Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1141

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Chapter 1141

“Why are you doing that?”

-Isn’t that too shameless a lie?

The baby basilisk whispered.

Jowrin’s perception had improved quite a bit lately, but such an insincere lie…

“You still don’t understand.”

-?

“When there’s no evidence, even shameless lies like this aren’t bad.”

-…

The baby basilisk thought ‘Why does master take pride in such things’ but quietly wiggled its tail.

If it spoke carelessly, it might get kicked out of the sleeve with ‘Then go to Jowrin!’

His personality had gotten much rougher lately…

“It sounds like a lie…”

Jowrin muttered quietly.

“What?”

“Ah, it’s nothing.”

Unfortunately, this young dragon couldn’t bring herself to strongly suspect her contractor.

If other senior dragons who had made pacts with contractors saw this, they would have lamented ‘No matter how much you cherish your contractor, you should still be suspicious.’

Having achieved his goal, Lee Han hid his triumphant smile and changed the subject.

If he continued this conversation, even Jowrin might catch on.

Since Lee Han planned to smash… no, search for worshippers of evil gods first whenever he went on missions, he absolutely couldn’t tell Jowrin.

It would probably be one of two reactions, both unacceptable choices.

-Jowrin will follow too!

-It’s dangerous, so absolutely not!

‘Hmm. I am curious which way she would react though.’

“So what were you doing?”

“Ah… Wuman… Wuman is making Jowrin work!”

Jowrin complained indignantly.

She wanted her contractor to severely scold that bad younger brother.

Not only plowing through forests, but checking oases in desert areas, examining rock formations in mountain ranges, repairing castle walls and main building structures – working her non-stop with all sorts of tasks!

“Excellent!”

Lee Han exclaimed in admiration at what Jowrin had accomplished.

Who would have thought that while he was out on missions, Jowrin was doing such admirable work.

“…Huh?”

“Wow. Your Majesty. You’re really amazing!”

“Excellent. I’m moved.”

When not only her contractor but even the priests showed genuinely admiring expressions, Jowrin became even more flustered.

Huh, what?

“What’s going on, everyone?”

“Actually, Your Majesty…”

Even Professor Garcia and Professor Kirmin, who arrived late, were greatly surprised after hearing the story.

Who would have thought Jowrin was personally doing such menial work.

“Your Majesty. You did really well!”

“I’m impressed!”

“…Hehe. Such things aren’t particularly difficult for Jowrin.”

Intoxicated by the praise, Jowrin quickly reversed her attitude.

Jowrin had indeed learned much from the Einroguard students.

“I came out while purifying the forest, so I’ll go back and finish the work!”

“Your Majesty. Please rest a bit before finishing.”

Lee Han tried to stop her, thinking Jowrin was overexerting herself.

Though she seemed to have taken a liking to repairing and managing Einroguard like tending a garden, originally it wasn’t good to overdo work all at once.

However, Jowrin, with her shoulders full of strength, immediately transformed back into a gold dragon and shouted heartily.

Jowrin would protect Einroguard for the students!

“I’ll make snacks with the hidden supplies… Oh. She’s gone.”

Lee Han felt slightly lonely watching Jowrin’s figure rapidly disappearing.

He knew she was growing, but to think she would now refuse even such snacks and fly away like that.

-I’ll eat them for you!

“…Thanks.”

Lee Han looked at the basilisk in his sleeve with warm eyes.

At least this one wouldn’t make him feel lonely about growth for a while.

“We can eat them for you too.”

“Won’t the punishment room be a problem?”

Lee Han was puzzled.

While Lee Han was confident he wouldn’t get caught even if inspected, his priest friends…

However, Siana nodded confidently. Seeing this, Lee Han wondered if his friend had a method.

‘That’s impressive?’

“We just need to go for a moment.”

“…”

Lee Han looked at Nigisol and Tijiling with an incredulous expression. The two priests subtly avoided his gaze.

* * *

-Professor Verdus. You’re being released.

“Mmph.”

-But why are you on all fours…?

The death knight questioned the sight of Professor Verdus walking out, no, crawling out of the punishment room.

Professor Verdus answered with an irritated voice.

“I lost a bet!”

-I know. I like hearing it every time, so I asked again.

Actually, Professor Verdus wasn’t originally dragged to the punishment room.

No matter how much Lee Han had advised, Wuman was fundamentally a kind dragon and wasn’t cold-hearted enough to lock an Einroguard professor in the punishment room without question.

So Wuman first confined Professor Verdus to a small room.

Then, assigning him Professor Garcia’s work (which was originally Professor Verdus’s job), he made a proposal.

-Professor Verdus. If you faithfully complete all this work, I will definitely let you out. There will be no other punishment. Will you accept?

-Alright! I’ll work hard!

-Is that so. Thank you for understanding. There are many bad rumors about Professor Verdus, but Wuman believes in you, Professor. Aren’t people beings who can change at any time?

-Right. Right. Don’t believe rumors.

-Thank you. Then I’ll trust you with this.

Five minutes after Wuman left the small room.

Professor Verdus attempted to escape and was caught by the death knights, dragged back struggling.

-…

-It was too boring, I couldn’t help it.

-How, how can you say such things so casually… Work isn’t done for fun. It’s done with responsibility. Professor Verdus!

-I got it. I just need to do it, right.

-I really trust you with this.

And three minutes later.

Professor Verdus attempted to escape once again and was immediately caught. The knights dragged the professor back with big grins.

Wuman was shocked.

What kind of mage was this?

-Professor Verdus, couldn’t you work instead of doing that?!

-I said I would…

-I can’t believe it!

-No. Trust me. I’ll really do it this time!

-…

Wuman pretended to leave the small room while secretly hiding in the corridor corner.

Immediately, Professor Verdus turned the solitary confinement door into liquid and attempted to escape.

Wuman, who had vowed never to become someone like the Skeleton Principal.

That same Wuman finally roared in anger.

-Confiscate all his belongings and lock him in the punishment room!!!

The knights chuckled as they took Professor Verdus to the punishment room.

Everyone had expected this would happen.

When placed under much stricter and harsher surveillance than the small room, Professor Verdus finally understood that working was more efficient than escaping.

From Professor Garcia’s work (which was originally Professor Verdus’s work) to various other tasks.

Of course, escape attempts weren’t completely absent. Whenever the work became too boring and suffocating, Professor Verdus would casually approach him.

-If you help me escape, I’ll make you an item that can evade Gonadaltes’s tracking… Argh! Ahhh! Why are you hitting me!

-Haha. When else would we get another chance to retaliate against the Professor?

-Damn it. Let me hit him too! Are you guys the only ones who get to hit him!

-Should have drawn lots better then.

Of course, it wasn’t very effective.

Few people held as much resentment toward Professor Verdus as the Death Knights did.

And now.

Professor Verdus had finished his initially assigned tasks and was released. His face looked very dejected after being unable to do his own work and only doing others’ work for a while.

“I feel like my soul has hardened from doing only boring work…”

-But Professor. Processing the ledgers and accounting for the Enchantment School is originally something you should be doing.

“Professor Garcia is also a professor, isn’t she?”

-…

-You endure it. You endure it.

When an agitated knight tried to kick him, other comrades stopped him.

It would be one thing if he had attempted escape inside the punishment room, but outside they had to endure it.

Though they wanted to give him a beating…

-Just prepare for your lecture. If you half-heartedly conduct the lecture, you’ll be captured again.

“It was nice not having to give lectures when I was in the punishment room.”

Professor Verdus muttered as he pulled out a bundle of papers from his pocket.

His artifacts could remember even the volume and weight of the tiniest screws, but he couldn’t recall student lectures well without looking at paper bundles.

“【Magic Architecture and Its Materials】… What kind of lecture was this?”

-…It’s a magic architecture lecture attended by students who joined the Stonemason Club or students very interested in architecture.

One of the fields where the Empire’s mages were active was this kind of architecture.

Since magic was deeply involved in all aspects of food, clothing, and shelter, inscribing magic into buildings was also natural.

Such magic architecture didn’t use magic from just one school. Magic from various schools was used comprehensively.

Alchemy and transformation magic for materials, divination magic to check durability and earthquake resistance…

…But connecting all these things to buildings could be said to be the Enchantment School.

In that regard, it wasn’t strange at all for Professor Verdus, an Enchantment School professor, to be in charge of this lecture.

However, Professor Verdus screamed in horror. He was jumping around on all fours.

“This is Professor Knighton’s lecture!”

Professor Alpen Naiton, a former Imperial bureaucrat and senior administrator, was teaching students not only various arithmetic-related lectures but also architecture lectures like this.

In a way, it was natural.

Magic architecture wasn’t something that could be done just by a mage being good at magic alone.

One had to be able to talk with people from stonemason guilds or carpenter guilds who came for work and understand their demands, and also know how to negotiate with local nobles and bureaucrats.

If a newly built magic structure absorbed the region’s mana and damaged existing buildings, that dispute would take decades to resolve.

As such, it wasn’t strange that Professor Alpen, who was not only an excellent mage himself but also had connections with various stonemason and carpenter guilds and even had networks among bureaucrats, had been conducting this lecture.

-Yes. While you were in the punishment room, Professor Naiton submitted a petition to His Majesty the Inspector.

Of course, Professor Alpen himself didn’t find such situations very pleasant.

When there was a more excellent specialist like Professor Verdus available, yet he refused to take charge because he didn’t want to teach.

The Skeleton Principal had begged desperately saying ‘I absolutely cannot entrust it to that guy’ and got away with it, but he definitely hadn’t been convinced.

When Wuman told such Professor Alpen ‘I’m taking complaints related to Professor Verdus,’ it was natural that this lecture topic came up immediately.

“Des, despicable! I didn’t know he was such a despicable person!”

Professor Verdus squeaked and vented his anger.

That anger was also directed at himself.

He could have submitted a petition to the inspector before other professors and taken away all the lectures!

‘Where does his confidence that they’ll listen to that come from?’

‘Leave him be.’

-Professor Verdus. I dare to advise you, please don’t be rude to people from outside.

The knights who were surrounding and escorting the professor so he couldn’t escape (it looked rather strange from the outside since Professor Verdus was walking on all fours) gave advice.

This magic architecture lecture had various external parties visiting due to its nature, and as everyone knew, Professor Verdus’s specialty was making outsiders angry.

“I understand. Don’t worry.”

-…

-You endure it. You endure it.

The knights who arrived at the lecture hall sighed and opened the door.

Honestly, they felt like Professor Verdus would 100% cause trouble.

“I would try using 【Vible’s Flight Enchantment】 and 【Jarun’s Inelastic Rubber】. These are such spells…”

“Oh! That’s truly a good method. My, even without Professor Verdus present, the atmosphere is so good like this, it might be better if he continues not showing up!”

“Haha! What a joke!”

“Hahaha! It’s not a joke!”

-…

-…

The knights were shocked seeing the harmonious atmosphere inside the lecture hall.

The stonemason guild members who had been invited from outside were laughing happily.

Lee Han was helping student Yukveltire as a teaching assistant, and all the students including the two looked happy.

“It seems to be running well without me, so can’t you let me go?”

-…No. Go inside!

The knights felt sorry for the students and guests, but firmly pushed Professor Verdus into the lecture hall.

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