Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 566

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Chapter 566

A moment later.

Lee Han drank 【Ahraq’s Red Poison】 with a serious expression.

“But Senior. What kind of poison is this?”

He hadn’t thought much about it while drinking, but after drinking it, he suddenly became curious about what kind of poison this was.

The mana flow within the poison was violent and complex, so it didn’t seem like an ordinary poison.

Diret extended his index finger and warned.

“Don’t think about useless things and focus on the poison. Tell me immediately if you feel any reaction.”

Even dark mages who handled poison could get poisoned.

No, rather, because they handled poison, they could get poisoned even more severely.

Even if they built up their own resistance and created immunity, when making new poisons, a small mistake could take their life.

Just looking at Ahraq’s final moments, one could understand this.

“How is it? Do you feel any reaction?”

“Hmm… No. There’s no particular effect.”

Lee Han concentrated on the poison, closed his eyes, then shook his head.

Despite quite some time passing after drinking it, there was no poison energy circulating in his body at all.

It was because the poison couldn’t overcome Lee Han’s mana and had dissipated.

“This too? Hmm…”

Diret frowned lightly.

He had hoped that 【Ahraq’s Red Poison】 might be able to break through this junior’s poison resistance and create a poisoned state, but it couldn’t even deal a bit of damage.

“I’m sorry.”

“It’s not your fault, junior. Rather, I need to teach you how to respond when poisoned.”

There was a reason why Diret was trying to poison his junior by any means.

For dark mages who handled poison elements, experiencing a poisoned state was quite important.

How to move mana in a poisoned state to stop the progression, and how to attempt detoxification.

These things not only ensured the dark mage’s safety but also helped in researching poison elements.

The problem was that this junior didn’t get poisoned no matter what poison he was given.

“Cough. Cough cough. Cough cough cough.”

“Cough ha ha. Cough cough. Cough he cough.”

In contrast, Gainando and Raphadael had turned pale and were gasping for breath.

Diret warned calmly.

“Don’t try to force yourself to breathe just because it’s hard to breathe. You can endure for 1 minute, so give up on breathing and find a way to detoxify.”

“Gasp gasp, gasp.”

“Gasp gasp, gasp.”

The two scratched at their desks while glaring at Diret.

Since it wasn’t the first time seeing this, Diret remained unshaken.

“Are you okay?”

“Ah, yes, yes! Thank you.”

Ymirg was waving his staff while enduring the pain he felt in his forearm.

It was an excellent response method.

‘This is a bit lonely though.’

Lee Han felt a sense of alienation.

Of course, he didn’t want to be poisoned, but it was somewhat awkward to just sit still alone while all his friends were poisoned and coughing.

“Couldn’t we use a stronger poison?”

“No. Even the current 【Ahraq’s Red Poison】 is sufficient for lethality.”

“That… What? 【Ahraq’s Red Poison】?”

Lee Han doubted his ears.

Was it really okay to give him that?

“For now, we’ve confirmed that your resistance is strong… Let’s observe a bit more. It’ll take several more years before you come into contact with poison dangerous enough for you.”

“Yes. I’ll just be careful with poison.”

“Being careful isn’t enough either. Next year I’ll be moving up to 5th year, so it’ll be hard to check on you like this.”

“My goodness. Why on earth would you make such a choice?”

“…”

“I’m sorry. That was momentary.”

“No. That’s something you could reasonably say. Thank you.”

After saying that, Diret suddenly felt puzzled.

‘Come to think of it, doesn’t this junior have no right to say such things?’

A freshman taking classes from all schools, who was he to worry about whom?

If he became a 5th year student, it would probably be like the ancient torture of being torn apart by horses…

“Senior?”

“Huh? No, it’s nothing.”

“?”

Lee Han was puzzled by Diret’s reaction.

As if he was lost in other thoughts, his reaction was different from his usual focused self.

‘Is he feeling unsettled about moving up to 5th year?’

Anyone could feel that way. Lee Han nodded understandingly.

“Senior. Please look at this.”

“Eggs? I told you there’s no need to bring such things.”

Diret showed reluctance.

Of course, this junior’s dessert-making skills were excellent, proving he was the top student in alchemy.

When he heard that the soufflé pancakes brought last time were made with ingredients obtained directly within Einroguard, he was so surprised his feathers nearly fell out.

But as a senior, he couldn’t accept snacks when he couldn’t even give snacks himself.

“Did you not like the soufflé pancakes last time? Maybe store-bought snacks were better…”

“They were really delicious, but I felt bad accepting them. Cohorti bought up all the eggs in the school market and kept making only soufflé pancakes. Trying to recreate the taste you brought.”

“Oh dear. I should have just made some for him. And this isn’t a snack, I brought it as reagent material.”

Lee Han carefully took out an egg laid by a ghostly chicken from the basket.

Lee Han was originally raising ghostly chickens in the cabin where he tended to basilisk eggs.

And the eggs laid by ghostly chickens were very precious dark magic reagents.

“Ghostly chicken?!”

Diret was startled and accepted the egg.

“This is really… amazing. How on earth did you get this?”

“Please don’t ask about the method. Anyway, I want to sell this, would it be possible?”

“It’s definitely possible. But…”

Diret showed a troubled expression.

Lee Han wondered if there was some problem and asked.

“Is there perhaps a problem? Ah. For acting as my agent, the price…”

“What are you talking about? It’s not about that.”

At his junior’s words, Diret looked at him as if he was absurd.

“It’s just that the other juniors will probably want to buy it themselves instead of you selling it outside. As you know, rare reagents cost much more when bought from outside.”【/】

Mage reagents were also a field where the law of supply and demand applied.

Common materials could be easily obtained, but rare materials had competition and prices soared.

Ghostly chicken eggs were already hard to obtain, and since the buyers happened to be dark mages, the supply became even scarcer. Thanks to this, whenever they occasionally appeared, only dark mages would scream.

“If you need them, I’ll just sell them to the seniors.”

“What? No. Why should you make such a concession, junior.”

“We’re from the same school.”

‘I shouldn’t tell the other guys.’

Diret inwardly resolved at his earnest junior’s words.

It seemed better not to tell the other guys and just contact external merchants to sell it.

“I’ll handle it myself, so don’t worry about it, junior. Since poisoning is impossible… let’s move on to poison element practice. As you practice poison elements, you’ll realize that poison is more troublesome to cast on opponents than you think.”

No matter how much it was a poison created by magic with properties that didn’t exist in reality, the fact that it was difficult to inflict on an opponent remained unchanged.

Poison didn’t fly as fast as lightning, nor did it spread as fiercely as fire.

Since it was basically a small amount of liquid, poisoning an opponent was quite an ordeal.

“When your level increases, you can poison someone with just a glance, but that’s not easy. Before then, you’ll have to use your head a lot.”

Methods that utilized the surrounding environment like poison fog or poison clouds.

Or methods that combined it with water elements to shoot poison arrows, even if the power was slightly weakened.

Or methods that compressed it into elements friendly to poison like bone elements.

“The method you should practice first, junior, is…”

“Poison fog or poison clouds, right?”

“…the method of compressing poison elements into bone elements. Since you succeeded with dark elements, poison elements will be easier. Dark elements have a higher difficulty level. Wait. What did you say?”

Diret belatedly realized Lee Han’s answer and was puzzled.

“Why did you think of fog or clouds?”

“Well, since I have strong poison resistance, I thought it might be better to just accept getting affected myself and cover the surroundings.”

“…It’s a novel and good method, but let’s learn to contain it in bone elements first. This is more stable.”

5 minutes later.

Lee Han perfectly succeeded in compressing poison into bone elements.

Diret checked the time once and then asked.

“Right. You want to summon poison fog?”

* * *

Throughout the semester, students from each tower had been taking turns with duties.

Since it was Einroguard’s work, the difficulty wasn’t easy either, and everyone had accumulated fatigue without realizing it.

Moreover, with final exams approaching soon.

It was inevitable that the movements of students assigned to duties became sluggish and slow.

Even the most sincere and diligent Phoenix Tower priests among the four tower students were like this…

‘This is somewhat worrying.’

Rather than worrying about final exams, Lee Han was worried about the Skeleton Principal’s attacks.

Final exams were unavoidable since they tested what you normally studied, but the Skeleton Principal’s attacks were bound to come when you were weakest and most off-guard.

Moreover, the Skeleton Principal was very likely to be in a foul mood these days.

The first-year students had set a record for outings and were enjoying luxuries by bringing back large quantities of supplies.

-Hehe. Look at this! It’s a coat with pockets! I bought it outside.

-Hey, isn’t that too luxurious?

-Says the one wearing gloves made of real leather!

-Haha, that’s right! We deserve this!

Lee Han wanted to stop them to avoid provoking the Skeleton Principal, but this was something he couldn’t stop.

Would friends who had been starving all year long be able to restrain themselves just because someone told them to?

“Lord Wardanaz. We’re done exterminating here.”

“I’ll be right there.”

Lee Han cast magic by swinging his staff and then moved.

Right now, Lee Han and the Phoenix Tower priests were out to exterminate bloodsucking insects that appeared in the nearby thicket.

A single bloodsucking insect was weak enough to be easily exterminated without using magic, but when dozens of them swarmed out like a swarm of bees from the thicket, they were quite threatening.

Before that happened, they had to check the surroundings and cast magic in places where bloodsucking insects might stay to exterminate them.

In fact, it was work that required persistence rather than excellent magic.

“Burn, burn, burn…”

And it was also work that was easy to solve if you had massive mana even without persistence.

Lee Han moved around burning suspicious places thoroughly.

The Phoenix Tower priests were pouring extermination potions they had made into puddles and thickets.

This was also a good method. It was possible to indirectly weaken the bloodsucking insects.

“Lord Wardanaz. Did you see this?”

“?”

Lee Han turned his gaze at Priest Siana’s call.

Large footprints were left behind the thicket.

Even if not as big as a giant, they far exceeded the size of ordinary people.

‘What is this?’

Lee Han cast light to check the surroundings.

Whatever monster it was had left quite brutal traces. Not only footprints, but claw marks were also clear on nearby rocks and trees.

-■■■■■■…

Lee Han’s light spread several times stronger than other students’ light.

Because of that, a bipedal monster standing between the trees revealed itself.

It glared at Lee Han with red eyes.

It resembled a rampaging lycanthrope but wasn’t a lycanthrope. Blood was pooled like a puddle, as if it had devoured nearby bloodsucking insects.

Several priests fell over from the killing intent and intimidation, but Lee Han said indifferently.

“Huh. Did the Principal send you again?”

-■■■!

“That doesn’t change anything. Darkness, sweep forth!”

Dark elements transformed into wave form and burst forward.

The blood monster jumped at a completely unexpected angle and avoided the magic.

‘It’s fast!’

But Lee Han immediately prepared the next attack.

Every time he was assigned duties, he went around fully prepared since he never knew when the Principal’s attack might occur.

【Baegreck’s Momentary Foresight】 and 【Gonadaltes’s Nimble Steps】 were making Lee Han’s nerves sharp and sensitive.

-What’s happening!

One of the priests must have called a Death Knight on patrol, as it came running quickly.

Lee Han also remained wary of the Death Knight while gripping his staff.

‘Isn’t it an accomplice?’

-What is that monster?! First-year students, fall back.

The Death Knight blew a horn to call its comrades.

Hoooooo-

“Isn’t it the Principal’s minion?”

-What kind of nonsense is that!?

The Death Knights were shocked and denied it.

Such a monster was not their comrade.

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