Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 383

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The Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius – Chapter 383
At last: the Promotion Exam and the 5th BMAT, the day had come.
All 1st-year students were teleported to a place called Scanber Harbor.
Because the island with the dungeon happened to be a place where fixed coordinates were difficult and dangerous, it seemed they had to take a boat from the harbor like this.
The students, herded by teaching assistants, walked single-file down to the dock and boarded four-person wooden boats that had been prepared. One resident from the island stood at each boat, holding an oar.
“Four people in the large boats! Three in the small ones, please!”
The teaching assistants, trying to wrangle these spirited boys and girls, were shouting themselves hoarse.
“There’s not enough room for all four of us.”
Merin, having made her way around the dock, muttered this while resting a hand on her hip.
“A couple of us are going to have to split off onto separate boats.”
“Yes, there’s no helping it.”
Kamibarez offered a reluctant smile.
“I wanted us all to stay together at least until just before the exam…”
At those words, Simon and Merin both flinched, then quickly exchanged urgent glances.
Finally, their eyes landed on Dick. It was the look of *do something, fast.*
“Huhuhu! Time for your humble problem-solver to shine?”
Dick strode toward the island residents with absolute confidence. Since they didn’t speak the common tongue, he began gesturing and pantomiming frantically to explain something.
“Student! Get back to your seat!”
One of the teaching assistants shouted loudly, but Dick grabbed the side of the boat and pretended his need for the lavatory was urgent.
Once the teaching assistant sighed and walked away to deal with something else, Dick quickly resumed talking with the resident.
The resident said something and bolted off in another direction.
Moments later—
“Waaah!”
Kamibarez and Merin threw their arms around each other and bounced up and down with delight.
The resident had brought his own personal boat.
Dick slipped a gold coin to the man while shouting “Yeah, yeah! We’re friends now!” The two of them bumped fists and clapped hands in a gesture that worked extremely well.
“That’s it—everyone aboard!”
Everyone rushed over to the boat. Being a private vessel, it was noticeably larger and even more comfortable.
“Teacher! Is that even allowed?”
Elisa, who didn’t approve of this arrangement, reported it to the teaching assistants.
“If it bothers you, pay for your own upgrade.”
Dick chuckled and gave Simon, sitting beside him, an exuberant high-five as he spoke.
“Ah, tough luck for you. A silver tongue means nothing in a place where the common tongue doesn’t work—but money? Money works everywhere.”
“That money-grubbing charlatan…!”
He was as irritating as one would expect of Simon’s friend. Whether Elisa boiled with indignation or not, Dick sprawled comfortably across his bench and propped the back of his head on his hands.
“Thank you so much, Dick!”
Kamibarez, who had just boarded, beamed at him.
“It’s the best gift!”
By coincidence, today—the day of the Promotion Exam—was Kamibarez’s birthday. Dick raised his thumb cheerfully.
“Don’t oversell it, Kami. Or he’ll preen for a whole week.”
With that, Merin tried to climb into the boat. But the movement of the water rocked it, and the gap between her and the dock widened.
“Ah.”
She’d been stretching her leg to step across, but hesitated and pulled it back. Her pink lips were slightly bitten—a clear sign of fear.
“Oh, are you scared? Did I just catch Merin being scared?”
Dick caught sight of it and teased her immediately.
Merin shot him a sharp glare, then stepped back a few paces.
“Nobody’s scared!”
With that, she sprinted full-speed and jumped, launching herself into the boat.
Thud!
Creak! Creak! Creak!
The boat lurched violently, and cold spray erupted across its surface. She landed clumsily and let out a “Whoa!” as she staggered badly.
Her weight shifted, and she was about to tumble into the sea.
Snap!
Simon appeared like lightning and caught her smoothly. In the same motion, he spread his legs wide and summoned his Dark Element, stabilizing the boat’s balance.
Creak… creak… creeeeak…
The boat, which had been rocking violently, gradually grew still.
“…Oh.”
Merin’s face, now suddenly cradled in Simon’s arms, flushed crimson as a beet.
Her lashes trembled delicately; her lips exhaled in fragmented breaths; her cheeks deepened their blush in real time.
Her entire body had gone rigid and would not move.
“Are you all right?”
Simon tightened his grip around her arm and gently steadied her rounded shoulders before flashing her a smile.
“Yeah, I’m fine.”
She swept her hair back with a quick gesture, gathered her knees, and then spoke in the smallest voice, her expression deliberately curt.
“……Thank you.”
She’d nearly fallen into the water before the test—nearly embarrassed herself beyond recovery.
As she worked to calm her racing heart,
“Wa-ha-ha! I thought the boat was going to capsize!”
Dick wasn’t the type to let such an opportunity slip. His mouth twisted into a sinister grin, eyes glinting with amusement.
“What’s your weight if the boat tips that badly? Did you swim across carrying a pig with you?”
“Did you just call me a pig? Want to die?”
Merin shrieked and lunged at him, and the boat tilted sharply. She gasped and quickly retreated to her seat, then glanced nervously at the islander holding the oars.
“Look, Simon. I’m right, aren’t I?”
Dick raised his eyebrows as he spoke. Simon and Kamibarez laughed loudly, while Merin only snarled and grew more heated.
By the time they finished quarreling, the boat had set off.
Depending on a single small wooden boat in the depths of that deep blue sea, whose bottom was impossible to gauge, filled one with genuine tension.
Then Dick signaled silently to the islander, gesturing with his hands and feet. The islander nodded and adjusted the route slightly to the side.
“…….”
Simon and Merin exchanged quick glances. Kamibarez gripped the boat’s railing tightly, her eyes darting around nervously.
“Oh, look over there……! I think we’re falling behind the group a bit!”
The moment Kamibarez spoke and turned her head back,
a cake with candles stuck in it appeared in the center of the boat. Merin clapped her hands and called out,
“One, two, go!”
At once, all four spoke together.
“”Happy birthday, Kamibarez!””
They clapped their hands. Though they couldn’t sing loudly for fear of being caught by the instructors, it was Team 7’s own small birthday celebration.
Kamibarez’s eyes glistened with emotion.
“You have to blow out the candles!”
“Right!”
She pressed her hands together over her heart and blew—extinguishing the flames.
The three clapped again, and the islander holding the oars paused his work and offered his own blessing in his native tongue, calling out “Whee-ah-hoo! Why-ah-hoo!”
“Thank you all so much!”
Kamibarez, overflowing with gratitude, wiped away the tears that had gathered at the corners of her eyes.
“Without you, I never would have survived my time at Kizen. Meeting all of you has been the greatest stroke of luck in my life!”
“Kami! You always say such beautiful things!”
Merin could bear it no longer and rushed forward to embrace Kamibarez. The boat creaked and swayed violently, and she quickly scrambled back to her seat.
“Why does the boat only rock like that when I move?”
Her face flushed as she grumbled, and Dick answered her.
“Your weight doesn’t lie.”
“You jerk!!!”
The four of them finished sharing the cake and then returned to blend in with the other students.
After about twenty more minutes, they arrived at their destination island.
“Wow.”
Dick’s expression went slack.
“……This is no joke?”
Boom—!
Whoooosh!
In the crater of the island, a volcano was erupting in real time. Magma approaching a thousand degrees poured down the mountainside, and when it touched the seawater, it expelled an enormous plume of steam. The students’ mouths hung open in shock.
“Get down! Stay low and move carefully!”
“This is dangerous! Do not fool around under any circumstances!”
All the students pressed themselves flat against the boat, eyes rolling in their fixed positions. Only the instructors stationed evenly throughout the boat stood up from their seats.
Whoooosh!
The volcano erupted again, and large fragments of rock flew toward where the students were. They screamed, but the instructors remained calm and raised their arms.

Flash!
Where the instructors’ fingertips unleashed the Dark Element, it touched the volcanic debris and transformed into massive bubbles, trapping the debris within.
As an instructor swung his arm, the debris trapped in the bubbles flew back toward the volcanic island.

The instructors continuously wielded Dark Magic to clear away the volcano’s remnants as they resumed their passage.
“Ah! Look there!”
Merin, who had been lying down with her hand tightly clasped in Kamibarez’s, cried out.
“It’s Professor Jane!”
Sure enough, the students and professors who had entered the island earlier were waiting there.
Unlike the teaching assistants who meticulously cleared the area with Spuma one by one, the Kizen professors had deployed a protective barrier across an entire section. Volcanic debris and magma that drifted into the barrier melted away without a trace.
“Professor Eric!”
“Professor Bahil is here too!”
Simon surveyed the professors’ faces.
Vice-Rector Jane, Eric of Dark Reversal Magic, Bahil of Curse Magic, a Poison Magic professor from the back class whose name he didn’t know, and.
‘…Professor Walter.’
Recently, Simon had received an additional duty report from Kassan.
The disappearance of Earl Karon had seemed suspicious, so with Neftis’s permission, a personal investigation was conducted, but even that had concluded with a finding of no culpability.
‘…Hah, was I being too oversensitive?’
While Simon was thinking such thoughts, the boats began arriving one by one in front of the island.
Students disembarked and teaching assistants bustled about frantically with barely concealed excitement, checking the roll.
“P-Professor Jane!”
The head teaching assistant, who had consolidated the count, rushed to Jane, gasping for breath.
“All 647 first-year students have arrived. Huff… huff!”
“You’ve done well.”
Jane lightly patted the assistant’s shoulder, then clapped her hands together and called out.
“First-year class, all attention!”
Every student turned to look at Jane. In an instant, the noisy volcanic island fell silent.
Dick scratched his chin.
“Kuh, our Professor Jane sure has presence—”
“Keep your composure, Dick Hayward.”
At hearing his name mentioned before the entire school, Dick’s mouth promptly snapped shut.
“Years ago, this island was a peaceful resort, but a dungeon has caused unprecedented volcanic activity. From this moment on, we will climb the volcanic island.”
She surveyed the students.
“This is an unknown calamity. We cannot predict when or how volcanic debris will fall or magma will erupt. There will certainly be monsters living on this volcano. But never face them alone—call for the faculty. That is, unless you wish to sustain injuries that disqualify you from the promotion exam before it even begins.”
The students answered loudly, “Understood!” Jane turned her head.
“Then the professors will lead, and the teaching assistants will move along the flanks to maintain order.”
“Yes!”
The assistants scattered at tremendous speed and took positions slightly apart from the lined-up students. Jane looked to the side.
“I’m counting on you, Professor Walter.”
“*Cough* *cough*, yes.”
Walter replied while coughing, then opened a subspace. His physical condition still did not appear to be in good shape.
Thump!
What he withdrew from the subspace was an enormous heart. A magical circle activated at once, and a torrent of blood gushed forth from the heart into the air.
Walter chanted an incantation.
“Chasseur.”
A warm, gentle voice scattered through the atmosphere. The blood coalesced and took form, spreading out like a net in a rushing motion. It was fashioned like a roof suspended in midair.
The size of it was vast enough to cover the heads of all the students.
“Then we shall depart.”
Jane walked at the very front, with the other professors alongside her leading the students. It fell to the teaching assistants to secure the sides.
The students moved forward. The moment they passed through the barrier, volcanic debris erupted from the summit and fell, scattering gases.
A few students screamed and covered their heads, but.
Thump-thump!
The debris struck Walter’s net stretched overhead. The net rippled once, absorbed the impact, and rolled the debris away, pushing it outside.
“As expected of Professor Walter!”
The female students following Walter let out delighted shrieks.
Walter blocked the volcanic debris falling from above, while Eric blocked the particularly acrid smoke and gases. Everything else fell to Jane and Bahil.
-Grrrrr!
A golem monster made of volcanic rock charged at the students from the slope.
Jane sent a single violet butterfly from her fingertips to alight on the golem’s head, then lightly clapped her hands.
Crack!
The golem monster’s head shattered completely and caved inward. The students gasped in awe.
Whoosh.
This time, Bahil made a gesture to the side.
The Muspels—flame-element monsters that looked like charred corpses—were rushing toward the students when they suddenly exploded and burst apart.
‘Wait, that technique.’
Simon’s eyes flickered.
“What’s wrong, Simon?”
“Nothing, it’s nothing.”
With the Promotion Exam looming before them, the students could indulge fully in watching the professors and teaching assistants display their prowess.
And so the first-year students arrived at the peak of the erupting volcano.
The oppressive heat made it difficult even to open their eyes.
“There it is!”
Inside the crater, which resembled a monster’s gaping maw, crimson magma churned and roiled, and directly at its center floated a pitch-black door of void space, undulating as though ready to swallow everything whole.
That was the entrance to the Dungeon.
“Prepare yourselves.”
Jane spoke to the students.
“We’ll descend in order.”

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