Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 250

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The Summoning Genius of the Necromancer School — Episode 250
Splash!
Simon plunged into the sea with force, his body stretching taut as a fish’s, and he carved through the waves with a smooth, powerful stroke.
“Oh~”
Dick, swimming alongside him, looked over with an expression of surprise.
“A typical mountain kid who swims well, huh?”
“……Don’t underestimate me. There are rivers in the mountains too.”
“Haha, true enough!”
Simon shot Dick a look of mock irritation, then took a deep breath and dove beneath the surface.
The moment he entered the water, the world around him transformed.
A quiet space where nothing could be heard but the sound of water—comfortable, like being held in his mother’s embrace, and his eyelids grew heavy.
But there was no time to lose himself in sentiment.
‘Now that I’m in the water, let’s start with an offensive spell.’
Simon drew Dark Element from his palm and traced a Magic Circle.
‘Ah!’
But he’d grossly underestimated how difficult it would be to draw a Magic Circle underwater.
The circle crumbled from its edges before the form was even complete, the Dark Element dispersing like ink before vanishing without a trace.
‘If the foundation collapses first, there’s no room to layer in structural reinforcement formulas.’
Creating a Magic Circle outside the water and inside it were worlds apart. The difficulty felt at least ten times greater.
He continued attempting and gathering data.
‘I need to simplify the Magic Circle far more. Even if I sacrifice power and projectile speed, if I can’t create the circle at all, it’s useless.’
After repeated failures, he finally succeeded once. It struck him that this approach would be impractical in actual combat.
Still, having come this far, he decided to fire it off.
Aiming at an octopus swimming nearby—hoping it might serve as lunch—he locked onto it with his Magic Circle.
‘Black Torpedo!’
Whoosh!
The projectile of Dark Element burst from the Magic Circle, frothing with bubbles as it shot through the water.
At how swiftly it flew, Simon cheered silently.
Thunk!
But it missed the octopus and lodged in a nearby rock instead. Startled, the creature scurried into a crevice.
Gurgle-gurgle-gurgle.
As his breath reached its limit, Simon swam upward and broke the surface.
“Phew!”
The moment he emerged, time seemed to resume its flow.
A cloudless sky stretched overhead, and from the Sandy Beach ahead came the loud laughter and chatter of students.
‘Once more!’
Simon raised his right hand above his head, and the Magic Circle began forming at a speed incomparable to underwater—faster than he could have imagined.
‘Ugh, why is such a simple formula so difficult down there?’
At last, he finished the Magic Circle and lowered his palm.
“Black Torpedo!”
As the Magic Circle activated, the torpedo launched from above water and plunged into the sea.
The projectile streaked forward, trailing foam, at considerable speed. He felt confident now—fast enough to hit even a Kizen student.
‘If I could harness this power and create it underwater as well, that would be ideal.’
Next on the agenda was the Breathing Magic Circle he and Merin had developed all day.
Five minutes of work. Once Simon meticulously completed the Magic Circle and activated the Rune Language, a sharp whistle sounded and the air around him was sucked inward.
“It works!”
While Simon was absorbed in testing,
“Simon! Simon! Look at me!”
beside him, Dick was scattered about wearing the Magical Fins he’d developed.
“I made these myself, and they’re awesome!”
Mana was continuously venting from Dick’s legs as he streaked along the shoreline.
“Total success! If I sell these to the other students before the exam, I’ll definitely be rich—whoa-aah!”
The Magical Fins suddenly ruptured, and the mana burst like a booster in a single explosion, sending Dick flying into the air.
His body traced a gentle arc through the sky—over the water, across the Sandy Beach, and then—
Crash!
he landed headfirst in the sandcastle the little children had been building.
Watching the castle crumble entirely, the smiles on the children’s faces froze.
Dick’s legs twitched for a moment before he pulled his head free and stood up, spreading his arms wide with a laugh.
“Ta-da~! I’m the princess who lives in the sandcastle!”
The children burst into tears.
‘……anyway.’
Simon let out a hollow laugh and turned his head to look at the Magic Circle he’d formed in his right hand.
The direction of the pointer written in the formula pointed from the left end to the right end. It meant the buffer was complete.
Simon immediately covered his mouth with the Magic Circle and dove into the sea.
Splash!
‘It works!’
He could breathe safely thanks to the air leaking from his hand.
‘Ugh, but—’
Since he was only roughly covering his mouth and nose with his hand, both air and water were seeping in together.
Simon couldn’t hold out long and surfaced again.
‘I got so focused on the formula’s completion that I made such a careless mistake……’
Still, he figured he could solve a problem like this without much difficulty. Simon swam back to the Sandy Beach.
Meanwhile, Merin and Kamibarez were setting up a Sunshade.
The Sunshade was large enough for four people to fit comfortably inside, and beneath it they’d set up folding chairs and a table. Magic Circle blueprints were laid out across the table surface.
Merin was even installing a security Magic Circle herself. She seemed thoroughly meticulous about security.
“You need help with anything?”
The moment Simon emerged from the sea, Merin turned and launched into complaints without even looking at him properly. “Ack!”
“Hey! There’s a difference between people working and people slacking off, you know? Why are you so late?”
“Sorry, sorry. I guess I got a bit too eager.”
“For starters, that Sunshade pole over there keeps wobbling. Can you check it out……?”
Merin’s words trailed off as she turned her head.
Her face had turned bright red, and Kamibarez was also covering her mouth with both hands, her eyes darting about.
“What’s wrong?”
Simon blinked in confusion.
Simon hadn’t noticed at all, but the thin shirt he was wearing had become soaked through and clung starkly to his muscles.
If anything, wearing the shirt only made his chest and abs stand out more prominently.
“Wh—what are you doing! Come fix that Sunshade pole already!”
“Sure.”
As Simon hurried over to check the pole, Merin and Kamibarez exchanged a discreet glance. Kamibarez spoke in a very low voice.
“I never noticed when he wore the School Uniform.”
“Y—yeah, really.”
The two of them took a moment to admire the sight of Simon from behind. As he grunted while lifting the pole, his well-balanced back muscles moved as if flexed with effort.
“There! All fixed. One of the poles was threaded backwards.”
As Simon set the pole down and turned around, both of them suddenly whipped their heads in the opposite direction.
“Th—thank you! Simon!”
Kamibarez said with a forced smile.
“Would you like something to drink?”
“Yeah, thanks.”
She scurried off to fetch some juice, and Simon approached the table area.
‘Oh no!’
When Simon suddenly moved closer, Merin’s face flushed as she cried out.
“Hey! Hold on a second!”
“Huh?”
“You just came back from the water! The blueprints will all get wet, so sit over there!”
Simon was generally obedient.
He sat down in the chair and spread out the Magic Circle he’d made earlier, examining it with a serious expression.
‘……It’s hot.’
Merin fanned herself vigorously with a hand fan, trying to cool down.

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The three of them listened to the improvements Simon had brought and worked on refining the Magic Circle.
Each contributed actively, improving the Magic Circle’s form to be both usable by first-year students and efficient.
“How about this?”
Merin spread out and fired a Black Torpedo Magic Circle with even more reinforced binding.
With a twang, the Black Torpedo flew out in a gentle arc before dropping to the ground with a thud.
Simon shook his head.
“This way we could cast it underwater too, but we’ve sacrificed too much. If speed and power drop this far, it’s better not to use it at all.”
“Hmm.”
Merin seemed to think he had a point and pondered it.
“Why don’t we shelve the Black Torpedo for now?”
It was then that Kamibarez made a careful suggestion.
“For the offensive techniques, rather than creating some new shared spell, I think it would be better to slightly adapt each of our specialties so they work underwater.”
Simon agreed with her. Developing the Breathing Magic Circle together posed no problem, but using offensive magic in water required too many sacrifices.
The best approach was to create the magic circle on the water’s surface, then descend below and activate it.
“Still, it won’t be wasted effort. While creating the Black Torpedo, I studied the formulas for using magic in the sea, so if I apply that to my specialty magic….”
“I’m back!”
Dick bounded into the sunshade like he was dancing. Merin, mid-sentence, shot him a sharp glare.
“Why are you so late, you sand castle prince?”
“The little ones kept crying, so I just built them a new sand castle and came back.”
Dick offered the excuse without a shred of shame, then planted himself beside Simon.
“So, what did you decide?”
Simon explained to Dick what they’d concluded.
Each person would focus on their own specialty for offense, while concentrating on breathing techniques and swimming that could be used in the sea.
Dick readily agreed.
“Then I’ll go this time?”
Merin stepped out from under the sunshade as she spoke.
“Someone needs to stay here and watch. Who’s volunteering?”
“Me! Me! I’ll stay. I’m exhausted from playing with the little ones.”
Dick flopped back into a chair as he said this.
“I’m still not very good at swimming, so the two of you should go!”
And so this time, Simon and Merin made their way to the water’s edge.
Until they reached the sea, neither of them spoke a word.
‘Nowhere to look.’
Simon found himself staring straight ahead because of her swimsuit. That style of bathing suit was far too risqué from his perspective.
‘…When will those clothes dry?’
Merin was equally aware of his presence beside her.
Finally, as they reached the water’s edge, she opened her mouth.
“Go first, Simon.”
Merin, her sky-blue hair flowing, prepared her Dark Magic. Simon nodded and dove into the sea ahead of her.
Cutting swiftly through the water, he glanced back to see Merin drawing magic circles beneath her feet before launching herself into the air.

Whoooooosh!
Ice erupted beneath her feet and propelled her body toward the shore.
Simon’s mouth fell open. She was running across the sea on ice.
‘Remarkable!’
Her Frost Boundary was at such an advanced level that he wondered why she hadn’t trained it earlier.
If she hadn’t focused so intently on Serne’s prowess with Jet Black Flame Arts, wouldn’t she have reached an even greater height?
“Achoo!”
Of course, the problem remained that she was sensitive to the cold.
She cleared her throat loudly, stopped the Ice Road, and plunged into the sea like she was diving.
She triggered magic she’d prepared underwater beforehand. Watching ice burst forth through the sea, Simon marveled at the display.
‘She was upset about dropping in rank on the BMAT, so it looks like she’s determined to prepare seriously this time.’
He couldn’t fall behind. Simon pulled a skeleton from his Subspace.
“!”
He’d meant to equip Bone Armor, but the skeleton simply surfaced helplessly the moment it appeared.
Using Overload was impossible either. In the water, he couldn’t perform the trigger action he’d set for his Subspace—pressing the sea floor with his left foot.
Watching Merin freely unleash ice from beneath the waves, Simon pondered the problem in the water.
‘What’s the best way for me to fight underwater?’

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“Haaaaahhhhh.”
Beneath a parasol, there lay a man sprawled out on a sun bed, yawning widely. His skin was deeply tanned, and he wore a white cap on his head.
He rubbed his eyes and made a clicking sound.
“Why do we have to train all the way out at the sea?”
At his question, his friend, lying on the opposite sun bed, answered with an amused expression.
“Just bear with it. If our group members get expelled from Kizen, it’s our loss in the end.”
“This group project nonsense. And besides, if we’re fighting at sea anyway, what more practice do we need?”
His friend chuckled and shrugged his shoulders.
“You wouldn’t understand—you’re a special admission student and a naval combat specialist. But everyone else had a meltdown when they found out the Third Exam theme is the sea.”
The man adjusted his white cap with a sweep of his hand.
“Why make such a fuss? Sea or land, a fight is a fight…… huh?”
A pristine path of ice stretched across the middle of the sea. He propped himself up on his elbows and grabbed the brim of his hat, pulling it higher.
The girl with sky-blue hair, clad in a swimsuit, glided swiftly across the ice—it was a beautiful sight to behold.
“That girl’s impressive. Do you know who she is?”
His friend let out a hollow laugh at those words.
“…… You really don’t know anyone except a handful of people in our class, do you?”
“I haven’t even memorized all my group members’ names yet.”
He possessed such severe selective memory that he could forget someone he’d seen ten minutes prior if they didn’t interest him.
“Haha! She’s actually pretty famous. Merin Bilenne from the Ivory Tower.”
Thud!
The man lying on the sun bed suddenly flew sideways. His friend, seized by the collar in an instant, choked out a cry.
“R-Raheim? Why all of a sudden——!”
“Say it again. Say it clearly.”
His eyes flashed.
“From the Ivory Tower—what’s her name?”
His friend’s face went pale. They’d stuck together all semester, but this was the first time he’d ever reacted to someone’s name.
“M-Merin Bilenne!”
“Wasn’t this year’s Ivory Tower recruit Serne Aindarck?”
“I-I don’t know either! She said she was from the Ivory Tower too!”
At that, the man released his friend’s collar. His friend landed hard on the sandy beach, gasping for breath.
Raheim’s expression turned grave.
‘To hear that name here, of all places.’

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