon as he heard those words, a hollow smile appeared on Markan’s face.

“Are you kidding me? You?”

My answer to his question, which was half-given up in bewilderment, was:

“……So, what are you giving us in return for granting that ridiculous request?”

“The death of those prophets.”

As soon as I heard that, I went back to him with an even bigger laugh.

“I didn’t know that the person Mephet brought was not a savior but a delusional person.”

Of course, it seemed like a hollow laugh that came out of nowhere.

I silently took out the undead from my inventory while he was laughing in vain.

“This is…….”

As I looked at the skeletons that were all crammed into the small room, I asked him again, who had been laughing in disbelief just a moment ago.

“Do I still look like a megalomaniac?”

“……Please explain further.”

He asked me again.

“How are we going to kill the prophets, the false prophets? Explain to me the method.”

***

As these guys had warned me a little while ago, most people who knew about the Bone Fortress also mistook me for one of those Bone Fortress guys.

Just like the warlock years on the previous 17th floor mistook me for a Bone Fortress.

The key to the operation was to exploit it.

Of course it was unpleasant, but it would have been foolish to throw away this useful card because of that unpleasantness.

“There isn’t a single one of your fanatic soldiers who doesn’t know my undead, so I guess everyone here knows the members of the Bone Fortress.”

Of course, if I were to come into direct contact with the Bone Fortress guys, my identity might be revealed, but other than that, at least hiding here wasn’t that difficult.

And what I do while I’m hiding is to instigate fights between prophets.

“Looking at it, the second and third guys in particular didn’t seem to get along very well. They mistook me for the third guy’s soldier, but it wasn’t that they didn’t believe me, it was more like it was understandable.”

It was perfect for me to link the guys I killed today to this.

When I asked Mephet about the affiliations of the guys I killed as soon as I got here, he said they were soldiers of the second prophet. So wouldn’t it be perfect if they made it up that they each killed soldiers once?

“Since the guys and the Bone Fortress have a cooperative relationship anyway, once I infiltrate, they won’t think it’s strange for me to make contact with them.”

And if we could just contact those guys, it would be over.

If their soldiers were killed by an enemy they were not on good terms with, what else could that be if not a declaration of war?

“……But if we do that, other prophets will definitely get involved, and then the war will end right away?”

“I didn’t say I would only work on the second and third ones.”

I heard that the fifth and sixth times were just as conflicting as the second and third times, so it would be possible to do the same.

There were also many of them, the first and fourth guys who claimed to remain neutral.

“We won’t start a conflict right away. Instead, when their conflict escalates, you guys will be the ones to draw the attention of the Bone Fortress guys.”

“……Is that why you asked us to do it?”

He nodded as if he seriously understood, unlike his previous empty laughter.

“Yeah, because if they see even the slightest sign that I escaped from the 20th floor, they’ll come running at me with their eyes wide open to kill me.”

But even so, there was a problem.

It would be nice to get their attention, but there should be absolutely no trace of my involvement in the process.

That’s why I chose these guys, who were, in name and in reality, the most annoying to them.

“Those who are preparing for war with each other will be busy with their own work, so they won’t have time to send reinforcements for the attack. Of course, as soon as the guys who are interfering disappear, they will immediately start a war.”

“……War, war…….”

Markan seemed slightly troubled by the word war.

“While that war was going on, then you were those prophets……?”

“It’s killing me.”

War is something that cannot be stopped even if the commander dies.

Marcan, who was listening to me like that, couldn’t hide his puzzlement at that part and asked.

“Even if you succeed in killing the prophets without being discovered, after they return the first and fourth time, you will probably have to investigate the dead prophets, right? Then, it won’t be long before you find out that it was your doing…….”

It was an unexpected question.

Surely if the prophet guys are dead, the bone fortress guys will get suspicious and they will soon find out that I escaped from the 20th floor.

but.

“There’s no need to kill those guys.”

That unexpected question was answered straight away by my ability alone.

If we turn the prophet guys into undead, wouldn’t we be able to get away with it without a single suspicion?

As if he had nothing more to say to my words, Markan closed his mouth.

“So, what do you think?”

“……What would you think of it? This is the first opportunity to bring out those false prophets.”

In response to my question, he spoke with a spark in his previously lifeless eyes.

“I will cooperate with you.”

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