Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1047

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Chapter 1047

 

Whether the two friends were flustered or not, the dragon and the dragon’s contractor engaged in fierce competition.

 

Lee Han threw the bone, mobilizing all his experience from battling the King of Ghouls and the Frost Giant King.

 

“Follow your master’s command… freeze!”

 

Shooting out ice projections, casting illusion magic in front, twisting trajectories with telekinesis, summoning creatures to distract attention – faced with such overwhelming magic, Eandurude thought to himself.

 

Do we really need to go this far?

 

“Huff, huff huff… Eandurude. Help me out a bit too. There are other bones here, so where should we hide them in the manor?”

 

“Yes…”

 

Eandurude answered in a slightly dispirited voice, unlike usual.

 

This felt like the most trivial command he had ever received.

 

“Basil, you…”

 

-!

 

“Go over there and eat some snacks.”

 

-…?!

 

The baby basilisk felt some kind of humiliation, but the snacks looked too delicious to ponder what it was.

 

* * *

 

‘That craftsman mage really has outstanding skills.’

 

Lee Han thought as he watched Jowrin sleeping soundly with gentle snoring.

 

Having played every possible game with the bones, Jowrin was sleeping contentedly on the chains.

 

Catching and retrieving flying bones, finding bones hidden in manor corners, dodging and throwing bones, secretly gifting bones to knights standing guard outside, and so on.

 

But all these games would have lost their luster without craftsman Gashufa’s skills.

 

Not only could he attach various sweet desserts as well as meat and fish to the bones, but when bitten, they burst with satisfying texture and cheerful sounds, and they even had a soft, squishy feel for playing with front paws.

 

‘Could he be a craftsman with dragon connections? How could he make them so perfectly suited?’

 

“You worked hard, Eandurude.”

 

The junior cleaning up the bone items that had been destroyed by Jowrin’s excited chewing shook his head.

 

Of course he was tired. To keep pace with the excited Jowrin, he had to move as quickly as when fighting in the arena.

 

But to admit this was hard work would hurt his pride as a warrior.

 

‘It wasn’t difficult at all!’

 

“I’ll definitely repay you later. It’s nothing new, but I’m really glad you and Jowrin became friends with each other.”

 

“…”

 

At those words, Eandurude felt embarrassed.

 

In the past, he would have denied it, but now he had no choice but to acknowledge it.

 

Jowrin was definitely his friend.

 

“Now then. Keep watch over your friend. I need to break these chains first.”

 

“…”

 

Eandurude was newly amazed.

 

Showing absolutely no mercy even to a dragon and its contractor.

 

That might truly be the manifestation of the Einroguard spirit.

 

“What are you doing? Since you took Jowrin’s side once before, it should be fine not to this time.”

 

“That… doesn’t seem to be the issue…”

 

Still, being a good junior, Eandurude began watching over Jowrin. The happy gold dragon was fast asleep, snoring peacefully.

 

“I thought it was resolved through conversation earlier.”

 

“Ah… it’ll probably be resolved through conversation, right? His Majesty isn’t that bad a person.”

 

-?

 

“?”

 

The baby basilisk and Eandurude looked at Lee Han with bewilderment, his words and actions contradicting each other.

 

If it would be resolved through conversation, why the chains while she sleeps?

 

“If I break the chains, she’ll be less stubborn, and then persuasion will be easier.”

 

“I see.”

 

“And if persuasion fails, we’ll need to run away too.”

 

“…”

 

No matter how he thought about it, the latter seemed more sincere, but Eandurude said nothing.

 

In fact, he still felt a bit sorry for bringing his respected senior and putting shackles on her.

 

‘How should I break it?’

 

Lee Han pondered seriously.

 

In some ways, he seemed to be thinking more seriously than during Einroguard final exams.

 

But it couldn’t be helped. This was a problem of that level of difficulty.

 

He had to break the magically treated chains without waking the sleeping Jowrin!

 

‘I should consider resistance to pure mana shock to be at perfect level.’

 

Thanks to some tactless mage’s advice, the chains completely blocked the method of breaking them brutishly with mana.

 

With a structure that dispersed mana impact in all directions, it might take decades to accumulate enough damage with pure mana alone to break them.

 

‘But physical resistance is…’

 

Lee Han looked at Jowrin, who was smiling happily, dreaming of something.

 

Even while sleeping, she had precisely tucked Lee Han’s sword that she’d taken earlier into her embrace. She was clearly worried about the chains’ physical weaknesses.

 

“Ice, dwell within.”

 

Lee Han cast a simple low-level ice elemental magic.

 

For magic below 4th circle, once you properly learned the application of the corresponding element, you could quickly adapt without having to learn each spell separately.

 

Ice element was an element Lee Han understood quite well, having completed projection magic with it.

 

Thanks to experience accumulated with water and lightning, controlling ice element was even easier. Lee Han quickly changed the form of ice in the air.

 

‘Dagger.’

 

An ice dagger was created in the air.

 

Actually, sculptures, arrows, and cone-shaped projectiles made of ice were attack magic often used by cryomancers.

 

In terms of difficulty, it was about 2nd circle level. Up to this point, it wasn’t particularly difficult.

 

Ting-

 

Lee Han lightly tapped the dagger against the chains. The seeping cold was dispersed and disappeared.

 

‘As expected, ice is meaningless and I need to give sharper, harder impact. If I use telekinesis and cast enhancement magic to strike… there will be noise and impact will be transmitted.’

 

-Sen…

 

Even if insufficient physical destructive power could be supplemented with telekinesis magic and enhancement magic, noise and impact were problems.

 

Wouldn’t Jowrin sleeping on the chains right in front wake up immediately?

 

‘Noise is… what was the principle of soundproofing magic. I think there was a silence-type curse among dark magic curses. Was it creating a barrier? Seems doable.’

 

Befitting the next leader of Einroguard’s dark magic school, Lee Han somehow completed soundproofing magic on the spot.

 

If Diret had seen this, he would have shed tears of joy.

 

‘Impact is the problem.’

 

If he just hit hard, the chains would shake along and Jowrin might wake up.

 

Then…

 

‘Should I cut it? Enhancing cutting power rather than impact.’

 

-Senb…

 

Considering the magic and means Lee Han possessed, cutting sharply was definitely more difficult than breaking with impact.

 

But he couldn’t not do it just because it was difficult. Lee Han pondered once more.

 

‘At times like this, I can’t get help from the small world or Arna.’

 

Making an unreasonable complaint, Lee Han stared intently at the ice dagger.

 

‘If I draw out cutting power with Vible’s enhancement magic series and even draw out an aura with my mana, I don’t know what might happen.’

 

Although it dispersed mana each time it touched the chains, Lee Han had overflowing mana anyway. What was consumed could just be replenished.

 

But with that plan, the dagger’s durability became a problem this time.

 

When breaking with impact like before, he was just thinking of shooting once and breaking, but if cutting with cutting power, this dagger had to endure to some degree.

 

‘Damn it. I should have practiced ice element regularly. Even earth element would have been better.’

 

-Senior…

 

With crazy thoughts in mind, Lee Han pondered ways to increase the durability of his ice dagger.

 

What methods were there besides using high-difficulty applied properties of the corresponding element?

 

‘If I input more mana… that’s too crazy a thought.’

 

Lee Han dismissed the idea as soon as it occurred to him.

 

Inputting more mana than necessary into magic that already had a set amount of mana was foolish.

 

It was like mindlessly increasing the heat or adding more salt when cooking.

 

Moreover, Lee Han was already casting quite precariously with much more mana than other mages due to his innate constitution…

 

But once the thought occurred, it strangely wouldn’t disappear.

 

Lee Han felt unsettled by his own inexplicable thoughts.

 

It seemed like he could do it now.

 

In the past, he had been overwhelmed just controlling his overflowing mana and following existing magic, but with his accumulated experience, he felt he could use this mana more flexibly!

 

Though he wasn’t yet aware of it himself, confidence from everything he had built up was unconsciously seeping out.

 

‘…Right. Let’s try it once. Surely it won’t break because of this.’

 

-Senior…!

 

Lee Han prepared his magic, intending to summon an ice dagger with several times more mana than usual.

 

Normally, this would fail during casting or cause adverse effects.

 

“Cold air…”

 

It was truly a strange sensation.

 

More mana than he usually controlled flowed out in all directions. The mana that couldn’t form the magic’s shape seemed ready to cause the casting to fail at any moment.

 

However, the mana didn’t easily scatter or cause problems. Lee Han realized he could control this mana.

 

The mana bound by strong will quickly returned to its original form and took shape.

 

This was similar in form to the original magic, but was clearly different magic.

 

Lee Han could finally understand what he had done.

 

‘Magic improvement!’

 

In the Empire, besides the 【Flame Arrow】 spell, there were also spells like 【Garcia’s Flame Arrow】 and 【Bagnir’s Flame Arrow】.

 

These were the results of later mages reinterpreting and improving relatively basic and popular magic.

 

Naturally, they had to be clearly superior to the original magic with distinguishing features. Otherwise, they would just be treated as jokes and forgotten.

 

What Lee Han had just cast was theoretically the same.

 

Magic newly constructed beyond the mana limitations of existing magic.

 

‘…Hmm. Now that I think about it, it’s a bit subtle.’

 

Lee Han regained his composure.

 

At first he was moved, but thinking carefully, this improvement was meaningless to anyone but Lee Han.

 

It was good that he had greatly increased the power and performance of low-level magic, but what mage would pour mana endlessly like this for that purpose?

 

But still, it was sufficient for Lee Han to use. Checking the ice dagger he had just summoned, Lee Han made up his mind.

 

‘With this much, I might be able to do it.’

 

Enhancing cutting power and summoning aura to somehow deliver a blow…

 

…

 

Concentrating, Lee Han didn’t notice that the hungry Jowurin had gotten up and was staring at him, and smiled sinisterly while looking at the ice dagger.

 

Lee Han…!

 

“!?”

 

Startled, Lee Han reverse-summoned the ice dagger and turned his gaze.

 

Jowurin, who until just moments ago had been the happiest dragon in the Empire, looked at Lee Han with an aggrieved and sad expression as if she had lost everything in the world.

 

Lee Han was trying to escape!!!

 

“I’m not sure what you mean, Your Majesty. I was just practicing magic as an Einroguard student?”

 

Lee Han lied without batting an eye and called Eandurude.

 

“Why didn’t you call me?!”

 

“…I kept calling you…!!!”

 

The second most aggrieved person in this manor dungeon was none other than Eandurude.

 

When Jowurin tossed and turned trying to get up, he kept calling his senior, but wasn’t he completely absorbed in the magic world and didn’t notice?

 

“No way. I did that!?”

 

“Yes…”

 

“How can someone get so absorbed in magic? That doesn’t make sense.”

 

-…

 

“…”

 

While Eandurude and the baby basilisk looked at him as if dumbfounded, Jowurin shouted in a somewhat urgent voice.

 

If Lee Han saw the gift Jowurin had prepared, he would change his mind too!

 

“No matter what gift I receive, I don’t think I’d want to keep wearing chains… Wait. It’s not some ridiculous, absurd, shameless gift related to a dragon’s body, is it?”

 

When Lee Han’s voice became somewhat stern and cold, Jowurin hastily answered.

 

No!

 

“Phew. I trusted you.”

 

It seemed like you didn’t trust me…

 

Jowurin grumbled quietly while guiding Lee Han to the inner part of the cave.

 

This was Jowurin’s own space that even the guests who visited this manor weren’t allowed to see.

 

Here! Right here!

 

“?”

 

Tapping the floor with her front paw, Jowurin pointed to a pitch-black hole. The strange swirl of mana emanating from inside was reminiscent of a dungeon.

 

“It looks like a dungeon, what is it?”

 

It is a dungeon?

 

“…”

 

Lee Han seriously pondered whether he should first ask why such a thing existed in the manor, or why this was a gift.

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