Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 459

“I get wanting to be famous, but always fighting the strongest enemies is a bad idea!”

Gainando nodded, lost in thought.

Lee Han smacked Gainando on the back of the head and said,

“It’s not like I wanted to be in this situation…”

“Explanations later! I’m running out of magic! I need help!”

The undead wizard looked around at the students and said,

The undead wizard was not from this world. Summoning him from another place used a lot of his energy.

Also, he was still hurt from his fight with the Ghoul King.

No matter how skilled the undead wizard was, he couldn’t perform properly without help.

“Ancient powers, hear my call! Magic from all around, come to me now!”

He quickly drew a magic circle to pull magic from the air, but it wasn’t enough.

The undead wizard shouted to the students,

“To your positions! Head to your positions and add your strength to the magic circle!”

Lee Han didn’t stop to think about the magic circle with snakes, bones, and dark symbols.

Instead, he quickly moved as the undead wizard instructed. There was no time to waste with the army rushing in from the distance.

“His recovery isn’t complete…”

“L, Lee Han. Wouldn’t it be better to summon Pouting Spirit?”

“Even so, Perkhuntra would be better than nothing in this situation.”

“You think so too?”

“Hey, you slacker! Can’t you move faster!”

Gainando was startled by the undead wizard’s shout and tried to run.

However, there was no need.

As Lee Han stepped into the innermost circle of the magic circle, it blazed with light, initiating the circulation of magic power.

“There’s not enough magic! I can’t even do a small spell, and I might be sent back! Stop slacking… Oh. Never mind.”

“……”

“……”

Gainando and his friends, who were rushing over, stopped in their tracks.

“Never mind?”

“Ah… right. He had a lot of magic.”

The undead wizard didn’t have facial muscles, but he expressed his embarrassment through gestures.

Then the undead wizard remembered something. Lee Han, the person who summoned him, was incredibly talented. He had amazing magic power, even for his young age. It was power that could scare even powerful beings from other worlds.

Thanks to that, there was no need to pull magic from the other students; the required magic power was achieved in an instant.

With this much magic power, there was no need to worry about being sent back, and he could summon undeads abundantly.

“Thank you.”

“I was the one who summoned you.”

“Then… appear, my armies!”

With the undead wizard’s command, he began to summon the undeads he had a contract with.

From the space connected to the magic circle, the gate to another dimension opened, and skeleton warriors formed ranks, one after another.

Lee Han, seeing a clear difference from ordinary skeleton warriors, asked with a hint of disbelief,

“Are those Dragon Tooth Warriors??”

The strength of undead skeletons depended on the bones they were made from. Skeletons made from dragon teeth were the strongest and most terrifying.

With that size and that spirited vigor…

“Are you crazy? How prideful do you think summons made from dragon teeth are! There’s no way I could command them like this. Of course, these warriors aren’t ordinary either.”

“Ah. Perhaps bones of a demon…”

“A tiny bit of dragon teeth is mixed in.”

“……”

“Even that alone is amazing!”

“I, I see.”

It didn’t sound like much when he said it, but the undead wizard was right.

Even with just a tiny bit of dragon teeth mixed in, the skeleton warriors were exuding overwhelming vigor.

The summoning didn’t end there.

As the skeleton warriors with shields formed a battle line and completed an iron wall, banshee mages lined up behind them.

The banshee mages were getting magic from the ground. When they saw Lee Han, they bowed down to him.

“…It’s because I have a contract with that wizard.”

“Y, yes.”

Imirgue was puzzled when Lee Han answered something he hadn’t even asked.

“…I offer all of my remaining magic power, King of Horses and King of Kings, aid me according to our contract!”

As the undead wizard squeezed out his magic power and completed the final summoning, centaur ghouls burst out from one side.

The massive beast cavalry, the centaur ghouls, began their charge, following their leader.

“Now, preparations are complete! Intercept the enemies! Don’t worry about magic power!”

“Aren’t you being too reckless?”

Lee Han asked with concern, and the undead wizard glanced down at the magic circle to check.

Then he shouted again,

“Don’t worry about magic power, so pour it on even more!”

“……”

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“Phew. All done.”

Koholtie slumped down, having finished summoning the undead.

Summoning so many undead was hard, even for the best students at Einrogaard.

He used all the magic ingredients he had and many magic circles. He was very tired.

“Is it going properly?”

“Yes. It’s going properly.”

Ogoldos answered, watching the undead army rushing far away.

He had seen it last year as well, but seeing it with more knowledge as a second-year student, he felt anew how amazing it was.

Summoning so many undead was amazing. But controlling those wild undead so well was also amazing.

Even though many undead rushed forward, shaking the ground and looking like they would destroy everything, the younger students nearby were not hurt at all.

Ogoldos was reminded of the past.

‘I also decided to dedicate myself to dark magic after seeing that.’

At first, it was really scary.

He had entered the lecture hall, and suddenly another dimension was unfolding, and an undead army was rushing towards him; how could he not be scared?

He was trembling, thinking this was the end, but suddenly the undead army scattered to the side without touching a single hair on the students and passed by.

Only then could Ogoldos realize.

All of this was a spectacular play by the seniors learning dark magic!

‘It’s really amazing, even when I see it again…’

“Hey, hey! Hey!!!”

“What’s wrong? Wait. Don’t come to my back.”

Ogeldos looked at Cohorti carefully, not trusting him.

Cohorti looked like he was being treated unfairly. He held up his empty hands and yelled,

“Look! The undead army!”

“Gasp!” Both of them gasped, shocked.

They looked again and again. It was a battle! *Why was this happening?*

“W-what is going on?” Cohorti stammered, his voice shaking. “D-did the spell fail? Did they not understand they should not attack the younger students?” Cohorti’s face went white, and he started to tremble.

He imagined all the first-year students leaving the Dark Arts class. Even though Professor Mortum was usually easy-going, this could mean Cohorti would be locked up as punishment for a very long time!

“…Wait, senior,” Ogeldos said slowly. “Doesn’t something seem wrong?”

“Wrong? What? Are we imagining this? This can’t be real, can it? Tell me we are imagining it!” Cohorti’s voice was high with panic.

“No, not that!” Ogeldos pointed. “Look! They are… they are winning!” Cohorti blinked, confused.

Now that he thought about it, something *was* strange. If he had messed up the orders, the undead should have just crushed the younger students quickly. But they were fighting back. Fighting meant it was a fair fight. But wait… it wasn’t fair. *Their* side was…?

*Wait!* Cohorti quickly made an undead bat fly closer to see better. He stopped moving completely, staring at what was happening.

The undead army was being pushed back, step by step! Stronger skeleton warriors, much tougher than the normal ones, stood in a line like a wall. At the same time, centaur ghouls charged forward again and again, attacking and then running back, causing chaos in the enemy ranks.

And even worse, the banshee mages were using a powerful magic. They cast spell after spell, so fast it was like they had endless power. A green, ghostly mist spread out, and where it touched the undead, they seemed to melt into nothing.

‘What is happening?!’ His undead army wasn’t ready to fight. They had no plan, no way to defend themselves. They were just a big group with no skill. They should be losing badly in a fight like this. But… But they weren’t! ‘No, this can’t be real!’

But even more than that, how could first-year students summon such a huge army?! Cohorti watched closely, still not believing his eyes. This looked like something only a very powerful undead wizard could do, someone who had lived for ages. It wasn’t just summoning the undead, but how they were organized, placed in battle, and controlled… it was amazing!

“Senior Bae! Senior!!!” Ogeldos called loudly.

“Huh? What?” Cohorti jumped, startled by Ogeldos’s voice. He had been so focused on the battle, he hadn’t even noticed Ogeldos calling him.

“I don’t know what’s happening, but we need to stop this fight now!” Ogeldos said urgently. “If it keeps going, all our undead will be destroyed!”

“Ah!” Cohorti suddenly understood the real problem.

It wasn’t important *right now* how the first-year students had summoned so many undead. Okay, that was still very strange and interesting, but… ‘Oh no!’ The really important thing was all the expensive materials used to summon the undead army!

If the undead were sent back safely, they could get some of the materials back. But if they were destroyed in battle and *then* sent back, they would get nothing! Dirette was planning to collect those materials after the demonstration in the next class…

If he didn’t stop this, Dirette would arrive to find only a destroyed mess. And Cohorti might be punished so badly, he’d wish he was buried alive!

A frantic undead bat flew towards them, flapping its wings wildly. “-Junior! Mistake! Mistake! Exam! Practice!” it squeaked, its voice rushed and broken. Words were missing, it was so urgent. But Lee Han understood right away.

“Ah. It was a demonstration to show before the midterm exam? I thought it seemed like there was no aggression…”

“-Yes! Stop! Stop!”

“Isn’t it a trap?”

“It might be a trap, Lee Han. Let’s destroy them all. We can think about it after that!” Raphael and Gainando whispered from behind, but Lee Han did not waver.

First of all, the Dark Arts department seniors weren’t so vile as to set traps with things like this, and more than anything, the circumstances matched.

“I troubled you for nothing. I should have stayed still.”

“-…What…?” The undead mage next to him looked at Lee Han as if he was dumbfounded.

He thought it was an urgent situation where his life was threatened, but something was strange.

“It was an exam. You know? Being tested by a teacher…”

The undead mage raged and rampaged in another dimension’s language. He had gathered an army, leading his unhealed body, thinking Lee Han’s life was in danger, but what??

“-More than that, what kind of dimwitted dark arts guys show off by showing something like this! The undead army is a hammer and axe to destroy enemies, not a tool for showing off!”

Cohorti, who was listening through the bat, had nothing to say even if he had ten mouths.

“I’m sorry. I’ll call you when it’s really dangerous next time.”

“-You must remember that you’re only hurting yourself if you waste such a precious opportunity!” The undead mage was so dumbfounded that he lectured him several times.

Once powerful beings from other dimensions are summoned, it is difficult to summon them again until their power is restored, and moreover, the undead mage was injured…

Gainando, who was next to him, asked with a puzzled expression.

“But didn’t you take a lot of magic power earlier, so isn’t your injury healed?”

Lee Han quickly shut his mouth when the undead mage glared at Gainando with fierce blue eyes.

“No. Mr. Verdus. I was wrong. Please go back now.”

“-Hmph!” The undead mage glared at Gainando once and was reverse-summoned.

Then, the field became so quiet that it was hard to believe that so many undead had been there until just now.

Imirgue, who was next to him, hesitated and then carefully asked as if he couldn’t hold back any longer.

“W-Wodanaz. Did you make Professor Verdus an undead?”

“…No!”