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Chapter 30
Chapter 30
The Necromancers’ grave was located some distance away from the necromancers’ habitat. Moreover, it was quiet without any sign of people(?).
That was because the necromancers did not set foot in the Necromancers’ grave.
‘That’s why it was chosen as the betting venue in the first place. There’s no chance of a large-scale battle breaking out.’
Dominic thought as he looked at the enormous tetrahedron-shaped tombs.
W̆ еb n̈ о̄ v̂ e l Е n̂u̇ m а́
“From here, we split up. The deadline is until morning breaks tomorrow. Let’s meet back here within that time.”
Max Langtang, who had stopped in front of a tetrahedron, said.
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“Finding the entrance to the Necromancers’ grave itself is already a problem, after all.”
It was a tone that made it clear he did not want to give Dominic even a single hint.
Dominic once again said nothing and only nodded. He had no particular desire to travel together with Max Langtang either.
‘He’s noisy, and above all, far too arrogant.’
Е ṅûṁ а
Max Langtang was truly a man whose temperament did not match Dominic’s at all.
‘Are all members of the Langtang family like this?’
The eldest son of the Langtang family he had seen in his previous life came to mind. He, who had been the owner of Perperence, had not been particularly taciturn either.
“Then I’ll see you later. Ah, don’t worry. If you can’t make it back here by tomorrow, I’ll come rescue you.”
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With those words, Max Langtang finally left.
Dominic, on a whim, made preparations so that he could activate Perperence at any time, then walked off in the opposite direction from Max Langtang.
Е̄ n̊ ům_a
Max Langtang headed toward the largest tomb. However, Dominic was not dazzled by size and carefully recalled the content of the article he had seen in his previous life.
‘I’m sure it said that the darker the color, the higher the rank of the necromancer whose tomb it is.’
Since it was an article personally written by Eleonore Langtang, there was no way it could be wrong.
‘Come to think of it, what kind of person is Eleonore Langtang?’
As he walked toward the rearmost tomb, the one with the darkest color, that question suddenly came to mind.
‘I only saw her once in my previous life, but she didn’t seem like such a noisy or frivolous person.’
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Without realizing it, Dominic placed a hand over his chest.
That was because the image of Eleonore Langtang, placing her hand over his chest and unraveling silvery threads while saying, ‘So you do have talent for magic,’ came to mind.
‘Why did Eleonore Langtang clear my blocked meridians?’
That, too, was a mystery.
Clearing the blocked meridians of Dominic, who was soon to die, held no meaning for her at all.
‘No, wait. You never know. She might have cleared them because I was fated to die soon.’
Еn.ûm̂ā
It might have been compassion. Compassion that could be bestowed precisely because one knew it held no meaning.
Dominic was somewhat shocked by the fact that an unfamiliar woman, moreover a direct descendant of a hostile family, might have felt compassion for him.
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Of course, the idea that Eleonore Langtang had felt compassion for Dominic was nothing more than Dominic’s own speculation.
‘Either way, it worked out well for me. Thanks to that, I was able to live a completely different life after my regression.’
He even thought that perhaps the reason he had regressed at all was due to Eleonore Langtang’s impulsive action.
‘If that’s the case, should I be grateful?’
Е́ n̄ ūm̆ а . іd
Dominic let out a small laugh.
It was already the distant past, and moreover something from a previous life, so he did not know whether it even made sense to thank the present Eleonore for it.
Just then, having arrived at the darkest-colored tomb, Dominic’s thoughts about Eleonore Langtang stopped there.
Dominic quietly placed his hand on the smooth surface of the tomb, which bore no sigils or markings whatsoever.
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‘The reason Max Langtang was so confident of his victory.’
To discover the entrance to the Necromancers’ grave, one needed knowledge of magic.
Еn̆ um̂ а̄ . іd̀
Max Langtang had readily accepted this bet because he had never imagined that Dominic would know anything about magic.
However, in some respects, Dominic knew magic better than Max Langtang, or even better than Natasha Helbard.
And fortunately, simply passing through the tomb entrance did not require the operation of mana.
Merely possessing magical knowledge was enough.
That also meant that later, when he won his confrontation with Max Langtang, he would have an excuse to deflect the issue.
“Whew.”
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Dominic inhaled and recalled what he had read in the article in his previous life.
‘There was definitely an invisible magic formula, and if you arranged that formula correctly, you could enter.’
To do that, he first had to make the magic formula visible.
‘And the method for that is…….’
It was very simple.
Knock, knock.
Е́ńu m а
Dominic politely knocked on the wall of the tetrahedron. Just like knocking when visiting someone’s home.
Then the wall surface began to swirl chaotically, and atop it, five magic formulas surfaced.
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Dominic’s eyes quickly scanned over the magic formulas.
The magic formulas were extremely simple.
‘1, 1, 2, 3, 5…… As expected, it’s a sequence.’
It was said to be a sequence created by a figure called Fibonacci, whom mages revered.
Ӗň ům̆ å . i̇.d
Dominic gathered the scattered magic formulas into a single line and completed the Fibonacci sequence.
Then, with a low rumbling sound, a thin crack like a hairline fracture appeared on the wall.
Without hesitation, Dominic pushed at the cracked section, and soon, with a much more substantial rumbling sound, the door opened.
Inside the door, dense darkness wavered.
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That darkness had substance; it was unaffected even by the starlight of the night sky, and as a result, nothing inside could be seen—it was pitch-black.
“Normally, you’d have to grope along the walls in this darkness and advance step by step following the sequence, but…….”
Е̇n̂u ṁа
There was no need to bother doing that when there was no one watching.
After muttering that, Dominic picked up a branch from the ground and wrapped its tip with cloth to make a torch.
Then he lit the torch using Max Langtang’s flame magic.
The flame produced by Max Langtang’s flame magic was not an ordinary flame; it merely clung to the torch without consuming it as firewood or going out easily.
“This is appreciated, Max Langtang.”
Whistling, Dominic held up the torch, drove away the darkness, and entered the tomb, which was as complex as a maze.
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Thanks to the torchlight, he could clearly see the sequences engraved as magic circles on the walls, so even inside the complicated interior, Dominic pressed straight ahead without getting lost.
After passing through the entire maze of the first floor, a gateway leading to the second floor appeared.
Dominic once again used knocking to make the riddle engraved on the second-floor gate appear.
― I walk on four legs in the morning…….
“Human.”
Dominic spoke the answer before the question had even finished.
Е̊n̈ u m̃а. і́d̄
It might have been a novel riddle during the time when the owner of this tomb was alive and active, but now, after so much time had passed, it had become so famous that everyone knew the answer.
Kuurreung.
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The gate leading to the second floor opened.
At the same time, a faint light poured in from somewhere, so Dominic withdrew the magical flame from the torch.
“…….”
He steadied his breathing.
Е n̂um а̀
From here on, he had to be careful. The first floor was like a foyer where anyone could loiter about.
In contrast, from the second floor onward, it was a space where the aura of a dead necromancer and fragmented body parts were sealed.
Fwish.
He heard the sound of something slicing through the air, and Dominic immediately raised his sword.
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Thud.
When he swung his sword and knocked aside something flying straight at him, he heard the sound of that ‘something’ dropping limply to the floor.
Enúm а .і̌d̆
Looking down, it was someone’s hand that had turned green.
‘Probably a part of the necromancer’s body. A greeting, perhaps.’
Dominic indifferently stepped past the twitching hand on the floor.
He did not bother dealing with it.
Contrary to what many people believed, aside from the fact that one could get lost due to its complexity, a necromancer’s tomb was not particularly dangerous.
The traps sleeping within a necromancer’s tomb were activated only when one attacked the necromancer’s fragmented body or damaged the tomb to reveal hostility.
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‘So as long as you don’t attack first, you can explore this place quite comfortably.’
Sheathing his sword, Dominic continued onward.
That was when it happened.
Ssssk!
He heard something behind him.
When he turned around, he saw a severed hand, using its index and middle fingers to touch the floor as it rapidly approached him.
Е̇ ǹu̇ mа̄.і̂ d̈
‘……? Why?’
Dominic raised one eyebrow and drew his sword again.
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‘Did it count knocking away the flying hand as an attack?’
It was at that moment.
The hand that had come right up to Dominic suddenly flopped face-down onto the floor, as if bowing.
A posture of submission.
W̄ е̊ b̆ nоv е̊ l̈ En um.а
“Hmm?”
Dominic tilted his head.
This was something even he had never heard of or seen before.
“Ah, don’t tell me.”
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Soon, however, a thought occurred to him.
“Is it because of the Lich King’s bracelet?”
Е́ñ u m̌ а . і ď
Dominic took out the subspace pouch from his chest. Of course, he did not take the Lich King’s bracelet out into the open.
Even while inside the subspace, the bracelet’s aura could be felt fiercely.
At the same time, the necromancer’s severed hand trembled violently and pressed itself even flatter against the floor.
That confirmed it.
The necromancer’s corpse was reacting to the Lich King’s bracelet.
“Hm, this is interesting.”
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Dominic swung the subspace pouch back and forth.
The necromancer’s severed hand panicked and scurried back and forth in the direction of the bracelet.
“Could this be useful?”
Holding the subspace pouch, Dominic moved forward.
Tatadak.
He heard the busy sound of the severed hand following behind him.
W̆ĕ b̃ ń ӧ ṽе l Е́n̈ û ḿ а
After the right hand came the left hand, after the left hand came the left leg, and after the left leg came the right leg.
Then arms and a torso followed.
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After rummaging through the necromancer’s tomb and gathering the fragmented corpse—missing only the left arm and the face—Dominic stopped walking.
Tatadak, sseureureuk, tak.
The fragments of the necromancer’s corpse, which had been following Dominic separately without merging, also stopped moving.
“The left arm seems to be lost. So all that’s left now is the head?”
W̊ еb n о v̂ е̄ĺ Е̂n̊um а̂.
After sweeping through the entire second floor, Dominic headed toward the third floor, where the necromancer’s head would be stored.
― You must distinguish between the angel and the demon guarding the gates of heaven and hell. There is no guarantee that the one standing before the gate of heaven is an angel, nor is the opposite necessarily true. The angel speaks only the truth, and the demon speaks only lies. The angel and demon know each other’s nature. The angel and demon answer only with ‘yes’ or ‘no’. You are given only one chance to ask a question—what will you ask?
There, too, was a riddle that had already become famous.
Since magic required cognitive ability, it seemed that in the past, sequences and riddles like these had been used to judge a mage’s aptitude.
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Dominic simply stated the answer and passed straight through the third-floor door.
Tatadak, sseureureuk, tak.
É ǹ.u m ӑ. і d̊
The necromancer’s corpses(?) calmly followed Dominic and entered the third floor as well.
The third floor was extremely desolate and enormous.
Judging from the tetrahedral structure seen from outside, the third floor should have been smaller than the first and second floors, yet it did not feel that way at all.
‘This, too, is a form of magic.’
Sensing the many spatial magic circles invisibly engraved into the walls, Dominic headed toward the center of the desolate chamber.
At the center of the room was a small casket, just big enough to hold a single human head.
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Dominic exhaled, blowing away the dust piled atop the casket. As he did, the inscription engraved on it revealed itself.
― Mielle, the disciple most beloved by the Lich King, rests here.
This place seemed to be the tomb of a fairly high-ranking necromancer named Mielle.
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