The Necromancer Who Was Despised - The Necromancer Who Was Despised chapter 58

Voices gradually grew louder, and eventually some Youngmin were dragged out after being beaten by Kuman’s slaves.

And that day, more than a hundred Youngmin were brutally murdered in front of the pioneering castle, and their heads were thrown inside the pioneering castle.

At daybreak, half of the mercenaries of the Merchant Alliance disappeared.

They shouted that the rest of the members had gone to attack other villages and that they would spare our lives if we surrendered now.

“Just hand over the lord! Then the rest can live! “We never just talk!”

The young people of the pioneering castle trembled at their cry.

“Please, please spare the Green Forest Village… .”

The man praying next to me must have been from the Green Forest Village.

I remembered the village chief’s words that he hoped they would return safely, but the village chief’s wish was dashed when the lord’s expedition was defeated.

Now, on the contrary, a young man from Green Forest Village was praying for the safety of his village.

Two more days passed, and they brought in people from other villages, and the lord did not surrender to the end.

In the end, the second massacre followed, and the mentality of the Youngmin was completely broken.

Signs of an organized rebellion were detected.

The lord also noticed the situation and tried to find the ringleader, but the deep emotional gap with the Youngmin isolated him and drove him into a corner.

People began to distance themselves from me as well. It seemed that they could not trust me because I had often received requests from the lord.

Of course, I had no intention of interfering, so I didn’t know.

‘If I leave the next massacre alone, I’ll be dragged out by the Youngmin themselves.’

Maybe it’s time to run away.

The mercenaries on the side of the Merchant Alliance also seemed to be aware of such an atmosphere within the pioneering castle and were laughing wickedly.

“Master. I think it’s time to get out of here.”

“I agree with the teacher. There is no more hope.”

I nodded at their words.

“I’m waiting too. They… It seems like they’re about to run away.”

“Shouldn’t we run away first?”

“We can’t run away naked.”

“… It seems like you’re waiting for the lord and Kuman to run away.”

I was planning to loot what they had.

“… Well, if it’s those guys… “I don’t care.”

It was no different from robbery, but considering what had happened so far, neither of them seemed to have any intention of opposing it.

‘Well, they must have been used a lot.’

In addition, Athena has a grudge against Kuman with Tia’s gun, and Kayla was sold to me because of Kuman’s greed.

In the first place, Kuman is an illegal slave trader, and the lord is a guy who abandons the Youngmin and tries to run away.

I didn’t think these two would feel guilty for taking something from them.

“Did Tia pack everything?”

“Yeah. I already put everything in the basement you made, and I always hide there when a fight breaks out.”

“Good job.”

The two of them didn’t feel anything strange about my preparations.

As a dark mage and an outsider, it wasn’t strange for me to prepare for any eventuality.

‘First, I’ll plunder the lord and Kuman… I’ll have to hold out in the basement until the monster wave occurs. It won’t be difficult to persuade them with the excuse of the Merchant’s Guild.’

It wouldn’t be difficult to take care of Mutr either.

However, in the end, the rebellion of the pioneering territory did not take place.

The news they received was completely different from what they had expected.

“Mon, monsters!”

“The monsters are coming!”

At dawn.

Just before sunrise, the darkest hour.

The monster raid began.

It just so happened to be the day we were on watch.

Even more problematic was the fact that it was exactly the time we were on duty.

We were at the main gate that had been broken once, and the monster raid was happening on the exact opposite side.

That’s why we were late to notice.

“What the hell is going on?”

Athena said with a bewildered face.

“Monsters? Suddenly?”

“…Surely not…”

Kayla said with a serious expression.

“Certainly… I thought the density and number of monsters had increased…”

Kayla and Athena had also witnessed the distribution of monsters when they went around distributing the body of the giant ent to each village.

However, the two of them had not thought of a monster wave there, so they seemed puzzled by the current situation.

But that’s normal.

Monster waves don’t happen easily in the first place.

In a forest of monsters of this size, there is almost no case where a monster that can be called a ‘wave’ emerges.

However, I knew this fact in advance through regression, so I could have predicted it.

“Monsters?”

“What’s going on this time…”

Those who were on watch with us looked puzzled.

“First, let’s inform the lord. I’ll go and figure out the exact situation.”

At my instruction, one of the men immediately left his post. It seemed that he would report since there had not been an actual rebellion yet.

“What are we going to do?”

“What can we do? We need to check the scale and get out of here right away if there’s no answer. We can’t die here.”

Humans in front, monsters behind. It was a hopeless situation.

“Athena, you take Tia and get ready to go underground.”

“You follow me for now.”

We immediately crossed the pioneering territory and headed to the other side.

“Run, run away!”

I witnessed the entrance already being broken through.

“…A troll? This is crazy.”

Wow, goblins, bugbears, lizardmen, orcs…

“Giant mantises and… is that a manticore…? Where did that even…”

“My Lord, it’s a monster wave. We have to get out of here, now.”

During my first play-through, I didn’t witness the monster wave firsthand.

I was just taken there against my will as a slave of Kuman.

That’s why this was my first time seeing a monster wave at this point in time.

‘…But why does it look like everyone’s running away?’

Come to think of it, there were more than a few of them that were hostile to each other.

Yet here they were, swarming together to attack a human settlement?

‘The monster wave defies common sense in the first place, though…’

That’s why I had never really thought about it that deeply.

But now that I was actually seeing it, all sorts of thoughts were popping into my head.

Even so, I didn’t have time to be making calculations like that right now.

As I made my way towards the residential area inside the Frontier Fortress, I spotted a familiar face.

‘Baldur…’

He was heading towards Kuman’s mansion.

‘Looks like he came out to check on the commotion…’

He seemed to have noticed the monster wave as well.

‘Perfect.’

Upon arriving home, Athena asked,

“What happened?”

“It’s a monster wave. We have to run.”

Athena was shocked when I said the words “monster wave.”

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As I gave her a quick explanation of the situation, her face hardened with concern.

“…It’s a good thing we dug that backdoor in advance. Otherwise, we would have had to run to the Lord’s or Kuman’s mansion.”

Athena praised my choice.

‘Looks like the upper floors are going to collapse…’

Even so, I figured I should seal the entrance just in case.

“What about Tia?”

“She’s already in the basement.”

She said that she had been going back and forth so often that she was used to it by now.

We had already moved everything we needed down to the basement, so all we had to do was get ourselves down there.

We headed down to the basement and sealed the entrance.

On top of that, I used magic to make sure that no one could get in, and as we made our way further down, Tia was already waiting for us, her back turned to us.

“Big Sis? …What happened to Lord Inha and Lady Kyla…?”

“A monster wave happened. There’s chaos upstairs.”

“If it’s a monster wave… what about the Frontier Fortress?”

“It’s going to collapse. All the mercenaries from the Merchant Alliance are going to die, too.”

There was no way to escape.

Even if we were to try to escape on horseback… we would all die.

“It’s because of the Manticore.”

In a sense, it’s more fearsome than a Troll.

It flies through the sky and is faster than a horse.

It also eats humans… .

“I’m lucky I didn’t catch its eye last time.”

If I had, I would never have survived.

“Then, shouldn’t we escape beyond the Frontier? If we stay here any longer… .”

“It’s okay. It’s pretty sturdy.”

I used a jewel to make it this big and strong.

It won’t collapse just because a monster flies over it.

We also have water and food. It wasn’t difficult to hold out here for the time being.

“Even so, we need to secure an escape route… Tia. Wait here for a while.”

“From now on, your sisters and I will be a little busy.”

It’s the time I’ve been waiting for since the day of my regression.

‘I will create my own dungeon.’

I smiled slightly.

Puck, pushersuk!

A thin wall collapsed, revealing a secret passage.

“They dug all the way here. Magic is amazing.”

The back door of the secret passage.

Athina muttered softly as she looked beyond the wall.

“I heard this is connected to the Kumang and the Lord’s mansions? And there’s an escape route outside.”

“Where should we go first? Kumang is a merchant, so there should be a lot of things there… The Lord is a noble, so… .”

“We’ll rob both of them anyway. Block the exits and catch them as they come.”

If I could use my full power… I wouldn’t be afraid even if the two forces joined forces.

The important thing was to make it impossible for them to escape.

I immediately summoned Specter and Skeleton to block the exits.

Although there were only two of them, they wouldn’t be able to break through easily, considering the current situation of the two forces.

Specter was particularly problematic. Among them, only Baldur could damage Specter.

“They’ll be surprised when they find out I’m a black magician. “I should get used to it this time.”

“Well. I don’t think it’s necessary. “I don’t intend to hide my identity anymore.”

“… Just in case, Master seems to be planning to live here for a while.”

“Did Master already know that a monster wave would occur?”

“A little bit?”

“… “What does that mean?”

Athina said she couldn’t understand my conversation with Kyla.

“You’re saying you won’t hide the fact that you’re a black magician? And you’re not going to leave here even though a monster wave has occurred? Master, do you know something?”

“I just guessed by observing the Master’s actions. I was suspicious of the things you prepared inside, and the fact that you kept holding on even though the situation had worsened.”

“Wasn’t it just because you were bitter about not being able to escape?”

“That’s true too. But Master is a cautious person. Can’t you tell? But I thought it was strange that you kept waiting. It makes sense if you guessed the possibility of a monster wave.”

It wasn’t gambling, but definite information due to regression.

For sure, if it had been my basic disposition, I would have left earlier.