Wow!
The match between two big names begins.
The audience couldn't hide their excitement as Simon and Laheim, each an SA, faced each other on the main screen.
Attracted by the excitement of the audience, the MC shouted as he stepped onto the table,
"What an incredible match when the exam has just begun! Special Admissions No.8 Laheim, who became the Lord of Snowfield Castle as a teenager, and Special Admissions No.1 Simon Polential, the one who took first place in the first BDMAT and was impossible to ignore in the second!"
The MC turned to look at his co-host.
"Professor Jane, what do you think of this pairing? Coincidentally, it features the two students you asked to 'watch out for' on this test!"
Jane frowned, looked at MC's feet on the table, then replied with a sigh,
"I think Mr. Laheim has the advantage right now."
"Ah, of course! And I want to know why you think that!"
"Although he has recently played an active role with curses and hemomancy, Simon's base is still performing summoning. The sea is the greatest challenge for summoners."
"You're absolutely right! Statistics show that aspiring Summoners are struggling!"
Most of the aspiring Summoners have given up on summoning and are using other black magic to pass the test.
Of course, their abilities were greatly reduced since they couldn't use their special skills. There was already talk among the crowd that most of the eliminated students were aspiring Summoners.
"I'm curious to see how Simon will overcome the limitations of summoning! Stay tuned!"
* * *
Splash! Splash!
Simon frantically swam away. Laheim chased after him from a floating platform, firing wave after wave of Golden Snow condensed into bombs after Simon.
Boom! Boom!
Each bomb shook the surface of the water and pushed Simon into unnatural currents.
'Hmph, but I don't want to use Deimos on a guy like him yet.'
Simon thought he would try his best and survive as long as possible. He held his breath and dove under the water.
Bubble!
As he dove and escaped, Laheim continued his relentless assault from above. The bombs penetrated the surface and rapidly expanded into a deadly blanket of snow, seemingly unaffected by water.
'He's already thought about the underwater side, I see.'
Simon found the nearest group of students and moved behind them, figuring Lahiem would hesitate to turn so many necromancers against him.
But Laheim continued shooting, aiming at Simon and other students who got in his way.
The students who were hit by the snow bombs began to sink into the depths of the sea as if there were iron weights tied to their feet.
"Gasp! What is this?"
It came from above!
Just then, Simon surfaced, panting, and shouted to the exhausted students,
"It's Laheim!"
"Laheim?"
"If it's Laheim, he's one of those who's collected 10 coins!"
"Chase him first!"
The counterattack from the sea began. As spells were cast from the depths towards Laheim, he frowned as he had to focus on evasion.
"That rat…!"
Taking advantage of the distraction, Simon disappeared again.
"Phew!"
Simon slipped away with a quick dive and climbed onto another floating platform. He let out a small sigh as he ran a hand through his wet hair.
'A necromancer who can fight both on land and at sea. That's complicated.'
As he was about to stand up, he could barely breathe…
Slam!
Laheim shot into the air like a falling comet and crashed onto the platform where Simon was.
"Why are you running?"
As he fell to one side of the platform, the other side began to tilt from the sudden force.
'Wow!'
Simon crouched low, keeping his balance.
"I thought we were going to have a duel with Meilyn at stake, Jumon Bolendis!"
Simon blinked his eyes.
"What? I'm Simon Polentia."
"Just understand this."
He grinned, pulling his white swimming cap down tightly.
"I will fail you in this exam and make sure Meilyn only looks at me from now on. It doesn't matter where you run, Zemon Volentona!"
"…My name is getting weirder all the time."
"The only name I need to remember is Meilyn Villenne!"
Laheim thumped his chest.
"Anyway! I will make you one of the 50 eliminations. Even if you bother to come back in half an hour, I will kill you again!"
"…Uh, uhm. Okay?"
"But there is one way that will allow you to stay in Kizen!"
A greedy grin formed on his face.
"Swear to me. That you will never have feelings for Meilyn again, and that you will never appear before Meilyn and I! Swear it in front of the crowd watching through the Kizen observer!"
At this point, Simon began to worry about Laheim.
"Excuse me, but do you need therapy or something? It seems like you have a lot of things you need to work through."
"How dare you, a mere student, insult the Lord of Snowfield Castle!"
Laheim clenched his fists and pulled them aside, and the floating platform they were both on began to creak and tilt again.
He had created more Golden Snow at his feet.
Simon forced himself to focus on his left foot as the ground beneath him shifted.
'Open!'
Fail!
Good grief!
Six blades were fired simultaneously, but Laheim jumped off the platform first.
'…Don't mind those weird names.'
The platform flipped, throwing Simon into the sea.
He tried to swim back, but Laheim didn't give him a chance to rest, firing projectile after projectile.
As Simon narrowly avoided each snowball, he felt something pressing against his back. The platform above had been weighed down enough that it began to sink, dragging Simon down with it.
'Chuhuh!'
It was too heavy and too fast. He wouldn't be able to swim out.
Simon clenched his fist so hard it turned white, then dark blue. Jet black swirled inward until the fist glowed with black and blue light.
{Original Hong Feng, Drum Beating}
Katoooooooosh!
A large hole opened up in the platform as he slammed his fist back into it, and Simon shot through it.
He breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the platform descend to the bottom of the ocean with him safely out of the way.
However, the fight is far from over.
* * *
* * *
Splash!
Simon could see Laheim diving into the water. As the man began to search frantically for Simon, the other students—blinded by greed because of the large amount of coins he was carrying—attacked him.
'How reckless is he? Well, that's good for me.'
While Laheim fights the other students, Simon casually walks to the surface, finds another floating platform and swims towards it.
'If he comes after me again, I guess I'll have to—'
(Son! He came from below!)
Laheim swam after him, ignoring the other students.
A bubble was visible at his feet where a magic circle was forming.
'I guess there's nothing else to do, Pier.'
Things weren't going according to plan, but there was nothing he could do about it.
Simon made up his mind and stood tall on his platform.
'I'll take it out.'
(Wow!)
Simon jumped, cheering himself on with jet black. Soon, the platform he was standing on sank into the sea. Laheim had thrown a snow bomb there.
As Simon lay helpless in the air, Laheim jumped out of the water.
Then, he shouted when he saw Simon,
"It's all over now!"
Eight magic circles formed around Laheim.
The students floated in the water nearby in stunned silence. The audience watching on the main screen waited with bated breath.
It seems like the whole world is watching to see what Simon will do next.
So Simon, who was still in the air, casually moved his arm back and opened his large subspace.
Rrrruuuummmbbbllleeeee!
The sound alone, reminiscent of a giant castle gate opening, made many people gasp. Laheim hurriedly stopped advancing.
The figure that emerged from subspace was…
"AA Monster?"
It was the skeleton of a large whale, more than five meters long.
It had a long skull with rows of deadly teeth separating the heavy lower and upper jaws. The heavy head was attached to the rest of the body by thick vertebrae that moved with such force that anything placed between the vertebrae would be crushed.
At the top of the strong spine is an artificial dorsal fin, which is positioned connected to the back and parallel to the two pectoral fins that extend from the chest. Finally, a large tail appears behind it, and everyone watching knows that they do not want to interfere with its affairs.
It really did look like a flesh and blood skeleton, only skinnier.
Simon jumped onto the creature and waved at Laheim, who looked stunned.
Unlucky!
As Simon and the Deimos plunged into the water, a mountain of water erupted. Laheim, who had nowhere to run, fell as it hit him.
"Wow!"
"What's that?"
The students looked at Simon riding Deimo with panic all over their faces.
Riding a skeletal whale and crossing the ocean at the speed of light is truly a necromancer's dream.
(Kuhahahahaha!! I like it! This is great!!)
Pier shouted, enjoying the speed.
A smile also formed on Simon's mouth. He moved at a speed that was incomparable to swimming alone.
Of course, that also attracted a lot of attention. Many of the students watching started shooting black magic at him, but they couldn't match the speed of the deimos.
"you bastards!"
Laheim followed him into the water. The magic circle at his feet began to spin more fiercely and began to bubble.
Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar!
Once again, eight magic circles formed around Laheim, firing even more shots of Golden Snow. As they touched the water, the homing effect added to their magic circles kicked in and they chased after the deimos.
'So you went that far, huh?'
Simon is connected to the minds of the deimos and moves faster
Swoooooooooosh!
The skeleton broke through the ocean while freely changing directions, and Laheim's projectiles were left behind.
Everyone was left speechless, only able to watch as the summoning took place and many looked for the bomb to maneuver at high speed, cutting through the ocean like it was nothing.
'Crazy.'
'Did they take a different test or something?'
The students watching were stunned.
'Faster, faster!'
Simon's concentration quickened.
Six of the eight projectiles broke in the middle, unable to withstand the water pressure, but the other two continued on. Deimos was close to the surface, and Simon saw a floating platform just above it.
'Now!'
It turned sharply just before the platform, and the last two projectiles hit the barrier, shattering.
'Succeed!'
The happy gods surfaced and jumped.
(Booooooooooooooooooooooh!)
The components of the magic circle collided and rubbed against each other, emitting a sound that resembled an animal's roar.
The eyes of every student on the surface turned to the giant whale skeleton in the air and Simon riding it.
The water droplets glistened in the sunlight around it, the view was like a painter's masterpiece.
"Wooooooooaaaaaaaaaah!"
Of course, the crowd on Roke Island also got excited.
"This is amazing! This is absolutely amazing! He found something new again! Simon Polentia uses skeletons in the sea!"
The announcer boomed happily. Jane quietly took out a handkerchief and wiped the saliva drops on her arm.
"What is that, Professor?! How can a skeleton be so fast in the sea?"
"That's a baby deimos. Adults are level 8 monsters, and they are considered the rulers of the sea."
Of course Jane recognized him.
"The corpse is the only one capable of becoming a special undead known as the 'bottom whale'. I've never seen the skeleton version either."
"Ahhh! I see! Amazing! To think he had prepared such an item for underwater combat!"
As the two of them commented on what was happening, Simon and the deimos began to descend once more. Many students fired spells at them, but none of them were able to match the insane speed.
Only Laheim continued to follow them.
Immediately, Laheim pulled his arms forward, forming eight magic circles around his body again.
Simon looked back at him, then turned the gods to face Laheim and the other students.
'Let's show them, gods!'
As Simon gave the absolute command, the whale's mouth opened, and the pitch-black color within it began to ripple with terrifying power.
A strong current formed in front of Simon, and water began to be sucked into the creature's mouth.
Whirrrrrrrr!
'What's that!'
Laheim paused for a moment. What was forming in the whale's mouth shone with the intensity of the rising sun.
{Tidal Cannon}
The water shook, and with a roar containing the ferocity of a thousand lions, the deimos released the energy stored within them.
Everything went silent for a moment.
Then, disaster.
A huge wave of water crashed forward, threatening everything from the surface to the seabed. The eight new bombs that Lahiem had prepared were sent flying, and the tidal cannon core directly hit its target. Lahiem.
"…!"
Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
A huge explosion rocked the sea. Simon glanced at the tongue pad on his arm and saw dozens of students knocked out.
'Wow!'
Simon clenched his fists in joy. Deimos, who was connected to his mind, followed suit, roaring as he claimed his place as ruler of the sea.