I Became The Necromancer In The Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World

Chapter 52

—–CROW—– 

Even through the static of the walkie-talkie, Baek Min-ah’s sobs were clear.

My blood ran cold, and my heart began to race.

“Min-ah. What happened? Are you hurt?”

My breathing grew ragged in the urgency of the moment, but I knew I had to stay calm.

First, I needed to assess the situation.

What danger was she in? What was the most pressing issue?

I needed to know.

My question was quickly answered through the walkie-talkie.

━*Static.*

[…I… *static*, bitten….]

“…….”

A surge of hot blood rushed to my head, shattering my composure.

“Min-ah. Apply strong pressure above the bite wound with something. Do you know how to apply a tourniquet?”

[…Yes, *sob*, but Seo-ho… *static*, H-Hyun-seo….]

“I’ll be there soon.  Just stay calm and wait.”

I ended the call, roughly shoving the walkie-talkie into my waistband, and looked at the dining table with a grim expression.

The women, who had overheard the radio exchange from a distance, all looked tense, realizing the gravity of the situation.

“S-Seo-ho…”

“Just wait here. Ha-yeon, come with me.”

“…Y-Yes!”

There was no time to discuss the matter with them.

Baek Min-ah’s situation was urgent.  I had to go to her immediately.

‘Bitten means… a zombie, right?’

I grabbed my backpack, packed with essential equipment, and rushed to the van in the parking lot.

Yoo Ha-yeon frantically followed behind.

‘Could the zombies I gathered have gone up to the apartment…?’

I slammed on the accelerator, ignoring the scraping sounds as the van brushed against nearby objects and vehicles, and sped down the road.

My mind raced with possible explanations as I drove.

‘No, that can’t be it. I made sure to reinforce the area around the apartment and prevent them from going up.’

Then, another possibility.

A zombie from outside had entered the apartment building and bitten Baek Min-ah?

‘But… why would it go up to the 9th floor…? And… why would Min-ah open the door?’

It didn’t make sense.

She had experienced the pattern of zombies scratching at the door when she was with me.

So, the chances of her mistaking a zombie for me and opening the door were slim.

‘Anyway, I won’t know until I get there…’

But one nagging hypothesis wouldn’t leave my mind.

Baek Min-ah’s husband, Yoon Hyun-seo’s father.

Yoon Kang-hyun.

From the moment I discovered his body, covered in countless wounds, I had considered various possibilities.

The marks looked like he had been deliberately beaten all over.

As if someone had intentionally inflicted pain on him.

Seeing those wounds, a thought had crossed my mind.

If… if that possibility was true…

A sense of foreboding washed over me, and I pressed harder on the accelerator, speeding up.

“Kyaaah!”

Yoo Ha-yeon, sitting in the passenger seat, screamed anxiously and gripped the overhead handle.

。 。 。

━*Screech!*

The van, speeding at nearly 80 km/h even within the apartment complex, screeched to a halt at its destination.

I flung open the door and jumped out before the van had even fully stopped. Yoo Ha-yeon followed.

“A-Ahjussi… This is…”

Yoo Ha-yeon, her feet on the ground, looked around with wide eyes and called out to me.

I was already looking at the scene that had shocked her.

‘It wasn’t just one.’

After seeing Yoon Kang-hyun’s body, I had created a defensive line around Baek Min-ah’s apartment using a large number of zombies, as a precaution.

To prevent any ordinary survivor from getting close.

Just a few days ago, when I delivered food, numerous zombies were still wandering around the apartment building.

But now…

…instead of the staggering horde…

…the ground was littered with motionless bodies, as if a typhoon had passed through.

I approached a pile of bodies and crouched down to examine them.

‘These aren’t zombies.’

Among the pile of corpses that had clearly been zombies, there was one that stood out.

The body of a large woman.

Unlike the zombies lying around, this was the body of a human who had been alive until recently.

The body of a survivor, a human who had died as a human.

I could see other bodies of similar build scattered around.

“Let’s go. We need to check on Min-ah.”

“Y-Yes!”

I didn’t know exactly who had done this, but…

…judging from the surroundings, it wasn’t the work of just one person.

At least ten.

Or maybe twenty.

Perhaps even more people had been involved in this strategic attack.

A targeted attack on Baek Min-ah, who lived in this apartment.

They had skillfully dispersed the zombies guarding the apartment and sacrificed a few of their own to eliminate them.

Having grasped the general situation, I hurried up to the 9th floor with Yoo Ha-yeon.

“Min-ah━!!”

The familiar front door on the 9th floor…

…was crudely ripped open by what looked like a crowbar.

I rushed inside without taking off my shoes.

Numerous footprints trailed from the entrance.

And following those footprints towards the living room…

…I found a zombie, its throat pierced by a kitchen knife, and Baek Min-ah, sitting against the window, tears streaming down her face.

“S-Seo-ho…!”

Seeing me, she reached out, her face contorted with emotion, tears flowing freely.

I immediately rushed to her and checked her condition.

“Where were you bitten? Where are you hurt?”

“M-My arm….  I’m not hurt anywhere else.  But…! Hyun-seo…!”

She clutched my clothes, sobbing uncontrollably.

These weren’t tears for herself, for the possibility of dying from a zombie bite.

Her apartment was in disarray.

The familiar figure of a child was nowhere to be seen.

These were tears of worry and grief for her missing daughter.

“Hyun-seo was taken…! Sob.”

She buried her face in my shoulder and sobbed, speaking of the daughter she couldn’t protect.

‘Taken…?’

Confused by her words, I calmed myself down.

Panicking wouldn’t help.

“If she was taken, do you know why? Did they hurt Hyun-seo?”

“No…, *sob*, they didn’t hurt her, but, they dragged her away…”

They didn’t hurt her.

‘So, their goal was to capture Hyun-seo alive?’

I didn’t understand the reason, but if they kidnapped her instead of killing her, there must be a reason.

And if they left Baek Min-ah to die and only took the child…

‘Then the most urgent matter is Min-ah.’

I lifted her left arm and examined it.

A properly applied tourniquet was tightly fastened around her upper arm.

A method of stopping bleeding by using cloth and a stick to constrict blood flow above the wound.

This would prevent blood from flowing below the tourniquet.

It would slow down the infection, at least for a while.

‘I told her to do it as a first aid measure, but…’

“Ugh…”

I groaned, seeing the clear bite marks of a zombie below the tourniquet.

Baek Min-ah had been bitten by a zombie.

That meant she was infected.

‘Usually, they turn within an hour or two, at the earliest, half a day at the latest.’

Since the zombie outbreak, knowing how long it took for the infected to turn was crucial for survival.

Thanks to the soldiers, who had been the first to realize and investigate this, I knew the approximate time.

The problem was that Baek Min-ah was definitely infected.

‘There has to be a way… There must be something…!’

I gripped her arm, sweating, my jaw clenched.

I was a Necromancer.

A superhuman who could control zombies.

There had to be a way to prevent her from turning.

There just had to be.

“Seo-ho…”

Baek Min-ah, tears in her eyes, smiled and placed her hand on my face.

Her eyes were sad but resolute.

“Please, save Hyun-seo.”

I recognized that look.

The look of someone accepting death.

No, the look of someone resigned to an unavoidable death.

I had seen that look countless times.

I had that look in the bathroom mirror back in the dormitory when I was first treated like a slave.

My reflection in the window had that look when I first realized Chae Su-ah’s betrayal.

And finally…

…in the department store’s basement bathroom…

…when I was bitten by that zombie, thinking it was the end.

My eyes, reflected in the shattered bathroom mirror, had that same look.

The look of someone giving up on life.

“I will save her. …Hyun-seo, and you too, Min-ah.”

“……What?”

A thought suddenly struck me.

She was infected, bitten by a zombie.

But I knew someone who hadn’t turned into a zombie after being bitten.

‘Me.’

I was bitten by a Necromancer zombie in the department store, but instead of turning, I gained a special power.

But what if…

…what if I hadn’t avoided infection?

What if I had already been infected back then, and I was currently in an infected state?

There were plenty of memories that could support this theory.

…━ [Your bodily fluids have been absorbed beyond a certain threshold, granting ‘■■■’ undead traits.]

That system message appeared every time I had sex with the women.

And when I ejaculated inside them, I could grant them special powers.

As if infecting them with my superhuman traits.

‘The system effects that appear on the women… are all related to my bodily fluids.’

Whether they absorbed my saliva or my semen.

My fluids had the effect of infecting them with special abilities.

In that case…

“Min-ah. Do you trust me?”

I looked at the tearful woman and asked quietly.

A warning of what I was about to do, so she wouldn’t be surprised.

Baek Min-ah, meeting my gaze, blushed slightly…

…and nodded with a faint smile.

I kissed her.

“Mmm… *kiss*.”

As my lips met hers, she opened her mouth slightly, welcoming my tongue as if she had longed for it.

Despite the situation with Hyun-seo’s kidnapping…

…she trusted me and followed my lead without question.

‘As much as possible, as much as possible…’

I focused on transferring my saliva to her, feeling no arousal from the sensual kiss.

I needed to give her as much of my saliva as possible.

After kissing for a while…

━*Ding.*

[Your bodily fluids have been absorbed beyond a certain threshold, granting ‘Baek Min-ah’ undead traits.]

[…━Failed. Undead infection detected within ‘Baek Min-ah’.]

‘As I thought…!’

My eyes widened at the message.

Although it was a failure…

…this confirmed it.

The zombie virus in her body was rejecting the virus in my saliva.

In other words, it was recognizing it as an enemy and neutralizing it.

‘Then I’ll just give her more.’

“S-Seo-ho…?!”

*Rustle.*

After confirming the message, I immediately unbuckled my belt and tore off my clothes.

“I’m sorry.  But please trust me.  I want to save you.”

“……Yes.”

Baek Min-ah, tears still in her eyes, looked bewildered, clearly not expecting me to pull out my penis.

I would have been confused too.

A man getting a hard-on and jumping on a woman in such a critical situation.

At first glance, I might look like a scumbag trying to have sex with her before she dies.

But our intimacy level had surpassed 100%.

She trusted me that much.

“I… I trust you, Seo-ho.”

She blushed and nodded shyly.

“A-Ahjussi… I’ll keep watch at the entrance!”

Yoo Ha-yeon, who had been watching from behind, also blushed and quickly excused herself.

I was grateful that neither of them doubted me.

*Squish, squish.*

“Ungh… hngh.”

As I rubbed the tip of my penis against her pussy, her already soaked hole welcomed me.

“I-I’m sorry… In this situation… Because of the kiss just now…”

She seemed to feel guilty about her wetness, given her daughter’s kidnapping, and lowered her head.

“Don’t worry about anything, Min-ah. Just leave it to me.  I’ll take responsibility and save both you and Hyun-seo.”

“S-Seo-ho…”

I lifted her chin with my hand and spoke gently to her.

Touched by my smile, Baek Min-ah blushed and smiled faintly.

I pushed my cock into her wet hole.

*Squish, thrust━.*

“Hnggg…!”

She gripped my arms tightly and moaned as my large cock slid into her pussy without resistance, filling her completely.

I began to thrust frantically.

*Squish, squish, squish.*

“Haah, hngh, ah, I shouldn’t… If it feels good… Sob, H-Hyun-seo…”

“Haa, it’s alright, Min-ah. Don’t hold back. …Ugh, the sooner you feel good, the sooner we can save Hyun-seo…!”

“I-If that’s the case…”

She responded with hazy eyes, as if making up her mind, and then gently closed her eyes, focusing on the sensation of my cock.

*Squish, squish, squish.*

“Hngh, ungh, ah…! Haa, it feels good… There, hngh…!  Your big cock… Ungh, so deep inside…”

As if understanding my intention, she wrapped her legs around my waist, embraced my neck, and whispered lewdly in my ear.

Her pussy tightened around my cock.

Her soft flesh squeezed and pulsed pleasantly.

“Ugh, it feels so good…!  Inside you, Min-ah…!  I’m going to cum…!”

“Yes…!  Cum inside me…! Fill me up…!  With your hot cum, Seo-ho…!  Fill me…!”

Thanks to our combined efforts, I quickly felt the urge to cum.

Without hesitation, I thrust my cock as deep as it could go…

*Thrust━!*

…and unleashed all my semen into her womb.

*Shudder━!*

“Haaang…!!  Deep inside…! So much hot cum…!”

She climaxed as I filled her with my semen, hugging me tightly and trembling all over.

Her ragged breaths tickled my ear as she squeezed her legs around me, reveling in the pleasure of her womb being filled with my seed.

And then…

━*Ding.*

As soon as I heard the notification sound I had been waiting for, I selected [Enhance] without even checking the message.

[‘Baek Min-ah’ enhancement selected.]

[‘Baek Min-ah’ has absorbed your bodily fluids and has become your Servant.]

[Initiating Trait Roulette.]

Numerous message windows popped up.

I watched them appear and disappear with a tense expression.

━*Ding.*

Finally, the result I had been waiting for appeared.

[━Failed. Undead infection detected within ‘Baek Min-ah’.]

[Re-initiating Trait Roulette.]

‘Please…!’

This time, it was different.

The temporary trait she gained from the kiss earlier was neutralized and disappeared due to the zombie virus inside her.

This time, although the trait acquisition failed, the system began to generate a trait again using my bodily fluids.

And soon…

…another notification sound rang out.

━*Ding.*

[Successful fusion of the undead infection within ‘Baek Min-ah’ and your infection.]

[Enhancement complete. Servant ‘Baek Min-ah’ has manifested the trait ‘Regeneration (B).’]

As a result, the virus inside her fused with my power, and she became my Servant.

“M-Min-ah…?”

The bite wound beneath her tourniquet began to regenerate, emitting a faint smoke, as if rewinding a video.

Her wound was healing thanks to the trait.

But I still couldn’t be certain of her condition, so I cautiously spoke to her as she lay there.

‘Her skin… is paler than usual.’

Unlike moments ago, when she had been trembling with excitement, she now lay calmly with her eyes closed.

Worried, I gently caressed her cheek.

‘Her skin is warm…’

Although her skin was slightly paler than before, its temperature was definitely that of a human.

The paleness was also slight, with a hint of life compared to the zombies outside.

But…

“Ah… Ungh…”

Baek Min-ah opened her eyes at the sound of my voice.

She looked at me with a dazed expression, and then…

“Ah, ah… Ungh…”

“Min-ah…”

She tried to respond, but like a zombie, she couldn’t form coherent words.

She simply stared at me with a blank expression, like a zombie.

I had prevented her from turning into a zombie.

But her demeanor was definitely different.

Failure?

Had I failed to save her?

“……No.”

I clutched Baek Min-ah’s hand and murmured.

The warmth of a human body was clearly felt through her hand.

Baek Min-ah lifted her hand, holding mine, and caressed my face.

I could clearly feel human emotion in her touch.

Even if her eyes were dazed and she couldn’t speak properly right now…

‘There must be a way…’

I had stopped the zombie infection.

Then there must be a way to restore her to her former self.

‘I’ll find a way, even if I have to create one.’

My abilities were influenced by my desires.

I would definitely find a way to bring her back.

“A-Ahjussi…”

Yoo Ha-yeon, seeing that the situation had been resolved, cautiously approached me as I was putting on my pants.

She looked at Baek Min-ah, sitting blankly on the floor, and then came closer, taking my hand.

I could feel her concern through her warm hand.

“Ha-yeon. I’m going to possess something for a moment.  Watch over Min-ah and me.”

“O-Okay…!”

I gently stroked Yoo Ha-yeon’s worried face and then lay down on the sofa behind Baek Min-ah.

━*Ding.*

[Beginning possession of species ‘Pigeon’.]

Even if the bastards who kidnapped Hyun-seo used a vehicle, they were still ‘humans’ affected by zombies.

They couldn’t have escaped this area at high speed, ignoring the zombies like I could.

So, they must still be nearby.

I didn’t know where, but…

…if I caught them, I wouldn’t let them go easily.

━They would pay dearly for daring to touch my woman.

I closed my eyes, feeling the sensation of possession taking over.

—–CROW—–