Half-step Purgatory

Durin stroked the black cat on the armrest of his chair, sitting on the black leather sofa. Through the glasses perched on his nose, his gaze passed over the long table in front of him and settled on the man kneeling on the carpet:
"I understand, you've made money in Naples, your business has been very successful, and you've led a happy life. You've had those secret police, friends in both the law and the underground, and even the Royal Family speaking on your behalf."
"You don't need a friend like me, I know that. You're afraid of owing me a favor, and you don't want to get involved in troubles."
"But now you come to me and say, 'I beg you, Mr. Durin of the Corleon family, please help me seek justice, so that my life and my family will not suffer and sink into despair.'
Yet, in your eyes, I was nothing more than a second-rate artist involved in movies and music. Even at the brink of death, you still show me such disrespect, not even willing to call me by my title... Keeper of Secrets."

Durin's Diary

Since he decided to trouble the Demon Lord, Durin had to reinvent himself.


This Necromancer version of Durin was originally a Formless One from Sequence Zero, characterized as a tall, middle-aged man with a thin face and a beard, giving off the appearance of a stern scholar.


As a Formless One, he could not naturally possess Magic Positions, but Durin had them. Having ascended to the full level of a Candle Dragon Mage, Durin had sufficient Spell charts to role-play any kind of Spellcaster—be it Druid, Mage, or Magician. Even the initially lacking Undead Department Spell chart was perfectly complemented by the inheritance of the Bone Lich.


Chapter 188: A Cup