Seoul Station’s Necromancer Chapter 11:
TLN: Just an FYI . My free time will be decreasing drastically starting today . I’ll have to push translating novels to a lower priority . I’ll try to stick to the regular schedule . Also, since I have less time, sponsored chapter will probably take two days instead of one . I hope you guys understand . Thanks~
Chapter 11 – Roused Registration
Woojin got off the bus, then he took out his phone to launch the map app . While it was loading, he saw a round bar rotating forever . He wondered how he should get rid of that **** phone salesman .
After 30 seconds had passed, the map finally showed up . Woojin used the navigation function to head toward his destination . After searching for the destination, he had to wait a long minute before it started to give him directions .
[Roused General Affairs Bureau]
Woojin came to the General Affairs Bureau to register himself as a Roused . At the reception desk, Woojin wrote down his basic biological data and his ability . He took a receipt number, and after a brief time, he headed towards the examination room .
The examination room had cameras everywhere, and two Roused from the Bureau was stationed there in case of any unforeseen event . Also, there was a public official sitting there to process the test results .
Oh-joonhwan, who had returned to the General Affairs Bureau, looked over Kang-woojin’s file .
“You have a summoning ability? Could you show it to me?”
Woojin answered his very businesslike questions .
“Right here?”
Woojin stood there blankly, so Joonhwan moved his gaze towards his monitor .
‘Uh? Have I met him before?’
It had been only four days since he had since his face, but Woojin’s outfit differed too much from his current outfit . Oh-joonhwan couldn’t recognize him .
“I need a vector . ”
“Ah, you have a mass summoning ability . What kind of vector do you need?”
“Give me one corpse . ”
“What?”
Of course, Joonhwan and the two Roused from the Bureau was taken aback . Woojin smirked as he added more words afterwards .
“I’m not talking about a human corpse . It could be a monster or even a dead animal . It needs to have bones . Ah, of course, human corpses are fine too . ”
“I . . I understand . ”
Even though Joonhwan was taken aback, he called the Support Division . Soon, the Support Division brought a corpse of a bunny, which had been killed during an experiment .
He spread his hand towards the corpse placed in the middle of the examination room .
“Wake up . ”
Pah-pak!
The bunny’s corpse exploded, and a Skeleton Soldier suddenly surged up .
“Kee-kee-keek . ”
Joonhwan gulped as the Skeleton Soldier’s producing a bizarre sound . He had seen all types of weird Roused abilities, but this scene was a new one .
However, Joonhwan was only a rank 9, so it was his first time seeing this . However, it wasn’t as if there weren’t any Roused with such abilities .
“You…you are a Necromancer . ”
The Roused were given various titles based on their abilities like Magician, Warrior or Priest . Of course, there were Necromancers, who controlled the Undead . There were even some famous people amongst the Necromancers .
“As you can see . ”
“Summoner’s ability is given a Roused rank based on their summoned being’s battle ability . Why don’t you try attacking that?”
In the middle of the examination room, a hologram appeared, so Woojin looked around the examination room anew . There were numerous equipment installed around the domed examination room, and it was projecting the hologram .
“Think of it as a simulated battle . I just want to see your summoned being’s movement . ”
The hologram was kobold, and it had a small body . It was a monster as common as the Drabbit, but they were harder to hunt since they like to group together . Moreover, they behaved like a swarm .
“Kee-keek . ”
The Skeleton Soldier moved according to his will, and it started to fight the Kobold . It didn’t have a real body, so his bone knife passed right through it . However, the machines installed around the surrounding picked up all the movements as it took measurements .
After five minutes had passed, Joohwan told him to stop .
“Do you have any other abilities?”
“Well, I don’t have any other notable abilities . ”
Yet .
“Hmmm, Wait a moment . Could you follow me?”
Joonhwan directed him to a break room . He said he’ll only take a moment, but Joonhwan took an hour before he came back with a black card . It looked like a high quality credit card, but it had his picture imprinted on it like his ID .
“This is your Roused registration card . It can be used as an ID and a debit card . ”
The card simply had his personal profile, and there was a rank F written on it .
“Is Rank F really that low?”
“Mmm . It can’t be considered high . No, it it is the lowest . Summoner’s battle abilities are weaker than expected…”
Of course . He hadn’t put his points into the lvl 1 Skeleton Soldiers . They could only exert half the strength of an adult .
“Mmm . Well, if one’s rank is too low, is there a restriction on which Dungeons you can enter?”
“There is no such thing . However, the party is distributed based on your rank when you are forming a party . ”
That wasn’t a problem . He didn’t want to form a party . He planned on using the Dungeon by himself . Woojin could sever a steel bar with his bare hands, and he could simultaneously move 14 of his summoned beings . Therefore, he didn’t make a fuss out of it .
“Excuse me . Have I seen you somewhere?”
At Oh-joonhwan’s question, Woojin tilted his head in confusion . He didn’t try hard to comb over his old memories . No, he thought it wasn’t worth it .
“This is the first time . Have a nice day . ”
Woojin immediately left the Bureau, and Joonhwan scratched the back of his head .
“Ah, I know I’ve seen him somewhere…… . ”
Still, he kept having an uncomfortable feeling . He was able to find the source of the discomfort only when Joohwan returned to his seat .
“Ah! He was that guy from before . Gwachun Station’s 1st Exit . ”
On the first day he returned from his temp job, Joonhwan had been berated by his superior . The reason being he hadn’t been vigilant in controlling the access to the Dungeon . Joonhwan searched through his drawer, and he took out the access record to the Gwachun Station’s 1st Exit .
[Name : Kang-woojin, Affiliation : Planet Earth, Roused Number : 12345]
When he saw the cheeky answer on the record again, his fists shook again .
“He’s a rank F and not a high rank? Moreover, he is a noob, who just registered today . Jeez . ”
Joonhwan was berated by his superior, because of this bastard, and he had been in a huff for a while .
“Uh? He is only Rank F yet how did he clear it by himself?”
The Gwachun Station’s 1st Exit had Drabbits . They didn’t drop any Bloodstones, but it wasn’t a dungeon where a F rank could clear it on his own .
“Jeez . ”
Joonhwan tilted his head, then he threw the file on the desk . He won’t see him again, so why should he care?
*
After leaving the Bureau, Woojin took out his smart phone then he opened the Dungeon Forum . He almost exploded from frustration when the loading screen took a while before the app started running .
As he had learned from Jaemin, he set the search option to the entrance fee of 10,000 won . Then he selected a monster rank that was 2 ranks below his summoned monsters .
“This is the closest one . ”
Woojin checked for a bus line that goes to the [Shinrim Station’s 7th Exit Dungeon], then he waited at the bus station .
“Man, this app is quite convenient . . ”
In the past 5 years, the Dungeons born from the train stations weren’t the only thing new . In the past, only few people had smart phones, but everyone had one now .
Moreover, there were a lot of convenient apps that were helpful in real life .
As he got closer to the Shinrim Station, the buildings’ height became lower, and the surrounding became desolate . The area around the station wasn’t thriving with buildings . There were occasional vacant lots at the intersections, and he saw a really big parking lot .
“It looks like the Dungeon Break happened here at least once . ”
If not, he had no explanation as to why the perfectly fine buildings were shuttered . There wouldn’t be any empty lots present .
When he previously headed toward the 1st Exit, there were army troops already deployed there . His current destination, the 7th exit, had a crowd of people in front of it .
Woojin had come here after reading a famous blog . It seemed many netizens had rushed over here . He shook his head when he saw the long line .
“I hadn’t thought about this . ”
The low entrance fee, and the 2 rank below monsters meant the risk was small, but the competition to make money at the Mine was fierce .
Woojin had no choice, but to get in line . Everyone was gathered in small groups, so it seemed like they were working together .
This was when a man with sharp features spoke to him from further in front of the line .