Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 289

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Summoning Genius of the Necromancer School Episode 289
“Hah! Hah!”
Meanwhile, Kamibarez was fleeing frantically, gripping Sasha’s hand.
Above them, an Efnel schoolgirl bounded across the tree branches, pursuing relentlessly.
“Hand over the child while I’m asking nicely!”
The night sky flashed white—a beam of pure radiance descended. It was the infamous White Magic spell: Exorcism.
Crack!
Kamibarez pulled Sasha close and hurled them both into the grass. The beam struck the ground with a violent impact, sending dirt and gravel erupting into the air.
A sharp intake of breath.
Kamibarez scrambled to her feet, ready to bolt, when an invisible wall suddenly materialized in front of her.
“No matter how far you run, you’re still in the palm of my hand.”
With those words, Priest descended from the tree branch to the ground below.
Kamibarez pushed Sasha behind her and drew forth her Dark Element aura.
‘I have to fight. I have to protect Sasha!’
Currently only one pursuer had caught up with her.
On their side, Simon had been the first to fall back, and then Merin had stepped forward to intercept the pursuing Priest.
While they escaped to safety, another had followed immediately behind them.
At the very least, she had to defeat this one.
‘I’m worried about Simon and Merin, but the two of them should be fine.’
Kamibarez steeled herself and turned to face her pursuer.
“Sasha, will you step back?”
“Okay.”
Sasha nodded and retreated. Since Efnel’s objective was to secure the Saint Candidate, they wouldn’t attack her separately.
“For a Necromancer, you’re surprisingly presentable.”
Priest remarked with a shrug, as if taken aback.
“Same goes for that boy who stepped forward alone.”
Kamibarez’s eyes widened at those words. The person Priest was referring to had to be Simon.
“What… what did you do to him?”
“By now, he’s probably been torn to shreds by my sisters.”
She curled her lips into a smile.
“Lirinet is strong. His Core is likely already shattered.”
“That’s impossible!”
Kamibarez placed her palm against her abdomen and twisted her body to the side.
“It’s gone!”
With a sharp click, the Ursula Family’s Blood Seal partially shattered.
Her eyes became a deep crimson red, the wings on her back spread wider, and her fangs gleamed with a razor-sharp light.
“Now that’s more monstrous.”
Priest spread both arms and crossed them.
A grinding sound.
Invisible walls suddenly rushed toward her from both sides. Kamibarez jumped upward to escape, but the two walls met in the center with a sharp clang.
Kamibarez relaxed, watching the scene below her.
Thud!
“What?”
Pain suddenly shot through her head. Though transparent and barely visible, Priest had already set up a wall in the sky above.
“Gotcha!”
Priest quickly swung both arms downward.
The wall came down together with Kamibarez, pinning her flat against the ground.
“Caught you, monster!”
Priest said coldly, raising both arms overhead. Above, a Magic Circle for Exorcism began forming.
‘I can’t break free!’
The pressure of the wall was so immense that Kamibarez’s body continued to sink deeper into the earth.
Then she heard Sasha’s urgent voice crying out “Sister!”
A sharp focus flooded back.
Kamibarez pressed both palms against the wall, then tilted her head back and drove her razor-sharp fangs directly into it.
A scraping, crackling sound.
The force of her fangs’ hardness, combined with the wall’s descending pressure, caused cracks to radiate outward from the contact point. With a loud snap, the wall shattered.
Kamibarez immediately rolled her body away, and Exorcism fell in the bare fraction of a second too late.
“I thought vampires were creatures of fairy tales.”
Priest’s expression turned intrigued as she conjured multiple Holy Arrows.
“Now, won’t you disappear back into the fairy tales?”
Whoosh! Whistle-whistle-whistle-whistle!
Kamibarez rushed forward, gasping for breath, dodging the Holy Arrow, then leveled her hand—curled like a gun—at Priest.
A Blood Bullet exploded from the recoil and shot forward, but Priest simply materialized a transparent barrier in front of her and blocked it with ease.
‘Protection Studies specialist.’
Kamibarez, like Simon, was making full use of the information she’d learned from Holy Defense Magic.
‘A major specialized in defense. In combat, she pins her opponent down with barriers and protective shields, then unleashes a finishing barrage.’
Just as she’d analyzed, Priest created several transparent walls simultaneously and sent them hurtling forward.
Kamibarez bounded and darted, weaving between the approaching barriers.
‘!’
While she was focused on the walls bearing down from the front, a barrier suddenly dropped from above.
She scrambled backward and dodged it. The wall crashed down exactly where she’d been standing an instant before, leaving a large rectangular imprint.
‘No—I can’t dodge all of them!’
As Kamibarez lost her footing evading the barrage of falling barriers, she finally collided with the wall pressing in from the front.
Her body was driven backward with the wall, which dragged her toward the trees visible behind her.
‘If I get pinned down, it’s over!’
Kamibarez quickly opened her palm and inscribed a Magic Circle on one side of the barrier. Then she drove her fist through it with all her strength.
Blood Strike
Crack-boom!
The barrier shattered and Kamibarez dropped down.
But then—
“Complete.”
A wide semicircular barrier had unfurled around Kamibarez.
Priest hummed a wordless melody and clenched her fist.
Shhhhhhhhh.
The barrier began to contract. Kamibarez fired Blood Bullets in succession, trying to shatter it, but it didn’t even crack.
The barrier shrank to fit her body in moments, immobilizing her completely while crushing inward with tremendous force.
“Gaaahhh!”
“How delightful. You bloodsucker.”
Priest laughed with delight and raised her hand; Kamibarez’s body lifted into the air, trapped within the barrier.
Perhaps to keep her fangs from breaking the barrier again, Priest left space around her face but compressed everything below her neck with immense force.
Kamibarez couldn’t move a single finger.
“I can crush the entire body like this, of course, but I can also concentrate force on specific areas.”
The moment Priest spoke, the barrier around Kamibarez’s throat tightened with redoubled pressure.
She gagged.
“Let Kami go!!”
Sasha screamed. Priest looked at her and smirked, then gestured.
“If you wish for that, come this way. Our dear Saint Candidate~”
“I won’t… absolutely not… Ughh!”
“Whether she suffocates, whether her neck breaks—if I keep this up, that cute little bloodsucker dies for certain, yes?”
Finally, Sasha, her eyes bloodshot with desperation, began walking toward Priest. Priest’s lips curled into a smile.
“Good.”
Pat.
Kamibarez pressed her palm open, struggling against the crushing pressure.
Pat. Pat. Pat.
Priest noticed what she was doing and looked up.
“No matter how much you struggle, it’s use—”
“Sasha!”
Her lips trembled.
“Run!!”
Whoooooooooooooooosh!
Priest spun around in shock.
A vortex of blood, appearing out of nowhere, swallowed everything in its path—trees, brush, all obstructions—and barreled forward.
Her face drained of color.
‘She was preparing such a massive Dark Magic spell while fighting me?’
If she moved, the barrier imprisoning Kamibarez would dissolve.
Priest hastily stretched her arm and threw up a wall behind her, but the blood vortex consumed both wall and Priest, surging forward.
Ursula Bloodline Unique—Call Tempest
Roooooaaarrr!
It was the most powerful Dark Magic Kamibarez could wield.
With the caster neutralized, the barrier constricting Kamibarez shattered and released her.
“Cough! Cough!”
The moment she landed, she coughed and clutched at her throat, then squared her shoulders and brought her palms together with force.
Crack!
The whirlwind scattered, and at its center, Priest fell hard to the ground—her Efnel Uniform, tailored from saint’s cloth, shredded to ribbons and soaked in blood.
“Hah… hah…”
She had won.
Sasha beamed and moved to rush toward Kamibarez, but something about her seemed wrong.
Her pupils had turned an even deeper crimson, and her gaze fixed on the blood-drenched Priest with lethal hunger.
Step. Step.
Her expression was parched with thirst.
As she approached the unconscious Priest and tilted her neck to bare it, fangs bared—
Thump!
Sasha wrapped her arms around Kamibarez and held her close.
Just as Kamibarez had done for her, every time before.
“…Um, you okay, sis?”
Kamibarez’s body trembled faintly, then stilled. Her ragged breathing came in gasps, then slowly, gradually, her rhythm returned to normal.
“…I’m fine.”
At last, a strained voice answered.
When Sasha lifted her head, Kamibarez’s pupils had shifted back to violet.
The two held each other close, confirming they were both safe.

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Whoooosh!
As Merin spun her arms like a windmill, ice spikes cascaded down from the Magic Circle overhead.
“Block it. Zeki.”
At Priest’s command, a Divine Beast that resembled a stone lump stepped forward and curled itself into a ball.
Its body hardened further with Holiness, easily deflecting Merin’s blizzard.
Merin clicked her tongue with a grunt.
‘She’s more troublesome than I thought.’
Her opponent specialized in Divine Beast Studies.
She wielded five Divine Beasts with fluid control in combat.
Three of them had fallen to Merin’s assault, and Priest had withdrawn them into her Holy Dimensional Storage, but two still remained.
“Now’s the time! Gino!”
At Priest’s cry, Merin quickly ducked her head.
A Divine Beast in the shape of a hawk slashed through the air with a sharp sound. Several strands of her sky-blue hair were severed and flew upward.
‘How many Divine Beasts does she have? This doesn’t feel like a one-on-one fight at all!’
The two were evenly matched in skill.
Merin summoned Dark Flare in both hands again, while Priest prepared to call forth another Divine Beast from her Dimensional Storage.
Right then.
“Merin!”
Simon emerged abruptly from the darkness, bursting through the undergrowth.
“Oh, Simon!”
Merin called out with delight in her voice.
“…Oh, you.”
Priest, on the other hand, looked taken aback.
‘Where are Lirinet and Istar?’
Simon stepped in front of Merin and spoke.
“A Divine Beast Studies specialist—I have the elemental advantage. You go help Kamibarez.”
“Elemental advantage? What are you talking about?”
Simon’s eyes were serious as he answered instead of explaining.
“Please. I’ll take her down quickly.”
“…”
Merin was disappointed not to finish her fight with Priest, but she understood there had to be a reason Simon was insisting so firmly.
Besides, the team’s top priority was protecting Sasha. One couldn’t afford to lose sight of mission hierarchy.
“Got it! Don’t overdo it.”
Merin turned and sprinted into the darkness-wrapped forest. Halfway there, she glanced back and let out a sharp sound.
“If you get hurt, I really won’t forgive you!”
“…Ha.”line>
And so Merin left, and the two faced off.

Priest let out a deep sigh.
“You’ve come from defeating Lirinet and Istar, then?”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“……That doesn’t help much. Those two—are they dead?”
“I don’t know. I didn’t hold back, but if they’re lucky, they might still be alive.”
“You seem quite strong.”
She peeled the badge from her chest and set it upright before her with a sharp snap.
“Then so be it.”
A shimmer of holy light opened in the badge’s depths, and out bounced a small divine beast that resembled a plump teddy bear.
“I’ll go all out as well.”
She flashed a confident smile and pressed her palm against the divine beast’s body.
Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack-crack-crack!
The moment her holiness flowed into it, the bear-like divine beast swelled to enormous size.
A massive, muscular creature walking on four legs—a giant bear-monster, its body wreathed in white, shimmering energy.
“It’s an honor. Allow me to face you with my strongest divine beast—Akalion.”
She cried out “Go!” and thrust her arm forward, and Akalion charged at Simon like a rampaging bull.
‘……’
Simon lowered his stance and readied a Curse in response.
But then.
Stop.
The Akalion, which had been bearing down with all the force of something about to obliterate everything in its path, gradually slowed—and came to a complete halt right in front of Simon.
“?”
Both Simon and Priest wore identical expressions of bewilderment.
“H-Akalion? What are you doing! Charge them down!”
But Akalion paid no heed to her command. Its eyes rolled with curious fascination as it observed Simon, then extended its great head forward. And then.
Lick.
It dragged its tongue across Simon’s face, showing unmistakable affection.
“W-what on earth are you—why are you suddenly—?!”
Priest bounced up and down in distress, but Akalion showed no intention whatsoever of attacking Simon.
After a moment’s hesitation, Simon reached out and stroked its head, and Akalion huffed with obvious delight.
‘What did I do back then?’
While petting Akalion, Simon attempted to channel his holiness into it, just as Priest had done.
And then.
Whoooooooosh!
A torrent of holy flame erupted across Akalion’s body—far greater than before. The divine beast pivoted, then wound itself around Simon and stood at his side.
It huffed and glared at Priest with unmistakable wariness.
“Oh, damn it!”
Priest, seized with panic, tore at her hair.
“This doesn’t make any sense!”

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