The Necromancer Who Was Despised - The Necromancer Who Was Despised chapter 164
She seemed to be unaware of her own identity.
“I’ll have a personal conversation with Anelis tonight, but I don’t think there will be any issues. It seems like we can continue to trust Lord Doynha.”
The Riieiya family said they wanted to maintain a good relationship with us.
“It’s not much, but if you need help, please let us know. Although our country’s power is limited, we’ll do our best to cooperate.”
It’s not that I’m grateful just because they’re taking care of Anelis.
They also had their own plans.
As I’ve revealed, the current situation of the Dark Elves isn’t exactly favorable, and it seems they’re trying to establish a close relationship with the royal family as a breakthrough.
“At first, it might have been for Anelis’ sake that they made a deal with the royal family…”.
The royal family of Shupertan also wanted to connect with the interspecies union, so it was a win-win situation.
But because of me, history changed, and now the connection between the Dark Elves and the Shupertan royal family has developed into a connection between the interspecies union and the 6 Kingdoms union.
I’m close to the royal family, and I’ve even recruited Anelis, so I’m not a bad person. My abilities are also quite impressive.
I can’t say it’s purely out of goodwill, but it’s not just goodwill that’s driving me to say this.
However, it doesn’t matter. Whatever the reason, it’s a fact that it benefits me, and I’m not going to let this opportunity slip away.
Besides, I’ve acquired new information that I want to know.
“Then, can I request some information sharing?”
“Feel free to ask.”
I turned to Untinia.
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“What I want to ask first is about Yeriya-nim.”
Originally, I was going to ask about something else, but since someone who knew about my old teacher appeared, and I had plenty of time to ask anyway, I decided to satisfy my curiosity first.
‘Is it just because of my curiosity?’
In fact, it was necessary to ask about this too.
After all, I was planning to establish a new relationship with my old teacher, and it was earlier than expected, so I needed to gather as much information as possible.
I’ve learned a lot from living with them, but there are still many things I don’t know, so it’s not a waste of time.
“About Yeriya-nim…”
“Please tell me as much as you know.”
Untinia hesitated for a moment before answering my question.
“…If you promise me one thing, I’ll tell you everything.”
“If you find that person in the future, please tell our family about their position as well.”
“…Do you have a guarantee that you’ll find them?”
“You’re watching me, and you immediately think of Yeriya-nim. I think you’ll be able to meet them someday, just like Do-inha-nim.”
“…I’ll confirm your intentions and grant permission if you do.”
“That’s enough. If you do meet them, please tell me about their life or death.”
Confirming their survival isn’t difficult.
I didn’t think I needed to get my old teacher’s permission for this, so I simply nodded.
“Deal. I’ll answer your questions in the format of sharing information.”
It’s not like I’m saying I know everything, but it’s definitely more convenient this way.
“I want to know about Yeriya-nim’s position in the Riyeia family, why they left the family, and what kind of dark magic they’ve learned.”
“…There are some difficult questions mixed in. For now, I can only tell you that they held a very high position in the family. Even though they left the family decades ago, they’re still remembered so vividly.”
“The reason they left the family is… there were internal conflicts, and they left because of that… Please think of it that way. I know you’ll be dissatisfied with the answer, but please understand that this is something that couldn’t be said outside the family if they hadn’t left.”
‘…Is their status that high?’
Listening to the story, it seems that their abilities alone didn’t earn them such treatment.
They held a very high position, and even though they left the family due to conflicts, the Dark Elves still search for them, and the fact that they can reveal even this much information because Yeriya left the family means that Yeriya themselves held immense value within the family.
Considering the current situation of the Dark Elves isn’t favorable, if they had superior strength, they would be promoting it instead, but Yeriya is a very strong person who tries to control information.
So, it means that they are important people who must be hidden and protected from the outside world at all costs.
“Can they be royalty?”
Moreover, because their family and opinions didn’t align, they had a falling out, but my old teacher’s goal was to rebuild the Dark Elves.
Although they didn’t see eye-to-eye at the time and parted ways, it didn’t seem like they harbored hatred towards each other.
If they were royalty, it would be natural for them to dream of rebuilding their kingdom, which isn’t an unusual thought.
Among the different races, there are those who value honor highly, and they certainly exist.
However, I’ve never heard of a Dark Elf or Elf having royalty…
Untinia seemed to think that wasn’t a sufficient answer, but if someone was treated with such importance and caution, it could be a clue in itself.
Although it’s just speculation, I realized that my old teacher, Yeriya, was an extremely important person to the Dark Elves, not just because of their abilities, but because of their very existence.
“And, about Yeriya’s… type of dark magic…”
“…You know, they mainly used the ‘water’ attribute and preferred destructive power. They didn’t specialize in one thing, but instead, learned various skills like enchantment, summoning, necromancy, and curses. Ah, right before they left the family, they were researching the contract with the demon tribe.”
“So, does that mean they didn’t make a contract with the demon tribe before leaving the family?”
“That’s right. Originally, the Dark Elves didn’t make contracts with the demon tribe and used dark magic….It was possible in the past, but not now.”
“What made it possible? Or, is it not possible now?”
“That’s right. It’s not possible now.”
Untinia took a deep breath and continued.
“As a necromancer, you would know about the ash-colored architecture, right?”
“Of course.”
“Then, do you know about the catacombs?”
Catacombs. Of course, I knew about them. An underground communal burial site, vastly different from an underground tomb, with an enormous scale that could theoretically be expanded infinitely.
And with Untinia’s mention of the catacombs, I realized how the Dark Elves had developed dark magic without making a contract with the demon tribe.
“…The catacombs existed, and they were also where the Elves and Dark Elves were buried.”
“That’s right. It’s an ancient legacy. The Dark Elves were once prosperous and had a massive power. Back then, the Dark Elves’ funeral ritual was to naturally bury the dead in an underground tomb, and that’s how the underground tomb expanded naturally.”
It was possible to extract magic from corpses, but the efficiency was poor, and the purity was low, so it wasn’t used.
However, this was a story about forcefully extracting magic, and the magic that naturally flowed out over a long period of time had a very high purity.
The Dark Elves, being a race more familiar with magic than humans, had been buried in that communal tomb for generations…
“It wasn’t created with any intention at first, but it eventually came to be. The underground tomb, later named the catacombs, was filled with pure magic, and the Dark Elves used that magic as a basis for their research on dark magic.”
Untinia said that was the origin of the name “catacombs”.
“But now, it’s gone. The prosperous Dark Elves have fallen, and the catacombs, which remained to some extent, have become a great power for the tribe, but they’ve been completely destroyed now.”
“That’s right. It’s the Elves’ doing.”
As a result, the Dark Elves’ greatest power, dark magic, has completely fallen.
“So, it’s now a thing of the past…”
“It seems that the family and Yeriya’s opinions diverged because of this.”
Yeriya was on the side of keeping dark magic alive, even if it meant making a contract with the demon tribe, while the Rieiei family thought the risk of making a contract with the demon tribe was too great.
“In reality, Yeriya did make a contract with the demon tribe, and even the demon king, and continued to develop dark magic…”
Untinia let out a deep sigh.
It seemed like they had a rough idea of why Yeriya had parted ways with the family.
However, they didn’t say anything more.
It seemed like they knew that completely hiding it was difficult. They must have accepted it to some extent. They would try, but that was all they could do.
“It seems that Yeriya’s life and death are more important than the information that’s being leaked.”
I thought it was better not to dig deeper, and I immediately changed the subject.
“I’d like to ask about Anelis too.”
“Anelis…”
“Yes. Since they provided a lot of support this time, I wonder if they’ll be treated as an independent entity or if they’ll continue to receive attention regularly.”
“If possible, I’d like to maintain regular contact like we do now. If the conversation with the kingdom goes well, an official communication network will be established between our alliance and the 6 Kingdom Alliance, so we can visit each other from time to time.”
To be honest, it’s a hassle. Anelis is currently being used as our alliance’s power, and every time they come to visit, we have to remove them from the desert’s shield, which is a waste.
However, the story that came out from behind made the previous conversation half-buried.
“Will the communication network between the interspecies alliance and the 6 Kingdom Alliance be a public alliance?”
I thought it was just a secret alliance, but it seemed like they were making a declaration of war against the Holy Empire.
“How…? This is a story that should be discussed 30 years from now, or at least 10 years from now… What kind of story is this?”
“I can’t tell you the details. No, I’m not allowed to. Unfortunately, the dark elf’s position within the alliance is quite low, so we can only have a few conversations through our connection with Supetran.”
It seemed like they were going to establish an official communication network between the two alliances if the conversation went well.
I wanted to know what kind of story was going on, but I didn’t know, and it was ridiculous to ask further.
“I’ll have to ask Griang about it later.”
It seemed like this was an important story, but… maybe not.
In fact, Griang might not know about it either.
After all, I couldn’t participate in the meeting and had to escort Untinia here…
“Of course, this is also a very important matter.”
I asked about the recent situation within the alliance, how the alliance thought about the Holy Empire, and the current atmosphere.
“Except for the new species, the Pookolk, that joined the alliance… The Holy Empire is just a bunch of trash on the continent. The current members of the alliance hate the Holy Empire even more than before.”
I also asked about the dark elf’s black magician, but it seemed like there was no one who could use it.
It was inevitable since the Catacomb had collapsed, and the elf’s suppression continued, so there were no new black magicians, and the existing ones were all stuck.
“Even the people who were there left one by one or were killed by the elves after Yeriya-nim left.”
Untinia’s face showed undeniable hatred as she spoke.
Despite their terrible relationship, the dark elf remained in the alliance because they had no way to survive if they left.
Half of the continent was occupied by humans, and if you excluded the area where humans and interspecies lived, there was only the monster’s land or the great forest left.
There was a dead land, but it was not a place where living beings could survive, and it was not a place the dark elf could go since it was beyond human territory.
“Then, is the curiosity resolved?”
“Yes, more or less.”
“Then, I’d like to spend some time with Amelis separately. Ah, yes.”
Yeriya seemed to have forgotten and took out a small crystal ball from her bosom and handed it to me.
“If you need to contact me, please use this. If you put mana in it and speak, the message will be delivered to our side.”
It seemed to take about 10 seconds.
“…Can I keep it?”
“It’s okay. It’s not something that can be made with human technology, and a few will be sent as gifts to the royal family anyway.”
It seemed like there was an artifact that could deliver messages quickly. Moreover, it seemed like a mass-produced item.
“You can only use it once a day, so be careful. Ah, it’s a two-way communication, so we can also send messages from our side, but that’s unlikely to happen.”
I used pure magic, but I also had Artina and Kyle, and I could use the mana of gems, so there was no problem with using it.
“A crystal ball…”
Although it was thin, I had formed a dark and independent bond with the readers.
It was a fairly good, friendly relationship.
I thought it was worth accepting Anelis at this level.
‘Even now, I’m somewhat contributing to the full force.’
Valdur was the leader of the elite.
Untinia said she would look for any information she wanted and left the room with Anelis.
I thought that was the end of the incident in the Desert Shield.
But the priestess of the Goddess Church came to the Desert Shield.
< 159th Move ﹥
The priestess’s visit was unexpected.
Although they were priestesses, their number was not many. There were only nine priestesses, and only three holy knights protecting them.
However, the number or scale was not important in this situation.
Griant was shocked, and I told Atina to take Anelis and Untinia to a dry, barren land.
It was a natural choice. Showing Untinia, a member of the interspecies alliance, to the priestesses of the Goddess Church at this point… was madness.
‘I said I would openly create a communication network if things went well, but not now.’
At least Griant and the mercenaries disguised as soldiers or knights were okay.
Griant was a member of the royal family, and the royal family was close to me.
The mercenaries could just pretend to be part of the information department if they didn’t have an answer.
So, they stayed in the Desert Shield.
Of course, I would have let them stay even if I had told them to leave.
I needed to know why they came and what they would do to me.
At least if Griant, a member of the royal family, stayed, the priestesses of the Goddess Church would be able to protect me in the name of the royal family.
Of course, I was confident I could survive even if they did something.
Anyway, it was an unexpected situation, and I calmly took Untinia away before facing the priestesses of the Goddess Church.
“I am Philled, a faithful servant of the Goddess of Light. Thank you for allowing our sudden visit.”
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“I don’t know what’s going on. The lord didn’t give us any notice about the priestesses’ visit.”
I had promised to send someone to take charge of the internal affairs, but I didn’t mention the priestesses.
She wasn’t the type to hide things, and we had already negotiated with the people of the Goddess Church.
I thought the royal family would accept the Land Mother Church, so I didn’t pay attention to their proposal…
‘So, you suddenly visited?’
Something was going wrong.
“Heh heh. We arrived a bit early. We came to check the site of the temple construction according to the archbishop’s order.”
“…I heard that the official religion of the territory has not been determined yet?”