How a Calamity Necromancer Retires

In the video, the two skeletons move vigorously and exchange weapons.

A skeleton that aims at the opponent’s target at high speed, blocks such an attack, and counterattacks in reverse.

After such a spectacular battle, the moment when the last target of one skeleton is about to be attacked.

-Lalala~.

The video cuts out and an ad plays in the middle.

I clicked my tongue and said.

“Shouldn’t it have been included as a condition to remove the commercials?”

But well… it’s not bad for maintaining tension, so let’s move on.

I looked at Baek Sang-ho and said.

“Anyway, do you really fight that well?”

Then Baek Sang-ho shook his head and said.

“I watched that game myself and it was just a struggle. However, it is edited by stitching together shots taken from various angles like that.”

Then it is.

It’s the first tournament, so it doesn’t make sense to have such a high-level workshop with ordinary participants.

I said with a smile.

“I edit things that look good to edit in a flashy way, and use things that I can’t save with editing as gag elements. The ability to adjust the pace is good.”

The previous match was saved somehow through editing, but there were countless matches that could not be saved through editing.

Among them, there was a team that produced a skit in which the left and right arms were twisted during an attack and the skeleton’s arms collided with each other throughout the game, and PD Ko Jun-young used that as a gag element.

If I had just watched it as a full video, what would have been that scene, but editing it with subtitles and CG in a fun way made even me laugh.

How long has it been since, after the interim advertisement, the broadcast continues, and then a new game comes out.

“uh!”

I looked at a man wearing a hat and said.

“Isn’t that the head of the back center?”

At those words, Deokbae Kim and Chansu Kang, who were watching the broadcast together, nodded and said,

“That’s right, center back.”

“Oh oh! Appearance on TV!”

Turning his head and looking at Baek Sang-ho, he is watching TV with a red face, perhaps ashamed of the fact that he appeared on TV.

Compared to me and Deokbae Kim, I had less exposure to the public, so it was a natural reaction.

Then, with a loud whistle, the match begins.

“Ohh?”

The opposing team’s skeleton pushing Baek Sang-ho’s skeleton hard.

However, the behavior of the opposing team’s skeleton is unusual.

Skeletons of the opposing team, who show considerable dueling ability by moving along the optimal movement line and effectively blocking Baek Sang-ho’s skeleton attacks.

“Is this also the power of editing? At this point, I can’t tell.”

Baek Sang-ho replied to my words.

“no. That is real.”

“Really?”

“I went light-hearted and lost by a narrow margin in the first game. I was really surprised. As a result, I was able to win by hastily correcting it, but it was so great that it was hard to believe that it was an ordinary person.”

Although Baek Sang-ho has no combat experience, unlike ordinary programmers who are usually dedicated to one task, Baek Sang-ho is a person who has researched and developed various versions of Oman, so his ability to control skeletons using the console is unmatched.

No matter how careless Baek Sang-ho was, he was pushed back in the first round by a regular participant.

Anyway, isn’t this a spoiler?

I’ll tell you all the results.

anyway.

“Then you want to call up to that team?”

“I think so.”

Originally, it was planned to gather only programmers separately to play the game, but Ko Jun-young suggested that the picture would not live like that.

In each regional preliminaries, programmers hide their identities and participate in the game individually or as a team, then choose a team they like and call them up to have them go through a revival match among themselves.

what did he say?

It’s a format where programmers become a kind of dark judge and discover talented people or something.

Anyway, if this is the case, the programmers will leave the game in the middle and participate as judges and helpers, so there will be no controversy about fairness, and the programmers accepted it because it would not be bad to earn prize money by demonstrating their skills through the team they called up.

At that time, after a fierce bloody battle, the opposing team’s skeletons took a slight advantage in the first game and cheered, but immediately followed by a close-up of Baek Sang-ho manipulating the console with his fiery hands and the other team’s people shocked by it. The broadcast ended by implying that this match would not end like this and that Baek Sang-ho was not an ordinary person.

I nodded and said.

“Well done. It’s pretty fun.”

If I, who has reached the peak of a skeleton, feels this way, there is nothing to see the reaction of ordinary people.

Unlike the regional qualifiers, if you go to the finals where unlimited rules will be applied, the game is literally over.

I said with a bright smile.

“Looks like you’ve got the first button on, so let’s keep going.”

*

The aftermath of the first broadcast was enormous.

Skeleton’s thrilling game touched the hearts of many people.

How can I say it, the feeling that the romance of robot fighting that people have had since childhood has become a reality?

Thanks to this, Jumin Kwon received quite a bit of attention among the players at the end of episode 1, but unlike the reaction from the outside, Jumin Kwon was nervous.

“When will you contact me?”

In episode 1, only the first game was broadcast, but the actual tournament was held twice, and hundreds of teams were already knocked out in Jeonbuk alone.

And since the fallen team also retrieved the console and skeleton, Jumin Kwon and his team had no way to prepare for the revival match that Baek Sang-ho said other than running simulations over and over again in their heads.

At that time, the team member said with an anxious expression.

“Couldn’t it be that there is no revival match?”

Then Kwon Ju-min said with a determined expression.

“It can’t be. He’s none other than Center Manager Baek, the best programmer.”

“I know, but the plan may have gone awry or something.”

Kwon Joo-min said while reading the uneasy team member.

“don’t worry. trust us and wait Center Director Baek recognized us! Be proud!”

At his encouragement, the team members clenched their fists.

“that’s right. we have been recognized I was so uptight that I was talking nonsense.”

“okay. So we wait calmly…”

Just then, a call comes through Kwon Ju-min’s cell phone.

“hello?”

The voice over the handset heard in the ears of Kwon Ju-min who answered the phone.

-Mr. Kwon Joo-min?

That person was Baek Sang-ho.

“Center Baek!”

The team members flocked to Kwon Ju-min’s cry.

“Are you Center Baek!?”

“Oh oh! at las!”

-Um… are you all together now?

“yes. you’re right.”

-Good for you. Please come with me to the address I called you now.

Baek Sang-ho jumped up from his seat and said.

“All right! I will go right now!”

-ah. And I’m with the production crew right now… that’s why they say you should be surprised if I suddenly reveal my identity.

“···yes?”

You already know, but you’re revealing your identity?

-At that time, I was improvised, so I couldn’t film it.

“Ah yes. All right.”

-Then I’ll wait.

Kwon Ju-min, who finished the call, said.

“Guys, we need to practice being surprised.”

*

Lightning’s teammates are surprised when Baek Sang-ho suddenly appears and reveals his identity.

And when we talked about Baek Sang-ho’s identity for a while, the production team said.

“This is enough. You can talk properly now.”

Then Baek Sang-ho let out a long sigh and said.

“ha. This isn’t normal.”

“I mean.”

“You did well though. Anyway, now let’s get to the point. In the regional qualifiers, there are many programmer teams from Seron, including myself. These teams now pick the team they like…”

Baek Sang-ho, who talked about future schedules like that.

“Then, programmers, are you no longer playing as players?”

“yes. After all, we are judges and helpers.”

“But if that happens, won’t the teams that have won and risen be discriminated against?”

“You don’t have to worry about that. After the teams selected by us compete, the losing programmers will join the surviving teams as helpers.”

In the end, any team that survives to the end can get support from programmers.

“I can’t afford to lose.”

A chance to get help from the best programmers.

However, this opportunity flew away in one defeat, and even that chance went to another team, it felt like fighting spirit was boiling.

“Of course you can’t lose. Of course, this applies not only to me but also to all the participating programmers. This competition is a competition that our president put all his heart and soul into.”

“Chairman Han…”

“Besides, this competition is not over with this one. The president is going to make this into a real sport and run it properly. So work hard.”

Kwon Ju-min nodded and said.

“All right. I will do my best!”

“Now let’s talk about the skeleton algorithm. First of all, martial arts aren’t bad…”

*

A skeleton competition that has been a hot topic since its first broadcast.

Then, a twist is revealed that the programmers are hiding as judges in the dark, and they lead the defeated team in a revival match.

At the same time, their attractively portrayed group drama and their ever-evolving skills touched people’s hearts, and naturally, a fandom was created for each team.

Among them, Baek Sang-ho and Lightning are receiving the most attention.

Their skills improved day by day, and they became the team that received the most attention by beating other teams in the revival match that took place.

In the meantime, programmers who lost their pride in the revival match joined the winning teams in the tournament, and now they are divided into the revival team and the tournament winning team, facing a fateful confrontation… This has been broadcasted so far. .

“The finalists have been confirmed.”

And unlike the broadcast, the real match is far ahead, so the finalists have already been confirmed.

Deokbae Kim nodded and said.

“yes. 70 teams that passed the regional qualifiers advanced to the finals.”

Originally, we were going to select only 50 teams, but there are some teams that are just too good to be dropped, and we increased the number of teams to advance to the finals for the fun of the broadcast.

“Lightning. Baek Sang-ho.”

Among them, the ones that caught my attention were Lightning and Baek Sang-ho.

Needless to say Baek Sang-ho, Lightning.

In particular, a man named Kwon Ju-min was growing day by day, absorbing Baek Sang-ho’s knowledge like a sponge sucking in water.

In the broadcast, he said that it was helpful because he had been learning martial arts for a long time from the beginning, but being good at something yourself and making him good at a console are completely different.

If it was that way in the first place, why would I have chosen someone like Baek Sang-ho to be a programmer?

If you were just a shoe programmer, you would have chosen a shoe manufacturing veteran.

Then Deokbae Kim told me.

“By the way, Mr. Chairman, the competition and broadcasting are going well, and sponsorship offers from companies keep coming in. What should I do?”

“Support? Could it be PPL?”

“It’s not like that, it’s a way to give donations instead of putting our logo on the outside of the stadium like in a sports event.”

“That is fine.”

Excluding the prize money, the money I invested for the sports shoes of the skeleton amounted to tens of billions of won, including the personnel costs of the staff and the cost of renting the stadium.

Right now, I’m doing everything with my own money, but I can’t leave out the relationship with sponsors for true sports shoes.

“Anyway, the finals will only be held in one stadium, so please accept it only in a way that does not interfere with the game.”

“All right.”

“If there is any sponsorship for an individual player or team, allow that too.”

I have to make a hole to make money so I will try harder to make an algorithm.

I said with a smile.

“Now it’s the real finals.”

Unlike the regional qualifiers, the finals with unlimited rules that don’t matter if you smash the opponent’s skeleton.

In addition, combat experience is accumulated, and everyone’s algorithm skills have improved considerably, so it will be quite worth seeing.

“I will also observe the final match.”

It is to absorb the algorithm created by 70 teams from all over the country putting their heads together.

Of course, since this is my first competition, it may not be to my liking, but just in case.

“Do you have anything else to report?”

“Hmm… there was a request to decorate the skeleton.”

“Can I decorate it?”

“Since the ownership of the skeleton is in Seron, you can’t paint it with color differences. Because of this, they all look alike, which is less intuitive and hinders viewers’ immersion. In the meantime, it didn’t matter because there were so many teams because it was a regional qualifier, but now that it’s a national final, it’s necessary to give each team their own personality.”

That’s right.

If you can tell them apart at a glance, it will be more comfortable and fun to cheer for them.

“Please give me permission. If you are good enough to advance to the finals anyway, you will continue to participate in competitions in the future, so you can decide on a designated skeleton and sign a contract for one year. Whether you paint it or decorate it, you can personalize it to your heart’s content… Hmm?”

What they want is the individuality of the team.

And isn’t the individuality of the team the real beauty of sports?

It’s like baseball or soccer, where players of various styles gather as a team, and martial arts players with different sizes and specialties.

But can it be called personality just because it is slightly different in appearance?

In addition, giving everyone the same skeleton because they are so obsessed with fairness will have a negative impact on the production of algorithms that need to respond to various variables.

“Shouldn’t each skeleton be given something special to create more diverse situations and strengthen the algorithm?”

Perhaps this personality is what I need the most in dealing with my undead army.

No matter how perfect the algorithm is, it’s because my Seron Undead Corps is specialized in dealing with the demon lord’s army.

However, if anomalous skeletons with people’s creativity added to them came out in a pile, even my skeleton army would have a hard time responding.

“Personality… yes. In the finals, individuality is given to each team.”

It is to ignite their fighting spirit to beat their opponents and take the prize money, and to bring their creativity to the limit.

I said with my eyes shining.

“Can you make a skeleton by parts? Then let the teams assemble themselves?”

The torso and head are left as is, and the limbs can be detached and attached.

In the first place, combining multiple corpses into one huge entity is nothing to me.

“oh! This could be applied to other skeletons as well.”

A skeleton that can change limb parts at any time and can also be equipped with additional equipment.

It mass-produces parts suitable for each situation and lets the employees change the parts on their own.

“Is this really becoming more and more like a computer?”

A skeleton that can be combined as desired, just like assembling parts to create a complete computer.

If this is the case, it will be easy to create variables and will be a factor that makes broadcasting and competitions even more successful.

Then, one more idea came to my mind, and I snapped my fingers.

“Alternatively, it wouldn’t be bad to make only one part for each team and steal the losing part from the winning side.”

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Make only one part for each team you want.

Within a category that can be implemented without harming the balance.

After that, the match goes on, and the winning side steals the losing side’s parts so that they can equip them.

Aside from efficiency, this must be fun, right?

I said with a smirk.

“Vice President, ask the teams and programmers to come up with the parts they want one by one. It doesn’t have to be a traditional hand or arm, so it doesn’t matter if it’s a forefinger or whatever.”