Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1043
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Chapter 1043
“To hell???”
“What? No!”
Lee Han was greatly flustered by his junior’s question.
Why was hell suddenly being brought up?
“What do you mean hell?”
“You said you left him behind, Senior…”
Alhidel displayed logic befitting the top student of the tower.
1. Senior Wardanaz is a very amazing person.
2. His relative Alsicle is also quite an amazing person.
3. But if Senior Wardanaz is surprised enough to say he left him behind?
4. It must be something like a hell dimension!
‘Is this kid really the top student?’
Lee Han slightly questioned the abilities of his fellow tower juniors.
“If not a hell dimension, then a dimension of frost spirits or frost giants?”
“No… I meant I left him at Petrogard. Another magic school.”
“…Is that really something to be so surprised about?”
Alhidel tilted his head.
It’s not like Alsicle was some five-year-old kid, and it wasn’t a hell dimension but just another magic school – was there really a need to be that surprised?
“Well, that’s true. But… it feels bad.”
“It’s fine. He’ll surely understand.”
Alhidel trusted the mage from the same family.
Surely, like himself, he wouldn’t hold petty emotions or grudges on the grand path of magic!
* * *
“Voladi Bagrec!!!”
Alsicle, realizing the truth, roared.
Several Petrogard students were deeply moved by that cute roar. They almost wanted to ask him to stay as a model for a while.
“He really left!?”
“I’m, I’m sorry.”
Dalseur, a Petrogard professor – or rather, a mage acting as a professor – apologized.
Actually, it wasn’t Dalseur’s fault that the Einrogard students had all left in a rush…
…but that didn’t matter given how upset Alsicle looked.
“No. Ugh. It’s not your fault.”
Alsicle fumed with anger.
Honestly, he could understand the other Einrogard students.
Lee Han and Professor Garcia would have been preoccupied with dealing with the Skeleton Principal’s former disciple, so they might have forgotten.
But Professor Boladi was a different story.
Given his nature as a battle mage, there was no way he wouldn’t notice such a minor change.
He 100% knew but didn’t tell him!
‘This petty and despicable…’
Alsicle felt truly wronged.
Was taking his disciple on a dangerous dimensional monster hunt such a great sin?
…Come to think of it, it did seem like a great sin.
Alsicle let out a deep sigh.
“Sigh. Getting angry only hurts me. I’ll be going now.”
“You’re leaving already?”
The Petrogard students who had grown close to him were very disappointed.
Even aside from being a model, this Penguerin family mage was a senior mage with outstanding abilities.
Especially his knowledge of frost and ice-related magic was hard to match within Petrogard.
“I have to go. It was fun, everyone.”
“By, by any chance…”
“What? If you have questions about magic, ask quickly.”
“Could you pluck just one feather for us?”
“…If you don’t step back five paces, I’ll freeze you all.”
* * *
“Hmm. Alsicle really is quite generous, isn’t he.”
Though not as much as Alhidel, Lee Han also soon recovered from the shock.
It wasn’t the Skeleton Principal, and he didn’t think Alsicle would get that angry just because he was left at Petrogard.
“You seem to be right. Oh right. Where is Eandurude?”
Lee Han’s search for his junior wasn’t just because of the vacation.
There was also the matter concerning Jowrin.
-Oh! Do you happen to have any recommendations for methods to tie up a mage? Actually, my sister asked me to!
Jowrin’s younger brother, Wuman, had once asked Lee Han about methods to tie up a mage securely.
At the time he thought it was about the Skeleton Principal, but as time passed, he thought it might not be.
‘Come to think of it, that could be targeting Eandurude.’
Capturing the Skeleton Principal by force would be somewhat unlikely even for Jowrin.
But Eandurude made sense.
He was Jowrin’s friend, and also someone worth tying up…
If that were the case, he needed to find him first and warn him. If Eandurude went in carelessly, he might end up staying in Jowrin’s cave for the entire vacation.
“You mean Eandurude? Eandurude got off the carriage as soon as we arrived in the capital.”
“Ah. That makes sense.”
He was brought along by threat, so there was no way he’d leisurely follow them to browse the auction house.
“He did ask a few things before that though. It seemed like he was looking for a gift for a friend.”
“As expected! Alhidel, I knew you were clever from the moment I first saw you.”
Alhidel felt embarrassed by his senior’s flattery.
Since Eandurude had received an invitation from a friend, it seemed he planned to prepare a gift before visiting.
And since he needed gold coins to buy a gift, he said he’d go to the underground fighting arena…
“Eandurude!!!”
Lee Han shouted the name of his absent junior out loud for the first time. Alhidel looked puzzled.
“But Eandurude isn’t here.”
“Forget it. Anyway, he said he’d go to the underground fighting arena? I need to go see Professor Bagrek.”
As a school senior, he had to go find his school junior together with the school professor. Lee Han ran toward where the two professors were waiting.
“Alhidel. You come too. While we’re at it, take some gifts.”
Since he was a junior from the same tower, Lee Han wanted to pick out some useful items from his gift bundle.
“But I have something I need to buy.”
“What is it?”
“It’s called Bagnir’s Red Diamond, and I want to learn the magic contained within…”
“…Some nouveau riche bought that earlier. Let’s go! Follow me!”
* * *
After spilling out his bundle of gifts, Lee Han explained the situation to Professor Boladi.
Professor Boladi wasn’t particularly surprised by the mountain of gifts piled up and gave an immediate answer.
“Follow me.”
“What about the professor?”
When Lee Han asked if Professor Garcia wasn’t coming along, Professor Boladi shook his head.
“It would be more dangerous.”
For a mage who hadn’t received combat magic training, the narrow and winding back alleys of the capital’s slums, perfect for ambushes, weren’t a good place to be.
They could be ambushed by enemies suddenly jumping out from behind walls they thought were blocked.
“Certainly the professor could get hurt…”
“The surroundings could be destroyed.”
‘Ah. It was the opposite.’
Lee Han realized he had understood it backwards. He had judged correctly up to being ambushed by enemies, but what came after was different.
A mage of Professor Garcia’s level could still cast magic even if ambushed. The problem was controlling the power of that magic.
Unless they planned to blow away the entire slums on the capital’s outskirts, it was right to leave Professor Garcia behind.
“…Huh? Then what about me…”
“?”
“It’s nothing.”
Lee Han was about to say ‘Then am I not in danger?’ but just gave up.
In Professor Boladi’s mind, the top student mage of the school would be at a sufficient level to follow along!
‘And considering the level from when I came last year, it might be doable.’
Lee Han chanted spells to cast enhancement magic, stored the remaining magic, then took out necessary reagents from his reagent pouch and moved them separately.
It was preparation work to pour out five or six spells simultaneously if combat broke out.
Last year, Lee Han had come to these capital outskirt slums with the Skeleton Principal to scout Eandurude for Einroguard.
In the gloomy alleys where someone could die without anyone knowing, mercenaries with daggers and clubs would jump out after just a few steps.
‘I’m sure back then there were guys who recognized the Principal’s face and backed down, but this time…?’
Setting foot on the dirty roads of the slums, Lee Han looked at Professor Boladi’s back and wondered.
Would the mercenaries and criminal guild members here recognize Professor Boladi’s face like they did the Skeleton Principal?
-A customer has come.
-You fool! Do you know who that person is!
Someone tried to jump out from an alley between buildings with half-dried plaster, but was dragged back in by another.
Lee Han nodded.
‘They recognize him.’
-That’s the guy who came with Marryongwan last year! Are you trying to get us all killed?!
“…”
Lee Han was shocked.
They recognized him, not Professor Boladi?
“That’s impossible!”
“?”
Professor Boladi, who had been walking ahead, looked at Lee Han with a puzzled expression.
“…It’s nothing. But do the guys here recognize you, Professor?”
“I’m not sure.”
This slum had a fast personnel turnover. Though they called themselves guilds, unlike the official guilds with proper imperial licenses, most were gatherings of escaped mercenaries and criminals.
As such, it wouldn’t be strange if there was no one who recognized Professor Boladi.
‘Indeed. I was just unlucky.’
Lee Han let out a sigh of relief.
Probably the guy who just recognized him did so because it hadn’t even been a year…
-Aaaahhh! It’s the crazy hunter!!!
-The butcher’s here! The butcher has appeared! You idiots! Move!
-All the guys with bounties, get out!
Shouts echoed from various parts of the alley, followed by the loud sound of running feet.
A rickety wooden building on the left side of the road suddenly collapsed completely.
It had been a secret tavern where criminals with bounties gathered, but when they heard the rumors and all tried to escape through the back door together, the old building collapsed.
Lee Han used telekinesis to block the debris and keep the exit open. The criminal mercenaries who desperately rushed out expressed their gratitude.
“Th, thank…”
Thud!
Before they could finish their thanks, they collapsed. Professor Boladi had acted.
The professor took out a piece of paper, wrote that the bounty should be sent to Einroguard, and threw it onto the fallen men.
The paper split in two, and one piece transformed into a paper bird that flew toward the capital guards.
“Good luring.”
The professor praised his disciple. Lee Han felt slightly wronged.
He hadn’t intended to lure them!
Thinking about how the captured mercenaries would say ‘Kugh, that mage was indeed in cahoots with Professor Bagrek,’ he felt a bit wronged.
‘I really was trying to save them…’
While grumbling internally, Lee Han spotted people hiding behind round wooden barrels used for storing fish in the fishy-smelling alley next to them, watching this way.
-Isn’t that the mage who came with Marryongwan last time?
-That’s right! And this time he even came with the hunter!
“…”
“This way.”
While Lee Han worried about how far the rumors would spread, Professor Boladi found the entrance to the underground arena.
Every city in the Empire had such shadowy places, and entering them required meeting specific conditions.
Knowing the entrance, getting an introduction from a guild, and so on.
The underground arena entrance Professor Boladi was trying to enter looked like a shabby leather merchant’s shop from the outside.
But once inside, a passage to the underground arena hidden by magic would appear.
“Ahhh!”
When Professor Boladi entered, the merchant who had been tanning the hide of some unidentifiable monster screamed.
“Why!! Why did you come!! Why did you come again!!”
“For the passage.”
“What? Passage? Ah, the arena? …You crazy mage! After you came last time and caused that mess, do you think it would still be running! It went under ages ago!”
The leather merchant wondered what he was talking about, then belatedly realized and burst out in angry rebuke.
Professor Boladi turned to Lee Han and said.
“Let’s go to the next arena.”
“…”
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