Life of a Magic Academy Mage – 68



Chapter 68 

At the very moment when the skull principal was incredulously reacting Yi-Han and his friends from the Blue Dragon were hurriedly descending the stairs.

“Mana is gathering again!”

Yi-Han could feel it. He sensed the dispersed mana of the tower quickly reshaping and reassembling. Though momentarily scattered by an unexpected shock the spells of the Magic Academy were indeed powerful. They were prepared to recover even in such situations. And if everything were to be restored…

‘Our plan might get complicated’ Yi-Han thought.

He did not know how many spells were cast within the tower nor their effects. But he anticipated that their resurgence would spell trouble for him and his intruding party.

Swoosh!

“Aaaah!”

“Gainando! Gainando!!”

It seemed a spell had completed its formation amidst the gathering of mana. It activated in a flickering motion.

Gainando unfortunately caught in the spell was pulled back along the stairs as if an invisible hook had snagged his collar.

“Argh!”

Gainando was flung out of the White Tiger Tower’s main gate tumbling head over heels.

It was clearly a spell meant to expel intruders.

“Hurry! It’ll get messy if other spells complete” Yi-Han urged.

“Got it got it!”

The students of the Blue Dragon nodded. Though initially flustered they had a reliable leader in Yi-Han whose statue-like face commanded calmly restoring their composure as they followed him.

Bang!

The lounge door swung open. Yi-Han and Ratford quickly scoured for valuable—or rather flag-like items.

“What is this madness?!”

Disturbed by the faint commotion Dolgyu descended from his private room blinking in confusion.

To his surprise students from the Blue Dragon who shouldn’t have been there had invaded the first-year lounge.

Recognizing a familiar face Dolgyu asked in a constrained voice “Yi-Han! What is happening…?”

“Dolgyu!”

“Huh?”

“Look behind you!”

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“Huh?”

Distracted Dolgyu turned around only for Yi-Han to swiftly strike him on the jaw with his bead.

The poor half-awake orc friend trusting in Yi-Han collapsed once again.

“Haha! Take that you White Tiger brat! Pay for your arrogance to Wardanaz!”

A student from the Blue Dragon cheered while Yonaire looked at Yi-Han with confused eyes as if to say ‘Is this really okay?’

Yi-Han shook his head saying “This is better for Dolgyu too.”

He hadn’t told Dolgyu about the attack plan for a simple reason. Dolgyu was a student of the White Tiger after all. It wasn’t about mistrust but rather concern that Dolgyu already somewhat ostracized within the White Tiger might face further isolation if involved in this plan.

Yonaire understood this though she seemed to think Yi-Han had hit Dolgyu too hard.

“Seeing him like this the other White Tiger students won’t misunderstand. There’s no need for Dolgyu to become an outcast like Nillia in the tower.”

“Yeah. …But did you have to compare him to Nillia?”

“Found it!”

True to his thief-like skills Ratford quickly located a flag. The problem was that there wasn’t just one flag.

“Here’s another!”

“And another here…?!”

The White Tiger students had practiced and failed to create fake flags which now appeared scattered around. The patterns were crudely made but hard to distinguish in the dim light.

Yi-Han quickly made a decision.

“Take them all.”

“!”

That’s right!

Just take them all!

The Blue Dragon students grabbed every flag they could see.

“What what’s happening??”

A second White Tiger student appeared. It was Rowena a black-haired elf Yi-Han recognized. 

Rowena with an expressionless face was startled upon making eye contact with the princess who was hurriedly stowing the flags into her bosom.

“What is really happening?!”

“Stay quiet and don’t move! If you do we won’t spare the princess!”

“?!”

The princess who had followed to help suddenly became a hostage her eyes flickering slightly.

Rowena shocked raised her arms.

“No no! I’ll stay still!”

“Good! Stay that way!”

Yi-Han bound Rowena’s feet with a single command.

Ratford shouted urgently “Checked them all! There’s no more!”

“Good. Let’s get out of here!”

Swoosh!

As the scattered spells regained strength ominous signs began to show.

Two students from the Blue Dragon like Gainando before were flung outside.

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“Those who escaped head to the Blue Dragon! Ratford run!”

“Yes!”

“The Blue Dragon brats invaded the lounge!!!!”

The commotion woke up the White Tiger students who descended to the lounge only to be met with an unbelievable scene promptly awakening their friends.

“Rowena! Why are you just standing there?!”

“They they said if I move they won’t spare the princess…”

“What are you talking about? They are from the same tower and came together!”

“!”

“Chase them!! Don’t let them get away!!”

—

Some forcibly others of their own accord.

Yi-Han and his friends successfully escaped the White Tiger.

Yi-Han escaping last shuddered as the tower’s intruder-preventing magic grazed his head.

“Uh… Ugh.”

The expelled students disoriented as if suffering severe motion sickness stumbled and fell. Gainando couldn’t even stand floundering on the ground.

“Pick up the fallen ones and run! The White Tiger guys are coming!”

“Ok… Okay!”

Yi-Han hoisted Gainando onto his shoulder eliciting a scream from him.

“Gently! Drive gently!”

“This isn’t a carriage Gainando! Get a hold of yourself!”

Tadadadak-

“Hey you thieves!!!”

Torches lit up behind them as the White Tiger students’ shouts rang out. They were incredulous at being attacked at night and now missing their flags.

Asan from the Blue Dragon undaunted retorted “It’s us who should be saying that! You cowardly tricksters making fake flags! You’re 100% scammers!”

“Stop provoking and just run Asan!” Yi-Han even while carrying Gainando outran the other students. However he halted. The White Tiger students were faster than expected.

‘We’ll get caught at this rate!’

Panting Ratford asked “Are you planning to use the prince as bait?”

“…No!” Yi-Han was momentarily flustered. It really wasn’t his intention.

“Wardanaz you scoundrel! It’s one thing to threaten Rowena using the princess as a hostage but Dolgyu trusted your honor! And you knocked him out?!” Anglago a satyr shouted with fury.

Seizing the opportunity Yi-Han coldly retorted “Dolgyu? He was just an easy pawn. It’s his own stupidity for being deceived.”

“Wardanaz you bastard!!!” Anglago exploded with rage and lunged at him. However Anglago alone was no match for Yi-Han.

Yi-Han had already been rigorously trained by Professor Boladi in magic battle and more.

He promptly conjured a water orb.

“Spring forth!”

The compressed orb of water materialized. Without a moment’s rest Yi-Han cast the next spell.

“Move!”

With dull thudding sounds the charging Anglago was sent tumbling. The hefty water orb had enough force to rob the limbs of their strength.

Anglago fallen gritted his teeth and glared up at Yi-Han. With the flickering torches behind Yi-Han’s face was starkly shadowed his already cold statue-like visage appearing even more frigid. 

Thinking of Dolgyu collapsed in the lounge Anglago’s heart blazed with more anger and sorrow. He shouted “Damn it…! Wardanaz you monster who knows nothing but magic…!!”

“Anglago!!” The White Tiger students arriving belatedly helped up the fallen Anglago crying out in despair. Seeing their friend downed felt like witnessing a noble knight defeated by an evil mage.

“Ha… Haha! You’ll never defeat Wardanaz… Ugh.”

“Stop provoking and stay quiet.”

As Gainando on his shoulder tried to taunt Yi-Han silenced him with a slap. Gainando closed his mouth again.

“This was for a class assignment let’s not hold unnecessary grudges against each other.”

“You call that an excuse!”

‘Admittedly it does sound rather shameless’ Yi-Han thought.

He knew telling the already humiliated White Tiger students that ‘all this is because of the skull principal who divided the tower into four and created such a competitive environment let’s not fight among ourselves’ would be futile. They’d probably retort ‘We’ll think about it after beating you up.’

Yi-Han sighed. It was a sigh of resignation to the inevitability of force.

To the White Tiger students his sigh perhaps due to the darkness seemed like a mocking sneer.

“Don’t… Don’t follow me. I can cast the same magic again and again. It might be hard to dodge continuously in this darkness.”

Yi-Han planned to escape before more White Tiger students arrived. He could handle half a dozen with threats but beyond that the reaction was unpredictable.

“I don’t care! Friends avenge Dolgyu! Avenge him for being used by Wardanaz!” Anglago cried out in anguish. Yi-Han slightly regretted not having knocked Anglago unconscious.

The White Tiger students’ eyes hardened.

‘Damn.’

Their eyes conveyed a firm resolve to avenge Dolgyu regardless of the consequences.

Indeed they were from noble knight families. In such a situation they chose their friend’s honor over their own limbs.

Gainando whispered in a horrified voice “…Are we doomed?”

Instead of answering Yi-Han slapped Gainando’s mouth again.

‘Use water orbs on the left fend off attackers on the right with the sword… blind their sight then turn and run…’

Despite the unexpected turn Yi-Han quickly calculated his strategy.

However Yi-Han’s calculations became irrelevant. Gainando perched on his shoulder pointed behind the White Tiger students and screamed.

“…Behind!! Behind!!”

“Wardanaz how stupid do you think we are? Do you think we’d fall for a trick by the prince?!”

“Look behind you!!!”

“We won’t be fooled… Aaaaah!”

Whoosh!

A massive vine swooped down entangling a White Tiger student and lifting him into the air.

Yi-Han seeing the unrealistically huge vine monster emerging from the darkness momentarily thought he had triggered the White Tiger Tower’s defensive magic summoning the creature. Fortunately that was not the case.

-“The summon from the greenhouse has escaped! The summon from the greenhouse has escaped!”-

-“It’s heading towards the freshmen! …I want nothing to do with this! This guy should go to the punishment room!”-

-“Will you shut up and just handle this?!”-

Faint shouts of familiar content were coming from a distance. It was the kind of warm conversation only shared by the disciples of a professor who had failed an experiment.

Thump!

Professor Garcia appeared out of thin air and landed smoothly. The professor swung her staff forcing the vine monster to retreat then turned to Yi-Han.

“Summons escaping like this again. This week will be tough for the freshmen. Yi-Han what are you doing here?”

“…Wait. Did you say ‘again’ and ‘summons’?”

Summons ‘escaping’ again?

“Why are you here Yi-Han?”

“Professor! That vine monster took my friend! Please save him!”

“Ah alright. Just wait.”

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