The Skeleton Soldier Failed to Defend the Dungeon - Vol. 1 Ch. 8

[MangaDex]

 

[kronix]

wut

 

[criver]

@kronix: I think the dungeon's trying to make him its mob.

 

[Kisato]

Something of note, it said that he's succumbing to his human nature. So does that mean that he was at one point a proper human? Like was it part of the necromancy? How is it different from a dungeon?

Lots of questions to be asked this chapter.

 

[Vasqueztion]

@Kisato
The very first chapter answers most of those questions, but I'll just tell you.
Yes, he was risen from a sarcophagus by Rubia, the Necromancer-in-Training (The girl that kept dying).
That answers your first two questions there.

They'll likely answer your third in the next chapter.

 

[Nightlilygirl-]

Mm, interesting twist... I wonder if we'll ever get to know something of his past as a human, though I guess that's unlikely

 

[Meridis]

@Kisato
I think that before we reach that conclusion, we might want someone who understands korean to double check what was said there. It might have been a phrase describing someones 'innate nature' but is literally translated as human nature.

 

[Kisato]

@Vasqueztion I was under the assumption that necromancy created undead servants that had no prior ties to the body. I.E. the body has no bearing on the result.

 

[Vasqueztion]

@Kisato
Depends on the story, really. Most times you'll see bodies and/or skeletons just pop out of the ground like moles. Because having your Necromancer just carting around a wheelbarrow of corpses is stupid.
Most necromancy requires a base product to raise. Which is why most Necromancer tropes have them near or around graveyards.

Our guy doesn't have any connection to his former life as a human, at least not yet(?), and is simply running on memories of his first undead life of Rubia raising him, her dying almost instantly, then him coming under the care of the Succubus.

 

[relic626]

I don't think human nature is the correct translation...
The dungeon is trying to consume him due to his long stay.
So one can think of it as him reverting to a mindless skeleton that is controlled by the dungeon to protect it if he stays too long.

 

[caseo78]

In this manga, dungeon devours you. ?

 

[boag]

a souless unbound skelly being bound by the dungeon, yeah that sounds about right.

 

[LysandersTreason]

So does he ever get a save point or anything? I mean he apparently survived for 10-ish years as a skeleton, somehow. (how'd he survive the first encounter where the girl was killed when he was a mindless lvl. 1? )

If he dies again, does he go allll the way back to the beginning again? Why'd he try so hard to protect the girl who raised him from the dead, then just leave her when she died? Couldn't he have offed himself to get another chance to save her?

Does the succubus put the romance in necromancer?

 

[depzdai]

All calculated.

 

[PotatoZero]

Wow, these adventurers are stupid..
We're in a battle, let's leave our back totally unguarded and taunt the enemy, whatever can go wrong?

 

[Ironclad]

Sluts all want the bone.

 

[Meridis]

@LysandersTreason
some answers:

Spoiler

there are checkpoints. I'm not entirely clear on when they are placed but he can't go back to the beginning. As for why he didn't kill himself, that seems to have been explained up to this point. He has no guarantees about how this power works and isn't looking to test what will keep him dead. Since she wasn't his priority in the first place, he might have wrote her off as a loss rather than risk himself and his future plans.

 

[WhimsiCat]

@LysandersTreason:
We don't know if he's had this ability all along, or he only awakened to it upon the Succubus's death, either way he seem to only gain self-awareness a lot later than his initial raising into skeleton.

He probably survived the first time because he was a mindless skeleton, and the mercenary only was after the girl, so after she's dead they decided to ignore the skeleton standing still.

As for the whole thing with Rubia's death.
He protects her because the scene of her death reminds him of Succubus's death, and he want to actually be able to protect someone this time.
As for why he didn't kill himself when she die, it's because he has no clue on the mechanic of his reset ability.
Does it only activate if he's killed by someone else? IF so suiciding would just be a stupid thing to do.
Or maybe there's limited amount of times he can revive? If so he might as well get as far as he can in this life gathering all the exp before having to reset.
After all, his ultimate goal is to reunite with and protect the Succubus, not Rubia.

Then again I would not be surprised if the Succubus is actually Rubia's soul turned monster (the same way skelly's soul was likely human, but now inhabit a skeleton body), might also explains why the succubus was strangely fond of skelly here.
In which case Skelly's overlapping of the two wouldn't be a coincidence.
And the 'final' route might be him protecting Rubia through her S-rank scenario, leaving her alive as human.

 

[seekermoc]

@relic626

Thanks, that makes a lot more sense. Not 'human nature' but 'sentience'.

 

[firosahoge]

wow, Rena definitely has the hots for him ?