Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1148

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Chapter 1148

The two fell silent for a moment.

Who would have thought that this caster had personally written such a ruthlessly cold section about his junior.

Fortunately, Yukveltire hadn’t heard the conversation just now.

“If you wrote it yourself, then it’s fine.”

“Right. Wardanaz, you’re the type who enjoys the thrill of controlling instability and danger.”

“When did I ever say such… I did say that, didn’t I.”

Sigunteng was very interested in high-power, high-output disposable artifacts, and highly evaluated Lee Han who had chosen such disposable artifacts as his research topic.

Of course, Lee Han hadn’t made them because of such characteristics, but rather to sell disposable artifacts at low margins and high volumes…

…but he couldn’t reveal the truth in front of his senior, so he nodded and acknowledged it.

-I enjoy such dangers. I feel my magic boiling when I control such instability and danger.

-I knew it would be like that. You crazy bastard!

‘His memory is uselessly good.’

If it had been Gainando, he would have forgotten, but unfortunately these were Enchantment School seniors who didn’t forget such things.

“Impressive.”

Anfargon muttered.

He had been missing it due to his junior’s insane boldness, but even excluding that, this design was sufficiently impressive.

To compress and design everything from rapid current mitigation magic to magic that guides ships coming and going nearby.

If his junior hadn’t revealed it, he would have thought Yukveltire had designed it, it was so skillful.

‘This is 【Bieble’s Mana Emission Enchantment】, and this is 【Bieble’s Mana Curvature Enchantment】…’

As Anfargon concentrated and read through it, he realized one fact.

This junior had learned more of the exclusive magic that Professor Verdus had personally created than expected.

In fact, despite bearing the name of the Enchantment School, the students under it hadn’t learned much from Professor Verdus.

After all, the admission requirement for Einroguard’s Enchantment School was ‘capable of self-study’ from the beginning.

Without the genius to learn the magic you wanted through self-study, you couldn’t survive within this school.

Therefore, the magical composition of the school’s students was closer to each learning the magic they needed on their own, with no overall unity whatsoever…

…but surprisingly, this junior was using Professor Verdus’s magic more than expected.

He might have received the most instruction within the school.

Including Yukveltire, no students tried to help Professor Verdus’s work as diligently as this!

“Could it be?”

“Yes?”

As Anfargon kept muttering, Lee Han was puzzled.

He wondered if there might be something wrong with the design.

“I was thinking that Wardanaz, your enthusiastic volunteering to help Professor Verdus’s work might have resulted in such excellent enchantment magic skills. Thinking about it that way, even Professor Verdus’s outrageous instructions…”

“…What you just said, senior, is completely wrong from start to finish. What bastard spread such rumors??”

Lee Han was rarely this enraged.

He had never been enthusiastic, never volunteered, and it was absolutely not thanks to Professor Verdus.

Anfargon apologized in confusion, but a slight distance had formed between the two seniors and juniors.

* * *

‘Huh?’

The students gathered for the commission felt something was off.

The place selected for building the lighthouse was the lower reaches of the ‘River of Endless Sorrow’.

This river, which had been called by that name since students who had robbed the Principal’s storage decades ago dropped all their supplies while fleeing pursuit, had fast currents and was wide, making it a decent place to test the lighthouse.

There were mines nearby (though you had to be careful of giants appearing), and forests too (though a student who claimed to protect the forest would occasionally ambush them), making it even more advantageous for construction.

The problem was that there were more obstacles at the arrival location than expected.

“Why are there trees growing all the way here?”

“Hmph. Either the forest spirits have been activated, or a student has overstimulated the forest’s life.”

Whoosh!

A tree branch grabbed a student’s ankle and hung him upside down.

Seeing this, Falkrious nodded.

“Seeing how abnormal it is, it seems a student overstimulated it.”

“Let me down quickly!”

“Be careful not to approach the trees. I don’t know what drugs they were fed, but they’re full of wariness.”

The spreading forest wasn’t the only problem.

The terrain was twisted from some recent accident, and huge rocks were embedded everywhere, blocking the view.

-What’s going on?

-It’s the little mages! Little mages! Be careful they don’t steal the sheep!

Even giants were murmuring near the mountain, looking this way.

The students shouted in aggrieved voices.

“We’re not stealing sheep! Are we crazy enough to steal your sheep!”

“We couldn’t steal your sheep even if we wanted to! Look how big they are!”

Despite the seniors’ desperate persuasion, the giants snorted.

Mages were skilled at lying.

“Why is everyone fighting?”

Lee Han, who arrived late, was puzzled by the sight of his seniors shouting at the giants from a distance.

-They tried to steal sheep! They tried to steal sheep!

“We didn’t do it!”

“…Everyone please calm down first.”

Seeing both sides shouting as if a judge had arrived, Lee Han first calmed both parties.

Falkrious asked in a worried voice.

“Hmph. Will this be okay? It seems we chose the wrong location.”

“No. We chose it knowing all this.”

“Really? It seems difficult to build anything here.”

How were they going to build a lighthouse in this area full of rocks and attacking trees?

Lee Han looked up at the sky and shouted.

“You can do it now!”

Got it!

Suddenly the sky darkened. Something huge was blocking the sun.

It was the Black Dragon.

Wuman, an Imperial Family member and inspector who had come this semester, immediately volunteered when told he could help the students.

For this dragon, clearing trees and grinding rocks was as easy as breathing.

In just the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the site was instantly leveled. None of the obstacles that had been so numerous before could be seen.

“Thank you, Your Majesty!”

Don’t mention it!

“…”

“…”

Not only the students but even the giants looked at Lee Han with shocked eyes.

What had just happened?

-He, he really controls dragons at will like the rumors say!

“Senior. These false rumors again…”

Lee Han turned his head, wondering which bad senior kept spreading rumors.

This was because Wuman volunteered out of love for the students, not because Lee Han controlled him…

“We didn’t say anything though?”

“??”

Surprisingly, it was the giants who had just shouted.

When their eyes met, the giants quickly hid themselves. It wasn’t much use given their enormous size.

“No. What bastard is spreading rumors even to the giants?!”

Lee Han was shocked.

He could understand rumors spreading to his seniors.

Of course, Lee Han had never controlled Wuman, but from the outside, such misunderstandings were possible.

Since there were many upperclassmen with corrupt and filthy hearts at Einroguard, it was unavoidable.

But how do the giants in the mountains know about that?

-I, I heard it from Ikurusha.

As befitting the smartest and wisest among the mountain range giants, this giant was well-versed in rumors within Einroguard.

Lee Han asked again as if finding it hard to believe.

“Ikurusha must have heard it from someone too.”

-Ah, I think he probably heard it from the Yaca Old Man.

‘This is why yachas are…!’

Lee Han felt like he was starting to hold a grudge against the entire yaca race.

Starting with the Yachaowang and now the yaca elder, why are they all like this?

Falkrious, who had been listening from the side, interjected with a curious voice.

“Who did that yaca hear it from?”

-Probably from the Archmage…? Since they’re close…

“…”

“…”

While there might be many people in Einroguard’s territory who could be called an archmage, there was only one person who actually was called that.

All the students fell silent. They felt unnecessarily sorry for their junior.

“…Never mind. Let’s all get to work. I was planning to ask the giants for help anyway.”

One of the reasons Lee Han chose this location was precisely because it was close to the mountain range giants.

Powerful strength that even decent magic couldn’t imitate.

If this strength helped them, they could drastically shorten the time period.

-Huh? Us?

Since they had a friendship with Lee Han but no friendship with the other young mages, the giants showed a negative reaction.

What if they helped and the sheep got stolen?

“I’ll guarantee the safety of the sheep. And if you help, I’ll make food…”

-You’ll make food!?

The giants’ eyes sparkled.

This mage from the Wardanaz Family had already been boasting skills worthy of receiving the title of supreme chef from the giants since last year (though he didn’t know it himself).

That spicy, salty, and intense flavor was a mysterious taste that even the finest giant chefs had failed to recreate.

“…I was going to do that, but thinking about it, I don’t want to anymore. Just help us.”

-Why?!

The giants were flustered.

He definitely seemed like he was going to cook, so why did he change his mind?!

* * *

Working within Einroguard’s territory meant having to face all sorts of unexpected dangers.

Lee Han had anticipated and prepared for threats from giants and Ilendil, but he made one mistake.

That was the evil danger coming up the river.

-♪♪♪♪!!!

-♩♩♩♩♩!!!!

Few things annoyed sirens as much as construction work conducted in rivers or seas.

All sorts of pollution like noise and mud directly affected them.

The sirens gathered here today intended to deliver one lesson to Einroguard’s mages.

Don’t build buildings by the riverside!

Taking advantage of the darkness of night, the sirens swiftly raced through the water. Despite breaking through the current head-on, their speed didn’t decrease at all.

They truly lived up to being a race that prided itself on having spirits as ancestors.

The siren Parthenope wielded her dagger. It was a dagger she had received as payment from an Einroguard professor before, with the effect of absorbing and cutting through magic.

If the students had installed magic in preparation for attacks from the river…

…However, there was no reaction from the dagger. Several sirens burst into snickers.

It roughly meant that unlike the old students, the current students were lazy and careless.

Parthenope thought so too.

To conduct such construction without installing even a single magic spell – did they have no wisdom inherited from their ancestors?

Grrrrrr-

-?!

At the sound of something rumbling the ground, the sirens in the water were startled.

Parthenope cautiously poked her head out to check and was shocked to see giants snoring.

Though giants and sirens hadn’t gotten along since ancient times, sirens still knew that it wasn’t common for giants to help students with their work.

Why on earth were the giants here?

Though confused, Parthenope sent another signal. Now was the time to keep moving.

-♪♪♩…

The destination was visible in the distance. Their speed was so fast that the lighthouse had already taken almost complete shape.

As the sirens prepared to flood the river, Parthenope poked her head out for a final check.

And she made eye contact with Lee Han.

“…”

-…

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