Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 224

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Chapter 224

Anyway, next time I should go in alone… Listen to everything before you leave!

As Lee Han shuffled away, the Skeleton Principal grumbled and shouted.

“Please understand, Principal. He defeated all those Shadow Wraiths. He must be exhausted.”

When Professor Garcia, who arrived late, took his side, the Skeleton Principal felt frustrated.

She doesn’t even know properly!

She’s saying that because she didn’t see it directly…! Professor Garcia. Do you know how easily that guy caught them?

“What’s the difference between easy and hard when defeating monsters? They’re all equally difficult.”

…

Sometimes irrefutable logic was more annoying. The Skeleton Principal was speechless.

But he really did catch them easily…

“Now. Everyone go inside and rest. You’ve worked hard. Classes will start tomorrow, so until then…”

The students looked slightly moved by Professor Garcia’s warm words despite their exhaustion.

“…you can rest by reading the books you brought.”

“…”

“…”

The students’ mouths fell open.

How is that resting…?

“??”

Professor Garcia didn’t understand the students’ reaction.

The Skeleton Principal nodded with a pleased expression.

Professor Garcia spoke correctly. Everyone go back and rest by reading books.

“Did I… say something strange?”

Nothing at all. Professor Garcia did very well.

* * *

Despite feeling wronged, there really wasn’t anything else the students could do.

The students who came out of the library returned to their towers and shared the books they had brought.

“Gasp. Lee Han. Did you know this? There are minerals called fool’s gold. Alchemists used to make these and sell them as real gold?”

Gainando, who was reading 【Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy】, asked in a surprised voice.

Then Lee Han and Yoner answered simultaneously.

“You can’t do that anymore.”

“There are too many ways to verify now.”

“I see. Wait. How do you two know so well?”

At Gainando’s puzzlement, the two subtly looked away.

‘By the way, the amount to study keeps increasing.’

Looking at the new books brought from the library this time, he really felt the amount he had to study.

The students were each copying books according to the path they wanted to take, and Lee Han was…

“Wardanaz. Drink this.”

“Wardanaz. Eat this.”

“…Why are you giving me these?”

“J-just because?”

“You helped us a lot in the library! That’s why!”

Whenever his friends saw the pile of books stacked in front of Lee Han, they would give him snacks and drinks before passing by.

No matter how much of a Wardanaz he was, it was an amount of books that couldn’t help but worry them.

‘It’s newly sad that among the books I have, the ones written by the Skeleton Principal and Professor Boladi are relatively kind.’

Lee Han thought to himself as he skimmed through the books.

It wasn’t a joke – it really was like that.

Basically, magic books didn’t neatly summarize only the key points in an easy-to-understand way.

They were full of metaphors, jargon, and codes that only the mage himself knew, so interpreting them, comparing them, and learning directly was all part of the work.

In that regard, the Skeleton Principal’s black book that taught directly (though semi-forcibly) and Professor Boladi’s lightning magic/blood magic books that accurately noted the key points were definitely good books.

‘Considering Professor Boladi’s personality, I should progress through these books as quickly as possible.’

Given Professor Boladi’s personality, it wouldn’t be strange if he suddenly attacked unreasonably one day saying ‘You’ve learned A magic, right? Haven’t learned it? Then learn it now.’

If he didn’t want to get beaten up for no reason, it was better to learn in advance.

‘The next magic applies lightning elements and enchantment magic… Is the blood magic a shockwave type? Surprisingly decent.’

Lee Han, who had only intended to check briefly, suddenly came to his senses.

Time was disappearing in an instant.

‘I should read the books for the lectures I’ll attend next first.’

Knock knock knock-

“?”

The sound of someone knocking on the common room door was heard.

The Blue Dragon Tower students had already learned that someone knocking on the common room door in the middle of the night was not a good sign.

“…Who is it?”

Knock knock knock-

“…”

“…Let’s decide who opens it with rock-paper-scissors.”

The friends nearby gritted their teeth and played rock-paper-scissors.

And Gainando opened the door with a sad expression.

“Still, surely the Principal wouldn’t do something like an undead attack again…”

“Aaahhh! It’s an undead!!!”

“I knew it! I knew this would happen!”

The students jumped up from their seats and threw their books. Then they tried to overturn tables to make a barricade.

-I came to deliver snacks by the Principal’s order.

“…”

“…Don’t, don’t be fooled. There might be a trap in the snack basket.”

However, there really was no trap in the basket.

The undead sent by the Skeleton Principal put down a basket containing freshly baked fluffy bread and white rice cakes filled with red bean paste, then turned around without hesitation.

-Then please study hard.

“P-please go safely?”

“Wait.”

Lee Han stopped the undead from leaving.

“How can we believe these snacks aren’t a trap?”

“Wardanaz. Surely it wouldn’t be like that?”

“No matter what, would he set traps even in snacks?”

Actually, Lee Han wasn’t really suspicious of the snacks themselves.

Rather, he had a different ulterior motive.

‘Somehow buy time and try to talk to it.’

What he felt when dealing with the warehouse keeper and spire keeper last time was that the Skeleton Principal’s minions surprisingly knew a lot.

If he could get even a hint of the evil plan the Skeleton Principal was hatching, it would be a great help.

To do that, he had to make the other party talk by finding fault somehow.

“Answer me. How can we believe these snacks aren’t a trap?”

-As expected, you’re quick-witted!

The undead exclaimed as if impressed, then cast a spell. Then thick smoke filled the common room so densely that they couldn’t see an inch ahead.

The students coughed and were horrified.

“Really… really?!”

“Wardanaz, how did you figure it out?”

-Do you think first-year blockheads can stop me?

The undead skillfully stirred the surroundings and immediately tried to run toward the entrance.

“Flash!”

However, Lee Han’s incantation was completed first. The undead was startled by the lightning that pierced sharply toward the entrance.

‘How?’

The smoke screen the undead had deployed was a magical smoke cloud that couldn’t be seen through.

Especially for a 1st year student.

Even if the opponent was an outstanding talent praised by his master, he was still young, an unpolished gem.

But how?

“Flash, flash, flash!”

Lee Han fired lightning without hesitation. The continuous spell barrage destroyed the area around the common room main door.

Only then did the undead realize.

‘This bastard!?’

Lee Han wasn’t confirming the undead’s location before casting spells.

He was remembering the undead’s position before it cast the spell and unleashing a barrage around that area.

It was impressive that he remembered the position in such a short time, and it was also impressive that he boldly unleashed magic believing in that memory.

The undead thought that boy hadn’t received praise for nothing.

‘But now that I’m discovered, it’s over.’

Being caught with his scheme in this situation could only lead to defeat.

Passing through the coughing Blue Dragon Tower students in the smoke cloud, the undead approached Lee Han.

“Wardanaz! What should we…”

“Everyone don’t move and stay still!”

Unable to see ahead, only screams and shouts filled the air from all directions.

Chaos itself.

It was a very good situation for the undead.

“Wardanaz!”

The undead cast magic to change his voice.

A voice similar to the Blue Dragon Tower students flowed out. This would surely deceive them.

“Wardanaz, I’m coming to help!”

“I told you to stay still!”

“Wardanaz!”

Despite Lee Han’s warning, the undead approached while shouting in a student’s voice.

Once he got close, he planned to immediately suppress Lee Han and leave leisurely.

How could that 1st year boy possibly notice that an undead was approaching?

However, there was one thing the undead was mistaken about.

Lee Han would mercilessly attack even a friend if they approached in a situation like this…

“Wardan… Gack!”

Whack!

…by throwing a punch.

Surprisingly, a fist came flying immediately. Hit by the mana-infused punch, the undead’s spell casting was blocked by the impact.

-Kugh…

‘What?’

Lee Han had thrown a punch immediately when someone approached.

But the sensation felt at his fingertips was strange.

A hard sensation like bone.

At that moment, Lee Han immediately realized who his opponent was.

His combat experience and senses from going through all kinds of situations derived the correct answer even in this situation.

‘It’s an undead!’

An undead had definitely approached secretly.

“Surrender!”

Lee Han shouted while throwing punches. He prepared for mana waste and released mana like a rampage.

At the same time, he swept the invisible opponent’s legs. The mana imbued with the newly learned principle of absorption disrupted the opponent’s balance.

“I told you to surrender!”

Thud! Thud thud thud!

“Surrender!”

Thud thud thud thud thud!

“If you won’t surrender…”

While throwing punches, the smoke cloud cleared.

The undead was completely beaten to a pulp and sprawled on the floor.

-You should give… a chance to speak… to surrender…

This 1st year bastard was much stronger in close combat than expected.

* * *

“So what happens if you eat that?”

Surrounded by Blue Dragon Tower students with fierce expressions, the undead answered in a dejected voice.

-That’s…

“Transformation curse? Is mana usage prohibited? Are you moved to another place? Like the punishment room?”

All his friends admired Lee Han’s sharp guesses.

Just like how he noticed the undead’s trap earlier, Wardanaz’s observation skills had truly superhuman aspects.

“How on earth did you figure it out?”

‘That’s what I’d like to know.’

The undead was curious about that too.

He was curious about how Lee Han noticed the snack was a trap, and also curious about how he noticed the undead approaching.

How exactly?

“Seeing that you can’t answer, it must have been a more evil poison.”

-No… if you eat it, you sleep deeply.

“…Huh? That’s all?”

-There are lectures with pop quizzes tomorrow…

“…”

“…”

The students’ expressions hardened.

It was surprising that there were pop quizzes tomorrow, and the Skeleton Principal’s wickedness in personally putting sleeping pills in snacks and sending them was also surprising.

‘I must never eat snacks given by the Principal again.’

“Eh. But it’s not as bad as I thought.”

Gainando spoke as if deflated.

He thought there would be terrible curses or deadly poison, but it was just sleeping deeply.

“What nonsense are you talking about, Gainando. Pop quizzes are serious matters.”

“Right. That’s the worst trap.”

“Is, is that so?”

When his academically excellent friends became serious, Gainando grumbled inwardly.

What’s so important about tests!

After finishing speaking, the undead set his broken bones. Lee Han felt slightly sorry and apologized.

“I’m sorry about that.”

-It’s nothing. It doesn’t even hurt.

Still soft-natured like a 1st year. The undead waved his hand as if it was fine and tried to get up.

Thud-

However, Lee Han blocked him from getting up.

-…I have many places I need to go now. Could you let me go?

“What exactly are the lectures with pop quizzes tomorrow?”

-Telling you that much would be too excessive…

Lee Han raised his staff.

It meant he would attack first before the other person could even recite an incantation.

The Undead immediately took back its thought that this kid had a gentle personality.

‘What kind of vicious bastard…!’

Is he really a 1st year?

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————