Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 215

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Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius Chapter 215
“Nice to see you little ones! I’m Byeol-Ya!”
Her voice overwhelmed the crowd and shook the Grand Hall.
“Looking at you all makes me think you’re just pathetic! All dressed the same, sitting in the same posture like sick chickens crammed in a coop, blinking your eyes like fools—it makes my blood boil! When I was your age, I was out wandering the world having a damn good time! That’s what kids should be doing!”
Several students covered their ears. Her voice was already thunderous, but amplified through the Amplification Crystal, it reverberated across the entire Grand Hall.
“Listen! Education is bound to be uniform—what did you expect? Education is like a factory manufacturing products for society to use—the same process in the same place, feeding you the same material. How do you develop inspiration or individuality when you’re all getting the same thing shoved into your heads? The finished products look flawless on the outside, but they’re hollow inside—like rice crackers filled with nothing! You have no self! No uniqueness! That’s what I, Byeol-Ya, am asking!”
She stretched her legs and trampled the fence on the stage, thrusting her right arm toward the sky.
“Who are you!!”
“……!”
“A Kizen student? Someone’s son or daughter? A resident of some kingdom? The heir of some organization? I’m not talking about the position society has assigned you based on those stupid conventions—I’m asking who you are, wholly and completely, as yourself! That’s not something someone else decides for you. You decide it. You need to have at least that much figured out before you even think about becoming a Necromancer or anything else!”
She moved about freely as she spoke, pacing the stage.
As she gestured and tossed her hair, liquids sprayed from her mouth, melting and burning the stage floor. It was like watching special effects spread in all directions.
“I hope you all heard every word I just said without plugging your ears! And hey—if you want to become the best, come see me! Hahahaha!”
She let out a cry like thunder. She dominated the students so thoroughly, pressing them down, that the moment for applause or cheers had already passed.
Aaron, the only one still maintaining his composure, picked up the Amplification Crystal and spoke.
“Thank you for your efforts, Professor Byeol-Ya. Please return to your seat.”
“Ahem!”
She hurled the crystal in her hand to the floor and returned to her seat. The stage floor where she had walked was so thoroughly destroyed and melted that it could barely be called intact.
“Sigh.”
Hong Peng, who sat in the faculty section, could only sigh more deeply.
Just then, Byeol-Ya in her ragged clothes bounced out and sat down next to her.
“Kyahahaha! Hey, did you see me tear up the whole stage?”
“…Please go back to the meadow. This is embarrassing.”
Watching the twin sisters sit side by side, the students whispered and compared them.
Now that they sat together, the auras they gave off were completely different, but their outward appearance revealed many similarities.
“The opening ceremony ends here.”
Aaron announced.
“Classes begin tomorrow. You must be exhausted from today’s tests, so don’t wander off—rest well in your dormitories. Remember that rest is part of your training. That concludes this meeting.”

* * *
Simon and Dick parted with Merin and Kamibarez and entered the Boys’ Dormitory.
Savoring that tingling excitement, the two climbed to the fourth floor.
“Ahh! Good to be back in Room 409!”
Dick threw both his arms up and shouted. He was delighted to see the nameplate beside the door displaying the names Kassan, Simon, and Dick in a row.
Simon knocked lightly on the door and entered.
A familiar space opened up before him. The familiar bed, the familiar arrangement of furniture. And in the corner, on the upper bunk, a familiar figure sleeping with a blanket pulled over his head.
“We’re back, Kassan.”
Of course, Kassan in the depths of sleep wouldn’t wake for just any noise. Both of them knew from experience that waking him by force would make him furious as a beast, so they didn’t bother greeting him.
They unpacked their luggage from their subspace.
“Whew! Being back in Room 409 really drives it home that we’re back, doesn’t it?”
Dick bounced onto his bed as he spoke.
“Yeah, it does.”
“Starting tomorrow, we’re back to normal classes! Got to give it everything we’ve got and survive another semester!”
Simon neatly organized the textbooks on his desk, then stretched. Looking out the window, he saw dusk had already fallen outside.
“Dick. I’m going out tonight—can you recommend a safe route?”
“What?”
Dick gave him a look like he’d seen everything.
“A Wall Escape on the first day? Rochester’s probably still in reconstruction right now anyway. Why go?”
“Oh, I’m meeting someone.”
Dick looked confused, but he still flipped through the notebook with the guards’ schedules as requested.
“Hmm, Kevin’s Stable route or the north hillside should be clear. But who are you meeting that you need to sneak out like that? Is it a girl?”
Simon smiled but said nothing.

* * *
“Welcome back, Student Simon! It’s been two months!”
Kevin, the gatekeeper of the Stable within the Kizen Campus Grounds, greeted him warmly. They’d been in and out so often that both were now comfortable with each other.
Simon tossed him a coin and made his way to the far corner of the Stable.
In the corner of the Stable, covered with straw, there was a small hole. Inside lay a narrow tunnel.
He walked carefully, bent over, to the end of the tunnel, then opened the hatch above and climbed up.
Whoooosh!
And so Simon emerged into the heart of the forest, where Kizen’s towering walls loomed through the trees. Having carefully covered the tunnel entrance with surrounding soil to avoid detection, he walked through the Forbidden Forest for the first time in ages.
At least he wouldn’t run into the Priest here now. The thought lightened his mood considerably.
Simon arrived at Pier’s Ruins at an easy pace.
Screee-screee-screee!
Two Corpse Spiders guarding the entrance of the Ruins rushed toward him. They seemed to recognize who their Legion Commander was—one clung to his feet and rubbed its head against them, while the other sprawled out like a dog, exposing its belly.
“How have you all been?”
That these creatures were Undead never ceased to amaze him. Simon spent a moment playing with the spiders before heading inside.
He picked his way carefully down the treacherous stone steps, which had no railing.
From within the Ruins came the occasional sound of bone striking bone and the voices of Undead echoing through the chambers. An ordinary person would have been terrified, trembling in fear, but to Simon these sounds were nothing but welcoming.
The moment he reached the bottom of the stairs—
[Legion Commander~!]
Someone tackled him hard. The impact sent him crashing to the ground.
“I—I can’t breathe! Erzsebet!”
Erzsebet, the commander of the Spider Legion.
Simon was pinned by the Ancient Undead’s tremendous strength, unable to move an inch.
[I haven’t seen you in two months, Commander, and I felt like cobwebs had grown over my mouth!]
“……Isn’t that just something people say when they’re lonely?”
Erzsebet showed no sign of letting go. Rather than resort to Absolute Command, Simon patted her back several times to soothe her, and finally she released him with a satisfied expression. He brushed the dust from his back as he stood.
“It’s been a while, Pier!”
Moonlight filtered down from the ceiling, illuminating a tall Skeleton seated upon the altar. The Skeleton’s jaw moved with an almost human fluidity as it opened wide.
[Kha-ha-ha-ha! How have you been, boy!]
Perhaps because it had been so long since seeing Pier, Simon’s chest suddenly swelled with emotion and he rushed forward to embrace him.
[What’s this! Have you become spoiled in my absence!]
“I’m just happy to see you.”
Simon pouted as he spoke. Then, with a clacking sound, the Legionized Skeletons approached as well.
“How have you all been?”
Clack. Click.
“I see many new faces.”
[Kha-ha! We’ve recruited new members while you were away!]
As Simon chatted with Pier about various things, he suddenly remembered that someone was missing. Opening his Subspace, he withdrew a Zombie, then spoke to the Gray Ring on his finger.
“Prince. Everyone’s gathered for the first time in a while. Will you come out?”
As he held the ring to the Zombie, a black bolt of lightning crashed down with a rumble. The Zombie’s form transformed into a young boy wearing a faded crown.
[Ugh! Why so late! Deathland is so boring!]
It seemed he’d been waiting for Simon to summon him all along.
Prince immediately raised his fist, and Simon let out a soft laugh before bumping fists with him in a handshake.
On the first try, Prince’s eyes filled with deep emotion and joy.
[Did you all see that? Huh? While you were gone, Simon and I practiced this too!]
[Oh my.]
Erzsebet spoke.
[Isn’t that the hand game Richard used to play with you back when you were the previous Legion Commander?]
[No, no! I invented it myself!!]
And so the Legion Commander and the commanders of his Legion gathered together.
Simon, Pier, and Prince each settled into comfortable positions. Erzsebet knelt beside Simon, then quite naturally stretched out and rested her head on his thigh.
It was extraordinarily awkward and burdensome, but since this was what Erzsebet wanted in exchange for her loyalty, Simon decided to let it pass.
Pier opened his mouth to speak.
[Well then, we ought to share the progress and achievements of these past months!]
“Of course.”
Simon explained how he had awakened his Holiness and learned Corpse Explosion and the Priest’s White Magic.
When he mentioned donning the crown during combat on the Holiness Express, Pier shot Prince a fierce glare. Prince pretended not to notice and turned his head away, whistling innocently.
Then the conversation moved to its highlight.
[Holy Corpse Explosion from a Sanctified Zombie!]
Erzsebet sprang to her feet.
[Is that even possible? Does that mean I could become a Holy Erzsebet too?]
“Hmm, I’m not entirely sure about that.”
Simon gazed down at his left hand as he spoke.
“I did Sanctify both Pier and the Zombie, but I honestly can’t remember how I did it.”
[Certainly, it was the same when you used Corpse Explosion in Deathland without anyone teaching you!]
Pier continued, crossing his arms.
[There’s no need to worry about it! That power was necessary for your battle with the Priest, so once you begin life at Kizen, there’s no reason to stress over it. Since you’re here at Kizen, focus on Black Magic!]
“Yes, and finally—”
Simon shot to his feet. Everyone was staring at something when he seized the space behind his back and wrenched it open to the side.
Crack!
It was a colossal subspace, vast as an endless plain. Everyone gasped in wonder.
“For my efforts during the recent Saint incident, Neftis granted me a new dimensional storage.”
[Khahahaha!]
Pier laughed with a resonant ring.
[There’s no mistaking it—a subspace designed to house a Legion! That woman’s foresight is most impressive!]
Pier looked thoroughly satisfied, even stepping in and out of the dimensional storage himself to inspect it.
“That concludes my briefing.”
Next came Erzsebet’s turn—she had spent the past two months at the Worm Grave.
She brought something back from the lower depths of the Ruins. They were enormous Corpse Spiders—each one a good ten times the size of ordinary specimens.
[Aren’t they cute?]
The spider let out a wet, gurgling sound and spat from its mouth a foul saliva clotted with fragments of animal bone.
Simon’s expression darkened involuntarily.
“What are these?”
[Queen-type Corpse Spiders. They can lay eggs. I found these specimens in the Worm Grave and completed their Legionization. Now we can increase the Corpse Spider population dramatically.]
Simon nodded in approval.
“Well done. When their young are born, could you lend me a few Corpse Spiders before Legionization? I’d like to test them in the Kizen examination.”
[If it is the Legion Commander’s order, I shall attempt it. However, spiders become difficult to control if they have not undergone Legionization.]
“I’ll have to get used to it.”
Next was Pier’s turn to report on his journey to the Scream Jungle.
[My purpose in going to the Scream Jungle was to find Achemous—the former Legion Commander of the entire army, an Ancient Undead.]
Achemous was a commander who led powerful flying-type Undead.
Undead creatures born from Harpies, half-human and half-beast—in the Necromancer world, they are also called Skull Wings.
‘A commander of flying-type Undead!’
Simon’s eyes gleamed as he listened to Pier’s explanation.
“If he joined us, it would be an enormous advantage… but I assume you didn’t manage to find him?”
If Pier had found him and completed his Legionization, he would be standing beside them now. Yet when Pier spoke, his voice was matter-of-fact.
[I found him.]

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