Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 699
While the second-year students were losing interest in smuggling thanks to Lee Han and Giselle’s persuasion, the commotion at the inspection station was getting even worse.
Once the giant and the crazed bladed bear started rampaging, other third-year students gradually began drawing their wands as well.
“Do not draw your wands!”
“Ah. I was just suddenly wondering if I’d cleaned my wand well enough last night… Sacred light, burn the undead!”
“Don’t try such pathetic tricks here!”
“Fellow students, gather! Defeat the Skull Principal’s lackeys and restore Einroguard’s glory!”
“It’s a revolution! A revolution!”
“Another rebellion?!”
The scale of the uproar flared up like wildfire.
The Death Knights shouted as if they were sick to death of it and called for reinforcements.
“Hurry and subdue these mages!”
“I’ll make you pay for throwing me into the punishment ward last fall! Negative energy shield!”
“Liberation from dark elements!”
“Intermediate undead weakening, sight of undead pursuit, undead confusion—”
‘No, seriously. How many times have these seniors fought the Death Knights?’
Watching the battle at the inspection station, Lee Han was impressed.
Apparently the seniors had not fought the Skull Principal’s servants only once or twice, because they immediately started throwing out prepared spells.
One of a mage’s strengths was flexibility. With preparation, a mage could strike at the weaknesses of enemies stronger than the mage.
The seniors were showing that flexibility clearly. Several Death Knights took hits and were reverse-summoned.
BOOM! BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!
All kinds of magic exploded through the air, and flames, thunderous blasts, flashes, energy waves, and shockwaves swept across the area.
A White Tiger Tower senior transformed into a gigantic arksaurus and, backed by enhancement magic from friends, crushed Death Knights underfoot.
On top of that, a Black Turtle Tower senior climbed up and rapidly hurled potion bottles through the air, then cast an activation spell that linked their effects together. A storm of colliding energies erupted around them.
Meanwhile, several Blue Dragon Tower seniors completed the grand spell they had been preparing.
A spatial rift opened, and a crimson lizard with a flicking tongue peered down through torn pupils.
A savage rain of fire fell. Each streak exploded on impact, destroying and burning everything.
It was a fierce grand spell woven from spiritcraft, summoning magic, elemental magic application, and more.
‘Amazing!’
Lee Han was genuinely impressed.
“Hey, you bastards! Who are you firing at?!”
“You meat shields should shut up and keep fighting.”
“You sons of bitches want to die?!”
“Try it if you can. You really do stink like beasts.”
“…”
Lee Han was appalled.
They were fighting each other in the middle of this?
The others seemed to feel the same way, muttering under their breath.
“Isn’t that way too harsh?”
“Wow. Even when I cursed House Wardanaz behind the back after getting hit, I didn’t go that far.”
“Hey. House Wardanaz is right beside you.”
The second-years, who had spent a year more or less united whenever something important happened no matter how much they bickered, were deeply shaken by how viciously the seniors were fighting.
Even Giselle seemed rattled, staring at the dispute in disbelief.
“Moradi. Aren’t the seniors going too far?”
“Do they really have to act like that?”
Lee Han kindly answered for Giselle.
“Moradi wouldn’t be shocked by something like that.”
“…Ha. Ha. What’s that supposed to mean, you bastard?”
“Mm, it was a compliment.”
The Phoenix Tower seniors, who were healing the wounded impartially, shouted out,
“If you’re going to fight, please fight later! It’s hard to treat people right now!”
“Use spells that are easier to heal from! The magic you’re using on the Death Knights is making the injuries too messy to treat—!”
‘Shouldn’t you be stopping them for an entirely different reason?’
While the students were fighting among themselves, the Death Knights’ reinforcements arrived.
“Storehouse Keeper, we request your aid.”
The storehouse keeper nodded.
The students staging a revolution today had not been lucky.
This inspection was the most thoroughly prepared one in the past ten years.
One part of that preparation was a summoned creature the Skull Principal had left behind.
At first it had seemed unnecessary. It was not as if they were preparing to face some overwhelming lightning spirit, so why would he leave such a summon here?
But there was no doubt it could clean up the current situation.
“Come forth. Anansi!”
“!”
As the Skull Principal’s enormous summon emerged from a rift in the air, the students fighting at the inspection station were startled.
“A summon too?!”
“Isn’t this going way too far?! Why did they prepare this much?!”
“It’s too late to back out now! Take down the summon too!”
The student who had shouted so bravely suddenly collapsed. Tough spiderwebs had wrapped around the whole body and locked every movement.
“A-Anansi!”
“Damn it…! It’s Anansi!”
Amid the students’ screams, a gigantic spider revealed itself.
A spider as large as a giant glared at the students with eight shining eyes.
“Students, and you’re interested in mischief instead of study?”
“Shut up, Anansi! Does this look like a joke to you?!”
“You hound of the Skull Principal, do you know how desperate we are?!”
Magic slammed into the spider’s enormous body. But Anansi overcame the impacts with nothing more than a light shake. The defense was monstrous.
After shrugging off the attack, Anansi’s body suddenly rippled, then swelled to a terrifying degree.
Then it exhaled.
The spider’s breath of darkness stiffened the students’ bodies and poisoned them.
“Ghk!”
“Guhk!”
“Get back!”
Sweeping through the students gathered at the inspection station with ease, Anansi clicked its legs and lunged as if biting into the rift in the air.
The crimson lizard with the flicking tongue, summoned by the students, collided head-on with Anansi.
The rain of fire burned Anansi, while the spider’s deadly venom poisoned the lizard. It was a true clash of great powers.
But as one of the Skull Principal’s servants, Anansi received the territory’s power and was bound to have the advantage over a being from another dimension. The crimson lizard let out a humiliating cry and fled beyond the dimension.
Because of that, several Blue Dragon Tower students maintaining the grand spell coughed up blood and collapsed.
The rebound from spell destruction.
“Lee Han, let’s fall back!”
“Looks like we should. Everyone, get back!”
The second-year students who had not participated in the fight at the inspection station quickly retreated.
The other seniors who had not joined the fight pulled back too. In an instant, Anansi wrapped the remaining students near the inspection station in webs and stiffened them with its breath.
“Well done, Anansi.”
“Thanks to you, this ended quickly.”
Instead of answering, Anansi made an even louder clicking sound than before.
At that sound, the Death Knights suddenly felt uneasy.
Once the terror of the underground kingdom, Anansi had been different from other strong and savage monsters. With a playful, malicious temperament, it had driven nearby dark elves and dwarf tribes into despair.
That personality had been greatly corrected after submitting to the Skull Principal, but it had not disappeared completely.
And when it saw students playing games, its competitive streak often flared up. Once that happened, it was not easy to stop.
“No way…”
“They all need to be sent to the punishment ward!”
Anansi’s eight eyes gleamed with malice.
At that sight, Lee Han felt a sensation he had experienced countless times before.
…The sensation of things going wrong!
“Everyone! Fall back farther!! That crazy summon is coming this way!!!”
The remaining students from second year to fourth year immediately began moving.
Lee Han started casting whatever magic he could and summoned creatures one after another. Dark skeleton warriors formed a firm formation and took aim with their arrows.
As if it had woken up inside his sleeve, the baby basilisk hissed aggressively at Anansi.
It almost looked like it wanted permission to fight.
Lee Han said firmly,
“…You’re too young to fight an opponent like that!”
Given the size difference between the two, even if they were both venom users, it looked dangerous.
Anansi’s body swelled.
Then it spewed another breath of darkness.
“That damned spider bastard!”
“Kill it! Beat some sense into it!”
The Death Knights cursed furiously and drew swords of blazing blue negative energy.
With students, perhaps restraint was necessary. With a summon like Anansi, there was no need for mercy at all.
In an instant, huge wounds tore open across Anansi’s back and torso, and the negative energy made its body shrivel.
But Anansi did not care. Excited, it swelled even larger and kept spewing breath of darkness. It was completely thrilled by a chance to indulge in mischief again after so long.
“Kh… insane…”
Ogoldos of the dark magic group staggered and dropped to knees.
For a student majoring in dark magic, there was hardly anything more humiliating than being poisoned, but Anansi’s breath was truly vile.
A magical breath that stiffened the body the instant you inhaled it.
A breath that shut down every method…
“Senior!”
With enhancement magic cast on himself, Lee Han sprinted over, hoisted Ogoldos onto a shoulder, and ran off at full speed.
Paralyzed, Ogoldos could only roll eyes and stare at Lee Han.
“N… y… wh…?”
Tongue stiffened, Ogoldos could not even pronounce the words properly. Lee Han quickly dumped Ogoldos in front of the Phoenix Tower seniors.
“Seniors! Please help!”
“A-Alright! …Wait, how is a junior—”
Ignoring that, Lee Han ran back in and dragged out unlucky friends and seniors who had been caught.
When the other seniors saw Lee Han running over with Anpagon of the enchantment magic group slung across his back, they cried out in shock.
“There’s someone saving Anpagon?!”
“Probably because he just became a second-year! Junior, trust us! Trust us and [N O V E L I G H T] leave that one behind! Otherwise you’ll regret it later!”
“…”
Amid the stunned cries and heckling, Lee Han set Anpagon down in front of the Phoenix Tower seniors.
‘I’d better hide the fact that I’m taking enchantment magic classes.’
When Lee Han ran back into the area covered by the breath, he saw the Death Knights surrounding Anansi and beating it down.
The foul darkness blocked his vision, but the sphere of light Lee Han had summoned was no joke either. It pierced through the dark and revealed the scene.
‘That’s a relief. It’ll be subdued soon—’
“Disciple! Come over here and help! This spider bastard’s gone mad!”
“Disciple! Hurry!”
“?”
Lee Han instinctively looked around.
For a moment, he wondered whether there was someone else nearby.
“…”
Then he realized.
‘They mean me!’
Now that he thought about it, they were calling him.
“I do not have the ability to seriously damage a monster like that!”
“Oh, really? You can’t use <Gonadaltes’s Sword> or <Gonadaltes’s Hatred>?”
“…”
The Death Knights replied awkwardly.
“Then perhaps you should just go rest—”
Anansi’s breath exploded out again, and the darkness thickened even further.
Then Lee Han’s crest suddenly began to shine.
“Who is that?”
The Death Knights stared at the glowing crest in confusion.
Who had Lee Han made a contract with, for it to react in a situation like this?
“…Who was this again?”
“……”
“It wasn’t Lord Perkuntra, and it wasn’t Lord Upinum, and not the phoenix… not a spirit either…”
While the Death Knights looked on in bafflement, the answer soon appeared.
An undead mage who had fought with Lee Han in the Ghoul King’s palace took shape within the darkness and stepped forward.
“Contractor… it has been a long time…!”
“!”
Even Lee Han was startled.
Because the contractor’s environment had become similar to that being’s original dimension, the summoning conditions had been satisfied?
Lee Han knew that among interdimensional beings, some could only be called under special conditions, but he had never expected to see one appear like this.
“Lord Verdus!”
“…Wait, who did you just say?”
“Tell me I misheard that! Quickly!”
The Death Knights reacted far more violently than expected, recoiling in horror.
They would rather capture it themselves than receive help from that professor.
