Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 285

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Summoning Genius of the Necromancer School — Episode 285
The battle raged on into the night.
Amid the chaos of clashing flames and sword light, blood spraying through the air, Kamibarez clutched Sasha’s hand and ran desperately through the fray.
“You holding up okay, Sasha? Think you can keep going?”
As Kamibarez glanced back over her shoulder, the girl whose hand she held gave a small nod.
Kamibarez herself was breathless, but she forced a bright smile.
“The little one’s over there!”
A gang member rushed forward, wielding a crude mace. Kamibarez quickly formed her hand into the shape of a pistol and aimed.
Blood Bullet
Bang!
A red projectile streaked through the air with the discharge and struck the gang member’s chest plate.
With an explosion, the gang member’s body went flying backward and crashed into a tree.
“Where’s the little one!”
“Just grab that freak of a brat and use her as a hostage! Then this ends!”
More gang members poured in. Kamibarez swept her gaze around frantically, then bolted sideways.
“Where are you going, you cute little—”
“!”
But there was one blocking this path too.
Kamibarez froze, her expression hardening. A gang member with a vicious scar approached, blood dripping steadily from his arm.
He dragged his tongue across his lips and spoke.
“Uncle will buy you something delicious~ Want to come along?”
At that, Sasha trembled and nestled into Kamibarez’s arms.
“It’s okay.”
Kamibarez spoke firmly and pointed her hand, shaped like a gun, at the approaching gang member.
“Don’t come any closer!”
“Aww~”
The gang member made a playful gesture, raising both hands.
“Our little lady looks so tired. You sure you’re alright? How about Uncle and—”
Whhhzzzt!
A rope suddenly wound around the gang member’s neck, and he was yanked violently into the darkness of the forest. A dull crack followed, and then silence.
“?”
“??”
Kamibarez and Sasha, still clinging to each other, stared in bewilderment.
“Kami! Get down noooow!”
At the sudden shout from above, Kamibarez dropped flat to the ground with Sasha in her arms.
“Haha!”
Dick descended Tarzan-style on a rope slung over a branch and delivered a powerful two-footed kick to a gang member approaching the pair, sending him sprawling.
“Dramatic entrance!”
After knocking the gang member down and executing a perfect double rotation in midair, Dick landed gracefully and swung the blade in his hand.
With a metallic ring, he deflected the sword that had been slashing at Kamibarez.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Dick and the gang member exchanged rapid sword strikes before their blades locked, and they began a test of strength.
Nngh!
The gang member’s face flushed red as he strained with all his might, but Dick remained casual, wearing his characteristic nonchalant smile.
“You’ve maintained it well, but your blade looks a bit worn—”
Enchant
Dick’s sword blade turned black, and the darkness spread to the gang member’s blade as if it were a contagion.
The weight of both swords became unbearably heavy, and simultaneously, both men lost their grip with a heavy thud.
“Why not get yourself a new one?”
Dick already held a fresh blade in his other hand.
“Good prices!”
Whoosh!
The gang member collapsed, spraying blood. Dick flicked his new blade clean and turned to face back.
“Kami! Keep running with the kid!”
“Thanks! You can keep running, right Sasha?”
“Yes!”
Kamibarez and Sasha resumed their flight. Dick, watching them go, turned to face the gang members thundering toward him from behind.
“Let me try out a few things I learned in Kizen!”
Dick dropped his sword with a soft thud and clapped both palms together.
As the gang members rushed toward him, he pressed the completed Magic Circle onto the ground at precisely the right moment.

Glug, glug!
A geyser of sickly green liquid erupted from the ground, spreading rapidly across the area. The gang members charging forward stumbled as the liquid surged up to their ankles.
They tried to back away, but their feet had already stuck fast as if glued in place.
Dick grinned wickedly and pressed his palm against the ground once more.

The liquid darkened to pitch black and hardened into stone. Now, even if the gang members hacked at it with their blades, they couldn’t cut through.
“Damn that Necromancer!”
“Well then.”
Dick reached into his Subspace and withdrew something dark and round. He tossed it in front of the gang members, then waved his hand and fled.
“I hope you have a wonderful time with my friends!”
Dick snapped his fingers.

As the dark aura vanished, the gang members finally understood what they were looking at.
“A—a Wasp Nest?!”
The moment Dick’s Enchant dissolved, holes began to tear open across the nest’s surface, and wasps poured out in a furious swarm.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh!”

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Kamibarez and Sasha were fleeing in panic, with the gang in desperate pursuit.
They too understood that capturing Sasha—the Necromancers’ target—was their only chance of victory.
“Hah! Hah!”
Gang members poured in from all directions without end.
Sasha, running hand-in-hand with Kamibarez, suddenly cried out and fell to the ground.
“Sasha!”
She’d twisted her ankle in their frantic sprint.
Kamibarez quickly raised a Blood Wall to block the incoming arrows, then checked Sasha’s condition.
“…Sister, go on without me.”
Sasha whispered.
“No! Absolutely not.”
Kamibarez shook her head firmly, then dropped to her knee and turned her back.
“Climb on.”
Kamibarez hoisted Sasha onto her back and began running.
But she too was exhausted. This ambush had begun with her, and she’d spent far too much blood in the interim.
The gang members surged over the Blood Wall she’d conjured, closing the distance at a perilous rate—they seemed seconds away from catching her.
“Got her!”
Just as a gang member stretched out his arm to seize Sasha’s hair, an ice spike suddenly shot through the air and drove straight into his face.

Massive chunks of ice began falling from the sky in brutal abundance, crashing down upon the gang members.
Only one person Kamibarez knew could summon a Dark Frost Barrier of such magnitude.
“Merin!”
Merin was walking toward them with a wink. She swung the opposite hand—the one not casting the blizzard.

Whoosh!
Black flames clung to the grass and flickered menacingly, and the gang members halted in their tracks.
“Come as many as you like. I’ll take you all on.”
Merin smiled at ease, spreading both arms wide. Different varieties of magical circles were accumulating in her palms.
“Damn it!”
“Don’t back down! Strike while she’s preparing Dark Magic!”
Two gang members charged at Merin. She flicked her eyes, and skeletons moved to intercept them, their blades sweeping outward.
“Tsk!”
Preparing Dark Magic while commanding Undead—
Merin was as skilled at Summoning as anyone. Shielded by the skeletons’ interference, she smoothly completed the next magical circle and lifted it skyward.

Sharp ice shards erupted from the circle in all directions.
With Merin’s characteristic automatic targeting applied, the accuracy was precise enough to lock onto each approaching gang member individually.
Controlling the battle’s momentum with her firepower alone, Merin exhaled lightly.
‘They’re just small fry, though some of them do use Mana and Dark Element, which is annoying.’
Crack!
Just then, the ice wall she’d set up earlier began to splinter.
Crack! Snap!
Crack!
Boom!
The thick ice wall shattered, and a man flew through the air before crashing to the ground.
Merin jumped back in alarm.
“What’s happening?”
Whoosh!
A boy followed close behind, landing on the man’s face and skidding several meters across the floor, leaving a long scratch in his wake.
The trampled man gasped in pain.
The boy’s identity—the one whose eyes blazed in the darkness—
“Simon!”
Simon, who had been staring coldly at his enemy, spotted Merin and grinned, waving cheerfully.
“Watch out below!!”
Without even glancing down, Simon stepped off the darkness and launched himself upward. The Slicked-Back Hair Captain, still sprawled on the floor, had raked his fingers through the darkness to slash at empty air.
Simon completed a spin mid-air and landed silently on the ground.
“Damn kid fights well for his size.”
The Slicked-Back Hair Captain wiped blood from his nose, muttering.
The gang members around them, shocked at Simon’s sudden arrival, brandished their weapons and rushed forward.
“Fall back! That boy isn’t someone you can handle……!”
‘Void Opening.’
Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!
Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!
Six voids tore open around Simon, and from within them, tentacle-like blades lashed out in a torrent.
In an instant, over a dozen gang members were struck or slashed, rolling across the ground.
“A, a monster……!”
The sole survivor, hampered by slow reflexes, stared at the back of Simon’s head with terror in his eyes.
When Simon turned to look at the man at those words, the gang member let out a shriek and collapsed to the ground.
“……Guess misfortune’s following me around.”
The Slicked-Back Hair Captain pushed himself to his feet and spoke.
“You’re Kizen’s necromancer, aren’t you? Why don’t you and those monsters from Efnel fight each other instead? Do you have the right to torment common folk like us in these minor streets?”
“You all.”
Simon clenched and unclenched his fists as he spoke.
“You’re involved with Efnel.”
……
“Were you planning to deny it? Without even knowing who that girl you tried to kidnap was?”
The Slicked-Back Hair Captain let out a long sigh.
“The commission fee was so generous it made me uneasy—and sure enough, that’s what it was. I’m sorry, but we don’t know anything about the contractor or anything else. We just took the job because we were paid.”
“I see.”
“We’ll forget about the girl. Won’t you back off?”
Simon smiled slightly.
“Why should I?”
“Ha! I figured as much!”
Even he had to admit the situation made no sense.
The Slicked-Back Hair Captain grinned and charged forward, his blade rippling with darkness.
“Even if we didn’t receive elite training like you!”
The rippling darkness clung to his sword, transforming it into something sharp as a saw.
“Years of living by the blade count for something!”
The moment the gap between them closed, Simon extended a finger.
Whoosh!
Teal smoke shot out, coiling around the Slicked-Back Hair Captain’s legs, and Simon pulled his arm back. The man’s body was dragged forward helplessly.
“Ugh!”
Forcibly suspended in the air, the Slicked-Back Hair Captain swung his sword wildly, but Simon simply bent his waist to evade.
The moment the Slicked-Back Hair Captain’s feet touched the ground again, Simon pressed the attack.
‘How many attack patterns does this bastard have?’
Crack!
Simon’s knee drove hard into the Slicked-Back Hair Captain’s face. Blood and teeth, gleaming in the moonlight, flew from his mouth.
Thud-thud-thud!
As the man fell, Simon pulled out the Cloud connected to his finger, extending it upward.
The Cloud wound around a sturdy branch and descended, and Simon gripped it with both hands, pulling hard. Using the principle of a pulley, the Slicked-Back Hair Captain was hoisted into the air by his legs.
“Gaagh!”
Slicked-Back Hair Captain’s face went pale with fear.
Twitch. Twitch.
Simon’s two fingers danced through the air. The skeleton bones scattered on the ground lifted up, hovering.

The bones poured down in unison onto Slicked-Back Hair Captain, suspended in the air.
Thud! Crack! Crack!
Loud sounds rang out, and Simon released his Cloud. The Slicked-Back Hair Captain, riddled with piercing wounds, dropped headfirst to the ground and lost consciousness.
“Easy.”
Simon muttered to himself and glanced around.
“The, the captain’s been beaten!”
“This easily……!”
“Nice, Simon!”
Merin walked forward, flicking her fingers toward Simon in approval. Then she spread both arms wide.
“If you want to throw down your weapons and surrender, now’s your last chance, gentlemen~”
Click.
Thud.
As if they’d been waiting for it, the gang members dropped their weapons.
“The, the Sentinel Gang crushed just like that…….”
Sasha, held in Kamibarez’s embrace, trembled in disbelief.
“That guy’s strong, isn’t he?”
Kamibarez asked, her face flushed red.
Sasha turned back to look.
“W, who exactly are you people?”

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