Episode 1032
Rochester Port.
Shoot!
A hot noon with the sun shining down.
A fishing boat anchored in the harbor, pushing against foamy waves. The employees working at the port relaxed, checked the list, and walked toward it.
Shake!
Soon the door of the fishing boat opened, and a dark-skinned middle-aged man who smelled
of salt appeared, scratching his stomach.
A port security inspector greeted me warmly and approached me.
“Welcome to Locke Island. What’s your name?”
“The captain of this ship. Alderty Wesley.”
“Alderty Wesley has been confirmed.”
Captain Alderty scratched his bald head and pointed behind him.
“This is my first time coming to Rock Island, and my pet oak suddenly burned black and died. “What happened?”
In the direction he pointed, a pile of pitch-black ashes, presumed to be a pet orc, was placed in a dustpan.
The inspector laughed bitterly.
“Well, I’m sorry. When passing through the waters of Locke Island, if an unreported, suspicious creature over a certain size is detected, the barrier may burn it. “Please tell me in advance.”
“According to our kingdom’s laws, we cannot raise monsters. Goodbye, Coco.”
When the sailor threw the ashes in the dustpan into the sea, fish flocked to eat them.
The inspector said with a smile.
“Then, can we start by checking the items loaded on the fishing boat?”
“Of course.”
The inspector boarded the ship, and the captain followed him and continued talking.
“I’ve spent 30 years of my life at sea but this is the first time I’ve ever had a customer want something like that. “It’s us who brought the nuisances that are constantly incinerated because
they said they would buy them for money.”
“I’ll check.”
It rattled.
A port inspector lifted the lid of a water tank installed on a fishing boat with both hands.
-Gurururururuk!
-Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The inside of the black tank suddenly became brighter with sunlight. The black, broad, bustling fish-like things saw the sunlight and started jumping to the surface of the water in excitement.
“Wow!”
The port inspector, startled, let go of the tank lid and fell backwards. As the lid closed, the black creatures that were trying to escape were caught in the middle. They twisted their bodies and screamed.
“Sseuup, go in!”
The captain kicked the strange creature with his foot in a familiar motion and sent it back to the water tank.
“Is there a problem!”
Hearing the commotion, other port employees rushed onto the ship. Soon, I frowned as I saw
the strange creature jumping around on the deck.
Only about five escaped, but what they did was amazing. It opened its mouth wide and scattered the small objects inside it onto the deck.
The deck looks like a complete mess. Small individuals were also running wild, fluttering about frantically and spraying slippery mucus.
“Isn’t this a herd gnat?”
“Who ordered this horrible thing, and what is it for?”
At the port inspector’s shout, the subordinate behind him flipped through the documents he
was holding, stopped at one page, and spoke.
“It says that the orderer is ‘Grerion,’ a professor in the Summoning Department. The purpose
is… … .”
The subordinate who looked through the documents let out an embarrassed laugh.
“… … “It’s for experiential learning for students.”
Everyone in the room had blank expressions.
The captain haha! I laughed.
“How can an ordinary person know what the high-ranking Kizen officials are doing! “There
must be some reason!”
* * *
After a while.
The vacant lot in front of the Summoning Hall building.
“Hahahahaha! “Take as much as you want!”
Grerion, a summoning professor with a muscular body, shouted loudly.
He spoke cheerfully, slamming his palm on the large water tank next to him.
“We support up to 10 animals per person! “These are harmful to human life, so use them sparingly!”
“yes!”
Students in the Summoning Department were having a hard time catching a group of fish in
front of a large fish tank installed in an empty lot. Everyone was running around with landing
nets in their hands or struggling on chairs.
“Gotcha… … ! Wow! “It got out!”
“Oh, I’m really dying because it’s so hard.”
Like a monster, the horde demon had a violent and rough personality. As soon as she was picked up with a landing net, she started struggling like crazy and would often run away back into the tank.
“Gotcha!”
Toto, who was sitting on top of two chairs, cheered. The moment when he lifted a broodfish
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with great difficulty using a landing net.
-Gururuk!
The broodfish opened its mouth and spit out a small object from its mouth.
They stuck to Toto’s face and started biting his cheek and spraying mucus. Toto screamed and fell off the chair.
“haha! “Everyone be careful!”
Grerion waved his arms.
“They are not fully grown adults yet, but monsters are monsters! They are vicious guys who
lure sailors on boats to the shore and kill them! As soon as I put it on the landing net, use a curse to subdue it!”
While the students were struggling with the swarm demons by swinging the landing nets, the
second year students in the summoning school building were watching their seniors’ classes with their faces out the window.
“We’ll be doing something like that in a year, right?”
“… … “What on earth is the 3rd year course?”
Did you see it? At the sound of someone shouting, the second graders who had been peeking
through the window turned their heads back.
There was chaos everywhere. Still, like a third-year student, I adapted quickly after experiencing trial and error once or twice. He secured the group demons with his own ideas and original black magic.
“I don’t understand. “Professor Grerion.”
Fitzgerald, who managed to catch one with a landing net, said while holding on to the broken frame of his glasses.
“Aren’t we going to corrupt them to pitch black anyway and turn them into undead? “Why don’t we just freeze them with ice magic as a group or neutralize them with poison and then take them away?”
“ha ha ha! “The problem with today’s generation is that they only look for comfort!”
Grerion laughed heartily.
“Ten years ago, your seniors wore diving suits and went into the deep sea to catch a group of
gnats! Even if it is a monster, it is typical of corrupt necromancers to perceive that experiment
materials can be obtained easily and simply! “It’s not good emotionally!”
As Fitzgerald was holding on to his glasses with an unconvinced expression, Grerion added:
“Freezing or poison reduces performance by giving variables to undead transformation.”
“I understand.”
The students who succeeded in rescuing the gnats moved to the next location, an outdoor work table. Here, I changed into work clothes and started manufacturing.
After casting a corruption spell on the group demons and taking various black magic measures, a summoning magic circle was inserted.
“Hmm.”
Simon, who was also standing at the table, was looking at the magic circle diagram that Aaron had drawn on the blackboard.
“The clustering magic circle has a complex structure, but the principle is not particularly special.”
Simply put, the principle of the clustering magic circle is to strongly evoke the habits and characteristics of the organism when it was a living organism.
When making a skeleton archer, it feels like using tools or monsters that handle bows so that
you can use a bow even if you become undead. Of course, the difficulty level is incomparable.
“That’s why only certain undead can be colonized, Simon.”
As if he had heard Simon’s words, Aaron came forward and explained.
“Things like Muriaguina, Atla, and Behemoth.”
Simon also raised his head.
“Now that I think about it, the material for your undead battleship was ‘Pride Atla’, right? The embedded undead were clearly humanoid skeletons, so how is clustering between undead of
different shapes possible?”
“That’s a good question.”
Aaron rubbed his eyelids with his palms and continued speaking.
“I will explain in more detail in a later lesson, but the host remains embedded in Pride Atla
were transplanted into the skeleton. Then, Pride Atlas will recognize the skeleton as his subordinate.”
“ah!”
In conclusion, the main body of the ‘swarm’ must be a specific undead. However, the small entities under the command of the colony have some degree of freedom depending on the necromancer’s capabilities.
For a brief moment, all kinds of ideas popped into Simon’s head and then disappeared.
There were many things to think about, from the concept of a bomber that rains down zombies and explodes corpses from a skeleton battleship floating at high altitude, to the concept of a
mothership that uses Skull Wings as interceptors.
“Then, hurry up and start working.”
“yes!”
The students worked hard to implant colony magic into the swarm ghost. It took more than twice as long as usual, because even the small entities inside the swarm demon had to be turned into undead.
One peculiar thing was that the linking entity of the magic circle had to be set to the main body, the horde demon, rather than the necromancer himself. Perhaps because this was the first process, production failures occurred frequently.
The students who succeeded in making the undead hordes despite numerous failures headed
to the vacant lot where the final course was located.
“Come on, students! “It is a model modeled after the natural enemy of the swarm gnat.”
What the teaching assistants brought was a monster model that looked like a jellyfish.
“If you control only the main body, the brood gnat, and make the small entities inside attack
this model, you will succeed!”
“yes!”
The students’ practical training began right away in the vacant lot.
“Do you see that? Attack!”
Eshu stretched out his arms and shouted.
However, her flock and smaller individuals scattered around and behaved as they please, circling or lying down on the floor.
“Why not? “Attack!”
Eshu, who had been stamping his feet in frustration, gave instructions quite forcefully and with resignation this time. After the fifth attempt, the main body that had been lying on the floor
finally rose up.
but.
“?”
Leaving the small entities around alone, the main body ran over and bit the jellyfish model with its teeth before returning to Eshu.
Eshu grabbed his head.
“Ugh! You can’t go there yourself! “Send the kids away!”
A similar situation was happening to other students.
If it was a properly completed undead horde, only small individuals had to be sent to attack the prey, just like when it was a monster. However, small objects are resting and only the main body is moving.
There was no point in doing this. Compared to the 3rd tier undead that are burdened with thoughts, the swarm demons have a heavy body and poor combat ability. The body alone was not
an undead worth using.
“Attack! “A bunch of gnats!”
Toto also participated in the training with the undead horde he created.
Toto’s brood devils opened their mouths toward the target, but the small individuals that came out of them started to rush backwards instead of forwards and started biting the caster, Toto.
The students who were watching burst into laughter.
“If you fail, take action appropriate to the situation.”
Aaron, who was watching the practice, approached.
“If only the main body moves, check the magic circle of the main body. There is a high probability that there is a problem with the circuit. If only one or two small entities are successfully attacked, check whether the jet black is properly flowing through the bodies of the small entities. “The main body accepts the attack command, but if small entities move freely, start again from the beginning.”
Students who accepted the feedback returned to their work tables.
Eshu also muttered as he licked his lips and summoned his group of demons again.
“I guess it’s easy for everyone.”
After saying that, she glanced behind where Simon and Hector were.
“I can roughly draw a picture. In this trend, there is another picture that is very good at directing… … huh?”
But something unexpected was happening.
“… … .”
“… … .”
The corps commanders, Simon and Hector, were also squatting in their seats, looking at the
group of ghosts, covering their foreheads or sighing.
“good!”
The problem was that all the other students didn’t listen to orders, but in Simon’s case, it was
different.
When the attack command was given, both the main body and small objects rushed to attack
the model.
Simon groaned, lowered his head and laughed bitterly.
“… … “For no reason did I give an absolute command in the first place.”
Simon and Hector, active-duty corps commanders, had a special mission.
That is, not a summoned group of demons, but a ‘swarm’ group of demons that are controlled
so that only small entities move without the main body moving. It wasn’t as easy as it looked.
Hector was also frowning and struggling.
“For some reason, the commander failed. “It’s unexpected.”
As Eshu muttered with a surprised look on his face, Lorraine pointed forward.
“Those two have already succeeded in the summoning type and have moved on to the corps type.”
“really?”
As he said, Simon’s brood demon was seen in the corner sending out small individuals to bite the model. Eshu said, ‘As expected!’ He exclaimed in exclamation.
“Mmm.”
Simon quietly looked down at the swarm-like gnats and small individuals, closed his eyes and was lost in thought.
‘It seems like I strangely know the method.’
“You’re having fun training.”
At that time, Simon’s head went up.
“I heard that Major Summoning also teaches Legion Studies in parallel, so I came to see if y
ou were doing well.”
The third professor in the Department of Summoning, Jean Arskalt, who taught Legion Studies, was approaching.
Simon’s eyes widened.
“Professor Jin!”
“hmm-“
As she was quietly looking at the group of demons, she smiled slightly.
“Let’s talk for a moment, cheeky one.”
