The Necromancer Who Was Despised - The Necromancer Who Was Despised chapter 298

However, they easily fell to the attacks of the Death Knights and Race Knights.

It wasn’t just me; my undead also demonstrated a strength akin to their natural enemy, allowing me to utilize them more aggressively.

The fleeing divine beasts were chased by Dravug and mid-tier undead, who formed pairs to attack.

The mid-tier undead caught the divine beasts, while the mid-tier undead dismantled their bodies.

The divine beasts’ method of dealing with the undead was limited to physical force, and even that was negated when I continued to regenerate them, causing the divine beasts to hastily retreat.

However, it wasn’t a one-sided rout.

Quaang!

Some divine beasts concentrated their overflowing divine power to launch a long-range attack, which swept away some mid-tier undead.

While it was true that my magic had resistance to divine power, I couldn’t ignore such concentrated force.

Even if I didn’t have resistance to divine power, a significant difference in level would render a priest no match for a dark wizard.

No matter how many undead I had, I couldn’t help but take a hit.

“As long as I can recover, it’s fine.”

Some of them would completely disappear, but compared to the overall number, it was a negligible amount.

With Tinus’s cooperation, I had maximized my scale, and currently, my undead numbered over 10,000, with a considerable number being mid-to-high-level undead.

Naturally, most of them were made from Imperial Army materials.

Because of this, Marius, who had discovered this, was experiencing a secondary effect of rage.

“Forrest! What are you doing!”

Forrest, the Saint Knight Commander.

As his name was called out, the Saint Knights, who had been waiting behind the divine beast, began to move.

“…Is that him?”

The young man running towards the front.

I could sense a power from him that was not inferior to, no, even stronger than the divine beast.

“I thought I’d see you at the border…”.

It seemed like he was going to block our path in place of the fleeing divine beasts, but it was futile.

“Orie.”

-Yes, Master.

She was the one leading the Ghost Knight squad, but unfortunately, she was still in her Race Queen form.

Therefore, normally, she would be vulnerable to divine power and couldn’t take the front lines, but it was different now.

“Block them. The divine beasts will be handled by Tanak and Entin.”

-I understand.

-As you command, Master!

Entin, who had received the order, began to attack the divine beasts from a distance, and then started to push them towards Tanak’s direction.

The soldiers and priests on the castle walls tried to support the Saint Knights, but this time, I didn’t intervene.

-We can’t just watch.

Boreidi and the Mira Priest squad.

They had deliberately blocked the castle walls and the ground, starting to isolate the Saint Knights.

Even though they were trying to support the divine beasts, keeping their distance was their mistake.

The isolation of the Saint Knights.

It was impossible for them to come out of the castle now.

Meanwhile, in the sky, an ordinary person couldn’t even approach the battle that was unfolding.

-You’re a defeated, pitiful thing…!

The two Gatekeepers and the Dragon Tinus were clashing.

Tinus, who had been ridiculed until the land was offered to the Goddess of Light, was now gaining the upper hand in the battle against the two Gatekeepers.

The two Gatekeepers were only able to block the attacks pouring in from all directions with their backs against each other.

They occasionally tried to counterattack, but it was meaningless.

Tinus, on the other hand, was maintaining the upper hand against the two Gatekeepers, but couldn’t quickly end the battle.

“Are they specialized in defense?”

It seemed that, as their name suggested, they were specialized in defense.

Just like my magic had the upper hand against their divine power, Tinus was utilizing that advantage, yet it was still like this.

“Not even properly summoned, yet they’re still holding on.”

Their blurry figures seemed to have one foot in the continent, but they were still managing to resist. This meant that they weren’t just ordinary people.

However, this state wouldn’t last forever.

“Should I help?”

For ordinary people, this would be an impossible situation. But I was different.

If I intervened, I could handle the undead more easily.

But I made a different choice.

“I’ll hold onto Seungki.”

Tinus said he would take care of the two undead himself.

Shinsoo was dealing with the low-ranking undead, including Entin and Tanak, and the Holy Knights, including Forest, were fighting against Oriente’s ghostly knights.

Forest was showing power beyond Shinsoo, but Oriente was not to be underestimated.

She had pulled in some mid-ranking undead to surround them and was constantly restraining Forest, preventing him from using his full strength.

She was utilizing Death Knights and Race Knights like they were her own limbs, and Forest, who received no support, was struggling in vain, trapped in her grasp, despite his powerful strength.

This was possible because the priestess, Bolledi, had completely bound the priest’s organization.

Mariuss had been trying to break through the priest’s organization with all his might, but with Tinus’s two Liches joining in, he couldn’t even use his full strength.

The collision between the two priest organizations had also made the sky around the city gate turbulent.

The soldiers of the Allied Races were watching this scene with powerless eyes.

The empire, which had one-sidedly crushed them, was struggling against a single black magician.

Having just suffered a defeat, they had every reason to feel frustrated.

Of course, they weren’t doing nothing.

Adias, who had promised to join me soon, was taking responsibility for his words by selecting only the elite troops to form a special forces unit.

In reality, I, who was the strongest fighting force alongside Tinus, was in a free situation.

Originally, it would have been normal for the Allied Races and I to join forces and try to break through the empire, but since I had taken the upper hand, the situation had turned upside down.

The Allied Races were retreating helplessly, and I was achieving unimaginable victories, pushing the empire back unilaterally.

Despite the empire having turned this land into a place of endless advantage for themselves, this was the result.

I could have helped Tanak and Entin eliminate the undead faster, or helped Oriente take down the Holy Knights first, or even attacked the empire’s castle walls alone.

“Breaking through the castle walls… might be a bit difficult?”

I had sensed something while dominating the surrounding space.

The castle walls protecting the empire’s capital were not ordinary.

Of course, the walls protecting the empire’s capital and sacred place couldn’t be ordinary.

But I wasn’t thinking that they were special in that sense.

Even if they were special, if they were like the walls of the past, I wouldn’t have thought much of it.

However, I could sense that the current castle walls were much different from those of the past.

I could be certain of this because the core of the castle walls was the city gate.

The gate that the two undead were guarding.

As long as that gate didn’t fall, the castle walls would never fall.

That’s how it had changed.

And that gate was connected to the two undead.

In other words, to break through the city gate, I had to help Tinus take care of the undead.

“Breaking through that is Tinus’s job.”

That’s why I decided to invade the space around me, just like I did at first.

The imperial capital, which had become a sacrificial object.

Now, it was no longer part of the continent, but a forward base of the Bright Church.

To turn this land back into a continent, I began to spread my magic further into the wider space.

And…

– Frightening.

I could sense two presences blocking my way.

Although it was the first time I heard their voices, I knew what kind of beings they were.

“Are they temple servants? Have they been watching for an opening?”

My muttering was met with a gaze from Akina and Kayla, who were guarding me, as well as Valdur.

But I ignored their gaze and continued muttering.

“It’s not like I helped them anyway.”

After all, Tinus had won, and the first gatekeeper had ridiculed him, so I didn’t bother to intervene with the intention of taking revenge.

But that was the correct answer.

These two had been waiting for the moment I would help the gatekeepers.

No, to be precise, they were waiting for me to make a move.

If I had targeted the gods, or the Holy Knights, including Forest, I would have taken action.

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But it seemed that I, targeting this space itself, was beyond their expectations.

As soon as I sensed their presence, or rather, as soon as they began to use their powers, I was able to grasp the internal situation of the capital, which I had been unaware of until now.

“Perhaps you’re more detestable than the dark wizards.”

The capital was… filled with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even millions of souls.

“Didn’t you say you went to paradise?”

– The goddess’s side is paradise itself. The goddess will remain on the land where she will descend, so this place is paradise.

– But I won’t understand such a detestable existence as yours.

And those souls… were being used as a power source for summoning the goddess.

In the heart of the capital.

The two temple servants were staying in a place where divine power was concentrated, and even now, divine power was being concentrated there.

And at that moment, I could see it.

The goddess’s body, which was being created little by little in a place where divine power was concentrated.

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The appearance of the goddess’s body being created was eerily familiar.

The saint.

The goddess’s body was being created to resemble the saint’s appearance.

That was all.

“It’s still far from completion.”

It wasn’t a level that required urgent action.

It was true that immense power was being gathered, and the goddess’s descent was approaching, but it wouldn’t be accomplished in a few minutes or hours.

So, I turned my attention to the ghosts around me rather than the goddess’s descent.

“If I do it well…”

The god was probably different.

The quality of the soul shadows used by the Black Mages was different.

-You dare to…

One of the two attendants sensed my gaze and expressed anger.

I couldn’t help but chuckle at the attendant’s anger.

“I guess they wouldn’t want this either.”

Many souls had already been used.

They were being used in real-time too.

“It’s inevitable. We have to stop them somehow.”

It wasn’t like the goddess would descend immediately, but as time passed, it seemed likely that the descent would eventually succeed.

I was confident of success from the start, so I wouldn’t try something that would fail twice.

That’s why, even if I had time to spare, I had to stop them.

“It’s a fact that the souls themselves are tempting too.”

Securing the bodies was relatively easy, but getting hold of those souls was extremely difficult.

In fact, it was a massive quantity, possibly exceeding hundreds of thousands or even millions.

It would be impossible to obtain that amount in a lifetime, yet it was right in front of me.

I couldn’t help but take it.

“You should be feeling it? You failed. The goddess’s descent is far off, and you’ve been exposed, so you can’t do anything. You’re also losing in terms of power.”

It was all true.

The attacks pouring down from the city walls couldn’t harm my main force, and we were on a winning streak, while the two attendants were barely holding off Tinu’s offense.

Even the existence of the two attendants, my last hope, had been revealed by my own hand….

“Why don’t you just go back to your world quietly?”

My voice, laced with mockery and a hint of relief, reached them.

Honestly, if I hadn’t known about their existence, I would have been caught off guard and suffered greatly.

As the center of our group, if I fell, our entire force would be shaken.

“Of course, I wouldn’t have just taken it lying down.”

In that case, the biggest victim would probably have been the interspecies alliance.

If they wanted to fill the gap I left, they would have had to make a huge sacrifice.

Even if it was an unexpected attack, I wouldn’t have fallen immediately, and in the end, our victory would have been built on the sacrifice of the interspecies alliance.