Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 919

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Chapter 919

-It’s an attack!

The demons were the first to notice the arrival of the storm.

The demons waiting at the rear of the army for fresh blood and souls were shocked by the sudden magical storm.

-How dare they!

The Nine-Headed Demon, who served under Esadojikwa as the chief demon blacksmith and held the position of siege commander, let out a roar of fury.

That roar didn’t end as a mere expression of anger. The hellish siege devices prepared by the demons unleashed their firepower.

——–!

The souls of mortals trapped within the copper cannons wailed before transforming into streams of energy. Faced with the power that tore through space and burned the earth, the Young Skeleton Principal evaded with teleportation while expressing contempt.

“Demons. Your race will pay the price for this evil deed for eternity.”

-Such nonsense is too much for a mere mortal. You mage! You don’t have the power to retaliate against me, not just your race, do you?

“We’ll see about that.”

The Young Skeleton Principal gestured lightly. Then a small water droplet appeared above his finger. It was a water droplet with a perfect spherical form.

No demon could guess or predict the magic that had just been displayed.

Just floating a single water droplet above his finger, what could that possibly…

Bang!

Before their bewilderment could end, the shock arrived. The water droplet that left the Young Skeleton Principal’s hand accelerated at a speed beyond human perception.

Along with a conical shockwave, blue-white light scattered in all directions. However, the demons had no leisure to observe the phenomena caused by the water droplet.

The water droplet was mercilessly tearing apart their siege devices.

The copper cannons, war chariots, and siege rams that had been imprisoning mortal souls just moments before were instantly engulfed in flames. Each time the water droplet touched them, the massive weapons forged with demon blood and sweat exploded and collapsed.

It was on a completely different level from Lee Han’s compressed water with rotational properties. That single water droplet contained at least dozens of properties, concepts, and principles.

The despairing demons tried to counterattack, but the Young Skeleton Principal had already moved beyond their range. The Nine-Headed Demon trembled and shouted.

-Mage! When you’re caught, I’ll leave only your heart and eyes. You’ll hang there suffering for eternity!

However, from Lee Han’s perspective, the fight was already the defeat of the nine-headed demon.

All the massive war machines around had been destroyed, and the demon was alone, shouting desperately.

Indeed, the Young Skeleton Principal completely ignored him while destroying other areas. The same was true for the other regions where his projections had descended.

You again, you damn prince!

As the rear melted away in the blink of an eye, Esadojikwa let out a roar.

Having already had several encounters with the Young Skeleton Principal, he immediately recognized the identity just from the magical aftermath.

Not being able to corrupt you was this Esadojikwa’s greatest mistake. Everyone surround the prince! You can let the other trash escape. But if you let the prince escape, I’ll devour you all!

The demon with an appearance reminiscent of a minotaur commanded while pouring eternally burning flames from his eyes.

At that sight, the Young Skeleton Principal recalled all his projections at once. To face Esadojikwa and his subordinates, he couldn’t waste power on projections.

“These evil demons!”

“!”

The Young Skeleton Principal was greatly surprised by the sound coming from behind.

The disciples from the distant future dimension, who he had definitely told to stay in the air, had joined the battlefield.

“Student Lee Han! You absolutely must not come forward. Understand? You absolutely, absolutely must not come forward!”

“I understand, so look ahead! Ahead!”

Lee Han patted Professor Garcia’s back while pointing forward.

This was not the time for Professor Garcia to be worrying about his disciple.

Meanwhile, Professor Boladi summoned dark blades from the air and sliced through the demons.

“Outsiders shall not approach this place…”

Professor Garcia closed his eyes and chanted an incantation. In this situation, it seemed better to close his eyes to concentrate.

Professor Boladi attacked.

Professor Garcia defended.

And Lee Han…

“Professor! Please take my mana!”

“Student Lee Han. Don’t speak so loudly!”

“???”

Lee Han was puzzled by Professor Garcia’s words.

“There are only demons here to listen?”

“…Still!”

His dignity as a professor prevented him from revealing that he was absorbing his disciple’s mana even in front of demons.

Professor Boladi, who had returned after slicing through demons for a while, replenished his mana from his disciple and went out to slice again.

Lee Han’s group, with the three elements of attack, defense, and recovery perfectly harmonized, quickly established themselves even within the chaotic demon battlefield. Seeing this, the Young Skeleton Principal breathed a sigh of relief.

“Why did you come? I definitely told you to wait.”

“How could we just watch when demons are attacking like this! I may not know about myself, but these two professors are definitely capable fighters.”

“S-Student Lee Han. I’m not very confident…”

Professor Garcia was flustered as his disciple seemed to overestimate him too much.

After all, he had come down trusting Professor Bagrek, but he wasn’t very confident in his own combat abilities.

Crackle!

Meanwhile, a demon trying to break through the giant barrier that Professor Garcia had deployed turned to powder.

Seeing this, the Young Skeleton Principal nodded. With their abilities, they were definitely qualified to move around the battlefield.

“Thank you all for worrying about such an inadequate master like me.”

“Please, really stop saying things like that.”

When Lee Han showed disgust, Professor Garcia also unconsciously nodded slightly.

Even though they had talked and firmly resolved themselves before coming down here, even that resolve was hard to endure against the Young Skeleton Principal’s grateful appearance.

“…No! Those bastards?!”

Lee Han, who had been conversing, belatedly noticed the change and was shocked.

Taking advantage of the gap in the demons’ encirclement, the city’s magical nobles and their minions were fleeing.

‘Even at Einroguard, when demons appear, we fight together!’

Lee Han was enraged by such absurd cowardice.

“Lord Gonadaltes! Just give the order! Professor Bagrek will sweep them all away!”

Professor Boladi didn’t deny it.

Though his appearance had changed greatly, the Young Skeleton Principal was his master, and pursuing enemies who betrayed and fled from his master was a disciple’s duty.

However, the Young Skeleton Principal shook his head.

“Leave them be. It’s actually better since they’re not in the way.”

Apart from his hatred for the city’s magical nobles, there were many of their minions here too.

The Young Skeleton Principal had no intention of abandoning them for petty revenge.

Prince. You’re not having the ridiculous delusion of sacrificing yourself to save those trash, are you?

Esadojikwa, who had many grudges against the prince, changed his thinking.

If the city mages currently fleeing were somehow part of his opponent’s plan, he couldn’t just let them go. It was a matter of pride.

Pursue them! Chase them to the end and kill everything you see!

“!”

The Young Skeleton Principal’s expression changed slightly.

It wasn’t that he was worried about the magical nobles. Having escaped the encirclement, they had sufficient ability to save their own lives.

What the Young Skeleton Principal was worried about were the people near the city gates.

If the magical nobles changed their minds and attempted to intercept near the gates, that would be fine, but given their arrogant and selfish nature, they would definitely pass straight through the gates to temporarily take refuge in the safest part of the city.

Then inevitably, bloodshed would occur near the gates.

With the magical nobles hastily passing through and demons arriving…

Having finished his thoughts, the Young Skeleton Principal immediately reacted. A projection was created and arrived at the front of the gates faster than anyone else, breaking through the surrounding interference.

‘The gates!’

Lee Han realized what the Young Skeleton Principal was doing.

In this urgent situation, he was proceeding with gate work using the southern jade and mermaid’s tears.

And he was making a separate projection to do it!

“Lord Gonadaltes, you must concentrate!”

While blocking the demons rushing from behind together with the professors, Lee Han shouted.

The demons attacking from all sides wailed desperately while targeting Lee Han specifically. They had figured out where Professor Garcia and Professor Boladi kept getting their mana replenished.

How dare you be careless in front of me, Esadojikwa. Prince. Today is your end!

Esadojikwa also seemed to realize that the young Skeleton Principal had made a reckless move.

Without giving him time to recover or show leisure, he immediately charged in. The blood-red axe absorbed the surrounding magic along with ghostly wails.

“Lord Gonadaltes! Cancel the projection and work on it again next time!”

Despite Lee Han’s shout, the young Skeleton Principal shook his head.

“Disciple.”

“Yes?”

“Yeongnak is actually not such a difficult magic.”

“What…!”

It was an excessively leisurely comment for a situation where a Great Demon was leaping while scattering murderous intent.

Lee Han was getting anxious just watching.

“Just as you came down out of genuine concern for me, please genuinely care for other people. Then you’ll soon understand.”

With those final words, the young Skeleton Principal collided head-on with Esadojikwa.

He staggered and was pushed back due to the projection working on the castle gate, but the young Skeleton Principal didn’t stop. Blood flowed from his eyes and nose, but he continued using magic in succession.

That princeling. Still arrogantly showing leisure!

Despite being in an advantageous situation, Esadojikwa growled with humiliation. Seeing that violent appearance, Lee Han decided he had to step in.

‘I should at least help with mana!’

He had promised Professor Garcia not to go outside, but promises originally have exceptions.

In the current situation, Professor Garcia would surely understand.

However, at that moment, the surrounding space distorted strangely. Professor Garcia shouted in surprise.

“The scepter!”

The scepter was trying to send Lee Han’s group back to where they originally were. Professor Garcia’s complexion changed at the much faster return than expected.

What would happen to the young Skeleton Principal if they returned while the battle was in full swing?

However, the young Skeleton Principal smiled as if it was fine and said.

“Go back. My disciples. This is not your era.”

“But…!”

“We’ll meet again someday. That alone is enough. Go!”

Along with the farewell, a spatial vortex swept up the surroundings. The charging demons scattered in all directions and Lee Han’s group entered the dimension.

The last scene Lee Han saw was the young Skeleton Principal defending the castle gate to the end while blocking Esadojikwa’s attacks.

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Pop!

“…!”

Lee Han, who had returned to Einroguard, staggered. It wasn’t simply due to the shock from the artifact casting.

‘…Honestly… I was moved.’

To think one could give such deep impression not with grand magic or piles of gold coins, but with attitude alone.

The scene he witnessed at the end had thrilled Lee Han that much.

In a miserable and ruthless era, even when the entire kingdom except himself tried to harm him, he steadfastly performed good deeds.

Not simply to learn Yeongnak magic, but because of the past he had directly witnessed.

Lee Han resolved to try being a somewhat more generous and kind person from now on.

‘Right. Even if not to the level of the young Principal, I should be a little more… to other people…’

-How dare you put other hamsters in my cage?!

Now that they had safely returned and had some leisure, the hamster spat out angry squeaking sounds.

-If you do that one more time!

“They’re gone now, so isn’t that fine! The young Principal is fighting for his life for people, and you’re still grumbling about one hamster friend being put in? Have some shame!”

-…

The hamster closed its mouth with an expression full of injustice.

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