Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1026
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Chapter 1026
‘No!’
Professor Garcia screamed internally at the sight of her innocent disciple approaching without knowing the current situation at all.
The professor quickly gestured toward her disciple who recognized her face and was delighted to see her.
This gesture of making a skull with her hand was a ‘stay away, danger’ signal that any Einroguard student could understand.
‘Please wait a moment, Student Lee Han!’
“Hello, Professor.”
“No!”
Professor Garcia unconsciously sighed at the fact that her gesture didn’t work.
“Why did you come!”
“Huh? You told me to come to this cafe…”
“That’s not what I mean! My gesture just now…”
“Gesture? What does that mean?”
Lee Han looked puzzled as if he had no idea what Professor Garcia was talking about.
Professor Garcia was shocked by his reaction.
‘…They don’t use this anymore these days!’
The fact that the gesture she used during her school days no longer worked was a big blow even to a mage like Professor Garcia.
Meanwhile, the Petrograd mages looked Lee Han up and down.
“Greetings? You appear to be an Einroguard student.”
“Yes. That’s right. I’m Lee Han of the Wardanaz family.”
“!”
Great ripples appeared in the two mages’ eyes.
There were truly many rumors that followed that name.
That he had confronted the King of Ghouls or the Frost Giant King, that he had fought bloody battles with mage criminals or anti-magic extremists…
But the most important rumor for the two mages was one thing.
The new disciple currently receiving the Skeleton Principal’s favor!
“By any chance, are you the one that Lord Gonadaltes is personally teaching…?”
“Huh? Yes.”
“Are you the student who is confirmed to join the Conical Tower after graduation?”
“That’s not the case though?”
“Right? I thought that wouldn’t be the case either.”
The Petrograd mage quickly accepted this.
Honestly, the words of the Conical Tower mages were somewhat unreliable. Hadn’t they spouted lies about Professor Garcia coming to their tower back then too?
“In any case, you are currently Lord Gonadaltes’ only disciple, correct?”
“What kind of unpleasant expression is that?”
Lee Han was slightly displeased when the mages he was meeting for the first time said something unpleasant.
Dressed like an Einroguard student, this mage was being as rude as an Einroguard professor in his speech.
“There are many others besides me. Professor Kim is here, and Professor Bagrek, and Professor Mortum.”
“Ah, of course those people studied under him too, but they’ve currently become independent as professors.”
‘Do they not treat you as a disciple once you become a professor?’
Lee Han was slightly intrigued.
So becoming a professor would free him from being called the Skeleton Principal’s only disciple.
“We have a request for Student Wardanaz, who is currently maintaining the only pure disciple status!”
“…If you’re asking me to hand over Professor Verdus, that’s not happening.”
At the mages’ earnest request, Lee Han answered with a wary voice.
* * *
“Student Lee Han! Why did you do that!”
Professor Garcia exclaimed in a small voice so the two mages couldn’t hear.
Surprisingly, this good-natured disciple had accepted the request from the mages from Petrograd!
From Professor Garcia’s perspective, who had done her best to keep him from getting involved, this was truly a bewildering outcome.
“Oh, but those people said they would only help with your request if I did this, Professor.”
“Don’t tell me you did it because of me?!”
Professor Garcia was even more shocked.
Of course, it was true that she wanted to strengthen exchanges between magic schools, but that wasn’t something that should be done by sacrificing a poor disciple.
After all, hadn’t Einroguard been self-sufficient just fine until now?
“No. It’s not just because of that.”
“Then…?”
“Well, you said the reason for the current commotion is one of the Principal’s former disciples.”
“It’s not confirmed. If we’re lucky, it could be a mage criminal.”
Lee Han pretended not to hear Professor Garcia’s muttering and ignored it.
“If that’s the case, I thought I had some obligation too… I wanted to help as much as possible.”
“…!!!”
Ever since inheriting much from the projection of ambition, Lee Han had been feeling a considerable sense of duty regarding promises.
In the old days, he would have said, ‘If one of the Principal’s former disciples caused trouble, should I submit an anonymous tip?’…
…But now he was willing to step forward personally to help with persuasion.
“And I can’t just leave you to deal with such a person alone, Professor.”
“…Student Lee Han!”
Professor Garcia was deeply moved.
If not for a few friends whose bones had been broken during her school days, she might have hugged him tightly.
“But about that letter earlier, magic that even Student Lee Han couldn’t solve? What kind of magic is it?”
The mages were currently visiting the capital villa first instead of leaving for Petrograd immediately.
Since Lee Han had said there was a magic problem at the mansion, they wanted to help with that first.
“Well, there’s some crazy mage ghost in the basement…”
Professor Garcia’s face gradually hardened as she listened to the explanation with a light heart at first.
An infinite spatial labyrinth.
Could it be…
“Isn’t that the crazy mage Noenchenf???”
“Who?”
Lee Han looked puzzled.
A crazy mage?
‘Aren’t there too many of those?’
Honestly, it was a title that could be attached to most mages.
“There’s a mage called the crazy mage Noenchenf who caused a stir in the past.”
Professor Garcia opened her mouth, recalling old memories.
The crazy mage Noenchenf was an incident that appeared in the Empire’s newspapers when the professor was a student at Einroguard.
Strange building discovered near the west gate of Isran City! A mage’s curse?
An anonymous nearby mage testified that it seemed like the work of an Einroguard graduate…
It was also discovered in Plaher City! An alchemy shop with suspicious magic installed underground!
Is it really the work of an Einroguard graduate mage?
Some crazy mage had installed strange spatial labyrinths that couldn’t be entered in the basements of mansions and shop buildings throughout the Empire.
Naturally, an Einroguard graduate mage was most likely to do such bizarre things, and indeed the Skeleton Principal also thought it was a graduate’s doing and quickly deployed mages (while lecturing current students not to follow the graduates’ example).
However, surprisingly, the person who did this wasn’t an Einroguard graduate mage but just an originally crazy mage.
A mage who spent his life researching space-time magic and embedded his unsolved problems throughout the Empire!
‘What a public nuisance.’
Lee Han firmly resolved that in the future, he would not embed any magic he couldn’t solve throughout the Empire.
What kind of public nuisance was that?
“Has it been resolved?”
“No. If it were resolved, there would be no problem with Student Lee Han’s villa basement either. That underground space labyrinth is all connected, it’s one magic. If it were resolved, all the labyrinth mansions throughout the Empire would have returned to normal too.”
The choice of mages who weren’t from Einroguard and faced a difficult problem that was hard to solve was simple.
They would just destroy the magic in the underground space and exorcise the ghost.
Since the magic installed in the underground space was like an entrance to a spatial labyrinth anyway, destroying it wasn’t very difficult.
They couldn’t solve the fundamental problem, but at least the mansion became peaceful.
“!”
Lee Han was delighted by the solution that seemed to cut through the complexly tangled knot in one stroke.
Come to think of it, if you couldn’t solve the problem, there was this kind of solution too.
‘I think I could do something like that too.’
Since the ghost’s combat power wasn’t that strong either…
“However, Student Lee Han. If you use this method, the mansion will collapse.”
“…What????”
“Well, if you destroy the magic, there’s no way the surroundings won’t be affected by the shock, so usually the ground or even the first floor gets shaken.”
“…”
Lee Han, who received a huge shock, couldn’t say anything.
Professor Garcia thought to herself.
‘He seems more shocked than by the story of the Principal’s former disciple…’
That couldn’t be, right?
“Then, Professor. What if we just leave it alone?”
“What?”
“Leaving the mage ghost alone and living together with it?”
“…If it’s not threatening, it would be okay, but do you really want to do that, Student Lee Han?”
Professor Garcia was flustered by her disciple’s resolve overflowing with madness.
No matter what, to be prepared to live together with such a crazy mage ghost from now on.
“I’m fine with it. Previous mages did it too, so why couldn’t I?”
“???”
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Without noticing the conversation between Professor Garcia and her disciple chattering behind them, Petroguard mage Dalseur knocked on the door of the villa mansion.
“Wow, it’s very neat, isn’t it?”
“The Wardanaz Family is a great noble family, isn’t it? It’s natural that their villa mansion would be dignified.”
Baron Benjamin of the Garnok Family, also from Petroguard, nodded as if it was nothing to be surprised about.
“Let’s quickly solve the problem and visit Petroguard.”
“Indeed. Ah. There are other students too.”
The two mages discovered students moving around inside the mansion.
-You bastard, don’t you dare stop there?!
-Ah, no. You Prince bastard! Is this necessary just because I picked up and ate one meat pie! Unlike Wardanaz, you’re too petty!
-Shut up! How dare you touch the food before preparations are ready!
“…Huh, aren’t those Einroguard students?”
Dalseur was slightly flustered.
If he had seen correctly, students from different towers were definitely gathered together in one place.
That shouldn’t happen at Einroguard, right?
“What brings you here?”
“Ah, we came to visit together with Student Lee Han of the Wardanaz Family… He’s coming from behind there.”
“Please come in.”
Salko opened the door without concern.
Even if the Prince or those White Tiger Tower guys lost some face in front of outsiders, it had nothing to do with him.
“But why did you visit together with Wardanaz?”
“We heard there was unsolved magic in the basement, so we came to help.”
“…Huh, just the two of you?”
Salko looked the two up and down.
“Wardanaz failed too, but you two…”
“…We’re from Petroguard. Do you understand?”
“Yes. But Wardanaz failed too, so you two…”
“…”
Dalseur was dumbfounded.
Of course, he knew that Einroguard mages were exceptionally talented at turning other mages’ dignity upside down, but for a mere 2nd-year student to show this level of ability.
“We are… well… if you must know, we’re acting as Einroguard professors. At Petroguard.”
“Yes. I know that, but you two…”
“Just show us the way!”
As their voices got louder, other students turned their attention. Siana asked curiously.
“Oh. We have guests?”
“Hello. We are…”
“They came to solve the basement magic.”
“Just the two of you?”
“…”
The two Petroguard mages began to feel mentally confused and dizzy.
…Could it be that Professor Garcia invited them here for revenge?
‘Ah, no. It’s not Lord Gonadaltes, and Professor Kim would never be that kind of person…’
“You two! Wait a moment!”
Professor Garcia, who arrived late, called out to them.
“Actually, the basement magic is…”
“Don’t worry. Professor Kim. We’ll solve it right now and come back.”
Dalseur burned with rare enthusiasm. Professor Garcia tried to stop them restlessly.
“So that’s not ordinary…”
“Please wait!”
The two Petroguard mages headed to the basement, majestically fluttering their cloaks.
Professor Garcia looked at them with a tearful expression and muttered.
“What if those people end up hating Einroguard too…”
“…I’ll go to Petroguard and work hard.”
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