Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 780

Plop!

Lee Han used two spells very quickly, without needing to say any magic words. These spells were Ogoneen’s Misty Haze and Baegreg’s Instant Precognition.

The Lesser Magic Storage, which stored two spells below the 3rd circle and allowed them to be cast instantly, had worked successfully.

Lee Han should have felt happy. He had used a spell well, even though he wasn’t an expert at it yet. But he didn’t have time to think about that.

A Frost Giant was chasing him from behind.

“…Wait, are you running away?” the Frost Giant shouted, as if he couldn’t believe it.

The Frost Giant might not want to believe it, but it was true: the wizards were running away as fast as they could.

“How!? Why is a challenger honored by the King running away?!”

“Let’s compete some other time! I’ll come and see you sometime!” Lee Han shouted as if he were saying, ‘Let’s have dinner together sometime.’

That might have worked if it had been Gainando or the giants of Einrogard, but unfortunately, the opponent was an intelligent Frost Giant. He immediately saw through Lee Han’s intentions.

“So, you’re running away from me! How rude of a wizard, does he not acknowledge me even if the King acknowledges me as a rival? I’ll change that thought!”

Lee Han wanted to retort, but he was holding his breath and running so fast that he no longer had the luxury to do so.

Fortunately, Ogoneen’s Misty Haze was enveloping Lee Han and his friends, obstructing the enemy’s vision, or it would have been much more dangerous.

“Gainando, to the left. Princess, to the right. According to Master’s command… Freeze!” With the spell, Peng Erinn’s Frost Elemental Clone was launched.

The power of the frost element filling the surroundings gave Lee Han a sense of mental ease. In that moment, Lee Han had the intuition that he could create another clone.

“According to Master’s command, freeze!”

‘It’s a good thing it’s a frost dimension!’

He didn’t know whether to call it an advantage, but it was fortunate nonetheless.

“Hmph!” The Frost Giant bent over with a very angry voice and then jumped up.

Then, he began to push down the slope with a physical attack. He didn’t care what illusions and clones were confusing him; his strategy was to devastate everything around him.

It was simple and crude, but its effectiveness could not be denied. Lee Han, who was raising his magic power and preparing the next spell at the sight, clicked his tongue.

‘Should I cancel it and block him?’

If he canceled the spell he was preparing now, he would be letting the Frost Giant take control again.

But he couldn’t just let him approach so quickly…

“Go! Cut off the path!”

Lee Han was surprised by Gainando’s spell.

Gainando, who had been running away at a distance, had joined in, realizing the urgency of the situation.

Seeing that he had taken out a large undead summon and corrosive poison, it was clear that he intended to destroy a part of the icy slope.

The Frost Giant had powerful physical abilities, but as such, he also had considerable weight.

The thick slope made of icebergs looked solid, but once it started to crack, it would shake even with a small impact.

“Hurry! Hurry!” Gainando gave the order urgently.

Originally, giving such orders in succession that stimulated the undead summon’s bad temper could lead to a rebellion later, but Gainando didn’t care about that now.

‘I even used the expensive penguin-killing poison, and these bastards!’

This ice-corroding poison, which he had brought in preparation for the Ice Barrier, cost as much as a week’s worth of snacks.

He used that, and yet the ice was only cracked to this extent.

“Fly!”

“Ugh, uwaaack!” Gainando screamed in surprise as the chakram-shaped artifact flew in.

Adenart’s summoned artifact had flown in to support them.

“Hey! What are you going to do with that!! Summon something big! You idiot!” Gainando was hopping mad, wondering what he could do with just a round, circular weapon, but Adenart didn’t care.

The power of the chakram artifact wasn’t important.

Clang!

The potion hanging on the artifact was dropped accurately, falling on top of Gainando’s undead summon, the Thorn Revenant.

Lee Han, as the top student of the alchemy school, immediately recognized what kind of potion it was.

That’s… ‘The Undead Explosion Potion!’

It was a powerful potion created by an imperial alchemist who had gone out to subjugate the undead during the Undead Uprising, which exploded the undead that touched the potion and damaged the surroundings.

It was quite difficult and unstable to make, and it had a short expiration date, so there was no reason to have it unless you were subjugating the undead…?

‘Could it be because of Gainando?’

Boom!

The effect was excellent.

The soul of the Thorn Revenant, which had a large body and was covered with prickly thorns like armor, reacted with the potion and exploded.

Unable to withstand the impact, the slope on the iceberg began to crack. Gainando screamed.

“You! You!!”

How dare he reverse-summon his summon?!

“Are you crazy?!?!?!”

“W-wasn’t that why you sent the undead?” Adenart replied in a bewildered voice.

Considering the time, it was impossible to destroy the slope with Gainando’s undead and poison.

Of course, he thought that Gainando had deployed this undead with the intention of exploding it…

“What kind of crazy black magician throws his undead knowing it’s going to explode!!”

“Of course, the undead might be angry about being sent back, but if you explain the situation, it will understand…”

“Undead are different!!”

Spirits had the generosity to understand if they were reverse-summoned due to an unavoidable accident if explained well, but undead were basically narrow-minded and full of dissatisfaction, so most of them only thought about stabbing the magician in the back.

Unless you were going to scare and threaten them like Lee Han, you couldn’t treat black magicians too harshly.

“How did I contract with him! You… you ignorant person who doesn’t know anything about black magic!”

Adenart was so shocked that his already pale face turned even whiter.

To be told by this half-brother that he doesn’t know magic and is ignorant!

“Lee Han! Tell this ignorant fool who doesn’t know black magic something!”

However, Lee Han couldn’t answer.

It was because he was completing the spell.

“Fire, rise up as a barrier!”

Whoosh!

Flames began to rise above the broken slope cliff.

This fierce flame would surely serve as a barrier to prevent the Frost Giant from crossing over.

Adenart paused, about to ask, ‘Do I need to learn a little about black magic?’

‘Isn’t it… strange?’

The power of the Flame Barrier magic seemed too strong than expected.

…Even if you over-inject magic power, is this the power possible with a Lesser Flame Barrier?

“Guys, run!!”

“Huh? Why? Isn’t he unable to cross over?” Gainando asked, puzzled, but soon realized why he had to.

The widely blooming Flame Barrier began to expand its range as if it were running wild.

It was much faster than the Frost Giant.

“W-was the Flame Barrier originally this aggressive…?”

“Run!”

“A-alright!”

The three began to run like crazy.

Adenart finally realized what Lee Han had done.

He had cast a Lesser Flame Barrier to form a shape on the slope cliff, and then injected magic power like crazy to make the magic run wild.

Such magic rampage was impossible for the magician himself to control, but the power beyond magic was certain. The fierce flame surging from behind now was proof of that.

“How, until it rampages, magic power…?” Adenart asked, not letting go of his curiosity about magic even in the midst of all this.

It was very difficult to intentionally create a magic rampage.

First of all, it was difficult to provide the cause, and even if Wodanaz over-injected magic power with his unique overflowing magic power, it was not easy to maintain the shape of the magic until it rampaged.

Was such magic control really possible?

Adenart couldn’t help but be surprised, as he didn’t know that Lee Han had been frantically suppressing and controlling fire elemental magic every time he cast it until recently.

“Huh? I didn’t hear you well.”

“Until it rampages, magic power… how…”

“Let’s talk about it later!”

Adenart wondered why the other person was acting like this at Lee Han’s blatant avoidance.

…Is this person avoiding talking because he thinks I’m blaming him?

“I’m not trying to blame y–”

“Challenger! Mark my words! I will make you acknowledge me. Keep the duel until then!”

…I should really avoid the Frost Dimension in the future.

Meanwhile, in a completely different part of the dimension…

Asan and Raphaël moved through the rainforest realm, sweating profusely.

The rainforest air was thick and heavy, smelling of damp earth and strange, sweet flowers. The sounds of buzzing insects and screeching monkeys filled the air. This dimension, filled with all sorts of giant plants, was humid and hot, easily exhausting wizards.

“Ugh… we seem to be stuck in the most difficult place…”

“…I agree.”

The students from the summoning magic school who joined later nodded in agreement.

If the students who fell into the rainforest realm listed their respective hardships, it would be truly unparalleled.

First, Asan landed near a man-eating plant as soon as he fell and had to escape in a hurry. It would have been really dangerous if he hadn’t prepared a fire artifact.

Raphaël lost his supplies due to unstable dimensional teleportation and almost drank poisonous water while trying to secure drinking water. It was fortunate that he was from the black magic school and had an antidote, or he would have been eliminated immediately.

Another student stole a giant turtle’s egg to secure food and was almost buried alive in a pit, and another student was chased by a group of angry velociraptors and had to escape up a tree…

“The forest is over. Look there!” The students pointed their fingers with welcoming voices.

As if to announce the end of the rainforest realm, the central area of the dimension was revealing itself.

The central area of the dimension was a giant rocky mountain range covered in magical mist and clouds, and the map said it was ‘relatively safe.’

It was the most suitable place to gather with other students and set up a campsite.

“There’s Wodanaz!”

“Wodanaz! Over here!” The students who found Wodanaz’s group walking in the distance cheered and shot up a signal magic.

They must have found them on that side as well, as magic immediately rose up in response. The students forgot their fatigue and hurried to join them.

“Everyone has worked hard. I didn’t expect you to join so quickly. You’re lucky.”

“Lucky? Wodanaz, do you know how much we suffered?” Raphaël said in a tired voice.

Considering the misfortune he had experienced since falling into the dimension, this amount of luck was not enough to satisfy him.

“Well, the rainforest realm has many giant plants, so it must have been difficult.”

As soon as Lee Han finished speaking, the students began to spit out words as if in agreement.

They had suffered so much that they couldn’t bear it unless they confided in Lee Han.

“That’s right, Wodanaz! That turtle bastard kept… because I stole one of his eggs…”

“Do you know how annoying those raptor bastards are?”

“I’m glad I prepared a fire dagger in advance, or I would have been subdued immediately…”

Raphaël, who had been standing still while his friends were chattering thanks to complaining first, looked at Gainando and asked.

Gainando was still sulking because of the reverse-summoned undead summon.

“Didn’t you guys meet anything?”

“We met a Frost Giant and ran away.”

“…How?”

“We broke the iceberg and burned the surroundings to run away…”

Raphaël was shocked.

‘T-this bastard. He deliberately waited for us to speak first…!’

To make it seem like Raphaël’s group was whining about trivial hardships!