Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 101
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Chapter 101
The three gathered again in front of the sandy beach.
They had been shipwrecked on this Hell Island—no, the Skeleton Principal’s Island—and needed to think about what to do next.
Lee Han asked first.
“Can we build another boat by any chance?”
“…”
Angrago shook his head.
Even making a small ferry boat required more materials than expected and was quite labor-intensive.
Originally, he had only been able to build it with help from other White Tiger Tower students—it would be difficult for Angrago alone.
“Self-rescue seems difficult…”
“S-sorry.”
“It’s fine. But there’s one problem right now.”
When Lee Han spoke with a serious expression, Angrago and Dukema tensed up.
This was Wardanaz, who had even defeated the undead that dominated this sandy beach.
What could possibly make him speak like that?
“Wh… what is it?”
“At this rate, I’m going to miss tomorrow’s class.”
“…”
“…”
At first, the two thought Wardanaz was joking. However, Lee Han was very serious.
“Th… that wasn’t a joke?”
“Do I look like I’m joking right now?”
“N-no. Sorry.”
“I… in a situation like this, wouldn’t it be okay to miss class?”
Dukema asked as if he couldn’t understand. Lee Han answered in a menacing voice.
“Under no circumstances should you miss class. Got it?”
Grades were more important than life.
The two students didn’t understand with their heads, but they understood with their hearts due to Lee Han’s intensity.
It really must be important!
Though they didn’t quite know why…!
“G… got it.”
“I apologize too. But Wardanaz, there doesn’t seem to be a way to get to tomorrow’s class…”
The sun was already setting slowly. The weekend evening was approaching.
When tomorrow morning came, a new week would begin and classes would start.
Could they escape by then?
“Are there any guys who would notice you’re missing and come to rescue you?”
Lee Han looked at the two and asked.
Rather than building a boat to get out of here, waiting for someone to come from outside was more realistic.
However, both shook their heads.
“Even if they notice, they can’t come to rescue us right away.”
“They wouldn’t have boats either…”
“White Tiger Tower is a place where knights gather, so why is there so little unity?”
Lee Han spoke reproachfully.
The two felt very wronged.
That didn’t seem to have anything to do with unity…!
“Fortunately, Monday morning’s lecture is 【Basic Magic Character Education】…”
Lee Han fell into thought.
Having the Skeleton Principal’s lecture tomorrow was lucky in a way.
If during the lecture the Skeleton Principal said, ‘Are there any students who went to the island to find outing passes? None? That won’t do. I’ll give you a chance, so go to the island and find outing passes during this class time,’ then Lee Han’s group could be rescued without doing anything.
But…
‘Would the Skeleton Principal really do that?’
Would the Skeleton Principal, with his personality, say ‘I should help them a little’ when everyone failed to complete their assignment?
It seemed more likely he’d say something like ‘You can’t even do that? Work harder next time.’
While Lee Han was lost in thought, Angrago slapped his knee.
“That’s right! If we’re not there when the lecture starts, everyone will definitely notice we’re missing, and then the Principal will come rescue us too! We just need to hold out until then…”
“No. I should just explore the island right away. We need to escape on our own.”
“…”
“…”
The two were stunned by Lee Han’s reaction.
“He might come to rescue us… right?”
“That’s not going to happen.”
“But if students are missing by lecture time, he’d be worried enough to…”
“That’s not going to happen.”
Lee Han was even more firmly decisive.
The two became dejected.
‘Unfortunately, this is reality.’
Since they had entered the magic school, it was time for Angrago and Dukema to accept reality too.
Since no rescue would come from outside, they had to find a way here.
Lee Han was thinking of searching through other things the Skeleton Principal had prepared.
‘He prepared outing passes and trials to reach them, so there must definitely be other things too.’
Or at the very least, the ferry boat they had taken should be hidden somewhere and they needed to find it.
Grumble-
Grumble-
Grumble-
“…”
Lee Han turned his gaze. Angrago hung his head with an embarrassed, flushed expression.
“You must be hungry. After moving around so much. We should eat something first. Do you have food?”
At Lee Han’s question, both nodded with confident expressions.
“Shall we eat and then move?”
With those words, Lee Han took out bread and canned goods from his backpack.
Angrago took out tree bark from his backpack.
For a moment, Lee Han thought Angrago had taken it out to use as a bowl.
However, Angrago held the white tree bark and said to Dukema.
“Dukema. Let’s boil water. We’ll cook this and eat it.”
“Wait. Wait.”
“?”
Angrago and Dukema looked at Lee Han as if asking what was wrong.
Lee Han looked at the tree bark and asked.
“…You eat that?”
Angrago grinned. It was a smile mixed with some pride. He seemed quite pleased that he knew something Lee Han didn’t.
“Wardanaz. The inner bark of this tree is edible. If you boil it thoroughly and eat it, it becomes quite soft and has a sweet taste.”
“…”
That’s not why I asked!
Lee Han sighed. No matter how little food there was, peeling tree bark and boiling it to eat was going too far.
“I heard that White Tiger Tower obtains meat through hunting. Did I hear wrong?”
“We do get meat, but the quantity is inevitably insufficient.”
“Wardanaz. You don’t seem to understand. Just because you hunt doesn’t mean you’ll catch anything. Besides, preservation is quite difficult too. Most of it has to be eaten as soon as it’s caught, so it’s not suitable for emergency rations like this.”
When the two White Tiger Tower students triumphantly explained something only they knew about, Lee Han was about to hit them but stopped.
Lee Han was human too, so he felt a bit sorry for them.
“…I brought something with me, so let’s eat together.”
“!”
“R-really?”
“That tomato vegetable stew?”
The tomato vegetable stew that Wardanaz had made was already legendary. Even the White Tiger Tower students had heard about it.
“No… I didn’t bring tomato cans with me when coming to the lakeside. I didn’t bring vegetables either. I only brought simple food for myself, so the amount is insufficient. We need to look for more nearby.”
The two were slightly disappointed by Lee Han’s words.
Come to think of it, Wardanaz probably hadn’t anticipated this situation either.
Who would have thought they’d end up stranded on an island while scouting the lakeside?
Lee Han took out a pot, a glass bottle containing olive oil, butter, salt, pepper, eggs, slightly hardened white bread, and pickled bacon from his leather backpack.
Seeing this, the two were dumbfounded.
‘He said he only brought simple food for himself…!’
‘Just how well do those Blue Dragon Tower bastards live?’
They had never felt ashamed or regretful about being assigned to White Tiger Tower, but right now they honestly felt a little envious.
How on earth did he secure all that?
“As expected, it’s still not enough.”
“No, isn’t that amount sufficient…?”
“I saw some edible mushrooms earlier, so I should gather some.”
When Lee Han stood up, the two followed suit.
“Why are you getting up?”
“Didn’t we say earlier that we’d be your arms?”
“We can’t let you go alone.”
The two spoke quite solemnly, but Lee Han asked with a cold expression.
“Do you happen to know how to identify mushrooms?”
“…I got it right once out of three times… I think. Last time.”
“Two of us would die then. Forget it. Just gather what I tell you to.”
The key to mushroom gathering was only picking what you knew.
If something seemed even slightly strange or ominous, it was important not to pick it even if it looked like a mushroom you knew.
Knowing this, Lee Han told them to only pick very safe mushrooms whose identity he was certain of.
“Pick that brown mushroom.”
“Don’t pick that one.”
“Throw that away. It’s strange.”
The two White Tiger Tower students who were diligently gathering mushrooms in place of the injured Lee Han gradually gained confidence as they worked.
Couldn’t we identify mushrooms by now too?
“The color is dull and crude, isn’t it a safe mushroom?”
“Throw it away before you put it in your mouth.”
“…”
Angrago obediently tossed the mushroom aside.
However, Dukema seemed quite disappointed. He kept trying to make his own creative attempts.
“What about this mushroom…”
“This one looks edible. It looks like something that appeared on the dining table when I was young.”
“It’s similar in shape to what we picked earlier, isn’t this one edible?”
Watching Dukema earnestly taking his first steps toward becoming a mushroom gathering expert, Lee Han spoke encouragingly.
“Right. That mushroom is edible. Though it’s a mushroom you can only eat once.”
“Oh… wait, why can you only eat it once?”
“Because you’d die if you ate it.”
“…”
Dukema also obediently tossed the mushroom aside.
And he quietly picked only the mushrooms Lee Han told him to.
* * *
After finishing preparations, the three made a campfire.
When Lee Han made fire with flint instead of magic, Angrago was puzzled.
“Why with flint?”
“Wardanaz is thinking about the taste of cooking. I heard from Grandmother that fire lit by hand is better for cooking than fire made with magic.”
‘Was that so?’
The reason Lee Han lit fire with flint was simple.
He might accidentally burn these two students if he summoned fire incorrectly.
Instead of explaining, Lee Han greased the pan with butter and oil and heated it up.
The secret to cooking delicious mushrooms was to cook them hot with sufficient patience. If you hastily threw mushrooms in…
‘…But it really seems like my cooking skills have improved too much since entering school.’
It wasn’t a joke – it felt like his cooking skills had improved more than his magic skills.
Having to worry every day about how to make menus diverse and delicious with limited ingredients, they couldn’t help but improve.
With adequate capital and support, being a chef might be a better choice than being a mage…
Sizzle!
The mushrooms on the pan absorbed the oil and butter.
Lee Han skillfully rolled the mushrooms and moved them aside, then put small pieces of hard bread in the remaining oil.
When all the processes were finished and he even cracked eggs to add them, the two White Tiger Tower students couldn’t help but admire.
‘These guys seem more impressed than when they heard I defeated an undead summon earlier.’
“Let’s eat.”
Lee Han sprinkled salt over the mushrooms, bread, and fried eggs to season them.
The three said nothing and hastily stuffed the food into their stomachs. The grilled mushrooms were crispy, and the hardened bread had absorbed oil and become moist.
Angrago suddenly felt his eyes getting hot.
“I… I never thought I’d have a meal like this again…”
“…Me too, Angrago. I thought I’d never eat like this for the rest of my life…”
‘You’ve only been here for a month.’
Watching the two White Tiger Tower students who had become somewhat overly sentimental, Lee Han silently devoured his food.
Sniffling was one thing, but the White Tiger Tower students must have been quite hungry as they ate eagerly.
Suddenly there was a rustling sound from behind.
Lee Han immediately threw the bowl he was holding aside and grabbed his staff. Angrago instinctively threw himself to catch the thrown bowl.
“Who’s there?”
What emerged through the thicket was a water spirit.
The water spirit seemed angry at the new students who weren’t doing their trials but were making campfires instead. It approached while irregularly swelling its body.
It was a sign that it would attack at any moment.
Lee Han also stood up from his spot holding his staff.
It was likewise a sign that he would attack immediately.
And Lee Han was one step faster.
”
”
Strike down…
Strike hard…
Before Lee Han could finish his incantation, the water spirit was startled and began to flee.
How to Survive as a Mage in a Magic School
Before Lee Han could even finish reciting the incantation, the water spirit was startled and began to flee.
How to Live as a Wizard at Magic School
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
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