Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 339

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Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius — Episode 339
“Wow, wow—this is brutal.”
Milena had narrowly dodged Merin’s attack and clicked her tongue in appreciation.
A section of the City Wall had frozen solid, like an ice kingdom. She brushed frost from her arms, shaking off the rime that clung to her, then turned to look at Merin.
“Pleasure to meet you.”
In the presence of the strong, courtesy demanded decorum. Milena pinched the hem of her school uniform skirt lightly and bowed, lowering her body in respect.
“Milena Hatsuya, Class G.”
“Merin Villenne. Class A.”
Merin tossed out the words curtly as she traced a Magic Circle above her palm.
“Wait, Merin!”
Just then, Dick—frozen in place behind them by Milena’s Curse—shouted out a warning.
“Be careful! That one is a—ack!”
Ice erupted from the ground beneath Dick’s feet, launching him upward. He tumbled awkwardly, then went careening down the slope of ice like a human sled.
The frozen path had already stretched far into the distance.
“You’re in the way. Get lost, commoner.”
“No, wait—just listen to me—ahhhhh!”
Dick rocketed away at terrifying speed, riding the ice slide. Milena’s expression turned to one of regret.
“Shame. I was planning to finish this quietly. Still—”
As Dick receded into the distance, Milena’s gaze pivoted back toward Merin.
“Squashing no-names is boring. Doesn’t a real challenge sound better?”
“Amusing.”
Merin sneered, and Milena laughed right back at her.
Crash!
Among Necromancers, there were no formal starts to battle. A spear of glacial ice shot forth from Merin’s palm, and Milena simply pivoted sideways, running with fluid grace to slip past it.
‘Her physical abilities are impressive. Combat Magic aspirant level.’
Merin had already taken her measure.
Thud!
Thud-thud!
Now it was Milena’s turn.
She slashed her hands through empty air, and bricks torn from the City Wall rose into the sky, hurtling toward Merin.
“Child’s play.”
Merin swung her arm dismissively, as if the whole display was beneath contempt.
Crack!
The difference in power was absolute. A wave of glacial force burst from her palm, swallowing every brick and crashing down on Milena with crushing weight.
Yet Milena slipped aside with barely any effort, moving just a fraction to the side.
‘So she keeps dodging like that, then.’
Merin quickly prepared her next move, stepping onto a Magic Circle inscribed on the ground.
‘For Combat Magic users, this is the direct counter.’

A wide expanse of ice crystallized outward from her feet. Milena, who had been standing in place, stumbled once.
“An ice with such reduced friction coefficient—impressive! You’ve woven Curse formulae into it too?”
Without a word of reply, Merin raised both arms. The ice surrounding her rose into the air in response.
As she lowered her arms, countless shards of ice rained down on Milena. The latter tried to bolt away but stumbled again on the slick surface, and finally lost her footing completely, hitting the ice with a sharp “Yelp!” as she fell hard on her backside.
Above her head, the ice shards descended.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
As a mountain of ice accumulated around Milena, Merin smiled with satisfaction.
Block escape routes with ice, build up the overhead attack, finish cleanly. Even in her own estimation, it was flawless victory.
“Well then.”
As Merin turned to leave, her heart lurched. She spun back around.
“Magnificent.”
Milena was still sitting there, surrounded by towering heaps of the ice shards Merin had unleashed.
As if deliberately aimed to miss her, not a single shard had touched the girl herself.
Merin’s expression hardened, her mouth pressed into a thin line.
‘What? Was there a control failure?’
Milena rose to her feet with a sinister laugh, immediately summoning Dark Element beneath her feet as she charged straight at Merin.
“Hah!”
She was still impossibly fast.
Caught off guard, Merin threw up a wall of ice in front of her.
“Go!”
With an odd battle cry, Milena leaped with astounding power and simply vaulted over the ice wall on both feet.
“Are you stupid?”
Merin stepped back and hurled a lance of ice toward Milena, who hung suspended in the air. But Milena, still clutching her school uniform skirt in an adorably poised position, let out a soft laugh.
“You’re the stupid one.”
The ice lance, carefully aimed, missed Milena by the barest margin and passed harmlessly beyond her.
Merin’s eyes widened in shock.
‘What on earth is happening?’
A sharp gust of wind.
Milena descended and charged forward, her eyes blazing with intent.
As she ran, she swept her left hand through the air, and the handful of ice Merin had conjured transformed into shuriken, scattering in all directions.
“How dare you twist my ice!”
“Hehe.”
Milena bore down from the front, while the ice shuriken spun in the air, converging on Merin from every angle.
There was nowhere to evade. Creating ice barriers in all directions would take precious seconds.
“I’ve already won—”
A wavering Curse Magic Circle materialized in Milena’s right hand, aimed directly at Merin’s face.
Crackle-crackle-crackle-crackle!
But in the critical moment, Merin vanished before Milena’s eyes.
“Huh?”
Merin had launched herself onto an ice pillar that erupted from the ground. Milena’s strike whistled through empty air, and the shuriken embedded themselves in the column with dull thuds.
Escape not to the sides, but upward.
From above, looking down at Milena, Merin lifted her leg irritably.
“Take this!”
She stamped on the column. With a thunderous crack, it crumbled, and a shower of ice shards descended upon Milena.
“Fall!”
Boom!
Crash!
Boom-boom-boom-boom!
And yet again.
“See, I’ve been in the Top Squad this whole time—”
Not a single piece of ice from that avalanche struck Milena.
“I’ve never faced anyone as strong as you, Merin!”
Merin leaped down from the rubble, landing hard, and glared at Milena while catching her breath.
‘This is actually my first time fighting a Necromancer whose specialty is telekinesis.’
From Merin’s perspective, there was nothing more troublesome. Milena was simply twisting the trajectory of every incoming projectile with her mind.
True, she wasn’t quite at the level of outright seizing Merin’s magic-infused attacks and controlling them, but by merely deflecting each projectile’s path ever so slightly, she had effectively gained immunity to ranged assault.
And this Milena creature was proficient not only in Dark Reversal Magic, telekinesis, but also in Combat Magic and Curse at an advanced level.
How could someone who practiced three disciplines at a professional standard not be a Special Admission Student?
“Come on, let’s go!”
Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!
Milena swung both arms frantically as she charged. Merin, knowing her attacks would be useless, still had to launch ice to slow her opponent’s advance.
Her Dark Element reserves were depleting fast.

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“Ugh, I’m done for.”
Dick was walking with labored breathing. Soldiers supported him on either side.
“Are you… are you all right, sir? Tsk!”
“Yes, it’s just that my body feels heavy as lead.”
They were heading toward the battlefield where Merin and Milena were fighting. As they drew closer to the fierce scene—ice surging and shattering—the soldiers’ expressions grew darker.
“Tsk, tsk! You’re already wounded. Wouldn’t it be dangerous to go any further?”
“There’s critical information I need to convey right now.”
Within Team 7, Dick and Merin clashed constantly over every little thing, and their temperaments were polar opposites. Their combat styles, too, were worlds apart.
Dick fought by leveraging his own unique intelligence and analytical prowess, systematically exposing his opponent’s weaknesses and dismantling them.
Merin, by contrast, was a lone wolf. She valued only her own strength.
She would use information about an opponent if she had it, certainly, but fundamentally, she believed that if she herself was strong and righteous, all would be well. She’d rather spend time honing her own abilities than analyzing her enemy.
But if Merin knew that her opponent Milena wielded telekinesis, Dick believed the match was unwinnable.
‘Against a telekinetic, Merin would never use Dark Flame Arts.’
Flame could be disrupted by telekinesis far more easily than ice.
Its color and heat made it simple for a telekinetic to track and deflect in real time. Using Dark Flame Arts carelessly could backfire, literally burning the user. In short, it was a counter.
Against a telekinetic, the effective approaches would be wind arts—inconspicuous—and earth arts—striking from below where reaction was difficult. But Merin was still a novice with both those elements.
So she would keep hurling ice, and once her Dark Element reserves ran dry, her defeat was certain.
But Dick knew the truth. Milena wasn’t using Telekinesis at all.
She didn’t even know the first character of Telekinesis, her grades in Dark Reversal Magic were bottom-tier, and the only subjects she excelled in were Combat Magic and Curse.
“Please don’t let it be too late…… Huh?”
The two girls who had been fighting in heated fury had somehow left the City Wall and were now battling in the Residential Area Between Outer and Inner Walls. They flew across the rooftops, trading Dark Magic strikes with ferocious intensity.
“Damn. We’re done for.”
Dick’s face went blank as he watched the two of them disappear into the residential district.
This three-stack Exgust showed no signs of dissolving. Whoever had twisted the formula had made it impossible for his pitiful Cancellation to break it.
This was why he hated curse mages.
‘What do I do?’
Dick had been fretting in thought when suddenly his head snapped up. “Deputy! Go to the Commander right now and relay my message! As fast as you can!”
“What should I tell him, sir? Screech!”

Tap.
Merin landed on the worn Shanty House Rooftop, gasping for breath.
By contrast, Milena descended gracefully to the adjacent roof, her expression leisurely, and smiled.
“Running out of steam? How should I finish you off?”
“This is——!!”
Merin opened her palm and a volley of ice spikes shot forward in rapid succession.
“Predictable.”
Milena dodged the attack with a light motion, twisting only the ice that would have hit her out of the way.
Still, being human, even Milena sometimes made control errors, and ice occasionally grazed her body.
Ironically, Merin—the girl who valued only her own strength—now placed all her hope on nothing but her opponent’s mistake.
‘How humiliating!’
She clenched her fist tight.
Telekinesis combined with Combat Magic! The elemental compatibility was too poor. Even if her opponent were a pure Telekinesis user, she was confident she could overwhelm them with raw power alone.
“Shall we finish this now?”
Milena crouched on the rooftop and began to charge forward.
Whiiiish!
An arrow suddenly cut through the air.
“Mother of——!”
Her balance thrown off, Milena threw herself forward to dodge.
A pitch-black arrow stained with shadow element flew past her and thudded into a nearby wall. Milena tumbled from the roof and crashed to the ground below.
“What the—— where did that come from?!”
Milena’s irritated cry echoed, but Merin wasn’t listening.
‘An arrow?’
Merin’s head turned. Simon, who should have been guarding the City Gate, stood there like a figure from a painting, bow in hand.
The distance made his face hard to see, but he turned his attention back toward the City Wall and commanded his Skeleton Mage.
‘Simon’s uniform!’
A piece of his clothing and a note were attached to the arrow. Merin quickly retrieved the note and unfolded it to read.
“…….”
The reason he’d sent an arrow instead of using a communication device.
Now understanding Simon’s intention, she quickly maintained her composure. The moment she folded the note and slipped it into her pocket, the roof beneath her cracked with a Bang! as Milena climbed back up.
“Forget the interruption! Let’s go again!”
As Milena charged toward her, Merin jumped down from the roof and ran into a narrow, empty alley.
Milena’s speed was naturally faster, and Merin led her into close range.
Just as Milena spread a Curse across her palm and tried to attach it to Merin’s body.

Whoooosh!
For the first time, a stream of shadow flame erupted from Merin’s palm in a straight line.
And.
“Aaaaaaaagh!”
Milena fell for something so obvious.
She rolled across the ground, writhing in agony as the flames consumed her.
The girl who had never allowed Merin a single clean hit now lay engulfed in a simple fire blast. The irony was stark.
“Something’s off.”
Merin approached slowly, her footsteps deliberate.
“If you were a Telekinesis user, you could have reversed the fire and burned me when I released it. Wouldn’t you?”
“I, I made a mistake.”

Milena rose from her seat with a forced smile, having barely managed to extinguish the flames with a Fire-Suppressing Curse.
“There won’t be a second mistake like that……!”

Small fireballs bounced from Merin’s palm and flew toward her.
Boom! Boom-boom!
“Ugh!”
The Milena who’d sworn there wouldn’t be a second mistake now scrambled desperately to dodge the barrage, even taking several fireballs to her shoulder before crashing to the ground.
“Even you have to admit it’s absurd, don’t you? Why can a Telekinetic master ice, but can’t redirect the path of flames?”
Merin smiled with grim satisfaction.
“……You dared to toy with me?”

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