Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1106

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Chapter 1106

“Yes? This is that magic.”

Lee Han was even more confused by his senior’s words.

He could feel the shadows obscuring the future from being read, so why was he saying it wasn’t?

“That… it’s a more subtle and… weaker magic…”

The golem senior began explaining hesitantly.

The original 【Refuge to the Shadow Fortress】 cast with magic was a much quieter and calmer spell.

If he had to make a comparison, it could be called a lake. Throwing oneself into a lake to evade the enemy’s foresight.

But the music magic his junior was casting now was intense and overflowing with power.

Like a storm, it had an overwhelming presence that seemed to sweep away and blow off all the enemy’s foresight spread around.

The result of avoiding being caught by breaking through the enemy’s foresight was the same, but…

…could these two really be called the same magic?

“Isn’t the principle the same?”

“That’s true, but strictly speaking…”

“If there’s no problem, I’ll proceed like this. Originally, senior, isn’t it an unreasonable request for me to learn such a difficult magic exactly as it is? Even if it’s a slightly degraded version, I should be grateful if I can just cast it.”

“It’s not degraded! Hey!”

The golem senior tried to correct his junior’s misconception, but Lee Han focused on his performance again.

Since the magic was still in the process of unfolding, he couldn’t do other things for too long.

Kwarreung!

If another mage had been present, they would have heard the mana swirling and making thunder sounds just like the golem senior.

A storm roughly attacking over the shadow fortress that concealed the caster’s fate.

And the noise that storm created!

The magic was completed with a condensation of mana reminiscent of fiercely carved cliffs. Lee Han exhaled deeply and put down his instrument.

“How is it?”

“What do you mean how. I already told you.”

The golem senior replied curtly.

“Come on. I told you. Even if it’s a slightly degraded version…”

“It’s not degraded!”

“Is that so? Then there’s no particular problem with the current magic?”

“That’s true, but aren’t you curious?”

Any mage would naturally be interested in such a phenomenon.

Especially a mage like his junior who had achieved tremendous magical accomplishments despite being only a second-year.

Why was there such a difference between the music magic cast by reading the sheet music and the original magic?

Could it be that music magic was the original, and the current 【Refuge to the Shadow Fortress】 magic had been simply improved based on this original?

“I’m not curious.”

“…Don’t lie.”

“I’m serious. Rather, if there’s no problem with the magic, I have something to do, so I’ll be going now.”

“What are you going to do?”

“I’m going to meet Prince Jowurin by breaking through the inspector’s surveillance.”

“Aha! Right. Have a safe trip!”

The golem senior decided to investigate the magical question that had just occurred to him by himself.

The golem senior, who pushed his junior out as if shoving him, scattered salt, holy water, and all sorts of reagents helpful for warding off evil at the doorway.

And he prayed to fate in his heart.

‘Please let that junior go find a professor from now on.’

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‘Move before the magic’s duration ends.’

Lee Han moved immediately.

Originally, he might have taken more time to check.

Repeating the magic performance several times, recording the range and duration, checking variables…

But he didn’t have that luxury now. If he tried the magic again and it didn’t work well, it would be a disaster.

…Jowurin’s patience wouldn’t last that long!

‘Honestly, Jowurin’s patience should be considered at 0.8 Gainando level. Unlike Gainando who was trained at Einroguard, Jowurin’s is even lower.’

Pat-

As he cast invisibility magic while running, Lee Han’s figure completely disappeared from the air.

After loading the two spells that seemed most necessary with expansion magic, Lee Han took a deep breath.

The Einroguard main building was the same as usual, but the atmosphere flowing around it was full of unease.

Originally, it made viewers dizzy due to the magic accumulated over an unimaginably long time, but now…

‘Unfamiliar magic is flowing through the air.’

This was definitely the dragon magic that Wuman had cast.

Foresight magic to catch students wandering around at night!

-Good grief. Tripling the patrols.

“!”

At the familiar voices of knights heard from afar, Lee Han lowered his posture.

Although he was using invisibility magic and shadow fortress magic now, careless overconfidence would only bring ruin.

-You were the one who said we should increase patrols normally, weren’t you? You kept complaining that students were ransacking the storage.

-That’s right. But that was a fair and square confrontation between me and the students. It was about determining which was superior: my insight as a knight or the mages’ ingenious ideas. But now there’s none of that, everything’s been covered with magical barriers…

‘What crazy talk is he saying so seriously?’

Lee Han almost rushed out to argue. If this was a scheme, it was truly a cunning and evil one.

What fair and square confrontation?

The students were wandering around at night risking their lives because they were hungry…!

But aside from his indignation, he was able to gain information thanks to the knights’ conversation.

‘So His Majesty really did add new magic.’

If the existing knights patrolled fairly and squarely, no, just by walking around, currently Wuman seemed to have spread magic all around the main building for surveillance.

It was a completely different level of strictness from the previous method that at least gave some breathing room.

‘I don’t know how effective the fortress magic will be. Should I just push into the main building now?’

Lee Han took out a book to communicate with Jowurin.

He had heard the location last time, but he thought he should check again just in case.

Whoosh!

“…?!!!”

Lee Han was startled by flames suddenly shooting up from a distant mountain ridge.

‘What?’

The flames didn’t erupt from just one place. They shot up from the forest near the lake, from the athletic field south of the main building, and even near the main gate.

At first, Lee Han thought worshippers of evil gods, anti-magic extremists, or mage criminals were attacking Einroguard.

Given how much they’d suffered so far, it wouldn’t be strange at all if they came for revenge.

However, the culprits were completely different from his expectations.

“Inspector bastard!! Try inspecting this too!!”

“Inspector, get lost back to the capital!! Einroguard is the students’ land!!”

Students’ declarations amplified by magic burst out from various places.

Students who had been resting in the towers rushed to the lounge windows and applauded in unison.

“The spirit of Einroguard is not dead yet!”

“Well done! Burn it all down!”

“…”

Lee Han was speechless at the much more radical response than he had expected.

‘This is why the Skeleton Principal lets them off moderately…!’

Einroguard students were not the type to be suppressed just because they were strongly oppressed. Rather, they might get angry and cause a riot.

Actually, strictly speaking, they had developed such a personality because the Skeleton Principal had been tormenting them since admission, but that wasn’t important right now.

-I knew this would happen!

-This is why inspectors! They don’t know what education is but keep telling us to do this and that!

-Everyone to your positions! Prevent the damage from spreading!

The knights moved without much surprise.

Looking at the meal plan that the newly arrived inspector put out for every meal, he thought, ‘Ah, the students will soon start a rebellion.’

If students were hungry, they couldn’t start a rebellion, but if you forced them to eat terrible food, they would rebel.

‘…Thanks to that, it worked out well. Surveillance of the main building will decrease.’

Lee Han opened his book. Since fires were visible from all directions, the Watchman Club was also noisy.

Iaktus: Hahaha!! How does it taste!!!

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Did you do this? This isn’t easy to say, but I really respect you.

Iaktus: Hmph. The rebels will keep increasing. Let’s see them try to stop all the sabotage happening everywhere.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: But how are you going to handle the searches later?

Iaktus: There’s a way for everything. Just remember three words: ‘Memory Confusion Potion’.

‘What?!’

Lee Han was inwardly shocked.

He knew Iaktus was a radical member, but who would have thought he was the mastermind behind this commotion!

‘He was much more insane than I thought. I shouldn’t get involved with him.’

Of course, this wasn’t something someone who was currently casting magic alone and infiltrating the main building by himself in this situation should say.

However, Lee Han thought with a shameless attitude.

‘Compared to a senior like that, I’m very good at following rules. Honestly, isn’t this kind of infiltration at a level that could be overlooked as cute?’

Jowrin: Lee Han!!!

Gonadaltes: Ah. Yes. Your Majesty. Are you still on the 5th floor?

Jowrin: Did Lee Han start the fire outside right now?!?!?! Because of Jowrin?!

“…”

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Currently, only Jowrin and Wuman were staying in the 5th floor visitor accommodation village.

In fact, Wuman was going around Einroguard territory without resting for a moment, nagging about everything (thanks to which 17 holes and 53 cracks in the castle walls were immediately repaired), so in reality only Jowrin was staying in the village.

And the only person who could play with this unfortunate princess was a similarly unfortunate archmage.

“Yes! Jowrin has won!”

“Your Majesty. For reference, the queen doesn’t teleport, but moves forward, backward, left, right, and diagonally.”

“Is that so?”

Jowrin grumbled and put it back to its original position.

Unlike chess with a Gold Dragon that could move anywhere forward, backward, left, right, and diagonally and could also use breath attacks, regular chess was still difficult.

“But why did you suddenly suggest playing regular chess?”

“Well… um…”

Jowrin hesitated and then opened her mouth.

“A certain stud… a certain student said this. That playing chess with these special pieces is proof that one is still immature… Jowrin doesn’t really think so though…”

While speaking, Jowrin kept glancing at the Skeleton Principal. She meant for him to quickly agree.

“Actually, being immature is correct. I’m glad you’re growing.”

“…That was the case?!?!?!?!”

Jowrin was shocked.

Then why didn’t anyone tell her?!

“Jo, Jowrin thought this was all proof symbolizing Jowrin’s dignity and virtue… Wait, wasn’t this something Gonadaltes said to Jowrin?”

Jowrin’s eyes turned sharp.

Could it be that Gonadaltes had deceived Jowrin?

“Your Majesty! Look over there! It’s a forest fire!”

“If Gonadaltes is deceiving Jowrin, I will never forgive… It, it really is a forest fire!”

“Your Majesty. Why would I lie to Your Majesty? This mage is so very sad.”

“So, sorry. For Jowrin to suspect Gonadaltes…”

Jowrin reflected deeply.

To emotionally suspect the innocent Gonadaltes. It was shameful behavior for a dragon.

The knight standing guard nearby thought to himself.

‘Isn’t this why they become twisted later?’

Dragons who followed their master around when young would grind their teeth when they matured, and wasn’t the master somewhat responsible for this?

“Bu, but with a fire like this, is it okay to just stay still?”

“Well, Wuman will handle it. And don’t worry. It must be a fire started by students.”

“Lee Han?!”

-…

The knight standing guard nearby thought to himself again.

‘Why do you think of the successor first?’

There were many more students who would start fires. This was an unfair accusation.

The Skeleton Principal heard the accusation against his disciple and nodded.

“Probably so.”

-What do you mean…!

The knight unconsciously made a sound.

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