How a Calamity Necromancer Retires

Originally, I was thinking of getting information related to robots and taking out talented people, but after hearing an unexpected story, I feel something numb.

“A new job will be created to replace the vacancy?”

It sounds very plausible, perhaps because it was said by a smart person.

But what if you just believe that word and spray skeletons indiscriminately and no new jobs are created?

Then the efforts I have made for a peaceful retirement will be completely in vain.

“Seron and its partners both have a human employee ratio of 3%.”

No matter how much you think about it, there’s no way it’ll be possible to fill as many jobs as the skeletons took away.

“Increase the number of programmers? Or a pilot?”

I thought about it over and over again, but no matter how much I think about it, this alone is not enough.

It’s annoying if it’s the same as usual! just live! Strangely, the last words Lee Do-jin said linger in my head.

“If you find a new breakthrough, you may be able to break through the limits of job erosion.”

So far, Saeron may seem like he has grown like crazy in the eyes of others, but in fact, he was moving with extreme moderation.

Naturally, that was because I had only developed industries where Korean jobs did not overlap in order to retire as a good person.

But maybe there’s a way to break through that?

If that’s the case.

If we can find a breakthrough that everyone can be satisfied with, Saeron will grow like an unbridled foal.

“It is the flow of the world…”

Dojin Lee said.

According to the flow of the world, breakthroughs are made naturally.

“Is it really so? If you really make skeletons unconditionally like crazy, new jobs will be created and everyone will adapt?”

No matter how you think about it, this isn’t it.

“Ah-oh. I just went to listen to robot information, but suddenly, what is this?”

After a moment of silence, I jumped up from my seat and spoke.

“Pass once.”

Of course, as Lee Do-jin said, there may be changes.

But what if the change is less than expected?

And what if that resentment spills over to me?

The peaceful retirement I’ve been dreaming of my whole life is over.

“For now, let’s work hard at what we are doing.”

A skeleton robot made like a machine, not the shape of an arm, automatically creates a car.

Attach the door and weld it.

It is a skeleton robot that perfectly performs the work without an inch of error because it only makes a fixed model.

“hahahaha. This is really great. Chairman Han.”

Joo Chan-bae said with a satisfied expression.

“It’s more like a robot than a robot.”

“I’m glad you were satisfied.”

Then, Joo Chan-bae said with a puzzled expression.

“Something seems to be lacking in energy. Are you okay?”

“ah. yes.”

I decided to do something, but I still can’t forget Lee Do-jin’s words.

If it is really possible, even the infinite leap of Seron is not a dream.

Of course, as Seron leaps infinitely, the rebuilding of the undead army will be faster and my retirement will be faster as well.

At that time, Joo Chan-bae spoke in a quiet voice.

“By the way, just in case, would it be possible to place worker skeletons as well? This is because the existing line was torn down and repaired. There are existing employees, but the new factory is literally a new factory, so there is no risk of job infringement.”

The mindset of a very natural businessman who wants to save even a penny in labor costs somehow.

Will new jobs really emerge naturally in a world full of entrepreneurs?

“President.”

“yes.”

“perhaps. Seriously, if I refused to assign a worker skeleton, you hired a human employee. But if suddenly a robot was developed to take over the job… would you use it?”

Then, Joo Chan-bae answered without hesitation.

“Of course I write.”

“Will all the employees be fired?”

“You don’t have to cut it. It’s just slowly scaling down. Because you can’t just do mass layoffs all of a sudden.”

It means that if we can, we will replace all employees with robots right on the spot.

“It really doesn’t make any sense.”

“yes?”

Dojin Lee said that no matter how much I took away the role of a robot, in the end, robots would gradually replace humans, and what was the point of having the role of a robot taken away by a skeleton again?

Of course, it will take a considerable amount of time for the technology to develop that far, but in the end, it is said that the future will come someday.

“Then where do people who lose their jobs go?”

“I will go anywhere. Eventually, new jobs will be created.”

The same reaction as Lee Do-jin.

“Of course you will need a refresher course.”

“re-education?”

“If a new job is created, shouldn’t it be accompanied by training on it?”

Programmers and pilots did.

It was literally a re-education.

“You have to support that to some extent. That way we can appease the public.”

Would that be enough?

Robots can do that, but skeletons seem to be a completely different situation.

As I was lost in my thoughts, Joo Chan-bae burst into laughter and said,

“It seems that Chairman Han’s condition isn’t very good today, so let’s just stop here for today.”

“All right.”

“Anyway, I really like Skeleton. You don’t have to worry about maintenance, and you can drastically reduce the initial investment cost. It doesn’t even use electricity, so what could be better?”

···electricity?

“Wait. electricity?”

“yes. To be honest, for a car of our era, the annual electricity bill alone is staggering.”

“Electricity…electricity? flow?”

I opened my eyes and said.

“ah! flow! The flow was a problem!”

After asking for permission from Joo Chan-bae, I immediately returned and took out a notebook and started writing down various things.

“Company, market, people.”

All industries go back to circular cycles.

Companies make products and sell them to the market, and the market buys them and sells them to people.

And that person works for the company again to buy that thing.

Of course, this is when everything is drawn in a one-dimensional way, but the basic frame does not change.

“Robots need electricity. Electricity is made in power plants. And power plants use oil to make electricity. And this oil is dug up from the ground by humans using machines.”

And this person will buy the robot-made products with the money he earns from working for the company.

In other words, although the direction and frequency are different, people and society are all connected as one.

without a single break.

“That’s why I said it was a natural flow.”

If the company lays off all employees and uses robots to make things cheaper, no one will buy them.

Of course, this cycle is not a cycle that will be broken just because one of these links is forced to break.

Are humans replaced by robots?

So the result is one of two things.

A company that has no targets to sell goes bankrupt or people give up first.

When one side is weeded out by change and disappears, the cycle of society continues again naturally by finding a new link.

This is the natural flow that Dojin Lee said.

but.

I applied to this company for Seron and said.

“Seron has this cycle broken.”

Even if humans are replaced by robots, a company that will eventually make the robot, its employees, and electricity to drive the robot are needed.

Of course, this connected cycle creates a natural flow.

But Seron is a completely different situation.

“If skeletons are robots, Awakeners who bring and sell bones are the robot company’s role.”

So far, it’s still connected.

But then there was the problem.

“mana. Magic is literally something completely out of this cycle.”

The magic that creates and drives the skeleton literally has nothing to do with anything that exists in this world.

Of course, I don’t have enough magic, so I buy essence and use it, but that’s only when I make high-ranking undead, and I absolutely rely on my magic to maintain the usual worker skeletons.

In other words, Seron is an irregular who is disconnected from one side of this society where everything is naturally connected, and he is passing on the side effects of this irregularity to overseas countries by stealing jobs and industries abroad.

“What if this mana was somehow incorporated into this cycle? Then, the natural flow that Professor Lee Do-jin said might be created.”

A cycle in which everything is organically connected.

Incorporating mana into this cycle might solve everything I’ve been thinking about.

“But how?”

How do you include this in a cycle?

After thinking about it for a while, I came up with an idea.

“All humans have magical powers.”

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Magic is literally the source of life.

Even ordinary people have a small amount of magical power.

And this mana has natural resilience, so even if a certain amount is consumed, it will continue to recover little by little.

“Can I use this?”

When I was in Seron, the magic crystal that was provided to me was too burdensome, so I did an experiment in the empire.

It is to create artificial magic stones by collecting the small amount of mana possessed by ordinary people in units of thousands.

But this experiment failed.

There are two reasons for the failure.

First of all, the people of Seron are well aware that you need to increase your magic power to become stronger, so even ordinary people felt reluctant to have their magic power taken away.

Of course, if humanity was on the verge of extinction, that sense of rejection would be a problem, but around that time, my undead army was active in earnest and pushed the demon king’s army.

In a situation where the immediate sense of crisis had been relieved to some extent, there was no way that there would be anyone who would readily hand over his magic power.

Of course, the Empire knew this fact, so it prepared a compensation plan to some extent, but this naturally acted as the second factor of failure.

That is, the compensation plan prepared by the empire was literally poor.

In the first place, since he came up with the idea of collecting and using ordinary people’s mana to save money, the compensation plan was inevitably poor, and this naturally added to the reluctance, which led to a backlash from the general public.

As the general public protested, the artificial magic stone plan quietly disappeared.

But on Earth the situation is different.

“The people of Earth don’t have the concept of increasing magic power.”

It is the people of Earth who view gaining ability through awakening as a concept of luck, not effort.

Of course, the existence itself is known because the SS class controls magic by calling it an aura, but unless there is a way to strengthen it or a reason to do it, magic has no meaning to the average person on Earth.

In addition, Earth’s magic is expensive.

“One F-class monster’s essence costs 5 million won each.”

At first, I wondered if Seron’s magic stones were so expensive, but after continuing to buy essences, I realized for sure.

Earth’s essence is overwhelmingly more expensive than Ceron for the same amount of magic power.

Hundreds of essences are used to make one S-class skeleton, but ten of Seron’s magic stones were enough.

“What if I pay money to make artificial magic stones by gathering people’s magical powers?”

Then, the disconnected link of magical power naturally connects with ordinary people.

People make money by providing magic, and I use that magic to create and maintain skeletons.

Literally, a perfect cycle itself that is good for me and good for people.

At that time, I saw the essence of a monster that had lost all its mana and lost its light.

I said, raising the empty essence.

“It’s an artificial magic stone… Shall we try it?”

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My aides, including Deok-bae Kim, arrived after an emergency call to the chairman’s office.

“I’m going to do an important experiment from now on.”

I took out the essence engraved with the magic circle of magic absorption and held it out to Kim Deok-bae.

“Take this. By the way, even if you feel something strange, you should just stay calm. Should I just not resist?”

“What do you mean by that…”

“It’s a bit difficult for me to explain. Try it once.”

Deokbae Kim accepted the essence I gave him.

“hmm?”

Deokbae Kim tilted his head for a moment and said.

“It feels strange.”

Even people who don’t feel magical powers can’t even feel the strangeness of something being forced out of their bodies.

At that time, Deokbae Kim made a droopy face and said,

“I feel like my energy is waning.”

At the same time, part of Kim Deok-bae’s magical power is transferred to the essence.

“I’m really tired all of a sudden. What the hell is this?”

“It was originally like that. I did it a little harder to test it out. ruler. Then next.”

Then Kang Chan-soo, who received this time, said the same thing.

“I’m tired, but… not to the point where I can’t stand it.”

Unlike the aged Kim Deok-bae, Kang Chan-soo, who is young and strong, adapts quickly even though he has absorbed mana.

After that, I tested everyone up to Baek Sang-ho and received the essence again.

I said with a bright smile.

“Success.”

Succeeded in absorbing people’s mana.

Of course, the test didn’t end there.

I have to check how many people have a lot of mana and how much natural recovery is.

In this way, after the first test is completed for the aides, the second test is conducted for the employees of the cooperative companies of the corporation.

How much money is appropriate and whether people are repulsive, etc.

What if all the tests are finished and you buy and collect mana in earnest?

“I can get a stable supply of mana.”

Even if it wasn’t so, the supply was in short supply, so if I overreacted and paid money to buy it, the price would skyrocket in an instant, which was a headache.

Also, if people sell magic that will be recovered anyway and make money, they will share some of the profits they earned from the theory, even though they are not directly employed.

“Natural flow. Let’s make one.”