Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1111

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Chapter 1111

“No matter how I think about it, it’s suspicious…”

“I-It’s not like that, I tell you.”

Professor Garcia explained with all his might.

Still, he couldn’t let his disciple be misunderstood as a worshipper of evil gods when all the mages of the magic tower had been mobilized and were suffering like this because of him.

“So you’re saying the magic tower… prepared all this to welcome just one guest?”

“That’s right!”

“…”

The adventurer companions behind couldn’t hold back and whispered to Jute.

“Isn’t it a trick?”

“It’s too strange a trick for a trick. Are there tricks that tell such ridiculous lies?”

Jute was just as confused as his companions were confused.

Even after hearing the explanation from the mages in front, it didn’t sink in.

The busy mages of the magic tower were causing all this fuss over just one guest???

‘Does that make sense?’

He knew the magic tower was greedy for talent, but this was too beyond imagination.

No matter what, still…

“…I understand.”

Jute nodded for now.

Though he was really confused, the other person’s words were more convincing than the entire magic tower falling into evil god worship.

“Then… I’ll go look for the knights.”

“Ah. Yes.”

Professor Garcia and the rest of the group greeted politely.

In fact, it was also because there was nothing more to say.

What could they say to people who cast subtle suspicious glances thinking ‘Could these people also be in cahoots with the magic tower mages?’

And the adventurers also had nothing particular to say, so they greeted politely.

It wasn’t that they didn’t think ‘Could these people also be in cahoots with the magic tower mages?’, but the adventurers weren’t naive enough to forcibly interrogate about it.

If you’re suspicious, you should investigate secretly – who would answer if you asked openly?

“For now… for now let’s find the knights.”

Jute shook his head left and right. Since it was so confusing, he needed to concentrate.

His companions also nodded as if they agreed.

“Right. What’s important is the artifact. Let’s find the knights first.”

“Even if this magic tower is a little… strange, that’s something the mages here should handle themselves.”

“…But it’s really okay, right?”

“I didn’t feel any evil energy… though I can’t be certain.”

Normally Jute would have spoken confidently, but this time his voice shook slightly.

The scene he witnessed was so shocking that his confidence had disappeared.

‘Is it time for the Daylily Magic Tower to fall…?’

* * *

And the two groups met again.

In front of the guest room where the Knights of the White Poplar Knight Order were staying.

“…”

“…Uh, what brings you here?”

Professor Garcia, who didn’t yet know the knights were inside the guest room, asked in puzzlement.

“We came looking for the knights.”

“The knights?”

Professor Garcia hesitated and whispered in a low voice to Lee Han and Professor Boladi.

“Everyone. It seems that dangerous spirit is hiding among the knights?”

“Aha. The Knights of the White Poplar Knight Order must have brought the artifact where the spirit is hiding.”

Lee Han immediately grasped the situation.

Indeed, if the spirit had originally been trapped in the magic tower, there was a high chance Sarataan would have noticed as soon as he came here.

Rather than the probability of the seal weakening by chance after that, it made more sense that external knights had come seeking the magic tower’s help while carrying the seal…

“This has become a bit troublesome.”

“Why is that?”

“From what I can see, those adventurers also seem to have tracked that dangerous spirit here.”

Professor Garcia guessed even the inside story from the other party’s reaction.

The most annoying moment for a mage was when an object they had tracked for a long time was stolen by someone else.

How infuriating it was when you diligently interpreted ancient texts to discover the whereabouts, then went to buy it directly at an auction house, only to have some nouveau riche noble who didn’t even know the object’s value roughly sweep it away with money.

“Professor. I’m fine with yielding. It’s enough if we can just prevent the danger.”

“Student Lee Han!”

Professor Garcia’s heart swelled with emotion at the thought that his disciple was truly excellent.

Even though there were many students good at magic in Einroguard, students who would readily yield without any compensation like this were rare.

How could he be so kind?

“So if it’s alright with you, Professor, please forgive those adventurers too.”

“…Wait, wait. I’m not angry. Student Lee Han. Did you think I was angry because of the competition?”

Professor Garcia was bewildered by his disciple’s words.

From what his disciple was saying, it sounded like he was trying to calm down an angry version of himself.

‘Must be my imagination, right?’

If he met a mage who had been tracking first in such a situation, Professor Garcia could yield as much as needed.

As a fellow mage, he could show that much magnanimity…

“…Of course not! How could I be like that?”

“…”

At his disciple’s suspicious behavior, Professor Garcia looked at Professor Boladi.

‘Could it be that I’m getting this misunderstanding because I’ve been acting together with Professor Bagrek lately???!’

If not that, there seemed to be no reason for his disciple to have such suspicions.

No matter how he thought about it, Professor Garcia himself had always lived faithfully to be a model for students.

“…I understand for now. But just in case, I should watch how those people handle it.”

Apart from yielding, Professor Garcia planned to watch from the side how the adventurers handled it.

No matter how much they had tracked it first, he couldn’t entrust dangerous objects to those without ability.

When the professor explained the conversation they just had, Jute flinched.

‘An Einroguard mage!’

No wonder he didn’t seem like a magic tower mage – he was a mage from a different magic school.

Moreover, judging by his appearance, he was definitely a professor. Jute felt himself shrinking for no reason.

A magic school, and moreover a professor from Einroguard – that wasn’t something just anyone could do.

Only honorable mages who made their name known throughout the Empire could do such work.

That was an Einroguard professor.

‘Wait. If he’s an Einroguard professor, did the Daylily Magic Tower stage that earlier event to invite the professor?’

Jute felt it was quite plausible.

If they could draw an Einroguard professor to the magic tower, an event like earlier seemed worth doing.

Of course, it was questionable how effective it would be.

Einroguard professors wouldn’t be stupid enough to be tempted by comfortable rest and events.

‘It seems like it would fool lower-year students rather than professors…’

“Thank you for yielding. Hmm. I’m cautious since it seems I’ll be showing inadequate skills.”

“What do you mean? I’ll be looking forward to it.”

With that conversation finished, the mages knocked on the guest room door. The knights who had been waiting anxiously inside got up from their seats with relief.

“Finally it’s over… no, where did all the magic tower mages go?”

The knights were flustered when a crowd of guests who were clearly not magic tower mages came.

“You don’t need to worry. Sir. We’ve come to solve the problem.”

Jute spoke with courtesy while not hiding his confidence in his abilities.

In fact, among the people currently in this room, he was the one who knew the most about that chain-sealed artifact.

They had been continuously gathering materials, interpreting them, and preparing to deal with the situation.

“Who are you? You don’t seem like a mage from the magic tower.”

“I am Jute, leader of the 【Guardians of Shadow Valley】 adventurer party.”

“Ah! That party. I’ve heard the name before.”

Having traveled around so much, the Knights of the White Poplar Knight Order were well-informed.

They had even heard of the 【Guardians of Shadow Valley】 party, which had been quite active recently.

“We have been searching for that artifact for a very long time. Because an extremely dangerous being is sealed within it.”

“Indeed, is that so!”

Even though a mage from the Daylily Magic Tower hadn’t come personally, the old knight showed quite a favorable reaction.

This was because he could feel how thoroughly the dark mage before him had prepared.

Professor Garcia, who was watching from behind, also nodded.

“The preparation is certainly well done. The research was properly conducted too.”

“That’s right.”

“But the referenced literature needs some improvement. Among the ancient texts you just mentioned, many of Armergenh’s works are forgeries. You could get into big trouble if you trust them completely.”

‘That’s strange. The other person is clearly a graduate.’

Lee Han expressed his puzzlement inwardly.

The other person was clearly not an Einroguard student and was even a graduate, yet Professor Garcia was grading them.

It was fortunate the other person couldn’t hear, because if they had, it would have been very concerning.

“I understand well. How thoroughly you’ve prepared as well. Then, may this old knight ask one thing?”

When Bamdam spoke after hearing the explanation, Jute readily nodded.

“Yes. Please ask anything.”

“You said you would banish this spirit, but what method do you plan to use to reverse-summon it?”

Spirits had considerable resistance to general attacks, and this was even more true for high-ranking spirits.

Unless there was a proper way to reverse-summon the spirit trapped in this artifact, they couldn’t carelessly break the seal. Doing so could cause an unexpected disaster.

“Would you look at this?”

“!”

Not only the knights but also Professor Garcia and Lee Han were surprised by what Jute brought out.

It was not an ordinary object.

“That looks like… a sword from another dimension?”

Not only Professor Garcia, who was naturally well-versed in such magical knowledge, but also Lee Han, who had recently encountered various magics using other dimensions, could easily recognize it.

The aura emanating from objects from other dimensions had a distinctly different texture, even if it was the same mana.

“This is a sword made by an angel. According to documents, this spirit’s weakness is precisely a sword made by an angel.”

“Oh…!”

The knights were impressed. So was Lee Han.

A sword made by an angel.

The capabilities of renowned adventurers certainly exceeded expectations.

“How did you manage to obtain such a thing?”

At Lee Han’s surprised question, Jute grinned.

When even the mages from Einroguard admired it like this, his pride as a mage swelled up.

“I explained the situation to a noble family I owed a debt to and borrowed it.”

“That’s truly amazing. No family would easily lend out such a sword. To have achieved so much as an Empire adventurer…”

“Hahaha. You flatter me.”

As the dark mage became happy from the praise he hadn’t received in a long time, his comrades looked at him pitifully.

‘Maybe it would have been better to go to Einroguard instead of Callarogard.’

At that moment, Lee Han suddenly felt his vision shake.

To be precise, his vision hadn’t shaken. It was more like a sense of unease felt because a strong change had occurred in the spirit realm that existed overlapping with reality.

In the colorless world, a familiar angel revealed itself.

It was the angel he had met before, Apazrakon.

Professor Garcia and Professor Boladi noticed and reacted to the outsider who suddenly appeared from the spirit realm dimension, but the others didn’t seem to notice yet. Lee Han asked in confusion.

-What? What’s going on?

-I have something to tell you.

-???

-That’s not an angel’s sword. The mage seems to be mistaken. Well then, I’ll be going.

-…W-wait!

Lee Han got goosebumps at the sight of the angel coolly giving advice and trying to leave.

To appear so precisely as if it had been watching.

This angel…

What had it been doing and where until just now??

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