Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 377

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Chapter 377

The poison of dark mages was closer to creating imaginary poisons that didn’t exist in nature through the mage’s power, rather than ordinary poisons found in nature.

Skilled dark mages would link and fuse multiple such imaginary poisons to create even more complex and vicious toxins.

The Undead Mage was naturally a mage of that caliber.

-To complete the poison of striking, you must start with fifteen basic poisons.

“…”

-First, mix three poisons…

The Undead Mage was definitely saying something, but it wasn’t registering in Lee Han’s head.

That’s how high-level the poison elemental magic was.

-…You must have heard it all! Try it!

“…Poison, bloom and boil up. The blooming poison is…”

Though he understood less than half, due to the urgent situation, Lee Han decided to memorize the incantation first.

Poisons began forming in the air, swirling, clumping together, and changing color.

-Fire as soon as it’s complete! There’s no time!

“…Move!”

Much faster than what the Undead Mage had fired earlier, the poison took shape and flew.

The Undead Mage couldn’t match Lee Han’s elemental control ability.

While the Undead Mage didn’t bother practicing such techniques and learned higher-level magic instead, Lee Han had trained rigorously.

-Excellent!

However, the Undead Mage misunderstood Lee Han’s strange magical ability in a different way.

He judged that such movement came from being an exceptionally skilled mage.

Due to such high expectations, the Undead Mage was very disappointed when Lee Han’s striking poison failed to completely melt the gladiator’s torso and only burned the muscles.

Hissssss-

-Ah… What?! If you’re slow at undead summoning and can’t handle poison properly, why do dark magic at all!

The Undead Mage stamped his feet in disbelief.

Looking at the magic fields he handled, his spell casting ability, and elemental control ability, he seemed like a mage more skilled than himself, so why were there so many mistakes?

“I’m sorry.”

Though incomplete, honestly succeeding to that degree in the current situation was quite remarkable.

Objectively, it was a situation where getting angry would be justified, but…

Lee Han apologized.

He had become so accustomed to the unreasonable demands of crazy professors.

Instead, it was Ogoldos who got angry.

“Don’t apologize! Why should you apologize! You crazy undead bastard!”

-What did you say!?

“I don’t know how many hundreds of years old you are, but is it right to teach poorly and then get angry at a young mage? Even the Principal wouldn’t do that!”

-What… what…?

The Undead Mage was confused.

From their way of speaking, these two mages felt quite young to him.

Whoooosh!

Meanwhile, flames erupted in front.

The Undead Gladiator spat bodily fluids and created friction to start a fire.

“…”

Lee Han was horrified by the madness of setting one’s own body on fire to drive away the cold. It was a brutal tactic only undead could employ.

‘It’s coming!’

The Undead Gladiator swung its burning body to push back the Skeleton Warriors once more.

Though its movements were still sluggish, anyone could tell it would soon break through and charge.

“Senior. Do you have any methods?”

“What could I possibly…!”

Ogoldos felt like his chest would burst from frustration.

He was only a second-year himself, so how could he come up with a clear solution?

The curse magic, bone elemental magic, and poison elemental magic he knew how to use would likely not work on that gladiator.

Hadn’t that Undead Gladiator just shown terrifying vitality in the recent battle?

The barricade was broken, cold elemental magic was countered, and it would be difficult to bind its steps with mediocre bone or poison magic…

‘Summoned creatures… if I could somehow set up summoned creatures to buy time…’

If Sharkan stayed behind alone to target it but it ignored him and charged this way, there was no way to stop it.

They needed to place a sturdy summoned creature in between.

Desperately racking his brain, Ogoldos suddenly thought of something and asked.

“Can’t you reduce the number of Skeleton Warriors and combine them!?”

“Excuse me?”

“Can’t you reduce and combine them!”

Now was not the time to summon many weak summoned creatures.

They needed a summoned creature that could somehow endure, even if just one.

Originally, summoned creatures called through general contracts couldn’t be arbitrarily combined or fused by mages, but Lee Han’s dark magic was a method where the mage directly summoned them.

If he reduced the number and combined them, their power would increase and control would become easier.

“Return, and… rise, warriors made of bone!”

Lee Han swung his staff as his senior instructed.

The Skeleton Warriors collapsed in a rush and returned to their original reagent bone fragments. Those bone fragments combined again and rose as a single Skeleton Warriors.

Due to pouring in dozens of times more reagents than normal magic, the mana consumption from the incantation to the maintenance was enormous, but the results were clearly visible.

A Skeleton Warrior with a thick and solid body, as if compressed from over ten Skeleton Warriors, was born before them.

‘It… it actually worked?!’

Ogoldos was flustered.

He had shouted in urgency, but thinking about it, reducing and combining wasn’t an easy task.

Ogoldos knew well what it meant to over-invest reagents and mana into established magic.

But that junior had succeeded in magic that was close to gambling, befitting his reputation as a genius. Just looking at the size of the summoned Skeleton Warrior, you could tell he had combined quite a lot.

Ogoldos unconsciously let out a sigh of relief.

“Thank goodness… Wait! If you could do this, why did you fight by summoning over ten?”

Ogoldos couldn’t understand.

If he could do this, couldn’t he have done it from the start?

The Undead Mage was also quite curious about that question and turned his gaze to Lee Han.

“I forgot.”

“What??”

“I summoned many while practicing and got confused, so I fought like that. I’m sorry!”

“…”

-…

The Undead Mage and Ogoldos wanted to scream asking if that could be called an explanation, but they couldn’t.

The gladiator was charging.

Crash!

Though the gladiator had taken all kinds of damage from penetration, poison, cold, and flames, its strength was fierce.

The Skeleton Warrior blocking the passage creaked and was pushed back. Lee Han swung his staff.

“Fire!”

With Lee Han’s incantation, bone fragments fired from the Skeleton Warrior’s torso.

This was possible because Lee Han had assembled it directly rather than through a contracted relationship.

However, the gladiator stubbornly pushed the skeleton as if it didn’t care about bone fragments embedding in it.

As cracking sounds erupted continuously, Lee Han gritted his teeth and reinforced the skeleton.

“By Vible’s rule, let mana be released. Cold, dwell within! Poison, bloom and boil up. The blooming poison is…!”

Lee Han applied even the mana release enhancement he learned from Professor Verdus to the Skeleton Warrior’s bone fragments and imbued them with cold and poison.

Amplified mana. Cold. Poison.

As these three elements collided, the Skeleton Warrior became unstable as if it would collapse at any moment. Lee Han invested more mana to somehow provide emergency treatment.

As bone fragments mixed with poison and cold were continuously fired, the Undead Gladiator also became impatient and tried to draw up all its muscular strength to somehow subdue by force.

Ogoldos suddenly remembered something and shouted.

“Wait, you said you can use the dark element! Why aren’t you infusing the dark element!”

“…I forgot!”

“…Do it quickly, please!!!”

Unable to bring himself to get angry at his junior who was learning too many spells, Ogoldos screamed again.

When the dark element was infused into the Skeleton Warrior, the skeleton’s bones turned black and became sharper and harder.

“Projectile Spell, Projectile Spell, Projectile Spell!”

Pop pop pop pop!

Bone fragments embedded like buckshot into the already tattered body of the Warrior Monk.

-Can I blow it up?

“Excuse me?”

-That skeleton!

“Go ahead!”

After getting Lee Han’s permission, the Undead Mage nodded and drew up the mana he had barely recovered.

The gases contained within the bone fragments reacted with the mana, causing a chain explosion.

Boom boom boom boom bang!

As the enhanced skeleton exploded, the Undead Mage pushed Lee Han and Ogoldos into the adjacent room. The explosion’s shockwave made the air swirl madly in the passage.

Lee Han was impressed by the Undead Mage’s skill.

“I didn’t expect this much power…”

-What kind of insane amount of mana did you pump into it!!!

The Undead Mage screamed at the top of his lungs while looking at Lee Han.

He definitely hadn’t intended this level of power.

* * *

There were countless things to discuss – the situation in the outer passage, the secret to maintaining such an enhanced skeleton, why he didn’t stop him when he said he’d blow up the skeleton – but the first thing the Undead Mage chose to address was Lee Han’s age.

-…Not even twenty?!

“Can’t you tell by looking?”

Ogoldos said bluntly.

-Do you know how many years I’ve been undead?

“…I, I don’t know?”

-Just as you can’t guess my age, I naturally can’t guess yours either. You all look the same.

The Undead Mage sighed and shook his head.

Since he used such a variety of magic and had overflowing mana, he thought he might be the kingdom’s chief mage, but he was just a kid not even twenty.

Come to think of it, there were too many clumsy parts here and there.

-Wait, if you’re not even twenty, how did you copy the Burning Poison…

Rumble!

When the sound of collapse came from outside again, the Undead Mage peeked his head out.

-!!!

Lee Han also peeked his head out and said.

“Senior. There’s good news and bad news.”

“What… what is it?”

“The ceiling blew away because of that explosion earlier. I think we can climb up by stepping on the debris.”

“Re, really?! Wait. What’s the bad news?”

-More Undead Gladiators are coming.

“…”

Ogoldos could be certain of one thing about Lee Han.

That junior had the worst sense of humor.

-How much mana do you have left?

“I haven’t consumed any at all.”

-You don’t have any left?

“I said I haven’t consumed any at all.”

-…What… what… No. Right. Then can you summon a Skeleton Warrior again like before?

“I used up all the bone fragment reagents…”

“Ask for some! There are plenty here!”

Ogoldos shouted emotionally and pressed a reagent pouch into Lee Han’s hand.

Lee Han said with a slightly moved expression.

“Thank you for your help, both just now and before.”

“You call that help… Damn it. Fine. Summon it quickly! Before they get close!”

-But earlier we were lucky it ended like that, if we do it again I can’t guarantee safety.

“Of course it’s dangerous when fighting! But we can’t just not fight!”

Ogoldos was exasperated by the Undead Mage’s words and shouted.

However, the Undead Mage shook his head and replied.

-I’m talking about blowing up the enhanced skeleton.

“…”

“…Can’t we use it and dodge like before?”

-I told you we were lucky earlier. Can’t you control your mana precisely for the explosion?

“How can I control it precisely when I’m doing it for the first time today?”

The Undead Mage clicked his tongue at the logical argument.

It was certainly hard to refute.

‘Why is he not even twenty…’

Thud-

Suddenly a rock flew over. It was a rock thrown by a Warrior Monk. The Undead Mage hastily pulled his skull back.

“…?”

When there was no follow-up attack, the Undead Mage peeked his head out again.

The Warrior Monks gathered in front of the ceiling debris were murmuring among themselves, then pointed upward with their hands.

“What are they saying? Surrender recommendation?”

At Lee Han’s question, the Undead Mage said as if he couldn’t believe it.

-They’re telling us to… go up first…?

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