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.
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Yumin is an author active on Chinese online literature platforms. Information such as nationality, dates of birth and death, and other personal details is not clearly available in public sources, while fourteen of the author's works can currently be found. The writing spans categories including male-oriented fiction, science fiction and the future, suspense and mystery, otherworldly continents, and xianxia and wuxia, showing considerable versatility across genres. Representative works include Four Thousand Years of Gaming, Giving Qin Shi Huang Money at the Start, Necromantic Myth, The Invincible Water God, Dungeon Otherworld, Online Game Trial, and Global Lord: My Pet Can Be Combined Infinitely. These works often center on game-like settings, virtual worlds, and otherworldly adventure, frequently incorporating historical figures and mythological elements. Because public information is limited, the author's personal background is difficult to describe in detail, and readers mainly come to know the writing through the works themselves.
