The Low-Key Life of a Necromancer

Li had been on a business trip for several days, and the small town on the gravel hill had also recovered from the chaos after the battle with the kobolds.

People returned to their normal lives, but the bodies outside the town were stolen by someone unknown.

"Everyone should be on high alert, and the number of patrol officers at night should be doubled."

After giving the order, Jack just felt tired. Jack knew exactly who stole the body, but unfortunately he couldn't tell it.

"Ah~ Look at what my silly son has done."

While Jack was busy hiding the fact of the resurrection of the dead for Li, he also had to pretend to investigate the case of the stolen corpse. After only a few days, Jack felt like he was drained of energy.

Seeing how useless he was, his wife Rose stayed at her best friend's house for the past few days. The house was empty and seemed very deserted.

Just when Jack was feeling depressed, Theresa knocked on the door of the Li family as a visitor.

Jack scratched his dry hair, opened the door to welcome the guests, and saw Theresa clasped her hands together and greeted him.

"Uncle Jack, may the holy light heal your fatigue."

Theresa released a trace amount of holy light, which sprinkled on Jack's body and dispelled Jack's accumulated fatigue.

Unfortunately, Jack's fatigue came more from within, and the holy light had no healing effect at all.

"Li hasn't come back yet, you should come back in a few days."

Theresa is a good girl, and no one knows how she became friends with Li. She has been visiting frequently in the past few days, and every time she asks about Li.

At first, Jack thought Theresa was dating Li, but after Xiao Li stepped forward to entertain them a few times, Jack realized that Theresa had set her sights on the food that Li had improved.

Theresa came to visit the Li family purely to get a free meal!

"That Xiaoli..."

"Xiao Li isn't home either!"

Teresa's originally calm face immediately turned into a disappointed expression. Uncle Jack doesn't know how to cook. It looks like she won't be able to eat anything good today...

But even though she knew the situation, Theresa still didn't want to leave. It would take a long time to walk from the refugee camp outside to the small town, and she couldn't make this trip in vain!

"Uncle Jack, I have something to tell you!"

"Ah, tell me, what can you tell me, you'd better go back quickly."

There was a huge generation gap between the two of them, and Jack and Theresa had no common topics at all. Jack also wanted to take a rare break and didn't want to waste time with Theresa.

Theresa ignored Jack's excuses. She looked around nervously, and after making sure that there was no one around, she moved closer to Jack and spoke in a low voice.

"Uncle Jack, Li brewed a lot of wine, and it's almost ready to be taken out now. Do you want to try it~"

"What did you say?"

"Wine~"

Just one word, like a good medicine, cheered up Jack. Then Jack immediately invited Theresa into the house, and the two of them began to plot nervously.

"That kid Li brewed wine. How could he brew wine?"

Brewing wine requires grain, and the technical aspects are not something that ordinary people can handle.

Since the human kingdom is in a state of war all year round, the winemaking technology is only spread among certain specific nobles.

Good wine is more valuable than gold. Even the low-quality beer in ordinary pubs is a rare good thing.

Jack hasn't drunk for a long time. Recently, the pubs in the town have stopped supplying alcohol, which has caused trouble for many people who love alcohol.

"Li is made from sour fruit, not grain."

Jack's eyes lit up. It was good that no grain was used. If people knew that grain was used to make wine, Li would definitely be criticized by everyone.

After a brief communication, Jack and Theresa reached an agreement and formed a strategic alliance to steal wine.

Using a crowbar, they lifted up the floor of the big house, and in the space beneath the floor, they found more than a dozen large sealed pottery jars.

These pottery jars weigh twenty to thirty kilograms when empty, and when filled with liquid, the weight reaches hundreds of kilograms.

Jack and Theresa used a wooden bar with a rope tied around the jars in the middle to lift one of the jars from under the floor.

Wiping off the non-existent sweat, the two sneaky men smiled at each other.

If they felt a little guilty about stealing the wine before they started, now it was impossible for them to stop.

The floor was pried open and the jars were lifted out, but if there was no wine in them, all their work would be in vain.

"If this wine doesn't work, when Li comes back, I'm going to stuff all the sour fruits into his mouth!"

With anticipation for the good wine, Jack and Theresa worked together to open the lid. After the lid was opened, a fermentation gas mixed with the smell of wine filled the entire room.

"It smells okay, but the stuff in here is slimy. Is it really drinkable?"

The two of them peered into the jar and saw only a sticky liquid, a mixture of cranberry jam and fermented liquid.

Jack thought he would see a jar of wine, but what he saw was jam and mud, which immediately spoiled his fun.

Theresa's eyes lit up and she cast several holy light spells into the jar.

"Uncle Jack, you can't drink good wine if you are impatient~"

If you want to drink good wine, you need to perform a little magic on the fermentation in front of you.

Theresa had been craving this drink for a long time. Ever since the day Li sealed the jar, Theresa had been pestering Li to ask about the new drink. Now those brewing notes could finally come in handy.

Under Jack's surprised gaze, Theresa took out a thick book from somewhere.

Jack thought Theresa had brought the holy book with her, but he found the open book filled with words and pictures.

“…alcohol filtration steps?”

Jack learned that wine has to be filtered before it can be brewed.

The winemaking technology in this world also has a filtration step, but it only filters out solid impurities in the wine, that is, it filters out the lees.

However, Theresa's notes said that she wanted to make a multi-layer filter to filter out impurities and harmful substances in the wine.

"Gravel, sand, charcoal, burlap..."

According to what was written in the notes, Jack and Theresa worked together to find the materials, and the sound of ping-pong was heard in the Li family's house.

The two used a broken wooden barrel to make a filtering device, put the wine-smelling fruit puree on the top, and let the juice slowly flow to the collection port below.

It takes quite a long time for the viscous liquid to pass through the layers of filtration. Taking this opportunity, Jack took a quick look through Theresa's notebook.

“Is this the holy book?”

"Well, this is the holy book I copied by hand myself."

Theresa's notebook contained many prayers and legends about the goddess and holy light. It looked no different from other clergymen's manuscripts.

But Jack had already seen the page on the winemaking process, and perhaps there was something else in the book.

Just as Jack guessed, the first half of the notebook contained all the contents of the scriptures, but the second half became increasingly off track.

"How to make Emerald Sandwich, Nut Butter Recipe...Teresa, why are there so many recipes at the end? Is it really okay to write the recipes and the scriptures together?"

Jack began to doubt his life. The holy scriptures were not to be desecrated by clergymen. If he wrote the civilian recipes and the holy scriptures in the same book, he would definitely be considered a heretic if someone saw it.

But Theresa didn't care at all. She had an unwavering belief in the Holy Light and the Goddess, and her love for food was genuine.

"In order to pay homage to the Holy Light and the Goddess, we will offer the Holy Communion to the Goddess. This proves that the Goddess also likes food. Food is sacred and has the qualifications to be on par with the Holy Scriptures!"

Jack stared blankly at the holy light shining on Theresa's body, and was speechless for a moment.

“…As long as you are happy.”