Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 471

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Summoning Genius of the Necromancer School — Episode 471
Simon carried Heidi to the infirmary inside the ship.
“Put me down now. No, put me down… please.”
Heidi squirmed in his arms, her voice barely audible beneath a flush of embarrassment that had painted her cheeks crimson.
Simon chuckled at her discomfort.
“Formal speech now? So you finally believe I’m a second-year?”
“That’s…!”
She covered her burning face with her hands.
“Well, there’s no way someone as strong as you could be a freshman… so…”
Simon set Heidi down, and they entered the infirmary together. Seon-ui, who had been waiting, examined her condition.
“She shows some stress symptoms and minor abrasions on her wrists. Otherwise, her vitals are completely normal. If she gets sufficient sleep starting today, there should be no problem attending classes.”
“That’s good news, Heidi.”
Simon said it lightly, watching as Heidi blinked at the bandage wrapped around her wrist.
“I’m really all right?”
Yesterday she hadn’t slept a moment, had cried and broken down, had even lost consciousness.
“Yes, you’re in very good health.”
Now that she thought about it—
She must have dozed off briefly after Simon rescued her, because ever since then, her exhaustion had vanished as if by magic.
‘Did he do something for me?’
Simon continued smiling, saying nothing.
While the physician stepped out briefly to fetch medicine, she spoke in a small voice.
“Um, about that…”
“Yeah?”
“Thank you so much for bringing me to Kizen… please.”
She still wasn’t used to speaking formally to Simon, rolling her eyes in that endearing way of hers.
“I really should repay you somehow, but… my family circumstances aren’t great, so if you could just wait a little…”
“I didn’t do this expecting repayment.”
Simon cut her off decisively, letting his arm fall to his side.
“Protecting students during a mission is the Student Council President’s duty. I was simply doing my job. There’s no need to feel indebted.”
“But—!”
“Listen. If you really want to repay me—”
Simon paused thoughtfully, then spoke.
“I’d like you to survive the first-year trials intact.”
“What?”
“Graduating through third year would be even better, but that’s a height even I haven’t reached yet, so it feels unfair to ask. Anyway, you’re the first student I’ve ever saved in my role as Student Council President. I hope you’ll overcome countless trials and make it to the end.”
Simon leaned his back against the wall and gazed up at the ceiling.
“That’s all I ask.”
Heidi’s eyes glistened with emotion as she looked at him.
He’s incredible.
Despite being only one year older, he was different from her in every way—skill, mindset, everything.
‘I want to be like that too.’
She clasped her hands tightly over her chest.
‘I want to become someone like him.’
She wanted to grow stronger and help many people.
The person she admired most in the world had just shifted from her father to this senior at the academy.
“Senior.”
“Uh, yeah?”
Simon still felt awkward at being called senior, scratching the side of his head.
‘I respect you so much. Someday I want to study hard here at Kizen and become someone just like you.’
Heidi swallowed those words in her throat—they felt too embarrassing to say aloud—and instead offered him a radiant smile.
“Thank you for saving me.”
Someday, she would repay the kindness he had shown her by doing the same for others.
In that moment, a role model was born who would guide one girl’s entire life.

* * *
After thirty minutes of rest, a Kizen staff member gathered all the freshmen and made an announcement.
“Attention, freshmen! The Yellow Sky Whale will arrive at Kizen in ten minutes!”
Simon stood nearby. The freshmen’s gazes kept drifting toward him rather than the speaking staff member.
“You’ve all received one of these, correct?”
“Yes!”
The freshmen held crystal orbs in their hands. They resembled ordinary amplification crystals, but several safety mechanisms were engaged.
“In just a moment, you’ll all be falling from several thousand meters in the air.”
“???”
The freshmen fell into confusion.
“When that happens, this crystal orb will be your lifeline. I’ll explain how to operate it. There are two locking mechanisms. First, you pull this pin…….”
The Kizen staff member explained the usage carefully, step by step, but already students were appearing who looked flustered and panicked.
“Once you’ve unlocked both of these mechanisms and wait a moment…….”
Whoooosh!
A bubble shot out from the crystal orb’s opening, engulfing the Kizen staff member’s body in an instant. Though his voice could barely be heard from inside, he tried striking the bubble or scratching it with his fingernails. Of course, the bubble was durable enough not to burst from such effort.
Pop!
The staff member soon gathered darkness energy at his fingertips, tore a hole through it, and escaped. He looked at the students and spoke.
“You all understand now, don’t you?”
Yes…….
Uncertain responses echoed from various spots.
The headquarters staff member raised his voice.
“If you can’t manage this much, you can’t call yourselves great Kizen students! Think of this as your final entrance examination. Stay calm and do exactly as you’ve been taught.”
This was actually the official protocol.
Last year, Silaji had come in person and handled everything herself, but this year no professor-level necromancer had attended, so the staff issued safety devices to the students according to procedure.
Just then, a subordinate holding a communication crystal cried out.
“We’re arriving at Rocksum!”
“Then, freshmen, please return to your seats!”
“Yes!”
The freshmen hurried back to their seats. Simon also walked around, checking that each freshman was sitting properly in their assigned spot.
“Senior, you’re so handsome~”
Giggle, giggle, giggle!
Mischievous jokes from female students could be heard here and there.
Simon pretended not to hear, maintaining an expressionless face as he went about his tasks, though the tips of his ears had turned red.
“Is this the time for joking around? Everyone, focus!”
When Molly turned around and shouted, the noisy freshmen quickly fell silent.
Meanwhile, the ship was again covered by the barrier, and seawater began rushing up inside the whale’s belly, swiftly filling it to the ceiling.
“Student Council President, it’s about to start!”
The subordinate spoke to Simon.
Simon took his seat and then addressed the students.
“If you don’t want to fall, hold on tight!”
At those words, all the freshmen were seen gripping the handholds of the seats in front of them firmly.
And then.
Shhhhhhhhooooosh!
Like a blocked faucet suddenly bursting open, the seawater shot forward with tremendous force.
With the sensation of their bodies being lifted weightless at an astonishing speed, the freshmen buried their heads against the seats in front of them, too shocked even to scream.
They passed through a tunnel of darkness and the ship burst out into brilliant light.
“Wow……!”
An open vista spread out with a keen wind. As the cold air touched their skin, the freshmen lifted their heads. The altitude was difficult to even gauge.
The entire expanse of Rocksum appeared toy-like and tiny below them. But their amazement was short-lived—the stream of water shot out by the Yellow Sky Whale gradually weakened as the bow of the ship began pitching downward.
‘Now.’
Simon, having been through this once before, smiled at ease.
‘We fall.’
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
With tremendous pressure, the surroundings flashed past like shafts of light as the ship fell endlessly downward.
Several students tumbled out of the ship. The barrier had been deactivated to prevent collision damage.
“Here we go.”
Simon, the guide, released his own grip and fell from the ship. The ship plummeted first, while the students who’d lost their handholds spun wildly in the sky.
“Everyone, stay calm!”
Simon shouted.
“Activate your crystal orbs and get into the bubbles! Just do exactly as you learned!”
Most of the freshmen who heard his call quickly activated their crystal orbs and safely entered the bubbles, but several freshmen were too panicked to think clearly. They fell without even screaming, rigid with shock.
‘I’m glad I prepared for this.’
Simon activated the dark magic he had readied.

After the Skulldron came the Guard Unit. This was the first time he’d used two consecutive Cloud-series dark magic spells in succession, but there was no choice.
Cyan-tinted bones erupted from Simon’s subspace and enveloped his body.
The Guard Unit’s cloak settled behind his back, transforming into two pairs of fluttering wings, while bones clinging to his frame like joints gave off an ethereal glow as they generated a pulling force.

A magical circle unfurled across his back, and from within it, clouds burst forth like flames, launching Simon’s body skyward.
He shot first toward the female student whose first lock remained jammed.
“Ugh—why won’t this budge?!”
Her voice cracked into a wail, eyes brimming with tears.
“Stay calm!”
Simon descended from behind, steadied her, and released the lock in her stead. In moments, her body was wrapped in the safe sphere.
‘Next!’
Leaving a trail of emerald in his wake, Simon wove between student and student, unlocking each mechanism. Spheres bloomed across the deck.
“All right, that’s everyone!”
But he spotted one impressive junior along the way.
Arthur was helping a struggling student unlock their mechanism, deploying their sphere.
“Well done, Arthur!”
Simon thrust his thumb up with a grin.
“This much is just the basics!”
Arthur returned the gesture with equal ease, catching Simon’s meaning.
True to his reputation as the Mercenary King.
Years of rolling through battlefields had honed him differently than the other noble freshmen—his seasoned experience set him apart. A danger of this caliber barely registered to him.
“Now that that’s done, go ahead and deploy your own sphere, Arthur! I’ll handle the rest of the kids!”
“Yes, senior!”
Arthur drew out a crystal orb and yanked the safety pin.
But then—
Crack!
His strength had been so great he’d shattered the pin.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh! I’ve ruined it!!”
Every advantage he’d possessed was negated by a single, inescapable fact: Arthur was an idiot.
“Senior Simon! Help me!!”
‘I’m swamped—why do I have to deal with him too?!’
Simon activated the crystal for the dazed freshman, then shifted to the next student.
“Arthur! Can’t you land under your own power?”
“That’s not fair!!”
“You’re a special admission student!”
Simon called out as he released another freshman’s lock.
“If your goal is to become Kizen’s strongest, you can handle something this simple, can’t you?”
Arthur’s face, which had been twisted in complaint, suddenly transformed.
“Hearing that—”
Arthur drew a new blade from his subspace.
“I just gotta make it happen no matter what!”
Simon watched as Arthur swung his sword through the air, generating pressure waves, then moved on to the next student.
“Whew.”
All the students who’d fallen from the deck were now descending safely within their spheres. The latecomers were being attended to directly by the attendants and Kizen staff.
Simon switched the Guard Unit suit to low-speed flight mode, then looked down below.
‘Still beautiful every time I see it.’
His old school came into view.
Dense jungle, polished wasteland, a waterfall drifting with fallen leaves, snow-capped peaks—all four seasons spread across Rocksum like a single brushed painting.
And at the island’s center, the buildings of the Kizen Campus rose into view.
Even the freshmen, having recovered their wits, now gazed upon the scenery with genuine wonder.
“Everyone, welcome to Kizen!”
Hearing the Student Council President’s voice, the freshmen burned that sky-borne vista into their memory, one they would cherish for years to come.

* * *
And so all the freshmen who had ridden the Yellow Sky Whale arrived safely at Rocksum.
Arthur had swung his sword at the shore to “land,” generating pressure waves that kicked up sand onto a few students, but it was nothing serious.
Freshmen sat scattered across the ground catching their breath, while others lay prone, retching.
The same sight as a year ago—yet they quickly rallied, already spinning tales of heroism with animated chatter.
“Student Council President! Thank you so much for the escort!”
Simon, who had descended to the ground, was recalling his Guard Unit into his subspace when teaching assistants emerged from the school to greet them. He bowed in return.
“I apologize for the delay. We ran into a small problem in Langoustin.”
“No, that’s not it! We saw what happened too. The most important thing is that all the students arrive safely.”
One of the teaching assistants spoke up as he looked over the freshmen.
“All right, newcomers! Please line up in four columns! We’ll head straight to the opening ceremony after you change into your Kizen uniforms.”
The freshmen began to shuffle forward and form lines in front of the assistants. But they were too busy laughing and chatting among themselves to heed the instructor’s commands, even as his voice grew hoarse from shouting.
“You lot.”
Just then Simon clapped his hands sharply and stepped forward.
“Four columns.”
At those two words alone.
The freshmen who had been fooling around and misbehaving suddenly snapped to attention and rushed over, quickly falling into neat lines. Simon continued, “Sit down in front and call out your number.”
“Sit down in front and call out your number.”
“One!”
“Two!”
As the freshmen settled into their positions while shouting out their numbers in perfect rhythm, the teaching assistants exchanged glances of astonishment.
“That’s… that’s incredible!”
“How did you get freshmen at the most difficult age to control to listen like that?”
Simon smiled awkwardly.
“Well, um. It would take a while to explain.”

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