Magic Academy’s Genius Blinker

Chapter 33

The Necromancer’s Attack (4)

“…Where did you get that from?”

Click-click-click!

The Skeleton General in my hand rattled its spine and clacked its teeth loudly. It couldn’t resist as it had no limbs left.

“I’m quite good at making bone broth.”

“…Anyway, that’s impressive.”

I didn’t want to say that I had just sat and waited at the summoning spot, so I gave a vague answer, and they didn’t pry further.

“Let’s get out of here quickly. If the necromancer starts controlling the skeletons directly, ignoring the general, things will get troublesome again.”

The boys and girls, each carrying the injured, followed me.

“Hey, freshman. Your name… was it Baek Yu-seol? Do you have a plan?”

“I do.”

If it were Ma Yuseong, he would have already been slaughtering skeletons and taken down the necromancer, but I can’t do that.

My approach is more… more efficient, strategic, and ‘a method that players have used in the game.’

“As I was coming, I observed that the necromancer has already taken control near the base camp. Escaping this encirclement is practically impossible.”

“Damn.”

“There’s only one way left.”

“And that is…?”

“We have to take down the main body.”

“What, what did you say?”

“Wait, are you out of your mind?!”

Everyone was shocked by my suggestion. Even handling skeletons was tough, so how could we possibly face the main body?

“Didn’t you learn this in school? Necromancers handle the most powerful ability, necromancy, but their main body is relatively weak.”

That changes if the necromancer is highly skilled, but the enemy we’re facing is at most a 5-class.

If we all combine our powers, we stand a chance. Ma Yuseong also had instances where he single-handedly took down a necromancer as a 4-class.

“What you say is true, but… the necromancer would have likely placed a guard around their main body, right?”

“Sure.”

In fact, I know exactly how many guards there are.

One Skeleton General, six Elite Skeletons, and fifty regular skeleton soldiers.

The numbers will keep increasing over time. The opportunity is now. Before the necromancer has fully expanded their forces, this is the weakest time.

But, I pretended not to know that and said,

“The necromancer’s control area is already quite extensive. To cover that, the necromancer can’t invest many forces in guarding themselves.”

“…You have a point, but that doesn’t guarantee we can win, does it?”

We can win.

Since I’ve secured one of the only three ‘Skeleton Generals’ in this event, if we all join forces without any unexpected variables, we will win without a doubt.

But convincing them of that was the problem. Regardless of my certainty, they would be stepping into an uncertain battlefield.

“That is…”

“It’s possible.”

The answer came not from me, but from Flame. Supporting Hae Wonryang, she spoke with difficulty.

“Even if he seems a bit odd, he has more experience in combat and strategy than we do. He might even have more experience than the seniors.”

“Can a freshman really have that much experience?”

Of course not.

What kind of nonsense is she talking about?

What does she mean by saying I’m skilled in combat? Given the situation, it seems like she’s lying, but who would believe it?

Surprisingly, Hong Bi-yeon agreed at this point.

“…I see. I thought it might be possible. I’m in favor. Honestly, I don’t think we can break through this wide encirclement. The plan to strike at the heart… the necromancer wouldn’t expect it. It seems like a good idea.”

With Flame and Hong Bi-yeon, who had significant influence, agreeing, the rest followed suit.

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“Phew… I’m not sure what makes you confident, but since we have no other way out, I’ll cooperate.”

“Haha, I was always in favor of fighting.”

Thwack!

“Shut up, you.”

Bandiyun, while scolding Dokcheolgwang, calmly organized the situation.

“Brief the plan quickly. Even if that Skeleton General in your hand temporarily seizes control over nearby skeletons, it won’t be long before the necromancer notices and starts searching.”

“Of course.”

I made eye contact with each person gathered here.

It was burdensome to ask them to trust me and join the battlefield, but I learned a painful truth from my experience at the Frozen Cliff.

If the enemy seeks to kill me, I must be prepared to kill them. No matter how fearful or strong the opponent is, you can’t survive otherwise.

* * *

Sabaekh. He was a 5-class necromancer from the Dark Tower and a member of the Dark Mage Union.

Most necromancers couldn’t live within the magical society, so becoming a Dark Mage was inevitable. However, even within the Dark Mage Union, necromancers were not well-regarded.

Due to their nature, necromancers couldn’t showcase their power without raising the dead to build a force. In modern times, where all bodies were cleansed, they couldn’t show significant power.

Sabaekh had lived his whole life in contempt, never owning a few skeletons as a necromancer.

‘I’m tired of this.’

He couldn’t live like this forever.

To avoid being ignored, he needed power.

‘Force Vessel.’

For seven long years, he gathered mana. His precious Force Vessel. Although he could only summon 700 skeletons due to insufficient control, he could summon over a thousand if he expanded his range.

‘Moreover, encountering Stella’s chicks was a stroke of luck.’

Creating high-potential mage skeletons was extremely difficult. These students from Stella were all handsome and beautiful, and reviving them while maintaining their appearance would be a prized collection for a corpse collector.

‘Capture them first! It doesn’t matter if they die!’

Unless he could summon the legendary knight, ‘Death Knight,’ known for wielding swords, his limit was controlling Skeleton Generals.

Even then, he could only summon three so far. Of course, 700 skeletons could be managed by three Generals.

But…

‘What? The connection got cut off.’

Thanks to the necromancer’s ability to share the skeletons’ vision, he could see Stella’s students being overwhelmed in real-time.

But the view was suddenly cut off. He couldn’t locate them, hear them, or monitor the situation anymore.

…As if the ‘antenna’ was stolen.

‘No way!’

He had focused on expanding his territory, so he hadn’t controlled the skeletons directly. If someone seized a ‘General,’ things changed.

Stopping the expansion momentarily and sending out his senses, he regained the skeleton’s sight.

‘Where are you! Where are you!’

He had to check the vision of each of the 700 skeletons without going through a General. It was tedious and time-consuming.

‘Damn it…’

After some time, he found traces of the Stella students. They seemed to have rested before moving, as there were signs of them staying in one spot for a while.

‘Not good.’

Stella’s people were all monsters. They needed to be pushed without rest, but he gave them time.

‘This time, I’ll send all the elite skeletons.’

Though the skeleton squad facing the mercenaries would be temporarily weakened, capturing Stella students was more important than expanding territory.

‘Found you, you brats!’

Following the traces, he finally spotted a Stella student heading somewhere.

A cute girl with black hair, a tall girl, and a cold-looking boy.

‘But… why are there only three?’

Where are the rest?

As he pondered, Sabaekh’s senses rang alarms, and magic activated automatically.

Crunch! Thud!!

A sharp icicle spike flew from somewhere, aiming between Sabaekh’s eyes but was blocked by a swiftly formed bone shield.

“Damn it!”

Even though the bone shield was 4-class magic, it was severely cracked. The caster’s location couldn’t be detected from such a distance, but the power was immense!

Turning the skeleton’s vision toward the direction, he saw a girl with fluttering light blue hair running away.

“You brat! You won’t escape!”

After unsummoning a few skeletons, he summoned more to the girl’s location. With a limit of 700 skeletons, it was inevitable.

Seeing the light blue-haired girl hesitate before the skeletons, he prepared to send more elite skeletons.

Flamethrower!!

A giant fireball fell from the sky.

‘This is…!’

A destructive force beyond 3-class. The result of the Adolevit royal family’s flame magic combined with Hong Bi-yeon’s ocean of mana startled Sabaekh, but he quickly raised the bone shield high.

Boom!! Boom!!

“Damn it…!”

A tremendous shockwave hit the area.

‘Damn it, targeting this moment!’

No time to expand the territory now. With minimal forces left here, defending would be tough if invaded.

‘I planned to establish at least five points before setting up a defense…!’
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Judging that the students would still be in chaos, he had left the defenses lax.
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Moreover, the guarding forces sent to deal with the students were being pushed back. At this rate, he would die before expanding the territory.

‘This is bad. This is bad!’

Biting his lip and contemplating, Sabaekh found no other way.

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Crack! Biting his fingers to scatter blood on the ground, he gritted his teeth and slammed his staff onto the ground.

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‘Come to me, soldiers!’

Then, six elite skeletons appeared before him.

“Ugh… cough!”

The forceful summoning hurt him internally. Gasping in pain as his insides twisted and coughing up blood, Sabaekh commanded with difficulty.

“Stop them…!”

Two elite skeletons headed straight for Dokcheolgwang, who was fighting a General.

“Damn…!”

“Hey! Fall back for a moment! More elites are here!”

Originally, Dokcheolgwang and Bandiyun’s role was to hold off one General, but with two more elites, they had to retreat.

‘Good. Keeping the General alive is risky.’

Sabaekh quickly assessed the battlefield.

Flames and lightning still flew everywhere, but none strong enough to penetrate the bone shield reached him.

With additional elite skeletons guarding, the casting of Stella students was effectively disrupted.

‘Five there, one here, three there… Two on the opposite side. Good. I can relax now.’

Though he sent all his guards to deal with each of them, leaving himself vulnerable, there was no more significant threat left.

‘I’ll use this time to expand the territory quickly!’

A bit more expansion would drastically enhance the skeletons’ abilities. Then he could take over the area and capture the students’ bodies without any problem.

The skeleton squad fighting the mercenaries had been wiped out. But with time, he could recover them without issue.

‘Just a bit more, just a bit…!’

Gathering all his mana to enhance the Force Vessel, focusing all his strength.

Thud!

Like a twig falling, someone lightly landed in front of him.

Sabaekh stepped back in shock.

“…Who are you! Where did you come from!”

This can’t be.

He had accounted for all Stella students’ positions. A total of twelve. Their locations were clear through the shared skeleton vision.

But there was one more.
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A boy with jet-black hair and eyes stood there, relaxed, or perhaps leisurely, tapping something on his shoulder.

It was the skull of one of the three General-level skeletons he summoned with all his might.

“You… you brat…!”

So, that’s why his neural network faltered. This boy was the culprit.

After dropping the useless General’s skull to the ground, the boy swung a colorless glowing sword and shattered it.
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“Ugh!”

When the General was reverse-summoned, Sabaekh suffered internal damage. He could usually recover quickly, but the current situation wasn’t good.

Baek Yu-seol leisurely scanned the surroundings. As he anticipated, the guards protecting Sabaekh were distracted by the Stella students.

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Now, the only one left here was the necromancer himself.

‘Why is he so confident…?’

Sabaekh, stepping back, swallowed nervously. While it was true that necromancers’ main bodies were weak, he was still a 5-class mage.

For him to stand so confidently before a 5-class mage meant he was sure of his strength.

‘Even if he’s a chick, Stella is still Stella…!’

While Sabaekh was thinking that, raising his tension to the maximum.

Baek Yu-seol was sweating profusely.

‘Wait, this wasn’t my plan…?’

Looking around.

According to the original plan, Dokcheolgwang and Bandiyun were supposed to swiftly deal with the General and assist him.

But Sabaekh, coughing up blood, summoned more elites, leaving them occupied with the General.

Meaning, he was alone.

‘Do I have to fight alone?’

Among the thirteen Stella Academy students here, Baek Yu-seol would confidently raise his hand if asked who the weakest was. Now, the weakest one had to face the strongest boss alone.

This didn’t seem right, and he considered retreating when…

Sabaekh suddenly coughed up blood.

“Cough… cough!”
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Only then did Baek Yu-seol notice Sabaekh’s condition. Having forcibly summoned six elites, his insides were a mess.
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“I’ll kill you all….”

Though Sabaekh spoke with a terrifying look, his eyes had no strength.

‘…This might be doable?’

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