Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 381

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Chapter 381

“No, isn’t that obviously important?”

Lee Han said with a serious expression.

When his junior, who had been polite no matter what Ogoldos said until now, suddenly became serious, Ogoldos felt like he had made some terrible mistake.

“Is… is that so?”

By Ogoldos’s standards, wouldn’t it be better to enter Einroguard late?

Even if you entered early, the Skeleton Principal would just torment you more.

“Ah. Is it because of the punishment room? Of course, since you’re a first-year, I understand that you’re unnecessarily afraid of the punishment room, but if you attend Einroguard for a long time, you’ll get used to the punishment room too. The punishment room isn’t as terrible as you think. Once you get used to it, it’s sometimes more comfortable than the dormitory.”

First-year students were bound to be unnecessarily afraid of the punishment room, but that was all the Skeleton Principal’s deception.

If you were too afraid of the punishment room, you couldn’t survive at Einroguard.

“I’ve been to the punishment room a few times. What I was worried about was missing lectures.”

“…”

“It can’t be helped. Senior.”

“Huh? What?”

“Please help me study.”

When Lee Han took out his book, Ogoldos was shocked.

‘Crazy bastard…’

Ogoldos trembled at the sight of his junior who was trapped in the depths of the undead dimension with the King of Ghouls but was first worried about his second semester grades.

He had seen many people who seemed crazy at school, but that wasn’t really crazy.

The truly crazy person was right here in front of Ogoldos.

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“How many days do you think have passed?”

“Well. Time perception in other dimensions is often unreliable. A week?”

“I should be able to catch up with about a week, right?”

“Someone like you should be fine.”

“What do you mean fine! Don’t say it so easily!”

Lee Han got angry.

And then immediately apologized.

“I’m sorry, Senior. I shouldn’t have gotten angry at you.”

“Ah, no. I’m fine.”

Ogoldos shook his head inwardly at the sight of his junior who remained polite no matter what insulting words he heard in other areas, but became very sharp when it came to lectures.

What kind of first-year did Einroguard accept?

“So Senior. Getting back to bone elemental magic…”

Bone elemental magic seemed to lack development potential compared to other elemental magic at first glance, but this too was magic that could be delved into as deeply as you wanted if you dug deep.

Besides the basics of summoning bones to shoot or bind opponents, there were many aspects related to strengthening, transforming, and fusing the bones themselves, which in some ways were connected to alchemy and enchantment magic.

“One of the characteristics of bone elemental magic is that it becomes stronger the more you prepare in advance, right?”

“That’s right.”

If you strengthened the bones themselves with curses, poison, or dark elements in advance, the power of the magic itself was greatly amplified.

“Bone elemental magic is ultimately magic that deals with corpses. The core of corpses is ultimately bones. A mage who has mastered bone elemental magic can create a monster capable of facing several Empire knights with just one emaciated corpse.”

“Yes. What I’m curious about is, I want to store cold curses, burning poison, and dark elements in bones in advance, but the bones can’t withstand it. Is there a method?”

“…”

Ogoldos wanted to cry at the sight of his junior asking so naturally a question that even if asked to fourth-year Diret, he would say ‘wait, let me call a professor.’

The most painful thing was that his junior was asking purely without any malice.

“I… don’t really know that much.”

“Is that so? That’s unfortunate.”

Lee Han turned the page with disappointment.

Ogoldos glanced at the book page.

The dark magic book clearly said ‘bones can be strengthened with additional magic,’ not ‘let’s try strengthening with cold curses, burning poison, and dark elements.’

‘If I told this guy to summon an undead, wouldn’t he summon a bone dragon?’

“Senior.”

“Huh? What?”

Now he was slightly scared when Lee Han called him.

“If you combine this bone elemental magic, you can strengthen summoned undead, right?”

“That’s right.”

Putting additional bone armor on summoned undead or giving them weapons was the most basic method, and experienced mages would strengthen them in various ways with blood, poison, flesh, spirits, etc.

“I’d like to see and learn how Senior does it…”

“…Wait. I think we need to search this place a bit more.”

Ogoldos hurriedly got up from his seat.

When Lee Han had previously combined skeleton warriors into one, there seemed to be a high possibility that he would be very disappointed if he saw Ogoldos’s undead summon.

“You want to search again? Aren’t you pushing yourself too hard?”

“What’s so hard about this? Don’t worry.”

When Ogoldos got up from his seat, Lee Han disappointedly closed his book.

‘I should read another book first while he’s searching.’

Lee Han took out 【On Basic Lightning Elemental Magic and Its Applications】 and studied how to increase the power of lightning elemental magic.

Contrary to Perkuntra’s claim that ‘lightning element is the most powerful element,’ he had often felt a lack of power recently.

…Are you planning to be trapped here for life?

“The more you condense lightning… I don’t understand. I think I’ve condensed it quite a bit. Do I need to condense it more here?”

…You must be feeling it too. The fear rising from within your heart.

“Next chapter… No. Form transformation?”

Lee Han was surprised.

Contrary to the misconception many mages have, form transformation of lightning elements is not impossible. Of course, I won’t deny that the difficulty is higher than other elements. The mistake novice mages make most often is attempting lightning element form transformation clumsily and having their mana depleted…

Professor Boladi was quite a kind person in books. Instead of forcibly demanding difficult magic, he recommended building a solid foundation.

Lee Han, who was reading the book, suddenly fell into doubt.

‘Why does someone who can be like this treat me like that?’

Anyway, lightning element form transformation was theoretically about strongly compressing lightning with mana to give it mass, then transforming its form like other elements.

Considering both the mana consumption and difficulty, it was understandable why mages didn’t do form transformation with lightning elements.

Magic was an omnipotent miracle, but mages were always those who pursued efficiency.

Don’t deny it. Your fear! You must be feeling it too!

“Like this… Oops.”

Crackle!

“It’s harder than I thought.”

The lightning that lost control flew toward the King of Ghouls. Lee Han clicked his tongue and concentrated again.

According to what was written in the book, there was a high possibility that Professor Boladi would come out with ‘succeed or die’ in the second semester.

Do you think pretending not to hear will change anything!

“Hmm?”

Lee Han put down his staff and turned his gaze.

“Ah. Sorry. You were so noisy that I was unconsciously ignoring you. Yes. Why did you call?”

The King of Ghouls had cut the breath of countless enemies and brought them to their knees in the undead dimension, but he had never met anyone who gave him such humiliation as this young mage.

The King of Ghouls was so angry he could barely breathe.

Fear! You! That you’ll be trapped here for life! Even now, if you compromise…

“Are you still saying that?”

Lee Han looked at the King of Ghouls as if it was absurd.

“You seem to be mistaken about something, but my situation is different from yours.”

What’s different?

“If I just stay here quietly, there are people who will come to take me away.”

It wasn’t ‘to rescue’ but ‘to drag away,’ but the King of Ghouls didn’t notice due to his anger.

That’s your misconception. Did my palace look so ridiculous to you? This palace located in the dimensional depths is absolutely not easy to…

‘He’s quite the bluffer.’

The King of Ghouls was speaking sincerely, but it didn’t resonate with Lee Han.

Honestly, the Skeleton Principal seemed stronger.

If Professor Mortum couldn’t find him, he would tell the Skeleton Principal, and if the Skeleton Principal heard about it, he would come looking on his own.

And then the punishment room…

“Thinking about it makes me angry.”

Lee Han threw the snack wrapper he was holding at the King of Ghouls.

Come to think of it, wasn’t this whole mess caused by this bastard sitting on the throne without reading the room?

If it weren’t for this bastard, he could have peacefully explored the palace, left, and sold things for a high price…

Finally showing your true colors. I know you’re getting impatient too!

“Think whatever you want.”

Compromise. You’re compromising. Stop denying it!

“The compromise is how many days I’ll get off the punishment room sentence for handing you over to the Principal… Oh. Wait.”

Lee Han suddenly became curious.

The King of Ghouls had nothing to offer Lee Han right now.

What was he trying to do?

“Hmm. Tell me. What kind of compromise do you want?”

Obviously, breaking this magic circle.

Thinking that Lee Han was finally showing interest, the king’s voice became softer and more cunning.

Though he hadn’t used it often after gaining power, the King of Ghouls was a being who could display such crafty schemes whenever necessary.

“What reason do I have to trust you?”

Of course you’d think that. But think carefully. If we approach it that way, we’ll just run parallel lines forever. If you don’t want to be trapped here for infinite time, you have to trust to some degree. Of course, it won’t be easy to just trust. I swear on my honor as a king. Even after getting out of here, I will absolutely never touch you!

‘Even Gainando wouldn’t fall for such nonsense.’

Lee Han looked at the King of Ghouls as if he were pathetic.

What meaning could swearing on his honor as a king have? From what he said earlier, he didn’t seem particularly impressive either.

Lee Han was also someone who could stake everything from his honor as top of his year to his family’s honor if necessary, so it didn’t work on him at all.

But…

“That, that’s…”

Lee Han pretended to seriously consider it for now.

There was something he wanted to ask.

“Really?”

Yes!

“But it’s hard to believe…”

Believe me!

“Then if you show a little more sincerity, I might be able to believe you.”

What would that be?

“Are there any more treasures left here?”

…

The King of Ghouls instinctively felt uneasy, but deliberately ignored it due to his impatience.

“Don’t tell me you’re hiding something? After saying we should trust each other?”

…Fine. I’ll tell you about one.

“Yes. That’s a good idea. Now I’m starting to trust you.”

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‘Hmm. Still, I need to find something.’

Ogoldos carefully read the patterns on the wall. He regretted not attending more ancient script lectures at Einroguard, knowing this would happen.

‘Who knew the Professor’s words about all studies being useful would actually be true.’

“Senior!”

“I, I’m looking for it right now! Just wait a little longer!”

Ogoldos shouted hastily.

He was suddenly scared, not knowing what Lee Han might ask while studying dark magic.

“Let’s search behind the third pillar from the left.”

“What?”

Ogoldos was confused.

“Why?”

“I heard it from the King of Ghouls.”

“That… Wait. You had a conversation? While I was away?!”

Ogoldos was shocked.

Having a long conversation with a powerful being from another dimension was not a good thing.

In the case of inexperienced young mages, they could be deceived by the other party and make huge mistakes.

Even though the King of Ghouls was trapped inside the magic circle, he was still a dangerous beast. He might even be more dangerous because he was trapped inside.

He would try to persuade even more desperately…

“…But if it’s you, it should be fine.”

‘Didn’t this person’s answer come out a bit late just now?’

Lee Han looked at Ogoldos with suspicious eyes.

It seemed like he had some unnecessary thoughts…

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