Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 780

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Chapter 780

Pop!

【Ogonin’s Mist】 and 【Baegreg’s Momentary Foresight】 were cast instantly without incantation.

The 【Lesser Magic Storage】 that could store two spells of 3rd circle or below and cast them instantly had worked successfully.

He should have been happy about cleanly succeeding with magic he hadn’t perfectly mastered, but Lee Han didn’t have that luxury.

A Frost Giant was chasing them from behind.

-…Wait, surely they’re not running away?

The Frost Giant shouted as if he couldn’t believe it.

But no matter how much the Frost Giant denied reality, the fact that the mages were frantically running away in the distance didn’t change.

-How!? Why would an honorable challenger recognized by the king run away?!

“Let’s compete when we have time later! I’ll come visit you sometime!”

Lee Han shouted with the same feeling as ‘Let’s have a meal together sometime.’

It might have worked on Gainando or the giants of Einroguard, but unfortunately his opponent was a clever Frost Giant. He immediately saw through Lee Han’s scheme.

-So you’re running away to avoid me now! Rude mage, even if the king recognizes you as a worthy opponent, I cannot accept it? I’ll change that thinking!

Lee Han wanted to argue back, but he was now too busy holding his breath and running quickly to have that luxury.

Fortunately, Ogonin’s mist was surrounding Lee Han and his friends and interfering with the enemy’s vision, otherwise it would have been much more dangerous.

“Gainando. To the left. Imperial Princess. To the right. According to master’s command… freeze!”

Along with the incantation, 【Penguerin’s Cold Elemental Clone】 shot out.

The power of the abundant cold elements around gave Lee Han mental composure. For a moment, Lee Han had the intuition that he could create one more of these clones.

“According to master’s command, freeze!”

‘Is it fortunate that this is a cold dimension!’

He wasn’t sure if this should be called an advantage, but it was at least fortunate.

-Hmph!

The Frost Giant bent his waist with a thoroughly annoyed voice and then leaped up.

Then he began pushing down the slope path with a physical assault. It was a strategy to completely devastate the surroundings regardless of what illusions and clones confused his vision or interfered.

It was simple and crude, but the effectiveness couldn’t be denied. Seeing this, Lee Han clicked his tongue as he drew up mana and prepared his next spell.

‘Should I cancel and block?’

If he canceled the spell he was preparing now, he would be giving the initiative to the Frost Giant again.

But he couldn’t just leave him approaching so quickly…

“Go! Cut off the path!”

“!”

Lee Han was startled by Gainando’s incantation.

Gainando, who had been running away keeping his distance, must have realized the urgency of the situation and joined in.

Seeing him bring out a large undead summon and corrosive poison, his intention was clearly to destroy part of the icy slope path.

The Frost Giant had powerful physical abilities, but his weight was considerable accordingly.

The thick slope path made of iceberg looked solid, but once it started cracking, it would shake from even small impacts.

“Quickly! Quickly!”

Gainando urgently gave orders.

Originally, giving consecutive commands that stimulated the rebellious spirit of contracted undead summons like this could lead to rebellion later, but such concerns didn’t enter Gainando’s mind at all right now.

‘I even used expensive penguin-hunting poison and these bastards!’

This ice-corroding poison he brought in preparation for the ice realm cost as much as a week’s worth of snacks.

Even after using that, only that much crack appeared in the ice.

“Fly!”

“Uh, uwaaah!”

Gainando screamed in surprise when a chakram-shaped artifact came flying.

It was an artifact summoned by Adenart flying in for support.

“Hey! What are you going to do with that!! Summon something big! You fool!”

Gainando jumped around thinking what could be done with just a round circular weapon, but Adenart paid no attention.

The power of the chakram artifact wasn’t what mattered.

Clang!

The potion hanging on the artifact was precisely dropped and fell onto Gainando’s undead summon, the Thorn Revenant.

Lee Han, befitting the top student of the Alchemy School, immediately recognized what potion it was.

That was…

‘Undead Explosion Potion!’

A potion created by an Imperial alchemist who went out to subjugate during the previous undead crisis, it was a powerful potion that exploded undead it touched and damaged the surroundings.

It was quite difficult to make, unstable, and had a short shelf life, so there was no reason to carry it unless hunting undead…?

‘Surely it’s not because of Gainando.’

Boom!

The effect was excellent.

The soul of the Thorn Revenant, which had a large build and wore protruding thorns like armor, reacted with the potion and exploded.

Unable to withstand the impact, the slope path on the iceberg began cracking and splitting. Gainando screamed.

“You! You!!”

How dare she reverse-summon his summon!

“Are you crazy?!?!?!”

“Th-that wasn’t why you sent the undead?”

Adenart answered with a bewildered voice.

Considering the time, destroying the slope path with Gainando’s undead and poison was impossible.

She naturally thought Gainando had positioned this undead with the intention of exploding it…?

“What crazy dark mage throws their undead with the resolve to explode it!!”

“Of course reverse-summoned spirits might be displeased, but if you explain the situation they’ll understand…”

“Undead are different!!”

While spirits had the magnanimity to understand if well explained even when reverse-summoned due to unavoidable accidents, undead were basically narrow-minded and complaint-filled beings who mostly only thought of stabbing mages in the back.

Unless you intimidated and threatened them like Lee Han, dark mages couldn’t handle them too aggressively.

“I worked so hard to contract with him! This… this ignorant fool who knows nothing about dark magic!”

“!”

Adenart was so shocked that her already pale face turned even whiter.

To be called ignorant and unknowledgeable about magic by this half-brother!

“Lee Han! Say something to this idiot who doesn’t know dark magic!”

However, Lee Han couldn’t answer.

He was in the middle of completing a spell.

“Flames. Rise up and become a barrier!”

Whoooosh!

Flames began surging up over the broken slope path cliff.

These fierce flames would surely serve as a barrier to prevent the Frost Giant from crossing over.

Adenart was about to ask ‘Do I need to learn a bit about dark magic?’ but hesitated.

‘Isn’t this… strange?’

The power of the flame barrier spell seemed much stronger than expected.

…No matter how much mana was over-invested, was this level of power possible with 【Lesser Flame Barrier】?

“Guys. Run!!”

“Huh? Why? Can’t he cross over?”

Gainando asked puzzledly but soon realized why they had to.

The widely rising flame barrier began expanding its range as if running wild in all directions.

It was much faster than the Frost Giant.

“Do-do flame barriers normally act this aggressively…?”

“Run!”

“Al-alright!”

The three began running like mad.

Adenart finally realized what Lee Han had done.

He must have cast 【Lesser Flame Barrier】 to form it over the slope path cliff, then pumped mana into it like crazy to make the spell run wild.

This kind of magical rampage was impossible for even the mage himself to control, but it certainly produced power beyond that of normal magic. The fierce flames surging behind them now were proof of that.

“How did you… maintain your mana… until it went berserk…?”

Even in the midst of all this, Adenart didn’t let go of her curiosity about magic and asked a question.

Intentionally causing a magical rampage was extremely difficult.

First, creating the conditions for it was hard, and even if Wardanaz had overloaded it with his characteristically abundant mana, maintaining the spell’s form until it actually went berserk was no ordinary feat.

Was such magical control really possible?

Not knowing that Lee Han had been frantically suppressing and controlling his flame elemental magic every time he cast it until relatively recently, Adenart couldn’t help but be amazed.

“What? I didn’t hear you clearly.”

“Until it went berserk… your mana… how did you…”

“Let’s talk about it later!”

“…”

Seeing Lee Han blatantly change the subject, Adenart wondered why he was acting this way.

…Is this person perhaps deflecting because he thinks I’m criticizing him?

“I’m not trying to blam—”

-Challenger! Mark my words! I will definitely make you acknowledge me. Keep our duel safe until that time!

“…I really should avoid cold dimensions from now on.”

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Asan and Raphadael moved through the Jungle Realm, drenched in sweat.

This dimensional zone, filled with all kinds of giant plants, was humid and hot, easily exhausting mages.

“I… I think we… got stuck with… the hardest place…”

“…I agree.”

The summoning magic academy students who joined them later also nodded in agreement.

When listing the hardships each student who fell into the Jungle Realm experienced, it was truly at an unparalleled level.

First, Asan landed right next to a carnivorous plant as soon as he fell and had to frantically escape. It would have been really dangerous if he hadn’t prepared a flame artifact.

Raphadael lost his supplies due to dimensional transfer instability and nearly drank poisonous water while trying to secure drinking water. It was fortunate he had antidotes as a Black Magic Academy student, otherwise he would have been eliminated immediately.

Another student nearly got buried alive in a pit after stealing giant turtle eggs for food, and yet another had to flee up into trees while being chased by an angry pack of velociraptors…

“The forest is ending. Look over there!”

The students pointed with excited voices.

As if announcing the end of the Jungle Realm, the central district of the dimension was revealing itself.

The central district of the dimension was a massive rocky mountain area covered in magical fog and clouds, and the map marked it as ‘relatively safe.’

It was a somewhat suitable place to gather with other students and set up a campsite.

“There’s Wardanaz over there!”

“Wardanaz! Over here!”

Students who spotted Wardanaz’s group walking in the distance cheered and shot up signal magic.

Magic came up from that direction too, as if they had spotted them and were responding. The students forgot their fatigue and hurried over to join them.

“Everyone worked hard. I didn’t expect us to reunite this quickly. We were lucky.”

“Lucky, you say. Wardanaz. Do you know how much we suffered?”

Raphadael said in an exhausted voice.

Considering the misfortune they experienced after falling into the dimension, this level of good luck wasn’t nearly enough to satisfy them.

“True. The Jungle Realm has many giant plants, so it must have been difficult.”

As soon as Lee Han finished speaking, the students began pouring out their agreement.

They had suffered so much that they couldn’t bear it without venting to Lee Han at least.

“Exactly, Wardanaz! That turtle bastard kept going on about stealing just one egg…”

“Do you know how annoying those raptor bastards really are?”

“It was fortunate I prepared a flame dagger in advance, otherwise I would have been subdued immediately…”

Thanks to complaining first, Raphadael, who had been standing quietly while his friends chattered, looked at Gainando and asked.

Due to his undead summon being reverse-summoned, Gainando was still in a dejected state.

“Didn’t you guys encounter anything?”

“We met a frost giant and ran away.”

“…How?”

“We broke an iceberg and burned everything around us to escape…”

“…”

Raphadael was shocked.

‘This, this bastard. He deliberately waited for us to speak first…!’

To make Raphadael’s group’s hardships look like trivial complaints!

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