After Maxing Out All Job Classes

Chapter 17: Necromancer

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Lillian was genuinely startled when her master actually reached out to press the skull’s head. “Be careful, Master. It’ll get you.”

As soon as she spoke, the skeleton’s hand grabbed Robb’s ankle and tried to drag him underground.

At this moment, Robb could shatter the skeleton with a casual move, but he knew that this skeleton was probably a relative of the townspeople. It would not be good to shatter it. The townspeople all called him Father. He should pay a little more attention to them.

Therefore, forget about skills like Meteor Shower, Collapsing Mountain, and Crushing Strike. It was better to be gentle. At the very least, he had to leave the skeletons intact.

The skeleton was just about to use its strength to drag Robb when it felt a terrifying force coming from its skull. It was the strength of the man in front of it. It looked like he had only pressed it gently, but the force was overwhelming. The bones in the skeleton’s body cracked a few times as it tried to resist, but it could not withstand it. It was pressed back into the tomb with a whoosh.

It tried to crawl away again, but Robb pointed at it, and a golden light flew from his fingertips. It was Holy magic, the Dispel spell. The skeleton stiffened, suddenly losing all its power. It turned back into lifeless bones and collapsed in the crypt.

Robb clapped his hands and turned to Lillian. “Lillian, bury it!”

“Yes, Master!” Lillian hurriedly used the shovel to fill up the hole. The dirt had been pushed up by the skeleton when it had climbed up from the ground earlier. Lillian scrabbled it over and covered it again. She was still a little afraid that the skeleton would jump again, and was careful to be ready to flee at any moment, but the creature was completely still and obediently allowed Lillian to bury it.

Robb had already reached the second skeleton, which was now half out of the ground. He pressed his hand on it as if it were a gourd, and it returned to the tomb, followed by another cast of Dispel. “Lillian, when you’re done with that, come and bury this one.”

“Yes, Master!”

By now, the third skeleton had crawled out of the tomb entirely. It shook the dirt from its body and looked around. It was clearly different from the other two skeletons. It seemed to have a mind of its own and could understand what was happening around it. It turned its head and stared at Robb with its empty eyes.

Seeing Robb getting closer and closer, obviously coming to deal with it, it suddenly broke off its left arm with its right hand and held the entire left arm in its right hand like a stick. It looked at Robb solemnly.

“Well!” Robb shrugged at the skeleton. “Don’t maim yourself. If you put down your weapon and talk nicely, I can leave you in one piece.”

“Young man… don’t… meddle in other people’s business…” The skeleton actually spoke. It was only a skeleton, and it didn’t even have a vocal mouthpiece or other organs, but it could speak.

Robb saw that there were actually two small flames burning in the empty eye sockets of the skeleton. It looked like a pair of eyes. It was obvious that a soul had entered the skeleton. It was no longer as simply controlled as the two skeletons had been. There was a powerful force controlling the skeleton.

“Oh! A necromancer?” Robb looked left and right. The hillside behind the cemetery was too dark to see much of anything. Using his scouting spell, he added 5,000 yards to his night vision and still couldn’t find anyone. It seemed that a necromancer was remotely manipulating the skeleton in front of him from a distance.

“You can actually tell I’m a necromancer?” The skeleton was obviously surprised. “Then you should know that I’m not someone you can mess with. Stay out of it.” It saw that Robb was wearing tube pajamas and didn’t look too powerful, so it spoke a little arrogantly.

Robb threw up his hands. “You come into my backyard and try to steal the bones of my town’s relatives, and you tell me to mind my own business? Motherfucker, I’m going into your backyard to secretly dig up the potatoes you buried. Can you ignore that?”

The skeleton recognized Robb from the words. “Damn, are you a priest in this church?”

Robb said, “You’re the one who should die. Your whole family should die.”

“This is an empty church. When did a priest come here?” The skeleton looked exasperated.

“As luck would have it, today,” Robb said. “Didn’t you do any reconnaissance before you came to steal? Oh, by the way, your true form is hiding far, far away. There’s no way you can scout out what’s going on here. You’re just using something like the magic circle you set up here in advance to operate it from a distance, right? I’ll look carefully later. I should be able to find the magic circle you drew in the corners of the cemetery.”

From his words, the necromancer controlling the skeleton understood that he had provoked someone he could not afford to offend. Not good! He was afraid that he could not take this skeleton with him. Moreover, he would have to give up the tomb of this town in the future.

He maneuvered the skeleton to wave his left arm and charged Robb.

And yet…

Robb cast a ‘Dispel’ spell and the skeleton fell limply at his feet.

Obviously, the necromancer hadn’t had time to turn the skeleton into a real undead monster. If it had been turned into one, simple Dispel spells wouldn’t have stopped it. At the very least, he’d have had to aim the blast with holy magic. But now it was only remotely manipulated by the necromancer’s magic, and it was still a soulless skeleton, not a skeleton soldier!

This spell that used magic to manipulate skeletons remotely was, in the end, just a buff. One Dispel was enough to blow it away.

If the necromancer’s true form had been here, he might have been able to exchange blows with Robb. But with a skeleton controlled only from a distance, he would have needed only a dispelling spell to neutralize it, not to mention not being able to play in front of Robb.

The skeleton crumpled to the ground, and the two sparks in its eye sockets slowly dimmed. The necromancer’s magic had been withdrawn. It was now an ordinary skeleton. Robb was about to call Lillian to come and put the skeleton back in the tomb when it occurred to him that the little girl was timid. Wasn’t it scary to move such an eerie skeleton?

‘I guess I’ll do it, then.’

He willed the magic into the skeleton…

Immediately, the skeleton stirred. Two more sparks flared in its eyes, but this time it was being manipulated by Robb, not the necromancer.

It reattached its broken left arm first, shaking its hands and feet to make sure it wasn’t missing an arm or a leg. It grinned widely and cracked a laugh. Then it made a face at Lillian. Since it had no facial muscles, the face was actually meaningless. From Lillian’s eyes, the skeleton merely shook its head at her. Then it crunched back into the tomb and lay down, folding its arms across its chest. The sparks in its eyes slowly dimmed again.

Robb finished the “Manipulation Skull” spell and smiled at a stunned Lillian. “Bury this tomb, too!”