Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 467

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Chapter 467

The Skeleton Principal was genuinely bewildered.

Surely there had been no sirens among the tests the professors had discussed.

Who could it be?

“They appeared in Professor Lightningstep’s test…”

Professor Lightningstep wasn’t the type to give such unreasonable tests to 1st year students.

‘Then what about you, Principal…’

The students were dumbfounded by the Skeleton Principal’s appearance as he confessed to being trash himself.

Ah!

The Skeleton Principal felt a realization flash through his mind.

-If you haven’t decided on the test content yet, multiply the difficulty several times! Avenge my Tanzhuer’s grudge!

Hadn’t he impulsively urged them to raise the test difficulty as he passed by?

Moreover, since the testing grounds would have been completely flooded due to the spirit flood, it wouldn’t be strange for Professor Lightningstep to change the test content while raising the difficulty.

But even so, who would have thought it would overlap like this.

Well, mages all think similarly.

“?”

“That doesn’t seem right…”

It doesn’t matter. Sirens are originally hard to stop even if you know about them.

-Master, the sirens are running away.

?!

The Skeleton Principal turned his head at the Death Knight’s words.

The sirens were pointing at Lee Han’s face, whispering among themselves, then turning around and quickly fleeing.

…

“…”

Both master and disciple watched the retreating figures of the fleeing sirens with distorted faces.

* * *

“Qu, quickly.”

“Wait… wait a moment. My hands are stiff and won’t move.”

Once the sirens left, the students caught their breath and poured boiling coffee into tin cups.

No matter how excitedly Lee Han had cast 【Heat Bestowal】 on all the students, repeatedly diving in such cold weather was no easy task.

Less than an hour had passed, but everyone’s stamina had dropped rapidly and they were suffering from the cold.

Fortunately, they could light fires and had brought coffee grounds and tea leaves.

As the boiling coffee went down his throat, Gainando felt warmth spread through his body and his fingers, which had been stiff from cold, loosen up.

Gainando muttered without realizing it.

“This might be like a picnic…”

“Are you crazy?”

“Want to talk nonsense after drinking expensive coffee?”

“No, no. I meant… finding the positive side in any situation…”

While Gainando was being scolded, several students were still preparing to enter the water, not giving up yet.

White Tiger Tower or Black Turtle Tower students with insane stamina, and Lee Han who was just crazy about grades.

“Huff, huff, Wardanaz… why don’t you give up? You may not know swordsmanship, but you can’t match our training as knights.”

‘Shouldn’t you not dismiss swordsmanship like that?’

A Black Turtle Tower student listening nearby thought to himself.

If you’re a White Tiger Tower student, you should compete with swordsmanship, but saying “you may not know swordsmanship”…?

Lee Han answered with an indifferent face.

“Whatever you say, I’m going in more.”

“Good… good! Let’s have a match then!”

Understanding it as a stamina competition, the White Tiger Tower students burned with motivation.

Of course, Lee Han had no interest in such competitions between students.

‘I’ll keep searching until time runs out.’

Having suffered this much, he was determined to get 1st place even out of spite.

Splash!

The students jumped into the water again. Lee Han checked the underwater breathing magic and dark vision magic that were still active, then skillfully descended below.

How long had it been since the school flooded that he’d become so accustomed to swimming?

‘Do trials really make people grow?’

While having such useless thoughts, someone approached Lee Han.

Tap tap-

“!?”

Lee Han was startled and pointed his staff. Then the other party was also startled and shouted as if telling him not to cast magic.

-♩♪! ♩♪♪!

-Cowardly trap… you pretended to leave and ambushed us!

The siren pulled out a slate with angry eyes and quickly wrote on it.

You bastard…

-Ah. Wait. Don’t tell me you stayed to help?

Looking closely, it was the siren who had taken the role of oarsman when fighting the Mac.

Moreover, it showed no intention of attacking. Lee Han wondered if it could be true.

Nod-

The siren nodded up and down. Of course, even though it answered, its eyes were full of resentment and contempt.

It had stayed to help because of the assistance received with the Mac last time, but to dare suspect like that…

-I’m sorry. Being at Einroguard makes me increasingly distrustful of people.

At Lee Han’s words, the siren crossed its arms, thought for a moment, then nodded as if acknowledging.

Even from the siren’s perspective, Einroguard’s students had lived quite harshly.

Beckon beckon-

The siren beckoned with its finger as if to follow.

Having watched the Skeleton Principal’s work from the side, it knew where the most precious treasure was hidden.

‘Over there.’

When the siren pointed with its finger indicating direction, Lee Han hesitated then asked.

-Would you mind going first? It’s not that I don’t trust you.

-…

The siren firmly resolved to quickly repay this favor and never associate with this boy again, finding him truly dirty and petty.

* * *

Passing between the submerged tower foundation pillars and avoiding the suddenly erupting deep-sea hot water, they reached the destination the siren had indicated.

Seeing the wooden fence fragments scattered in a tangled mess that made approach difficult, Lee Han was inwardly shocked.

‘Did they really put it here for us to find?’

This seemed like something the Skeleton Principal placed just to later say “I put it here but you couldn’t find it? How boring.”

No matter how you looked at it, it wasn’t placed to be found.

Tap tap tap!

The siren, who had been in a bad mood since earlier, moved its fins to hit the ground.

It meant to quickly take what they came for and part ways.

‘It must be in a bad mood because of the Principal’s unreasonableness.’

Lee Han thought so as he approached the ground. Then he felt a magical power he had experienced many times before.

Whoooong-

Seeing the Skeleton Principal’s mana composed in an intricate structure protecting the treasure, Lee Han was so dumbfounded he couldn’t even speak.

If you’re going to place it here, wouldn’t it be conscientious to not need barrier magic on top of it?

‘He’s really insane.’

Lee Han clicked his tongue and concentrated his mana.

Cursing was cursing, but he still had to dispel it first…

Following what Baldoron had taught him, the loaded mana became a siege hammer and struck the barrier hard.

Bang!

The Siren looked at Lee Han as if asking what he was doing.

Though not a professional mage, the Siren was also a being with spirit blood and high intelligence, and having spent a long time at Einroguard, knew enough about magic.

And what Lee Han was doing now wasn’t the method generally used when dispelling barrier magic.

What kind of brutish…

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

However, after repeatedly swinging that mana hammer several times, the Siren’s expression changed.

It was an absurdly brutish method, but if he could repeat that method like that…

-Hmm. It’s not working after all.

Lee Han gave up with disappointment.

The Skeleton Principal had clearly woven it intricately to withstand external impacts.

-Why are you looking at me like that?

Lee Han looked at the Siren with puzzlement.

The Siren was watching with an entranced, blank expression.

-♪♬♩! ♪♬!

‘…You’re not trying to subtly bewitch me, are you.’

Lee Han had a thought that would anger the Siren if heard and turned his gaze away.

Meanwhile, the Siren recovered from the shock of the brutish method, came to her senses, and gave proper advice.

Don’t use brute force like a fool, find the weak link below…

‘Oh dear. Since she’s not a mage, she doesn’t know how amazing the method I just showed was.’

Lee Han newly felt that the Siren wasn’t a mage.

To disparage the solution Baldoron taught as brutish.

‘But the direction she taught is correct.’

Lee Han, who carefully explored the direction the Siren pointed to, realized her point was right.

Though it was a very subtle difference, the mana in the lower ring was weaker.

Usually in magic, such parts were structural weaknesses.

-The mana here does feel a bit weaker.

-?

The Siren looked at Lee Han as if asking what nonsense he was talking about.

While all magic theoretically had weaknesses, magic cast by an Archmage usually had even those weaknesses concealed.

The Siren only knew the weakness because she had directly seen the Skeleton Principal cast it, but couldn’t feel any difference in mana at all.

-He reinforced the inside with wood element.

Lee Han felt tree branches intertwined throughout the barrier magic. It seemed to be an arrangement to disperse and absorb the force applied to weak points.

The Siren nodded that Lee Han’s analysis was correct. Then she diligently drew pictures on the slate.

It was an explanation of which order to connect mana for dispelling, starting from the weak ring.

However, Lee Han immediately conjured flames and set fire to the structure inside.

-!!!!!

The Siren let out a soundless scream, threw the slate, and created water sprays to put out the fire.

But true to flames that had bloomed underwater, they didn’t extinguish easily. The Siren had to draw upon spirit power to barely put out the fire before it spread.

-♪↘♪♪↗♪!

Though he didn’t know what it meant, Lee Han could tell the Siren was angry. Lee Han apologized.

-Since it was made of wood element, I thought if I set fire inside it would break right away.

How could that work!!!

-But it did work…

-…

The Siren looked at the barrier that had burned away and disappeared.

Normally, with the flood caused by spirits and the barrier’s resistance, it shouldn’t have burned easily and should have died down…

The flames this mage summoned had such good firepower that they just burned up the entire barrier.

If the Siren hadn’t urgently extinguished it, even the treasure inside would have burned together.

Tap tap tap!

The Siren left a long text on the slate to explain how clumsy Lee Han’s actions were.

Lee Han showed a repentant attitude since the other party seemed quite angry.

‘I think I could have controlled it even if left alone.’

Though he had such thoughts inside, Lee Han held back.

Honestly, unlike other magic, he still lacked confidence in fire elemental magic.

* * *

Splash-

When Lee Han came out last, his friends ran over with curious expressions.

“Did you find anything?”

“Ah. Wait a moment.”

He had come up without even checking what treasure it was due to bickering with the Siren.

Lee Han opened the box and checked the note inside.

Outing pass.

“Nothing special.”

“…!!!!”

“!!!!!!”

-!!!!!!

Even the Death Knight nearby was shocked.

To be so indifferent to an outing pass…

Is this really a 1st year student?!

‘How is this possible??’

The Skeleton Principal, who had been tormenting other students, turned his head at the murmuring sounds and flew over.

What’s going on?

-Master. The student who found the outing pass…

What? They found that?

The Skeleton Principal was surprised.

If students couldn’t find it, he was going to mock them saying ‘You couldn’t find what’s right here?’ but they actually found it.

Why did you find that again?

“…”

“…”

The students fell silent at the Skeleton Principal scolding Lee Han without even asking who found it.

“I didn’t say I found it.”

So you didn’t find it?

“I did find it, but…”

Of course you did.

The Skeleton Principal grumbled as he snatched the box from Lee Han’s hands.

-Aren’t you curious how I found it?

I decided not to be curious since asking would probably just irritate me. He must have threatened the siren to find it or something.

The Skeleton Principal didn’t realize he had unknowingly guessed the correct answer and replied curtly.

-That seems a bit much…

Don’t you understand jokes? Jokes?

-S-sorry.

Anyway, it seems we’ve found everything, so let’s move on to the next activity.

“There’s more?!”

“When will this end??”

The Skeleton Principal silenced the students and spoke.

It’s talent show time. Each of you show me one magic spell suitable for a picnic.

“Hmm.”

Wardanaz, you get full marks. Go sit over there.

“No…”

Even though this was supposed to be a picnic, he felt slightly hurt at being left out.

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