How a Catastrophic Necromancer Retires

After saving the continent of Seron from the brink of annihilation, the legendary necromancer Han Ji-hyuk finally closes the chapter on his epic saga. His reward? A long-awaited return to Earth and the quiet, uneventful retirement he has craved for years. But fate, it seems, has no intention of letting him rest. On his very first day back, Ji-hyuk’s dreams of peace shatter as he discovers that the world he left behind is no longer the one he knows. Gates now scar the skies, monstrous hordes pour through rifts, and humanity struggles to survive in a reality twisted by chaos. Worse still, the wealth and treasures he painstakingly amassed across his lifetime of battles have mysteriously vanished the moment he crossed back, leaving him penniless and stripped of his former glory. Now registered as a lowly F-Rank Awakened—a cruel irony for a man who once commanded armies of the dead—Ji-hyuk finds himself grinding from the very bottom just to put food on the table. Every day is a bitter reminder that his past victories count for nothing in this new, unforgiving world. Burdened by memories of a brutal summoning at the hands of the mage Theros, and haunted by centuries of bloodshed that ended with the Demon King’s fall, Ji-hyuk must now navigate a life that offers no solace. Can he reclaim even a sliver of the peace he so desperately seeks, or will his retirement remain an eternal pipe dream—pushed further away with each monster he is forced to slay just to survive another day?