Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 592
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Chapter 592
Slightly hurt, Lee Han looked around at his friends and asked.
“Do you guys perhaps… not really want to enter my labyrinth?”
“Wh-what are you talking about, Wardanaz!?”
“No way? I want to go in though?”
The students answered in shock.
However, none of them could meet Lee Han’s eyes.
‘I don’t want to go in.’
‘I wish someone else would go in instead of me…!’
After spending a year with Lee Han, the first-year students had figured things out to some extent.
What would be the highest difficulty dungeon in this illusion magic final exam?
With 100% certainty, it would be the dungeon created by Wardanaz. Even students who didn’t take divination magic could predict this.
It would be fortunate if it was just the highest difficulty level, but if he created something like a secret labyrinth of the Wardanaz family that exceeded first-year level and invited his friends…
“…It seems you’re all misunderstanding something.”
Lee Han quickly responded after figuring out his friends’ true feelings from their subtle eye exchanges.
He shouldn’t get angry at times like this. He needed to gently and generously soothe his friends’ fears.
“I have no intention of making the labyrinth unnecessarily difficult.”
“Ha!”
“Puhahaha!”
“…”
“S-sorry. It just… came out instinctively.”
The friends who had just burst into laughter hurriedly apologized upon seeing Lee Han’s gaze.
An ominous feeling welled up that if they didn’t apologize, they might be the first to be dragged into Wardanaz’s special labyrinth.
“Friends! Why would I make the labyrinth unnecessarily difficult? Think about it carefully. I’m the same person as you all.”
Lee Han spoke in an unusually gentle tone.
When he put an arm around each shoulder of the two friends who had just laughed, they hurriedly nodded their heads.
Seeing that the persuasion seemed to be working, Lee Han drove the point home with satisfaction.
“Everyone, tell me even one reason why I would need to make the labyrinth unnecessarily difficult.”
“Because you’re Wardanaz.”
“You’ve just always been like that.”
“You take all schools of magic.”
“You saw something different during the divination magic exam too.”
“The arithmetic exam too.”
“The general magic exam too.”
Lee Han regretted asking as answers immediately flew at him from all directions.
‘Damn. I shouldn’t have asked that last question.’
“Wardanaz…”
Professor Kirmin looked at Lee Han with pity.
They say disciples resemble their masters, but did he really need to resemble even this aspect of Professor Boladi?
“Now. Everyone calm down! I’ll decide the order for entering other students’ labyrinths.”
“Since Wardanaz is from Blue Dragon Tower, how about Blue Dragon Tower students go in?”
“You bastards… Wardanaz is currently staying at Phoenix Tower!”
“He’s been continuously exploring the school with Black Turtle Tower students, so I think Black Turtle Tower students would be best at exploration…”
“How about making the White Tiger Tower guys do it?”
The students who had been sharing opinions looked puzzled at Ratford’s words and asked.
“Huh? What’s the reason?”
“Not really any? I just want to send them…”
“This crazy bastard!”
The White Tiger Tower students were outraged at Ratford trying to send them to the ant pit of death without even minimal sincerity.
Professor Kirmin moved to settle things.
“I told you to calm down! I’ll decide now.”
Students from each tower looked at the professor with tense gazes.
Which cursed students would end up entering Wardanaz’s labyrinth?
“We’ll all visit each other student’s labyrinth once together. Everyone understands, right?”
“…”
“…”
The students fell silent at Professor Kirmin’s words.
The professor nodded, thinking the students had immediately understood.
However, moments later the students immediately grabbed each other by the collar and fought.
“It’s because of you guys! You should sacrifice yourselves and go in!”
“Shut up! If that’s the case, you guys go in right now!”
Professor Kirmin sighed and waved his staff.
The students affected by illusion magic flailed and separated from each other.
Lee Han watched this scene with cold eyes and thought to himself.
‘…I’ll do my best.’
He had always done his best, but it seemed like he would do a little more of his best for this exam.
* * *
“…Hey, shouldn’t someone stop Wardanaz?”
“That’s why I said not to provoke him…”
The White Tiger Tower students looked at Lee Han’s barn with terrified eyes.
Currently, the students taking illusion magic were gathered around the professor’s workshop to convert their assigned barns into makeshift labyrinths.
Students gathering additional materials from the forest, students digging around the barn and doing foundation work, students installing artifacts and checking if they worked properly…
And there was also a student who had completely torn down the barn and was building a new one.
“Yes. That’s it. A little more. No. This way. Yes, yes. Well done, Gonadaltes.”
Lee Han had even summoned Skeleton Warrior Gonadaltes and was absorbed in his work.
The existing barn had many limitations.
The structure was simple, and the materials were just wood, stone, or straw, so if magic was cast incorrectly, the barn might not withstand it and collapse.
‘Come to think of it, the traps installed in the underground storage had many things to learn from.’
Lee Han had learned much from the black magic school upperclassmen this time.
The linked magical traps designed to prevent people from approaching the underground storage.
Those traps weren’t highly complete just because they combined powerful spells.
They were highly complete because they had persistent malice that couldn’t be found in other traps.
The malice of absolutely wanting to stop the opponent!
‘The strength of magic isn’t important. How the magic links together is what’s important.’
Lee Han pondered which illusion magics to link while searching through magic books.
Meanwhile, the framework of the newly constructed barn revealed itself. Befitting the word framework, it was truly a barn with a skeletal structure made of bones.
“Space, become distorted!”
The 【Lesser Spatial Distortion】 illusion magic that made one lose their sense of direction upon entering and see multiple paths.
Lee Han was pleased to see the magic cast cleanly thanks to changing the framework from the start.
‘Good start.’
“War… Wardanaz.”
“?”
Several White Tiger Tower students approached from behind. They were holding whole roasted chickens with seasoning.
“Eat this while you work.”
“???”
In this situation, White Tiger Tower students were giving away meat, which they absolutely never shared?
There was only one answer.
“They poisoned it. Cowardly bastards.”
“What are you saying! No!”
“How could you suspect such a thing!”
The White Tiger Tower students were outraged at having their sincerity doubted.
The value of supplies differed slightly between each tower. In Phoenix Tower, beeswax was expensive, in Blue Dragon Tower, ink was expensive, and in Black Turtle Tower, coffee grounds and tea leaves were expensive.
And in White Tiger Tower, meat was expensive.
They had brought such precious grilled meat!
“You’re telling me you really came here with no ulterior motive, just wanting to treat me once while I’m working?”
“…Well, that’s not exactly…”
“You don’t need to put it so harshly…”
The White Tiger Tower students were intimidated.
But having come this far, they couldn’t give up, so they lowered their voices and whispered.
“Wardanaz. We have a favor to ask.”
“I don’t know if I’ll grant it, but go ahead and say it.”
“…A safe path through the labyrinth…”
“…”
Lee Han looked at the White Tiger Tower students with contemptuous eyes, as if seeing the most pathetic people in the world.
“Go and focus on building your own labyrinth properly.”
“No, wait…! For one plump chicken, this is profitable for you too! You have nothing to lose!”
Lee Han kicked the White Tiger Tower students in the rear and chased them away.
To think they were pulling such useless tricks.
‘This is why there are so many failing students in White Tiger Tower.’
He could understand why Moradi was stressed.
All because of guys like these…
“Wardanaz. Wardanaz.”
“Lee Han. Just give us a safe path…”
“…Gonadaltes. If anyone approaches the barn from now on, throw bones at them.”
“Ack! There’s no need to go this far! We’re just trying to compromise!”
Only after chasing away the troublemakers could Lee Han focus on his work.
Covering the barn walls, creating corridors inside the empty space, and digging pitfall traps beneath them…
‘Hmm. Should I set up something on the walls too?’
This was actually quite fun once he got into it.
He could understand why the dark magic school seniors had been so enthusiastic about setting traps!
“Lord Wardanaz.”
“Ratford? I can’t teach you the safe path.”
“Hehe. What do you take me for?”
Ratford let out a confident laugh from outside the barn door.
At that response, Lee Han recalled Ratford’s background once more.
“Ah. Right. A simple labyrinth like this would be something you could solve with your eyes closed…”
“I’m going to pretend to be sick and not enter. I’ve already prepared a fake illness potion.”
“…I’ll teach you the safe path, so why don’t you just come in?”
“Huh? I don’t want to.”
Lee Han felt slightly dejected and opened the barn door to step outside.
“Then what did you come here for?”
“Ah. I was going to pick some fog cloud mushrooms. Would you like to come along?”
Among magic spells, there were those that required reagents each time they were cast.
Among dark magic, bone elemental spells required bone powder, and such reagent requirements could be found quite often in other schools as well.
Fog cloud mushrooms were essential reagents for casting the illusion magic 【Evening Twilight】.
“You’re trying to cast Evening Twilight? That should be quite difficult.”
“The professor said it seemed doable for me, so I thought I’d give it a try. But it looks like you’re already fully prepared, Lord Wardanaz…”
Ratford surveyed the exterior of the bone barn.
Unlike other barns, the exterior itself was ominous and eerie. Even decent thieves probably wouldn’t enter such a place.
“No. It would be good to cast Evening Twilight as well. Let’s go together.”
“It really seems sufficient already…”
“No. It’s still not enough.”
As soon as Lee Han finished speaking, a student who had been trying to sneak into the barn screamed and came running out.
Skeleton warriors swarmed in and threw bones at him.
“He’s just easily scared.”
“…”
* * *
Harvesting fog cloud mushrooms itself wasn’t particularly difficult.
Einroguard’s mountain range was high enough to earn the nickname Sky Mountain Range, but that was only true for the deep areas, and there were relatively low mountains near the main building.
And the students most knowledgeable about such mountains were the Black Turtle Tower students.
This was thanks to spending their spare time identifying various edible plants and setting traps to catch small animals.
Ratford had already located the mushroom colony where fog cloud mushrooms grew, and Lee Han just had to follow comfortably behind.
“But Wardanaz, why are you really doing this?”
“Wardanaz. We use reagents because we lack power, but you have enough!”
“What you have now is already sufficient! Don’t trouble yourself unnecessarily! You need to prepare for other school exams too!”
…Except for the fact that every student they met on the way to the colony said such things.
The more he heard such words, the more Lee Han’s resolve solidified to turn his simple labyrinth into a labyrinth of hell.
“Look… look at Wardanaz’s eyes…”
“Who provoked Wardanaz? Who was it?”
“That’s why I said we should have volunteered when he asked earlier. He’s angry now.”
The students murmured among themselves, wondering if they should offer sacrifices even now.
“Monster!!!”
“?!”
At the sound coming from ahead, Lee Han was startled.
‘I let my guard down!’
To think he had relaxed his vigilance in Einroguard’s mountain range while absorbed in thoughts of trapping his friends in the labyrinth forever.
It was a fatal mistake.
Moreover, there was currently a monster chasing Lee Han.
“Everyone, over here!”
Lee Han quickly called his friends together and formed a formation. The students asked with frightened faces.
“Wh-what is it? Wardanaz? A monster?”
“It’s probably a bloodsucker monster. Everyone stay calm…”
Bang!
A tree ahead flew away and a massive beast landed after soaring through the air.
The familiar appearance of the beast.
It was the Mountain Destroyer.
“…”
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