Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 1047

The dragon and Lee Han were in a real fight, even if they seemed calm.

Lee Han used all his experience from fighting the King of Ghouls and the King of Frost Giants and threw the bone.

“By my command… Freeze!”

Ehandurde watched, amazed. Lee Han’s magic was incredible! First, icy clones of himself appeared, shimmering in the air. Then, illusions flickered, confusing the dragon. She even saw him twist the bone’s path with his mind, and strange, shadowy creatures seemed to jump out of nowhere to distract Jo Ulin.

‘Do I really have to go this far?’

“Huff, huff… Ehandurde, help me out. There are other bones here; can you hide them somewhere in the mansion?”

Ehandurde answered slowly, her eyes on the floor. “Yes…”

It was the most trivial command she had ever received.

“Basil, you…”

“Go over there and have a snack.”

The baby basilisk felt a sting of humiliation, but the snack looked too delicious to dwell on what it was. Humiliation could wait.

Lee Han watched Jo Ulin, who was fast asleep and breathing softly, and thought, ‘That artisan magician is truly skilled.’

Jo Ulin, having played every possible game with the bone toys, was sleeping contentedly on the chain.

Catching and bringing back flying bone toys, finding bone toys hidden in the corners of the mansion, dodging and throwing bone toys, secretly gifting bone toys to the knights standing guard outside, and so on.

But all these games would have lost their luster if not for the skill of the artisan Gashupa.

Not only could he attach meat and fish, as well as various sweet desserts, onto the bone toys, but it also produced a satisfying texture and a cheerful sound when bitten. It even had a soft texture for when it was played with using its front paws.

‘Is he an artisan with a connection to dragons? How could he make it so perfectly?’

“You’ve worked hard, Ehandurde.”

The junior, who was cleaning up the magical bone treats that Jo Ulin had gleefully destroyed, shook her head.

Of course, she was tired. She had to move as quickly as when fighting in the arena to keep up with the excited Jo Ulin.

But her pride as a warrior was hurt to admit that this was hard work.

‘It’s not hard at all!’

“I’ll definitely repay you later. It’s a new feeling, but I’m so glad that Jo Ulin and you became friends.”

Ehandurde felt embarrassed at those words.

She would have denied it in the past, but now she had no choice but to admit it.

Jo Ulin was definitely her friend.

“Alright. Then keep an eye on your friend. I need to undo the chain first.”

Ehandurde was newly impressed.

Not showing any leniency, even to a dragon and a dragon’s contractor.

That might be his way – always fair, even to dragons.

“What are you doing? You took Jo Ulin’s side last time, so you don’t have to this time.”

“That… I don’t think that’s the problem…”

Still, Ehandurde, being the kind junior she was, began to watch Jo Ulin. The happy gold dragon was fast asleep, snoring softly.

“I thought it was resolved through conversation earlier.”

“Ah… Maybe it will be resolved through conversation? His Highness isn’t such a bad person.”

The baby basilisk and Ehandurde stared at Lee Han, who was saying and doing different things, in disbelief.

He said it would be resolved through conversation, but why was he undoing the chain while she was sleeping?

“Maybe if this chain is gone, she’ll listen to reason more.”

“Ah.”

“And if persuasion fails, I might have to run away.”

No matter how she thought about it, the latter seemed more sincere, but Ehandurde said nothing.

The fact that she had brought her respected senior and put him in handcuffs still made her feel a little guilty.

‘How should I break it?’

Lee Han pondered seriously.

In some ways, he seemed to be pondering even more seriously than during the Einrogaard final exam.

But he couldn’t help it. This was a problem of that level of difficulty.

He had to cut the magically treated chain without waking the sleeping Jo Ulin!

‘The chain is perfectly resistant to pure magic shock.’

Thanks to the advice of some tactless magician, the chain was completely blocking the method of breaking it with brute force magic.

In a structure that was dispersing the magic shock in all directions, it might take decades to accumulate damage and break it with pure magic alone.

‘But physical resistance…’

Lee Han looked at Jo Ulin, who was smiling happily in her sleep.

Even while sleeping, she was precisely burying Lee Han’s stolen sword in her bosom. She was clearly worried about the physical weaknesses of the chain.

“Coldness, dwell.”

Lee Han cast a simple, low-level cold elemental magic.

If you properly mastered the application of the corresponding element, you could quickly adapt to spells below the 4th circle without having to learn each spell separately.

In the case of the cold element, Lee Han had a fairly high understanding, enough to complete his clone magic.

Thanks to the experience he had accumulated with water and lightning, controlling the cold element was even easier. Lee Han quickly changed the shape of the cold in the air.

‘Dagger.’

A dagger made of cold was created in the air.

In fact, sculptures, arrows, and cone-shaped projectiles made of cold were offensive magic often used by cold elemental magicians.

In terms of difficulty, it was about the 2nd circle. It wasn’t very difficult up to this point.

Lee Han lightly flicked the dagger against the chain. The permeating cold was dispersed and disappeared.

‘As expected, cold is meaningless, and I need to give a sharper and harder impact. If I use telekinesis and cast enchantment magic to strike… there will be sound and the impact will be transmitted.’

Even if he supplemented the insufficient physical destructive power with telekinetic magic and enchantment magic, the problem was the noise and impact.

Wouldn’t Jo Ulin, who was sleeping with the chain under her, wake up immediately?

‘What was the principle of soundproofing magic… I think there was a silence-type curse among the black magic curses. Was it putting up a shield? I think it’ll work.’

As befitting the next head of the Einrogaard Black Magic School, Lee Han somehow completed the soundproofing magic on the spot.

It was a scene that Diret would have shed tears of emotion if he had seen it.

‘The impact is the problem.’

If he just hit it hard, the chain could shake and wake Jo Ulin.

Lee Han stared at the thick, enchanted chain binding a large wooden chest. Cold magic pulsed in his hand as he formed a dagger of ice. He needed to break the chain, and fast.

“Should I try to cut it?” he thought, his brow furrowed in concentration. “Maybe focus on making the blade razor-sharp, rather than just smashing it with brute force?”

He knew, with the magic he had, it was actually harder to make a truly sharp cut than to simply blast something apart. But giving up because it was difficult? That wasn’t an option. Lee Han considered his options again, his gaze fixed on the shimmering ice in his palm.

“To think I can’t get help from the sub-world or Arna at times like this,” he muttered.

Complaining in disbelief, Lee Han stared intently at the ice dagger.

“If I use Bivle’s cutting spell, and even draw out Aura with my magic power, I wonder what will happen.”

The magic power dispersed whenever it touched the chain, but Lee Han had plenty of magic power anyway. He could just replenish what was consumed.

But as he made that plan, the durability of the dagger became a problem.

When he was thinking of breaking it with impact like before, he was just going to shoot it once and break it, but if he were to cut with cutting power, this dagger had to withstand it to some extent.

“Damn it. I should have practiced ice element normally. Even earth element, if not.”

Thinking crazy thoughts, Lee Han pondered how to increase the durability of the ice dagger.

What other way is there besides using a high-level application attribute of the corresponding element?

“If I inject more magic power… that’s too crazy of an idea.”

Lee Han inadvertently thought of it, but immediately dismissed it.

Injecting more magic power than necessary into a magic that already has a set amount of magic power was a foolish thing to do.

It was like recklessly increasing the heat or the amount of salt when cooking.

Besides, Lee Han was already casting quite precariously with a much larger amount of magic power than other wizards due to his innate constitution…

But once the thought came to mind, it strangely didn’t disappear.

Lee Han himself felt a sense of incongruity at the unknown thought.

I think I can do it now.

In the past, he was struggling just to control the overflowing amount of magic power and follow the existing magic, but now that he has experience, he can use this magic power more flexibly!

He wasn’t aware of it yet, but the confidence from what he had built up until now was unconsciously leaking out.

“…Okay. Let’s try it once. Surely it won’t break because of this.”

Lee Han prepared to summon the ice dagger with several times more magic power than usual.

Originally, it would have failed or had a side effect during the casting.

“Ice…”

It was truly a strange sensation.

More magic power than he usually controlled flowed out in all directions. The magic power that had not formed a shape seemed as if it would fail the casting at any moment.

However, the magic power did not easily scatter or cause problems. Lee Han realized that he could control this magic power.

The magic power, bound by a strong will, quickly returned to its original state and took shape.

This was a similar form to the original magic, but it was clearly a different magic.

Then it hit him. This wasn’t just stronger magic. It was different. *He* had changed it. A new kind of magic, born from his own power.

“Magic Improvement!”

In the Empire, there were magics such as [Garcia’s Fire Arrow> or [Bagni’s Fire Arrow> besides [Fire Arrow>.

These were the results of later magicians reinterpreting and improving relatively basic and popular magics.

Of course, it had to be clearly superior and differentiated from the original magic. Otherwise, it would just be dismissed as a joke and buried.

What Lee Han had just cast was theoretically the same.

A magic that exceeded the magic power limit of the existing magic and was completely newly constructed.

“…Hmm. Come to think of it, it’s a bit subtle.”

Lee Han regained his composure.

At first, he was moved, but when he thought about it, this was an improvement that had no meaning other than for Lee Han.

It was good to have greatly increased the power and performance of low-level magics, but which magician would pour in so much magic power endlessly for that?

But it was still enough for Lee Han to use. Lee Han made up his mind as he checked the ice dagger he had just summoned.

“I might be able to do it with this much.”

Enhance the cutting power and summon Aura to somehow inflict damage…

……

Lee Han, who was focused, smiled slyly as he looked at the ice dagger, unaware that Jo-Urin, who had become hungry, had gotten up and was staring at him.

“Lee Han…!”

“!?”

Startled, Lee Han reverse-summoned the ice dagger and turned his gaze.

Jo-Urin, who had been the happiest dragon in the Empire until just now, looked at Lee Han with an unfair and sad expression as if he had lost the whole world.

Lee Han was trying to run away!!!

“I was just practicing magic, Your Highness, like a good Einrogard student should. What’s wrong?” Lee Han asked, not batting an eye.

Lee Han called Einhurende.

“Why didn’t you call me?!”

“I kept calling you! You were completely lost in your magic world!”

The second most wronged person in this mansion’s cave was Einhurende.

When Jo-Urin was tossing and turning to get up, he kept calling his senior, but wasn’t he too engrossed in the magic world to notice?

“No. I did that!?”

“Yes…”

“How can you be so engrossed in magic? It doesn’t make sense.”

-……

“……”

While Einhurende and the baby basilisk were staring in disbelief, Jo-Urin shouted in a somewhat urgent voice.

“No, no! Wait! Lee Han will be happy! Jo-Urin has a *wonderful* gift! You’ll see!”

“I don’t think I’d want to keep wearing the chains no matter what gift I receive… Wait. Don’t tell me, is it perhaps such an absurd and outrageous shameless gift related to the dragon’s flesh?” Lee Han asked, his voice becoming somewhat stern and cold.

Jo-Urin hurriedly replied.

“No!”

“Phew. I believed you.”

It didn’t seem like he believed him…

Jo-Urin grumbled softly and led Lee Han to the inner part of the cave.

It was Jo-Urin’s own space that even guests who visited this mansion were not allowed to enter.

“Here! It’s here!”

” ? ”

Jo-Urin pointed to a dark hole, tapping the floor with his front paws. The bizarre vortex of magic power emanating from within was reminiscent of a dungeon.

“It looks like a dungeon, but what is it?”

“It’s a dungeon?”

“……”

Lee Han seriously considered whether he should first ask why there was something like this in the mansion, or whether he should first ask why this was a gift.

Oh