Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 429

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The Summoning Genius of the Necromancer School — Episode 429
Against a backdrop of endless snowfields and falling snow,
a pursuit was unfolding between Rette and Carisa.
‘Damn it! She’s so fast! Seriously!’
Rette, astride Lan, ground her teeth together.
It was nearly impossible to catch up. Carisa’s movements were wickedly swift, and the extreme cold not only obscured Rette’s line of sight but also hampered her own speed.
By now, Rette was dropping Holy Meteors across Carisa’s escape route to cut off her flight.
“Just moments ago you were sneering about mortals, and now you’re running like a coward?”
She tried to provoke him, but Carisa paid her no heed.
‘Tch.’
Rette bit her finger anxiously. The radius of the extreme cold kept expanding. She could not let that Dungeon Master escape to another region under any circumstances.
‘If this turns into a war of attrition, Lan will run out of stamina first.’
Rette placed a hand on Lan’s head and closed her eyes.
Now was the moment to play her trump card.

A flash of green light erupted, and Lan’s flight speed surged dramatically. Streaking forward like a bolt, Lan wrapped around Carisa’s tail in a single bound.
[……!]
Carisa spun around at the grip on her tail, and Rette, having swiftly completed her White Magic, spread her palms wide.

A Holy Lance, shaped like a drill, burrowed deep into Carisa’s torso.
It didn’t stop at piercing the scales—the rotating force accelerated, boring ever deeper.
Carisa cried out in agony, her mouth wrenching open.
Screeeeeeeech!
As pure white frost obscured the air, Rette’s body froze solid. Lan, whom she was riding, was engulfed in ice as well.
[Hahahaha! How delightful!]
Carisa sneered.
Crack! Crack!
But the ice that had imprisoned Rette fractured in an instant.
Shatter!
Rette burst free, flailing her arms wide. The moment she placed her hands on Lan’s body, the ice melted away and Lan was liberated as well.
In that interval, Carisa fled anew, blood streaming from both mouth and body.
“Lan! We’re almost there! Just a little more……!”
But Lan’s stamina gave out first.
While she could endlessly revive him through healing if it were merely wounds, the real problem was endurance.
Lan, who until now had felled every foe with a single Holy Breath, had little experience facing a formidable opponent like this.
“Lan!!”
[Krahahahahaha!]
Carisa covered his wounds in ice and continued his flight.
With each roar he released, the extreme cold intensified. Frost swept beyond the mountain range into warmer lands below, and the vast sea began freezing without end.
‘There’s no way left!’
Rette pressed her index and middle fingers together and raised them toward the sky.
‘Whether it lands or not……!’
“Rette!!”
At the sudden sound of her name, Rette’s head snapped around.
“Simon?!”
But the moment his name left her lips, confusion seized her.
He had no flight ability—there was no way he could reach her here.
“!”
And yet there he was.
Roooooooaaaaaarrrrr―!
Two suns rose over the Escail Mountain Range.
Simon appeared, astride something wreathed in crackling sparks and lit by a massive Holy Power that blazed like the sun itself.
‘Is that really Simon?’
She could scarcely believe her eyes.
Covered in electric current and sparking light, what Simon rode was not a beast but a chariot made of pure radiance. And drawing that chariot was no horse—it was Akalion, the bear Divine Beast.
Akalion, who could not yet take to the sky, was now carrying a levitation effect.
Which meant that chariot was surely——
‘Divine Beast Materialization!’
[You again!]
Carisa took note with caution.
“I’ll show you! Rette!”
Simon laughed sharply, seizing the reins he’d woven from Holy Power.
“The true strength of my Divine Beast Summoning!”
As he yanked the reins, Simon’s body shot forward like lightning. A brief expression of confusion flickered across his face. And then—
Screeeeeee!
Screeeee!
He became a single beam of light, tearing through the air at tremendous speed.
Ahhhhh! Aaaahhhhh!
Simon’s screams echoed like a wail. Rette cried out in alarm.
“Wait! What are you doing, you crazy beast!”
“You’re going too fast—I can’t control the speed—aaaahhhhh!”
The Divine Beast chariot careened of its own accord over one mountain and then another, raced across the sea, and wheeled back toward Rette and Carisa, repeating the cycle endlessly.
It moved at a speed that recalled lightning itself, yet control was clearly beyond him.
[Hahahaha! The Saint cannot contain her power, and this wretch cannot master his speed? How pathetic!]
Understanding the situation, Carisa’s mocking laughter rang out.
[Truly, you mortals are unworthy of wielding such……!]
Carisa’s voice cut off abruptly mid-sneer.
Whoooooosh!
An enormous sun descended toward Carisa’s head.
“One hit is all I need!”
Simon’s eyes blazed from within the chariot.
“I can do it!!”
The sun that enveloped the chariot transformed into a single flash of light.
Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack-crack!
Thunder roared as it became lightning, smashing into Carisa’s torso.
[Kugh!]
Carisa’s body was dragged at light speed and slammed into the ground. Sweat streamed down Rette’s forehead as she watched.
‘A perfect direct hit!’
He unleashed a single, concentrated blow with all his might, and the Materialization state dissolved.
The white and black chariot split in half, transforming back into two small kittens. Akalion also returned to a smaller form.
Simon clutched the three Divine Beasts to himself as he fell, shouting toward Rette.
“Now, Rette!”
The perfect opening.
With the conditions right, Rette’s firepower was unmatched even among Saints.
“Understood!”
She grinned broadly, bringing both arms down in a sweeping arc.
The sky split open, and from within, bathed in radiance, came a meteor larger than anything before.
“R-Rette?”
Simon’s expression turned somewhat vacant.
“That’s… way too big!”
“Die, you bastaaaard!”
With a furious cry, Rette sent the meteor plummeting down.
[Guhhhhh!]
Carisa, who had been forced to the ground by the lightning strike, lifted her head.
It was like an entire planet descending upon her.
As the sky darkened in real time, the space to escape shrank—a terrifying sight.
She tried to flee, but the impact and the lingering sparks from the lightning strike still crackled around her, sealing her movement. Her body couldn’t budge.
[Kraaaaaaahhh!]
Carisa’s breath, mustered with her last ounce of strength, froze only the smallest fraction of the descending meteor.
[I… I am……!]
As the meteor closed in, everything around turned blindingly white.
[Perishing……!]
Her body turned white and scattered into nothingness.
Whoooooosh—!
Simon’s body, thousands of meters up in the air, was hurled away by the shockwave. A mushroom cloud rose from what looked like the afterblast of Holy Magic.
Snatch!
At that moment, someone from behind grabbed Simon by the scruff of his neck.
“Caught you!”
“Rette!”
Rette laughed with delight as she called out. Lan had mustered her last strength to fly and snatched Simon’s neck just as he was swept away by the explosion.
“Heave-ho!”
Rette pulled Simon up with the strength of her arms in one swift motion.
Simon, now safely aboard, gasped for breath with a dazed expression, while Rette chuckled softly and patted his exhausted shoulders.
“Not bad at all.”
“It’s basic stuff.”
Simon managed a weary smile. Nestled in his arms were two kittens and a small bear, all breathing softly in sleep.

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-The kittens’ growth and health are both excellent, and judging from their Shapeshifting form, they’re developing ideally. It’s strange that they can’t materialize.
Even Rette, a Divine Beast Summoning specialist, found herself puzzled by the young Divine Beasts’ inability to achieve Materialization.
In truth, both Divine Beasts had already grown enough to reach Materialization. The real key was Fusion Awakening.
They were twins born at the same hour, though one could easily mistake them for unrelated creatures—one white, one black. They had been born with their Divine Beast power split equally between them.
The trigger for awakening, then, lay in both creatures consuming the same Holiness simultaneously, inducing what could be called the simultaneous manifestation of divided power.
Until now, Simon had been distributing Holiness to each kitten individually, so neither the kittens nor Simon grasped the pattern. But when the Divine Beast Summoning class at Escail began feeding the two kittens a single clump of Holiness together, it became the perfect opportunity.
A single Materialization required the combined strength of both creatures.
‘……So that’s what the fortune-teller in Kula meant by a “chariot.”‘
Simon let out a bitter laugh. A war chariot and a cart were certainly different things, but he could see how one might interpret it that way.
And so the Dungeon Master Carisa was utterly destroyed by Rette’s relentless assault, and the dungeon that crowned the mountain range vanished as well.
Just to be safe, Simon descended to ground level and collected a few fragments of Carisa’s Bone Fragments.
The extreme cold ceased, and the blue sky that so many had longed for spread across the heavens.
Kula regained its warmth, the sea ice slowly melting away. The monsters that had abandoned their habitats fleeing the extreme cold and attacked human settlements began to withdraw.
-Then I’ll report to Efnel.
-You’ll be all right?
-Yes.
In principle, Kinber Province was off-limits to interference from central Efnel, but the Carisa incident had caused damage to other regions as well, creating grounds for intervention.
Rette, in her capacity as a Saint, contacted Efnel and reported the situation. Because it was an order from a Saint, Efnel immediately dispatched Paladins, and the provisions they brought in their Subspace allowed the residents to fill their empty bellies.
All the people from Mizenashi who had abandoned the dungeon and harbored Carisa were arrested by the Paladins. The same went for those who had sided with Carisa at the end.
However, the ordinary Escail residents remained in an ambiguous position. They had not known of the Dungeon Master or the dungeon’s true nature, and they firmly believed this extreme cold was a curse from the Snow Maiden.
Yet a crime was still a crime.
In the end, Efnel and the regional lord came to an agreement to banish the people of Mizenashi from the Sacred Federation.
-Well, things worked out for the better, I’d say.
Rette spoke up.
Though the atmosphere had eased somewhat, if they remained in Kula they might face discrimination. Her judgment was that it would be better for them to begin new lives in a new place.
-As a Saint, I’ll take responsibility and help them settle in neutral territory.
-Yes, I’m counting on you.
And yet the Lord of Kula, while taking the lead in managing the aftermath alongside Simon and Rette, wore a somewhat vacant expression.
Simon asked the Lord whether the stories in the fairy tales passed down in Escail were true.
“Not all of it, but most of it is fact.”
The Lord spoke thus, closing his eyes.
“My father was one of those adventurers.”
“Ah…….”
“My father began it all hoping we could prosper together, but then so many merchants and capitalists poured into Kula that everything fell into ruin. My father would always gaze at the snowy mountains and lower his head in shame.”
The young Lord clenched his fist tightly.
“My father would say that everything was our fault, and that it couldn’t be helped. Each time, I grew angry watching my weak father, but on his deathbed, he passed away apologizing to the people of Escail.”
“…….”
“I hated my father for that, and I dealt with the Priest dispatch request from Escail with an uncompromising policy.”
He lifted his head, gazing at the ceiling.
“Who am I to blame? Everything was our original sin.”
Time passed.
The ice on the sea, which had been abnormally frozen, began to thaw, and ships resumed their voyages. Kula too gradually recovered its former appearance and vitality.
Simon also aided in the normalization of the village. In fact, cleaning up after the incident had been more exhausting than infiltrating Escail and fighting the Ice Dragon Carisa.
It was while Simon was helping repair Kula’s fence that—
“There you are, our nephew.”
Israphil, dressed as a merchant, arrived in Kula with a radiant smile.
Something gleaming rested in her hand.

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