Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1089

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Chapter 1089

And anyway, the members of the Watchman Club were so suspicious that even if someone impersonated them to approach others, it would be hard to gain much benefit.

Just Lee Han alone would immediately block any contact like ‘Hey, I’m Bakwantalana, can you lend me a hundred gold coins?’

“Impersonation is fine, so please just tell me what kind of artifacts they use.”

Even if he didn’t know right now, it might become a clue to find other members later.

Lee Han wrote down all the information the Young Prince told him without missing anything.

‘Bakwantalana enters the club using a mirror artifact. Unbreakable One is… a room? He’s using an entire room as an artifact? Was there such a place in Einroguard?’

Lee Han was curious as he wrote.

It wasn’t particularly surprising that Bakwantalana used a mirror artifact. Lee Han himself had used a similar artifact when he first entered the Watchman Club.

Mirrors were magical tools that gathered mana well due to their conceptual and mystical form. It could be said to be a choice that suited the Watchman Club artifacts that required steady mana.

But Unbreakable One using an entire room as an artifact was quite interesting.

The magic itself wouldn’t be too difficult since you just had to draw and circulate mana from throughout the room, but realistically, doing this in Einroguard wasn’t easy.

To enter the Watchman Club, you needed to be able to access it stably at all times, but could you obtain such a room in Einroguard?

‘Did he modify a private room? No. Then it would be too inconvenient to live in. Maybe there’s a good location I don’t know about.’

While Lee Han was pondering, a new contact came. It was a one-on-one private message from Bakwantalana.

Bakwantalana: Right now some crazy intruder is destroying the Watchman Club.

“…”

Lee Han hesitated.

The common space used by the Watchman Club had been taken, but private messaging was still alive.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: What the hell is this situation?!

Unbreakable One: Could it be that the Principal has entered?!

Not only Bakwantalana, but other members he had built relatively close relationships with also sent one-on-one messages.

Lee Han first replied to the senior whose identity he knew.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Hey. Can you ask Bakwantalana when and how this will be resolved? I need to find someone with smuggling plans before the semester starts to make a request.

Gonadaltes: Why don’t you speak directly instead?

The Young Prince looked at Lee Han with sparkling eyes.

How could he come up with such a touching pseudonym?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: I blocked him after we had an argument last time.

Gonadaltes: …I’ll relay the message.

Lee Han conveyed it as is. Then Bakwantalana replied.

Bakwantalana: We’ll hurry, but it’ll probably take about a week. Tell Beaver-Penguin-Fox to be careful. We don’t know what the intruder might do.

Gonadaltes: Just talk to him directly.

Bakwantalana: We blocked each other, so it’s impossible. Do you have any guesses about the intruder’s identity?

Gonadaltes: I have no idea. Maybe it’s the work of a Baldrogard spy.

Bakwantalana: Indeed. That’s possible. We did have an outsider as a recent member.

‘Phew.’

Lee Han sighed.

Hiding his identity in the Watchman Club was more difficult than he thought.

-Now. My disciple. Shall we depart?

“Understood. By the way, where are the outer garments stored?”

-They’re well preserved in an underground room beneath ruins that no one would be interested in. Since I often travel across the entire continent, I have such hideouts everywhere.

To wander the continent and constantly fight evil, mere strength and magic alone were not enough.

Steady and meticulous preparation was also essential.

-As I said, it’s not something anyone can easily take, so you can look forward to it quite a bit.

Lee Han’s mood improved at the Young Prince’s boastful promise.

An ancient relic obtained for free.

Maybe this was what a real vacation was like.

Following the Principal and professors around and suffering might be a fake vacation…

“Hehe. Thank you, Master.”

* * *

“…”

Arriving in front of an unfamiliar noble family manor located west of the capital, Lee Han was at a loss for words.

Huh?

Ah.

The Young Prince was also flustered.

Originally, he had made a hideout in an underground room beneath ruins in a swampland that no one approached, but now he saw that the swamp had disappeared and some luxurious noble manor had taken its place.

“…Hmm. Come to think of it, the capital must have expanded a lot in the meantime, so the swampland would have been reclaimed too. Who took…”

The hideout hasn’t been touched by anyone. My disciple.

“!”

Lee Han’s eyes widened slightly at the Young Prince’s words.

No one had touched it yet?

‘Then it’s still underground in the manor? Well, they wouldn’t have searched the underground so thoroughly when building the manor…’

Once the basement space was secured, they wouldn’t have dug further down to search other underground areas.

In that case, it made sense that the Prince’s hideout could still remain.

My disciple. There’s only one way.

“Indeed. I understand.”

Lee Han nodded.

Using his status as someone from a great noble family to enjoy social activities wasn’t Lee Han’s preference, but in the current situation, it couldn’t be helped.

As someone from the Wardanaz Family, he would visit another family’s manor to build friendship…

I was suggesting we find an empty house nearby and dig a tunnel through that basement to get in, but your method is good too!

“…That would get us arrested…”

He suddenly remembered the idiots who had been caught trying to rob a dwarf bank by digging an underground tunnel.

He didn’t want to get his name in the Empire newspaper that way.

“Is anyone there?”

“What… no, what brings you here?”

The gatekeeper was about to respond annoyedly but quickly straightened his posture after seeing Lee Han’s face.

He thought it might be some random merchant, but anyone could see this person’s status was extraordinary. Moreover, looking at his attire, wasn’t he a mage?

“I am Lee Han from the Wardanaz Family. I have long respected your family, and if it’s alright, I was wondering if I could visit briefly to have a conversation…”

“Please, please wait a moment!”

The gatekeeper hurriedly called for someone.

If this was a direct descendant of the Wardanaz Family, he wasn’t someone the gatekeeper could dare handle carelessly. At minimum, the butler needed to come running.

‘But why is he here in person?’

While running, the gatekeeper felt puzzled.

The usual way of invitations or visits was as follows:

A servant would come to deliver a letter, and after such letters went back and forth several times, they would meet at an outside club or hunting ground, and then after that, they would invite to the manor or suggest a visit…

Of course, some steps could be skipped here. Sometimes the meeting and socializing at clubs or hunting grounds could be omitted.

But coming like this without even a servant was really unusual.

‘I guess it’s because it’s the Wardanaz Family.’

The gatekeeper convinced himself. Originally, mage families had somewhat eccentric aspects, and among them, the Wardanaz Family was the most famous.

While waiting, Lee Han checked the surroundings. It was to confirm which family this was.

It wasn’t like some Einroguard black market where they wouldn’t hang the family name on the main gate. But if you had an eye for it, you could figure out the family name from various clues.

The best thing was to look at the family crests or flags decorated in the manor or garden.

“…?”

Lee Han tilted his head.

It seemed like a family crest he had seen somewhere before?

‘Huh. What is it? This is the Kraha family…’

“This is an honor!”

The butler came running hurriedly.

Who would have thought a mage from the Wardanaz Family would visit like this.

There was only one reason.

“To think a mage from the Wardanaz Family would come to visit Lady Irendy. What an honor this truly is.”

‘Who is Irendy?’

Lee Han quickly racked his brain.

It didn’t seem like an Einroguard mage, and certainly not a famous established mage who had made a name in the Empire.

Well, if it were such a mage, they wouldn’t say it was an honor that Lee Han had come.

‘Then is it still a young mage? Similar to me? From another magic school?’

As his thoughts reached that point, Lee Han suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

If it wasn’t from Einroguard but was a noble family wealthy enough to have a villa manor in the capital, what magic school would they attend?

Ipelldrem: Please help me!!!!

‘That startled me.’

Lee Han was greatly surprised by the new member contacting him one-on-one from the Watchman Club.

He hadn’t expected contact to come in this kind of situation.

Gonadaltes: Sorry, but I don’t have time right now either. Ask someone else.

Ipelldrem: The other members also refused, saying they’re busy right now. Please, I’m begging you!

It seemed the other members were on edge because of the unidentified intruder.

In this situation, the Einroguard students weren’t generous enough to indulge a mere Baldrogard student’s complaints.

Gonadaltes: Sorr…

Ipelldrem: An Einroguard student has come to visit my manor right now?

Gonadaltes: Pretend you’re not there and tell them to get lost. They probably came to extort money.

Ipelldrem: Really… Gonadaltes, you’re truly rude! How can you insult an Einroguard student you’ve never even seen?

‘Hmph.’

Lee Han made an indifferent expression.

Someone who’s never even been to Einroguard, what would they know!

Gonadaltes: I’m saying this for your sake. Most Einroguard students are evil.

Ipelldrem: Even if I concede a hundred times, ten thousand times, the person who visited today isn’t like that. They’re an upperclassman.

Gonadaltes: Being an upperclassman probably doesn’t make them different.

Lee Han considered warning about the upperclassman from the Buyeo Magic School whose name started with ‘Yu’ and ended with ‘Re’.

If the innocent Baldrogard student met the wrong person, they could be completely cleaned out.

Ipelldrem: The other person is from the Wardanaz Family. How should I respond to treat them well without being rude? How do you treat guests at Einroguard?

“Cough.”

Lee Han choked and coughed. The Young Prince was concerned enough to ask if he was alright.

‘…Crazy…!’

Only then did Lee Han understand why he had felt that chill down his spine earlier.

It was a Baldrogard student’s manor!

And at the same time, the family crest clearly came back to his memory.

‘Kraha Family…!’

Then The Other Person was Gainando’s distant relative and a student currently attending Baldrogard.

Lee Han genuinely wanted to run away.

‘Damn. Should I have said Gainando instead of Wardanaz Family? No. That would have been discovered even faster.’

Even if a distant relative, as long as they were Kraha Family, they would know what the Prince looked like.

When some black-haired person came to commit fraud, they might have immediately called the Knights…

Ipelldrem: Excuse me? Are you perhaps angry? I’ll apologize. But Gonadaltes, your rude attitude is also…

The Young Prince, who had been watching, offered advice.

Disciple. This is a good opportunity.

“Do you have any good advice?”

Lee Han brightened when he spotted his Master’s text amid the confusion.

An experienced prince would surely be able to handle such a tangled situation wisely.

If The Other Person wants to learn from you, tell them to donate their manor to my disciple. Seeing how thirsty they are for magic, it should work well enough.

“…Isn’t there any slightly less aggressive advice?”

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