Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 338

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Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius Episode 338
On the City Wall, the werewolf Canis and Dik stood facing each other.
She took a combat stance, her gaze fixed on Dik.
‘The opponent is a Kizen student like me. Should I just fall back and slaughter the regular soldiers instead?’
She entertained the thought briefly, but soon shook her head.
Regardless, the outcome of this war hinged on thirty necromancers wielding the Dark Element. Rather than squander it on insignificant foot soldiers, it was strategically sounder to capture the enemy commander—the Kizen student.
‘Besides, that hesitating fool knows my identity.’
If she let him escape, every detail about herself—including her bluffing—would reach the defending side. She made her decision. She would fight.
‘…What exactly is that?’
But before she could charge recklessly, those metal cases positioned on either side of Dik gnawed at her uneasily.
Given the smooth metallic finish and the cracks visible in the City Wall’s floor, they looked decidedly heavy.
Canis had no way of knowing what kind of equipment they were. She’d never seen a necromancer use such weapons before.
“Well then.”
Seeing Canis hesitate, Dik pressed his palms against both metal cases.
“I’ll make the first move!”
Enchant.
As Dik’s Dark Element flowed into the metal case, it flashed as if powered on. Soon, accompanied by the sound of an engine humming to life, the device activated.
[!]
She jerked her head back urgently. Something had streaked past her face. When she glanced behind, a small spark was flying like a brilliant flash.
“Oh, you’re reacting to it! Is it some kind of bestial instinct?”
Dik said so as he poured more Dark Element into the case. The metal case’s openings clanked open, and countless bursts of sparks poured out.
[Ugh!]
Canis quickly pivoted and sprinted along the City Wall, the shower of sparks pursuing her in its wake.
‘What is that? A curse?’
She didn’t understand the technique’s nature, but there was clearly no benefit to taking a hit.
Using the natural flexibility of her werewolf form, she deftly evaded, then infused her claws with Dark Element and swung them.
With a sharp clang, the spark she struck deflected away.
‘Fortunately, I can counter it with the Dark Element!’
“Hmm.”
Dik’s expression tightened slightly, as though straining, before he unleashed more sparks from the metal case in rapid succession.
The exchange continued in this pattern—Dik pressing his assault while Canis evaded. The brilliant battle between the two necromancers was so dazzling that the demihuman soldiers dared not even attempt to intervene.
‘Good.’
But as time wore on, the tide began to shift. Canis was dodging so effectively, and now it was Dik, the aggressor, who seemed to be tiring, his breath coming in ragged gasps.
Unleashing such volume would naturally consume Dark Element at a staggering rate.
With breathing room now at her disposal, Canis traced a Curse magic circle on her palm.
‘I’ll cast the Howling and end this in one strike.’
She completed the curse swiftly. Breaking from her purely defensive posture, Canis charged toward Dik, bringing the magic circle inscribed on her palm close to her mouth.
—Aouuuuuu!
And she howled.
Wolf Howling, a curse that bloomed once more into a wide-area affliction, rippled outward.
“Ugh!”
“Gah!”
The soldiers who had moved to aid Dik turned ashen-faced at the sound, stumbling backward or collapsing as their legs gave way. Dik, too, had gone pale, his pupils trembling and unfocused.
A perfect opening.
With swift movement, Canis seized the space behind Dik and drove forward in a straight line.
‘I’ve won!’
As her two claws were about to pierce through Dik’s back.
[!]
Dik’s torso twisted sharply, and he dodged.
Though Dik should have been paralyzed by the Howling curse, he slipped easily to the side, while Canis, now pitched dangerously forward, staggered.
Screee!
Screee!
Her sword-shaped claws scraped against the metal case with a sharp click—and stuck fast.
[What—what is this!]
She tried to move her arms but they wouldn’t budge. As she pulled harder against the metal case’s weight, her claws only strained, threatening to tear from her hands in agony.
“Heh.”
Dik let out a low chuckle as he rose to his feet. He appeared entirely unharmed.
[How did he dodge it? He should have been caught by the Howling!]
“Sorry, what did you say?”
Dik said this as he pulled something resembling earplugs from his ears.
“Probably asking why the Curse didn’t take effect on her?”
Her mouth fell open.
[When did she even— I know for certain she didn’t insert those earplugs!]
“Oh, I’ve had them in from the start, obviously.”
Pier had information about her. She knew about the Metamorphosis she used, and also understood the technique called Wolf Howling that worked in that form.
“So if I’m picking a fight with you, there’s no way I’d come unprepared for Howling, right?”
[……Damn it!]
Pier tucked the earplugs back into her pocket.
“Most of the things I use in combat are controlled through Enchant—turned on and off by will. These earplugs are the same. As long as I have them in and just channel the Dark Element through them, I get perfect sound dampening.”
She growled in frustration and tried to wrench her arms free, but her claws still stuck fast to the metal case, refusing to budge.
Canis’s claws were like extensions of her body—in her werewolf form, they remained fixed in this state. She couldn’t retract or extend them at will.
Pier, of course, had accounted for this too.
“And.”
Pier snapped her fingers.
“That thing that flew at you like a Curse just now? It didn’t actually do anything.”
[……What?]
Just a bluff, Pier said matter-of-factly.
“Everyone’s been badly burnt by Curses in their Duel Evaluations, so whenever they see anything resembling a Curse, they panic and get defensive, right? I used that psychology on you. Really, this metal case is more like a magnet—it runs on the Dark Element.”
A lie.
And a complete deception.
That was Pier’s way of surviving in Kizen.
[So what.]
She glared at Pier savagely, trembling with rage at having been fooled.
[What do you think you’re going to do like this?]
Breaking her transformation was Pier’s real goal.
Her arms were pinned, yes, but she still had her legs. She had teeth. She had a tail. If this opponent came at her with that sword, she was confident she could handle it somehow.
Muscle rippled across her two legs.
[Come on then!]
“I’m not brave enough to charge in— I’m a coward, really.”
Pier pulled a potion bottle from her Subspace and flung it at her—twice. The liquid drenched her entire body, viscous and slick.
A sweet smell wafted up. An addiction potion, maybe, or paralysis.
But Canis had attended the Professor’s classes too and had confidence in her resistance.
What mattered more was that her claws were starting to slip. She could feel the magnetic hold weakening.
Roughly a minute left. She’d made a mistake and gotten caught—that was on her.
Thunk. Thunk.
And finally, what Pier dropped at her feet was a wasp nest. Canis’s expression went deathly cold.
[A wasp nest? You think you can catch a Necromancer with something like this?]
Pier had already turned her back and was walking away.
“Those wasps are monster hybrids. Even if you wrap yourself in the Dark Element, their stingers will pierce through.”
Pier raised both arms behind her head, then—click—snapped her fingers.

“See you.”
Whoooooosh!
A horrifying sound split the air, and from three wasp nests, swarms of wasps erupted. Almost simultaneously, the grip of the metal case holding Canis’s claws weakened and released.
‘Done!’
She lunged to escape, treading the Dark Element beneath her, but the wasps were faster—they swarmed her entire body, which was still sticky with the potion.
-Auuuuuuuuuh!
The pain was maddening!
Every cell in her body felt pierced by countless microscopic needles. Canis shrieked and began to run.
But no matter how fast she ran, the wasps wouldn’t fall off, and even as she wrapped her skin in the Dark Element, their stingers burrowed through to her flesh.
[Kyaaaaaagh―!]
Driven mad by pain, she stumbled backward off the City Wall. She hit the ground hard with a thud, and her Barrier Gauge flatlined.
[Canis McGlory eliminated.]
[Defense Team (15/15)]
[Siege Team (14/15)]
Her body scattered and vanished from the battlefield.
“Hahaha! First blood is mine!”
Pier threw both arms up in triumph.

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After Pier captured Canis, the chaos on the City Wall began to subside, like a fire being extinguished and brought under control.
“Come now, let’s move!”
Led by Pier, soldiers gathered and began pushing back the Khan Kingdom forces that had climbed onto the City Wall. Whenever Pier cast Enchant on the soldiers’ armor and weapons, each of them performed brilliantly as elite troops.
But then.
Crash! Bang! Bang!
The soldiers at the front were being knocked down by something.
Pier rose onto his toes and craned his neck to see what was happening, only to discover a siege ladder suspended in midair, battering the soldiers mercilessly.
“What?”
Now the siege ladders that had been leaning against the City Wall were floating freely in the air.
“Tch! What’s going on all of a sudden!”
The ladders now ignored the other soldiers and pursued Pier instead. He quickly abandoned his sword and ran.
‘A telekinesis user? Has there been someone in Kizen capable of wielding this level of power?’
Pier jumped high into the air, dodged the incoming ladder, and then placed his palm against its frame.
‘Enchant!’
As soon as he cast Enchant, the force controlling the ladder dissipated like a lie, and it dropped to the ground with a thud.
With that, Pier was certain. This wasn’t mere telekinesis.
Thump. Thump.
“So I’m just supposed to be a ladder shuttle, huh.”
A girl approached Pier then.
Short bob-cut hair with prominent under-eye bags, dressed in a Kizen school uniform.
Despite being in the midst of enemy territory atop the City Wall, she strolled leisurely along the fortification.
In fact, the ladders she was controlling circled around her like bodyguards, systematically beating down every Khan soldier in sight.
“Surprising. How did someone as foolish as you manage to capture Canis?”
“W-Well, that’s a trade secret, you know~”
Pier spoke with apparent ease, his eyebrows twitching slightly, but he had exhausted far too much of his dark element power capturing that werewolf earlier.
And he recognized her instantly.
“Milena Hatz. So you’ve decided to make a personal appearance?”
“You recognized me right away. Fame gets exhausting sometimes, you know~”
Milena raised her fingers, and the siege ladders fell to the ground. In their place, the stone tiles from the City Wall began rising into the air.
‘I’m finished.’
An opponent who launched multiple projectiles of non-dark, non-metallic materials was the absolute worst matchup for Pier.
Pier leaped to his feet and fled, as bricks came whistling through the air toward him.
Whoosh!
Crack!
Even glancing blows hurt immensely.
Pier ran at full speed despite his unsteady footing.
“You run fast.”
A voice spoke from right beside him. Pier’s heart lurched, and when he turned his head, Milena had somehow matched his pace and was now running alongside him.
Boom!
He barely dodged her kick by arching his body backward. The recoil threw him off balance, and a dark mist crashed down upon him.

Exgust had struck him at exactly the wrong moment. Pier’s body immediately grew heavy.
‘No, no, no! If I don’t break this fast…!’
The second and third attacks were coming.
Pier hastily spread a Magic Circle across his palm, preparing Cancellation to dispel the curse, but.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two more bursts of Exgust from Milena’s fingers preceded his casting, passing through Pier’s body.
Three stacks of Exgust in total.
Pier’s body trembled as he tried to resist, but ultimately he collapsed onto both knees. The Cancellation he’d been preparing failed, and his heavy hands fell to the ground.
“Clear~”
Milena lowered her fingers after confirming Pier was immobilized.
“Ugh, seriously.”
Pier grumbled.
“This is why curse users are absolutely abhorrent. Your one-on-one combat ability is completely broken, isn’t it?”
“Sorry about that~”
She smiled without looking sorry at all and made a gesture. The bricks from the City Wall rose into the air around them.
“Bye bye.”
The bricks flew toward Pier. Just as he was about to drop his arms in resignation.
Crash!
A wall of ice surged up in front, and the incoming bricks shattered against it and fell away.
“You dolt! You’re whimpering against a single opponent?”
“!”
The blue-haired girl had appeared behind Milena Hatz without warning, seizing her from behind.

Crack-crack-crack!
A bloom of ice erupted from her palm, consuming everything in its path.

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