Got a Gallery in the Wild

The Immortal King.

The existence that transformed all the citizens of the Valkhan Kingdom into undeads, in other words, into an immortal army, plunging the entire world into terror.

Undeads, by nature, did not require supplies, which gave them monstrous military power.

On top of that, they could revive enemy corpses as undeads, making numerical differences completely meaningless.

But was necromancy, the foundation of the undeads, originally an evil magic?

No.

It was simply strictly prohibited by the Holy Kingdom because of the case of the Immortal King.

Originally, it was a magic anyone could use.

Necromancy really is pitiful

If used properly, it would genuinely be useful.

There wouldn’t even be any need to use human corpses, they could use monster or beast corpses.

That alone could easily replace labor.

└I don’t think necromancy is evil. The evil ones are the people who use it for horrible things.

└And allow necromancy so another Immortal King can be created? No thanks.

└Then what about other magics? If we’re being honest, couldn’t any offensive magic be misused?

└That’s true, but the Central Continent already viewed necromancy badly from the beginning. If only the Holy Kingdom had banned it, that would’ve been one thing, but the fact that the Central Continent joined in was huge.

└Even so, banning it completely was excessive;;

└That’s what I’m saying. There were people who couldn’t even leave final words behind.

└It was like an entire profession with huge potential disappeared overnight. Because of that, there are way more problems now.

└If the Immortal King had never existed, my father never would’ve been executed.

└That’s sad. A lot of people resent the Holy Kingdom because of that.

└My father was an incredible merchant.

└?? Then why did he fall into ruin if he was a merchant?

└Shit, was that guy a grave robber or something??

└More than a grave robber, he sounds like a human trafficker;;

└Look at this sick bastard;;

└They should’ve cut his head off a long time ago lmao.

└LMAO

└Is it because of people like him that necromancy’s image got even worse?

└No no. That’s an extreme case. Normally they used nameless corpses.

└It’s basically like screaming because a pharmacist made drugs.

└And human trafficking isn’t something exclusive to necromancy either. They’re just forcing the blame onto it.

Necromancy was an unsettling magic, not an evil magic.

On the contrary, it was a magic that brought enormous benefits to the world.

Among them, the most representative was replacing manual labor.

Especially in agriculture, the origin and core of human civilization.

A cow died?

They would simply revive it through necromancy.

Not enough workers?

You just asked a necromancer for help.

They could also use human corpses, but only through fairly strict procedures.

Most importantly, everyone hated the idea of using necromancy in wars, so there was an unwritten rule forbidding it.

If a country used necromancy in war, it would have no right to complain even if it ended up internationally isolated.

It’s true that necromancy gives off bad vibes

Honestly, reviving corpses already feels sinister by itself.

It has an evil vibe, and corpses give off a horrible feeling.

(Photo of a Death Knight riding a horse)

But skeletal horses look insanely cool.

└Wow. After seeing that, I decided I want to revive a horse with necromancy.

└The Holy Kingdom will catch you if you do that;;

└Then I’ll escape while riding it.

└LMAO

I’ll only state facts.

Was the Immortal King a bastard? Yes.

Did the Holy Kingdom overreact? Also yes.

Is necromancy an unsettling magic? Yes.

The reason people get furious is because they didn’t just prohibit using it on humans, they banned all necromancy entirely.

And they say it summons the souls of the dead, but even that has never been confirmed.

└Have you ever seen a manual labor skeleton have its own ego? I haven’t.

└I think they don’t possess consciousness, but something closer to guardian spirits.

└The corpses simply obey the orders given to them.

└Then what about those people who claim they summoned their ancestors through necromancy?

└Those cases only happen when there are clear relics or personal belongings.

└Then what about liches and Death Knights?

└Both are closer to monsters than humans. Think goblin shamans, orc shamans, or gnoll mages.

└What’s your profession? A professor maybe?

└An unemployed galerian shut inside his house.

└Get outta here lmao.

└Everything sounded pretty convincing until he said that lmao.

└What kind of analysis is a galerian gonna make? lmao.

After the incident of the Immortal King, who nearly covered the entire world in corpses, necromancy ended up becoming evil magic.

Some influential mages and scholars raised their voices saying that allowing necromancy to disappear completely was wrong, but it was useless.

An enormous number of people suffered or lost loved ones because of the Immortal King’s actions.

At least in the current generation, nobody expected to see necromancy again.

Everyone thought that way.

They already deciphered what Grills uploaded

The language of the Valkhan Kingdom was almost completely lost, and on top of that it was used by the high nobility, so it was difficult to decipher.

But the contents are so shocking they give chills;; If this is real, the Holy Kingdom is going to explode.

└What exactly does it say? Earlier they also said the Holy Kingdom committed a massacre.

└Originally people believed the Immortal King appeared first and then the Holy Kingdom acted, right? Well, according to this it’s the opposite. The Holy Kingdom massacred Valkhan’s citizens first, and that caused the birth of the Immortal King;;

└Does that even make sense? It sounds impossible from the start;;

└Probably because the Valkhan Kingdom had a small population while the Holy Kingdom was absurdly powerful.

└No, I mean why would the Holy Kingdom massacre Valkhan’s citizens? There must’ve been some reason.

└According to the book, they asked for help defeating the Demon King. Since Valkhan refused, they destroyed the entire kingdom as an example;;

└That’s insane;;

└If that’s true, this wouldn’t just be some huge scandal anymore.

The truth was, there really were many strange things.

According to those who knew the Valkhan Kingdom, the Immortal King was someone closer to a benevolent ruler.

It was true that he possessed deep knowledge of necromancy, but he strictly prohibited using it on the dead.

He only allowed exceptions through special procedures when there was a valid reason.

Even though the Valkhan Kingdom had little territory, they had no problems surviving.

Compared to other countries they were militarily weak, but considering the size of their territory, they lived quite well.

Then why would someone who knew how to be content end up becoming the Immortal King and trying to devour the world?

And on top of that, turning all his citizens into undeads?

People said it was to conquer the world, but you’d have to be completely insane to do something like that.

└Everything loses meaning if nobody is left alive, so why would he do that?

└So you also think the Holy Kingdom is hiding something, right?

└Yeah. Though I’m only saying it inside the gallery lol.

└Well, if they get that nervous over gallery rumors, then it really does seem suspicious lmao.

└And it also makes no sense for records like these to appear in the Four Seasons Forest.

└Nah, they’re probably just exaggerating lmao.

As that shocking information began spreading throughout the gallery, the users did not believe it easily.

It was content far too difficult to accept.

And above all, it came from the Four Seasons Forest.

That the truth would emerge from a book found while exploring the most remote place among remote places?

└I’d say that precisely because it’s the Four Seasons Forest, it feels more believable.

└If the Holy Kingdom really tried to exterminate all the citizens of Valkhan, then it makes sense they fled into the Four Seasons Forest.

└And the Immortal King probably sent the scribe there as a last resort.

└After all, they were going to die anyway.

└That actually sounds pretty convincing.

└Besides, even if they left records behind, nobody was going to find them anyway.

└And the one who found them was WildGrills lmao. Literally the only bastard capable of using the gallery inside the Four Seasons Forest.

└What kind of coincidence is this lmao.

No matter how much I think about it, all of this appeared way too suddenly.

(Photo of an elf tilting their head in confusion)

Don’t you feel like everything is moving too fast?

That Grills found records related to the Immortal King right while exploring?

└So you’re saying Grills found them intentionally? In the Four Seasons Forest?

└That doesn’t make sense either. We have to assume he just got lucky.

└LMAO

└Look how quickly they accepted it haha.

Paradoxically, that made everything seem even more trustworthy.

On top of that, Grills had uploaded the books in their entirety to the gallery.

If he had only posted fragments, people probably would have accused him of manipulating information.

But because he uploaded the complete contents in such detail, nobody could say that.

And the gallery, as had already been mentioned countless times, was a place anyone could access as long as they met the conditions.

Because of that, scholars from all over the world began gathering in Grills’ posts to debate.

“……”

And the gallery’s head moderator, HeroDontThrowAway, in other words, Asella, was also watching the chaos unfolding there.

She stared at the gallery with eyes full of confusion.

As a devout believer and the current Heroine, it was impossible for her to accept that truth.

‘W-what is all this……?’

The truth related to the Immortal King, the worst necromancer and tyrant in history.

According to official history, the Immortal King was consumed by ambition and transformed all the citizens of his kingdom into undeads.

To stop him, the previous Hero and his companion mage, Kadir, personally intervened to put an end to his ambitions.

In the process, the hero died gloriously and Kadir defeated the Immortal King.

That was the “history” known by the world.

‘T-this makes no sense! The Holy Kingdom would never do something like this……!’

The texts uploaded by Grills contained information so horrible it sounded like a conspiracy theory.

Grills had simply uploaded them to decipher the records left by his great senior, but the impact they caused was far more terrifying than he imagined.

A truth that should never come to light.

The dark side of the Holy Kingdom, the nation that worshipped the gods.

Even though they had barely managed to decipher the beginning, the summary was this.

The story of a group that was supposed to defeat the Demon King and ended up creating one instead.

A truth where not even a trace of justice existed, and one that deeply shook Asella.

‘N-no. This has to be false. If something like that had really happened, the Goddess would never have forgiven it.’

The Holy Kingdom was a nation that revered the gods.

It could not have created a Demon King.

Asella tried to rationalize it while calming her racing heart.

First, she had to control the gallery, which was already on the verge of completely spiraling out of control.

‘S-should I delete Mr. Grills’ posts……?’

Third rule of the gallery.

Posting content that creates tensions between nations is prohibited.

And Grills’ posts perfectly violated that rule.

The ban on forming groups only applied to real-life personal relationships, so that was not an issue.

‘Even though Mr. Grills himself uploaded them without thinking too deeply about it……’

She could not help hesitating.

And there was an even bigger problem.

If she deleted Grills’ posts, people would become convinced they were real.

Maybe it would be better to leave them as they were.

Although she had naïve moments, Asella was not stupid.

‘For now, I think it’s better not to delete these posts.’

The information had probably already spread too far.

After all, she had been busy until recently and had not had time to check the gallery.

‘If the Holy Kingdom truly did that……’

Shake! Shake!

Asella violently shook her head to drive away those thoughts that were beginning to invade her mind.

Reality remained peaceful.

Even if controversy arose, it would be enough for the Holy Kingdom to deny it.

‘Maybe all this chaos will remain only inside the gallery.’

Problems born in the gallery rarely spread into the real world.

It was like a storm inside a teacup.

Though of course, that would completely change if undeniable evidence appeared.

For example, the books Grills had found.

If those books fell into other people’s hands, the situation would be different.

‘Though even that would be difficult without truly enormous influence.’

There was still time.

Asella decided to wait for the Holy Kingdom’s reaction.

She desperately wanted all of this to be false.

‘The Goddess hasn’t said anything, so they must be lies.’

But because of the situation she found herself in, dark emotions slowly began to arise inside her.

‘It has to be that way.’

***

While the gallery was in complete chaos.

“Ah. I slept really well.”

Grills had just woken up from a wonderful nap.

The first thing he did after getting up was enter the gallery.

He wanted to check whether anyone had managed to decipher anything.

And after seeing the disaster the gallery had turned into, he thought only one thing.

“Looks like they still haven’t deciphered the part I wanted.”

Disappointment.