How a Catastrophic Necromancer Retired

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“Thank you for the donation, Chairman Han.”

I smiled at the words of the Korean cardinal whom I met after throwing a huge donation.

“You can write it in a good place.”

After deciding to coexist with religion, I first came to the cardinal because Catholicism is the most unified organization.

While other religions are divided into various denominations, Catholicism is the easiest thing to do as it has a good relationship with important people and only needs to get a few favorable words related to me.

“Because I have been through a lot of things lately, and I think that I have overlooked faith too much. In this era when monsters come out of gates and people die, the faith that soothes the hearts of those people is definitely an important pillar that supports them.”

“Thank you for saying that.”

“ha. However, it is difficult for people to misinterpret such beliefs. Didn’t the Holy Father even say that awakening is a blessing from God to protect people.”

Catholics regarded the awakening phenomenon as a blessing from God.

What was a monster?

Did I say the devil’s minion?

Anyway.

“The same goes for me and Skeleton. It is a blessing that God has given to use for people, and the skeleton is the result of that blessing. It’s just that the appearance is a bit unique, I’m not a real wizard, I’m not the one who resurrected the monster’s soul and made it dwell in the skeleton. Skeletons are just pets. A doll without a soul.”

It’s a power I’ve developed myself, and I’m a real wizard, but it doesn’t matter what the truth is.

It doesn’t matter how you look.

“I think it is the will of the one who gave this strength to use these skeletons to benefit people. What do you think, Cardinal?”

“I think so too. Aren’t skeletons made into monsters in the first place? I don’t think there’s anything wrong with monsters as they aren’t created by God.”

I don’t know if it’s because of the effect of the huge donation or if he really thinks so, but the cardinal responds favorably.

“I am relieved that the Cardinal said so. In fact, I wasn’t even sure if what I was doing was the will of the one who gave me strength.”

“Everything is decided by God. It must also be God’s will.”

Anyway, is this okay?

Good good.

“So, by the way, can you tell it to other common believers as well? Sometimes there are people who misunderstand God’s will and criticize me.”

As I got to the point, the cardinal looked at me and said,

“Do you want me to make an official announcement?”

“No, it would be best if you could make an official announcement, but even if you don’t have it, you can say it once in a while if you remember it during your speech.”

As he spoke so bluntly, the cardinal smiled and said:

“It seems like an exaggeration until the official announcement, and I will definitely mention it when the donation ceremony is announced.”

Thank you for doing just that.

“haha. thank you Thanks for giving me a lot of comfort. In that sense, I would like to send some donations to the Holy See as well.”

Since we’re going to go all over the world anyway, we’ll have to build a close relationship with the Holy See in advance.

The cardinal smiled brightly at my words.

“The Holy Spirit will be pleased, as we can help more disadvantaged people.”

“haha. So that’s good. oh The time has already come Guess I’ll have to go, I have an appointment next time.”

“ah. So, before you go, it’s a coincidence that we met like this, how about getting baptized?”

“Baptism?”

“Yes. If you receive your baptismal name, you will be able to leave a more clear impression.”

I smiled brightly at the cardinal’s words.

“I already have a christening name, Pedro.”

They told me they would play a famous idol music video, so I went and got it.

at the training camp.

He said that he received not only Christianity and Catholicism, but also Buddhism.

The memory of the military is so strong that I have spent 30 years in Seron, but I will never forget it.

“Oh oh! Are you saying you have already been baptized? It’s something to celebrate.”

“ah. Yes. haha. Anyway, I wish you all the best in the future, Cardinal.”

*

I, who started as a cardinal, went on a pilgrimage to Christianity and then to Buddhism, sowed donations and became close friends.

Actually, it’s like buying a friendship with money, but what about it?

If you like your sister and your brother-in-law, that’s fine.

“Donate to sects abroad. Especially the US and Europe. Are there any Muslim sects there?”

“Yes. there is.”

“Put your money there.”

“What if I refuse?”

“I can give you an amount you can’t refuse.”

Kim Deok-bae nodded at my words and said.

“All right.”

“For now, I think this is roughly enough… ha. The Middle East is the problem.”

European Islamic sects are made mainly of immigrants, so localization is progressing, so it still makes sense, but the core sects of true Islam based in the Middle East will be quite determined.

I thought for a while and said.

“Where did you say the terrorist organization was based? Syria?”

“Yes. you’re right.”

Currently, Syria is divided into four parts and the civil war is raging.

The Syrian government backed by Russia and the rebels backed by the United States.

There is also the Syrian Provisional Government backed by ISIS and Turkiye.

Since the country is such a disgrace, there are bound to be more and more fanatics like this terrorist organization.

“The best thing is to push everything away and make it peaceful… but if I put my feet in a place like that for nothing, I’m sure I’ll get in trouble.”

It is best to avoid such places.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t leave Islam as the most dangerous thing.

“Put the Ceron mark on relief items and spray them randomly. Food or medicine or whatever.”

This is the only way to reduce the chance of falling into a fanatic by alleviating the pain of reality as much as possible.

Of course, the effect would be minimal, but wouldn’t it be better than not doing it?

“If you are hungry and sick, you will end up using it. As more people use the Seron relief items like that and the experience of benefiting from Ceron accumulates, the antipathy will decrease slightly.”

As far as Islam is concerned, time is the solution.

It’s a real magul, so no matter how much you think about it, there’s no answer.

“All right. By the way, the amount of donation is huge. In that case, wouldn’t it be better to just create a foundation and manage it in an integrated way?”

“Do you create a foundation? That’s fine. But don’t merge, and create a separate foundation for each religion.”

“Are you talking about something else?”

“Yes. If you come out friendly to me, I increase the donation to the religious foundation, and if I buy something, I decrease the donation. Let’s coordinate this.”

What’s the use of just giving it away?

If there is a difference like this, even if it is for money, they will look at me and be careful about what I say.

Then, when someone lifts me up, I respond to him and increase the amount of donations.

Kim Deok-bae said with a smile.

“I understand what you mean. Then we will create and manage foundations for each religion.”

“OK.”

great.

By using this, they continue to build ties with the religious world and lead them.

*

While building acquaintance with the religious community, the Seron group aggressively expanded its overseas business.

As usual, we introduced an energy purchase market to create a manpower shortage, and then fill that gap with a skeleton.

Of course, unlike Korea, some politicians in Europe were concerned that their dependence on skeletons would grow too much and came up with related regulations one after another, but I didn’t care.

Because I have too much work to do to pay attention to each and every one of them.

So, whether or not to regulate, I first entered the market and focused on pushing it.

But then, an article caught my eye.

“Will Venezuela’s economic sanctions be eased?”

It was about easing some of the economic sanctions the US imposed on Venezuela.

“This decision appears to be the intention of the United States to put out the fire by importing Venezuelan crude oil to alleviate inflation caused by the surge in international oil prices. Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves, but since it is ultra-heavy oil containing a lot of sulfur, it can be purchased at a low price.

After reading all the articles like that, I said with a sad expression on my face.

“Oil has nothing to do with me.”

It secured many raw materials through seabed mining and made Korea a raw material exporter, but the only thing that failed to become self-sufficient was oil and natural gas.

These are buried deep in the ground and are not of the nature to be extracted with a skeleton, so I didn’t even think to try it in the first place.

“By the way, what makes super-heavy fuel so cheap?”

Is the price of oil different for each oil?

I did a search without much thought.

“Let’s see. According to the sulfur content, it is divided into light oil, heavy oil, and ultra-heavy oil.

I looked up the price like that and said with a surprised expression when I saw the price of super-heavy oil.

“Is there such a big price difference?”

Currently, the price of light oil per barrel is around $100, which was the price of crude oil commonly known to ordinary people like me.

On the other hand, heavy oil is only $30 and ultra-heavy oil is only $15.

“Buy super-heavy oil for $15, refine it and sell it. Are you going to do this because it’s money?”

Of course, well, it has nothing to do with me.

As I was about to ignore it and move on, something came to my mind.

“for a moment. Didn’t I say that oil was created when dinosaurs died a long time ago?”

So, among people, don’t they joke about where all the dinosaurs on the Korean Peninsula went and died, so they didn’t get a drop of oil?

“Did you make it? death? So, isn’t it that it’s been corrupted and turned into oil?”

Death and corruption are the closest words to a necromancer.

Somehow, I am intrigued.

“Oil, oil. Shall we find out?”

*

“Actually, you can think of petroleum as the decomposition of all organic matter, not just dinosaurs. From trees to grass to insects and all living things.”

An explanation from the executive director of the Korea Petroleum Association, who was invited out of interest.

“okay? Then why does Korea have no oil? It must not have been that there were no living creatures living in Korea alone.”

“It is because the environment for oil production is not in place. Just because all living things die and decay, doesn’t it turn into oil? It’s like that. In order to become petroleum, an appropriate environment must be created. First, dead organic matter undergoes the decomposition process in an unoxidized state.”

An explanation race that starts when only experts are invited.

“Easy, please.”

“Simply put, oil can only become oil if it decays for a long period of time without contact with oxygen.”

“A long time ago, the environment was an oil-producing country, not the Korean Peninsula?”

“I can roughly explain it that way.”

Necromancers have a lot of magic related to corpses.

Among them, there is rapid decomposition and magic that poisons the surroundings by spewing poisonous gas from the corpse.

Then, if you collect organic matter, put it in a vacuum, and then corrupt it with magic, can’t it become petroleum?

I said with my eyes shining.

“So, if you let it decay in a vacuum, you mean that it turns into oil?”

“Of course, there are a number of conditions attached to it, such as the need to apply additional pressure, but for now the basic concept is there. In fact, it is already known how to make petroleum in the laboratory.”

“Then why not make it?”

“Of course, it’s because I don’t have money. Think about it. Even with the most commonly available wood, how many trees would it take to make one liter of oil?”

oh

That’s right.

When it decays, of course, the volume decreases.

If that is the case, it is said that a much larger amount than 1L should be spoiled, and even the most expensive gasoline costs less than 2,000 won for 1L.

Saving a tree is money, creating a vacuum is money, and you have to meet various additional conditions, so this is overwhelmingly bigger than a belly.

I said, gazing again.

“It was good.”

I imagined that I would convert oil with magic, but the wall of reality is still not easy.

“By the way, I read the article that it is imported and refined from Venezuela, what is that?”

“Ultra-heavy oil contains more sulfur than light oil, so it is thicker than light oil, which flows like a liquid. It is to lower the sulfur content by mixing the light oil with the super-heavy oil.”

Eh?

is that all

“Are you just mixing?”

“Of course, there are additional complicated processes, but I said that because it was easy to explain.”

I thought there was another technique to separate only sulfur.

“But why is there so much sulfur?”

“Um… this is complicated, but to put it simply, it’s less corrupt.”

···uh?

“Wait a minute. Less corruption?”

“To be precise, it is true that all organic matter has decayed, but the sulfur content in my crude oil should have been reduced by emitting enough hydrogen sulfide through the activity of anaerobes, but that was less progressed. So heavy oil will eventually become light oil over time. Of course, it will take a lot of time for that to happen.”

So if you add more corruption, you’re saying that $15 super-heavy oil becomes $100 light oil, right?

“What is that hydrogen sulfide?”

“Aren’t I stinking while decaying? That toxic gas.”

I jumped up from my seat and said.

“Smells?! Toxic gas?”

“Yes? That, yes.”

I said with a twinkle in my eyes.

“Then, if you can forcefully spit out a bad smell… no, you mean that you can convert super-heavy oil into light oil?”

“…Theoretically yes, but there is no way to force hydrogen sulfide to be emitted. Corruption is not something that humans can artificially do.”

I can do it!

Rather, it is my main specialty!

“This is it!”

crazy

Corruption and stench magic was Midas’ magic that could turn a 15 dollar bill into a 100 dollar bill.

‘What if we import ultra-heavy oil to Korea, then corrupt it and make it emit toxic gas to lower the sulfur content and make it light oil? It is becoming an oil-producing country, not an oil-producing country.’

Refiners say they can refine super-heavy oil, but they don’t compare to me in terms of cost-effectiveness.

Refiners mix light oil to lower the sulfur content and then go through various processes, which will increase the cost.

The proof is that the price of super-heavy oil is only $15.

If the refining process was easy and cheap, the price of super-heavy oil would not be so cheap.

‘As long as toxic gas treatment facilities are well built, there will be no environmental problems. Perfect?’

I laughed and said to the executive director of the Korea Petroleum Association.

“Executive manager, can you get me some super-heavy oil and heavy oil? I have to do a really important experiment.”