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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 595
🕑 Added 2024-06-23 13:47:52 +0000 UTCChapter 595
Thud!
By the time it came to its senses, the blood-sucking monster had already grabbed the student wearing the coat and lifted him up.
Even the blood-sucking monster itself was startled when it came to its senses.
To be obsessed with such a piece of clothing first, leaving behind the blood containing infinite mana??
"Kyaaaaah!"
"Is, is it a dancer?!"
Screams erupted.
Students began to scream at the sight of the blood-sucking monster suddenly rushing into the dance hall.
However, some students acted more efficiently in the time it took to scream.
"It's that monster, scatter!"
"Everyone in formation!"
Students seasoned in each tower, including Yi-Han, brought their confused friends to their senses and began to respond.
To prepare for battle by spreading out, forming formations, and casting necessary magic…
Time was needed.
A very short time to prevent the monster from rushing into the formation and collapsing it.
To buy that time, Yi-Han took the initiative.
In magic combat, casting speed was even more important than power.
"Darkness. Sweep away!"
Waves of darkness rippled from the end of the staff and spread out as if to sweep.
He already knew that the regenerative power of the blood-sucking monster was very powerful.
The dark element that dealt damage to life itself was effective against such monsters.
When the wide-area magic suddenly flew in, the blood-sucking monster quickly maneuvered and dodged. It jumped once and stuck to a pillar in the dance hall, then jumped again and stuck to the ceiling.
However, Yi-Han had no intention of catching the blood-sucking monster with a single attack from the beginning.
While the blood-sucking monster was dodging the unfamiliar magic, Yi-Han had finished casting various enhancement magic.
After casting <Spatial Perception>, <Gonadaltes' Agile Steps>, <Ogonin's Light Fog>, and even <Bagrak's Momentary Divination>, Yi-Han began to draw out brutal lightning bolts.
With the blood-sucking monster's regenerative power, it could withstand that level of lightning magic while being hit. Knowing that, Yi-Han grabbed a sword with one hand while casting magic with the other.
To prepare for a charge.
-Prepare for a charge!-
When Yi-Han gestured, Jijel immediately ran over with the White Tiger Tower students.
The White Tiger Tower students, who had cast the necessary magic in the meantime, glared at the blood-sucking monster with wooden swords that had grown to the level of spears.
The moment Wardanaz bound the blood-sucking monster's feet even once, the long weapons sharpened with magic would pierce through the blood-sucking monster's body.
-■■■■!-
However, the blood-sucking monster neither approached closely while being hit by lightning with its body, nor did it escape from the attack range with its characteristic speed.
Instead, it clumsily covered the student it was holding with its body, worried that the pattern on the student's coat might be damaged.
"?"
Although it was a chaotic situation due to the sudden intrusion of the enemy, Yi-Han immediately noticed that dissonance.
One of the most important things in magic combat was reading the opponent's weaknesses.
That blood-sucking monster right now, could it be...?
"The thing covets Gainando's coat! Attack the coat!"
"?!?!"
His friends were startled, wondering what he was talking about, but they acted according to Yi-Han's words for now.
Yi-Han also felt that it was absurd, but the current situations were telling him that the guess he had just made was correct.
Why would a thing that originally came in coveting Yi-Han's mana attack Gainando?
Moreover, the thing that showed such agile movements when fighting the death knights last time was now moving awkwardly.
There was only one answer.
'Gainando, what the hell did you use to draw that pattern?'
To the point of intoxicating even monsters.
Whatever the combination was, he must have created something truly bizarre.
Whoosh! The fire-attribute fog filled the air in the dance hall and pounced.
His friends' completed magic had flown in.
No matter how much fire was the weakness of regeneration, there was a certain limit to that as well.
The blood-sucking monster's regenerative power couldn't be caught with that level of firepower.
However, the blood-sucking monster blocked it with its body by swelling its muscles and flesh and transforming its shape, as if it would be a big deal if the coat was touched by fire.
'It's true!'
'Wardanaz's words...!'
Jijel shouted sharply.
"The thing is afraid of the coat being attacked. Stab it!"
"Uh... Moradi. But what about the prince?"
"...The thing will block it with its body anyway, so don't worry about that. Strike!"
If the blood-sucking monster couldn't block it, Gainando would get hit, but Jijel thought that his friends couldn't take that into account in the current situation.
If there was hesitation at the tip of the sword while facing a monster much stronger than oneself…
"Look. The prince is agreeing too!"
'I think he fainted.'
Fortunately for Gainando, as soon as he was grabbed by the blood-sucking monster, Gainando fainted while foaming at the mouth.
That's how hideous the monster looked.
"Acid, follow like a ghost!"
Siana and Yonaire summoned ghost-shaped subordinates using potions as catalysts.
As the ghosts that spewed acidic attacks filled the dance hall and approached, the blood-sucking monster swung its body as if annoyed, creating wind.
Poof!
In the meantime, an arrow pierced the blood-sucking monster's body.
If it were an ordinary arrow, it would have been immediately pushed out by regenerative power, but the arrow burned the blood-sucking monster's flesh with a strange sound.
Adenart breathed again and nocked an arrow on the bowstring.
The magic pattern engraved on the arrow emitted light, and the spirit summoned next to it infused additional power. The sticky alchemical solution applied to the arrowhead would melt the enemy's muscles and firmly fix the arrow to the bones.
Aside from the crazy student next to her, the number of magic schools that Adenart majored in was at a level that could be seen once in a decade. The linkage of various magic she had just shown proved that.
"...Phew!"
Adenart, who succeeded in one more attack, let out a light sigh and searched for Yi-Han with her eyes.
She was worried that Wardanaz might have misunderstood due to the conversation earlier.
Adenart wasn't particularly interested in Gainando's coat.
She was just curious about how the pattern was made from a purely academic point of view because it was unfamiliar and interesting.
How could Adenart know that it was made with the vision of the dark magic school?
So she asked a friend she could trust, but to think he would misunderstand like this.
-■■...-
The blood-sucking monster felt a threat from the princess's arrow.
It immediately turned its direction to subdue her.
"Block it!"
Adenart's followers blocked the front and activated magic.
Even if it was low-circle defensive magic, when it was layered and solidly completed like this, it was not easy to break through.
Usually, they were students who only held back Adenart, but their loyalty shown in this situation was unwavering.
Perhaps feeling that momentum, the blood-sucking monster also gave up on attacking and turned its direction again.
"Well done!"
Yi-Han shouted to the followers.
They had to keep pressuring the blood-sucking monster and making it impatient. If the followers had been intimidated and backed down just now, the blood-sucking monster would have struck in that direction.
"There's nothing to worry about here, Mr. Wardanaz!"
"Yeah. Reliable!"
Yi-Han shouted like that and quickly moved to the other side.
Since the princess's side was settled for now, there was no reason to stay, and it was dangerous for his feet to stop when facing a fast enemy like the blood-sucking monster.
"..."
Adenart, who had her achievement stolen by her followers even after successfully linking magic, blinked her eyes.
And then she swung her staff and hit the backs of her followers.
"Ah, Princess. What..."
"You're blocking my line of fire right now! Move out of the way!"
"Oops... I made such a mistake, I'm sorry!"
Bzzt!
'Just a little more time.'
Yi-Han saw the blood-sucking monster hesitating like a donkey caught between two haystacks and thought it might be caught more easily than expected.
The thing cherished Gainando's coat more than he thought.
It couldn't even rush in roughly for fear of damaging the clothes, and kept hesitating and just blocking.
If they dragged out time like this, the students would have a much greater advantage.
It wouldn't be long before the death knights came running.
-■■■■■■■■!-
"Wardanaz!!"
His friends screamed.
Suddenly, as if the blood-sucking monster had made up its mind, it abandoned its attitude until now and rushed at Yi-Han like crazy.
Its appearance of running like an arrow was so fast that it was difficult to properly catch its movements, but Yi-Han was not flustered.
<Bagrak's Momentary Divination> was informing him of the thing's movements 1 second in advance.
It was more troublesome for the blood-sucking monster to move in a complex way that was difficult to predict.
If it moved in a straight line like this, making it easy to know, for someone like Yi-Han who was prepared…
Poof!
-■!-
...It was possible to respond like this.
Yi-Han dodged to the side like a bullfighter and stabbed the blood-sucking monster with the Morning Star, then turned his staff into a lightning spear and stabbed it one more time. The thing roared brutally.
It didn't stop there. Jijel and the White Tiger Tower students, who had been waiting, rushed in at the same time and poured attacks on the thing. The blood-sucking monster's body was cut apart in an instant.
"...?!"
At that moment, Yi-Han realized something was strange.
The thing wasn't holding Gainando.
'Could it be?!'
Quickly turning his gaze, he saw a lump of flesh from the blood-sucking monster's tail placed together with the unconscious Gainando at the back of the dance hall.
Before rushing at Yi-Han, it had cut off its own tail and thrown it there.
Slither-
The body of the blood-sucking monster, which had been severely attacked by Yi-Han and the White Tiger Tower students, did not regenerate immediately on the spot.
Instead, it began to regenerate from the lump of flesh from the tail.
'We were tricked!'
Like a lizard that cuts off its tail and runs away, it was the trick the blood-sucking monster used to escape when it was caught by the death knights.
It was a trick of cutting off a part of its body and then regenerating from that point.
The blood-sucking monster, which finished regenerating in an instant, lifted Gainando again and ran out through the entrance of the dance hall. The siege network that had been disrupted by the attack just now failed to properly catch the blood-sucking monster.
"Chase it!! It's taking Gainando!!"
The students ran out in a panic.
To think they would be caught off guard by a monster like this.
***
'Damn it. The situation is...'
Yi-Han was worried even as he ran out in the front.
Although the dance hall was spacious, it was enclosed on all sides, limiting the blood-sucking monster's movements.
If they formed a formation and created a siege network, the blood-sucking monster couldn't move easily.
But outside was different.
The blood-sucking monster could easily strike and escape using its speed, knocking down students.
"Asan, quickly call the death knights! We need support!"
"O-okay!"
"Everyone, don't chase recklessly. The thing will rush in again..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the blood-sucking monster, which had kept its distance, threw Gainando on a tree and fiercely charged in.
Its movements were different from before, perhaps because the attacks it had received from Yi-Han were quite painful. It kicked the tree and climbed up, then grabbed a branch again and twisted its body to move irregularly.
Unlike before, the divination was off the mark. Yi-Han, who was strongly kicked by the thing, was sent flying backward.
"Wardanaz!!!"
"I'm fine, maintain formation!"
At the shouts of the students running from behind, Yi-Han spoke while coughing.
He had been protecting his body by drawing up mana as well as various magic, so the impact wasn't that severe.
However, the problem was the fact that he had just been attacked.
Not only did he lose the leisure to chant spells and the thing took the initiative, but the bigger issue was that the thing was attacking cunningly.
Just now, instead of rushing in to finish him off, didn't it check Yi-Han's condition as if gauging it and not back down?
It was quite a cunning and cautious monster.
'Somehow, buy time.'
Yi-Han made up his mind to land a hit in close combat, even if he was at a disadvantage, to create time to chant spells again.
Even if he couldn't keep up with the thing's speed, if he kept getting hit, his divination would also become accurate.
At that moment, Asan returned.
"Wardanaz!!"
"Asan!"
At this moment, Asan was really welcome. Yi-Han turned his gaze.
The death knights were running from behind…
...Not.
The ones running behind Asan were the giants.
"..."
Comments
Kezzy
This is actually such an interesting chapter, to read about how the students attacked respective to which school of magic they were studying and proficient at, to how used to combat they were. Also, I was wondering where the hell are the professors were in all of this but, of course I remembered what school they were in.
