Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 788

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Chapter 788

Antagondals was momentarily speechless at Lee Han’s shameless attitude.

‘Indeed, he’s cunning and wicked beyond measure, just like someone that monster would want as a disciple!’

He was so wicked that it made him ashamed of himself for wondering in the past ‘Why did that monster bring such a guy?’

You could tell from his potential when he escaped by threatening and exploiting that evil mage criminal.

But Antagondals didn’t explode in anger or lose his reason. Like a seasoned mage criminal, he spoke with a calm attitude.

“You seem to have forgotten… Hehe… When you escaped from that ancient insane doppelganger… didn’t I help you…?”

“Excuse me?”

“When you… needed to get out… you earnestly asked me to draw attention…!”

“Excuse me?”

“You damn little brat… Are you going to keep pretending not to know!!!”

The centuries-old mage criminal truly exploded.

Lee Han attacked as if he had expected this. 【Wardanaz’s Telekinesis】 was cast and slammed the chimera-form Antagondals straight into the wall.

Bang!!!

“Nilia, attack!”

“Ah… Got it!”

Nilia didn’t really know who the opponent was, but decided to follow her friend’s words for now.

Whether it was really a monster pretending to know Wardanaz when he didn’t, or a monster deceived by Wardanaz, one’s arms naturally bend inward, don’t they?

Swish!

As a sharp arrow flew at him, Antagondals let out a groan.

‘This wicked bastard. He was trying to shake me up to launch a surprise attack…!’

With that reaction speed, he must have been planning a surprise attack from the moment he saw him.

Not only that, but pretending not to know in order to ambush the opponent.

He was a vicious bastard, just like the insane doppelganger’s disciple.

Sizzle-

‘Ugh!’

Attacks that he could have blocked with a single glance in his original body state dealt heavy blows to his flesh one by one.

It was because of the punishment the insane doppelganger had inflicted on Antagondals.

Antagondals felt deep gloom.

It wasn’t because of the surging pain. An archmage wouldn’t despair over pain.

What made Antagondals feel gloomy was Lee Han.

‘To think he noticed that I’ve become weak!’

“Did you use too strong a poison?!”

“Nilia. Where did you, the cruel hunter of the north, go! Return to who you were then!”

“I was never like that! I was just an ordinary hunter!”

While protesting against Lee Han’s reproach, Nilia immediately prepared her next attack.

Nilia, who majored in enchantment magic and alchemy, knew how to properly utilize her main specialty.

The magic arrow she had made during lecture time glowed as it passed through the bow’s body and writhed like a snake seeking the enemy’s flesh.

At the same time, the black potion thickly applied to the arrowhead dissolved mana and spread dark curses into the bones.

Antagondals cursed for the first time in a while and barely pulled out the arrow with one hand.

“Melt… into the wall!”

Antagondals, who had melted into the side wall, barely bought time and opened his mouth.

“You bastard. Not only do you not know gratitude, but you’re stupid too… What are you going to do if I take you to Master right now…!”

“Is that so? From what I can see, if you had that ability, you would have done it already.”

At Lee Han’s words, Antagondals’s heart sank.

This Wardanaz family boy was clearly already guessing Antagondals’s situation.

“What… do you mean by that…?”

“When you first appeared, I thought you came to kidnap me on the doppelganger’s request. But seeing how you talked, it seemed a bit strange.”

Lee Han spoke with confidence.

Einroguard’s main building wasn’t a place where outsiders could just enter at will. This was even more true for strong individuals.

Moreover, this semester the Skeleton Principal knew about the doppelganger’s existence and Antagondals’s existence too.

Yet Antagondals had entered so freely like this?

‘That’s a doppelganger weak enough not to be caught by the barriers.’

From entering freely to being unable to respond to Lee Han’s surprise attack and Nilia’s attacks and getting beaten up.

Lee Han was convinced that his judgment was correct.

“You came as a very weak doppelganger right now, didn’t you?”

“…Your perception is damn sharp!”

Antagondals hid his dismay and honestly admitted it.

Since he was caught, there was nothing he could do.

“This is… a doppelganger body as weak and flimsy as a pile of mud… So weak I can’t even just kidnap you… And the reason is because of you…!”

What had happened after Lee Han escaped, Antagondals revealed in a resentful voice.

The insane doppelganger was generous enough to send Lee Han back and even send back some stupid imperial boy to the Einroguard students, but not to Antagondals.

-You helped him. Isn’t that right?

-There seems to be a misunderstanding. Master…

-Don’t call me Master. That title has been revoked due to betrayal. How dare a lowly slave interfere with the master’s work?

-Master, if you grant me death, I will accept…

Sensing danger qualitatively different from usual, Antagondals tried to destroy his body and temporarily die.

Before coming to the insane doppelganger, naturally Antagondals had prepared contingencies. There was no mage criminal stupid enough to approach an ancient insane being to learn magic without any preparation.

Antagondals’s contingency was an additional body.

The additional body created with ancient magic from the Three Kingdoms era would transfer the soul there and revive the mage if the current body was destroyed.

This was a powerful and complex secret technique that ordinary mages wouldn’t even dare attempt. Naturally, Antagondals also trusted this magic.

Otherwise, would he have dared approach the insane doppelganger?

-Trying to steal away your soul? What a shallow trick. You trash who doesn’t even know who created that secret technique. Did you think you could deceive the master with the master’s own teachings?

-!!!

Antagondals was shocked at being discovered and immediately destroyed his body and escaped his soul.

However, before the soul could escape, the insane doppelganger sealed the mage criminal’s soul with a gesture. Then he stuffed the soul back into the destroyed body.

-Trash. The prison you’ll be confined in is your own body, and your sentence is until your soul wears away to nothing. If you want even a trace of mercy, make amends. Even one ten-thousandth of what you ruined!

-Guh… Graaaah!

Not satisfied with stuffing the soul back in, the insane doppelganger cast a curse to bind it so it couldn’t escape.

The curse was so vicious that even the fairly sturdy body transformed into a hideous chimera.

Antagondals had to admit that he had underestimated the ancient archmage too much.

No matter how much he had fallen into madness and become like a law, he still had the power to easily destroy someone like Antagondals.

“Thanks to that… I’m in this state… I can’t even use proper magic… This doppelganger body too… took several days to barely create… just to make contact!”

Antagondals pointed to himself hidden in the wall as he spoke.

How much suffering he had endured to create this weak and worthless doppelganger body.

It was a pathetic doppelganger body that he could have made in seconds if he could use magic normally.

“Indeed. You’ve truly suffered a lot.”

Lee Han spoke as if he felt sorry. Antagondals noticed the pretense in that voice and glared at him.

“Master wants to see you again.”

“Yes. I understand. I’ll visit him once next time.”

“Right now!”

“I have my own schedule too. Why are you being like this?”

“…”

After glaring at Lee Han for a while, Antagondals gritted his teeth and accepted that this wasn’t a situation where he could threaten with force.

With this doppelganger body, forget kidnapping, it would be destroyed if hit one more time.

“What’s your complaint…? Master loves and cherishes you… He’s waiting for you to teach you secret techniques!”

‘Does he think I’m some kind of Gainando?’

Lee Han was shocked at the level of the mage criminal’s lies.

Where would there be anyone who would fall for such lies?

“You were going to kill me if I couldn’t learn magic, weren’t you?”

“And then he would have revived you afterwards… Being able to learn under such conditions is a blessing…! Why don’t you understand your good fortune…?”

“Ah. Yes.”

Lee Han answered indifferently.

“I understand. Please tell him that when I have time later, let’s have a meal together. I’ll definitely come.”

“When you return… Master will treat you more gently too…”

“Instead of killing painfully, he’ll kill painlessly?”

‘Wrong.’

Antagondals gave up on persuading Lee Han.

That Wardanaz family boy was as cunning and vicious as himself, so there was absolutely no way to deceive him.

Instead, Antagondals looked at Nilia. The innocent-looking hunter girl might be swayed.

“There… young mage… listen to me… I… risked my life… to save your friend who was kidnapped over there… That’s how I ended up like this… Don’t you feel sorry for me?”

“By the way, that person is the mage criminal Antagondals.”

Lee Han whispered. Antagondals didn’t give up.

“Of course… I… committed some magical crimes… and I won’t deny that I’m an enemy of the Empire…! But… looking at it purely in terms of debt… I showed kindness to that friend… As a mage, shouldn’t you not forget that kindness…?”

“…Is that so?”

“That’s right!”

“Alright. Then come out and face me to make an oath. That you won’t harm us in exchange for Wardanaz helping you.”

“Of course…!”

Antagondals excitedly emerged from behind the wall.

He could make such oaths countless times.

Swish!

The arrow Nilia drew, 【Blade Stolen from Professor Verdus】, flew swiftly and penetrated through the forehead of Antagondals who had emerged from behind the wall.

Antagondals’s clone body, who never expected to be ambushed in this situation, melted away helplessly.

“Hey! Where does a mage criminal get off pulling such tricks!”

“…”

Lee Han looked at his friend with shocked eyes. Nilia, who belatedly felt that gaze, panicked.

“Why?? That mage criminal was trying to kidnap you, Wardanaz!!”

“Ah, no. You’re right. I just didn’t think you’d deceive him like that.”

“…This level of deception is ordinary, isn’t it.”

“Is it?”

“It’s ordinary!”

Nilia got angry.

And then after a moment, she spoke in a low voice.

“…Keep it secret that I used this kind of deception. Got it?”

“Of course. Don’t worry.”

Lee Han nodded as if telling her to trust only him.

What would be difficult about keeping such a secret for a friend who helped him?

At that moment, a bat popped out from the melted clone body and cried out in a mournful voice.

“For this Antagondals to be defeated by a mere young hunter…!”

“Huh?!”

Nilia was startled and tried to shoot and catch the bat, but the bat flew far away.

It was rushing to return to Antagondals who was far away in the mountain range outside the main building.

“For this Antagondals to be defeated by a mere young hunter…!”

“Wh-why is that thing acting like that?”

The bat kept writhing and changing shape. And it spouted the same words as if it had lost its reason.

“It hasn’t properly recovered yet from the shock of the clone body being destroyed.”

Even though he was trying to extract only the core of the clone body to make it return, it couldn’t overcome the shock of destruction and was becoming uncontrollable.

“Let’s quickly chase after it!”

“It’ll destroy itself soon, won’t it? At that level, it’ll collapse after flying for a few minutes.”

“Is that so?”

Nilia was tempted, then heard the bat’s voice from far away again.

–For this Antagondals to be defeated by a mere young hunter…!

“…No, we need to catch it now! Before it spreads the word even more loudly!!”

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