The Necromancer Who Was Despised - The Necromancer Who Was Despised chapter 127
“Any signs of monsters?”
“I don’t sense anything.”
I didn’t sense anything either.
“Inha!”
At that moment, Artina, who had taken the lead and moved forward despite the danger, returned and shouted.
“I found it!”
“What did you find?”
“Up ahead!”
Following Artina, I saw a massive snake coiled up.
“What’s with its size?”
It was at least 20 meters long, and its body was almost 2 meters thick.
“How did we not see that?”
“It suddenly appeared when we entered a certain distance.”
“Does it cause recognition interference? Is that its characteristic?”
“Is it using magic or something?…”
A snake of that size using magic… it was unthinkable.
“…This won’t be an easy hunt.”
The fact that it had recognition interference meant it could use mana, and therefore it was likely to have high magic resistance.
Given its massive size, its defense itself would be high as well…
“It might use poison, too. Honestly, I wouldn’t expect a snake of that size to have no poison, but who knows?”
As we made various speculations about it, it slowly began to move.
“…It seems to have noticed us.”
“I thought it was asleep.”
It stuck out its thick tongue and gazed at us for a while.
Red pupils. Yellowish-brown massive scales.
Overwhelming size.
The energy I belatedly sensed was extremely menacing.
He curled up his body.
“If the original golem can hold out, that would be great.”
My two newly created mire priests followed my magic.
The reinforcement magic overlapped with the original golem, and its entire body began to turn black.
At the same time, he suddenly straightened his curled-up body and flew towards me like a bullet.
I couldn’t help but be shocked in an instant.
As a snake, I knew it could move at an incredible speed on the ground, but it used its body strength and elasticity to explosively propel itself towards me.
Considering its body length and thickness, its weight was by no means ordinary.
If it landed on me, it would be instant death.
I immediately sent out the reinforced original golem in front of me, and at the same time, I shouted to my companions to retreat.
Krrr!
The original golem blocked the giant snake’s body as it flew towards me, following my command.
A massive explosion sounded, and the original golem was pushed back several meters.
But that wasn’t all.
The giant snake wrapped its body around the original golem, exerting incredible force to crush it.
Pfft!
The 3-fold reinforced original golem’s core let out a scream.
Its entire body was completely wrapped around by the snake, unable to exert any strength.
“It’s fortunate that I concentrated on reinforcing its durability for defense.”
The mire priests’ help was also significant.
“If I were alone, the original golem wouldn’t have been able to hold out.”
As the original golem struggled to withstand, the skeleton mages poured out dark balls.
The continuous explosions followed, but the snake didn’t budge.
“It seems to have strong magic resistance.”
Ssss.
Although weakened, it still glared at me with an attacking intent.
But that was it. The snake still seemed to be most annoyed by the original golem.
The original golem tried to resist, but it couldn’t move at all.
“Is that okay?”
“It’s okay. It can still hold out.”
Minor damage accumulated on its body here and there. I would inject magic into the original golem each time, and the mire priests would continuously reinforce it.
When the snake didn’t move even after being hit by the dark ball, Kayla took the lead.
She stomped the ground and approached the snake, imbuing her sword with superior aura and striking its body.
The snake’s gaze quickly turned around.
Indeed, the aura was effective.
Then, the snake released part of its body that was wrapped around the original golem and swung it towards Kayla.
The ground was smashed to pieces with one strike.
However, Kayla had already dodged out of the way.
“…That’s incredible.”
The theme is grand, and the speed is fast.
From our perspective, it felt even faster because of its enormous size.
‘Even one move has a different range.’
I realized that we couldn’t send in ordinary kids.
‘Focus on the elites.’
Number One is out of the question.
Numbers Two and Kereos are also on the verge, but since they can be revived even if destroyed, I decided to give it a try.
Specter was also completely excluded. As a non-human, Specter’s attack power was not enough to inflict significant damage on it, and it also had magic resistance, making it practically useless.
Kayla dodged its attacks and counterattacked, inflicting wounds all over its body.
Artina also joined the battle to help Kayla, and Valdur seemed to be getting ready to join in as well.
However, I gave Valdur a different task.
“Valdur, protect Anelis. If necessary, retreat from the battle.”
It was unfortunate, but unavoidable.
Currently, Valdur’s level was not enough to respond properly.
Moreover, if he made a mistake, he could get hit by an attack and die in one blow.
So, I assigned him to guard Anelis.
Artina and Kayla dodged its attacks and counterattacked, increasing the wounds on its body. Its blood stained the ground.
‘There’s no poison in its blood.’
Even though its body was covered in shallow wounds, it didn’t care.
‘…It’s even regenerating.’
Incredibly, it had a considerable regeneration ability.
It wasn’t at the level of a troll, but its wounds were healing at a visible rate.
Rather, considering its size, it was almost like a troll.
It couldn’t use poison or magic, but it was strong in a straightforward way.
‘Let’s focus on its regeneration first.’
Thanks to its body parts attacking Kayla and Artina, the main golem became relatively weaker, and I took advantage of that to cast a curse on it.
Pu-hwa-ak!
—!
It let out a short scream.
The wounds inflicted by Kayla and Artina suddenly worsened, and some even began to rot.
‘There’s resistance, but…’
It couldn’t completely ignore my magic.
Next, Numbers Two and Kereos also joined the battle, pounding its body.
Number Two didn’t deal much damage, but Kereos managed to inflict some damage through its dark aura.
However, unlike Kayla and Artina, they couldn’t completely dodge its attacks.
After getting hit several times, Number Two was severely damaged and was forced to retreat from the battle.
It took out its frustration on the fallen Number Two and Kereos, repeatedly attacking them.
Kereos barely managed to escape, but Number Two couldn’t and was left to slowly regenerate.
But that was it. We gradually accumulated damage on its body.
Its massive body was destroying the surroundings, but I, Kayla, and Artina didn’t panic.
The wounds of the monster continued to grow, and as I blocked its regeneration, the floor was drenched in blood pouring out of its body.
It seemed to pause its attack for a moment, then opened its mouth wide.
Hoodduduk.
Suddenly, numerous snakes began to pour out of its mouth.
It wasn’t that there were no other monsters.
‘It’s not that it ate everything…’
It seemed to be storing numerous monsters in its belly.
And the snakes that emerged had a threatening color unlike the monster’s.
‘Are they venomous snakes?’
They were not ordinary, simple snakes.
Even the smallest ones were over 1 meter long and had an unusual thickness.
They were emerging from the monster’s body, so it was natural that they wouldn’t be ordinary snakes. It was more like a type of monster.
Sshhshh.
The snakes that emerged began to charge towards me simultaneously.
Athina called out to me, worried, but there was no need to worry.
‘It seems I’ve infuriated it quite a bit.’
I had no intention of taking it lying down.
I immediately ordered the White Knight Corps to block them.
‘Undead are resistant to poison, so…’
I also equipped them with heavy armor.
These were the ones I had prepared in case we were outnumbered.
Although they weren’t good enough to be used in a battle against the boss, it was a different story now.
The Mira priests began to quickly cast strengthening spells on the undead.
Those snakes were not the boss.
I immediately cast a wide-area slow and weaken spell, and the snakes’ movements became visibly slower.
‘It’s clear that their magic resistance is pathetic compared to the boss.’
Chwach! Chwach!
Their power weakened, while ours grew stronger.
As a result, a one-sided massacre ensued.
The snakes spat out venom and struggled, but there was no reason why the venom would affect the undead.
Some venom showed its power by partially corroding armor or weapons, but it wasn’t enough to stop the undead.
As the snakes were massacred, the enraged monster continued to spew out more snakes, and increasingly larger and stronger ones began to emerge.
I was taken aback by the sheer amount of them.
‘A dimension…’
It wasn’t that the artifact would appear if I simply defeated the monster.
The monster’s body was storing an unimaginable number of snakes.
At that moment, I noticed something strange.
‘Has the monster… weakened?’
The pressure I felt from the original golem had clearly eased.
It seemed that the snakes were the source of the monster’s power.
“It seems the story is changing.”
The guy couldn’t catch Kyra and Atina, and because of me, his losses were piling up.
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So, he chose to deal with me first, and in doing so, he took a high-risk approach that even he couldn’t afford to lose.
But he underestimated my undead too much.
“After all, No. 2 was forced to retreat in battle, and compared to Kyra and Atina, my undead were inferior.”
He must have thought that sending his minions would be enough to subdue me, judging from how easily he could defeat my undead.
And it wasn’t baseless.
The new monsters that emerged were enormous and powerful, unlike anything we’d seen before.
With their overwhelming strength, my undead would have eventually fallen to them.
“But if I’m involved, the story changes.”