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Chapter 26 by Ganti

So what's the most notable thing you have to deal with?

It remains the demoness in your basement

But you're a necromancer, not a demonologist. Or even anyone with any real planar lore. Your knowledge of demon summoning is basically 'don't unless you can really stack the deck in your favor'. Which... you can't. Not without knowing a lot more. Ah yes, the wizards' curse: the never ending quest for knowledge. Well, with that option firmly locked down until later, the next most notable is the towers' reconstruction... Okay, notable is all things you can't deal with yet.

The most urgent thing you can deal with is the goblin corpses littering your tower. Three of them will handle themselves- Walking Corpses [Plague] was just about their only redeeming feature, other then their general undead nature. Self propagating undead were incredibly useful... and incredibly dangerous. If even one got in among unarmed peasants... It would be a disaster. Which is one reason why necromancers were so hated. The other major one being that too many of your... you don't want to call fellows... contemporaries in the art had basically no ethics or morals. Combined with the fact that many of them had actually learned their skills from demons... Well, you can almost understand why Jhondoe tried to smite you out of hand. The keyword is almost- non evil necromancers other then yourself actually aren't unheard of. You shake your head, pulling yourself back out of your thoughts. Focus. You walk out to the furthest goblin corpse, double checking to make sure there are no further hostiles, and begin the reanimation. The spell is mercifully brief, and soon enough you have reanimated three more shambling undead goblins as minions for a total of ten total Walking Corpses. Seven bound to defend the tower, three capable of following you elsewhere.

You eyeball the distance between the sun and the horizon. You estimate two, three more hours until sunset. You could use a sundial, or maybe a clock. Yet more uses for your limited resources, you suppose. And given how much time you're spending sitting around doing nothing you should probably invest into books. Or a musical instrument. Maybe both. Or possibly pick up a craft... Wait. Is this why the update gave you some of every single craft skill available? To give you something to do? Thats'... unusually generous of the gods.

The question now is 'what do you make while passing the time?'

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