Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 475

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Chapter 475

Lee Han didn’t want to escalate the situation.

This was a punishment room directly managed by the Skeleton Principal, and there was nothing good about staying here long.

He just wanted to quietly, carefully take only Professor Verdus and leave…

But Perkuntra was raging wildly, saying she would finish off the spirit somewhere in this underground area.

“Lady Perkuntra. You must calm down. From what I can see, this is the enemy’s stronghold.”

The water current was so strong it was on a different level, and when Perkuntra blocked it, it immediately came rushing in even stronger, so the base of the spirits that caused the flood was definitely around here.

When spirits from other dimensions stay for a long time, reality inevitably transforms to match them.

It was an even more disadvantageous environment for Perkuntra, who already had to fight with only the limited power of her avatar.

“Don’t fight, just find the Professor and let’s get out.”

Lend me your power!

“No…”

Just this once! If you grant my request this time, I’ll grant your request next time!

“…Aren’t you being too determined to fight to the death just because the other party pretended not to hear you once?”

Lee Han realized it was impossible to stop Perkuntra.

Anyway, lending his overflowing mana and being able to receive help later was an exchange with no loss for Lee Han…

‘But why is she so angry?’

To Lee Han, who didn’t understand the honor, pride, and self-respect among spirits, Perkuntra just looked bipolar.

“I understand. But please don’t overdo it…”

I open seventy-two golden chests and promise rewards, so let the servants reach even further!

“…”

I will additionally open the doors of the inner treasury! Warriors, assemble!

“…”

Lee Han felt the situation growing larger as he watched Perkuntra, not satisfied with the servants she had summoned earlier, emptying her wealth to summon spirit armies.

Strike! Let the thunder be your trumpeter, and you shall advance! Avengers, there shall be thunder-gold for those who repay the enemies who insulted me!

The spirit army formed ranks and began charging with fierce momentum.

The spirit’s water current that had been pushing through the passage just moments ago evaporated, scattered, and was quickly pushed back.

“…”

Lee Han followed behind Perkuntra’s avatar with a reluctant expression.

Since he had already entered, he couldn’t just stay still.

“Hi… Hiiek!”

“It’s a crazy mage…! A crazy mage!”

The Empire’s criminals collected by the Skeleton Principal, who were trapped inside the punishment room, saw Lee Han and were terrified, burying their heads between their knees and trembling.

They were people who had committed all sorts of heinous acts outside without the slightest fear, but since coming to the punishment room, they had long felt how insignificant they were compared to the greatness of magic.

In the midst of this, some crazy mage was leading spirit armies and fighting a battle in the passage that would only happen on the day of continental destruction, so they couldn’t help but be afraid.

‘Is this a new crazy mage who came to judge us?’

“Excuse me, I’d like to ask…”

The moment Lee Han spoke, one criminal strangled himself with all his might, then foamed at the mouth and collapsed.

“…”

The other criminals acted similarly.

Lee Han sighed deeply once and hurriedly ran after the spirit army.

* * *

Professor Verdus diligently wrote a letter and put it in a glass bottle.

Then he cast magic and threw it outside the bars.

Normally, there would have been no way to deliver contact to the outside, but now the story was different.

The spirit flood that occurred at Einroguard.

The Skeleton Principal who encouraged rather than prevented the prisoners in the deep punishment room from suffering from the flood.

These few factors combined to create a situation where just throwing a glass bottle could deliver it outside by riding the water current.

Professor Verdus diligently tore the next piece of paper to prepare a letter.

“Ah. Stop it, Professor. As if anyone would come.”

Kettle from the Doduk family, a graduate trapped in the prison cell on the opposite side of the corridor, complained irritably.

“Which of your disciples would come to rescue you, Professor?”

If it had been another proud professor, they might have gotten angry at a disciple’s provocation, even if they were a graduate.

However, Professor Verdus was a person with an extraordinary mental world.

Kettle’s sarcasm didn’t work at all.

“Why wouldn’t they come to rescue me?”

“…Well, Professor, you… Ah, forget it. Anyway, stop it. They absolutely won’t come. If they do come, I’ll spend a week living as a goat.”

“No. They’ll come.”

“Ah. Really, how did I end up trapped in front of Professor Verdus… Wait. The Principal didn’t arrange this on purpose, did he? That’s really too much. I talked so hard in the lectures.”

Kettle beat his chest as if frustrated.

How hard had he talked in the character education lectures to wash away his sins.

Not knowing such efforts, to lock him in the cell in front of Professor Verdus like this.

“Professor, stop doing useless things and quickly make some artifacts of repentance. If you’ve committed a crime, you should repay it with labor.”

“I tell you I’m innocent.”

“Ah. Yes. I’m sure you are.”

Kettle chuckled.

He could believe everything else Professor Verdus said, but he couldn’t believe the words “I’m innocent.”

“I didn’t steal the village livestock and transform them either. I didn’t receive guild investment and blow it away. It’s all a misunderstanding, but I got unluckily trapped!”

“Huh? Then quickly tell Gonadaltes.”

“…Guard! Guard! Please change my room!!”

Kettle banged on the bars, but no one came.

Well, they didn’t come even when the water from the spirit flood rose to the top of their heads, so there was no way they would come.

“Glub… Glubglub. Mage sir. Mage sir. Please help me.”

The voice of a prisoner on the verge of drowning came from the next cell.

Kettle and Verdus could block the incoming water because they were mages, but ordinary criminals couldn’t do that.

Kettle muttered indifferently.

“You won’t die anyway.”

“Dy… Glubglub. Die… Crazy mage bastards…”

“Yeah, yeah. Don’t you have any more creative curses?”

The sound from the next cell stopped. It seemed to be completely flooded.

Kettle turned off his attention and called Professor Verdus again.

“Professor. Don’t torment disciples who absolutely won’t come, and let’s think of other methods. Isn’t there some way to escape?”

Professor Verdus was a crazy beaver beastman mage, but no one could deny his skills as a professor.

As an Einroguard graduate, Kettle remembered the Skeleton Principal’s maxim that “every magic has a loophole.”

Professor Verdus would be able to find those loopholes even better.

“It’s impossible.”

“You’re not even looking… How about trying to create cracks in that wall with enchantment magic to somehow make a gap?”

“Gonadaltes cast 【Vakantala’s Sorrow】 on the walls here.”

Vakantala.

A great enchantment mage from hundreds of years ago whose name any enchantment mage would know.

And the field Vakantala was famous for was labyrinths that trapped mages.

One of the magics that adorned those labyrinths was 【Vakantala’s Sorrow】.

It was magic like a solid iron wall that nullified all kinds of magical attempts.

“To… to that extent? No, if you have that much gold, give it to us as research funding!”

Kettle was furious.

How expensive was 【Vakantala’s Sorrow】, and yet it was being wasted on a prison cell like this.

Einroguard’s students were struggling to secure funding for research like 【What material socks should you wear to better resist cold-type magic?】…

“Still, can’t you solve it?”

“I can break through that itself somehow if given time. But the wall placed behind it is entirely made of 【Paldar Lerji’s Gold】.”

“…No, this is really too much!!”

Paldar Lerji.

Just as all Enchantment Mages knew the name of Bakvantallana, all Transformation Mages knew Paldar of the Lerji family.

The mage who developed 【Paldar Lerji’s Gold】, known as ‘no material can become more perfect than this’!

…And to waste it on a prison cell!

“So when I wanted to get even a piece of that and participated in several Empire auctions and requested sponsorship funds, you were just playing dumb!?”

“Why didn’t you just steal it?”

“I need to know it exists to steal it!”

Kettle fumed.

Despite having graduated, Einroguard still had something that made students angry.

“I can break through this 【Paldar Lerji’s Gold】 too, but behind that is…”

Professor Verdus recited the magic spells placed in this prison cell without any change in expression.

Kettle was completely overwhelmed by the lineup of those magnificent and grand spells.

‘This is insane…’

As much as he said every magic has flaws, the Skeleton Principal knew very well how to compensate for them.

The more precisely magic spells are linked together, the more flaws shrink like needle holes.

Kettle newly felt how great an Archmage the Skeleton Principal was.

…Though he didn’t understand why this was being shown in a punishment room…

Bang!!!

“???”

A roar coming from outside.

Kettle listened carefully, wondering what was happening.

It was a sound ordinary Empire People couldn’t hear, but to Kettle’s trained mage ears, the silent cries of spirits mixed within the roar.

■■■■■■! ■■■■-■■■!

■■■■■■■!

‘What? Are the spirits fighting?’

He knew a spirit flood was happening outside, but for spirits to fight among themselves.

It didn’t make sense.

In such massive flows, it was rare for spirits to have differing opinions.

“I see.”

Professor Verdus nodded and spoke. Kettle unconsciously turned his gaze.

After all, Professor Verdus was still a professor.

He must know something about this situation…

“What is it?”

“They came to rescue me.”

“…Oh, seriously damn…”

“Professor Verdus! Professor Verdus, are you there!!”

“?!?!?!?!!!!”

Kettle thought he had gone crazy from being locked in the punishment room.

From far away, he could really hear a student’s voice looking for Professor Verdus!!

‘Did Einroguard collapse????’

Kettle was someone who seriously believed Einroguard collapsing was more likely than a disciple coming to rescue Professor Verdus.

“Professor Verdus!”

“I’m here! I’m here!”

“Professor!”

“Yes! Open it quickly!”

The disciple even seemed to genuinely worry about Professor Verdus.

Kettle just blinked, trying to understand the situation.

“Please wait a moment! I’ll just confirm the location and open the door later!”

“Why?”

Lee Han didn’t need to answer.

Before he finished speaking, the prison corridor expanded sideways like crazy, and spirits rushed in fiercely from both sides to begin a power struggle.

Spirits under Perkuntra wielding thunder, roar, and lightning as weapons.

Flood-side spirits opposing them, shooting storms and rain as arrows.

It was such a fierce battle that even those sturdy prison cells creaked.

Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwabang!

“Ah, please be careful!! I’m right next to you!”

Don’t worry! Do I look sloppy enough to hurt my contractor!?

‘Yes…’

Come out, leader of those petty thieves! I must see the face of the one who insulted and ignored my proposal!

Perkuntra drew Lee Han’s mana once again.

Originally, drawing a contractor’s mana should be done carefully unless you made some crazy contract with a demon, but like people, spirits tend to become shameless after repeating something a few times.

Lee Han looked at Perkuntra in bewilderment.

‘I mean, I have mana to spare, but is it okay to just take it like this?’

Lee Han made a mental note to firmly protest after the battle ended.

“You… you… you…?!”

“Ah. Senior!”

Kettle made choking sounds like a prisoner locked in an adjacent cell.

Not knowing what condition his senior was in, Lee Han urgently shouted.

“I’ll bring you food after the battle ends!”

“What… what exactly… what are you doing…? Cough. I can’t breathe, can’t breathe…!”

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