Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1122

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Chapter 1122

Indeed, the hamster was so angry that it trembled, unable to even respond. At that pathetic and cute appearance, Orlagh inwardly lowered his evaluation by several levels.

‘This bastard. Just from his babbling, he seemed no less than an archmage, but it was all complete bluffing.’

Didn’t mortals originally lie well anyway?

It wouldn’t be strange at all if that hamster had been bluffing to escape from crisis.

Orlagh became newly proud of his choice.

Having worked at the Wardanaz Family, he could avoid being fooled by such shallow lies. Other demons would have been tempted and fallen for it.

“Hmm. There’s nothing to give, so here are some seeds as snacks…”

Now the hamster foamed at the mouth and made gurgling sounds. It seemed so frustrated and indignant that words wouldn’t come out.

Still, Lee Han’s intention to calm the opponent had some effect.

The hamster realized that getting angry was useless no matter what.

-…Fine. I’ll believe you were busy.

“Of course you should believe me. I said I was busy.”

This time Lee Han replied curtly.

Come to think of it, he had really been busy and out of his mind throughout the vacation, yet to be suspected like that.

“You speak correctly. Shall I put that hamster bastard away somewhere out of sight?”

The demon rubbed his hands together and flattered. The hamster gripped the seeds it was holding tightly.

To think he had tried to collaborate with such a demon bastard!

-So what were you busy with?

“Uh… well…”

Lee Han recalled the events that had happened during vacation.

He had certainly been busy, but when he actually thought back, it strangely felt embarrassing to talk about in front of an outsider.

Persuading tower mages and nobles for Einroguard funding, going to other magic schools to meet seniors…

Fortunately, Lee Han found relatively less embarrassing and plausible things.

“Worshippers of evil gods! That’s right. I was busy tracking worshippers of evil gods. They were very vicious and despicable bastards.”

-Worshippers of evil gods? Indeed…

If it had been a normal mage, they would have reacted with ‘What 2nd year chases worshippers of evil gods during vacation? Don’t lie!’ but the hamster felt no sense of incongruity at all.

If it was the boy from the Wardanaz Family before his eyes, it wasn’t strange at all. Even if he felt it was strange, it would only be ‘The Skeleton Principal certainly raises his disciple harshly’ at most.

-What worshippers of evil gods? Prahgal?

“Sanguiros.”

-Weren’t those bastards destroyed?

When the hamster wondered, Lee Han slowly shook his head.

“Your outside news is quite late.”

-…

The hamster was about to throw seeds but held back.

-Right… it’s late. Because of someone.

“It seems those bastards have revived again this time.”

Lee Han conveyed the fact that the Sanguiros cult was stirring again in the darkness.

Hearing those words, the hamster squeaked mockingly.

-Good. Chaos and discord should spread across the continent… Ack! What are you doing!

“How can you speak like that?”

Lee Han lifted seeds with telekinesis and shot them. The hamster rolled around with curses.

-Then should I cheer for Einroguard or something!

“You asked me to break your curse. If you want my magic level to rise quickly, you should wish for the cultists to disappear. That way I can concentrate without interference.”

-Well… I’m not sure if I can trust that…

The hamster muttered quietly.

He was worried he might get hit with seeds again if he spoke loudly. Becoming a hamster had gradually weakened his courage too.

Having received secret arts from that insane doppelganger, it was true that he had initially placed expectations on this bastard.

But spending vacation squeaking and eating seeds in this dark and cool storage, the hamster had gradually become rational.

…Should he just wait like this for the bastard’s magic skills to become excellent enough to break the curse?

Just waiting like that didn’t suit the hamster’s temperament. Especially when the opponent might have forgotten.

That’s why he had tempted the demon to prepare reagents and magic despite knowing it was dangerous.

-How much have you deciphered the inherited grimoire?

The hamster suddenly became curious.

This Wardanaz Family boy was very annoying, arrogant, despicable, and petty, but he couldn’t deny the fact that he was still a magical genius.

How much had he interpreted the white grimoire left by the Skeleton Principal’s insane doppelganger?

If he had caught even a clue to breaking the curse, he could have some expectations…

Hearing the question, Lee Han became slightly dejected and answered.

“I haven’t heard the book’s voice since then.”

-…

“Still, if I work hard from now on, won’t the book open?”

-Please, won’t you gather reagents and magic?

“That again? If we forcibly break the curse, your soul will be damaged.”

-I’m fine! I said I’m fine!!

The hamster squeaked desperately.

Regardless, Lee Han sternly said no and then moved toward the seniors with Orlagh.

The seniors had already been waiting long enough.

“Senior. Here’s the demon. If you need anything, please ask whatever you want.”

“…It seemed like you two talked really long just now, do you know each other?”

Ogoldos asked in a confused voice.

Ogoldos knew it was a strange question to ask a junior ‘Are you acquainted with a demon?’ but he couldn’t bear not asking.

“No. We met for the first time today. We talked long because of that hamster over there.”

“That’s right! I’m a clean demon with no relationship whatsoever to the Wardanaz Family!”

Orlagh also enthusiastically agreed for the young master’s sake.

Hearing those words, all the Dark Magic School students thought to themselves.

‘Must be a demon with ties to the Wardanaz Family.’

‘Must be a demon that was caught by the Wardanaz Family before.’

* * *

While the seniors were asking Orlagh questions they had always been curious about, namely what places in the demons’ dimension were worth robbing or raiding, Diret quietly called his junior.

“Junior. Junior.”

“Yes?”

“Tell me honestly.”

“…Alright. I did use the inspector’s authority privately. But I’m proud of it. The balance of each school…”

When his junior rambled about something completely unexpected, Diret fell into confusion.

“Wait. Wait a moment.”

“?”

“What I asked was what you talked about so long with that hamster and demon.”

“Ah… I was talking about the curse on the hamster. Because my magical achievement is slower than expected.”

“I see. I understand. Then what did you mean just now about using the inspector’s authority privately?”

“…”

Lee Han deeply reflected.

Even though he thought he had been trained at Einroguard, he still had a long way to go.

To reveal such lacking cunning in this area…

“…Actually, I became the inspector’s right hand.”

“…”

“Senior?”

When Diret said nothing, Lee Han asked back, slightly flustered.

“Sorry. I heard you but I was thinking because I couldn’t understand at all.”

“If you listen from the beginning, you’ll understand.”

“I don’t think I ever will…”

Lee Han tried his best to explain the situation as briefly and concisely as possible to the senior who was giving him suspicious looks.

“…So that’s how it happened.”

“Wait, so the professor suddenly saying he’d write the report himself was also?”

“That was just the professor awakening his conscience… Yes. That’s right.”

“And Yukveltire saying she’d write the Nightmare Echo Forest countermeasures too?”

“It could be a coincidence… Actually, that’s also correct.”

Diret looked at her junior with shocked eyes.

She had thought there might be something, but to think he was manipulating the inspector!

‘Could it be that he was born with some special ability to gain dragons’ trust?’

One dragon might be understandable, but charming two of them was starting to raise suspicions.

“Senior. Please don’t try to take the work back though…”

Lee Han cautiously advised while reading the mood.

After going through the trouble of getting Professor Mortum and Senior Yukveltire to share the work, it would be too unfair if Diret came back for it.

“I won’t. Don’t worry.”

“Really?”

“Of course. Do you think I’m some fool who just does good deeds for others?”

‘A little bit.’

It was something he could never say out loud.

“Whether it’s the professor or Yukveltire, doing a bit more work won’t hurt them. Thanks. But…”

“Thank you, Senior! I’ll use the inspector’s authority to greatly increase the Dark Magic School’s budget!”

“…That’s exactly what I was going to tell you not to do.”

Diret sighed deeply as she spoke.

She had been about to say that, but her junior immediately gave that as an example.

“I’m grateful you helped with my work, but stop right there. Things like school budgets should be raised properly through established rules, not forced up – that’ll just make it harder to deal with the consequences later.”

“But compared to other schools, we have fewer numbers and receive fewer requests, so how can we raise it legitimately?”

“…Be quiet.”

Diret, who usually answered her juniors’ questions head-on with a confident attitude, this time forcibly shut it down with senior authority.

Because she had nothing to say.

“Anyway, I told you, right? Absolutely don’t do it. And here. This is a list of magic we’ll cover in this lecture. Read through it during breaks. Ask if you don’t understand.”

The second semester lecture 【Forbidden Secrets of Dark Magic (Not a Teaching Lecture)】 was a class that taught countermeasures against prohibited magic.

Since the Dark Magic School inevitably dealt with somewhat dangerous magic and mysteries, it was right to practice countermeasures in advance.

Lee Han tilted his head as he received the list.

Several of the countermeasures looked quite familiar.

Countermeasures against evil spirit creation techniques… 【Dark Wave Spread】

…

…

Countermeasures against poison field spread techniques… 【Dark Magic Cloak】

…

Countermeasures against Catoblepas summoning… 【Crow’s Eye】

…

He could see magic that Lee Han had learned or been forced to master last semester.

When he looked at his senior questioningly, Diret nodded slightly.

That nod contained this meaning:

‘It’s a secret from the Principal.’

As the person in charge of the lecture, giving such breaks was something the Skeleton Principal would never tolerate.

Even if the other party was a student who had to run around busily all semester long.

However, Diret didn’t care. She only followed her own conscience.

If one feared the Skeleton Principal, they couldn’t become a 5th year at Einroguard in the first place.

“Senior.”

“Yeah. Go ahead.”

“There are magic I’ve already learned duplicated in here? I think you need to fix it.”

“…”

* * *

Returning to the dormitory with the hamster cage, Lee Han fell into thought.

Why had Senior Diret gotten so angry?

“Lee Han!”

“What’s wrong?”

“The inspector…”

“No.”

“?!”

Gainando was startled.

How did he figure out what favor he was going to ask?

“Wardanaz!”

“What’s wrong?”

“Inspec…”

“You can’t either.”

“?!!”

Asan made an expression of disbelief.

Gainando was one thing, but even his own inner thoughts?

“There seems to be a rumor going around that I’m arbitrarily controlling the inspector, but that’s absolutely not the case. I merely gave appropriate advice.”

“Like controlling Prince Jowurin?”

“Which bastard said that? Come out.”

The Blue Dragon Tower students became quiet as mice. Gainando quickly kicked the butt of the friend who had just spoken.

The student who was pushed forward glared at Gainando with resentful eyes.

“Traitor…!”

“Hmph. Talking about betrayal.”

“And it’s much better than before.”

Lee Han made the student who came forward hold a bucket full of water as he spoke.

Certainly, thanks to Lee Han’s advice, Wuman’s policies were relatively moderate.

In fact, the upperclassmen had praised it, saying ‘Well, this is similar to or better than the Skeleton Principal.’

“It’s gotten better than before, but compared to our original life, it’s too harsh!”

“Never say that to the upperclassmen…”

Lee Han advised his friends.

Some upperclassmen were already realizing that the 2nd year students had been living more comfortably than necessary, so spreading more rumors wouldn’t be good.

“And I won’t even be able to meet with the inspector for about two days. After hearing all the advice, he went off to move separately.”

“What about after two days?”

“After two days, I’ll be going outside to solve the next request.”

“…”

The students suddenly became solemn. Someone muttered, ‘That’s why I said we shouldn’t bother Wardanaz.’

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