Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy

Chapter 596

'How on earth did he call the giants?'

Yi-Han was surprised.

Calling the giants instead of the death knights was not an easy task either.

In the first place, Asan didn't even know that the giants were staying in the deep underground warehouse of the main building.

How on earth?

"Wardanaz! Save me!!"

"..."

The answer came right away.

Unlike his usual calm appearance, Asan was in a state of panic.

Anyone who went to request help and was met with an attack by a legion of giants would have no choice but to be like that.

'He didn't call the giants...'

He just went to call the death knights and encountered the giants.

-We will save you!-

-We came to help, mage!-

The giants behind Asan shouted as if responding, but it didn't resonate with Asan.

To Asan right now, whatever the giants said sounded like 'I will eat you.'

"...Thank you!"

"Wa-Wardanaz! Are you trying to throw me away as bait?!"

Asan shouted with a tearful face, but Yi-Han didn't even have time to clear up that misunderstanding.

The blood-sucking monster realized that the situation was flowing strangely and began to target other students who could be easily caught.

In such an urgent situation, even the help of the giants was appreciated.

"Please take the vanguard!"

-Understood!-

The giants swarmed in and blocked the front of the mage.

Wasn't one of the things that warriors originally had to do was to protect the frail mages?

Since the giants came for that purpose in the first place, there was no hesitation in their movements.

Asan, who had been afraid of being eaten, was dumbfounded when he suddenly saw the giants rushing in.

"Uh-uh?"

"Asan! Get into formation! It's dangerous to be out separately!"

"Uh, uh-uh. Isn't it more dangerous over th..."

Honestly, just looking from the outside, the giants seemed scarier than the blood-sucking monster.

Asan jumped in among his friends with a dazed look. Fortunately, his friends also had similarly dazed faces.

"Is it okay for the gi... giants to do this?"

Asan, who thought he was the strange one, was quite relieved by his friends' reactions.

Still, thanks to being surprised first, Asan was able to quickly come to his senses.

"Everyone, act calmly. What's important now is catching that blood-sucking monster, right?"

"But there are giants in front of us!?"

"As a student of Einroguard, you should be able to adapt to giants."

"Th-that's... Is that so? I don't think so..."

Bang!

The blood-sucking monster rushed at a giant.

It was different from when it quietly retreated in the underground warehouse.

In a situation like now, where it was wide open and there were many terrain features to use, there was no reason to back down. The blood-sucking monster displayed brilliant aerial maneuvers and launched an attack on the giant.

-Ugh!-

The giant, properly hit, staggered. The blood-sucking monster accelerated even more and tried to tear the giant's skin with its blade-like sharp tail.

-Ack!-

The giant screamed at the sight of the red mark left on its forearm. The other giants jeered.

-Don't scream like a goat! It's embarrassing!-

-It hurts! I said it hurts!-

Of course, the most enraged one was the blood-sucking monster.

To think that its confident attack couldn't even tear a single skin.

The blood-sucking monster's form twisted even more and became sharp and aggressive.

Bang!

The blood-sucking monster's movements became so fast that it left only a blurry afterimage. Under the continuous attacks, the giant crouched and protected its vital points. Seeing the defensive posture shown by the opponent, the blood-sucking monster's momentum rose even more and attacked…

Kwajik!

The blood-sucking monster was crushed and sent flying. The giant, who had been crouching, had skillfully swung its club and sent it flying.

-Uhahaha!-

-You were fooled, stupid thing! Fooled!-

-Surround it! Don't let it escape!-

'Impressive!'

Yi-Han honestly admired.

The giants couldn't keep up with the blood-sucking monster's speed if they competed fairly with speed.

So they made the blood-sucking monster let its guard down by pretending to be scared, and made its movements simple.

-I'm going! 3 points!-

-This time I'm going! This is 5 points!-

-There's no such thing as 5 points!-

-There is when I hit it!!-

The giants hit the blood-sucking monster with their clubs like hitting a ball and sent it to each other.

The blood-sucking monster couldn't counterattack as it was regenerating from the huge impacts.

In the meantime, Yi-Han, who caught his breath, cast the necessary magic again and summoned dark skeleton warriors.

"Sharakan. Bring Gainando!"

Now that the blood-sucking monster was distracted was an opportunity. The jade leopard quickly dashed and climbed up the tree.

And then it started to droop as if enchanted, holding Gainando's coat in its mouth.

"...Sharakan!!"

Yi-Han felt a great sense of betrayal from his summon.

It was even more so because it didn't usually do that.

Sharakan heard its master's shout and came to its senses belatedly. It hurriedly picked up Gainando in its mouth and ran over here.

"I saw everything."

-Grrr...-

Sharakan avoided its master's gaze with a discouraged look.

'What the hell is this coat?'

Yi-Han vowed to definitely take this coat to Professor Mortum and have it precisely appraised when the fight was over.

At this point, he was genuinely curious.

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At that moment, the blood-sucking monster, realizing that its coat had been taken away, let out the most miserable and brutal cry it had shown today.

The regenerative power of the blood-sucking monster, which had gone berserk with rage, became several times faster. The blood-sucking monster, which finished regenerating while being sent flying by the club, created wings and escaped into the air.

-Oops!-

-That thing, cunning like a goat, used a trick!-

-Come back!-

"Please block the front. The thing will aim for the coat again!"

-Coat?-

"The thing is targeting this coat!"

The giants looked at Gainando's coat in Yi-Han's hand.

And then they were disgusted.

-Eww!-

-It's unpleasant!-

-Don't hold something like this! You'll be cursed! Mage!-

The giants snatched the coat from Yi-Han's hand. And then they tore it to shreds.

Yi-Han thought that the blood-sucking monster had let out the most miserable and brutal scream it could make earlier.

But he was wrong.

Seeing the coat being torn, the blood-sucking monster let out a scream that could be heard even in the most remote part of Einroguard.

-Ugh, my ears!-

-That thing is crazy!-

The blood-sucking monster wasn't originally in its right mind, but from the giants' standards, it wasn't at the level of being crazy.

However, the appearance the blood-sucking monster was showing now was no exaggeration to say it was crazy.

Crunch, crunch, kwajik!!!

It abandoned its monster-like form and began to increase its size into a huge slime-like amorphous shape.

'Is it consuming the accumulated blood like going berserk?'

Originally, blood was considered a powerful reagent even in magic. Not only did it have its own mystical meaning, but it was also connected to the owner's soul to some extent, so it had to be powerful.

Naturally, blood-sucking monsters used this blood as their driving force. The abnormal regenerative power shown by the blood-sucking monster was also possible because it used the stored blood.

However, conversely speaking, for blood-sucking monsters, blood was like their own life.

Using it recklessly like now to swell up in size without any thought was absolutely not normal.

Complete rampage!

'No, does it make sense to go berserk like that over a single coat?'

Yi-Han was more dumbfounded than afraid.

The thing that persistently endured even when it was fiercely attacked by the death knights and sent flying like a ball by the giants was going berserk without regard for anything just because a single coat was torn?

Yi-Han climbed on the giant's shoulder. The thing's movements were not ordinary.

-It's coming!-

The blood-sucking monster swung its huge body that surpassed the giant.

Yi-Han, who had succeeded in divination in advance, shouted urgently.

"Two steps back!"

-Giants do not back down!-

"...Is that something to say now...?!"

The giant tried to take the attack by bravely raising its club.

Bang!

At that moment, the giant, unable to withstand the impact, was sent flying backward and crashed into the building next to it.

And Yi-Han, who was on the giant's shoulder, was also sent flying together.

***

For the senior students of the healing magic school, the exam was always close to real combat.

-Today's midterm exam is... wait a moment... Hmm. A plague has spread in Dry Falls Village. We're going to Dry Falls Village.-

-Today's final exam will be held in the Red Lake Desert. A knight order has been half-destroyed.-

-Wait. The content of today's midterm exam has been added. The plague has spread to the neighboring village as well. Finish quickly and move there.-

...As such, since there were more teaching materials that could be used for exams outside the school than inside, the exams of the healing magic school had to be close to real combat.

However, even among those students, a single thread of thought had been steadily passed down.

Perhaps…

Perhaps someday, if nothing unusual happens around…

Wouldn't the healing magic exam just pass by?

"...Everyone, stay calm."

"We, we are calm."

"The professor hasn't said anything yet, right?"

"It seems so... Shh! Don't be conscious of it. Misfortune might come for no reason."

Professor Alkasis glanced at the pocket watch once and checked the parchment artifact.

From that appearance, the students could feel that no contact had come yet.

Please!

Please! Please!

As if the students' wishes had been granted, Professor Alkasis closed the cover of the pocket watch.

And then, with a voice half-hoarse from fatigue, she said to the students.

"Today's exam will be a simple oral exam..."

"Woooooooooooooooooooh!"

The students unknowingly stomped their feet and applauded.

"Don't shout. It's making my head ring."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't waste your energy unnecessarily. Don't forget the proverb that a flustered healing mage suffers a rough fate."

"Yes..."

The slightly discouraged healing magic student answered like that.

But inside, there was a slight dissatisfaction left.

Just because they were learning healing magic, they couldn't be happy like this?

How often does this happen…

Bang!

Suddenly, the wall of the lecture hall collapsed, and the upper body of a giant was pushed in.

The students screamed and kept their distance.

-Ugh. The sky is spinning!-

"It, it's a giant's attack!?"

In the meantime, a student on the giant's shoulder jumped down and landed.

And then, discovering Professor Alkasis, he shouted.

"Professor. I'm sorry. Right now, some crazy monster is attacking us!"

"It seems a bit too much for a final exam."

"It's not the final exam!"

Yi-Han shouted, slapping the giant's cheek.

"Wake up! You have to wake up!"

-I can't get up because I'm dizzy...-

Professor Alkasis looked at the giant once, then at Yi-Han once, and finally at Yi-Han's seniors once.

The healing magic students suddenly had a bad feeling at that gaze.

"Has anyone tried healing a giant before?"

"..."

"..."

"It seems not. It's a good opportunity. Everyone, take your staff and come this way."

The students approached the giant with sad faces.

Of course, Yi-Han couldn't see his seniors.

"Symptoms like this are usually problems with the brain and the vestibular system. Normally, you would have to cast magic to check, but giants have strong magic resistance. Then what should you do?"

Yi-Han didn't imagine that Professor Alkasis was asking him.

He just thought that other seniors would be nearby and stood still.

"...Do I have to ask twice?"

"Ah. Were you calling me?"

"Yes. There's no one else around except you."

"Hmm. If it were me, I would cast magic a bit more strongly."

"..."

"..."

The seniors looked at Yi-Han as if it was absurd.

Professor Alkasis was not someone who liked jokes. If he gave such a half-hearted answer, he could be thrown out the window right away.

However, the dark elf professor only sighed once.

"I chose the wrong person to ask."

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