Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 734

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Chapter 734

Unlike when drawing from the surrounding space, mana filled instantly.

Diret, who was about to curse, had to admit that her junior’s judgment was appropriate.

If they had proceeded with Diret’s original plan, they wouldn’t have secured enough mana in time.

The black rippling sphere that Diret had taken out from within her body was a kind of pseudo-relic created by infusing fragments of her own soul.

A masterpiece of dark magic inspired by how liches try to deceive the laws of the world by storing their souls in phylacteries.

Diret used this essence, compressed with tremendous mana and secrets, by connecting it to a miniature world.

She had engraved the true name of Pentagramaton Miniature World so it could be activated immediately if necessary.

But powerful magic always comes with powerful penalties.

Even though she thought it was complete, this pseudo-relic was becoming unstable the moment it was brought outside, violently rejecting the external world.

It was only because they hastily filled it with mana that it didn’t collapse much faster.

“Junior. Don’t fall behind. I’m activating it!”

Diret’s incantation began changing into an incomprehensible language at some point.

It was an incantation to summon a world separate from the external world.

Instantly, all surrounding mana was temporarily absorbed into Diret’s sphere, creating a temporary mana vacuum around them.

Then waves of negative energy and darkness elements burst out violently. Due to the mana absorption, the summoned golems and bone barriers were immediately nullified.

But Diret didn’t care at all. With eyes blazing with black flames, she shouted.

“Curse!”

At that moment, the massive black sticky mass flinched.

It was a sight that didn’t match the ferocity that had charged forward undaunted by any fierce attack until now.

Bang!

A third of the massive mass was blown away. Lee Han looked at the Crow Beastkin Senior with eyes mixed with awe.

The curse she had just unleashed wasn’t just any curse. It was so many curses woven together and fired that even Lee Han’s senses couldn’t comprehend it.

It was truly a vicious curse among curses.

The massive mass, having suffered a fatal wound, writhed trying to recover. However, Diret didn’t give it that chance. The black sphere blazed up and Diret’s pupils flashed likewise.

Whoooosh!

The massive mass began to spontaneously combust.

The curse it had just received wasn’t finished with just having its body blown away. Rather, it was just the beginning.

In the blink of an eye, the enemy with a mountain-like bulk was struck by a curse to its essence and writhed as it shrank.

It burned and burned until it finally disappeared as dust in the air, then the monstrous beast carrying the two cawed out.

-I don’t know what archmage it was, but how vicious! To leave behind such mana!

“What do you mean by that?”

-That wasn’t a natural phenomenon! It’s magic someone left behind!

“…!”

Mages didn’t believe in coincidences easily. Especially someone like Lee Han who had dealt with several evil mages was even more so.

There was only one reason such a phenomenon would occur in a place where the Skeleton Principal’s Insane Doppelganger and a mage criminal had been.

‘As expected, it was the Insane Doppelganger!’

Lee Han gritted his teeth. Even the Skeleton Principal’s doppelganger was truly a nuisance.

“Senior. It seems to be because of the Principal’s doppelganger. Let’s go back and confront him right away!”

“Yeah…”

Diret coughed with a pale face. Lee Han was startled and shouted.

“What’s wrong?!”

-Diret! You brought out an incomplete miniature world! Stupid Diret!

“Shut up…”

From the monstrous beast’s cry, Lee Han realized why Diret was acting like this now.

Whatever that black sphere was, it had definitely become unstable because she brought out something still incomplete. Right now Diret was doing this to stabilize it.

“Junior…”

“Yes. What should I do?”

“I told you to shut up, not you but that thing…”

“…”

Lee Han realized Diret’s condition wasn’t good and asked the monstrous beast.

“Can’t this be stabilized by injecting mana like before?”

-Stupid mage! This isn’t something that can be solved with mana!

‘Damn.’

Lee Han clicked his tongue at the monstrous beast’s scolding.

Unlike during the preparation process earlier, stabilization apparently couldn’t be solved with mana.

-To stabilize it with mana, even if that stupid mage died several times it wouldn’t be enough!

“I see.”

Lee Han ignored it and grabbed the sphere again to stabilize it.

-?!

* * *

Diret, having barely recovered, spoke with a very troubled expression.

“Thanks. Junior. Originally I should scold you for arbitrarily trying to help with someone else’s magic…”

“I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine. It’s not something I should say after receiving help. Ugh. My dignity as a senior is in shambles.”

“What are you talking about. You caught it almost single-handedly.”

-Stupid Diret! Stupid Diret!

“Shut up.”

Diret firmly grabbed the monstrous beast’s beak.

“I thought it was complete enough to bring out and use, but it was more unstable than I thought. If you hadn’t helped, junior, it would have been much more dangerous.”

“What exactly was that thing?”

“Probably some kind of evil thought-form left by a mage. Something that gathers the elements in the Darkness Forest to make them attack…”

“I was asking about the magic you used, Senior.”

“…”

Diret glanced at her junior and answered.

“A pseudo-relic. One of my research projects. It’s about surpassing limits without becoming a lich… but miniature worlds and such take too long to prepare.”

Hearing the detailed explanation, Lee Han was impressed inwardly.

Wasn’t this essentially artificially creating another source of a mage’s power to use?

As expected of a 5th year student, she was conducting research overflowing with madness. Everyone hadn’t advanced to 5th year for nothing.

“But Senior. Has the instability problem from earlier been resolved?”

At the question, Diret’s expression darkened.

The instability problem had worsened because she brought it out in an incomplete state.

She had temporarily stabilized it by over-injecting mana, but this was merely first aid at best.

There would be many problems until she completed it again.

“It’s resolved.”

“…Is it really resolved?”

Lee Han looked at his senior’s expression and whispered to the monstrous beast. The monstrous beast, which had been quietly released, also whispered.

-It’s not resolved! It’ll take at least a year to complete it again!

“When I injected mana earlier it stabilized, but did that have no meaning?”

-It’ll become unstable again as time passes! Because mana gets consumed!

Diret lifted her staff with an expressionless face and tapped the monstrous beast. Then it was immediately reverse-summoned.

“That thing talks too much.”

“Senior. It seems like it would work if we periodically inject mana. I’ll do it.”

“It’s fine. You don’t need to do it.”

“Do you have another method?”

“I do.”

“What is it?”

“That… there’s Archmage Retibellkyu’s secret technique that you can use.”

“…You’re not trying to deceive me by reversing Senior Yukveltire’s name and casually adding ‘Archmage’ in front, are you?”

Diret clicked his tongue openly.

As expected of the year’s top student, he was difficult to fool.

“You’re quick to catch on.”

“Infusing mana isn’t that difficult. You just saw it yourself. And if I don’t consume mana regularly, all the meridians in my body will burst and I’ll die.”

“What?!?! Really?!?!?”

“It’s a lie, but if it makes you feel better to think it’s true, then let’s say it’s real.”

“…”

Diret glared fiercely at his junior. Lee Han felt sorry and made an excuse.

“I didn’t think you’d actually believe such a thing.”

“How could I not believe it when you said it so seriously!”

Diret, who had gotten angry, sighed and said.

“Fine. I’ll be honest. It would be a great help if you did that. It would, but…”

“But?”

“Then you’d have to come to the workshop regularly to help. You’d practically be helping with my research.”

“Is that a problem?”

“…Did you forget that Yukveltire tried to kidnap you?”

“Ah.”

Lee Han finally realized what his senior was trying to say.

With several students trying to take Lee Han away and make him participate in their research (forcibly), Lee Han’s participation in Diret’s research could serve as a kind of signal.

-No! That junior really wanted to participate in research after all!

-Of course. There’s no way someone who takes all schools wouldn’t be interested in research!

At Diret’s explanation, Lee Han smiled and said.

“Senior. You don’t need to worry about that.”

“Why? I think I should be worried.”

“Because we can keep it secret!”

“…”

Diret narrowed his eyes and looked at his junior.

Somehow, he could guess why this junior ended up taking all schools.

* * *

-Master. The Wardanaz boy…

Did he finally make contact with a first-year? Go capture him!

-Excuse me? What do you mean by that?

I told you to monitor him making contact with first-years, didn’t I?

-Ah. You mean that!

…

At the Death Knight’s reaction that clearly showed he had forgotten, the Skeleton Principal flickered his eye lights in displeasure.

How dare you forget my orders!

-I’m sorry, Master. I didn’t forget. But if I may speak frankly…

Don’t speak frankly.

-With so many other important orders, we can’t help but pay less attention to relatively less important ones.

In fact, among the Death Knights, few were monitoring Lee Han’s contact with first-year students.

If anything, they’d rather say ‘A first-year is coming this way.’

At the Death Knights’ rebellion, the Skeleton Principal grumbled about them being ungrateful, forgetting favors, and being the type to stab their master in the back.

The Death Knight, who listened to all the grumbling with knightly patience, could finally speak.

-The Wardanaz boy is requesting an audience.

Is that so? Tell him to come in.

-What could it be about?

Probably a magic question.

-But it’s not even the weekend?

In fact, most students didn’t come to ask about magic even on weekends.

That’s just how he is.

-True. I’ll tell him to come in.

The Skeleton Principal looked back at the magazine he was holding with satisfaction.

And as soon as Lee Han entered, he bragged.

Look at this!

“??”

…One day, when a master had too much to teach his disciple, he said this.

-Since I need to teach you quickly, four in the morning and three in the evening…

Ha! I thought it was quite a masterpiece, and sure enough, it got published! It’s all thanks to you!

“…”

Lee Han was dumbfounded but endured it. His opponent was a tyrant with a staff.

So what magic did you come to ask about? Word magic? Miniature world? 6th circle? Ask someone else about 6th circle.

“It’s none of those.”

I trust it’s not some trash magic.

When he said it wasn’t any of the three, the Skeleton Principal’s eyes immediately became indifferent.

“Principal.”

When you speak with such a serious expression, you usually said something ridiculous…

“Your clone and a mage criminal have entered the Einroguard estate!”

How do you know that?

“!”

When the Skeleton Principal asked back calmly without being surprised, Lee Han was shocked.

He immediately shouted to the Death Knights.

“Everyone! The Principal has finally gone mad! Someone please send a petition to His Imperial Majesty!”

Lee Han quickly tried to rush out the window.

The Skeleton Principal shook his head and twisted the space in the room to change Lee Han’s direction.

But Lee Han had anticipated this too. The moment the space twisted, he immediately exploded mana from his toes and jumped backward.

Hey!

The Skeleton Principal was so dumbfounded that he changed the window into a wall.

Having a disciple who was unnecessarily smart was a blessing as a teacher, but also an annoying drawback.

Jumping down is fine, but listen before you jump.

Lee Han hesitated. The Skeleton Principal said irritably.

Don’t pretend to stop while trying to break through the wall!

‘Tsk. He caught me.’

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