Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 25

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Chapter 025

‘No way. It can’t be.’

Lee Han squeezed his eyes shut.

But reality was cold.

Caught! From the very first week! Haha! Hahaha!

Caught! From the very first week! Haha! Hahaha!

Caught! From the very first week! Haha! Hahaha!

“…Wh-what??”

Nilia, who hadn’t fully grasped the situation, asked in a trembling voice.

Lee Han answered calmly.

“It seems we’ve fallen into the Principal’s trap.”

No matter how Giselle had found the escape route, it was clear they had been dancing in the Principal’s palm.

The problem was that not only was Giselle caught, but Lee Han’s group had followed her trail too!

Coming up here from the very first week means you must have seen the fake map I created and scattered around! Today you have learned a lesson! Never trust maps of uncertain origin! You can never know whether that treasure map is really a treasure map, or a trap set by an evil lich!

Coming up here from the very first week means you must have seen the fake map I created and scattered around! Today you have learned a lesson! Never trust maps of uncertain origin! You can never know whether that treasure map is really a treasure map, or a trap set by an evil lich!

Coming up here from the very first week means you must have seen the fake map I created and scattered around! Today you have learned a lesson! Never trust maps of uncertain origin! You can never know whether that treasure map is really a treasure map, or a trap set by an evil lich!

“…”

“…”

What kind of bastard does something like this, really?

Lee Han was dumbfounded.

So the Skeleton Principal himself had created fake escape maps and scattered them around everywhere.

Not knowing when new students might find them, or even if they’d look at them at all, yet he still did such a thing…

‘That’s definitely just for his own enjoyment.’

Though he spoke of giving lessons for the students’ sake, Lee Han knew this type of professor well.

That was definitely just for his own amusement.

White Tiger Tower students! Listen well! The escape is over. Now it’s time to return. The rules are simple. I won’t intervene directly, but I’ll send trackers after you, so avoid them and return to your tower! If caught, you’re guilty. If you escape, you’re innocent! You may use any method. You may even defeat my trackers!

White Tiger Tower students! Listen well! The escape is over. Now it’s time to return. The rules are simple. I won’t intervene directly, but I’ll send trackers after you, so avoid them and return to your tower! If caught, you’re guilty. If you escape, you’re innocent! You may use any method. You may even defeat my trackers!

White Tiger Tower students! Listen well! The escape is over. Now it’s time to return. The rules are simple. I won’t intervene directly, but I’ll send trackers after you, so avoid them and return to your tower! If caught, you’re guilty. If you escape, you’re innocent! You may use any method. You may even defeat my trackers!

Along with his words, a giant skull appeared in the dark night sky with green light.

And that skull began pouring out undead summons from its maw.

Hunting dogs made of bone and trackers fell one by one onto the mountain top.

Pop!

Lights flickered on everywhere. The bone creatures had lit torches.

The hunt had begun.

* * *

“Let’s run!!!”

Nilia whispered urgently.

Nilia’s eyes were dyed with fear and trembling.

“Nilia. Calm down.”

“How can I calm down!! We might die if we’re caught!”

“No. We probably won’t die.”

Unlike Lee Han, who was accustomed to crazy professors and had even spoken privately with the Principal several times, the Skeleton Principal was an enormously frightening existence to Nilia.

To Lee Han, the Skeleton Principal was just having fun right now, but to Nilia, he seemed enraged by the new students’ arrogant and terrible crimes.

“Is… is that so?”

“If we’re caught, we’ll probably just end up in the Punishment Room or something like that.”

“The… the Punishment Room!? With torture devices inside… and never being able to come out…”

“I don’t think it would be like that.”

Nilia had a rich imagination in the worst possible direction. Lee Han covered Nilia’s mouth with his hand and checked the surrounding situation.

‘Skeletons?’

Rustling sounds of something pushing through the thicket. It seemed the bone trackers were moving around, pushing through the surroundings.

-Woof! Woof!

The barking of bone hunting dogs could also be heard.

“Run!! If those things chase us, we’ll knock them down!”

“For honor! For chivalry!”

The White Tiger Tower students shouted and drew their wooden swords.

They had clearly decided to fight it out now that it had come to this.

‘But the current situation doesn’t really have anything to do with honor or chivalry.’

He was a bit curious about how being caught trying to sneak out of school was connected to honor or chivalry…

“There seems to be only one thing we should do right now?”

Durgyu asked in a low voice.

In a situation like this, being from different towers was meaningless.

They had to join forces and repel the enemies!

“You’ve made a good point, Durgyu.”

“Right. I’ll step forward and…”

“While those guys step forward and draw attention, we’ll slip away.”

“…”

Durgyu looked at Lee Han as if dumbfounded.

However, Nilia, Yoner, and Gainando immediately agreed.

“”That’s a good idea!””

“…”

Durgyu was about to say something but held back. The leader of the group right now wasn’t Durgyu, but Lee Han.

‘We need to break through where the encirclement is weakest.’

Observation.

Though he wanted to rush out right now, Lee Han held back.

In any situation, it was often better to wait patiently than to panic and rush.

Lee Han waited to identify where the encirclement was weakest.

Fortunately, the White Tiger Tower students were buying time by shouting and charging out.

He couldn’t just waste this opportunity.

‘No. But isn’t this too much??’

Lee Han, who had been holding his breath and observing from the thicket, was startled.

The undead summons pouring out from the skull floating in the black night sky didn’t stop coming.

It was an enormous number, as if trying to overwhelm them with sheer numbers to prevent escape.

‘…I underestimated the Principal’s madness!’

Lee Han sighed inwardly.

The Principal was a bit more insane than Lee Han had thought.

Since he had declared that being caught meant guilt and escaping meant innocence, Lee Han had expected him to give the students some degree of chance.

But to block them off so thoroughly and seriously like this.

No, perhaps he thought this was giving them a chance in his own way.

‘The thought processes in professors’ heads are twisted somewhere.’

The Skeleton Principal probably sincerely thought, ‘I should do at least this much so the students can grow while breaking through this encirclement.’

The problem was that Lee Han was the one who had to break through it.

‘This is… no matter how much the White Tiger Tower kids draw attention, it’s meaningless. Should I just surrender?’

Every path leading down the mountain was guarded by bone trackers who began lighting torches.

Behind them were more bone trackers.

And behind them were even more bone trackers…

The numbers had increased so much that the lower mountain felt as bright as broad daylight.

‘Wait.’

Lee Han, who had been pondering, realized something strange.

The bone trackers leading the bone hounds weren’t paying any attention to Lee Han’s group at all.

‘That’s odd?’

Of course, Lee Han’s group was currently hiding in the thicket, and the White Tiger Tower students were frantically running downward, drawing all the attention.

But if they knew Lee Han’s group was hiding in this area, shouldn’t the bone hounds be searching the surroundings or approaching?

Yet the bone hounds and bone trackers weren’t looking for Lee Han’s group, instead only chasing the White Tiger Tower students downward.

‘Could it be… the Principal doesn’t know we’re here?’

Lee Han had naturally assumed the Principal knew Lee Han’s group was hiding.

The Principal was an incomparably greater mage than Lee Han.

But what if the Principal wasn’t actually here?

‘I won’t intervene myself, I’ll send trackers, so avoid them and return to your tower!‘

Come to think of it, there was no way to know if that giant skeleton floating in the sky was really the Principal.

I won’t intervene myself, but I’ll send trackers after you, so evade them and return to the tower!

It wouldn’t be strange if he had sent a clone from afar or just an illusion.

‘Then we just need to avoid the trackers’ eyes!’

Hiding and escaping was much better than being discovered and running away.

“…Let’s go up.”

“What??”

“We can’t avoid being spotted going down. Look at those numbers. The moment we run into them, the trackers will swarm us.”

At Lee Han’s words, Nilia’s eyelashes trembled.

“But there are no trackers above. Let’s go up and either detour or hold out. That has a much higher chance of success.”

“Got it!”

“?”

Even Lee Han, who had suggested it, was surprised by how easily Nilia accepted.

“I brought it up, but… are you sure you don’t need to think about it more? We don’t know what might be on this upper path.”

“It’s much better than getting caught and locked in the torture devices of the punishment room!”

“…As I said before, I think you’re misunderstanding something.”

* * *

After carefully climbing upward for about 30 minutes.

Nilia spoke in a low voice.

“It’s a cave. Let’s go inside.”

“Any monsters?”

“None. It’s a small cave and there’s no sign of life at all. I threw a stone to check.”

Nilia tapped her long ears as she spoke.

“We’ve moved too much right now. I’m fine, but the others need to rest.”

“That seems necessary.”

While Nilia, Lee Han, and Durgyu were fine, Yoner looked tired and Gainando was on the verge of death.

They had been walking continuously in the darkness, then fled while tense to avoid pursuit, so it wouldn’t be strange if they collapsed now.

“Light!”

Lee Han, who had entered the cave, used magic. Light blazing like the sun filled the cave.

Yoner hung his coat at the cave entrance to prevent the light from leaking out.

“Surely… they won’t chase us all the way here?”

“Don’t worry. I didn’t hear any pursuit sounds on the way up. They must all be gathered at the lower mountain.”

Nilia reassured Yoner.

Fortunately, what Lee Han said was true.

The summons called by the Principal hadn’t even noticed Lee Han’s group and didn’t come further up the mountain.

“The question is how long those summons will stay there.”

“Maybe I should have just broken through after all.”

When Durgyu spoke as if regretting it, Lee Han shook his head.

“No. Breaking through with force would have been impossible.”

“Why?”

“Given the Principal’s personality, he would never openly show such a loophole.”

“…”

“…”

The other students thought ‘How do you know that?’ but respected Lee Han’s opinion and didn’t speak up.

“Whether we wait until they disappear or take a detour, now is the time to rest. Let’s eat something first.”

“Agreed!”

Lee Han distributed the sausage, bread, and cheese he had brought to everyone.

Gainando threw dwarven honey candy into his mouth and closed his eyes to savor it. It seemed he was desperately craving sweets after not having any for days.

“Oh no. I’ve finished all the water…”

Nilia pulled out her leather water pouch with a perplexed expression. The water had run out from all the walking.

“Nothing to worry about. We have magic.”

“!”

“Spring forth!”

As Lee Han waved his staff and shouted, a mass of water appeared in the empty air.

Nilia hurriedly brought her leather water pouch over.

“Really amazing, Lee Han!”

Durgyu was impressed.

To Durgyu, who came from a knight family and was slower at learning magic than other tower students, Lee Han’s magic was close to a miraculous wonder.

Gainando and Yoner also clapped and rejoiced like children.

“Spring forth!”

“Spring forth!”

As Ihan swung his staff and shouted, a mass of water materialized in the empty air.

Nilia hurriedly brought over a leather water pouch.

“Really amazing. Lee Han!”

Dergyu exclaimed in admiration.

To Dergyu, who came from a knight family and was slower at learning magic than other tower students, Yi-han’s magic was nothing short of an amazing miracle.

Gainando and Yonerdo also clapped and rejoiced like children.

“I was just getting thirsty!”

“Thanks to you, I’ll enjoy drinking it.”

Nilia filled the leather water pouch to the brim, then carefully closed it. She spoke with what sounded like envy.

“I wish I could learn water magic too…”

“Once you get the hang of it, you’ll pick it up quickly.”

Ihan spoke with sincerity.

In reality, this isn’t such a difficult magic, and once you grasp the feel for it, it’s a magic that can be used easily.

“I hope so.”

Nilia said that and then picked up her staff and chanted a spell.

Burn!

“Burn!”

Burn!

Whoosh!

A small spark began to flicker in the air, then caught onto the kindling that Nilia had gathered.

A cozy campfire was made with crackling sounds.

Exclamations could be heard from all around as everyone’s hands and feet were frozen stiff from wandering through the cold night streets.

“Phew. I’m glad it worked on the first try. I succeeded last time too, but I was anxious about it.”

Nilia seemed to have an aptitude for fire magic, as she successfully cast the flame creation spell on her first try.

Then he looked at Lee Han and spoke.

“I’m envious. I’d rather have Water Magic than Fire Element.”

“…”

“…Why, why?!”

Nilia stammered in confusion when Lee Han glared at her.

Did I say something wrong?!

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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