Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 595

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Chapter 595

Snap!

When he came to his senses, the bloodsucker monster had already grabbed and lifted up the student wearing the coat.

The bloodsucker monster itself also came to its senses and was startled.

To ignore the blood containing infinite magical power and obsess over such clothing first??

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

“Dance, did it come to dance?!”

Screams burst out.

Students began screaming at the sight of the bloodsucker monster suddenly bursting into the ballroom.

However, some students acted more efficiently instead of wasting time screaming.

“It’s that monster, scatter!”

“Everyone to formation!”

Lee Han and other seasoned students from each tower began responding while bringing their panicked friends to their senses.

To spread out distances, form formations, cast necessary magic, and prepare for battle…

Time was needed.

A very short time that could prevent the monster from charging into their formation and collapsing it.

To buy that time, Lee Han took the initiative to attack first.

In magical combat, casting speed was more important than power.

“Darkness. Sweep forth!”

Dark waves rippled from the tip of his staff, spreading out in a sweeping motion.

He already knew that the bloodsucker monster possessed very powerful regenerative abilities.

Against such monsters, dark elements that dealt damage to life force itself were effective.

As the wide-area magic suddenly flew toward it, the bloodsucker monster quickly maneuvered to dodge. It leaped once to stick to a pillar in the ballroom, then leaped again to stick to the ceiling.

However, Lee Han never intended to catch the bloodsucker monster with a single attack from the start.

While the bloodsucker monster was dodging the unfamiliar magic, Lee Han had already finished casting various enhancement spells.

After completing the casting of 【Spatial Awareness】, 【Gonadaltes’s Nimble Steps】, 【Ogonin’s Thin Fog】, and 【Bagrec’s Momentary Foresight】, Lee Han began drawing out deadly lightning bolts.

With the bloodsucker monster’s regenerative power, it could endure that level of lightning magic while taking hits. Knowing this, Lee Han gripped his sword with his other hand even while casting magic.

This was to prepare for a charge.

-Prepare for a charge!

When Lee Han gestured, Giselle immediately rushed over with the White Tiger Tower students.

Meanwhile, the White Tiger Tower students who had cast the necessary magic held wooden swords extended to spear length and glared at the bloodsucker monster.

The moment Wardanaz bound the bloodsucker monster’s feet even once, the polearms sharpened by magic would pierce through the bloodsucker monster’s torso.

-■■■■!

However, the bloodsucker monster neither approached closely while taking lightning hits to its body, nor escaped from the attack range with its characteristic high speed.

Instead, it showed clumsy movements as it frantically covered with its body, worried that the coat pattern of the student it was holding might get damaged.

“?”

Though it was a chaotic situation due to the sudden enemy intrusion, Lee Han immediately noticed that sense of incongruity.

One of the most important things in magical combat was reading the opponent’s weaknesses.

That bloodsucker monster right now, could it be…?

“It’s coveting Gainando’s coat! Attack the coat!”

“?!?!”

His friends were confused about what he was talking about, but they acted according to Lee Han’s words for now.

Lee Han was also bewildered, but the current situation was telling him that his recent guess was correct.

Why would something that originally came in coveting Lee Han’s magical power attack Gainando?

Moreover, the creature that had shown such agile movements when fighting the Death Knight last time was now moving awkwardly.

There was only one answer.

‘Gainando, what the hell did you use to draw that pattern?’

To make even a monster intoxicated.

Whatever the combination was, he had definitely created something truly bizarre.

Whoosh! Fire-attribute mist filled the air of the ballroom and attacked.

The magic completed by his friends had flown in.

No matter how much fire was a weakness of regeneration, there were limits to that as well.

The bloodsucker monster’s regenerative power couldn’t be defeated by that level of firepower.

But the bloodsucker monster acted as if it would be a disaster if the coat even touched the fire, swelling its muscles and flesh, then changing form to block with its body.

‘It’s real!’

‘Wardanaz’s words…!’

Giselle shouted sharply.

“It’s afraid of the coat being attacked. Stab it!”

“Uh… Moradi. But what about the Prince?”

“…It’ll block with its body anyway, so don’t worry about that. Strike!”

If the bloodsucker monster failed to block, Gainando would get hit, but Giselle thought her friends couldn’t consider that in the current situation.

When facing a monster much stronger than themselves, if there was hesitation at the sword’s tip…

“Look. The Prince agrees too!”

‘He looks unconscious though.’

Fortunately for Gainando, as soon as he was grabbed by the bloodsucker monster, Gainando foamed at the mouth and fainted.

That’s how hideously the monster was shaped.

“Acid, follow like a ghost!”

Siana and Yoner summoned ghost-form minions using potions as catalysts.

As ghosts spewing acidic attacks filled the ballroom and approached, the bloodsucker monster annoyedly swung its body to create wind.

Thunk!

Meanwhile, an arrow lodged into the bloodsucker monster’s torso.

If it had been an ordinary arrow, it would have been immediately pushed out by regenerative power, but the arrow burned the bloodsucker monster’s flesh with a strange sound.

Adenart breathed again and nocked an arrow to her bowstring.

The magic pattern engraved on the arrow emitted light, and a spirit summoned beside her additionally infused power. The sticky alchemical solution applied to the arrowhead would melt the enemy’s muscles and firmly fix the arrow to the bone.

Aside from having one crazy student nearby, the number of students majoring in the magic school that Adenart specialized in was at a level that might be seen once every ten years. The various magical combinations she had just shown proved that.

“…Whew!”

After succeeding in one more attack, Adenart let out a light sigh and searched for Lee Han with her eyes.

She was concerned that Wardanaz seemed to be misunderstanding due to their earlier conversation.

Adenart wasn’t particularly interested in Gainando’s coat.

She was just curious about how it was made from a purely academic perspective, since the coat’s pattern was unusual and interesting.

It must have been made with dark magic school secrets, so how could Adenart know about it?

That’s why she asked a trustworthy friend, but to have such a misunderstanding.

-■■…

The bloodsucker monster felt threatened by the Imperial Princess’s arrow.

It immediately turned direction to try to subdue her.

“Block it!”

Adenart’s followers stood in front and activated magic.

Even low-circle defensive magic, when layered several times and solidly completed like this, was difficult to break through easily.

Usually they were students who only held back Adenart’s feet, but their loyalty shown in situations like this was unwavering.

Perhaps sensing that momentum, the bloodsucker monster also gave up trying to attack and turned direction again.

“Well done!”

Lee Han shouted to the followers.

They needed to continue pressuring the bloodsucker monster and make it anxious. If the followers had gotten scared and retreated just now, the bloodsucker monster would have charged in that direction.

“No need to worry about this side, Lord Wardanaz!”

“Right. Very reliable!”

Lee Han shouted that and quickly moved to another direction.

Since the Imperial Princess’s side was settled for now, there was no reason to remain, and when facing fast enemies like bloodsucker monsters, stopping one’s feet was dangerous.

“…”

Adenart, who had suddenly succeeded in combination magic but had her credit stolen by the followers, blinked her eyes.

Then he swung his staff and struck the backs of his followers.

“Ah, Your Imperial Princess. What…”

“You’re blocking the line of fire right now! Move aside!”

“Oh no… I made such a mistake, I’m sorry!”

Crackle!

‘I just need to buy a little more time.’

Lee Han looked at the bloodsucker monster hesitating like a donkey caught between two haystacks and thought it would be easier to catch than expected.

The creature had been cherishing Gainando’s coat far more than anticipated.

Worried about damaging the clothes, it couldn’t attack roughly and kept hesitating while only defending.

If they kept stalling for time like this, the students would be at a much greater advantage.

The Death Knights would come running soon enough.

-■■■■■■■■!

“Wardanaz!!”

His friends screamed.

Suddenly, as if the bloodsucker monster had made up its mind, it abandoned its previous attitude and charged at Lee Han like mad.

Its lightning-fast approach was so quick it was hard to track its movements properly, but Lee Han didn’t panic.

【Baegreck’s Momentary Foresight】 was telling him the creature’s movements one second in advance.

The bloodsucker monster was actually more troublesome when it moved in complex, unpredictable patterns.

When it moved in such an easily readable straight line, someone prepared like Lee Han could…

Thunk!

-■!

…respond like this.

Lee Han dodged to the side like a matador while stabbing the bloodsucker monster with Dawnstar and creating a Lightning Spear with his staff to stab it once more. The creature howled viciously.

It didn’t stop there. Giselle and the White Tiger Tower students who had been waiting simultaneously rushed in and unleashed attacks on the creature. The bloodsucker monster’s body was instantly slashed apart.

“…?!”

That’s when Lee Han realized something was wrong.

The creature wasn’t holding Gainando.

‘No way?!’

When he quickly turned his gaze, he saw a chunk of flesh from the bloodsucker monster’s tail section lying at the back of the dance hall along with the unconscious Gainando.

Before charging at Lee Han earlier, it had cut off its own tail section and thrown it there.

Slither—

The bloodsucker monster’s body, severely attacked by Lee Han and the White Tiger Tower students, didn’t regenerate immediately on the spot.

Instead, it began regenerating from the tail flesh chunk.

‘I’ve been had!’

Like a lizard that cuts off its tail and runs away, it was the same trick the bloodsucker monster had used to escape from the Death Knights.

It was a deception where it cut off part of its body and then used that as a starting point for regeneration.

The bloodsucker monster, having completed its regeneration in an instant, picked up Gainando again and burst out through the dance hall entrance. The encirclement, disrupted from unleashing attacks just moments before, failed to properly catch the bloodsucker monster.

“Chase it!! The creature is taking Gainando!!”

The students ran out in horror.

To be caught off guard by a monster like this.

* * *

‘Damn. The situation is…’

Even while running at the front, Lee Han was worried.

Inside the dance hall, though spacious, was enclosed on all sides, limiting the bloodsucker monster’s movements.

When they formed formations and created an encirclement, the bloodsucker monster couldn’t move easily.

But outside was different.

The bloodsucker monster could easily strike and retreat with its speed, taking down students.

“Asan, quickly call the Death Knights! We need support!”

“Al, alright!”

“Everyone, don’t chase it chaotically. The creature will charge again…”

Before he could finish speaking, the bloodsucker monster that had gained distance threw Gainando onto a tree and charged fiercely.

Perhaps because the attack it received from Lee Han had hurt quite a bit, its movements were different from before. It kicked off a tree to go up, then grabbed a branch and twisted its body to move irregularly.

Unlike before, the foresight missed. Lee Han, kicked hard by the creature, flew backward.

“Wardanaz!!!”

“I’m fine, so maintain formation!”

Lee Han coughed and spoke in response to the shouts of students running from behind.

Since he was protected by various magic spells as well as drawing up mana to protect his body, the damage wasn’t too severe.

But the problem was the very fact that he had just been attacked.

Not only had he lost the opportunity to cast spells and the initiative had passed to the creature, but the creature was attacking cunningly.

Just now, instead of charging in to finish things, hadn’t it gauged Lee Han’s condition as if checking and then not retreated?

It was quite a cunning and cautious monster.

‘I’ll buy time somehow.’

Even if disadvantageous, Lee Han resolved to land a hit in close combat to create time to cast spells again.

Even if he couldn’t match the creature’s speed, if he kept getting hit, his foresight would become more accurate.

That’s when Asan returned.

“Wardanaz!!”

“Asan!”

At this moment, Asan was truly welcome. Lee Han turned his gaze.

The Death Knights were running from behind…

…or not.

What was running behind Asan were giants.

“…”

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