Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1142

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Chapter 1142

“…”

“…”

For a moment, Lee Han thought Professor Garcia had cast a time-stop spell. Suddenly, everyone in the lecture hall had frozen in place.

But that wasn’t it. The frozen people were staring intently at the entrance of the lecture hall.

While sensing an ominous future, Lee Han turned his gaze. And he was shocked.

“Professor Verdus!”

“Indeed. I suppose I can leave now.”

Yukveltire reacted immediately. Lee Han glared at this 5th year senior with the desire to punch him.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

“Now that the professor has been released, I should be free too, right?”

“If you’re going to talk about freedom, you shouldn’t have entered the Transformation Magic School. No, you shouldn’t have entered Einroguard at all. Since you’ve entered, there’s no such thing as freedom, so stay put.”

“What kind of unreasonable…”

Yukveltire tried to argue back, but his junior wouldn’t listen.

The stonemason guild members from outside were pointing at Professor Verdus in bewilderment.

“Why is Professor Verdus here now…”

“There are circumstances to that.”

“And why is he crawling around on all fours?”

“…There are circumstances to that as well. Actually, that’s Professor Verdus’s way of showing remorse.”

“Professor Verdus is?!”

The stonemason guild members were more surprised by the fact that Professor Verdus was trying to apologize than by him crawling on all fours.

Seeing this, Yukveltire showed a hint of regret.

He didn’t have enough desire to show off to boast in front of people who weren’t on his level, but defeating Professor Verdus was an exception. He wanted to tell everyone he met about it.

‘I was the one who brought him to his knees.’

“How much damage has the professor caused you all this time? And how rudely has he behaved?”

“Thinking about it, I still want to throw a hammer at his face. Honestly, I considered putting a bounty on that bastard every night.”

When the stonemason guild members, who had been laughing cheerfully just moments before, spoke seriously, Lee Han flinched slightly.

Since they were all large and trained from their work, their presence was quite intimidating.

“…Even if this apology can’t repay even one ten-thousandth of it, I would be grateful if you could understand it as sincerity.”

“Honestly, I’m surprised and can’t believe it… but it doesn’t feel too bad. To think that Professor Verdus might change…”

Lee Han and the stonemason guild members talked while leaving Professor Verdus, who was crouched on all fours at the doorway, alone.

Lee Han quickly whispered to his senior.

“Senior Yukveltire. Please stop the professor from saying anything unnecessary for now.”

“Got it.”

Yukveltire nodded surprisingly readily.

The only order this 5th year senior would gladly follow was the order to attack Professor Verdus.

“…You’re trying to attack me!”

Professor Verdus, being an excellent mage, noticed his disciple’s hostile intent as he approached.

The artifact in his hand was the 【Silent Practitioner’s Shackle】, a powerful artifact that would seal the tongue and vocal cords once attached.

Few things were as troublesome to a mage as such an artifact.

Although most of his artifacts had been confiscated during his time in the punishment room, Professor Verdus tried to summon an artifact from thin air in desperation.

Clank!

Right then, the Death Knights grabbed Professor Verdus’s arms and blocked his movement.

-Attach it.

“Mmph! Mmmph!”

With the knights’ help, Yukveltire easily attached the artifact. Once the gag was in place, Professor Verdus struggled as if frustrated.

-Calm down, Professor. You’ll have to lecture anyway, so we’ll remove it. Just stay still while the successor explains the situation.

“Mmmmmph!”

-We should have put this on you when you were in the punishment room.

Thanks to the knights’ help buying him time, Lee Han breathed a sigh of relief.

At least the situation regarding Professor Verdus’s sudden appearance seemed to be handled somehow.

“Professor. Since those people seem to have forgiven you, please remove the artifact now and proceed with the lecture.”

Lee Han spoke quickly as the stonemason guild members stepped back.

Professor Verdus, resigned, nodded his head.

“Mmmph.”

-Wait. Don’t remove it.

-Why? Of course, I’d like to keep that thing on him too…

-You don’t think I’d stop you for such a reason, do you? Well, there is a little bit of that reason, but first we need to know what was covered in the lecture so far.

The knights didn’t trust Professor Verdus at all.

Although he had said with his own mouth that he would proceed with the lecture, no one could know if it would actually be in the form of a proper lecture.

Once released, he might make the atmosphere cold by saying something like ‘Figure out how to build a structure and bring it to me.’

At minimum, they needed to know what kind of lecture Yukveltire and Lee Han had been conducting.

-Indeed, that’s right. How were you teaching?

“It wasn’t me but my senior who was giving the lecture.”

-Right, right. Let’s skip the minor details.

The knights made gestures as if they knew everything and wanted to move on.

It wasn’t the first or second time they’d seen this successor talk like that!

‘For some reason, I want to punch them.’

Perhaps because of the lingering irritation from Senior Yukveltire earlier, the Death Knights looked strangely annoying.

Lee Han suppressed his unpleasant emotions and opened his mouth.

“So, how this 【Magical Architecture and Its Materials】 lecture started was…”

* * *

Yukveltire, who had been substituting for Professor Verdus’s lecture, violently resisted the newly added lecture.

“I absolutely cannot agree to this. I’ll complain to the Principal.”

“The real power currently lies with His Majesty the Inspector.”

“Then I’ll complain to the Inspector. You, Wardanaz Family junior, help me too.”

“How could I possibly complain to His Majesty the Inspector? His Majesty the Inspector is a tremendous tyrant and an evil dragon. If I say even one wrong word in front of him, I’ll be devoured.”

At Lee Han’s words, Yukveltire showed puzzlement.

It was quite different from the information he had heard.

“He didn’t seem to have that kind of personality. He has a good reputation even among the Imperial Family, and when I saw him at the banquet hall…”

“That’s all cunning deception.”

“I heard that you, Wardanaz Family junior, have great influence over the Inspector. How is that possible?”

“That’s also a misunderstanding. I’m just being dragged around and threatened. I’m only doing as I’m told.”

Lee Han lied without changing his expression.

It didn’t seem like Yukveltire would meet with the Inspector separately anyway.

“But perhaps you, senior, unlike me, might be able to persuade that evil and powerful tyrant and dragon. Would you assist me instead?”

Yukveltire immediately expressed his refusal.

“I refuse. I absolutely cannot accept that. My workload has already increased unnecessarily because of the Inspector…”

The evil spirits recently appearing in the Nightmare Echo Forest were a good example.

Originally, this wasn’t something 5th year students should handle at all.

Only strange friends like Diret would step forward out of unnecessary worry for underclassmen, but it had nothing to do with Yukveltire when suddenly a letter arrived from the Inspector.

And it was a letter with instructions specifically naming Yukveltire.

“Cough, cough.”

Suddenly, Diret, who was nearby, started coughing as if something had gone down the wrong way.

“Are you alright, senior? Here, have some cocoa.”

Lee Han took the cocoa cup that was in front of Yukveltire and handed it to Diret.

“Th-thank you. Um…”

“?”

“…It’s nothing.”

Diret was about to say something but gave up.

How could he say that his junior was arbitrarily using the inspector’s power?

If Yukveltire and his junior were trying to use each other, Diret had no choice but to side with the latter.

Especially if he was in a position of receiving help as a senior.

“As expected, it seems Senior Yukveltire is coughing because the environment in his magic laboratory isn’t good. Wouldn’t it be better for Senior Diret to go back and do his own research?”

“What nonsense are you talking about? This is the first time I’m hearing that the environment isn’t good. Tell me exactly where it’s not good with coordinates. If you’re even slightly wrong, it’s invalid.”

“I’ll finish this much before leaving, so you two stop fighting…”

Diret stopped them both. Lee Han looked at his senior with displeased eyes.

To think he would come help when Lee Han had distributed the work using Professor Mortum and Senior Yukveltire!

But some personalities were unavoidable. Lee Han gave up and opened his mouth.

“Anyway, Senior, please go prepare for your lecture. I’ll help you.”

Normally he wouldn’t have cared, but since he had recently abused the inspector’s authority to dump various tasks and lectures on this senior, Lee Han felt some responsibility.

The other seniors from the Buyeo Magic School would never help even if the sky fell…

“Right. Good thinking.”

Yukveltire nodded as if it were natural.

Lee Han cursed inwardly at that hateful attitude of giving nothing while taking.

‘I shouldn’t have offered to help. I should have just thrown the lecture at him.’

“Wait. Where did the cocoa go?”

“What cocoa are you talking about?”

“The cocoa you made for me, junior from the Wardanaz Family. I haven’t taken a single sip yet because I was going to drink it after finishing work.”

“Aren’t you mistaken?”

“There’s no way I’d be mistaken about something like that…”

“That’s not what’s important right now. Let’s go quickly. If the lecture preparation isn’t done properly, His Majesty the Inspector will burn and devour you.”

* * *

-The cocoa looks delicious.

“Do you knights also drink cocoa?”

-We can barely taste sweetness, but we can feel the mana. As you know, when the successor brews it…

-Ah. Don’t talk about useless things. So you helped Student Yukveltire prepare for the lecture? You’re truly kind.

Since Lee Han had cut out the detailed circumstances, the knights could only admire.

“Mmph?”

-What’s he saying?

“He’s probably asking why I helped when it wasn’t even my business.”

“Mmph mmph!”

Professor Verdus nodded brightly, indicating that was correct. The knights looked at him with contempt and disgust.

“Leave him be. Anyway, I went to Professor Knighton…”

* * *

“If Professor Verdus had come, I would have chased him away, but I can’t treat you gentlemen the same way. Here are the lecture materials I’ve used so far.”

“Thank you, Professor.”

“According to custom, people from the capital’s stonemason guild should come. They’re people who like practical things in many ways, so it would be good to let them discuss freely with the students in a relaxed atmosphere. But…”

“Yes?”

“…Why is Student Wardanaz helping with lecture preparation?”

“Haha. He’s my junior.”

“…?”

The old professor tilted his head.

By that logic, Yukveltire had dozens of juniors, but he had never heard of any of them helping with lecture preparation.

“Anyway, please take good care of it. They’re people who once had a building collapse because of Professor Verdus, so be especially careful when dealing with them.”

“…”

“I understand.”

Lee Han looked at his senior with an incredulous expression.

To think it was even a famous incident!

‘I’m already starting to not want to meet them.’

However, the reaction of the stonemason guild members from the capital was completely different from Lee Han’s expectations.

The first thing they said in a rough voice when they first met was as follows:

“Which mage beat up Count Bueuyong?”

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