Damn Necromancer

Chapter 399: Higher God (2)

“Keu, keueuk……!”

The miserable sight of Chairman Arthur, suspended in the empty air with his neck choked in a single breath.

The remaining 4 megacorp leaders, who were watching that scene in real-time beyond the hologram, were trembling like aspen trees.

‘Nonsense. Zenith's headquarters…… and the absolute safe house said to withstand even a nuclear fusion explosion was breached in less than 10 minutes?!’

Zenith's defense line, said to be the most solid in the galaxy, was in that state.

There was no way their own headquarters could block that monster's path.

Of course, they too had final resorts like strategic nuclear weapons or orbital bombardments that could burn things down on a planetary scale.

But what if they fired them and that monster still survived?

Then they would be helplessly choked by the neck and have their heads miserably burst like Arthur.

In the face of that terrible risk, the rulers of the universe held their breaths and trembled in fear, not daring to press the preemptive strike button.

It was that time.

“Hey. You old geezers watching beyond the screen there, can you hear me?”

Kim Minwoo threw the coughing Arthur roughly onto the floor like a piece of luggage and strode toward the hologram screen. The leaders' shoulders flinched in unison.

Just meeting his gaze beyond the screen felt as if a chilling murderous intent was scraping past their napes.

“I have a rough estimate of why you guys hung yourselves and wasted money on that junk Artificial God Project or whatever.”

Kim Minwoo pulled out a highest-grade cigar from his subspace, put it in his mouth, and let out a pishik laugh.

“In the end, you were struggling desperately because you wanted to enjoy eternal life, right? Isn't that so?”

“……!”

The leaders' pupils shook in unison as if an earthquake had struck. The open secret of the galaxy, in fact, a truth that wasn't even a secret in the first place.

Even though they were absolute powerhouses who divided the wealth and power of the universe into 5 and grasped it, there was one single territory they had not been able to conquer.

It was exactly death.

By pulling cybernetics technology to the limit, they swapped out old organs for machines, slowed down aging for hundreds of years, and extended their lifespans.

Along with illegal biological experiments, they even completed the technology to perfectly copy all data of the brain onto a chip.

However, the leaders ruling the universe themselves knew best.

That it was merely deception, not eternal life in the true sense.

Even if I copy my personality and memories onto a chip and implant it into another machine, it is merely an elaborate clone that thinks and acts exactly like me.

A truth that was an endless subject of controversy even in the cyber dimension.

Even if the copy lives on, the true original me, breathing and thinking right here right now, must eventually fade into eternal darkness the moment the lifespan of the brain cells ends.

That unavoidable shackle of mortality and the fear of death were exactly what made them so obsessed with the transcendent realm called the Artificial God.

Because gods don't die of old age.

“If you didn't want to die that much, you shouldn't have wasted your money and should have come to me earlier. I'm an expert at handling death incredibly well, you see.”

“Wh-what nonsense are you trying to say……!”

“Nonsense. I'm saying I'll give you a perfect 100% soul-guaranteed eternal life, not something like a data copy.”

“……If we become that thing called undead, doesn't it mean we eventually become your puppet slaves! A trick to work us like dogs……!”

As the leaders beyond the screen continued to bark without letting go of their suspicions, Kim Minwoo furrowed his brow as if annoyed.

“Oh my, old geezers. Oil your brains too, not just your bodies. Why on earth would I use washed-up old geezers as slaves? Bones are much better at carrying heavy things and shooting guns.”

Kim Minwoo clicked his tongue tteut-tteut and stared down at Chairman Arthur, who was floundering with his neck caught in his grip.

“Well, seeing is believing. Showing it directly would be faster than explaining it a hundred times with words. I will bestow eternal life upon you.”

“Wh, wha…… Keoheok!”

Udeduk―!

The moment strength entered Kim Minwoo's grip.

The neck bone of Zenith Corporation's Chairman, who had ruled the universe, was snapped far too vainly.

Arthur's unfocused old physical body dropped to the floor with a tuk.

[Arthur!!]

[Th-that crazy bastard finally……!]

The leaders beyond the screen freaked out and screamed.

To think he would kill one of the 5 megacorp leaders, whom they thought he would use as a negotiation card, without hesitation!

However, Kim Minwoo leisurely stroked the Crown of the Death Lord on his head.

‘Let's see.’

Through the crown's repository of knowledge in his mind, the transmutation circle and required materials for an ego-preserving undead smoothly came to mind.

Usually, the higher the combat power in life and the stronger the superhuman, astronomical value materials are inevitably shattered to preserve the ego and resurrect them.

But this old geezer sprawled on the floor?

Taking away item power and splashing money, his pure combat power was at the level of a passing goblin.

‘I'll get a highest-grade resurrection estimate even if I roughly throw in cheap materials.’

A smile spread across Kim Minwoo's lips.

He opened his inventory and began to roughly draw a magic circle on the floor, centered around Arthur's corpse. He roughly tossed blood to the west, bones to the east, sprinkled a tiny bit of cheap essence of death, and then stood to the north.

Over that crude and highly cost-effective magic circle, Kim Minwoo blew in mana.

[Commencing undead transmutation with the knowledge of the Death Lord!]

Seuaaaaat―!

Arthur's corpse, which had collapsed on the floor, was engulfed in purple flames spewing from the magic circle, and soon staggered to its feet along with the bizarre sound of joints snapping.

It was an immortal physical body newly molded with the mana of death that neither aged nor rotted.

[Zenith Corporation Chairman Arthur is incorporated as your summon!]

[Special Note: As an entity directly birthed, it cannot refuse the creator's commands!]

While Kim Minwoo smiled satisfyingly looking at the familiar notification window floating in the empty air.

“Heok! Heok! I, I……?”

Arthur, who opened his eyes wide, looked down at his two hands and trembled.

The pain of his broken neck bone had disappeared.

His vision was clear, and the speed at which his brain cells turned was as clear and brisk as in life.

However, the joy was only for a moment.

Arthur's pupils were soon dyed with extreme confusion and fear.

“Wh-what is this……! My heart! I can't feel my heartbeat! I'm inhaling, but there's no flow of air, and I'm stepping on the floor, but there's absolutely no sensation on the soles of my feet!”

The ego from his life was 100% intact, but it was a terrible sensation where the five senses to feel the world were all castrated.

It was no different from a perfect Avici Hell where his soul was trapped in an invisible coffin.

“Wh-what have you done to me! The sense of touch, taste, not even the temperature of my skin can be felt! This isn't eternal life! This terrible curse……!”

“Sit.”

The moment Arthur shrieked and threw a fit, Kim Minwoo's light command dropped.

“Why would I listen to your…… Keo, heok?!”

Arthur's old tongue, which was about to rebel, stiffened, and his immortal physical body lay flat on the floor entirely independent of his will.

He instinctively realized.

The terrible truth that no resistance or rebellion was possible in front of this creator who had killed him and brought him back to life a moment ago.

“Now, did you see the sample via real-time live broadcast? Physical preservation and soul guarantee, the quality assurance is certain, isn't it?”

Kim Minwoo looked at the leaders beyond the screen while nodding his chin.

The pupils of the leaders, who had been terrified until just a moment ago, were gleaming bizarrely while simultaneously witnessing Arthur's perfect resurrection and his despairing scream.

[So what is the meaning of that?]

The leader of Ares Corporation, who had been keeping silent beyond the screen, growled lowly.

Thick doubt was entangled together in his pupils.

[It is certainly surprising that Arthur resurrected with his soul and ego preserved intact. I acknowledge that it is the real Arthur himself. But…… look at that state.]

The finger of the Ares leader pointed toward Arthur, who was trembling while lying flat on the floor.

[Isn't he merely a lump of meat that can only think! Just what kind of blessing is it to live eternally in such a terrible state. It's merely a curse where dying cleanly would rather be better!]

[Furthermore, to think he prostrates without even being able to resist at a single word from you. If that isn't a slave, what is!]

The other leaders also agreed with the Ares leader's words and simultaneously bulged their veins.

No matter how much they feared death and craved eternal life, they did not desire such a state.

They only wanted to eternally enjoy all the pleasures they could enjoy as the rulers of the universe.

Becoming such a terrible undead was no different from torture wrapped in the packaging of eternal life.

“The real business starts now.”

Kim Minwoo flicked his finger.

He pulled out a glass containing pitch-black liquid from his subspace.

[Cocktail of the Dead].

The ultimate taming item that revived the lost senses from life to the dead for a mere 100 points.

“It's a bit dull when the five senses fly away after becoming an undead. But that sensation, with just one glass of this cocktail I give you, returns much more vividly than in life, you know?”

Kim Minwoo roughly forced open the mouth of Arthur lying flat on the floor and poured the entire cocktail bottle containing the pitch-black liquid.

“Keo, keok! Gulp, gulp……!”

Arthur swallowed the cocktail without being able to put up a single resistance.

But the next moment, his two eyes, which had been dyed with despair, widened as if they would pop out like a frog's.

“Heo, heok……! A, aaah! I, I feel it! The touch of the cold marble floor! The sweet taste of the air lingering on the tip of my tongue! Even the stiffness felt when I had that worn-out mechanical body is gone, it's much clearer and more vivid! Uahahak! It's perfect! Perfect!”

Arthur, who had been going crazy from the fear of sensory loss until a moment ago, was now rolling on the floor pouring out tears of joy.

A perfect immortal physical body that neither rots nor ages, and the perfect resurrection of the five senses capable of fully feeling all the pleasures of life.

It was eternal life in the true sense, which the rulers of the universe could not reach even after pouring in such massive capital.

Gulp.

The Adam's apples of the 4 megacorp leaders watching that scene beyond the screen fluctuated in unison.

The fear and doubt that had been filling their pupils were already burning with uncontrollable fierce greed and longing.

“Now, with this, I think the value of the product I'm selling is clearly proven.”

Kim Minwoo tapped Arthur's head tuk-tuk and smiled toward the screen.

“Shall we do real business now. Let's make a contract with me.”

[C-contract……?]

Above Kim Minwoo's palm, a single piece of parchment shining brilliantly with a golden light floated up.

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