Necromancer Academy’s Genius Summoner

Chapter 339

"Woah~ Woah~ How scary."

Narrowly dodging Meilyn's attack, Millena clicked her tongue.

A section of the battlements had been frozen solid. She shook the frost off her arms and looked at Meilyn.

"Nice to meet you."

It was good manners to be courteous in front of a strong person. Millena lightly held the end of her uniform skirt and curtsied.

"Millena Hatsuya from Class G."

"Meilyn Villenne, Class A."

Immediately, Meilyn formed a magic circle in her hand.

"Wait, Meilyn!"

"Be careful! She's— Woah!"

Rick was lifted up together with the ice rising from the floor. He slipped and fell, sliding down the sloping ice.

Before he knew it, the ice path had brought him quite far.

"You're in the way, so get lost, commoner."

"No! Listen to me f—! Woooaaaah…!"

Riding on the slide, Rick sledded away at a tremendous speed. Millena looked disappointed.

"What a shame, I was gonna finish him off secretly during the fight. But anyway…"

Millena's eyes, watching Rick sliding further and further away, turned back to face Meilyn.

"I suppose it's better to hunt down a named person like you rather than an unknown bastard like him."

"How funny."

Meilyn smiled coldly, and Millena smiled back even colder.

Swaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

There was no such thing as a starting signal for a battle between the necromancers. A glacial spear shot out from Meilyn's palm, and Millena easily dodged it as she started running to the side.

'Her physical strength is pretty good. Almost like a Combat Dark Magic aspirant.'

Meilyn immediately started dissecting her opponent's every move.

Rrrumble!

Rrrrrrrumble!

This time, it was Millena's turn.

When she waved her hands in the air, the bricks ripped up from the battlement and flew toward Meilyn.

"Petty tricks."

Meilyn swung her arms in disrespect.

Crrrrrrrush!

The mass was just too different. The glacial wave from her palm swallowed up the flying bricks and stormed toward Millena.

But again, Millena dodged it effortlessly, moving slightly to the side.

'So you're gonna keep dodging like that, huh?'

Quickly preparing a new move, Meilyn stepped on a magic circle she conjured on the floor.

'This works wonders for combat dark magic aspirants.'

{Ice Field}

A large area of icy space formed around her feet. Millena, who had been standing in place, wobbled.

"Wow, such slippery ice! That's amazing! Did you mix some curse formula into it?"

Meilyn raised her arms silently, and the ice around her rose into the air.

As she lowered her arms, countless shards of ice fell on Millena. She stumbled again while she quickly tried to dodge and ended up slipping, falling on her butt with a loud yelp.

"Kyaaah!"

And in that state, ice descended on top of her.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrumble!

Meilyn smiled in satisfaction as she watched the mountain of ice build up on Millena.

She had removed all room to dodge and finished it off using the very same ice keeping Millena from moving. A perfect victory.

"Woah."

Just as Meilyn turned and was about to walk away, her heart sank and she looked back.

"That's cool."

Seeing that Millena was still getting up, Meilyn dropped even more mountains of ice shards.

But not a single shard of ice fell on Millena, as if they had deliberately avoided falling on her.

Meilyn closed her mouth in disbelief.

'What? Did I mess up my control?'

Millena laughed grimly and stood up, then instantly raised jet-black in her feet and charged at Meilyn.

"Kugh!"

As expected, she was fast.

Flinching before Millena's spirit, Meilyn raised a wall of ice before her.

"Hooya!"

With an odd grunt, Millena jumped unbelievably high, going over the wall of ice and then some.

"Aren't you stupid?"

Meilyn stepped back and threw an ice spear at Millena while the target was still midair. But Millena, more concerned with keeping her Kizen-uniform skirt in check as she flew through the air, snickered.

"You're the one who's stupid."

The ice spear that was aimed accurately narrowly missed Millena by a hair's breadth.

Meilyn's eyes shook.

'Just what in the world is going on?!'

Tap.

After landing on the floor, Millena charged forward, her gaze unexpectedly sharp.

As she flung her left hand forward while running, a handful of ice she had just picked up transformed into shurikens before scattering in all directions.

"How dare you use my ice against me?!!"

"Hehe."

Millena was charging in from the front, and the ice shurikens that scattered through the air now spun, coming at Meilyn from every side.

There was no room to dodge, and creating a wall of ice in all directions would take too long.

"It's my victory~"

A curse spell swaying on Millena's right hand was aimed at Meilyn's face.

Rrrrrrrrumble!

But in that crucial moment, Meilyn vanished.

"Ah!"

Before Millena knew it, Meilyn had rocketed up on a pillar of ice that suddenly extended from the floor. Millena's right hand flailed toward nothing, and her shurikens slammed into the pillar.

Instead of dodging to the sides, she dodged upward.

Meilyn raised her leg in irritation, looking down at Millena from her high ground.

"Just…!"

She stomped on the pillar, and it began to collapse, sending sharp shards of broken ice down on Millena.

"Get hit already!!"

Thud!

Rumble!

Crash!

Of course, this time again…

"You know~ I've been in the upper squad all this time, but…"

Amid the hailstorm of ice, not a single piece hit Millena.

"I've never gone against an opponent as strong as you, Meilyn!"

Jumping off the pillar and landing on the floor, Meilyn glared while shakily catching her breath.

'Could she be any more obnoxious? I've never before faced a necromancer who mainly uses telekinesis!'

From Meilyn's perspective, things couldn't have been more annoying than this. Millena was simply deflecting every single projectile with telekinesis.

Of course, Millena wasn't at the level of hijacking and controlling Meilyn's spells, but just being able to twist the directions of the projectiles coming at her basically made her immune to ranged attacks.

Furthermore, not only was she a master at telekinesis—a skill from mechanics of jet-black—but she was also skilled in combat dark magic and curses.

How was it that a monster who could use three subjects as well as their aspirants wasn't an S.A. student?

"Alright, here I come!"

Sprint!

Millena dashed towards Meilyn, swinging her arms wildly. Again, Meilyn shot ice at her, hoping to slow her down even if the attacks were all going to end up missing.

But as the fight drew on, her jet-black reserves were dwindling.

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"Ughh, I'm gonna diiee."

Rick was staggering forward, gasping for breath. Soldiers were supporting him on either side.

"A-Are you alright? Squeak!"

"Yes, my body just feels so damn heavy."

They were heading to the scene of Meilyn and Millena's battle. The closer they got to the fierce scene of ice soaring in and shattering, the darker the soldiers' faces became.

"Squeak! Squeak! Don't you think it's dangerous to go any further when you're wounded?"

"There's information I need to relay right now."

Rick and Meilyn always argued about everything because they don't see eye to eye on things. They had opposite personalities and completely different fighting styles.

Rick relied on his unique information network and analytical abilities to dig deep and exploit his opponent's weaknesses.

Meilyn, on the other hand, was an extremely self-driven person. She only cared about her own skills.

Of course, if she had information about her opponent, she would use it. But she thought that, as long as she was strong enough, everything would be fine.

Analyzing her opponents was, to her, a way of improving her own skills.

However, Rick figured Meilyn wouldn't stand a chance if she thought that the skill that Millena was using was telekinesis.

'Against a telekinetic, Meilyn would never use her fire magic.'

Fire was much easier to disrupt with telekinesis than ice.

Its color and heat made it easy for a telekinetic to analyze and thus disrupt right away. Considering how using fire magic incorrectly could end up burning the caster, a small disruption could mean instant defeat.

Against a telekinetic, the most effective elements were wind, which was invisible, and earth, which was harder to deal with because it rose from the ground.

But Meilyn was still a beginner at both of these elements.

So, she'll keep firing ice, and when she runs out of jet-black, she'll lose.

But Rick knew the truth. Millena wasn't using telekinesis.

She didn't know a single thing about telekinesis! She scored poorly in Mechanics of Jet-Black, and the only subjects she was good at were Combat Dark Magic and Curses.

"I hope I'm not too la— Hm?"

As the battle heated up, the two girls were already off the battlements and were battling in the residential area between the outer and inner castles. They were flying across the roofs, exchanging fierce dark spells.

"Ah, this is bad."

Rick looked at the two of them in devastation as they reached the residential areas.

These damn three stacks of exhaust showed no sign of lifting. Perhaps the formula had been modified. He couldn't undo them with his lousy 'cancellation'.

This was why Rick didn't like cursers.

'What should I do?'

After nervously pondering on it for a moment, Rick's head shot up.

"Aha!"

"Adjutant! I want you to go to Simon— No, I want you to go to the supreme commander and deliver him my message right now! As fast as possible!"

"What shall I tell him? Squeak!"

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Ta-tap.

Meilyn gasped as she landed unevenly on the roof of an old shack.

On the other hand, Millena looked relaxed and was smiling as she landed next to her.

"You're reaching your limit, aren't you? I wonder how I should finish you…"

"You little…!!"

As Meilyn spread open her palm, icicles flew out in rapid succession.

"Too obvious."

Millena dodged the attack with a simple motion, deflecting only the ice that seemed like it might hit her.

However, since Millena was only human, she occasionally made mistakes in her control, and a small needle of ice grazed her.

Ironically, the only thing Meilyn—who relied on her own strength—could hope for now was her opponent making a mistake.

'This is so humiliating!'

Meilyn clenched her fists.

Combat dark magic and telekinesis! This match-up was too bad for her. If her opponent was a pure telekinetic, Meilyn was confident she could beat them using spells that were simply too massive to control.

"Well then, shall we wrap things up?"

Just when Millena was about to charge in, the roof bending under her feet…

Shiiiiiiiiiiiik!

Something could be heard whistling through the air.

"Woah!"

Sacrificing her balance, Millena quickly ducked to dodge it.

A black arrow colored with jet-black barely shot past her and slammed into a nearby wall.

As she stumbled back from suddenly having to duck down, Millena fell off the roof and had to roll to soften the landing.

"Ugh!! What's getting in the way now?"

Whined Millena, but Meilyn wasn't listening.

'An arrow?'

Meilyn's head turned. Simon, who was supposed to be guarding the gates, was standing in a picturesque pose with his bow drawn.

Although it was hard to see his face because he was too far away, she saw him returning to the battlements, commanding the skeleton mages.

'Simon's clothes!'

Tied to the arrow was a note and Simon's blazer, waving like a flag in the wind. Meilyn quickly unfolded the note and read it.

"…"

This was why he shot an arrow instead of using the communication channel.

Realizing Simon's intentions, she quickly maintained her poker face.

As soon as she folded up the note and tucked it away, a hole opened up in the roof, and Millena burst through.

"Enough with the interruptions! Let's get back to our business!"

As Millena charged in, Meilyn jumped off the roof and ran down a narrow alleyway.

Of course, Millena was faster, but Meilyn was aware of that and used that fact to lure Millena in closer.

The moment Millena formed a curse in the palm of her hand and was about to attach it to Meilyn's body…

{Dark Blaze}

Fwooooooooosh!

Dark flames erupted from Meilyn's hand for the first time this fight.

And…

"Aaaaaaagh!"

Millena got hit by such an obvious attack.

She rolled on the ground in pain as flames scorched her flesh.

Ironically, the telekinetic hadn't allowed Meilyn to land a single strike, yet now she was engulfed by a simple flame spell.

"That's odd."

Meilyn walked closer.

"Shouldn't you be able to reverse my spell the moment I shot flame on you to burn me instead if you're a telekinetic?"

"Th-That was a mistake."

Barely managing to extinguish the flame with the Extinguish curse, Millena forced a smile as she rose to her feet.

"A mistake that I won't repea—!"

{Dark Wisp}

A small ball of flame bounced out of Meilyn's hand.

Pow! Ka…boom!

"Kugh!"

Having just said she wouldn't make the same mistake, Millena was now dodging the fire attack frantically. She even took a few fireballs on her shoulder, falling to the ground.

"Don't you think it's ridiculous, too? Why can a telekinetic control ice but cannot turn around a flame?"

Meilyn wore a contented smile.

"…How dare you toy with me?!"

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