Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 68

At the very moment the Headmaster with the skull mask looked very surprised, Lee Han and his Blue Dragon Tower friends were dashing down the stairs.

Lee Han felt a tingle in the air. The magic was coming back!

Lee Han could feel it.

The scattered magic of the tower was quickly regaining its form and gathering once more.

The magic of the magic school, though momentarily dispersed by the unexpected shock, was indeed powerful.

It was prepared to recover even in such a situation.

And if all of this were to recover…

Lee Han knew things would go badly for them if the magic came back. We need those flags to win!

Whoosh!

“Uwaaaah!”

“Gainando! Watch out!”

In the process of the magic gathering, one spell seemed to have completed momentarily. The magic activated with a flicker.

Suddenly, a bright red light flashed from the tower. *WHOOSH!* Gainando was yanked backwards as if pulled by an invisible rope.

It was as if someone had hooked an invisible hook onto Gainando’s collar and pulled.

“Krak!”

Gainando was flung out of the White Tiger Tower’s main gate and tumbled head over heels.

It was clearly a spell to expel intruders.

“Hurry! Things will get troublesome if other spells complete!”

“Al, alright!”

The Blue Dragon Tower students nodded.

They were about to panic, but they had a leader more reliable than anyone else.

Seeing Lee Han, with his sculpted face, issuing commands calmly, speaking quietly but firmly and looking around quickly to think, the students who were about to panic regained their composure and followed behind.

Bang!

They burst into the first-year lounge. Books and bags were scattered everywhere. Flags hung on the wall, some crooked and badly made.

Lee Han and Retford quickly searched for things that could be turned into money—or rather, things that looked like flags.

“W-what is going on here?!”

Dergyu, who had come down from his private room due to the faint commotion, blinked in confusion.

The Blue Dragon Tower students, who should not have been there, were swarming into the first-year lounge.

Dergyu recognized a familiar face and asked in a subdued voice.

“Lee Han! What’s going on…”

“Dergyu!”

“Huh?”

“Behind you!”

“Uhh?”

Dergyu carelessly turned around. Lee Han immediately threw the marble, smacking Dergyu’s unguarded jaw.

The poor, half-asleep orc friend fell again, simply because he trusted Lee Han. Why would Lee Han do that?

“…Haha! You White Tiger Tower punk! Pay the price for disrespecting Wodanaaz!”

One of the Blue Dragon Tower students cheered, while Yoner looked at Lee Han with a bewildered expression.

His face seemed to say, ‘Is this really okay?’

Lee Han shook his head and said,

“He’ll understand later. It’s better if they think he was also surprised. This is better for Dergyu too.”

The reason Lee Han hadn’t told Dergyu about the attack plan was simple.

Dergyu was, after all, a student of the White Tiger Tower.

It wasn’t because he was worried about betrayal.

It was because he was worried that Dergyu, who was already somewhat ostracized within the White Tiger Tower, would be bullied if he got involved in this plan.

Yoner knew this too, so he agreed, but…

‘Even considering that, I think he hit his jaw a little too hard!’

“Seeing him collapsed like this, the other White Tiger Tower students won’t have any unnecessary misunderstandings. Dergyu doesn’t need to become an outcast in the tower like Nilia.”

“Yeah… But did you have to use Nilia as an example…?”

“I found them!”

Like a professional thief, Retford quickly found the flags.

The problem was that there wasn’t just one flag.

“Here too!”

“There’s one here too…?!”

The flags that the White Tiger Tower students had practiced making and failed were appearing here and there.

The patterns were clumsy, but it was hard to tell in the dark.

Lee Han came to a simple conclusion.

“Take them all.”

“…!”

I see!

We just have to take them all!

The Blue Dragon Tower students picked up the flags as they saw them, grabbing whatever they could.

“…Wh, what’s going on??”

A second White Tiger Tower student appeared.

It was Rowena, the black-haired elf Lee Han knew.

Rowena’s expressionless face turned to horror as she made eye contact with the princess, who was gathering flags and stuffing them into her arms.

“What is really going on?! Princess! Are you alright?”

“Be quiet and don’t move! If you move, I won’t let the princess go!”

“?!!”

The eyes of the princess, who had come to help and suddenly became a hostage, trembled slightly.

Rowena was startled and raised both arms.

“N-no! I’ll stay still! I must protect the princess!”

“Yes! Stay still!”

Lee Han tied Rowena’s feet with a single word.

Retford shouted urgently.

“I’ve checked everything! There’s nothing more!”

“Good. Let’s get out of here!”

Whoosh!

As the spells that had lost their form gained power, signs began to appear.

Two of the Blue Dragon Tower students were flung out like Gainando earlier.

“Those who got out, head towards the Blue Dragon Tower! Retford, run!”

“Yes!”

“The Blue Dragon Tower bastards have invaded the lounge!!!!”

As the commotion continued, the White Tiger Tower students slowly began to wake up.

The White Tiger Tower students, who came down to the lounge to check and witnessed a bolt from the blue, woke up their friends at the top of their lungs.

“Rowena! Why are you standing still?!”

“Th, those guys said they wouldn’t let the princess go if we moved…”

“What are you talking about! They’re from the same tower and came with us!”

“…!”

“Chase them!! Don’t let them get away!!”

Lee Han and his friends had successfully escaped from the White Tiger Tower.

As they ran, Lee Han felt a shiver as the tower’s magic almost hit his head.

“Ugh… Ugh, eugh,” the students who were hit by the magic groaned and fell down, as if they were very sick.

Gainando fell to the ground and struggled to get up.

“Help the others who fell and run! The White Tiger Tower students are coming!”

“O-okay!”

Lee Han picked up Gainando and put him on his shoulders. Gainando screamed.

“Driver! Go easy!! Drive carefully!!”

“This isn’t a carriage, Gainando! Calm down!”

Tap tap tap-

“You thief bastards!!!”

The White Tiger Tower students lit torches and shouted.

They were very surprised to be attacked at night, and their flag was gone.

Asan from the Blue Dragon Tower shouted back, wanting to be just as loud.

“We should be saying that! You are just cheaters! You made fake flags! You guys are scammers!”

“Stop shouting and just run, Asan!”

Lee Han was faster than the other students, even while carrying Gainando. But then, Lee Han stopped.

The White Tiger Tower students were faster than he thought.

‘If we keep going like this, some of us will get caught!’

Raetford, breathing hard, asked,

“Are you going to use the Prince as bait?”

“…No!”

Lee Han was surprised for a moment.

He really wasn’t planning to.

“Wodanaz, you jerk! I’ll let you get away with taking the Princess to threaten Rowena! But Dergyu trusted you! And you knocked out Dergyu?!”

Angarago, the goat beastman, shouted angrily.

Seeing a chance, Lee Han said coldly,

“Dergyu? He was just a pawn. It’s his fault for being tricked.”

“…Wodanaz, you jerk!!!”

Angarago got very angry and charged at Lee Han. But Angarago was not strong enough to beat Lee Han.

Besides being good at swords, Lee Han had been trained hard by Professor Voladi.

Lee Han quickly made a water orb.

“Spring forth!”

The water orb appeared. Lee Han cast another spell right away.

“Move!”

Angarago, who was running at him, fell. The heavy water orb took away his strength.

Angarago looked up at Lee Han, angry and sad.

The torches behind them flickered, making shadows jump on Lee Han’s face. His face was already serious, but the shadows made him look even colder, like stone.

Thinking of Dergyu, passed out in the lounge, Angarago felt even angrier and sadder.

“Kugh…! Wodanaz! You monster who only knows magic…!!”

“Angarago!!”

The White Tiger Tower students ran to Angarago and cried out in sadness.

Seeing their friend fall, they felt like they were watching a good knight lose to an evil wizard.

“Heh… Heh heh heh! You can never beat Wodanaz… Uwek.”

“Don’t make them angrier, just be quiet.”

Lee Han hit Gainando’s mouth because Gainando was trying to make them angry. Gainando stopped talking.

“This was for a class, so let’s not be enemies.”

“How can you say that!”

‘That is a bit bold, even for me,’ Lee Han thought.

What good would it do to tell the White Tiger Tower students, who were already angry, that the Skull Headmaster made the students fight each other with this class? Maybe they would just say, ‘I’ll beat you up first and then think about it.’

Lee Han sighed. In the end, he had to use force.

Of course, the White Tiger Tower students thought Lee Han was making fun of them because it was dark.

“Y-you…!”

“Don’t follow me. I can use the same magic as before. It might be different in the daytime, but it will be hard to dodge in this darkness.”

Lee Han wanted to escape before the White Tiger Tower students got closer.

Even if he could fight six or seven people, he didn’t know what would happen if there were more.

“…I don’t care! Friends! Avenge Dergyu! Avenge Dergyu, who was tricked by Wodanaz!”

Angarago shouted sadly. Lee Han wished he had knocked Angarago out.

The White Tiger Tower students’ eyes changed.

‘Damn it.’

Even though they were hurt, they were determined to avenge Dergyu. They were from knightly families, so they cared more about their friend’s honor than their own safety.

Gainando said in a tired voice,

“…Are we in trouble?”

Lee Han hit Gainando’s mouth again instead of answering.

‘I’ll hit the ones on the left with a water orb, block the ones on the right with my sword… blind them for a moment, then turn around and run away…’

It was unexpected, but Lee Han quickly planned what to do.

But then, Gainando pointed behind the White Tiger Tower students and screamed,

“…Behind you!! Behind you!!”

“Wodanaz, do you think we’re stupid!? Do you think we’d be tricked if you told the Prince to do it?!”

“Look behind you!!!”

“We’ll never be foo… Aaaaargh!”

Whoosh!

A huge vine grabbed a White Tiger Tower student and lifted him into the air.

Lee Han thought it was the tower’s defense magic at first, but then he saw the huge vine monster in the darkness.

But it wasn’t.

-A monster has escaped from the greenhouse! A monster has escaped from the greenhouse!

-It’s going towards the freshmen! …I don’t know anything! This should be reported!

-Be quiet and fix it!?!

Lee Han faintly heard familiar shouts from far away. It sounded like the students of a professor who had problems with his experiments. This was a common sound at the school.

Tap!

Professor Garcia appeared in the air and landed softly. He waved his wand to make the vine monster go back, then looked at Lee Han and said,

“The monsters are escaping again. This will be a hard week for the freshmen, Mr. Lee Han.”

“…Wait. Did you say ‘again’ and ‘monsters’?”

Monsters have escaped like this ‘again’?

“Why are you here, Mr. Lee Han?”

“Professor! That vine monster took my friend! Please save him!”

“Ah, I understand. Please wait.”