Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 483

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Summoning Genius of the Necromancer School — Episode 483
The notorious course registration season at Kizen had begun.
Four hundred students scattered like grains of sand, rushing across the Campus Grounds. Though they all started at the same point, most would find themselves unable to stick to their original schedules.
Simon was in just as much of a hurry.
‘The most competitive registration is Jane’s Dark Reversal Magic class. I need to get to Bahil as fast as possible and come back.’
That’s when Simon’s head snapped up.
A massive kitchen knife was plummeting from the sky.
Crack!
With a violent collision, sand and debris scattered outward. Simon twisted his body mid-air to evade, landing safely on the ground.
“Again?”
A creature covered in gray, lustrous scales was snarling at him.
Simon raised his hand sharply, and bone fragments spilling from his Subspace rose into the air, clicking together in rapid succession to form the shape of a spear.

The Bone Spear shot forward like a bullet, striking dead center in the creature’s chest.
Ping!
But it bounced off harmlessly.
‘What?’
It hadn’t been like this before. Up until now, there were only ordinary Danger Level 3 monsters scattered across the 2nd Year Campus, and his attacks worked fine against them.
But as he drew closer to the Curse Studies Building, the number of gray creatures that shrugged off his attacks kept increasing.
“Tch!”
Simon leaped away from where he stood. This time, a bestial gray creature raked its claws down the wall behind him as it passed.

The Bone Spear returning to Simon dissolved and wrapped around his right arm like a glove. He drove his fist hard into the creature’s skull.
“!”
This time his fist passed through the monster’s body as though it were a phantom. Instead, Simon felt the creature’s kick connect with him.
[Barrier Gauge: 91%]
Simon clicked his tongue and retreated.
He couldn’t damage this creature at all, but it could attack his suit. If his Barrier Gauge dropped to zero, he’d be forced into a thirty-minute rest.
Simon ran without engaging the monsters any further.
[Krkrkrkr! Having a rough time, are you, boy?]
A familiar voice echoed in his mind.
Simon glanced down at the skull-shaped badge he wore on his school uniform, its eyes flickering with a deep blue light.
‘Pier!’
Simon’s expression brightened with genuine relief.
‘It’s been a while since you stopped by!’
[Indeed. I’ve been absorbed in finding ways to repair that broken ‘Sword’ fellow. But listen here—]
The badge’s eyes shifted.
[I’ve seen this trial before!]
Simon quickly stopped and backed away. A gray creature’s massive arm slammed into the ground where he’d been standing.
[Think about the location, boy!]
Simon dodged the monsters’ attacks as he fled, asking urgently.
‘The location?’
[That’s right! Richard needed only twenty minutes to figure it out.]
Simon’s eyebrows drooped in exasperation.
‘You’re comparing me to Father again?’
[Krhahahaha!]
For now, getting to Bahil’s research lab was more urgent than finding a way to destroy those creatures. If he could avoid them, avoidance was best.
‘Still, that view from the Student Council Building overlooking the Campus Grounds is helping.’
Fortunately, the Student Council Building stood at the center of the 2nd Year Campus. The view was so good that he’d often looked out over the grounds during work, and now the map of the Campus Grounds was perfectly imprinted in his mind.
‘And the route Dik taught me!’
Simon ducked his head to avoid the gray monsters’ attacks, then darted into the narrow alley between buildings. He saw the two creatures chasing him collide with each other.
‘I can do this!’
The moment Simon emerged from the alley into the open.
Flash!
A single card lying on the ground suddenly flashed with light. Simon’s expression shifted to one of alarm.
‘Endolas Bordvil’s card!’
Light burst from the card and spiraled around Simon. An arena took shape, with strands of light forming a circular barrier wall like the ring of a dueling ground.
There was no escape. This was the world of that card he’d seen during BMAT.
Moments later, a single monster emerged before him.
The same gray creature from the Campus Grounds—bipedal like a human, with a disproportionately muscular upper body atop spindly legs, and blades protruding from both arms.
‘I’ll have to bring that thing down if I want to escape, won’t I?’
The creature lunged forward, driving its blade-edged arm down in a straight line.
Whoosh!
Simon feinted a guard, then slipped sideways at the last moment.
The monster’s arm passed within a hair’s breadth of Simon’s side, and his raised fist rippled with dark energy.

Boom!
Combat magic still wouldn’t work. Once again, Simon’s fist passed clean through the creature’s body.
‘Stay calm. Don’t just fight—analyze the situation.’
Simon’s eyes narrowed.
‘This isn’t a real monster. This barrier, these creatures—they were all made artificially for course registration season. What’s the test designer’s intent?’
The test designer’s intent. The moment he thought of it, a flash of insight cut through his mind. Simon was on his way to find Bahil right now, and they were near the Curse Studies Building.
Simon’s index finger pointed toward the creature.

The exhaustion curse that shot from his fingertip struck the monster’s body with perfect accuracy. The creature, which had deflected or dodged every other attack, let this curse through without resistance.
“So that’s it.”
This wasn’t just simple course registration. These monsters created by Endolas, the Card’s necromancer, were testing whether the students truly deserved to take this class.
To attend Curse Magic lectures, students had to overcome this trial with curses.
Thud!
Simon kicked off the ground and leaped, evading the creature’s attack. Even after landing the Exgust curse on it, the monster showed no sign of slowing down.
‘That curse isn’t the answer. I need to use the curse that’s most effective against this specific creature!’
Simon’s eyes fixed on the monster’s spindly legs. A smile played at his lips as he traced a magic circle with his right hand.
-Humans are creatures with extremely unstable balance—they support themselves on two hind legs and walk upright with their backs straight. Even a simple fall renders most actions impossible.
A curse that 1st year students had used with overwhelming frequency during the early duel evaluations.
A technique Bahil had personally created for nervous 1st years taking their first duel evaluation—a localized curse targeting the legs that would knock them to the ground.

Simon’s curse shot like an arrow toward the creature’s legs. The curse rippled through the monster’s limbs, and the creature, oblivious, stretched out its arms to grab Simon—
—
Crash!
Like a falling tree, it collapsed flat on its face.
‘The problem is the monster. The answer is the curse.’
And the moment Simon applied the correct curse, a weak point finally became visible—marked in green at the back of the creature’s neck. He immediately fired a Bone Spear toward it.
Whoosh!
A perfect strike.
The creature’s body shattered like broken glass, and the barrier that had surrounded Simon vanished with it.
[Hehehehe! You figured it out at almost the same time as Richard, boy!]
Simon let out a light sigh and broke into a grin.
“If we’d been timed, I’d have been just a little faster than my father.”

* * *
Kizen’s course registration rules change or update every year.
And this year’s registration was, as Simon had figured out, a system where students had to break through monsters and traps using only the techniques and knowledge from the subject matter itself.
“Someone, detoxify me!”
“Get out of the way!”
Students heading to Poison Magic classes had to navigate regions swarming with all manner of poisonous creatures. They either faced the monsters using opposing toxins, or they had to cross through a marsh of poison while detoxifying their own bodies.
When students triggered a Card trap, they received a clearer mission—someone would be lying unconscious inside the card, and they had to identify and neutralize the poison affecting them to escape the barrier.
Beyond that, the area around the Spirit Magic Building had monsters that only responded to Spirit Techniques, and the Blood Studies monsters could be defeated only through blood loss.
The students found themselves struggling with a difficulty level higher than they’d anticipated.
“Ugh, second year at Kizen! This is brutally tough from the start, seriously!”
Merin swung her arms forcefully, unleashing a jet black flame. The enormous ice creatures were swept up and melted by her inferno, but it had no effect on the creature behind them made entirely of water.
“Stupid commoner!”
“Leave it to me!”
Dick pressed a button hard. A pre-set Dark Trap activated, and high-voltage current surged across the ground, causing the water creature to writhe and collapse.
“We did it!”
Kamibarez shouted, having swept away the preceding monsters with Dark Wind Magic.
The barrier soon lifted, and the landscape of the Kizen Campus came back into view.
“Man, this is way harder than the intel I had going in. Teamwork is almost essential.”
Dick wiped sweat from his forehead. Merin turned her head to gaze at the buildings behind them.
“Do you think Simon will be all right?”
“Are you worried about him?”
When Dick grinned and asked, she let out a sound like “Ugh!” and her face flushed red.
“Come on, it’s only natural to worry about a friend! But why does your tone sound so impure?”
“What are you talking about? It was just a pure question, and she’s the one getting all worked up on her own… Aaah! Ow! Stop pulling my hair!”
“This isn’t the time to fight!”
Kamibarez slipped between them and pulled both back.
“And Simon would definitely come! He’s good with Curses and has a Skeleton Mage, so he can easily handle the Dark Reversal Magic missions that need opposing elemental magic to clear!”
Dick scratched his head.
“You know that route through the Curse Department I showed Simon?”
“Yes.”
“It’s the fastest route, but doesn’t it make sense that there’d be a lot of traps if you take that path?”
……
Both girls’ expressions stiffened slightly, but Kamibarez quickly recovered her composure.
“Still, I believe it will work out.”
“Oho, such faith! What makes you think that?”
Kamibarez smiled brightly.
“Because Simon is the Student Council President of Kizen!”

* * *
Panting hard—haah!
Simon was running with ragged breaths.
‘This test isn’t about who gets through fastest!’
The difficulty was higher than he’d anticipated.
It was obvious the other second-year students were struggling too. As long as the Barrier Gauge didn’t drop to zero percent and he didn’t get slapped with a thirty-minute suspension, going slowly seemed like a valid strategy.
And Simon was currently caught in the trap of the second card.
A barrier like a duel ring hung around him, and charging toward him were three gray monsters.
-Shrieeeeeeek!
One of the creatures opened its maw and shrieked with an otherworldly wail. Each time it did, Simon felt the ground tremble beneath him.
‘Glad I brought that first-year Curse Magic textbook.’
Simon held the textbook in his left hand while his right traced a magical circle. He’d momentarily forgotten a formula and was hastily reviewing.
‘That’s it!’
Having finally completed the formula, Simon raised his index finger.
Silence
The Silence Curse shot forward like smoke, striking the shrieking creature dead-on. The monster’s throat fell silent.
“Much better now!”
With the Silence curse applied and its weak point exposed, Simon finished the creature off with a Bone Spear.
It felt oddly productive to be revisiting Curse spells from his first year. Brutal as Kizen was, it truly was the finest educational institution.
‘Next.’
Simon looked up to see a creature spewing flames in mid-air. It had large wings and, most notably, ears disturbingly proportionate to those of a human.
‘This type of creature—this curse is the direct counter.’
As Simon quickly prepared the curse—
-That’s original! Magnificent!
Suddenly, a man’s voice echoed in his mind.
-Because you haven’t studied ahead! Because your mind is like a blank canvas unmarred by formulas and rigid thinking! That’s precisely why such original thoughts are possible!
-Of course a Sickness Curse should use vibration formulas—that’s what they think. That very mindset is a brain ossified by convention! Quite remarkable. This is exactly how Curse equations should be developed!
Back during Curse Magic class, when Hector’s faction had mocked Special Case Number One for not even knowing vibration formulas, Bahil had spoken those words.
‘…Suddenly I remember.’
Simon raised his index finger.
Sickness
The Sickness Curse flew forward and struck the creature’s body.
The effect was devastating. The creature careened wildly through the air before crashing to the ground of its own accord, shattering on impact.
‘Sickness is the answer after all. One left!’
The most troublesome one.
Undead-type. A creature that tore its own body apart and consumed itself—writhing in agony even as it did, growing stronger with each piece it devoured.
Even curses like Exgust and other standard debilitation magic had no effect.
‘What curse could possibly work on this one….’
-Simon Polentia. This is a set of curses developed especially for you.
Another memory bloomed unbidden in his mind.
-You won’t find them in any book. They exist nowhere else in the world—curses made for Simon alone.
-Isn’t it natural for a teacher to wish to instruct an outstanding student? Call it the bond of Master and Disciple. You’re a student, and learning is your duty—so simply accept it as such.
Simon bit his lip and completed the new curse.
To master Compellonia, Bahil had prepared for Simon the Four Major Curses.
The first of them.

The curse Indolence found its mark on the creature’s body.
The monster, which had been repeating the cycle of tearing chunks from its own flesh, attacking Simon, tearing more away, and attacking again, dropped its weapon the moment Indolence took hold and began devouring itself with frenzied abandon.
It consumed even its own heart, and in doing so, brought about its own destruction.
Whoooooosh—
The barrier lifted, and Simon returned to the Kizen Campus Grounds.
“Sigh.”
Simon looked up, his mood unsettled.
Now the Curse Studies Building where Bahil awaited came into view.
‘Well, what am I going to say to him when we meet?’

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