Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner - Chapter 99

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The Summoning Genius — Necromancer School, Chapter 99
Contact with every outpost, barracks, and garrison across the island had been severed as if it were all a lie.
Blue Harbor’s entire defensive capacity was effectively crippled. With each passing moment, the situation would grow worse.
“We’ve lost contact with Commander Finch as well.”
The Butler exhaled deeply.
“Either he’s engaged with the pirates, or something’s happened to him too.”
The maids murmured anxiously at his words.
Even the Oldwon Family’s necromancer—their greatest asset—was unreachable now, making the situation seem utterly hopeless.
“As Kizen suggested, something’s gone wrong at the base.”
The Commander finally gave up on the communication device and slipped it into his inner pocket.
“Still, the troops in the field are fighting. I’ll gather what remains of our forces and establish a defensive line.”
Steel rang out.
The Commander drew his blade. The other soldiers followed suit, unsheathing their weapons.
Now it was the Butler’s turn to speak.
“Then we should plan an evacuation route…….”
“If we take a ship out right now, it’s only going to be more dangerous. The pirates have surely blockaded the waters.”
Simon said this.
“All the outposts and naval forces have been completely neutralized. This was a plan prepared thoroughly long ago.”
“Hmm.”
The mood darkened. The Commander spoke again.
“I agree with what Kizen’s said. If all the outposts at sea have fallen, there’s no escape route. I believe we have no choice but to hold this island.”
He looked at Simon as he said this.
“Kizen. Could you possibly help us? With you, we’d have real hope…….”
“I don’t mind either way.”
Simon smiled ruefully, looking down at Shun clinging desperately to his leg. He was on protection detail, and Shun’s safety was the absolute priority.
“Simon.”
“Yes, Lord Shun.”
“I’m…… all right.”
Shun peeled himself away from Simon and patted his own cheeks firmly. Then he straightened his expression with determination in his eyes.
“As the administrator of Blue Harbor and your employer, I’m asking you. Don’t worry about my safety—save the people.”
Murmurs of approval rippled through the room. Simon knelt to meet Shun’s gaze.
“Shun, something feels wrong. There may be people targeting you.”
“Right now it’s more urgent to save the residents in danger. I’ll pay whatever additional fee you ask—please.”
Shun trembled slightly but bowed his head.
“Please save Blue Harbor and its people.”

He’d made his decision. Small and young as he was, the boy still reminded Simon of someone who’d inherited a count’s title.
Simon bowed in return.
“I accept your command, Lord Shun.”

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They divided their forces into three groups. Shun, the Butler, and the family’s guests would fall back to the mansion and fortify it.
The manor had decent defensive structures and fighting servants to defend it.
The naval Commander would head toward the barracks with his soldiers. Their immediate priority was gathering the scattered troops and rebuilding their forces.
And Simon.
Thud. Thud.
He walked alone toward the beach where the first pirate ship had landed. Simon judged that the largest and most ornate of the three vessels would likely carry the captain.
If he captured the captain, the rest would scatter, and combined with the remaining naval strength of Blue Harbor, he could restore order.
‘Pier! Can you hear me?’
Since the pirates began their assault, Pier’s avatar hadn’t responded. It seemed Pier had been caught in the chaos before Simon was.
‘For now, I’ll do what I can.’
As Simon passed the mansion and entered Blue Harbor’s city proper, a hellish inferno spread before him.
The beautiful port had become a sea of flames from bombardment, and anguished screams and desperate cries echoed from every corner.
Pushing through thick smoke and searing heat, Simon finally spotted a crowd of civilians gathered near a fountain.
A few naval soldiers were fighting the pirates, but the numerical disadvantage crushed them quickly.
“Please! Not that! That was Father’s——!”
“Disgusting pests.”
A man clutching his father’s memento went down with a brutal kick.
It was raw plunder, naked and merciless. The pirates ransacked buildings indiscriminately, stuffing valuables into their sacks, and drew their weapons without hesitation against any citizen who dared resist.
“Hey, hey! You planning to keep that sword?”
“How cowardly……!”
A single Navy sailor stood facing off against the pirates, while they held a blade to a civilian’s throat.
“What, you really won’t come down?”
Slice!
A pirate behind them swung his sword, and one captive fell in a spray of blood.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
“Darling!!”
“Still won’t surrender?”
Next an old man fell, then a young one, both fountaining blood. The captives screamed in terror. This wasn’t mere hostage-taking anymore.
The pirates were playing.
‘These bastards have completely lost their minds.’
The sailor trembled violently. More would die before he could reach them. He lowered his stance, feigning the motion of dropping his sword.
“Wait, wait! I’ll come down! Just hold on, I’m coming——!”
Crack!
A pirate crept up behind the sailor and struck the back of his head. The sailor collapsed where he stood.
“Kyahahaha!”
“Easy, so easy!”
The pirates rushed in and began stomping him mercilessly.
“Can’t tell the difference between war and a skirmish? A few dead hostages shouldn’t stop you from coming in, damn it!”
“Soft from too much peace, you lot!”
Behind the building, Simon bit his lip hard.
Beating down a few pirates would be simple, but a rash move would put the hostages’ lives in immediate danger.
Worse still, among the captives kneeling in an alley sat Explosive Barrels. The pirates had forced them to embrace the barrels, and they huddled together near them, quivering uncontrollably.
[Boy! Can you hear me!]
Just then, Pier’s avatar spoke directly into Simon’s mind.
‘Pier! Why are you only arriving now?’
[A pirate ship came this way! I’m fighting them right now!]
‘Are you sure you’ll be alright alone?’
[Krhehe! This is nothing! More importantly—you succeeded in using Bone Armor with a Summoned Skeleton for the first time yesterday, didn’t you?]
‘Yes, that’s right. What about it?’
Pier’s avatar smiled.
[Then I grant you permission! Try using Bone Armor with Legion-type Undead. Go all out!]
That was the end of Pier’s message. His voice cut out as he returned to the battle.
‘Understood.’
Simon didn’t know what Pier intended, but he had no choice but to make it work.
Simon summoned multiple Skeletons from his Subspace that had completed their Legion assembly. And he drew forth the mental image to sharpen his focus.
‘I can’t concentrate properly.’
He watched sparks tumble and scatter on the wind.
‘Still too fast.’
Simon clenched his teeth.
His mind lifted. His senses grew finer and finer, as if his consciousness had transcended his body.
‘Slow down. Slow down. Slow down.’
Gradually, then surely, the falling sparks decelerated. Now they drifted like slow motion.
Nodding to himself, Simon stepped slowly out from behind the building.
Crack!
Thud!
The man who’d been robbed of his parents’ heirlooms was still being kicked relentlessly by the pirates. Fury surged through Simon as he thrust his right arm outward.
‘Bone Armor!’
Two Skeletons’ bodies rattled and decomposed, launching straight toward the man.
“What, what is that?”
The pirate stumbled back in shock.
The bones began adhering to the man’s body one by one. Bones aligned precisely across his arms, legs, and chest, linking together seamlessly.
Simon suddenly understood.
Why Pier had restricted his practice with Bone Armor on Legion-type Skeletons.
‘So much easier!’
There was no need for initial practice with this.
Each Legion-type Skeleton possessed its own clear consciousness and instinctively found the exact points where the Bone Armor needed to align.
All Simon had to do was orchestrate the whole. It was as if the moment he completed the blueprint in his mind, the Skeletons perceived it and adjusted themselves accordingly.
By mastering Bone Armor with Summoned Skeletons, one naturally mastered it with Legion-type Undead as well.
Click!
Snap!
Click!
The man wearing Bone Armor staggered as bones flying through the air fit into the hollow spaces of his skeletal armor with precise, clicking sounds, like interlocking blocks.
He stared down at himself in shock. His entire body was now covered in bone-forged plating.
“What—what did you do to me!”
A panicked pirate kicked at the man’s chest, but the Bone Armor shielded him completely from pain.
Then, moving of its own volition, the man’s body drove his fist straight into the pirate’s face.
Crack!
The force was staggering—the pirate’s nose erupted in a double stream of blood as he spun three times through the air before crashing to the ground, teeth glinting as they scattered across the plaza.
“Hey! What’s happening!”
Another pirate, witnessing the scene, rushed toward them.
Thwack!
The fishmonger brought his hand down hard across the pirate’s skull. The man’s head drove straight through the wooden crate beside him.
“I—I didn’t do it! Why is my body moving on its own!?”
Whoosh!
The Bone Armor peeled away from the fishmonger like a shed skin and relocated to its next target.
“Aaaaaah!”
“Hold still!”
“Please, stop!”
A rough-looking pirate was harassing a female tourist.
His primitive instincts had stolen his wits, and as he licked his lips and reached to tear away her clothes, bones from a Skeleton began clinging to her body with clicking sounds.
“I said don’t!!”
She struck his cheek upward through her tears.
Then.
Crack!
The pirate’s body lifted several meters into the air before slamming down to the ground.
Startled, she covered her mouth and stared at her own hands in disbelief.
“Just kill this bastard!”
“Stomp him!”
Simon’s arms moved in a frenzy of gestures. A naval soldier who had been knocked down and trampled one-sided by the pirates received bones that wrapped him in Bone Armor.
“Huh? What—he’s getting up!”
“He still has strength left?”
Five burly men were stamping down on him, yet the sailor pressed his hands to the ground and began pushing himself upright. No matter how many times the pirates kicked, they only hurt their own feet.
“Hnnnngh!”
The sailor let out a straining roar and shook the pirates off. They flew like bowling pins, tumbling across the ground.
“You bastard!”
One pirate charged forward and swung his blade.
But the sword bounced off with a metallic ring, stopped dead by the Bone Armor the sailor wore. It was as if the armor itself were alive and defending him.
“No! What in the world is that thing!!”
As the pirates’ attacks proved useless, courage surged through the sailor’s body. He grabbed the pirate’s head and slammed it into the ground.
Crash!
The plaza tiles shattered as the pirate’s head cracked into them.
“Ha—hahahaha!”
Impossible strength. The sailor looked down at his own body in wonder.
“Move it!”
A young woman leaped three meters into the air and struck a pirate with a flying kick. His body smashed through a wooden shack behind him.
“These disgusting perverts! All of you, die!”
Crack!
The flower vendor lifted a cart he usually pulled by hand and began swinging it at the pirates.
“So my strength from the old days has awakened! You know, back when I was young—”
Suddenly, the citizens turned the tide. The ordinary people who had been taking a one-sided beating now donned skeletal armor and unleashed tremendous power, overwhelming the pirates.
“You—you creatures!”
One pirate rushed toward the Explosive Barrels where the captives were bound and raised a torch in his hand.
“Kneel, you lunatics! Or I’ll blow all of them—”
Thud!
The pirate’s eyes rolled back and he collapsed to the ground.
It was one of the captives—an elderly man—who had struck the back of his skull. The old man dusted off his palms and smiled as he looked at the Bone Armor covering his gaunt frame.
“Sir!”
Simon appeared in the street and shouted.
“Clear that out, would you!”
The old man looked at Simon and quickly grasped the situation.
“So you dressed me in this! I understand now!”
The old man threw the Explosive Barrel just as it was into a pile of garbage in the empty plaza. With a bang, it detonated.
“Hnngh!”
Simon, his concentration at its peak, flicked his arm to the side. The old man’s Bone Armor unraveled and wrapped itself around the body of a man fighting a pirate.
“I’ve been waiting for this!”
The man sent the pirate flying with a single uppercut.
‘To the right.’
The man’s Bone Armor peeled away and flew into the air. A woman carrying a child was falling from a four-story building, fleeing the flames.
The Bone Armor wrapped around her body and absorbed the impact of the fall in one go. She stood up without a scratch.
‘Back to the left.’
‘Recover two sets and send them to the plaza.’
‘I need to put strength into the fountain area.’
Simon’s Bone Armor control, now in a state of complete immersion, had risen almost to the level of an art form.
His arms moved frantically. He dressed and stripped the Bone Armor on and off the residents under attack by pirates, weaving between them with perfect precision.
‘No more victims. I’ll save every last one of them.’
Simon’s eyes went wide. Ten sets of Bone Armor moved erratically throughout the city, helping people.
Now the citizens began to notice who was moving the mysterious suits.
“Isn’t that Kizen?”
“Yes! That’s the person who did the interview at the exhibition!”
“Kizen is helping us!”
“Waaaaah!”
The citizens who had only been taking a beating from the pirates were suddenly elated. Some even volunteered themselves, begging him to dress them in the armor.
Simon put them to good use immediately.
“Sir! Please put this on and deal with the pirates lurking in the alleyway!”
“Okay!”
“Ma’am! Two pirates ahead!”
“Leave it to me, little one!”
The tide of battle turned in an instant. The pirates were being pushed back one-sidedly by untrained residents.
“Look! It’s that kid’s doing!”
“Grab him first!”
A few pirates spotted Simon and rushed toward him.
Simon was so focused on dressing people in the distance with Bone Armor that he was completely unaware of what was happening around him.
“Student, watch out!”
“Be careful!”
The people around him cried out in alarm.
Just as the pirates grinned and raised their blades to strike Simon.
Crack!
Whoosh!</
Thud!
Out of nowhere, a florist in Bone Armor, a naval officer, and a young tourist flew in from three directions and kicked the pirates away, landing on the ground.
The pirates' bodies flew dozens of meters, crashing into walls and buildings before collapsing.
"Ooooooh!"
"Nice!"
Simon wiped away the sweat dripping down his forehead with his sleeve and smiled broadly.
"Well then, let's keep counterattacking."
A single person had changed the course of the battle.
It was the moment the residents of Blue Harbor realized the greatness of a Necromancer.

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