TGGCH 07

TGGCH

Posted by Harry, Released on July 30, 2026

Chapter – 07

The Knights’ Graveyard (2)

[Quest – Rest in Peace]

▷ Defeat all ‘Wraith Knights’, the moving dead.

▷ Rewards

① Hidden Route: Entry to ‘The Nameless King’.

There was no time to stand around in a daze.

I immediately swung my spear, slipping through the gaps between the Wraith Knights and charging forward.

Crunch!

The tip of the spear pierced through the knights’ chests.

Was it because of the extreme compatibility?

The iron armor shattered like clam shells, making the name “C-rank Gate” feel meaningless.

Graaaaah—!

The holy power emanating from the spear drove out the sinister energy of the wraiths.

At least one per attack… no?

‘I can take down three at once!’

I gritted my teeth and swung the spear.

The more I killed, the more fiercely the horde of Wraith Knights gathered.

I pierced and crushed the heads of the ones in front, while sweeping the shaft wide to cut through the waists of those behind.

Crack!

Pieces of metal flew roughly.

There was no time to rest.

I exploded power through my knees and thrust the spear forward.

Lan .

Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!

The knights in front were simultaneously purified.

After offering a 0.001-second moment of silence—

“…!”

He sensed a knight swinging a sword at his back.

It seemed that as his Body stat rose, his senses had become sharper as well.

Clang!

He pivoted on his right foot and deflected the sword with his spear.

“Damn it!”

He was already busy to death, yet they were trying to act strategically.

He kicked the knight’s torso, and a heavy impact traveled up his leg.

Since his kick didn’t contain holy power, it couldn’t deal significant damage, but it could throw off their balance.

He thrust his spear into the torso of the staggering Wraith Knight trying to regain its stance.

Stab!

As expected, its defense was ridiculously easy to break.

When facing enemies with higher specs than himself, the most troublesome thing was precisely this defense.

Strong attacks could be avoided, and complex techniques could be copied.

But if you couldn’t pierce through thick armor, you could never win.

Conversely—

If his attacks worked, he could compete for victory against any opponent.

“Hoo…!”

He exhaled the stale breath trapped in his lungs and twisted his grip on the spear shaft.

He hadn’t originally planned to exert himself this much.

He was only going to carve out a path to reach the castle where the boss was.

‘Hidden Route!’

The reward looked far from ordinary.

Thanks to that, he was now doing an unplanned time attack.

He had to deal with all the knights and even the boss within five hours.

“Come out, all of you! Come at me at once!”

***

“Haaahk… Hoo…”

His shoulders were starting to feel numb.

Strength was gradually leaving the hand holding the spear.

‘There’s no end to them…!’

He had been fighting without rest for nearly an hour, yet the knights kept crawling out.

He took out a potion from his subspace and drank it.

The fatigue in his body disappeared, but the situation was far from pleasant.

Clank—!

He shattered a charging knight with his holy spear and thought.

“Something’s off.”

There were way too many of them.

He had been taking down roughly ten per minute for an hour straight, yet instead of decreasing, their numbers were increasing.

A strange sense of unease lingered inside him.

‘This isn’t the kind of quantity that should come from a C-rank Gate.’

When the level of monsters is lower than the Gate’s difficulty, their numbers are usually overwhelmingly high.

However, the Wraith Knights were objectively monsters that perfectly fit a C-rank Gate.

Even at his current level, without the holy spear, he would have struggled quite a bit.

And yet there were this many of them?

“Don’t tell me…”

He stopped swinging his spear and briefly retreated from the battlefield.

The knights chased after him with glowing eyes, but their speed wasn’t very fast.

Tap, tap!

He stepped on the debris and climbed onto a collapsed watchtower to survey the surroundings.

The ruined kingdom spread out beneath the blood-red sky.

Below, the knights surging like waves… were pouring in from somewhere in long lines.

They looked like they were marching, but there was no balance or military order.

They moved as if being pushed from behind — more like a current of water than a proper march.

“As expected.”

The knights weren’t hiding somewhere and then appearing.

They were being ‘summoned’.

Knights summoned from far away were pouring toward where he was.

‘That’s why no matter how many I kill, there’s no end.’

This was typical for summoning-type monsters.

Because killing the summoner would instantly neutralize all the summoned monsters, the difficulty rating was usually set slightly lower.

However, this type of Gate was also what caused the most casualties for inexperienced rookie parties.

They would mindlessly keep killing the endlessly appearing monsters until they exhausted all their stamina. By the time they realized it was a summoning type and tried to find the summoner, it was already too late.

The Solion Guild had slightly overpowered specs when they cleared this Gate.

That was why they could ignore the summoning aspect and simply carve a path straight to the boss.

“Tsk. What a waste of time.”

They should have investigated more thoroughly and written it down properly.

He scratched his head roughly and observed the direction the knights were marching.

A long line stretching northeast from the castle.

If he followed them, he should be able to find the entity summoning the knights.

***

After running for about 20 minutes, weaving between ruined buildings,

A vast plain came into view in the distance.

Grrr—

Clank! Clank!

Black energy spread across the ground like a thin fog.

When some of it seeped into the earth, an armored knight burst out from below, pushing through the dirt.

“Found you.”

Without needing to think twice, he saw a being wearing a black robe and swinging a staff in the middle of the wasteland.

Muttering unknown words while swinging a staff twice its size looked quite eerie.

“As expected… it was a Necromancer.”

A monster that raised the dead and used them as subordinates.

No matter how they looked or behaved, anything that appeared inside a Gate was a ‘monster’.

‘There are Wraith Knights everywhere, and that suspicious black fog is all over the place too.’

Honestly, the knights weren’t much of a problem, but that fog was.

If he accidentally breathed it in and got cursed, it would be a huge hassle.

‘In that case…’

He found a relatively flat spot.

The location was the rooftop of a half-collapsed stone building.

The distance to the Necromancer was about 150 meters.

“At this distance, I could do it with my eyes closed.”

He lifted the corners of his mouth and took his stance.

He spread his legs slightly and gripped the middle of the spear tightly.

Taking a deep breath, he focused on the target he needed to hit.

Throwing a spear was similar to shooting a bow.

The process was quiet, but the result was more violent than anything else.

Once you decide to throw, it must end in one strike.

If it wasn’t a single blow, it was meaningless.

That was the mindset of a sniper.

Whoong—!

The spear flew in a straight line.

Silver light flashed as it shot toward the target at terrifying speed.

“Guh…!”

Only then did the Necromancer notice the spear and try to move its hand, but that was all.

It couldn’t move faster than a spear that had already been thrown.

Stab!

The spear tore straight through the Necromancer’s abdomen.

“Kuheeeek!”

A short death cry rang out.

The black fog mixed with the wind and scattered.

At the same time, the bodies of the Wraith Knights crumbled and rolled on the ground like empty cans.

“It’s been a while since I did this.”

In truth, spear throwing wasn’t a very wise technique.

After all, it was a skill that involved throwing away your own weapon.

Unless you were carrying spare spears, it usually wasn’t something you used.

He only did it this time because he was confident.

“Up we go.”

He quickly jumped down from the rooftop.

He planned to retrieve his spear and head toward the boss.

As he walked quickly and looked around, this place seemed to be a cemetery.

Half-broken tombstones had names written in an unknown language.

“……”

He withdrew his gaze and continued forward.

The Necromancer that had fallen as a corpse was no longer in human form.

Only skin remained on its skull-like face, with black holes where its eyes should have been.

Just as he was about to twist and pull out the spear—

[You have given eternal rest to the knights.]

[The Hidden Route ‘The Nameless King’ has been opened.]

The quest completion was announced.

“Hidden Route!”

He unconsciously spoke the words aloud.

Whatever it was, anything hidden was bound to be good.

Hidden elixirs, hidden weapons, hidden safes……

If it wasn’t a sweet honey pot, there would be no reason to hide it!

Ah… Aaaah……

While he was immersed in anticipation, a dry voice leaked out weakly.

The Necromancer, whom he thought was dead, moved its lips and struggled to string words together.

Savior… you…

For some reason, he could understand those words.

Thank you… for giving me and them rest……

“Yeah, well.”

All he did was run over after seeing the quest and throw his spear.

The title of “savior” felt a bit excessive.

I entrust my duty to you…. Offer this name to the Nameless King……

The king who is more valiant and greater than anyone… who sits upon the throne and protects all…!

With its final breath, the grand name flowed out.

The Knight King, Grempel!

After delivering its final line, the Necromancer turned to dust and disappeared.

Only the long spear remained stuck in the ground like a pole.

[Hidden Route ‘The Nameless King’]

▷ Offer a name to the boss, ‘The Blind Knight’.

[You have defeated the Epic Monster, ‘Necromancer Wengrum’.]

[You have obtained ‘Introduction to Necromancy (B)’.]

“That guy was an Epic Monster?”

Monsters that occasionally appeared as mid-bosses in Gates were called Epic Monsters.

They usually only appeared in B-rank Gates or higher……

He set aside his suspicion for now and collected the rewards on the ground.

▷ A staff carved from an entire pine tree heavily imbued with magic power.

One was a C-rank staff.

It was the one the Necromancer had been using until a moment ago.

It didn’t seem particularly special, so he could sell it later.

“…What is this?”

The problem was the other reward.

It looked like a skill book, but it had a dark purple cover with a crow engraved on it.

No matter how he looked at it, the book only gave off an ominous feeling.

「Introduction to Necromancy (B)」

▷ A book in which a legendary necromancer compiled all knowledge about necromancy. It is said that simply learning its contents can make one a high-level necromancer.

▷ Special Effect

① Unsealed Forbidden Book: The higher the understanding of the contents, the greater the value of the rewards that can be obtained.

Reading the book’s description, his eyes widened.

Not only could he obtain necromancy skills, but—

“It’s not one-time use?”

Skill books that granted skills were always single-use regardless of grade.

Once the skill inside was learned, the book disappeared without a trace.

It was clearly stated that it could only be used once.

But this book had no such restriction.

Instead, it only said that the more one studied it, the higher their level of necromancy would become.

There was nothing written about it being usable only once!

“This is huge!”