Han Da-young thought.
‘Even if the Frog Dungeon is easy, is it really all right for things to go like this?’
What she had imagined was her splendid debut.
Powerful magic! Cheering comrades!
And herself, acting smug!
Gold-child Mage.
She had obtained a Job with a ridiculous name, but its power was stronger than she had imagined.
The power of her magic increased according to the weight of the gold she possessed.
What was astonishing was that this was not subject to item restrictions!
It was already a well-known fact that Hunters were limited in the number of items they could equip.
This was something enforced by the Hunter System.
Two rings. One necklace. Two bracelets. Two earrings, one for each ear.
In other words, no more accessories than that could be equipped.
Because of that, the higher a Hunter’s grade became, the harder they had to work to equip stronger items in their limited slots.
However.
The gold of a Gold-child Mage had no such restriction.
Gold-thread underwear, a gold-thread bra, gold-thread socks, gold-thread pants, a gold-rope belt, a gold necklace, gold bracelets, and so on. The more she wore, the more the power of her magic rose!
To say twice how good that was would be needless repetition.
That was why she had come with gold dangling all over her body, never doubting that she would play an active role, and yet….
“This is a big catch! I did not know Mermen appeared in this Dungeon too!”
THWACK! THWACK!
She was stuck watching some pot-bellied uncle in his underwear while doing nothing!
Setting aside the ugly sight of that pot-bellied uncle, the source that allowed him to run wild was the real problem.
The Undead.
There were already four Zombies and two Merman Skeleton Soldiers.
With a total of six Undead accompanying them, there was nothing in particular for her to do.
Even Lee Si-woon, who had a Priest Job, had nothing to do.
When no one was getting hurt, what was a Healer supposed to do?
That was only natural.
This Dungeon.
It was not F-Rank for nothing.
The cave ran in a straight line, there were no traps, and the enemies that appeared were Mermen or Frogmen, two or three at a time at most.
So of course it was easy.
With six Undead present, everything was fine as long as they simply grabbed the enemies and clung to them with their bodies.
Then Kim Dong-su the Barbarian Warrior would run over and chop down the struggling Monsters with his axes, and that would be the end of it.
‘How deflating. I prepared so much.’
She sighed as she thought that.
She had not told them, but she was the daughter of a fairly successful family. She looked as if she had come wearing workout clothes, but she was wearing various items beneath them as well.
In fact, she was even wearing underwear made of gold thread.
Every Hunter started at F-Rank, and when they entered Dungeons and hunted Monsters, their mana grew and their grade rose.
However, it was the way of the world that some Jobs were treated as trash, while others were called special and extraordinary.
Her Gold-child Mage clearly belonged among the highest-tier Jobs.
Why?
Because her current magical attack power had increased by a full 128%. This was additional attack power separate from the staff she was holding, which had cost a staggering three billion won!
If she included the magic staff, her attack power had increased by an astonishing 158%.
That was right. Even though it had cost three billion won, it only increased her power by 30%.
That showed just how incredible the Gold-child Mage’s [Love of Gold] Skill was.
At low grades, it would be difficult to find a Mage with stronger firepower than hers.
And yet, she was doing nothing at all and merely standing idle….
Her feelings could not help but be complicated.
If anything, she had to watch a half-naked middle-aged uncle who assaulted the eyes run around….
She did not feel good.
‘It would have been different if he were a muscular handsome man, at least. Sigh.’
A sigh escaped her on its own.
Thinking that she would only get a chance to shine when they reached the Boss Room, she moved her feet.
“All right. From now on, let us mine the Magic Stones too.”
At the words of Park Il-sang, who had taken it upon himself to be the leader, she turned her head.
“These things do not even drop Magic Stones. Their corpses are not worth much money either.”
Kim Dong-su objected.
“They do come out occasionally, do they not?”
“They do, but only one in five has one. When are we going to dig through the ribs?”
“What do the rest of you think?”
“I object too. Let us clear this quickly and get out.”
Han Da-young said so.
“I also think clearing it first would be better.”
Lee Si-woon agreed as well.
“Sigh. None of you know how scary money can be…. It cannot be helped, then. In that case, I will take these corpses?”
“Do as you like.”
“Go ahead.”
“I agree.”
Park Il-sang used the Undead to bring the corpses over and put them into the [Corpse Box]. All the dead bodies were stored inside it.
“Can you put corpses inside it? Then would it not be possible to take them outside later and sell them?”
Lee Si-woon asked.
“If they go in here, they become contaminated by Necro Mana, so they cannot be used. They probably will not be sellable.”
That was only natural.
After all, this was not some convenient subspace backpack.
“Then let us go.”
Park Il-sang, the Necromancer Warrior, holding a shield and sword and commanding Undead, took the lead.
***
‘It is not a Dungeon that makes much money, but one coin and then another have to be saved. People have become far too complacent. I never saw anything like this even in my previous life. Tch. Back in my day….’
Park Il-sang walked while grumbling inwardly.
Even in his previous life, the world had already been on the verge of destruction. The war against the Demon King’s Army had been a great war that ground up the entire world, so that was only natural.
It was not like some flimsy story from a comic where a Hero was summoned and went off to defeat the Demon King.
The Demon King’s Army had used spatial teleportation to throw self-destructing bomb Demonic Beasts into rear-line countries, and farmland and everything else had exploded, making food supplies impossible to secure and causing hell to descend.
Because he had already become a Necromancer by then, he had hardly needed to eat, and later, after he became an Archlich, he had no need to eat at all.
But in a world that had to continue waging war after becoming something like an apocalypse, every supply had to be saved and saved again.
After all, murders occurred over a single potato, let alone bread.
If the Demon King had been someone aiming to conquer the world, it would have been overflowing with people who switched sides long ago. But the Demon King’s goal was the extermination of all intelligent beings in the world, so how could that have happened?
Thanks to that, even after being reincarnated into this world, he had managed to survive tenaciously. He did not know whether to call that a blessing in disguise, or the kind of lucky day where Kim Cheom-ji came home with seolleongtang only to find his wife dead.
‘In any case…. The Hunter System. This is far too efficient.’
Walking at the front (because he was a Warrior standing in the vanguard), Park Il-sang thought about the power he possessed.
First, the [Corpse Box].
Originally, although the [Corpse Box] itself was a magical object, the number of corpses that could be crammed into it corresponded exactly to its physical size.
However, that was only in the early stages.
When one reached 3rd Tier as a Necromancer and made a new one, the capacity of the [Corpse Box] could be increased.
In other words.
That small [Corpse Box] worn on the back could be made able to hold one hundred corpses.
That was the power of magic.
From 1st to 2nd Tier, all one could do was cram in a single corpse and carry it around.
However.
This [Corpse Box] made through the Hunter System already had twenty-four corpses inside it, and even after he added six more corpses just now, they continued going in easily.
In other words, this [Corpse Box] was presumed to be equal to, or superior to, one made by a 3rd Tier Necromancer.
Wow! How amazing.
‘With this, I will not have to worry about running out of mana, will I?’
A characteristic of Necromancers was that they could not gather or generate mana on their own. That was why they made a [Corpse Box].
It was a space to store the materials for Undead, and at the same time, a production device that generated Necro Mana.
Naturally, the more corpses there were in a [Corpse Box], the more Necro Mana one could obtain.
That was why Necromancers began to receive proper treatment starting from 3rd Tier. Their Necro Mana increased enormously, and the things they could do increased exponentially as well.
In his previous life, 3rd Tier Necromancers had used the corpses of the Demon King’s Army’s Demonic Beasts or Demons to make Undead.
‘At my current level… Let us see….’
He focused his consciousness.
-You can control 12 Undead.
The System answered his question.
Twelve!
For a 1st Tier Necromancer, that was a number one would not even dare dream of. Even in his previous life, a 1st Tier Necromancer could only command about three Undead.
Using various items could increase that number, but that was about the limit of one’s own ability.
Of course, Necromancers were also affected by talent to some degree. Those who were good from the start could control four or five.
The important point here.
What happened to the Undead one could not control?
They became Wild Undead.
And they indiscriminately attacked living beings other than Necromancers.
Why did they not attack Necromancers?
Because Necro Mana prevented them from being recognized as the living.
Undead originally hated the living, so even if they themselves were destroyed or doomed, they chased after them desperately to attack.
In his previous life, Park Il-sang had used that to fight the Demon King’s Army as well.
Because he was an Archlich, he could fly alone into the middle of the enemy camp, carry out a mass slaughter, create Wild Undead, and release them, causing the enemy to massacre one another.
‘Is this not what they call using barbarians to control barbarians? This tactic appears in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, too, though I did not know much about the novel in my previous life.’
In any case.
‘Controlling twelve at 1st Tier. Is this not insane? Even I could not do this in my previous life.’
Even Park Il-sang in his previous life, a peerless genius Necromancer of all ages who blasphemed against the gods and toyed with fate, had never controlled such a number.
‘By the way… what is this now?’
After going straight down the passage.
They entered a fairly large space.
‘I have never heard that something like this existed in the Frog Nest.’
The place they arrived at was a hemispherical space roughly the size of a sports field. It was so large that the mass of light summoned by Han Da-young the Gold-child Mage could not illuminate the entire interior.
In the far distance, several cave passages could be seen faintly.
‘I have never seen anything like this before.’