Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 482

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Chapter 482

When the Wardanaz family boy, who had been answering softly and kindly no matter what was said until now, asked coldly, the Shadow Patrol hunters were flustered.

“No, what do you mean…?!”

“Do we look like that kind of people to you?”

“We really did it because we liked it!”

“Sigh… Wait, come back here for a moment.”

Lee Han called the hunters who had gone out to the ship’s rail.

The Shadow Patrol hesitated and approached, overwhelmed by the irrefutable dignity Lee Han displayed.

“Now. The difference between this arrow and that arrow is…”

Lee Han explained even more earnestly than before.

How the arrow he had just cast magic on differed from the arrow that came out of the workshop with the Zenbaya magic series applied to it.

The former, which crudely poured mana to forcibly stack magic, versus the latter, which had multiple layers of magic perfectly calculated and stacked without the slightest instability…

“…”

“…”

Of course, the Shadow Patrol hunters didn’t understand a bit of it.

‘Do you understand what he’s saying?’

‘No…’

‘You can even read, so why don’t you know?’

‘It doesn’t seem to be Imperial language.’

Lee Han finished his long speech and asked.

“Do you understand now?”

“…Yes…no?”

After speaking, the hunters were afraid Lee Han might explain again, so they hurriedly shouted.

“Mage sir! That… magic… we understand the theory with good color well.”

“…It’s not color, it’s mana color application…”

“But really, it’s not a lie that this arrow is better. Look carefully. If it’s heavier, faster, and penetrates deeper, isn’t that a good arrow!”

The hunters hurriedly took out an arrow and shot it at a distant reef.

Then they took out a Meikin family arrow and compared again.

Surprisingly, the arrow Lee Han had just cast magic on was indeed embedded deeper.

The Shadow Patrol hunters looked at the mage with triumphant eyes.

Surely this would convince…

“Didn’t you pull my arrow hard and that arrow softly?”

“…”

“…”

The Shadow Patrol hunters had to feel the same absurdity as Nilia.

“I’ll try pulling once myself.”

“Mage sir, do you even know how to shoot a bow?”

“I learned from Nilia.”

“Puhaha… huh?”

The hunters who were about to laugh at the joke were startled when they saw Lee Han’s posture.

The distinctive posture of holding a bow was exactly the method taught by the Shadow Patrol.

Uh…

Huh??

“Are, are you really close with Nilia?”

“What nonsense… unless she aimed a bow and threatened, how could that be possible?”

“I tried that too when I went down to the village last time at the inn, but the adventurers ran away. I just asked them to drink together…”

“Should I have aimed the bow more accurately? Nilia might have aimed precisely.”

While the hunters were having an ominous conversation behind him, Lee Han concentrated on the bow.

Drawing the bowstring on a fast-moving ship was something that required concentration even with magically enhanced arrows.

Thwack!

“!”

Lee Han was surprised after shooting both arrows.

Really…?

‘The arrow I cast magic on penetrated deeper!’

“…Mage sir! What did we tell you!”

“We said this one was really better because it’s better!”

The hunters clamored as if they had been waiting.

“Please cast magic quickly!”

“Aren’t you being too dramatic when you can do it!”

The Shadow Patrol hunters kept grumbling about Lee Han’s dramatics.

As expected, mages were the type who could do it but wouldn’t.

The mage in the village must have been able to cast magic on arrows too but made excuses because it was bothersome.

“This doesn’t usually work this well… it’s just lucky that the magic I need to cast on the arrows now are spells I can use, and I’m suppressing it with my power right now, but normally if you stack this many overlays it becomes unstable…”

“We completely understand!”

“Thank you! Mage sir!”

The hunters understood in their own way.

-All mages can do it but speak humbly like that.

Professor Thunderstep, who had been concentrating intently on finding the location of Sangoria flowers at the bow, glanced back and was surprised.

Before he knew it, Lee Han had become friendly with the Shadow Patrol hunters and was mingling with them.

He knew he had good social skills, but honestly he was surprised.

‘Is that guy really from the Wardanaz family…?’

“Wardanaz. What are you talking about so much?”

“I was casting magic on arrows for them.”

“I see. …Wait. Don’t you have arrows you received?”

“They said my magic was better…”

“…”

Professor Thunderstep, who was about to bury his nose in the map again, looked at Lee Han with a shocked face.

What the hell are you doing?!

* * *

“Found one. Take the ship that way.”

“Turn the bow!”

The southern coast of the city was an archipelago terrain with large and small reefs and islands complexly intertwined.

As such, there were many monsters that emerged, and if you took the wrong sea route, you could get caught up and shipwrecked in an instant.

Fortunately, the sailors leading the fast ships obtained by the Meikin family were all veterans among veterans. They sailed the ship without panic even at Professor Thunderstep’s sudden demands.

“Excellent. To be able to turn the ship so skillfully…”

“Haha. Compared to the hunters’ demands, this is nothing.”

“…”

Professor Thunderstep was about to say something but stopped.

Professor Lightningstep, who was watching alongside, asked.

“Is it really on this island?”

“Yes. The poison birds are flying above. They like Sangoria flowers, so they’re doing that to eat them. If we search through the thicket, they’ll come out.”

“I understand. We should anchor briefly and ask the hunters to sweep the surroundings.”

Professor Lightningstep looked around.

The surroundings were still quiet, but there was quite a bit of work to do.

From the monsters waiting in the water to those on the island, they needed to be dealt with so fishermen and gatherers could come and go easily in the future.

“Shadow Patrol members… No. Wardanaz, what the hell are you doing?”

Professor Lightningstep was flustered to see Lee Han mixed in with the hunters practicing archery.

Several hunters were offering Lee Han leather water bottles, urging him to try the northern liquor.

It was good to become friendly, but weren’t they getting too close too quickly?

“Casting magic and archery practice…”

“R-right. I don’t know how those connect… but anyway, everyone. It seems you’ll need to clear out this area now.”

“!”

The Shadow Patrol hunters who had been waiting sprang up from the deck.

The people who had just been wearing shabby clothes and chatting leisurely suddenly emanated a blade-like intensity.

“Let’s begin.”

“Jalbaru, you take my rear. Andalthan, you take the opposite side.”

“Wait.”

Professor Boladi raised his hand and spoke.

The hunters who were about to grab their bows and spears and jump down stopped their movements and looked at the mage.

The Shadow Patrol hunters respected the strong, and in that regard, that vampire mage was strong enough to deserve respect.

“What’s the matter?”

“Please don’t clear out the monsters on the island.”

“!”

The hunters’ faces became serious.

“Do you have some information we don’t know about?”

“What kind of creature is hiding that we need to avoid…”

“Wardanaz must clear them out.”

“…”

“…”

“…”

The atmosphere became very cold.

Not only Lee Han but also the Shadow Patrol hunters were flustered and talking among themselves in low voices.

“What is he talking about?”

“It seems the Wardanaz family mage wants to hunt the monsters on the island…?”

“Alone? We must have heard wrong, right?”

Even the hunters wouldn’t send a newcomer alone onto an island to kill everything.

That was something only a madman, not a hunter, would say.

Feeling the atmosphere turn cold, Professor Thunderstep cleared his throat.

‘Damn. This is why I hate being outside Einroguard.’

When you came outside after being inside Einroguard, you had to carefully watch every action of other mages.

Otherwise, the atmosphere would turn cold like this.

“There seems to have been some misunderstanding. Professor Bagrek. Isn’t that right?”

Professor Thunderstep spoke while desperately winking.

Hoping that Professor Boladi would understand his intention.

-I know you want to train Wardanaz, but there will be many opportunities later, so let’s just let it go this time! It looks too strange!

However, Professor Boladi was cold.

“Did you injure your eye?”

“…No… just… dust got in.”

Professor Thunderstep quickly gave up.

After all, there was no way that Professor Bagrek would listen to Professor Thunderstep.

“And there was no misunderstanding.”

“Yes… there wasn’t…”

Professor Lightningstep looked at Professor Thunderstep as if he was pathetic.

Professor Thunderstep thought he would have grabbed him by the collar if he wasn’t an elder of his own family.

“Let’s go in.”

“Yes.”

Lee Han answered with a face showing no emotional change.

It was a reaction possible because he had already resigned himself, but it looked different to the people present.

‘He just accepts that?!’

‘Just what are Einroguard’s mages…?!’

It looked very strange not just to the sailors and hunters, but also to Professor Thunderstep and Professor Lightningstep.

‘They say disciples come to resemble their masters.’

‘Has he learned so much from Professor Bagrek that even this much isn’t scary anymore?’

Both dwarfs had thoughts that would have made Lee Han attack immediately if he had heard them.

* * *

Lee Han, who had set foot on the island with Professor Boladi, was able to realize one fact.

That his skills had improved greatly.

“Waters!”

A mage skilled in water element control naturally becomes more powerful when there’s water around.

Moreover, for someone like Lee Han who forcibly squeezed water out of space even when there was none, it was even more advantageous.

Lee Han called seawater to immediately create a barrier, then lowered his stance. He shot illusions to both sides, then concentrated on the water and made it rotate.

Whiriririk!

It took some time and the rotation was still insufficient, but he could definitely feel it was shortened compared to before.

And most importantly…

‘Even if the rotation isn’t perfect, the power is sufficient!’

The water orb flew viciously and struck the carnivorous plant that had just attacked Lee Han.

The rotating water orb blew away a wider area than the surface it touched, like a cannonball. The carnivorous plant’s sharp flower bud was blown away in one hit.

“Well done.”

Professor Boladi spoke with faint satisfaction.

“Your skills have improved.”

“Thank you.”

Even Lee Han thought he was admirable.

During this time, he hadn’t just practiced rotation alone – Professor Boladi had added advanced courses for everything as punishment for attending other schools.

“But you need to shorten the time more.”

“Yes.”

“Do all mages receive training like that?”

“Too terrible. Why do those Empire folks threaten kids that they’ll be sent to the Northern Mountains if they don’t listen? Seeing that, our patrol unit doesn’t seem like much.”

“…”

Lee Han turned his gaze.

The hunters who were dealing with monsters on boats on the nearby sea were murmuring.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s nothing.”

Lee Han was about to tell Professor Boladi ‘Those outsiders have strange prejudices’ but stopped.

There would be no point in saying it anyway.

“Wait.”

Professor Boladi went forward to check something, then returned.

“It’s a good opportunity to test 【Bagrek’s Momentary Foresight】. There’s a Seed Fragment Vine ahead.”

Seed Fragment Vine.

A plant-type monster that Lee Han had only seen in books, which shot seeds irregularly like buckshot.

Since the combat-type divination magic 【Bagrek’s Momentary Foresight】 basically required thorough knowledge of the enemy to show its proper effect…

“…Transform into steel, cloak.”

Lee Han prepared his defense, ready to take several hits.

It was a desperate wish to get hit gently if he was going to get hit anyway, but to the Shadow Patrol hunters watching from afar, it looked somewhat different.

“As expected, mages who know how to use magic are no ordinary fighters.”

“The Empire mage who came to the mountains before only made weak excuses about not being able to fight, but that was clearly a lie. I’ll never be fooled by such lies again!”

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