Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 463

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Chapter 463

“Get drunk, like a drunkard!”

“Slip and fall!”

“Dig deep into the ground!”

When Lee Han arrived, battle was already raging at the main gate.

Students stood atop the barricade, hurling spells at the monster ramming into the main gate.

‘A Mac!’

At first glance it looked like a large bear, but it had the peculiar appearance of an elephant’s trunk, rhinoceros eyes, tiger paws, and a cow’s tail.

Lee Han recalled the monster’s characteristics he had learned from Professor Lightningstep.

A monster that enjoyed feeding on others’ nightmares – but why was it here?

‘Come to think of it, Einrogard Library would be a place full of nightmares.’

When he thought about it, no one had nightmares as frequently as Einrogard students studying.

■■■■■…

The Mac rammed into the main gate with slow but heavy movements.

Though students had bound its ankles with magic, its determination to enter the fortress was clearly felt.

The White Tiger Tower students were dumbfounded as their magically enhanced spears bounced off.

“What grudge does that bastard have to act like this? Why is it trying to get in here!?”

“Well. We did sweep up all the library furniture to use as barricades.”

“…Bring more spears! Wardanaz! Hurry up! Wardanaz!!”

“Hey. Don’t shout so loud, it’s embarrassing! He’s coming anyway!”

Lee Han immediately headed up to the barricade upon arrival. Then Giselle spoke with a serious expression.

“Wait. Wardanaz. A Mac shouldn’t have the ability to sneak in and kidnap students.”

“!”

She was right.

Just looking at its current behavior, it wasn’t a monster that would sneak in secretly to kidnap students.

Giselle glanced around briefly, then lowered her voice so others couldn’t hear.

“…Actually, there’s a place I suspect.”

“Is that really true? Why didn’t you say anything earlier?”

“Because nothing good would come of mentioning it. You saw Tutanta, right?”

Giselle shrugged her shoulders sarcastically.

If she had mentioned the suspicious place, he would have just incited everyone to go there.

“I think the culprit is…”

Lee Han focused on Giselle’s words.

Soon the northern elf’s lips parted and the awaited words flowed out.

“…the Principal.”

“…”

Lee Han stopped focusing and looked at Giselle with the eyes of someone viewing a petty conspiracy theorist.

However, Giselle didn’t notice and continued whispering.

“No matter how much Einrogard is a place teeming with monsters, do you think they could just break through a place with this many mages and take someone? The opponent must definitely be a mage.”

‘It’s scary how convincing this sounds.’

The frightening thing about conspiracy theories was that they sounded surprisingly plausible when you listened to them.

And the Skeleton Principal conspiracy theory had more persuasive power than expected. Lee Han felt himself wavering.

‘Could it really be the Principal? He’s certainly the type who would do such a thing. But…’

It hadn’t been long since he went to find the Skeleton Principal to borrow dark magic reagents.

If he had been planning to take students, he would have been grinning with joy, but there was no sign of that at all.

Had Lee Han been deceived?

“Aaaah! Wardanaz! Wardanaz!”

One White Tiger Tower student screamed.

He had leaned his body outside the barricade and the Mac had extended its whip-like long trunk to coil around him.

“I’m coming now. Flash forth!”

When lightning crackled, the Mac flinched but that was all.

As a fellow magic resistance specialist, Lee Han immediately recognized that his opponent was formidable in magic resistance.

‘In that case…’

“Be paralyzed, fractured, and blinded. Bones, seize the enemy!”

It was a textbook combat method that would have earned a standing ovation from dark magic school seniors.

Against opponents resistant to magic, you stack curses to break down their defenses and restrict their movement with bone elemental magic.

“Cold, become arrows and shoot forth!”

It didn’t end there as ice arrows flew out.

Though the Mac that had withstood lightning magic wasn’t damaged by the ice arrows, it couldn’t help but slow down as layers of ice and frost accumulated.

As his opponent slowed, Lee Han immediately summoned water orbs.

‘Even if it can’t penetrate, the impact…’

Though not perfect, the impact of the spinning water orbs was on a different dimension from existing magic.

The Mac that had been trying to break down the main gate just moments ago flinched, then turned direction and began to flee.

“It’s running away!”

“Let’s chase it!”

“No!”

“…”

As opinions immediately split again, Lee Han got a headache.

Moreover, the situation was different from before.

‘If the Skeleton Principal orchestrated this, that changes things.’

Lee Han basically preferred safe methods, but if this entire series of events was because of the Skeleton Principal, that changed things.

He would have to act contrary to the Skeleton Principal’s expectations.

“Wardanaz. Keep in mind that the moment we chase, a few more students might disappear.”

“But we can’t just not chase it either. Especially if the Principal did this. Moradi. You stay here and guard this place. I’ll go with Salko and come back.”

“…”

At Lee Han’s words, Giselle hesitated as if she hadn’t expected this.

She hadn’t expected Lee Han to ask her for a favor.

“Lee Han. Wouldn’t it be better to go with Moradi?”

Durgyu spoke with a worried tone.

Of course, Salko’s gang was skilled too, but there was no one in White Tiger Tower as tenacious and ruthless as Moradi.

And such traits usually became advantages in dangerous pursuits.

“…As such, there’s no one as vicious, cruel, and fierce as Moradi. Going together would be…”

“Durgyu. Did Moradi hit you or something?”

Lee Han was flustered.

For Durgyu to speak so harshly…

“And the reason I’m not going with her is because of Salko. If they go together, won’t they just fight?”

“Ah.”

Durgyu immediately understood and made an embarrassed expression.

“I thought you were entrusting her because you trusted Moradi’s skills.”

“Huh?”

Lee Han hesitated, then answered slightly late.

“Haha. Of course that’s why.”

“…Lee Han…”

* * *

Sharkan skillfully tracked the Mac’s traces.

The Mac was a threatening monster when attacking, but it wasn’t too difficult to chase when it was fleeing.

It was large to begin with and wasn’t particularly skilled at hiding.

The problem was…

“It’s a swampland!”

“Why is there a place like this in the library…”

“What’s so surprising about that.”

‘That’s true, it really isn’t surprising.’

Lee Han thought to himself as he heard the conversation behind him.

Come to think of it, being surprised about what might appear at the school at this point was rather ridiculous.

“I hope this swampland is that thing’s base.”

Salko said with a worried expression.

He was full of concern because a student from the same tower had disappeared.

If nothing else, that kind of attitude toward friends was worthy of respect. Lee Han nodded and replied.

“Let’s hope so. Salko. You’re working hard. Taking care of your friends.”

“It’s nothing compared to you.”

“Right. …Huh?”

Lee Han, who had answered carelessly, felt something was off.

“What did I take care of…”

“It stopped!”

“I didn’t particularly take care of…”

“Lord Wardanaz. Please get down!”

Ratford hurriedly pressed down on Lee Han’s shoulder. Lee Han wanted to protest ‘I don’t take care of friends like that’ but didn’t have the leisure to do so.

Mac, who had stopped in the middle of the swamp, stretched and then submerged his body completely. The bone fragments and ice that had been stuck to his body fell off.

‘I don’t see the student he took with him.’

At that moment, someone appeared from behind Mac with a splashing sound from the swamp.

Surprisingly, it was a siren.

“…Those cowardly bastards!”

Lee Han muttered quietly.

So the siren was the culprit.

Although there had been friction between them, that was entirely related to legitimate exams.

If there was resentment, it should be taken out on Professor Lightningstep, not on an innocent student.

Of course, Lee Han had also shifted blame regarding the cabin incident, but seeing what was happening now, it seemed he had done well to shift it.

“Everyone step back. It’s dangerous to get close to the siren.”

“Un, understood.”

“Let’s go. Sharkan!”

-♪♩♩???

The siren noticed Lee Han and Sharkan and sang in a flustered voice.

Then it pointed alternately at Mac and Lee Han while singing.

-♩♩♩♩!

“Water…”

Lee Han immediately took a stance to attack the siren.

At that moment, Mac grabbed a log floating on the swamp with his long trunk and threw it at the siren.

“??”

The siren hastily dodged.

Mac seemed determined to drive the siren away completely, throwing objects continuously.

The siren sang and attacked Mac, but Mac staggered and wobbled while causing a rampage that pushed the siren back.

‘What? Is this a deception tactic?’

Lee Han was confused.

He had thought the siren was controlling Mac, but now it looked like the two were having a territorial dispute.

Mac, who had been causing a rampage, turned his head and spotted Lee Han and Sharkan.

Discovering the mage who had been pounding him from the barricade earlier, Mac made a crying sound and prepared to attack Lee Han as well.

“…Rotate!”

Lee Han hurriedly completed his incantation and turned the direction of attack.

With a dull impact, Mac staggered.

“Sharkan. I’m counting on you!”

Lee Han summoned bone restraints in preparation for Mac’s possible charge.

‘Bone explosion… would the siren get caught up in it? Even if caught up, wouldn’t it understand?’

Unaware that Lee Han was having such wicked internal conflict, the siren hurriedly swam across the swamp, rushed over, and gestured to Lee Han.

“You want me to come into the swamp?”

The siren nodded.

Lee Han looked at the siren with the same gaze he used for the Skeleton Principal.

It was clearly a look of distrust.

-Grrrrowl!

Sharkan warned Lee Han with a sharp howl.

Mac was ignoring other interference and targeting Lee Han as the top priority. The momentum was ominous.

“Let me tell you, about last time…”

Before he could make excuses, the siren urgently lifted Lee Han with both arms and quickly swam to the opposite side.

Crash crash crash bang!

At that moment, Mac rolled his body, trampled the surrounding debris, and charged straight ahead. It was a chilling sight.

“Wardanaz. I’ll join you!”

Confirming that the siren wasn’t an enemy, Salko could no longer wait and shouted.

If left like this, Wardanaz seemed too precarious.

With a clanking sound, a crossbow enchanted with Buyeo magic was fired. Mac got angry at the appearance of more mages.

“Bones…”

With an ominous incantation, Lee Han’s mana boiled up.

The siren holding Lee Han was startled by the concentration of that mana.

“Explode!”

With a roar, the bone fragments attached to Mac burst out.

Although there wasn’t much quantity, it was enough to make Mac panic.

■■■■■…

Mac turned in the opposite direction as if he found it disgusting and didn’t want to deal with them, then ran away.

At that sight, Lee Han’s group breathed a sigh of relief.

Continuing to battle a monster of that size with that kind of defense would have been a nightmare for mages.

“Did we somehow manage it…”

-♩♩♪

The siren sang to Lee Han’s group as if to say thanks for now.

Of course, all the other mages except Lee Han immediately showed entranced expressions.

“You’re finally showing your true colors!”

-♩♩♩!

When Lee Han pointed his staff and shouted fiercely, the siren was shocked, stopped singing, and shook its head.

Since even a carelessly thrown line of song could entrance mages, it wasn’t easy for the siren to know and be careful about that.

The siren gave up on communicating through song and left letters on the shoreline.

‘The handwriting is really bad.’

‘The handwriting is truly terrible.’

Lee Han stared at the writing with a serious expression.

The writing was like earthworms so it was difficult, but roughly it was content saying thanks for helping fight Mac first even though they didn’t have good memories of each other.

“?”

Lee Han momentarily wondered what that meant.

‘Ah. It understood my attempt to attack it as an attempt to attack Mac.’

Come to think of it, that’s how it would have looked from the siren’s perspective.

Since he had redirected the attack toward Mac.

“If you’re a mage of Einroguard, you should naturally act that way.”

“?”

Salko looked at Lee Han as if asking what kind of nonsense he was spouting.

Even the siren tilted her head in confusion.

It didn’t seem like the mages of Einroguard were particularly those kinds of people…

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