Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 597

Thinking about it, Wodanaas seemed to cast magic harder when it didn’t work at first. It made sense, somehow.

“Artifact.”

“Here it is.”

A senior student quickly took out an artifact and handed it to Professor Alcasis. The artifact was a heavy iron bar, cold and dark in the senior student’s hand. It looked old and a little rusty.

With a practiced motion, the professor shoved the artifact into the giant’s nostril like a hook.

“When healing someone with strong magical power, you need to be able to directly inject magic into their body like this.”

“Ugh, nose, nose hurts.”

“Bear with it. It’s part of the healing process.”

The giant looked at Lee Han with a tearful face. “Wizard. This wizard is scary.”

Lee Han was just as scared of Professor Alcasis. There was nothing he could do.

“Next, check the condition… Concussion. Phil, what’s the recipe for concussion potion?”

“Put in three sprigs of camellia and one sprig of field bindweed, cast a compression spell, and boil for thirty minutes. Then, when the color turns black…”

Professor Alcasis reached out his hand.

Phil’s heart beat faster. He hoped he remembered the recipe correctly. He felt his heart sink, wondering if he had made a mistake.

“Write it down on paper so your juniors can see it, Phil. Do I still have to tell you everything?”

‘The junior is a first-year…’ Phil felt a little wronged.

No one would have expected that he would have to teach a first-year junior how to make a concussion potion.

In fact, other people were murmuring.

“Why are you *actually* teaching a first-year student how to make a concussion potion?”

“Ah. Is that him? That Wodanaas?”

“I thought Phil and Senior Chil were so tormented that they created an imaginary junior.”

Ignoring the students’ chatter, Professor Alcasis poured the potion into the giant’s mouth.

The giant, who had only been blinking his eyes because his nose hurt, was startled and shouted.

“I’m healed! I’m not dizzy!”

“Good. Now. As you just saw, giants…”

Just as the giant said, ‘I’m really not hurt…’ – Ack! – he suddenly tripped and fell forward. It looked like something had grabbed his ankle.

Professor Alcasis looked at it and said cynically.

“We should go outside. Everyone, get out.”

“How many giants are there?”

“There aren’t any more, are there?”

The healing magic students moved anxiously.

Now, they didn’t even hope to finish the final exam easily, they just hoped it would end within a reasonable level.

Outside, a battle that felt like the end of the world was taking place.

Giants and vampire monsters engaged in an uncompromising melee.

The huge warriors poured out attacks without giving way to each other.

“Kraaah!”

“Uoooh!”

The giants swung their clubs, shouting their unique battle cries. The giant roared, a sound like rocks crashing together, that shook the classroom. With each hit, the vampire monster’s body was pushed back and burst open.

However, the vampire monsters were not easy opponents either. Even while being beaten black and blue, they conserved their strength and somehow returned a blow to the giants.

The giants did not defend at all. In particular, since they had never been hit by someone bigger than themselves, the vampire monsters’ attacks gave the giants an even deeper shock.

“My pride!”

“Ugh! Ugh!”

The giants staggered and grabbed their noses, from which nosebleeds were streaming.

At that moment, Lee Han ran over with the recovered giants.

“Those who are injured, fall back!”

“I, I’m not hurt?”

Professor Alcasis’s voice was sharp as a knife. “Don’t talk nonsense and fall back!” he snapped.

Professor Alcasis, the dark elf, hated one type of patient most of all: those who said they weren’t hurt when they clearly were.

“I’m really not hurt… Ack!”

Suddenly, as if someone had grabbed the giant’s ankle, the giant fell forward and was dragged right in front of the professor.

“Take him.”

“Yes!”

The healing students knew Professor Alcasis got angrier with more patients. So, they moved quickly and didn’t complain.

“Okay. Giant. Please trust us.”

“Ugh. I don’t trust you! Wizards are all evil! Wizard! Wizard! Hold my hand!”

“……”

“……”

Lee Han was sincerely glad that his seniors couldn’t see him right now.

‘This is so embarrassing.’

“…I’m here.”

“Ugh. Thank goodness.”

Phil hurriedly tried to explain in case his friends misunderstood his junior.

“It’s because my junior has good social skills.”

“Well, even if he has good social skills, how can he be so close to a giant…?”

Even the healing magic students, who had seen a lot of unsightly things while attending Einroguard, had never seen anyone become friends with a giant.

“Why wouldn’t there be! Your way of thinking is narrow. That… that… that… Ilendil! A fellow like Ilendil also has good social skills, so he has many friends in the forest!”

“But that Ilendil doesn’t have any giant friends, does he?”

It was Professor Alcasis who saved Phil, who was cornered.

A sharp surgical dagger flew and stuck in front of the chattering students.

“Do you have time to waste?”

“Ah, no!”

At the professor’s murderous words, the students quickly began to heal the giant.

Lee Han also worked hard to heal the giant’s stab wounds.

“??”

The senior students looked at Lee Han in embarrassment, but their gazes were not conveyed because they were invisible.

‘Why is he doing this?’

‘Well, I don’t know…’

The senior students were working because the final exam had been replaced with giant healing, but they didn’t understand why this first-year junior was doing this in a situation where he should be running away.

Moreover, he was good at healing magic. Seeing him successfully cast healing magic on a giant without any special preparation, they realized that what Phil and Chil had said was not a lie.

“Is this also his final exam?”

“No matter how crazy Professor Lagrinde is, she wouldn’t make giant healing a first-year final exam… um… or would she?”

The Death Knights, who arrived late, were surprised to see the changed appearance of the vampire monster.

“What on earth is going on!”

It was rare to see a monster go so berserk.

‘A monster acting so cleverly on instinct, going on such a rampage?’

“Well… it’s a long story.”

“We’ll hear it later. Stop him first!”

The Death Knights had the students move back before they started throwing their spears.

Each time a spear filled with dark energy hit, the vampire monster screamed in pain, stopping and twitching.

“Giants! Fall back!”

“No! It’s our prey!”

The Death Knights didn’t get angry at the giants for not listening.

Being experienced knights, they called out again.

“Giants! We need your help! Move backward!”

The giants were tricked by the Death Knights and moved backward. Lee Han was impressed.

‘They’re smarter than I thought!’

They were clever because they had been knights for so long.

It was surprising that they could trick the giants like that.

One Death Knight watched the monster. “It seems to have drunk a lot of blood,” he said, his voice low. “It’s really strong.”

“This will take ages,” another sighed, clicking his tongue in annoyance. They kept throwing spears, but the monster just twitched and screamed. It was slowing down, but very slowly. *This monster is tougher than it looks,* Lee Han thought, watching the endless attacks. *Will spears really be enough?* The Death Knights were experienced, but even they seemed a little worried now.

“Is it that powerful?”

“Actually, when they go crazy like this, they’re easier to deal with. You just need to stop it from moving and leave it alone.”

The monster’s weakness was its own rampage. When it made itself bigger, it used up energy quickly. If left alone, it would destroy itself.

“So, just attack it enough to keep it still and wait.”

“Hey, Wodanaz, want to try fighting it? Good practice for you!”

‘I’ve already fought enough.’

Lee Han wanted to say no, but the Death Knights looked at him with such hopeful eyes that he couldn’t refuse.

It was like a grandfather waiting for his grandson to do a trick.

“Um, should I try attacking with lightning magic?”

“That’s not bad. But you have a special item. How about using that? The space-shifting stone.”

“That sounds like a good idea.”

“…?”

Lee Han was surprised by the Death Knights’ reaction.

“I don’t have a space-shifting stone, though?”

“Um?”

“Ahem. The one on the end of your staff.”

Lee Han looked at his staff.

A tree spirit lived inside, making it stronger. At the end was a blue gem from the Frost Giant King, and next to that…

“?!?”

Lee Han was so surprised by the stone that he almost dropped his staff.

“What is this?!”

“…Well, you shouldn’t be asking us that.”

“If you don’t know…”

While the Death Knights were confused, Lee Han tried to remember.

Then he remembered something.

‘That’s it!’

It was when he drank from the Spring of Foresight and woke up, seeing the future.

He had beaten a magic statue that used space magic and got a stone from it…

Lee Han remembered it, but he had forgotten about it until now.

‘Seeing the future perfectly is dangerous, too.’

“Sorry. I remembered. It was a space-shifting stone.”

The Death Knights looked at Lee Han sadly.

“Is the headmaster making things too hard for him?”

“Even so, forgetting the gem on his own staff is too much.”

“No, this isn’t about the headmaster…”

“Now, try it. Space magic can be useful against tough monsters like that.”

The Death Knights had fought with magicians who used space magic before. They knew it could be powerful.

Magicians who used space magic were rare and limited, but they were very strong when used well.

“Don’t just think of it as a small stone. Even if you can only move a small stone, there are many ways to use it. Try moving this deep inside.”

The Death Knight took out a bottle of poison and gave it to Lee Han.

The space-shifting stone could only move something small, but magic could be used in many ways.

“I understand. …Vanish!”

Lee Han nodded and focused on the stone, saying the spell.

A lot of magic power was used, and the stone moved the bottle of poison deep inside the vampire monster.

“But is space-shifting magic too hard on your mana? Even if you’re using a special item, I’m worried it might be dangerous…”

A young Death Knight spoke carefully, and the others laughed.

“Wodanaz can handle it. He’s doing it easily, right?”

“He’s so confident that he’s casting it so boldly.”

“…I didn’t know.”

Lee Han was serious.

Shouldn’t they tell him these things first?

Maybe because they were Death Knights and not Death Wizards, they didn’t know much about magic safety.

“…Really?”

“Well… um… I guess… he’s still a first-year…”

“Ah! Look, the monster is suffering! The poison is working!”

The Death Knights pointed ahead and changed the subject. Lee Han glared at the skeletons as he moved.

“■■■■■!”

The vampire monster melted like wax in the sun. Its body oozed and spread across the ground, like thick, brown mud after a heavy rain, leaving a strange, sour smell in the air.

The Death Knights screamed when they saw it.

“No!”

“Die quietly, you monster! Leave the area around the main gate alone!”

The Einroguard main gate was a place where guests came and went. If it was destroyed, it had to be fixed quickly.

They had worked hard to pave the road and decorate the statues!

But the vampire monster thrashed about, destroying the parks with statues next to the main gate. The Death Knights cried, filled with sadness.

“Um, Death Knights?”

“*Sniff*… What is it, Wodanaz?”

“Were there any living people among the statues?”

“What nonsense are you talking about? That would be terrible. …Surely no one made a living person into a statue, right?”

“Ah, no! Probably!”

“It won’t be me. Probably!”