Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 326

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Chapter 326

“I thought Senior also yielded with this intention.”

“What do you take me for, Junior?”

“No… if that’s not the case, then there’s no reason to yield. We’re the ones who chased it all the way here.”

“That’s Lee Han for you.”

Gainando nodded as if he had expected this.

Not giving up even a piece of bread without a fight – that was exactly like Gainando’s friend.

“Junior. Being thorough is good, but if you act too ruthlessly, bad rumors about dark mages might spread.”

“But Senior. Dark mages already have a bad reputation.”

“…”

Diret’s wings drooped slightly downward after being hit by his junior’s words.

Gainando whispered from the side.

“Why would you say that! Only ignorant people think that way!”

“No. Quite a lot of people would say such things.”

“…Really?”

“Really. Why do you think those guys who got caught and dragged here picked a fight with us in the first place?”

“!”

“W-we’ve reflected on our actions.”

The two adventurers who had picked the wrong fight, got beaten up, did menial work at the cemetery, and then ended up chasing an undead chimera.

They could be said to be having the unluckiest day.

“Senior. But there’s no need to be sad about it. People who know the truth won’t be deceived.”

“…What’s the point if everyone else thinks badly of us.”

“We just need to change that.”

Diret’s eyes wavered slightly at his junior’s progressive words.

His junior’s words might indeed be correct.

Like how they had devoted themselves to the city today, if they steadily built up achievements even when others were suspicious, people’s perspectives would gradually change, if not immediately.

‘To think I’d hear such words from my junior. I should have been the one saying this.’

Diret felt ashamed as a senior.

“You’re right. Junior.”

“Thank you for understanding. Senior. From now on, whenever we see someone talking nonsense about dark magic, let’s crush them like we did those guys.”

“…No!! That’s not what I meant!!!”

“It wasn’t?”

Diret was horrified by his junior’s aggressive words that would make even a magic duelist stick out their tongue.

To attack everyone who talked nonsense to change their minds, what kind of…

Bang!

With a loud explosion, two apprentice knights were sent flying into the air.

The cornered undead chimera had caused an explosion from its body and broken through the encirclement.

When the encirclement was broken, the apprentice knights shouted in surprise.

“It’s escaping!!!”

“Be caref… Ah!! Wardanaz! It’s Wardanaz! Wardanaz!!”

“What?! Wardanaz!? That Wardanaz?”

“Yes! That’s Wardanaz!”

“…”

When the apprentice knights who had visited the school before recognized Lee Han’s face and acted friendly, Lee Han made a displeased expression.

‘We’re not that close.’

Anyone watching would think they were quite close friends.

“Wardanaz! Catch that thing!! If it escapes…”

Even before the apprentice knights could ask, Lee Han was already holding his staff and preparing.

After chasing it this far, there was no way he’d let the undead chimera escape.

-■■■■…!

The undead chimera made a growling sound and glared at Lee Han. Nine eyeballs rolled around as they stared at Lee Han.

Its gaze was full of wariness because of the harsh treatment it had received earlier. He could feel that it was trying to find Lee Han’s opening to land a hit and escape.

“Darkness. Gather here.”

Lee Han didn’t rashly cast lightning magic.

Not only was it not a good environment for rapid firing with the apprentice knights behind him, but the creature’s wariness was quite severe.

The advantage of a mage was being able to respond flexibly to any situation.

Having learned how to deal with such opponents from Diret, Lee Han immediately began gathering the surrounding dark elements.

-■!

The undead chimera didn’t know what Lee Han was doing, but it seemed to feel its strength draining away.

It quickly tried to jump back and create distance.

-■■■■!?

However, it was completely useless.

‘The range…!’

Diret, the only dark mage among them who could handle dark element magic, could understand what was happening.

That junior’s magic was gathering dark elements from a much wider range than what Diret had done.

‘…Amazing!’

While admiring his junior’s magic, Lee Han urgently shouted.

“Senior!”

“Huh? What?”

“A bit too much dark element has gathered! Please help if I make a mistake!”

“…Hey!”

Diret screamed when he saw the dark element sphere gathered at the tip of Lee Han’s staff.

At a glance, it was 2 or 3 times the size of what he had cast earlier.

Because he had cast it over such a wide range, even though he had used less time than before, this much had gathered in an instant.

“What are you going to do?!”

Even to launch it as a projectile, there needed to be some degree of control, but if he forcibly fired it now, it might explode at the tip of the staff and injure his junior.

Diret couldn’t understand how Lee Han planned to handle that dark element.

Thunk!

“…”

Lee Han solved it in a simpler and more straightforward way than expected.

He charged forward with his staff and shoved the sphere into the undead chimera. The undead chimera couldn’t dodge the charge that happened in the blink of an eye.

-■■■?

Diret was flustered.

‘Wait, dark elements have the opposite effect on undead…!’

Lee Han threw his staff aside and drew his sword.

The Dawn Star flashed with sword light and split the undead chimera’s body.

From the beginning, gathering the surrounding dark elements was to slow down the opponent’s movements and bind its feet.

Once that was achieved, there were several ways to destroy the opponent.

A powerful strike propelled by exploding mana hit the undead chimera, and the following absorption technique destroyed its balance.

After launching continuous attacks without pause and then beheading it, cheers erupted.

“As expected of Wardanaz!”

“Excellent!! That swordsmanship is still the same!”

“Friend?”

To Diret’s question, Lee Han answered firmly.

“Not friends.”

* * *

Bikelintz, who came out late, expressed his gratitude to Lee Han.

“Thank you. Things could have gotten out of hand due to the young knights’ mistake, but you helped us.”

“I only did what needed to be done.”

“Indeed…”

Bikelintz continued with a slightly impressed voice.

“Some people have prejudices and misunderstandings because of dark mages’ magic, but if they saw dark mages like these who devote themselves day and night, they wouldn’t dare say such things!”

“Thank you.”

Lee Han answered that way, but thought differently inside.

‘But other dark mages do cause too many incidents.’

It seemed like no matter how many undead Lee Han caught that came out to the city, it would be useless if dark mages got caught stealing corpses from graves.

Alladne, who came out late, looked at the situation in front of the manor with bewilderment and asked.

“What happened here?”

“Lord Wardanaz caught it.”

The manor’s steward answered with slight regret.

“If the manor’s guests had caught it instead of someone from outside, it would have saved Lord Greenbel’s face a bit more.”

“…”

Alladne thought she would need to lecture the steward after the guests left and shifted her gaze.

The undead chimera was definitely smashed to pieces. There were traces of being hit by magic several times, sword wounds that seemed to be from the apprentice knights’ swings, and the fatal blow was…

“???”

Alladne wondered if she was seeing things wrong.

‘It looks like it was caught with a sword?’

Even when she looked again thinking she might have seen wrong, nothing changed. It was definitely finished off with a sword.

Alladne became confused, wondering if the apprentice knights and dark mages gathered here were deceiving her.

Was there any reason to deceive her??

“Lord Greenbel. Thank you for your kindness.”

“Not at all. You came forward for Grandden City like this, so I’m only sorry I couldn’t provide more help.”

‘She’s being excessively kind.’

Lee Han found Alladne’s attitude puzzling.

Separate from rumors about being thorough and having no gaps, she was being excessively favorable.

Was it really because of the Wardanaz family name?

‘Even so, is there a reason to go this far?’

Lee Han couldn’t even imagine.

That Alladne was mistaking Lee Han for a tremendous schemer.

‘Anyway, she helped, so I should be grateful.’

Lee Han bowed politely once more and walked to another place. The apprentice knights who were acquainted with Lee Han excitedly flocked over.

Seeing this, Alladne asked Bikelintz.

“Does the student from the Wardanaz family happen to have connections with the knight order’s apprentice knights?”

“Ah. That happened when we visited Einroguard last time. What happened was…”

Bikelintz began to unpack his story as if it was perfect timing.

Meeting an excellent swordsman was always a pleasure.

So Bikelintz didn’t notice that Alladne’s expression, who was listening to the story, was being colored with shock and bewilderment.

* * *

-Wardanaz. I heard you caught the King of Ghouls. But do you know? Those White Tiger Tower guys are actually hothouse flowers.

-Right. Wardanaz. What’s truly strong are wildflowers that bloom after rolling harshly in the rough wilderness.

-So let’s go catch the King of Ghouls together too!

‘They’re all crazy bastards.’

Recalling the apprentice knights’ conversation, Lee Han shook his head.

Having heard the rumor about Lee Han and the White Tiger Tower students subduing the King of Ghouls strangely, the apprentice knights were burning with competitive spirit.

But they couldn’t take their rivals, the White Tiger Tower guys, as mages…

The apprentice knights wanted to take along a much more excellent mage who was also their friend bonded through swords.

Of course, from Lee Han’s perspective, it was nothing but crazy nonsense. Lee Han immediately reported them.

-Lord Bikelintz. Those apprentice knights over there are plotting to catch enemies stronger than their level.

-Such…! You fools!

It was fortunate that Bikelintz was sane. Otherwise, the apprentice knights might have collapsed one by one in some remote cave whose name they didn’t even know.

Seeing Lee Han’s appearance, Diret asked with concern.

“Are you okay, junior? Is it mana shortage from using magic earlier…”

“Ah. No. It’s just that those apprentice knight bastards were talking nonsense.”

“…”

Diret decided not to worry about magic-related matters concerning this junior anymore.

When they returned to the public cemetery, there was a familiar face among the gravekeepers.

It was Daihal from the Dalcard family, the Empire’s special administrator whom they had met regarding the previous King of Ghouls subjugation.

“I thought it couldn’t be, but really…!”

Seeing Lee Han, Daihal spoke with a voice full of awe.

“To get involved in such an incident in less than a week. Aren’t you being too reckless with your body?”

“Junior. What did you do a week ago?”

Diret was puzzled. He hadn’t heard news about the King of Ghouls yet.

Lee Han looked around the cemetery once and quickly turned his mind.

Then he dropped to one knee with a thud.

“Ugh. I used too much magic, my body…”

“That’s what I told you! No matter how outstanding your talent is, it’s meaningless if you can’t manage your own body.”

“But… as a dark mage… undead roaming around Grandden City… cough. cough.”

Diret and Lee Han’s friends stared at Lee Han speechlessly.

Seeing their friend who hadn’t shed a single drop of sweat until just now stagger like this as soon as he passed through the cemetery’s main gate was unbelievable.

Ymirg whispered.

“Is… is there poison in the cemetery?”

“Poison probably won’t work on Lee Han?”

“What do you… Ah. No way.”

While the three whispered, Lee Han acted even more exhausted in front of Daihal.

There was something he realized after the previous King of Ghouls subjugation.

Even when doing the same work, it was better to show that you did it with maximum difficulty!

It was magic that easily increased rewards.

“If this senior hadn’t helped me, I might have died…”

“So you’re Lord Diret. I’ve heard a lot about you from the gravekeepers.”

“I just did what I had to…”

“The city people are too harsh to dark mages who devote themselves like this. I will definitely speak strongly about it.”

“No, the pay is already good enough…”

“Cough cough cough!”

Lee Han cut off his senior’s words with fake coughing.

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