Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 829
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Chapter 829
“Why are you looking at me with those eyes? Don’t tell me you doubt my words?”
“Yeah.”
“Raphadael is my witness.”
“Two idiots together would be fooled just the same.”
‘Isn’t that too harsh?’
Lee Han thought to himself.
Of course, Angrago and Raphadael were somewhat gullible, but calling them idiots.
It wasn’t quite to that extent.
“Wardanaz. It’ll be fine, right?”
While the two were talking, Angrago approached hesitantly.
It seemed that entering the punishment room brought back several painful memories.
-Sending me to the punishment room just for raiding the kitchen a bit! You could just compensate me!
-Student. Please be quiet.
-Hmph. I’ll keep talking! Aren’t you Death Knights ashamed! Confining students just for raiding the kitchen a little!
-If you keep talking, we’ll have no choice but to make you quiet.
-Go ahead and try!
-Sigh. Turn to stone!
Beyond simply painful memories, the punishment room had many dangerous elements.
With traps and defensive facilities everywhere to prevent students from attempting escapes or infiltrations, even the most skilled mage could be caught if they let their guard down.
“Haha. Of course. It’s fine.”
“R-right? Well, there’s no way Wardanaz would come down to a place like the punishment room without any thought. You must have everything prepared.”
As Angrago sighed in relief and turned back, Lee Han looked at Giselle and said.
“Doesn’t White Tiger Tower trust others’ words too easily?”
“Shut up.”
* * *
Lee Han, who had brought his friends down to the punishment room, used courage and wisdom to overcome the difficulties.
“Good day to you.”
-Yes. Good day. Student Lee Han.
“I’ll be passing through now.”
-Oh. Go ahead. Student Lee Han.
Seeing Lee Han politely greet the Death Knight patrolling the corridor and pass by, the White Tiger Tower students cast looks of shock and amazement.
What exactly did they just witness??
“Wai… wait. Wait. Wardanaz.”
“What’s wrong? Stop calling out to me. I’ll lose my way.”
Lee Han was glaring at the map when his friends called out, so he replied curtly.
Even within the extremely changeable Einroguard territory, the punishment room was particularly volatile in its changes.
Even though Lee Han had mapped out several key routes, if he let his guard down, he could step into strange places.
“Wasn’t that just a Death Knight?”
“…Do you perhaps not know what a Death Knight is? Raphadael. You’re from the dark magic school…”
“I’m not asking because I can’t tell the difference! I’m asking how you persuaded it!”
Raphadael, who had suddenly been labeled a dark magic school dropout, got angry.
He wondered if Lee Han had used illusion magic to confuse the Death Knights.
He knew these death knights had very strong magic resistance, but if it was Wardanaz, perhaps…
“Ah. What am I saying. It’s because I’m acquainted with them.”
“…”
“…”
The White Tiger Tower students fell silent again.
Even though they were all polite, the Death Knights were still the Skeleton Principal’s minions and objects of fear.
If persuasion through words had been possible, Einroguard students wouldn’t have suffered so much.
‘What exactly do you have to do to become acquainted with Death Knights?’
‘Wardanaz has always been somewhat favored by the Principal.’
‘That’s true too.’
Fortunately, Lee Han was focused on the map and didn’t hear his friends’ terrible insults.
“This way. Follow me. Durgyu. Be careful of that path. The moment you tap the statue embedded in the wall, the floor collapses and you move down two floors.”
“!”
“Don’t worry. Wardanaz. No one who’s a 2nd year would be stupid enough to touch something like that.”
Seeing Lee Han worry too much about the White Tiger Tower students, Giselle replied.
Now that they were all 2nd years, they knew well not to touch anything just because it looked interesting at Einroguard.
‘Gainando touched it though.’
Thinking to himself, Lee Han moved forward.
If there was something Lee Han could do that even Einroguard’s upperclassmen couldn’t, it was precisely this kind of punishment room breakthrough.
Of course, he had to be wary of naturally occurring traps and unexpected situations, but just being able to avoid pursuit by Death Knights and Perkuntra was an enormous privilege.
“Huh. Where did the warden go?”
When the floor where Perkuntra should have been was completely empty, Lee Han panicked and grabbed a passing Death Knight to ask.
The Death Knight kindly explained.
-Two days ago, students summoned a void monster and the surroundings were destroyed. He moved his position to the lower floor. If you push through those bars over there, stairs will appear.
-Thank you.
“This is quite different from what I expected.”
Ragesa, who had been following from behind to watch, grumbled.
She had wanted to see students overcome the underground dungeon, but this was just underground sightseeing.
“Why is that person following us?”
“She says she wants to see Einroguard students’ magic.”
“It seems more like she’s waiting for us to step on traps…”
Click-
As soon as the words ended, someone stepped on the edge of the corridor and the sound of a trap activating rang out.
Because Perkuntra had moved positions, they had entered an unknown passage and discovered an unidentified trap.
“Finally!”
Ragesa shouted in an excited voice. The White Tiger Tower students reacted quickly.
“Keep distance and hold your breath!”
“Check above!”
The White Tiger Tower students, who first created distance then began checking whether it was a cloud-type trap or one that fell from the ceiling, were certainly experienced.
Being 2nd years, this much was definitely possible, but…
…Einroguard was always a place that exceeded students’ expectations.
Right in the center, space twisted and a sphere formed. It was a trap that would send you to another part of the punishment room the moment you touched it.
“!!!”
The students who had already moved were caught off guard. Who would have thought it was a trap that targeted the places they fled to instead.
“This way.”
Lee Han immediately cast telekinesis. The students flew over and the sphere was pushed away.
Thud!
“Since we came down below, the trap level has increased. The ones above activated when you got close, but this one shoots magic directly.”
Lee Han said to Ragesa.
It was fortunate that 【Wardanaz’s Telekinesis】 was speed-specialized magic, otherwise several people would have been separated.
“How fortunate indeed.”
Ragesa answered with a mischievous expression. Her mouth said it was fortunate, but her face absolutely didn’t think it was fortunate.
“…You’re not disappointed that I saved them just now, are you?”
“Of course not! Just keep moving. You said from below those stairs is unknown territory, right?”
“…”
Lee Han met Ragesa’s expectant gaze with lukewarm eyes, then immediately summoned Skeleton Warrior Gonadaltes.
“You’ll have to search thoroughly.”
“Hey! How boring!”
Despite Ragesa’s complaints, Lee Han proceeded with thorough verification. His other friends supported Lee Han’s approach.
“Wardanaz. Your way is right.”
“Let’s not fall for an outsider’s whispers!”
‘These second years are all shameless.’
Ragesa grumbled inwardly.
Perhaps because of the Wardanaz family boy, they didn’t care one bit about appearances or anything else even with external guests present.
Normally there would be at least one guy saying he’d step forward himself…
‘There’s a perfect target right there!’
Ragesa spotted a pushover boy and stealthily approached.
Angrago flinched and tried to distance himself as Ragesa approached.
“You’re from the Alpha family, right? Those honorable knights of the sea!”
“Gasp. Do you know about our family?”
“Of course, of course! But you’re from such a family, yet you’ll just wait while leaving it all to your friend?”
“Th-that’s…”
“Surely a knight wouldn’t throw away a chance for glory?”
Ragesa subtly provoked Angrago with her voice.
Angrago wavered before finally making up his mind and running to Lee Han.
“Wardanaz!”
“?”
“I’ll go in and check too. I’ve gotten much stronger… Ack! Aack! Ack!”
Lee Han struck Angrago’s back with his staff. None of the White Tiger Tower students stopped him.
“That Angrago guy. He’s talking nonsense because he hasn’t been hit in a while.”
“If he just waits quietly, Wardanaz will handle everything well.”
“…”
Ragesa thought this year’s White Tiger Tower students were very strange somehow.
Watching as a tower mate got his back beaten by a student from another tower, and following along like sheep…
Thud!
Gonadaltes, who had been running, was immediately reverse-summoned.
An absorption trap that detected undead souls had activated. As red mirage-like energy surged up, the skeleton warrior’s soul was sucked right in.
“Oh no! It’s destroyed. What now?”
“I’m thinking of assembling another skeleton warrior to send.”
“I heard from Professor Bagrek. You use orthodox dark magic?”
‘When did he even talk about that?’
Lee Han made a displeased expression.
Professor Boladi seemed to have a subtly chatty side despite not appearing that way.
He felt this whenever he saw other professors knowing about Lee Han’s progress.
“Yes. I know how to use it.”
“Orthodox dark magic is excellent but has weaknesses. The puppets you create have no souls. It’ll be hard to detect traps.”
The current Empire’s dark magic school’s summoning technique was standardized around contracting and summoning beings from other dimensions.
It was natural since once you made a contract, you could summon much more efficiently.
In comparison, the classical dark magic summoning Lee Han had learned (by force) was a method where mages assembled and fitted undead piece by piece to control them.
It was much more difficult and had the weakness of not being able to trigger traps in situations like this.
‘Maybe I should have said I’d learn the modern way…’
“Shouldn’t the student go in now?”
“No. It’s fine. I’ll just summon again.”
“Summon again? It was just reverse-summoned so it’ll be full of complaints, won’t it? Don’t you know the tale of dark mage Oondorgu who starved to death trapped by a ghoul legion?”
Regardless, Lee Han summoned the skeleton warrior again.
“Can you go in again?”
Gonadaltes politely bowed his head then hurriedly went back in.
Seeing this, Ragesa’s jaw dropped.
What kind of undead control power is that…?!
‘What a monster!’
Of course, what she’d seen so far was monstrous enough, but that was closer to glimpses of genius.
Usually, tyrants who could control undead this strongly had to be at least archduke-level demons.
“Kid, you’d do well even if you went to the demon realm.”
“Why on earth are you saying such horrible things?”
Lee Han, who was watching his summoned creature from behind, was disgusted by the ridiculous statement.
* * *
It took some time, but the solution was already practically decided.
Unlike other mages, Lee Han could supply mana to send his summoned creature back even after it was destroyed and fell.
After repeating this over and over, they roughly finished identifying the truth and falsehood of the newly appeared passage.
“Let’s go down.”
What brings you here?
Rumble!
Thunder and lightning struck from afar, and the energy of lightning bolts ran bleakly across walls and floors.
The students unconsciously tensed at the mighty presence felt from the distance.
“I came because I need help.”
Help! Since you didn’t use the power of contract, I could refuse… but since you came all this way, shall I at least listen?
Perkuntra shouted in a voice only Lee Han could hear.
The other students took defensive positions against the increasingly loud thunder and lightning.
Usually when such omens occurred at Einroguard, enemies would appear…
“Thank you.”
Not at all. Actually, I was expecting it. That you would come, I mean.
“!”
Lee Han was surprised.
As expected, does someone at the Thunder King’s level develop prophetic abilities?
“How did you know?”
It’s natural logic. You mages wouldn’t know, but. The Arrogance Duke doesn’t forget defeats. The Arrogance Duke must have sent a letter, right?
“…No.”
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