Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 442

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Chapter 442

Lee Han gave his friends a meaningful look.

Since they couldn’t know what kind of personality this massive being before them possessed, they had to be as careful as possible.

Hadn’t they learned in the 【Language and Logic】 lecture that mages who were quick-witted and eloquent survived longer than those with abundant mana and excellent magic skills?

“Yes. It’s the sea. The sea.”

The water… doesn’t seem salty…

“The spirits have been causing a ruckus, so the salt content must have decreased.”

According to the contract… your demands as a mage…

The sound of water sloshing kept interrupting, but relief appeared on the students’ faces.

Since Tanzhuer was saying it would fulfill their demands like this, the summoning had clearly succeeded properly.

“Hurry! Wardanaz!”

“Make this flood stop!!”

“I know. It’s exam period, so of course I have to stop it.”

“…No, no. You have to stop it even if it’s not exam period!”

His friends were slightly taken aback by Lee Han’s madness.

“O Ship Swallower! Do you see the rampage of these spirits right now?”

I can… feel it…

“Please stop the rampage of these spirits and make the rain cease! Stop the flood and send the water back underground where it belongs!”

Gulp-

The sound of one student swallowing saliva was heard loudly.

Tanzhuer fell into quiet silence.

…

When only the sound of water sloshing could be heard again, Lee Han asked cautiously.

“O Ship Swallower! Perhaps my voice was too quiet…”

No… I heard…

Tanzhuer answered slowly.

But… it’s difficult… my power is not complete…

‘Damn.’

Lee Han clicked his tongue.

It was unexpected, but thinking about it, it was possible.

The Tanzhuer that was summoned now was Tanzhuer in spirit form.

It would have lost most of the power it had in life, so it wasn’t surprising that it couldn’t fulfill Lee Han’s demands.

‘Then…’

Lee Han calmly modified his request.

“O Ship Swallower. Then I won’t make the demand to stop this flood. Instead, please change the direction of the rain clouds and storm!”

Right now, Einroguard had a problem with rising water, but the rain clouds and storms that struck constantly were an even bigger problem.

First-year mages could cross a calm sea, but there was no way when rain clouds and storms lashed out.

That much… is possible… where to…

“Please send it all over there to the upper floors of Einroguard Main Building.”

“…”

“…”

His friends, who had been listening quietly, were horrified.

Hey…!

‘Is that okay?’

‘Shouldn’t we stop him?’

Weren’t the upper floors of the main building the domain of the Principal and professors?

Wasn’t sending rain clouds and storms there a declaration of war?

“No. Wardanaz’s choice is right.”

Salko spoke in a heavy voice.

“What are you talking about, Tutanta?”

“You guys, who do you think caused this flood?”

“…!”

The students thought of one person’s name.

If not the owner of this school, who else would have caused the flood?

‘Huh? That’s not right though?’

Lee Han, who was concentrating on Tanzhuer, tilted his head.

This incident really wasn’t the Skeleton Principal’s fault.

The spirits had just periodically grown stronger and gone berserk…

“The Principal!”

“That’s right. It can only be the Principal. Then are we just going to keep taking it one-sidedly? Do you think the Principal would be satisfied with that?”

“No way! Absolutely not!”

“That Tutanta guy is right. We can’t live just taking it anymore. Let’s show that we can retaliate too!”

The first-year students, who had accumulated much resentment, shouted in unison.

Sending water to the Skeleton Principal’s dwelling.

Just thinking about it was thrilling.

“Lord Tanzhuer! Please send all the water over there!”

“That’s right!”

To the students’ cries, Tanzhuer slowly responded.

…Rather… I’ll try to stop the flood… and make the rain cease…

“…”

“…”

* * *

Tanzhuer was more timid than expected.

Rather than sending water to the dwelling of the Archmage who ruled this area, it declared it would somehow try to stop the flood.

‘Wouldn’t the former be better?’

Lee Han thought so, but since Tanzhuer had chosen the latter, there was nothing he could do about it.

“How do you plan to stop the flood and make the rain cease when your power isn’t complete?”

It’s difficult but… temporarily…

Tanzhuer explained with sloshing sounds.

While it was difficult to permanently calm the spirits and send the water back, it was possible to temporarily calm the spirits and block the water.

Of course… power will be consumed… so I must keep recovering…

Each time it used power, it would need to recover, then temporarily block again next time.

Tanzhuer said it would try to repeat this as long as possible.

“…”

Lee Han was dumbfounded.

‘No, really, wouldn’t the former be better?’

Since it was summoned by contract with a mage, summoned beings usually wanted to fulfill the contract as quickly as possible and become free.

Then it should choose the quick method, but it was refusing that and saying it would stay until it exhausted all its strength.

Just how scary was the Skeleton Principal…

“If you’re willing to do that, I don’t mind.”

Only then did Tanzhuer seem relieved as it spouted water.

“Then will you do it right now? We need to move.”

Yes…

“While you’re at it, could you carry us? We need to get to the lecture hall and might be late.”

…

Tanzhuer glanced at Lee Han with eyes full of annoyance.

However, it couldn’t bring itself to refuse.

It was because he was afraid the mage might bring up the story he had mentioned earlier.

Right…

* * *

Professor Rozine Pluewark, who was teaching the 【Advanced Imperial Language and Logic】 lecture, stood in the lecture hall with a slightly troubled expression.

“Sigh…”

Oripulas, a demon who had served as an Imperial legal officer for 131 years, spoke as if he couldn’t understand.

Mage. From what I can see, this doesn’t seem like a good environment for education.

“…”

I once saw a demon duke training young demons, but even that place didn’t deliberately cause natural disasters like this.

“Be quiet.”

Professor Rozine made the demon beside her shut his mouth.

The content she had heard from the Skeleton Principal over the weekend was quite shocking, so it was still ringing in her ears.

-Professors. The spirits caused a commotion and flooded Einroguard. It’s a phenomenon that occurs periodically, so newcomers shouldn’t be too surprised…

Seeing that the experienced professors weren’t surprised at all, it was indeed an explanation meant to consider outsiders like Professor Rozine.

In fact, Professor Ingoldel, who taught swordsmanship lectures, was bewildered and asked several times, ‘Shouldn’t we prevent the flood?’

-Professor Ingoldel. Please calm down. This flood originally happens maybe once every ten years, and it unfortunately occurred…

-But shouldn’t you drain the water so students can come take their exams?

-Why?

-No… the students need to take their exams…

-Why?

-…

-Why?

The Skeleton Principal expressed his intention very strongly that he absolutely would not help.

Professor Rozine agreed for now, but she was worried whether the students would be able to come properly.

Looking out through the stained glass, rain and wind were raging madly and high waves were rolling in one after another…

‘If students don’t show up, should I have only the attending students take a separate exam? No matter what, isn’t this too harsh?’

After all that preparation…

Oripulas pointed to the middle of the lecture hall with a slightly regretful voice.

This midterm exam was for students to directly make simple and minor contracts with powerful beings.

Of course, first-year students couldn’t summon and face such evil and powerful beings without any help, so Professor Rozine and Oripulas had worked hard to gather such beings, weaken them, seal them, then cage them and display them in the lecture hall.

Students would talk and converse with these various beings, assess their opponents well, and succeed if they could contract with even one.

Do you know how expensive that demon knight is? How much the Empire’s officials demanded when they lent out that demon…

“I know. I know. You worked hard borrowing them.”

That eight-headed beast was really difficult too. It’s so rough and fierce…

-Mage, demon. I’ll kill you! Grrrowl! I’ll rip out your hearts and swallow them! Release me! You insignificant, stinking fools!

The monster trapped in the cage made savage threats with a bubbling voice. Oripulas, annoyed, picked up a spear and mercilessly stabbed the monster.

-Kraaaak!

Didn’t I say I’d release you if you stayed quiet! Why are you acting like this? Can’t you endure even that short time? I’ve been keeping my contract for over a hundred years!

-Demon. Kill! Demon. Kill! Kraak! Kraaaak!

I don’t want to use violence, but it’s unavoidable for the young mages. Tell me when you reflect.

Oripulas didn’t stop and kept stabbing the monster. With such powerful and violent beings, you had to firmly establish control from the start since they would climb all over you if you gave them even a little leeway.

“…Oripulas.”

What’s wrong? Should I stab harder? But if I stab too hard and the thing gets annihilated…

“No. That’s not it…”

Rozine couldn’t continue speaking and pointed outside.

Oripulas also turned his gaze toward the window. Then he dropped his jaw and let the spear fall.

In the distance, a massive summoned creature was approaching, cutting through the sea and calming the storm clouds.

A Tanzhuer?! What a rare sight! Which professor summoned it?

“There are students on top of it.”

…

“…”

The two mages and demon fell silent with each other.

Oripulas recalled the young student from last semester who could contract with demons without any special conditions.

Sure enough, that student was sitting on the Tanzhuer, approaching the lecture hall.

* * *

“Wait, Wardanaz! If such a huge creature goes inside, won’t it damage the school buildings?”

“The Principal will fix it. Ship-swallowing one! Please go inside!”

Lee Han had absolutely no intention of getting off the Tanzhuer despite his friends’ concerns.

Sure enough, even inside the main building, waves and storm clouds were raging fiercely.

‘I can’t let my guard down just because it’s inside a building. Rather, if I get swept away here, it would be more dangerous.’

If he got swept away by the current once and was pushed all the way to the punishment room, there would be nowhere to complain.

Lee Han had absolutely no intention of getting off the Tanzhuer.

Swoooooosh-

As the Tanzhuer pushed through the door and entered, Einroguard’s entrance suddenly widened and the corridor expanded.

A student riding alongside exclaimed in admiration.

“Ah…! I see!”

“Right, a building like Einroguard wouldn’t be damaged by something like this! Wardanaz. You trusted in this!”

“No. I just thought the Principal would fix it even if it got damaged. Turn right!”

The whale-like Tanzhuer raced across the calm water surface where the waves and storm clouds had stopped.

The students forgot about their current difficult situation and cheered.

Crack!

Suddenly the wall beside them opened and a waterfall began pouring down fiercely.

Water from somewhere had connected to this side and flowed over.

Lee Han urgently shouted.

“Ship-swallowing one! Right now…”

I know…

“If you can’t stop it, you need to send the water to the Principal’s room!!”

The Tanzhuer made gurgling water sounds and hurriedly blocked the waterfall.

The waterfall flowed backward upward and went back into the wall.

“Thank you!”

The Tanzhuer was too exhausted to even respond.

Watching this scene from inside the lecture hall, Oripulas unconsciously shouted loudly.

Perfect score… perfect score!

“???”

The students were confused by the sudden shout coming from the lecture hall.

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