Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 491

Chapter 491

 

“The people from the Wardanaz family all have some surprising aspects.”

 

“They are all unique.”

 

When the people from the Maykin family understood on their own, Professor Uregor felt a bit sorry.

 

He had lied to make his work easier, but seeing his disciple being misunderstood as a crazy workaholic wasn’t a comfortable feeling either.

 

 

“Wardanaz is not crazily obsessed with magic like people from other families…”

 

“I heard he is simultaneously taking all the school of magic courses that can be taken in the 1st year.”

 

“It’s truly amazing.”

 

“…Yes. He’s a guy who’s completely crazy about magic.”

 

Professor Uregor quickly gave up on making excuses and changed the subject.

 

‘This is his own fault.’

 

No matter how he thought about it, it was indeed his own fault for hearing all that.

 

—

 

“The creature is coming!”

 

On the other side of the port that was as bright as broad daylight, the waves surged and a huge tentacle wriggled.

 

The Shadow Patrol hunters riding on speedboats bit their fingers, smeared blood on their arrows, and sharply aimed at the Sea Serpent.

 

“Your servant, who started tracking in the shadows, now intends to begin the hunt. May the Lord of the Mountains have mercy on us.”

 

The Shadow Patrol hunters made a short oath and raised their fighting spirit.

 

Such an oath was unnecessary for an opponent that could be easily caught with a single arrow, but for a formidable foe warned by the hunters’ instincts, this oath often served as the beginning of the battle.

 

The blood-stained arrows of the patrol never broke or bent like an unbreakable curse.

 

They would deeply pierce the prey’s body and remain as a symbol until the long hunt was over.

 

Thwack!

 

“…”

 

“…”

 

The bow and arrow reinforced with magic.

 

The strength of the Shadow Patrol member further enhanced by potions and additional magic.

 

Even the determination to focus all the mana in the body to pierce through the thick and tough skin of the Sea Serpent.

 

All those things combined penetrated straight through the massive body of the Sea Serpent.

 

Seeing the tentacle of the Sea Serpent being cut off in an unrealistic burst, the hunters were startled for the first time in a long while.

 

“Why… why isn’t it stuck and penetrating…”

 

“How hard did you pull?!”

 

“Begin firing! Begin firing! Start the hunt!”

 

Although the Shadow Patrol hunters were traditionalists, they weren’t fools to stop moving in this situation just because tradition flew away.

 

In an instant, a brutal rapid-fire began. Dozens of arrows flew from the speedboat to the Sea Serpent’s body as if fired from a crossbow.

 

Thwack thwack thwack thwack thwack thwack!

 

“…”

 

“…Th-This…?”

 

The Shadow Patrol hunters were startled even after firing.

 

The Sea Serpent began to thrash about as if it were a stuffed doll filled with cotton, riddled with holes.

 

“Who made the oath?! Isn’t it just at the level of a fish?! Don’t you know that the mountain spirit will be angry if you make an oath recklessly?!”

 

“No, why are you talking nonsense now after everyone agreed! If such a large monstrous creature isn’t a formidable foe, then who is?!”

 

“Just finish it off, you idiots!”

 

Fortunately, the conversation between the hunters on the ship was not heard by the people on the port.

 

The soldiers on the port were simply amazed.

 

“Oh my, I’ve heard a lot about the Shadow Patrol’s name, but I didn’t expect it to be to this extent…!”

 

“Huh? If it’s like this, doesn’t it just end over there?”

 

Yi-Han, who was casting magic on the soldiers, was surprised by the scene unfolding on the sea.

 

Right now, the soldiers were diligently receiving potions and Yi-Han’s magic, but wouldn’t it just be caught over there?

 

‘It feels like I worked hard for nothing…?’

 

While he was contemplating whether to be grateful or feel wronged if it ended like this, a huge water column erupted far away.

 

The water column erupted from a place much farther than where the fierce battle was currently taking place.

 

“There’s one more! There’s one more, Mage!”

 

A soldier who had drunk a vision-enhancing potion screamed from the port’s watchtower.

 

Yi-Han also concentrated mana in his eyes to confirm the creature’s movements. A Sea Serpent that looked like a giant swordfish was twisting its body towards this direction, flashing its blade-like jaws.

 

“…!”

 

“It’s flying!!”

 

Swooosh!

 

With a sound of tearing through the air, the Sea Serpent flew like an arrow.

 

The soldiers, who didn’t expect it to fly through the air like that instead of swimming and approaching from the sea, screamed in horror.

 

“Damn these ancestor’s beards!”

 

Professor Uregor cursed at the top of his lungs, took out a potion bottle from his bosom, and quickly threw it towards the sea.

 

Kwajik!

 

Then, the seawater filling the port suddenly surged up and turned into a thick wall of ice.

 

“According to Article 3, Section 1 of the contract, I summon the following demons. The iron-fisted demon gladiator Betrug, the swift demon spearman Ihil…”

 

Professor Bungaegor also took out a scroll from her waist, tore it apart, and summoned the contracted summons.

 

The demons that popped out spewed crimson smoke and pounced on the Sea Serpent that had collided with the ice wall.

 

Chwaak!

 

The Sea Serpent swung its huge blade-like upper jaw like a famous sword.

 

With a single swing, a sailing ship on its trajectory and the port facilities were cut off. The demon summon avoided the attack but cried out in pain as if it had suffered a deep injury.

 

“You useless thing! You took the contract fee!”

 

-S-Sorry.-

 

The demon answered with a face full of humiliation at Professor Bungaegor’s reprimand.

 

“Begin firing.”

 

“Begin firing!”

 

As the Sea Serpent’s feet were tied to the front of the ice-covered port, the city guards began firing.

 

When the installed siege weapons started firing along with the fire arrows, a sharp sound rang out on the Sea Serpent’s scales.

 

■■■■■!

 

The one currently causing a commotion at the port was much more intelligent than the one being hunted by the Shadow Patrol hunters far away.

 

The latter was just large in size and lacked any special abilities or cunning, so it was being beaten up, but the former immediately noticed the danger the moment it was attacked and responded.

 

Kwajik!

 

It broke through the frozen water surface and dived deep below.

 

“It will leap out again!”

 

“I know, I know!”

 

Professor Uregor made a tearful face and took out the next potion.

 

Having to use two potions worth enough to comfortably buy a few houses in the capital.

 

He knew there were Sea Serpents with unique qualities, but he didn’t know there would be such a troublesome one.

 

Tak-

 

Professor Bagrak landed on the ice wall, flying through the sky. Professor Uregor almost cried.

 

“Professor Bagrak!”

 

Dozens of light bullets instantly appeared in the air and pummeled the Sea Serpent.

 

The Sea Serpent, who was preparing to fire underwater, screamed and performed evasive maneuvers.

 

‘Shallow.’

 

Professor Bagrak quickly drank a mana recovery potion and searched for the Sea Serpent’s movements.

 

He had launched the fastest attack to prevent it from firing, but that had alerted the creature.

 

“Professor!”

 

Yi-Han arrived last while casting magic on the soldiers.

 

“Freeze according to the master’s command!”

 

The incomplete magic was cast.

 

Originally, he wanted to use a different doppelganger magic, but it was difficult to even replicate the movements with other doppelganger magics.

 

Even if incomplete, only the higher-level magic could replicate the movements.

 

‘Move!’

 

Originally, the 4th Circle magic should have been able to perform close-range attacks using cold elements, share the doppelganger’s vision, and have an appearance indistinguishable from the master when viewed from the outside.

 

Yi-Han discarded the unnecessary parts and chose only the appearance and movement. An ice doppelganger that looked like Yi-Han swiftly ran across the sea.

 

Stimulated by that, the Sea Serpent became enraged and swung its sharp jaws.

 

“Cold, become arrows and shoot forth!”

 

The moment the Sea Serpent revealed itself, Yi-Han began firing ice arrows with sharp concentration.

 

Only one or two penetrated the scales, but it didn’t matter. As the ice stuck to it, the Sea Serpent roared as if annoyed.

 

Professor Bagrak immediately cast a spell.

 

“Evaporate!”

 

“!”

 

Yi-Han was shocked to see the ice stuck to the Sea Serpent evaporate and deal massive damage.

 

‘To apply it in such a way!’

 

It was no wonder that Professor Bagrak, who was crazy about combat, had learned under Eumidiphos.

 

“Are you crazy!?”

 

“Why are you interfering!?”

 

The two dwarf professors shouted as if dumbfounded.

 

Only then did Yi-Han ask back in bewilderment.

 

“Huh? Wasn’t I supposed to participate too?”

 

“You crazy bastard! Is that something to say?!”

 

Professor Uregor shouted in shock.

 

He was so flustered that it seemed like Yi-Han was rebelling against being told not to wait in the rear.

 

He had told him to respond flexibly at the front because he had an abundance of mana, but who told him to directly participate in the frontline combat?!

 

The people from the Maykin family were so shocked that they fell backward and screamed.

 

‘Hmm.’

 

Seeing the atmosphere at the port, Yi-Han belatedly realized that he had done something quite crazy.

 

It seemed like his common sense had crumbled a bit because of Einroguard.

 

‘Damn it. Because of the habit I had inside the school.’

 

Yi-Han looked at Professor Bagrak, the biggest person responsible for this, with resentment.

 

Professor Bagrak said sternly.

 

“Directly participating is reckless.”

 

“…No… No…!!”

 

Even if it was the same words, it sounded different depending on who said it.

 

Yi-Han felt so wronged that his heart almost stopped for a moment.

 

However, Professor Bagrak was very cold.

 

Inside Einroguard, he could do such reckless things as he pleased, but outside, acting recklessly could endanger his life.

 

‘Should I really bury him in the sea along with the Sea Serpent?’

 

Grrr-

 

“Summon a doppelganger.”

 

As the Sea Serpent persistently tried to move despite being hit, Professor Bagrak shouted.

 

Yi-Han immediately created an ice doppelganger.

 

“Add vision sharing and elemental attack.”

 

“That’s not easy right now…”

 

Yi-Han wanted to retort, ‘If it were that easy, I would have completed this magic a long time ago,’ but the Sea Serpent glared at Yi-Han and Professor Bagrak with murderous eyes even while injured.

 

Yi-Han gritted his teeth and added the magic.

 

Normally, the doppelganger should have dissolved, unable to withstand the magic.

 

However…

 

‘It worked?!’

 

Surprisingly, was completed, perhaps because the pressure from the Sea Serpent stimulated Yi-Han’s instincts.

 

Professor Bagrak instructed with an expressionless face as if he had expected it.

 

“Advance it.”

 

Yi-Han’s doppelganger immediately rushed out. The Sea Serpent instinctively pounced to cut the doppelganger.

 

Crack!

 

The moment it cut the doppelganger, the power of the cold element burst out, instantly freezing the Sea Serpent’s upper jaw.

 

Thwack!

 

Professor Bagrak immediately evaporated the ice and blew it away. The Sea Serpent rolled to the side once again.

 

“Stall for a moment.”

 

“Huh? Uh… Uh…”

 

Leaving the Sea Serpent, whose venom had risen to the fullest, Professor Bagrak turned around defenseless.

 

Yi-Han was flustered but couldn’t even argue right now.

 

‘With the cold element? No, it’s too late to slow it down with the cold element now! To deal damage… to deal damage…’

 

Instinctively, water orbs surged around Yi-Han and began to spin.

 

The spin became sharper and more ferocious, making a brutal sound as it flew towards the Sea Serpent.

 

‘…Did it work!?’

 

The heavy sensation felt at the end of the magic was different from when he hastily added spin and used it.

 

Yi-Han couldn’t believe it.

 

Boom!

 

The moment it hit, the Sea Serpent’s scales shattered and were deeply dented. It was as if it had been directly hit by a boulder.

 

At that moment, Professor Bagrak turned his body. A red line of mana flashed and split the Sea Serpent in two.

 

“Your spin has improved.”

 

“…Actually, it was always fine.”

 

Yi-Han emphasized that it was definitely not thanks to the Sea Serpent.

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