Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 698

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Chapter 698

“Ah, no. Why is this here?”

-It’s here because the student put it there, isn’t it.

The Death Knights looked at Deumcha with stern eyes.

Usually, students who ended up going to the punishment room would come up with various excuses.

Starting from sleepwalking to multiple personalities, aftereffects from prophetic magic, and so on.

Of course, most excuses would disappear without any particular effect.

“This doesn’t seem to be my luggage! I definitely gave it to my junior…”

-So you’re saying you put this in your junior’s luggage?

The Death Knights’ eyes became even colder.

The Death Knights conducting inspections here knew well that Einroguard’s students would stop at nothing to succeed in smuggling.

Among those methods was deceiving innocent juniors and using them as bait.

-Hmph, looks like your plan went awry!

-We’ll punish you for the crime of insulting our master, attempting smuggling, and deceiving your junior!

“Damn, smuggling and deceiving juniors aside, why is revealing the truth a crime!”

Deumcha, thinking this was wrong, quickly threw his backpack and swung his staff to cast magic.

Magic spread out with an explosive sound near the checkpoint.

-It’s an escape attempt!

“It’s an escape attempt!”

Death Knights swarmed in and tightened their formation. Students took advantage of the commotion to escape, creating smoke and shooting up illusions.

“Lee Han, are you okay?”

“I’m fine. I’m fine. I got out.”

Lee Han waved to his friends after safely escaping.

What Lee Han had just done was very simple. It was embarrassingly simple to even call it a trick.

He had dispelled the magic on the box in his luggage and put a bone-catching parrot with new magic cast on it into the seniors’ luggage.

The seniors, who never imagined that their junior already knew all their plans, panicked at the sudden appearance of the bone-catching parrot’s cries and couldn’t respond properly.

“The commotion is more intense than I thought, but is it really okay?”

“I think they’ll be subdued soon.”

Lee Han coldly assessed the fight near the checkpoint.

Deumcha’s gang was fighting valiantly, but there were limits since they hadn’t anticipated combat.

They laid down burning barriers, spread magic circles around to boost flame power, and finally tried to summon spirits for coordinated attacks to reverse-summon the Death Knights, but their opponents weren’t easy.

The Death Knights cut off the next linked magic the moment the burning barriers went up, and launched strikes filled with negative energy to cancel the barrier summoning.

At the same time, they borrowed their master’s power to spread dark fog in all directions. The mages who inhaled the elements filled with dark energy shuddered at the sensation of their life force being sealed and lost control of their magic.

Deumcha’s gang was making their last stand, spitting out all the magic they had prepared while maintaining formation, but the Death Knights held firm with shield walls and lower undead summoning.

They would probably be subdued once that magic ended.

‘Their attacks are too straightforward. To think they’d try to have a power struggle with all those Death Knights.’

While Lee Han was conducting an unsolicited battle analysis, another gang of seniors appeared.

This time it was Ivanna’s gang.

A radical gang that tried to move things using physical enhancement magic and racial transformation magic together!

“Junior, where are you?”

“Senior Ivanna. I’m here.”

“Now’s our chance. Let’s go!”

The new seniors had no intention of helping Deumcha while he was being attacked.

Instead, they tried to pass through the checkpoint taking advantage of that confusion.

“Here. Drink this potion! This potion will block the inspection!”

“Yes. I understand.”

The seniors who were trying to deceive Lee Han by making him drink a potion to transform into a giant hesitated.

The transformation was taking longer than expected.

“Aren’t you going?”

“Wait, wait.”

“Just wait a bit. The medicine needs to take effect.”

Ivanna’s gang didn’t know what happens when a mage has an absurd amount of mana.

They instinctively block external interference that threatens them.

“Didn’t you give me the wrong one? Try drinking it once.”

Lee Han took another gulp and then handed it to the seniors.

The senior, wondering if the potion was really wrong since the junior was so fine, tried to take just a small sip to taste it.

“Keu… Kuaaaak!”

In an instant, the senior’s build grew larger and began transforming into a giant race.

The Death Knights who saw this cried out in disgusted voices.

-Did you think you could pass by transforming into a giant and charging through!

-Bring out the bone ballista! These disgusting student brats!

“Now that it’s come to this, there’s no choice. Charge into the checkpoint!”

“We’d like to pass inspection! We’re not hiding any items!”

-What nonsense! If you’re really innocent, stop and wait!

“We’re waiting! If you can’t inspect us right now, we’re going in!”

“Push through!”

Before Deumcha’s gang’s commotion even ended, Ivanna’s gang also started causing a disturbance.

Other smugglers who saw this also thought it was an opportunity and rushed toward the checkpoint.

“Now’s the time!”

“We’re passing through! Please inspect us! Ah, you say it’s fine not to? Understood. We’re passing through!”

-Crazy student brats!

-■ ■■■■ ■■■!

-Don’t curse too much, elder!

The Death Knights began gathering at the checkpoint, spitting out curses as if they had expected this.

Among the remaining seniors, those who somehow wanted to bring more bait desperately tried to entice juniors.

“Junior, drink this potion!”

“By any chance, isn’t this a mix of berserker potion and blade bear transformation potion?”

“…How did you know? Did Erde betray us?! I thought he got caught by the Principal!”

“He did get caught by the Principal.”

“Shut up and just drink it! Originally, when you’re a junior, you should try transforming into a crazy blade bear!”

“Isn’t bullying juniors grounds for the punishment room?”

“By that logic, the Principal should go to the punishment room first! If you don’t want to drink it, we’ll make you drink it!”

Erde’s remaining friends quickly swung their staffs to extract the potion from inside the glass bottle.

Then they made the contents into bat form and made them fly in quickly.

“Be resummoned as a bat, liquid!”

“Cold air, float as a shield!”

Lee Han immediately summoned an ice shield to cover the front. The seniors who were trying to control the potion bat to attack were a beat late due to the quick response, and their attack was blocked.

Having bought time, Lee Han analyzed the opponent’s magic in reverse.

‘Is it similar to paper bird summoning magic?’

Fortunately, it was magic that Lee Han had learned in his first year.

Summoning from nothing was complex enough to require the help of magic circles or separate reagents, but now the opponent had completed it first and summoned it.

Lee Han just needed to steal that control.

‘There will definitely be an opening!’

“Break the shield first!”

“It’s tougher than expected, this guy. Seems like he specializes in cold air elements!”

The sound of magic exploding and bouncing off the cold air shield could be heard.

‘It should hold for about 5 more seconds.’

Lee Han checked the remaining strength and concentrated his mana sense.

Suddenly, the nearby mana flow changed. The opponent was trying to cast resummoning again.

“The potion slowed down! I need to summon again.”

“Got it. I’ll cover you!”

“Re-summon as a bat… Gah?!”

Lee Han swung his staff as if he had been waiting for this moment, casting counter-magic.

It was an acrobatic feat made possible because he had learned similar magic to his opponent’s and had completely analyzed its structure.

The senior never expected a 2nd year junior to display such advanced magical techniques as counter-magic, so he was completely caught off guard. As a result, he lost complete control over the bat.

“Be newly summoned, liquid!”

Lee Han seized control of the potion along with his incantation. The potion transformed into the shape of a bird and flew at him like an arrow.

“What are you doing!? How could you let him steal that!”

“Be paralyzed!”

“A mere low-grade paralysis curse won’t… Argh!”

The senior who still hadn’t come to his senses after being hit by counter-magic paid the price dearly.

He had tried to endure the low-grade paralysis curse relying only on the magical defense of his equipment, but the curse Lee Han shot had different penetrating power.

The potion went straight down the throat of the senior whose body was momentarily paralyzed.

Gulp!

“No! He’s transforming into a blade bear!”

“…Since it’s come to this, lead him to the checkpoint! Damn it. Junior. I’ll remember you! What’s your name!”

“Bibble Verdus!”

“You crazy bastard… Fine! Run to the checkpoint!”

Erde’s remaining gang gave up and retreated when one of their friends transformed into a blade bear, as if they couldn’t waste any more time.

Lee Han, having achieved victory, looked at the 2nd year friends and said.

“You all saw it, right? What kind of schemes the seniors have! Do you still want to do smuggling with them after seeing this?”

Lee Han’s defeat of the seniors’ proposals one by one was partly revenge for their deception, but also for the sake of his fellow 2nd year students.

If he didn’t show them directly, there were too many students who wouldn’t believe it because they were blinded by greed!

“Oh, my…!”

When the White Tiger Tower students muttered with shocked faces, Lee Han nodded satisfactorily.

“What did I tell you? So…”

“Wardanaz can beat seniors even in a 3-on-1 fight!”

“…”

Lee Han was dumbfounded.

He had pointed at the moon for them to look, but these pathetic fools were looking at his finger!

“Is that what you should be saying right now? You guys who were so obviously about to be fooled?”

“W-well, honestly we should prepare ourselves too…”

The White Tiger Tower students were too honest.

Regardless of receiving help from Wardanaz, Wardanaz was someone who would mercilessly cast magic to attack White Tiger Tower students when angered.

It was an inevitable reaction since White Tiger Tower students had been attacked the most by tower.

Even the Black Turtle Tower students nodded as if they could somewhat relate.

‘Hmm. Certainly. Even if you become friends with a dragon, it’s not bad to prepare for when the dragon might bite you…’

If Lee Han heard this, he would have thought about overturning the cooking cauldron.

“I-it’s not that we don’t trust you, Wardanaz.”

“Right. Just like how we respect the Principal but fear him, we trust you Wardanaz but are just being a little cautious…”

“I don’t care about other things, but stop comparing Lee Han to the Principal!”

Durgyu, unable to watch anymore, stopped his friends.

Since getting angrier would only deepen the wounds, Lee Han called Giselle.

“…Moradi. You explain the rest. If I explain more to these guys, I’ll grab the back of my neck.”

‘Why is this bastard calling me…’

Giselle made a displeased expression.

Anyone watching would think they were close!

“Why are you doing this to me?”

“…You helped me with work when we went to the territory last time. Help me out a bit.”

“Huh?”

“What did you say?”

Students like Angrago and Dukema doubted their ears for a moment.

Who went where and helped with what?

At that reaction, Giselle gritted her teeth and quickly stood up from her seat.

“Everyone, don’t trust the seniors!”

“Moradi, just now…”

“Regardless of the grudges Wardanaz has built up normally, the seniors can’t be trusted! You all saw how they acted just now!”

To change the subject, Giselle quickly shouted while reciting a hundred curses about Lee Han in her mind.

“This is what happens when you get fooled!”

“I-I see.”

“Certainly.”

When the seniors who had attempted smuggling simultaneously caused disturbances at the checkpoint, the commotion was extraordinarily fierce.

The 2nd year students breathed a sigh of relief at the fact that they could have easily been one of them.

Lee Han, who was watching that scene together, suddenly became curious and asked.

“Moradi. Didn’t you participate in smuggling?”

“I heard the truth from a senior in my family. That’s why I wasn’t interested.”

“…Wait, you heard about it but didn’t participate?”

“Isn’t that normal?”

Giselle looked at Lee Han as if it was strange.

If you heard the truth about smuggling, you could understand how disadvantageous it was for students who had just advanced to 2nd year.

A wise person would naturally give up and step back this year, and Giselle naturally expected Lee Han had done the same.

“…I-I see. I didn’t do it either.”

“I thought so.”

“Right. I didn’t do it.”

“Why are you saying it twice? I understood.”

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