Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner

regular at our store if you’re going to come to buy weapons for 3 years.
Even better if you introduce our store to your friends.”

“But still, 1 gold is too—”

“Bows don’t even sell well in Kizen anyway.
Don’t be too pressured to take them.
You know how it is, right?”

“Yeah.
I know, but……”

It would be rude not to receive it if he went this far.
Simon bowed his head in gratitude.

“Please come again!”

 

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Simon headed to the next place in a cheery mood as he finished his thrifty shopping.

He also purchased some materials needed for other classes, like Poisonous Alchemy, and placed them in the subspace.

‘Pier, I’ll be on my way now.’

[Got it!]

Then, he headed to the ruins to train with Pier.

He was a little afraid to go back to the Forbidden Forest, but Pier was kind enough to pick him up in the forest.
As Simon rode on Pier’s back, they reached the ruins in minutes.

Click!

Clack!

“Were you doing well?”

As Simon entered, the conscripted skeletons approached him like puppies greeting their owner.
Simon smiled and patted their heads.

“Pier, here.
Skeletons for conscription.”

Simon took out the broken skeletons from the subspace.

Pier clicked his tongue.

[There are a lot of injured ones, huh?]

“A lot shattered from the last simulation battle, you see.”

As Pier put his hands on the skulls of the broken skeletons, dark blue flames burned like torches in their eye sockets.
Now, the Legion had eight skeletons.

[Now it feels a lot more boisterous!]

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“Nice.”

After the conscription of the damaged skeletons was finished, the two sat down facing each other. 

[As I said before, training this time will be pretty tough! Are you ready for it?]

“Yes, of course!”

There was not much time left until the Cyclops performance assessment.
Simon was planning on maximizing his skeleton-operating abilities.

First, Simon assembled the skeletons he had bought from the Necromancer shop.

Soon enough, six skeletons stood in front of Simon with their weapons, and six conscripted skeletons stood on the other side.

Simon’s summoned type and Pier’s natural type each formed a team.
The skeletons also started a war of nerves with each other, making a rattling sound as though they were aware of it.

[You said that the number of skeletons you can control simultaneously is two, right?]

“Yes.”

If he tried to control more than three units simultaneously, the thoughts in his head got entangled, and the command system fell into disarray.

Most of all, he couldn’t bear it as his mental strength rapidly went down, and a bad headache occurred.

[Hehehe, there’s no need to rush things! What matters isn’t how many units you can control simultaneously, but how well you can handle them, even if it’s just one or two!]

“Understood.”

[I’ll also control up to two units at the same time! Come at me, Boy!]

“Yes!”

Simon stretched out his right arm.

‘Charge!’

Two skeletons with swords jumped off the floor.
Pier also made his two sword-wielding skeletons charge in.

Clang!

Kang!

A continuous clash.
The harsh sound of iron hitting iron resounded as the swords collided.

As Simon was contemplating on what move to make next, Pier’s two skeletons with spears thrust their weapons from behind.

‘……Ugh, step back!’

Simon’s skeletons withdrew by a whisker.
Then, Pier’s skeletons with swords in front pushed back the skeletons who lost their balance.

Clang! Clash!

Simon’s skeletons took the sword strikes in a precarious position with their backs bent.

Then, as if they were waiting, the skeletons with spears returned and hit the legs with their spears, and Simon’s skeletons fell to the floor, suppressed.

‘……I lost.’

Swallowing his frustration, Simon lowered his arms and turned his head.

“You’re cheating, Pier! You said you’ll only use two units at once!”

There’s no way he could win since it was 4:2.
Pier chuckled at Simon’s complaint.

[What are you saying! I also controlled only two units, just like you!]

“Huh? What do you m— Ah!”

He did, actually.

Pier first moved the skeletons with the swords, then the skeletons with the spears.

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He then returned to the skeletons with the swords again, crossed to the spears, and repeated the movement.

[Well, it’s not much of a big deal.
It’s called cross-operation! It’s to expand the scope of limited control by quickly moving the control of the skeletons.]

“……Ah.”

[If you can’t connect to multiple skeletons simultaneously, the key is to operate two at a time and make all the skeletons move! Did you understand that?]

Step step.

No sooner said than done, two skeletons with spears came forward among Simon’s skeletons.

‘Concentrate.’

He made the skeletons with swords spread their palms.
Then, he went to the skeletons with the spears and high-fived the spread palms.

“Like this, right?”

[……]

The corners of Pier’s lips, who had stood still for a moment, rose up.

[Bwehehehe! You’re certainly fun to teach!]

“What?”

[It’s nothing.
Let’s move on to the real deal if you got the hang of it!”

“Ah, yes! Please come!”

 

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On the first day of the weekend, Simon practiced undead control and cross-operation with Pier.
As his skills had improved, Simon could now control up to 3 units.

The next afternoon, he returned to Kizen.
He kept in tune alongside Meilyn, Camibarez, and Rick to practice for the actual fight.

 

Simon would try to buy some time with the undeads and the battle would start after striking the Cyclops with four Exhausts and one Dark Flare at the same time.

They’d gradually weaken the Cyclops, and the battle will end in victory after giving it two additional Dark Flares.

In order to reduce mistakes, they’d only practiced the same pattern repeatedly.

It wasn’t an Avalon simulation, and it was nothing but an imaginary battle fought in empty air, but that alone was exhausting.
Everyone was sitting on the floor, chugging down some freshwater.

“Simon! That tutor you had in Rochest on the weekend… Who was it?”

Simon felt a sting at Camibarez’s question.

“I-It’s just someone I met through my father’s help.
Why?”

“I think Simon’s undead control has improved by a lot!”

“Yeah.
That’s actually true.”

Rick, who was lying on his back in the vacant lot, sat up.

“Now he’s using three skeletons at the same time.
Is it even possible to improve your skill in such a short time?”

Meilyn also pushed her head in as if she was interested.

“What kind of person are they? A professional Necromancer? From Kizen?”

All of a sudden, the eyes of the three people were focused at once.
Simon smiled awkwardly.

‘……What kind of excuse should I make?’