Necromancer School’s Summoning Genius Chapter 568
“….”
The guards guarding the 90th floor looked down with tense faces.
The feathered monster that spewed out a terrible scream hadn’t risen since being shot down once.
A guard who was watching opened his mouth.
“I’ll send a chase party.”
“no.”
The senior necromancer in charge shook his head.
“Our job is to protect the 90th floor. Don’t think about anything else.”
“yes!”
The eyes of the senior necromancer looking down sharpened.
‘For sure.’
It was a fleeting moment but when the feather monster was shot down I could see it spit out something as if its cells were dividing.
What did you bring out? It was not the time to let your guard down as neither their purpose nor their methods were known.
coo-!
After a while his predictions came true.
Wow!
Aaaaaang!
The sound of metal colliding from below exploded one after another. The impact was so strong that the walls of the tower trembled.
The guards on the 90th floor were very nervous.
“Is it an anomaly?”
“I think it’s coming from downstairs.”
The binge was getting louder and closer. As the guards agitated the senior necromancer turned to them.
“Calm down. Everyone hold their positions and use black magic…!”
He quickly stopped talking and shook his head. With a roar that split the air something flew to the 90th floor and crashed into the wall.
There was a huge scratch in the wall and I could see a man sitting down under it gasping for breath. He was wearing a robe and his face was covered by a mask.
But the guards had no time to pay attention to him.
“Damage dear!”
On the 90th floor huge pillars and pipes were flying out of nowhere.
Whoops!
Wow!
The flying pillars shattered the footsteps on which the guards on the 90th floor stood and lodged themselves in the ceiling or walls. The guards who had lost their step under their feet screamed and fell.
“Hey it’s Girdon!”
Girdon was flying through the sky. Several guards raised their wands and blew black magic but Girdon was absorbing magic with his bare body as if absorbing it.
In the end the worst possible situation.
thud!
Girdon stepped onto the 90th floor.
[Where is he?]
he turned his head around. The guards in the fallen ivory tower sniffed not paying attention then strode into the 90th floor.
< Sacrifice >
Shukwang!
A black curse flew from the tip of the senior necromancer’s wand with a flash of light.
Girdon responded as if he couldn’t ignore that attack. The back of his head turned into a donut with a hollow in the middle sending the curse away.
[Unexpectedly.]
Girdon whose head had returned to normal looked back.
[Was there anyone in the Ivory Tower who used this level of curse?]
The senior necromancer who fired the curse smiled faintly. He was the one who shot down Achemus.
“It is prejudice to think that the Ivory Tower is weak against curses.”
Life bloomed in Girdon’s eyes.
[Do not disturb! Keygen must be wiped clean from this world!]
“If it’s Simon Pollentia our guards are already attacking us downstairs. I think I misunderstood something.”
Jet black shimmered at the tip of the senior necromancer’s staff. A metal scraping sound erupted from Girdon’s mouth.
[Like a stupid ivory tower dog! That guy from earlier is Keygen!]
“Even if the person who ran away is really Simon Pollentia at least one student doesn’t matter. The one who should never be sent to the top floor is-“
Remembrance!
His staff pointed at Girdon’s head.
“That’s you. Girdon the sin of space.”
[Do not disturb!]
The two strong men began pouring black magic no matter who said it first.
* * *
Whoops!
Kwaaang!
From the entrance on the 90th floor the noise of an extended battle could be heard. Simon was running forward anyway.
[Khehehe! It worked out as planned! Girdon and the ivory tower are fighting among themselves!]
‘Yes I will.’
The hint given by the ghost of time was the main one. He indicated the location of Girdon with a rabbit mask sign on the 88th floor.
Since Girdon who deals with spatial black magic can affect the time and space of the tower he must have been a person who should never be sent from the guards’ point of view.
Anyway while the guards and Girdon were fighting to the point of blood Simon was following the rabbit mask mark left by the ghost of time.
‘Is this here?’
A rabbit mask hung in a room on the 90th floor. When Simon immediately opened the door and went inside he saw a space that looked just like an ordinary office.
there was nothing.
When I looked around the whole area there was a wall protruding from one side of the wall of the room. A rabbit mask hung on the very wall.
Simon is calmly running his palm across the wall.
-There is an intruder on the 90th floor!
– Find it! find it somehow!
A raucous cry was heard outside the door.
‘I can’t just leave it alone.’
It seemed that the guards on the 90th floor who were fighting Girdon had requested support from other floors.
I had to hurry before I was caught.
While Simon was desperately touching the wall there was a section where something like rough glass was touched instead of the wall.
It was a barrier.
Sreung!
Simon immediately grabbed the Greatsword of Destruction and tore the barrier revealing a magic circle on one side of the wall. Originally it was sealed but as if the ghost of time released it in advance the seals on the magic circle had been removed.
‘This is it.’
Simon just put his palm on it.
Kurrrrr!
The bricks on the wall went into the soongsoong and soon a small space was created.
‘ah.’
It was a hidden fireplace.
Simon bent down to look inside the fireplace and there was a hole left through which he could go up.
‘A secret passage that only the ghosts of time know!’
Simon immediately raised his legs in pitch darkness and began to climb the fireplace. He was wearing Pier’s bone armor so he didn’t have any trouble climbing walls.
The fireplace exit closed on its own. Soon the surroundings were covered with thick darkness.
rattle!
rumble!
Almost at the same time there was the sound of a door opening and the sound of noisy footsteps. The soldiers of the ivory tower came in.
Simon stopped moving for a moment and waited without breathing.
“Looks like none!”
“Go somewhere else!”
I heard footsteps rushing outside again. Simon sighed in relief and moved again.
‘If I go through this aisle how high can I go up?’
Even if only 5 floors could be skipped the remaining 5 floors were worth trying with only Simon’s strength. Since the situation was over he intended to properly use the power of the corps commander.
So when Simon reached the top of the fireplace the end was blocked.
‘hmm.’
Simon tapped the ceiling with the back of his hand. Then he spread his legs wide to the left and right planted his body on the wall and then put his arms on the ceiling and gave proper strength.
so-so-
The ceiling was heard with the sound of stones interlocking. Once I gave it strength the ceiling went up on its own without Simon having to use his hands anymore.
Light leaked out of the darkness.
‘thank god.’
Simon came out dusty.
and.
‘…!’
I prayed.
A large clock placed in the center. It was frozen solid with ice.
‘I can’t believe this.’
sure
The cause of all this and the famous dungeon master who risked his life to seal it 300 years ago. It was a ‘frozen clock’.
‘That means.’
This was the ‘100th floor’.
Simon stood up feeling goose bumps on his arm.
The hole in the fireplace he had just escaped from was closed and returned to the smooth floor. There was no trace of the hole to be found.
‘It’s cold.’
Simon stroked my arm. The breath also comes out hazy.
It seemed to be the cold air flowing from the frozen watch. There was frost all over the place like a freezer.
Simon looked around for a moment before opening his mouth.
“I made it to the top floor as promised! Where are you?”
Simon summoned the ghost of time but the surroundings were silent.
Even after telling me the secret passage to the 100th floor he didn’t show up.
After calling the ghost of time several times Simon finally gave up and looked at the frozen clock again.
‘What am I supposed to do with this?’
It arrived two days earlier than originally planned. There was still more of Meirin and Serene’s past to see and I didn’t even know about the ‘Secret of the Ivory Tower’.
‘Should I judge based on what I’ve seen so far?’
Sreung!
First of all I raised the Greatsword of Destruction.
There was no information about this ‘frozen clock’ in Meirin and Serene’s past. First of all it seemed dangerous to touch it with bare hands so I carefully touched the ice with the tip of the sword.
‘It’s hard…!’
Even the Greatsword of Destruction did not cut it. Even when I moved it up and down like sawing it didn’t even get scratched.
This is an indestructible ore.
However it doesn’t seem like it will melt even if you use heat. Simon stood still like a scholar contemplating a complex riddle.
“Oh the main character has finally appeared.”
Again – Again –
Here on the 100th floor the sound of footsteps was heard along with a chuckle of people. Simon looked ahead in amazement.
Someone was approaching from a place where the darkness fell in the distance. Simon was instantly recognizable just by his unique silhouette.
A girl with ivory hair waving white feathers fluttering and a majestic queenly gait.
“…Serne.”
“Hehe. It’s been a while.”
She smiled grabbed the skirt and greeted her gracefully. Simon opened his mouth without letting his guard down.
“It must still be in the middle of dispatch evaluation. Why are you here?”
“Simondo Cha-am~ Refreshingly.”
she winked.
“Have I deviated once or twice? I left my mission alone during the last mission evaluation and went to Tarados to see Simon. Think of it as the same case.”
“….”
Simon let out a short sigh and opened his mouth.
“I’ll ask without looking around. Are you and the owner of the ivory tower a team?”
“yes.”
The answer which seemed so natural made Simon’s heart sink.
“Then it’s your turn to ask the question.”
Her thin white fingers pointed to Simon’s chest.
“Are Simon and Keyzen Headquarters a team?”
“….”
When Simon bit his lip and didn’t respond she flicked her tongue.
“For example a spy who steals information about the tower without our knowledge.”
she knew everything
Even so what you ask is a kind of identification of friends and family. we are enemies It’s no different than what Serene said.
Simon had no intention of hiding it any longer.
“Kizen Headquarters believes that the Ivory Tower is plotting something suspicious.”
“yes that’s right.”
Admitting it so meekly made Simon rather lose his temper. Serene raised his hand.
“Simon are you curious about our plans?”
When I opened my clenched hands I saw several crumpled white feathers. As she sighed and blew her feathers flew away and she drew pictures in the air.
“Simon also knows because he took the ‘Tourist Train’ on the first day right? Originally the Ivory Tower moved all over the continent for 2000 years.”
The shape created by the feathers was a painting.
An ivory tower in the jungle.
An ivory tower in the middle of the island.
The ivory tower in the desert etc. were all paintings Simon had seen on the tourist train.
“This tower which served as the headquarters of the Ivory Tower forces for over a thousand years actually had a ‘relocation function’. Thanks to this the Ivory Tower moved from one location to another once every 30 years.”
“….”
“However after moving to the edge of the Dark Alliance in order to secure abundant magic stone materials in the Ivory Tower the ‘dungeon gate’ incident broke out.”
When she lowered her hand the paintings that had been floating in the air also disappeared.
“The situation was settled but the previous magic inside the tower as well as the many spells it had recorded were lost and ruined. The Ivory Tower could never abandon its ‘home’. Eventually a new tower was built nearby and the natives originally lived in the area. They took them in gave them skills and let them build buildings.”
“That’s what became the ivory tower wide area.”
“that’s right.”
She walked slowly and reached for the ‘frozen clock’. Simon flinched and shouted.
“Wait Serene! Touching it carelessly will cause frostbite…!”
She smiled and touched the frozen watch with her bare hand. Even though it must be extremely cold she casually stroked her ice.
“As expected Simon is kind.”
She let out a foxy eye smile.
“You don’t like that constant?”
“….”
Simon bit his lip. She removed her hand from the frozen watch and turned her back with her arms clasped behind her back.
“Back to the present. The Ivory Tower has finally restored the previous function of the Tower of Time.”
“…what?”
“And the Ivory Tower had grand plans. It was the most important plan of the Tower even before Mei Lin and I were born.”
Our true ‘home’.
Go back to the Tower of Time.
After the Gate Incident the age of Necromancers and Priests opened and the continent was divided into two.
Like that the Ivory Tower was left to watch Kizen’s backside while being trapped in the Dark Alliance.
However if the ivory tower can move the tower again the story is different.
“We’re going to neutral ground Simon.”
The ivory tower forces have been steadily working for the past hundreds of years to gain interests in the neutral zone. I finished talking to the titans of the Neutral Zone and even to the Holy Federation.
The three-division system of the continent that Cerne wanted so much. The Ivory Tower will now move into the Neutral Zone and take control of it.
Currently the Neutral Zone has been transformed into a battleground between the Dark Union and the Holy Commonwealth. The anger and fatigue felt by the residents of the Neutral Zone was great.
Therefore the Ivory Tower will develop the Neutral Zone beyond the current Ivory Tower Metropolitan City with enormous funds and technology and will establish a new kingdom in the center of the continent with the support of the people.
The birth of a new power located between the Holy Federation and the Dark Union.
The fact that the current neutral zone is ‘neutral’ was a choice they had to make because they were weak but it’s a different story for a powerful force like the Ivory Tower to claim neutrality.
“Two great powers and one neutral country. What will happen then? The faction that the Ivory Tower favors wins! We hold the spotlight and become the kingmakers. The Holy Commonwealth has already reached out to us to win the competition. I’m pushing.”
Simon’s pupils shook after hearing the shocking story.
“Do you think that’s now… a realistic story?”
“The ivory tower is serious. I’ve been working on neutral ground for over 300 years. But me and my father and the few radicals in power have a slightly different idea.”
“what?”
“Even if you succeed before the Neutral Zone it’s the same as having to bend over to Keygen right? As Simon said it’s an overly optimistic plan. I don’t like that. In fact the radicals’ real purpose is to divide the continent.”
She raised the corner of her mouth.
“We’re moving the Tower of Time to the middle of Roch Island.”
