Mommy of the Necromancers
After spending a good while browsing the Huntranet, I managed to uncover one truly shocking fact.
"…It was this bad?"
The performance and public perception of necromancers were far worse than I had ever imagined.
I went back and reread the posts floating around the community.
I knew necromancer was a trash-tier class, but I didn't know it was this trash.
Stuck starting at Normal Floor 10? Are you kidding me?
My life is completely fucked.
In games they look like absolute broken OP units.
So why is reality such a dumpster fire?
Can't I just do a shadow army like Sung Jinwoo?
Necromancer ← the problem with these bastards is that even though it's a trash class, there aren't that many of them.
And for these guys to get strong, they need two things:
Talent + Money
You need talent to raise strong undead, and you need money to get strong undead.
The funny part? Talented ones usually have no money, and the ones with no money have no talent. fucking hilarious lmao
Now you might say, "Can't rich people just invest in the talented ones?"
Like I said — for a trash class, the population is tiny, and even when you do invest, the returns suck.
There's one necro in the US who got corporate sponsorship.
They picked him because he supposedly had talent.
Know what rank he is now?
B. B-rank. lmaooo
Any other class gets that kind of investment and you're looking at A-Class minimum.
Best output for a necro? B.
Who the hell is gonna invest in necros after that? lmao
No efficiency. Zero.
Anyway.
TL;DR: Necromancer is a trash class, so if you awakened as one, just give up. yeah.
I'll say it again.
If you don't have money, don't be a necro.
Every single one of these posts came up when I searched for "necromancer."
Without exception, they were filled with nothing but trash talk about the class.
"I knew it was a garbage job, but still."
I never imagined it was this bad.
No wonder the receptionist had looked at me that way.
"This feels… weirdly uncomfortable."
Regardless of the fact that I'd become an absolutely broken EX-Class necromancer, reading evaluations like these left me with a strangely sour mood.
If I wanted to raise the human rights of necromancers, it looked like I was going to have to step up.
Once an EX-Class necromancer like me appeared on the scene, everyone would have no choice but to reevaluate the class.
And when that day came, necromancers everywhere would revere me the way one reveres a mother.
I would become the mommy of all necromancers.
…Huh?
…Something about that phrasing feels off.
The more I thought about it, the more the word started sounding dangerously wrong.
"Hmmm."
After a brief moment of contemplation, I gave my head a light shake and brushed the stray thought aside.
"Whatever. It's not important. Time to actually get something done."
Having finished my private daydream, I returned to the Huntranet main page. Those posts had only been idle reading material to kill time, after all. My original goal had been to gather information on necromancers.
Naturally, I'd already roughly organized everything I needed. Now it was time to tackle the first real task.
"Right — they said to buy monster corpses from the exchange first."
For all the slander floating around about necromancers, a decent number of actual info posts had been mixed in between.
According to those posts, the very first thing a beginner necromancer needed to do was purchase monster corpses from the exchange for use in reanimation. That was the alpha and the omega.
A necromancer hunting monsters bare-handed to get corpses wasn't exactly easy — and more fundamentally, without a monster corpse, you couldn't do a damn thing.
Even me, an EX-Class necromancer!!
Which meant the absolute first priority was buying monster corpses.
Following the info posts, I tapped the Exchange menu. Oh, and for anyone thinking, "Why spend money? Can't you just dig up someone else's kills or go grave-robbing?" — obviously, all of that was illegal. Every necromancer who'd tried it had ended up in custody.
Thinking about it that way, I might actually be a bit of a law-abiding citizen.
Someone who'd only planned to reanimate fried chicken bones was basically a model civilian by comparison. Clearly, I needed to aim higher.
Anyway.
The moment I entered the exchange, an endless parade of listings greeted me.
Weapons, armor, materials, consumables — every kind of item hunters traded was packed onto the screen.
I scanned the unfamiliar interface and typed "corpse" into the search bar.
The screen shifted, and the results unfurled before my eyes.
Monster corpses, corpses of nameless creatures — countless listings welcomed me.
…Why is someone selling their grandmother's remains.
I stared at the screen for a second, then shook my head and sorted by lowest price.
My bank account currently held roughly two million won. Unless I planned to survive on a single pack of ramen a day for the next month starting tomorrow, I needed to spend as efficiently as possible.
But the moment I saw the prices in the search results, I couldn't help but recall those lament posts I'd just read.
…Now I get why they say don't be a necromancer if you don't have money.
Even sorted by lowest price, the listings were far more expensive than I'd expected. The cheapest corpses alone were going for hundreds of thousands of won.
And that was for F-Class monsters. How much would higher-rank corpses cost?
As ranks climbed, population dropped and scarcity soared — so prices inevitably shot through the roof.
And it's not like buying a corpse guarantees you can reanimate it, either.
The range of what you could successfully raise varied wildly depending on ability and talent. Blow your entire savings on a corpse and fail to reanimate it, and you'd just become a broke Corpse-Bought Youth.
They said most necromancers can only raise monsters around their own level.
According to the info posts, a typical necromancer could reanimate monsters of roughly equal level — and even then, success rates plummeted when the levels matched exactly.
Talented necromancers can supposedly raise monsters a bit above their level, but…
Even that gap was only two or three levels at most. Beyond that, it was essentially impossible.
You might think, "Just keep trying the same corpse until it works," but—
Yeah, no. That doesn't work either.
Every failed reanimation mixed residual mana in the corpse with the caster's mana, contaminating it. Past a certain number of attempts, the corpse's mana became fully polluted and reanimation became permanently impossible. On top of that, the quality dropped so low you couldn't even sell it for what you paid.
In the end, a necromancer who lost the gamble was stuck hugging a corpse, living like a miser, waiting for some collector or sucker to buy it off them.
No wonder necromancers got treated like a trash class.
Anyway.
Why was I thinking about all this right now?
Because I was standing on the precipice of that exact gamble.
Buy a 600,000-won Level 1 goblin corpse?
Or a 1.9-million-won Level 4 kobold corpse?
That was the question.
…Tough call.
The goblin corpse was safe. I could buy several, and the small level gap meant reanimation shouldn't be too hard. But the ceiling was low.
The kobold was the opposite. Succeed at reanimation and I'd have a far stronger asset — but I could only afford one, and the risk of failure was enormous.
As I'd said, fail and I'd instantly become a broke Corpse-Bought Youth. Plus, broke.
Of course, I was confident I could raise it. Why? Because I was an absolutely broken EX-Class necromancer.
Still, having never actually tried it, a faint anxiety lingered. When I factored in the cost of failure, my hand just wouldn't move.
What should I do…
In the end, I found myself fidgeting with Bbyeochik in my arms, staring back and forth between the two listings for a long while.