Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 567

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Chapter 567

Of course, Lee Han didn’t believe what the Death Knights said either.

‘It could be a trick.’

The Death Knights might be lying, or it could be a minion the Death Knights didn’t know about.

The Death Knights who noticed such suspicion were so frustrated they could die.

-Look here. Student Wardanaz. Our master does have such uncontrollable monsters… well anyway, he doesn’t have that kind of creature!

-Our master does have such dangerous-looking creatures… but we’ve never seen that one before!

“…”

“…”

Not only Lee Han but also the priests began looking at the Death Knights with suspicious eyes.

The Death Knights suppressed their grief and surrounded the bloodsucker monster.

-Deal with it. It’s obviously a troublesome creature.

-Where did this thing come from? If you have a mouth, speak up.

Spears and swords rippling with dark blue negative energy were aimed at the bloodsucker monster. Sensing the threat, the bloodsucker monster moved explosively.

Swoosh!

Its movement became so fast that only shadows could be seen. However, the Death Knights didn’t try to compete with it in speed.

Bang!

One Death Knight was attacked by the bloodsucker monster and sent flying.

-■■■■■■■!

The monster roared in victory, but that was a hasty judgment. A Death Knight’s sword was deeply embedded in the bloodsucker monster’s left leg.

Crackle-crackle-crackle-

In an instant, the monster’s left leg froze all the way to the ground. The Death Knight that had been sent flying got up while repairing his shattered armor and crushed helmet.

-Keep bragging about being fast in this territory.

The Death Knights mocked the bloodsucker monster and chuckled. Lee Han once again felt the strength of these summoned creatures.

No matter how much Einroguard’s power was strengthening them, each summoned creature possessed such advanced judgment and powerful combat ability.

“Magnificent!”

-Huh? Suddenly?

-Why?

The Death Knights who were on standby were flustered by Lee Han’s praise.

“My summoned creatures can’t show the same performance as you all.”

-Ah. That’s natural. Commanding death knights like us isn’t an easy task.

-First, the materials would be hard to find. You need knights with remaining oaths and regrets…

‘White Tiger Tower students?’

When it came to knights with many grievances, White Tiger Tower knights immediately came to mind.

While they were having this conversation, the Death Knights at the front continued their assault on the bloodsucker monster.

The bloodsucker monster with one leg bound couldn’t avoid the Death Knights’ attacks and was mercilessly beaten.

-Like before! Do it like before!

-You insolent! Huh? Try it!

Each time the polearms condensed with negative energy stabbed the bloodsucker monster, they dealt damage deep into its very existence.

It viciously swung its claws and shot blood in the form of sharp thorns, but the Death Knights attacked using a ‘you hit, I strike’ method.

Most attacks couldn’t even pierce their armor, and the occasional attack that did pierce was immediately healed by the darkness rippling within.

Lee Han understood why Death Knights appeared as typical examples of summoned creatures used by evil dark mages in fairy tales.

Heavy offensive power and solid defensive capability.

Intelligence to judge enemy weaknesses based on combat experience accumulated in life and lead fights in the most advantageous way.

Viciousness that didn’t hesitate to use underhanded methods, completely unrelated to their honor in life.

The last part was almost an insult, but Lee Han considered it praise.

‘With a mage continuously healing them, there’d be no answer.’

There were two ways to defeat undead: one was to deal such massive damage to the summoned creature itself that it couldn’t recover and would be reverse-summoned, and the other was to defeat the mage.

But with Death Knights, the former was nearly impossible. Their defensive power and vitality were beyond imagination.

-■!

The bloodsucker monster coughed up blood and collapsed. The monster that had been beaten, stabbed, and slashed was sprawled out like a corpse, its initial fierce momentum nowhere to be seen.

The Death Knights stuck their swords and spears into its body and clicked their tongues.

-What crazy creature came out…

-Looking at it, it doesn’t seem like something the students summoned.

“It’s not?!”

Lee Han was shocked.

If it wasn’t the Skeleton Principal’s minion, he had naturally assumed it was a monster created by upperclassmen.

‘I thought it was a failed chimera creation.’

-Einroguard’s students wouldn’t make something like this.

-Right. No matter what, not this.

“Last time, one of the seniors released monsters into the forest while trying to create artificial spirits.”

-…

-…

The Death Knights were speechless and averted their gaze.

-Well, Wardanaz. After serving under our master for a long time, you learn things from experience. Student accidents have a different feel.

One old Death Knight from the Three Kingdoms era stepped forward to explain.

Even if it was the same bloodsucker monster, monsters created by student accidents had telltale signs.

Traces of practicing and attempting various magics were bound to be visible.

In contrast, the bloodsucker monster they just caught had no such traces. This was a naturally born monster.

“Why would such a monster be here? Isn’t this dangerous?”

Lee Han asked in a serious voice, but the Death Knights weren’t that concerned.

-Haha. It’s not that serious.

-Right. It happens occasionally. Probably flowed in from the mountain range… no wait. A monster like this would be from underground. It might have been dormant somewhere underground and came out.

-I think senior’s judgment is correct. Since it’s an undead-type monster that hates light, it’s more likely it came from underground rather than the mountain range.

“…”

“…”

The first years watched the Death Knights’ conversation with pale faces.

Such a vicious monster had appeared, yet they were discussing it like ‘this happens sometimes, hehe.’

-■■■■…

A growling sound was suddenly heard again.

The Death Knights were startled and turned their heads.

A piece of flesh from the bloodsucker monster that had been sent flying to a distant tree branch during the fierce battle.

The bloodsucker monster instantly regenerated around that piece. The bloodsucker monster’s corpse stuck to the ground instantly turned to ash and disappeared.

The Death Knights were shocked by the regeneration power that exceeded expectations.

To think such regeneration was possible with just a small piece of flesh, not even the head or heart.

It wasn’t even a normal situation. The weapons the Death Knights used weren’t ordinary weapons, but armaments heavily imbued with negative energy.

Once cut and stabbed, even monsters with good regeneration would have their regenerative ability suppressed, yet it broke through that and regenerated like this?

In terms of regeneration alone, it was among the top monsters the Death Knights had ever seen.

-Huh.

-We’ll just have to burn it. I was going to investigate where it came from.

The Death Knights muttered while summoning ghostly flames.

They were surprised by its regeneration, but now that they’d seen it once, there were plenty of ways to deal with it.

-■■■!

However, instead of charging at the Death Knights, the bloodsucker monster fled at full speed in the opposite direction.

The Death Knights froze momentarily as it kicked off several trees, entered the forest, and disappeared without even a shadow visible.

-…

“Uh, did it run away?”

-…You can’t say it ran away.

-It might come back…

-It’s more like an exceptional situation that could occur in battle rather than our mistake?

‘You definitely missed it.’

Lee Han looked at the Death Knights as if they were pathetic.

The respect he had felt for them until just now completely disappeared.

* * *

“A monster that was trapped underground came up?”

“Didn’t the Principal release it?”

“Its regeneration is that strong? Should we carry means to block regeneration?”

“Didn’t the Principal release it?”

“But if it was badly hurt by the Death Knights, wouldn’t it be unable to come near the school? They said it fled toward the mountain range.”

“Didn’t the Principal release it?”

What happened yesterday evening naturally spread quickly among the students.

The fact that some crazy monster was rampaging around when final exams were approaching became a hot topic of conversation.

“I’m telling you we need to form a vigilante group and move around in teams.”

“Isn’t that overreacting? The thing eventually ran away. We don’t even have enough time to study.”

The students were divided into the ‘we need to prepare’ faction and the ‘no, is that really important right now’ faction.

There was also a minority faction like Gainando who believed it was ‘the Principal’s conspiracy,’ but they didn’t have much influence.

While his friends were talking, Lee Han silently moved his quill pen.

He had to somehow complete Professor Boladi’s assignments to a presentable level before the semester ended.

“Wardanaz. What do you think?”

“What?”

“About the bloodsucker monster.”

“Isn’t it too harsh to call Professor Bagrek that… Oh. You weren’t talking about the Professor.”

“…??”

“Can’t be helped, right? It’s not like we can go searching for it now. Moving around in groups would be the best option.”

“Would that be enough?”

“There’s not much we can do. How about armor?”

“That sounds good.”

“Since armor might not be enough, carry the crossbows we made when we held out in the library last time. We learned about poison in dark magic class, so I’ll make poison and distribute it for you to coat on the crossbows. Oh right. There should be some leftover signal magic fireworks in Professor Verdus’s workshop, so we need to get those too.”

‘He said there wasn’t much we could do…’

If this was ‘not much,’ then what would ‘a lot’ be?

After reassuring his friends’ anxiety, Lee Han moved his steps.

Actually, Lee Han himself was sometimes a little surprised.

No matter how much Einroguard made people adapt to the extraordinary, to act this calmly even after seeing a bloodsucker monster like yesterday’s.

Even now, unlike his other friends who were worried, he was very calm.

“Good day, Professor.”

Lee Han opened the door and entered the lecture hall.

Come to think of it, the professor inside this lecture hall had played a large part in Lee Han becoming fearless.

‘A walking terror.’

What was so scary about a bloodsucker monster hiding in dark thickets in the black night, targeting blood?

True fear was something that walked boldly in broad daylight.

Professor Boladi lightly nodded and welcomed Lee Han.

“You’re here.”

“What… is this?”

Lee Han was puzzled by the underground classroom’s appearance, which was different from usual.

Usually it was a bleak lecture hall with only truly necessary furniture and school supplies, but today there were many unfamiliar objects.

A large tin bowl (inside was a green, wriggling lump of meat), a racing track that looked like it was made as a toy, rings that seemed suitable for circus tricks…

Professor Boladi himself was even holding a strange-looking toy in one hand. It looked like a toy for playing with pets.

Professor Boladi holding a sword was frightening, but Professor Boladi holding a toy was equally terrifying. Lee Han glanced behind him to check his escape route.

“The basilisk’s growth is slow.”

“Ah.”

Only then did Lee Han breathe a sigh of relief.

He had worried it might be some damn training to increase Lee Han’s combat power before final exams, but fortunately it wasn’t.

The basilisk inside his sleeve made obvious hissing sounds.

It was the sound of very, very strong dislike.

“Sorry. I’m powerless too.”

-?!

Lee Han apologized to the baby basilisk.

In other situations, he could have fought for the basilisk, but not in front of Professor Boladi.

Lee Han and the basilisk might both die.

‘Those who can live must live.’

“It’s a meal I had Professor Lightningstep make. Try eating it.”

The baby basilisk naturally shook its head as if it disliked the idea.

Then Professor Boladi grabbed the basilisk’s neck firmly with one hand and cast a telekinesis spell with his eyes. The basilisk’s mouth opened wide.

-■■■■■!

Lee Han didn’t know what the baby basilisk was saying, but the green lump of meat didn’t seem tasty. Lee Han apologized inwardly once again.

Professor Boladi, who was feeding the basilisk, looked at Lee Han and asked.

“I heard you succeeded in changing the form of lightning elements?”

“■■■■■!”

Lee Han made the exact same choking sound that the basilisk had just made.

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