Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1161

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Chapter 1161

Still, because of Sarataan, Lee Han felt unnecessarily concerned and looked at his friends.

“Aren’t you really curious about what kind of magic it is?”

At Lee Han’s question, Catten’s ears perked up.

Although he had stayed quiet since he couldn’t interfere with his juniors’ request as a senior, among all the students here, this 5th year had the most passionate enthusiasm for magic.

Whether he could master it or not, he wanted to hear what kind of magic it was.

“A lit…”

“Not at all.”

“I’m really not interested at all. Less than Gainando’s mystery novel short stories.”

“You should work hard to learn it yourself. There are so many difficult spells that adding one more won’t even be noticeable.”

“…”

Catten, who was about to say he was a little interested, became dejected and hung his head.

Giselle, who was watching from the side, felt restless for no reason.

‘These bastards… they have no sense…!’

“The one who said the last thing, come out.”

“Kuk. I thought I wouldn’t get caught.”

Bartrek came forward with an expression of being caught.

He thought it would just pass by in the flow, but Wardanaz was indeed relentlessly persistent.

After scolding his friend, Lee Han looked at the other students and lectured them.

The indifference they had just shown had provoked Lee Han.

“Even so, how can you not be interested in magic in ruins like this? Are you really Einrogard students?”

“Then tell us…”

“I can’t tell you yet because I’m not certain.”

“…”

The White Tiger Tower students cursed Lee Han with their eyes.

Isn’t this really too much?

“Moradi. Shouldn’t we go up now and call a professor? Or at least Lady Jicklin…”

“Stop having foolish thoughts. Even if my sister comes down, she won’t take your side.”

Giselle replied indifferently. At that cold answer, her friends asked back in confusion.

“We’re from knight families… and several of us are even from the north?”

Most of the Empire’s knight family descendants were related to each other and had to be close.

Especially more so than the Wardanaz family, which was a mage family.

“She won’t take your side.”

“We’ve even met Lady Jicklin before?”

“Right. She won’t take your side.”

“Is it because of the political alliance between the northern Moradi family and the Wardanaz family you mentioned before?”

“Surprising. To make such a decision while being prepared for political enemies to unite in the current imperial political system composed of loyalists, aristocrats, and neutrals. Especially the western nobles will react even more sensitively. They have a strong rivalry with the north.”

“Moradi. Don’t worry. Among us there are those from the west, but as fellow Einrogard students, we’ll support this political alliance. Trust your friends.”

Giselle quietly lifted her scabbard.

And began beating her friends.

“Ack! Aack!”

Catten looked at his junior with eyes that said he saw her in a new light.

Since she usually only showed a polite demeanor, he had wondered if she might lack qualities as a swordsman, but seeing her now, it seemed he had been mistaken.

‘A swordsman should be like that. Truly worthy of being Lady Jicklin’s sister.’

* * *

Professor Garcia outside was making groaning sounds. Seeing this, Professor Kirmin spoke as if feeling sorry.

“Professor Kim. If you were going to be like this, why didn’t you just go with them?”

“Someone deceived me into trusting and entrusting my disciple. They must be a master of illusion magic.”

“…I’m sorry.”

At Professor Kirmin’s apology, Professor Garcia came to her senses and shook her head.

“No. I should be sorry. We decided together.”

The serious advice Professor Kirmin had given in Marheim City had definitely struck a chord with Professor Garcia.

-Wardanaz is already skilled enough to fit in with 4th years without any awkwardness, and active enough to subjugate evil worshippers first. Rather than blindly caring for and protecting him, it might be better to guarantee autonomy and wait for growth.

Of course, as soon as she heard that advice, she tried to send the other person back to Einrogard, but as time passed, someone as intelligent as Professor Garcia couldn’t deny that the advice had merit.

After all, hadn’t Lee Han and his friends ultimately solved the incident in Marheim City too?

So for this ruin exploration as well, the two professors only assigned Catten and didn’t interfere or accompany them otherwise.

If the students could solve it among themselves, there was no reason for professors to accompany them.

Even if it was the same ruin excavation achievement, there was a completely different feeling between one led by a professor and one solved by students alone. The former was ordinary and natural, but the latter was surprising and remarkable.

“If you’re that worried, I’ll go down and take a look.”

“…”

“…”

When Jicklin suddenly interjected, the two mages were so dumbfounded they couldn’t even respond.

They were so dumbfounded that even the Death Knights stared blankly.

‘We came down so the students could gain the reputation of solving it themselves, but what are you going to do by going down?’

If it had been a knight from another family who had just spoken instead of Jicklin, the Death Knights here would have immediately been suspicious.

Being former knights themselves, the Death Knights knew well how sordid knights could become in the face of glory.

Are you suddenly interested because Einrogard mages went down to the ruins, are you trying to steal the credit, and so on.

However, fortunately, the Death Knights knew well what kind of knight Jicklin was.

It was natural since she was a genius who had proudly made her name among the Empire’s renowned swordsmen at such a young age.

Having been born with talent equal to Catten, the swordsmanship genius the Death Knights counted, and having more experience…

These picky Death Knights were even considering accepting Jicklin if she joined the Death Knights after death.

‘She probably wants to act together with her brother.’

-What would happen to the students’ contribution if you went down?

“Ah. Is that so? I didn’t think of that. …Then how about I disguise myself as Giselle? The credit I earn would become Giselle’s credit.”

“…”

Professor Garcia was so dumbfounded she opened and closed her mouth. Her eyes were already saying ‘Do you call that a suggestion?’

The Death Knights sighed deeply as if not surprised and spoke again.

-Then what would happen to student Giselle’s dignity? Her pride as a knight?

“Indeed…”

Jicklin reflected deeply.

Her desire to take care of family had come first, nearly hurting her pride.

“Then how about disguising myself as Wardanaz?”

-Go away and look for suspicious people.

The Death Knights coldly drove Jicklin away.

This knight was stubborn and obstinate, so if left alone, she would definitely continue to be bothersome.

When Jicklin withdrew, the Death Knights finally breathed a sigh of relief.

-…It would have been dangerous if the successor had heard.

-He definitely would have accepted.

Since he wasn’t from a knight family and didn’t care at all about such schemes or deceptions, there was a high possibility he would have readily agreed.

In the first place, someone with strong pride in such matters wouldn’t create a name like Stedal Nago.

“…”

Ibinta muttered that she hadn’t heard anything just now and shook her head back and forth.

* * *

“Phew. Everyone worked hard.”

Garko greeted them while regenerating his half-blown-off arm with a magic scroll.

The arm regenerated quickly, but his appearance didn’t return. The hat and cloak he had been wearing had disappeared somewhere, and his beard was half burned. The fight had been that fierce.

“Wh-what the hell was that thing?”

The ruin’s guardian was a type of chimera that even experienced adventurers had never seen before.

It reminded them of the monster Bokabat, but it was definitely not the same monster, and aside from having six legs and using its long tail like a weapon, there were no similarities.

What was particularly terrifying was the evil cursed ultrasonic waves it screamed with its mouth open. If you didn’t block it properly and got hit, your body would stiffen as if petrified.

Then it would plunge the sharp stinger at the end of its tail into its opponent to instantly absorb all their vital essence. It was a powerful and threatening attack that followed almost simultaneously with the ultrasonic screaming.

If there had been only adventurers, they never could have won, and even if they had fled, about half would have died.

But fortunately in their misfortune, Garko was truly an excellent mage. Despite a chimera he’d never seen before appearing, Garko didn’t panic.

He immediately inflated his body about five times like a flesh golem, then split it to create projections.

This projection magic was one of Garko’s specialties, characterized by being made of real blood and flesh. The ruins watchman chimera couldn’t distinguish the projection and devoured one of them whole.

-It would be best to cover your ears and prepare for the cursed sound. Also, be careful of its tail.

-Huff, let’s retreat! Master Mage! For it to be such a threatening creature.

-No. We must defeat it to find clues.

To go further down, Garko was determined to find clues.

That chimera was a dangerous element, but it could also be a clue.

Garko instantly changed the floor into a swamp, making the chimera’s body sink about halfway. Then he changed it back into burning lava stone to deal additional damage to the chimera.

The enraged chimera ignored the other projections and focused solely on targeting Garko. Ultrasonic waves shot out viciously one after another.

However, Garko had already transformed into a bird of paradise. The bird of paradise, immune to such sonic attacks, easily pierced through the opponent’s attack and flew to dig its claws into its shoulder.

Those claws weren’t ordinary claws. The moment they made contact, they changed into dozens of venomous snakes to poison the opponent.

The poison used by an excellent transformation mage was never ordinary. The poison that burrowed into the body constantly changed, trying to tear the chimera apart from within.

The extremely enraged chimera tried to bite Garko in a final desperate attack. No matter how much the poison raged, it still had enough strength left for this level of attack.

But surprisingly, Garko obediently let the opponent devour one of his arms. And simultaneously shouted.

-Attack!

The moment the chimera bit off one arm, it could no longer move. Garko had clearly worked some magical trick on his own arm.

The adventurers had been dazed, unable to follow the dazzling battle, then moved belatedly. If they could just properly unleash their firepower, the adventurers’ attacks were sufficient to tear the chimera apart.

They barely managed to defeat the enemy, but…

…the adventurers were completely terrified.

Wouldn’t it be better to retreat from ruins where such dangerous watchmen appeared and investigate again later?

“It doesn’t seem to be an ordinary ruins watchman, but appears to have been corrupted through some means. It’s likely due to the Evil Worshippers.”

Unaware of the adventurers’ feelings, Garko kindly explained.

The chimera that had just appeared had roughly similar appearance to watchman monsters used in ancient times that he’d seen several times in other ruins, but its characteristics were greatly different.

It was likely corrupted by contact with evil mana or power.

“Evil Worshippers, you say? Wh-why are their names mentioned? Did they enter here?”

“Oh my. That’s not what I meant. You said the Northern Region has been turbulent recently.”

When a region was turbulent, it had various meanings.

Disasters, activities of Evil Worshippers, the region’s mana becoming corrupted or violently fluctuating…

…and all these things became possibilities for chimeras in hidden underground ruins to become corrupted.

Even if Evil Worshippers hadn’t entered here, such things could sufficiently happen.

‘That’s even more terrifying!’

It would sound better if Evil Worshippers had entered first instead.

“I-I see.”

“We need to track the direction this chimera came from. We need clues to go further down.”

“…”

The adventurers felt like crying at Garko’s resolute will. They wanted to abandon this mage and flee by themselves.

But they weren’t irresponsible mercenaries. They were adventurers who had built up considerable reputation.

Having promised to escort and follow their client, they had to go together.

Even if it was an extremely dangerous place!

‘From now on, no matter how decent and renowned a mage is, I’ll check more thoroughly.’

‘What checking. I shouldn’t accept such jobs at all.’

“Is-isn’t there another way to obtain clues?”

“There isn’t.”

“Among the creatures wandering above, there might be some with information.”

“If that were the case, they would have found the passage and come down.”

Garko maintained his dignified gentleman’s appearance, but that didn’t mean he would easily give in to the adventurers’ words.

Mages originally couldn’t be swayed by any words if they weren’t personally convinced.

“Oh. There’s someone who came before us?”

“We entered a bit late. Let’s not approach carelessly and cause misunderstandings, just pass by.”

“…?!!!”

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