Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1136

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Chapter 1136

Clap clap clap-

When Zandani unconsciously started clapping, the Baldrogard underclassman beside him said in confusion.

“No. Is it okay to do that?”

“Why wouldn’t it be?”

“…”

Originally, even crazy acts became hard for others to criticize if done confidently.

When Zandani asked “Why wouldn’t it be?” about something that obviously shouldn’t be done, the underclassman was left speechless.

“Well… it’s prohibited by Imperial law… uh… isn’t it? Am I perhaps mistaken about Imperial law?”

Had Imperial law been newly revised without his knowledge?

“Of course the Empire’s solemn laws wouldn’t permit such things. But would His Imperial Majesty really have made laws to forbid such things?”

“…What kind of nonsense… Oh. I apologize.”

The underclassman, Jangbir of the Raban Family who was a 3rd year Baldrogard student, apologized. Fortunately, Zandani was too excited to hear his junior’s words.

“That, senior. Since he obviously made the laws to forbid it, wouldn’t it be prohibited?”

“No. Laws are originally made to help people, right?”

“…By that logic, Count Bueuyong is also an Imperial citizen.”

“That’s…”

Caught off guard, Zandani hesitated. Taking advantage of the gap, Jangbir pressed once more.

“Would you have reacted the same way if they had ransacked your family’s mansion!”

“Our family would offer up our wealth first if something like this happened!”

“You, you two. Please don’t fight.”

Priests came over to stop them.

If the mages who came to help fought over such trivial reasons, it wouldn’t even qualify as a laughingstock.

The calmed Zandani apologized first like a proper senior.

“I’m sorry.”

“No, I apologize too.”

“But I think such boldness… might be what creates Einroguard’s reputation.”

Zandani spoke seriously.

Though Baldrogard and Einroguard were the twin leading magic schools of the Empire, most people tended to regard Einroguard as slightly superior.

Zandani thought one of the reasons might be this difference in boldness.

While Baldrogard students hesitated, Einroguard students acted first and thought later.

Even Jangbir, who had initially reacted indifferently, showed signs of being slightly swayed by his senior’s continued words.

“…Perhaps that might be somewhat true.”

“Right? Let’s go listen. How they acted. We’ll observe and steal only the good points.”

‘How exactly do you steal only the good points?’

Was such a thing possible when attacking a mansion and seizing assets?

Jangbir thought this to himself as he moved his feet.

No matter how he thought about it, that seemed difficult…

* * *

“The healing potions are over here. Please take them!”

“Don’t take out greasy food right away! It might have the opposite effect!”

When the Baldrogard students arrived, Lee Han’s group had already finished one round of work.

The group, who had distributed supplies to countless people flocking to them with the priests’ help, collapsed right where they were. Even the iron-like Professor Garcia looked exhausted.

“Good day, Professor.”

“Ah. You all are…”

Professor Garcia immediately recognized the Baldrogard students’ identities.

In fact, the Baldrogard students’ attire made of brilliantly sparkling luxury fabrics was far too easy to recognize even from a distance.

“You’ve come from Baldrogard to help too!”

“Yes. That’s right.”

Professor Garcia immediately spun around and whispered to the students behind him.

“No asking why they came, no saying they should have just sent money, anyway just no to everything.”

“…We didn’t say anything, Professor.”

Lee Han and his friends answered in bewilderment.

They were just exhaustedly sipping water when they suddenly heard this.

When his disciples looked wronged, Professor Garcia finally relaxed his expression and apologized.

“Sorry, everyone. Einroguard students keep picking fights whenever they see Baldrogard students.”

Since the upperclassmen had committed too many sins, Professor Garcia had no choice but to stop them first.

Lee Han nodded as if he understood.

“The seniors really… We’re different, so you don’t need to worry, Professor.”

Poke poke-

“Wardanaz.”

“?”

When Siana poked his side and called him, Lee Han turned his head in confusion.

“What is it?”

“Actually, I was going to say ‘Why didn’t you just send money’…”

“…I’m really grateful you didn’t.”

At his friend’s honest confession, Lee Han nodded deeply.

‘I’ll have to keep a close eye on Siana whenever I see Baldrogard students from now on.’

“Ah. Wardanaz!!!”

Zandani spotted Lee Han and greeted him.

To think he’d see the 6th year Einroguard student he’d met before here!

“Do you know him?”

“He’s my friend. I told you about him before.”

“…”

At Zandani and his junior’s conversation, the priests all looked at Lee Han together. Lee Han answered in a reluctant voice.

“That’s a one-sided claim from his side.”

“I’m really glad to see you. Wardanaz. To think we’d meet like this.”

“Ah. Yes. I’m glad to see you too, Mr. Zandani…”

“I told you to just call me Zandani! Hahaha!”

“It’s even more pleasant to see you here, Mr. Zandani.”

Lee Han absolutely would not drop the “Mr.”

With so many eyes watching here, if rumors like ‘Einroguard’s Wardanaz and Baldrogard’s Alzadrc are that close’ spread, he felt he’d roll around in frustration.

At Zandani’s blatant act of pretending to be close, Siana whispered like a snake from behind again.

“Should I say it now? Why didn’t you just send money…”

“…Get away from here. Tijiling. Nigisol. Please hold onto this priest.”

The two priests quickly dragged their friend away. Siana grumbled continuously as she was dragged off.

You’ll definitely regret this later!

“Wardanaz. I heard this rumor on the way here. That you seized Count Bueuyong’s assets.”

“Ah. Yes.”

“…So it’s really true!!”

When the other party readily admitted it, Zandani shouted with a greatly shocked face.

Zandani’s junior Jangbir beside him was equally shocked.

There was a big difference between hearing rumors and having the person involved confirm it.

“I was surprised when I heard the rumor, but thinking about it, even among Einroguard students, there wouldn’t be many students who could do such bold things. As expected, Wardanaz… I’m impressed. I couldn’t have done that.”

“…?”

Lee Han felt something was off.

He had the feeling these Baldrogard students were under some strange misunderstanding.

“You don’t think we just entered the mansion and forcibly seized everything, do you?”

“Huh? Isn’t that what happened?”

“…How could that be!”

Lee Han exclaimed as if dumbfounded.

Wasn’t it because of these people who couldn’t think with their own heads that fake rumors were spreading not only throughout the Empire but even to other dimensions?

“Absolutely not. This is the result of following proper procedures.”

Suppressing his exasperation, Lee Han explained the circumstances in detail to the Baldrogard students.

Originally, this count was in charge of relief supplies, but it was discovered that he had been embezzling materials…

“Do you understand?”

“?”

This time it was Zandani’s turn to feel something was off. Jangbir asked as if wondering what was wrong.

“Senior. What’s the matter?”

“Something’s strange. With relief supplies like that, corruption isn’t easily discovered even if committed.”

Count Bueuyong’s territory was administratively separate from the disaster-stricken areas, so supplies hadn’t been mobilized there yet.

Then the only people who would check such things would be imperial officials on patrol or priests of the order conducting inspections.

The fact that busy Einroguard mages had checked this seemed strange in itself.

“Didn’t they receive a tip?”

“If someone was going to tip off, they’d go to officials or priests first, not busy passing Einroguard mages. There are so many officials and priests around because of the disaster right now.”

“I-Indeed. Wait. Then what does that mean? Don’t tell me…”

“…Maybe they beat them up first and then found a plausible reason later.”

Though there was a slight difference, Zandani had guessed roughly correctly. Jangbir got goosebumps.

No matter how eccentric, to storm into a count’s manor, beat everyone up, and then look for reasons afterward.

If there hadn’t been a plausible reason, what were they planning to do after such actions?

“Isn’t that madness?”

“Hmm. But still an impressive madman.”

“If he’s mad, then he’s mad…! Senior. Don’t you know the saying about not getting involved with the Wardanaz Family?”

“That’s nonsense from people who don’t know much about magic.”

“Mages say that too!”

Lee Han caught snippets of their conversation and guessed the content, but didn’t bother to intervene.

Rather, he hoped that junior would persuade Zandani well.

Having a Baldrogard student (even a senior one) following him around would only be bothersome.

However, Zandani showed stubbornness in strange areas. It wasn’t for nothing that he had visited Einroguard.

“Keeping distance from a friend just because they’re violent and eccentric isn’t true friendship. Wardanaz is my friend.”

“That may be so, but…”

“…”

Lee Han was about to tell that junior not to give up, but restrained himself.

Instead, he gave up and changed the subject.

“Of course, we acted as quickly as possible due to urgent circumstances, but we have no intention of damaging Count Bueuyong’s honor more than necessary. So please don’t mention this elsewhere.”

“Understood. But…”

“?”

When Zandani hesitated slightly, Lee Han was puzzled.

What could this Baldrogard student, who seemed to have no worries at all, be concerned about?

“Actually, my friend at Baldrogard sent me a letter earlier. He was asking if it’s true that a mage from the Wardanaz Family robbed Count Bueuyong…”

“…”

Lee Han turned around in shock. The knights frantically waved their hands.

-It wasn’t us!

-Honestly, how many people are in that area? There had to be someone to spread rumors, right?

“…Still, just don’t go around talking about it anymore.”

With those final words, Lee Han turned around sharply. Seeing his disciple’s back, which seemed more deflated, Professor Garcia thought to himself.

‘Student Lee Han has given up…’

An aura of half-resigned enlightenment about how rumors would spread could be felt from his disciple’s retreating figure.

* * *

Night.

While everyone else was fast asleep from exhaustion, Lee Han got up and called the knights.

“Now. I may give up on the rumors, but I have no intention of giving up on searching.”

-…

‘He’s still angry about the rumors spreading.’

Apart from his anger about the spreading rumors, Lee Han hadn’t abandoned his plan to preemptively search for worshippers of evil gods wherever they went.

Just try showing up somewhere!

‘Maybe his anger about the spreading rumors has transferred to anger toward the worshippers of evil gods…’

Professor Garcia would have stopped him immediately, but the knights were different.

Originally, when people got angry, they needed to get some revenge. Even Professor Garcia had no right to lecture his disciple on this point.

Having lived his own life like a tempest…

“Mr. Ibinta. Please guide us to all the places in Bepaim City where suspicious people might gather.”

“Yes! Understood!”

Ibinta’s eyes lit up as his chance to finally be useful had come.

Actually, this was why the Skeleton Principal had assigned him, but it seemed like they kept doing other things after coming out on the mission.

“But even if we enter taverns, wouldn’t this many people be too conspicuous?”

“I have a plan for that. We’ll disguise ourselves as peddlers and split up the group… Wait.”

Lee Han paused.

He had heard the voices of friends who should have been sleeping in the upper floor lodgings of the manor among the knights.

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