Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 597

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Chapter 597

Come to think of it, for a student like Wardanaz, it would seem natural to cast magic more strongly if the magic didn’t work.

“Artifact.”

“Here it is.”

One of the upperclassmen quickly took out an artifact and handed it to Professor Alcasis. It was an artifact that looked like an iron rod.

The professor skillfully shoved the artifact like a hook into the giant’s nostril.

“When healing someone with strong magic resistance, you need to be able to directly hammer magic into their body like this.”

-Urgh, nose, nose hurts.

“Bear with it. It’s part of the healing process.”

-Mage. This mage is scary.

The giant looked at Lee Han with a tearful expression, but Professor Alcasis was just as scary to Lee Han. There wasn’t much he could do about it.

“Then check the condition and… it’s a concussion. Fil. What’s the recipe for concussion potion?”

“Th-three camellia herbs and one birthwort vine, cast a compression spell and boil for thirty minutes. Then when the color turns black…”

Professor Alcasis extended his hand.

At that gesture, Fil felt his heart sink, wondering if he had made a mistake.

“Write it down on paper so your junior can see too. Fil. Do I still have to tell you everything one by one?”

‘But the junior is a first-year…’

Fil felt a bit wronged.

No one would have expected that he’d need to teach a first-year junior how to make concussion potions.

In fact, other people were murmuring too.

“Why teach a first-year student how to make concussion potions…?”

“Ah. Is that him by any chance? That Wardanaz?”

“I thought he was an imaginary junior that Fil and Chil created because they were suffering too much.”

Ignoring the students’ chatter, Professor Alcasis poured the potion into the giant’s mouth.

The giant, who had been blinking only his eyes due to nose pain, was startled and shouted.

-I’m healed! Not dizzy anymore!

“Good. Now. As you just saw, giants are…”

Bang!

Before he could finish speaking, another giant broke through the just-restored lecture hall wall and entered.

Professor Alcasis looked at this and said cynically.

“It would be better to go outside. Everyone go outside.”

“Just how many giants are there?”

“There can’t be more, right?”

The healing magic students moved their steps anxiously.

They no longer hoped to finish the final exam easily, so they just wished it would end at a reasonable level.

* * *

Outside, a battle that felt like the end of the world was taking place.

An uncompromising close combat between giants and the bloodsucker monster.

The warriors with massive builds poured attacks on each other without giving an inch.

-Kraaaah!

-Uoooooah!

The giants swung their clubs while letting out their characteristic battle cries. Each hit sent the bloodsucker monster’s body flying back and bursting.

However, the bloodsucker monster was no pushover either. Even while being thoroughly beaten, it conserved strength to somehow return one blow at a time to the giants.

The giants didn’t defend at all. Especially since they had never been hit by something larger than themselves, the bloodsucker monster’s attacks gave the giants an even deeper shock.

-My pride is hurt!!

-Uuuh! Uuuh!!

The giants staggered and clutched their noses with blood streaming down.

That’s when Lee Han came running with the recovered giants.

“Those who are injured, please fall back!”

-I, I’m not injured though?

“Stop talking nonsense and fall back!”

Professor Alcasis shouted menacingly with an irritated voice.

One of the types this dark elf professor hated most was patients who stubbornly insisted they weren’t injured when they were.

-I’m really not injur… Aaaaah!

Suddenly, as if someone had grabbed the giant’s ankle, the giant fell forward and was dragged right in front of the professor.

“Take care of him.”

“Yes!”

The healing magic students, who knew well that the professor’s mood rapidly worsened as patients increased, moved quickly instead of chattering unnecessarily.

“Now. Giant sir. Please trust us.”

-Uh. I don’t trust you! All mages are evil! Mage! Mage! Hold my hand!

“…”

“…”

Lee Han was truly grateful that the upperclassmen couldn’t see him right now.

‘This is damn embarrassing.’

“…I’m here.”

-Uuh. Thank goodness.

Fil hurriedly tried to explain, worried that other friends might misunderstand his junior.

“My junior has good social skills.”

“B-but no matter how good his social skills are, how can he be this close with giants…?”

Even the healing magic school students, who had seen many strange things while attending Einroguard, had never seen someone befriend giants.

“Why not! Your way of thinking is narrow. That… that… that… Ilendil! A guy like Ilendil also has good social skills and has many friends in the forest!”

“But even that Ilendil doesn’t have giant friends, does he?”

It was Professor Alcasis who saved Fil from being cornered.

A sharp surgical dagger flew and stuck in front of the chattering students.

“Do you have time to waste?”

“N-no sir!”

At the professor’s words filled with killing intent, the students quickly began healing the giant.

Lee Han also diligently healed the giant’s stab wounds.

“??”

The upperclassmen looked at Lee Han in confusion, but their gazes weren’t conveyed since they couldn’t see him.

‘Why is he doing this?’

‘W-well…’

The upperclassmen were working because their final exam had been replaced with giant healing, but they couldn’t quite understand why this first-year junior was doing this when he should be running far away.

He was even good at healing magic. Seeing him successfully cast healing magic on giants without any additional preparation, they could feel that what Fil and Chil had said wasn’t a lie.

“Is this his final exam too?”

“No matter how crazy Professor Lagrindes is, surely he wouldn’t make giant healing a first-year final exam… hmm… or would he?”

-What on earth is happening!

The Death Knights who arrived late were shocked to see the transformed appearance of the bloodsucker monster.

It was rare to see a monster rampage to this extent.

For a monster that usually acted cunningly according to instinct to rampage like this?

“Well… it’s a long story.”

-I’ll hear it later. First, stop that thing!

The Death Knights made the students fall back and then began throwing spears.

Each time a spear imbued with strong negative energy pierced it, the bloodsucker monster let out painful screams and stopped moving, flinching.

-Giants! Fall back!

-No! It’s our prey!

The Death Knights weren’t angry at all at the giants’ resistance.

Like a seasoned and experienced knight, he shouted again.

-Giants! We need your help! Please advance backward!

The giants were fooled by the Death Knights’ words and advanced backward. Lee Han was impressed.

‘They’re one step ahead of me!’

As expected of those who had lived as knights for a long time, they were extraordinarily clever.

To think they could deceive the giants like that.

-Looks like it collected quite a lot of blood. That’s no ordinary stamina.

-This is going to take quite a while.

The Death Knights clicked their tongues as they watched the slowed-down bloodsucker monster.

Since its basic vitality was so tenacious, it would take considerable time to whittle it all down even with attacks from the outside.

“Is it that powerful?”

-Actually, now that it’s gone berserk like that, subjugating it isn’t really that difficult. We just need to immobilize it and leave it be.

The weakness of monsters that went berserk like this was themselves.

From the moment it inflated its body like that, it was continuously consuming energy, so if left alone, it would self-destruct.

-So we just attack it enough to keep it from moving and wait.

-Would Wardanaz like to try once? Fighting such monsters would be good experience.

‘I’ve already fought plenty of them.’

Lee Han wanted to pass, but when the Death Knights looked at him with such expectant eyes, it became difficult to refuse.

It was like the look of a grandfather waiting expectantly for his grandson’s antics.

“Hmm. Should I try attacking with lightning magic?”

-That’s not bad either. But since you have an interesting artifact, how about utilizing that? The Space Teleportation Stone, I mean.

-That sounds like a good idea.

“…?”

Lee Han was confused by the Death Knights’ reaction.

“I don’t have anything like a Space Teleportation Stone though?”

-Hmm?

-Erm. That. The one embedded at the tip of your staff.

Lee Han looked at his staff.

A wood spirit dwelled in it, strengthening the framework, a blue gemstone given by the Ice Giant King was embedded at the tip, and beside it was…

“!?!”

Lee Han was so startled by the stone he’d never seen before that he almost dropped his staff.

“What is this?!”

-…Uh, I don’t think you should be asking us that.

-If you don’t know…

While the Death Knights were bewildered, Lee Han quickly retraced his memories.

Only then did something come to mind.

‘That’s it!’

It was definitely from when he drank the water from the Spring of Prophecy and was forcibly awakened, becoming bound to the future.

He had defeated a mage statue that used space magic and received a stone from the statue…

It was certainly in Lee Han’s memory, but until just now when he retraced it, he hadn’t been able to recall it at all, as if he had forgotten it.

‘Perfectly foreseeing the future is dangerous too.’

“I’m sorry. I remembered. It was the Space Teleportation Stone.”

At Lee Han’s answer, the Death Knights sent him pitying looks.

-Does the Master work you too hard?

-Even so, forgetting the gem embedded in your own staff is a bit much.

“No, this has nothing to do with the Principal particularl…”

-Now. Give it a try. Against tough and sturdy monsters like that, space magic often becomes a trump card.

The Death Knights, rich in combat experience, shared their experiences of working with mages who could use space magic during their lifetimes.

Mages who could use space magic were rare and had many restrictions, but when used appropriately, their power was very strong.

-Don’t think of it as just the weight of a small pebble. Even if you can only teleport one small pebble, the applications are endless. Try moving this deep inside.

A Death Knight pulled out a poison bottle that had been hidden among his ribs and offered it to Lee Han.

The Space Teleportation Stone embedded in Lee Han’s staff could only move about the weight of a small pebble, but magic could always be applied in various ways.

“Understood. …Disappear!”

Lee Han nodded and concentrated on the stone as he chanted the spell.

At that moment, along with massive mana evaporating, the stone completed the space teleportation magic. The poison bottle was moved deep inside the bloodsucker monster’s body.

-But doesn’t space teleportation magic consume too much mana? Even borrowing the power of an artifact, wouldn’t it be dangerous…

When a relatively young Death Knight spoke cautiously, the other Death Knights laughed heartily and replied.

-That much is no problem for Wardanaz. He’s actually fine, isn’t he.

-He cast it so boldly because he was confident in himself.

“…I didn’t know that though.”

Lee Han looked serious.

Shouldn’t they tell him about things like this before using them?

Since they were Death Knights and not Death Wizards, they seemed to lack safety knowledge about magic.

-…Really?

-Well… hmm… true… you’re still a 1st year…

-Ah. Look there, the monster is suffering! The poison seems very effective!

The Death Knights pointed ahead and changed the subject. Lee Han glared at the backs of the skeletons’ heads as he moved.

-■■■■■!

Whatever poison they had fed it, the bloodsucker monster’s form collapsed like a mud pile after a flood, scattering sideways.

Seeing this, the Death Knights screamed.

-No!

-Die quietly, you monster! Leave the gate vicinity alone!

Anywhere else was fine, but Einroguard’s main gate was a place where outside guests also came and went, so it had to be repaired immediately if destroyed.

They had worked so hard to pave the roads and decorate the statues beautifully!

But despite such screams, the bloodsucker monster thrashed about and swept away all the sculpture decoration parks beside the main gate. The Death Knights burst into tears, filled with grief.

“Um, Death Knights?”

-Sob sob… Why are you calling us, Wardanaz?

“By any chance, were there any living people among the statues?”

-What kind of nonsense is that? That would be terrible. …Don’t tell me any of you turned living people into statues?

-N-no! Probably not!

-I probably didn’t. Maybe!

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