Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 383

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Chapter 383

After chasing away Professor Boladi who had remained until the very end, the Skeleton Principal began to grumble.

How wonderful it would be if everyone were like Professor Garcia.

“You flatter me. But when will you begin the next task?”

…Just, just taking a little rest here.

“I see…”

One minute later.

“But when will you begin the next tas…”

Going now. Going now.

The Skeleton Principal shuddered and floated away.

He often forgot due to her normal appearance, but Professor Garcia was also someone who had tried to take lectures from all schools at Einroguard.

‘If only I could bring a sane professor to the school.’

Professors who were both excellent at magic and mentally sound were truly hard to find.

The Skeleton Principal could only lament the pitiful state of the Empire’s educational system.

* * *

“Huu…”

…

“Haa…”

…

“Really…”

…Would you please stop, Professor Garcia?

“Pardon?”

You’ve been sighing dozens of times since earlier.

“Ah. I apologize. I’m just worried.”

The Skeleton Principal had come out to rest briefly after finishing today’s work until the next path opened, but Professor Garcia didn’t even spare him that moment and kept sighing.

The Skeleton Principal lamented the fact that Professor Garcia was so diligent.

Even if he wanted to send her to Einroguard, there was no excuse to do so.

Wardanaz will be fine. The divination magic showed that too.

“Ah. I was worrying about student Ogoldos.”

The Skeleton Principal sent Professor Garcia a look of disbelief at her words.

If a 1st year student and 2nd year student were trapped together, shouldn’t you worry about the 1st year student…

Perhaps noticing this, Professor Garcia also made an embarrassed face and made excuses.

“I was worrying about student Lee Han too. Of course.”

Doesn’t seem like you were worrying much…

“Of course I’m worried. If trapped inside ruins, food supplies would be the immediate concern…”

The Skeleton Principal thought ‘If trapped inside ruins, shouldn’t you worry more about traps or guardian attacks than food?’ but didn’t bother asking.

You don’t need to worry about that. Wardanaz carries quite a lot of food wherever he goes.

“…Ah, yes. I see.”

Professor Garcia was at a loss for words.

What kind of…

“Sir. Lord Gonadaltes. The adventurers are requesting an audience, what should we do?”

When the knights came to ask, the Skeleton Principal answered as if annoyed.

Tell them if they bother me one more time, I’ll bury them upside down until the work is finished. Keep proper watch. Those adventurer bastards have a talent for making things troublesome because they can’t understand rules.

“Understood.”

After the knights left, Professor Garcia asked again.

“Still, the two of them have to endure, won’t food supplies be insufficient?”

Well, considering the amount he carries around, it should be enough to last until I enter…

Professor Garcia’s face brightened slightly at the Skeleton Principal’s words.

“Then that’s fortunate. Student Ogoldos will be fine too since student Lee Han is with him.”

…Haven’t you noticed something strange about what you’ve been saying?

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“Senior. To prepare for any unforeseen circumstances, we need to conserve food, so today’s dessert is just one slice of cake.”

“…Hey, I’m also an Einroguard student.”

Ogoldos felt absurd as he received the chocolate cake.

By Einroguard student standards, this was a luxurious feast.

Regardless, Lee Han began pounding the rock again.

Even the King of Ghouls, who had initially mocked him, seemed to be getting anxious and tried to interfere with all sorts of tricks.

You’ll never break through that way in your lifetime.

Think again! What if it collapses?

No matter what you do, it’s useless…

Ogoldos was newly amazed by Lee Han.

He had been amazed by this junior many times before, but this time was a bit different.

How could he so thoroughly ignore what someone was saying?

If it were Ogoldos, no matter how much he pretended to ignore it, he would have been bothered enough to respond or argue back.

But Lee Han truly ignored the King of Ghouls as if he didn’t even exist.

So much so that the King of Ghouls was screaming as if having a fit.

Crack-

Seeing the falling stone dust, Lee Han carefully checked the distance he had dug.

Thanks to spending most of his waking hours frantically casting magic at this rock face, he had penetrated quite a distance.

‘The saying that water drops can pierce stone isn’t wrong.’

Float a water orb, spin it, and shoot it.

While continuously repeating this simple process over and over, Lee Han was also gradually becoming more skilled.

Even though he couldn’t instantly create perfect rotation yet…

Pop!

‘Oops. Too hasty.’

When the water orb burst after he tried to make it spin at high speed immediately upon floating it, Lee Han clicked his tongue.

He still had to either take more time or lower the speed and settle for imperfect rotation.

Fine. I’ll tell you what’s inside there!

As Lee Han continued digging, the anxious King of Ghouls shouted.

Of course, Lee Han pretended not to hear and ignored him. Lee Han had the ability to let things go in one ear and out the other even if someone was screaming right next to him.

‘Think of it as a professor talking.’

Ten thousand demons sleep inside there. So stop! Even if you keep opening it, it won’t be good for you either.

In the Undead Realm, and indeed in dimensions overflowing with violence and conflict, the defeated had to kneel before the victor and beg for mercy.

The King of Ghouls had also cruelly trampled those who lost to him while rising to his current position.

One trace of that was the space sealed by that door.

A sealed space to prevent the defeated, who remained only as souls, from gaining power and being resurrected.

Ogoldos’s face became serious.

If those words were true, opening it like this was quite dangerous.

Since they weren’t opening a door with proper seals but using the crude method of blasting through the rock itself, it was hard to predict where the things trapped inside might escape to.

“Junior. I think we need to consider this now…”

“Do those words seem true to you?”

“Honestly, for a lie, it’s quite plausible.”

Imprisoning threatening enemies in such a way was exactly what a powerful undead would do.

Lee Han growled in anger.

“How dare… to deceive us by calling such a thing treasure!”

‘It is a treasure though.’

Ogoldos thought to himself.

Such powerful souls were treasures in that they could be used when creating great magic or artifacts.

Of course, it was different since Lee Han wasn’t trying to formally open the door right now…

“What’s wrong? Senior?”

“Th, that’s right. To call such things treasures. That ghoul bastard! How outrageous!”

Ogoldos hurriedly answered.

There was still a quiet anger remaining in Lee Han’s voice.

“If that’s true, it’s really the worst. Senior.”

“Th, the worst might be going too far? We could just wait for rescue…”

“To think we can’t get more treasure during the remaining time and have to just study…”

“…”

Ogoldos couldn’t really relate, but he stayed quiet because his junior was scary.

Kwajijijijiik!

At that moment, the mana surrounding the entire palace shook madly and began crumbling away with a rumble.

The mana protecting the deeper levels also continuously swirled in all directions, screaming.

“Kuhuk…!”

Ogoldos collapsed unconscious from the overwhelmingly strong wave of mana.

Though it wasn’t a direct attack, such surging torrents of mana were powerful in themselves.

Kwaaaaaaaang!

“Isn’t this method too rough?!”

Don’t worry about Wardanaz, he’ll be fine. Professor Garcia. Wardanaz! If you’re alive, prepare to go to the punishment room…

“No. It’s Student Ogoldos.”

Ah.

The Skeleton Principal was silent for a moment.

He won’t die.

“This cra■ unde■■■ really■■ I’ll■■-!”

The student is listening, Professor Garcia. Stop the cursing.

“Professor. I’m here.”

Upon learning that Lee Han was there, Professor Garcia stopped cursing and ran over. Just from her expression, you could tell how worried the professor had been.

“Student Lee Han…!”

“I’m sorry for making you worry. Professor.”

“No. The person who brought a 1st year student in there was wrong.”

‘I was the one who said I’d go.’

Since he was the one who had stubbornly insisted due to dreams of striking it rich, Lee Han felt slightly sorry for Professor Mortum.

“Student Ogoldos is… fine. That’s a relief.”

Though he had briefly fainted, his complexion looked good, showing he had been doing well until then.

Professor Garcia let out a sigh of relief and looked around.

There were various things showing they had eaten well, from all sorts of trash to a table carved from stone and magic books.

Others would have been shocked, but the Skeleton Principal and Professor Garcia weren’t particularly surprised.

Studying during break time was perfectly natural.

You’ve furnished it quite comfortably.

“Thank you.”

But what’s that?

The Skeleton Principal pointed at the King of Ghouls trapped in the magic circle and asked.

The King of Ghouls instinctively sensed what level of archmage the Skeleton Principal was and was keeping his body low.

“Th, that’s the King of Ghouls.”

Having spoken up, Lee Han added an explanation, worried that the opponent might look too weak to seem like the King of Ghouls.

“Even though it looks much weaker now, it was more powerful before being trapped, and also the title King of Ghouls can be self-proclaimed…”

…What exactly are you trying to explain??

The Skeleton Principal was dumbfounded.

If you had eyes, you could tell that was the King of Ghouls.

* * *

After hearing the explanation of what had happened, the Skeleton Principal sighed.

‘I should tell Mortum to avoid Professor Garcia for a while.’

He thought they were just trapped, but they had been fighting the King of Ghouls while trapped.

Already Professor Garcia’s fists were clenched as if about to burst and the tendons beside her temples were bulging and twitching. If the student hadn’t been there, several staffs would have been broken.

‘But that’s his problem to handle.’

The Skeleton Principal decided to only worry about Professor Mortum that much.

At that age, one had to take care of their own life.

“That bastard is really despicable and evil.”

Lee Han complained as if his teeth were chattering with rage.

The Skeleton Principal was puzzled by this sight.

Wasn’t Lee Han someone with strong enough courage to calmly overcome harassment from guys like Baegreck or Verdus?

But to complain like this.

Had the King of Ghouls been that threatening and violent?

“He said he’d tell me the location of treasure but made me work for nothing!”

…

The Skeleton Principal was astounded looking at the nearly pierced rock.

He knew Lee Han had a lot of mana, but it was a different story that he had maximized that mana and attempted to pierce through that massive rock during his spare time.

Who would have imagined such a thing? It was an act that completely transcended a mage’s common sense.

He is an evil bastard. Undead are originally like that.

“He deserves the torments of hell.”

Why do you have such greed for material things when you’re from the Wardanaz Family…?

The Skeleton Principal made the King of Ghouls, who seemed to have given up and was spewing curses, shut his mouth and floated up to fly away.

Then he finished piercing through the rock and instantly devoured the demon souls inside.

“…!”

!!!

It was such an intense scene that both Lee Han and the King of Ghouls were shocked.

The Skeleton Principal emitted blue light from his eye sockets and bound the souls he had swallowed. Then he compressed and trapped them in a single bone.

Take this.

The Skeleton Principal made a bracelet from the bone and threw it to Lee Han.

It was a rare and precious artifact containing the evil souls that had been defeated by the King of Ghouls.

Normally he wouldn’t give students such special treatment, but this much should be fine.

Lee Han looked at the Skeleton Principal with a slightly moved expression.

“Principal…!”

Yes.

“But shouldn’t artifacts like this normally have gems in them? I’m not asking with any particular intention, just curious from a stability standpoint…”

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