Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 529

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Chapter 529

-The number of challengers is a bit much…

The statue was slightly bewildered by the sight of students charging toward it.

While many students had challenged it before, this was the first time they had attacked as a group like this.

“Wardanaz. Please cast the spells!”

“Feet, dominate the ground. Hands, tear apart the enemy. Cloak…”

The White Tiger Tower students, enhanced with various strengthening magic, charged forward confidently.

Among the first-year students, the White Tiger Tower students were most accustomed to combat using enhancement magic.

After all, combat using enhancement magic was similar to knights’ combat, unlike typical magical battles.

With that pride and far more enhancement magic than usual backing them up, the White Tiger Tower students’ charge couldn’t help but be bold.

Seeing this, Giselle frowned.

‘The enemy isn’t to be taken lightly, yet they’re charging like that.’

Of course, no matter how strong the opponent was, they couldn’t keep avoiding forever.

Since one of their advantages was numbers, it was essential to somehow send scouts to keep the opponent in check and gather information.

But there was a complete difference between reluctantly taking on that role and excitedly rushing forward just because they had some magic cast on them.

“Come at me!”

One White Tiger Tower student shouted while covering his body with a shield.

His sharpened reflexes and vitalized body gave him confidence that he could react to any attack that came his way.

Thud!

However, the White Tiger Tower student rolled sideways pathetically, making his shout meaningless.

“??!”

The statue’s attack didn’t come from the front but from the side.

The statue that had swung its club at empty air didn’t stop and continued its attacks.

To anyone watching, it looked like it was flailing uselessly at nothing, but to the White Tiger Tower students, it was a series of terrible attacks coming from blind spots.

As teleported attacks flew from completely unpredictable directions – from the side, from behind, from below, from above – the White Tiger Tower students rolled around helplessly.

“Th-this is…”

“What kind of nonsense…!”

The White Tiger Tower students were horrified as the common sense of swordsmanship they had learned their entire lives was being denied.

That wasn’t all. The Black Turtle Tower students who were behind them received a similar shock.

Even from their perspective, the movements of the enhanced White Tiger Tower students were so swift that they wouldn’t dare to face them.

Yet the statue had easily subdued all of that to the point where it all seemed meaningless.

“Wardanaz! Do you have a way to attack it?”

“Yes.”

“What is it?!”

“Keep advancing.”

“…”

“…”

The students were horrified by Wardanaz giving orders with an expressionless face.

He wasn’t angry or threatening, but from that cold demeanor, they could feel an aura that wouldn’t allow any objection.

‘The usual Wardanaz was…’

‘…incredibly kind…!’

His friends belatedly realized that the usual Wardanaz who nagged while hitting the back of their heads with his staff was actually a very benevolent and kind Wardanaz.

“Wardanaz, return to your original self…! This isn’t like you!”

“Be quiet. Advance.”

“Sob sob.”

“Wardanaz. I liked the original you… no, I didn’t particularly like you, but compared to now…”

While the White Tiger Tower students and Black Turtle Tower students sadly prepared for another charge, Lee Han looked at the statue.

The weakness of magic with extremely high difficulty like spatial magic was always its casting speed.

The statue before them was casting at an unbelievably fast speed by borrowing Einroguard’s power, but the fundamental limitation wouldn’t disappear.

Using numbers to wear down the opponent and scatter their concentration was the right strategy.

Though the White Tiger Tower friends were screaming and flying around in front, Lee Han’s heart, bound by the fate called the future, was without a single cloud.

“Salko. It’s your turn. Go. Use earth elemental magic to obscure vision as much as possible.”

“…”

Salko seemed to realize that arguing now would be meaningless, so he nodded and gestured.

“Sand, obscure the vision!”

Instantly, dust rose up and blocked the view ahead.

Though Wardanaz was in a slightly crazy state right now, they couldn’t deny that his judgment was sharp.

To accurately grasp what magic Salko could use and then immediately give orders to use it when needed.

“Ratford. Cast 【Confusion Sand】 magic. Shailes. Cast 【Rock Launch】 magic. Adjust the direction 30 degrees more to the right.”

As Lee Han spoke, he swung his staff.

Then a water orb formed and, taking advantage of the dust cloud, struck fiercely at the feet of a White Tiger Tower student who was trying to retreat.

“Advance.”

“Wardanaz, please return to your original self!”

* * *

Though a fierce and intense battle was taking place, there were surprisingly some students who were satisfied with this atmosphere.

The Blue Dragon Tower students were exactly like that.

“Wow… That Wardanaz guy. That’s the dignity of a great noble right there.”

“…”

Nilia, who was drawing her bow, looked at her Blue Dragon Tower friend in shock.

“What nonsense are you talking about!? He’s just gone crazy!”

“What? No. Nilia. That’s too harsh to say. About a friend!”

The Blue Dragon Tower students were rather flustered by Nilia’s reaction.

No matter what, to call a friend crazy.

Did Nilia perhaps not like Wardanaz very much?

“Ah, no. I was too harsh… No, he really has gone crazy!”

When one Blue Dragon Tower student was forcibly teleported and hung upside down from the ceiling, Nilia was about to let it slide but came to her senses.

No matter how she looked at it, this was definitely crazy.

“That’s not crazy, that’s befitting a great noble.”

“Right.”

Among noble families, the great noble houses that combined both history and prestige were always objects of respect.

Those of noble birth respected that unwavering dignity and authority to the point of sometimes even misunderstanding it.

Just like right now.

“A friend injured his ankle and he’s telling him to charge again!”

“For the greater cause, unavoidable sacrifices are necessary.”

“Right. It’s a virtue that a commander must have.”

While they were talking, Lee Han said from the side.

“The wound seems to have healed. Go back in.”

“Got it, Wardanaz!”

“Going now!”

The Blue Dragon Tower students who had finished stopping the bleeding excitedly grabbed their staffs and charged forward.

Seeing this, Nilia couldn’t close her mouth.

No…

No…!

“Nilia. Your bow has stopped.”

“Hey!”

“?”

Lee Han turned his gaze with a puzzled expression.

Nilia, who had been shouting, felt her mind go completely blank when their eyes met.

“…I’m shooting now!”

“Alright.”

Nilia grumbled inwardly as she released her arrow.

The statue either erased ranged attacks with spatial teleportation or summoned other stone figures to use as shields.

Though all attacks continued to be blocked, they had meaning.

While unleashing these attacks, the distance between the students and the statue was gradually closing.

…Of course, the students were taking hits in the process…

Clatter-

Nilia turned her gaze when someone beside her dropped their staff.

It seemed the Imperial Princess had dropped her staff after making a mistake while casting a spell.

“Your Highness. Are you alright?”

“If you’re tired, please take a moment to rest…”

The followers beside the Imperial Princess hurriedly spoke up.

Seeing this, Nilia grumbled even more inwardly.

‘If I were royalty too, I would have had more friends.’

No matter how she thought about it, being from the Imperial Palace’s Imperial Family seemed much more advantageous for expanding social relationships than being from the Northern Mountains’ Shadow Patrol.

Nilia didn’t dislike Adenart, but she couldn’t help feeling jealous that friends just naturally came to her without any effort.

“I’m fine.”

“But…”

“I’m really fine.”

Adenart hurriedly sent her followers away, then glanced at Lee Han.

Then she earnestly waved her staff to cast magic. Somehow her movements seemed larger than before and her voice when reciting spells had gotten louder.

“…?”

Seeing this, Nilia felt something familiar.

It was like seeing herself watching Wardanaz…

‘That can’t be right?’

Just as she was about to dismiss it as her imagination, Adenart dropped her staff again.

Making large movements wasn’t familiar to her, so she made another mistake.

“…”

“…”

Nilia, who had been watching, made eye contact with the Imperial Princess.

Adenart turned pale and sent Nilia a look asking her to pretend she hadn’t seen anything. Nilia found herself nodding without realizing it.

The Imperial Princess let out a sigh of relief and bowed her head slightly. Then she cast magic again.

‘What was… that just now?’

Nilia wondered if she had just been dreaming.

“Nilia! You need to move forward! I built a new wall, so get behind it!”

“Hey. I think I just became friends with the Imperial Princess…”

“What nonsense are you talking about!? Move forward!”

* * *

‘Now’s the time.’

The moment the distance had closed by more than half, Lee Han, who had only been giving instructions from behind, cast every available spell on himself and began running.

Sharkan was the first to charge forward with a menacing sound.

Bang!

The statue, which had only lightly subdued opponents until now, didn’t hold back its strength against Sharkan.

It felt that this opponent was that threatening.

Crack!

Lee Han spread 【Ogonin’s Mist】 through the dust cloud, then created an ice clone and sent it charging forward.

The moment the statue swung its club to knock away the ice clone, the club froze solid and its movements slowed.

At the same time, the Skeleton Warriors came rushing out in a group.

The statue used one hand to keep Lee Han, who hadn’t yet emerged from the fog, in check, while boldly swinging the club in its other hand to try to knock down the Skeleton Warriors.

At that moment, the Skeleton Warriors exploded in succession.

Boom boom boom boom boom!

The moment it teleported its club, it couldn’t help but take some damage from the surrounding explosions.

The statue let out a cry of admiration.

-How magnificent…!

However, Lee Han didn’t stop.

His opponent had only broken about one arm.

Water orbs that appeared in mid-air came flying. Realizing these attacks were much heavier than any that had come before, the statue reinforced its defenses.

However, Lee Han was already racing like a gale from the opposite side of the water orbs.

The statue, which had been most wary of this approach, tried to teleport rocks in all directions around Lee Han, just like when it had subdued Lee Han before.

At that moment, Lee Han changed direction and explosively accelerated as if he had anticipated that magic.

At this unbelievably shocking sight, the statue had a premonition of defeat.

-I’ve lost…!

A war of attrition through his friends’ wave attacks, followed by an explosive surprise attack targeting when the statue was most exhausted.

On top of that, he had hidden the fact that he could predict spatial teleportation magic until the very end, then revealed it at the decisive moment to catch it off guard.

Anyone who saw this would have to acknowledge it as a magnificent challenge.

-You may pass beyond here…

The statue began to crumble into powder.

Having achieved its created purpose through defeat, it was now returning to earth.

Click-

Before crumbling, the statue embedded a piece of ore into Lee Han’s staff.

It was the mark that the victor of the challenge rightfully deserved to receive.

This mark, with simple spatial teleportation magic cast on it, would show a new path to the mage who had defeated the statue.

-Hehe. A victory of… magic and friendship.

The students in the back found the word “friendship” a bit puzzling, but they held their tongues.

Wardanaz was still quite scary to them.

Lee Han, who had received the mark, stood still.

“?”

“…?”

The students wondered why Wardanaz was acting like that.

‘What’s wrong?’

‘Did you make some mistake?’

‘Uh, did I charge in too late…?’

Lee Han slowly turned around.

Then he opened his mouth.

“What are you all doing here?”

“…”

“…”

“Is this… a trick question by any chance?”

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