Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 312

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Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius Chapter 312
Whoooosh!
The moment holiness touched its body, the kitten trembled delicately, savoring the sensation.
A lustrous sheen appeared in its white fur, and soon light began to bloom.
“Ah, this little one is experiencing a crucial moment of awakening.”
Parahan spoke, swaying gently where he stood.
“Yes, at last the moment when she realizes she is a familiar.”
Simon’s brow furrowed slightly. He felt all the holiness suddenly being drawn out toward Hayangyi in a thick stream. And then—
Blaaaaze!
The kitten floated upward into the air, engulfed in a dazzling corona of light.
‘At last!’
Simon’s eyes gleamed with anticipation. The kitten’s form warped and seemed to shift—
Pop!
The light vanished, and she dropped back to her original shape onto the ground.
“Huh?”
Simon blinked, bewildered.
Nothing had changed at all.
Hayangyi bounced in place, trotted over to Simon, and began rubbing her face against him with eager mews.
‘What was that? That felt amazing! Do it again!’
That was what Hayangyi seemed to be saying.
“Professor…”
Simon lifted his head to face Parahan.
“The familiar didn’t transform. Did I do something wrong?”
Yet Parahan’s lips curled into a broad smile.
“Even better!”
“Sir?”
Parahan spoke, unable to hide his excitement.
“This cat is no ordinary familiar! In this old man’s judgment, there’s a real possibility she could transform into an inanimate object, or something entirely unknown.”
“…An object? Even though she’s an animal?”
Parahan nodded.
“Have you heard of Akan, the Continent’s greatest Arc Paladin? He transforms his Drake into the shape of an airship that soars through the skies. Such objectification requires considerable enlightenment from the familiar itself. I suspect this kitten failed to transform simply because she’s too young and lacks experience.”
Simon tried the same technique on Kkamangyi right beside him, but it ended in failure as well. Light swirled around her, then receded, and she dropped back to the ground.
“Hmm, it’s not easy. Acalion managed it on the first try.”
On impulse, Simon infused holiness into Acalion’s body as well. At once, the small bear doll–like creature swelled to several times her size, transforming into a muscular bear.
Meow!
The young kittens, who had been approaching to pester Acalion, yelped in alarm at the sudden size and bolted. They huddled behind Simon’s legs, trembling.
The enlarged Acalion huffed proudly. The tide had turned.
‘To master Divine Beast Activation after seeing it just once—that itself is remarkable.’
Parahan regarded Simon with a satisfied smile and spoke.
“Though today ended in failure, these familiars’ potential has only grown. Don’t be impatient—before long, transformation will be within their reach.”
“Thank you so much, Professor!”
Simon bowed his head respectfully.
“I’ll need to adjust the lesson plan. From now on, I’ll increase the focus on familiar studies, and the kittens should undergo training as well. They need to consistently practice transformation so they develop a true sense of themselves as familiars.”
Simon nodded in agreement.
“Yes! I’ll trust your guidance completely.”
“Then today I’d like to teach you some basic attack techniques using Acalion—”
Parahan glanced at Simon’s wrist watch and stopped mid-sentence.
“But time doesn’t permit it.”
“Sir?”
Simon hurriedly checked the time and his expression shifted to alarm.
He had no idea how the time had passed. Two hours had already vanished.
‘…No! I wanted to learn more familiar techniques before I left!’
Regrettable as it was, he had to prepare for the Poison Magic class this morning. During the practical assessment season, every single lesson was crucial.
“Off you go now.”
Parahan gathered the kittens into his arms as he spoke.
Simon summoned Acalion into his Sacred Subspace.
“Please look after the kittens! I’ll let Kamibarez know!”
“Very well.”
Simon raised his Darkness aura and began running toward the school.
The kittens mewed and tried to dash after him, but Parahan held them fast in his embrace.
“These children have already chosen their master, it seems.”
Parahan smiled with satisfaction, and the angry cats bit at his fingers.

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‘Wow, I got here fast.’
If there had been a running record, Simon would have broken the all-time best. He arrived at the lecture hall in the Poison Studies Building with a few minutes to spare before class began.
‘Dick hasn’t come yet?’
Simon was glancing around, looking for Dick’s usual seat, when he noticed something strange—the classroom was in complete chaos.
“Waaah!”
“So cute!”
There was always at least one student in the class who brought something odd just to get attention.
This time it was a Rabbit Ear Hat—the kind that covered your entire face. The students were trying them on each other and giggling about how hilarious they looked.
“Don’t you think Kami would look amazing in this?”
“No way! This was totally made for Kami!”
Suddenly, the students rushed toward Kamibarez en masse, determined to put the hat on her.
“Oh, um—?”
Caught off guard by the sudden crowd, Kamibarez’s face flushed with embarrassment. But when she saw the rabbit ears, her wings fluttered with genuine interest.
“Just once! Please, just this once!”
As the students pleaded, Kamibarez relented and placed the hat on her head.
“Is this… how you wear it?”
The moment Kamibarez tilted her head while wearing the Rabbit Ear Hat, shrieks of absolute delight erupted from every direction.
“Kami is so adorable!”
The female students wailed and embraced her, babbling about how cute she was, while the male students stood slack-jawed, their uncle-like laughter echoing across the room.
“Hey, wait! Don’t bully Kami like that!”
Merin came running at the sound of the commotion, her sky-blue hair streaming behind her. The female students quickly exchanged glances and hastily protested.
“We weren’t bullying her!”
“Shut it.”
Merin growled.
“You know she’s uncomfortable with this, and you crowd around her anyway. What are you doing?”
“Merin?”
But the instant Merin caught sight of Kamibarez in the Rabbit Ear Hat, she clutched her chest and collapsed to the floor as if her legs had given out.
“M-Merin! What’s wrong?”
“….”
She couldn’t breathe.
This was genuinely lethal cuteness.
“Hmm.”
Class representative Jamie smiled knowingly and seized the moment.
“Merin would look great in it too, wouldn’t she?”
“Yeah, totally!”
As the attention suddenly shifted to her, Merin cried out in alarm.
“Hey! Why me all of a sudden?!”
“What, did you think you could just watch and enjoy? Everyone here has already worn it.”
Merin shuffled backward, still sitting on the ground.
“That’s not my problem! And I didn’t see anyone else wear it!”
“Come ooon~”
Dick, seizing his chance, interjected with a sleazy grin and raised his eyebrows.
“Skip this one? That’s foul play! Where’s your honor as a warrior?”
“You’re out, you commoner!”
Kamibarez herself removed the Rabbit Ear Hat and handed it to Merin with both hands.
“I want to see Merin in rabbit ears too!”
“…Ugh.”
Her face flushed crimson, Merin reluctantly took the hat with trembling hands.
She stood there holding the hat like she was facing a major crossroads in her life, deliberating, when a male student quietly approached the crowd to watch.
“S-Simon!”
As Simon gave a casual wave, Merin’s face turned a violent shade of scarlet and she cried out.
“You, you get out of here!”
“Huh, why?”
Jamie leaned forward with a mischievous smile.
“You were just about to put it on, weren’t you? Why, are you embarrassed that Simon’s watching?”
“Hey!!”
Merin flashed a look from her eyes meant to silence Jamie, but Jamie brushed it off lightly and turned around.
“Then to be fair, next round you wear it. Okay?”
Simon grinned.
“Might as well.”
“Aaaaaaaah!”
Now there was no getting around it—she had to wear it.
Merin, her ears flushed all the way to the lobes, trembled while clutching the hat, and Sindy Vivache furrowed her brow and gestured.
“Stop playing coy and hurry up. We want to see Simon in the Rabbit Ear Hat.”
Sindy and several other female students were already waiting for their turn.
The moment Merin, twisted with humiliation, let out a small groan and lifted the Rabbit Ear Hat onto her head—
“Oh!”
“The professor’s coming!”
The students bolted from their seats at lightning speed. Sindy clicked her tongue.
“Ugh, we almost got away with it.”
“You’re dead, Sindy, for real!”
“That’s such poor form, don’t you think~”
The students took their seats, and right after, Poison Studies Professor Byeol-Ya appeared, a tattered coat draped across her shoulders with holes torn throughout.
“Everyone doing well?”
The students greeted her warmly.
She tossed her coat aside and spoke.
“What were you all up to that was so fun? I could hear your laughter echoing all the way down the hall.”
The students let out embarrassed laughs and dodged the question.
Shortly after, the teaching assistants filed in and stood at the back.
“All right, all right. It’s important to enjoy yourselves when you can! But now, shall we talk about something serious—the Field Exam?”
Field Exam.
At the weight of those words, the students’ expressions hardened.
‘…We’ll probably have to eat poison.’
‘Whoever eats the strongest poison gets an A+, maybe?’
Most were thinking along those lines.
Byeol-Ya took a document from the teaching assistant.
“The previous Poison Studies professor barely held any Field Exams last semester. So from now on, we’re going to be running high-stakes Field Exams regularly—prepare yourselves. Today’s the first one.”
She flashed a smile, her jagged triangular teeth showing.
“Hunting Poisonous Monsters. Thirty percent of your grade!”
Thirty percent!
The students’ eyes went wide.
“Don’t mistake this for an ordinary monster hunt. You’ll be going after the most difficult monsters—the ones the territorial lords have nearly given up trying to hunt.”
Poisonous Monsters are known to carry a danger rating roughly one tier higher than ordinary monsters of comparable strength.
Naturally, this was because of the toxin’s threat. Even when a hunter succeeded in capturing a monster, if they took a direct hit from its venom, it often meant the hunter’s death or grave injury.
“And these monsters you’ll be hunting are individuals specifically selected to resist the Poison Resistance and Antibodies you’ve been building up in class. In other words, if you get poisoned, you’ll be in just as much danger as an ordinary person.”
Nothing’s ever easy, Simon thought, nodding his head.
“There are two assessment criteria.”
Byeol-Ya held up two fingers.
“First, successful hunt or failure. Second, the quality of your Antidote. You’ll need to extract the monster’s venom, prepare the Antidote on the spot, consume it, and then successfully hunt the monster.”
Click.
As the teaching assistant opened a case, colorful materials inside bottles came into view.
“We’ve prepared a basic Antidote Kit for you. Of course, that alone won’t be enough. You’ll have to source the remaining Antidote materials on-site.”
Hunting Poisonous Monsters whose existing antibodies don’t work, preparing the Antidote on-site right then and there.
For a thirty-percent Field Exam, it was quite the difficulty level.
“Now, don’t get nervous, don’t get nervous.”
Seeing the students’ grim expressions, Byeol-Ya waved her hand dismissively.
“If you just do what you’ve learned so far, you’ll pass without major trouble. The exam begins in two hours. You’ll be transported directly to the site via Teleportation Magic Circle. You have eight hours to hunt the Poisonous Monster and prepare its Antidote. Pass that, and you’re through. That’s all.”
Then a hand shot straight up.
“Jamie Victoria, Professor! How many of us will go? …I think we need at least four people.”
The other students quickly nodded in agreement.
“Four people? You’re trying to breeze through the Field Exam!”
Byeol-Ya laughed wickedly.
“This Field Exam, you go in groups of exactly two!”

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