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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 641
🕑 Added 2024-07-09 07:19:50 +0000 UTCChapter 641
"Does that kind of persuasion usually work on monsters?"
"How would I know? I'm not friendly with spirits."
"S-sorry."
"I didn't say that for you to apologize? Anyway, we've got permission, so let's hurry and search."
"Yi-Han. Honestly, no matter how much you like treasures, it's not easy to search in this kind of atmosphere."
Gainando grumbled.
With a rock Hekatonkheires glaring fiercely from the side, and in a tomb where undead monsters could pop out from anywhere at any time, it wasn't easy to search for treasures.
"Yonaire and Nillia are already gathering things."
"?!"
Gainando turned around.
Yonaire and Nillia were already selecting and gathering valuable items from the silver burial goods.
"Th-they've gone weird from attending Einroguard!"
'You attended Einroguard too...'
Thud-
The Hekatonkheires called Arsil from inside.
As the two had quite a long conversation, Yi-Han asked curiously,
"What were you talking about for so long? Yes, they are Einroguard students... ...No, why would you say that to us?!"
As Yi-Han became flustered, Gainando asked anxiously,
"What's going on, Yi-Han? It's nothing serious, right? He didn't suddenly change his mind and want to eat us, did he?"
The Hekatonkheires spoke to Arsil. Arsil relayed to Yi-Han, and Yi-Han relayed to Gainando.
"He says don't jabber like an unpleasant human. He asks why would he eat something like you."
"I-I'm sorry."
Yi-Han called his friends and relayed what the Hekatonkheires had just said.
"This Hekatonkheires here has the humiliation of being defeated by the principal in the past."
The Hekatonkheires spoke to Arsil. Arsil relayed to Yi-Han, and Yi-Han relayed to his friends.
"...He says it's not humiliation, but more like a debt."
The Hekatonkheires...
"Ah. Whether it's a debt or an old grudge, why does that matter! Let me speak."
Yi-Han shouted in annoyance.
The conversation kept getting twice as slow as it had to go through several people.
"Anyway, he has an old grudge and wants to settle it with us."
The Hekatonkhei...
"He's not settling it with us, but wants to test us according to proper qualifications and rights. Honestly, isn't that the same thing?"
When Yi-Han muttered quietly, the Hekatonkheires snapped back angrily.
However, this time Arsil remained silent.
The Hekatonkheires protested, asking why he was staying quiet.
When Arsil firmly replied that he wouldn't relay words that would pollute his younger brother's ears, the Hekatonkheires became furious and spewed curses.
-■■■■ ■!-
"Why is he acting like that this time?"
Arsil answered with a smile, saying 'He's just excited'. Yi-Han thought it was a really strange monster.
'Are all high-intelligence monsters this eccentric?'
Well, if you really think about it, even the principal...
"No, why are you settling an old grudge against the principal with us!"
Gainando reacted belatedly.
That monster, despite having many heads, had a level of thinking lower than Gainando himself, who only had one head.
The Hekatonk...
"He says that as a teacher's honor is passed down to the disciple, and a teacher's knowledge is passed down to the disciple, a teacher's debt is also passed down to the disciple. No. Isn't that too forced?"
Despite Yi-Han's protest, the Hekatonkheires paid no attention.
At that response, Gainando fell into deep thought for a long time.
As he wasn't usually a friend who thought this deeply, Yonaire found it curious and asked,
"What are you thinking about?"
"But isn't Yi-Han the only real disciple of the principal here?"
"..."
"Wow, what trash."
At Nillia's muttering, Gainando hurriedly waved his hands in denial.
"I-I'm not saying I won't participate... I was just thinking about it!"
"Wardanaz. Gainando says he won't participate."
"No! No! I'll participate! Let me participate!"
The Hekatonkheires also looked at Gainando with eyes as if looking at trash.
It couldn't believe that a disciple of Gonadaltes would try to abandon his comrades like that.
***
The Hekatonkheires stood up from its seat. As it did so, the entrance to a huge passage was revealed in the place where it had been sitting.
The monster hadn't simply been guarding this room. It had been guarding the passage that continued from this room.
Arsil cheerfully asked to just let them pass through, but the Hekatonkheires coldly refused. When the spirits all jeered at once, the Hekatonkheires screamed.
Rumble!
The Hekatonkheires rolled a huge rock to block the revealed entrance of the passage. Then it shouted at the four.
"Is the test to pass through this?"
Arsil, who had been interpreting, nodded.
Not only was the size large, but the complex traces of mana felt from the rock indicated that it was definitely not an ordinary rock.
Yi-Han thought to himself,
'We've gathered the burial goods, so can't we just give up?'
Not knowing such inner thoughts of his younger brother, Arsil argued with the Hekatonkheires. It seemed some hard feelings remained from the earlier conversation.
"...No, brother. I can do that much... No, please don't really do that!"
As Yi-Han frantically tried to stop Arsil, Yonaire asked in surprise,
"What's going on? What's happening?"
"My brother keeps mocking the Hekatonkheires, saying someone like me could solve it in the blink of an eye."
"..."
Seeing Yi-Han troubled because of Arsil, Yonaire felt sorry but also a little excited.
Just as she had been embarrassed in front of Yi-Han because of her crazy older sister, she wanted Yi-Han to be embarrassed together because of his crazy sibling!
"...That must be really troublesome!"
"Yonaire. You look strangely pleased."
"N-no. It's a misunderstanding. Is it because we gathered burial goods earlier?"
Yi-Han and his friends put their heads together.
As they had done this more than once or twice at Einroguard, they were used to encountering such difficulties together.
Gainando said with a serious expression,
"If we combine the power of us four, we should be able to produce magic equivalent to a fourth-year at Einroguard. Let's just pass this bas... no, this person's test."
"Gainando. You don't mean that gathering four first-years equals a fourth-year, right?"
Yonaire asked in shock at her relative's miraculous arithmetic skills.
"Huh? I said it's about fourth-year level because Yi-Han can use fourth-year magic?"
"..."
"..."
Although it wasn't exactly that they became fourth-year by combining their powers, his friends had to admit it.
They had seen Yi-Han use 4th Circle magic before.
"Guys. Using 4th Circle magic doesn't mean you're at fourth-year level."
"We know that, but the 4th Circle magic you use, Yi-Han, is more amazing than the seniors'..."
Covering Gainando's mouth as he kept talking nonsense annoyingly, Yi-Han began to explain.
"He's like that because he hasn't seen the seniors' magic. Even the same magic can be completely different."
'Honestly, don't you think Yi-Han wouldn't lose even if he fought against seniors?'
'I think so too.'
Yonaire and Nillia communicated with their eyes. Yi-Han, unaware of this, concentrated on finding a way to move the rock.
"How about control-type spells? I've only learned <Lesser Control>, but I could try <Intermediate Control> this time."
"Even intermediate would be difficult. Even ten-something kilograms would be touch and go."
The control magic series, a non-attribute telekinesis specialization magic, was a versatile magic that many mages learned.
Its simplicity of lifting objects and moving them at will was used very widely.
Especially mages who wanted to be lazy (and show off their skills), including assistants who had to do a lot of chores, used this magic for various tasks like cleaning and sending letters.
There was no better self-introduction than showing a room that was neatly cleaned with a single spell at gatherings of mages.
Occasionally, among battle-crazed combat mages, there were those who eyed the quick casting and versatility of this 'control' magic and modified it for combat use.
Although no one in their right mind would learn under such a mage, sometimes a disciple as strange as the master would appear and learn it.
Anyway, while this control magic series had such convenience and versatility, it also had strong limitations.
For low mana consumption, quick casting, and delicate control, the weight limit was quite tight.
Even intermediate control was touch and go with ten-something kilograms...
"Even if we all learn intermediate control and do it together... Hmm. It would be impossible."
"W-wait. Wardanaz. I don't have the confidence to learn intermediate control magic right now! I don't!"
Nillia was startled when Wardanaz overestimated her too much and denied it.
To naturally place herself as a constant!
However, Yi-Han, thinking Nillia was just being modest again, laughed it off.
"What are you saying? You can do it."
"I'm telling you I can't...!"
"Okay, okay. Let's say you can't. Anyway, control magic is impossible right now."
'He's my friend, but I want to hit him!'
Nillia felt like she understood why White Tiger Tower students muttered, "Thanks to that Wardanaz bastard I avoided failing, but I still want to hit the back of his head just once."
This friend from the Wardanaz family had an excellent talent for teasing people.
"Other magics are... transformation magic, earth element magic."
"There's also alchemy. It's not a particularly difficult potion to melt rocks like that."
As they often had to use it when melting hard materials, alchemists dealt a lot with acidic or corrosive potions.
Although it would take a long time, it could definitely make a hole even in a rock like that.
"I did learn <Rock Sand Transformation>."
"Huh? Was there such a thing among the transformation magic we learned this year?"
"I learned it while repairing Einroguard at night with the principal."
"...?!"
"More than that, what I'm worried about is... No. Let's try it first."
Yi-Han approached the rock holding his staff.
"Rock, become sand..."
Clang!
With a collision sound that only mages could hear, the magic bounced off.
Yi-Han realized that a very powerful magic structure was in place inside the rock.
'As expected. I thought it wouldn't be easy.'
The Hekatonkheires, who had been humiliated by the skull principal, wouldn't have given such an easy problem.
This rock was probably designed to be impervious to magic.
'Who made this? It's so difficult to understand the structure. It deflects external mana and disperses impacts...'
Seeing Gonadaltes' disciples struggling, the Hekatonkheires clapped its many hands together.
The rock that Gonadaltes' disciples were struggling with now was the same rock that the Hekatonkheires itself had suffered from.
-Hekatonkheires! I've heard that you triplets are the strongest on this continent. But can you really break even this rock? I don't think so.-
-N-nonsense. Mage. We can break rocks like this with our eyes closed!-
-Really? If you do that, this insignificant mage will serve you for a hundred years! But if you can't break it? Honestly, it seems difficult to break…-
-If-if we can't break it, we'll do whatever you say, mage. But if we break it, we'll smash your skull too!-
-Haha! Well decided!-
How much the Hekatonkheires had suffered, falling for the trick rock presented by the mage who came with a plan.
Now it was time for his disciples to suffer.
The mages who had been trying various magics, half giving up, started to directly slam mana into the rock while grabbing it.
Seeing this, the heads of the Hekatonkheires burst into laughter.
No matter how desperate, for mages to abandon magic and choose such a crude method.
Such a thing was only possible for monsters like the Hekatonkheires with innate mana and strength.
Even the Hekatonkheires itself had tried and failed.
Bang!
"I think it worked?"
"Wow. To think such a method would work..."
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