How a Calamity Necromancer Retires

Kwon Joo-min and his teammates went through the final inspection in the waiting room ahead of the first match of the finals.

They looked at the skeleton decorated with decorations that showed off their individuality and said.

“Any problems?”

“The SST logo is also well attached. No problem.”

As the broadcast became a big hit, many companies offered sponsorships to Lightning, who advanced to the finals.

Among them, SST, which presented the best conditions, was the main sponsor, and SST’s logo was drawn on the skeleton’s chest ornament.

Kwon Ju-min, who did the final inspection, said.

“You will definitely win. Understand? Don’t be careless!”

“of course!”

“How much money is at stake!”

Lightning has already won more than 10 million won in prize money in the preliminary round alone.

However, from the finals, the amount of prize money in the game was different.

Like the preliminaries, it is a tournament, where only the winning prize for the first game is 10 million won, and after that, it doubles. If you win the final match, a total of 600 million won per game and a separate winning prize of 2 billion won are paid. How can you be vigilant?

In addition, the amount of money received from sponsors varies depending on the match result, so Lightning is determined.

Then the door to the waiting room opened and Baek Sang-ho came in and said.

“Are you ready?”

“yes!”

“In case you didn’t know, I’ll say it again. The victory condition for the finals is to neutralize the opponent. Either smash it or immobilize it.”

Unlike the preliminaries, where targets were used for fear of damaging the skeleton, the finals had to be fought with a genuine sword.

But Kwon Ju-min was confident.

It was an opportunity to properly utilize the fighting skills he had learned and mastered.

“And don’t forget that our parts are robbed by the opposing team the moment we lose a match. It’s embarrassing to lose, but isn’t it too miserable to have your secret weapon stolen from you?”

At those words, Kwon Jumin touched the skeleton’s right arm and said.

“I guess so. If this is taken away, I’m sure I won’t be able to sleep in anger.”

The content delivered by the organizers to them, who were enjoying the joy of qualifying for the finals, was to come up with a part that could show off their own individuality.

Jumin Kwon conceived of a right arm part after thinking about it together with Baek Sangho.

However, there was no difference in the appearance of the right arm from the right arm that had been attached before.

And that was the point that Kwon Ju-min and Lightning were aiming for.

A strategy that confuses the opponent by preventing them from recognizing what their parts are and what their functions are.

Of course, when the game is broadcasted, everyone has no choice but to notice it, but at least until then, it can function faithfully as a secret weapon.

At that time, the commentator’s voice came from the monitor in the waiting room.

-uh! This time, Seron Group Chairman Han Ji-hyeok was also present!

Kwon Ju-min said with a surprised expression.

“Chairman himself?”

If that’s the case, you can’t lose even more.

Jumin Kwon looked back at his teammates and said.

“I heard that the president came too, but if we lose, what will be the face of Center Director Baek Sang-ho! is not it?”

“that’s right!”

“You can never lose!”

As Lightning reaffirmed his determination to fight, Baek Sang-ho smiled and said,

“great. We are going with that momentum.”

When the time came, Lightning went to the arena with the skeleton.

At that time, the opposing team appears on the other side, and the information of both teams is revealed on a huge electronic board.

Kwon Joo-min, who learned the information of the opposing team that was tightly hidden, said with a firm expression.

“Gangbuk Manse Team.”

It’s a playful team name, but their skills were real.

A strong team that showed off their outstanding skills in Seoul and advanced to the finals, and ranked 5th in the voting for the championship.

Baek Sang-ho also said with a firm expression.

“You met a difficult opponent from the beginning. Instructor Kim Se-ho is one of the best programmers in our center.”

An education and research center that only programmers with recognized skills can enter.

Even in such an education research center, a team with one of the best programmers as helpers.

However, Kwon Ju-min was not discouraged.

Because their helper is Baek Sang-ho, the best programmer that even Kim Se-ho, an instructor, has no choice but to give up.

Anyway, now that I know who the opponent is, Kwon Joo-min checks the parts attached to the skeleton.

“tail?”

A long tail behind a skeleton painted in red and gold.

Those were the parts of the Gangbuk Manse team.

Jumin Kwon immediately grabbed the console and said.

“What can you do with that tail? swing?”

Kwon Joo-min, who immediately adds an algorithm to cope with swinging attacks.

“Tell me everything that comes to mind.”

Then, the team members who organized their thoughts began to share their opinions one by one.

“I hit my leg with that to unbalance…”

“Isn’t it for tying?”

The team members are talking about ways to utilize the tail.

Kwon Ju-min, who added several countermeasures to the tail, said with a smile.

“As expected, hiding secret weapons is the answer.”

Instructor Kim Se-ho clicked his tongue and said.

“Which part are you going to hide?”

Then, the leader of Gangbuk Manse said with a firm expression.

“Where is it?”

“I don’t know either.”

Kim Se-ho looked at the leader and said.

“It looks like we will have to do an exploratory battle first. Set up as defensively as possible.”

At those words, the leader and team members started setting up the algorithm right away.

Kim Se-ho looked at Baek Sang-ho and said.

“Is that what the center manager thinks? Or Lightning?”

It is unknown how far Baek Sang-ho is involved, but Kim Se-ho feels like he has eaten one shot due to the inferiority of information.

But I had no intention of giving up.

“Center Director. We will definitely win this time.”

Baek Sang-ho is always praised as the best programmer for his unrivaled ability.

Kim Se-ho has been working tirelessly to catch up with such Baek Sang-ho, but even so, Baek Sang-ho’s walls have always been high.

But isn’t combat a field that programmers have specialized in?

So, maybe this is the first chance to beat Baek Sang-ho.

Then the leader said.

“Setting is complete.”

“great. Let’s try it.”

The first round started like that.

Kwon Ju-min said while watching the game.

“Send to explore.”

Skeletons fighting fiercely in comparison to the preliminaries.

However, Kwon Joo-min, who set the algorithm, was well aware of it.

This fight is just a search battle.

Adding multiple algorithms for the tail is pointless because the opposing team’s skeleton was extremely restrained in using the tail.

Baek Sang-ho nodded and said.

“I will. Instructor Kim is a very prudent person.”

“Because of a prudent personality…”

That means unless they pull out their secret weapon, the other side can’t use their tail recklessly.

After thinking for a while, Kwon Ju-min said.

“Then I have to choose one of two ways. One is to take advantage of being prudent and pull out the secret weapon early and end it in one shot, or give a fake and misunderstand our parts. What would you do if you were the head of the center?”

Baek Sang-ho, who was worried about those words, said.

“Looks like I’ll give you a fake.”

“Fake.”

Jumin Kwon looked at the opposing team and said.

“Just as the head of the center knows instructor Kim, don’t instructor Kim know the head of the center as well? So, can you predict that we will use fakes?”

“It could be.”

Then Kwon Ju-min smiled and said.

“Then why don’t we catch ourselves off guard and go the complete opposite way?”

“hmm?”

Suddenly, Kwon Ju-min controls the console at high speed, and Lightning’s skeleton, which has been on the offensive, suddenly starts to widen the distance.

Kim Se-ho said with a firm expression.

“what?”

Kim Se-ho said with an uneasy mind.

“Close the distance.”

At Kim Se-ho’s words, the leader modified the algorithm in real time to access Lightning’s skeleton through the console.

But when their skeletons approached, isn’t Lightning’s skeleton trying to widen the distance by continuing to circle around the arena?

“what? Why are you trying to distance yourself? Are you going to use parts?”

If so, this is your chance to know what your opponent’s parts are.

However, Kim Se-ho was a person who knew Baek Sang-ho’s perfectionism better than anyone else.

Baek Sang-ho, who does not tolerate even an inch of error, has always been a person who likes to perfectly control all situations.

Baek Sang-ho didn’t even check his hand and took out a card first?

Even through the appearance, you have an advantage over this side in information?

Seho Kim said with a smile.

“It’s a fake.”

Kim Se-ho was convinced that they were selling a trap through fakes because they were only engaged in exploration.

“Then don’t get involved. Widen the distance.”

When the leader manipulates the console at Kim Se-ho’s words, the skeleton of Gangbuk Man-se stops closing the distance and stops.

“Perhaps they are impatient and waiting for us to pounce. It’s only the first game, so there’s no need to overdo it.”

“All right.”

The two skeletons spread that distance.

Then, as the distance widened, Lightning’s skeleton suddenly leaned back as far as it could and pulled its right hand toward his body.

Seeing this, Kim Se-ho said with her eyes shining.

“right hand. I’m trying to make people mistake my right hand for a part. I’m sure.”

“What should I do?”

“I can strengthen the defense setting once again and deal with it at any time…”

when I gave that order.

Lightning’s skeleton raises its crouched body and leaps toward Kangbuk Manse’s skeleton.

“uh!?”

I thought it was a fake, but Kim Se-ho was surprised to see him suddenly jump up and run.

“episode. evasion! Avoid!!”

Feeling strange, Kim Se-ho hurriedly instructed to evade.

However, the leader’s reaction speed was remarkably slow to immediately change the previously set defense algorithm to an avoidance algorithm in line with the sudden leap of the skeleton, which is far superior to humans.

“ruler. for a moment!!”

While he was so flustered, Lightning’s skeleton had already rushed in and swung his right hand at Gangbuk Manse’s skeleton.

Then, according to the previously set defense algorithm, Kangbuk Manse’s skeleton crosses its arms and mobilizes its tail to block it.

but.

coo king!!!

The moment Lightning’s skeleton’s right arm strikes both of Gangbuk Manse’s skeleton’s arms, both arms are smashed with a tremendous roar, and Kangbuk Manse’s skeleton is rammed to the floor.

“mi. crazy?!”

Since Kim Se-ho was familiar with the detailed specifications of the skeleton, he was well aware that that power was absolutely not the power that could come from a basic type arm.

That is to say, the attack that he spread the distance from was a real attack, not a fake one.

“uh. Come on, get up…”

However, before Kim Se-ho finished his words, the right arm of the Lightning Skeleton plunged into the body of the Gangbuk Manse Skeleton whose arms were both smashed.

And the boulder on his right arm shattered the body of the skeleton of Gangbuk Manse.

Realizing that he had been defeated, Kim Se-ho said with a stunned expression.

“…That power is against the rules.”

In the preliminaries, the algorithm was manipulated during the maintenance time between rounds in consideration of the lack of skills of the participants, but since all the teams in the final round were outstanding, the rule was deleted for the excitement of the game, so that the algorithm could be tweaked if possible even during the game. Again, the decision was right.

It was because the skeletons, who would have been beaten only according to the pre-arranged algorithm in the preliminaries, played a more thrilling game as the algorithm changed in real time during the game.

But no matter how much it was, I didn’t know that in the first game of the finals, it would be like this in the first game.

I said with a smile.

“Are you bold?”

I made both of the skeleton parts myself, so I knew better than anyone how things were going.

First of all, the tail of Kangbuk Manse was a part that maximized the utility of being used as a third arm and leg.

On the other hand, Lightning’s right arm literally has the power of a single blow, but if you swing it just 3 times, it becomes stiff for 30 seconds due to overload.

Of course, it’s not magically limited, it implements the power Lightning wants, and it’s a side effect I set for balance, but anyway.

“I didn’t expect to use that openly in the first game.”

Originally, that tail was never a bad part.

Using the tail, you can take various postures that cannot be done when you have only two legs and arms, and you can use more diverse attack routes. .

However, Kim Se-ho, thinking that there was no way to immediately take out the secret weapon in the first game, was caught off guard, and the misunderstanding decided the victory.

“It will be unfair. Instructor Kim.”

As long as you don’t know the side effects of those arm parts, Kim Se-ho will think it’s a destructive power that collapses the balance.

Besides, I couldn’t even use my tail properly and lost, so how unfair it must be.

“By the way, adding a tail to that right arm would be worth it, wouldn’t it?”

It’s a right hand that sticks down the moment it’s caught by its long tail.

I mean, the combination is pretty good.

“As expected, one thing is sure to be fun.”

In the future, the more teams steal parts, the more combinations there will be and the more fun the match will be, right?

I got up from my seat with a satisfied expression and walked over to Lightning.

“Congratulations. Lightning team members. And Center Baek.”

Then Kim Se-ho came up to me and said.

“episode. President. That attack just…”

“It is balanced.”

I interrupted Kim Se-ho because I knew exactly what he was trying to say.

“I can’t give you detailed information because there are still matches to come, but it’s not like you can use that power indefinitely.”

“that. It can be.”

Then Baek Sang-ho approached Kim Se-ho and said.

“Thank you for your effort. Instructor Kim.”

Then, Kim Se-ho, who was depressed, spoke.

“I thought it was a fake, of course.”

“If it were me, it would be. But it was Lightning, not me, who made that judgment.”

“…was Lightning judged?”

“yes. Aren’t we helpers? So, when Lightning asks for help, I just give him advice and never get involved in the game.”

Kim Se-ho, who led as if he were a director, and Baek Sang-ho, who entrusted everything to Lightning as an assistant.

This difference was the difference between the two teams.

“Anyway, this match is a win for the Lightning.”

After announcing Lightning’s victory, I said as I removed the tail of the smashed Gangbuk Manse skeleton.

“Of course, this tail’s new owner is Lightning.”

I handed the tail to Kwon Ju-min and said.

“Take it. And congratulations once again.”

“go. thank you!!”

“I hope to study the tail well and show a better game next time.”

After sorting out the situation, I spoke to the camera that was filming all the scenes.

“Then, the skeleton competition. I hope you all have fun. thank you.”

Games where variables are created infinitely, such as winning new parts and using those parts to create new combinations.

In addition, when the finals, which became more thrilling with the rules changed, were aired, the heat heated up even more.

While people were excited about the Skeleton game, I found a new possibility of a combat algorithm there.

“There are many interesting combinations.”

Strange parts are created and the parts are combined to create a series of bizarre combinations never even imagined in the Ceron Undead Corps.

After stealing several leg parts, from a skeleton walking on four legs to a skeleton with an infinite attack concept with multiple weapons instead of arms.

Looking at the various combinations, I looked at Lightning’s skeleton and said,

“But still, this is the best.”

Lightning, who succeeded in stealing the tail, went on a winning streak.

Lightning, who won the second game following the first game and obtained the leg parts, was broadcast after that and his secret weapon, his right arm, was revealed, but he managed to win within 3 attacks and thoroughly concealed the side effects after 3 times. .

Thanks to this, Lightning has become a popular team that is now being discussed as a leading candidate for the championship among people.

“When this tournament is over, we’re going to make the teams look like professional teams and have them play alternately once or twice a week.”

This time, we held a Heist Battle for the fun of the tournament, but then we should open up all the parts to all teams so that the teams can combine and research the parts themselves.

“good night. good.”

Researching the algorithm like this reinforces the algorithm needed to rebuild the undead army.

Then, as he knocked on the door, he heard Deokbae Kim’s voice.

“President.”

“Come on in.”

Deokbae Kim, who entered the chairman’s office, said.

“A proposal came in and I looked it over, but it didn’t fit the purpose of the theory, so I turned it down. Still, I thought the president should know, so I came to see it.”

“What is your proposal?”

“It is a proposal to use a skeleton for competition as a skeleton for gates.”

As soon as I heard it, I immediately knew what it was.

“Who suggested this?”

“It is a small and medium guild.”

Since it was a skeleton made of monsters in the first place, the skeleton for competition had specs comparable to those of low-level awakened people.

Of course, you will want to use that fighting power.

“They said that if it was a skeleton that ordinary people could control, it would be possible for ordinary people to fight directly by assisting the Awoken beyond carrying it.”

assistant?

I don’t know yet, but I don’t know for a long time.

As one programmer operates hundreds of worker skeletons, teams also make a large number of skeletons based on their own algorithms and put them in the gate.

What good is the Awoken then?

Even ordinary people can hunt as long as they have a skeleton.

It’s ridiculous to send a proposal without even knowing that it’s their own rice bowl.

I said with a smile.

“You declined well.”

“thank you.”

“There won’t be any competition skeletons going through the gate in the future… hmm?”

wait for a sec.

Teams carrying their own algorithm-based skeletons and coping with them in real time.

Isn’t this the actual skeleton commander?

“uh?”

It’s an algorithm, and if you increase the scale of the sport, it’s like mass-producing skeleton commanders on its own?

The biggest drawback of the Necromancer is that the chain of command is only passed on to the Necromancer himself.

Unlike Seron’s undead corps, which have no personality, the undead corps are full of personality, with each commander having a different fighting style.

“and.”

This is it.

This is a groundbreaking way to catch my annoyance and efficiency at the same time.

“Vice-president.”

“yes. President.”

“How much did I budget for the skeleton sports shoes?”

“We were planning to invest 200 billion this year.”

“Let’s increase it. several times as well. As soon as the tournament is over, announce the establishment of the league and proceed immediately.”

There’s no reason not to do something like this.

Success in sports is tantamount to rebuilding the undead legion.

I said with a bright smile.

“Let’s run like crazy for a large-scale battle where one team commands more than dozens of skeletons.”