Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 475

Lee Han didn’t want to make things worse.

This was Headmaster Skull’s personal disciplinary chamber, and he didn’t want to stay any longer than he had to.

He just wanted to quietly and carefully take Professor Verdus and leave.

But Perkontra was very angry. She wanted to destroy the spirit hidden nearby.

“Perkontra, you need to calm down,” Lee Han said. “It looks like this is the enemy’s main base.”

The spirit energy was very strong. When Perkontra tried to block it, it pushed back even harder. This meant that the source of the spirit flood was definitely nearby.

Spirits from other worlds can change reality if they stay here too long.

This was not a good situation for Perkontra. As an avatar, her powers were already limited.

“Don’t fight,” Lee Han said. “Just find the professor and let’s get out of here.”

“Lend me your power!” Perkontra exclaimed.

“No…” Lee Han replied.

“Just this once! If you help me, I will help you later!” Perkontra pleaded.

“…Don’t you think you’re overreacting because the spirit ignored you?” Lee Han asked.

Lee Han knew he couldn’t stop Perkontra.

He could lend her his magic and get help later. It was a win-win situation for him.

‘But why is she so angry?’ Lee Han wondered.

Lee Han did not understand why Perkontra was so angry. He didn’t know much about spirits and their pride. To him, Perkontra just seemed to change moods quickly.

“Alright,” Lee Han said. “But don’t overdo it.”

“I will open the seventy-two golden vaults and promise rewards, so my servants will fight harder!” Perkontra declared.

“……”

“I will also open the gates of the inner treasury! Warriors, come and fight!”

“……”

Lee Han felt the situation getting out of control. Perkontra was using all her resources to summon more spirit armies.

“Charge! Let the thunder guide you forward!” Perkontra shouted. “Warriors, there will be rewards for those who punish my enemies!”

The spirit army lined up and charged forward with great power.

The spirit energy that had been blocking the passage disappeared quickly.

“……”

Lee Han followed Perkontra’s avatar, looking unsure.

Now that he was here, he couldn’t just stand and watch.

“H-Heek!” a criminal shouted.

“A crazy wizard! He’s a crazy wizard!” another cried.

The criminals, who were locked up deep inside the disciplinary chamber by Headmaster Skull, were terrified of Lee Han. They covered their faces and trembled.

These criminals had done terrible things without fear, but in the disciplinary chamber, they realized how weak they were compared to magic.

Now, a crazy wizard was leading a spirit army and fighting in the passage. It was like the end of the world. How could they not be afraid?

‘Is this a new crazy wizard who has come to punish us?’ one of them thought.

“Excuse me, I’d like to ask…” Lee Han began.

As soon as Lee Han spoke, one of the criminals panicked. He was so afraid that he started choking himself, foam appearing at his mouth, before falling to the ground.

“……”

The other criminals did the same thing.

Lee Han sighed and hurried after the spirit army.

Professor Verdus was writing a letter and put it in a glass bottle.

He cast a spell and threw it out through the bars.

Normally, there was no way to send a message outside. But now, with the spirit flood in Einroguard and Headmaster Skull allowing the prisoners to suffer, a glass bottle could float out.

Professor Verdus tore another piece of paper and started another letter.

“Ah, stop it, Professor,” Kettle said from a cell across the hallway. “No one is coming to save you.”

“Which of your students is going to come and save you, Professor?”

Any other professor would have been angry at a student’s sarcasm. But Professor Verdus was very calm.

Kettle’s words had no effect on him.

“Why wouldn’t they come to save me?” Professor Verdus asked.

“…Because you’re… Augh. Never mind. Just stop it. They’ll never come. If they do, I’ll live as a goat for a week,” Kettle said.

“No. They’ll come,” Professor Verdus insisted.

“Ugh. Why am I in prison in front of Professor Verdus…? Wait. Did the Headmaster put me here on purpose? That’s not fair. I enjoyed your lectures,” Kettle complained.

Kettle hit his chest, acting upset.

He had spoken enthusiastically in the character education lectures to make up for his mistakes.

But they put him in the cell in front of Professor Verdus, ignoring all his hard work.

“Professor, stop wasting your time and make something to show you’re sorry,” Kettle said. “If you’ve done something wrong, you should work to make up for it.”

“I didn’t do anything wrong,” Professor Verdus replied.

“Ah, yes. Sure you didn’t,” Kettle said sarcastically.

He could believe anything else, but he would never believe Professor Verdus’s words, ‘I didn’t do anything wrong’.

“I didn’t steal animals from the village and change them either,” Professor Verdus said. “I didn’t waste guild money. It’s all a misunderstanding, but I was unlucky enough to get locked up!”

“Oh? Then tell Gonadaltest right away,” Kettle suggested.

“…Guard! Guard! Please change my cell!!” Kettle shouted.

Kettle banged on the bars, but no one came.

They hadn’t come even when the water from the spirit flood had risen to the top of his head, so they wouldn’t come now.

“Glug… Gurgle. Wizard. Wizard. Please help me,” a prisoner called from the next cell. He was drowning.

Kettle and Verdus were wizards and could block the water, but the ordinary criminals could not.

Kettle muttered, sounding uninterested.

“They won’t die anyway.”

“D-Die… Gurgle. Die… You crazy wizard bastards…” the prisoner said.

“Yeah, yeah. Got any more creative insults?” Kettle asked.

The sound from the next cell stopped. It seemed to have been completely underwater.

Kettle ignored it and called out to Professor Verdus again.

“Professor, instead of hoping for students who will never come, let’s think of another way,” Kettle said. “Is there any way to escape?”

Professor Verdus was a crazy wizard, but he was a skilled professor.

As a graduate of Einroguard, Kettle remembered Headmaster Skull’s saying: ‘Every magic has a flaw’.

Professor Verdus would be even better at finding that flaw.

“It’s impossible,” Professor Verdus said.

“Don’t say that without even trying…” Kettle said. “How about making a crack in the wall with magic and somehow making a gap?”

“Gonadaltest has cast >Bakwantalana’s Sorrow< on this wall," Professor Verdus explained. Bakwantalana was a great enchanter from hundreds of years ago, known to every enchanter. He was famous for the labyrinth that imprisoned wizards. >Bakwantalana’s Sorrow< was one of the spells that protected that labyrinth. It was a strong wall of magic that stopped all magical attempts. "T-That much? Seriously, if you had that much gold, you should have given it to us for research!" Kettle exclaimed. Kettle was angry. How could they waste such an expensive spell like >Bakwantalana’s Sorrow> on a prison cell?

The students of Einroguard were struggling to find money for research such as >What kind of socks should you wear to better withstand ice magic?>…

“But can’t you solve it somehow?” Kettle asked.

“I can break through that if you give me time,” Professor Verdus said. “But the wall behind it is entirely >Paldar Ruji’s Gold>.”

“…Seriously, that’s too much!!” Kettle cried.

Paldar Ruji was like Bakwantalana, all transmutation wizards knew Paldar of the Ruji family.

He was the wizard who developed >Paldar Ruji’s Gold>, known as ‘No material can ever be more perfect than this!’

…And they were wasting it on a prison cell!

“I even went to auctions and asked for sponsorships to get a single piece of it, but you didn’t care!?” Kettle said.

“Why didn’t you steal it?” Professor Verdus asked.

“I need to know it exists to steal it!” Kettle replied.

Kettle was furious.

Even after graduating, Einroguard still had things that made students angry.

“I can break through this >Paldar Ruji’s Gold> too, but after that…” Professor Verdus said.

Professor Verdus listed the spells placed in this cell without changing his expression.

Kettle was shocked by the number of powerful spells.

‘This is insane…’ he thought.

Just as he had said that every magic had a flaw, Headmaster Skull knew how to fix it.

The more the magics were connected, the smaller the flaws became.

Kettle realized how great Headmaster Skull was.

…Although he didn’t know why he was showing it off in the disciplinary chamber…

Boom!!!

“???”

A loud noise came from outside.

Kettle listened carefully, wondering what was happening.

Ordinary people couldn’t hear it, but Kettle could hear the screams of the spirits mixed in with the loud noise.

■■■■■■! ■■■■-■■■!

■■■■■■■!

‘What? Are the spirits fighting?’ Kettle wondered.

He knew that the spirit flood was happening, but the spirits were fighting each other.

It didn’t make sense.

Spirits rarely disagreed in such a large event.

“I see,” Professor Verdus said.

Professor Verdus nodded and spoke. Kettle looked at him.

Professor Verdus was still a professor.

He must know something about this situation…

“What is it?” Kettle asked.

“They’ve come to save me,” Professor Verdus said.

“…Oh, for goodness’ sake…” Kettle muttered.

“Professor Verdus! Professor Verdus, are you there!!” a voice called.

“?!?!?!?!!!!”

Kettle thought he was going crazy from being in the disciplinary chamber.

He could hear a student’s voice looking for Professor Verdus!!

‘Has Einroguard fallen????’ Kettle wondered.

He thought that Einroguard falling was more likely than a student coming to save Professor Verdus.

“Professor Verdus!”

“I’m here! I’m here!” Professor Verdus replied.

“Professor!”

“Yes! Open it quickly!”

The student seemed worried about Professor Verdus.

Kettle blinked, trying to understand what was happening.

“Please wait a moment! I’ll find you first and open the door later!” Lee Han said.

“Why?” Professor Verdus asked.

Lee Han didn’t need to answer.

Before he could finish speaking, the prison hallway expanded sideways, and spirits from both sides began to fight.

Perkontra’s spirits used thunder and lightning as weapons.

The flood spirits shot storms and rain as arrows, blocking them.

The battle was so fierce that the prison cell creaked.

Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!

“Ah, be careful! I’m right next to you!” Professor Verdus shouted.

“Fear not!” Perkontra replied. “Do I seem so careless as to harm my contractor!?”

‘Yes…’ Lee Han thought.

“Come forth, you leader of thieves!” Perkontra shouted. “I must see the face of the one who insulted me!”

Perkontra used Lee Han’s magic again.

Using the contractor’s magic had to be done carefully, but spirits became bolder after doing it a few times.

Lee Han stared at Perkontra in disbelief.

‘Even if I have magic to spare, is it okay to take it so carelessly like this?’ he wondered.

Lee Han decided to complain after the battle.

“Y-You… You… You…?!” Kettle stammered.

“Ah. Senior!” Lee Han said.

Unaware of Kettle’s condition, Lee Han shouted, “I’ll bring you snacks after the battle!”

“Wh-What… What are you doing…? Cough. I can’t, I can’t breathe…!” Kettle choked.