Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1154

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Chapter 1154

Professor Kirmin had been teaching the White Tiger Tower students how to handle the aftermath in such situations when he received the call and rushed over.

However, Professor Kirmin’s reaction after hearing the explanation was somewhat different from what Professor Garcia had hoped for.

“Hmm. It might not be bad to let Wardanaz handle it once…”

“What????”

When an answer different from what she expected came out, Professor Garcia jumped up.

“Professor! No matter how angry student Lee Han was, shouldn’t he have calmed down quite a bit by now? I think it’s time to show some restraint!”

Professor Garcia desperately burned with intensity in her eyes, trying to convey her intentions to the other person.

When bones screamed from her grabbed shoulder, Professor Kirmin quickly whispered.

“Professor Kim. It hurts.”

“Ah. I’m sorry.”

Professor Kirmin rubbed his shoulder gently and said.

“If what’s spreading in Marheim City is really curse plague symptoms, approaching it with necromancy magic might not be bad. Wardanaz has the strongest resistance here.”

“That’s… true, but… student Lee Han is still only a 2nd year.”

“It’s rare to find a 2nd year who wouldn’t stand out even when mingling with 4th years.”

‘I brought this person for nothing.’

Professor Garcia cursed inwardly.

Clearly, when they had traveled together before, he was supposed to play the role of restraining Professor Boladi together with Professor Garcia, but now that the professor had disappeared, wasn’t he playing Professor Boladi’s role himself?

She had felt such signs since the last commission, but she was paying the price for being complacent and careless.

Imperial mages were divided into those who taught more leniently if the student was a friend’s disciple, and those who taught more strictly, and unfortunately Professor Kirmin belonged to the latter group.

“No matter how much we try to stop him, Wardanaz will consistently launch preemptive strikes against the evil ones of the cult, so there’s nothing good about trying to stop him too much.”

“Professor!”

Lee Han exclaimed in a slightly moved voice.

“Professor!”

Professor Garcia also exclaimed the same way, but her voice sounded slightly like growling.

The Death Knights behind them flinched without realizing it.

“Calm down, Professor Kim. There are several more reasons. We investigated those captured by the White Tiger Tower students, and there are rumors of a suspicious priest in Marheim City.”

Lee Han’s eyes blazed like stars. Professor Garcia exclaimed again.

“Professor…!”

Wasn’t this the level of adding fuel to the fire?

Professor Kirmin quickly finished what he wanted to say before his shoulder bone shattered.

“To distribute potions to people who need them would require considerable time and preparation, and we can’t focus only on that right now. Besides, if we did that, rumors would spread quickly too.”

“Professor. Thank you. I’ll go prepare right away.”

“Wardanaz. Wait…”

When Lee Han was about to leave, Professor Kirmin tried to stop him.

If his disciple disappeared now, he would have to face the angry Professor Garcia’s attacks alone.

However, the disciple, who was as ruthless as his master, left excitedly.

Professor Kirmin sighed.

“Professor.”

“Professor Kim. You must acknowledge it. Wardanaz is now a mage who deserves this level of autonomy.”

“…That’s true.”

Professor Garcia sighed.

Since her disciple’s growth was so rapid, there were times when she couldn’t adapt from her position of watching him most closely.

Perhaps Professor Kirmin, who had watched from a bit of distance, was treating him objectively and appropriately.

“Thank you for understanding, Professor Kim.”

“By the way. Don’t come to the next commission, Professor. Professor Bagrek isn’t here either, so there’s no particular reason for you to come.”

“…”

Faced with Professor Garcia showing her old temperament, Professor Kirmin had no choice but to remain quietly silent.

He would have to persuade her again once her anger cooled down!

‘Hang in there, Wardanaz.’

What he had just said to Professor Garcia was sincere.

He objectively thought that Wardanaz deserved this level of autonomy.

And separately from that, he also wanted to see the definite growth of Wardanaz, who was his friend’s only… no, one of his few disciples.

That way, when he met his friend again later, he could scold him saying ‘Why do you act rashly without even knowing your disciple’s abilities?’

“No. Would you just go back starting from this commission?”

“…I’ll apologize, so please calm down, Professor Kim.”

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“So Wardanaz, you visit places where sick people are and treat them, while we check if there are any suspicious people around, is that it?”

“That’s right.”

“Not difficult.”

The White Tiger Tower students nodded readily after hearing the instructions.

Such a simple and easy strategy was at a level that even 1st years could handle at Einroguard.

“Hide your weapons and act as unthreatening as possible.”

“So the sick people won’t be scared.”

“No. Because I want to raise the probability of suspicious guys attacking, even by a little.”

“Uh…”

Shuddering at the completely unexpected persistence, the White Tiger Tower students moved to their respective positions.

No wonder he had professors and knights on standby behind them too…!

Giselle tilted her head.

“But Wardanaz.”

“What?”

“I’m not an expert in healing magic, but I know it’s rare to work alone usually.”

It was rare for healing school mages to work alone.

Since healing magic rapidly consumed concentration and mana, it was advantageous for several people to share that burden.

But now Wardanaz was going out alone, saying he would treat curse-type plagues.

She wondered if he had prepared antidotes in advance through alchemy, but there were no signs of that either…

What was this?

“Hehe. I have necromancy magic.”

Lee Han said with a strangely proud expression.

At this attitude of boasting about his magic, which was rarely seen from her friend, Giselle was more puzzled than angry.

‘What’s with this guy?’

“【Gonadaltes’s Decay】. You’ve actually seen it before. It’s the magic that healed the enemy’s poisoning when we fought the Frost Giants last time.”

This magic, whose history and lineage traced back to ancient times, was a truly bizarre magic that transferred the target’s pain, curses, decay, etc. to the caster himself.

When he first learned it, Lee Han had thought ‘What kind of magic is this?’, but now he was quite proud of this magic.

“…What!? The way you healed the Frost Giant was like that?!”

She had definitely thought he had analyzed the poison and created a detoxification magic, but he had healed it through such a brute force method.

Giselle was speechless. She was confused whether to be impressed or dumbfounded.

“I knew you’d be impressed. Amazing, right?”

“N-no. It is amazing… but why would you learn such magic? No, more than that, you’re going to heal everything with this magic?”

“That’s right.”

“…?”

Giselle was puzzled again.

It wasn’t that she didn’t understand Wardanaz’s words.

He had powerful magic that absorbed plagues, and he would absorb this magic and overcome it with his own resistance.

The problem was that the sick people in the city weren’t necessarily sick only from plagues.

There would be various symptoms, and among them, wouldn’t there be things that couldn’t be ignored with resistance alone?

‘Well… Wardanaz isn’t stupid either, so he must have thought it all through.’

Giselle decided to stop questioning and trust her friend.

He was especially a friend who made no mistakes in such strategic matters.

Knock knock-

“Are you there?”

“What… ma, mage?”

The door of a cramped townhouse located in the alley opened, and a sickly-looking elf poked his head out.

This elf was startled by Lee Han’s visit, who was dressed in clothing that clearly made him look like a mage.

Usually mages rarely visited poor places. Since a mage had suddenly appeared, he strongly suspected they might be trying to extort money from him.

‘It’s definitely a curse-type plague.’

Lee Han even opened his soul sight to clearly confirm the other person’s symptoms.

He didn’t know which bastard in the city had somehow spread it, but judging by the sinister energy creeping up, it was definitely a curse.

“Have you recently been feeling tired for no reason, lacking energy in your body even after eating well and sleeping, and feeling inexplicably exhausted?”

“How, how do you know that?”

“Here. Take my hand.”

Lee Han didn’t needlessly speak at length or chatter away to provoke the other person.

This was a different situation from extracting information from suspicious criminals. Even if he was going to interrogate, he had to calm the plague first before questioning.

Pop!

The elf was startled by the sudden return of energy.

Just by holding hands and muttering briefly, his body had recovered like this.

“A, a healing mage!”

“That’s right. Are there more sick people around? If there are, please tell me.”

“Please wait! I’ll bring them out right away!”

Lee Han stood in front of the alleyway and began immediately absorbing the plague from the people who came out.

‘Strange. This plague’s energy feels somehow familiar.’

Feeling inexplicably familiar, Lee Han blamed Professor Mortum.

How many curses had he managed at the Black Magic Academy that this unfamiliar curse felt familiar?

“That’s enough. You may go.”

“Oh, ohhh…!”

“Which order are you from, if I may ask?”

“Huh? Prising… Apha… Pleming…”

“Wardanaz. I don’t think they’re asking about your affiliated orders.”

Giselle whispered from behind. Lee Han realized belatedly.

‘They were asking where I came from.’

The patients were puzzled but didn’t ask further.

They didn’t want to needlessly provoke this holy saint.

“Next. Please come forward. …Cough!”

Lee Han staggered.

He had absorbed carelessly, but the other person had minor internal bleeding. Immediately casting healing magic, Lee Han muttered.

“Indeed. There could be other symptoms too.”

“…”

Giselle regretted not speaking up earlier.

She thought he would have naturally considered it…

‘Isn’t Wardanaz being unusually hasty?’

He was originally someone far from making such mistakes.

But to see him like this. She wondered if the fight with the worshipper of evil gods was making Wardanaz impatient.

…Well, if he wasn’t an impatient person, he wouldn’t be trying to catch all the criminals in the city.

“Are, are you alright?”

“Yes. I healed it immediately. Next.”

Though there were a few exceptions, Lee Han chose to push through head-on instead of stopping.

After all, wasn’t this why he had learned healing magic?

Giselle’s expression grew increasingly stern at that brutish method.

She wondered if she should knock him out from behind right now.

While she hesitated due to friendship, people began flocking like clouds.

The rumor of a mage who instantly cured plagues had reached even people on the opposite side of the city.

And when this many people gathered, naturally someone would think of Einroguard and ask about it.

“Are you from Einroguard by any chance?”

‘Oh no.’

Right now, the students including Lee Han were wearing regular mage attire instead of their tattered Einroguard uniforms.

Nevertheless, it seemed there were those who thought of Einroguard from their excellent magical skills and selfless actions.

Lee Han pondered briefly.

Should he acknowledge it or deny it?

The party had been thoroughly disguised since before entering Marheim City.

Knights as porters, mages as merchants.

It was a natural choice since the moment they drove carriages with Einroguard flags, criminals would come running to surrender from the end of the road.

So he could deny it if he wanted to…

…but the number of people infected with the plague was greater than expected.

Wouldn’t it be better to acknowledge coming from Einroguard?

Then people who hadn’t come out yet could trust that reputation and come forward.

“No way. These days Einroguard mages go around slaughtering thieves.”

“Right. I heard that too. They’re going around the western region catching and killing bounty targets. They’re so fiercely exterminating them that the guys who were there fled to other places.”

“…”

Lee Han silently accepted the gazes his friends sent him and quietly focused on healing.

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