The Low-Key Life of a Necromancer

Li and Theresa ran to the square as fast as they could. This place used to gather townspeople was already crowded with people.

Many seriously injured people were lying in the square, wailing and crying, and some were unconscious and their lives were unknown.

Swords and armor were thrown casually on the roadside. No one paid attention to the weapons and equipment that should have been strictly controlled.

When Li saw the tragic scene, he was shocked. He immediately scanned the crowd, desperately looking for his father.

Li quickly found the familiar person.

He was a head taller than the people around him and looked like a male bear. He had several javelins and a small round metal shield on his back.

Before marrying into the Li family, Li's father was a student expelled from the Knight Academy. Later, he worked as an adventurer for several years. His attire and combat style have both the stability of an academic and the wildness of an adventurer.

"Father! Your hand!"

Li immediately ran to his father and put on a serious attitude.

These changes are all subconscious behaviors. The son always feels nervous unconsciously when facing his majestic father.

Unlike the decadent Dad Li in the dream world, his eyes showed the sharpness and caution of years of fighting, and his attitude towards Li was not gentle at all.

"Li, you are still so reckless. When will you grow up?"

Dad Li turned around and found that he was missing his left arm. Looking at his father's empty shoulders, Li's heart twitched in pain.

"You lost your arm, and you're still telling me this?"

"…It's just an arm. It's not like I can't grow one back."

In this world, losing a limb is not a big problem. As long as you go to the temple and ask a powerful priest to bless you, the lost arm will slowly grow back.

This was not the first time that Li's father had lost arms and broken legs. He even mastered a way of fighting that used his arms and legs to exchange for the enemy's life.

Because of this, Dad Li gained quite a reputation among the soldiers, but as a family member, how could he not feel heartbroken when he saw him injured and in pain?

Li now has some hope that his father can become a loser who drinks all day long, just like in his dream world.

"Father, tell me, why was he beaten so badly this time?"

The militia brought by Li's father are only part of the combat force. The main force of the battle is the knights in this area.

It's just a group of kobolds. According to the normal pace, everyone should return with a full load and go to the tavern to brag and chat.

But now, more than half of the militiamen who left the town were lying on the ground wailing, and the remaining half were silent.

This was obviously a huge blow suffered during the battle, so that their morale was completely gone.

Li believed that if there were more casualties, the team would even lose the ability to bring the wounded back.

"…A high priest emerged from among the kobolds, and things ended up like this."

Talking about the battle situation, Dad Li sighed very depressedly.

The huge losses in this expedition against the ogre men are inseparable from the carelessness on the human side.

The kobolds, who act in tribes, have a combat capability equal to that of wolf packs.

However, when intelligent species are born among the dog-headed people, the originally ferocious beasts will transform into beasts with wisdom.

"The team ran headlong into a trap prepared by the kobolds, and we were unable to organize an effective resistance formation."

The team fell into chaos, and the Gnoll jumped directly into the middle of the militia. The human side had such heavy casualties, and they could only blame themselves for being careless and underestimating the enemy.

"What about the Knights? The lord's army should be able to resist, right?"

"Don't mention that lord. He was the first one to fall. The kobold warrior hit him on the helmet with a hammer. After that, the knights were in chaos and wanted to retreat to protect their master."

Li's eyes went dark. He did not go to the battlefield. Just by listening to his father's description of the battle, Li had already imagined the entire process of the battle.

The human response can only be described as a complete failure. It's a blessing that my father was able to bring back the injured militiamen.

"How are you? I heard you were going to take the risk and try some ascension ritual?"

Dad Li was thirsty and wanted to drink some water, but he couldn't open the stopper on the kettle with one hand.

Li Gang wanted to reach out to help him, but he saw the stubborn Li Dad turned around and bit off the stopper with his teeth.

Li had no choice but to withdraw his hand angrily and talk about his recent situation.

"I did try the Necromancer's ascension ritual, but the result seemed to be wrong. I attracted a different world..."

"Okay, that's not important. Tell your mom that I'm going out again."

Mr. Li himself was not very interested in necromancy. Seeing that Li was going to talk for a long time, he interrupted Li directly.

Li blinked awkwardly, and saw that his father had already walked towards the open space to gather the soldiers who were still able to move.

"We fought those kobolds and both of us were hurt. They must be treating the wounded and gathering the remaining soldiers just like us. We should take this opportunity to fight back and kill the intelligent species in the kobold tribe. Even if we can't kill them, we should chase them away!"

Organized groups of kobolds can pose a considerable threat to towns.

There was once a lord who did not take his kobold neighbors seriously and allowed them to grow wildly in the wild. The end result was that the grass on the lord's grave was one meter high, and the town became a ruin dominated by kobolds.

Dad Li was very decisive in dealing with the enemy. His decision was correct. While the ogres were still in chaos, pursuing them relentlessly would definitely have a good effect.

However, due to the high-intensity continuous fighting and the continuation of the expedition after the failure of the first expedition, only a few people responded to Li Ba's call.

We are all just militiamen and we participate in training only to protect ourselves.

No one wants to continue to fight a battle with no benefits to be seen.

Li stood in the distance and watched his father shouting again and again, trying his best to mobilize the soldiers' emotions. Li just felt that he was too tense.

"Dad, don't you know how to take a good rest? It won't be too late to go after two days with the Kobolds or something."

"Master, the master is just worried that the kobolds will attack the town."

Xiaoli watched the conversation between Li and his father. From a maid's perspective, she saw the extremely awkward interaction between the two male masters.

Xiaoli never understood why the relationship between Li and her father was so strained.

Obviously, they would understand each other better if they communicated more, but Li and his father would say everything they wanted within a few words, and then the two taciturn people would stare at each other.

"I know that my father is an excellent militia captain. He is so cold to me because he just can't stand my incompetence."

Deep in Lee’s memory, he still remembers his interactions with his father as a child.

When Li Gang showed his magical talent, his father happily carried Li around everywhere and showed off his son to everyone he knew.

Unfortunately, Li's performance was not satisfactory and Li's father lost a lot of face. The relationship between the two gradually became stiff.

"It's okay for the relationship between a son and his father to be a little awkward. Xiaoli, instead of worrying about me, you should help Dad prepare the backpack."