Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1016

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Chapter 1016

“Let’s move! Upward!”

The exploration team members quickly made their decision.

No matter how tempting the monster was, or how much they coveted the criminals’ bounty…

“Damn. If we caught just one, each person here could have taken 8,125 gold coins.”

“…”

“…”

The exploration team members were shocked by the Einroguard mage who could do perfect mental arithmetic even in this situation.

They hadn’t even been thinking about the bounty because of the Empire’s notorious criminals and the void monsters.

Anyway, no matter how tempting the monster was, now wasn’t the time to be stubborn.

Regardless of whether the worshipper of evil gods was lying or not, they first needed to go up, relay the information, and strengthen their preparations.

Crack!

The crystal on the necklace Alsicle wore shattered as it detected danger. Alsicle, who had foreseen the immediate future, screamed.

“Left side! Enemy approaching from the left passage! More than dozens of them!”

“Fall back!”

The exploration team members immediately changed direction. Almost simultaneously, spider monsters poured out from the left passage.

-■■■■■■! -■■■■■■■!

Lee Han didn’t hesitate to summon flames and expanded their form into a wall. Not stopping there, he converted them to blue flames, an advanced attribute, and white flames, a divine attribute.

Blue and white, azure-white flames!

Seeing this, one of the exploration team members urgently shouted.

“Mage sir. Don’t waste your mana and join us!”

A mage’s mana wasn’t an infinite resource. No matter how much support they received from potions or items, they shouldn’t waste it from the start.

“Don’t worry about him!”

Alsicle pushed the exploration team member’s back while summoning frost amulets and putting them on the others.

It was illusion school magic that protected against corruption and madness.

‘…How can a person be so cold!’

The exploration team member who misunderstood Alsicle inwardly shuddered at that coldness.

How could someone with such a cute appearance be so cold!

That mage might have frozen even his own heart while seeking the secrets of ice magic.

“At least put an amulet on him!”

“What? No! He doesn’t need it!”

When the exploration team member pointed at Lee Han asking for a frost amulet to be put on him, Alsicle flapped his wings and refused.

Like an experienced mage, Alsicle was sharply calculating his remaining mana and concentration. There was no magic to spare for someone immune to corruption or madness.

‘Really too much!’

“All done. Let’s go!”

Lee Han, who had summoned enough fire to burn the entire passage, belatedly caught up.

The exploration team member was surprised to see him moving at the same speed as the group without any time to recover mana.

“Are you alright? What about recovery?”

“Ah, he’s fine! Mind yourself! Move!”

Alsicle got angry instead.

Seeing this, the exploration team member made a decision.

When they returned above, he would definitely report the cruel true nature of the young genius mage to the Imperial Newspaper!

* * *

“Die!”

The giant hybrid warrior, Basirmac, inflated his lungs greatly then drew out mana to let out a roar.

The battle cry of a warrior who had reached mastery became an intense shockwave that swept through the passage. The spider legion that had been swarming like clouds was crushed all at once.

However, many spiders were still swarming behind them. So many that the reduction wasn’t noticeable.

“Why are there so many?!”

“Their reproduction speed exceeds imagination.”

Kitarenannum said with a groan.

No matter how he thought about it, it didn’t make sense for monsters that crossed dimensional barriers to boast such numbers in a short time.

It was a speed on a different dimension from normal asexual reproduction.

“Do they eat any surrounding matter and lay eggs?”

“Is now the time for magical analysis, you spell-slinging bastard!”

Basirmac pointed ahead.

Of the mercenaries they had brought, only two remained. They had been swept away and disappeared in the wave of spider monsters.

The apocalyptic mage who survived this situation was grinning unpleasantly. Basirmac regretted not throwing that guy earlier.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, fire arrows made of mana formed among the spider monsters and were fired.

Though not very powerful, Basirmac and Kitarenannum were startled.

They didn’t know these spiders could use magic.

“They can use magic too?! What the hell!”

Basirmac knocked away the fire arrow with the back of his hand while shouting. But Kitarenannum couldn’t answer either.

“I, I don’t know. Was it from a dimension where they could use magic? But they definitely didn’t use it at first?”

“That fire arrow was definitely the magic the brown-haired mercenary used.”

Kitarenannum flinched at the apocalyptic mage who suddenly spoke up.

“What…”

“Don’t you have a guess?”

-Damn it. It has absorption abilities too!

Great Demon Esadojikwa muttered in shock.

No wonder the demons were swept away without a trace – this monster could absorb the abilities of those it devoured!

Even among monsters, those with such power were extremely rare.

-What if we miss this!

-Be grateful for even this much information, mage!

“At least it’s fortunate. The mercenary bastards weren’t much. Even if it uses magic, it won’t be threatening.”

“We should also consider the case of it devouring more. If it eats a hundred mages, even absorbing just one percent would give it one person’s worth of magic.”

“Then you and I definitely can’t be devoured…”

The giant hybrid warrior who was speaking instinctively sensed danger and shouted.

“Get down!!”

“What…”

Kitarenannum, who had been focusing only on the spider monsters, reacted too late.

The apocalyptic mage was already casting magic at the two of them.

‘Already?!’

Kitarenannum had to admit he had underestimated his opponent.

Even though they were both mages, since his own mastery was much higher, he had overconfidently assumed the opponent couldn’t deceive his eyes.

However, the apocalyptic bastard had used some method to completely fool their senses and summon magic.

Crash!

“Spell-slinging bastard!!! I’ll chew up your heart!!!”

Basirmac took the sharp vacuum blade with his body while grinding his teeth.

Anyway, mages were all untrustworthy without exception.

“To ambush with such magic. Truly befitting a madman.”

Kitarenannum, who had regained his composure, also confirmed his defense and prepared to counterattack.

The ambush was surprising, but its power wasn’t very impressive. With this much, he could immediately…

“…No! No!!”

Kitarenannum realized too late and wailed.

The apocalyptic bastard was grinning wickedly while trying to complete his magic.

“You can’t stop, you madman!!!”

“What! What’s happening…”

At that moment, all the walls and floors of the surrounding passages melted away. The spider monsters climbing up from below roared excitedly and leaped up.

The monsters that climbed up devoured the Apocalypse Believer first. Kitarenannum, who barely managed to summon a new foothold, had to grit his teeth.

‘Damn it! There’s no time to switch magic…!’

“Do something! You spell-slinger!”

To prepare area-of-effect magic, he needed a moment to switch.

However, monsters swarmed from front, back, left, right, as well as above and below. That brief moment simply wouldn’t come.

Thud!

That’s when it happened.

Suddenly the monsters stopped moving. Then they changed direction and tried to climb higher up.

“…Storm, break free and sweep them away!”

Kitarenannum, who barely gained the leisure to switch magic, transformed his arm into a storm. Fierce wind pressure swept away the surrounding monsters.

Basirmac shook off the monster fluids and shells, then asked.

“Why are they suddenly trying to climb up?”

“I don’t know. Did they discover new prey? Something more appetizing than us…”

“Ha! Do you think that makes sense?”

Even in this situation, the Giant Hybrid Warrior didn’t let go of his arrogance.

Even in the ranking of monsters’ coveted prey, he absolutely couldn’t lose to this warrior.

“…Are we cursed by skeletons? More are coming from below. Let’s move!”

Kitarenannum shouted as if fed up with the approach of new monsters he sensed from below.

He couldn’t become prey when he came as a hunter.

* * *

“Lord Alsicle. Doesn’t something seem strange?”

“Huff, huff huff… huff huff huff…”

Alsicle, carried on Lee Han’s back (he collapsed quickly due to his stamina), couldn’t answer immediately and panted heavily.

“What… what’s strange?”

“It seems like the monsters have been targeting only me since earlier…”

“That… that makes sense. You’re threatening. You have a lot of mana too.”

Alsicle wasn’t particularly surprised.

Even from the monsters’ perspective, an enemy with abnormally high mana and immunity to corruption would feel most threatening.

“But Lord Alsicle is superior in magic.”

“…You fellow!”

Even while being carried, Alsicle felt his eyes welling up with emotion.

Though Alsicle didn’t have many mage friends, he had at least one friend he could boast about in front of others.

“More importantly, Lord Alsicle. The Exploration Team Member keeps glaring at us… do you perhaps have a past grudge?”

“No, no. Nothing like that. It’s probably because I’m being carried by you.”

Being carried by a junior mage probably didn’t look very good.

‘Is that so?’

Lee Han wanted to explain to the Exploration Team Member sending contemptuous looks that ‘mages are naturally frail,’ but he didn’t have the chance.

“To the upper floor!”

“I have something to say.”

Suddenly the Demon-Worshipping Elf spoke up. Lee Han was about to cast fire magic again when he looked puzzled.

“What?”

“It would be safer to abandon that mage…”

“Shut up.”

Thwack!

Lee Han struck the elf’s snout with his staff. Alsicle was startled by his junior mage’s violent reaction.

Though beaten, the Demon-Worshipping Elf didn’t stop.

“If you don’t want to abandon him, change direction. That way is already occupied by monsters.”

“Where to?”

“To the side path on the right. There’s another closed waterway. If you go that way, there are usable tools.”

“!”

Alsicle cast a quick divination. Then he nodded.

“To the side path on the right!”

“What are these usable tools? Is there a floodgate control device or something?”

Lee Han asked the elf while running.

If he could sweep away all the monsters with such a device made by ancient dwarfs, there would be nothing more to wish for.

“No. Mage Criminal Kitarenannum and separatist Basirmac are there. Throw those cornered bastards to the monsters. Then the monsters won’t go berserk and you can escape safely.”

“…”

“…”

Not only Lee Han and Alsicle, but even the Exploration Team Members were left speechless.

What kind of bastard was this?

“Can we use them? They’re notorious wanted criminals.”

“If they’re in the same situation as us, they’ll know they’re cornered. If we suggest cooperation, they’ll probably accept.”

“But they’re not fools either, so won’t they know our intentions? If a fight breaks out for no reason, it’ll become more dangerous.”

As the Exploration Team Members quickly exchanged opinions, the Demon-Worshipping Elf quietly spoke to Lee Han.

“Mage Criminal Kitarenannum offered ninety-nine giant hearts to contract with a Great Demon. Tell this fact to Basirmac. Then the two will fight greatly.”

“Is that really true??”

“No. It’s a lie. But it’s effective.”

“…”

Lee Han could clearly feel why the deity this person served was an evil god.

It was wicked rhetoric that surpassed even Einrogard Students.

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