How to Raise Your Skeletons

In a world where necromancers are the rarest of the elite—numbering fewer than a thousand souls across the entire globe—Joo Donghoon believed he had been dealt the ultimate winning hand. Born with a proverbial diamond spoon, or rather a necromancer's spoon, in his mouth, his future seemed written in the stars. He dreamed of commanding legions of liches, dread Dullahans, and indomitable death knights, the hallmarks of a true master of the dark arts. Reality, however, had a crueler twist in store. Instead of awe-inspiring generals of the undead, his power manifested a single, pathetic talent: the ability to summon common skeletons—the lowest of the low. Labeled a defective necromancer and stripped of his lofty ambitions, Donghoon's journey seemed over before it truly began. But fate is not always so final. One unremarkable day, an unforeseen hidden condition was triggered, shattering the limits of his supposed mediocrity. He discovered a power that allowed him to elevate his frail skeletons, pushing them from their humble E-rank existence all the way to the pinnacle of S-rank might. Now, branded as the world's only cursed necromancer, Joo Donghoon is on an unprecedented ascent. With each bone he reforges and every tier he breaks, he defies the very definition of his class, racing headlong toward the upper echelons of the ranker system.