Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 380

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Chapter 380

“It seems to have settled down.”

Settled down my ass…!

“What do you mean settled down!”

Ogoldos shouted in panic at his junior’s words.

Normally he wouldn’t have listened to what a disadvantaged enemy was babbling about, but what the King of Ghouls had just said was absolutely correct.

A magic circle of that caliber couldn’t last long.

From the looks of it, it seemed to be maintained solely by the mage’s mana without any other auxiliary devices…

“We need to get out before the magic circle ends! I’ll take over, so get out!”

“…”

Lee Han was momentarily flustered by his senior’s words.

No matter how he looked at it, the moment Ogoldos took over this magic circle, he would likely be reduced to skin and bones and die instantly within seconds.

“That…”

“Hurry!”

“The thing is…”

“Come out! You’re going to collapse!”

When Ogoldos tried to pull Lee Han out and enter in his place, Lee Han became urgent too.

His thoughts bypassed his brain and came straight out of his mouth.

“…If someone like you, senior, takes over, you’ll collapse immediately!”

“…”

Awkward silence.

Ogoldos had nothing to say and hung his head low. Lee Han felt very sorry.

“That was…”

“…You’re right. You’re a better mage than me.”

“Ah. Why are you saying that, senior. You have the experience you’ve accumulated.”

‘It’s just a one-year difference, you bastard…’

Ogoldos was dumbfounded.

Of course, one year at the magic school had incomparable density to one year anywhere else, but it wasn’t enough to express it like that.

Moreover, Lee Han was the last person who should be saying such things.

“Fine. I’m sorry. I couldn’t even help and just kept getting in the way… But are you really okay?”

“Yes. My recovery rate is faster than my consumption rate.”

“…”

…Stop bullshitting!

“Isn’t this too undignified for a king?”

Lee Han looked at the King of Ghouls trapped in divine magic and cast a contemptuous gaze.

Even though they were both kings, the Frost Giant King had dignity, but the King of Ghouls was like some street thug.

“The kings that summoned creatures speak of… are more like titles attached to the strong.”

Lee Han nodded and understood at Ogoldos’s words.

“I see. So it’s like self-proclaimed.”

Gainando also sometimes called himself the ‘Blue Dragon Tower Mage Card King.’

How dare!

Lee Han ignored it and spoke.

“Senior. I have a favor to ask.”

“Yes! Tell me!”

Ogoldos exclaimed with delight.

Then he realized he had shouted too excitedly and became embarrassed.

“Ah, no. Tell me.”

“Please give me some water. I’ve been thirsty since earlier…”

“…Alright!”

Come to think of it, this junior had been fighting desperately from that underground prison all the way up.

It wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed from exhaustion right now.

Ogoldos raised his staff to summon water.

“Water…”

However, the water mass that formed in the air, about the size of a few finger joints, emitted a sour stench.

Seeing this, Ogoldos belatedly remembered.

‘Oh no…! This was the undead dimension!’

The dimension itself was full of dark elements and negative mana, affecting other elemental magic as well.

In situations like now where he needed to create drinking water, it was the worst.

“Senior?”

“Wa… wait a moment.”

Ogoldos concentrated more desperately than when taking the dark magic final exam.

To purify this water now?

‘The types of poison I can purify… bacterial toxins might be difficult to handle. Can I remove dark elements with magic? Ah. Right. I had the purification handkerchief.’

“Senior?”

“Just a moment! Just a moment!”

“No. I just summoned it myself.”

“?!”

Ogoldos turned his head.

Lee Han had summoned a large water mass and was drinking it.

“You can’t drink that!!!”

“Excuse me?”

“The water is poisoned!!”

Ogoldos ran at the fastest speed of his life. He ran so fast that he lost his balance and fell along the way.

Splash!

“…I’m telling you!”

“There’s no poison. I checked.”

“Even if you can’t see it, there could be…”

“I checked using separation magic too. This is the undead dimension.”

Ogoldos, lying flat on the ground, poked at the water mass floating in the air.

It was water composed of pure water elements, without a trace of the evil energy from the undead dimension.

“Would you like some?”

“…I’m… I’m fine.”

“Come on, senior. Why are you being like this?”

Seeing Ogoldos obviously dejected, Lee Han tried to console him.

“You probably don’t have water to drink either…”

“No. I have plenty of water.”

He could summon water with mana as much as he wanted, so he really wasn’t lacking.

“…I’m really sorry for not being helpful.”

“Ah. Why are you saying that, senior. Your help was so significant. You helped me earlier too, didn’t you?”

“…?”

Ogoldos tilted his head.

“What?”

“You know, telling me to reduce the number of undead.”

“…”

Ogoldos felt an indescribable emotion.

The fact that his junior was caring about his feelings in this situation was the greatest source of self-loathing.

‘This won’t do.’

Ogoldos steeled his resolve to preserve at least the last shred of dignity he had left.

Let me try to do something I can do!

“First, let me search for a path around this area.”

“Please be careful, Senior.”

Around the throne of the palace where the fierce battle had ended, only three remained.

From the undead mage to the warrior monks, all had been swept away, and only the King of Ghouls was trapped within the divine magic, constantly gnashing his teeth.

While there was no immediate danger, the paths of this palace were like a maze, making them difficult to find.

“Don’t worry and just rest.”

‘I’m really worried.’

Lee Han, who couldn’t leave his position due to maintaining the magic circle, was very concerned.

“Wait. Senior. Just a moment.”

“Why?”

“Just wait…”

Lee Han took out colored stones from his pocket.

They were stones for stone divination that he had learned during divination magic class in the first semester.

‘Let me be careful.’

While Lee Han confidently tackled most magic, divination magic was a bit different.

Every time the professor talked about it, he gave all sorts of warnings, so it would be stranger not to be nervous.

‘Finding an escape route with divination magic would be… dangerous. Something easier and simpler would be…’

After pondering, Lee Han made his decision.

“Stones, would it be alright to let Senior go out?”

Instantly, an image of negation flashed by.

Lee Han looked at Ogoldos and said.

“It doesn’t seem like a good idea?”

“Is… is that so?”

Normally he would have gotten angry and stubbornly insisted, but Ogoldos had no intention of doing that now.

Rather, he was curious about something else.

“Is it… okay to use divination magic already? Isn’t it dangerous?”

“It should be fine if I use it carefully. …Probably.”

‘This crazy bastard.’

Ogoldos was appalled by Lee Han’s answer.

He wondered if a true magical genius had to be like this.

The madness of throwing oneself into magic without caring about one’s own life!

“Senior?”

“Huh, what? Why?!”

“I’m going to prepare a meal, is there anything you’d like to eat?”

“…”

* * *

The range within which he could maintain the magic circle was wider than expected. Lee Han walked around the hall, surveying the surroundings.

Meanwhile, Ogoldos looked through the backpack Lee Han had been carrying.

Surprisingly, various emergency rations and seasonings, even tea leaves and coffee powder, sugar and such were neatly packed inside.

“You, you carried all this around?”

“Huh? Yeah. Don’t all Einroguard students do that?”

“Someone like you… no, never mind…”

“Is that so? How interesting.”

“…”

Ogoldos quietly closed his mouth and found the food items that seemed most likely to spoil first, taking them out separately. Then he moved the good food to Lee Han’s portion.

“Would you like coffee? Tea?”

“Water is enough for me.”

“Senior, by any chance…”

“What, what is it.”

Feeling like his inner thoughts had been discovered, Ogoldos hesitated. Lee Han silently brewed another cup of coffee and offered it.

“If you don’t drink it, I’ll give it to the King of Ghouls over there.”

“…Thank you.”

“Why make such a big deal over something like this.”

Sipping his coffee, Ogoldos said with a reddened face.

“I’m sorry. When a junior like you came in, I suspected you weren’t serious about dark magic.”

Actually, it wasn’t completely wrong.

Lee Han’s interest in dark magic had been due to the possibility of a stable job with little competition.

“Anyone could have such suspicions. I’m happy just that you’re apologizing like this.”

Lee Han answered insincerely.

At that answer, Ogoldos was once again greatly impressed.

Where else could you find a junior with such character?

“…If you need help later, just tell me. I don’t know what help I could be, but I’ll do my best.”

“Ah. If that’s the case, could you bring in some supplies for me when school starts and we enter Einroguard?”

At Lee Han’s joke, Ogoldos chuckled.

His junior had strange humor, but this was definitely a funny joke.

‘That wasn’t a joke though.’

Lee Han cursed slightly to himself.

* * *

After having a simple meal, Ogoldos began searching the hall more thoroughly.

Although they were trapped, the place where they were trapped was the center of the palace and where the throne was located.

If there were treasures, this was the most likely place.

Of course, doing this openly in front of the master made the master furious.

You bastards…

“Ah. So noisy.”

Lee Han threw a stone even though he knew it wouldn’t work.

The magic circle operating divine magic simply burned the stone. Seeing this, Lee Han suddenly had an idea and picked up the pot.

What are you doing now…

“Ooh.”

Sizzle!

Lee Han, who had poured the leftover garbage from the pot onto the King of Ghouls, was amazed.

Surprisingly, it cleanly burned even the remaining garbage!

“Verdus… thank you.”

Unfortunately sharing the same name which didn’t sound great, the undead mage Verdus was incomparably more virtuous than the professor.

You could tell just by seeing how he sacrificed himself to complete such a magic circle.

Lee Han hoped Verdus would recover quickly and respond to his summoning.

You ■■■■■■■■■■-

Ignoring the King of Ghouls spouting creative curses unique to ghouls, Lee Han called out to Ogoldos.

“Senior. Did you find anything good?”

“Just a moment…”

Click!

Ogoldos, who had even taken out the dark magic book he carried and was researching diligently, opened something in the wall and shouted triumphantly.

“I found it!!! I found it, junior!!!”

“You mean treasure!?”

Lee Han, who had been playing around throwing garbage at the King of Ghouls, also jumped up in surprise.

“Yes! It’s treasure!!”

“What… what kind of gems are attached to it?”

Lee Han suppressed his excitement and asked.

Then Ogoldos answered as if asking what he was talking about.

“Bones?”

“…Excuse me?”

“Bones! I really want you to have this. You’ll have many occasions to need it!”

Ogoldos returned excitedly, carrying an armful of bones mixed with purple and black colors.

Though he couldn’t tell exactly what kind of being these bones came from, just from the color and mana patterns, he could tell they belonged to quite a powerful creature.

For dark mages who frequently used bone elemental magic, bones used as reagents were extremely important.

The quality of bone fragments used as reagents didn’t just enhance magic, but actually expanded the very limits of usable magic.

“…”

Of course, such knowledge meant nothing to Lee Han. Lee Han became dejected and threw trash at the King of Ghouls again.

‘Well, I suppose. This person was also a dark mage.’

Wouldn’t it be just like dark mages to consider bones rather than gems as treasure?

“Thank you. I’ll put them to good use.”

“Good. That’s really great. When you return to Einroguard, examine them carefully.”

Lee Han was bitterly smiling as he gathered the bones when something suddenly occurred to him and he shouted.

“Senior!!!”

“Huh, what?!”

“If we stay here any longer, won’t we be late for the start of the semester?!”

“That… that’s true, but is that what’s important right now?”

When Lee Han asked with a face that had turned completely pale, Ogoldos was flustered.

Even when the King of Ghouls was rampaging, he hadn’t made such an expression…

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