Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 269

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Summoning Genius of the Necromancer School: Episode 269
At that same moment.
In the Outer Sea test zone of Kizen, four monsters were swimming.
They were reptilian monsters called Hurdails—Danger Rank 4, resembling sea crocodiles.
In truth, there was a separate being controlling them.
[Plan A initiated. Vengeance of the brothers Alaje. Must be completed.]
It was Alaje, one of the Ancient Undead of the Magnus Legion.
Alaje possessed the power to freely control any monster or undead that had consumed his flesh.
[Monster lair discovered. Operation commences.]
The crocodile monsters headed toward the deep sea, where a massive Underwater Cave yawned open. The monsters plunged in unison into the cavern.
Grrrrruuuuuuu!
Then the entire cave began to tremble violently, as if struck by a submarine earthquake.
[Holding position.]
Alaje issued a wait command to the monsters.
From the depths of the endless black cavern, something began to squeeze its way out, narrow and massive. It looked like a train emerging from a tunnel of darkness.
Skrrrraaaaagh!
Then an enormous snout burst forth and swallowed the sea crocodiles whole in a single bite.
Crunch! Crunch!
With each movement of its jaw muscles, flesh tore and bone shattered.
The monster finished its meal and slipped back into the Underwater Cave.
All that remained in the sea was silence and lingering drops of crimson blood.

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“All right! Let’s take this brief rest period to remind everyone of the rules for the 3rd BMAT exam!”
On the Kizen Campus Grounds, where a large crowd had gathered, the announcer bellowed through an Amplification Crystal.
“As you’ve all witnessed, the first phase of the exam consisted of the Coin Scramble! However, from the mid-to-later stages onward, the scope expands dramatically! That’s when the Marine Monster Hunt and Point Competition begin!”
He swept his arm outward in a gesture, and the main screen displayed the sea chart.
At the center of the chart was a circle, and on one side of that circle a small opening had been cut. Beyond that circle stretched an endless expanse of sea.
“The circle you see at the center is the Inner Sea, where the Coin Scramble took place! The water is shallow, so students can easily reach the bottom! And if you venture beyond the circle, you’ll encounter the real sea teeming with marine monsters—the Outer Sea! You can earn Points by hunting monsters there, and of course, students can also cooperate with one another!”
The main screen’s image changed. Students who had ventured into the Outer Sea were shown hunting monsters, all of them riding in small Wooden Boats.
“Of course, the Outer Sea has no footing! But if you spend 500 Points using a Thung Pad, Kizen will drop a small one-person Wooden Boat from the sky for you. You can rest on it in the Outer Sea and manage your Pace! It seems Kizen has put considerable thought into helping students focus on the exam! Now, let’s review the types of monsters in the Outer Sea!”
Monster types and obtainable Points cascaded across the screen beside the main display.
“The sea zone contains monsters ranging from Danger Rank 2 to Danger Rank 5—quite diverse! Oh, Professor Jane! What is that?”
The announcer pointed at the monster at the very top of the screen and asked. Jane raised the Amplification Crystal and spoke.
“It’s the mega-sized monster of Danger Rank 5, called Gwaegong. It only emerges from its cave for about two hours a year. You’re unlikely to encounter it during the exam, so you can ignore it.”
Jane heaved a deep sigh after saying this.
She could only assume Kizen’s headquarters had included the beast on the list as a joke—a monster students couldn’t possibly catch anyway. Besides, no one could even confirm whether Gwaegong was in this sea zone or not.
“Wow! 100,000 Points for capture? That’s incredible!! Regular Danger Rank 2 and 3 monsters are only worth 100 to 500 Points, and yet 100,000?! If someone caught that, the top score would be guaranteed!”

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Meanwhile, Simon was conserving his stamina in the Inner Sea where the Coin Scramble was taking place.
The exam lasted four hours. Deimos had usable time of at most two hours or so.
He had to fight while conserving Pace as much as possible.
He wanted to avoid the worst-case scenario: having his energy depleted later, only to be swarmed by rivals who’d seen him climb the rankings and challenge him when he was already spent.
Checking his Thung Pad, he could see many students had already ventured into the Outer Sea to hunt monsters. The rankings were shifting constantly.
‘I suppose it’s time I headed out too.’
Simon finally drew his blade. With about two hours left in the exam, it seemed right to make for the Outer Sea.
Simon mounted Deimos and raced across the sea.
‘Huff!’
Activating the Air Magic Circle, he plunged underwater in one breath, and below the surface swarmed Pulpas—venomous squid-like creatures.
Simon gripped Deimos’s torso tightly with both legs while aiming the Bone Armor-Handgun mounted on his right arm.
Blam! Crack!
One creature per shot. He cut through the Pulpas as he went. At 300 Points each, it was quite rewarding. Of course, the poison attacks they spewed posed no threat to Simon whatsoever.
‘I hope this BMAT changes people’s perception of Professor Byeol-Ya a bit.’
Having dispatched several Pulpas, Simon surfaced again. The Outer Sea was just ahead. The monsters that appeared in the Outer Sea offered considerably more generous Points.
‘There it is!’
The water color itself differed between the Inner Sea where Simon was and the Outer Sea visible beyond. The Inner Sea, enclosed by Kizen’s safety net, was a clear emerald hue transparent enough to see the seabed, while the Outer Sea was simply a dark blue.
Staring at it long enough, one felt swallowed by the depths.
“?”
But between the Inner Sea and Outer Sea, boats were packed thickly together.
Students who had purchased boats with 500 Points remained in place rather than venturing into the Outer Sea.
Simon approached that group to see what was happening.
A few students riding small wooden boats caught sight of Simon’s skeletal whale and gazed at it with undisguised envy.
As Simon moved slowly forward, he scanned the crowd for familiar faces.
He found one, fortunately.
“Toto!”
At the sound of his voice, Toto spun around, eyes widening in surprise.
“S-Simon?! What is that thing?”
“Oh.”
Simon flashed an embarrassed smile.
“A Skeleton I summoned from Deimos.”
Toto let out an exclamation, his gaze darting between Simon and Deimos with equal parts admiration and longing.
“That’s incredible! You’re really pushing Summoning Magic even out here on the water!”
Toto’s enthusiasm suddenly deflated, and he hung his head glumly.
“I switched over to Dark Reversal Magic right away since the theme was the sea.”
“Ah, but there’s no single right answer to something like that. You prepared intelligently too.”
Toto looked eager to touch Deimos, but the creature had assumed a wary posture, so his hand only twitched uncertainly.
“But Toto, why is everyone just staying here? What’s going on?”
“Ah, well……”
Toto pointed ahead with a frightened expression.
“There seems to be something…… up ahead.”
“Something?”
Just then, a male student who had boldly steered his boat toward the Outer Sea came into view.
He turned back to his terrified teammates waiting behind him and called out.
“Hey, you cowards! That’s enough, right? I told you I’d be fine going in alone……!”
Splash!
Those were the young man’s last words.
His body vanished into the sea without a trace.
“Ahhhhh!”
“What the hell is that thing?!”
Several students who witnessed it shrieked and began turning their boats around.
“We’d be better off gathering Points in the Inner Sea.”
“Y-yeah, that’s right!”
The students wheeled their boats about and started retreating. Toto did the same, pivoting his vessel toward safety.
“Simon, something’s definitely out there. You should back off too and come back in an hour or so……”
But then—
Beneath the fleeing students, a shadow dark as pitch spread across the water’s surface.
“!”
The outline was so immense that it engulfed every boat in the vicinity with room to spare.
Simon felt the hair on his entire body stand on end.
The other students’ faces went pale with terror, and they began screaming and fleeing in a frenzy.
‘Run, Deimos!’
Simon’s mount accelerated to full speed, and then——
Splash!
The sea rose up like a mountain, and a colossal creature’s maw erupted from the water.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!”
“No!”
Several students tumbled directly into the monster’s gaping mouth, and it snapped shut with a sickening crunch. Teleportation sounds crackled out from various points.
Simon and Deimos barely dodged to the side, plummeting into the sea before racing swiftly across the surface to escape.
[Kahahaha! How delightful! Absolutely delightful! This is what Kizen should be!]
‘I’m finding this rather undelightful.’
The creature’s head began to turn.
A reptilian monster resembling a sea serpent or dragon fixed its enormous vertical pupils upon Simon.
‘Surely not.’
Splash!
The creature surged across the water in pursuit, and any students caught in its wake had their Barrier Gauges torn to shreds.
“Deimos, let’s dive!”
Simon activated an Air Magic Circle and commanded the creature as he stroked its head, and Deimos immediately plunged downward.
‘!’
What Simon saw beneath the waves left his mouth hanging open.
An enormously massive body was thrashing its limbs and swimming through the water—and if one squinted, the sea itself looked too small to contain it.
‘It can’t be.’
Simon’s eyes widened.
‘That’s the monster at the very top of the category—the one worth a hundred thousand Points. The Abyssal Terror.’
Pier’s raucous laughter echoed through the water.
[Khahaha! Kizen must’ve deliberately awakened this thing and released it into the test arena!]
‘No way. Surely Kizen wouldn’t stoop to something that absurd?’
[Why else would they assign Points for fighting it? They’re daring you to take it on!]
Just then, a blinding flash erupted from behind.
Simon turned to see energy gathering inside the creature’s gaping maw.
‘It’s using a Breath Attack—that’s cheating!’
Simon immediately issued an Absolute Command to Deimos, who was swimming ahead. The creature’s trajectory plunged sharply downward, and in nearly the same instant, the Breath Attack screamed past Simon and detonated in a colossal explosion far ahead.
‘Gasp—’
Simon was struck dumb. It was as though the sea itself had split open.
‘They seriously want me to catch that thing?’
In truth, the Abyssal Terror typically dwelt only in the deep Underwater Cave, so it rarely posed any threat to humans.
That was the only reason humans had arbitrarily classified it as Danger Rank 5—but its actual strength operated on an entirely different plane than the other Rank 5 creatures.
‘For now, I’ll just run as far as I can.’

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Roaaaar!
As the sudden mega-event unfolded, the spectators’ roar reached a fever pitch.
The Abyssal Terror versus Simon. It was the showdown of the century.
“Look at Simon’s Deimos go! Its speed is remarkable—matching the Abyssal Terror, or perhaps even surpassing it! Who else could stand against such a monster like that! And furthermore—”
The announcer thrust out an arm, his voice trembling with passion.
“If that beast reaches the Inner Sea, it will be catastrophic! But observe—Simon is single-handedly driving it toward the Outer Sea! He’s sacrificing himself to protect the ordinary students! This is Noblesse Oblige in its purest form! The true dignity of an Exceptional Rank 1!!”
As the announcer spun his narrative and the crowd erupted in approval of Simon’s heroism, only Jane remained clearheaded.
‘They think that’s a strategic retreat? The appearance of the Abyssal Terror itself is strange—but Simon is the one being hunted relentlessly.’
Which was precisely what was happening.
Simon was too panicked to think straight, while the Abyssal Terror continued unleashing Breath Attacks without mercy.
Each blast tore through the water, sending geysers erupting upward—it was chaos. Fish and monsters caught in the onslaught drifted past belly-up, scattered in the currents.
Jane retrieved a new Communication Crystal from her pocket.
“This is Jane.”
-Yes! Test Command Center reporting!
“Forget the hundred thousand Points—we need to eliminate the Abyssal Terror before this gets worse and the entire test area suffers collateral damage.”
-I’ll report this to the Chief Supervisor immediately.
Normally Jane would have deployed personnel under her own authority, but as she now held a concurrent position as a 1st Year Professor, she had no right to interfere with the test. The BMAT was governed exclusively by headquarters.
Moments later, a response came through.
-The Chief Supervisor says to observe a bit longer.
“What? Are they in their right mind?”
-Ah, well…….
The voice through the Communication Crystal paused.
-This student, Simon Polentia—it seems he’s actually trying to fight the Abyssal Terror?
“What?”
Jane’s eyes snapped to the monitor.

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