Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 114

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Chapter 114

The group skillfully opened the door behind the central entrance on the main building’s first floor and entered inside.

Spaces normally not open to students began to reveal themselves beside the corridor.

The Black Turtle Tower students found themselves unconsciously captivated by the sight of empty banquet halls and large halls.

They were probably thinking about why such places existed while students had to eat hard bread in the common room.

Lee Han and Ratford exchanged glances.

-Never let your guard down.

-Of course.

Ratford recalled the thief’s creed.

‘When returning to a place you’ve already hit, you must be several times more careful.’

Lee Han thought of the Skeleton Principal.

‘Since the underground passage was breached last time, he definitely changed and strengthened the defense system.’

They couldn’t expect the same luck as last time of entering the underground without any signs of presence.

Clank.

Clank.

Click.

Click.

As expected.

I could see plate armor walking toward me from far down the corridor.

Even so, does it make sense to mistake me for a freshman?

-Even so, how does it make sense to mistake me for a new student?

-…

When it was discovered that Lee Han and Ratford had successfully escaped outside through the underground supply warehouse passage, the Warehouse Keeper was summoned by the Principal and scolded.

However, the Warehouse Keeper remained unshaken.

-But even if you say that, I cannot distinguish mana levels.

-You foolish… Fine. I understand. Certainly, saying this won’t change things immediately.

-You foolish… Fine. I understand. Certainly, saying this won’t change things immediately.

-You foolish… Fine. I understand. Certainly, saying this won’t change things immediately.

The Skeleton Principal didn’t say anything more about the Warehouse Keeper’s attitude.

The Warehouse Keeper was too competent to scold just for missing Wardanaz this time.

He wasn’t simply managing supplies in the underground warehouse, but was responsible for various miscellaneous tasks including facility and equipment repair, maintenance, and management.

Moreover, he occasionally patrolled and caught unfortunate students wandering around at night, so they couldn’t scold him further for this one mistake.

And honestly, even the Skeleton Principal saw this mistake as unavoidable.

Who could have known that an oddball like the Wardanaz family boy would appear before the Warehouse Keeper who distinguished intruders by mana?

-I’ll lend you my summoned creatures. Don’t rely too much on mana alone, and confirm intruders through other methods as well.

-I’ll lend you my summoned creatures. Don’t rely too much on mana alone, and confirm intruders through other methods as well.

-I’ll lend you my summoned creatures. Don’t rely too much on mana alone, and confirm intruders through other methods as well.

-Yes. I’ll do my best.

-If you find the Wardanaz family boy, absolutely don’t let him escape. You must send him to the punishment room.

-If you find the Wardanaz family boy, absolutely don’t let him escape. You must send him to the punishment room.

-If you find the Wardanaz family boy, absolutely don’t let him escape. You must send him to the punishment room.

-Why must I do that?

-Can’t you just do it when I tell you to?

-Can’t you just do it when I tell you to?

-Can’t you just do it when I tell you to?

Anyway, after the conversation with the Skeleton Principal, the Warehouse Keeper had definitely raised the security level of the area behind the main building and underground.

Students were similar to mice and ants in their behavior.

Once they knew a route worked, they would keep flocking to that direction afterward.

All the more reason to give the students a sharp lesson.

Don’t even dream of coming this way!

The summoned creatures lent by the Skeleton Principal would surely catch the students who entered without fear.

The Warehouse Keeper began his inspection today as well, walking along the predetermined route.

* * *

“It’s walking armor!”

The Black Turtle Tower students whispered in terror.

“Do you know that thing?”

“We’ve encountered it before.”

The Black Turtle Tower students had expressions of dread.

How many students had been caught because of that walking armor.

Since there was no person inside, even when attacked fiercely, it would gather its armor pieces and rise again, and even if they managed to restrain it, it would immediately call for backup.

Lee Han fell into thought.

‘Is there a way to capture it?’

From what he heard, it was a summoned creature that reminded him of Zorban II, the owner of the sandy beach from before.

A non-living, inanimate type of summoned creature.

But being non-living didn’t make it invincible.

If it took damage beyond a certain threshold, the summoned creature would no longer endure and would be reverse-summoned.

The problem was…

‘Lightning elemental magic would be somewhat effective, but if I use it now…’

It wasn’t about whether they could win or lose in a fight, but the moment they fought, it would be unconditionally disadvantageous for the students.

Moreover, if he used noisy and flashy magic like lightning elemental magic, it would be equivalent to shouting ‘We’re here!’

‘It would be better to avoid it.’

“It doesn’t seem to have noticed us yet, so it would be better to avoid it. Does that thing chase well?”

“I’m not sure. It varies depending on the situation…”

Lee Han turned around to retreat with the group for now.

Clank.

Clank.

Clank.

Click.

Click.

However, before long, another suit of plate armor had appeared far behind them.

The faces of the Black Turtle Tower students turned deathly pale.

“I’ll lure them…”

“Move aside!”

Lee Han opened the door without hesitation. It was a door he had been eyeing to open just in case, ever since he entered the hallway.

An old space that seemed to have once been used as a classroom appeared. Behind the chairs and desks, all sorts of miscellaneous items were piled up.

The Black Turtle Tower students unconsciously scanned through the miscellaneous items to see if there was anything useful. It was a kind of occupational hazard.

“If everyone’s armor comes inside here…”

“I know. Wordanaz. You’re telling us to scatter and run, right? No matter who gets caught?”

When faced with an insurmountable crisis, they scatter and flee to minimize damage.

The students of the Black Turtle Tower had already mastered this principle.

“No. I’m going to take it down with magic, so don’t be startled and just run. It’s probably going to be incredibly loud.”

Seeing Lee Han boldly bring up the story of taking down the plate armor, the Black Turtle Tower students thought.

‘We brought him well!’

How many people would there be who would say they’d take down plate armor like that?

The Black Turtle Tower students really thought they had done well to bring him along.

Clatter!

Clatter!

Clatter!

“?”

A clattering sound came from the miscellaneous items behind them. The students who had been extremely tense turned their heads in panic.

“Did you touch it?”

“No… did you?”

Paper and a quill pen floated up. Then they carved out letters.

-Can’t you be quiet, new students?

“A… a ghost!”

-Not a ghost, but a senior. You stupid new students.

At the letters carved on the paper, the students stopped trembling. However, they weren’t completely reassured.

“If you’re a senior, why… are you doing this?”

“That’s right. Show us your face.”

-Don’t talk nonsense. I don’t want to go to the punishment room. Even this is extremely dangerous right now!

“…?”

Lee Han momentarily wondered what they were talking about.

‘Ah. If you make contact with first years, the principal sends you to the punishment room.’

It was something the Skeleton Principal would definitely do.

If that weren’t the case, there would have been some students who had made contact with seniors.

-Anyway, keep your voices down and communicate through writing. If you don’t want to get caught by that armor. And don’t talk nonsense about new students using magic to take it down!

At the words of the unnamed senior, Lee Han felt slightly repentant.

Was it that unreasonable?

“I thought I could use lightning element magic… I’m sorry.”

-…You know how to use lightning element magic?

The other person seemed slightly flustered. The handwriting trembled.

-Still, don’t do it because it’ll make the surroundings noisy. I’ll get caught too.

Lee Han and the Black Turtle Tower students realized that meeting a senior like this was quite a precious opportunity.

When would they get another chance to talk with someone who had entered the school first?

“Senior. How can we shake off that armor?”

“Senior. What’s the best way to get to the kitchen from here…”

“Senior. What comes out on the 【Basic Imperial Geometry and Arithmetic】 exam?”

The senior seemed flustered by the sudden flood of questions.

-Am I here to answer your questions! Can’t you just stay still right now? Not even knowing what kind of armor that is…

Lee Han stopped his friends.

It would be a loss if they couldn’t hear stories they could hear by unnecessarily provoking the senior.

“Everyone calm down and let’s listen to what the senior has to say. Senior. What kind of thing is that?”

The walking armor was a summoned creature that the Skeleton Principal often used.

Since it wasn’t alive, it could walk around the school all day, and it even had the ability to detect heat, making it a notorious summoned creature that caught unlucky students one after another!

But as the school treated them harshly, students also evolved accordingly.

Students also had several tricks.

-Disrupting with fire magic, deceiving with heat-bearing illusions, or covering thickly so heat doesn’t leak out… I’ve cast an illusion on this lecture hall. Even if the armors open the door and look, they won’t notice. But if you make noise, that’s completely useless, so please everyone keep your mouths shut!

‘Ah. So that’s why I felt something off.’

Lee Han understood by himself.

When he had entered the lecture hall earlier, he had felt a subtle sense of unease.

No matter how he looked, nothing seemed different, so he thought he had been mistaken, but it was an illusion that made only appropriate heat detectable.

‘It can be utilized in this way too.’

Lee Han thought he had learned something good and memorized it. He would have many occasions to walk around the school in the future, so it would be helpful.

“I didn’t notice at all.”

“Me neither.”

-If you could notice it, would it be illusion magic?

The quill pen moved quickly, leaving letters. Somehow the writing seemed to contain pride.

“So what were you doing here, senior?”

-…

“???”

-…I was going to the kitchen.

“That works out well! We were also going to the kitchen.”

“But why were you trying to go to the kitchen, senior?”

“But why were you trying to go to the kitchen, senior?”

“But why were you trying to go to the kitchen, senior?”

The senior fell silent again. Lee Han asked.

“Isn’t it because you’re hungry?”

“Come on, Wardanaz. Surely not.”

“Right. They’re a senior, not a new student…”

-…That’s right. There’s a reagent hidden in the kitchen, and I need that reagent.

The senior hurriedly left an excuse. The other students admired it saying ‘as expected’, but Lee Han sent a suspicious look.

‘I don’t think so.’

-All the armors have passed. Let’s move now.

“Could we possibly learn the illusion magic that fooled the armor?”

Lee Han asked.

Of course, if he waited, he might learn such magic someday during illusion magic class, but Lee Han needed it right now.

When meeting walking armor, he couldn’t say ‘please wait until I learn it.’

The senior snorted and wrote down letters.

-Even if I teach you, it’s not magic that a new student can learn right now.

“Still, at least the method…”

When Lee Han persistently asked, the senior wrote down an explanation as if annoyed.

Pahaite’s Lower Illusion.

This magic was what had fooled the walking armors.

As could be seen from the incantation ‘Heat, distort the air’, it was magic that summoned illusions containing heat.

Instead of changing the scenery inside the lecture hall with this magic, the senior had just spread appropriate heat like a curtain.

This alone was sufficient to avoid the gaze of the walking armor, and summoning illusions along with it consumed considerable mana.

There was no reason to wastefully consume mana unnecessarily.

‘A new student won’t be able to do it.’

The reason for telling them so obediently was because they thought it would be absolutely impossible for a new student.

Starting from how to handle mana to the amount of mana they could use, everything was insufficient, so how could they use this magic?

Rather than refusing for no reason, it was faster to tell them and make them give up quickly.

-New students, quickly to the kitchen…

Heat, distort the air!

”
Heat, distort the air!
“

Heat, distort the air!

Along with the incantation, an illusion enveloped Lee Han’s group.

To the senior’s eyes watching from outside, Lee Han’s group seemed to have disappeared.

Since it was his first time casting it, Lee Han wasn’t confident whether it had been cast properly.

“Is this properly cast?”

-…the aesthetic sense of the illusion is somewhat lacking… I suppose… should I say the color sense is weak…

The senior who had been nitpicking without realizing it became aware of what he was doing and blushed.

What kind of shameful behavior was this!

How to Live as a Mage in Magic School

How to Live as a Mage in Magic School

How to Live as a Mage in Magic School

Publication Date: August 15, 2021

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