Webtoon Chapter 1

## Chapter 1

This is the first episode of ***The Lone Necromancer***.

## Summary

The chapter opens with Sungwoo Yu arriving at school after commuting by train and bus. He notes that "commuting to school is hell" in a huff. Hanho Lee appears and jokingly mocks Sungwoo, mentioning his time in the special forces to say that he should be able to handle more. After recomposing himself, Sungwoo retorts that Hanho shouldn't speak until he's gone into the military.

Hanho seriously notes that "Korea will unify," but Sungwoo waves off his words as nonsense. Sungwoo notes that Hanho has gotten away with not enlisting because of a woman named Miyoung, and because his identity is ambiguous. Hanho dejectedly tells Sungwoo not to mention Miyoung, but Sungwoo casually continues, bringing up that he warned Hanho about becoming a Campus Couple with Miyoung three years prior to the beginning of the story.

As they walk silently to their classes, Hanho looks above the campus's library, while Sungwoo wonders if he pushed Hanho too far with his teasing. Without turning around to face him, Sungwoo sheepishly asks if Hanho started crying, but Hanho doesn't react to the teasing, instead shakily pointing above the library, in the sky.

At Hanho's recommendation, Sungwoo looks into the sky, asking if it reminded him of Miyoung's face. Within the sky, the vague outline of text saying, "Downloading Monster - 99%," can be seen. Sungwoo, however, misses it, as it disappears as he begins to look.

Sungwoo doesn't believe Hanho, no matter how hard Hanho tries to convince him. He convinces Hanho that he's simply seeing things, and they continue towards their classes. Hanho suggests that they get coffee, but Sungwoo declines because he'll be late for his class. They split off and Sungwoo goes to his class in Room 404.

Sungwoo gets tired as he sits and listens to his professor's lecture, regretting that he didn't get coffee like Hanho suggested. Despite fighting to stay awake, he closes his eyes, and the first message of the System appears. He wipes at his eyes after reading it, doubting its existence.

At the same time, everything goes black and all electronics stop working. The blackout is abnormally dense, so even looking out of the classroom is impossible. However, the one thing everyone can see are the messages from the System. As the Class Cards flutter about, hesitation and doubt take hold of most of the students.

Minsoo is the very first student to pick a card, choosing the Warrior Class, and a sword appears from nothingness, shocking the frightened college students. Seeing this scene, Sungwoo understands the situation with the cards as best he can, and he grabs the Necromancer card in a flash, right before the Class Card selection ended.

The System informs everyone that there would be another opportunity in the future to pick a Class Card if one hadn't been chosen yet, and then the abnormal blackout ends. As everyone looks at Minsoo's sword with astonishment and confusion, Sungwoo is surprised that he managed to become a Necromancer.

However, with nothing to prove that he'd truly become a Necromancer, he questioned why any obvious items weren't appearing before him. He didn't have much time to ponder his lack of any obvious items as the door to the room bursts open, and a student falls in, screaming for help. A goblin was on his back, its dagger stabbed deep into his back. Everyone is stunned by the sudden danger, and the young man perishes rather quickly after a dozen of brutal attacks from the goblin.

All of the class run as far back from the goblin as possible, but Sungwoo doesn't move from his spot. He glances to Minsoo softly, asking if he remembered him. Minsoo shrieks and asks, "What do you expect me to do?!" and Sungwoo thinks to himself dejectedly, "Ah, we're done for."

The goblin rockets towards Sungwoo, and he stops himself from wanting to run away, noting that he'd end up the same as the deceased student if he turned his back to the monster. He spins on his heel and grabs a chair, aiming to bring it high into the air and onto the back of the goblin. However, he's stunned by the weight of the chair, realizing that it was a chair-and-desk combo.

The goblin shrieks and leaps once more, and Sungwoo, in a fervent panic, manages to pill the chair-and-desk combo up and slams it down onto the goblin, killing it. in one shot.

He receives ten coins for his hard work, and realizes that the world is working like a video game. His classmates stare at him in shock and horror as another notification appears, telling him that the dead will become his subordinates. He looks at a screen detailing the information of a goblin skeleton, and his classmates shout warning at him, pointing towards the corpse of the fallen goblin.

From the goblin's corpse, a flurry of bluish green energy rises, surrounding an obscured form. It disperces and reveals the corpse was now transformed into a skeleton, kneeling to Sungwoo on one knee.

Now, Sungwoo realizes exactly what his Class entails, the ability to stand over the dead as their master.

## Character Appearances

* Sungwoo Yu *(First Appearance)*
* Hanho Lee *(First Appearance)*
* Miyoung *(Only Mentioned)*
* Professor Hwang *(Only Seen)*
* Minsoo *(First Appearance)*
* Orun *(First Appearance)*