Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 139

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Chapter 139

Unaware of Lee Han’s inner thoughts, Professor Boladi spoke.

“Agwi. A lower-grade one.”

At the end of the underground dungeon passage illuminated by dim light, a corpse appeared as if it had crawled up with sticky, viscous darkness wrapped around its entire body.

It was a monster called an Agwi.

The undead monster, not under the control of any mage, revealed raw killing intent that could be felt on one’s skin.

-■■■!

At that moment, the magical light summoned by Professor Boladi went out.

An ordinary student would have panicked, but Lee Han didn’t panic at all and immediately recited an incantation.

“Light.”

He had steeled himself to respond no matter when or what Professor Boladi might do.

When Lee Han immediately summoned light, Professor Boladi nodded his head.

It seemed as if he was saying it was a good judgment.

‘Is there no such thing as a Professor Agwi?’

An Agwi was an undead monster transformed due to the sins and evil deeds accumulated by the deceased during their lifetime.

In that case, it wouldn’t be strange if Professor Agwi existed.

Well, if Professor Agwi existed, that would be scary in its own way…

“Spring forth.”

Lee Han whispered in a voice one level lower than the light emission spell he had just cast.

He had quickly grasped that there was nothing good about raising one’s voice in a dungeon.

Professor Boladi gave him high marks internally.

Quick reaction speed and innate wariness.

These were virtues a combat mage should possess.

The water orb split into several pieces, and one of them flew menacingly toward the Agwi.

With a dull sound, the Agwi’s jaw was shattered. The Agwi that had been striding forward staggered.

‘I need to immobilize it.’

For a mage, it was better to avoid close combat. Lee Han aimed for the Agwi’s knee with his water orb.

If it had been another mage, this kind of precise aiming might have been difficult.

However, Lee Han was already well-versed in elemental magic control through his training with Professor Boladi.

One more shot.

The water orb accurately struck the moving Agwi’s knee and knocked it down.

This time, Professor Boladi didn’t even nod his head. It was too obvious a thing to do.

Lee Han wasn’t disappointed since he hadn’t expected much anyway.

However, it was truly regrettable.

If even one of the external guests from outside had been present, it would have been a much more thrilling spectacle than any other mediocre event!

* * *

Lee Han dealt with one lower-grade Agwi before it could even approach.

Then he checked the fallen Agwi. Sadly, the Agwi didn’t have much on it. It didn’t even have the common mana stones.

Professor Boladi, who interpreted Lee Han’s actions in a different way, spoke up.

“Making sure it’s properly down is good behavior. However, getting close to monsters is unnecessary. Learn to check with magic.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

“Keep moving forward.”

Professor Boladi spoke from a position slightly behind and away from Lee Han.

Lee Han was about to walk without much thought when he hesitated.

‘Wait.’

Come to think of it, just moving as Professor Boladi instructed might be dangerous.

What was Professor Boladi’s reason for bringing him to the dungeon in the first place?

Wasn’t it because Lee Han could control water elemental magic in multiples?

If so, there was a high possibility that the dungeon had traps that would force multiple control.

“Space Recognition Spell. Feet, Wrinkle the Ground.”

There was a saying about testing even stone bridges before crossing them.

But in the case of mages, there was no need for that.

They could test the stone bridge and then fly across it.

Seeing Lee Han cast various enhancement magic first, Professor Boladi smiled very faintly.

If a student who learns quickly from experience is a good student, then Lee Han was learning even before experiencing it.

Perhaps the joy of teaching was something like this.

‘Professor Boladi staying quiet makes me feel even more uneasy.’

Lee Han took out a bone fragment from his pocket and threw it.

“Appear, Bone Hand!”

The summoned bone hand flew forward.

Suddenly, an Agwi burst out from what he had thought was a wall. Lee Han’s eyes widened greatly.

‘Stealth?!’

The bone hand swam through the air trying to strangle the Agwi’s neck, but the Agwi’s strength was much stronger. The bone hand was pushed back in an instant.

Thud!

The bone hand was closer to an auxiliary spell rather than magic meant for attack.

It was enough if it just bought time.

Confirming that the Agwi had appeared, Lee Han launched a water orb again to take down the enemy.

“…They can use stealth too?”

“The characteristics of Agwi are diverse.”

“…”

Lee Han decided that this wouldn’t do.

Clink, clink-

As Lee Han began putting on various accessories, Professor Boladi raised his eyebrows slightly.

“Fire magic.”

“Yes.”

“Good thinking. Excellent mages don’t become complacent.”

A mage who only continued using water elements just because they had become familiar with them would find it difficult to develop further.

A great mage had to constantly seek out new challenges.

‘Even if I wanted to settle, you don’t give me time to settle.’

Lee Han thought to himself as he concentrated on the flames.

Unlike the water element he had grown accustomed to, the fire element required much more concentration.

Especially since losing focus even slightly could end up burning the surroundings.

Lee Han’s reason for choosing flames was simple.

‘Let’s shoot at all the likely places.’

Lee Han, who didn’t know much about the monster called Agwi, didn’t have many options.

And what Lee Han chose was quantity.

He would move while shooting at all places where monsters might be hiding!

For that, fire elements were somewhat more advantageous than water elements.

Whoosh!

Small flames rose up around Lee Han. Though they were much smaller than water orbs, considering the properties of flames, this was sufficient.

“You seem to have adapted to this extent.”

“But I just started?”

“Pass through the dungeon and come down. I’ll be waiting.”

With those words, Professor Boladi’s figure disappeared.

“…”

Left alone, Lee Han was about to curse Professor Boladi but stopped.

His voice might be heard after all.

* * *

Thwack!

Cursing the disappeared Professor Boladi wouldn’t change reality.

Lee Han shut his mouth and dealt with the Agwi.

‘I think I roughly understand how this works.’

The Agwi in Professor Boladi’s dungeon here favored using stealth.

The ones that stuck close to walls using the dark dungeon terrain became easy to find once he got used to it.

Even Lee Han couldn’t help but be a little startled by ones that clung to the ceiling holding their breath, or crouched in stagnant puddles…

But even this kind of fear was becoming familiar as time passed.

Flames flew in all directions. Though the flames about two finger joints in size didn’t have much destructive power, their effect was certain.

Like fireworks scattering in all directions, if the flames so much as touched them, the Agwi couldn’t endure and would jump out.

-■■■■!

When they jumped out, he would immediately launch water orbs to knock them down.

Most Agwi could be drawn out first with flames, and if there were any he still couldn’t catch, he could detect them with spatial detection when they approached.

There were cases where he was really unlucky and got ambushed, but in those cases…

Crack!

Lee Han swung his staff and struck the Agwi that had been in the alley.

It might have been his imagination, but it seemed to have more destructive power than the water orb.

“…!”

Lee Han, who had been walking through the narrow cave passage, hesitated when a cool breeze blew from far ahead.

There was quite a spacious area at the end of the passage. It was too dark to see everything, but it felt like a plaza.

Normally, after walking through such a narrow path for so long, this should have been a situation to rejoice about…

‘This really couldn’t be more ominous.’

Lee Han felt his entire body’s intuition sending him warnings.

The moment he passed through the passage and entered the plaza, the agwi might excitedly welcome him!

But he couldn’t avoid going. Lee Han began preparing additional magic.

* * *

Professor Garcia guided the elder mage from outside with a bright expression.

A welcome guest had visited the school during the festival period.

Yumidifus.

A renowned master of water elemental magic even in the Empire, several spells developed by Yumidifus were being used effectively by the Empire’s mages.

Since Professor Garcia had also learned Yumidifus’s magic during his school days, he couldn’t help but be delighted by such an elder mage’s visit.

“It’s truly an honor to meet you.”

“There’s no need to regard this old mage so highly…”

No one would ever expect that Yumidifus, who looked like a kind grandmother, had been a combat mage who achieved all sorts of brilliant accomplishments in her younger days.

Professor Garcia looked at Yumidifus once again with eyes filled with respect.

“The magic school is always such a beautiful place to see.”

“It’s a place with good scenery.”

“The students are good too.”

“I think so as well.”

“The professors are…”

“They’re all excellent people.”

“That’s not true.”

Yumidifus shook her head. Professor Garcia coughed awkwardly with an embarrassed expression.

“Is, is that so? Everyone’s working hard though…”

“It’s not a matter of ability but a matter of character… Well, it can’t be helped since Gonadaltes is here. Gonadaltes might be the root of all problems.”

“…”

Professor Garcia felt his desire to agree with the great elder mage’s words clash with his sense that as a professor, he shouldn’t badmouth the principal.

I must endure!

“Do you have any interesting disciples?”

“Yes.”

“There’s no joy greater than raising good disciples. I managed to do other things reasonably well, but I wasn’t good at raising disciples.”

At Yumidifus’s humble words, Professor Garcia shook his head as if to say what are you talking about.

“Your disciples are all remarkable though…”

“They’re all lacking. Come to think of it, is Voladi Bagrec here?”

“Yes.”

“I should meet him once before I go. Would you guide me?”

“Of course.”

Professor Garcia suddenly had a thought while guiding Yumidifus.

Come to think of it, wasn’t it time for 【Basic Magic Abuse】, no, 【Repetitive Learning of Basic Magic Combat】 right now?

‘I hope Yumidifus sees the lecture and gets angry.’

Professor Garcia went down to the underground and opened the lecture hall door.

However, no one was there.

“???”

“He must be conducting the lecture somewhere else.”

Yumidifus tapped the floor with his staff. Then the footsteps remaining on the floor glowed bright green, revealing their traces.

“Ah. Since the weather is nice, in the courtyard…”

“?”

Yumidifus looked at Professor Garcia as if asking what she was talking about.

Boladi wasn’t the type to hold class in the courtyard just because the weather was nice.

“…Is that not it?”

“He probably went to a dungeon.”

“Excuse me?”

“A dungeon. A dungeon. When students’ achievements reach a certain level, it’s faster to hone them through actual combat. Is he teaching third years?”

“…”

“I’m asking if he’s teaching third years? Fourth years?”

Professor Garcia, who had been slightly stunned by the shocking words, shook her head at Yumidifus’s question.

“Huh? Well… Professor Bagrek isn’t teaching third or fourth years.”

“Fifth years? If it’s fifth years, off campus would be better than on campus.”

“…”

Professor Garcia didn’t answer.

Instead, she quickly moved her steps in anxiety and impatience.

“Let’s go!”

“What’s wrong?”

“I think Professor Bagrek took new students to a dungeon!”

“New students?”

“Yes!”

“They must have remarkable abilities…”

“Abilities or whatever, that’s not the point!”

Professor Garcia burst out angrily at the Elder Mage she respected.

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