The Low-Key Life of a Necromancer

My eyes blurred, and the unpleasant, stale smell in the tomb was washed away by the clear air in the wild.

When Leon opened his eyes, he found himself outside the royal treasury.

Li was arranging tactics on one side. Many young people he didn't know surrounded him. They were having a heated discussion and sprinkling some magic dust on the ground from time to time.

There was also a calm and composed magician standing by, with several elemental runes flashing around the magician, indicating that he possessed superb magical skills.

"The former dean of the School of Magic, Elizabeth Amber!"

Leon had investigated the situation related to Li and was also aware of the incident at the magic academy.

Therefore, Leon recognized Amber's identity at a glance.

"Your Highness, have a good evening."

"Your Excellency the Great Magician, are you okay too... No, now is not the time to say you are okay!"

Leon recalled the danger just now and suddenly became anxious.

Amber walked forward and cast a colorful flashing magic in front of Leon. The bursting flames of the magic impacted Leon's visual nerves, making him dizzy for a short time.

When Leon recovered from the dizziness, his thinking speed slowed down a bit, but he also got rid of the initial panic.

“…What kind of magic is this?”

"A newly developed calming magic."

"Is it called being calm to blow someone unconscious..."

Amber's novel magic not only knocked Leon unconscious, but also left the people around him speechless.

Lord Amber, who was originally serious and solemn, actually learned the skill of talking nonsense from Li. This is really enough.

"Lee, those, those people who attacked us, who are they?"

"An organization calling itself the Artifact Recycling Company."

Leon blinked his eyes, thinking that the enemy organization's poor naming method was not as good as Amber's calming magic just now.

"Then who are these young people around?"

"An employee of the Fortune Catering Company I opened."

This is the same as the artifact recycling company...

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Leon feels that he is a little behind the times. Are people’s thoughts so open nowadays?

While Leon was sorting out his confused mind, Li directed the helpers to stand in their respective positions.

"You did a good job with the earth magic just now. Now I will teach you a ritual to summon souls. This ritual is a bit evil. The person summoned will suffer spiritual torture, but it is perfect for interrogating enemies~"

As Leon watched in surprise, a dangerous blood-red magic light lit up on the top of the mountain.

Runes of necromancy weave and entwine around the nodes where each person stands. Some nodes are entangled into the rune pattern of the Tree of Life, while others are coiled into the scythe of the god of death.

Large-scale ritual magic is rarely seen in this era. It requires the caster to have profound knowledge of ancient magic and the participants to have a high degree of obedience.

A strange atmosphere permeated the mountaintop, and Leon, who was watching all this, could only feel the chill creeping up his limbs.

From the Kingdom's perspective, Leon should immediately disrupt Lee's ritual magic and prevent this evil process from continuing.

However, Leon was rescued because of Li's arrangement, and the magic that Li was performing was to deal with a group of enemies using holy light.

Leon felt that the world was really upside down.

"Lee, it would be great if you could use some normal magic."

"I'm so sorry, I'm a necromancer... Lei, the host of the Artifact Recycling Company, the person in charge of secret research, a maniac who violates human nature, answer my call, soul summon!"

As the ritual was completed, a wisp of soul was drawn out from the mountain beneath his feet.

The soul twisted and entangled, eventually taking the shape of Lei.

"Phew~ The ritual was successful. This psychopath is really dead."

The fact that Lei's soul could be extracted proved that Lei really died in this battle. It seemed that the magic props he carried with him could not withstand the pressure of a mountain.

The summoned soul still maintains the state before death, and struggles hard, trying to escape the fate of being crushed to death by the mountain.

The scream from the soul level pierced everyone's eardrums. Leon subconsciously took several steps back, and the younger brothers who maintained the ritual magic also covered their ears.

Li walked to the middle of the ceremony venue and strangled the soul's neck with his hands. Fate was strangled by the neck, and Lei's soul calmed down instantly.

"Magician! You actually killed me! How dare you kill me!"

"Oh my! You kidnapped my wife and set a trap to cause trouble for me. Is it still a mistake for me to fight back?"

Li really didn't understand the thinking of people like Lei. He was the only one allowed to use violence, and this kind of thinking was too hypocritical.

"No, you can't kill me. My research is about to produce results, which will benefit the entire human society. If you kill me, you will be cutting off the future of this world!"

Lei couldn't accept his own death. Even though his soul was controlled by Li, he kept muttering a terrifying vicious curse.

"You are so arrogant. You are talking about the future of mankind. I only want to ask you one thing. Where did you take Theresa?"

"Teresa? The apostle of the temple? Of course she's dead. I killed her with my own hands!"

When Lee heard Lei say Theresa was dead, his head buzzed.

Li, who had been able to remain calm, was instantly enraged by Lei.

Li tightened his grip, and Lei's soul let out a painful wail. As long as Li used a little more strength, Lei's soul would be shattered.

"Lee! Let him finish his words!"

Leon and Amber rushed over at the same time, not caring about what would happen if they interrupted the ceremony, and they both pulled Li out of the circle.

Without Li, the control ritual collapsed immediately, and Lei's soul dissipated visibly.

Lei's soul dissipated bit by bit, accompanied by holy flashes in between.

Judging from the rendering alone, Lei seems like a holy warrior who sacrificed himself to fight against evil.

"Please explain clearly what you are doing and what is your purpose!"

Leon and Amber were not blind, they sensed something that was beyond their control from Lei's mouth.

The two men held Li down and asked this soul, which had not yet completely dissipated, to explain the reasons behind all this.

If there is a bigger plan behind all these events, it would be meaningless for Li to simply kill Lei.

"Research? Purpose? I have nothing to tell you. You fools who cover your eyes, can't you see the changes in this world?"

Changes in the world?

Leon and Amber were both silent. They were already the elite in human society, but they still couldn't figure out what the changes Lei mentioned meant.

Then Lei continued to shout.

"This world keeps going back and forth on a small scale. This world also has only one small continent, a kingdom that lasts forever but never makes any progress. Don't you see all this?"

"I see you old banana!"

Li forcibly released a soul pulse, which turned the chattering soul in front of him into ashes.

After killing the damn guy with his own hands, Li finally vented some of the anger in his heart.

However, Li's action of killing Lei without giving any reason aroused the anger of Leon and Amber.

"Li, why do you always act recklessly!"