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Necromancer Academy's Genius Summoner
[Translator - Ramen]
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Chapter 369
"Ahaha! It's nothing like that."
Finally realizing what kind of situation he was in, Simon explained everything.
He mentioned that he went to Rochest with Senior Benya to get materials for crafting the lich, and he couldn't return to the dorm last night because he was so immersed in creating it.
It was indeed true and a very Simon-like reason, so Meilyn and Camibarez understood immediately.
When they thought about it calmly, Simon wasn't the type to sneak away with a senior.
"You really can't be helped."
The tense atmosphere in the lecture room instantly eased.
Meilyn ran her fingers through her disheveled hair, her regular smile back on her face.
"That's so you, Simon."
Camibarez also smiled brightly. Rick frowned as the atmosphere suddenly turned into a wholesome flower garden.
"By the way, why was I hit?"
There was a small bump on his head.
"Shut up."
"Please be quiet."
Meilyn growled with a red face, and Camibarez also spoke sullenly.
Rick shamelessly shrugged his shoulders.
"Geez~ You should be thankful that I—directly, mind you—resolved what you guys were so curious about!"
"Ugh, I said shut up! What the hell is 'Did you have some fun with senior Benya?' That's disgusting!"
"Hey now! How dare you call the sacred miracle of a new life being born disgusting? The miracle where two people go in, and three come out!!"
"I said, stop!!"
Turning red up to her earlobes, Meilyn mercilessly hit Rick's back. Simon and Camibarez looked at each other and faintly smiled.
"Simon! So, did you complete the lich last night?"
"Mm."
Simon made an ambiguous smile.
"I did finish it, but things got a little complicated."
Rather than giving a full play-by-play on what happened, it'd be better to just show them.
He opened the subspace and summoned Herseva. As the staff flew into the air, Meilyn quickly grabbed her skirt and gritted her teeth.
"Pervert staff Areldellu…!"
"It's no longer Areldellu now."
Simon gestured to it with a triumphant smile.
"Let me introduce you. This is my new summon. Herseva, the lich."
[What? Who are these kids?]
Hearing Herseva's voice, the group members were surprised.
"Th-The staff spoke?"
"It's a woman's voice!"
[What's so surprising? Haven't you seen a talking staff before?]
Said Herseva while doing somersaults in the air. Meilyn looked at Simon.
"But didn't you say you made a lich? Where's the lich, and what's this staff?"
"This staff is the lich."
"Hm???"
Simon calmly explained what had happened.
The lich was successfully completed, but during the synchronization process with the staff, the lich's mind was transferred to the staff. The lich's body then became unable to move, as if in a vegetative state, but its Life Vessel was functioning normally.
Still, if the staff and its body were close, the staff alone could use dark magic without any issues.
"That's awesome!"
Rick banged on the desk in excitement after hearing the explanation.
"Dark magic originally has a lot of variables, but this is the first time I've heard of something like that! That means you can just create a subspace like with your Overlord and just protect the lich's main body, right?"
"That's why I already talked to a subspace artisan about it."
Before they knew it, Herseva was on Camibarez' lap. Herseva pleasantly directed as Camibarez smiled and gently stroked the staff.
[Yes, right, over there. Below the handle! Massage that part a bit more, kid.]
"Hahaha! This feels like I'm petting a talking cat."
Meilyn rested her chin and became lost in thought.
"Creating mummies without consuming the necromancer's jet-black, huh? That really is like a summoner's power."
"Well, knowing that, who can stop Simon now?"
Chuckled Rick.
"He was already strong just with the Overlord and the Royal Bodyguards, and now he's got another new weapon!"
"Now, now! Enough with chatting! Get back to work and open your books."
Snapped Meilyn, giving two short claps to mark the conversation as closed.
"We gathered to study for exams. Don't forget our purpose."
"Yes, Meilyn!"
[Ah! What? Why did you stop stroking me! Please continue!]
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With the final exam and advancement exam approaching, days at Kizen flew by faster than ever.
First, there was the final test, the after-school BDMAT.
Simon could complete the best combination if he got even one green card, but he was concerned, as this was the necromancy theme.
So he came up with a plan, which was to cooperate with his classmate Cindy Vivace. She also needed a yellow card from the summoning theme, so their interests aligned. Thus, they did the final BDMAT together.
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Cindy shone in the necromancy card they found, while Simon excelled in the summoning one.
As a result:
1st - Simon Polentia (25 points)
1st - Chatelle Maerre (25 points)
3rd - Merrida Hugh Ickel (16 points)
3rd - Glekk Crow (16 points)
5th - Hector Moore (15 points)
With seven cards in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, plus the golden card. Simon completed the best possible combination.
He scored 24 points for the best combination and an additional point for being the best contributor in the defending team of siege theme, totaling 25 points. Naturally, he took 1st place.
And Chatelle, the mixed-blood giant who tied for 1st, scored 24 points with the best combination and an additional point for successfully defeating a target player once, totaling 25 points.
It was a remarkable performance by the two boys, living up to their fame.
Most of the other high ranks were taken by students who excelled in all subjects.
And so, the big mountain that was the Fourth BDMAT had been surmounted.
Now, only three things remained for the students.
The second-year advancement exam, which included the Fifth BDMAT.
Final exams.
And the gateway to these two big events: the performance assessments in each subject. There was an epidemic of headaches just from these smaller assessments.
Students often stayed up late feeling really fatigued, but Simon's situation was somewhat better.
The final performance assessment in Summoning: creation of magic-type undead and thesis.
The final performance assessment in Hemomancy: demonstrating dark magic related to the heart.
He could cover both final performance assessments with the lich.
He also had reliable plans for the other subjects, too. For the performance assessment of combat dark magic, duel with an assistant teacher, he was smoothly developing his own original combat dark magic, including Candle Blowing.
In Poisonous Alchemy, he was showing clear strength in the immune-system classes, which was reassuring.
His overall performance in Mechanics of Jet-Black was average, but he was motivated to solidify his theory while preparing for the Pentamonium conference, meaning he could expect good final exam scores.
Now, Simon decided to focus on studying Curses for a while.
To get a good score on the final curse performance assessment, synergy curse using three or more curses, he needed to master all four of Bahil's curses to obtain the curse called Compellonia.
At this stage, Simon had mastered two of the four curses.
The curse of painlessness, Indolence. It postponed pain or damage and then shared it all at once with a chosen target.
The curse of hostility, Hostile. It made two targets become aggressive to each other.
For now, it was hard to find a common point between these two curses. It seemed he needed to acquire all four curses first to get a hint about Compellonia.
'Next is the curse of fool's paradise, Delusion.'
Unlike the other two curses he managed to learn by himself, this one was quite difficult.
When he was contemplating whether to seek help from Bahil…
"Simon~"
As Simon turned his head, he smelled the sweet scent of shampoo.
Camibarez, who had been crouching, peeked her head over the desk and faintly smiled.
"Let's head to our next class!"
"Oh."
Time had flown by as he studied frantically. Simon gathered his things and asked,
"What's the class for this afternoon again?'
Camibarez answered with a bright smile.
"Professor Walter's Hemomancy class!"
"…Aha."
After triumphing in the Pentamonium, and then creating a lich that used mummies and supernatural abilities, if there was one thing that still bothered Simon despite his recent successes…
It was the investigation of Walter.
Simon had conducted several investigations with Rick's and Kajann's cooperation, but none of them got the desired results.
First, the investigation into the ingredients of the hematopoietic injection, which Simon commissioned Rick, returned results from Pentamonium scholars that stated, 'No potential threats to human body were found' and 'While the effectiveness may diminish over time, there are no safety concerns.'
Simon had requested the investigation because he was suspicious of the 'hematopoietic injections' Walter had been giving students recently, but his investigations instead verified the safety of the injections.
And then the 'handwriting analysis' request, which Simon thought was the most crucial piece of evidence.
Walter's signature, found in his lab, and the signature of 'Bishop Judas of Heavenly Blood' found on the Holy Federation train.
If he could prove that the same person made these two signatures, Simon could immediately contact Nefthis to arrest Walter.
However…
[I hereby guarantee that these two signatures are made by completely different people.]
The guarantee came from the most reputable handwriting expert in Langerstine. Again, it only provided evidence that Walter and Judas were different people.
Finally, the investigation Simon requested from Kajann. The investigation of 'Count Caron', who had ties with Walter, ended inconclusively when Count Caron went missing due to a ship accident.
Kajann and the Thieves' Guild considered the possibility that the accident might have been deliberate, but it happened on a day with high waves and a storm, so the theory was less plausible.
'Ugh.'
No evidence.
The hematopoietic injection was safe.
Most importantly, there was even evidence that Walter and Bishop Judas weren't the same person.
At this point, even Simon was confused. He even began to wonder if he had been mistaken all along in suspecting Professor Walter.
After all, Simon didn't have any conclusive evidence, and most of his suspicions were based on his 'gut feeling'.
Nevertheless, Simon couldn't shake the thought that Walter was suspicious, so he refused to take the hematopoietic injections.
"If that's your intention, then there's nothing I can do. I cannot force you."
Despite Simon refusing the injection, Walter smiled and respected Simon's choice instead. He even showed various considerations for Simon, as he didn't take injections.
Since there was no evidence, there was nothing more to be done. Simon decided to focus more on his studies and training for the time being.
Otherwise, he'd just be baselessly suspecting someone.
"Today's class is canceled due to Professor Walter's health issues."
Said the chief assistant teacher as Simon entered the lecture room for the hemomancy class.
Celebratory cheers erupted from a group of boys, but some of the girls gave them disapproving looks.
"It looks like the immaturity has become contagious."
Said Meilyn as she hit Rick on the head with a textbook while he was whistling.
"Why hit me if you're happy as well?!"
"Still mind your manners, dumbass!"
Camibarez clasped her hands with a worried face.
"I'm a bit worried, since Professor Walter has been coughing a lot lately."
"He'll recover soon."
Reassured Meilyn
Simon nodded and also gathered his stuff, when…
"Ah! Right. Did you guys know?"
Rick suddenly popped out and threw his arm around Simon's neck.
"Tomorrow is the Shamime Festival."
"Yeah, I know."
Simon nodded.
"It'd be impossible not to know about it."
Sighed Meilyn.
Shamime was the largest festival and one of the public holidays of the Dark Territory. It was a day to honor the spirits of the deceased.
"We even received the dress code last week!"
Added Camibarez.
"Yeah, the dress code is bugging me a little. They're adding more to think about in the middle of the exam period. I'll probably just wear something I already have."
Despite saying this, Meilyn was quite excited about wearing an expensive dress she had ordered three weeks before the Shamime Festival.
"But you know."
Rick smirked.
"I heard that they're announcing the next Duel Evaluation at the Shamime event."
"Oh, the Duel Evaluation? I guess it's about time."
Said Meilyn indifferently.
"You just need to win one easy duel and move on. It's a good event to test your skills before the advancement exams."
'Finally!'
On the other hand, the corners of Simon's lips were curling up to the point of almost reaching the sky.
Herseva's debut battle! A Duel Evaluation in the upper squad was more than enough.
"No, no. This isn't an ordinary Duel Evaluation! This time, we might be able to choose who we fight!"
"Is that true?"
The four of them flinched and turned around.
A hill of a man suddenly appeared behind them, and its eyes burned red.
"It better be."
Hector was glaring directly at Simon.
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