Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 219

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Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius – Chapter 219
‘Now I’ve really got it!’
After several attempts, Simon slapped his knee.
He decided to try just one more time. The Skeleton that had just used Dash was returning to the starting line on Track.
The solution wasn’t anything grand. By repeatedly commanding Dash, the Skeleton had grown accustomed to the technique.
And Simon’s mind had become completely absorbed with the Skeleton’s Dash.
An opponent at such distance—you don’t cut by running on two feet.
You fly and cut.
With this concept firmly imprinted in his mind, Simon issued an Absolute Command.
‘Cut!’
Crash!
To achieve its purpose, Dash becomes a means.
The Skeleton soared ten meters into the air, sliced through the straw, and landed on the ground. Combined with the leap, the blade’s accuracy had skyrocketed. At last, Simon had a success worthy of satisfaction.
Dick and the other spectators erupted in enthusiastic cheers.
‘Well, well.’
Aaron, watching from a distance, felt his lips curl upward.
‘I worried his touch might have dulled during the break. Instead, his focus and learning pace have only improved. And…’
His gaze shifted toward Hector, who stood at a distance, watching Simon with murderous intensity.
‘Hector. If you take a genius like that as your rival, you’re bound for misery. You’re still ahead in other subjects. Why are you so obsessed with Simon alone?’
Hector, grinding his teeth, took his own turn launching the Skeleton into a leap.
After countless attempts, Hector too finally succeeded. Though the Dash length came up short at three meters, lacking practical combat application, he managed to cleanly slice through the straw without damaging the Skeleton’s frame.
Aaron stroked his rough chin.
‘Hector’s overall level is high, but his learning aptitude itself isn’t exceptional. Rapid growth like this in a short span is exceptional. Is he being spurred on by Simon?’
Aaron alternated his gaze between the two boys.
These two could spur each other on to greater development. So long as they didn’t engage in direct conflict, this kind of rivalry was genuinely positive from an educator’s perspective.
“Professor.”
An assistant called Aaron and gestured at their wrist. Aaron spoke loudly.
“All right, that’s enough! Today’s practical is over.”
The assistants controlled the students and brought them before Aaron.
Perhaps from exhausting their mental focus with Undead control, many students complained of headaches and dizziness.
“Take your seats.”
Aaron ordered the students to sit, then checked the time once more.
About ten minutes remained before class ended. As he swept his eyes across the checklist the assistants had prepared, he spoke.
“When I call your name, come forward. Simon Polentia, Hector Muir.”
While the other students murmured, Simon and Hector rose and came forward.
“You two showed the greatest development in today’s lesson. We’ll conclude class with a simple match as a finale. It’s a friendly bout with no bearing on grades, so approach it without pressure.”
The students applauded and whistled as if they’d been waiting for this. A fight was always cause for celebration.
Simon offered a wry smile and looked at Aaron.
‘Professor, must you really pair me with Hector again?’
Hector’s lips curved upward.
‘Professor Aaron. Finally doing something I approve of!’
Aaron explained the rules.
Since they’d learned Skeleton Dash in this lesson, he’d assumed the match would be about measuring Dash distance—but it was a bit different.
“It’s a Summoned Creature duel.”
Aaron explained.
“The Summoned Creature type is standardized to exactly one Island Ratman Skeleton. Beyond Skeleton control, the caster is prohibited from using any Black Magic whatsoever. Victory goes to whoever drops the opponent’s Skeleton’s skull to the ground even once through combat. Do you understand?”
Both nodded.
The assistants then directed them to take distance from each other and withdrew their Skeletons from their pocket dimensions. An assistant raised their arm.
“Ready.”
Both bent their knees and drew up their focus. The Skeletons before them both took combat stances.
“Simon’s bound to win this match.”
Merin, stretching her neck to peer through the spectators, murmured.
“Using ‘Skeleton Dash’ outright gives Simon a much better advantage, doesn’t it? Is Professor Aaron trying to boost Simon’s morale?”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk.”
Dick shook his finger side to side smugly.
“Figures—so much for Merin. Your thinking’s just too simple.”
She growled like a monster, and Dick genuinely panicked, quickly hiding his finger behind his back. Beside him, Kamibarez, sitting with her knees together, spoke.
“Then what do you think?”
Dick turned his head toward Kamibarez as if he’d been waiting for precisely this question.
“Actually, stopping Dash is really easy. It’s just an equipment match.”
“Equipment?”
Kamibarez, curiosity kindled, was about to ask more when the teaching assistant’s voice rang out: “Begin!”
Simon immediately drew Darkness toward his skeleton’s feet.
‘One Dash to strike the skull and finish it.’
Hector, responding in kind, opened a subspace and withdrew a massive Long Spear, tossing it to his skeleton.
“There we go!”
“Knew it!”
Cheers erupted from Hector’s faction. Simon immediately halted the Dash he’d been preparing.
‘Right—there was no restriction on weapons.’
A counter to the charge. Hector’s skeleton gripped the Long Spear.
The moment Simon commanded his skeleton to charge, a simple thrust would put Simon’s skeleton at a disadvantage—momentum plus the spear’s reach meant Simon’s skeleton would be struck first.
Hector’s Summoning Magic control was expert-level. He could certainly react quickly enough to thrust the spear in time with the charge. Moreover, Simon possessed no weapon longer than Hector’s Long Spear.
“If you won’t come to me, I’ll come to you!”
Hector split his mouth into a grin and commanded his skeleton to attack. It rushed forward, thrusting the spear, and Simon ordered his skeleton to raise a sword and parry.
Clang!
The two weapons collided, sending sparks scattering. Hector’s skeleton unleashed a torrent of strikes.
Hector himself clearly possessed considerable skill with the spear—each thrust was precise and flawless. Simon’s skeleton was hard-pressed merely to defend.
“Excellent! Excellent!”
“Keep pressing!”
The students, swept up in the rapid combat, began to cheer. After deflecting the spear several times, Simon’s skeleton turned and fled.
“Ha ha ha! What are you doing!”
Hector’s skeleton drove hard against the floor and shot forward at tremendous speed.
Simon’s eyes widened sharply.
‘Hector’s three-meter Dash!’
Simon barked a defensive command. His skeleton, fleeing with its back turned, spun and swung its sword.
Crash!
Spear and blade met with a violent metallic shriek. By the thinnest margin, the spear’s trajectory warped and grazed past the skeleton’s skull.
“So close!”
“Hector’s got better momentum?”
The crowd’s favor had completely shifted to Hector’s side. Simon’s skeleton staggered, regaining its footing.
“What’s wrong! Simon!”
Hector, scenting victory, roared.
“Won’t you use that fancy new technique you learned?”
…….
Then a smile crept across Simon’s lips.
Clatter!
Simon’s skeleton dropped the sword in its hand. The watching students wondered if he’d open a subspace for a spear or other weapon, but Simon didn’t.
‘Bare hands?’
‘Is he serious?’
While the students murmured amongst themselves, Simon’s skeleton crouched down and pressed both hands to the ground.
Whoosh.
Simon’s eyes blazed with focus.
‘Recreate that sensation from back then.’
Click! Click!
Bone fragments began to fall away from various points on the skeleton’s body, swapping positions and beginning to reassemble.
The defeat condition was the skull hitting the ground. But Simon kept the skull connected to the torso while rapidly swapping the combinations of the other bones.
Root Reassembly.
Watching Simon’s skeleton gradually transform, Hector was seized by growing fury—veins bulging across his forehead.
‘You bastard!!’
Hector hastily commanded his skeleton to attack, but Simon’s skeleton evaded the spear thrusts with ease and continued its reassembly while retreating.
Seeing Simon’s skeleton slowly change form, the other students belatedly grasped what was happening and burst into exclamation.
That very technique he’d demonstrated before everyone in the first Summoning Magic class of the semester. Aaron’s palms grew slick with sweat as he watched.
‘…Even seeing it again, it’s a breathtaking sight.’
Simon was recreating the biped monster ‘Island Ratman’ in its earlier form—the ‘Grey Rat.’
With insight that seemed to transcend the very order of creation itself, Simon’s skeleton transformed into a quadruped animal, now evading the spear strikes.
Whoosh!
The Grey Rat skeleton leaped high, abruptly widening the distance between itself and its opponent.
With front legs planted and rear legs stretched back, it raised its lower body in a hunting crouch.
Hector felt a chill run down his spine.
He forced his skeleton to halt and assume a defensive stance, spear held forward.
“You bastard……!”
“I’m sorry, but it’s over, Hector.”
The Grey Rat Skeleton was gathering Dark Element across its four legs, preparing to Dash.
“Nonsense! The tide of battle hasn’t changed at all!”
“How much difference there is between the jumping power of a humanoid monster and a beast-type monster.”
Simon’s lips moved.
“Are you really grasping it?”
The Grey Rat pushed off hard against the ground with all four legs and launched itself skyward.
Hector’s Skeleton reacted, thrusting its spear in haste. An arm extended upward—a movement so simple, so direct. Yet there was more to it than mere simplicity.
Too slow.
The Grey Rat Skeleton, hurtling down from above, was faster when it swept its foreleg at the skull. The spear’s tip, lagging by half a beat, only grazed past a single limb.
Thud!
Hector’s Skeleton’s skull, severed from its neck, rolled across the ground. Behind it, the Grey Rat Skeleton landed gracefully on all four legs.
Click! Click!
As though undergoing a transformation, the upper body of the Skeleton that had been walking on four legs rose up, and it stood upright on two legs alone. The bones reassembled themselves once more from head to toe, shifting from beast-form back to humanoid form.
The Skeleton walked on two legs toward the rolling skull, seized it, and lifted it above its head—mirroring Simon’s gesture.
The instructor shouted with an excited face.
“Student Simon Polentia is victorious!”
From the thick silence, the students who had been watching with intense focus stirred, as though waking from a dream, and let out cries of amazement one by one.
Roooooar!!
The entire Track erupted in a thunderous roar of acclaim.

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