[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-necromancer-is-amassing-troops-like-crazy-in":3,"chapter-the-necromancer-is-amassing-troops-like-crazy-in-the-necromancer-is-amassing-troops-like-crazy-in-chapter-132":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Necromancer is amassing troops like crazy in the apocalypse",{"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},358350,620,"Chapter 132: 130, Nighttime Assassin_1","the-necromancer-is-amassing-troops-like-crazy-in-chapter-132",132,"\u003Cp>Chapter 132: Chapter 130, Nighttime Assassin_1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skeleton Scary Claw Monster (Level 13)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Level: 13]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Attributes: Constitution 27, Strength 28, Agility 31, Intelligence 11, Perception 17, Charisma 7.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Traits: Hollow Skeleton, Basic Soul, Echo Positioning, Jagged Path Climbing.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Specialty: Biological Aberration.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Echo Positioning]: By knocking on the surface of objects such as the ground and walls, it can detect concealed targets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Jagged Path Climbing]: Can climb in special terrains, Agility +3.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Biological Aberration]: Constitution +3, Agility +3, Perception +2.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most prominent attribute of the Scary Claw Monster is its agility, which reaches 31 points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This speed is quite fast already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The traits include [Echo Positioning]and [Jagged Path Climbing].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Echo Positioning, by knocking on the ground, allows it to determine the enemy’s position, granting it scouting abilities, even if the enemy is hiding in a building, it can identify the target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quite a twisted ability indeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jagged Path Climbing allows for climbing in rugged terrains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ability to climb walls vertically is probably due to this trait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it doesn’t seem too useful, as my own spiders can also climb walls and webs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, this grotesque humanoid appearance is always unsettling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading the attributes, Wu Heng named it ‘Scary Claw Monster’ and added it to the patrol team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the Scary Claw Monster had left,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Heng squatted down, rummaging through the fallen flesh, and found a Corpse Core full of red blood threads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using a plastic bag as a glove, he took out the Corpse Core to examine it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the previous Corpse Cores,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red blood threads on this one are more concentrated, and there is a kind of purple color gradient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It gives off a sense that it is full of neurotoxins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Heng looked at the Corpse Core, his brows furrowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A level 3 Corpse Core?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It shouldn’t be, there’s no way a level 3 Mutated Zombie would be so easy to kill, it should still be a level 2 Corpse Core, just with some changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Corpse Core in hand, he walked straight into a nearby building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Skeleton Alchemist came out and bowed slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the entire skeleton squad, the Alchemist Skeleton possesses the highest intelligence and is also of the highest quality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Heng handed it the freshly acquired Corpse Core and said, “Test its toxicity and then develop a potion from it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Alchemist Skeleton respectfully took it and put it in an ‘Organ Jar’ next to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since there’s no constant temperature storage equipment here, the organ jar serves as a great container to preserve such materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the Alchemist Skeleton handed the newly made healing and spirit potions, as well a materials list, to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Heng nodded, “Alright, I will prepare these for you tomorrow.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving the room where the Alchemist Skeleton was, he strolled around the complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Directly through the boundary door, he returned home to rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When night fell,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deserted streets were shrouded in darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clomp, clomp, clomp~!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The patrolling mercenary group just passed by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Figures appeared from the damp alleyways, clad in leather armor and short blades at their waists, scarves over their faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tightly wrapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After looking around and seeing nothing unusual, they quickly approached the residential area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They darted into another dark alley, where one of them said, “Leave no one, take the bodies, and get the money when we get back. Be quick and efficient.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Got it!” The rest nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After confirmation, they quickly rushed to the building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the fence in a leap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They lit an incense burner, placing it next to the building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wisps of blue smoke went from the door crack and window, into the building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a little while,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One person served as a lookout while another quickly approached the door, squatting to pick the lock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Click.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door lock was knocked open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All their faces lit up, it seemed the plan was simpler than they had thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They exchanged glances, gently opened the door, and went straight in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No one on the first floor,” someone whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the intel, this guy had two attendants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why weren’t there any people in the rooms on the first floor yet?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No time to think about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quickly said, “Go, upstairs, be quick.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clomp, clomp, clomp~!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people quickened their steps, the sound of footsteps on the stairs echoing inside the house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they turned the corner at the third floor, intending to go up to the fourth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They abruptly halted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the top of the stairs stood several figures, blocking the path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amongst them, the hunched figure of the Hollow Skeleton could be seen, the silver moonlight filtering through its skeleton, casting shadows on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shit, it’s the undead!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people were suddenly startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before they could react, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few crossbow arrows and spells were shot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the skeletons from above pounced, killing all of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Corpses littered the stairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, a figure jumped from the third-floor balcony, a mid-air kick landing on the head of the lookout outside the door, his neck twisted in a strange way as his body slumped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He picked up the incense burner from the corner, extinguishing the place it was lit, one hand holding it, the other dragging a body into the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door closed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the living room, eight bodies were neatly laid out on the ground, a piece of linen cloth laid beneath them, to prevent blood from spilling everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the people approached the house, they were detected by the Skeletons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Skeletons don’t need to sleep, they can guard this place day and night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just Basen and Bawudong in this place, but also Jianyi, Jian’er, Nuyi and Nuer, along with four Skeleton Ghost Hags.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had not attacked immediately, but let them come in on their own to avoid causing too much of a disturbance outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Heng sat on the sofa, looking at the incense burner in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Hallucination Incense Burner]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Description: When the incense is burning, living beings inhaling during a certain period will suffer from exhaustion, dizziness, hallucinations, and other effects.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected, they came for me and even brought magic items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t bother trying to figure out their identities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Communicate with the Dead” was immediately released, and the first body sat up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Heng directly asked, “Who are you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pinned Gang.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pinned Gang?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Local gangs?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lundham City gangs and mercenary groups are chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In both the outer city area and areas beyond the city, numerous gangs cluster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking on the streets, anyone you randomly grab could be a gang member or a mercenary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I’ve been targeted by a gang?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you doing here?” Wu Heng asked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To kill everyone in the house.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serious grudge indeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought they were after wealth, but they’d actually come for lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who sent you to kill me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Our boss, Rocky.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaning back on the sofa, Wu Heng pondered, “Why does he want to kill me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t know!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is your boss human or a beastman?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Human!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the five questions, the corpse fell back with a thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Heng continued to release his skill, and the second one sat up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He directly asked, “Why did Rocky send you to kill me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Our boss took an order, and the order is to kill you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somebody hired the gang to kill me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who is the person who ordered your boss to kill me, or what is their identity?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not sure.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Heng nodded and thought for a while before continuing, “How many people are in your gang?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s probably over a thousand people.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This gang is not small. There are over a thousand people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s Rocky’s strength?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Heard he’s reached level 10.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who else has high strength?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In our gang, there are a few who have reached level 7 or 8. They are the backbone of the gang.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the five questions, the second corpse also fell back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, Wu Heng got the others to get up and asked a few questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including the appearance of the boss Rocky, the location of the gang, and if there were any backers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He learned a few things from the conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ‘Pinned Gang’ is not a large gang locally, most of its members congregate outside the city, only the boss and a few core members are in the outer city area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s an external gang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing he didn’t find out was who hired the gang to kill him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had a few guesses in mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was hard to say for sure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened the boundary door and had the corpses all moved back to another world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As daylight broke, Wu Heng cooked ramen for breakfast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t sleep much that night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spent the night in a daze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After breakfast, he left his place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He went to the central city area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of entering the club, he directly went into the ‘Snake Badge Consortium’ across the street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, there weren’t many people in the hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some staff were still cleaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hello, sir, how may I assist you?” The receptionist greeted with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Heng took out his ‘snake badge’ and continued, “Is Miss Laisia in?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, sir, please wait in the lounge.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Heng was led into a separate lounge, where he sat on the sofa in silence and waited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After last night’s assassination, he even doubted the Snake Badge Consortium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he had exchanged a large number of silver coins here, giving the appearance of wealth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But on second thought, he dismissed the suspicions about the consortium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention such a large organizational structure, he was probably just one customer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if they want to kill him, they wouldn’t hire a low-rank gang like ‘Pinned Gang’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Snake Badge Consortium itself is not kind, killing is not a difficult matter for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, crisp footsteps echoed, and the door opened. The beautiful ‘Laisia’ walked in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked like she had just woken up, her face still carried a sleepy look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She closed the door with a smile, “Good morning, Mr. Wu Heng.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good morning.” Wu Heng also greeted, and said directly, “I came here today to ask if the consortium has any tools to conceal my appearance.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course we do, let me get someone to prepare them.” The woman instructed someone outside, she then sat down across from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two chatted briefly before someone brought in two items and put them on the coffee table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Trick Earrings, when worn, can blur your facial features. It’s a pretty good item. Illusion Veil, a special item, changes your outer appearance when worn…” The woman introduced each of the items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Heng also focused on the two items on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Trick Silver Earrings]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Description: Silver earrings engraved with illusion magic that can form a fuzzy illusion on the face. It can block creatures below level 20 from recognizing the wearer’s face.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is an item that can make your face fuzzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This item is actually a bit redundant. It’s no better than wearing a mask that covers all of your face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I can understand the idea behind this item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One’s eyes and hair color could lead to identity exposure. If everything is blurred, it would be harder for others to recognize you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it doesn’t seem to be what I need.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I then focused on the second item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Illusion Veil (Special item)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Type: Special Item]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Function: Illusion, Mimicry.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Side Effect: Wearer will unconsciously attract males.]\u003C\u002Fp>",1933,"2026-05-30T04:42:17.488Z","2026-06-01T04:30:19.980Z",1,"novelbin.me","455312e80a125dc2cff7317dc0b84ebfdd62bb99a4634b029ee25373fa2d5788","the-necromancer-is-amassing-troops-like-crazy-in-chapter-133","the-necromancer-is-amassing-troops-like-crazy-in-chapter-131",1714,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-necromancer-is-amassing-troops-like-crazy-in-cover.jpg"]