Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 101

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The Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius — Episode 101
After Simon defeated the pirate captain Gail, the Navy soldiers and townspeople worked together to bind the fallen pirates tightly with rope.
“All of Blue Harbor has been saved by your grace! I don’t know how to express our gratitude…….”
The Navy officer bowed repeatedly, offering his thanks. Simon laughed awkwardly and waved his hand in dismissal.
“Please, don’t burden yourself with such formality. If you don’t mind, would it be all right if I interrogated the pirates myself?”
Several things he’d heard from Gail’s own mouth had left him deeply unsettled.
His strength had reached its limits for rushing to the next location, so he wanted to rest for a few minutes while extracting information from the subordinate pirates.
“Of course. But will those dogs open their mouths willingly?”
“Leave it to me.”
Shortly after, Navy soldiers brought three bound pirates and forced them to their knees before Simon.
“There’s something I’d like to ask you all.”
“…….”
They showed no sign of cooperation whatsoever.
One stared at Simon with murderous intent blazing in his eyes, while the other two looked away, feigning ignorance.
“Now that even your captain Gail has been captured, you have no hope. You know how serious pirate crimes are, don’t you? If you cooperate willingly, I can personally petition for a reduced sentence.”
Simon tried a conciliatory approach, but the pirates didn’t so much as blink.
At their response, Simon felt puzzled rather than discouraged. Normally, when a captain was taken, his men would lose heart and think only of survival, but these ones showed no sign of that at all.
Did they have something to rely on?
“Question: I’ve confirmed that you’re conspiring with someone connected to Blue Harbor. Tell me who that person is.”
“You bastard! If these ropes come off, I’ll shred you to pieces!”
The first pirate shouted savagely.
“Hack! Ptui! What child of a dog interrogates another? Huh?! If I’d just gotten married, I’d have a son your age by now!”
The second pirate exploded in anger.
“You don’t realize your mistake. Do you know who I am? I may be a pirate now, but the truth is there’s a story behind it that I can’t tell…….”
The third pirate spouted nonsense.
‘None of them intend to talk.’
There were other persuasion tactics he could try, but given the time constraints, he decided against it.
“Boys.”
At Simon’s word, three skeletons took positions behind each of the pirates. Only then did the criminals’ expressions harden as they grasped the situation.
“Feed them.”
The skeletons immediately grabbed the pirates by the hair and bent their heads back, forcing potion bottles into their mouths.
Though they gurgled and made pained sounds, when the skeletons pinched their noses shut, the liquid had no choice but to slide down their throats.
All three downed the potion in one gulp.
“Cough! Cough!!”
“Damn it! What did you do to my body?!”
The pirates felt their vision spinning as if they were standing on a carriage hurtling at full speed.
“I’m a necromancer, you see? What you just drank is pure poison. It spreads throughout your body within fifteen seconds and kills you in exactly five minutes. Far more painfully than anything you could imagine.”
Simon then retrieved a new potion bottle from his subspace. Inside it glowed a blue liquid.
“Unless, of course, you drink this antidote before then. In which case, things might go differently.”
“……!!”
Their faces drained of all color.
“Well then, won’t you tell me?”
Hesitation flickered across all three faces. Yet none of them could bring themselves to speak.
“Very well. If you prefer not to, I suppose there’s nothing I can do.”
Simon didn’t even wait thirty seconds, let alone five minutes, and simply turned away.
“Officer. Please bring the next group of prisoners.”
“Yes, sir!”
“You can dump these ones anywhere. They’ll thrash about and die on their own.”
Simon raised his foot. And just as he was about to step on the antidote he’d left on the ground—
“Pinch Nickman!”
The middle-aged man among the pirates screamed. The other two turned to stare at him in horror, and Simon smiled.
“A necromancer named Pinch Nickman is working with the captain!”
“Is that so?”
“My life’s on the line—would I lie?! Hurry! Give me the antidote!”
Crack!
Simon stamped on the potion bottle and shattered it. All three men went pale with shock.
“You filthy bastard!”
The pirate on the left bellowed.
“I told you the truth! Does it amuse you, playing with people like this? Huh?!”
“I’m sure I don’t know what you mean.”
Simon turned with a slight smile, offering his back.
“Actually, that’s not deadly poison—it’s a motion sickness potion. In two hours, they’ll be right back to normal.”
“……!!”
“Thanks for your cooperation.”
Simon waved behind him as he walked away. The three pirates thrashed and screamed before being subdued and thrown to the ground by the Navy soldiers.
‘That settles it. I need to hurry.’
His strength had mostly returned by now. Simon immediately bolted toward the mansion.

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He crossed the city streets and arrived at Shun’s Mansion.
Simon froze. It looked as though the pirates had already launched their attack—flames licked at several points across the estate.
Crack-crack-BOOM!
One of the mansion’s annexes was engulfed entirely, collapsing in on itself. Beneath the roar, he could hear the sharp clash of weapons.
The pirates and defenders were already engaged in combat.
‘Please, please, please……!’
Simon stepped on a shadow and vaulted over the fence, slipping into the estate.
Clang!
Ring!
Against the backdrop of burning buildings, armed butlers clashed fiercely with pirates pouring in from all sides.
In the midst of the chaos, Shun, the Butler, and several maids crouched low as they made their way out of the mansion.
“There’s the Earl!”
“Get him!”
Two pirates broke through the butlers’ line and rushed forward. Simon thrust his right arm out desperately.
‘Bone Armor!’
Bones flew out as if they’d been waiting.
While everyone else froze, two courageous maids who’d seized mop handles were suddenly clad in bone armor.
“Fight!”
Simon shouted. As the bewildered maids hesitated, skeletons took direct control of their bodies, beating down the pirates with brutal efficiency.
Whack!
Crash!
The maids’ eyes went wide as they watched the pirates fly backward, sent flying by their own fists and kicks.
“Look!”
“Simon!”
One maid grabbed Shun’s shoulder.
“My lord! Look! Simon’s here!”
“What? Simon?”
Shun’s head popped up. He could see Simon coordinating five separate battles simultaneously, commanding the Bone Armor across all of them.
“Simon!!”
Simon turned toward Shun and shouted urgently.
“Shun! Are you hurt?”
“I’m fine……! Wait, watch out!”
Crash!
Two pirates smashed through the mansion’s glass window behind Simon and rushed at him.
Simon tilted his balance backward with ease, slipping past the thrust blade, grabbed the arm, and pulled hard while driving his left elbow into the pirate’s nose.
Crack!
The pirate crumpled. In one fluid motion, Simon ducked low to evade the spear thrust from behind, planted his hands on the ground, spun, and drove his right leg upward.
Bang!
The second pirate, his head snapped back by the kick, flew backward through the window and crashed to the ground. Simon straightened up, breathing hard.
“Kyaaaa!”
“Simon!”
The maids bounced up and down where they stood, relieved to be alive.
‘Ugh, this is exhausting.’
The fatigue from his fight with Gail still weighed heavily on him.
As Simon drew a long breath, there came a deafening boom—the third-floor wall of the mansion collapsed, and people tumbled downward.
‘Bone Armor! Hurry!’
The Legion of skeletons fragmented into bone shards and shot upward, adhering to the falling bodies. The Bone Armor absorbed the impact instead, and everyone descended safely.
“Phew……”
Simon wiped the sweat from his brow and caught sight of a massive man standing on the collapsed third-floor wall. His bulky frame was stuffed into tight armor, and a huge war hammer rested on his shoulders.
The man looked down, then suddenly leaped off the wall—directly toward Shun.
“Shun! Get out of the way!”
Shun and the maids spotted the falling man and hastily retreated.
Crash!
A massive crater opened in the floor. The man rose without a hint of impact trauma, his war hammer rippling with magical energy in wave-like patterns.
‘Aura!’
“I am Vice-Captain Valdez.”
The man grinned down at Shun, who lay sprawled on the ground.
“You’ll have to come with me, Earl.”
As the man reached toward Shun, a flash of movement sent Bone Armor hurtling through the air, clamping fast around his arm.
Click! Clang!
In the same instant, more Bone Armor latched onto his right leg and left foot. Simon rushed toward Shun and issued an Absolute Command.
‘Restrain him!’
Screech!
The Bone Armor pieces began moving of their own accord.
“What in blazes is this?!”
Like shackles binding him, Valdez thrashed and twisted his body, eventually grunting and straining as he clawed at the Bone Armor trying to tear it free.
Meanwhile, Shun—who had been crawling—suddenly lurched to his feet and began sprinting toward Simon.
“Simon!”
“Shun!”
The two rushed toward each other. Valdez, having wrenched the Bone Armor away through sheer force, stumbled after them a step too late.
‘Just a little more!’
Their hands were about to touch.
Whoosh!
Their palms slashed through empty air instead, and Shun’s body was hurled upward into the sky.
“Ahhhhh!”
“Shun!”
Simon and Valdez both froze mid-stride. Then—

Roarrrrr!
Vice-Captain Valdez’s body collided with a liquid green dragon rushing from behind.
“G-Gaahhhhh!”
Valdez’s upper body dissolved and dripped away into a gruesome puddle, until only bone remained, clattering to the floor. The maids shrieked at the horrifying sight.
“Didn’t I warn you before?”
Simon turned his head.
“That a bodyguard worth his salt doesn’t get distracted?”
“……!”
Pinch Nickman was approaching. His liquefied arm had seized Shun’s leg.
“Uncle!”
Shun threw his hands up in triumph.
“It’s Sir Pinch!”
“We’re saved!”
The household staff exhaled in relief or embraced one another in joy.
Yet amid all this, Simon’s expression alone hardened into something cold and twisted.
“You can all rest easy now that I’ve arrived.”
“Sir Pinch!”
The Butler came rushing over, breathless.
“Why has the house Necromancer arrived so late? The mansion was attacked, and the Earl nearly came to harm!”
“My apologies, Butler. I was busy sinking two pirate vessels.”
Pinch spoke those words, then looked at Simon.
“Hmm? Why do you look so tense?”
“…….”
Grit.
Simon clenched his teeth.
“Release the Earl.”
A strange smile crossed Pinch’s face.
Shun, who had been hanging inverted, straightened upright, yet Pinch’s hand still did not release him.
“I’m afraid not. I cannot trust you. A bodyguard who abandons his post—I’ll be filing a formal complaint with Kizen.”
“Don’t punish him, Uncle! I ordered Simon to go!”
Pinch fixed Simon with a hardened stare.
“When it comes to the Earl’s protection, I make no compromises. From now on, I will guard him personally. As for you, head north and deal with the remaining pirates—”
“Pinch Nickman.”
Simon drew a long, deep breath.
People were dying. There was no point in stalling further or playing psychological games.
“Why did you betray the Earl?”

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