Old Qin hadn't made friends with a necromancer.
When the necromancer Baldwin summoned him, he'd been completely baffled. Had the guy been upset about getting beaten up and decided to challenge him to a private one-on-one, so he could save face?
As it turned out, death had taken the commander's and warrior's fervor from the necromancer. It had called Old Qin over for the simple reason that it wanted to learn about these "demons from another world."
Though Old Qin repeatedly explained that they weren't really destroyers from another world, the necromancer remained unconvinced. Perhaps it was because it had "seen them with its own eyes." It kept asking Old Qin about "the other world."
The old soldier knew the truth, and had been worried that his offhand remarks might anger the "observers." But it turned out they didn't seem to care about this exchange between people from two worlds.
During his conversation with the necromancer, Old Qin revealed some basic information. The player interface didn't penalize him at all, which gave the unusually situated "intelligence worker" a small hint of what that might mean.
As their wind griffin flew toward Krim Fortress, Old Qin began speaking more freely with the necromancer about the differences between their worlds. He also tried to draw it out, hoping to find out whether any power or faction in this world could travel freely between the two.
The necromancer's answer was unequivocal.
"Though I was dead for hundreds of years and have been completely cut off from this age since my resurrection, I can tell you with certainty, Old Qin: no faction like the one you describe, capable of moving freely between two worlds, exists.
"You aren't a psychic. Your understanding of dimensions and planes is even worse than that of an ordinary person