Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 748

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Chapter 748

The giants lifted the cooking club members onto their shoulders one by one and then released the Mountain Destroyer.

The Mountain Destroyer began moving viciously, searching for traces of magic as if trying to destroy the world.

-Find the stuffy and unpleasant places!

Ikurusha shouted to the giants.

They weren’t mages, but they had instincts just as sharp and keen.

If this was where the Wardanaz boy had gone missing, evil magic would surely be bubbling up, so they needed to find places the giants would have difficulty approaching.

Kurrrung!

“What’s that sound?”

Meanwhile, the library club members approaching from another direction paused at the roar heard from afar.

The vast Einroguard mountain range was a place full of all kinds of dangers, so one couldn’t survive without paying attention to even small noises.

“Sound, reveal your identity.”

Sevius cast a spell.

It was magic that revealed the identity of an opponent through the sounds they made.

“Senior Sevius. How is it?”

“…”

Instead of answering, Sevius broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead. The library club members were flustered by his appearance.

Why is he acting like that?

“What is it? A mammoth?”

“The sound is too loud though? Isn’t it a Mountain Destroyer?”

“Don’t talk crazy. A Mountain Destroyer couldn’t come down this far. If it came down, it would be the end of the world.”

As soon as the members finished speaking, a giant’s head suddenly popped up from below the hill.

And the Mountain Destroyer leaped and landed in front of the students.

-You help too! A student has gone missing!

“…”

“…”

The library club members tried to grasp the situation.

Giants, a Mountain Destroyer, and…

Other club mages who had already been kidnapped?

“Why are you there??”

“Looking for a junior. …What about you?”

“We’re also looking for a junior…”

-Hurry!

-Is this the time for chatter! How rude!

The giants flew into a rage.

When they should be hurrying, these mages were leisurely chatting.

“S-sorry.”

The students apologized to the giants’ reproach.

They felt as if they had become uncultured and rude people.

They didn’t know why the giants were helping with the search, but…

Swoosh-

“!”

Sevius’s eyes widened as he saw a large book flying through the sky above.

That was Senior Illeg’s flying artifact.

And riding along with him were…

‘Other 5th year students?!’

It made sense for club members to step forward since their newly joined junior was such a precious talent, but why would 5th year students, who would be busy with their own research, step forward?

‘Just how many people came to this mountain range?’

* * *

“Diret. Are you listening?”

“I got it! I said I’d help with the research! If you say it one more time, I’ll make it 100 times!”

“It’s only been seven times so far. Even if I say it once more, it’s only eight times.”

“You two. Please don’t fight.”

Illeg stopped the fight between Yukveltire and Diret.

There was a lot of work to do ahead, and if the two fought, even things that could be done wouldn’t get done.

“Still, it’s impressive. To persuade Miss Yukveltire.”

“It wasn’t persuasion, it was negotiation.”

Illeg himself had stepped forward first since he was a fellow library club member and had been kidnapped while researching music magic, but Yukveltire, true to being Verdus’s disciple, didn’t step forward for rescue just because they were from the same school.

In the end, Diret could only bring her in after promising to help with Yukveltire’s research.

‘Should I just push her off?’

“Wouldn’t it have been better to bring Mr. Catten too?”

“I was going to, but when I asked, they said he’d gone missing again. He’s probably somewhere in the desert area…”

If there had been a 5th year friend from the White Tiger Tower, it would have been quite helpful in this situation, but they couldn’t forcibly bring someone who wasn’t there.

Diret sighed and looked down below.

The grayish-white mountain range, unaware of Diret’s inner thoughts, was peacefully…

‘…????’

Diret’s eyes widened at the sight of giants rummaging around here and there with students.

“Yukveltire. Look down there.”

At her friend’s call, Yukveltire also let out a sigh.

She was currently concentrating on searching the vicinity with her artifact, and he was calling her for no reason.

Diret was really such a scattered person despite his outstanding talent.

“Diret. If you’re going to tell me to look at the scenery and landscape to change my mood again, stop it. I’m not a child who gets happy from looking at scenery and landscapes.”

“Hey. Just look.”

Having been told ‘How does this help with magic?’ several times after showing her scenery for mood changes, Diret had no intention of calling her just because pretty scenery appeared.

“…!”

“The giants!”

Both Yukveltire and Illeg were startled and looked down below.

The giants were clearly searching for someone.

Even several library club members had been kidnapped by the giants.

“Everyone. Our club juniors have been captured. We need to help them!”

“Chaegla.”

Yukveltire called Illeg in a serious voice.

“Stop taking care of juniors who aren’t at your level. It won’t help your magic at all.”

Illeg naturally ignored her.

“Mr. Diret. Can you help us deal with the giants?”

“I can help, but those giants are… friends of my junior.”

“?”

“??”

When the two 5th year students looked at Diret as if asking what nonsense he was talking, Diret’s face turned slightly red.

“They’re really friends! They’re probably looking for Wardanaz.”

“How is that…?”

“I see.”

Unlike Illeg, who was interested in and curious about his junior, Yukveltire coldly recognized reality.

Whether the junior was friends with giants or not wasn’t really an important fact to Yukveltire herself.

Unless she was conducting research that required giants, there was no reason to ask unnecessary questions.

“Then let’s use the giants’ instincts.”

No matter how much magic an archmage cast, perfect magic didn’t exist.

There would surely be gaps, and if they could cleverly exploit those gaps, they would be able to rescue the underclassman without the Archmage noticing.

Yukveltire was planning to follow the giants’ intuition.

“Yukveltire. If those giants and underclassmen find gaps in the magic, how long do you think it will take until we can enter?”

“At least 1…”

“1 day??”

“1 month. What are you talking about.”

“No way. We have to solve this within a day.”

“Diret. Just because you’re being unreasonable doesn’t mean the magic will…”

“Just do it!”

* * *

“Cough!”

Lee Han was sent flying backward.

This time it wasn’t because the Insane Doppelganger attacked, but because the magic failed.

When he failed to maintain the form, the telekinetic force scattered in all directions and sent Lee Han flying.

‘…I think I understand why people only use magic like 【Basic Control】.’

【Basic Control】 with clear output restrictions wouldn’t cause serious injury even if it failed.

But the moment Lee Han tried to drastically increase the output and wield it freely like now, the danger level when failing also increased greatly.

‘Shooting it out in shockwave form works somewhat, but maintaining it in whip form to swing it around is…’

But there weren’t only failures.

What surprised even Lee Han himself was that he unexpectedly matched well with telekinetic force.

Especially the casting speed aspect could be considered almost complete.

“Strike!”

Bang!

Along with the abbreviated incantation, compressed telekinetic force lashed against the wall.

Not only the speed of drawing up mana and converting it to telekinetic force, but even incantation abbreviation succeeded this quickly.

‘At this rate, I might really achieve silent casting.’

Lee Han himself didn’t realize it, but the trials he had endured throughout the past year were making his innate talent bloom even more.

Moreover, the special nature of telekinetic force, which had to be cast purely with a mage’s mind without borrowing the power of other elements, was actually lowering the difficulty in Lee Han’s case.

Instant casting due to overwhelming mana and concentration.

If he could just overcome silent casting, one of the most difficult obstacles in this magic…

“Who are you?”

“!”

When he heard an unfamiliar voice from behind, Lee Han turned around in surprise.

It was a mage wearing a mask made of true silver and dressed in antique clothing that couldn’t be seen in the current Empire.

Lee Han raised his guard at the appearance of this person whose inner thoughts he couldn’t guess.

“A newly taken disciple.”

The Insane Doppelganger answered instead of Lee Han.

From the voice that echoed throughout the workshop despite having no visible form, Lee Han was certain that he had indeed been under surveillance to prevent him from escaping.

‘Good thing I didn’t rashly attempt to escape.’

“Master. I dare to offer you a word. While Einroguard’s students are certainly outstanding talents, most of them are unpolished gems. Can they truly accomplish what you desire…”

Stab!

A blade of burning darkness was created in mid-air and pierced through the mage’s body.

Antagondals coughed painfully while offering words of apology.

“…I’m sorry. Master.”

“A mere servant dares to climb up when I generously allowed informal address. Try babbling one more time.”

The blade spun around and tore through Antagondals’ body once more.

Lee Han was horrified to realize that the Insane Doppelganger had been relatively kind to him so far.

To just stab someone for saying one annoying word.

‘Even if he’s a disciple, no, a servant, this is too much!’

However, Antagondals himself didn’t seem to care much.

After pulling out the blade of darkness himself, he waved his hand to drive away the evil energy and sealed the wound. Silver thread formed in mid-air, intertwining to firmly stitch up the wound.

After roughly treating the wound, Antagondals stared intently at Lee Han from behind the mask.

“Are you alright?”

“What are you talking about?”

“The wound.”

“Ah. If you know what kind of magic it is, it’s not that difficult to heal.”

Antagondals’ voice sometimes sounded like a young man’s, and sometimes like an old man’s.

It seemed masculine but also had feminine qualities, and the race was even more ambiguous.

“Looking at your expression, it might have been too stimulating for an Einroguard student. What. Is it surprising to get stabbed by your master to learn magic?”

“Honestly, yes.”

The Archmage made a giggling sound from inside the mask and then cast a soundproof barrier to prevent the conversation from leaking out.

“When sacrificing one’s soul wouldn’t be regrettable, what’s so precious about being stabbed by a blade. We’re making a deal with each other. That monster is happy to have a servant to worship him, and I’m happy to extract fragments of ancient magic from that monster.”

From those words, Lee Han realized that the other person didn’t regard the Insane Doppelganger as a master.

It was closer to a transactional relationship where they joined hands because their interests aligned.

‘The way of thinking of ancient mages is really hard to follow.’

“I saw the illusion you left in the forest.”

“Illusion?”

Lee Han explained the illusion where Antagondals had been pleading with and raging at the Insane Doppelganger.

Upon hearing that explanation, Antagondals burst into laughter again.

“You saw that? Your sensitivity is remarkable, worthy of someone that monster brought.”

“It was somewhat different from what I’m seeing directly though…”

“It would be. You saw the moment that monster went insane.”

“??”

Lee Han wondered what this meant, since it was already an Insane Doppelganger but could apparently go even more insane.

“Sometimes that monster becomes lenient. I was targeting that moment and even put on a human face to appeal to emotions.”

The Insane Doppelganger basically focused only on the honor he thought of, but very occasionally there were times when he became lenient.

Antagondals had targeted those moments to appeal to emotions, but gained no particular benefit.

“Why does he sometimes become lenient?”

“Haha! If there are moments when that monster becomes weak, I should use them. Why would I be curious about the reason.”

The Mage Criminal was satisfied just by appeasing the Insane Doppelganger’s mood and scraping together fragments of ancient magic.

In contrast, Lee Han couldn’t help but be interested when he heard that the Skeleton Principal’s Insane Doppelganger sometimes became lenient.

‘Maybe there’s still some sanity left.’

For someone who had to escape somehow, this was hope that was hard to overlook.

“So what did that monster make you do?”

Lee Han explained the task the Insane Doppelganger had assigned him.

Upon hearing this, Antagondals burst into the biggest laughter of the day.

“You’re going to die soon!”

“…”

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