Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 623

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Chapter 623

Crack!

“!”

With a thunderous roar, massive tentacle-like appendages began sprouting from the fallen cultist’s body.

The tentacles twisted together like a chimera, taking shape alongside sinister and evil magical power.

The fallen cultist had long since lost any human form.

“For… for… for… for Lord Prahgal…”

“It’s an evil god worshipper!”

Giselle cried out in horror.

Among the Empire’s countless enemies, these were the most sinister and twisted.

Evil god worshippers were those whose minds had been corrupted from worshipping bizarre evil deities.

Swoosh!

“Turn to steel, cloak!”

As a club-thick tentacle arm flew toward him, Lee Han chose to defend instead of dodging.

His friend was behind him.

Thud!

Even as his body was sent flying backward from the impact, Lee Han concentrated his mind.

“Power, surge forth!”

The incantation taught by Gonadaltes’ black book drew up tremendous strength.

Lee Han felt power capable of destroying anything settle into his arms as he gripped his cloak once more.

Thud!

This time his body didn’t go flying.

“Lightning, dwell within!”

Crackle!

Lightning began sparking across the cloak like electricity.

It was 【Lightning Cloak Enchantment】, the most difficult among 3rd circle lightning elemental enchantment magic.

Despite demonstrating the textbook approach of a battle mage by rapidly casting steel transformation, strength enhancement, and lightning enchantment, the cultist paid no heed.

It pressed forward regardless, accepting that its tentacle arms would necrotize.

“…Why won’t you dodge!”

Giselle dove into the cultist’s embrace with her twin swords, half a beat too late.

She had been startled and reacted slowly because Wardanaz was blocking instead of dodging.

And right now, there was only one reason Wardanaz wouldn’t dodge and would block instead.

‘Damn it!’

Giselle bit her lip and awakened her sword.

The famous blade forged by cutting floating ice from the northern regions in her family, emitted an eerie light with ice-colored gleams and ice flowers.

Receiving its master’s magical power, it began pouring forth the bitter cold of the north from its blade.

Sizzle!

“Well done, Moradi!”

Having bought time thanks to his friend, Lee Han quickly created distance and chanted his next spell.

The other combat enhancement spells had already been cast earlier.

“Mist, spread forth!”

As the surroundings suddenly became hazy, the cultist’s movements paused briefly. Lee Han advanced his skeleton warriors.

“Bind its feet! Bones, shoot forth!”

Taking bone fragments from his reagent pouch, Lee Han shot the bones like arrows.

The bones embedded in the cultist’s body, which had transformed like a tentacle chimera, but it didn’t budge.

‘How tough is this bastard?!’

It was a precious reagent with condensed dark elements, yet it was enduring that with just its bare body.

The enhanced skeleton warriors stabbed at the cultist while binding its feet.

The cultist, dulled by Moradi’s earlier attack, couldn’t deal with them immediately and creaked.

“Your arm?!”

“What arm?”

“I’m asking if your arm is okay!”

Lee Han was flustered when Giselle suddenly threw out a random question.

“It’s fine?”

“Good, that’s settled then!”

“What’s settled…”

“Just cast magic!”

“Do you know anything about Prahgal? What kind of guy is he?”

“I think my family subjugated him once or twice before, but I don’t really have any information either…!”

Lee Han pondered whether to choose lightning elemental magic, water orb bullets, or some other means of attack.

He couldn’t choose immediately due to the severe lack of information about his opponent.

‘Why is that evil god worshipper so powerful?’

The guy who hadn’t seemed very threatening when he first saw him was now displaying monstrous strength as he went berserk.

‘Is it because he’s gone mad?’

Even among priests, not many could use divine magic.

The Head of Wardanaz Family would simply explain this as ‘because there aren’t many people who are truly insane.’

Blind faith was the greatest condition for divine magic.

By that logic, it made sense that evil god worshippers were strong.

Being more deeply insane than anyone else, they could use stronger divine magic than anyone.

“There’s no choice. Moradi. Don’t get close. It might splash around.”

“What?”

“Blaze forth!”

Lee Han summoned flames in the air.

Given the opponent, it was slightly larger than the size he usually used with restraint.

‘It’s the cold north, so it should be fine. …Probably!’

“In the name of Afha!”

It didn’t end there.

Lee Han used the divine magic he had learned. The white flames of the Afha Order replaced the fire and began blazing fiercely.

The cultist, having dealt with the skeleton warriors and broken through the encirclement, showed a different reaction than before.

“Graaahhhhh!”

‘I chose correctly!’

Lee Han felt that his choice was right.

The creature was afraid of another order’s divine magic!

“Rise, skeletal warriors!”

Once again the skeleton warriors bound its feet while sparks of white flame flew out and exploded against the cultist.

“It’s working!”

Giselle lowered her aimed sword and shouted.

The creature that had endured any attack with solid defense was now screaming each time it was hit by flames.

“Pra, pra, pra… Prahgal…!”

“It’s charging!”

Lee Han nodded and gestured with his eyes.

The skeleton warriors blocked the front while the flame energy condensed and grew even stronger.

Whoosh!

The flying sparks combined to attack the cultist almost as if burning it alive.

The cultist’s screams struck their ears as if to tear them apart.

At that moment, the cultist squeezed out its last strength to transform its entire body into tentacle spears.

“!”

Lee Han, who predicted the trajectory of the incoming attack with divination magic, grabbed Giselle and threw his body to the side.

However, there was no need for that.

Jicklin, who had rushed from afar, swung her sword and split the cultist apart.

Slash!

“…!!”

Jicklin swung her sword to split the cultist in half, then swung again to split it into four pieces.

Even as the cultist writhed and tried to move, she continued slashing at it. The fragmented cultist could no longer endure and burst into flames.

‘What kind of power is…?!’

Lee Han doubted his eyes at the sight of the creature that had withstood various magic spells being cut down like butter.

“Sorry I’m late!”

“Ah… no, it’s fine.”

“Hey. Move.”

Giselle pushed Lee Han’s head aside and got up. Jicklin apologized to both of them again.

“I’m truly sorry. To put you two in danger while looking for prey.”

“…”

“…”

Lee Han and Giselle exchanged glances.

They absolutely couldn’t say that they had approached the criminal first to finish the hunt quickly.

“It’s fine.”

“This much is nothing…”

“No. This was definitely my mistake. Let’s end this hunt here.”

“!”

Lee Han and Giselle’s eyes widened slightly.

Oh…

‘Wait. Don’t get too happy.’

‘I know. You stay calm too.’

“It’s truly regrettable…”

“I’m sorry too, Wardanaz. But I can’t take guests along in such dangerous situations anymore.”

“Sob sob.”

“…Sob, sob sob.”

Giselle had no choice but to play along with her friend’s act.

But she couldn’t stop the self-loathing rising from deep in her heart.

“Please wait a moment.”

Jicklin stopped them and turned her head.

Then she swung her sword to extinguish the white flames that were spreading vigorously.

They had already burned all the surrounding trees and were spreading energetically to the surroundings.

Seeing this, Giselle asked as if she didn’t understand.

“Why did you spread the flame magic without controlling it like that?”

“…It’s a secret.”

Lee Han avoided answering.

* * *

“Prahgal? Acting up again.”

The Skeleton Principal, sitting in the Family Head’s office, sighed upon receiving the report.

These damn evil god worshippers appeared from somewhere like mold no matter how much you cleaned them up.

Perhaps it was because of this painful world.

The Skeleton Principal had abandoned his flesh and reached the realm of enlightenment, but he couldn’t expect such things from other mortals…

‘Truly lamentable!’

“Lord Gonadaltes.”

“Ah. Sorry. Continue speaking.”

“The family subjugated Prahgal cultists a few years ago too. I suspect there might be their temple somewhere in the north.”

The Family Head of the Moradi Family, despite being past middle age, still showed no change in appearance. Anyone would think he was of similar age to the Skeleton Principal.

Strong will appeared on the Family Head’s cold and sharp face.

“Another subjugation.”

“Wouldn’t that work.”

“We need the help of excellent mages.”

“Mmm…”

The Skeleton Principal openly showed his reluctance.

Finding hidden evil god worshippers in this vast Northern Empire was like finding a needle in a haystack.

Finding a needle in a haystack was easier with magic, but evil god worshippers really required grinding magic with determination.

“I’ll think about it.”

“Yes. I’ll be counting on you.”

The Family Head’s eyes as he said he was asking were not asking eyes at all.

He glared as if he would keep staring until his request was granted, as if he would devour him.

However, the Skeleton Principal didn’t care. Having lived for so long, he wouldn’t be shaken by pressure from such a young elf.

“By the way, who found the Prahgal cultist? It would be hard to distinguish cultists, yet they found one skillfully.”

“Lady Jicklin…”

“Ah.”

Both the Skeleton Principal and the Family Head made expressions of ‘that makes sense.’

A knight of Jicklin’s caliber could catch them by instinct.

“She went hunting with Lady Giselle and Lord Wardanaz, and they say those two found it.”

The Skeleton Principal and Family Head simultaneously lowered their heads. They were that shocked.

‘What is this guy doing?’

The Skeleton Principal was dumbfounded.

He told him to rest until the banquet, but in that time he couldn’t stand it and went outside to catch Prahgal cultists.

Was he crazy with ambition??

‘It’s not like he’s trying to make his name known throughout the entire Empire…’

When the Skeleton Principal looked at the Family Head, the Family Head also seemed quite flustered. His cold face was shaking.

That made sense.

Jicklin’s hunting wasn’t ordinary hunting.

To take an invited person, moreover someone from the great noble Wardanaz Family, on such dangerous hunting.

It was something the Family Head, who was an efficiency-ist and rationalist, could absolutely not tolerate.

But the Skeleton Principal knew the truth.

‘Surely the Wardanaz guy suggested going first!’

Though he hadn’t asked yet, the Skeleton Principal could bet even the gold coins he’d recently received that Lee Han had provided the responsibility.

“This is…”

“Ah. Ah. Don’t be too surprised. It’s because those two are close.”

“What?”

The Family Head looked at the Skeleton Principal with eyes that said ‘what nonsense are you talking about.’

No matter how he thought about it, it didn’t make sense.

“He’s an Einroguard student.”

“They’re from different towers.”

“Oh my! Are you saying you can’t build friendship because towers are different? How can you have such narrow-minded thoughts!”

“…”

The Family Head was dumbfounded that the person who divided the towers and made them fight each other was saying such things.

“Anyway, it’s because they’re close, so don’t be needlessly surprised. When you’re close, you can go hunting together and catch cultists too.”

“…?”

The servant listening from the side tilted his head.

Is that so?

“I understand.”

Though he still didn’t quite believe it, the Family Head nodded for now.

Come to think of it, there was no reason for the Skeleton Principal to lie about something like this.

And neither Jicklin nor Giselle were the type to take precious family guests to dangerous places without any reason.

‘…No. Jicklin might actually do that.’

“Lord Gonadaltes. I would like to meet the Wardanaz Family boy.”

“Uh. That doesn’t seem like a very good idea.”

The Skeleton Principal gave serious advice, thinking the Family Head’s blood pressure would rise.

At those words, the Family Head pondered again.

‘Is he trying to prevent friendship with the Wardanaz Family as someone who maintains the Empire’s balance?’

“Look, just let them meet.”

The Skeleton Principal said with disgust.

This was why he couldn’t stand young fools who thought too much.

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