Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 267

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Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius, Chapter 267
Waaaaaah!
A big match had begun.
The moment Simon and Raheim, two Special Admission Students, appeared facing off on the main screen, the crowd could not contain their excitement.
The announcer, caught up in the fervor, leaped onto the table and shouted.
“What a tremendous matchup right from the start of the exam! Special Admission Number Eight, Raheim, who ascended to the rank of Snowfield Lord in his teens! And there—Special Admission Number One, Simon Polentia, the very student who caused a sensation in the secondary BMAT!”
The announcer turned his head.
“Professor Jane! What do you make of this contest? By coincidence, the two students you mentioned as ones to watch this exam have finally met!”
Jane regarded the announcer’s feet on the table with visible displeasure, then sighed before responding.
“For now, I’d say Raheim has the advantage.”
“Ah, is that so? I’m curious to hear your reasoning!”
“Though Simon has been active in Curse Magic and Blood Magic recently, his foundation remains Summoning Magic. The Sea as a battlefield presents a considerable obstacle for any Summoning Magic student.”
“That’s certainly true! The statistics bear it out—Summoning Magic students are struggling significantly!”
Most Summoning Magic hopefuls had abandoned their summoned creatures and were attempting the exam through Dark Magic from other disciplines.
Of course, without their primary specialty, their competitiveness had dropped sharply. Already, whispers circulated among the spectators suggesting that perhaps thirty of the fifty eliminated students might be Summoning Magic majors.
“I’m genuinely curious to see how Simon will overcome the limitations of Summoning Magic! Let’s keep watching!”

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Splash! Splash!
Simon was swimming frantically through the water, cutting through the waves. Hovering in the air above, Raheim pursued him, firing a barrage of Eye Bomb projectiles.
Boom! Boom!
Around Simon, spray erupted continuously.
‘Damn it, I don’t want to use Deimos already because of that guy.’
He decided to hold out as long as he could. Simon took a deep breath and dove beneath the surface.
Glug, glug, glug!
As he fled underwater, Raheim relentlessly continued his assault from above. The projectiles that pierced through the surface didn’t seem much hindered by the water, traveling swiftly downward.
‘He’s already prepared for underwater combat too.’
Simon swam quickly toward where most of the other students were clustered, calculating that turning them into enemies would be too risky.
But Raheim opened fire on everyone indiscriminately—Simon and the inconvenient students alike.
Those struck by the Eye Bombs began sinking into the depths of the Sea as if they were shackled by iron weights.
“Ugh! What the—”
“An attack from above!”
At that moment, Simon surfaced with a sharp gasp. He then shouted at the top of his voice.
“That’s Raheim!”
“Raheim?”
“If it’s Raheim, he’s already collected all ten Coins—he’s in first place!”
“Target that bastard first!”
A counterattack erupted from the Sea. As Dark Magic and Curses poured down, Raheim scowled and increased his distance.
“Wretched little rat……!”
In the meantime, Simon vanished again.
While Raheim remained occupied fighting the other students,
“Phwoaah!”
Simon slipped away with a quick dive and surfaced on another floating platform. He brushed his wet hair back and exhaled lightly.
‘A Necromancer who can fight both in the air and at sea—he’s troublesome.’
Just as he’d finally caught his breath and was getting to his feet,
Crack!
Raheim descended like a comet from the sky and landed on the platform where Simon stood.
“Why do you keep running?”
When he dropped into a corner of the platform, the entire floating structure tilted sharply in that direction.
‘Whoa!’
Simon bent his knees and barely managed to maintain his balance.
“We made a deal—a battle for Merin! Jumon Blendis!”
Simon blinked.
“What? I’m Simon Polentia.”
“Just accept it.”
He pressed a white swim cap firmly onto his head and smirked.
“I’ll eliminate you from this exam, and from now on, Merin will look only at me. No matter where you run, it’s futile, Jemon Bolentona!”
“……your names for me keep getting weirder.”
“The only name I need to remember is Merin Billenne!!”
Raheim struck his own chest with both fists.
“Anyway! I’m going to get you eliminated, no matter what. If you come back in thirty minutes, I’ll kill you the moment you show your face!”
“……Right. Okay.”
“However, there is exactly one way for you to stay at Kizen!”
His lips curled into a wide grin.
“Swear it. Swear you’ll never harbor feelings for Merin again, and that you’ll never appear before me and Merin ever again! Say it here, in front of all these observers watching!”
At this point, Simon began to worry about this boy called Raheim.
“……Sorry, but do you maybe have some kind of, well, mental issue?”
“How dare a mere student mock the Snowfield Lord!”
Raheim clenched both fists and drew them to his sides. The floating platform beneath him creaked again as it began to tilt.
He’d covered it with Gold Snow.
As the weight shifted to one side, Simon focused, bracing his left foot deliberately.
‘Gate Opening!’
Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!
Whoosh!
Six blades shot out all at once, but Raheim leaped off the platform first.
“I will not forgive you! Jubon Bolendodina!”
‘……Just ignore the name.’
The platform flipped over. Simon, sent tumbling into the sea, tried to swim away quickly, but Raheim unleashed a barrage of projectiles from the platform itself.
The Gold Snow-encrusted platform became impossibly heavy, dragging Simon down with it into the depths.
‘Ugh!’
The force was too strong to break free from.
Simon clenched his fist and drew in the Dark Element. His knuckles blazed with deep blue light as they churned through the water.

Boom-crack!
The moment Simon’s fist drove forward, a massive hole tore through the platform, and he shot through the gap.
Watching the platform sink all the way to the seafloor, Simon let out a sigh of relief.
Splash!
But in the distance, he could see Raheim entering the water too, frantically turning his head as he searched. Other students, their eyes on his coin, unleashed a coordinated assault.
‘Why does he have no sense at all? Though it works in my favor.’
While Raheim was occupied fighting the other students, Simon swam leisurely toward the surface. He spotted another floating platform and made for it.
‘If he chases me again, I suppose I’ll have no choice…….’
[Boy! He’s coming from behind!]
Raheim had abandoned his fight with the other students and was pursuing Simon.
Bubbles streamed continuously from the magic circle beneath his feet.
‘I have no choice. Pier.’
Things weren’t unfolding exactly as planned, but it couldn’t be helped.
Simon made his decision and pulled himself onto the platform.
‘I’m summoning it.’
[Kehehehe!]
Simon rose with the Dark Element and leaped upward. Almost simultaneously, the platform beneath him sank into the sea. Raheim had hurled an Eye Bomb and struck true.
While Simon hung suspended in mid-air, Raheim broke through the surface as well.
He spotted Simon and cried out.
“It’s over now!”
Eight magic circles unfurled above Raheim’s body.
The students floating in the water around them, the spectators watching on the main screen—everyone’s eyes were fixed on Simon’s next move.
And Simon, hovering in the air, slowly swept his arm back and tore the space open.
-Uuuuuuuuuuuu!
A tremendous vibration, as if reality itself were splitting apart, made every eye widen. Raheim froze mid-motion.
And what emerged from that dimensional storage was—
“A—a monster?”
The skeleton of an enormous whale, over five meters long.
A long skull formed of upper and lower jaws, followed by vertebrae of the neck. Stretching down through the spine—the back, the waist, the tail—were otherworldly fins. Two massive pectoral fins extended from the chest, resembling the limbs of a land mammal.
Simon nimbly climbed onto it and waved at the dumbstruck Raheim with a vacant smile.
Splash-boom!
As Simon and Deimos plunged into the sea, a mountainous spray erupted. Raheim, caught by the wave, staggered back.
“Waaaaah!”
“What is that thing?”
The students stared in shock as Simon rode Deimos, mouths agape.
The sight of crossing the sea at impossible speed atop a skeletal whale—it was the very dream of every Necromancer.
[Kahahaha! Excellent! Absolutely magnificent!]
Pier cried out, exhilarating in the rush of speed.
A smile tugged at Simon’s lips as well. They were moving forward at a pace incomparable to mere swimming.
Of course, they drew tremendous attention. The watching students hurled Dark Magic at them, but there was no way they could keep pace with Deimos’s velocity.
“Damn it!”
Raheim charged into the water behind them. The magic circle beneath his feet accelerated, spewing out projectiles in a frenzy.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Eight magic circles unfurled around Raheim once more, and he unleashed a barrage of Gold Snow projectiles in rapid succession. In the water, they had been granted homing capability and pursued Deimos relentlessly.
‘Let’s see what you’ve got.’
Simon linked his consciousness to Deimos and pushed harder. Deimos began to accelerate.
Whoooosh!
Swiiish!
Deimos cut through the water with fluid agility, shifting direction at will, while Raheim’s projectiles surged close behind from below. As the two carved different trajectories across the sea at blinding speed, every onlooker’s jaw went slack.
‘Insane.’
‘Are they the only ones taking a different test?’
The watching students were left dumbfounded.
‘Faster. Push faster!’
Simon’s concentration sharpened further.
Six of the eight projectiles couldn’t withstand the water pressure and collapsed midway; the remaining two clung stubbornly to their pursuit. Deimos rose toward the surface, where a floating platform suddenly came into view directly above.
‘Now!’
Deimos made a sharp hairpin turn just beneath the platform, and the trailing projectiles collided with it, shattering on impact.
‘Got it!’
Exultant, Deimos surged to the surface and leaped clear of the water.
Uuuuuuuh!
The active magic circles collided and scraped against each other, producing a sound like the roar of some beast.
Every student floating on the surface turned their gaze toward the colossal skeletal whale now airborne above the water, and toward Simon perched upon its back.
Gleaming in the sunlight, the sight resembled a masterpiece captured by a master painter.
“Waaaaaaaaa!”
Naturally, Rocksum’s spectator stands erupted into chaos.
“Magnificent! Absolutely magnificent! He doesn’t disappoint this time either! Simon Polentia, commanding skeletons in the very sea itself!!”
The announcer shrieked, flecks of spittle flying. Jane quietly withdrew a handkerchief and dabbed the spray from her sleeve.
“What exactly is that, Professor? How can a skeleton possibly move so fast in the water?”
“It’s an offspring of Deimos, a Danger Rank 8 monster known by the epithet ‘Master of the Sea.'”
Jane, of course, already knew.
“The only undead capable of creating the special undead form known as the Heavenly River Whale. I must confess, this is my first time witnessing its skeleton variant.”
“Ah, I see! Extraordinary! To prepare something like that specifically for underwater combat!”
As the two conversed, Simon and Deimos descended once more toward the seafloor. The attacks aimed at Simon from other students all went wide.
Only Raheim persisted in dogging their trail.
Raheim soon extended both arms wide. Eight magic circles unfurled around him once again.
Simon glanced back at the sight and redirected Deimos, turning to face Raheim and the nearby students.
‘Show them what we’re made of, Deimos.’
As Simon issued an Absolute Command, Deimos’s jaw yawned open. From within, a terrible surge of shadow roiled and drew in the surrounding seawater.
Uuuuuuuuh!
‘What—!’
Raheim froze. The sight before him was like watching a brilliant sun rise from within the gaping mouth of the vast whale skeleton.

Shoooooom!
The Ocean Current Cannon erupted from Deimos’s jaws like a lance.
Against that colossal wave of water, the eight projectiles Raheim had fired seemed negligible. The barrage swept them all away in reverse, their force carrying them back toward Raheim himself.
……!
Kaboom!
A massive explosion shook the entire sea. As Simon checked the Thung Pad strapped to his arm, dozens of eliminated students materialized on the surface.
‘Yes!’
Simon felt a thrilling surge course through him and clenched his fist. Deimos, whose consciousness remained linked to his own, answered with a tremendous roar.

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