The Necromancer Who Was Despised - The Necromancer Who Was Despised chapter 45

“…It’s not good. The wound is so big that… I heard that he can’t even use mana properly.”

In the case of Lord Likienli, the Seed, it is said that in addition to his serious injuries, he lost one of his arms.

“That’s serious.”

“Is it possible to visit him…”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t think it will be easy. Given his condition… I’ll let you know separately if his condition improves a bit later.”

Somehow, he managed to return alive, but it seemed that it wouldn’t be easy to return Muthr.

On the day Muthr finished the renovation, I told him.

“The condition of the territory is not good. I probably won’t be able to return to the Sigren County right away.”

“It doesn’t matter. Here or there… No, rather, I prefer this place. At least you’re here, Jimnis.”

Muthr, who smiled faintly, continued speaking.

“It felt like I was being treated like a human for the first time in a long time. I wonder how many decades it’s been… It’s a shame that we can’t be together anymore. However…”

“Why is that?”

“When I go back to the County, the memories of this time might make it harder for me.”

“…That’s…”

“You don’t have to apologize. It can’t be helped. As long as I have this damn magic imprint, there’s nothing I can do. It’s not Jimnis’s fault. Rather, it’s been a long time since I’ve felt so happy.”

“Is that so.”

I felt that the time we spent together for the past two weeks was not in vain.

‘When the opportunity comes… I’ll come over.’

I’ll have to find the ‘whip’ that is the means of control, but since I’ll be moving with Muthr anyway, it won’t be difficult to get it.

While I was organizing my brief thoughts alone, the hesitant Mutr quietly spoke.

“This is a soliloquy. Just let it flow by.”

“If I were to create a backdoor for the second passage… I would never make it through the place I renovated. That place… will eventually collapse in a few months.”

“It seems that the creator intentionally made it poorly.”

The creator of the second passage is Mutr before my eyes.

I looked at him with a dumbfounded expression at his words.

But that was only for a moment.

“Yes, that’s right.”

He seemed to really hate humans, and even nobles.

‘That’s why he didn’t even let me touch the renovation.’

If he, the creator, intentionally made it poorly… I might have really caused it to collapse if I had interfered.

I don’t know how he was treated in the Sigren Count’s family.

Judging from the state he was in when I first received him, it must not have been good.

However, it seemed that I had received strong trust from him even though I was a human being.

‘Did I benefit indirectly?’

It seemed like I received more trust than I expected even though it wasn’t that great compared to what he usually received, which was the worst.

After this day, I parted ways with Mutr and couldn’t see him for a while.

As expected, it was impossible to return Mutr.

When Lanvinc regained his senses, he delivered the news that the Merchant Alliance was trying to isolate the territory, and the terrified lord sent someone to confirm it, and Lanvinc’s words turned out to be true.

Mercenaries or bandits hired by the Merchant Alliance were blocking all the paths leading to the Sigren Count’s family, so the territory was completely isolated.

‘Just as I heard.’

However, since this was an undisclosed fact, the Ovalan Barony was put on a large-scale emergency.

Therefore, the request was postponed indefinitely, and in my case, I was given a break for all the hard work I had done.

Thanks to my position as an honorary soldier, I can avoid conscription for the time being, so it seemed that I would have some time for a while.

‘Even so, the situation will continue to worsen, and eventually another request will come in.’

It’s obvious.

I had a track record and proved my ability. There was no choice but to include me and my party in the crisis situation.

‘I need to do what I can in the meantime.’

There was a lot more I could do now that I was a Level 3 class.

The difference between Level 2 and Level 3 is enormous.

In addition, my vessel is about 1.5 times larger than when I had just reached Level 3 in my first playthrough, so considering my experience and the amplification ability of my excellent staff, I would be able to do something comparable to a Level 4 class.

‘I did create Specter, but that was a very exceptional circumstance.’

The quality of the Soul’s Shadow, the key ingredient, was too good.

‘The first thing I should focus on is… .’

Of course, Kyla’s leg.

Skeletons are good, but I thought it would be okay to postpone it a bit since I created Specter.

‘Since I have some time left and reviewed it, I should try it once.’

I had known for a long time that the compatibility with Denok’s body was not bad.

Kyla must have been im patient inside, but she didn’t urge me.

‘Skeletons… if I decide to, I can create them in a short amount of time.’

Kayla’s legs seemed to be telling her that if not now, then there would be no time.

Before leaving for the external residence, I checked the magic circle I had set up in the corner.

‘Is it damaged on this side today?’

I did some maintenance on the magic circle and soon, it emitted light and activated the Dig spell.

The mana supply was the ruby I had received from the Lord and fortunately, the ruby still hadn’t lost its light since Dig was a lower-level spell.

‘If all goes well, I might be able to complete the backdoor with just one ruby?’

Using the ruby as a medium, the Dig spell would activate periodically. If the magic circle was damaged, I would come and repair it, then make the hole deeper following the same pattern as before.

In the process, even if I lost the ruby, it wouldn’t be a pity if the backdoor was completed.

‘It’s about time I changed direction and dug straight through.’

I had secured enough depth.

After fixing the magic circle, I headed to the external residence.

Apart from when I was repairing the Dig magic circle, I spent most of my time at the external residence, adjusting Denoch’s body and continuously creating the necessary medicines by combining the reagents that Atina had brought.

After spending about ten days like that making some preparations, I called Kayla.

“Did you call for me, Master?”

“I think you’ll have to stick with me for the time being.”

“Is there another request?”

“No. Something I put off doing before, I need to start again. I don’t think there’ll be time if not now.”

The atmosphere in the territory is tense. According to the rumors, they plan to call back all the mercenaries who have been dispatched to other villages.

If that happens, the village’s defenses will be weakened, and they intend to fill that void with the Vigilante Corps.

The safety of the village would be endangered, but the Lord couldn’t help it.

Kayla replied quietly after hearing my words.

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Her reaction was different from before, but I wondered about it for a moment. Seeing her burning eyes, I could tell that her heart was definitely not indifferent.

I guessed that she was trying to appear as indifferent as possible since the situation was what it was and it could be postponed again.

‘Is she trying to calm her heart?’

I felt a little sorry.

Atina looked a little disappointed when I said I would be acting with Kayla again.

“I still have much to learn from Master… .”

“I’ll give you assignments, so don’t worry. You’re doing well now.”

“They say it’s because of my legs, so I can’t say anything… “I hope you get better soon.”

“Thank you.”

With the situation in the territory being what it was, Atina also seemed to want to get stronger as soon as possible.

She must have been worried about Tia, who would be left behind if she died.

When I entered the basement of the external residence with Kayla, she looked a little surprised.

“Is this… “The same place as before?”

“Yes. Why?”

“The magic power seems to have gotten even denser.”

“That would be troubling. My level has also increased, and he’s here too.”

At the place I pointed to, there was a translucent piece of cloth floating around.

“That’s… a specter. It looks quite strong.”

I had absorbed quite a lot of energy while hunting alone recently, but even so, since the opponents were at the level of beasts or goblins, I hadn’t grown much.

Since I had instructed her to avoid danger as much as possible in my absence, this was an unavoidable situation.

Still, it had helped me recover my stamina, so I was satisfied.

Rather than saying that Specter had become noticeably stronger than before…

‘I guess it feels different for me.’

After all, I was Specter’s master, and while Kayla was my slave, she was still an outsider.

I didn’t feel the sense of presence or fear that I usually felt from Specter.

I even found the floating guy to be a bit cute.

However, perhaps because Kayla was an outsider, she seemed to be somewhat affected by Specter’s characteristic presence and the fear it inspired.

I had thought that she would be less affected since she recognized me as an ally, but…

‘Is the Specter wary of her?’

… She would be fine once she got used to it. At the very least, it wasn’t being hostile.

“Take this for now.”

I handed Kayla a blue root of Trenelsi.

“It’s been processed by soaking it in a potion. Infuse it with your mana to convert the mana inside it into your own mana.”

“What’s this…”

“You’ll know once you try it. Think of it as dyeing the mana in the blue root of Trenelsi with your own mana.”

Kayla closed her eyes, holding the blue root after I told her to try it.

Soon, the blue root began to vibrate and emit a faint light.

I wonder if she focused like that for about ten minutes.

Kayla exhaled roughly and opened her eyes, drenched in sweat.

“…I understand what you mean. It feels like I’m breathing mana into it. But the mana contained in this is so vast that it seems like it will take a long time.”

“Of course it will take a long time. I didn’t tell you to do it all at once. You can just focus on that for the time being.”

That’s no ordinary herb.

It was a treasure that even royalty would covet, so it wasn’t something Kayla could absorb all at once, even if she had once been a knight.

While Kayla was infusing the blue root of Trenelsi with her own mana, I began to make an elixir with the last remaining root.

‘This is for Athena.’

I’m not going to feed it to her right now.

I planned to decide when to feed it to her after consulting with Kayla.

I was just making it in advance when I had the time.

‘If war breaks out… it will be difficult to stay safe here too.’

Before that happened, I planned to use everything I could and take everything I could carry before abandoning this place.

Two days passed like that.

“Master, I’m done.”

Kayla showed me the blue root of Trenelsi, which had been completely infused with her own mana.

‘I thought it would take three days…’

Although the processing had been done in such a way that the mana would change more quickly the more mana was infused, it was still a day faster than I had expected.

She had reduced even her sleeping hours to infuse the blue root of Trenelsi with mana, and as a result, she was able to show results that exceeded my expectations.

She was that desperate.

“Well done. Here.”

“…Master? What is this…?”

“I think I told you before? I’ll get you something to use, two roots.”

“You said you have one left. Just do it. You can do it in two days, right?”

When she heard what I said, she looked at my face with a blank expression.

Cure

Even though I said it jokingly, the fact that I had to do it in the end remained unchanged.

Kayla accepted the root I gave her with a look of emptiness that I had never seen before and began to concentrate again.

“Kayla, I was joking. Just rest for now and take it slow. Give it to me in four days.”

“…No. I will do it as much as I can for now.”

Then she looked up at me with a slightly sullen look.

“I didn’t know that Master was hiding such a personality. I guess I’m seeing a new side of you today.”

“Hmm… It’s good to be serious, but you seem too nervous. You seem strangely excited. I’ll tell you in advance, but this doesn’t guarantee a 100 percent success rate. As I said before, it may fail. .”

“…I know.”

“But you seem to think that you will never fail.”

“…Well, I can’t help but expect it. Because among all the things that Master has shown me so far, there hasn’t been a single failure.”

‘Was that so?’

After the regression, there were times when things happened that I didn’t expect.

However, I think I moved in a way that somehow benefited me without showing any sign of panic in such a situation.

It seemed that Kayla always saw me as a success.

“I’m a human, too. I may fail someday. Of course, I hope that’s not the case this time.”

If I fail despite all this preparation… I couldn’t predict when the next opportunity would come.