How a Calamity Necromancer Retires

“Thank you for the donation, Chairman Han.”

I smiled at the words of the Korean cardinal I met after throwing a huge donation.

“You can write it in a good place.”

The reason I first came to the cardinal after deciding to coexist with religion was because Catholicism is the most unified organization.

While other religions are divided into various denominations and vary in variety, Catholicism is the easiest because it is enough to maintain a good relationship with important people and get a few favorable words related to me.

“Because I have been through many things lately and I think that I have overlooked my faith too much. In this age when monsters come out of the gate and people die, faith that soothes the hearts of those people is definitely an important axis that sustains them.”

“Thank you for saying that.”

“ha. But it is troubling that there are often people who misinterpret such beliefs. Didn’t His Holiness the Pope also say that awakening is a blessing bestowed by God to protect people?”

Catholics considered the present awakening a blessing from God.

what did the monster say?

Did you say the devil’s servant?

anyway.

“The same goes for me and Skeleton. It is a blessing given by God to be used for human beings, and the skeleton is the result of that blessing. It’s just because the appearance is a bit unique, I’m not a real wizard, and I didn’t make the monster’s soul resurrected and made it dwell in the skeleton. Skeletons are just summons. A doll without a soul.”

It’s a power I developed myself, and I’m a real wizard, but it doesn’t matter what the truth is.

It doesn’t matter how you look.

“I think it is the will of the person who gave me this power to use these skeletons to benefit people. What do you think, Cardinal?”

“I think so too. Aren’t skeletons made into monsters in the first place? As monsters are not God’s creations, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with them.”

I don’t know if it’s because of the effect of the huge donation or if he really thinks so, but the cardinal responds favorably.

“I am relieved that the cardinal said so. In fact, I wasn’t even sure myself, whether what I’m doing right now is the will of the one who gave me strength.”

“Everything is decided by God. That, too, must be God’s will.”

Anyway, is this okay?

Good good.

“So, can you share that with other ordinary believers? Because sometimes there are people who misinterpret God’s will and criticize me.”

As we got to the point, the cardinal looked at me and said,

“Would you like an official announcement?”

“No, it would be best if you make an official announcement, but even if it’s not necessary, you can say it once in a while if you think of it when you give a speech.”

When I said it so broadly, the cardinal smiled and said,

“I think an official announcement is too much, and I will definitely mention it at the donation ceremony announcement.”

Thank you for doing just that.

“hahahaha. thank you Thanks a lot for comforting me. In that sense, I would like to deliver some donations to the Holy See.”

Since we will be expanding all over the world anyway, we need to establish a close relationship with the Vatican in advance.

At my words, the cardinal smiled brightly and said,

“His Holiness will be pleased, as we can help more disadvantaged people.”

“hahahaha. Good luck then. ah. It’s already time I guess I should go now, I have my next appointment.”

“ah. Then, before you go, it was fate that we met like this, how about getting baptized?”

“Baptism?”

“yes. If you get a baptismal name, you will be able to make an impression more clearly.”

At the Cardinal’s words, I smiled brightly and said,

“I already have a baptismal name, Pedro.”

They said they would play a famous idol music video, so I went and got it.

at the training camp.

In addition to Christianity and Catholicism, he also received the name of Buddhism.

The memory of the military is so strong that I can’t forget it even though I spent 30 years in Seron.

“Oh oh! Are you saying you’ve already been baptized? It’s something to celebrate.”

“ah. yes. hahahaha. Anyway, good luck in the future, Cardinal.”

*

I, who started as a cardinal, went on a pilgrimage to Buddhism through Christianity, made donations, and made friends.

It’s practically the same as buying a friendship with money, but what is it?

If you like your sister and brother-in-law, that’s enough.

“Donate to overseas denominations as well. Especially the US and Europe. Are there sects of Islam there?”

“yes. there is.”

“Put your money on it.”

“What if I refuse?”

“Just give me an amount I can’t refuse.”

At my words, Deokbae Kim nodded and said,

“All right.”

“For now, I think this is enough… Ha. The Middle East is the problem.”

Europe’s Islamic sects are localized as they were created mainly by immigrants, so it is possible to communicate, but the core sects of real Islam based in the Middle East will be quite adamant.

I thought about it for a while and said.

“Where did you say the base of the terrorist organization was? Syria?”

“yes. you’re right.”

Currently, Syria is divided into four parts, fighting a civil war.

Russian-backed Syrian government and U.S.-backed anti-government forces.

In addition to the Syrian Provisional Government supported by IS and Turkiye.

Since the country is such a mess, there are bound to be more fanatics like this terrorist organization.

“The best thing to do is to get rid of everything and make it peaceful, but… it’s obvious that dipping my toe in a place like that will only get me in trouble.”

It is best to avoid such places.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t leave Islam, which is the most dangerous.

“Put the Seron mark on the relief goods and spray them randomly. Whether it be food or medicine or whatever.”

The only way to do this is to alleviate the pain of reality as much as possible to reduce the chance of falling into fanaticism.

Of course, the effect will be insignificant, but isn’t it better than not doing it at all?

“If you’re hungry and sick, you’ll end up using it. As the number of people who use the Seron relief items increases and the experience of benefiting from the Seron accumulates, the antipathy will decrease little by little.”

If nothing else, time is the solution to Islam.

It’s a real demon cave, so no matter how much I think about it, there’s no answer.

“All right. By the way, the amount of donation is huge, so wouldn’t it be better to just create a foundation and manage it integratedly?”

“Create a foundation? That’s fine. However, don’t unite, but create separate foundations for each religion.”

“Are you saying otherwise?”

“yes. If they are kind to me, I increase the donation amount to that religious foundation, and if there is an accident, the donation amount is reduced. Let’s coordinate this.”

What’s the point of just giving it away?

If you put a difference like this, even if it’s because of money, you’ll look at me and be careful what I say.

Then, when someone praises me, I respond accordingly and dramatically increase the amount of donations.

Deokbae Kim said with a smile.

“I understand what you mean. Then, I will create a foundation for each religion and manage it.”

“okay.”

good.

Using this, they continue to establish ties with the religious world and draw out relationships.

*

While making friends with the religious community, the Seron Group aggressively expanded its overseas business.

As always, the energy purchase market was introduced to cause labor shortages, and then the gap was filled with skeletons.

Of course, unlike Korea, some European politicians came up with related regulations one after another, concerned about the growing reliance on skeletons, but I didn’t care.

Because I have too many things to do to care about every single one of them.

So whether or not I regulate it, I focused on advancing and pushing ahead.

But then an article caught my eye.

“Easing economic sanctions on Venezuela?”

It was about easing some of the economic sanctions imposed by the US on Venezuela.

“This decision appears to be the intention of the United States to put out an urgent fire by importing crude oil from Venezuela in order to mitigate inflation caused by soaring international oil prices. Venezuela has the world’s largest crude oil reserves, but since it is ultra-heavy oil containing a lot of sulfur, it can be purchased cheaply.

After reading all the articles like that, I said with a bored expression.

“Oil has nothing to do with me.”

Subsea mining secured a lot of raw materials and made Korea a raw material exporter, but the only thing that failed to achieve self-sufficiency was oil and natural gas.

I didn’t even think about trying these things in the first place because they are buried deep in the ground and they’re not something that can be pulled out with a skeleton.

“By the way, what makes extra-heavy oil so cheap?”

Is the price of oil different for each oil?

I did a search without much thought.

“see. Depending on the sulfur content, it is divided into light, medium, and extra-heavy oil, and the lower the sulfur, the better the price.”

After searching for prices like that, I looked at the price of extra-heavy oil and said with a surprised expression.

“Is there such a big difference in price?”

Right now, the price per barrel of light sweet oil is around $100, which was the price of crude oil common to ordinary people like me.

On the other hand, heavy oil is only 30 dollars and extra-heavy oil is only 15 dollars.

“Buy ultra-heavy oil for $15, refine it, and sell it. You want to do this because it makes money, right?”

Of course, that has nothing to do with me.

The moment I try to ignore it like that, something comes to mind.

“for a moment. Didn’t you say that oil was created when dinosaurs died a long time ago?”

So people joke around saying, “Where did all the dinosaurs on the Korean Peninsula die?”

“Are you made to die? death? Doesn’t that mean that it was corrupted and turned into oil?”

Death and decay are the closest words to a necromancer.

For some reason, I am intrigued.

“Oil, oil. Shall we find out?”

*

“To be precise, you can think of petroleum as being made from the decay of all organic matter, not just dinosaurs. All living things, from trees to grass and insects.”

The explanation of the executive director of the Korea Petroleum Association, who was interested and invited.

“is it so? Then why is Korea without oil? It’s not like they chose Korea and didn’t have any living beings.”

“It is because the environment in which oil can be produced is not in place. Doesn’t all living things die and decay to become oil? It’s like that. In order to become petroleum, a suitable environment must be created, but first, the decay process of dead organic matter in an unoxidized state…”

An explanation race that starts only by inviting experts.

“Easy please.”

“Simplely, it is that oil can only become petroleum when it decays for a long time without contact with oxygen.”

“Isn’t that environment a long time ago an oil-producing country, but not the Korean Peninsula?”

“I can roughly explain it like that.”

Necromancers have many magics related to dead bodies.

Among them are rapid decay and magic that emits poisonous gas from a corpse to poison the surroundings.

So if you collect organic matter, put it in a vacuum, and corrupt it with magic, wouldn’t it be possible to turn it into petroleum?

I said with my eyes shining.

“So, if you make it rot in a vacuum, it becomes petroleum?”

“Of course, there are various conditions attached, such as the need to apply additional pressure, but the basic concept is like that. In fact, even now, it is already known how to make oil in a laboratory.”

“Then why aren’t you making it?”

“Of course, it is because there is no money. Think about it. How many trees, even the most common ones available, would be needed to produce a liter of oil?”

ah.

That’s right.

When it decays, the volume naturally decreases.

If so, it is said that much more than 1L should be spoiled, and even the most expensive gasoline is only less than 2,000 won per 1L.

Saving trees is money, making a vacuum is money, and various additional conditions must be met, so this belly button is overwhelmingly bigger than the stomach.

I licked my lips and said.

“It’s good.”

I imagined creating oil with magic, but the walls of reality are still not easy.

“By the way, I saw an article saying that extra-heavy oil was imported from Venezuela, refined, and used. What is that?”

“Extra-heavy oil contains more sulfur than light oil, so it is sticky unlike light light oil, which flows like a liquid. Light oil is mixed with the extra-heavy oil to lower the sulfur content.”

Eh?

Is that all?

“You mean just mixing?”

“Of course, there is a complex additional process, but I said that because I wanted to explain it in an easy way.”

I also thought there was a technology that separates only sulfur.

“But why does it contain a lot of sulfur?”

“Hmm… This is also complicated, but to put it simply, it’s less corrupt.”

···uh?

“wait for a sec. Is it less corrupt?”

“Strictly speaking, it is true that the organic matter itself is all decayed, but the sulfur content in my crude oil should have been reduced by releasing enough hydrogen sulfide through the activity of anaerobic bacteria, but that is less progress. So heavy oil will eventually become light oil as time goes by. Of course, it will take a lot of years for that to happen.”

Then you’re saying that extra-heavy oil for $15 becomes light oil for $100 if you add more corruption, right?

“What is that hydrogen sulfide?”

“Doesn’t I stink when I’m decaying? It is that toxic gas.”

I jumped up from my seat and said.

“A stench?! Poisonous gas?”

“yes? That, yes.”

I said with my eyes shining brightly.

“So you’re saying you can turn extra-heavy oil into light oil if you can force it to emit a stench… no, hydrogen sulfide?”

“…First of all, in theory, yes, but there is no way to forcefully emit hydrogen sulfide. Corruption is not something that humans can do artificially.”

i can do it!

Rather, it is my specialty!

“This is it!”

crazy

Corruption and stench magic was Midas magic that could turn a $15 bill into a $100 bill.

‘What if we import ultra-heavy oil into Korea, corrupt it, and emit toxic gas to lower the sulfur content and make it into light oil? It becomes an oil-producing country, not an oil-producing country.’

Although refiners say they can refine extra-heavy oil, they can’t compare to me in terms of cost-effectiveness.

Oil refiners will mix light oil to lower the sulfur content, and then the cost will go up while going through various processes.

The proof is that the price of extra-heavy crude oil is only $15.

If the refining process was easy and cheap, the price of extra-heavy oil would not be so cheap.

‘If you make a toxic gas treatment facility well, there will be no environmental problems. Is it perfect?’

I smiled and told the executive director of the Korea Petroleum Association.

“Executive Director, can you get me some extra-heavy oil and heavy oil? Because I have to do a really important experiment.”