Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1151

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Chapter 1151

Since he could just receive it and then go down to the underground anyway.

“To give something like this to me. What’s the reason?”

Having regained his composure, Jarun looked at his junior with eyes full of wariness again.

Lee Han answered calmly.

“Aren’t you a fourth year student, Senior?”

“!”

Jarun was greatly surprised.

To think his junior would give him such an artifact for just that reason.

It was a completely unexpected reason.

“The other Transformation Magic School seniors were worried about you. They kept saying things like you might not graduate, or that you’d become a wanderer of Einroguard appearing in the underground.”

“Wait. I’m planning to graduate…”

“Of course I didn’t agree with them. No matter what, there’s no way Senior Jarun wouldn’t graduate. You’re not Gainando after all.”

Lee Han spoke with trust.

Of course, this dwarf senior was a very eccentric and difficult person.

But apart from that, no one could deny his magical skills.

Magic like continuously transforming connected dimensions to scrape out gold wasn’t something one could easily attempt.

For such a senior to fail at graduation – did that even make sense?

‘The seniors are really making a big fuss over nothing.’

Lee Han thought the other Transformation Magic School seniors were just overreacting.

No matter how outstanding Lee Han was as a junior, there were limits to his imagination.

A person couldn’t imagine the abyss of fourth year until they became a fourth year themselves.

There was no way someone would really choose to give up on graduation and become a ghost wandering the school…

“…Ah, no. Graduation isn’t necessarily essential, is it?”

Jarun found himself arguing back without realizing it.

If it had been any other junior, he wouldn’t have cared what they babbled about in front of him and would have just gone underground, but strangely, the junior before him made him feel inexplicably emotional and compelled to argue back.

What was so important about graduating from Einroguard anyway?

What mattered was continuing to walk the path of magic he was pursuing.

“Graduation isn’t essential, that’s true. But becoming a wanderer of Einroguard roaming the underground is a bit…”

“…”

As expected of the year’s top student, his junior had sharp logic.

It would be one thing to drop out of Einroguard midway, but to become a ghost wandering the grounds because you lack confidence to pass graduation – what kind of foolishness would that be?

That wouldn’t be the path of magic but a muddy swamp of magic.

“You’d have to avoid the Death Knights’ eyes, avoid the professors’ eyes, avoid the underclassmen’s eyes, and you couldn’t receive support or take commissions. What a waste that would be.”

Jarun, a dwarf from the west who usually had nothing to do with conversation, couldn’t argue back.

He just kicked a stone in front of him to send it flying.

Lee Han, who had been making his argument, suddenly felt something was off and asked.

“Senior. Were you really thinking of giving up on graduation and running away?”

“Wha… What are you talking about! You bastard! What do you take me for!”

“I knew it would be like that.”

Lee Han nodded as if he had expected as much.

‘I shouldn’t trust what Senior Hormashi says anymore.’

Perhaps because various rare animals including the griffin liked only Lee Han, he could feel this senior grumbling constantly.

“Anyway, I hope this helps. Oh, and if Professor Verdus finds out, this wasn’t from me.”

After finishing his last words efficiently, his junior quickly left.

Jarun, who had been standing there dazed, scratched his head and thought.

‘…I should prepare something and submit it even now…’

It absolutely wasn’t because of that annoying junior.

* * *

Giselle from the Moradi family checked the blade of her beloved sword Ice Flower and delicately inspected its magic.

She could feel the northern cold pulsing pleasantly from the blade to her hand. Giselle smiled faintly. Few things made her as happy as her sword.

It was quiet and loyal, and didn’t make unnecessary mistakes either.

“Moradi. Did your friends not cause any accidents today?”

A passing senior from the same tower, Palga of the Ukim Family, asked.

This senior, who was a member of the dueling club, knew well how much Giselle suffered among her fellow second years.

“Yes.”

“That’s good.”

After Palga passed by, another senior, Ivanna, appeared.

“Moradi. Your friends didn’t summon monsters from other dimensions like last time today, did they?”

“…Yes. Please forget about that.”

“Haha. I’ve forgotten about it. But your friends should probably remember it. That’s the third time they’ve made the same mistake.”

“…”

Giselle swallowed her humiliation.

At times like this, she couldn’t help but compare the White Tiger Tower with students from other towers.

Of course, other towers would have their own troubles.

Just as most incidents within the White Tiger Tower didn’t leak outside, surely other towers were causing similar accidents…

‘Ugh. But the Blue Dragon Tower probably isn’t like this.’

No matter how much she thought about it, the thought that Blue Dragon Tower students would somehow be sincere and diligent wouldn’t leave her mind.

Giselle frowned.

She felt that the current situation was very different from what she had expected before entering the school.

She had planned to get both White Tiger Tower students and students from other towers under her control to use as stepping stones for the future…

…but the current situation was somewhat different. Not just students from other towers, but even White Tiger Tower students.

Wasn’t this more of a caretaker role than a cold ruler?

While she wasn’t particularly displeased or dissatisfied with the current situation, she kept feeling like she had been deceived somehow.

‘It seems like I got swept up in the atmosphere because that Wardanaz guy unnecessarily takes care of everyone regardless of tower.’

If he had acted that way with this in mind, he would truly be a terrifying strategist.

‘…No. That’s ridiculous.’

Giselle came to her senses.

People had their limits.

To take care of that prince to such an extent just to weaken Giselle’s dominance really made no sense.

That was just his personality.

“Moradi. What do you think of this coat for the north?”

“The material is fine, but you should remove the metal decorations. It’ll be troublesome if they touch your skin.”

“I see. Thanks.”

His classmate friend, Bartrek of the Bak family, bowed and passed by. Giselle, who nodded back, felt something was off.

‘Why did he ask about the north?’

Of course, Einroguard did have regions with cold and harsh environments similar to the northern part of the empire.

While there weren’t starving thieves, starving students appeared instead, so it could be considered roughly similar.

But when going to such places, they would just say they were going to the glacier region or the blizzard zone, not specifically ask about the northern empire.

What was this about?

“Moradi. Do you think the family knights would like this 【Knight’s Pleasure】 liquor?”

“…If it’s strong liquor, they all like it…”

“Great!”

This time, Angrago of the Alpha family walked by, rattling bottles in a crate. ‘Thunderstep’ was carved on the side of the crate.

Giselle felt even more uneasy.

Knights who used their bodies as staffs to train their mana were bound to sense danger even without prophecy magic.

Right now, Giselle was definitely sensing danger.

“Moradi. About this northern commission, the Family Head said it’s fine to bring anyone, but is it really okay for all of us to go like this?”

The last was Durgyu of the Choi family.

At this question from one of the few sane people among the White Tiger Tower second years, Giselle was horrified.

“What northern commission? And what Family Head?”

“Huh? You know, the commission that the Moradi Family Head invited us to. The one you and Lee Han from Moradi received…”

“…I never said I was taking anyone along? What are you talking about?”

If it weren’t for the Family Head’s orders, Giselle wouldn’t have participated either.

Considering what Wardanaz had done in the family territory last year, there was absolutely nothing good about going together this year.

Wasn’t it Wardanaz who had advised the Family Head that ‘to improve the apprentice knights’ skills, they should be treated like Einroguard students’?

Thinking about how much the knights in the territory had suffered because of that advice, honestly, even if it was Wardanaz, she wanted to tell him not to come.

If it was discovered that he had given that advice, assassins who somehow knew knight swordsmanship would keep visiting at night…

‘But what the hell are these bastards talking about?!’

One person was already a headache, so why were the White Tiger Tower students coming as a group?!

“…Wait, wasn’t participation free?”

Durgyu said with a very flustered expression.

Surely someone had exchanged conversations like ‘Moradi got a family commission and is going out’ ‘Really?’ ‘I heard participation is free’ ‘Oh, I should go out too’.

“Is this some street ball game?! Where anyone can participate?! Of course not! This is Wardanaz’s commission! I’m just the guide!”

“Gasp.”

It was truly rare to see Durgyu so flustered that he made such a sound.

The other friends who heard this were also shocked and whispered among themselves.

“But, but they definitely said participation was free? Which bastard…?”

“Isn’t it Angrago?”

“No, you crazy bastard! Bartrek is suspicious!”

“Rowena is sitting quietly, so she’s not the culprit, right?”

“I wasn’t even participating from the beginning! I had no intention of going out!”

The White Tiger Tower students put their heads together and tried to find the source of the rumor.

But they couldn’t find the culprit. Eventually, the White Tiger Tower students concluded it was ‘a hallucination created by everyone’s collective unconscious desire to go outside’.

“Indeed. What a mysterious thing. It’s like magic.”

“Shh. Shut up. Moradi is about to draw her sword.”

“…”

The White Tiger Tower students quickly shut their mouths. Giselle asked in a cold voice.

“The fact that you prepared like this means you’ve already finished reporting to the Professor, right.”

“…Yeah…”

“If you want to persuade someone, tell Wardanaz directly yourselves.”

“Mo, Moradi! Plea…”

“Please what?”

“…Could you at least come with us and watch our backs?”

Reading the mood, the White Tiger Tower students quickly changed their words.

Durgyu covered his face with both hands, embarrassed by his friends.

* * *

“What?! Everyone’s coming together?!”

Lee Han was shocked.

Angrago said dejectedly.

“Actually, I prepared gifts to give to the knights when visiting the territory this time. Couldn’t something work out?”

“No…”

Lee Han looked very bewildered as he glanced at Giselle standing blankly behind them.

Giselle spoke with her eyes.

‘Tell them to get lost.’

“…Moradi. Wait a moment.”

Feeling that eye contact wouldn’t solve this, Lee Han called his friend aside.

“I’m telling you in advance, I absolutely never called them. It’s hard enough having one person go to the territory, let alone several.”

“No. Going isn’t the problem… Um… Well… Ah. It can’t be helped. Moradi. Since it’s come to this, let me be honest. Actually, I had something else I wanted to do while going out on this commission. I prepared for that too.”

“?”

Giselle was puzzled.

She wondered if there was something that would make Wardanaz say that much.

If it were another student, she might have thought they wanted to go to a ball or social gathering, but as everyone knew, Wardanaz was the person most distant from such things.

‘Smuggling? That’s too easy for Wardanaz. Is he trying to buy some evil forbidden magic book?’

“What were you trying to do?”

“I was going to subjugate some worshippers of evil gods. That’s why I invited Senior Catten too.”

“…”

No matter how much time she was given, it was an answer she never would have guessed.

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