Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 486

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Summoning Genius of the Necromancer School Episode 486
Gasp! Huff! Wheeze!
Two students were hunched over, breathing heavily. Their legs trembled weakly, as though every drop of strength had been drained from them.
A forest thick with crimson mist. Monster corpses lay scattered across the ground, and their knuckles were smeared with blood.
“Seriously?”
One of the students wiped the blood trickling down his forehead with the back of his hand and spoke curtly.
“It’s not even a Practical Assessment—just course registration. Isn’t this way too intense?”
In this thick, mysterious fog, you couldn’t deploy a Magic Circle or open a Subspace.
Only Combat Magic.
Against the endless tide of monsters, they had to fight with nothing but their bodies. And only then—only after finding Hong Peng—could they enroll in her Magical Combat class.
“And I have no idea where Professor Hong Peng even is.”
The student muttered to himself and let out a heavy sigh. True, Hong Peng’s classes were worth the suffering, but that didn’t change how difficult and exhausting things were right now.
“Hey! Come over here for a second!”
His friend shouted.
“What is it?”
“Blood. Blood!”
“…Did this idiot finally lose his mind? Never seen blood before? What was all over your hands just a minute ago?”
“No, you moron! Just come look!”
At his friend’s frantic yell, the student muttered ‘Fine, let me get fooled again’ and walked over.
And.
“…!”
All he could do was gape.
What could only be called a trail of blood—the entire clearing was drenched in crimson stains. Around it, monsters lay in grotesquely twisted angles, piled up like hills.
“…Who—who came through here?”

* * *
At that same moment.
Birds took flight from the trees, and monsters began to scatter in panic.
Through this forest teeming with monsters, two men tore forward with the relentless momentum of tanks.
“It’s been a while!”
Crack!
Simon shattered an orc’s jaw and, launching himself upward, spun and kicked a medium-sized monster’s face as he shouted.
“Fighting in sync with Kassan like this!”
The monster Simon’s kick had sent flying was struck next by another blow, its face caving in as it died instantly. Beyond it, a man with gray hair swept back was gleaming with sharp light in his eyes.
“The first time since we infiltrated Silaji’s lab.”
Kassan crossed the medium-sized monsters like stepping stones across a stream, sprinting back and forth with his body light and fluid. With each movement, monsters erupted in fountains of blood. Deep claw marks raked across their necks.
Kassan’s distinctive footwork—moving like a paper doll caught in the wind—remained unchanged. He could bend every joint in his body to impossible angles.
These movements looked deceptively light, yet every punch and claw strike that landed was devastatingly powerful.
As he passed through, monsters burst apart one after another.
‘To keep up with Kassan using Combat Magic alone, I’ve still got a long way to go.’
Simon marveled at this thought and gathered the Dark Element in his right hand.

Simon drew his arm across the air, and trees and monster bodies went flying with sharp snaps.
He bounded off the ground, grabbed a branch, and swung from limb to limb like an ape, his legs striking out to snap a monster’s neck.
He held his own entirely against Kassan—a technique he’d honed during his time living in the Resshil Mountain Range.
“Hah.”
Simon dropped back to the ground and dove into close combat again, punching monsters down one after another.
“But Kassan, you’re already a Magical Combat major. Why would you want to take more electives in Combat Magic?”
Kassan moved to Simon’s side and knocked down monsters indiscriminately. The two of them worked as though competing, their overwhelming momentum causing even the monsters to hesitate.
“Professor Hong Peng extended an invitation. She said I must need time within the school, and if I took one of her classes, I wouldn’t need to attend the other, so I could move around freely.”
“Ah!”
Simon realized that Hong Peng must have guessed Kassan wasn’t just an ordinary student.
Indeed, it was just like her.
“So Professor Hong Peng knows Kassan belongs to the Thief Guild?”
“I don’t think she’s figured out that part.”
Then Simon’s eyes widened.
Ahead of them loomed a grotesque orc monster over two meters tall with tusks jutting from its lower jaw. It was an Orc Warlord, ranked at Danger Level 5.
Simon quickly climbed up onto a tree and drew the monster’s attention toward himself.
“Kassan! A strong one’s coming!”
—Kraaaa-crack!
The Orc Warlord swung a Battle Axe of monstrous proportions.
Simon, clinging to a branch, pulled himself up by his arms to evade it, but the tree struck by the Battle Axe groaned and tilted precariously.
Crunch!
Before Simon could drop to the ground, he grabbed a vine from another tree and swung sideways to safety. At the same moment, Kassan came surging upward from below like lightning and struck the Orc Warlord’s jaw as he passed.
-Crunch!
The Orc Warlord, ringing from the impact, spun around in fury, searching for his attackers.

Snap!
Simon flicked his fingers against the branch he was holding, and a shockwave erupted across the Orc Warlord’s forehead.
The Orc Warlord turned toward Simon.
Screech!
Kassan descended from above, raking his claws across the creature’s chest as he passed. Blood sprayed in a fountain, leaving deep gouges in its flesh.
Harried by the relentless assault, the Orc Warlord roared in fury.
“Catch this, Simon.”
A sturdy vine whipped toward Simon a beat late, sliding smoothly through the air.
Simon grinned and caught it.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Kassan held the Orc Warlord’s attention at close range, drawing its enraged gaze while barely moving from his stance, his upper body twisting with practiced ease to slip past each blow.
In that moment, Simon came in from behind and rapidly wrapped the vine around the creature’s neck, cinching it tight.
-Gasp!
With its breath cut off, the Orc Warlord’s movements slowed. It thrashed its Battle Axe to dislodge Simon, but its unstable stance and sluggish motions made it difficult.
And then Kassan moved in for the finish.
Thud!
Climbing up the creature’s knees and abdomen, Kassan extended his claws with precision and drove them deep into the Orc Warlord’s throat and heart.
The Orc Warlord convulsed, foaming at the mouth, and both men leapt away simultaneously.
The monster’s massive body, one hand clutching its throat and blood pouring from its mouth, crashed heavily to the ground.
“Whew.”
Simon exhaled and raised his fist toward Kassan.
“It feels good to get our timing down again after so long!”
Kassan bumped his fist against Simon’s, then scratched at the scar above his right eye.
“Neftis’s order to protect you from outside threats remains in effect. The 5th Legion Commander Magnus is still after you, so if anything goes wrong, come find me anytime.”
“I’m always grateful, Kassan.”
“And from now on, I’ll be moving alone.”
“What?”
“If a repeat student and major like me helps a student taking the course registration exam, it might not look good to others. But in exchange, I’ll give you information worth your while.”
Simon’s eyes widened as he listened to Kassan.

* * *
The final event of course registration.
Now roughly one-third of the second-year class had converged intensely on the crimson mist zone.
Students who had successfully completed the second and third courses were now all vying for Hong Peng’s class.
But everyone grimaced at the extreme difficulty that allowed only Magic Battle—students’ Barrier Gauges were dropping to 0% left and right, forcing them to face the risk of a mandatory thirty-minute break.
And here was one more on a razor’s edge.
“Haa, haa.”
A girl with sky-blue hair knelt on the ground, breathing heavily.
Her remaining Barrier Gauge was barely eight percent.
Another monster lunged out at her.
“Hah!”
Kamibarez appeared, lavender hair streaming, and struck the monster’s abdomen with her palm, knocking it backward. It was her own signature Magic Battle technique, specialized in sending opponents flying.
She quickly turned back and spoke.
“Are you all right? Merin!”
“Yeah, thanks for the cover.”
Crack!
A crossbow bolt lodged itself in the forehead of the monster Kamibarez had sent flying.
“My bolt supply’s running pretty low.”
Dick clicked open his crossbow and loaded another bolt, speaking as he did. His remaining Barrier Gauge was barely one percent.

“This guy’s seriously something.”
Merin retied her hair and let out a hollow laugh.
“Every time he survives it’s nothing short of miraculous—his misfortune is legendary.”
“Ah, it’s not luck—it’s skill!”
“Everyone! Look, more of them!”
A surge of monsters came rushing toward them. The three fighters dropped into their distinctive combat stances.
“It seems we’ve reached the end here~”
“Please stop making those ridiculous observations! You’re driving me mad!”
“Ah!”
Kamibarez, her small palms spread wide as she prepared to fight, pointed ahead.
“Look there!”
Tap!
Tap!
Tap!
Above the onrushing monsters, a boy in a school uniform bounded across the treetops, leaping from branch to branch. In a flash, he vaulted over the creatures and landed in front of the trio, cutting off their path.
Wheesh—!
His shoes scraped and spun across the ground as his right arm, wreathed in shadow, carved a chilling arc through the air.
Hong Peng Original – Sword Strike
Shiiiiing!
The range was incomparably greater than any ordinary sword strike. The blade traced a semicircle, extending outward and slicing through every monster it touched.
‘Six at once!’
Dick’s eyes widened. Sweat-dampened hair whipping about his face, the boy’s spin came to a stop.
“Glad you’re all safe.”
“Ah!”
Every face lit up with unbridled joy.
“Simon!!”
Simon turned back, raising a hand casually toward the Student Council members. He tilted his head slightly, and a monster’s spear whooshed through the empty space where his head had been.
Thud! Thud!
Simon caught the monster’s wrist and arm, used its own momentum against it, and slammed it hard into the ground.
More monsters came charging in, swinging their weapons wildly, but Simon fought as if in a different league entirely. He pushed weapons and limbs aside with the palm of his hand, drove his fist into solar plexes, and knocked them down—the whole thing looked far too easy.
In the next instant, he spun through the air and swept his heel across the heads of three monsters in succession, landing cleanly.
“…Wait, him?”
Dick lowered his crossbow and let out a hollow laugh.
“His Combat Magic’s gotten way better since before break.”
Simon wrapped an arm lock around a monster’s neck, immobilizing it. Before he could snap its spine, two more creatures came charging from either side.
“Haaah!”
A sharp cry rang out.
Merin flew through the air, delivering a picture-perfect kick that sent the monster on the flank flying backward. Simon snapped the other monster’s neck in the meantime, then caught the next one in an arm lock.
This one was an armored orc.
“Now, Merin!”
Merin landed from her kick, her fist wreathed in shadow drawing back.
Hong Peng Original – Heavenly Pierce
Crack!
The Heavenly Pierce, one of the rare penetrating techniques in Combat Magic, landed true. Her fist drove clean through the center of the armor, and the monster collapsed to the ground, foaming at the mouth.
“Wow, your Heavenly Pierce is really polished now.”
Simon grinned approvingly.
“…….”
Merin’s face flushed as she carefully wrapped her fist in her other hand and straightened up.
“What’s wrong?”
“Ah—come to think of it, Merin’s been acting strange all day.”
Dick grabbed the arm of a monster that had been targeting her, drove his knee into its face, then sent it rolling toward Kamibarez, who finished it with a powerful strike to its abdomen.
“She blushes like crazy every time she uses the Heavenly Pierce.”
“I do not!!”
Merin’s face turned bright crimson as she cried out.
“See? There it goes again.”
“You want to die, seriously?! Why are you picking on me today?!”
Merin clenched her fists and charged at Dick, who exaggerated how low his Barrier Gauge was as he dodged. Simon chuckled quietly.
“Simon!”
Kamibarez approached with a gentle smile.
“What happened with Professor Jane’s and Professor Bahil’s course registration?”
“Both went according to plan.”
“That’s wonderful!”
Her wings fluttered with delight.
“It’s not my major, but I’m glad we four get to take the same class again this year!”
“Yeah.”
Simon turned his head to watch Merin and Dick, who were still fighting.
“Never mind that—everyone follow me. Kassan told me where Professor Hong Peng is.”
Dick, who had been grabbed and was about to have his hair torn out, suddenly reached out his hand.
“The Gazebo Behind Waterfall! Right?”
“That’s right. How’d you know?”
“Kassan, of course. I got the exact same intel… Ah, ah! If you hit me any more, I’m seriously taking a forced thirty-minute break!”
“Shut up!”

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Whoooosh—
A small gazebo nestled where a picturesque waterfall cascaded down. Inside, Magical Combat Professor Hong Peng sat peacefully with a senior teaching assistant, sipping tea.
“Professor.”
“Yes?”
Clink—
The senior teaching assistant set down her teacup.
“Your course registration requirements were unusually difficult this year. Is there a reason for that?”
“Ah, well.”
Hong Peng smiled faintly.
“If I made it too easy, the student I really wanted to come might not show up.”

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