Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy

Chapter 566

A moment later.

Yi-Han drank with a serious face.

"By the way, Senior. What kind of poison is this?"

He didn't think much when drinking it, but after drinking it, he suddenly became curious about what kind of poison it was.

The flow of mana inside the poison seemed violent and complex, so it didn't seem like an ordinary poison.

Direth stretched out her index finger and warned.

"Don't think about unnecessary things and focus on the poison. Tell me right away if you feel a reaction."

Even a dark mage who handled poisons could become poisoned.

No, rather, they could become more severely poisoned because they handled poisons.

Even if they built up their own tolerance and created immunity, a small mistake while creating new poisons could take their life.

One could see that just by looking at Ahrak's end.

"How is it? Do you feel a reaction?"

"Hmm... No. There's no particular effect."

Yi-Han shook his head after closing his eyes and concentrating on the poison.

Even though quite some time had passed after drinking it, there was no poison energy circulating in his body at all.

It was because the poison couldn't overcome Yi-Han's mana and withered away.

"This too? Hmm..."

Direth lightly frowned.

She had hoped that might be able to pierce through this junior's poison resistance and create a poisoned state, but to think it couldn't even deal a bit of damage.

"I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault, junior. More importantly, I need to teach you how to respond when poisoned."

There was a reason why Direth was trying to somehow poison her junior.

It was because experiencing a poisoned state was quite important for a dark mage who handled poison elements.

How to move mana in a poisoned state to stop the progression, and also how to attempt detoxification.

These things were not only for the safety of dark mages but also helped in researching poison elements.

The problem was that this junior didn't get poisoned no matter what poison he was fed.

"Cough. Cough. Cough cough."

"Cough cough. Cough. Cough cough."

In contrast, Gainando and Raphael were gasping for breath, turning pale.

Direth calmly warned.

"Don't try to forcefully breathe even if it's hard to breathe. You can endure for 1 minute, so give up on breathing and find a way to detoxify."

"Cough cough, cough."

"Cough cough, cough."

The two glared at Direth while scratching the desk.

It wasn't the first time seeing it, so Direth wasn't shaken.

"Are you okay?"

"Ah, yes, yes! Thank you."

Ymirg was waving his staff while enduring the pain felt in his forearm.

It was an excellent response.

'It's a bit lonely.'

Yi-Han felt a sense of alienation.

Of course, he didn't want to get poisoned, but it was also a bit awkward to stay still alone while his friends were all poisoned and coughing.

"Can't we use a stronger poison?"

"No. Right now, is enough to be lethal."

"That... Huh? ?"

Yi-Han doubted his ears.

Is it really okay to feed them that?

"Since we've confirmed that your resistance is strong for now... Let's wait and see a bit more. It will take a few more years for you to come into contact with a poison that could put you in danger."

"Yes. I'll just be careful with poisons."

"Being careful doesn't work either. Since I'll be advancing to 5th year next year, it will be hard to check like this."

"Oh my. Why would you make such a choice?"

"..."

"I'm sorry. It was momentary."

"No. It's something you can sufficiently say. Thank you."

After saying that, Direth suddenly had a question.

'Come to think of it, doesn't this junior have no right to say such a thing?'

A freshman was taking all the schools' classes, so who was worrying about whom?

If he became a 5th year, he would probably end up like the ancient Asura…

"Senior?"

"Huh? It's nothing."

"?"

Yi-Han was puzzled by Direth's reaction.

As if she was thinking about something else, her reaction was different from when she was usually focused.

'Could it be that she's feeling troubled because she's advancing to 5th year?'

Anyone could be like that. Yi-Han nodded his head in understanding.

"Senior. Look at this."

"Eggs? You don't need to bring things like this."

Direth expressed disapproval.

Of course, this junior's dessert-making skills were outstanding, proving that he was the top in alchemy.

She was so surprised that her feathers almost fell out when she heard that the souffle pancake he brought last time was made with ingredients found directly inside Einroguard.

But as a senior, she couldn't receive snacks, let alone get snacks from a junior.

"Was the souffle pancake not good last time? Maybe store-bought snacks were better..."

"It was really delicious, but I feel bad receiving it. Coholti bought all the eggs he could find at the school market and kept making only souffle pancakes. He said he would try to recreate the taste you made."

"Oh my. I should have just made and brought it. And this isn't a snack, I brought it as a reagent ingredient."

Yi-Han carefully took out the egg laid by a ghost chicken from the basket.

Originally, Yi-Han was raising a ghost chicken in the hut where he was taking care of a Basilisk egg.

And the eggs laid by the ghost chicken were very precious dark magic reagents.

"Ghost chicken?!"

Direth was startled and accepted the egg.

"This is really... amazing? How did you get this?"

"Please don't ask how. Anyway, I want to sell this, can I sell it?"

"It's possible to any extent. But..."

Direth made a pondering expression.

Yi-Han asked, thinking there might be a problem.

"Is there a problem? Ah. The price for you to act as an intermediary..."

"What are you talking about? It's not like that?"

Direth looked at her junior as if dumbfounded by his words.

"It's just that the juniors might try to buy it themselves instead of selling it outside. As you know, if you try to buy rare reagents from outside, the price is much higher."

The law of supply and demand also applied to the field of mage reagents.

Common ingredients could be easily obtained in any amount, but rare ingredients were competed for and the price rose.

Things like ghost chicken eggs were already hard to obtain, and the supply was even more limited because those who obtained them happened to be dark mages. Thanks to that, dark mages would scream whenever they occasionally came out.

"If you need them, I'll just sell them to the seniors."

"What? No. Why would you make such a concession, junior?"

"We're from the same school, aren't we?"

'I shouldn't tell the other guys.'

Direth made a resolution to herself at the earnest junior's words.

It seemed better to not tell the other guys and just contact external merchants to sell them.

"I'll take care of it, so don't worry about it, junior. Since the poisoned state is difficult... Let's move on to practicing poison elements. As you practice poison elements, you'll realize that it's surprisingly difficult to inflict poison on the opponent."

No matter how much it was a poison created by magic, with properties that didn't exist in reality, the fact that it was difficult to inflict on the opponent didn't change.

Poison didn't fly as fast as lightning or spread as fiercely as fire.

Since a small amount of liquid form was the basic, making the opponent poisoned was also quite a challenge.

"When your level rises, you can poison them with just a glance, but that's not easy. Before that, you'll have to use your head a lot."

Methods that utilize the surrounding environment, such as poison fog or poison clouds.

Or a method of combining it with water elements to shoot poison arrows, even if the power is slightly weakened.

Or a method of compressing it into elements that are friendly to poison, such as bone elements.

"The method that you should practice first, junior, is..."

"Poison fog or poison clouds, right?"

"...It's the method of compressing poison elements into bone elements. Since you succeeded with dark elements, poison elements will be easier. Dark elements have a higher difficulty. Wait a minute. What did you say?"

Direth belatedly realized Yi-Han's answer and was puzzled.

"Why did you think of fog or clouds?"

"Uh, since my poison resistance is strong, I thought it would be better to just cover the surroundings while accepting that I would get inflicted."

"...It's a novel and good method, but let's learn to put it in bone elements first. This is more stable."

5 minutes later.

Yi-Han perfectly succeeded in compressing poison into bone elements.

Direth checked the time once and asked.

"Okay. You want to summon poison fog?"

***

Throughout the semester, the students of each tower had divided the duties among themselves.

As it was Einroguard's work, the difficulty level was not easy, and everyone was knowingly or unknowingly accumulating fatigue.

Moreover, the final exams were coming up soon.

It was inevitable that the movements of the students in charge of the duties became dull and slow.

Even the most diligent and hardworking priests of the Immortal Phoenix Tower were like this…

'It's a bit worrisome.'

Yi-Han was more worried about the skull principal's attack than the final exams.

The final exams were based on what they had studied normally, so it couldn't be helped, but the skull principal's attack usually came when they were most weakened and off guard.

Moreover, the skull principal's venom had likely risen very high recently.

Because the 1st-year students had set a new record for outings and brought back a large amount of supplies to enjoy luxury.

-Hoho. Look at this! It's a coat with pockets! I bought it from outside.-

-Hey, isn't that too luxurious?-

-You're the one wearing gloves made of real leather!-

-Haha, that's right! We have the right to do this!-

Yi-Han wanted to stop them so as not to provoke the skull principal, but this was something that couldn't be stopped.

Could friends who had been starving all year long restrain themselves even if they were told to?

"Wardanaz. We're done exterminating here."

"I'll be right there."

Yi-Han waved his staff to cast magic and moved.

Currently, Yi-Han and the Immortal Phoenix priests had come out to exterminate the blood-sucking bugs appearing in the nearby thickets.

Blood-sucking bugs were weak enough to be easily exterminated without using magic when looking at just one, but when dozens of them swarmed out of the thickets like a swarm of bees, it was not ordinarily threatening.

Before that, they had to check the surroundings and cast magic in places where blood-sucking bugs were likely to stay to exterminate them.

In fact, it was a task that required perseverance rather than outstanding magic.

"Burn, burn, burn..."

And even if one lacked perseverance, it was also an easy task to solve if one had an enormous amount of mana.

Yi-Han moved while burning suspicious places thoroughly.

The Immortal Phoenix priests were pouring the extermination potion they had made into puddles and thickets.

This was also a good method. It was possible to indirectly weaken the blood-sucking bugs.

"Wardanaz. Did you see this?"

"?"

Yi-Han turned his gaze at the call of Priestess Siana.

There were large footprints behind the thicket.

Even if it wasn't as big as a giant, the size far exceeded the size of ordinary people.

'What is it?'

Yi-Han raised a light to check the surroundings.

Whatever monster it was, it had left quite a brutal trace. Not only the footprints but also the surrounding rocks and trees had clear claw marks.

-■■■■■■...-

Yi-Han's light spread several times stronger than the other students' lights.

Thanks to that, a bipedal monster standing between the trees revealed itself.

The creature glared at Yi-Han with red eyes.

It resembled a rampaging lycanthrope but it wasn't a lycanthrope. Blood was pooled like a puddle, as if it had binged on the nearby blood-sucking bugs.

A few priests fell over due to the murderous intent and pressure, but Yi-Han said nonchalantly.

"Huh. Did the principal send you again?"

-■■■!-

"It doesn't change anything even if you do that, darkness sweep away!"

The dark element transformed into the form of a wave and burst forward.

The blood-sucking monster jumped at an angle it had never expected and avoided the magic.

'It's fast!'

But Yi-Han immediately prepared for the next attack.

Whenever he was on duty, he had made full preparations, not knowing when the principal's attack would occur.

and were making Yi-Han's senses sharp and sensitive.

-What's going on!-

One of the priests must have called a Death Knight who was patrolling, as it quickly ran over.

Yi-Han also kept an eye on the Death Knight and grabbed his staff.

'Are you an accomplice?'

-What the hell is that monster?! 1st-year students, step back.-

The Death Knight blew a trumpet to call his comrades.

Bwoooo-

"Isn't it the principal's minion?"

-What kind of nonsense are you saying!?-

The Death Knights were startled and denied it.

Such a monster was not their comrade.

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