Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 596

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Chapter 596

‘How on earth did he bring the giants?’

Lee Han was surprised.

Bringing giants instead of Death Knights wasn’t an easy task either.

In the first place, Asan didn’t even know that giants were staying in the deep storage of the main building basement.

How on earth?

“Wardanaz! Save me!!”

“…”

The answer came immediately.

Unlike his usual calm demeanor, Asan was in a state of panic.

Anyone would be like that if they went out to ask for help only to face an assault from a giant army.

‘He didn’t bring the giants…’

He had just gone to call the Death Knights and encountered the giants.

-We will save you!

-We came to help, mage!

The giants behind Asan shouted in response, but it didn’t reach Asan.

Right now, whatever the giants said sounded like ‘We’ll eat you’ to Asan.

“…Thank you!”

“Wa, Wardanaz! Are you trying to abandon me as food?!”

Asan cried out with a tearful face, but Lee Han didn’t have time to clear up that misunderstanding.

The Bloodsucker Monster realized the situation was flowing strangely and began targeting other students who could be easily caught.

In an urgent situation like this, even the giants’ help was greatly appreciated.

“Please take the front line!”

-Understood!

The giants rushed forward in a group and blocked the front of the mages.

Wasn’t protecting weak mages one of the things warriors should do?

Since the giants had come for that purpose in the first place, there was no hesitation in their movements.

Asan, who had been afraid of being eaten, was dumbfounded seeing the giants suddenly rushing forward in a group.

“Huh?”

“Asan! Get into formation! It’s dangerous if you stay separate!”

“Uh, uhh. Isn’t, isn’t that more dangerous…”

Honestly, just looking at the surface, the giants seemed scarier than the Bloodsucker Monster.

Asan jumped among his friends with a dazed look. Fortunately, his friends had similarly dazed faces.

“The… giants are doing this, is it okay?”

Asan, who had wondered if he was being strange, felt quite relieved by his friends’ reactions.

Still, Asan was able to quickly come to his senses thanks to being startled first.

“Everyone act calmly. What’s important right now is catching that Bloodsucker Monster.”

“But there are giants in front!?”

“If you’re a student of Einroguard, you should adapt to giants at least.”

“Is, is that so? I don’t think so…”

Bang!

The Bloodsucker Monster charged at the giant.

It was different from when it obediently retreated in the underground warehouse.

In an open situation like this with plenty of terrain to utilize, there was no reason to retreat. The Bloodsucker Monster displayed dazzling aerial maneuvers and attacked the giant.

-Ugh!

The giant who took a proper hit staggered. The Bloodsucker Monster accelerated even more and tried to tear the giant’s skin with its blade-sharp tail.

-Argh!

The giant screamed looking at his forearm with red marks. Other giants jeered.

-Don’t scream like a sheep! It’s embarrassing!

-It hurts! I’m saying it hurts!

Of course, the most enraged was the Bloodsucker Monster.

Its confident attack couldn’t even tear a piece of skin.

The Bloodsucker Monster’s form twisted further and became sharper and more aggressive.

Whoosh!

The Bloodsucker Monster’s movements became so fast they left only blurry afterimages. Under the continuous attacks, the giant crouched and protected his vital spots. Seeing the defensive posture his opponent showed, the Bloodsucker Monster’s momentum rose even more as it attacked…

Crack!

The Bloodsucker Monster was crushed and sent flying. The giant who had been crouching cleverly swung his club and sent it flying.

-Uhaha!

-You fell for it, stupid fool! You fell for it!

-Surround it! Don’t let it escape!

‘Amazing!’

Lee Han honestly admired them.

The giants couldn’t keep up with the Bloodsucker Monster if they competed honestly with speed.

So they pretended to be scared to make the Bloodsucker Monster let its guard down and made its movements become simple.

-Going! 3 points!

-This time I’m going! This is 5 points!

-There’s no such thing as 5 points!

-There is when I hit it!!

The giants hit the Bloodsucker Monster with their clubs like hitting a ball and sent it to each other.

The Bloodsucker Monster couldn’t counterattack as it was busy regenerating from the massive impacts.

Meanwhile, Lee Han, who caught his breath, cast the necessary magic again and summoned the dark skeleton warriors.

“Sharkan. Go bring Gainando!”

Now that the Bloodsucker Monster was distracted was an opportunity. The green jade leopard quickly ran and climbed up the tree.

Then it bit Gainando’s coat and began to droop as if enchanted.

“…Sharkan!!”

Lee Han felt a great sense of betrayal toward his summoned creature.

It was even more so because the creature that usually didn’t act like this was doing so.

Sharkan heard his master’s cry and belatedly came to his senses. He hurriedly picked up Gainando and ran over here.

“I saw everything.”

-Grrowl…

Sharkan avoided his master’s gaze with intimidated eyes.

‘What on earth is this coat?’

Lee Han resolved to definitely take this coat to Professor Mortum for a detailed appraisal once the fight was over.

At this point, he was genuinely curious.

-■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■!

At that moment, the Bloodsucker Monster, realizing its coat had been taken, let out the most desperate and murderous cry it had shown today.

The regeneration power of the Bloodsucker Monster, which had gone berserk with rage, became several times faster. The Bloodsucker Monster, which finished regenerating while being hit and sent flying by the club, created wings and escaped into the air.

-Oh!

-That sheep-like cunning bastard used trickery!

-Come back!

“Please block the front. It will target the coat again!”

-The coat?

“It’s targeting this coat!”

The giants looked at Gainando’s coat in Lee Han’s hand.

And then they were disgusted.

-Ugh!

-It feels bad!

-Don’t hold such a thing! You’ll be cursed! Mage!

The giants snatched the coat from Lee Han’s hand. Then they tore it to shreds.

Lee Han thought the bloodsucker monster had let out the most desperate and vicious scream it could manage earlier.

But he was wrong.

Upon seeing its coat torn, the bloodsucker monster let out a scream loud enough to be heard in the most remote corners of Einroguard.

-Ugh, my ears!

-That bastard’s completely lost it!

The bloodsucker monster had never been sane to begin with, but by the giants’ standards, it hadn’t been at the level of insanity.

However, what the bloodsucker monster was showing now could truly be called madness.

Crack, crunch, snap!!!

It abandoned any semblance of a monster-like form and began expanding its bulk into an amorphous shape like a giant slime.

‘Is it consuming the accumulated blood in a rampage?’

Blood was originally a powerful reagent in magic. Not only did it possess mystical significance in itself, but it was also connected to the owner’s soul to some degree, making it inevitably powerful.

Naturally, blood-sucking monsters used this blood as their power source. The abnormal regenerative ability the bloodsucker monster displayed was possible because it used the accumulated blood.

But conversely, for blood-sucking monsters, blood was practically their life force.

Using it so thoughtlessly to inflate its bulk like this was absolutely not normal.

Complete rampage!

‘Does it make sense to go berserk like that over just one coat?’

Lee Han felt more bewildered than afraid.

The creature that had persistently endured fierce attacks from Death Knights and being knocked around like a ball by giants was now rampaging recklessly over a single torn coat?

Lee Han climbed onto the giant’s shoulder. The creature’s movements were ominous.

-It’s coming!

The bloodsucker monster swung its massive body that now surpassed the giant in size.

Lee Han, who had successfully foreseen this, shouted urgently.

“Two steps back!”

-Giants do not retreat!

“…Are you seriously saying that right now…?!”

The giant boldly raised its club, trying to block the attack.

Bang!

At that moment, the giant, unable to withstand the impact, was sent flying backward and crashed into a nearby building.

And Lee Han, who had been on the giant’s shoulder, was sent flying along with it.

* * *

For upperclassmen in the Healing Magic school, exams were always close to real combat.

-Today’s midterm is… wait a moment… hmm. There’s an epidemic in Dry Falls Village. We’re going to Dry Falls Village.

-Today’s final exam will be held in the Red Lake Desert. A knight order has been half-destroyed.

-Wait. Today’s midterm content has been added. The epidemic has spread to the neighboring village too. Finish quickly and move there.

…As such, with teaching materials suitable for exams scattered more outside the school than inside, the Healing Magic school’s exams were inevitably close to real combat.

But even among such students, one thread-like thought had been consistently passed down.

What if…

What if someday, if nothing particular happened in the surrounding area…

Wouldn’t the healing magic exam just be skipped?

“…Everyone stay calm.”

“We, we are staying calm.”

“The professor really isn’t saying anything right now, right?”

“It seems that way… but shh! Don’t be conscious of it. Bad luck might come.”

Professor Alcasis glanced at his pocket watch once and checked the parchment artifact.

From his appearance, the students could sense that no contact had come yet.

Please!

Please! Please!

As if the students’ earnest wishes had been heard, Professor Alcasis closed the cover of his pocket watch.

Then, in a voice half-hoarse from fatigue, he spoke to the students.

“Today’s exam will be a simple oral test…”

“Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

The students unconsciously stomped their feet and clapped.

“Don’t shout. It’s making my head ring.”

“We’re sorry.”

“Don’t waste energy unnecessarily. Don’t forget the saying that a noisy healing mage meets a rough end.”

“Yes…”

The slightly intimidated healing magic student answered as such.

But inwardly, some dissatisfaction remained.

Just because they were learning healing magic, weren’t they even allowed to be happy like this?

How often does something like this happ…

Bang!

Suddenly the lecture hall wall collapsed and the giant’s upper body came sliding inside.

The students were startled and backed away.

-Ugh. The sky is spinning!

“A, a giant attack!?”

Meanwhile, the student who had been on the giant’s shoulder jumped down and landed.

Then, spotting Professor Alcasis, he shouted.

“Professor. I’m sorry. Right now some crazy monster is attacking us!”

“That seems too severe for a final exam.”

“This isn’t a final exam!”

Lee Han slapped the giant’s cheek and shouted.

“Get up! You have to get up!”

-I’m too dizzy to get up…

Professor Alcasis looked at the giant once, then at Lee Han once, and finally looked at Lee Han’s upperclassmen once more.

At that gaze, the healing magic students suddenly felt ominous.

“Has anyone here treated a giant before?”

“…”

“…”

“I guess not. This is a good opportunity. Everyone grab your staffs and come this way.”

The students approached the giant with sad faces.

Of course, the upperclassmen were invisible to Lee Han’s eyes.

“This kind of symptom is usually a problem with the brain and equilibrium organs. Normally we’d need to cast magic to confirm, but giants have strong magic resistance. So what should we do?”

Lee Han never imagined that Professor Alcasis was asking him.

He just thought other upperclassmen must be nearby and stood there quietly.

“…Do I need to ask twice?”

“Ah. Were you calling me?”

“Yes. There’s no one else around besides you.”

“Hmm. If it were me, I would cast the magic more strongly.”

“…”

“…”

The upperclassmen stared at Lee Han as if bewildered.

Professor Alcasis was not someone who enjoyed jokes. Giving such a careless answer could result in being thrown out the window immediately.

However, the dark elf professor only sighed once.

“I chose the wrong person to question.”

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