The Necromancer Who Was Despised - The Necromancer Who Was Despised chapter 60

Youngju went berserk at my provocation.

“You really are crazy. You’re going to turn me, the dignified aristocrat of the Kingdom, into an undead. If I had known you were a black wizard, I wouldn’t have even met you!”

I chuckled lightly as I listened to him.

“A dignified aristocrat… You can’t even manage your territory properly, so you’re being shaken both internally and externally, and in the end, you abandoned everything and ran away. What’s so dignified about that?”

“That’s my responsibility…”

“It’s your fault. Stop making excuses. Since the negotiation has broken down, I guess I’ll have to take it myself.”

“…You call that a negotiation? Are you out of your mind?”

“Of course it’s a negotiation. If it’s not a negotiation, then all the requests you made to me were orders?”

At first, it was okay because it was only a slight abuse of authority, but the more he was in danger, the more he tried to drag me and my party into it.

He pretended to give us benefits like honorable soldiers, but he used us as he was pleased, and there was no excuse for putting us in the subjugation of the ant’s nest even after estimating the combat power of me and my party.

And on top of that, he even mobilized us for war, which we had refused to do.

In particular, the subjugation of the ant’s nest was a very dangerous request given our publicly disclosed combat power at the time.

The fact that he made such a request (order) after seeing our publicly disclosed combat power was nothing more than a desperate order to get us food, whether my party died or not.

When we got it, he gave us errands and village defense missions.

“I paid the price, and it is natural for the lord’s people to serve the lord. What’s wrong with that?”

“…I’m really tired of this. Just think like that and die.”

As expected, seeing the bottom of people’s hearts was not a very good experience.

“Just think of it as getting the price you didn’t get. Kayla. Except for Mutr…”

“Wait, wait! Just wait a minute, Lord Jimnis!”

It was the lord’s son, Banis, who stepped forward.

“Oh, young master. It’s been a long time.”

I hid my annoyance and answered politely.

In this situation, Banis must have been quite frightened by the incongruity of calling me young master and greeting me as if nothing had happened, because he hiccuped slightly.

“W, what’s going on here? Why are you, Lord Jimnis… What’s with the black wizard and why are you killing us…”

“Come to think of it, you haven’t paid me all the price for the request yet.”

“…T, that’s because the request isn’t finished yet…”

After all, the request was to deliver Mutr safely to Siglen.

“Then you shouldn’t have run away like this. It’s disappointing to make excuses that the request isn’t over yet when you’re in a situation where you ran away.”

“T-that’s sorry…”

“Don’t worry. I’ll take care of the price. And personally, I have something to regret about you, young master. I’m going to take this opportunity to get rid of that old feeling.”

“What…”

“Kayla is mine. It means that you can’t borrow her for a night with just one word. I didn’t show it at the time, but it was very unpleasant.”

Clack, clack, clack.

Banis couldn’t say anything.

He was just gnashing his teeth and trembling, perhaps because the ominous feeling and pressure he felt from me stimulated his fear.

“So I’m going to take this opportunity to get rid of that feeling. As I said before, just the tongue and lower body will do. I think that would calm me down.”

No human being survives after their tongue is cut out and their body is cut in half. It meant just to die.

“P, please forgive me…”

“I’m not the kind of person who forgives just because I apologized. If you play with your mouth carelessly, you have to pay the price.”

I spoke with a smirk, and finally, Banis hesitated and took a couple of steps back.

Meanwhile, Muhtre was watching me without much change in expression.

No, he seemed strangely satisfied.

‘After all, he was shameless enough to peek at us through a secret passage.’

While we were having this conversation, the battle between Athena and Baldur came to an end.

“It’s a shame about your condition. Let’s spar again when you get better. You’d make a decent training partner.”

Athena said, looking down at the fallen Baldur.

Baldur had a resentful expression, but that didn’t change the situation.

“Move! I said, move, Baldur!”

Kuman tried activating the magic engraving, but Baldur could only writhe in pain, unable to do anything.

It was something beyond his power.

“This moment has finally come. “I’ve only ever imagined it.”

Athena smiled brightly and approached Kuman, who tried to escape with the other slaves in front of him, but it was futile.

Athena easily dodged and subdued the slaves, advancing towards Kuman, and finally arrived in front of him, digging her sword into his nape.

“Gulp.”

That was the end.

Athena didn’t seem to want to hear anything else and killed Kuman without hesitation, returning to me with a very refreshing look on her face.

“I took care of it. Revenge feels really refreshing.”

“Oh, take this. “I think it was used to control him.”

She handed me the artifact that controlled Baldur’s magic engraving.

“Thank you.”

As soon as Kuman died, his slaves stopped resisting. However, they were still trembling in fear of being killed themselves.

“Baldur.”

“I spared you at Kyla’s request, but if you’re uncooperative, I’ll be upset, you know?”

“Calm them down for now.”

Clang!

While I was paying attention to Baldur, Kyla and the skeletons blocked the path of those who tried to escape.

The specter flew around the humans, observing some of them before seemingly losing interest.

It seemed to be because none of them had significant life force.

‘Still, it would be good to eat if given the chance.’

“Did I make you wait too long?”

The lord who failed to escape looked at me with a face full of humiliation.

“Kyla, do you know?”

At my command, Kyla moved, and Rainbank, who hadn’t said a word until now, blocked her and opened his mouth.

“If I was going to die here anyway.”

He didn’t grovel, perhaps knowing that I wouldn’t change my mind no matter what he said.

“You should have died fighting earlier.”

However, it seemed he couldn’t avoid feeling some regret.

I had even openly said that I would turn Rainbank’s corpse into a skeleton.

Perhaps because of that, Rainbank’s eyes were shaking slightly.

Well, I don’t think he’d be in a good mood if he knew there was no rest even after death.

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Even if it’s just the flesh.

‘As for the soul, there’s nothing I can do about it now.’

Langbank’s poor physical condition was evident just by looking at his posture.

The aura wasn’t even visible on his sword.

Because of that, he missed Kayla’s movement.

Hoong.

“…Legs…”

A momentary high-speed movement using the right leg’s high specs.

Langbank, who couldn’t have known that his leg was healed, couldn’t have expected this situation, and a single moment’s gap in close combat was enough time to take his life.

Perhaps he had prepared a last resort, as a faint aura was added to his sword.

It seemed he had forcibly raised it the moment he missed Kayla’s movement.

Honestly, I was a little surprised.

‘I heard he can’t even use mana properly…’

The fact that he had done such a thing by force meant that… there was literally no way out. He would have died from the aftereffects even if he had won.

However, even that determination could not overcome the difference in information and level.

Langbank spits out blood with a face full of despair and dies.

Vanish let out a ferocious voice, and the lord gave the servants an order to stop Kayla, which was literally impossible.

He forcibly stepped forward, but in return, he lost his life to Kayla.

‘I don’t think she would have killed him if he hadn’t resisted…’

It was the price of not being able to disobey the lord’s orders until the end.

Kayla seemed to think that there was no need to leave such people.

Summer was also one of them.

“Oh, oh, my…”

The lord’s neck, who had been taking a step back, falls off.

“Hooo…”

Despite the death of his father, the lord, Vanish was paralyzed with fear and couldn’t do anything.

Kayla approached Vanish and said to him.

“You… your master had something he wanted separately.”

Kayla’s sword went into Vanish’s mouth and quickly twisted.

“Heueueueek!”

The severed tongue falls out.

Unable to bear the terrible pain, Vanish collapses.

“Your words made me think of someone. I was pretty offended too. Don’t talk recklessly even after you die.”

It seemed that the traitor’s comment came to mind after all.

‘Well, he did say he was after Kayla.’

It was enough to bring it to mind.

The ensuing swordsmanship splits Vanish’s upper and lower body.

“I’ve finished.”

I thought I would kill the lord, but Kayla was faster than me.

He seemed to think that it was something he had to do.

‘It doesn’t matter who does it anyway.’

I instructed the skeleton to clean up Lavinge Bank’s body and gather the other corpses in one place.

“The secret passages should all be blocked, but check it out just in case.”

In the meantime, I approached Mutr.

“Are you a dark wizard?”

“Yes. Are you surprised?”

“I can’t help but be surprised.”

“Do you despise dark wizards too?”

“Well, maybe I did in the past. Because I also hated dark elves.”

Dark elves were a race that used dark magic a lot.

“However, I don’t particularly hate Jimny. I’m not sure if it’s because he treated me well before or because he killed humans I don’t like.”

“That’s a relief. So, do you plan to work under me? As you may have heard, I plan to build my dungeon here.”

“Do I have a choice?”

“Hmm. I’d like you to cooperate voluntarily if possible.”

“Hahaha. I’m already living a life where I can’t die anyway. If you don’t kill me, I’ll follow you.”

“Like when you worked as a slave under other humans?”

“It’ll be a little better than that. You won’t treat me like other humans, will you? Or will you act the same because I’m already in your hands?”

“I have no intention of doing that.”

“Then it will be a little better than that. At least I won’t do my work sloppily on purpose like before.”

He seemed to be referring to the fact that some of the secret passages had collapsed.

“That’s a little lacking… .”

The abilities of a dwarf who works with all his heart and a dwarf who does what he’s told without any motivation are worlds apart.

Besides, Mutr seemed to be quite capable even among dwarves.

It’s the same with people. There is no comparison in the efficiency between someone who works as a slave without hope and someone who works for money and a better life.

I wanted the latter.

“Oh, you said you had a family.”

Mutr’s expression hardens.

Is it because I’m a dark wizard? He seemed to be having very bad thoughts.

“You said they’re not dead. I think you said they were scattered.”

“… Yes.”

Mutr makes a regretful expression. He seemed to be worried that I would use him to curse his family.

For your information, I can’t do that either.

Even high-ranking dark wizards who specialize in curses can’t do it. In the first place, you need to have the target’s body to curse someone whose whereabouts you don’t even know. Even then, most of them fail. I couldn’t do something like that just because I got my hands on a blood relative.

“If I get the chance, I’ll save them.”

“Well, it would be difficult if they were under a powerful force and I had to kidnap them, but if it’s a situation that can be solved with money, I can do it.”

If they were under a hostile force, I could consider stealing them.

“I actually saved Artrina’s younger brother the same way. Of course, I admit that the possibility is slim. But that’s all I can say for now.”

However, it must have been a very surprising statement, because Mutr’s gaze did not leave me.

It was only after a long time that Mutr opened his mouth.