Necromancer Survival

arest wall to observe the light that had been bothering me.

     As I got closer, I could see that the light’s origin were inscriptions on the wall’s surface.

     The lights produced weren’t bright enough to really illuminate the whole cavern…It reminded me a bit of school art galleries.
The inscriptions were similar to the glow-in-the-dark descriptions next to the exhibited artwork.
Of course, in this case there were no exhibitions; only the inscriptions alone existed…

But for there to be glowing text in a place like this…maybe it’s a hint to find some unspeakably amazing item? Well, it’s hard for someone like me–someone that’s not a Treasure Hunter–to find that hypothetical item.

     I would’ve taken a photo of the inscriptions if I had a cell phone by my side…however, I valued my safety more than satiating the greed.
I didn’t want to touch the shining text; though the words seemed beautiful, there was no telling what would happen if I were to disturb it.

     Eventually I took one step backwards with the makeshift lantern.
I slowly walked alongside the wall, but I stumbled after stubbing my toe on something hidden.

     “Urk…!”

     Fortunately, I had not stepped on a monster.
But…something that looked just like a mage’s staff was rolling around underfoot.

     To be exact, it was half a staff?

     Why would there be a broken staff here? Perplexed, I search carefully around the staff.
Then, I found a large corpse lying not far from the staff; my body was frozen stiff.

     At first, I had thought that some cloth was covering a large bundle…but that cloth turned out to be a robe worn by the face-down corpse.

     The body was fairly obscured–I could only see the back of the prostrated corpse alongside a hand that gripped onto what I assumed to be the other half of the broken staff…Frankly, even this obscured sight was terrifying.
I didn’t want to get any closer.

     As soon as I identified that far off lump as a corpse, the system message updated.

! A New Discovery (2)

     In a Dungeon, the system offered a much needed service to alert players to possible risks or provide any additional information needed for a successful Dungeon raid.

     Of course, the system does not spoon feed you all the necessary information, from one to ten.
Plus, the vague or peculiar language used by the system may be slightly offensive…In any case, Users learned to pay attention and follow these guiding messages if they wished to survive.

     So….if the [New Discovery] message renewed after discovering this corpse (and if I wanted to safely leave this disgusting dungeon), I had no choice but to investigate this body.

     I didn’t dare touch the body with my bare hands, so I held onto the tip of the broken staff I had found earlier and cautiously poked at the body.
After a few nudges, I was sure that this was indeed an unmoving corpse.
As it didn’t seem particularly dangerous, I carefully walked a bit closer.

     The body had almost completely decomposed into a white skeleton, but I still had no desire to see its face.
Instead, I turned away from its head to the rest of its body and discovered something black wedged into its back.

     Hmmm….This black wedge must have dealt the fatal blow? The size and location…the attack must have shattered the spine….

     “Did a monster do this?”

     The discovery of the black wedge once again updated the system’s discovery message to (3).
I brought the light closer to the wedge and disturbed it with the broken staff…but the message was not further renewed.

     “Urgh, I guess I have to take it out.”

     Eventually, with a disgusted expression, I managed to pull out the wedge.
Although the corpse was mostly decomposed, it was still quite creepy to grab something stuck in a dead body.

     For a moment, it seemed like my efforts were in vain.
As soon as the heavy wedge was extracted, it suddenly became ash and dispersed into the air.
The body, starting from the tips of its toes, began to slowly collapse as well.

     It felt like watching a mirage.

     Just what did this mean?

The conditions needed to summon a vengeful specter has been fulfilled.

As soon as the wedge finished disappearing, a message suddenly popped up, informing me of my achievement.
Everything became dark.

Replaying the memory of the deceased: ‘Seo Dawon.’