Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1100

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Chapter 1100

‘Then His Excellency should reflect on himself.’

The inspector of the great race resolved to return to the main building and inform the Skeleton Principal of this fact, giving him a stern warning.

For a disciple receiving teachings from an Archmage to respect and cherish another mage more.

This was due to the indulgent attitude the Archmage himself had shown on a regular basis.

“Professor. Do we really need to go this far to catch a dragon’s eye?”

Lee Han asked seriously.

Of course, Lee Han didn’t particularly like Professor Bendozol.

If you were to divide Einroguard’s professors, Professor Garcia would be on one end and Professor Verdus on the other, and Professor Bendozol was definitely positioned closer to the latter.

But no matter how much he disliked someone, seeing them struggle so desperately made him feel a little sorry as a disciple.

Was a dragon’s attention really that important?

“Shut up!”

Professor Bendozol glared at Lee Han with eyes full of resentment.

“But what did I do wrong…”

“How could someone like you who receives a dragon’s love understand my heart!”

“…”

Lee Han, who usually didn’t lose in arguments with professors, was overwhelmed by Professor Bendozol this time.

There was that much appeal contained in Professor Bendozol’s voice.

“Professor.”

“What!”

“Actually, receiving a dragon’s love isn’t entirely a good thing.”

Lee Han advised sincerely.

Just thinking about the status dragons held in the Empire made that clear. The moment you got involved, troublesome matters naturally followed.

For example, inviting you to a manor and then putting handcuffs on you…

“Lee Han. That doesn’t seem like very good advice.”

Yoner, who was beside him, whispered.

No matter how you looked at it, it seemed like advice that would add fuel to the fire.

Of course his friend meant it sincerely, but it definitely wouldn’t sound that way to a petty professor.

“You… this… grrghhh.”

“P-Professor!”

At his disciple’s excessive bragging, Professor Bendozol finally clutched his chest and collapsed forward. Foam was rising from his mouth.

“Wardanaz assassinated the professor!”

“No, you crazy bastards!”

Lee Han strongly protested.

He was the only one here who gave advice for the professor’s sake, yet he was receiving such misunderstanding!

“Ah, I see! Sorry, Wardanaz. I understand. Wardanaz didn’t assassinate the professor! Everyone remember! Wardanaz didn’t assassinate the professor!”

“…”

He didn’t know what his friend understood, but Lee Han kicked his friend’s shin once and then asked Yoner to borrow a potion.

“Yoner. Can you lend me a potion?”

Yoner briefly pondered whether he was asking for a potion to completely send someone off or one to bring back their consciousness, but trusted his friend and handed over the latter.

‘I gave him the right one, right?’

Fortunately, it seemed he had given the right one. When Professor Bendozol regained consciousness, Lee Han breathed a sigh of relief.

“Professor. Are you alright?”

“You… this… ugh… damn…”

“Professor Bendozol. Are you perhaps not feeling well?”

Just then, Wuman appeared after looking around the area. This dragon inspector in the form of a large human cast a worried gaze at the professor.

The startled Professor Bendozol tried to answer while moving his stiff tongue.

“I-I am very… healthy. Please don’t worry.”

The professor used superhuman willpower to transform his own body and escaped from the paralyzed state.

Then he assured Wuman several times that he was completely fine.

“Look! You don’t need to worry. Teaching Einroguard students is this Bendozol’s joy and mission!”

“…”

“…”

The students looked at him with bewildered and contemptuous gazes, but Professor Bendozol didn’t care.

To the professor, this place only appeared to contain dragons and other pebbles.

“I understand. This Wuman will simply trust Professor Bendozol.”

“It’s an honor! Khuk!”

“But Professor. There’s one thing I’d like to ask.”

“Ask me anything!”

“About the bagest you brought…”

Before Wuman could finish speaking, Professor Bendozol quickly flattered.

“It’s a completely harmless baby bagest. I’m a professor who cares for his students, you see!”

As soon as Professor Bendozol heard that a dragon was coming as an inspector, what he did was search the mountains for two straight days looking for a baby bagest.

If he brought out a fully grown bagest and the inspector saw it, this was obviously what would happen.

-Professor Bendozol. I’m very disappointed that you would present such a dangerous animal to students. I won’t be making any contracts with you. Also, this Wuman will spread rumors to all the dragons I know.

-No!!!

He couldn’t arbitrarily change the lecture content he had reported to the Skeleton Principal, so he at least tried to change it to a baby.

Fortunately, staying up all night to find a baby bagest had paid off. Who would have thought he’d receive praise from a dragon like this.

“A baby bagest would be too weak to be of much help in learning how to deal with them. Is there perhaps some secret that this Wuman doesn’t know about?”

“…”

Even a mage witnessing the sky falling probably wouldn’t make the same expression Professor Bendozol was making now.

Professor Bendozol was so utterly devastated that he couldn’t say a single word.

‘I should die.’

The professor made a resolution inwardly.

To miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch a dragon’s eye (though he had met Prince Jowurin last year, so it wasn’t exactly once-in-a-lifetime) and show such a shameful mistake.

This life no longer had any value. He should probably go somewhere with no people and many monsters to die.

But then, the voice of his cunning, arrogant, despicable, and most enviable disciple was heard softly.

“Professor. Pull yourself together. It’s not over yet.”

“You…”

Professor Bendozol was moved to tears.

He wondered who had caused him to collapse in the first place, yet here he was saying such things.

But the weakened professor found himself unconsciously listening to his disciple’s words.

“…What do you mean it’s not over?”

“You just need to make up a good excuse about why you chose a baby bagest. Not a reason like you picked it to flatter.”

“How can I tell lies in front of a dragon?”

Professor Bendozol asked back as if the very thought was horrifying.

To have to speak falsehoods in front of such a beautiful creature.

‘Isn’t it easy?’

Lee Han thought to himself.

Just Lee Han alone had told lies like “I’ll definitely play with you tomorrow” in front of Jowurin several times…

“Then just remain as a shameful person in their memory for life.”

“…”

Professor Bendozol’s expression was colored with pain.

It was an expression as if he were cutting his own belly with a knife.

“…I’m starting the lecture now! Your Majesty. I will show you. The reason I chose a baby bagest!”

“Ooh…! Professor Bendozol. I’ll be looking forward to it!”

* * *

“You bastards, no, you brats, no…”

“…Just say students.”

Lee Han whispered as if dumbfounded.

How rarely must he have called on students to be stumbling over this?

“Yes, you students! You students must be wondering right now. Why baby bagests instead of fully grown bagests?”

“Did you choose baby bagests to flatter us?”

“I thought it was because you didn’t have money and could only get baby bagests.”

“Everyone shut… ugh. Everyone has such wonderful humor.”

Professor Bendozol suppressed his anger and spoke forcibly. At this sight, the students’ eyes sparkled.

Could they torment Professor Bendozol without him fighting back?

“Everyone stop. The professor is giving a lecture.”

“Wardanaz. After what happened to you, don’t you want revenge?”

“…Be quiet.”

Lee Han, who almost wavered for a moment, covered his ears. His friends’ words were quite persuasive.

“I think Wardanaz… as someone who made a contract with a dragon, feels sorry for Professor Bendozol who couldn’t make a contract with a dragon.”

“Indeed. Thinking about it that way makes sense. He’s only a second-year but already contracted with a dragon, so seeing a professor who couldn’t contract with a dragon his whole life might make him feel a bit sorry…”

The students casually exchanged insults that would cause Professor Bendozol a second heart attack if he heard them.

Fortunately, Professor Bendozol was too busy calming the baby bagest to pay attention.

“Look! Actually, today’s lecture wasn’t about learning how to deal with adult bagests, but about taming baby bagests to make them follow you!”

“…”

At the professor’s sudden outburst, the students’ atmosphere turned cold.

It was too out of the blue.

“…Is it possible to make bagests follow you?”

“First time hearing this? Are they monsters that can be tamed?”

Despite their cute appearance, these death-calling wolfhounds had quite a notorious reputation. If they appeared in a lecture called 【Just Vicious Creatures】, they weren’t ordinary monsters.

Considering the dark magic wrapped around their entire bodies, they wouldn’t normally be monsters that could be tamed…

“I understand you stup… you students are suspicious! But there exists a secret method that no one knows.”

“Is that really true?!”

Durgyu asked in surprise. Then Professor Bendozol flew into a rage.

“You bastard! You want to poach baby bagests, don’t you!”

“…No, no…”

The orc friend, suddenly branded as a future poacher, was speechless. Wuman beside him asked as if he didn’t understand.

“Are you suspecting students who did nothing wrong?”

“It, it was a joke! A joke!”

“Hmm. Still, please be careful, Professor Bendozol. There’s a clear difference between professor and student, and too many jokes can disturb the academic atmosphere.”

“I’ll keep it in mind! I’ll engrave it in my bones, Your Majesty!”

“That won’t be necessary.”

Professor Bendozol, barely surviving, no longer hesitated and revealed his secret method.

It was a secret method most mages didn’t know, but Professor Bendozol, who had spent long periods with monsters, knew how to tame baby bagests.

“First, you must reduce the magic wrapped around their fur. This magic makes bagests keep their distance from ordinary living beings.”

“But… isn’t that connected to the bagest’s life force?”

The negative magic these wolfhounds wore was like blood flowing through a human body.

Just as a person would die if you drained all their blood to remove their vitality, the same was true for bagests.

“Listen carefully to the potions and magic I’m about to tell you. If you combine these, you can suppress the bagest’s magic while preventing that magic from leaking out!”

Professor Bendozol named three potions and four spells and explained their combination.

While the potions respectively reduced the amount of magic, reversed its nature, and suppressed its flow, the spells acted as stoppers that trapped the magic inside and prevented it from leaking out.

‘Amazing.’

Lee Han listened with admiration. True to a mage who had chased monsters his whole life, Professor Bendozol’s secret method was certainly surprising and creative.

Those potions and spells were things any mage of decent level could use, but to combine them to tame monsters like bagests.

Whine-

While listening, the baby bagest crawled close to Lee Han’s leg and clung to it.

The baby basilisk bristled and extended its tail to chase it away. Lee Han quietly warned the tail that was slyly protruding from his sleeve.

“Hey now.”

-Hng.

Lee Han lifted the clinging dark baby wolfhound with one arm and held it while continuing to listen to the lecture.

‘I see. Until you feed it all three potions, its ferocity won’t subside, so you must be careful even with babies…’

“…”

Giselle, sitting beside him, stared intently.

She looked at the baby bagest her friend was holding, looked at her friend once, then looked at the lecture content again.

“What’s wrong? Did those White Tiger Tower guys cause trouble again?”

“…Don’t you notice anything strange?”

“Something strange?”

Lee Han tilted his head.

“Are you talking about how if you reduce the amount and reverse the nature, you don’t need to suppress the flow? But considering the duration of the magic, suppressing the flow is quite essential…”

“Never mind. Just listen to the lecture, you idiot.”

‘What!’

Lee Han, suddenly insulted, was very indignant.

As expected, White Tiger Tower students were utterly rude.

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