Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 680

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Summoning Genius of the Necromancer School — Episode 680
The Northern God’s New Three Siblings.
Among them, the third: Grayson.
She possessed the ability to control dead birds. For smaller specimens, she could summon them—an endless torrent of corpses pouring from the hollow of her back.
If left unchecked, the Northern Region’s sky would soon choke with flying cadavers.
‘Before the Northern God takes complete control of Grayson’s mind, I have to do something.’
Simon brushed feathers from his clothes, drawing his concentration tighter.
[Wait! Simon!]
Herseba’s voice came through their mental link.
[Why are you fighting directly? This is dangerous! Fall back to the troops and wait for the Ancient Undead to arrive!]
‘Just a moment.’
Simon lowered his stance.
‘There’s something I need to see for myself.’
Grayson wept tears of blood as she wheeled both arms. The birds cascading from her back fanned outward, then descended upon Simon like a horrific swarm.
Twisted beaks, bulging eyes, mangled feathers—all visible.
“Guard Squad!”
At Simon’s command, two remaining Guard Squad members stepped forward. Their teal-blue Dark auras flared, weaving a magic circle into the void.
“Come forth! Knights!”
Skeleton Knights erupted from Simon’s pocket dimension in answer.

Simon’s signature technique. The Skeleton Knights, swords raised and spinning, became a whirlwind that shredded the incoming flock.
“Mages!”
Above them, a massive pocket dimension tore open, and Skeleton Mages unleashed Dark Magic.

The birds approaching from another angle ignited in black flame, all at once. As her guardian flock dwindled, Simon immediately kicked off the ground and charged forward.
“Grayson! Can you hear me?”
Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!
But just before Simon reached her, the flock swept in and obscured her body.
Simon skidded to a halt—and when the chaos of wings had passed, she had vanished without a trace.
!
The flock erupted behind him instead, and within it, Grayson’s taloned fingers raked forward. Simon pivoted backward and tilted his shoulder to slip the strike.
‘Not yet!’
In the same breath, his body spun like a top.
Crack!
A perfect spinning kick planted itself against Grayson’s head.
[…….]
But Grayson didn’t dodge. She took the full force of the kick to her face without flinching, as though the blow had barely registered.
‘Being the third has enhanced her physical capabilities!’
Simon retreated, drawing his Overlord from the ground and swinging it—but Grayson simply flicked her sharpened nails and deflected it effortlessly.
[Simon.]
She whimpered, her expression twisted with remorse.
[It’s coming from behind.]
!
At her warning, Simon instinctively hurled himself aside. The flock swept past exactly where he’d been standing.
[Right now. And from below the ground.]
She was right. The flock rushed in from his right flank, and a massive beaked avian undead erupted from the earth beneath, tearing through the soil.
Simon tumbled through the air to escape. The creature’s beak snapped—Bang!—at empty space before it sank back into the ground.
“Grayson……!”
[Simon, please. Run.]
She raised both arms, tears streaming down her face.
[I don’t want to kill you.]
As she swept her arms like a conductor, the winged avian undead from the Northern God’s army rose as one and descended toward her.
[I’m terrified. The Northern God’s power is consuming my mind. I’m afraid I’ll disappear.]
Just as Simon had suspected, Grayson was fighting desperately against the Northern God’s will, which sought to dominate her.
“Understood.”
Simon let both arms fall limp at his sides. At that moment, the massive bird undead from below tore through the earth again, thrusting its beak upward toward him.
Crunch!
Simon stamped down hard with his leg to keep the beak from rising. But the disparity in strength was too great—his leg was being forced backward.
“From this moment on.”
Click!
Click!
Bones flew toward Simon’s right leg, attaching themselves with crisp precision like armor plating. He tensed his leg.
Thud!
The new undead was crushed beneath him, the ground caving inward.
Screeeee!
The flock circled him from all directions, spiraling closer. Simon extended his right arm without a word. Bones flew to latch onto his forearm and the back of his hand, and finally a pristine greatsword locked into place with a sharp click.
His feet shifted forward instantly, his body pivoting at the waist.
Shiiiiing!
A brilliant white arc tore through the air, and the flock scattered like dust caught in a whirlwind, vanishing one after another.
Pier, now clothed in Simon’s form, stepped forward with calm confidence.
“From here on, I’ll face you with the strength of a Legion Commander.”
[Simon is…….]
Grayson’s eyes trembled.
[A Legion Commander like the Grand Duke……!]
Yet regardless of Grayson’s shock, her body moved with purpose. She summoned greater flocks, drawing in named aerial undead. Around her, feathered corpses churned into a black tempest.
Simon smiled and walked straight into the storm. The undead converged from every direction, descending like arrows to erase him.
[Simon! Run away!]
Her voice cracked with emotion.
[Even a Legion Commander can’t handle this! This power is……!]
Kehehehe!
Pier’s sinister laughter echoed across the battlefield.
[Odd woman-soldier! Even as an undead, you worry for others—impressive will, in its way. Had you opened your core normally and been admitted to the Necromancer School, you’d have made a name for yourself as a necromancer.]
“I agree.”
Simon poured power into the Sword of Ruin. The pristine white blade began shifting to a sickly greenish-brown, like parchment accepting ink.
[Can you even use that technique in actual combat?]
“We’ll find out!”
Standing in the heart of the feathered tempest, Simon swung the greatsword with all his might.

In every direction the blade swept, poisonous wolves poured forth.
Simultaneously, Simon rode the first rotation’s momentum into a second, summoning the toxic power once more.
“Krah!”
This time, a circular wave of green blade energy erupted outward.

The birds rushed forward, consuming space itself.
The wolves advanced to meet them.
And the blade energy trailing the wolves—the moment it touched the wolves’ bodies.
Boom!
Boom!
The wolves’ forms collapsed into toxic explosions. The black surroundings turned entirely green, and the approaching birds melted away to bone, vanishing into nothing.
The wolves’ toxic explosions didn’t end with a single detonation—they kept expanding, melting through the birds.
Simon seized the opening and broke free, charging toward Grayson as she stood alone.
“Grayson!”
Thud!
He kicked off the ground and launched skyward. The earth beneath him erupted like a wave.
Mid-air, Simon repositioned the greatsword and swung it toward Grayson’s throat.
Halt!
The white blade stopped just beside her neck. The skin where the edge caught tore slightly, and a line of black blood traced down her throat and spilled across her chest.
She smiled with her characteristic recklessness.
[Why do you stop?]
Simon bit his lip.
“Because Grayson stopped first.”
The arm she had aimed at his ribs trembled and froze. She hadn’t even moved to evade the Sword of Ruin as it flew toward her neck.
She grasped her own arm with her other hand, refusing the Northern God’s command to strike. Simon’s eyes flashed with fierce determination, and he threw his body forward.
Crash!
Their bodies twisted together as they fell to the ground. Simon drove Grayson down, then planted the Sword of Ruin into the earth beside her, tilting it to angle her throat directly into its path.
A fraction more pressure, and the blade would descend and sever her neck.
[Simon.]
She spoke, struggling against the Northern God’s dominion even as she did, her reckless smile unchanged.
[I have a final wish…… no, a request.]
“…….”
[I have a father with dementia. He can’t manage the reindeer farm anymore, so I’ve taken over in his place. The reindeer farm is our family’s ancient trade.]
She laughed softly.
[Do you remember? On the day you first came to the Northern Region, you asked me something.]
—Pride! All Northerners possess the Pride of Protection. We guard our land, our family, our domain!
[How did it come to this?]
She lifted her gaze to the sky, her eyes now devoid of light.
[I only tried to protect my life and family as a Northerner, yet somewhere along the way I’ve become a traitor among traitors, defiling the pride of the North.]
“…….”
[Simon.]
She closed her eyes, her face still wearing a smile.
[Without shame, I ask—please look after our father. And the farm…….]
“That’s something.”
Simon’s bangs shifted.
“You can solve it yourself by staying behind.”
[What? But I’m dead…….]
“You haven’t become a corpse yet, not completely.”
Simon placed his hand on her chest, where her core lay.
“If you truly care for your father, and if you carry guilt toward the North, then you’re the one who’ll fix this.”
[What?]
“The undead aren’t completely dead beings. Especially not you—you’re a special undead who still possesses reason.”
Whiiiiiiiiing!
Simon’s darkness began to bore into her core. Pier, watching from nearby, let out a startled cry.
[Reckless boy! Did I not tell you? The Three Siblings and the Northern God are bound by direct contract! It’s impossible for another necromancer to take them!]
“That’s something!”
Simon opened his mouth.
“We won’t know unless we try!”
Crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash!
Simon’s darkness began to be drawn into her core. Once he’d placed his hand there, there could be no retreat.
[Kahahaha! How the recklessness of father and son know no bounds!]
Pier, conceding defeat with laughter, returned to skeletal form and laid his hand atop Simon’s.
Simon and Pier’s darkness began to seize control of her core simultaneously.
The Northern God’s darkness recoiled fiercely from within her core, and with the Third’s power, it summoned a flock of birds.
[Protect the little one!]
Herseba cried out. Golden gates opened in multiple places, and mummies poured forth, hurling bandages. Birds flying through the air were caught and tangled by the bandages, crashing down, and the moment they hit the ground, they became prey for the mummies.
“Guh!”
Simon, his hand on the core, spat blood from his mouth.
Already his darkness was flowing backward.
The contract between the Northern God and the Third was that strong.
[S-stop! At this rate Simon might truly die……!]
“Create an opening for me to slip through. Grayson!”
Simon gritted his teeth.
“The way you’ve been resisting the Northern God all along!”
[!]
She seemed to comprehend something, closing her eyes. Then the teal-blue darkness that had been drifting around the edges and flowing backward began to be drawn into her core, bit by bit.
Shiver-shiver-shiver-shiver—
Her body lifted and trembled. She resisted the Northern God’s power to the end, and accepted Simon’s.
[Kehehehe! I thought taking the Three Siblings would be impossible.]
Pier’s mouth curled upward.
[But both the boy and this woman’s will are formidable!]
Whoooooosh!
Something pitch-black poured from her body like a wave. Grayson’s form, which had been heaving, went limp.
“Hah! Hah!”
Simon gasped for breath like a madman.
By now her pupils had changed to the same teal-blue as Simon’s darkness.
“You’ve done well, Grayson.”
In the moment when one of the Three Siblings transferred entirely to the 7th Legion.
She mustered her final strength, raising her arm.
Crack!
She clenched her fist violently toward empty air.
Fshhhhhhhht!
Swoosh-whoosh-whoosh!
Every winged undead under the Northern God’s command broke free and scattered skyward, dispersing across the heavens.
“What—?”
“The birds…!”
The Northern Region’s warriors who had been fighting fiercely at the front stood with gaping mouths, watching the magnificent spectacle unfold.
The sky had turned pitch black.
[No time to rest. Seize this moment!]
The Grand Duke, quick to read the situation, issued her command.
[All three siblings have fallen! Nothing stands in our way now. March on the Abyss with this momentum!]

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