Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 779

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Chapter 779

“Because of you! Because of you I!”

“Are you really crazy!? I’m going to get revenge!!”

Gainando cried out tearfully, but the world of magical duels was ruthless. Once you lost the initiative and started getting hit, it wasn’t easy to counterattack.

Adenart summoned a chakram-shaped artifact in mid-air.

As a mage majoring in summoning magic and enchantment magic, Adenart skillfully fused these two and connected them into attacks.

The round blade-shaped artifact secured mana each time it rotated in the air, and simultaneously used that mana to fire magic missiles.

Thwack thwack thwack!

“My vision is shaking… Gack!”

Gainando, who was trying to cast curse magic to buy time, got hit mid-casting and lost his concentration.

‘Dark magic sucks!’

Gainando blamed the irrationality of dark magic that required long incantations to counterattack.

Summoning mages could do other things once they summoned something!

“Huff… Gasp!”

Gainando, who was frantically running down the snowy slope, quickly threw his body to the side. Then the Prince’s figure disappeared downward with a ‘whoosh’.

‘…Damn!’

When Gainando disappeared from sight, Adenart felt a moment of regret.

Her opponent was also a student of Einroguard, so he was definitely trying to escape from view, secure time, and then launch a counterattack.

But instead of getting scared and retreating, Adenart calmly took out a potion.

She received less attention because there was a strange genius in the same year, but originally Adenart was also a genius who chose 3 different school majors.

She was a student who even received the question ‘Are you really sure??’ from Professor Garcia.

As an outstanding student of the alchemy school, Adenart took out and drank potions of 【Sensory Enhancement】 and 【Mana Amplification】 that she had made herself, then summoned one more chakram.

‘…Come forth!’

Adenart glared ahead with the clearest and most distinct hostility she had felt since entering the academy.

She would definitely bring divine punishment upon this half-brother!

“…??”

However, no counterattack came. Adenart checked below the slope just in case.

Instead of preparing a counterattack using dark magic, Gainando was burrowing through the snow and fleeing far away.

“!”

“Just you wait! I’ll get my revenge!”

“Ha! Do you think you can escape!”

Gainando, thinking he had gained enough distance, elegantly raised his middle finger and cursed at his half-sister.

Seeing this, Adenart gritted her teeth, determined to chase him down and finish this.

And then Lee Han arrived.

“…What are you two doing?”

“…”

“…”

* * *

The fog of war always easily reversed advantages and disadvantages.

A mage who was once advantageous could become disadvantageous, and conversely, a disadvantaged mage could become advantageous.

And Gainando, who had been beaten and was fleeing, suddenly became very advantageous.

Thanks to Lee Han appearing from the direction he was trying to escape, he could tattle first.

“$#@$%$#%! ■■■■■!”

Excited Gainando began rambling with content like ‘All Imperial royals are cruel and tyrannical despots!’

Of course, it was hard to understand because he was trying to say too much at once.

-Wow! It’s a language I’ve never heard before!

“That’s not a new language, it’s just Imperial language.”

When the baby basilisk showed interest, Lee Han quickly stopped it.

Only after his excitement subsided could Gainando finally convey what he wanted to say.

“So you’re saying that after you gave her a sandwich as a gift, the Imperial Princess got angry and started attacking?”

“She must have attacked me to eat both of them!”

“…”

Lee Han looked at Gainando very suspiciously.

No matter how he thought about it, there seemed to be another secret that Gainando wasn’t telling.

“The Imperial Princess does have a strong appetite, but she’s not someone who would attack a companion to steal food, is she?”

“Lee Han. You said it yourself! You never know what people will do when they get hungry!”

“Right… I did say that. When you said you wanted to be the food storage keeper…”

Lee Han spoke in a cold voice.

Those words were what he had said when Gainando asked him to let him be the food storage keeper.

“Did I? Anyway! The point is that Adenart attacked me first! Even though I shared my sandwich with her!”

“War… Wardanaz.”

Adenart arrived from afar, panting heavily.

Adenart was breathing heavily from running through the snowy path.

Gainando looked at her as if she was disgusting and whispered.

“She’s pretending to be tired! Don’t be fooled!”

“There, there are circumstances here.”

“She’s going to say she was hungry! She’s really going to say she was too hungry! Don’t fall for it!”

“…Gainando. Step away for a moment.”

Lee Han pushed Gainando away to hear Adenart’s words.

Adenart, who finally caught her breath, explained as gracefully as possible why she had come to attack her half-brother.

But Adenart was mistaken about one thing.

Sometimes certain facts don’t become dignified no matter how gracefully you say them.

“…Ah. So you’re saying you attacked Gainando because you were so angry that the sandwiches were switched?”

“That’s right! Wardanaz.”

Adenart thought Lee Han understood and shouted in a joyful voice.

-Uh… Is that person a glutton?

“She’s definitely that type.”

-Compared to that person over there?

“I think they’re similar.”

“??”

Adenart tilted her head at Lee Han conversing in an unknown language to his sleeve.

Could he be cursing her half-brother?

* * *

The two barely reconciled.

“…”

“Hmph.”

“It’s good to see you reconciled. Don’t attack each other, and if either of you is in mortal danger, help each other with noble dignity. Just do that much. I don’t expect more than that.”

Lee Han was a realistic person.

In a situation where they had to explore an uncertain dimension, there was no time to dramatically improve their relationship.

‘It’s impossible even at Einroguard.’

“Although there were some disturbances, having the three of us gathered like this can be called fortunate. Let’s move to the central district as quickly as possible.”

“Lee Han. When and how are we going to rest and eat?”

“Wardanaz. Did you witness any beings from another dimension on your way here?”

Gainando and Adenart each asked questions they thought were important.

And Gainando quickly changed his words.

“Actually, I was going to ask about beings from other dimensions too!”

“…”

While Gainando’s half-sister sent a very contemptuous look, Lee Han separated the two and said.

“We haven’t encountered any monsters on our way here yet. There’s no way there aren’t creatures that detect the presence of external intruders, so don’t let your guard down.”

The native inhabitants of dimensions usually didn’t like intruders coming from outside.

Those intruders naturally included mages, and these active attackers were one of the main culprits that raised the difficulty of exploring other dimensions.

-Master. You met spirits, didn’t you?

“…”

-Master? Can’t you hear me? We met several ice spirits on the way! They ran away when they saw you!

The baby basilisk chattered enthusiastically, wanting to help Lee Han.

Lee Han smiled and pressed down firmly on his sleeve. The baby basilisk, with its mouth completely blocked, struggled without knowing why.

“…Lee Han. Didn’t the basilisk just make a crying sound?”

“It’s hungry. Haha.”

“What a complete glutton!”

Gainando mocked the baby basilisk.

How could it have such an appetite?

-I’ll kill… mmph… mmph!

The baby basilisk tried to lash out with angry hissing, but it wasn’t working well.

“Wardanaz?”

“Yes?”

“There are spirits over there.”

“Aren’t you mistaken? There’s no way there are spirits that haven’t run away yet…”

Carelessly revealing the truth, Lee Han turned his head in the direction Adenart pointed.

Surprisingly, several hedgehog-shaped ice spirits were playing up on that slope.

“Could they be special spirits that don’t run away even after seeing me?”

“I, I don’t really know either…”

When faced with the difficult question, Adenart didn’t know what to answer and was flustered.

Honestly, it didn’t seem likely…

-Master. You already have many beings serving you, don’t you? Why do you need spirits like those??

The baby basilisk tilted its head and expressed puzzlement.

Starting with the baby basilisk itself, hadn’t powerful and evil beings like the griffin and Perkuntra made contracts with Lee Han?

“…Don’t you feel something strange as you’re saying that?”

-???

The baby basilisk couldn’t figure out what was strange.

Wasn’t it good if the contracted summoned creatures were strong and evil?

“For now, I’d like to negotiate with those spirits and ask for directions.”

“That’s a good method. Imperial Princess. I’ll cheer you on.”

“…Y-yes. I’ll go and come back…”

Neither Lee Han nor Gainando were mages who gained favor with spirits.

Adenart felt unnecessarily sorry (only to Lee Han) as she took her steps.

“Lee Han.”

“?”

“It’s my first time seeing such massive ice.”

Gainando looked around while waiting for Adenart.

He hadn’t been able to look around properly since he got hit by Adenart right after arriving.

“It’s an ice shelf. You’ll see them often if you travel around ice-type dimensions.”

Lee Han explained the massive ice plain terrain.

Mages who wandered other dimensions had to become familiar with all sorts of natural geography.

“What’s that crack over there?”

“Probably a crevasse.”

“Then what’s that huge mass?”

“That’s a frost giant’s head…”

Lee Han, who was explaining, paused.

Something was strange.

“Wardanaz. They say frost giants appear here. It would be better to move east.”

Adenart, who had just finished negotiating and come down, explained.

When the two didn’t respond and only looked in another direction, Adenart wondered why and turned her gaze.

“Why are you…?!”

A frost giant was suddenly climbing up from under the glacier. Every time it drove its massive fingers into the glacier, the sound of ice cracking echoed.

Thud!

Finally, the frost giant landed completely on the glacier.

It had a similar build to the giant tribes that appeared in the Einroguard mountain range, but in its eyes flickered cunning and intelligence that couldn’t be seen in giants.

And hostility too.

-Intruders?

“…We are mages.”

Lee Han restrained his friends who were about to run away immediately and spoke carefully.

Although beings from other dimensions were relatively hostile, running away or attacking without even talking could actually add fuel to the fire.

If negotiation succeeded, it would not only reduce danger but also be of great help in dimensional exploration.

‘What can I propose to the other party? Think. Frost giants are…’

-Wait. That is…?

The frost giant pointed at the tip of Lee Han’s staff and trailed off.

What was embedded there was the blue gemstone he had received from the Ice Giant King before.

‘Ah!’

Lee Han thought of a way to persuade the frost giant and exclaimed.

“That’s right. This is a gem I received from the king of frost giants!”

-Then you’re that honorable challenger! I’ve heard rumors about you!

“My goodness! What an amazing coincidence!”

At the other party’s reaction, Lee Han exclaimed while pretending to be even more amazed.

“To think I’d meet someone who knows about that incident. It seems fate is watching over us. Since this is also an opportunity, how about we exchange things we need from each other?”

-Oh, I do have something I need!

“What would that be?”

-Honor!

“…How would you obtain that…”

-The honor of having defeated the honorable challenger recognized by the king!

Lee Han immediately gestured. His friends quickly ran away.

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