Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 219
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Chapter 219
His friends were flustered, but Lee Han remained calm.
It was because he was acting based on valid reasoning, absolutely not personal emotions.
‘Without Durgyu, the White Tiger Tower guys will never cooperate with me. They’d rather cause a commotion. If they cause a commotion in a situation like this, it could draw the Rock Drake’s attention.’
Yoner tilted his head at that explanation.
“But couldn’t we just leave them alone…”
“Let’s go.”
“…”
Lee Han amplified his invisibility magic and then moved forward.
Yoner followed behind him with a subtle expression.
* * *
“Everyone, don’t move.”
“Ugh… Uhk!”
The White Tiger Tower students were startled as if they might faint.
Blue Dragon Tower students had suddenly appeared out of thin air, so they couldn’t help but be shocked.
“What, what is it. It’s Wardanaz.”
“Actually, that’s not really reassuring…”
One of the White Tiger Tower students muttered.
Lee Han decided to remember the face of the guy who had just muttered that.
“Don’t make any noise. If you make noise, I’ll attack.”
“You don’t need to say that, we know. Wardanaz. We’re not some new recruits.”
“?”
The White Tiger Tower students seemed to not understand the current situation.
Lee Han pondered how to say ‘You are now suppressed, if you lay down your weapons and surrender, we will treat you as prisoners according to Einroguard regulations’ in a less offensive way.
“We were actually looking for you. Wardanaz. Durgyu earnestly asked us, so we came here.”
“!”
Lee Han hesitated.
Surprisingly, these White Tiger Tower students had come seeking cooperation!
“…”
The Blue Dragon Tower students who belatedly realized this fact exchanged glances with each other.
‘…What should we do?’
‘Let’s pretend we don’t know anything for now.’
‘Don’t our poses holding staffs look a bit suspicious?’
The Blue Dragon Tower students who had been holding their staffs ready to cast magic the moment Lee Han gave the signal quietly lowered their hands.
Their poses had looked rather suspicious.
The White Tiger Tower students also seemed to sense the strange atmosphere and asked.
“But Wardanaz. Why did you bring so many friends…”
“As you know, the library is dangerous.”
“Is that why?”
The White Tiger Tower students who had been puzzled by the murderous aura emanating from the Blue Dragon Tower students nodded as if they understood for now.
Gainando, who still hadn’t grasped the situation, whispered.
“When do we attack?”
“Attack?”
When Yoner gestured, the other friends quickly suppressed Gainando.
Lee Han said without changing his expression at all.
“He was talking about when to attack the Rock Drake.”
“Rock… you’re going to attack the Rock Drake???”
The White Tiger Tower students looked at Lee Han as if he were insane.
They had suspected that Wardanaz was a mad archmage who had devoted his entire life to all kinds of magic and secrets, but they never thought he’d be crazy to that extent!
‘Oops. I made a mistake.’
In his haste, his excuse came out a bit strange. Lee Han quickly clarified.
“It’s not that we’re definitely going to attack the Rock Drake, but that we’d attack if we absolutely couldn’t avoid it.”
“I… I see.”
“Y-you’ll do it when we’re not around, right?”
Despite the clarification, the White Tiger Tower students had already backed away two or three steps.
Even if it was an unavoidable situation, the very idea of attacking a Rock Drake was too frightening.
Even the most reckless knight family origin students wouldn’t think ‘Since it’s come to this, let’s attack the Rock Drake’…
“…Fine. Just tell me why you came.”
* * *
Actually, the White Tiger Tower students were in much better shape than the Blue Dragon Tower students.
Unlike the Blue Dragon Tower students whose only advantages were their family background and magical abilities, the White Tiger Tower students basically had the ability to take care of themselves wherever they were thrown.
As such, the White Tiger Tower students moved a bit more actively.
-Let’s split into groups of three and search for a path!
If you were confident, splitting up and moving was much more advantageous.
Lee Han would never do such a reckless thing, but as you know, the White Tiger Tower students were people whose courage was second to none.
And this time, luck was on their side too.
-Found it! There’s a downward entrance here!
-Call all the other guys too! Tell them we found it!
When one group found the path going downward, Durgyu earnestly asked his friends.
-Sorry, but could you do me one favor?
-Depends on what kind of favor it is. Durgyu.
-Do you remember when I gave you two pieces of butter sponge cake as a gift last time?
-…Alright. We’ll do it. What is it?
-I’d like you to quietly go and let the Blue Dragon Tower friends know about this location. I’d go myself, but I’m a bit conscious of how it would look.
-What?! Why!? As expected, to Wardanaz…
-…It’s not like that. I owe him a debt. You guys think about it too, on your knight’s honor. Don’t you owe Wardanaz anything?
-…It’s not like we don’t…
The White Tiger Tower friends were speechless at Durgyu’s words.
They too had honor as knight family origins. They couldn’t completely deny the facts about how Lee Han had helped them.
However…
-Even thinking about it on our knight’s honor, we’ve been had too many times.
-Right. We’ve been had way too many times.
Honor or whatever, they really had been had too many times!
However, in the end, his friends couldn’t beat Durgyu.
When words like ‘honorably’ and ‘repaying received kindness’ came up, they couldn’t ignore them as knight family origins.
-I really don’t want to go.
-Right. You know what that bastard Wardanaz might do.
-If we’re going, couldn’t you increase our numbers… Isn’t this group a bit insufficient?
* * *
“So we came here after receiving Durgyu’s earnest request.”
The White Tiger Tower students completely omitted the parts where they grumbled and complained.
Lee Han was slightly moved.
‘Durgyu…’
Among the White Tiger Tower students, Durgyu was proof that there were people with conscience who knew what honor meant.
To think he would help like this.
“How did you manage to come looking for Wardanaz? Didn’t you really hate getting involved with Wardanaz?”
“…Hmph. I don’t let such petty emotions interfere with what needs to be done. Those from noble families probably wouldn’t understand. This sense of responsibility as a knight.”
“We didn’t care about any grudges against Wardanaz at all. We only thought about the debt we owe to Wardanaz. That’s what honor is.”
‘These guys really didn’t want to come.’
Lee Han thought to himself.
The Blue Dragon Tower students were indignant but didn’t say anything.
Just telling them about the downward entrance was definitely a favor they owed.
“Right. Thank you. Then will you guide us?”
The White Tiger Tower students took the lead and began taking the Blue Dragon Tower students with them.
Since the terrain hadn’t changed, there wasn’t much problem finding the way, but that didn’t make it completely easy.
“It’s a Rock Drake!”
The monster that had tormented the students throughout this dungeon conquest was still wandering around the wasteland.
When the Blue Dragon Tower students made pained expressions, the White Tiger Tower students spoke confidently.
“What? Don’t you know how to deal with Rock Drakes?”
“Do you know?”
“Of course. We encountered a Rock Drake once on our way here, and if we didn’t know how to deal with it, how would we have made it this far?”
Lee Han was surprised by the confident attitude of the White Tiger Tower students.
‘Is there a method passed down only in knight families?’
Lee Han was also a student who read every book he could get his hands on in the Wardanaz family and received additional monster studies from Professor Lightningstep.
However, there was no trick for easily dealing with Rock Drakes anywhere.
What was it?
‘If it’s a method passed down only in knight families, I can’t miss it.’
“Now. Watch!”
The White Tiger Tower students threw themselves flat on the dusty dirt ground. They didn’t care that the hot, parched dirt ground dirtied their clothes and limbs.
“The Rock Drake’s field of vision is higher than you’d think. If we lie down like this, it won’t spot us.”
“And in this position!”
One of the White Tiger Tower students began crawling across the ground. He crawled like an insect scraping the earth, making sure his body didn’t rise up.
One of the Blue Dragon Tower students watching muttered.
“That looks like a bug…”
“Shh. Be quiet.”
“See? If you crawl like this, you can avoid the Rock Drake.”
“I’ll just cast invisibility magic on you.”
At Lee Han’s words, the White Tiger Tower students who were dusting off the dirt stopped.
…Huh?
That was possible?
“You… know how to do that too?”
“It’s possible.”
“…Then why did you make us do this?”
“I wanted to learn if your method was better.”
“…”
Despite the explanation, the White Tiger Tower students glared at Lee Han.
* * *
“Over there, that hill standing diagonally to the side is where we found the entrance.”
“I see.”
Confirming the sight of a hill about 4-5 meters high with a steep cliff, Lee Han nodded.
They probably climbed up the gentle slope on the opposite side.
“…Wait. Are there still students who haven’t crossed over?”
“Who knows? Why? Do you have friends still remaining?”
“It seems like it.”
Lee Han enhanced his vision by wastefully pouring mana around his eyes.
Then he could see the White Tiger Tower students on the distant hill.
‘Are they perhaps waiting for friends who haven’t come yet? To teach them how to go down?’
If that was the case, the friendship of knights was truly remarkab…
-Block it! Don’t let it climb up!
-Take out all the potions you have! We’re dead if the Rock Drake climbs up!
“…”
Seeing the White Tiger Tower students moving their mouths and frantically running here and there, Lee Han frowned.
Unaware of this, the White Tiger Tower students chattered beside him.
“Wardanaz. No matter how excellent you are at magic, finding paths like this is a completely different…”
“Tsk.”
“…Did I act too conceited? You’re not angry, are you?”
* * *
-The door is locked. How do we open it?
-Search the nearby bookshelf. There might be a key or a way to open it.
-Right. …It’s a Rock Drake!!
-What? Open it with a Rock Drake? How do we get a Rock Drake here?
-No! There’s a Rock Drake over there!!
A Rock Drake appeared before the White Tiger Tower students who were wondering how to open the downward door.
-■■■■■…
While the students showed various emotions like fear, despair, and intimidation to the extreme, the Rock Drake closed the distance and positioned itself in front of the hill.
Then it glared at the students.
Even someone who didn’t know much about monsters could tell ‘that creature is very displeased right now’ from its expression full of dissatisfaction.
How much time had passed?
The White Tiger Tower students, who had been hesitating while only sweating, couldn’t endure any longer when their opponent didn’t move and made the first move.
-Is… is it warning us to leave?
-Let’s move for now!
-What about the door? It’s the door going downward??
-Is that important right now?!
As soon as the words ended, the Rock Drake began advancing.
It wasn’t a terrifying charge to trample enemies, but just walking toward the hill created unimaginable intimidation.
“It’s coming this way!!”
“Buy time somehow! Even if we have to go down the other side, we need to buy time!”
“Bring all the repelling potions you have! Throw them!”
“Prepare magic. Aim for the eyes! We have to threaten it somehow!”
Smack!
A water orb that flew from somewhere accurately struck the Rock Drake’s nose.
The Rock Drake, which had been walking relatively slowly, turned its head at a speed incomparable to before.
It was clearly an irritated movement.
“It’s… it’s fine, right? Wardanaz?”
“Well…”
“…”
Lee Han was looking at the Rock Drake with an indifferent, cold expression. The White Tiger Tower students beside him unconsciously recalled what they had heard earlier.
-It was about when to attack the Rock Drake.
-It’s not necessarily about attacking the Rock Drake, but attacking when there’s truly no other choice.
‘…Th-this bastard. Is he really trying to catch me right now…?!?!’
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