Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 744
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Chapter 744
“Haha. Then I’ll draw first, senior!”
The music magic students lined up amicably and began drawing lots.
“Oh.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Lucky me? It’s a panflute piece. No lyrics either, so it should be pretty easy.”
The senior who drew a piece related to an instrument he was confident with lit up with joy.
The next senior also drew a trumpet piece he was interested in and looked satisfied.
‘Huh?’
Lee Han, who was watching, felt puzzled.
One person would be understandable, but it seemed strange that they kept drawing pieces that matched them so well.
Moreover, when he focused his senses keenly to examine the drawing box, he could feel complex flows of mana inside.
“Senior Illeg. Could it be that this box has…”
“Shh.”
Illeg raised his thick finger and gestured for silence. Lee Han instinctively closed his mouth immediately.
The spectacled bear beastman senior winked and said.
“You really do have talent? To notice this. That’s right. This isn’t an ordinary drawing.”
This box contained the same principle as Yukveltire’s Calendarium.
Being fellow 5th years, Illeg had borrowed magic from Yukveltire to construct a simple drawing box.
Though it couldn’t calculate as many lectures as the Calendarium, this was sufficient for a drawing box.
“Wouldn’t it be better to tell the seniors?”
“No. It’ll feel much better if they think they each drew by their own luck.”
“!”
Lee Han was impressed by the senior’s thoughtfulness.
He had prepared even this lie to let the other students taste a sense of achievement.
‘Wait. Why does Phoenix Tower have 5th years like this?’
Come to think of it, the 5th year students from Black Turtle Tower and Phoenix Tower were respectable enough to slap most professors.
In comparison, the 5th year student from Lee Han’s tower was someone like Professor Verdus’s top student…
‘…I hope the White Tiger Tower 5th years have terrible personalities.’
Lee Han had wicked thoughts as he stood before the box.
-Escape to the Shadow Fortress, Violin
‘Another darkness element piece?’
Lee Han looked at Ifadur. Ifadur explained the piece as if he had been waiting.
“【Escape to the Shadow Fortress】 is quite a famous piece. Student Wardanaz. You drew a good piece.”
“Is it a darkness element enhancement piece?”
“I don’t think so… The shadow fortress here is metaphorical, it wasn’t actually a fortress of mages who dealt with shadow magic.”
Ifadur slowly explained the origin of the piece.
This 【Escape to the Shadow Fortress】 was a piece based on an old fable, depicting a young prince who was a skilled mage fleeing to a fortress to escape pursuing death.
The young prince used various tricks to transform the fortress, and eventually death couldn’t dare enter and retreated…
“…How does that suit me?”
“W-well? Because it’s a violin piece?”
Lee Han collected the sheet music with a displeased expression.
Of course, anything he could play would be fine, but Lee Han had wanted something more practical.
‘I was hoping for luck or intelligence enhancement.’
In fact, Lee Han couldn’t even guess why this sheet music had been drawn.
Was it to prepare for his perilous 2nd year life?
“Everyone. Read through the sheet music you chose carefully. And starting next week, let’s meet during lecture time.”
“Yes!”
The students gathered for music magic nodded and stood up from their seats.
Actually, they had gathered separately today due to the special nature of music magic, but normally there would be no reason to meet separately on weekends like this.
“See you next week.”
“Wait. Wardanaz.”
Illeg stopped Lee Han who was about to leave last.
Despite having done nothing wrong, Lee Han felt inexplicably nervous and hesitated.
“What is it?”
“Don’t come to next week’s music magic lecture and rest well. You worked hard alone today.”
“…Senior…!”
* * *
Despite the dark night, Lee Han stepped forward with a warm heart thanks to the words Illeg had just left him with.
‘To think there are people like this in the world.’
He felt sorry for the complaints he had thought while preparing for music magic.
Lee Han resolved to dedicate his loyalty to Senior Illeg from now on.
δόξαβασιλείας…
“!”
A humming sound coming from somewhere.
Hearing screams, shouts, or spells at Einroguard was common. Lee Han had also become accustomed to not stopping his steps at every noise, unlike last year.
But the sound he was hearing now had something fundamentally different from Einroguard’s usual noise.
This was…
‘Word magic!’
The presence contained in the voice itself was shaking reality.
As far as Lee Han knew, only word magic could do this.
And in this school, there was only one person Lee Han knew who would leisurely wander around at night humming with word magic.
No, there should have been only one.
“…Principal?”
No answer came back.
Lee Han quickly drew his staff, cast magic stored in his staff storage, and began pulling out enhancement spells he could use.
However, despite such flawless movements, Lee Han’s instincts began screaming.
His innate, extraordinary sense for detecting mana was telling him about the tremendous power possessed by the opponent before him.
Pop!
The Skeleton Principal in human form walked out from the bushes beside him as if taking a stroll.
However, Lee Han could instinctively tell that the Skeleton Principal before his eyes was someone else.
The usual Skeleton Principal was also unpredictable and quite insane, but…
The Skeleton Principal before his eyes now was emanating a truly inhuman coldness.
“Are you the one?”
“Who are you?”
Instead of answering, the opponent lightly waved his hand.
The surrounding mist and thick ice shields were torn apart in one strike, and an invisible, intangible force struck powerfully where Lee Han had been standing.
Bang!
Lee Han barely managed to escape the attack’s range by throwing his body after seeing 1 second ahead with precognition magic.
‘This is…!’
To think the opponent’s light attack would have this much power.
He could feel cold sweat flowing.
Lee Han relied on his precognition magic and tried to predict even one of the opponent’s attacks.
However, contrary to Lee Han’s heightened vigilance, the Skeleton Principal’s insane doppelganger still cast an inorganic gaze.
“I came because I heard music magic, but my ears were defiled. How do you plan to repay the trouble caused to royalty?”
‘Isn’t this guy insane?’
Lee Han immediately realized why it was an insane doppelganger.
To come over after hearing his music magic thinking ‘Oh, is that music magic?’ and then make a fuss saying ‘This is only at such a level!’
Even the Skeleton Principal, the main body, wasn’t this shameless and brazen.
“I’m not sure what you mean.”
For now, Lee Han played dumb.
What could the other person do if he said he didn’t use music magic?
However, this time Lee Han’s prediction was wrong. Originally, madness was unpredictable.
Bang!
Like before, telekinetic magic flew at him once again.
Even though precognition was active, he couldn’t see it at all this time. Lee Han realized that the other person had noticed his precognition magic in that short time and was using it himself too.
When both mages start using precognition magic, prediction enters the realm of near impossibility.
If he hadn’t drawn out all his mana to block it the moment it hit, he would have been completely incapacitated.
“Kugh…!”
Lee Han thought he was fortunate to have received sword training last year.
If he had only relied on magic without strengthening his physical body, he would have been helplessly caught by such surprise attacks.
‘I need to extend the precognition duration…!’
Even while fallen, Lee Han quickly turned his mind.
He didn’t know if the opponent was being careless or not, but he had to somehow catch a weakness and escape.
To do that, he needed to extend his precognition time of about 1 second to make the opponent’s precognition miss even briefly.
‘Precognition magic is heavily consuming. The opponent only used it briefly to block me, so they probably didn’t maintain it for long. Just a moment’s gap…’
“Your foresight is quite decent.”
Along with those words, the Skeleton Principal’s doppelganger cut off Lee Han’s precognition.
Lee Han realized his precognition magic had been blocked.
When the opponent read the future first and firmly blocked various possibilities, Lee Han’s precognition as the latecomer stopped moving.
‘…They’ll respond like this.’
And Lee Han moved again.
As massive mana was offered as sacrifice, the time that 【Bagrec’s Instant Precognition】 could glimpse momentarily lengthened.
When the Skeleton Principal’s doppelganger realized the opponent had escaped from his palm, his eyes turned cold.
“Darkness, sweep forth!”
Lee Han desperately scattered dark elements, then cast a cold element clone while creating distance.
Rumble-
The surrounding soil suddenly rose in unison and transformed into stone walls. Lee Han trusted his mana and cast a rock decomposition spell.
While breaking through a hole to escape, the outside of the stone wall had already turned into quicksand. Before he could even step down, sand rose up trying to bind Lee Han.
However, fortunately Lee Han had 【Gonadaltes’ Swift Agility】 cast.
Lee Han, who explosively shot mana to his toes along with enhancement magic, leaped by stepping on air.
Lee Han, who finally escaped the encirclement, was shocked to see the insane doppelganger standing in front of him.
It had moved through space without him noticing.
“Though I was enraged by that inferior music magic, your other magic is useful. Good. I shall take you as my disciple.”
“Pardon?”
Bang!
The insane doppelganger swung an irritated attack at the disciple who kept committing impieties.
Answering questions with questions, telling lies, forgetting to show reverence…
Whatever family he was from, these weren’t ordinary barbaric behaviors.
“…!”
However, this time Lee Han barely endured without being blown away. The insane doppelganger cast a surprised look for the first time.
“That magic just now, did you use it instinctively?”
“…”
Lee Han himself didn’t realize what he had done.
He had only predicted the power and trajectory of the incoming attack and instinctively thought strongly that he must block it, yet somehow he had blocked it.
“A decent shield magic. Don’t forget to research it.”
“Th… thank you?”
When the opponent analyzed what he had just done and advised him to recreate it as magic, Lee Han answered while forgetting the situation.
Swish!
The insane doppelganger created a dimensional rift in the air. Then with a single gesture, he sent Lee Han flying through the rift.
Thud!
When the doppelganger himself also disappeared through the rift, nothing remained on Einroguard’s forest path.
As if the fierce battle that had just occurred felt like a lie.
* * *
“Sit down.”
“…”
Lee Han tried his best to stay calm.
He didn’t know where he was, but it seemed to be somewhere in the Einroguard estate.
‘Is this a mountain range? All I can see around are cliffs and peaks, and I don’t see any giants or sheep.’
Lee Han thought he should call the Skeleton Principal and glanced at his ring.
However, the insane doppelganger didn’t give him that chance.
He didn’t know how far ahead the precognition reached, but he instinctively felt certain that the moment he tried to use the ring now, he would be blocked.
“You must wonder why I brought such a worthless person like you as a royal’s disciple.”
“…Yes!”
“It’s simple. I need a successor to illuminate my honor.”
“May I ask if I could pose a question?”
“As long as it’s not a useless question.”
The insane doppelganger revealed his intention to punish if useless questions were asked.
Lee Han cursed inwardly and asked.
“That… don’t you already have many honorable disciples, Your Majesty?”
“What nonsense are you talking? There are none.”
“…”
From that answer, Lee Han realized that the other person didn’t acknowledge the Skeleton Principal’s disciples.
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