Chapter 22
Chapter 22
Episode 22
That was great news for me. It meant I was finally free of annoying busywork.
That wasn't all. Apparently, this thing could also give all sorts of advice.
It even had capabilities comparable to strong AI.
At this level, isn't it better than a human secretary?
Big-Spender Ajusshi had really left me one hell of a gift.
And he'd even accepted those sucker terms of mine.
Of course, he must have an ulterior motive.
Big-Spender Ajusshi—no, one of the best-known things about the Arcane Professor was how obsessively he collected knowledge about the Dimensional Tower.
He must be curious about my martial arts. Or about how I make undead use martial arts, or something like that.
But what I'd explained before was the whole principle.
After all, getting undead to use martial arts was possible because of a Necromancer's Necromantic Mana Manipulation. There wasn't much more to it.
Though without knowledge of martial arts, it'd be completely useless.
Either way, I'd already told him the entire principle.
In other words, I'd gotten the better of the chairman.
Absolutely fantastic. I felt on top of the world!
"Well then, shall we go do some mining?"
I'd already had breakfast with Park Kang-chan, and there was still plenty of time before class started.
Since most of the people attending my martial arts school were working adults, classes ran from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
That made the spare hours perfect for streaming and mining.
『User Lee Mu-seon, are you planning to visit the Dimensional Tower now to farm items?』
"Yeah. That's the plan. Why?"
『Before entering the Dimensional Tower, I recommend constructing your subdimensional facilities first.』
Oh! Is it because it's a secretary model? It even offers opinions?
Well, that's fascinating.
『Your current DP balance is overwhelmingly higher than that of an ordinary individual Tower-climbing hunter. I recommend investing it early to increase your growth rate.』
"Technology these days is impressive. It even tells me things I hadn't paid attention to. Amazing."
『Thank you for the compliment.』
"Hmm...... You're right. There's no point in just leaving DP sitting around. It's not like I'm going to convert it into money."
I'd decided to make money through mining, so there was no real need to cash out my DP.
As Jegal Yu-yeon said, investing it in the subdimension would be perfect. Upgrading the subdimension definitely helps me.
Even the [Necron Ossuary] alone proves that.
"Alright. I'll do as you say. Then...... shall I turn on the stream?"
If I was going to do it anyway, I might as well stream it.
The DP donations were worthwhile, and streaming also let me run events that could earn me more DP.
Good. I should get started right away.
"I'm going to the Dimensional Tower, so do some cleaning or something while I'm gone."
『Yes. User.』
"And from now on, just call me Sect Leader."
『Yes. Sect Leader.』
Whatever I might look like now, from my previous life to the present I had remained the sect leader and sole inheritor of the One Extremity Martial Origin Sect.
So it's only proper that my secretary calls me Sect Leader.
With that thought, I entered the Dimensional Tower.
* * *
As soon as I arrived at the Dimensional Tower Lobby, I turned on the stream.
At my command, the system began broadcasting.
And in less than a minute, the chat exploded.
-Corpse-Spirit Martial Sovereign is heeeere!
-You showed up once this morning and now you're back?
-Hey, is that thing from yesterday real?? That you became exclusive to Haneulnuri??
-They said you signed with the Arcane Professor!!!
-Is it true that the Big-Spender Ajusshi who dropped 140 billion won was Kim Yu-han?
It was already chaos.
Well, of course.
Big-Spender Ajusshi's identity had been exposed yesterday.
And not just anyone—the world's wealthiest tycoon and a member of the Platinum Ten Stars, the Arcane Professor Kim Yu-han.
Apparently, the moment he signed me, he put out a press release.
So naturally, people soon learned that he was the "Big-Spender Ajusshi" who had casually burned through 140 billion won.
So of course it was noisy.
-Are you really exclusive to Haneulnuri?? What are the terms?
-Is it true you really got 0% commission and a 140-billion-won signing fee?
-Wait, Kim Yu-han actually accepted that????
-Did the chairman get played? Or did Corpse-Spirit Martial Sovereign get played?
"You all sure have a lot of questions, huh?"
I smirked.
"I did sign. The terms are exactly what I proposed. As for the details...... I'll tell you all gradually later."
-Damn, he actually accepted it.
-Corpse-Spirit Martial Sovereign's life turnaround is insane.
-No, more importantly, what's that android next to you?
Oh.
Someone's got sharp eyes.
It must have been visible in a corner of the stream screen, since it followed me in.
Of course, Jegal Yu-yeon's physical body was still back at my martial arts school in reality, cleaning.
Since she was a secretary model, though, she could link to the stream as an auxiliary display.
-Android?? Where?
-There's a beauty floating in the corner of the screen??
-Corpse-Spirit Martial Sovereign got a secretary?? And a fully humanoid one???
-I'm pretty sure that model costs hundreds of millions of won. Ungnyeok makes it with Haneulnuri technology.
"Ah. This? It's a secretary I got as a contract gift. Its name is Jegal Yu-yeon."
-Jegal Yu-yeon lololol look at that naming sense.
-Wuxia again.
-A fully humanoid android as a gift?
-The chairman really plays on another scale. Damn.
-Well, he burns 140 billion won on a single question, so something like this is nothing.......
The viewers were boiling over again.
I got to the main point.
"Alright, getting to the point. Today I'm going mining. I need to make some money too, and level up a little while I'm at it."
-That is the standard, yeah.
-Item farming is a serious matter.
"But before that, I'm going to sort out the subdimensional structures. Since I have a lot of DP, I should do this first."
Since DP was overflowing, I should finish building the workshops I hadn't built last time.
I opened the undead subdimension management window.
[Town-Grade Undead Subdimension]
Size: Area of a town
Affiliated undead: 698
Production:
-> Necromantic Mana 6.98
[Construction]
I pressed the construction tab and checked the remaining two workshops I had postponed after building only the Flesh Workshop last time.
[White-Bone Workshop] [Soul Workshop]
"Well then. I'll build both."
RUMBLE—!
The undead subdimension trembled as two buildings rose up.
The White-Bone Workshop was a temple-like building made of layer upon layer of pure-white bones.
The Soul Workshop was...... how should I put it, a gloomy building where something like formless blue mist endlessly swirled.
-A house made of bones;;;
-Why is the Soul Workshop's atmosphere like that, so creepy.
"Alright. Let's see if we can get them running."
I clicked on the White-Bone Workshop.
Then.
[Assign staff to the White-Bone Workshop.]
Just in case, I also pressed the Soul Workshop.
[Assign staff to the Soul Workshop.]
"Haa......."
I sighed.
These were exactly the same as the Flesh Workshop.
They only operated if I assigned intelligent undead as staff.
"Seriously? It's asking for staff again."
-Ah lololol staff again.
-Third building they can't run because there's no staff lololol
-Baby necro got shafted again.
-A guy sitting on 140 billion won can't even run his workshops because he has no intelligent undead, lol.
-What is this, bankruptcy despite being in the black?
These little shits were having fun again.
Well, they weren't wrong.
DP was overflowing, but all three workshops were sitting idle.
"Tch. Let's leave these alone for now. I can find intelligent undead eventually."
Intelligent undead.
In the end, it seemed I'd have to level up or find another method.
It wasn't urgent, so I decided to leave it for later.
"Then let's check something else. Ah. Right. There was that thing."
Then it occurred to me.
[Multidimensional Corpse Pit].
That strange facility that randomly summons five corpses a day from other dimensions.
I hadn't checked it even once since building it last time.
"It's been a few days...... so there should be quite a few corpses piled up, right?"
I turned the subdimension screen toward the [Multidimensional Corpse Pit].
At that moment.
"......Ugh."
I frowned without realizing it.
Corpses were piled up inside the pit, sure enough.
The problem was.
They were all naked.
Corpses without a single scrap of clothing, utterly bare.
And every one of them was in a wretched state.
The first thing that caught my eye was one female corpse.
But she wasn't intact—all four limbs had been cut off.
And her head too.
Her severed two arms, two legs, and head were laid out neatly beside her torso.
Next to her was one orc corpse.
Its ribs were split open lengthwise.
One lizardman corpse with its head split vertically in half.
One ratman corpse with a hole punched clean through its heart.
And finally, one goblin corpse with its skull completely crushed.
Five in total.
All of them were in a horrific state.
"Tsk."
I clicked my tongue.
"Seriously...... there isn't a single intact corpse here."
It said it pulled them from other dimensions.
Did it only pick ones that had died violently?
It suddenly occurred to me that they were probably naked to prevent me from acquiring their equipment.
Now that I thought about it, that made sense.
If it brought over the equipment the dead had on them too, wouldn't that be totally broken?
At this rate, forget Copper Jiangshi—they weren't even in good enough shape to turn into Walking Corpses.
-Ugh;;;;
-What is this first thing in the morning? T_T
-Please turn the screen away from the decapitated woman's corpse! T_T
-Is the orc with its ribs split open for real?
-This isn't a corpse farm, it's a corpse disposal site??
-Do people in other dimensions all die this violently??
The viewers also seemed collectively sickened.
Well.
I understood.
I'd seen so much of this in my previous life that I could shrug it off, but for ordinary people it was pretty graphic.
"Put a mosaic over the screen. There are probably a lot of people with weak stomachs."
Then the secretary android Jegal Yu-yeon adjusted the settings and placed a mosaic over the pit.
That way, I could still see it, but it was blurred for the viewers.
Even after sorting that out, I was a little disappointed.
With the corpses in this state, they weren't much use.
Especially that woman's corpse with the severed limbs.
With all her limbs detached, even if I raised her she'd do little more than roll around.
"Seriously...... what am I supposed to do with corpses chopped to pieces?"
As I grumbled,
something popped up in the chat.
[Cheokcheok Seoksa has donated 1 DP!]
Corpse-Spirit Martial Sovereign, you can use the [Corpse Processing] skill for that. You can even reattach chopped-up corpses.
"Oh?"
Corpse Processing?
[AdultWorld has donated 5 DP!]
Yeah, it's an essential necromancer skill. You use it to reattach bones or combine multiple zombies into a giant mass undead. For chopped-up corpses, you reassemble them with that.