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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 810
🕑 Added 2024-09-03 11:10:51 +0000 UTCChapter 810
The mad doppelganger sent a contemptuous look at the spiritless answer, but the students from other magic schools seemed very moved by that answer.
"We understand. The sight of outstanding magic clashing makes a mage's heart race."
[What outstanding... these stupid and dull trash worse than lowly creatures.]
"Shh. Master. Please be quiet. If they find out I'm learning from you, how jealous would they be?"
Yi-Han asked, making sure only the staff hidden behind his body could hear.
Of course, the mad doppelganger didn't listen.
[Jealous vermin...]
'I'll just have to hide it.'
"They say a mage should have cold and calm reason, but without this kind of aspiration, one can't rise to higher realms!"
The Baldurguard students also cheered and applauded, seemingly quite pleased with the Kalaroguard students' words.
"That's right!"
"Magic is done with the heart!"
The Kalaroguard students warmly responded to their former enemies' agreement.
"You guys shut up."
"Who are you to butt in?"
"..."
The grudge between their magic schools was too deep to move on to a touching atmosphere.
Especially the Kalaroguard students had no intention of tolerating any remarks about magic from the Baldurguard students.
How dare they!
"You rude and vulgar bastards! We showed respect and this is what we get!"
"Unforgivable!"
Yi-Han was slightly surprised when the Baldurguard students drew their staffs.
'Oh. They're actually doing something?'
It was a very rude thought, but in fact, it was quite surprising that the Baldurguard students were drawing their staffs to cast magic. As expected, by 4th year, even Baldurguard students had some magical achievements...
"Lord Garal. Teach them a lesson!"
"Give them a good scolding!"
"..."
"..."
Yi-Han and Garal exchanged glances in silence.
Garal spoke with his eyes.
'Don't pity me.'
'Understood.'
It was certainly the right thing to say.
How could Yi-Han pity a mage walking his own path?
And Yi-Han wasn't in a good enough situation to pity others either.
Starting with Einroguard's various eccentric professors, there was also an ancient madman trying to kill him, and Professor Verduus...
'Oops. I should have put the mad doppelganger after Professor Verduus originally. I made a mistake.'
To make such a mistake when listing them in order of terribleness...
[Summon the Black Coffin. Make them kneel.]
"??"
While Yi-Han was thinking to himself, the mad doppelganger opened his mouth again.
Yi-Han, not knowing what the Black Coffin was, was puzzled.
[Black Coffin... Don't tell me you don't know what the Black Coffin is?]
"Yes."
[If you don't even know the Black Coffin, I don't know what kind of magic these trash are teaching. Follow my instructions. I'll teach you.]
The mad doppelganger ordered Yi-Han to prepare magic according to his instructions.
Yi-Han wanted to ask what kind of magic it was, but he was cautious as the mad doppelganger's patience seemed to have reached its limit.
'A summoning magic based on the dark element... But it looks too complex and difficult.'
As Yi-Han waved his staff and built up the magic structure as the mad doppelganger instructed, he suddenly had a doubt.
Could he really accomplish this magic?
After all, the magic the mad doppelganger ordered was basically very high in difficulty.
He could tell just from how he was raging about learning more 5th Circle magic.
Looking at the structure, this magic was definitely not simple or easy either...
'This looks like Three Kingdoms era script.'
The phrases engraved throughout the magic circle were characters used in the Three Kingdoms era.
Even if he couldn't fully understand the meaning, Yi-Han had a rough sense as a 2nd year student.
This was a device to control and block a considerably powerful being.
"Master. Can I really cast this magic at my level?"
The mad doppelganger ignored him instead of answering.
The mad doppelganger was gradually developing a knack for dealing with his disciple. Yi-Han grumbled inwardly.
"...I offer the purest darkness as a sacrifice..."
As the form of the magic was roughly created, flames composed of dark element bloomed at each point of the nearby directions and the space shook. It was a typical sign of summoning magic.
Yi-Han was greatly surprised to feel the mana flowing out like a torrent.
Although it wasn't surprising in itself, as mages often offered mana as a price when casting summoning magic...!
'What kind of amount is this?'
It was an amount of mana that surprised even Yi-Han, who used mana wastefully.
Only then did Yi-Han realize what the mad doppelganger was thinking when he told him to use this magic.
Rather than the Black Coffin summoning itself being very high in difficulty, it was magic that could be solved with mana quantity once the preparations were somehow made.
It was certainly a well-suited magic for someone with outstanding mana. Yi-Han inwardly admired it slightly.
'To think he could be this considerate. I'm surprised. Honestly, I thought he would force impossible magic.'
[Not bad for your first time. Continue.]
Perhaps due to the characteristics of the magic, the mad doppelganger was quite satisfied too. Yi-Han glanced at him and asked cautiously.
"Master. What kind of magic is this?"
[Magic that makes worms claiming to be dark mages hurt their mouths...]
"...I'm asking what kind of magic it really is, not that kind of metaphor."
The mad doppelganger turned his gaze from watching the summoning between the dark flames.
[What kind of magic does it seem like?]
"It uses dark element, has this complex structure, and is summoning magic... Hmm. I don't know. Black Dragon?"
[Not bad.]
"Was that a good answer?"
[No. The answer was nonsense, lowborn. But I'll look favorably on your will to summon a Black Dragon.]
"I didn't mean I wanted to summon..."
[The Black Coffin is a coffin that imprisons an artificially created demigod.]
"??"
When his disciple didn't understand, the mad doppelganger, like someone who prided himself as the best teacher in the current empire, patiently explained.
Just as some crooked mages (including the skull principal and the head of the Wardanaz family) found the origin of holy magic in the faith offered by priests rather than the existence of gods, the mad doppelganger was also such a person.
The mad doppelganger went one step further from there.
If priests created holy magic by offering faith, couldn't he accomplish similar things?
Of course, there would be various restrictions as he had to replace the faith sent by millions of people alone, but...
...The mad doppelganger finally completed this mystery.
An artificial demigod summoned by offering the purest dark element instead of faith.
That was the Black Coffin.
"..."
Yi-Han was overwhelmed by the explanation. As a mage learning magic himself, he was overwhelmed by the mad doppelganger's words.
Apart from the power or difficulty of the magic itself, the mad doppelganger's idea itself exuded pressure.
'Is this what ancient mages were like?'
To create and summon something god-like with magic.
Not contracting and calling beings from other dimensions, but an artificial being created by a mage alone.
'No. More than that, do you normally cast such a thing to make dark mages kneel?'
Yi-Han belatedly recalled why he was casting this magic now.
It was to show off magic against the Kalaroguard dark mages.
"Wait. But why is it a coffin?"
If it's an artificial dark demigod, shouldn't it be <Dark God Summoning> rather than <Black Coffin Summoning>?
Was he trying to freely release the artificial demigod?
"Is it a dangerous being?"
[No.]
"Whew. That's a relief. You must have made it benevolent."
[The magic isn't dangerous. The mage handling that magic puts himself in danger. Is the sun dangerous?]
'It is dangerous, you bastard...'
Yi-Han was about to tell the story of a mage who met a tragic end after climbing close to the sun, but stopped.
It seemed this artificial demigod was indeed a very dangerous being.
*
The Kalaroguard students, who had forgotten that Yi-Han had intervened and were arguing with the Baldurguard students again, paused.
The Baldurguard students were triumphant, thinking their words had gotten through.
"You finally understood, it seems. Your frivolousness!"
"...What's that?"
Garal also turned his gaze, sensing something was amiss.
While they were arguing, the Einroguard 2nd year student was summoning something strange.
A huge black coffin made of dark element!
"???"
"What's that?"
The Baldurguard students tilted their heads, seeing only the outer appearance of the Black Coffin.
It looked too different from ordinary summoning magic.
Usually, when a being from another dimension revealed itself, or when an inanimate object was summoned, its purpose should be clearly felt...
The purpose of this huge coffin now was incomprehensible.
But the Kalaroguard students were different. Befitting mages who specialized in dark magic, they felt an essential uneasiness and ominousness.
The density of the dark element is at an absurd level!
'What on earth did he summon?'
Shhhk-
Suddenly, the undead next to the Kalaroguard students was unsummoned just like that.
Without any attack, without any sign.
"???!"
"What?!"
"...Bl-Black Coffin! It's the Black Coffin!"
Among the Kalaroguard students was one majoring in ancient dark magic research.
That student recognized what magic this was now, though it seemed unbelievable.
He had heard that in ancient times, this mystery created by an unnamed great mage spread like wildfire to many kingdoms, and many dark mages were drawn to it.
Magic that creates an artificial dark demigod, then imprisons it in a coffin to control it!
"There's such magic?"
"Why haven't I heard of it before? If it's such magic, I'd like to learn it too!"
Though a half-existence, imprisoned in a coffin, and artificially created, a god is still a god.
The fact that a mage could impose new rules on the surroundings as desired and twist reality was that attractive.
In the case of the demigod in this Black Coffin now, it clearly had the authority to control all nearby undead.
"Well... I only heard it was banned even in ancient times because it was too dangerous..."
The amount of dark element needed for just one short summoning, not even a permanent one, was beyond imagination.
To gather such dark element, dark mages had no choice but to resort to evil alchemy.
There were problems even after summoning.
It was somewhat better when it was obediently confined in the coffin, but if the coffin broke during a fight and the imprisoned demigod crawled out, it was completely unpredictable what would happen.
The mage created the demigod but wasn't its master. In ancient times, there were numerous cases where demigods born with the authority designated by the mage came out of the coffin and devastated the surroundings.
To find such dangerous magic and cast it so boldly.
Indeed, Einroguard's madness was unrivaled.
"Why did he cast such an obsolete magic?"
"I... I don't know. As expected, those Einroguard bastards are not ordinarily crazy..."
"Everyone. Can you see?"
Yi-Han, who had summoned the Black Coffin, opened his mouth, unaware of the other mages' shock.
It was time to end this dispute to satisfy the mad doppelganger.
"Is there anyone who can stand against this magic? If not, I'd like to boldly declare victory!"
The Kalaroguard students sent terrified looks.
Those looks held only one meaning.
Madman!
To boldly bring out such forbidden and obsolete magic just to show off his skills.
One Kalaroguard student, trembling at that boldness and cruelty, looked closely at Yi-Han's face and paused.
"Wait. Could you be... Yi-Han of the Wardanaz family? The one Senior Agdung mentioned?"
"What? The Wardanaz family?"
The Baldurguard students also reacted to the Kalaroguard student's words.
"That 4th year?"
"Wasn't he a 5th year?"
"You foolish friends. He's a 6th year. How can you not even count numbers?"
"..."
Garal looked at the Baldurguard students as if dumbfounded.
He knew they were stupid, but this was really...?!
