Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 509

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The Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius — Chapter 509
[You’ve gone too far, Nirty.]
At Simon’s words, Nirty let out a cold, derisive laugh.
“Gone too far? Really?”
Her interest in Simon had vanished, replaced by a glint of contempt in her eyes.
“What, are you going to bore me with some sanctimonious sermon about how revenge is wrong?”
[No.]
Simon shook his head slowly.
[I don’t even want to understand the motives behind your atrocity, but I know that forgiveness and remorse don’t solve everything. Even if everyone in Tarados begged your forgiveness with absolute sincerity, your hatred wouldn’t disappear.]
“Then what are you—”
[But.]
Simon cut off her voice.
[From where I stand, you’ve already completed your revenge. You didn’t stop there—you declared you’d destroy the Kingdom and, beyond that, the Alliance itself.]
Scraaape—
Simon’s greatsword scraped hollowly against the dungeon floor.
[Do you really think I’d stand idle while someone threatens to destroy the people and places I cherish?]
Nirty had gone too far.
[What fool would allow that?]
The direction of her revenge.
And its target—everything had shifted.
[What’s truly pathetic is that you came to me, a third party, asking to join hands. Simply because I seemed useful. Because I might become a convenient tool for whatever cause you’ve dreamed up. My purpose, my intentions—they meant nothing to you. You were never prepared to persuade anyone. More than that, you never had the will to even try.]
Simon’s eyes had gone barren and hollow.
[You’re not taking revenge right now, Nirty.]
His voice fell like frost across the ground.
[What you’re doing is venting.]
“…….”
A long silence wrapped around them both.
Simon and Nirty both understood—they could no longer comprehend each other.
When understanding breaks, only the strong decide what comes next.
Simon adjusted his greatsword while Nirty infused her modified chimera arm with darkness.
“So we’re back to square one,” Nirty said.
She let out a breath.
“But what can you possibly do alone now? Every passing moment strengthens the Covenant’s odds of victory.”
[From this point on, one by one,]
Simon’s lips curved upward.
[I’m going to shift the odds in my favor.]
Whoooooosh—
The moment he finished speaking, vast quantities of sand began to swirl through the emptiness.
[Did you forget? We took the Dungeon Master with us.]
The duration of the dungeon Herseba had created had ended. As the sand cleared, Herseba appeared, her staff hanging limply from her exhausted hand.
Behind her lay the mangled corpse of the Dungeon Master, its flesh riddled with countless black feathers and sand.
Nirty’s expression hardened.
‘The Dungeon Master I strengthened through my research……!’
‘I knew Herseba and Achemous would win, of course.’
Though they’d reduced the Dungeon Master to scraps, the dungeon itself hadn’t collapsed.
She’d suspected as much when she observed that no fractures appeared in the dungeon when the Dungeon Master was taken to another space.
And the Dungeon Master still lived. Its immortality was trying to restore the torn flesh, but Achemous’s curse feathers lodged within were sealing that regeneration completely.
‘If I render it permanently unable to recover……!’
Thud!
Simon kicked off the ground and charged toward the Dungeon Master.
Nirty too propelled herself upward with darkness, placing herself between Simon and his target.
Crash!!
Greatsword and chimera arm collided head-on.
With a deafening boom, both were driven back simultaneously, and Nirty unfurled a magic circle with her left arm.
“Research suspension. Code release. Full activation!”
As she activated the circle, the sound of shattering glass echoed from all directions—clink! clink!—as test tubes broke open.
In an instant, the chimeras trapped within burst free.
-Grrrowwwl!
-Screeeeee!
The chimeras poured toward Simon the moment they emerged, their malice radiating outward in a seething tide.
‘Of course she’d rely on quantity to overwhelm me.’
Simon bellowed and charged forward.
Crash!
As he raised his greatsword and swept it upward, one of the Chimeras split cleanly in two.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
White arcs carved through the air in rapid succession, and the monsters fell to pieces.
But a buffalo Chimera thrust itself through the gaps in his blade’s trajectory and slammed into Simon. His body flew backward with a tremendous impact, crashing against the stone wall.
“Kill him!”
Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom!
At Nirty’s command, every Chimera in the Research Laboratory surged into the dust cloud engulfing Simon. At the same moment, his arm rose.
<Simon Original – Guard Squad>
Whoooosh!
The dust fractured into countless emerald-hued sword-lights that sliced through the air, dispersed by the wind pressure.
Shink! Shink! Shink! Shink!
Twenty Skeletons emerged from the settling dust, cloaks billowing, each wielding a cyan-tinged blade as they stepped into formation beside Simon.
[Follow my lead.]
Simon took point, and the Guard Squad streaked behind him in cyan arcs. Each time the fluorescent light flashed in the darkness, another Chimera’s body split apart with a sickening crack.
‘How is he tearing through Chimeras with mere Skeletons?’
From Nirty’s perspective, the sight was incomprehensible.
The Chimeras were being shredded one-sidedly, like meat chunks fed into a grinder.
Unable to watch further, Nirty sent some signal through a magical circle, and the Chimeras converged toward the center, forming a solid defensive formation.
[That’s exactly what I was waiting for.]
Simon opened a Subspace. Immediately, Cloud poured from several of the Guard Squad members’ forms and spread before the Subspace in the pattern of a magical circle.
[Emerge, Skeleton Knights.]
Five Skeleton Knights shot out from the Subspace, spinning at high velocity as they surged forward.
And the moment they passed through the magical circle formed from the Guard Squad’s sacrifice—
<Simon Original – Guard Squad & Blade Storm>
ROOOAAAARGH!
Cyan whirlwinds tore forward with tremendous force, grinding every Chimera within their radius to paste. Nirty’s mouth fell open.
“What is that?!”
Concentrating her forces in one place to stop the Guard Squad had been a catastrophic mistake.
The massive vortices advanced without mercy, and Simon and the remaining Guard Squad members passed safely behind them.
As the majority of her forces evaporated before her eyes, Nirty screamed like she was trapped in a nightmare, tearing at her own hair.
“Fire everything!”
Boom!
Bang!
The firepower Chimeras stationed at the rear unleashed a barrage of flash-bursts, dark projectiles, and bio-cannon rounds into the vortex. The recoil halted the Skeleton Knights’ rotation and sent them sprawling.
[Ugh!]
The moment the Guard Squad took damage, Simon felt the backlash surge through him.
‘This much is just the—’
Simon’s eyes blazed as blood dripped from the corner of his mouth, left unwipe.
‘I’ll transcend it. Again and again!’
He reclaimed the Cloud from the Skeleton Knights, and all the bones of the remaining Guard Squad converged toward Simon.
The Guard Squad’s strength lay in their limitless adaptability.
Simon kicked off the ground and launched skyward.
<Guard Squad – Flight Mode>
Pier’s Bone Armor merged with the Guard Squad’s Flight Mode. Cloud erupted from Simon’s back like a booster, propelling him into the air.
In the void, a long cyan arc carved a jagged line across the space, reaching from the front ranks to the rear in a single instant, cleaving dozens of firepower Chimeras with one stroke.
“Youuuuu!!”
As her most vital Chimeras fell, carved beyond regeneration, Nirty spun around in a fury.
Simon surged forward, gathering Cloud and reshaping it into the form of a bow.
<Simon Remake – Blood Arrow>
A black arrow shot like a lance of light, embedding itself in Nirty’s arm, and immediately a deep, inky explosion erupted, swallowing the area in shadow.
“Ngghhh!”
Nirty stumbled backward, her Chimera arm hanging in tatters as she endured the impact. In that moment, Simon crossed the space between them with a thunderous roar.
His white greatsword descended in a straight line directly toward her head.
Bang!
Nirty raised her tattered Chimera arm to block.
[Kehehehe!]
[!]
But something feels off.
The force of her downward strike is weaker than before. Now I see it—the Bone Armor maintains its shape, but it’s hollow inside.
‘Surely not again…!’
Her head snapped around.
‘A double feint!’
The real body.
Simon, stripped of his Bone Armor, stood behind her in a perfect throwing stance—legs driving forward, hips and shoulders torqued, his entire frame coiled to release.

Crack-crack-crack-crack!
With the air itself tearing apart, two violet spears streaked toward her like shafts of light, punching deep into Nirty’s abdomen.
Hack—!
Black blood gushed from her mouth.
‘How many originals does he have…!’
“We’re just getting started!”
Simon ripped another Chaos Sphere free and hurled it, then another in rapid succession.
The third and fourth spears lodged in her belly and chest before her Chimeras could throw themselves in front of her.
Smash!
Simon dropped his ranged assault and charged forward bare-handed.
Pier, who had feinted against Nirty moments before, dissolved back into countless bone fragments that snapped and adhered to Simon’s body in perfect formation.
The instant the Bone Armor fastened around him, Simon’s speed quintupled.
Crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-bang!
The Sword of Ruin in his grip sent her guardian Chimeras flying like scrap metal.
‘What is this monster…!’
Nirty’s pupils trembled.
‘That eye for reading flow, that combat sense—he’s already transcended the professional level by far!’
When he’d shed the Bone Armor moments ago, she’d seen his true face. This creature was unmistakably Simon, the Student Council President.
‘A lack of experience? No. How many death-lines has he crossed to reach this point?’
Crunch!
She watched her Chimeras being cleaved apart ruthlessly by that sword which could not regenerate, then bit her lip hard. But when it came to crossing death-lines, she had walked that road as many times as anyone alive.
“Come on!”
She seized a fresh injection in her left hand, drove it into her neck, then activated the Permanent Magic Circle embedded in her belly.
Whoooosh!
Fwoom!
Tentacle-like protrusions burst from her abdomen, lashing out to snare her Chimeras and bind them to her body in rapid succession.
Simon, tearing through Chimeras in a blur, stopped dead in his tracks.
‘This is the trump card she’s been holding in reserve all along.’
It bore no comparison to merely swapping limbs for Chimera flesh.
She had abandoned all hope of return, merging with over a hundred Chimeras. Her body now seethes with countless colors of tissue and meat, her head the only part still recognizably her own.
[Krkrkr! They say madness is the Necromancer’s virtue, but this… this is beyond sanity!]
Pier clicked his tongue in disgust.
Simon gripped the greatsword, breathing hard. He needed to sever her neck before her form completed and solidified, but—
‘The backlash from pushing myself this far…!’
He had already controlled countless Legions to break through to the third basement level, burned through Cloud technique and chaos energy both. He’d poured out everything he had.
Simon forced his legs to move through sheer will.
But only a handful of steps. Nirty grew larger and stronger with each passing moment.
‘Soon.’
Simon tilted his head up, gasping for breath.
‘It’s time.’
Of course, Nirty was not the only one holding back a hidden card.
While the two fought in chaotic abandon, a massive crack spider-webbed across the ceiling of Nirty’s Research Laboratory.
Simon had fought on deliberately, maintaining a constant cacophony to keep her attention fixed downward.
Just one more blow.
Crash-crash-crash-crash!
The timing was perfect. The ceiling exploded in a shower of concrete and rebar, and a boy’s silhouette appeared in a punch-ready stance.
[Ha ha ha ha! You waiting for me, Simon!]
Prince and Kassan—who had gone upstairs to retrieve the blade—fell through along with an enormous test tube.
“Good to see you in one piece, Simon!”
[We found the sword!]
The two landed on the floor.
Prince immediately clenched his fist and smashed the test tube. Yellow liquid spilled out, and something gelatinous erupted from within.
It was the sword’s true body. Something seemed to hunger within it, quivering ceaselessly.
[Boy! Now’s the time! Draw out the other half of the blade!]
“Yes!”
Simon opened his Subspace and retrieved the sword’s body he’d been carrying. The two halves surged toward each other as if they’d been waiting, beginning to merge.
A deep, thrumming growl echoed through the air.
As the two became one, something that appeared to be a core shimmered at the center. Around it, a massive form pressed four limbs firmly against the ground, reshaping itself into the shape of an enormous beast.
‘This is—!’
Simon clenched his fist.
‘The Claws of Disease—the true form of ‘Fang’!’
It was wreathed in what looked like verdant gas and flames. Unlike what he’d imagined, its body took on a hazy, indistinct form.
[Being I encounter for the first time! I thank you for liberating me from endless suffering.]
Simon blinked.
‘First time? But—’
It seemed the original body had no memory of its fragment.
“How is it? Your body—are you all right?”
[No.]
Fang shook his head grimly.
[I’m already too late.]
“What?”
[Those creatures have wrung every last ounce of strength from me. That I can maintain this form at all is a miracle. Soon I will disappear entirely.]
Simon’s pupils shuddered violently.
“But your fragment told me something different!”
[Forgive me. My fragment could have known nothing of the true situation. Its only priority was rescuing the original me.]
Fang’s gaze turned toward Pier’s skull.
[Pier, I fade soon. You understand what must be done, don’t you?]
[…….]
A gleam flashed in Pier’s eye sockets.
[You’re serious? Fang?]
[Grrr! Cut the pretense! You of all beings must have suspected this would come to pass.]
A thunderous crash split the air.
Nirty, towering tens of stories high, raised an enormous fist and hurled it down toward Simon and his companions.
[What are you all doing? I understand you’re happy to reunite after so long, but is now the time for idle chatter?]
Prince soared into the air and unleashed the Hidden Card Punch, but strength and mass were not on his side. His body was sent flying backward, crashing against the wall.
“Prince!”
[Hurry, Pier! And you, human!]
Fang opened his jaws.
[If this continues, all is lost! There is only one way to defeat that woman!]
“Pier! What do I need to do?”
[…….]
Pier conveyed the situation to Simon through their psychic link. This time, Simon’s pupils wavered, but he soon clenched his eyes shut.
There was no time to hesitate.
“I’m sorry, Fang.”
Simon lifted the Sword of Ruin.
“I wanted to talk with you longer.”
[Grrr! If Pier has chosen it, then you are Richard’s son? How uncharacteristically sentimental!]
Fang stepped in front of Simon.
[I have been exploited and drained endlessly by those creatures! I am weary. If you truly honor me, gather me in with your own hands!]
Simon nodded. Fang’s chest opened, and his core lay exposed.
Fang could not endure much longer. But there was a way to reclaim his power.
“Farewell, Fang.”
The Sword of Ruin pierced through Fang’s core.
Fang released a relieved laugh as his body transformed into liquid.
A long, drawn-out draining sound filled the space.
Then he began to be pulled into the Sword of Ruin that Simon held. An overwhelming surge of power flooded through him.
‘What—!’
Simon’s arms trembled violently.
‘I can’t control this strength.’
Soon Fang’s body vanished without a trace, and the Sword of Ruin was tinged with a pale green hue.
[Listen carefully, boy—I’ll explain this only once!]
Pier spoke.
Kassan flew through the air, sent sprawling by the giant Nirty’s kick. Now she was coming straight for Simon.
[We can wield the sword’s power now!]
Screeeeeeeeeech!
Green smoke began rising from the Sword of Ruin. It twisted into the shape of a dog, howling toward the heavens.
“Haah!”
The activation was simpler than he’d expected. Simon concentrated his dark element into the greatsword and drove it hard into the ground.
Thud—thud—
The ground within the sword’s radius warped into an alien Poison Swamp.
Nirty’s feet sank into the marsh, her stride faltering—and in that same moment, hundreds of small dogs erupted from the swamp. Fragments of the sword itself, given form.
Simon shouted.
“Fire!”
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Hundreds of fragments unleashed a barrage of toxic venom laced with disease from their jaws.
As the poison struck, each body making up the chimera that was Nirty screamed in agony. She thrashed wildly, unable to control herself, her form convulsing without direction.
‘Not yet!’
Simon drove the sword’s tip into the marsh, charged forward, and wrenched it skyward with all his strength.
The Poison Swamp surged in the direction of the blade’s swing, coiling around Nirty’s massive form like a serpent and slamming her down hard onto the ground.
“Th-this is incredible!”
Simon gasped at the new power at his command. Pier chuckled.
[This is nothing yet! The true strength of the blade lies elsewhere! You understand that much, don’t you?]
Pier’s gaze turned toward the Dungeon Master’s broken corpse.
[Use that blade to destroy the Dungeon Master,
and claim this Dungeon as your own! Boy!
]

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