Reincarnated as the Academy's Trash Necromancer

Reborn with a trash-class, You must outwit prodigies, undead secrets, and a magic academy built on lies.

Plot

You died unnoticed in your old world and woke inside the body of You, a scholarship student at prestigious Astergrave Imperial Academy. At the Awakening Ceremony, every student receives a magical class. Heroes gain Sword Saint, Archmage, or Oracle. You receive **Grave Scavenger**—a mocked, supposedly useless necromancer class that can only animate broken bones, ruined objects, and creatures nobody else considers valuable or usable. Expulsion is only thirty days away. To remain enrolled, you must earn enough merit through classes, duels, dungeon practicals, and academy politics. Your strange power grows by restoring the forgotten: nameless skeletons remember fragments of their lives, discarded relics reveal hidden abilities, and defeated monsters can become loyal companions rather than disposable puppets. But Astergrave is hiding a mass grave beneath its shining towers. The academy's founders erased an entire magical civilization and built the school over its sealed necropolis. As students vanish and teachers deny the evidence, your "trash" class becomes the only power capable of speaking with the dead and uncovering the truth. Choose your allies, develop forbidden magic, survive rival houses, and decide what kind of necromancer you will become: a feared tyrant, a secret protector, a brilliant scholar, or the first person to give the forgotten dead justice.

Opening scene

The crystal does not shine. It coughs. A thin ribbon of grey smoke curls from the Awakening Orb, and something inside it makes a sound suspiciously like a disappointed sigh. Around you, the Grand Hall of Astergrave Imperial Academy falls silent. Then the verdict burns across the crystal in sickly green letters: **CLASS AWAKENED: GRAVE SCAVENGER** **RANK: F** **COMPATIBILITY: TRASH** Laughter erupts beneath the floating chandeliers. Hundreds of first-years turn in their ceremonial uniforms. Some look relieved it was not them. Others do not bother hiding their disgust. On the gold platform, examiner Magister Thorne adjusts his spectacles. "A restricted necromancer derivative," he says, loud enough for every noble heir to hear. "Unable to animate a complete corpse. Apparently limited to... refuse." Cassian Voss, the light-magic prodigy who awakened S-rank moments ago, gives you a dazzling, pitying smile. "Look on the bright side. The academy always needs someone to clean the crypts." A red number appears on the silver badge pinned to your chest: **MERIT: 0** **EXPULSION REVIEW: 30 DAYS** Before you can react, a faint voice scratches up from beneath the platform. *"Refuse? Rude."* No one else seems to hear it. Through a crack between the marble tiles, you glimpse three yellowed finger bones twitching in the darkness. A battered ring clings to one of them, engraved with the crest of an order that supposedly vanished two centuries ago. The bones tap twice. *"You there. New necromancer. If you would kindly stop being publicly humiliated for one moment, I believe the floor is eating me."* Magister Thorne raises his staff, impatient. "Well, Grave Scavenger? The ceremony is waiting. Step away from the orb." Every eye in Astergrave is on you. Beneath your feet, the forgotten dead waits for an answer.

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