Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1088

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Chapter 1088

“Were you really planning to break it?”

Diret asked in disbelief.

No matter what, surely his junior wasn’t such a radical mage…

“Yes? How else would we listen if we don’t break it?”

…He was right!

‘Could it be that disguising himself as Stedal Nago made his personality a bit rougher?’

He was worried enough to think that his junior’s disguise might have affected his original personality.

‘No. There’s probably a bigger reason than that.’

Diret looked at the friend standing blankly beside them.

If his junior’s personality had become rougher, it was probably more due to this friend or this friend’s school professor than the disguised identity.

“Hmm. If we don’t break it, there’s no proper way…”

“Um, you don’t necessarily have to listen.”

“Ah. I thought of a good method.”

Lee Han immediately ran toward the stairs. Then he brought Jowrin, who was playing chess with Eandurude (it was chess with a Gold Dragon that could move diagonally in all directions and even use breath attacks).

Jowrin let out a sigh of relief.

“Phew. Thank goodness! Jowrin was losing!”

“?”

Lee Han was curious about what one would have to do to be losing at that chess game, but he got straight to the point.

“Your Majesty. I’d like to listen to the conversation inside. Could you possibly help us?”

“Yes!”

Jowrin nodded readily.

Showing competence to one’s contractor was every dragon’s pleasure.

“They’re probably discussing Wuman visiting the school.”

“…What? What’s going on?”

Lee Han, who was about to bypass the soundproofing magic with Jowrin’s help, paused.

Did he just hear something strange?

“Hehe. When the new semester starts, Jowrin wants to go to the lake!”

“There’s a kraken there, Your Majesty. But Wuman… do you mean His Majesty Wuman?”

“Yes.”

Jowrin, who had polymorphed into a human girl with golden hair, explained the role her younger sibling would take in the upcoming new semester.

Acting as the Emperor’s representative in an inspector role, monitoring the Skeleton Principal and professors for one semester, and so on…

“…”

“…”

The students listening were too shocked to react immediately.

They couldn’t distinguish whether this was good or bad news.

“…Is this really okay? What if things get worse?”

“How could Einroguard possibly get worse? No matter how I think about it, it seems good. If a dragon is monitoring, even the Principal won’t be able to do outrageous things.”

Since they couldn’t predict how Einroguard would change, the students’ discussion was intense.

Lee Han also fell into serious thought with a grave expression.

‘I wondered why he was so generous with gold coins for something that wasn’t his business, but he had this plan.’

During this, one of the students cautiously spoke up.

“Your Majesty. Will the newly arriving Imperial Family member interfere with our magic training?”

“You don’t need to worry about that! Wuman is absolutely not that kind of person.”

Jowrin confidently declared.

Since one of Wuman’s principles was ‘don’t interfere with Einroguard’s students,’ even coming as an inspector wouldn’t disrupt their studies.

Rather, he would avoid contact so much that students wouldn’t even see Wuman.

“Is that so?”

Lee Han, who was listening nearby, was surprised.

It was a bit different from his expectations.

“Then I also won’t be able to meet His Majesty and will have to act separately…?”

“What nonsense are you talking about? Absolutely not.”

Jowrin immediately answered in her usual informal tone.

Where did such a horrifying thought come from?

“Lee Han is an exception. You’re a contractor!”

“…”

Lee Han tilted his head.

Why would that be an exception?

‘Is it dragon law? Too complicated.’

Bang!

The reception room door opened again. The Skeleton Principal shouted from inside.

“Wardanaz, why aren’t you attempting to bypass the soundproofing magic and just standing there? I was waiting!”

The Skeleton Principal, who had boasted to other professors that ‘that Wardanaz fellow will attempt to bypass it soon, watch carefully’ and then felt embarrassed, scolded his student.

And closed the door again.

“…”

“…”

“Sh-should Jowrin go and get angry for you?”

“Please don’t.”

* * *

The fact that Wuman was coming for the new semester didn’t greatly change what Lee Han had to do.

“Hello, Master.”

-Welcome, my disciple.

The Young Prince’s voice greeted him warmly from behind stacked wooden boxes.

Currently, the basement of the dimensional maze was so cluttered with all sorts of piled-up items that it was difficult to even step foot.

As the owner of the basement, he could have felt displeased, but the Young Prince didn’t mind at all. Rather, he was considerate of Lee Han.

-There’s space on top of that box, so putting things up there wouldn’t be bad.

“Oh. That’s a good suggestion.”

-I’ll cast an expansion spell, so how about putting those crafting tools in the bronze jar? The mage cards are well-packaged so they won’t get damaged.

“…There were mage cards in the bronze jar? That bastard Gainando…”

Lee Han angrily searched inside the jar.

The mage cards were indeed cleverly hidden.

They were slipped into dark magic reagent packaging so they could even evade detection magic!

‘That bastard. He’s only getting better at useless things.’

-But disciple, aren’t you packing anything for yourself?

“Do you have any recommendations?”

Lee Han asked back while moving boxes to the corner with telekinesis magic.

Actually, it wasn’t that Lee Han wasn’t packing his own things.

He had already packed the necessary items first: food and various seasonings consumed during the first semester, reagents and magical tools, etc.

But from the Young Prince’s perspective, his disciple had too little personal desire. Those were even items that other mages besides himself would use.

While sacrifice and devotion were good, enjoying life before youth faded was also important. The Prince didn’t want his disciple to sacrifice his entire life.

-Disciple, aren’t you interested in mage cards?

“No.”

-I see…

The Young Prince became slightly dejected at the immediate answer.

It looked fun though!

-What do you do in your spare time, disciple?

“I mainly study magic that I missed.”

Lee Han was about to add ‘that the Skeleton Principal forced me to do’ but held back.

While he wanted to tattle, doing it about himself seemed a bit wrong.

-Disciple, when I said spare time, I meant spare time excluding magic study too.

“Huh? That’s what it was?”

Lee Han was greatly surprised.

Was that how spare time was originally calculated?

“If you exclude that too… well… I calculate the gold coins I’ve collected.”

-What do you do with that?

“After calculating? I figure out which workshops I could rent in the Imperial Capital or great cities.”

When the amount of gold coins was only around dozens, Lee Han’s imagination had been quite modest, but after the collected amount broke through four digits, his imagination became quite aggressive too.

If he rented a staff workshop in the capital, then hired a separate manager and made items to supply in his spare time, he could profit as a side business…

‘Heh. I don’t necessarily need to participate directly. An excellent businessman can dominate the capital’s staff workshop industry even while his body is at Einroguard.’

Since he had inherited that will from the Projection of Honor’s Desire, he couldn’t leave Einroguard right away, but that didn’t mean he had completely given up on his dreams.

A wise mage always has contingency plans.

-…

Tears welled up in the Young Prince’s eyes. His heart ached with pity for his disciple.

-Disciple, you might already be too far gone…

“Huh?”

-It’s nothing. Anyway, I understand well that you’re only interested in magic.

“That’s not true though.”

Lee Han protested, but the Prince ignored him and continued speaking.

-Then before going in, take an artifact with you. It’s an outer garment I often wore in my youth, and it has quite good defensive power.

“!”

Lee Han was startled to hear of such an unexpected treasure.

An artifact used by the Young Prince.

By current standards, wouldn’t that be an ancient relic? He couldn’t help but be surprised.

“Would that still be there now?”

-Since it’s not something that could be easily taken away, I think there’s a fairly high possibility it’s still there. Oh. Could you take out that notebook artifact?

“??”

Lee Han wondered what he meant for a moment, then realized belatedly. The Prince was talking about 【Einroguard’s Whisper】.

The communication artifact he used to communicate with the Watchman Club, Senior Diret, and his fellow second-year friends.

“Here it is. Why do you need this…?”

Flutter!

Suddenly the notebook opened and fixed on the Watchman Club’s page.

And an unfamiliar handwriting began to appear.

Hello everyone. Please treat me well.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Who are you?

Ipelldrem: Wow! Is it a new member?

Bakwantalana: Wait. How did you get in? There’s no artifact connected to your side right now?

The Watchman Club members each showed different reactions. Among them, Bakwantalana, who was acting as administrator, was greatly flustered.

If someone new entered, traces of which artifact they used to access should be visible, but this new member appeared suddenly as if they had fallen from the sky.

Could this mean they were such an excellent mage that they could completely fool Bakwantalana’s eyes?

‘That’s impossible! It absolutely can’t be!’

Lee Han, who came to his senses belatedly, called out to the Prince in panic.

“M-Master. This is a secret club.”

-Ah. Sorry, Disciple. It seems we’ll need to talk outside this basement too to find the artifact, and there aren’t many ways to communicate.

【Einroguard’s Whisper】 was a well-made artifact, and the Watchman Club within it was particularly convenient.

Since it was a place composed of different participants’ mana, it was perfect for the Young Prince, who couldn’t use mana from outside, to borrow that power arbitrarily.

“Why don’t you just use my mana…”

-I can’t do that. I’ll just borrow it briefly until this matter is finished.

Bakwantalana: Everyone be careful. I don’t know what means this new member used to enter, but they’re definitely not friendly…

Bakwantalana’s writing was blocked right there. Lee Han realized the Young Prince had blocked the other person’s speaking privileges.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: What? What is it?

Unbreakable One: What on earth is happening?? Who entered?

When other mages kept chattering in the space meant for conversation, the Prince blocked their speaking privileges once again. Not satisfied with that, he even took away their reading privileges.

Now they won’t all be able to see, so we can talk here. Disciple.

“…I have a feeling I absolutely can’t let them find out I did this.”

Lee Han was slightly worried.

Won’t I get kicked out of the club if this is discovered?

“Wait. Now that I think about it, Master. If you’ve taken away their privileges… could you perhaps also obtain information about other members?”

The Watchman Club was a secret society meeting passed down within Einroguard. Bakwantalana was also just someone who inherited the administrator role, not the founder.

Even if he had been the founder, he wouldn’t have been able to find out members’ identities arbitrarily. The magic was structurally designed so that members couldn’t know each other’s identities in the first place.

However, administrators could obtain relatively limited information to some extent.

Which artifact someone entered with, which artifact they were speaking through…

Without such information, performing the administrator role itself would be impossible, so it was unavoidable.

What are you curious about?

“Could you tell me which artifacts the members who are currently speaking are each using? And…”

I understand, Disciple. Since I’ve taken away their privileges, you want me to impersonate other members to approach them.

“…I never had such a thought though.”

Lee Han shuddered at his master’s deep and broad wisdom.

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