The Wizard: Starting as a Corpse Burial Man - An Infinite Side Hustle

Some time later, in the black market.

Tistu was haggling with a black market vendor selling bones of magical creatures.

But unlike before.

Tistu is no longer the pure-blooded human he originally was.

Half of the other person's face was covered by individual bones.

Occasionally, one could see through the eye sockets that a ghostly blue flame flickered within them.

However, Testu did not lose the ability to feel pain like a true undead.

The other person's face showed an expression of lingering pain.

One of the arms was replaced by a bone blade with an eyeball attached.

His figure beneath the black robe had also swelled up, though it wasn't very balanced.

It was as if bones were protruding from all parts of his body.

"You definitely can't buy such good bones with 10 Soul Coins."

The black market vendors refused Tistu's bargaining.

After his eyes darted around, he changed the subject again:

"However, if you really want it, I can give you a copy of the 'Shepherd's' job manual."

Including the Wind Demon Wolf's leg bone, it only costs 15 energy coins.

How was it?

"【Shepherd】Job Handbook..."

Listening to the black market vendors' words, Testu muttered to himself, but as he spoke, a hint of anger crept into his voice.

If it weren't for the job manual for the [Shepherd]...

How did I end up like this?

At the very beginning.

Although he failed Sandru's test and did not obtain the academy's auditing certificate, the wild wizard originally did not intend to kill Tistu.

Instead, he planned to make small-scale modifications to Testu's body and soul to enhance his skeletal talent.

This makes it more suitable for utilizing extraordinary knowledge related to bones.

This will accelerate the efficiency of deriving corresponding knowledge based on this.

Among the knowledge that can improve deduction efficiency is the job selection method for the [Bone Shepherd].

It is also the extraordinary knowledge that wild wizards value most.

But the renovation wasn't even finished yet.

For some unknown reason, the concentration of ether contained in the [Shepherd] job-seeking method immediately dropped rapidly.

Through spies in the black market, the wild wizard learned that the method of becoming a [Bone Shepherd] had somehow been leaked.

This knowledge falls under the category of mysticism.

Therefore, the wider the knowledge spreads, the lower the concentration of ether within it.

The effectiveness will also decrease rapidly.

The wild wizard was furious and then vented his anger on Tistu's modification experiments.

This transformed him into someone who was neither a ghost nor a living person.

Although it can restore itself to its original state by transforming, it is always suffering from an inescapable, excruciating pain.

Even now, when interacting with black market vendors, this remains true.

"I don't need the [Shepherd] job manual."

Despite the excruciating pain, Tistu continued to communicate with the merchants.

After some haggling, they exchanged 13 soul coins for the leg bone from the wind wolf.

"If I spend more time afterward, I can integrate it into my bones."

Maybe it will grant me abilities related to the wind element.

Tistu thought to himself and put it into his wizard's robe.

After instinctively looking around, I saw a rat-man who was also wearing a black robe and whose face was covered by a mask.

But when their eyes met, the rat-man instinctively lowered his head.

It was as if they didn't want to make eye contact.

Seeing this, Testu understood something.

"The Ratmen of the Gray Rat Gang."

They've set their sights on me again.

Prior to this, he had been targeted by the Gray Rat Gang's ratmen several times because he frequently came to the black market to buy bones.

However, thanks to his combat abilities, which were modified by a wild wizard, Tistu also killed many ratmen.

Then, using his half-undead abilities, he absorbed the souls of these ratmen.

Meanwhile, the largely useless corpse was sold to the Extraordinary Materials Recycling Center in the center of the Black Market.

"Now that the ratmen have their eyes on me again."

This time, there's no need to specifically buy souls.

Thinking of this.

Tistu pretended not to notice the ratman and walked toward the edge of the black market.

He didn't want to start a fight here.

Otherwise, it could damage the body, forcing the patient to undergo another round of modifications.

After traveling some distance towards the edge of the black market, the ratmen in black robes also ceased their lurking.

They followed quietly.

Meanwhile, Testu, relying on the eyeball on the bone blade, successfully saw what was happening behind him.

This confirmed the speculation that "this rat-man is a member of the Gray Rat Gang".

Then the road twisted and turned, and the surrounding area became increasingly sparsely populated.

Soon after, only Tistu and the ratmen remained in the vicinity.

"Now!"

Thinking of this.

Tistu immediately prepared to turn around and use the bone blade to cut off the ratman's head.

But before they could act, the ratman stretched out his claws and reached towards his abdomen.

The next moment, the ratman's claws pierced straight through the withered skin.

Then he took out a bone flute from his body.

Upon seeing this, Testu's expression changed drastically.

"It's not a ratman; it's something that disguises itself as a ratman using disguise alchemical pigments."

I've been scammed!

The moment the thought crossed his mind, Testu immediately abandoned the idea of ​​attacking.

And they prepared to turn around and run away.

Before it could even escape a meter away, the ratman put the flute to its lips.

In an instant, a melodious flute tune rang out.

The moment the flute music started, Testu froze in place.

Immediately afterwards, she subconsciously began to dance to the sound of the flute.

However, due to its ongoing struggle, its movements are occasionally shaky and extremely stiff.

However, it was still limited to the scope of dancing.

Like a novice dancer, or like a dancing figure on a music box.

At the same time, the nearby earth began to distort, and the shadows of three buildings in different directions surged like ocean waves.

The next moment, more than a dozen skeleton rats appeared at the point where space was distorted.

Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately slipped into Tistu's robe.

Thus, it tore at the flesh and blood of the opponent that were not protected by the bone armor.

At the same time, the paint used as camouflage on the bodies of the rats that had summoned the swarm began to slowly turn transparent.

Until it completely disappears.

It then transformed into an upright skeletal rat, about one meter long, with a ghostly blue soul fire inside its skull.

The other party is a member of Ansu's retinue, a flute-playing rat-man.

At the same time, the shadows of the buildings also materialize.

Thus, it transformed into three jet-black dragons with six horns each, each about 5 meters long.

Then he looked toward the location of Testu's head and heart, and opened his mouth.

"roar--"

A dragon's roar resounded.

A faint light appeared from the mouths of the three shadow dragons.

The next moment, the faint light turned into a bright light, and then into streams of flames, rushing towards Tistu from three directions.

Upon seeing this, Tistu immediately felt alarmed.

He wanted to run away.

But at this moment, Testo was still dancing uncontrollably, influenced by the sound of the flute.

They can't even move to a different location.

As Tistu struggled, three fiery breaths rushed over.