Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 421

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The Summoning Genius of the Necromancer School – Episode 421
Rette’s Divine Beast Arts class was nothing short of a revelation.
Certainly, Parahan’s Holy Defense Magic lectures at Kizen were excellent, but since his specialty was Sacred Mechanics, Divine Beast Arts remained confined to textbook instruction.
According to Rette, Divine Beast Arts was a completely specialized field—even the most accomplished priest would know only the fundamentals.
“Did you know?”
Rette placed her hand on Akalion’s body as she spoke.
“This divine beast. It can fly through the sky.”
“What?!”
Simon bolted upright from his seat. In the next instant, his eyes snapped toward Akalion.
“Seriously? So why has he never flown when he’s been with me?”
—Moooan…
“Don’t blame him for that. He simply didn’t know how.”
Rette gently stroked Akalion’s head, her fingers moving in soothing circles. Pleased by the touch, Akalion let out a contented moan.
“Moreover, in order for him to fly, he needs the aid of Divine Beast Magic.”
“Divine Beast Magic! You mean the one where you draw a magical circle on the divine beast, right?”
“Yes. Through the combined power of holiness and the magical circle, we amplify the divine beast’s abilities to two hundred percent. That’s the basic definition.”
Rette immediately drew magical circles on all four of Akalion’s legs. Then she inscribed a larger circle on his back and connected the leg circles to it.
Once she finished, she glanced at Simon and spoke.
“Take off your clothes.”
Simon flinched, and Rette, too exasperated even to explain, scowled sharply at him.
“I need to draw a magical circle on your body too, so turn around, sit still, and take off your shirt!”
“…Ah, got it.”
Simon obediently removed his shirt and sat facing away from her. She stepped closer with a soft hum, then suddenly smacked his back with her palm.
Simon yelped in surprise, his whole body trembling.
“Wait a minute! Is that actually part of the divine beast magical circle process?”
“No. I just felt like hitting you because you have a nice back.”
‘…Why are you admitting that so brazenly?!’
Rette then squatted behind Simon and began drawing the magical circle with her fingertips, tracing delicate patterns across his back.
‘Ugh…’
Simon’s face flushed deep red, and he squeezed his eyes shut.
It tickled unbearably.
Rette’s slender, pale fingers danced lightly across every corner of his back, their touch feather-soft yet maddeningly sensitive.
Every hair on his body stood on end.
An odd, unsettling warmth rose in his chest, and his nose began to tingle.
“Hold still!”
Smack!
Rette struck his back again. Simon clenched his teeth indignantly and straightened his spine, while Rette’s lips curved into a barely suppressed smile.
“…You’re deliberately messing with me, aren’t you?”
“Don’t talk. I need to concentrate.”
Twenty minutes later, the holy magical circle on Simon’s back was complete.
“This is just a test version. It won’t be permanent, so don’t worry. If you want to keep it, you’ll need to maintain it yourself.”
Rette stood and crossed her arms.
“Now infuse your holiness into the magical circle to activate it. Both you and Akalion.”
Simon nodded and simultaneously activated the magical circles—the one on his back and Akalion’s.
“!”
A tingling sensation surged through his entire body, expanding outward.
A sense of complete connection with Akalion.
It resembled the mental link he established when communicating with undead, but Divine Beast Arts felt far more intuitive and direct.
“Thirty minutes.”
Rette checked the time.
“Go play around lightly with Akalion.”
“Play around?”
“Yes. Think of it as a warm-up exercise to raise your resonance level.”
Simon did as instructed, and he and Akalion made a loop around the house.
It had been so long since a proper walk that Akalion’s joy transmitted directly to Simon.
When they returned from their circuit, Rette was rummaging through her bag.
“Does Akalion have any favorite foods?”
“Normally he mainly consumes my holiness, but otherwise he enjoys tree fruits, regular fruit, mushrooms, corn—things like that.”
Rette pulled out a fruit high in sugar content, had Simon infuse it with his holiness, then dangled it in front of Akalion’s face. At the sweet aroma, greed gleamed in Akalion’s eyes, and drool began dripping from his mouth.
“There.”
Rette lifted a piece of fruit into the air using White Magic.
“Akalion! Try this!”
She tossed it toward him. Akalion lunged forward with a tremendous burst of speed, letting out a sound like “Wooooah!”
“Faster, faster!”
Rette’s training technique was extraordinary. She controlled the fruit with such precision—now almost within reach, now just out of grasp—teasing him, playing with him as if daring him to catch it.
As the fruit brushed his mouth several times and he tasted it, Akalion grew even more excited, charging forward with renewed vigor.
“Go! Run faster! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!”
And then.
At the extraordinary sight that unfolded next, Simon’s jaw dropped open.
‘This can’t be real.’
The fruit climbed higher and higher into the sky, and Akalion, his eyes fixed only on it, began to lift off the ground as well.
Despite that massive, heavy body, he was running through the air itself.
With each stride of his four legs, white sparks erupted from the Magic Circles beneath his paws.
‘Amazing!’
Simon’s eyes lit up with excitement, his fists clenching tight.
In the next instant, Akalion snapped up the fruit with a snap! and devoured it happily. Rette spread her arms wide and spoke.
“Well done, Akalion! Look what you just did~”
-Wuh?
Akalion lowered his head and looked down.
And then.
He realized he was suspended in the air, tens of meters above the ground.
-Wooooaaaah!
Startled out of his mind, Akalion flailed about in the air and began to fall.
Seeing this, Simon kicked off the ground and rushed forward.
‘Dispel!’
He severed the linked Holy Magic Circle and stripped away the Holiness infused in Akalion’s body. The creature, transformed back into a small stuffed bear form, tumbled down, and Simon slid across the grass like he was skidding, catching him gently in his arms.
“Phew.”
Simon released a relieved sigh and smiled.
“Are you all right?”
-Wooooah!
Badly startled, Akalion burrowed into Simon’s embrace. Simon held him close, gently stroking his fur with his palm.
“I didn’t expect it to succeed on the first try.”
Rette approached, running her hand through her hair.
“Of course, we’ll need much more practice going forward.”
Sparkle, sparkle, sparkle!
Simon’s eyes began to shine as he looked at Rette. She made an uncomfortable expression.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“I’m really, truly grateful! And I was right to trust you. The top-ranked prospect from Efnel really is different!”
She spun around sharply.
“A Necromancer from Kizen doesn’t take such compliments well.”
“Haha!”
“What, what’s so funny!”
And yet her lips were curling upward.
In any case, Akalion’s training came to an end, and after Simon tucked him into the Holy Subspace, he furrowed his brow and pressed a hand to his forehead.
‘I’m feeling a little dizzy.’
Holiness consumes mental energy heavily. Even for such a brief flight, the Holiness expenditure had been greater than expected.
Rette observed this and spoke.
“Using Akalion as an immediate means of flight will be difficult. We’ll need to apply it as a combat technique instead.”
“If training improves the efficiency, could he eventually fly freely?”
“Uncertain. Rather than that, we’ll need a Divine Beast-Exclusive Artifact to assist Akalion’s flight.”
Next, she retrieved Hayangyi and Kkamangi, the young kitten Divine Beasts. The moment they emerged, they were meowing incessantly—”Meow! Meow!”—bouncing around everywhere.
“Mm-mm.”
Even legendary Rette was helpless against the adorable antics of kittens.
She dangled her finger to draw their attention. The moment they saw something long and pale and moving, Kkamangi scampered over and nibbled at it with her not-very-sharp teeth.
“Once these two awaken as Divine Beasts, they’ll most likely become Object-Form Divine Beasts like Mimi.”
“Mimi—you mean that turtle Divine Beast?”
“Yes. Both you and I are incredibly fortunate. Object-Form Divine Beasts are truly rare.”
She rose from her seat.
“What have you been doing to help them awaken as Divine Beasts?”
“……Not much, really. Just like last time—feeding them Holiness to trigger Shapeshifting and that’s about it? For now, I’m just waiting for them to grow a bit more.”
Even as Simon spoke, the kittens mewed pitifully, begging so insistently for Holiness that he had no choice but to feed one to each of them.
The two cats’ bodies lifted gently into the air, shimmering with light as they transformed, then settled back down in their original forms.
“That’s strange.”
“What is?”
“You seem to be doing quite well. The kittens’ development and health are sound, and when they transform, it looks ideal. It’s puzzling why the full awakening isn’t happening.”
Rette adjusted their training methods and suggested varying their diet, but neither of them could pinpoint a clear reason for the Divine Beast’s failure to fully awaken.
Still, Simon was more than satisfied with this progress.
“Well, shall we head back?”
Rette stretched lazily as she spoke.
“The children will be arriving soon. I need to prepare today’s lessons.”
“Right. Let’s go.”

* * *
The days passed in a blur of activity.
Early mornings meant Divine Beast training with Rette, followed by his role as teacher to the children. After they left and evening fell, he’d eat and rest, but in the dead of night when all were asleep, he’d slip beyond the Barrier and begin his search through the Snowy Mountains.
The extreme cold showed no mercy, visibility dropping to nothing, so Simon and Rette continued to lose their way—yet bit by bit, they were beginning to grasp the pattern.
He grew closer to the children with each passing day.
“Teacher Simon! Teacher Simon!”
Simon was tidying away toys when three young girls tugged at his sleeve.
He turned with a gentle smile.
“Yes, what can I help you with?”
One girl beamed at him with unstained innocence.
“I want to marry you, Teacher Simon!”
Pfft! Cough! Cough!
From the kitchen in the distance, Rette’s coughing could be heard.
“Can’t we just stay together in our village?”
“I don’t care about marrying you—I want to have your baby, Teacher Simon!”
Simon was wildly popular with the children. He gently patted the heads of the three girls, his smile warm and kind.
“I think that might be a bit premature. If your feelings haven’t changed in fifteen years, then come ask me again.”
“That’s so far away!”
“And I’m only five!”
“How many nights will I have to sleep for fifteen years?”
Simon half-convinced the girls and had them return to tidying the toys.
As he walked toward the picture books, he caught sight of Rette setting snacks onto plates at the table, her smile brimming with barely suppressed laughter.
“Congratulations on your fifteen-year engagement, Teacher Simon.”
“……Don’t tease.”
And so the peaceful days continued to flow by.

* * *
At that same moment.
Kula.
“……My lord! We have no more food supplies!”
“Cold-weather gear is gone!”
“Monsters have occupied the city’s outer districts! Residents who’ve lost their homes are demanding compensation from you!”
“We lack the medicines to treat the injured!”
The extreme cold grew worse with each passing day, and with it, the city’s situation deteriorated to catastrophe. The lord of Kula pressed his temples, his face etched with deep worry.
“People are boiling tree bark to eat. We can hold out only another two days at most!”
“Please, my lord, make a decision! We cannot simply sit here and watch everyone perish.”
……
The lord, gaunt from days of extreme stress and hunger, lifted his head.
His eyes turned toward the Snowy Mountains beyond the window.
“You’re right.”
Click.
He grasped the hilt of a sword that leaned against the wall.
“We cannot simply sit here and watch everyone perish.”

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