Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 126

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Chapter 126

Whether undead summons had a rebellious phase or not wasn’t what mattered.

The fact was that Sharkan was showing rebellious behavior right now.

“Sharkan. Come here.”

As Lee Han’s voice dropped lower, the mouse trembled instead.

Being so stubborn in front of the Principal – wasn’t that undead summon going to get smashed to pieces?

However, instead of beating Sharkan to pieces, Lee Han tried to coax and cajole him somehow.

“Sharkan! Why are you acting like this?”

Scritch scritch scritch!

Sharkan pretended not to hear Lee Han’s words and started digging at the ground.

Lee Han was bewildered.

For a summoned creature that had been obedient until now to act like this…

Professor Mortum had definitely mentioned it before.

That undead summons don’t necessarily obey their master’s commands absolutely.

Rather, they disobey more often than not.

The conflicting nature of the living and the dead aside, the stronger an undead summon became, the more it was bound to disobey.

Since Sharkan was certainly a strong summoned creature, this behavior wasn’t unreasonable.

Tap tap-

Nilia pointed with her claw at Lee Han’s coat front pocket, then made a throwing motion toward Sharkan.

“You’re telling me to tempt him with food?”

Nilia nodded her head.

“Gainando??”

Nilia shook her head frantically in panic.

Gainando, who had poked his head out of the coat pocket at some point, was squeaking while looking at Nilia with an expression of shock and betrayal.

‘Not that! Beer candy!’

“Ah. You meant the beer candy.”

Lee Han belatedly understood what Nilia meant.

Because Gainando was in the pocket, he had moved the beer candy to a different pocket.

When he belatedly took out the beer candy, Sharkan suddenly perked up.

“…Fetch!”

Lee Han instinctively threw the beer candy in the opposite direction. Then Sharkan, who had been lying down, excitedly jumped up into the air and devoured the beer candy.

“Are you in a better mood now?”

However, Sharkan only ate the beer candy and lay down again.

The mouse watching became anxious and ran to Sharkan, squeaking.

Squeak squeak squeak!!

It was roughly a plea along the lines of ‘You could really die if you keep this up,’ but Sharkan turned his head away with a sulky expression.

Lee Han and Nilia fell into deep thought.

“Clearly… it seems like he wants something.”

Nilia nodded while mumbling.

No matter how rebellious, there must be some reason why a summoned creature that followed Lee Han was showing such behavior.

The summoned creature itself was clearly wanting something.

“Really want to eat Gainando… Just kidding. Gainando.”

Gainando let out a sorrowful squeak and tried to hide inside his coat.

“If you had done your assignment when I told you to, this wouldn’t have happened.”

‘That doesn’t seem related though…’

Yoner was impressed by Lee Han’s attitude of using this Polymorph Forest as an opportunity to correct bad habits.

He’d make a really good dormitory supervisor!

“Sharkan. Sharkan? You need to tell me what you want so I can help you. If there’s something you want, try to express it somehow.”

Sharkan pretended not to hear and stayed still, then slowly turned around.

Then he pointed to himself.

Though completed, having only bones made him look quite shabby and gave off an eerie feeling.

“…Huh? Do you need a body too?”

Sharkan excitedly wagged his tail bones as if that was correct. While it was fortunate that the summoned creature’s mood had improved, Lee Han was even more flustered.

‘What should I make flesh out of?’

Yoner, who was knowledgeable in alchemy, pointed to the clay located beside the forest.

It was soft and sticky clay that would be quite usable when creating golems or other summoned creatures.

“How about that?”

Sharkan approached the clay and rolled around in it. Then clay flesh began to cover his bones.

“Oh…!”

Lee Han and his friends were amazed by the sight.

Though the coloring wasn’t great, it was a much more dignified appearance than when only bones were walking around.

Shake shake shake!

However, Sharkan didn’t seem satisfied.

After looking around his body for a moment, he immediately began shaking off the clay vigorously.

Lee Han quickly summoned a water shield to block it. A speck of clay flew through the gap and splattered onto Gainando’s face.

Squeak squeak squeak!

“I guess he didn’t like the clay.”

The red fox made a dejected expression. Lee Han comforted him as if it was okay.

“Still, it’s fortunate we found a method. There’s no real loss.”

Gainando brushed off the clay with his front paws and sent a very displeased look.

There is a loss!

When the principal and his group didn’t leave the forest, the anxious mouse joined the conversation.

Squeak squeak squeak squeak-

“Follow you?”

The mouse nodded and guided Lee Han and his friends to the spring they had passed earlier.

It was spring water where cold iron water was pooled. It was also the water that had created the spring slime.

Since it was spring water mixed with special mana, there was a high possibility that even that picky undead summon would be satisfied.

Lee Han also realized the spring water was special and sent a slightly expectant gaze.

‘This might be enough.’

Splash!

Sharkan jumped into the spring and came walking out, creating a body for himself out of water.

The thick, blue-colored flesh, denser than ordinary water, made Sharkan look even more mystical.

Lee Han and his friends were even more impressed than before.

This should surely…

Shake!

However, Sharkan coldly shook off all the water.

As a result, Gainando got hit in the face with water droplets again.

Squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak!

‘Hmm. He seems to be telling me to discard it.’

Lee Han couldn’t speak rat language, but he could understand what Gainando was saying.

“Sharkan. I’m sorry, but I have no other way to create a body for you.”

Lee Han decided to use his last resort.

Sharkan, just stay there in that pond!

It wasn’t a bluff or threat. What else could he do when it wouldn’t listen?

Lee Han slowly turned around.

Then Sharkan made whimpering sounds and pitifully scratched at the ground. Then it tried to bite Lee Han’s staff.

“No. Sharkan.”

However, Sharkan didn’t give up and kept pointing at Lee Han’s staff. As if it wanted something.

“…You want me to create it?”

Sharkan excitedly wagged its tail bones. Though he figured out what it wanted, Lee Han was still perplexed.

‘I don’t have that ability.’

He only had a few elemental magic spells available, and among them, there were no elements that could satisfy a picky summoned creature like Sharkan.

If there was any element with potential…?

“Alright. Let me try once.”

!

When Lee Han raised his staff, Sharkan sat down and watched with an expectant expression.

“Strike down, Lightning of Perkuntra!”

When lightning flew fiercely, burning the air, Sharkan was startled and dodged.

Then it pounded the ground frantically with a very angry expression.

“…That wasn’t it?”

Lee Han, who naturally thought the other would want a lightning-made body, was flustered by the reaction.

Isn’t lightning cool?

Sharkan huffed and pointed at the spring water.

‘Was it asking me to create water?’

Lee Han was a bit worried even as he prepared the 【Water Generation】 magic.

It was a creature that even disliked the water from that special spring, so would it be satisfied with water Lee Han summoned?

However, contrary to his worries, when a water mass appeared in the air, Sharkan excitedly embraced that water.

The water changed form and became Sharkan’s body.

“Are you okay?”

Sharkan, now transformed into a water-like form, growled and pointed at the staff.

“You want more?”

Sharkan nodded his head repeatedly.

Lee Han summoned more water.

The summoned water flowed into Sharkan’s body, and even there it didn’t stop, continuing on and on…

Squeak squeak squeak?

The forest mouse that was watching became confused.

The undead summon that was compressing massive amounts of water to turn into its own muscle was bewildering enough, but the principal who kept summoning water without stopping was equally bewildering.

Just how much mana did he have to be able to waste it like that?

* * *

“That was really a strange experience.”

“…”

“…”

Lee Han and his friends returned to the tower in the middle of the night with completely drained faces.

Gainando was rubbing his face with his hands, feeling like there were still mouse whiskers on his face.

‘We couldn’t reach the stables, but at least I completed Sharkan.’

Because they had wandered too much in Polymorph Forest, Lee Han had no choice but to return even after breaking through the forest.

It wasn’t that there was no progress, but somehow it felt disappointing.

‘But with an exam tomorrow as well, I really can’t push myself too hard…’

Growl!

“?”

Sharkan rushed at Gainando. When the large blue summoned creature charged at him, Gainando was startled and dodged.

“Why, why are you doing this?! Is it because I teased you with food!? I’ll give it to you! I just need to give it to you!”

‘Did he tease him in the meantime?’

When Sharkan knocked Gainando down and climbed on top of him, the other Blue Dragon Tower students in the common room found it fascinating.

“Is that the bone summoned creature?”

“How did you complete it?”

“It looks much better than before. Want to try eating this too?”

The friends threw food one by one to Sharkan who was sitting on top of Gainando.

Sharkan excitedly caught and ate them while wagging his tail.

“Let… let me go…”

Grrrowl!

“Ah, no. You don’t have to let me go.”

When Sharkan got angry, Gainando quickly lowered his tail. However, Sharkan wasn’t angry at Gainando.

Woof! Woof woof woof!

“???”

When Sharkan barked while looking outside, Lee Han instinctively grabbed his staff first.

Nothing changed just because they were inside the common room.

At this magic school, if you let your guard down just because you were inside the common room, masked students from other towers might break in and steal your flag.

Click!

The common room main door opened and skeleton warriors they had seen somewhere before suddenly appeared.

The students were shocked by such an unexpected appearance.

“Has… has the school fallen?!”

“That can’t be! Flash!”

Lee Han reacted first. As he swung his staff, lightning flew out, making the students’ hair stand on end.

The skeleton warrior that appeared in front took a direct hit and turned to powder.

“Wake up the sleeping kids! The Principal is trying to attack us!”

“Why… why?!”

“I don’t know either…”

Lee Han stopped mid-sentence.

…Don’t tell me he’s doing this to prevent us from studying the night before the quiz?

Surprisingly, his instincts whispered that this was probably true.

“…Anyway, everyone gather! Block the common room door!”

“O-okay!”

Lee Han floated water orbs and fired them consecutively to push back the skeleton warriors.

Meanwhile, the other friends quickly grabbed sofas and chairs and began blocking the front of the common room main door.

Asan, who checked the windows, shouted in surprise.

“Undead are surrounding the tower with torches!”

‘This is maddening.’

Woof! Woof woof!

Lee Han petted Sharkan. If it hadn’t been for Sharkan, he would have been attacked before he could even grab his staff.

“Sharkan. Stay on standby and chase away anyone who comes in. Everyone help build the barricade!”

The Imperial Princess came down with disheveled hair and swung her staff.

Mud layered over the barricade and began binding it firmly together.

Yoner threw the potions he had made to his friends. Gainando quickly cleared away the snacks so they wouldn’t fall on the floor.

Thud, thud, thud-

The other friends who had been sleeping also came down and the barricade in front of the common room door was completed for now, but the sounds from outside didn’t stop.

The students shuddered at the rhythmic knocking sounds.

“What on earth… is this…?”

Blockheads… open the door…

“…”

“…”

The Blue Dragon Tower students grew serious at the voice from outside and piled the barricade even higher.

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