Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1138

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Chapter 1138

At their master’s fierce shout, the subordinates hurriedly nodded and pulled the lever on the wall before running out through the passage connected to the underground sewers.

Right now there were crazy knight bastards loitering around outside, so if they wanted to contact other comrades they knew in the city, they had to move through secret passages.

-Going to deliver a message? Deliver it quickly. Don’t forget to report everything without leaving anything out.

“…”

“…”

The thieves were truly shocked to see the Death Knights casually speaking to them in the underground sewers where no one knew of their existence.

They were speaking leisurely as if they were guards patrolling here, which made it even more terrifying.

-Not going to answer?

“…Y-yes, we will.”

-Good. Hurry up! We’re busy people too, and the successor is even busier. If you can’t find them, we can’t predict what we might do!

‘Crazy mage bastards! Crazy worshipper of evil gods bastards!’

The thieves cursed everything in the world as they ran through the damp underground passage.

Why couldn’t they just fight among themselves outside instead of coming to this city to do this!

* * *

The nightmare of Bepaim City didn’t end at the tavern.

If even one person was caught, they couldn’t be released without spilling everything about suspicious places in the city, and as a result…

Countless small citizens of Bepaim City who had been conducting illegal business with simple and honest hearts ended up struck by lightning.

“Is this the place?”

“Yes! Yes! Please let me go!”

“I need to check before letting you go. If there’s no suspicious person here, you’re coming to Einroguard with me.”

“…”

The smuggler made an expression as if seriously considering whether he should take poison right now.

Long ago, there had been several comrades who were dragged to Einroguard and never heard from again.

“Tell everyone inside to come out.”

At Lee Han’s words, the apothecary naturally protested loudly.

This shop, which hung a bronze mortar-shaped ornament as its sign, dealt not only in various reagents but also illegal goods, and such shops were a bit different from the tavern earlier.

Being located in the commercial district, it received patronage and protection from nobles and wealthy people.

As such, the apothecary brought up the name of the baron to whom he had paid the most money.

“Are you crazy?! Do you know where this is! Baron Waltaha…”

“Did you hear that? Please bring him here.”

-Yes. Yes.

The knights went off in a group with leisurely tones as if they were merchants taking goods from a display case.

At that sight, the apothecary froze as if hit by ice magic.

The scene he just witnessed frightened the apothecary more than any threat, shouting, or cursing.

“D-don’t bluff. You can’t just arbitrarily capture a baron like that in Bepaim City. Do you know what kind of person the baron is?!”

“I don’t care since I’ll just go back to Einroguard anyway.”

Lee Han replied indifferently.

Something he’d been noticing lately was that Einroguard’s status was surprisingly helpful in many situations.

Especially after causing trouble, if you just returned to Einroguard, even the Empire’s laws couldn’t do much about it.

Of course, he would be punished by Einroguard’s laws by the angry Skeleton Principal, but wouldn’t that be better than being punished outside?

‘Could this be why the upperclassmen went around causing trouble outside?’

While Lee Han gained a dangerous realization, the apothecary didn’t know what to do.

Common sense told him they couldn’t possibly capture Baron Waltaha in the middle of the night, but at the same time, since the opponent said he came from Einroguard, he might really be crazy.

If they really brought the baron…

‘This… this is big trouble.’

From Baron Waltaha’s perspective, whether he complained to Einroguard later or not, he would first try to kill the apothecary.

Getting dragged into something like this just for taking some bribes and providing some convenience.

“Wardanaz sir. While we wait, shall we first check if there are any illegal reagents inside?”

“That’s a very good idea. Please do.”

“Wardanaz!?”

The apothecary’s eyes widened upon hearing the family name.

“If you’re a mage from the Wardanaz Family, surely… weren’t you a mage devoted to the Empire’s good people?!”

“You seem to have heard false rumors.”

-They’re not false rumors.

When Lee Han answered curtly, the knights interjected from the side.

Of course, they were turning the apothecary shop upside down, but even while doing so, the knights wanted to affirm that good rumors about their successor were also true.

-Do you know how much this Wardanaz student has done? If you knew, you wouldn’t be going blah blah blah about some baron right now.

-Who saved Bepaim City from famine, you ungrateful bastard. Don’t you know shame?

“…”

Even at the knights’ criticism, the apothecary was just dumbfounded.

If he was such a great and good mage, why was he here doing this in the middle of the night?

-We brought him!

With clattering sounds from afar, the knights appeared with the baron mounted behind a horse. The baron, wearing pajamas, had a face pale as a sheet.

“The baron’s face looks strange, you didn’t threaten him, did you?”

“Shh. Be quiet, Priest Siana.”

Nigisol quickly stopped his friend’s whisper. People from the surrounding shops were murmuring and watching.

“He must be cold coming out at night. Also, since the knights are undead, unnatural chill flows around them.”

Tijiling quickly said as if helping. At those words, people from the surrounding shops made ‘oh’ expressions.

A priest with such a sincere impression made anything sound plausible.

Of course, Siana wasn’t fooled by such words. She was just surprised.

‘To think Priest Tijiling would tell such lies…!’

“Baron sir! Please help… Ack!”

“You crazy bastard! You crazy bastard! What kind of evil demon is in your heart that you dragged me into this!”

The baron burst with resentment and struck the apothecary with the nightcap he was wearing.

It wasn’t a sight befitting a dignified city noble to show in the middle of the night on the street, but Baron Waltaha had no choice.

He was suddenly kidnapped in the middle of the night and dragged here, and when he resisted a few times along the way, he even received deadly threats, all because this apothecary bastard dragged him in like a drowning ghost.

“Die alone!”

“Ouch! I was wrong!”

The completely deflated apothecary obediently spilled everything about not only his hidden ledgers but also suspicious people he had seen recently.

Unfortunately, none of these were worshippers of evil gods. They were all smugglers or thieves who had newly crept in taking advantage of the recent chaos.

-Oh dear. That’s unfortunate.

-Ah. What a pity. I thought this one might really be a worshipper of evil gods.

-Why did you think so? Because of his vicious appearance?

-No. I found it suspicious that despite being a criminal, he lived regularly.

-Indeed!

Watching the knights chatting, Baron Waltaha cleared his throat.

Though he had little authority due to his pajamas, the baron still squeezed out his remaining authority to speak.

“Ahem. Ahem.”

-Ah. Wal-wal… Wal…? Um, Baron sir. What is it?

The knight got confused about the name and quickly changed the subject. It seemed more rude to force a guess and get it wrong.

“Since this insolent apothecary’s matter is finished, may I also return?”

-Yes. Let’s go together.

“You’re going to escort me?”

-Escort, you say? Ah… Yes. We’ll escort you on the way, and we need to investigate your mansion too.

“…”

The baron, who was about to take a step, froze in place.

What did they just say they were going to investigate?

“I think I heard wrong… why would you investigate my mansion?”

“Since you received money from the apothecary, we need to investigate. There might be worshippers of evil gods in your mansion.”

Lee Han answered instead. The baron flared up.

“What nonsense! Do you have proof that I did that?!”

“You said you received money from the apothecary.”

“How many people in this city have received money from apothecaries!”

“Then tell us all of them.”

“…”

Baron Waltaha was horrified by the sense of hopelessness, as if facing a wall.

What kind of bastard is this?

“I absolutely will not tolerate this!”

-What do you plan to do if you don’t tolerate it?

The knight who had personally escorted the baron asked quietly. At that question, Baron Waltaha froze.

The threats he had heard on the way here came flooding back.

-By the way, Baron. Do you know where the supplies distributed to Bepaim City came from? They came from Count Bueuyong’s mansion.

“You must be misunderstanding, Baron. To be precise, we didn’t plunder them, but because of the embezzlement of relief supplies…”

Lee Han tried to explain, but it no longer reached the baron’s ears.

-Baron. We don’t usually give warnings twice. But we’ve already warned you twice now. Do you think we’re some kind of puppet knights of the Empire?

Though such incidents had been relatively rare recently, these knights were originally cruel riders who brought destruction and ruin following the Skeleton Principal’s orders.

As childhood memories of incidents he’d seen in imperial newspapers flashed through his mind, the baron unconsciously swallowed.

“…No. Absolutely not.”

-Be careful with your actions from now on.

The Death Knights spoke with their ghostly eyes gleaming ominously. Lee Han consoled him instead.

“If you cooperate, nothing will happen.”

“…”

Honestly, Baron Waltaha was more afraid of this mage bastard than the knights.

To command such insane undead while remaining so calm…!

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As night passed and morning came, storm-like letters of protest began flying in.

Naturally, those who had been robbed during the night couldn’t send such things, and those who were still lucky enough not to have been robbed led the charge in panic.

They couldn’t just sit still when they didn’t know when blades might come flying at them.

The first place they contacted was the bishops of the religious order. Since Bepaim City had suffered such severe disasters, bishops had come nearby.

“Bishop! Please hear our plea! No matter how good the cause for coming here, is it acceptable to ignore the Empire’s laws and morals and act as you please?! There are procedures for everything!”

The city’s ruffians brought up laws and rules they normally didn’t follow.

That’s how afraid they were.

Some crazy mage leading Death Knights in attacks…

However, the bishops’ reaction was completely different from what they expected.

“If it’s a mage from the Wardanaz Family, isn’t he a mage who has spared no support, both material and spiritual, for this disaster?”

“If you’re trying to slander the young mage over Count Bueuyong’s affairs, the religious order can never agree to that.”

“No, no…! It has nothing to do with Count Bueuyong…! Really purely…!”

The nearby bishops and priests had the highest favorability rating, so no slander worked.

Some bishops even scolded them, saying ‘How can you make such ridiculous slanders, you wicked people.’

Swallowing their resentment and retreating, the ruffians found their next target. It was mages from other magic schools in the Empire.

Though somewhat unreliable, a magic school was still a magic school…

“Great archmages from Baldrogard! Please see the misdeeds of a fellow mage…”

“Hmph! I know everything! These evil ones. You’re trying to drive a wedge between Baldrogard and Einroguard. No matter how slightly extreme Wardanaz’s methods were, do you think that will work!”

‘Slightly?’

Zandani’s junior thought skeptically, but unfortunately, this senior was the head supervisor of the Baldrogard students.

When no persuasion or reports worked, the ruffians retreated again, shedding tears of blood.

“Are there no laws in the Empire!”

Finally, the ruffians made the choice they least wanted to make.

It was reporting to a bureaucrat.

Coincidentally, there was a supervisor who had been dispatched even before the bishops due to the disaster.

The Imperial Supervisor, who had become skin and bones from overwork, was checking the heavily damaged farmland when he frowned at the sight of people rushing toward him in a crowd.

Some of them were people the supervisor recognized – those engaged in suspicious business.

“What’s the matter?”

“Your Excellency! Please resolve our grievances!”

No one had a worse relationship with Einroguard mages than Imperial bureaucrats. Especially high-ranking bureaucrats.

No matter how much it was for justice, if they heard that the Skeleton Principal’s minions were running wild in the city without regard for law, it wouldn’t be strange for them to immediately fly into a rage and write a letter.

“Wardanaz? You definitely said the Wardanaz Family?”

“Yes! Definitely the Wardanaz Family currently enrolled at Einroguard!”

“I see. Understood. I’ll write a letter immediately and submit it to His Imperial Majesty, so everyone go back.”

“Thank you! Thank you!”

As the ruffians returned in high spirits, the supervisor immediately burned the paper he had just taken notes on in front of them.

If the evil archmage had directly caused trouble, he would have reported it immediately, but if it was that boy from the Wardanaz Family, the story was a bit different.

There was no way he would report a young mage cherished by His Imperial Majesty and even the bureaucrats under him based on a few slanderous words from such people.

‘Those bastards must have caused trouble themselves.’

It was a scene that would have made the Skeleton Principal collapse from jealousy if he had seen it.

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