Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 41
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Chapter 041
Ancient artifacts like these were rare treasures that couldn’t be easily obtained.
Moreover, it was already half-destroyed from being attacked once.
It was obvious to anyone that another attack would surely shatter it completely.
“Stop that bastard! Protect the artifact!”
I Hide in the Night!
”
I Hide in the Night!
“
I Hide in the Night!
Lee Han chanted the incantation again.
As Lee Han’s figure disappeared into the darkness with the incantation, the attackers gnashed their teeth.
Just like how he had prevented them from taking down the mage earlier, that priest was more than just ordinarily troublesome.
“He knows how to fight. He’s definitely a combat priest assigned as the mage’s escort! I’ll go deal with him myself!”
The leader of the attackers, who had formed a strange misunderstanding, ran toward the artifact.
He thought that leaving things alone might complicate matters.
Move!
”
Move!
“
Move!
Lee Han threw the iron ball he had received from Professor Boladi while running.
And he chanted the incantation.
Originally, using magic in such urgent situations was a kind of taboo for beginners who had just learned magic.
Even excellent mages would fail at magic if they couldn’t overcome pressure and excitement without proper training, let alone novice mages.
If magic failed, that would be fortunate – mana could backflow or cause self-injury.
However, Professor Boladi hadn’t bothered to give Lee Han such warnings.
-It’s something any combat mage must experience, so why would warnings be necessary? It’s something to overcome on one’s own.
…As a result, Lee Han ended up chanting incantations without knowing he was taking a dangerous gamble.
And surprisingly, that gamble succeeded.
As Professor Boladi had assessed, Lee Han was someone who displayed even greater abilities when faced with danger.
Pop!
Pop!
Pop!
The iron ball enchanted with basic manipulation magic floated up.
Originally, the iron ball should have moved weakly and slowly, but the iron ball imbued with Lee Han’s enormous mana moved with power that transcended basic manipulation magic.
‘Go!’
The iron ball flew like an arrow along with Lee Han’s will.
In the darkness, responding to an iron ball that suddenly flew from an invisible state was no easy task.
With a ‘thud’ sound, the pursuing attacker tumbled backward.
“Be careful!! He’s using hidden weapons!”
“He’s skilled in combat! Be careful!”
The attackers drew their swords and went on guard.
Lee Han felt his brain tingling and burning as he retrieved the iron ball.
It was because his body kept running while his mind was separately controlling the iron ball.
‘Focus… I need to focus!’
Professor Boladi might have been crazy, but his words certainly made sense.
Real combat makes people grow.
…Lee Han was feeling what those words meant with his body.
He could feel that controlling it while risking his life like this improved his skills much more than continuously rotating the iron ball in the lecture hall.
He could feel his control increasing with each moment of shooting the iron ball, catching it, rotating it, and shooting it again!
‘!’
Lee Han was startled when he suddenly tasted blood. When he licked his lips, blood was flowing down from his nose.
His mana was fine.
He had overworked his mind too much.
Clang!
Clang!
Clang!
With a flash of sword light, the iron ball split and fell.
The enemy leader had swung his sword with perfect timing.
“Focus on the footprints! You can find him by looking at the footprints!”
‘Damn it. I was almost there.’
Lee Han looked regretfully at the ancient artifact just a few meters away.
It seemed like he could just rush in and smash it, but the remaining three attackers were firmly blocking the way.
“I smell blood. Follow the scent of blood!”
Hearing that shout, Lee Han realized that prolonging this would be disadvantageous.
No matter how much he had practiced swordsmanship, Lee Han was incomparable to his opponents in terms of real combat experience.
He had to attack first while he had the advantage.
A sword swung and blood splattered. One attacker who hadn’t expected a surprise attack collapsed.
“Over there!”
Swoosh!
The attackers pulled something from their sleeves and scattered it. It was glittering powder. Even without knowing what it was, he could guess that his invisibility would be compromised the moment it touched him.
Lee Han rolled without hesitation.
“Damn bastard!”
When their target didn’t appear despite scattering the luminous powder, the attackers cursed. He was no ordinary troublesome opponent.
“Respond calmly. As long as we don’t let our guard down, we won’t be caught off guard.”
The leader spoke in a wary voice.
No matter how much he was using invisibility magic, there had to be sound when he moved and attacked.
If they just concentrated on listening, they should be able to notice.
‘Where did he go?’
But there was no sound at all.
The scent of the enemy’s blood they had smelled earlier had also disappeared.
Stab!
Stab!
Stab!
“?!”
“This bastard…!”
Another one who had walked close to the fallen attacker was ambushed and collapsed.
Only then did the leader realize how Lee Han had fooled the scent of blood.
He had pretended to leave the area but was actually hiding next to the blood spilled by the attacker.
The leader forgot about the situation and honestly admired him.
Magic aside, he really had a talent for fighting. A stupid person couldn’t come up with such schemes no matter how much they trained.
“Move!”
“Gasp!”
At the sound of an incantation being chanted from the air, the attacker hurriedly ducked his head. The leader shouted sharply.
“You fool! It’s a fake incantation!”
But it was too late. Even his last remaining subordinate had fallen.
The leader, instead of getting angry, let out a strange laugh and raised his sword.
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen an opponent like you. I’m called Garakse.”
Lee Han didn’t answer. As if he expected this, the leader nodded his head.
If he was the type to let his guard down and answer such questions, he wouldn’t have been able to face multiple opponents like this in the first place.
“You think you’re invisible, relying on that pathetic magic.”
Clang!
Clang!
Clang!
“But you’re already starting to become visible.”
The opponent’s words weren’t a bluff. Lee Han was surprised by the pressure from Garakse, who swung his sword quite accurately.
“Even if you hide your scent, you can’t hold your breath forever.”
“…!”
He was tracking his position by listening to his breathing?
Lee Han was dumbfounded.
He had heard that skilled swordsmen displayed physical abilities that transcended human limits, but this was beyond imagination.
Even so, this was too much…
Garakse’s sword began to weave through the air, gradually increasing the pressure.
The opponent’s swordsmanship was close to Scattering Sword.
Not the illusion meaning to deceive, but the scattering meaning to disperse!
Each time he swung his sword, the next attack immediately followed, gradually filling the air and restricting Lee Han’s movements.
Lee Han also countered by deploying the Blue Rock Sword, but the opponent’s swordsmanship was a level above.
Each time swords clashed with Garakse, Lee Han felt himself becoming increasingly disadvantaged. Without the invisibility magic, he would have been overwhelmed in an instant.
Most of all, the shock that rose each time their swords clashed was considerable.
‘Is this the swordsman’s technique that Alarlong told me about?’
He had heard that skilled swordsmen don’t simply swing their swords with brute force, but can draw out the mana from their bodies and infuse it into their swords.
They become able to wield power through their swords that transcends physical strength.
Right now, Garakse was also infusing mana into his sword, as shock traveled up with each clash.
‘I’ll force mana into it too!’
Lee Han resolved himself and drew out his mana.
Since awakening to magic, he had become much more skilled at infusing and manipulating mana.
Lee Han drew out mana as if casting magic and infused it into his sword.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
“!?”
Garakse was surprised by the suddenly changed attack from his opponent.
‘What is this guy?’
Lee Han’s swordsmanship was quite decent.
If Garakse, who had faced and defeated various swordsmen of the Empire, evaluated it this way, it really was decent.
Moreover, it wasn’t just his swordsmanship, but his mindset was also considerable.
Those who pride themselves on wielding swords well often fail to recognize their place when they meet stronger enemies and charge in recklessly, leading to instant self-destruction, but Lee Han was different.
He immediately recognized that Garakse was strong and abandoned greed, going into defense.
This wasn’t something just anyone could do.
In a life-or-death sword fight, who could abandon the desire to defeat their opponent and just endure?
They might collapse without accomplishing anything.
However, his opponent chose that path, and Garakse highly evaluated that point.
But Lee Han lacked power.
Even if his swordsmanship was quite decent, he lacked the strength to face a swordsman like Garakse who could freely infuse mana into his sword.
Moreover, Lee Han’s swordsmanship was heavy sword style.
Originally, Lee Han’s heavy sword style should have overwhelmed Garakse’s scattering sword style in terms of power, but if he couldn’t even win in strength like this, there was no chance of victory.
…But suddenly, power began to flow into the sword.
Power that even overwhelmed Garakse!
What is this?
‘Was he hiding his strength? What is this? What’s his intention? Why hide his power?’
Garakse abandoned his relaxed attitude and panicked for the first time.
There was no reason for a swordsman who could infuse mana into his sword to pretend to be weak.
Suddenly, the opponent he thought he had captured felt distant.
‘Is this right?’
Lee Han questioned himself even as he frantically poured mana into his sword.
This was an attack method completely opposite to the swordsmanship Lee Han had learned so far.
Originally, swordsmanship wasn’t just about swinging and ending it, but preparing immediately for the opponent’s attack. The opponent wouldn’t just stand there and take hits.
However, right now Lee Han was abandoning all stances and focusing solely on attack.
To concentrate while pouring mana into the sword, other complex movements were impossible.
‘Is this really right?!’
And Lee Han’s doubt was actually correct.
This wasn’t normal swordsmanship.
Infusing mana into a sword wasn’t about mindlessly pouring it in and ending it, but sending mana to the sword and circulating it through the entire body.
Sending it from the body to the sword, then from the sword back to the body.
Even when continuously recovering mana this way, the consumption and fatigue on the body was extraordinary, but just spewing out mana without circulating it?
It was self-destructive swordsmanship that wouldn’t be strange if he coughed up blood and collapsed.
If Lee Han hadn’t been in an invisible state, Garakse would have quickly noticed how extreme his stance was.
Then Garakse might have realized that Lee Han was doing something strange.
However, Lee Han was under invisibility magic, and the unseen enemy shook Garakse’s mind.
He couldn’t figure it out at all!
If he had faced him calmly, there would have been a chance of victory, but Garakse frantically took the attacks and was pushed into defense.
Crack-
Crack-
Crack-
“?”
Lee Han, who was overwhelming his opponent again, felt an ominous sound coming from his sword.
He thought he had misheard, but he had heard correctly.
‘…This is bad!’
The sword, unable to withstand the mana, was beginning to break.
‘What kind of cheap sword is this!’
The swords the attackers were using were actually among the finest in the Empire, but Lee Han didn’t know this.
He just complained shamelessly without thinking about the amount of mana he had poured in.
‘I’ll finish this before it breaks!’
If he reduced his mana output when it wasn’t even well controlled, he might be pushed back by his opponent again.
It was better to resolve to finish it.
Lee Han began frantically infusing mana into his sword with the resolve to end it in one strike.
In response, Garakse also gritted his teeth and drew another sword.
A sword made of black-purple stone, with the property of absorbing mana.
Drawing this sword against a swordsman was humiliating, but he couldn’t lose like this.
‘I’ll subdue you just like that!’
At that moment, there was a ‘crack’ sound of something breaking.
And the opponent’s invisible sword, which had been unseen until now, revealed itself. Roughly scattering mana flames formed the shape of a sword.
An attack in a strange form that was neither aura nor magic flew from the air.
Boom!!!!
CRASH!!!!
CRASH!!!!
Even the Black-Purple Stone Sword that absorbed mana was of no use.
The Other Person’s attack struck Garakse like a wave.
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