Throne of Death

Throne of Death is a long game-world fantasy novel by the web author Yumin, serialized from July 2013 to February 2016, totaling about 3.13 million characters over more than a thousand chapters. The story begins with the protagonist Xu Ziye. He was originally a necromancer in a game world; after an accidental death, he is reborn with the memories of the Lich King into a world whose rules closely resemble the game's. These memories and experiences of the Lich King become his greatest asset for surviving in this other world. After rebirth, Xu Ziye does not get an easy start: he wakes to find himself swept up in events engulfing the entire region and can only flee for his life. While evading pursuit, he tries every means to excavate graves and convert corpses, building his first forces with necromancer methods and recruiting various wild undead units along the way. Once established in a remote corner, he builds his own undead territory, constructing an industry, expanding his legions, and researching a necromantic spell system from scratch. Thereafter his stage expands from a small corner to a larger domain: the management and founding of a demiplane, exploration of the City of a Thousand Towers, wars among multiple factions on the continent of Ceyro, repeated clashes with powerful enemies such as the Seven Monarchs, and the death-sacrifice incident surrounding the Golden Lion territory. Companions such as Rogue the Bone Duke, Aimon, and Rhein the Death Lord join his camp one after another, and his undead legion grows from ragtag bands into a force capable of shaking the continent's order. The story concludes with the protagonist finally ascending the Throne of Death and becoming part of the epic. The book devotes itself to building a growth system and unit hierarchy for necromancers, with a style emphasizing worldbuilding and faction development; it is a representative work in the graveyard-style, troop-spam western fantasy game genre.