Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1145

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Chapter 1145

“Just how many requests have you received?”

Until now, he had heard stories of Einroguard students being sad about not being able to secure requests, but this was the first time hearing about someone being troubled by too many requests flooding in.

“Well. Dozens of cases…”

“Dozens of cases?!”

“…excluding that amount, it seems like all the remaining Einroguard requests are coming to me…”

“…”

Once again, the guild members were left speechless by an answer that exceeded their expectations.

They hadn’t expected the scale to be this beyond imagination.

“I didn’t know it would be to that extent. Well, if you’re talented enough to beat up Count Bueuyong, it would be strange if requests didn’t come.”

“Pardon?”

“Ah. That was a slip of the tongue. I was talking about Pocketknife Fortress. If you’re talented enough to help design Pocketknife Fortress as a first-year, it would be strange if requests didn’t come.”

“…”

Lee Han felt uncomfortable but didn’t bother pointing it out and let it pass.

Meanwhile, Yukveltire arrived last. This Azure Dragon Tower senior revealed faint anger in her voice.

“Running away alone…!”

“Ah. I’m sorry. I didn’t have a chance to give a signal. Are you perhaps angry?”

“It’s not because of such irrational emotions, but your reckless actions as a junior who didn’t follow proper procedures…”

The capital stonemason guild members coughed lightly. Unlike Professor Verdus, Yukveltire, who had at least memorized what social etiquette was, stopped her scolding.

“What were you discussing?”

“We were asking if you’re interested in participating as a consultant for a magical building construction request.”

“!”

Yukveltire was greatly surprised by the proposal.

To receive such a request proposal when he was only a second-year.

Those other stupid third and fourth-year juniors from the Enchantment School should look at this Wardanaz family junior and learn from him.

“But I declined.”

“Why?!”

“As I mentioned before, my request list right now…”

Lee Han pulled out a scroll from his pocket. Only then did Yukveltire’s memory return.

“I see. You declined the proposal because of those requests.”

A request proposal that came to Yukveltire, who was already famous, and to a junior who was building up new fame at a frightening speed.

Naturally, Lee Han had declined for now. When he couldn’t even gauge how his time would work out, how could he accept it?

“Yes. But I just declined for now, so if the situation looks good later and you’re okay with it…”

“Right. Did we agree that you’d accept the proposal once you finish the requests?”

“No. I didn’t say anything like that.”

Lee Han was dumbfounded by his senior’s statement that manipulated the past.

What kind of Verdus-like person is this?

“I think we did…”

Whatever the senior muttered, Lee Han ignored it and said what he wanted to say.

“More importantly, is this request really that good?”

“It’s probably on that side. Being able to participate in such a request as a second-year is a rare opportunity.”

Honing one’s magical skills was basic, and one could build many connections and fame during the work process.

A completed building doesn’t easily disappear.

If luck followed, this building would continue to serve as evidence proving the mage’s skills, like a monument praising a king’s achievements.

And such evidence naturally leads to invitations from other excellent magical craftsmen and guilds, so objectively, it was right to seize such an opportunity when it came during the second year.

“How about stopping helping Diret and taking the request?”

“…”

Lee Han threw the coldest and most contemptuous look he had shown today at his senior.

Yukveltire panicked and explained.

“This is what Diret said…”

This wasn’t something she had thought of, but something Diret often said.

He had continuously expounded his unwanted theory that ‘when a good request comes to a junior, they should temporarily stop helping him (and Yukveltire’s work too) and focus on the request.’

So it had slipped out unconsciously!

“Are you passing the buck just because Senior Diret isn’t here? Really, how can a person… Even Professor Verdus doesn’t do that.”

“…Call Diret! Right now!”

‘As expected of someone who’s a royal like Gainando, making Gainando-like unreasonable demands.’

To make such unreasonable demands by taking advantage of Diret’s absence.

Lee Han shook his head disapprovingly.

Seeing the two students seemingly arguing, the capital stonemason guild members hurriedly intervened.

“Don’t argue over a request.”

“We’re not arguing over a request… Well. Never mind.”

“It’s our fault for not knowing that Student Wardanaz would receive so many good proposals. Well, we should have noticed when we heard that the Daylily Magic Tower entrusted you with a spirit artifact request.”

The stonemason guild members regretted among themselves, ‘Why didn’t we notice earlier?’

When they heard that the Daylily Magic Tower had entrusted a spirit artifact request to a second-year student, they thought it might be a wrongly spread rumor, but hearing it directly made sense.

“That’s… well… no.”

Lee Han tried to speak again but gave up.

It seemed like he was giving up on saying things more often today.

“How about this? Building the magical structure inside Einroguard.”

“!”

The capital stonemason guild members brought up a radical proposal that neither student had expected.

The job they were currently handling was a medium-sized magical lighthouse to be installed near rapids.

When thinking of lighthouses, one might easily think of just lights, but when magic was involved, they needed to have quite complex functions.

Especially magical lighthouses installed near rapids had to control the madly swirling currents, calm the angry water, river, and sea spirits caused by this, while simultaneously helping ships passing through the area.

To this extent, it was a magical building with considerable difficulty that even Professor Verdus would find secretly interesting.

Anyway, this magical building request was still in a nearly blank state. They hadn’t secured workers or mages, and the design was incomplete, so changing the location flexibly wouldn’t be much of a problem.

Moving the building after completion wasn’t particularly difficult either…

“Would that really be okay?”

“Of course. Student Wardanaz. If it were an unreasonable proposal, we wouldn’t have brought it up in the first place. The Capital Stonemason Guild is absolutely not a spineless good person who would take losses to forcibly entrust work to incapable people.”

Lee Han, who had been grateful, suddenly felt puzzled.

“But if this was possible, why have I never seen such requests being carried out in Einroguard until now? Perhaps they were conducted elsewhere, not near the main building?”

“That’s part of it, but we just don’t do it inside Einroguard because of Professor Verdus.”

One of the stonemason guild members answered coldly.

If they tried to build a structure while looking at Professor Verdus, anger and hatred would create mistakes that wouldn’t have existed otherwise.

“Hey! How can you say such things!”

“We need to know what we need to know. And Student Wardanaz seems to know everything too.”

“…Anyway, thank you.”

Tap tap-

When Yukveltire tapped his shoulder again, Lee Han turned his head.

“Senior. I told you to call Senior Diret later. I already said I understood.”

“…”

Yukveltire completely canceled her previous thought that this junior was somewhat similar to Diret.

This junior would give her emotions that Diret could never provide.

Namely, anger.

With her fingertips trembling faintly, Yukveltire spoke calmly. Still, she had to say what she intended to say.

“It’s probably impossible.”

“Pardon? The request?”

Yukveltire nodded.

While the capital stonemason guild members and the Wardanaz family junior hadn’t noticed, Yukveltire, being a fifth-year student, could see the hidden blind spot in this request.

That was the required manpower.

There weren’t as many people willing to come inside Einroguard to work as one might think. Whether mages or stonemasons, quite a few people had irrational fears about Einroguard.

‘It doesn’t seem particularly irrational though.’

Lee Han thought it was rather reasonable instead.

And one more thing.

“If fewer people come from outside, couldn’t we just use people from inside?”

There was no place with as high a density of mages as Einroguard. If it was the expertise that stonemasons possessed, there was also a stonemason club.

“You could think that way. But that’s where the mistake lies.”

“Why is that?”

Lee Han couldn’t understand.

Participating in such work would be a good opportunity for other students as well as the stonemason club.

It was a commission that offered both fame and rewards, so why would they refuse it?

“Probably because the difficulty of the commission is high, and there are few students confident in their abilities. Even when I proposed it before, they refused.”

“Weren’t they all busy with other things at that time?”

“No. It wasn’t just one or two people.”

Yukveltire answered firmly.

It might be different if it were just one or two people, but since everyone who received the proposal firmly refused, it wasn’t a coincidence.

Still, Lee Han couldn’t accept it and tilted his head in confusion.

‘I don’t understand. Why would they refuse?’

Lee Han first sent paper birds to ask the intentions of the stonemason club seniors whose faces he knew.

And also to the seniors who participated in this lecture, seniors from the Divination Magic Guild, or even seniors from other schools who might be interested.

To Wardanaz

Thank you for the good commission. I’m embarrassed that instead of bringing such a commission to my junior, I’m receiving a proposal in reverse, but since I’ve received the proposal, I’ll do my best to help.

Anfargon

To Wardanaz

The stonemason guild members who came to today’s lecture proposed this?! That’s really amazing, Wardanaz! To think you’d take on a construction commission within the Einroguard estate. Actually, some crazy senior proposed it last year, but everyone talked them out of it and refused. Anyway, thanks for letting me participate! It’s rewarding to have such a good junior!

Marcang

…

…

Lee Han’s face hardened at the quickly returning replies.

Seeing this, Yukveltire answered as if she had expected it.

“I guess they all refused.”

“…Uh, no. There are more people willing to participate than I thought.”

“How many are there? How many have refused so far?”

“Ze…”

“Ten people?”

“Zero people.”

“…”

Yukveltire fell into confusion.

How?!

Lee Han, who realized the truth, made eye contact with the capital stonemason guild members.

The guild members, experienced in such construction work, nodded with faces that showed they had already guessed what the situation was.

In construction work like this, not only the mage’s magical ability was important, but their character was also crucial.

You could tell just by looking at someone like Professor Verdus. No matter how excellent their magic, they were definitely not a mage who could manage dozens of people.

“I don’t understand. The difference between this year and last year…”

“Probably last year the climate wasn’t good, the light of the guest stars was dim, and even the king of lightning spirits was imprisoned.”

Lee Han just spouted random nonsense. Yukveltire became even more confused.

“Is this some divination magic I don’t know? It’s fortune-telling I’ve never heard of…”

“It’s not your main specialty, senior. More importantly, senior. What role did senior Anfargon take on during the previous commission?”

As a fellow member of the Divination Magic Guild and currently a fourth-year student, Anfargon was one of the more sociable students within the school.

If Yukveltire had proceeded with the commission, Anfargon would probably have taken on quite an important role.

“Anfargon refused. I told you. Everyone refused.”

“…Ah.”

Lee Han read the letter again.

Come to think of it, Anfargon hadn’t written anything about taking on a role last year.

Though he also hadn’t written that he didn’t take on a role…

‘Wouldn’t it be better for the Divination Magic Guild to just drop the word “guild” from its name?’

With this level of unity, rather than a guild, it seemed more like a gathering, or even “gathering” seemed too generous a title.

They should change it to something like 【List of Divination Mages】 or 【Roster of Divination Mages】…

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