Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 698

Chapter 698

"Ah, no. Why is this here?"

-It's here because you put it in, student.-

The Death Knights looked at Dhumcha with stern eyes.

Usually, students who ended up in the punishment room would come up with various excuses.

Starting from sleepwalking to multiple personalities, aftereffects from precognition magic, and so on.

Of course, most excuses disappeared without much effect.

"This doesn't seem to be my luggage! I'm sure I gave it to a junior..."

-Are you saying you put this in a junior's luggage?-

The Death Knights' gazes grew even colder.

The Death Knights conducting the inspection here knew well that Einroguard students would stop at nothing to succeed in smuggling.

Including using innocent juniors as bait by deceiving them.

-Hmph, has your plan gone awry!-

-We'll punish you for the crime of insulting our master, attempting smuggling, and deceiving juniors!-

"Damn it, I can accept smuggling and deceiving juniors, but why is telling the truth a crime!"

Dhumcha, thinking he was wrong, quickly threw his backpack and swung his staff to cast a spell.

Magic spread with a loud boom near the inspection point.

-It's an escape attempt!-

"It's an escape attempt!"

The Death Knights swarmed in and set up a firm defensive formation. Students created smoke and shot up illusions to escape in the commotion.

"Yi-Han, are you okay?"

"I'm fine. I'm fine. I got out."

Yi-Han waved to his friends after safely escaping.

What Yi-Han had just done was very simple. It was almost embarrassing to call it a trick.

He removed the magic from the box in his luggage and put in a bone-catching parrot with new magic cast on it into the seniors' luggage.

The seniors, who hadn't imagined at all that the junior would already know the entire plan, were flustered by the sudden cry of the bone-catching parrot and couldn't respond properly.

"The commotion is more intense than expected, is it really okay?"

"I think they'll be subdued soon."

Yi-Han coldly evaluated the fight near the inspection point.

Senior Dhumcha's group was fighting bravely, but they had limitations as they hadn't expected combat.

They laid down a burning barrier, spread magic circles that enhanced fire power around, and finally called spirits for a linked attack to try to reverse-summon the Death Knights, but the opponents weren't easy.

The moment the burning barrier rose, the Death Knights cut off the next linked magic and fired a blow full of negative energy to cancel the barrier's summoning.

At the same time, they borrowed their master's power to spread dark mist everywhere. The mages who inhaled the elements filled with dark energy shuddered at the sensation of their vitality being sealed and lost control of their magic.

Senior Dhumcha's group was spewing out all the magic they had prepared in a final struggle while maintaining formation, but the Death Knights firmly withstood with shield walls and lesser undead summons.

Probably when that magic ended, they would be subdued right away.

'Their attack is too straightforward. To think they'd try to compete in strength with those many Death Knights.'

While Yi-Han was doing an unsolicited battle analysis, another group of seniors appeared.

This time it was Senior Ibanna's group.

The radical group trying to move things using physical enhancement magic and race transformation magic together!

"Junior, where are you?"

"Senior Ibanna. I'm here."

"Now's our chance. Let's go!"

The new seniors had no intention of helping Dhumcha while he was being attacked.

Rather, they were trying to pass through the inspection point taking advantage of that chaos.

"Here. Drink this potion! This potion will help you pass the inspection!"

"Yes. Understood."

The seniors who were trying to deceive Yi-Han and make him transform into a giant by drinking the potion paused.

The transformation was a bit slower than expected.

"Aren't you going?"

"W-wait."

"Wait a little. The effect needs to kick in."

Senior Ibanna's group didn't know what happens when a mage has an absurd amount of mana.

It instinctively blocks external interference that threatens itself.

"Did you give me the wrong one? Try drinking it yourself."

Yi-Han gulped it down once more and then handed it to the seniors.

The senior, wondering if the potion was really wrong since the junior was fine, tried to take a small sip to taste it.

"Ugh... Arghhhh!"

In an instant, the senior's body grew larger and began transforming into a giant race.

Seeing this, the Death Knights shouted in a disgusted voice.

-Did you think you could pass by transforming into a giant and charging in!-

-Bring out the bone ballista! These disgusting student bastards!-

"In, in this case, we have no choice. Charge into the inspection point!"

"We're passing through the inspection! We're not hiding any items!"

-What nonsense! If you're really innocent, stop and wait!-

"We are waiting! If you can't inspect right now, we're going in!"

"Push in!"

Even before Dhumcha's group's commotion ended, Ibanna's group also started causing a disturbance.

Seeing this, other smugglers seemed to think it was an opportunity and rushed towards the inspection point.

"Now's the time!"

"We're passing through! Please inspect us! Oh, you don't need to? Understood. We're passing through!"

-You mad student bastards!-

-■ ■■■■ ■■■!-

-Don't curse too much, elder!-

The Death Knights began gathering at the inspection point, spewing curses as if they had expected this.

Among the remaining seniors, those trying to somehow lure more bait urgently tried to seduce juniors.

"Junior, drink this potion!"

"Is this perhaps a mixture of berserker potion and blade bear transformation potion?"

"...How did you know? Did Alde betray us?! I thought he was caught by the principal!"

"He was caught by the principal, but..."

"Shut up and just drink it! You're supposed to transform into a crazy blade bear when you're a junior!"

"Isn't it the punishment room if you bully juniors?"

"By that logic, the principal should be in the punishment room first! If you don't want to drink it, I'll make you drink it!"

Alde's remaining friends quickly swung their staffs to extract the potion from the glass bottle.

Then they turned the contents into bat shapes and made them fly quickly.

"Liquid, be resummoned as bats!"

"Cold, float as a shield!"

Yi-Han immediately summoned an ice shield to cover the front. The seniors trying to control the potion bats to attack were a beat late due to the quick response and their attack was blocked.

Buying time, Yi-Han reverse-interpreted the opponent's magic.

'Is it similar to the paper bird summoning magic?'

Fortunately, it was magic Yi-Han had learned in his 1st year.

Since summoning from nothing was complex, he needed to borrow the power of magic circles or separate reagents, but now the opponent had already completed and summoned it.

Yi-Han just needed to steal the control.

'There must be a gap!'

"Break the shield first!"

"It's tougher than expected, this guy. Seems to be a cold element specialist!"

The sound of magic exploding and bouncing off the cold shield was heard.

'It'll hold for about 5 more seconds.'

Yi-Han checked the remaining strength and concentrated his mana senses.

Suddenly, the mana flow in the vicinity changed. The opponent was trying to resummon.

"The potion has slowed down! We need to resummon it."

"Got it. I'll cover you!"

"Be resummoned as ba... Ugh?!"

Yi-Han swung his staff as if he had been waiting and cast counter-magic.

It was an acrobatic feat possible because he had learned similar magic to the opponent's and had completely grasped its structure.

The senior, who hadn't expected a 2nd year junior to show such an advanced magic technique as counter-magic, was caught completely off guard. As a result, control of the bats was completely lost.

"Be newly summoned, liquid!"

Yi-Han stole control of the potion with the spell. The potion transformed into bird shapes and flew in like an arrow.

"What are you doing?! How could you lose control of that!"

"Be paralyzed!"

"As if a mere lesser paralysis curse could... Argh!"

The senior who hadn't come to his senses even after being hit by counter-magic paid the price dearly.

He had tried to endure the lesser paralysis curse relying only on the magic defense of his equipment, but the curse Yi-Han fired had a different penetrating power.

The potion went precisely into the throat of the senior whose body was momentarily paralyzed.

Gulp!

"No! He's transforming into a blade bear!"

"...In that case, guide him to the inspection point! Damn it. Junior. I'll remember you! What's your name!"

"Beavle Verduus!"

"You crazy bastard... Fine! Run to the inspection point!"

Alde's remaining group, seeing one of their friends transform into a blade bear, seemed to give up and retreat as they couldn't waste any more time.

Yi-Han, having achieved victory, looked at his 2nd year friends and said,

"You all saw, right? What schemes the seniors have! Do you still want to smuggle with them after this?"

Yi-Han's defeating of the seniors' proposals one by one was partly revenge for their deception, but also for the sake of his fellow 2nd year students.

There were too many students who wouldn't believe unless shown directly because their eyes were blinded by greed!

"Th-that...!"

As the White Tiger Tower students muttered with shocked faces, Yi-Han nodded with satisfaction.

"What did I tell you? So..."

"That bastard Wardanaz can win even against seniors 3 to 1?!"

"..."

Yi-Han was dumbfounded.

He had pointed at the moon, but these pathetic guys were looking at his finger!

"Is that what you should be saying now? You gullible fools?"

"W-we honestly need to prepare too..."

The White Tiger Tower students were too honest.

Apart from receiving help from Wardanaz, Wardanaz was someone who would mercilessly fire magic to attack White Tiger Tower students when angered.

As White Tiger Tower students had been attacked the most among the towers, it was an unavoidable reaction.

Even the Black Tortoise Tower students seemed to sympathize somewhat and nodded.

'Hmm. Indeed. Even if you become friends with a dragon, it's not bad to prepare for when you might get bitten by the dragon...'

If Yi-Han heard this, he would have thought about flipping over the cooking pot.

"It's, it's not that we don't trust you, Wardanaz."

"That's right. Just like we respect but fear the principal, it's more like we trust you but are a bit cautious..."

"Stop comparing Yi-Han to the principal, at least!"

Dolgyu, unable to bear it anymore, stopped his friends.

Feeling that getting angrier would only deepen the wounds, Yi-Han called Jijel.

"...Moradi. You explain the rest. If I explain any more to these guys, I'll get a crick in my neck."

'Why is this guy...'

Jijel made a sour expression.

Anyone watching would think they were close!

"Why are you doing this to me?"

"...I helped with work when we went to the territory last time. Help me out a bit."

"Huh?"

"What did you say?"

Students like Anglago or Dukma doubted their ears for a moment.

Who went where and helped with what?

At that reaction, Jijel quickly stood up, grinding her teeth.

"Don't trust the seniors, everyone!"

"Moradi, just now..."

"Regardless of the grudges Wardanaz has built up usually, the seniors can't be trusted! You all saw how they just acted!"

To change the subject, Jijel quickly shouted while inwardly reciting a hundred curses against Yi-Han.

"If you're deceived, you'll end up like that!"

"I-I see."

"Indeed."

As the seniors attempting smuggling caused simultaneous disturbances at the inspection point, the commotion was extraordinarily fierce.

The 2nd year students wiped their chests in relief at the fact that they could have easily been one of them.

Yi-Han, who was watching the scene together, suddenly became curious and asked.

"Moradi. Didn't you participate in smuggling?"

"I heard the truth from a senior in my family. So I wasn't interested."

"...Wait, you heard but didn't participate?"

"Isn't that normal?"

Jijel looked at Yi-Han as if he was strange.

If one heard the truth about smuggling, they would know how disadvantaged students who had just moved up to 2nd year were.

A wise person would naturally give up and withdraw this year, and Jijel naturally expected Yi-Han to have done the same.

"...I, I see. I didn't do it either."

"Of course you didn't."

"Right. I didn't do it."

"Why are you saying it twice? I understood."