Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 315

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Summoning Genius of the Necromancer School — Episode 315
Haah. Haah.
Night had fallen. In the darkness-shrouded forest, shallow, labored breathing could be heard.
“Please wait for me. Simon.”
Ordeals forge strength in the young, or so they say — and Kamibarez, her body covered in burns and scratches from head to toe, was making her way back to where Simon lay.
The net she dragged behind her was crammed with various fruits, antidotes, and the carcass of a monster.
“I absolutely will not let Simon…!”
She was almost there now.
Her pace faltered as she pushed through the dense brush and drew near the place where Simon lay.
A chill of fear gripped her. What if something had happened to Simon in the time she’d been gone?
‘Don’t be foolish now!’
She wiped her blurred eyes with her sleeve and pressed onward until she reached Simon’s side.
“Simon!!”
Mercifully, Simon was still there, exactly where she’d left him.
She abandoned the net and rushed to check his condition — listening for steady breath, placing her ear to his chest, laying her hand on his forehead.
“…Ah?”
Strange.
He was in far better condition than before. His eyes remained closed, but his breathing had grown even and calm, and color had returned to his face.
‘His constitution is… remarkable.’
She could only marvel at it.
Simon was holding on with everything he had, so now it was her turn. She pulled the net toward her, spread out the contents, and began her work.
Crackle. Crackle.
The fire Simon had prepared in advance still smoldered in the dry wood. She coaxed it higher, blowing gently to build up the flames.
Thwack. Thwack.
Using a flat rock nearby as a board, she crushed the fruits with her blade and extracted their juice. She chopped and cleaned the herbs carefully, setting them aside, then dragged the body of the Dire Wolf she’d just caught over to her work area.
There were no werewolves in this forest, but this would serve the same purpose.
Crack!
During the Island Practical Evaluation, butchering monsters had been beyond her imagination — but now, with Simon’s life at stake, every hesitation and tremor was a luxury she could not afford. With decisive purpose, she opened the beast’s belly and took what organs she needed.
There was only one thought driving her: she had to save Simon.
Working quickly, she retrieved the portable Magic Cauldron from her Antidote Kit. She took out Simon’s as well, holding both, and ran.
“Water! Water!”
There was a stream nearby. She ran until her breath came in gasps, filled both cauldrons to the brim with valley water, and hurried back.
“Ah!”
But she caught her foot on a vine and tumbled forward with a thud. The water from both cauldrons spilled everywhere, and for a moment despair and exhaustion made her body tremble — but there was no time to sit and cry.
She scrambled to her feet, rushed back to the stream, filled the cauldrons again, and returned.
“I will save you, Simon. I promise.”
She repeated this to herself like a mantra as she worked.
Back at the fire, she set both cauldrons over the flames — one directly over the heat, the other a little to the side — and began her preparations.
Consulting her Poison Magic textbook, she added fruits and antidotal herbs in sequence.
“Huff. Huff.”
She blew on the fire, skimmed fat from the surface with a ladle, and sprinkled in medicinal powders. Into the cauldron over the hottest flame, she dropped the Dire Wolf’s whole gall bladder.
With just an hour remaining before the test ended, she finally completed the antidote.
‘Now I just have to give it to Simon!’
She carried the cauldron over to him. Kneeling gently beside his head, she drew in a deep breath.
Thump-thump-thump!
The sound of her pounding heart drowned out even the nightbirds singing around them.
Before her lay the blue-haired boy, defenseless, his expression slightly pinched.
But this angle.
From this angle, the nape of his neck was clearly visible.
‘I… I need to focus.’
She shut her eyes tight, steadied her breathing, then dipped a wooden spoon into the antidote and brought it to Simon’s mouth.
Tremble-tremble-tremble-tremble.
Suddenly her arm began to shake violently, and half the antidote spilled away.
‘Why, why am I shaking like this!’
To fail now, after everything was prepared!
She steeled herself, gripped the spoon with both hands, drew up another dose, and brought it to Simon’s lips.
But how was she supposed to get him to swallow?
“Si-Simon? Say ‘ah’ for me.”
As if he’d understood her words, Simon actually opened his mouth. Kamibarez quickly poured the antidote between his lips, feeding it to him.
Simon closed his mouth again, and she drew up another spoonful.
“Please—help me!”
As she spooned the Antidote into Simon’s mouth, she felt her own body growing hot.
Blood rushed to her face, and the bridge of her nose tingled. Before she could stop herself, a breathy sound escaped her lips.
Again and again.
Her gaze kept drifting toward the nape of Simon’s neck.
She had opened Ursula’s Blood just moments ago while gathering herbs and fighting monsters.
Something terrible stirred in the depths, lifting its head to whisper.
Forget the Antidote.
Sink your fangs into that pale neck right now.
Isn’t that what you truly want?
Each time she bent to feed him another spoonful, her fangs gleamed and her body lurched toward his throat.
Every muscle, every fiber of her being craved his blood.
‘No. I can’t.’
She steeled herself.
She could never wound Simon.
She would never surrender to this filthy instinct.
Straining against herself, she forced the third spoonful of Antidote past his lips.
Then.
Cough! Cough!
Simon began to cough.
“Simon!”
His shoulders trembled as his entire body expressed revulsion, but he managed a slight grimace as he looked at Kamibarez and spoke.
“…Wow. That works fast.”
“Ugh!”
A plaintive sob spilled from Kamibarez’s lips.
“Siiimon!!”
She threw her arms around him. Simon smiled and gently stroked her hair.
“Thank you, Kami. You did well.”
“Sob! Ahhh!”
The medicine had done its work. Simon could move with relative ease now.
Once Kamibarez had calmed, Simon asked about the situation.
“How much time do we have left?”
“L-less than an hour.”
“Then we go now.”
Simon rose to his feet, clenching and unclenching his fists, then turned back to her.
“We need to settle things with that scorpion.”
She wiped away the tears clinging to the corners of her eyes and answered with a bright smile.
“Yes! Simon!”
Kamibarez had already taken her own dose of Antidote beforehand.
The two of them ran swiftly and returned to the Desert.
The Scorpion was said to be most active at night, when it grew darker.
‘Come on. Come on out.’
Simon deliberately conjured his Darkness Element and walked forward, scattering the blood of the Dire Wolf that Kamibarez had captured.
Rumble-rumble-rumble!
The response was immediate. As though it had been waiting for a rematch, the sand beneath began to rise.
“Simon! There!”
“Yeah, I see it. But…”
Two mounds of sand were rising. Soon two scorpion tails flashed and erupted from the ground, landing apart.
Crash!
Simon and Kamibarez leaped backward together, dodging. Simon’s lips curved into a smile.
“Brought a mate along, did it.”
-Screeeeeeeee!
Two Desert Scorpions. One of them bore a cracked carapace and traces of bleeding—clearly the one they’d fought before.
It moved with vicious aggression, its venom inflamed by the wound.
“Ready?”
“Yes! Simon!”
With two opponents now, the Desert Scorpions’ threat diminished greatly—as long as they remained prepared against the poison.
The two Scorpions charged forward, kicking up sand.
“Come forth.”
Simon dropped the Golem Core to the ground as he spoke. Around the Core, a Cloud already prepared in advance was beginning to swirl violently.
“Blood Golem.”
The Golem Core and Cloud converged toward the center as if fusing, and in the next moment, two massive arms rose up and blocked the charging Scorpion head-on.
Crack!
The torso, legs, and face materialized rapidly. As the Blood Golem slowly rose to its feet, it pressed down on the Scorpion it held with overwhelming strength, crushing it deeper.
Whoosh.
Simon moved his arm. At his command, the Blood Golem pinned the Scorpion’s face with one hand while smashing its gauntlet to pieces with the other, then drove its fist into the bare flesh beneath.
Blood sprayed outward, and the wounds Simon had sustained began to heal through the Bloodsucking effect.
Boom!
Kamibarez was dealing with the remaining Scorpion. Even as she bounced frantically while retreating, she was preparing Dark Magic.

The Binding technique of Blood Magic erupted once more.
Simon, having fashioned the Blood Golem, summoned the remaining Cloud and rushed forward.
The two of them moved with the speed of crossing flashes of light. Red and blue-green lines trailed like ribbons, entangling both Scorpions.
The Scorpions twisted their tails to target the pair, but it was futile.
‘Their movements are completely transparent to me!’
Having fought them once before, the pattern had become familiar. The enraged Scorpions sprayed their poison fog repeatedly, but now that immunity had developed and he’d consumed the Antidote, the toxin no longer threatened to shatter his condition.
And then.
‘It’s complete.’
Even as he evaded the relentless assault, Simon had perfected a new Curse.
He turned to the side and shouted.
“Kamibarez! Fall back now!”
“Yes!”
Kamibarez withdrew, and Simon manifested the Curse Magic Circle. It took the form of two Magic Circles joined as one, like a yin-yang symbol.
Simon peeled it away and attached one to each of the Scorpions.

The Curse’s effect activated.
The two Scorpions, which had been attacking in unison, locked eyes with each other, then shrieked and began to fight one another.
Crack!
They collided fiercely—smashing each other’s armor with their tails, sweeping their front legs—in a brutal struggle.
“S-Simon! What is this…?”
“One of the Confusion-class Curses—the Curse of Enmity.”
One of the Four Major Curses that Bahil had taught him.
With its two Magic Circles united as one, when attached to different targets, the Curse’s effect causes those who activate it to feel extreme hostility toward each other and compels them to fight.
It was, in essence, a Curse designed for monsters.
Of course it could be used on humans and provoke hostility, but once they realized a Curse was at work, allies would never turn on each other.
However, Bahil, the Curse’s creator, had explained that if one managed to apply it in secret, it could achieve an effect akin to sowing discord.
While the Scorpions fought and battered each other, Kamibarez bound both of them together with the Blood Thread.
“Come back, Blood Golem.”
Simon moved into the finishing phase.
The Blood Golem’s body crumbled like ice cream, leaving only the Golem Core to drop free. Its body then transformed into Cloud and returned to Simon’s Magic Circle.
Simon then depleted the Cloud’s reserves before drawing out a dark blue bow and arrows.

Simon nocked the arrow against the bowstring, aiming at the Scorpions.
Bound by Kamibarez’s Binding technique, the Scorpions only regained their senses as the Curse’s effect faded too late.
‘Already too slow!’
The moment Simon released the bowstring, a line of darkness converging into a single point of destruction pierced through the gap between the Scorpions.
Flash!
The surroundings were consumed by darkness.
Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom!
A tremendous explosion engulfed everything. A wave of pure darkness radiating outward in a fan pattern from the arrow’s impact point tore the Scorpions to shreds.
Simon and Kamibarez raised their arms to shield their faces against the towering sand spray and the backblast that followed.
“Haa.”
Simon released the bow of darkness into the air and let out his held breath.
Kamibarez beamed with a broad smile.
“We did it, Simon!”
“You worked hard too, Kamibarez.”
The two finally smiled and shared a high five.
They’d cleared it with barely five minutes to spare before the exam ended.

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