Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1044
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Chapter 1044
Hearing the leather merchant cursing behind him, Lee Han turned around with a bitter expression.
‘What a truly unfortunate situation.’
Anyone else would have been fine, but to get caught by Professor Boladi of all people.
It could be called tremendous misfortune.
“Wait. But doesn’t this mean other arenas might have been ruined too?”
“…”
Professor Boladi hesitated for the first time. Lee Han was shocked at that sight.
No way?!
* * *
Fortunately, there was one underground arena that hadn’t been ruined.
Of course, before finding that arena, Professor Boladi had to visit three more ruined arenas.
-You took away all the bosses and now you want an arena? They’ve all scattered!
-Sp-spare me! I have nothing around my neck! No weapons either! Since I have no weapons, please not that magic!
-Ah. You’re that battle mage? Thanks to you, I was able to buy this tavern cheap. The guild bastards who used this place were completely fed up.
“Found one. Let’s go in.”
‘Can this really be called finding one?’
Lee Han thought to himself.
With this method, it seemed like Lee Han or Professor Garcia could find them too.
Just grab any mercenary who looked like a criminal on the street, hang them upside down, then say ‘Tell me the entrance to an underground arena you know!’
Click-
This underground arena entrance was hidden next to the sewers near the slums.
After passing through a dark passage built up in a circle with old stones, knocking three times on a stone painted red would open a secret door from inside.
When the door opened, quite bright light leaked out from inside. It seemed to be full of torches as well as magical light sources.
-That’s all you have? Bet more, you bastard!
-Can’t keep your hands off my cards!? I’ll chew the hearts of anyone who covets these Marryongwan cards!
-Aim below! Aim below! Not at the top with the shield!
Noisy shouts leaked out from the end of the long passage.
All sorts of gambling was clearly going on, from mage cards to underground arena fights.
A guild member at the arena, who was roughly counting silver coins stacked on the counter covered in grime, spotted the new customers and asked.
“Who introduced you here?”
“Has a gorgon hybrid been here?”
“Who? Don’t know them. I asked who introduced you?”
Menace began to seep into the other person’s voice. They were clearly suspecting these weren’t customers who would come to the arena and pay gold, but suspicious people.
Lee Han gripped his staff. However, Professor Boladi was one step faster.
Bang!
The guild member knocked his head against the counter and fainted. At the same time, Professor Boladi sent an intense telepathic wave to everyone inside.
Don’t move!
At the intimidating telepathy, people who sensed something was wrong quickly prostrated themselves on the floor.
However, those who were fearless or stupid tried to grab weapons from their waists while cursing.
“Split apart, lightning of Perkuntra!”
Lee Han, who had overworked himself with various 5th circle magic during the first semester, naturally used an unapplied variation of magic he hadn’t even learned.
The magic he just used was a modification that enhanced and condensed Perkuntra’s lower lightning magic, then forcibly split it to shoot like buckshot.
If he had to classify it, it would be 【Perkuntra’s Chain Lightning】. It could be called about 4th circle magic.
Crackle!
As lightning pierced through several people, they rolled around with painful screams. Lee Han didn’t stop and activated his stored magic. Lightning spear and lightning cloak were cast, causing electrical discharge around him.
“Don’t come closer! I’ll attack if you approach!”
“What are you saying after attacking first, you crazy bastard!”
“…Hmm!”
Lee Han was slightly speechless as he had no rebuttal.
Since mages were weak to surprise attacks, Professor Boladi chose to attack first, but that choice probably felt very rude to the criminal organization guild members here.
‘But there’s no choice.’
Since a fight had broken out, he couldn’t just take the hits. Lee Han summoned a medium skeleton golem made of dragon teeth.
Crack!
At the insane destructive rampage that smashed the not-so-spacious underground arena facilities, guild members who were taking out crossbows to snipe the mage hurled curses.
“Hey you damn cursed mage bastard!!”
“What are you so dissatisfied about that you’re smashing this whole place!”
“…Mmm!”
Lee Han wanted to explain ‘The current situation is chaotic and I’m defending with lightning cloak and telekinesis, but if magic arrows or bolts fly from long range, I could take unexpected damage, so I brought out a defensive summoned creature.’
But since he had already half-destroyed the underground arena’s facilities, that opportunity had long passed. Lee Han gave up and ordered destruction.
“Sweep away everyone still standing!”
The lightly armed arena guild members couldn’t subdue the golem and were swept away like balls. Lee Han continuously cast 【Raven’s Evil Eye】 from behind. Enemies hit by the curse were poisoned and collapsed.
“Wh… what…!”
“Did an entire magic tower come at once?!”
Guild members who burst out from connected rooms couldn’t grasp the situation and were bewildered.
Lightning flashed everywhere, a medium golem was rampaging in the center of the arena, smashing objects, and colleagues who came out with weapons were collapsing one by one from some curse without even being hit.
No matter how they thought about it, this wasn’t violence that one or two mages could do.
Excessive violence as if an entire magic tower had come to rampage!
Why go this far?
‘Did someone kidnap a mage?? We never did that though?’
“Sword, of Vible…”
As Lee Han tried to summon even 【Vible’s Flying Sword】 that he had recently learned to be sure, Professor Boladi, who had returned in the meantime, said.
“Doesn’t seem to be here.”
“Ah. Is that so?”
While his disciple was beating up guild members in the center, Professor Boladi had subdued all the guild members inside, finished checking, and come out.
“Let’s go back.”
“Yes.”
After the two mages disappeared, suffocating silence arrived.
The remaining customers stealthily looked around and fled outside. The guild members scattered everywhere couldn’t even think of threatening or catching them, just watching blankly.
Someone muttered.
“…These crazy mage bastards…!”
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Actually, it wasn’t surprising that Eandurude wasn’t at the first underground arena they went to.
The capital was one of the largest cities in the Empire, and there was proportionally much crime rolling in the shadows of that city.
Just the large and small underground arenas in the slums alone would easily exceed ten.
But when Eandurude wasn’t visible at the second underground arena either, Lee Han fell into slight contemplation.
“Could Eandurude have gone to other illegal arenas? Not here but…”
‘Shouldn’t you have thought of that before destroying them all?’
A guild member lying nearby cursed inwardly with his eyes closed. He was scared that if he opened his eyes, the mages might beat him up right away.
Who the hell is the gorgon hybrid???
However, Professor Boladi shook his head.
“That’s not easy to do.”
There could be such arenas in other parts of the capital besides the slum areas.
But someone like Eandurude couldn’t easily enter such places. They required their own identity verification and guarantees.
It would definitely be an arena in this area that was relatively easy to enter and that Eandurude knew well.
“Hmm. Let me ask you something. Are there any other illegal fighting arenas around here?”
Lee Han questioned the guild member who was closing his eyes and pretending to be unconscious. Realizing he’d been caught, the guild member frantically spilled everything.
“Over there! I heard there are guys operating near the pasture down that road! Please spare me!”
“Thank you.”
“Those guys are really bad people! Please make sure to punish them!!”
“I understand.”
Lee Han moved again with Professor Boladi while listening to the guild member’s cheering.
However, this time was a little different.
At the third underground fighting arena, the guild members there came out to greet them first.
“We don’t have any gorgon hybrids or anything like that!”
With rumors that the Crazy Hunter Butcher had appeared and was sweeping through the area, the guild members of this arena disguised as a pasture had fallen into extreme tension.
Normally they would have settled things with force, but this time the opponent was too formidable.
From what they heard, some guy was looking for gorgon hybrids and devastating everything in sight…
-Wasn’t he originally not the type to devastate like that? Why the hell is he going around destroying everything?
-Does that matter? If anyone bought gorgon hybrids, speak up quickly. If we find out later that you hid it, I’ll skin you alive!
After checking the ledgers and even the guild members’ back pockets, they could be certain.
They weren’t keeping any gorgon hybrids or anything like that.
The somewhat relieved guild members had been waiting on the hill path leading up to the pasture and shouted this out.
“You don’t have any?”
“That’s right. If you don’t believe us, we can let you check for yourself.”
“…Uh, by any chance are you a guild that received official permission from the Empire?”
Lee Han asked back in confusion.
The criminals running illegal operations were being far too polite and kind.
The guild members made expressions as if they’d bitten into something foul at those words.
Having a crazy mage who was devastating guilds everywhere he went spout such nonsense made them feel like their insides were turning upside down.
‘Bastard!’
“Begin.”
Professor Boladi spoke to Lee Han in a low voice.
He said it because Lee Han had asked him to ‘please give a signal before attacking.’
“??”
The guild members didn’t understand what “begin” meant, so their reaction was delayed. In that moment, the two mages disappeared.
Bang!
What struck first was a well-refined attack. The fallen guild members collapsed without even realizing that magically formed phantom blades had sliced through their vital points.
And what followed was the merciless violence of uncontrolled magic.
The disciple, who lacked confidence compared to his master, showed no mercy. With the tension of not knowing when he might face a counterattack, he continuously fired off magic spells.
“Damn… bastards…”
While someone was muttering, Professor Boladi had already moved into the arena.
And then he came out shortly after.
“Not here.”
‘Indeed. This is what a professional is like.’
Lee Han thought he understood why Professor Boladi hadn’t accepted the guild members’ proposal and instead directly attacked to subdue them before searching.
Such proposals were only possible with trustworthy opponents.
He couldn’t join hands with suspicious characters like these guild members, who might have some ulterior motive.
They could have hidden Eandurude elsewhere and then played innocent, or let them in only to launch a surprise attack at the most advantageous moment.
The important thing was not to lose the initiative.
‘I learned something. I shouldn’t let my guard down easily either.’
Even if it was a sweet proposal, he must never just accept it…
Whoosh-
A paper bird flew in.
Lee Han caught the paper bird and opened it. It was Professor Garcia’s handwriting.
“What kind of letter is it?”
“…It says Eandurude is with Professor Garcia right now? He said going to the arena was to get money he’d hidden in an old, defunct arena…”
“I see. We’re going back.”
Lee Han deeply blamed himself.
If he had trusted Eandurude just a little more, he wouldn’t have made the mistake of thinking he’d recklessly gone to underground fighting arenas to earn gold.
‘I should have trusted him a bit more.’
“…”
“…”
The guild members who had fallen half-dead trembled at the sight of the two mages’ retreating figures.
They were truly despicable bastards that even shadows wouldn’t want to touch.
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