Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1021

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Chapter 1021

 

While the students in each carriage were writing anonymous letters that couldn’t be traced through handwriting (transformation magic and flame elemental magic were used), Gainando saw a strange sight outside the carriage.

 

Several groups of people had gathered in a secluded area on the outskirts of the capital.

 

And among them was the figure of a familiar friend…!?

 

“Huh?!”

 

“Lord Gainando. Don’t fool around and move your hands.”

 

“You need to write quickly.”

 

Two priests scolded him simultaneously.

 

Phoenix Tower students usually didn’t speak harshly to other students, but Gainando was an exception.

 

Gainando’s countless escape attempts had made even the Phoenix Tower priests lose faith in him.

 

“Ah, no. There was someone who looked like Lee Han over there…”

 

“Gainando… you’re making the priests angry.”

 

“Stop telling such ridiculous lies. You’re embarrassing us.”

 

The Blue Dragon Tower friends spoke as if they were all ashamed.

 

It was fortunate that there were priests in the carriage, but if it had been White Tiger Tower or Black Turtle Tower, the entire tower would have been disgraced.

 

“I’m telling the truth! Look!”

 

When Gainando jumped up and down, his friends reluctantly stuck their heads out of the carriage.

 

Then they asked a question to a passerby nearby.

 

“Excuse me, could we ask you something? What’s happening over there?”

 

“It seems monsters from another dimension have contaminated the underground. I heard mages are gathering to purify it.”

 

“Thank you. See?”

 

The friends who returned with the answer looked triumphantly at Gainando.

 

There was no way Lee Han would be in such a place.

 

“Uh…”

 

Siana hesitated. This thought suddenly occurred to her.

 

‘Couldn’t he be there though?’

 

Hesitating, Siana looked at Tijiling, who was writing an anonymous letter beside her.

 

Tijiling was boldly moving her quill writing ‘The lord of Einroguard is making his disciple fight monsters!’ when she turned her head.

 

“What’s wrong?”

 

“Oh, it’s nothing.”

 

Siana, who was about to ask, quietly gave up.

 

Looking to the side, it wasn’t the right atmosphere to ask.

 

“Wait! If it’s Lee Han, he could be over there!”

 

Gainando belatedly thought of that possibility and spoke, but his friends scolded him.

 

“Say something that makes sense.”

 

“Did you forget why Wardanaz is in the capital right now? No matter how much of a Wardanaz he is, would he have already finished helping the Principal and be working over there?”

 

* * *

 

Wardanaz? He’s probably out there helping wrap up the dimensional erosion incident.

 

“…”

 

“…”

 

The Einroguard students who encountered the Skeleton Principal in front of the royal palace gaped at the unexpected answer.

 

“…Don’t lie to us!”

 

You little rascal. You’ve gotten quite brave just because you’re outside school. But it’s the truth.

 

“Didn’t Wardanaz come along to help you with your work, Principal?”

 

That’s why he went after finishing all that work.

 

“…”

 

“…”

 

The friends were even more shocked than when they heard Lee Han had left early for the capital to help the Skeleton Principal.

 

He already finished everything??

 

“You didn’t take Wardanaz along for robbery, did you?”

 

“There were no robberies in the Empire newspaper…”

 

“Didn’t you just make sure not to get caught?”

 

I can hear everything.

 

The Skeleton Principal spoke in a dry voice.

 

The speculation that he had funded the school through robbery was quite amusing, but far from the truth.

 

And I really convinced them all. If you don’t believe it, go around and check for yourselves.

 

“That’s impossible!”

 

“Did you perhaps sell Wardanaz by promising to send him there after graduation and then receive gold coins?”

 

“Surely… even if it’s the Principal, he wouldn’t do such a thing.”

 

While the students unknowingly hit part of the correct answer, Gainando recovered from his shock and asked.

 

“Uh, was mother convinced too? She definitely said she’d cut off her own finger if she donated any more to Einroguard??”

 

…Did she say such a thing?

 

The Skeleton Principal was slightly hurt.

 

To think that such a generous patron as Mrs. Kraha would say such words.

 

Do you happen to remember when she said that? The western jewelry palace theft incident from two months ago? Or the eternal ice communication ship disappearance incident from five months ago? Or perhaps…

 

A list of accidents caused by Einroguard graduates that had been published in the Empire newspaper was recited in order.

 

However, Gainando shook his head.

 

“I, I’m not sure about that. But how did you really convince her?”

 

He was thinking of learning from the Skeleton Principal to use it himself later.

 

She just listened when Wardanaz asked.

 

“…Just with that?”

 

Gainando looked at his friends.

 

His expression showed he wanted them to shout ‘Don’t lie to us!’ together.

 

However, his friends immediately accepted it.

 

“That’s definitely possible.”

 

“I would have listened too.”

 

“!?”

 

See? Anyway, if you want to hang out with Wardanaz, go to the dimensional erosion site on the city outskirts. Go practice some magic there too. Your Principal is too busy to spare any time.

 

“Even though the Einroguard donation problem is all solved, you still have work left?”

 

Yoner asked with slight concern.

 

It didn’t matter in their first year, but now that they had advanced to second year, the students knew.

 

When Einroguard’s treasury shrinks, students also get hit directly!

 

Don’t worry. What’s left is just trivial explanations.

 

“Ah. So that’s why you came to the royal palace.”

 

No. I came to the royal palace now because of Professor Boladi. I have to prevent him from infiltrating the palace and making accusations.

 

“????”

 

‘What’s he talking about?’

 

The students naturally didn’t understand. The Skeleton Principal shook his jawbone as if it was bothersome to explain.

 

You guys should also say a word to Professor Boladi when you see him, telling him not to be too sulky. Teaching disciples is originally work where injuries are expected…

 

“We do get hurt a lot.”

 

Not you guys. What a shameless little rascal.

 

After hanging Gainando upside down, the Skeleton Principal prepared to float away again.

 

Seeing the students murmuring and trying to go to the outskirts to find Lee Han, the Skeleton Principal casually opened his mouth.

 

By the way.

 

“Yes?”

 

What are those bundles of paper you’re holding?

 

“…”

 

* * *

 

“Alsicle sir. Why do you keep looking around like that?”

 

Lee Han was puzzled by Alsicle’s behavior of casting one spell and checking the surroundings twice.

 

Right now, all the nearby mages were participating in cleaning up after the dimensional erosion phenomenon.

 

All the foreign substances inside had turned to ash, but that wasn’t the end of it.

 

When worlds and dimensions overlapped and eroded each other, they naturally became unstable.

 

They had to check and perform stabilization work to prevent another disaster from occurring.

 

“Voladi Bagrec isn’t here, right?”

 

“No. Why would Professor Bagrek be here?”

 

“You don’t know because you’re ignorant.”

 

Alsicle cast a spell once more and checked the surroundings three times.

 

Professor Boladi was particularly frightening because he was a battle mage. From Alsicle’s perspective, who wasn’t specialized in combat, it was a bad matchup.

 

“If you’re that scared, why don’t you just go back to the manor and rest? The remaining work isn’t very dangerous, so I can handle it alone.”

 

Lee Han said this while swinging his staff.

 

This kind of dimensional stabilization work only required senses and mana, so it suited Lee Han well.

 

He would walk around and intuitively find twisted places, then when such places appeared, he would call other mages…

 

“Space, solidify.”

 

…he didn’t even need to call them.

 

Thanks to learning basic space-time magic from Professor Garcia, Lee Han could finish about four or five times the amount of work as other mages by himself.

 

“The manor is more dangerous, you know? It’s better to stick together no matter what.”

 

Alsicle shook his beak as if telling him not to talk nonsense.

 

The only thing Alsicle trusted was that he was Professor Boladi’s disciple.

 

Surely he wouldn’t conduct a bloody interrogation in front of his disciple.

 

“Come on. You’re worrying too much.”

 

“Hmph. It’s easy for you to say since you’re his disciple.”

 

“I’ve been attacked plenty too, you know?”

 

Lee Han pushed aside the grumbling penguin beastman mage and approached the spatial crack.

 

“Space, solidify.”

 

“Um, excuse me…”

 

Archmage Erindarvel approached with the most apologetic expression that the most sorry person in the Empire could make.

 

“…Would it be alright for a moment?”

 

“Ah. Yes. What is it?”

 

“I sincerely apologize for this mistake…”

 

The two exchanged glances. Lee Han whispered in a small voice so the other person couldn’t hear.

 

“But Erindarvel sir is an Archmage, so why is he so kind?”

 

“Not all Archmages are evil… no wait. They are evil but… anyway, he is quite unusual.”

 

While the two were whispering, Erindarvel fumbled around in space and pulled out an item.

 

It was a gift he had brought to compensate even slightly for the damage caused this time.

 

“This artifact is 【Asen’s Staff】. It has magic that quickly recovers mana related to light elements. I’d like to give this as a gift…”

 

“Uh, Erindarvel sir. But Wardanaz has a lot of mana so it’s not very useful…”

 

“!”

 

At Alsicle’s point, Erindarvel realized his mistake.

 

Come to think of it, the Wardanaz Family Boy here had endless amounts of mana. No matter how good an artifact that only recovered light element mana in a limited way was, it would be meaningless.

 

‘Another mistake like this!’

 

When Erindarvel hung his head low again, Lee Han poked Alsicle’s fluffy side.

 

“What are you doing right now!”

 

“Ah, no. Sorry…”

 

Alsicle apologized.

 

As a mage, when knowledge came to mind, his beak automatically opened – it couldn’t be helped.

 

“Still, you’re the one receiving and using it, so you can’t accept something you don’t need. It’s from an Archmage too.”

 

“I can just sell it after receiving it. Please consider the other person’s feelings too.”

 

“?”

 

Alsicle felt something was strange and tilted his head.

 

“…Wait, then you shouldn’t sell…”

 

“Anyway, you must say the next gift is definitely good. Understood?”

 

“Al, alright.”

 

Erindarvel put away the staff and rummaged through space for a long time again.

 

After long consideration, what came out was a round egg.

 

“This is a hippogriff egg.”

 

“That won’t work!”

 

Lee Han cried out urgently. Erindarvel, who was about to introduce the egg, hesitated.

 

Why?

 

Soothing the baby basilisk that was tightly wrapping around his arm from inside his sleeve as if asking not to be abandoned, Lee Han quickly explained.

 

“Actually, I’m raising a griffin, so it would be very jealous.”

 

“I, I see… If that’s the case, then it can’t be helped.”

 

Erindarvel hung his head low again. This time it was Alsicle’s turn to poke Lee Han’s side.

 

“Just accept it!”

 

“So, sorry. The griffin gets upset often…”

 

“Really? I’ve never heard that griffins are very jealous.”

 

“My griffin is probably a bit unusual.”

 

-…

 

The baby basilisk wriggled, feeling sorry for Ponrig who wasn’t present.

 

How wronged would he feel if he heard this conversation?

 

Perhaps feeling sorry for the Archmage who kept rummaging through space, Alsicle gave advice.

 

“Um, Erindarvel sir. Wardanaz would be happy even if you just gave him gold coins.”

 

“Don’t say such ridiculous things, Penguerin sir.”

 

“…”

 

At Erindarvel’s firm rejection, Alsicle pouted his beak.

 

It’s true though!

 

As the deliberation grew long, Erindarvel just poured out the contents of his space onto the floor. Then he muttered while putting them away one by one.

 

“A pure gold angel statue… too ordinary. The three-story capital mage villa I got last time… this probably won’t be very useful either…”

 

“Alsicle sir. Please give some advice to choose one of those.”

 

Lee Han appealed with a voice full of sincerity.

 

If those gifts were passed over and he ended up receiving some strange staff or hippogriff egg, he felt like he would really cry.

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