Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 1044

Hearing the leather merchant cursing behind him, Lee Han turned away with a small smile.

‘A truly unfortunate event.’ To be caught by Professor Voladi.

Lee Han sighed. ‘Bad luck,’ he thought. Being caught by Professor Voladi was the worst thing that could happen.

“Wait,” Lee Han said. “If you destroyed those arenas… does that mean others are ruined too?”

Professor Voladi stopped walking. He looked surprised. Lee Han was shocked. *Could it be true? Had Professor Voladi destroyed many places?*

Fortunately, there was one underground arena that hadn’t been destroyed.

Of course, before finding that arena, Professor Voladi had to visit three more that had been ruined.

-You’ve caught all the bosses, what arena are you talking about! They’ve all scattered!

-Spare me, please! I have nothing to do with this! I have no weapons! Since I have no weapons, please spare me from that magic!

-Ah. Are you that combat mage? Thanks to you, I was able to buy this tavern cheaply. The guild guys who used to run this place were utterly terrified.

“Found it. Let’s go in.”

Lee Han thought, *Is this really “finding” it? It feels more like just asking anyone who looks guilty.*

*Click.* The entrance to this arena was by a sewer in the slums. They walked down a dark passage made of old, round stones. Lee Han knocked three times on a red stone. A secret door opened.

Light spilled out. Torches flickered inside. Lee Han could hear shouts.

“Bet more, you cheat!”

“Don’t touch my cards or I’ll break your fingers!”

“Aim for the legs! Not the shield!”

The sounds of gambling filled the passage. This arena had everything: cards, fights, and more.

A man behind a counter piled with dirty silver coins looked up. “Hey! New faces. Who are you with?” he asked.

“We are looking for someone,” Lee Han said. “A Gorgon hybrid. Have you seen one?”

“Gorgon what-now? Never heard of it. Look, if you’re not here to gamble, get lost.” The man’s voice was rough. He looked suspicious.

Lee Han reached for his staff. But Professor Voladi moved faster.

*Wham!* The guild member’s head hit the counter with a loud crack. He fell to the ground. At the same time, Professor Voladi sent a wave of power into the arena.

*Stop moving!* his voice boomed in everyone’s minds.

People froze. Those who understood magic dropped to their knees in fear.

However, those who were fearless or foolish tried to grab the weapons they had on their hips, cursing.

“Shatter, lightning of Perkuntra!”

Lee Han used a spell he knew well. Lightning crackled around his hands, then burst outwards like a storm.

As lightning struck several people, they tumbled around with painful screams. Lee Han did not stop and activated the accumulated magic. Lightning spears and lightning mantles were cast, causing discharge phenomena around him.

“Don’t come closer! I’ll attack if you come closer!”

“What are you talking about, you crazy bastard, after attacking first!”

“…Um!”

Lee Han was quiet. He knew mages were weak to surprise attacks, so Professor Voladi had attacked first. But the criminals looked very angry. *Maybe attacking first wasn’t polite,* Lee Han thought.

‘But there’s no choice.’ Now that a fight had broken out, he couldn’t just take it. Lee Han summoned a medium-sized skeleton golem made of dragon teeth.

Crack!

Guild members grabbed crossbows to shoot Lee Han. They cursed as his golem smashed the arena. It was a small place, and the golem was destroying everything.

“Hey, you cursed mage!!”

“What are you so dissatisfied with that you’re tearing this place down!”

“…Um!”

Lee Han wanted to explain, ‘The situation is a mess right now, and I’m defending with a lightning mantle and telekinesis, but if magic arrows or bolts fly in from a distance, I could suffer unexpected damage, so I summoned a defensive summon.’

But now that he had already destroyed half of the underground arena’s facilities, the opportunity to do so was long gone. Lee Han gave up and ordered destruction.

“Sweep away all those standing!”

The lightly armed arena guild members were unable to subdue the golem and were swept away like balls. Lee Han continued to cast [Eye of the Raven> from behind. The enemies hit by the curse were poisoned and collapsed.

“Wh… What…”

“Did the entire Magic Tower come?!”

The guild members who popped out from the other rooms that were connected were bewildered because they couldn’t figure out the situation.

Lightning flashed everywhere, a medium-sized golem was rampaging in the middle of the arena, blowing away structures, and the comrades who came out with weapons were collapsing without even being hit, as if they had been cursed.

No matter how you thought about it, it wasn’t the kind of violence that one or two mages could do.

Excessive violence that felt like the entire Magic Tower had come and was rampaging!

Why are they going this far?

‘Did someone kidnap a mage?? I didn’t do that?’

“Sword, of Bible…”

As Lee Han was about to summon the recently learned [Flying Sword of Bible> to make sure, Professor Voladi, who had returned in the meantime, said.

“It doesn’t seem to be here.”

“Ah. Is that so?”

While his disciple was beating the guild members in the center, Professor Voladi suppressed all the guild members inside, finished checking, and came out.

“Let’s go back.”

“Yes.”

After the two mages disappeared, a suffocating silence came.

The remaining guests slowly looked around and ran out. The guild members scattered everywhere could not even think of threatening or grabbing them and just watched blankly.

Someone muttered.

“…These crazy mage bastards…!”

In fact, it was not surprising that Eandurde was not in the first underground arena they went to.

The capital was one of the largest cities in the empire, and the crime that was rolling in the shadows of that city was just as great.

There would easily be more than a dozen large and small underground arenas in the slums alone.

However, when Eandurde was not seen in the second underground arena, Lee Han was slightly troubled.

“Could it be that Eandurde went to another illegal arena? Not here…”

‘Shouldn’t you have thought about that before destroying them all?’

The guild member who had collapsed next to him cursed inwardly with his eyes closed. He was afraid that if he opened his eyes, the mages would beat him up at any moment.

Who the hell is the Gorgon hybrid???

However, Professor Voladi shook his head.

“It’s not easy to do that.” There could be such arenas in other parts of the capital, not in the slum area.

But people like Eandurde could not easily enter such places. They needed their own identification and guarantee.

The arena in this area, which is relatively easy to enter and which Eandurde knows well, must be the one.

“Um. May I ask you something? Is there another illegal arena around here?”

Lee Han asked the guild member who was pretending to be unconscious with his eyes closed. The guild member, realizing that he had been caught, urgently spat out.

“There! I heard that there are guys doing it near the ranch down the road! Please save me!”

“Thank you.”

“Those guys are very bad guys! Please punish them!!”

“I understand.”

Lee Han moved again with Professor Voladi, listening to the guild member’s support.

But this time it was a little different.

In the third underground arena, the guild members there came out to greet them first.

“We don’t have anything like a Gorgon hybrid!”

Due to the rumor that a crazy hunter butcher had appeared and was sweeping around, the guild members belonging to the arena disguised as a ranch here were in a state of extreme tension.

Under normal circumstances, they would have fought with force, but this time the opponent was too bad.

According to the rumors, they were looking for some Gorgon hybrid and were destroying everything in their path…

-Wasn’t he not the type to destroy things like that? Why is he destroying everything like that?

-Is that important? If there’s anyone who bought a Gorgon hybrid, tell me quickly. If I find out later that you hid it, I’ll skin you alive!

They checked the ledger and even checked the guild members’ back pockets, and they were able to be sure.

They don’t have anything like a Gorgon hybrid.

The guild members, who were relieved, waited on the path on the hill leading to the ranch and shouted like this.

“You don’t have it?”

“That’s right. If you don’t believe me, I can show you.”

“…Uh, are you perhaps a guild that has been officially approved by the Empire?”

Lee Han asked back in embarrassment.

The criminals who were operating illegally were too polite and kind.

The guild members looked like they had chewed on something at that word.

The crazy mage who was destroying the guilds everywhere was saying such things, and they felt like their internal organs were turning upside down.

‘You bastard!’

“Start.” Professor Voladi said to Lee Han in a low voice. He said it because Lee Han had asked him to ‘Please give me a signal before attacking’.

“??”

The guild members were slow to react because they didn’t understand what ‘start’ meant. At that moment, the two mages disappeared.

Wham!

What struck first was a well-refined attack. The fallen guild members collapsed without even realizing that the illusionary blades formed by magic had cut their vitals.

And what struck after that was the merciless violence of magic without control.

The disciple, who lacked confidence compared to his master, did not give any consideration. He continued to fire magic, feeling the tension that he might be counterattacked at any time.

“You… bastards…”

While someone was muttering, Professor Voladi had already moved into the arena.

And then he came out after a while.

“Not here.”

*Professor Voladi is smart,* Lee Han thought. He understood why the Professor hadn’t trusted the guild members. You can only trust people you know. These criminals could be lying or planning a trap. It was better to be in control.

‘I learned something. I shouldn’t let my guard down easily either.’ Even if it is a sweet proposal, you should never just accept it…

Whoosh- A paper bird flew in.

Lee Han received the paper bird and opened it. It was Professor Garcia’s handwriting.

“What kind of letter is it?”

“…Eandurde is with Professor Garcia right now? He said that going to the arena was to get the money he had hidden in the ruined arena a long time ago…”

“Indeed. Let’s go back.”

Lee Han deeply blamed himself.

If he had trusted Eandurde a little more, he would not have mistakenly thought that he had gone to the underground arena to get gold so recklessly.

‘I should have trusted him a little more.’

The guild members, who were lying down like half-corpses, shuddered at the sight of the two mages’ backs.

They were such terrible guys that they really didn’t want to be touched by their shadows.