Saving the Village – A Battle with the Necromancer
After fulfilling the village chief's request, Fafnir gathered all the other party members who had completed their rest.
“Now we need to go rescue the villagers who were captured. Are you all okay?”
“I'm in favor. What about you guys?”
“……In favor.”
“Me too.”
Two of the party members immediately gave their approval.
Kindorhan clicked his wrist bones, but as they say, good is good.
“Good. But there's one more thing you all need to know. Fafnir explained that the orcs were using mana stones for something.
“I don't know what they're planning, but stopping them now will give you much more contribution and rewards. Since time is short, we'll move immediately.”
“What kind of talk is this? It's already raising my contribution points!”
“Good.”
Fafnir suddenly asked, “By the way, is anyone too busy in real life or needs to log out?”
“I don't have much time, so let's go quickly.”
“I'm a high school student.”
“Me too! It's still summer vacation, so it's fine.”
“……”
It seemed the age of mages was younger than expected.
“Then, everyone is good to go. We can move right away. Meeting that man or the lizardman would be troublesome, so we need to hurry as much as possible.”
“Yes.”
The group headed to the sewer center as the village chief had said. The pungent smell mixed with the smell of roasted pork and a sharp metallic scent.
“……They're there.”
The hunter who had been looking ahead reacted.
Under the Yahamju light, a corridor was filled with armored orcs.
“And there are also the villagers.”
Iron nets were torn from various places in the sewers and attached to the caves or sides of the corridors. The captured villagers were locked inside.
‘There shouldn't be any risk of being swept up in battle.’
Since the nets were protecting them, it was reassuring.
“Alright, let's go.”
Kindorhan suddenly charged forward.
It seemed he had strengthened his 'territory' in the village since then, making him even faster than before.
“Hey, you pigs over there!”
Orcs charged aggressively.
In response, Kindorhan smashed his club and countered the charge.
“Crazy!”
The orcs' charge was harder and more destructive than a wild boar.
When that hit……
“Urachacha!”
Puff!
The one who won the charge battle was Kindorhan.
“How ridiculous.”
Fafnir smiled faintly and summoned the skeleton warriors and homunculi.
“Priest!”
“Undead black magic! The priest has come!”
The people locked inside the nets shouted. They gathered their hands or threw stones to harass the orcs.
“Tsk, these crazy human brats!”
“Sweep the humans away! Tsk!”
The orcs weren't just taking it. Elite warriors came forward, and shamans waved their bone staffs.
“Oh ancestors, take away the enemy's strength!”
“Weakened status has been applied.”
“Fear status has been applied.”
After the curse, orc elites swung axes or spears.
In response, skeleton warriors dropped their defenses and thrust their spears.
Crack! The spear blades of the skeleton warriors wounded the orcs' bodies.
The cost was a life.
In an instant, the weapons of the orc elites shattered the skulls of the skeleton warriors.
At that moment.
“Karshik's blood has been activated.”
The orcs hit by the skeleton warriors' spears staggered.
Skill success rate and accuracy decreased, and they took continuous 0.25% HP damage per second!
Tsk!
Swish!
In the poisoned state, the corpses of their allies turned into skeleton warriors, and the battle continued roughly evenly.
At that moment.
Six orcs appeared behind Fafnir.
“Tsk, surrounded!”
“Tsk! Kill them!”
A detachment sent to target the mage and Fafnir had appeared.
“Aaaaargh!”
Fafnir blocked the path of the startled mage. He saw an orc running toward him with drool dripping.
It seemed extremely excited, but when he lightly brought his weapon to the chest, it naturally pierced him!
Tsk!
After knocking down the first orc, Fafnir immediately used Burn End to grab the second.
The orcs who had been charging with roars hesitated for the first time.
“You have defeated 500 or more orcs.
“New achievement 'Orc Slayer' achieved.
“Strength stat increased by 1.
“Vitality stat increased by 1.
“Damage against orcs increased by 1%.”
No matter how fierce a wild dog is, it will wag its tail when it sees a butcher.
In this case, the orc was the dog and Fafnir was the butcher.
‘With this, I can earn one turn.’
Fafnir acted boldly in front of those orcs.
Gulp gulp.
He drank a mana potion in one breath to refill his mana.
Fafnir threw the empty bottle at the orcs and snapped his fingers.
“Watch this.”
……Tsk!
The orcs charged again, but the skill cooldown had already passed.
He dodged the blade, sliced off an arm, then kicked. Then he followed up with continuous attacks!
After quickly clearing the detachment, Fafnir didn't stop and joined the front line.
Tsk, tsk!
“A monster human!”
Roar!
Although the orcs had strong fighting spirit, when they met something even bigger, they fled.
The orcs fleeing in panic after Fafnir joined!
“No……”
“Oh my god……”
The party members who had been fighting together were shocked enough to drop their weapons for a moment.
“Hey, you're not a necromancer, are you? Be honest!”
In response to Kindorhan's protest, Fafnir poked his ear.
“I don't understand what you're saying. I'm a necromancer.”
“Damn…… Really, you're such a pain in the ass.”
“More importantly, hurry up and save the people. It benefits you too.”
“What? Isn't this the temporary quest I received? What does that have to do with me?”
“Depending on how many people you save now, it means one territory will never disappear for me. That's enough reason to hurry, isn't it?”
“……Huh?”
At that moment, Kindorhan's expression turned blank.
“Thinking about it, it's really like that. Nobody will find out here…….”
“……”
With a smug smile, Kindorhan strode forward.
“Come on, hurry! Before the orcs counterattack, we need to evacuate all the people.”
Fafnir didn't even need to do anything now; he was working hard.
‘As expected, having a windmaker makes things easier.’
Behind the two other party members with sagging shoulders, Fafnir smiled sinisterly.
***
“Contribution points acquired.”
“Contribution points acquired.”
Even after rescuing the villagers, Fafnir's group didn't stop and continued toward the sewer center.
There were a few battles with additional orc warriors who came rushing, but they ended more simply than expected.
Kindorhan tanked well, and the mage and hunter quickly became skilled with skills.
However, if you look at the MVP, none of them were.
“You did the job of a sub-tanker, I didn't know skeleton warriors were that strong.”
“I was thinking of switching to a necromancer too.”
In response to the mage user's words, Fafnir shook his head.
“That's not going to happen. A black mage would come chasing me.”
Necromancer and black mage were legalized.
But learning black magic as a normal mage was a different story.
Such a mage would be branded with the mark of corruption, and mages from their tower or other towers would pursue them until death.
“Adventurers, keep going until you don't come back to life. So, stop thinking like that.”
“……Whoa, I get it.”
The mage user nodded with a frightened expression.
At that moment.
“Over there.”
Kindorhan pointed north. Unlike other places, a large passage that vehicles could pass through opened up.
“Just looking at it, it seems like that's where the facility or mana stone is.”
“Let's scout first.”
Fafnir said that and sent ten skeleton warriors in first.
After about ten seconds.
“Current possible skeleton warrior summon count: 0
“Current possible skeleton warrior summon count: 10”
Suddenly, the summonable count of the skeleton warriors increased.
All ten that had been sent just now were broken at once.
“It's not like magic…… Let's go in while on guard against ambush. Kindorhan.”
“Ambush? My side suddenly hurts…… The memory of fighting Blackthorn boss before…… I got it, I'm going in, let's go.”
Kindorhan loosened his shoulders and took the lead, followed by the other three.
A short while later, when the corridor ended, a wide-open underground plaza unfolded.
“Unexpected.”
‘I thought there would definitely be an ambush since it's inside a dark corridor?’
Fafnir, slightly startled, looked around and spotted a large device.
‘This is……’
A bunch of discs and stone boxes centered around a knight statue carved with various patterns.
The mana stone they were looking for was embedded in the chest of the knight statue.
“It looks like it's those human brats the Gortukchi mentioned.”
Right below that knight statue.
A lizardman with completely white skin stood blocking the way for Fafnir's group.
Completely different from ordinary green lizardmen, it gave an impression of mystery and coldness along with it.
The difference wasn't just skin color.
Ordinary lizardmen were about 2 meters 10 centimeters in body size.
However, this lizardman was about 30 centimeters taller, around 2 meters 30 centimeters.
“What the hell is that? I'll tank, so do your damage.”
Kindorhan clenched his fists and stepped forward.
“By the way, before that.”
Of course, he didn't rush in haphazardly.
Starting from the performance skill that broke the club, he used all the buffs and debuff skills that the Gangpae had in slots allowed.
“Protect!”
“Hunt signal!”
The mage and hunter also cast protective barriers and increased accuracy skills for Kindorhan respectively.
After finishing all possible preparations, Kindorhan finally approached the lizardman.
“Come on, I'll finish it quickly, so stay still…… Hup!”
Kindorhan, narrowing the distance, swung his one-punch at incredible speed.
With the sound of slicing air, Kindorhan's fist entered the hand of the albino lizardman.
“Eh.”
“No power in the fist.”
The next moment, the albino lizardman's hand beat down on Kindorhan's body at tremendous speed.
The body of Kindorhan, who had been pushed slightly back, slowly collapsed to the side.
“Huh?”
“What!”
“Kindorhan has died.”
Flawless.
The party members all fell silent at the sight of Kindorhan dying from an attack that couldn't even be seen.
“Who's next?”
“Aaaaah!”
The mage who had started the fight shot a fireball.
Fireball, the strongest magic among initial fire magic, hit the albino lizardman.
“It's warm, good. Then it's your turn next.”
The albino lizardman jumped and instantly grabbed and twisted the mage user's neck.
The sync rate of pain was less than 10%, but that kind of pain was something that could happen once in a dream.
“Damn……!”
The hunter retreated and shot an arrow. The albino lizardman lightly dodged and closed the distance.
‘Oh my god, this is almost master class level.’
Fafnir sighed.
Master class.
It was the title that came out when one job was grown to level 200.
In other words, the lizardman in front of them was almost that level.
‘The original protagonist must have barely managed against monsters like this.’
Even Flush in the novel had fought against a 200-level elite monster at a similar level.
In fact, Flush had managed to catch that monster.
It was a miraculous event achieved by using epic and legendary grade items, classes, and skills!
It wasn't a trick like Fafnir catching the evil eye, but it was even more highlighted because it was purely luck-based stats and items.
‘He said he got an invitation to broadcast while uploading the video, and he said he made a lot of money just from YouTube promotion. Broadcast…… Broadcast, should I do a broadcast too?’
At that moment, Fafnir was startled.
‘With such a huge gap, I'm coming up with all kinds of thoughts. This isn't the time.’
Anyway, Flush's luck and specs were really monstrous.
‘If only that guy had the items he had…….’
The moment the power of the original protagonist Flush's luck and strength was felt anew!
In the meantime, the hunter had also fallen, and the albino lizardman was approaching this way.
“Tsk tsk! Nice! All my other colleagues are dead and I'm the only one left.”
An orc chieftain who had been hiding behind statues and pillars appeared and laughed mockingly.
“Tsk, don't kill that guy right away! Harass him as much as possible…….”
“Got it.”
At that moment.
A crescent-shaped sword was embedded in the nape of the orc chieftain's neck.
“Keruk……”
“Tsk! Enemy!”
“Tsk!”
In the middle of the startled orcs, a man in a black turban landed.
“Tsk?”
“Ah, keep doing what you were doing. I only need this.”
After speaking, the man reached out to the stone statue without hesitation.
He pulled out the mana stone and put it in his pocket.
The albino lizardman's eyes showed veins popping.
“Give that to me!”
Swish! The albino lizardman rushed like white wind and swung his hand.
The turban man hurriedly pulled out a crescent blade and clashed hands.
Clang!
In an instant, tens of exchanges between person and lizardman.
Fafnir, watching the scene, slowly raised his hand.
‘……Seal of the Underworld.’
Swish. Darkness flickered at his fingertips and disappeared.