How a Calamity Necromancer Retires



Dalgrak. Dalgrak.

Skeletons lined up endlessly, crashing into each other.

“Chur uh uh!”

And at the head of such a skeleton army, a huge meat golem with all kinds of flesh connected like rags.

When the Meat Golem swung a hand as huge as its body, the Demon King’s army collapsed like autumn leaves.

The Demon King’s army, terrified by its overwhelming majesty and the endless attack of the Skeleton Corps, shouted while running away.

“Aww! Run away!”

While being escorted by the Death Knight, I looked at him and said with a smile.

“It’s worth the hard work.”

How much did you work hard to make that meat golem?

It looks like I just put it together without thinking, but it’s my masterpiece that I made by matching the left and right symmetry and skin color.

“Demon of Theros!”

Theros Devil was the nickname the demon kings called me.

And Theros was also the name of the man who was sweating cold next to me and the archmage of the Human Alliance who summoned me.

“Me… Jihyeok?”

“huh?”

“Why do you come with me in every battle…”

I said with a puzzled expression.

“Did you summon me? Then you should see how well I am fighting.”

I was summoned as a candidate for the hero under the leadership of Theros 30 years ago.

That is, I am a warrior.

Of course, I know very well that there are things that don’t suit me visually or atmosphere as a warrior, but what can I do?

Due to my nature of not wanting to be in danger, being a necromancer who can leave the battle to the undead army and watch from behind is the most suitable for me.

“Chu, I’ve seen enough. so······.”

Theros was well aware of why he was doing this.

Because I was feared not only by the Demon King’s army, but also by the human allies, who are allies.

Now that I’m stronger, I’m at this level. In the beginning, I did my best to survive, touching the corpses of my allies without hesitation.

The hearts of those who hate me?

I fully understand.

Who wouldn’t be frightened when a comrade next to him suddenly woke up as an undead?

But that’s why he carries Theros by his side even more.

“no. not enough see more did i always say If you brought someone, you should feel responsible. I was called in from a nap at home and risked my life to get involved in an unknown war and fought for 30 years. I didn’t even have time to sympathize with your allied cause and all. So why did you call me?”

When Theros hesitated, I smiled and said.

“So look at me calmly. I always said, if I hadn’t returned to Earth, my opponent would have been you guys, not the Demon King’s army. To be honest, the horses are the Demon King’s army and the invading army, in my eyes, they and you are the same.”

When I first came, I thought it was a real devil with horns because it scared me so much… it wasn’t.

The Demon King is just an intelligent creature from the Demon Realm.

They were just another race that wanted to get out of the barren demon realm and settle down in the human realm.

Of course, it is true that countless human beings were slaughtered in the process, but that is what can happen during a war.

Anyway, the reason I still take the side of mankind is not because I hate the Demon King’s Army, nor because I agree with the cause of the Allied Forces of Humanity, but only because this side is the most efficient way to return to Earth.

“I don’t think about anything other than efficiency. If I had fought over each of those things in the first place, even if I were dead, I would have died right away.”

I’m a necromancer who handles corpses, and the Demon King’s Army or the Human Alliance’s situation looks like him.

What I chose to survive in such a situation was to judge everything only by efficiency.

Because that was the only way I could survive.

“Anyway, stop nagging and keep calm…”

But then.

“Demon King! Demon King!”

“uh?”

When I turned my head, I could see the bloody demon king in the hands of the meat golem.

A cute meat golem that caught the demon king while he turned his head for a moment.

“what. So vain?”

Then Theros said.

“Chu, congratulations. You have finally defeated the Demon King!”

I licked my lips and said.

“Are you weaker than you thought? If I knew it would be this weak, I would have dealt with it in advance.”

“···yes?”

“Besides the meat golem, I made about 4 more weapons for the battle against the Great Demon King.

Then Terose’s pupils shook as if an earthquake had occurred.

“You mean there are four more of them?”

“To be precise, there are four more that are stronger than meat golems, but anyway, that’s not the point right now, is it?”

I said with a bright smile.

“Is the demon king dead? Should I keep my promise?”

*

“Uh heh heh.”

Gold ingots and jewels piled up like a mountain.

I touched the gold bar and said.

“I am rich now.”

Take them back to Earth and enjoy a leisurely, peaceful and luxurious retirement.

“I play games and watch movies. nice. okay! Should I buy a yacht? Luxurious villas all over the world!?”

The life of walking around the battlefield on a fictitious day and only touching corpses is over.

As the king of the end of wealth and flex, he will live with goodwill for the rest of his life!

At that time, Theros cautiously approached and said.

“The preparations are over. Are you going right away?”

“why. Do you want to go quickly?”

“Oh, no. Even if you don’t, His Majesty the Emperor is preparing a celebration…”

“Don’t say anything out of your mind. What is a celebration for people who break into cold sweats when they see me and don’t even come close?”

There are many reasons why I want to go back to Earth, but one in particular is that it’s not fun here.

There is no entertainment, people hate me, but at the same time, I depend on it, so the 30 years I spent here were literally lonely and bored.

“wait. I’ll get it right away.”

When you stir your hand, a huge sub-space is created, and the gold bars and jewels piled up in the warehouse are sucked in in an instant.

Even if these alone are converted into money, it will exceed at least trillions of won.

Maybe even cross a trillion.

If this is enough, you will be able to eat well and live well while doing what you want to do without worrying about money in the future.

“ruler. let go.”

At my words, Theros held out a magic crystal the size of a human head with many complicated magic formulas on it and said.

“This magic stone twisted the law of causality and made it possible for Jihyeok-nim to be here. That’s why you haven’t aged.”

The key that will send me back to Earth, which Theros has been hiding so far.

“If my calculations are correct, the moment this is destroyed, Jihyeok-nim will return to that point when he came here due to the regressive nature of the law of causality.”

“I don’t know what the causal rate is. I’m an undead expert. Anyway, you can just destroy this, right?”

“yes. And do not resist the regressive nature of causality, but accept it meekly.”

“okay okay.”

I don’t know what you’re talking about, but you’re just supposed to stay still, right?

I said while accepting the magic stone.

“From now on, don’t call people carelessly. If I call you again, will you kill me?”

Theros said in a cold sweat.

“…that won’t happen.”

“Of course it should. How can I break it?”

“It is already a limit because the causal rate has been twisted for decades. It will break at the slightest impact.”

“okay?”

I raised my fist high and slammed it down.

“Then I go! He was like a dog, so let’s never see him again!”

*

After giving myself over to the twist of something, I opened my eyes and said with a bright smile.

“I’m back.”

The Earth I have longed for in my dreams for decades.

“Yeah-ho!”

An earth where there are no bloody battlefields and no one who encourages or hates me.

At the same time, if you have a lot of money, Korea, my homeland, is a better place to live than any other country in the world.

I said while stroking the game console connected to the TV with an ecstatic expression.

“Did you wait long?”

A new title came out and I played all night, took a nap, and woke up to the Seron continent.

“You will never know, how much I missed you.”

I reverently searched for old memories and ran the game machine.

And a save file called after 30 years.

but.

“I can’t remember the story.”

I don’t remember what I played the previous part at all.

“uh······.”

In addition, I held a pad, but I couldn’t remember the control keys, so it was a total mess.

“I think we need to start with this tutorial again.”

But I smiled and said.

“I’ll just do it again from the beginning later. Well, it’s time.”

I put down my pad and thought of a bucket list of 1,000 things I wanted to do when I came to Earth.

“First of all, kimchi fried rice and kimchi stew.”

My mouth waters just thinking about it.

“ah. I thought I was dying because I didn’t have real rice and kimchi.”

The staple food of the Seron Continent was potatoes, which tasted good, but not enough to satisfy my taste buds accustomed to rice and kimchi.

“okay. Let’s eat and play to the fullest from today!”

Didn’t he bring a lot of gold and jewels for that?

I said while changing the black robe I was wearing for dining out to the style I enjoyed wearing 30 years ago.

“I also like Earth.”

I mean, the texture of the clothes is different.

natural ingredients?

I’m sorry, but the clothes made on Earth, where basic material engineering is extremely developed, are overwhelmingly good in terms of finish and feel.

I said with a smirk.

“ruler. Now let’s get the money out.”

I reached out to take out the gold I had put in the subspace.

Then, the entrance to the subspace naturally appeared.

however.

“···what.”

I thought of a gold bar, but nothing came out.

And a sub-space that doesn’t react even though I think of jewelry and all kinds of things one after another.

“What? Why aren’t you coming out?”

I put my hand in the subspace with such a bewildered expression and said with a pale face.

“doesn’t exist?”

There is not one.

It’s not just that there are no specific items, it’s a state where no items can be felt in the sub-space, it’s literally empty.

The gold bars and jewels that had been robbed of the empire’s storehouses, as well as the undead legions that had been made one by one over several decades, had all evaporated.

“Hey, what is this! Where have they all gone!”

My Meat Golem!

Death Knight!

No, that’s not important right now.

“My money…”

The retirement money I received from Seron Continent for my leisurely retirement life is completely gone.

My 30 years of hard work disappeared without knowing the reason.

“Wait a minute… I don’t have any money without this?”

My goal was to live a quiet and peaceful life away from the battlefield, but now I have to worry about food before that.

“Damn it. You don’t have to have money to retire!”

Although the age of the body is still in the late 20s due to the distortion of the law of cause and effect, the content inside is a man approaching 60!

That’s the age to retire!

“no! Where the hell have they all gone!”

Rising to the top of my head, I shouted.

“Theros you son of a b*tch!”

I don’t know what the real Theros did or what, but that bastard is the only one who can take my anger right now.

“aaa!”

The time when I was running so long.

“···uh?”

I felt a wave of magic power in the distance.

“Magic waves on Earth?”

I don’t know what it is, but once I felt it, I couldn’t stay still.

I kicked out the window and tried to use fly magic, but hesitated.

“It shouldn’t be out of sight. It’s a retirement life.”

I went out through the door again and ran to the place where I felt the magic wave.

“sh*t. How long will this run?”

Since I was always riding a palanquin using skeleton palanquins, the act of jumping like this itself was awkward.

“Aww!”

“Run away!”

The closer you get to the magic wave, the more people run away in fear.

“What the hell is it?”

So where we finally arrived.

As soon as I got there, I immediately knew where the magic wave was coming from.

Something that looks like a huge subspace entrance that emits brilliant light.

“Civil… What is this again?”

And at that time, odd-looking creatures appeared one after another in the subspace.

“Why is there such a thing on Earth!? Theros you son of a b*tch, where did you send me!”

It’s not enough that the undead army and severance pay, the crystallization of decades, have disappeared.

But then, people with armor and weapons jumped down from here and there and attacked the monsters.

“General people evacuate!”

People who slaughter monsters in an instant with skills that are hard to believe for ordinary people.

“What else is that?”

Are there people like that on Earth?

Almost like a knight on the Seron Continent?

If you make it into a death knight when you’re in a hurry, it’s quite useful… No, this isn’t it.

I looked up at the sky with a blank expression and said.

“My retirement…”

I don’t know what it is yet, but I know one thing for sure.

My retirement life sucked.