Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1076
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Chapter 1076
‘What rude people.’
Even if there was no way to contact him, why were they tormenting Alsicle?
“So what did you do?”
Alsicle had already confirmed that Lee Han had done something under the name Stedal Nago.
“I might not have done anything.”
“As if that’s possible.”
Unwavering faith.
Of course, considering the timeline, Lee Han hadn’t really had time to do anything recently.
During the vacation, he had been hunting monsters from the void outside dimensions, visiting other magic schools to solve problems, being kidnapped by evil dragons, or subjugating worshippers of evil gods.
‘No. Come to think of it, why is this guy doing all this during vacation?’
Alsicle suddenly fell into a fundamental doubt.
Shouldn’t a student spend a more refreshing and pleasant vacation?
Of course, being an Einroguard student had its limits, but even considering that, Wardanaz’s vacation had too high a professor density.
“Actually, I did do something.”
Lee Han gave up and confessed.
“When and what did you do?”
“Last night I went around under the identity of Stedal Nago.”
“…What!? When!?”
Alsicle was shocked.
He had thought Lee Han had done something recently, but he never imagined it was yesterday.
Wasn’t he modifying a small sailing ship on the 2nd floor?!
“I briefly took it up for testing… But didn’t Professor Verdus feel anything strange when we all disappeared?”
“Would he have noticed?”
‘That’s true.’
While Lee Han and his group worked on the 2nd floor and even flew through the air, Professor Verdus was completely absorbed in his own work, which was the most interesting thing in the world to him.
Even when told that the two mages had left, he would say something like ‘Really? Then I should finish this and go back.’
Of course, the knights were cold-hearted. They immediately grabbed Professor Verdus by the scruff of his neck, stuffed him into a carriage, and departed for Einroguard.
“More than that, it’s unfortunate that Professor Verdus went back.”
“What!?”
Lee Han, who had been explaining, was startled by Alsicle’s words.
Had some magical contamination phenomenon occurred?
“Still, if Professor Verdus were here, Voladi Bagrec would attack Professor Verdus first instead of me.”
“Indeed.”
Lee Han was impressed.
The name of a genius mage was not in vain.
Such calculations in such a short time?
“So while flying the airship, people flocked to you and you said you were Stedal Nago?”
“Yes. Aren’t people a bit excessive?”
“If someone told me there was a mage who stole Professor Verdus’s stuff, I think I’d be curious enough to go see them too…”
“…”
Alsicle was serious.
If there were a mage who completed permafrost magic and a mage who robbed Professor Verdus’s belongings, he would want to meet the latter first.
“It would be impossible to reply to all of them, but you can’t ignore them all either. How about responding to just one or two decent invitations among these?”
“I was planning to ignore them all.”
At Lee Han’s answer, Alsicle shook his head and explained.
“It seems like you plan to keep using this insincere pseudonym, and if that’s the case, there’s nothing good about ignoring all the invitations. It would rather seem strange.”
“What do you mean insincere pseudonym?”
Ignoring the light protest, Alsicle continued.
“And when inviting a mage who has accomplished outstanding feats, they usually prepare appropriate proposals and gifts. Even if you reject the proposals, you’d be tempted by the gifts, wouldn’t you?”
It was a bit embarrassing to call stealing a professor’s treasure a feat, but Alsicle’s words certainly made sense.
Just by attending, he could receive gifts.
‘It certainly matches my disposition.’
“One last thing.”
“What?”
“When you go, please tell them you’re not that close to me…”
Alsicle’s voice was pitiful, having nearly died buried under letters overnight.
Lee Han had no choice but to nod.
* * *
“Diret. But is it okay?”
Cohorti asked carefully.
Unlike the Einroguard black magic school students here, Cohorti was a graduate.
Perhaps because of that, he was more worried about his same-year friend.
“What is?”
“Well, I was wondering if it’s okay not to meet your friend and just keep taking care of these underclassmen.”
As soon as he finished speaking, immediate backlash erupted from the black magic school underclassmen.
“What’s wrong with us that you’re saying such things!”
“Come to think of it, you’re not even a senior anymore, are you? Cohorti. Why are you here? Go to your workplace!”
‘These bad kids.’
Cohorti was inwardly upset.
Of course, even during his school days, Cohorti wasn’t exactly a reliable senior.
Still, he had helped the underclassmen as Diret instructed, and this was how they repaid his kindness.
“Which friend?”
Diret was puzzled.
He couldn’t guess who Cohorti was talking about.
“Aren’t you talking about the Imperial Princess?”
“It must be Senior Yukveltire.”
When the underclassmen immediately provided answers and Cohorti nodded, Diret replied in shock.
“Why is she coming up here?!”
“Huh, what? You two are really close… or not?”
The black magic school students hesitated.
“We’re not that close… mmm… not close either… Right. We are close, but I absolutely don’t want to meet her during vacation or anything like that, okay? Rather, I’m relieved not to meet her, okay?”
“For someone saying that, don’t you take too good care of her?”
“Our senior is naturally affectionate. Last time, he even made a contract with that ugly undead because he felt sorry for it.”
When the underclassmen whispered among themselves, Diret got angry.
“It’s not ugly. Be quiet.”
“We’re sorry.”
“And Yukveltire is probably busy with her own affairs. Got it? I’m comfortable not meeting her for once, so don’t say ominous things. I have no complaints about moving around with my underclassmen.”
At Diret’s words, the underclassmen unanimously attacked Cohorti.
“That’s right. Sen… no, Mr. Cohorti, why did you say such things!”
“Senior Diret has no complaints about making time for us. Stop trying to drive a wedge between us.”
At the cold attitude of his underclassmen, Cohorti made a decision.
Even if the underclassmen came to his workplace later, he would absolutely not acknowledge them.
‘These kids. Just wait and see.’
Still, seeing his friend Cohorti being attacked too much, Diret personally changed the subject.
“Cohorti. Tell us about your workplace. So the underclassmen can listen and use it as reference.”
“Hmph. Tell the 5th year students to go.”
“…”
“…”
The atmosphere instantly turned cold. Cohorti realized his mistake.
It was the worst possible comment that would anger not only his juniors but even Direte.
“…I made a mistake. I apologize.”
In the end, Cohorti had to distribute ice cream generously mixed with peaches and plums to the students of the dark magic school.
Even while licking the ice cream served in waffles, the students didn’t stop glaring at him.
“I said I’m sorry…”
“Hmph.”
“Work has been tough lately.”
Cohorti opened up about his recent work.
No matter how unpopular the dark magic school was, students who graduated from Einroguard weren’t without offers. Naturally, Cohorti had received several proposals as well.
Imperial army mage in the northern contaminated regions, research mage at a dark magic tower, guest mage for a knight order formed to track mage criminals, dark mage managing and supervising regional gravekeepers…
And among these, Cohorti had chosen to become a watcher for the western 【Wasteland Stargazers】.
The Wasteland Stargazers, excellent hunters and patrollers, also monitored demons and magical crimes, and for this they needed skilled dark mages.
“Come to think of it, why did you join the Wasteland Stargazers, Senior Cohorti?”
“Hm? Because the pay was the best.”
‘I shouldn’t have asked.’
The juniors all regretted it in unison.
Even though he was the same year as Senior Direte, his complete lack of inspiring qualities was quite remarkable.
Should they just drop the ‘senior’ and call him ‘mister’ again?
“Anyway, this Wasteland Stargazers work turned out to be harder than I thought.”
“Ah. The travel distances must be…”
The western wasteland region boasted one of the largest areas in the Empire. For the Wasteland Stargazers, racing across this land for three straight nights was ordinary work.
“No. That wasn’t particularly difficult. My body was actually more comfortable than during Einroguard days.”
“Really? That’s strange. Did they show consideration because you’re mages?”
“…”
Direte remained silent inwardly.
It was truly pitiful how distorted his juniors’ perception had become.
It wasn’t that the stargazers showed consideration, but rather that Einroguard life was that harsh…!
“Then what was difficult? Were the enemies powerful?”
“No. I didn’t even see any powerful enemies. Such demons or mage criminals don’t appear that often anyway. The difficult part was the people.”
“People? But you said mage criminals didn’t appear often?”
“Not mage criminals, ordinary people.”
In fact, patrollers’ work prioritized prevention by finding and stopping incidents before they happened, rather than chasing and arresting after the fact.
If someone obtained an evil dark magic artifact, they’d go stop them before they caused trouble, and if someone got poisoned from making the wrong potion, they’d go detoxify them…
And through this process, Cohorti realized that Empire people were surprisingly disobedient.
-You must throw away that amulet!
-What nonsense! Do you even know how much I paid for this?
-The mirror is cursed! Please let me go in and dispel it!
-Do you think I’d carelessly let outsiders into my manor? Don’t even dream of it!
“…Even when I told them it was dangerous, they wouldn’t listen.”
“Oh my.”
“If they don’t know much about magic, it can’t be helped. Try persuading them the way you learned at Einroguard.”
‘Did we learn such things?’
At someone’s words, the other students wondered inwardly.
They didn’t think they had particularly learned persuasion…
Hearing his juniors’ words, Cohorti looked slightly more dejected.
“The way I learned at Einroguard? I tried that… but it… had the opposite effect.”
“Opposite effect?”
“I tried to sneak in and secretly destroy it, but got caught.”
The dark magic school students couldn’t help but feel sorry.
“What a shame! To get caught doing that!”
“If only you hadn’t been caught…!”
“Right? I thought so too.”
Direte fell silent once again.
He wanted to tell his juniors ‘the problem wasn’t getting caught, but trying to secretly destroy it in the first place,’ but it seemed pointless.
“So did you get fired? Are you perhaps re-enrolling at Einroguard?”
“Don’t say such horrible things, even as a joke.”
Cohorti glared with a serious expression.
Then his eyes met with Direte’s.
“…Ah, no. I didn’t mean 5th year was horrible…”
“Just shut up and continue your story.”
“So I came to the capital. To apologize.”
Direte and his juniors had come to the capital during vacation to handle various commissions, research, and visits.
Then they heard news that Cohorti was also in the capital and met like this…
“Is the owner of what you broke a capital noble?”
“More precisely, an elder of that family. Count Jau. He’s famous for being generous.”
Arriving in front of the count’s manor, Cohorti lightly shook the gift he had prepared.
If he went and explained the work that Stargazer mages do and gave this gift, the generous count would surely step forward personally to resolve the problem.
“Isn’t that… too optimistic? Is there a guarantee His Excellency the Count will definitely resolve it?”
“He’s famous for being generous, I tell you. Just wait and see.”
Direte felt unnecessarily worried.
Of course, the rumor about Count Jau being generous probably wasn’t false, but being generous didn’t necessarily mean he’d forgive and resolve everything.
Perhaps everyone was thinking similarly, as the juniors whispered.
“Senior Direte. Should we abandon Cohorti and move separately?”
“…Still, let’s not do that…”
While they were whispering, an unfamiliar family carriage stopped in front.
Then someone with a rough and fierce atmosphere jumped down. Direte stepped aside, thinking it might be a guest of the count.
…Until the person whispered in a familiar voice.
“Senior Direte. It’s me.”
“…?!!”
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