Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 1014

Let’s start. Peng Eryn and Wodanaz, please help if the magic goes wrong.

“Understood.”

The wizards got ready to take away the hidden disguise in the sewer.

Even though they had only removed a little bit, energy from the other dimension was already leaking into our world. But now the team was ready, it was time to show what it really looked like.

“Awaken, reveal yourself!”

“Be activated!”

Wooduk!

Lee Han remembered when he went to the place where the Frost Giant King had come down last year.

It was a strange event where reality was twisted, breaking the normal rules.

The scene below the area was exactly like that.

“Huu…”

“It’s much more severe than I thought.”

The team members whispered.

Seeing another dimension would be strange and new to everyone on the continent. But even so, what they saw was amazing.

Spiderwebs were everywhere, so thick you could barely see. Pools of acid were in all the tunnels. As the acid flowed in the water paths that should have had clean water, they heard rock melting. Now they understood what kind of place this monster came from.

“Are you ok…?” A team member started to ask, just to be sure, but then jumped back when he saw Lee Han was gone.

Turning his head, he saw Lee Han already walking towards the acidic liquid pool with Alsicl.

“Can we make this acid safe?”

“Well, it might take a while. It’s probably better to just stay away from it than try to make it safe. …Hey! Why are you tasting it?!”

“Ah. I wanted to see how strong the poison is. I’m fine.”

‘I understand why Erindalbel sent him!’ The team member thought, feeling a little scared by what Lee Han said and did.

As expected, the Archmage’s insight was never wrong.

The magical criminal, Kitarenanum, looked at the people gathered. In his mind, he thought they were worthless.

‘Just people the Empire didn’t want, thrown away.’

You might ask why a criminal would say this, but he was actually right.

Those gathered here were the ones who deserved such contempt.

The elf on the left prayed to bad gods. His face and eyes were covered in bandages, but on the skin you could see, there were bad god symbols. Even a criminal like Kitarenanum thought they were horrible.

The giant on the right was a rebel. He wanted to take the giants away from the Empire and start his own kingdom to rule over slaves. The Empire wanted him captured so badly they would pay as much as a castle to anyone who caught him.

The magician in front was someone Kitarenanum really didn’t want to get involved with.

Among criminals who used magic, they were the strangest and scariest kind: people who wanted to end the world.

They were crazy people who had gone mad from magic and wanted to destroy the world!

Magical criminals were famous for being bad in the Empire. But they were just trying to reach their goals faster in a bad way. They were not as scary as the doomsdayers.

But Kitarenanum had to work with them.

The criminal group he was supposed to work with, the Antagondals group, had suddenly fallen apart.

“-That must be true, right? -Yes. Believe Esadojikwa, the Duke of Wrath’s main helper and messenger.”

Kitarenanum nodded, listening to the demon’s voice in his head.

Since they made their bad deal, the demon and the criminal had a relationship that helped both of them.

He didn’t know how long it would last, but at least there hadn’t been any major problems so far.

“-He is a monster famous for being bad, even to demons. If you catch and control that monster, no one in this world can beat you.”

“-I don’t believe it, but I’ll try to.”

Kitarenanum didn’t really believe the demon.

A demon who makes a deal with a human would never just be nice.

But even if only a tenth of those words were true, it was reason enough to capture this monster now.

Such a powerful monster.

“-I don’t know what the reasons are for the others.”

The rebel giant probably felt the same way.

But he couldn’t even guess what the evil god worshiper or the doomsdayer were thinking, and he didn’t want to guess.

Their crazy plans were too mad to understand unless you were just as crazy.

“-It doesn’t matter. Use them to capture the monster, then get rid of them all. This Esadojikwa will help you.”

“-I know, so stop chattering. My demon friend.”

The magical criminal said this in a rude way. The great demon growled quietly, angry.

But he didn’t go any further. This great demon’s power was not yet complete.

“-If this Esadojikwa’s power is restored and the Duke of Wrath is resurrected…”

The great demon repeated the same story he always did.

That he would restore his power and resurrect the master he served.

Kitarenanum naturally didn’t want that to happen.

The reason why a demon and a magical criminal could coexist was because they both had a lot to gain.

“Now.”

The blindfolded evil god worshiper elf opened his mouth.

Wooduk!

As the waterway in front of them suddenly changed into a dangerous dimension full of spiderwebs and acid, the people there whispered.

As the mercenaries, who were hired for money, whispered, the giant warrior stood up. He held a huge sword, as big as a tall man, in one hand.

“Let’s go. They’ve cleared the path.”

“Shouldn’t we check if it’s safe?”

“That’s right.”

The giant warrior grabbed the head of the mercenary next to him and threw him forward.

Splash!

The mercenary he threw into the water melted with a scream. It was a horrible sight. But the warrior didn’t stop and kept throwing more mercenaries in.

“I can breathe! Let’s go! I’ll ride that monster. It’s much better than a sheep to ride.”

“M-much more helpful than a stupid sheep,” the scared mercenary said, trying to please him.

Then, the giant warrior suddenly stopped and stared at the mercenary.

“What did you say?”

“Yes? M-much more helpful than a stupid sheep…”

Splash!

The warrior pushed the mercenary into the waterway. Then, he spat out.

“How dare you insult my sheep!”

“Be quiet. It will cause problems if others hear.”

Kitarenanum stopped the warrior.

He wanted to catch the monster quietly and leave, not bring all the strong people from the Empire’s capital here.

“Let them come. I’ll kill them all.”

“-Stupid beast.”

The demon muttered, and Kitarenanum grinned. He agreed.

“It’s lucky we are underground. Even if we shout, no one outside will hear.”

“It’s not coming from outside.”

The evil god worshiper elf suddenly spoke. Kitarenanum was relieved.

That elf was known to be very good at magic that sees the future. If he said that, it was likely no one would find out what they were doing.

“We meet the monster.”

“Even better.”

“Not good.”

“??”

The evil god worshiper elf suddenly turned around.

“I’m going back. It’s better to stay away from this place than to give the monster to my master.”

“What, what is wrong with that guy?” The air felt strange as the evil god worshiper suddenly left. The mercenaries hired by the giant warrior frowned.

“Should we kill him? What if he tells people where we are…”

“Leave him. Would someone who prays to bad gods be a spy? It’s good, we don’t have to share the reward now.”

The warrior didn’t care much even though the elf had left. Rather, he was happy, focusing only on the increased reward.

Kitarenanum agreed, but he felt worried for some reason. Maybe because of that, he asked the doomsdayer magician next to him without thinking.

“What do you think?”

“About what?”

“That elf bastard.”

“Ah! You mean him seeing the future!”

The doomsdayer’s voice was so gentle and kind that it was even scarier.

Kitarenanum immediately regretted asking.

“Even if things get messed up, it won’t be a big problem.”

“…Why?”

“If everyone here dies, that will also help bring the end of the world!”

“……”

“-What a nasty magic user,” the demon whispered. Kitarenanum agreed.

“Monster!”

“!”

‘Already?’ Everyone looked towards the sound. It came from the mercenaries who were looking ahead.

Surprisingly, a really big spider was looking this way.

“Don’t kill it. Capture it! I’ll make it my mount!”

“Get out of the way.”

Kitarenanum raised his arm and said magic words. Then, his arm changed completely into magic that was ready to use.

It was the strangest and most unusual way to use magic that changes things.

To make magic strong and keep it in his arm.

But it worked. The very strong magic quickly burst out when he let it go.

It was powerful magic to trap things, magic that no monster from any dimension could easily get out of.

Bakwantallana’s Binding!

*Whack!* Suddenly, many layers of nets and chains appeared like shadows and wrapped around the spider tightly. The mercenaries stared in amazement.

“What, did you catch it? Amazing?”

The giant hybrid warrior exclaimed, but Kitarenanum couldn’t smile.

Something was wrong.

“Too… weak.”

“What? Ah.”

The warrior, about to ask what he meant, froze.

From the other side of the damaged spiderweb waterway, many spider monsters appeared – not just one, but dozens!

“It wasn’t just one!”

“It made more of itself while we were here! Be careful!” The people the Empire didn’t want shouted and fought the spider army. Many spiders rushed forward like waves from behind the waterway.

“You’re going to be with Professor Bae Grek during the vacation?”

“Yes. The professor is a very important customer.”

The team had knights, rangers, stone workers, alchemists, and even adventurers.

And surprisingly, the adventurers from the Wilderness Peacock group here also knew Professor Volardi.

They were the people the professor often hired when school was out.

“Perhaps hired as test subjects for students… Ah. No, that wouldn’t have happened anyway.”

” ?”

“It’s nothing. What kind of requests did he usually make?”

“That… we can’t reveal.”

The adventurers looked away, their faces uncomfortable. Lee Han thought to himself.

‘What have you been up to?’

“Stealing? Robbing? Fighting duels that are against the law? Hunting criminals for money? No, why are you so surprised every time I say something?”

“O… you’re misunderstanding.”

Lee Han was even more worried because they looked so surprised every time he spoke.

Surely they didn’t do all of them, did they?

“Wait. Someone is ahead.”

“What? Here underground?”

Alsicl, who was making cold air to help them breathe, stopped.

The others’ eyes immediately changed as well.

“If it’s not a monster, it must be someone we don’t want here.”

“I’ll get ready.”

The group quickly got ready to fight, full of energy. Lee Han also prepared his magic to make himself stronger.

“!” In the distance, they saw an elf with strange bandages all over his face. Alsicl made an annoyed clicking sound when he saw the bad god symbols on the small bit of skin showing.

The elf suddenly opened his mouth.

“I met the monster.”

“…?”

Lee Han turned his head back without thinking. He couldn’t see the monster.

‘This guy would try such a simple trick!’

‘To be tricked by something so easy, as a student from Einrogard school! I should be ashamed,’ Lee Han thought seriously.