Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 255

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Chapter 255

Lee Han answered seriously as if he truly didn’t know.

“Wardanaz!”

“I told you I don’t know about it.”

“That’s not what I mean, give us instructions! What should we do!”

Raphadael shouted urgently.

Then Gainando said incredulously.

“You’re from a knight family! In situations like this, you should step up!”

“Shut up! You prince bastard! Then why are you in such a state when you’re royalty!”

“No…!”

Gainando was momentarily speechless at such an absurd argument.

And he became angry.

“Hey! What does me being a prince have to do with anything! Are you really from a knight family?! What kind of knight acts like this!”

“If you’re royalty, at least show some royal ability! The Imperial Princess in the same tower has followers in our tower too, but what about you?”

“I’m already showing my ability! Everyone in our tower knows my ability! Lee Han! You know my ability, right?!”

Gainando shamelessly argued by exploiting the fact that his opponent didn’t know the Blue Dragon Tower situation well.

“Lee Han??”

Lee Han and Ymirg were retreating far away, leaving the two behind.

Gainando shouted in horror.

“Lee Han!! You should only abandon that Grall bastard! Why me too!!”

“Just run quickly. Seeing you fight uselessly, I thought you had time to spare.”

Gainando and Raphadael came running frantically while cursing each other.

Watching this, Ymirg whispered with a bewildered expression.

“It’s… it’s not my place to say… but is it okay for them to be like that???”

“It’s fine. This is how they come to their senses and get along better.”

“…?!”

Ymirg thought this was nonsense, but Lee Han’s face was too serious.

‘War… Wardanaz must have some plan…?’

‘Those guys need to get caught once to come to their senses.’

* * *

Unfortunately, the two weren’t caught. They came up the hill panting heavily.

“Is, huff huff. Is this place okay? Maybe we should just go to the exit… huff huff.”

“The distance is farther than expected, so just going is dangerous. Let’s deal with them once and then go.”

The true strength of the undead lay in their limitless persistence.

Even when other monsters gave up pursuit due to exhaustion, the undead could keep coming endlessly.

If they rashly attempted to flee just because they were a bit faster and got surrounded, it would become even more disadvantageous.

“This place doesn’t look very sturdy.”

Raphadael looked around the temple ruins with an anxious expression.

Even though it was another dimension, it wasn’t a completely empty void world. There were miscellaneous items and ruins that had flowed in from various places.

In the undead realm, graves, cemeteries, and buildings on the verge of ruin were commonly seen.

The four had now arrived in front of a crumbling temple ruin.

While it would be better than facing the undead in an open field with nothing, the temple ruin looked too weak even so.

“This wall… won’t it collapse if pushed? If the undead push against it…”

“It’s not weak enough for that, so don’t worry. And I’m planning to reinforce it too.”

“How?”

Instead of answering, Lee Han waved his staff.

“Gather, earth!”

Earth piled up behind the ruin wall. Seeing this, Raphadael hesitated.

“Piling earth behind the wall would help, but this much isn’t…”

“Gather, earth. Gather, earth. Gather, earth…”

Lee Han piled earth mounds throughout the inside of the ruins without pause, reinforcing the walls so they wouldn’t collapse.

Then the temple ruin, which had looked quite shabby just moments ago, became a fairly decent makeshift fortress.

A makeshift fortress where it was easy to hold out in the spacious interior, with all sides blocked by walls and earth.

Except for the temple entrance passage, it looked like enemies could hardly enter.

“Done.”

“…”

Raphadael was once again astonished.

Every time he saw it, the ability that Wardanaz showed regarding magic was really…

It made him think this was the kind of person who would become an Archmage.

“Can’t we completely block the entrance?”

“It would be troublesome to clear later, and if we block it all, the undead might enter through strange places. It’s better to lure them at the entrance and deal with them one by one.”

“I see.”

“Now. Go and lure them.”

“…What?”

“Go lure them at the entrance.”

Lee Han waved his staff.

He planned to wait in the inner clearing and strike down enemies with magic the moment they passed through the entrance passage.

For that, Lee Han had to wait here.

Instead, someone was needed to draw enemies at the entrance, and the person to take this role was obviously…

“You’re a knight. You’re not thinking of making friends who can’t even handle swords properly do it, are you?”

“…”

It wasn’t wrong, but somehow it was very irritating.

Raphadael cursed Lee Han inwardly as he walked toward the entrance.

* * *

Crack!

“That’s right!”

Another undead passed through the entrance passage and stuck its head out, then collapsed immediately.

Raphadael, who had been tensely pointing his wooden sword, let out a sigh of relief.

Things were going much better than he had worried.

Glancing outside, the number of undead that had swarmed earlier had also decreased to about 1/4.

At this rate, it seemed they could handle them sufficiently.

“…Lee Han. But didn’t the Professor say last time?”

Gainando, now feeling relaxed, whispered to Lee Han.

Last time, surely Lee Han’s mana had leaked out and other undead…

“Gainando. The undead are pushing in from outside right now, but you seem leisurely. Do you want to do the luring?”

“Ah… no. No.”

Gainando quickly shut his mouth.

Lee Han thought to himself.

‘Surely more won’t come.’

While undead gathering due to mana was understandable, more appearing than last time was somewhat unsettling.

If it was coincidence, that would be fortunate, but just in case…

‘If the ones who came near last time are gathering more this time…’

If undead who came near last time but didn’t see Lee Han were waiting in the vicinity and gathering again this time, the story would be different.

Wouldn’t that mean more undead would be attracted each time they entered in the future?

If spirits avoided him when entering the Spirit Realm, and undead attacked when entering the undead realm, summoning magic would surely become quite arduous in the future.

Lee Han resolved that if that were the case, he would definitely bring Raphadael and Gainando along with him.

“…It seems like we’ve defeated them all.”

Raphadael said hesitantly.

No more sounds of undead could be heard from outside the passage.

“We should go out and check.”

“Stop being so reckl… Ah. You were the one going to do it.”

“…”

“…”

Lee Han and Gainando, who were about to go out, looked at Raphadael with pity.

Raphadael’s face turned red.

“I just misheard!”

“R-right.”

Lee Han and Gainando passed through the passage and poked their heads out.

The many undead from before had disappeared, and what remained was…

“Eek!”

Gainando was startled and hid behind Lee Han. There was still one undead left.

It seemed to have arrived late because it was positioned in the back.

“Don’t worry. Just one of them can be easily dealt with…”

-■■■■!

Without any attack or special suppression, the skeleton warrior that approached prostrated itself.

Lee Han and Gainando were left speechless at this sight.

“Huh. If this was going to happen, couldn’t we have just waited earlier without fighting?”

“That’s nonsense. Undead become more violent the more they gather, so they would never have submitted this easily.”

Lee Han said firmly.

However, his voice was trembling slightly.

* * *

After dealing with the undead horde, the four of them found additional undead and successfully made contracts.

When they returned to the exit, Professor Milay was talking with some students who had been in the lecture hall.

“Hello, Professor.”

“Did you just come out after entering the undead realm?”

“Ah. Yes. Because of an assignment.”

“It would be better not to enter for about two days.”

Professor Milay said while slightly adjusting the position of her monocle.

“The flow of mana felt from the other dimension is unstable. If you enter now, you might encounter trouble…”

“…Gasp! We encountered trouble!”

Gainando exclaimed as if he understood.

“While we were wandering around inside, dozens of undead came at us in a pack! That’s why…!”

“?”

Professor Milay tilted her head as if something seemed strange while listening.

“When the mana flow is unstable, the undead’s nature or behavior patterns change, but dozens of them attacking in a pack despite safety measures is completely different…”

“Indeed. The flow of mana is truly amazing. From now on, even if there are safety measures, I should develop the habit of checking once more before entering.”

Lee Han said firmly.

Not satisfied with that, he quickly changed the subject.

“Professor. Could you check the undead we contracted?”

“Let me take a look.”

Professor Milay nodded without noticing her disciple’s wicked scheme.

The summoned creature contract assignment before the summoning magic final exam.

Students always wanted to find and contract strong and cool summoned creatures, but the professors’ evaluation criteria were a bit different.

Finding powerful and rare summoned creatures could be done after becoming upperclassmen.

What was important now was how well they could handle summoned creatures.

Even with the same summoned creature, there were contracts that received absolute loyalty and contracts that were almost impossible to control, so caution was needed.

Of course, Professor Milay didn’t expect 1st year students to control summoned creatures with complex and thorough contracts. That was too much for 1st year level.

What the professor expected was showing maximum control even if they could only make simple informal contracts.

“Make it turn around.”

“Turn around. Turn around. Please turn around. Hey. Please…!”

After Gainando said it about 10 times, the skeleton warrior slowly and sluggishly turned around.

Professor Milay moved her quill pen knowingly.

“We were closer earlier, but maybe it’s difficult today because I’m a bit tired.”

Gainando put his arm around the skeleton warrior’s shoulder as if trying to prove he was close with it.

The skeleton warrior pushed his arm away as if annoyed.

“This time, try expressing the number 4 with your fingers.”

“Number 4… number 4…”

Not only Gainando, but Raphadael and Ymirg were similar.

They had made contracts, but the summoned creatures found detailed instructions more bothersome than expected.

When it was Lee Han’s turn, Professor Milay had to manage her expression to hide her anticipation.

As the student who achieved the best grades on the midterm exam, she was curious about what method he would use to persuade his summoned creature.

“Make it prostrate.”

“Prostrate.”

Thud!

The skeleton warrior immediately prostrated itself.

Even though it might sound awkward to say an undead had discipline, there was no word that fit the current situation better than that expression.

“…Express the number 4 with your fingers…”

“Express the number 4.”

The skeleton warrior immediately bent four fingers.

Professor Milay was dumbfounded.

As a master of summoning magic, she naturally realized what method Lee Han was using to control the undead.

So right now…

‘He’s intimidating the undead to make it obey commands?’

It wasn’t a wrong method in the end, but it was inevitably absurd.

The assignment was given to learn how to handle them in preparation for contracting with powerful beings later, but he was just suppressing them with force.

“…Well done. Perfect score.”

Though it was absurd, Professor Milay didn’t say anything.

That was impressive in its own way.

“Good work, Gonadaltes.”

“…”

Professor Milay decided to pretend she didn’t hear that last comment.

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