[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-damn-necromancer":3,"chapter-damn-necromancer-damn-necromancer-chapter-262":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Damn Necromancer",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1212544,1580,"Chapter 263","damn-necromancer-chapter-262",262,"\u003Cp>Chapter 263: Era of Dragons (5)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ancient book Elaudia handed over was not a simple book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time he turned a page, a shock felt as if it were knocking directly on his brain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't a dimension of simply reducing volume.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The work of cutting out the unnecessary shell, culling only the essence, and cramming the density of existence to the limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the essence of 'Compression' created by dragons to oppose the Outer God.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You are rapidly absorbing the 'Secrets of Compression'!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[A new possibility squirms.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His head throbbed as if it would split, but the corners of Kim Minwoo's mouth were raised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a glance, it was a technology with infinite uses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if he compressed items?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wouldn't only the core be contained, raising the grade?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, what would happen to skills?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What about objects?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This knowledge might become the sharpest awl when hunting Outer Gods in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A message flashed loudly in a corner of his vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Your apostle, 'Han Siah', breaks out of the egg!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[She becomes aware of her own essence.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The 'Death Saintess' is born!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Now your most sincere servant can freely move between light and darkness!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hand turning the page stopped in mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kim Minwoo's brow furrowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Death Saintess?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Siah was definitely a Priest of Light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A healer being Death; there is no contradiction like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon after, he let out a chuckle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about it, wasn't he a Necromancer, the master who governs death?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It might have been even stranger that the priest of a main god who handles death used light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Freely moving between light and darkness, huh...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't know what kind of monster had been born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, since it's the Death Cult, she could become a Death Saintess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could check the result later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides this, countless messages were popping up at this very moment...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Intermediate Skeleton Blacksmith 193 is receiving the transmission of Dragon Crafting Method from Himenas!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Intermediate Skeleton Alchemist 2342 is receiving the transmission of Dragon Alchemy from Diundel!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Intermediate Skeleton Rune Maker 4321 is...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Intermediate Skeleton Tattooist 5632 is...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[A horde of Intermediate Skeletons are learning Dragon Architecture...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Messages appearing crazily even at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>News of transmission regarding dragon technologies that made him full just by listening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Dwarves or Elves created Plus Items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention the specialness of Runes or Tattoos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, if it's the technology of dragons, the disseminators of all knowledge?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the original of originals, its ability must be great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right at that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have understood the Secrets of Compression to a certain level!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>['???' notices the anomaly!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The gaze of '???' shifts!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>['???' notices the anomaly!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>['???' rages at the thief who dared to steal his knowledge beyond causality!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Uh, uh...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait a minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Did the Outer God notice this?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kim Minwoo looked at Elaudia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elaudia's brow was also furrowed as if she felt something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You said you changed this to a Dragon Race method.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Still, the root itself doesn't go anywhere. It's not strange for him to notice. That's why I'm with you right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you distracting his gaze perhaps?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Something similar. If you receive that gaze alone, you might go crazy...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Will you be okay?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If not, are you going to stop now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just hurry and read. The time the Old Castle's power can protect you isn't long. You have to finish now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was at that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The 'Resisters' pay the second price!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Northern Capital Cloudia.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The protective barrier and defensive facilities that protected the Golden City for ten thousand years all vanish!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Urrrnng...!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along with the message, the entire city vibrated as if a great earthquake had occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...I expected it, but it's a painful price.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regret lingered in Elaudia's eyes as she watched the barrier beginning to fade slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mad dragons that had been crazily slamming their bodies against the barrier let out cries full of delight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until now, it was hard to even make a single narrow passage in the solid barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now it was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barrier, like adamantite, was disappearing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the barrier disappears?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slaughter, and more slaughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Destruction shall come to the foolish traitors who dared to oppose the Lord!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cries full of delight were roars of joy due to that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, she snapped her fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A blue protective shield was generated over the most splendid old castle in the city, where Kim Minwoo was located.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your colleagues have already learned a lot. Do you lack talent in reading perhaps? I beg of you, learn quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Ah, yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought this was quite fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to skill books which are learned with a click, is it because this one requires actual reading to acquire?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed Kim Minwoo's terrifying lack of talent had invaded even the realm of reading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A horde of mad dragons flocked in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seoguk―!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along with a sharp sound of tearing air, fountains of blood sprayed as the mad dragons' wings were all sliced off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragon horde falling to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mad dragons' disaster didn't end there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Formless poison that couldn't be recognized was absorbed into their bodies, and their chests were caved in by punches harder than diamonds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time the Divine Spear's spear blade moved, dragons with holes in their necks crashed to the ground one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwa-a-ang―!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beautiful golden spires crumpled like sheets of paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The city without the barrier was truly no different from a piece of meat in front of a starving beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bodies of the crashed dragons recovered in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on terrifying regenerative power, they were seen rushing toward the dragons in the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blue blood soaked the main streets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sword Saint and others were fighting hard, but even considering that, the number of enemies was too high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shadows of dragons covering the sky were dyeing the city in ashen despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The causality is too fast.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elaudia's lips twisted as she looked out the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The price for future existences intervening in the past and coveting forbidden knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was gnawing away at the city's lifespan in real-time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Since he started obtaining His knowledge... the distortion cannot be stopped.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason she let the Sword Saint and others intervene was that, even considering the distortion, those humans' strength was considerable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they wouldn't be able to buy time indefinitely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because this city's destruction was inevitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned her head to stare at Kim Minwoo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She saw him reading the book with his eyes wide open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have understood more than 50% of the Secrets of Compression!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill, Compression (SSS) is generated!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[However, there still seems to be something left to gain...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Hurry, hurry...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, unlike Kim Minwoo's urgent heart, the understanding was not filling up easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn lack of talent!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Necromancer, are you still far off? His gaze is getting stronger. Even with the Old Castle's magic, we can't hold out for lo...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before she could finish speaking, a red message flashed like blood in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The 'Resisters' pay the third price!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The collapsed causality runs wild!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[A horde of 'Twisted Scales' smelling the blood scent is flocking in!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kururung―!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The outskirts of the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Small dragons that had lived for thousands of years, with every single scale like a magical weapon, were summoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Oh no.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that, Elaudia's face hardened stiffly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How to measure how strong the Dragon Lord's subordinates are.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You just have to look at the size.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clumsy consumables are all big.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clumsily compressed, clumsily gone mad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the strong ones were different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stronger they are, the smaller they get.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, the scent of blood becomes sticky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like those bastards summoned right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How many lives had they devoured? He could see the intense smell of blood rising up to the top along the Old Castle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are the Dragon Lord's direct subordinates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beings who have surpassed Adult Dragons and started looking at Ancient Dragon status, possessing power incomparable to the consumables that appeared before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A monster horde that even she would find difficult to handle more than ten of at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She bit her lip tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn't move yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because she had to distract the Outer God's gaze together by his side until at least Kim Minwoo acquired that knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, this knowledge might be corrupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwa-a-ang―!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dragon that smelled blood opened its jaws wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The jaw strength of an Adult Dragon that had lived for thousands of years had the power to crush even the fortress walls of the Old Castle like a cookie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But those jaws could not close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Puck―!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along with a dull rupture sound, the Adult Dragon's lower jaw was struck upwards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The force, condensed like an awl, pierced the jaw and vibrated even the brain matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of the staggering Adult Dragon's nose, a man carrying a Holy Sword landed with a thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fighting spirit emanating from his whole body was like an angry beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can't pass here, you lizard bastards!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Holy Sword Arphesia no longer scattered light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, it held heavy pressure enough to distort space around the blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Park Siwoo, who killed one Adult Dragon in an instant, jumped toward the horde.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwa-ang―!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time his sword was swung, small dragons bounced off this way and that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seoguk―!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Park Siwoo, who cut off the neck of an Adult Dragon, widened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This is crazy...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The staggering Adult Dragon calmly picks up its severed head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as it reattached the head, grotesque regenerative power healed the wound in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a zombie in a movie would die if its head was cut off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These guys' regenerative power was worse than zombies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They rushed in from all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Park Siwoo swung the Dragon Slayer Sword crazily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Time, I have to buy time!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was right then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click, clack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, amidst the roar of the battlefield and loud noises, an alien sound of heels dug in clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regular and cool footsteps, as if matching a heartbeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did they feel instinctive tension?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gazes of the Twisted Scales horde focused all at once on where the sound came from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of pure white priest robes, a woman wearing pitch-black clothes as if cut out from the night sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Han Siah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grrr...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Adult Dragons groaned low and stepped back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were overflowing with life force through Compression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, they could know instinctively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That the aura radiating from that woman was their perfect natural enemy, 'Death' itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Siah scanned them with a bright smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shh.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Death Saintess summons the Holy Relic Iverg (SSS)!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You are in Form Transformation state!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The form of the Holy Relic also transforms!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Holy Relic, Scythe of Harvest (SSS) is formed!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Death Saintess declares 'Land of Silence (SSS)'!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive curtain of darkness swallowed the entire horde of Twisted Scales in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the pitch-black darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cold sneer appeared on Han Siah's lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone be quiet. Isn't it noisy?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seoguk―!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time the scythe was swung, dozens of heads floated into the sky...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud―!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the lifeless corpses fell to the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>",1876,"2026-06-03T14:21:21.388Z","2026-06-03T14:21:27.249Z",1,"novelbin.me","b662f32de43dcb3ca06c067266f13972f9d53e673c232b5c727d19c29b306f6d","damn-necromancer-chapter-263","damn-necromancer-chapter-261",362,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdamn-necromancer-cover.jpg"]