Necromancer Survival

concave like a fireplace….I almost screamed when I saw what was inside of the wall while checking on the wooden plank.

     An upside down bat, twice the size of my body, hung upside-down with its eyes closed within the recess.
The bat looked like a stone carving and horns, like a mountain goat, grew out of its head…Anyone could see it was a monster.
However it didn’t move, so I wondered if it was a Dungeon ornament and not a real being.

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How fortunate, you’ve come across a Gargoyle that’s still asleep…It’s a vicious monster that gobbles humans when awake, but, when asleep, it turns into a vivid and artistic sculpture.
It’s rare to have a chance to watch a sleeping gargoyle.
Perhaps it wouldn’t be too bad to observe it if you can afford the time.

A sleeping monster?

     Upon closer inspection, it really did look more like a statue than a living, giant bat.
But the description really did paint a horrid picture…I was constantly afraid that the bat statue would wake up whenever I heard a creak while stepping on the wooden planks.

     The next step would take me right beside the upside down bat statue.
Further down, countless gargoyle statues lined the walls as far as the eyes could see.
The place was reminiscent of the inside of a beehive.

     Wow….If I were to make a loud noise by mistake here…could those hundreds of gargoyles wake up simultaneously?

     Every quiet breath was filled with fear.
I still had a long way to go and I couldn’t even see the end of the gargoyles.
Perhaps Lackey was also afraid.
It stopped its familiar clacking and instead plastered its forehead onto my back, trembling.

–Creak

     “Urm……Ngh!”

     Just when I stepped on the next plank…

     The board cracked through the middle.
I almost screamed as I felt my body tilting, but, fortunately, Lackey covered my mouth and muffled the noise.

     As soon as I stepped across, the plank completely crumbled.
With a “clang, clang, clang….,” it bounced off the walls and disappeared into the abyss.
To my annoyance, it took more than a minute for the sound to trail off in the distance.
I slowly looked up at the gargoyle statue next to me in fear.

 -krssssss…..

     The gargoyle did not immediately jump up and attack as I had feared….but rather, with a disturbing sound, tiny bits of stone crumbled from the body of the bat.
As if the statue was going to wake soon….

     Damn!

     I turned straight away and ran with great speed, as though rolling down the steps.
The pounding of my footsteps was certainly disruptive….but the sound of crumbling rocks began to bury the sound.

     T-This is crazy…..That’s the sound of those jerks waking up, right?

      [Kieeeeakkk!]

     A foreboding premonition will always come true.
The arms of a sooty statue in front jutted out, like the security gate arms that stop cars from entering apartment complexes..

     I didn’t dare slow down, so I bent my waist as low as possible and passed underneath the arm….While passing, I regretfully turned my head to look at the statue, wondering why Lackey gave a tremulously clacked on my back.
The giant gargoyles fixed their shining red eyes on me, flapping their wings, and getting ready for a fight…

     “AhhhhhhhHH!!” I felt free to scream as loudly as I pleased–the statues were awake anyway.
The issue was not just the gargoyles pouring from behind but also the gargoyles still stirring in front.

     The way forward was still clear of monster bodies, but, consecutively, arms poked out in preparation for flight.
I hurriedly lowered my head multiple times while running.

     Eventually, I sprained my ankle trying to avoid the sudden protrusions of arms in front of me.
Of course, there were no kindly guard rails like on the stairs on a mountain behind my childhood neighborhood.
My body helplessly stumbled off the stairs.

     “No!”

    I hastily reached out a hand, but I couldn’t grab onto anything.
Lackey crawled onto my head and covered my vision with its entire body.
Perhaps he was trying to protect my head and neck during the fall.

     However, even if I couldn’t see, it was obvious that I was falling at a great speed.
Soon after, I hit something in the air, as if something had caught me.
The impact knocked me unconscious.