Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1172

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Chapter 1172

The curious Demon Hag decided to find out for herself instead of staying still.

Coincidentally, there was a mortal she had recently met.

Let this grandmother ask you something.

“!”

Lee Han, who had been looking over magical architectural blueprints he brought with Catten at the lodging, was startled.

In fact, anyone would be surprised if a powerful being from another dimension suddenly poked their head out.

“Is, is that person the one you mentioned before?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

“I, I look forward to working with you. I am Catten of the Jahan family.”

Oh my. What a fine warrior. You seem to have talent with the sword, why don’t you come hunt some gargoyles that grandmother raises sometime?

“No, no! I am a mage.”

?

The Demon Hag wondered what he was talking about.

You’re a warrior, aren’t you?

“You can be both a warrior and a mage.”

Lee Han, already accustomed to his senior’s eccentricities, replied naturally. Catten shouted in a tense voice.

“I have heard stories about the great and wise Demon Hag. It would truly be an honor if I could receive teachings about magic!”

Normally, she would have thrown any brat who brazenly butted in asking to be taught into the cauldron…

The Demon Hag was cantankerous, but that didn’t mean she didn’t know proper etiquette.

This time, hadn’t the Demon Hag come to ask questions?

What are you curious about? Let me hear it once.

Catten carefully held out a book titled 【Basic Summoning Magic Theory That Even 1st Year Students Can Understand】.

The Demon Hag’s hand suddenly appeared in the air and snatched it away fiercely.

‘How difficult could this book be…’

????

“Senior. I keep telling you, if there’s anything you don’t know, you can just ask me.”

“Even so, I can’t keep bothering you, junior…”

The Demon Hag momentarily wondered if this mortal was mocking her.

However, Catten’s eyes were purely sincere without a hint of wavering.

What kind of guy is this…?

“Senior is excellent at swordsmanship, but still a bit lacking in magic.”

A bit?

The Demon Hag returned the book in bewilderment.

She had received all sorts of wicked requests from countless mages, but this was the first time she’d encountered such a stupid request.

Don’t ask grandmother for things like this. This grandmother is not a nanny. More importantly, grandmother has a question…

“Yes?”

Lee Han was puzzled.

“Did the negotiation fail after all?”

The Demon Hag was about to hit him once with her staff but held back.

Failure, my foot. If I put my mind to it, I could boil that guy until only bones remain without leaving a scrap of flesh. But that tentacle bastard said something strange. That someone stole his divine authority.

“I didn’t do it on purpose.”

?

“?”

Both the Demon Hag and Lee Han paused.

Huh?

What are you talking about?

“What are you talking about, Demon Hag?”

From what this grandmother heard… it sounds like you stole the tentacle creature’s divine authority? I must be mistaken, right?

Just like that little warrior mistook himself for a mage, that little mage must have also mistaken something.

Today’s conversation was particularly full of misunderstandings, so perhaps some wicked magic was playing tricks on fate.

“But I did steal it?”

…What?

“I told you when we talked before… that there was a conflict with the Prahgal Order…”

Lee Han spoke as if asking why she was acting this way.

He had definitely mentioned it when confiding his troubles about the conflict with the Prahgal Order.

Of course, from the Demon Hag’s perspective, she wanted to strangle this shameless brat’s neck.

…If you clashed enough to steal divine authority, you should have mentioned that too, you little con artist!

“It’s not my first time learning divine magic, so I didn’t think it was important. I thought Sainguiros was more important.”

Not your first time?!

At this even more shocking statement, the Demon Hag lost her composure.

What on earth is this?!

“Hmm. If that makes negotiation difficult for you, you don’t have to do it. I’ll apologize. Let’s pretend it never happened.”

Listen well, you little thing! This grandmother never goes back on her word!

The Demon Hag scolded in a voice full of anger. Lee Han felt bewildered.

Then what am I supposed to do?

“You called me a con artist, so I was trying to cancel it. Then what should I have done?”

You should have spoken properly from the beginning and not made a fool of this grandmother!

“…Ah… Yes…”

Having been made a fool of by a mortal after so long, the Demon Hag fumed.

And the most annoying thing was that he had no real intention of making a fool of her. That hurt her pride even more.

Regardless of which dimension they came from, challengers who tried to deceive the Demon Hag and seize what they wanted were full of spirit and pride, but this brat was so indifferent, like water mixed with water…!

How did you steal the divine authority?

“I don’t know exactly, but I think I made an equivalent exchange with mana.”

For that to be possible, your mana would have to be… Hmm. It is possible.

Judging roughly from when she hit him with her staff and sent bugs, it was certainly possible.

‘To think such a thing is possible. The cultists would shed tears of blood if they heard this!’

Evil worshippers who had reached a certain level were never innocent souls who devoted themselves purely through faith alone.

An ordinary believer might be mindlessly lost in fanaticism, but from the moment they reached a certain level, the thoughts of evil worshippers mostly became similar.

To become stronger and stronger until they themselves ascended to become the evil deity!

From a faithful perspective, this could be called blasphemous. Gods were beings to believe in and serve, not goals to achieve.

But the Demon Hag thought these lunatics’ purpose was reasonably rational.

Without such a goal, why would they believe in such evil gods?

Anyway, from that perspective, this mortal who effortlessly drained divine authority without any price was a very threatening existence.

Much more than he himself thought.

When every bit of power had to be saved for one’s own ascension, if an outsider who didn’t even believe robbed and took it away, divine authority leakage would occur…

She could understand why the bishop, who wanted to become an evil deity, was grinding his teeth. In some ways, the theft of divine authority would be more painful than ruined plans.

…Do you understand? That what you did is not something to be taken lightly?

“!”

Lee Han, who heard the explanation, was greatly surprised. The Demon Hag nodded satisfactorily at his reaction.

“I… I had no idea it was like that.”

Yes. You have reason to be surprised! You little ones wouldn’t know the inner thoughts of those lunatics.

“Then from now on… I should steal the Sainguiros Sect’s divine authority to sabotage them!”

…

The Demon Hag was horrified.

Usually when mortals heard this absurd plan of ascending to become an evil deity, they would be frightened or overwhelmed…

…This mortal was trying to give his enemies a blow first, regardless of all that.

It was truly the boldness befitting Objectivity Arna’s contractor.

Aren’t you afraid or anything?

“Huh? Oh. You mean them becoming evil deities? They’ve failed so far, so won’t they continue to fail in the future?”

The Demon Hag decided she would no longer underestimate this mortal.

The mortal before her looked like a worthless little rat, but he was a rat that could bite dimensional powerhouses at any moment.

Being bold isn’t bad at all. What a very brave and fearless young boy. The problem is that the Tentacle Wielders are all worked up because of this incident.

“They’re really narrow-minded. The continental orders praise you when you learn divine magic.”

It was something that would make Evil Worshippers furious if they heard it.

It was natural since the two different orders had different purposes.

One sought ascension, the other sincere faith – how could they react the same way!

Madmen are always like that. But this grandmother is wiser. I have a method that can be used in times like this.

“What exactly is that?”

Lee Han cast a slightly awestruck gaze.

To think there was a method even in this situation.

Powerful beings of dimensions were different in some way.

Deceive them by saying someone else did it.

“…Excuse me? Does that work?”

Though they had hidden the Einroguard emblem in the city, the deed was such a deed that it was hard for rumors not to spread.

Could they really deceive them by saying someone else did it?

Why wouldn’t it work? The Tentacle Creature is stuck in a corner of a small dimension and doesn’t even come out. Even if the Prince changed his mind and revived the kingdom, he’d probably believe it for several days. Also, this grandmother receives respect and reverence. Much more trustworthy than the testimony of mediocre mortals.

The higher one’s realm rose, the more fastidiously one came to accept truth.

Even the testimony of dozens could be distorted and manipulated in any number of ways.

In comparison, statements uttered by powerful dimensional beings carried different weight.

“Then… would it be possible to say the Heretic Worshippers did it?”

…I said the Tentacle Creature was stuck in a corner, not that he was a blockhead idiot.

The Demon Hag looked at Lee Han pathetically.

No matter how easy someone was to deceive, shouldn’t there be at least minimal sincerity?

If you lied in such a manner, even those who would be fooled wouldn’t be fooled.

“Then what is it?”

Wait and see. Let grandmother show you one of her spells.

A hand suddenly appeared in the air and began drawing strange patterns. They were bizarre patterns completely different from the Empire’s magical system.

Lee Han instinctively detected the movement of mana and memorized the changes. It was an unavoidable occupational hazard as a trained mage.

Catten also earnestly stared at the magic he was seeing for the first time. And that was the end of it.

‘Hmm. The mana is moving.’

With a sound like a cauldron bubbling and boiling, a burning smell wafted from somewhere, then the Demon Hag shouted with satisfaction.

Done! A decent name came out. With this name, that Tentacle Creature will surely be deceived.

“What name is it?”

The name this grandmother drew is Stedal Nago.

“…”

By any chance, do you know this name?

* * *

This grandmother found out a name for you.

The Demon Hag returned and wrote letters on the back of a large toad.

The Other Person was silent for a moment. From that alone, the Demon Hag could guess that the other party was surprised.

As expected of the wisest Demon Hag. Who is it?

Stedal Nago!

I thought it might be, and sure enough it was that bastard! That damned son of a bitch!

Surprisingly, The Other Person didn’t doubt and accepted it as is.

Since there was already a precedent, Stedal Nago was one of the prime suspects.

There were rampant rumors that Imperial Knights came to handle it, or that Einrogard’s Mages came to handle it, but the Bishop didn’t believe them.

There was little reason for them to clash directly with these groups.

There were particularly unbelievable rumors going around, but that was the work of that cunning bastard. I’ll rip out his heart and use it as a seedbed for the Regenerator.

‘Those Tentacle Wielders won’t last long either.’

The Demon Hag thought to herself at the Immortal’s reaction, which was more gullible than expected.

With the Bishop being so easily deceived, the order’s future was rotten…

You’ll have to find out for yourself how he stole the divine authority. I don’t know that much.

It doesn’t matter. I’ll ask him directly to his skull. …What price do you want?

The Priest, Immortal was easily deceived but wasn’t a stupid person. He didn’t believe there would be no price for the Demon Hag’s favor.

If he just licked his lips clean after hearing the name, he’d regret it for hundreds of years to come.

This grandmother has some guys she wants to beat up these days. I wonder if you might know them. Called Seinguiros…

Ha. These idiotic fools went to the brink of destruction once and still haven’t come to their senses. Did they pick a fight with you too?

‘You should worry about yourself.’

The Demon Hag’s mouth itched with the desire to mock.

How delightful it would be when the opportunity came to tell this fool the truth and mock him!

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