Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 46

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Summon Genius at the Necromancer School — Episode 46
Erzsebet’s eyes narrowed to slits as Simon held her fast.
[Damn it, be careful!]
Pier’s voice rang inside Simon’s head, taut with alarm.
Simon’s attention fixed entirely on the woman’s leg, visible between the folds of her dress. A dagger hung from a band strapped around that thigh.
Yet her hand never moved toward the blade. Erzsebet squeezed her eyes shut and parted her lips.
“I do beg your pardon, but would you mind releasing my arm?”
Only then did Simon realize his grip on her wrist had grown far too tight.
As Simon let go, Erzsebet settled back into her seat and swept her disheveled hair behind her shoulders.
“Very well.”
She nodded.
“If you truly insist on the truth, I suppose there’s no help for it. But understand—all risk born from this exchange of information falls entirely upon you. Are you prepared?”
“Yes, of course.”
“Then wait here just a moment, if you would.”
Erzsebet rose and walked into the adjacent room. The murderous tension dissolved, and Simon exhaled softly in relief.
‘Pier, I only took a guess, but there’s definitely something here. If we’re lucky, we might even find Erzsebet’s location…’
[Ehehehehehe!]
Pier, sitting beside him, began to shake with laughter.
[Hahahahahaha!]
Simon frowned and covered his ears—though he knew it would do nothing to muffle the voice roaring in his mind.
‘W-what’s gotten into you?’
[I wasn’t certain before, but now it’s crystal clear. Get your head in the game, boy!]
Pier’s eyes gleamed within his helm.
[That woman is Erzsebet!]
“…W-what?!”
The moment those words escaped Simon’s lips, a transformation rippled through the Thief Guild.
The bodies of those seated at tables—drinking, playing cards—began to swell and distend with wet, squelching sounds.
[Kahahaha! The audacity of you, boy! To threaten an Ancient Undead to her face! If I hadn’t held back my killing intent, your head would be rolling on the ground by now!]
Rrrip!
Shhhriek!
Human skin tore open, and from within erupted dozens of spiders, each eye-studded and writhing.
Simon staggered backward, gasping.
-Screeeee!
-Chrrriek! Screeeeee!
Corpse Spiders—a breed of Undead.
Erzsebet’s servants. Simon and Pier found themselves surrounded in an instant.
“Quite the dramatic flourish, little one of Keyzen.”
The woman who had stepped into the back room now emerged, her heels clicking sharply against the floor. She climbed atop a table and crossed her legs with alluring grace.
When she pressed her forefinger to her brow and dragged it downward, her skin slid away like shed clothing, revealing eyes of an alien crimson hue.
[Kill them all.]
Her voice had turned sepulchral.
At that command, Corpse Spiders came scuttling from all sides.
[Boy!]
Pier cried out. Simon quickly activated the Sub-space Ring on his finger and summoned Pier’s Great Sword.
Gripping that weighty weapon effortlessly in both hands, Pier planted his right foot and swung with tremendous force across his body.
Whoooosh!
A vast arc split the air in a single clean line, and every Corpse Spider caught within it was cleaved in two like straw. Green blood sprayed through the air, drenching floor and ceiling alike.
[Erzsebet!]
Clang! Clang!
Pier’s roar echoed through the underground chamber as though to bring it down.
[My, my, so it was you after all. Pier.]
Erzsebet switched the crossing of her legs and smiled.
[What scheme are you hatching in this backwater? The Legion has been revived! Stop your foolish games and return at once!]
She extended her arm, eyes crinkling with amusement.
[I refuse.]
Boom!
The ceiling shattered with a terrible crash, and Corpse Spiders dangling from webwork descended upon them in a tide.
Simon dropped low with quick reflexes as Pier swung his Great Sword, shredding the arachnids. Chunks of carapace and viscera fell to the floor with wet thuds.
[Pier, you’re a fool. Richard used you as he pleased and then discarded you like rubbish. After suffering such a chilling betrayal, you still cling to the Legion?]
[You imbecile!]
Pier drove his Great Sword downward through the body of a charging spider, and let out a shout.
[Living alongside humans—has my will rotted away? The Legion is ‘power’ and ‘resolve’! Abandoned? Betrayed? How dare the Legion’s commander be swayed by such petty emotions!]
[How could I be swayed, my lord?]
Her crimson eyes burned with a vast, consuming hatred.
[I despise Richard unto death—for bewitched by a mere woman, he cast our comrades of decades into the jaws of ruin.]
Undead spiders poured in without end. In truth, this underground was the Corpse Spiders’ kingdom.
[And.]
Her gaze turned toward Simon.
[Pier, you too are quite pitiful. That Keyzen first-year boy from the day you and Richard first met. In his place, you seduced an obedient child…….]
Crash!
In a flash, a snow-white Great Sword came screaming through the air, stopping mere inches from Erzsebet’s face. She caught it desperately with both palms.
Boom!
The shockwave alone sent objects flying and sent glasses shattering across the floor.
[So this is the arrogance that reaches toward the heavens, is it?]
Pier opened his hand.
The hilt of the Great Sword rippled with midnight darkness, then surged back toward his palm at tremendous speed.
Watching this, Simon’s eyes gleamed.
‘Skeleton’s Attraction!’
Pier twisted his waist as if in one fluid motion and swept the Great Sword outward. A Slash Attack burst forth like a tsunami, engulfing Erzsebet’s body once more.
Crunch-crunch-crunch-crunch-crunch!
She grimaced and received the attack on both arms.
[Have you forgotten the days when you crawled like a dog beneath my feet? How dare you claw your way up to the Legion’s administrator!]
Then midnight darkness, crimson as blood, gathered at Erzsebet’s fingernails. The Slash Attack that had been driving her back cracked and splintered like glass, then shattered into fragments.
[You have grown much weaker, Pier. It seems the seal was only recently broken.]
She stepped over the rubble and climbed toward the surface.
[Running away?]
Pier raised his Great Sword to give chase, but Corpse Spiders blocked his path. His expression twisted with fury.
[These wretched little things!]
[Until next time, Pier. And.]
Erzsebet’s hand waved from above, but her gaze fixed on Simon.
[Boy from Keyzen.]
With only those words left behind, she vanished upward with the spiders that had been waiting overhead.
‘……So that’s how it was.’
The only Thief Guild remaining in this domain was actually Erzsebet and her associates.
Controlling and manipulating information would have been child’s play. There was a reason the lord, for all his time and money spent, had made no progress solving the case.
-Screeeee!
Aside from that, after Erzsebet left, the spiders remained in grotesque abundance. Though Pier fought on, if time dragged on like this, they would lose Erzsebet’s trail.
“Ah, what a shame.”
“……!!”
A chill ran down Simon’s spine. A third voice had spoken at a moment he could never have anticipated.
He turned his head sharply and saw someone rising to their feet just behind him.
“I was hoping to watch those two monsters destroy each other.”
It was the robed woman who had been drinking alone in the Thief Guild. The spiders caught sight of her and surged forward.
“Eh~ can’t be helped, I suppose. I’ll have to delete everyone here and give chase.”
Flash!
From the end of the Holy Staff she raised above her head, pure white radiance erupted skyward. Simon froze in terror the moment he recognized what that power was.
-Shrieeek!
-Shriek! Shriek!
The spiders writhed in agony like vampires exposed to sunlight. The white light at the staff’s end grew brighter and brighter, expanding until it seemed ready to consume the entire Thief Guild.
‘Pier! Escape while you can!’
[What?]
‘Now! Hurry!’
She brought the staff down from its raised position.
“Farewell to you all!”
Kaboom!
The Holy Explosion detonated, reducing every Undead spider within its range to powder. The entire Thief Guild was swallowed in pure white light.
“Phew.”
After unleashing the Holy Magic, she rested the staff casually on her shoulder and glanced around.
“Looks like I let the big skeleton and the boy slip away. Can’t be helped.”
She turned and leapt toward the ruins in the direction Erzsebet had fled.

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[Keh heh heh! A Priestess crashing the party? This situation is a complete mess!]
Pier was sprinting forward with Simon slung across his shoulder.
‘……Priestess.’
Simon sank into serious thought.
He’d accepted a Blue Mission Order and traveled to Dark Alliance territory, yet he’d never imagined encountering a Priestess here.
“She looked capable enough—clearing that whole swarm in one stroke.”
[I caught a glimpse of white cloth beneath that robe. Those are definitely Efnel’s academy robes.]
“……Ah!”
Not just any Priestess, but a student of Efnel—Keyzen’s polar opposite!
By Keyzen’s standards, she was essentially undertaking a Black Mission Order.
[If she’s made it this far into Dark Alliance territory, she’s almost certainly a second-year. Be careful, boy! You’re not ready for an opponent like her yet!]
“Yes, I’ll be on guard.”
She seemed to be pursuing Erzsebet, just as Simon was.
Which meant the lord of Arnishe had issued this task to both Keyzen and Efnel—a Double Commission.
‘Double Commission. I’ll have words about that later. But first…’
This was becoming far too large in scope for a Blue Mission Order.
Ancient Undead hostile to the Legion, and now a student from Efnel.
How was he supposed to untangle this knotted thread?
“Pier.”
[What is it?]
“Tell me more about Erzsebet. In detail.”
[That’s all I said on the way here.]
“No—not about her abilities or physical specs. More personal things.”
Simon swallowed hard.
“What happened between my father and Erzsebet?”
Pier let out a hollow laugh.
[Keh heh heh, what happened? Damn it all!]
“Sir?”
[……Fine. I’ll tell you. Erzsebet loved Richard.]
Simon’s mouth fell open.
[An Undead loving a human. And an entity under the Legion’s command harboring personal feelings for the Legion Commander himself.]
Pier’s expression was deeply disapproving as he spoke.
[She was unusual from the moment she joined the Legion. Emotional in a way no Undead should be—ruled too heavily by those feelings.]
Pier laid out the entire tale woven around Erzsebet.
Her love for Richard. Her obsession with him. And her jealousy of Anna.
Simon closed his eyes, turning it all over in his mind.
[We’re here, boy!]
Pier set him down somewhere in the woods near Arnishe’s domain. Simon gazed at the dense Coniferous Forest stretching in every direction, bewildered.
“There’s nothing here.”
[Stand back!]
Pier swung his Great Sword through empty air. The space tore open with a sharp crack, splitting left and right—and from within emerged an ancient Ruined Castle, wreathed in cobwebs.
[Keh heh! This is their stronghold.]
“Let’s go in.”
Simon and Pier pushed through the gate and stepped into the Ruined Castle.
‘Ah……!’
And the moment they crossed the threshold, a starkly brutal sight unfolded before his eyes.

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