Chapter 24
Chapter 24
Episode 24
[Corpse Processing Plant]
Produces components for crafting necro items.
Corpses must be consumed to produce components.
A bare-bones description.
It didn't explain exactly what I was supposed to do.
How am I supposed to do this?
While I fumbled around for a moment, Cheokcheok Seoksa donated again.
[Cheokcheok Seoksa has donated 1 DP!]
Just pull corpses out of the corpse pit and put them in.
How do I pull the corpses out?
The thought crossed my mind, but first I touched the [Multidimensional Corpse Pit].
How was I supposed to move everything except the female human corpse...... Oh!
Rustle.
Several goblin undead walked out of the [Necron Ossuary] and headed straight into the [Multidimensional Corpse Pit].
Then they picked up the orc, lizardman, ratman, and goblin corpses and went to the [Corpse Processing Plant].
Fortunately, the [Corpse Processing Plant] didn't specifically require Intelligent Undead.
The [Corpse Processing Plant] lit up.
A message appeared.
[The Corpse Processing Plant has begun operating.]
[Acquired 21 pieces of corpse flesh.]
[Acquired 18 corpse bone fragments.]
[Acquired 16 L of rotten blood essence.]
[No storage space available.]
[A Warehouse under the Commerce category has been unlocked.]
[If a warehouse is not constructed, the resources will be discarded within 1 hour.]
Oh. So that was how it worked?
This really did feel like playing a little territory-management game.
-Newbie Necromancer territory-management content is rare stuff.
-The undead toddling out of the Necron Ossuary is kind of funny.
-Looks like unlocking the warehouse is separate from level?
While checking the viewers' reactions, I built the warehouse first.
Then—
With a rumble, a warehouse made of skulls and bones appeared next to the [Corpse Processing Plant].
I could see the goblin undead moving the resources to the warehouse on their own.
So that's how it was?
"So now I can make items with those resources?"
-Indeed.
-This old man seriously doesn't know jack about Necromancers, huh.
-Old man, please search the internet once in a while! Stop doing nothing but running the Tower!!
The viewers erupted, but I ignored them and tried the skill anyway.
"Necro Item Crafting."
Then an absurd system message appeared.
[No item crafting recipes are available.]
[The skill has been canceled.]
-LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
-Wait, you don't have anything????
-Isn't he Corpse-Spirit Blockhead instead of Corpse-Spirit Martial Sovereign? LOL
-This is insane, lololol
"Heh. I accidentally gave the viewers a good laugh. Still, I brought you some entertainment, so I suppose that's something. I'll drink to that."
-Are you seriously toasting yourself? LOL
-Damn it, I laughed at this and now I'm annoyed, lol.
-What is this!!! Why is there nothing!!!
[Cheokcheok Seoksa has donated 1 DP!]
Old man, please just search the internet! Or at least check the marketplace first!!!
Cheokcheok Seoksa snapped at me, apparently fed up.
"Come on, anyone can make a mistake! Fine, I'll check the marketplace first."
I opened the marketplace and pulled up every Necromancer item-crafting recipe I could buy at level 13 or below. All kinds of things appeared.
"There's all kinds of stuff here."
What caught my eye was something called a 'Clear-Water Gathering Bone Jar.'
[Clear-Water Gathering Bone Jar Crafting Recipe]
Grade: Special
A bone jar created by a necromancer.
It drew moisture from the surrounding air and collected it as water.
An automatic purification function ensured that the collected water was clean.
Function: Clear Water Generation
A simple item.
But it was survival gear.
The higher you climbed in the Dimensional Tower, the larger each floor became and the more dramatically its scale expanded.
You could end up staying on a floor for as long as a month.
That made this kind of item extremely useful.
How important solving the drinking-water problem is goes without saying.
There were various other things as well.
But what should I buy? I scanned down the list and opened another entry.
[Legendary Grade Necromancer Bone Staff Crafting Recipe]
Grade: Legendary
A crafting recipe for a necromancer-exclusive necromantic staff made from bone by a necromancer.
It allows the crafting of a staff that reduces Necromantic Mana consumption and increases the power of necromancy.
Its power and properties vary depending on the crafting materials and the type of necromancy imbued.
Restriction: Level 500 or higher
Whoa. Level 500 or higher? That meant a hunter somewhere around Floor 50 had obtained this and put it up for sale.
At roughly ten levels per floor...... I still had a very long way to go.
Anyway, I got a rough idea of what these were.
So, what should I buy...?
As I stared at the listings, another viewer named Park Il-chim sent a donation.
[Park Il-chim has donated 1 DP!]
If you've started as a Necromancer, you should make the basic five-piece set. Start with the ring, staff, and headband—go, go.
Ring, staff, headband?
I paused to think at Park Il-chim's comment because I didn't even know what the basic Necromancer five-piece set was.
"Viewers, hold on. I don't even know what the necro five-piece set is. So I'm going to do a quick search."
-Corpse-Spirit Martial Sovereign is ridiculously clueless, lol.
-Knows martial arts but doesn't know necro. Is this real?
-A channel where we literally watch the streamer search things up, and somehow it's addictive?
Whatever the viewers said, I opened the Necromancer community and searched.
What is the necro five-piece set?
It was exactly what Park Il-chim had said.
First, the ring.
Apparently, it was a ring made of bone.
It was used to store souls, one of a Necromancer's resources. Later on, you could apparently upgrade it and add various effects.
Next were the necklace, bracelet, and circlet.
These also used bone as their base material, but other materials could be added as well. Some required certain levels or separate crafting skills.
Lastly, the staff.
The community said that since a Necromancer was ultimately a Wizard-type class, a staff was essential.
I see.
So I'd been running around all this time without even using proper gear.
I really needed to reflect on that.
It also seemed that even Necromancers with item-crafting skills like mine rarely crafted their own equipment.
Apparently, when someone with the Necromancer class also obtained Blacksmith as a secondary class, it could unlock the hidden class Necro Blacksmith, and most Necromancers simply bought equipment made by them.
Because their quality is superior, apparently.
But.
No one knew how far the potential of my hidden class, Necron Emperor, could go. After all, the class had never appeared before.
And this time, I'd earned an amount of DP no level-13 hunter should normally have.
Not just the Legendary Grade staff recipe, I had enough DP left over to buy several finished products made by Necro Blacksmiths.
What should I do?
I deliberated for a moment, then decided.
I might as well try making my own first.
If it's no good, I can just buy one later.
What's the point of agonizing?
I'd been thinking of this life as a bonus round following my previous life anyway.
I no longer had the same passion to become the Martial God again and ascend as I had in my previous life.
I simply wanted to climb the Dimensional Tower and feel that same fierce intensity again.
Therefore.
So I might as well do whatever I wanted.
"Alright. I've decided."
-At last, the Corpse-Spirit Martial Sovereign has made a decision!
-So, what are you going to make?
[Cheokcheok Seoksa has donated 1 DP!]
Ugh, this is so frustrating. Why make anything? Just spend DP and buy it!!
I couldn't help snickering when I saw Cheokcheok Seoksa venting like that.
"Now then. What I'm going to do is... I'm going to buy them all."
-Huh?
-Buy what?
-Buy them all???
-LOLOLOL, this lunatic is buying every recipe?
"Purchase all necromancer crafting recipes at level 13 or below."
Flash!
I gave the order to spend, and every last recipe was purchased.
The viewers started making a racket, reacting with gusto.
* * *
I crafted items in front of the viewers.
[White Bone Ring], [White Bone Staff], [White Bone Necklace], [White Bone Bracelet], [White Bone Circlet].
This would be the so-called White Bone Set.
It even had a set effect.
Function: When equipping 5 or more items with the White Bone designation, Necromantic Mana +10
And there was one more thing I learned through the viewers' various unsolicited advice.
You could craft items even without recipes.
[Big-Spender Ajusshi has donated 100 DP!]
Corpse-Spirit Martial Sovereign, use Corpse Processing to join bones together, then use Necro Item Crafting to imbue one of your necromancies into it. That will turn it into an item.
That was what Big-Spender Ajusshi taught me.
Maybe because he was rich, he casually donated a whole 100 DP.
And so, what I made was...
[White-Bone Palanquin Support]
Grade: Normal
A support that holds up a palanquin made of white bone.
It is made in a form that four people can carry.
Function: Necromantic Mana Manipulation
This was it.
I'd made it specifically to put the Legendary Grade [Throne of the Small Empire's Emperor] to use!
If I placed the throne on top of the palanquin support...
Ta-da. It became a mobile imperial throne palanquin!
That's right.
From now on, I was going to climb the Tower while seated on this imperial throne palanquin!
-An imperial throne palanquin, is he insane...?
-LOL, no, what even is this?
-His footwork is on another level;;;;
Some viewers who saw it were flustered, and some laughed their heads off.
But you have to admit it was impressive, right?
However, because my level was low, there weren't many skills I could attach to the palanquin.
I couldn't imbue things like Touch of Decay or Life Drain, and Dignity of the Corpse Lord or Soul Binding didn't work either.
The only ones that worked were Corpse Control, Undead Recycling, and Necromantic Mana Manipulation—just those three.
Among them, I chose Necromantic Mana Manipulation.
According to the viewers, using an item imbued with Necromantic Mana Manipulation reduced Necromantic Mana consumption.
That was one useful tip.
I had no choice but to try it immediately.
By the time I finished crafting all sorts of items, quite a bit of time had passed.
So I ended the stream.
Since my level was low, I couldn't build other structures in the subdimension anyway, so there was nothing else to be done.