Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1178

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Chapter 1178

“Ah…”

Lee Han tried to stop her in panic, but the Demon Hag had already left.

“Be quiet! You little brat!”

“Krrrk (How dare you make noise when we’re discussing magic, don’t you know any manners)!”

“…”

Seeing the dark mages naturally occupying someone else’s desk as if it were their own and throwing tantrums, Lee Han wondered why he had tried to stop her.

‘I’ll definitely have to tell them later when this is all over.’

Lee Han’s scheme was wicked, but in fact, the dark mages were no less so.

While Lee Han was plotting his vile scheme from behind, the dark mages were also plotting their own equally vile scheme in response.

“Good. Then I’ll remove 【Eye of Ahrak】 and add 【Wail of Obinnik】.”

“Krrrk (That’s completely changing it)!”

“You can make changes while doing magic. Do you always complete magic exactly as you first drew it?”

“Isn’t it cheating to change already completed magic just to increase the difficulty?”

“You’re talking nonsense about cheating. If you’re upset, then you do it too! I guarantee that little brat will never be able to master 【Wail of Obinnik】!”

“Krrk (Acting all high and mighty when you’re already crawling on all fours).”

‘Wait. Wasn’t the original goal to explain magic easily?’

The Obsidian Tower mage suddenly felt puzzled.

Surely the reason for this teaching was to instruct Wardanaz so they could proceed with this commission as their work…

…When did it become a competition of bringing out difficult magic against each other?

“Little brat, why are you so quiet? Aha. I see. You have no intention of changing! Look. This little brat has accepted it!”

“Krrrk (Is that really true)?!”

In the brief moment of thinking, sparks immediately flew. The Obsidian Tower mage shouted without time to think.

“This side will also change. Don’t talk nonsense.”

“Hmph. Fine, good. Let’s see who wins!”

Catten, who had been listening to the mages’ conversation with interest, witnessed his junior quietly escaping through the window and waved goodbye.

‘Living as an outstanding mage must be quite an ordeal!’

* * *

“Hey. If the dark mages look for me, tell them I’m not here.”

Lee Han, who had taken refuge in the White Tiger Tower students’ dormitory, borrowed an unused desk.

Angrago quickly threw a magazine with red text reading 【What Are This Year’s Ball Game Tactical Trends? Selecting the Empire’s Best Ball Game Club!】 out the window.

Lee Han brought back the magazine that had flown outside using spatial movement magic and threw it at Angrago.

“I can see everything. You should have hidden it before I came.”

“…Don’t use difficult magic for things like that!”

Durgyu, being a friend, helped change the subject instead.

“Lee Han. Why should we say you’re not here if the dark mages ask?”

“They keep trying to teach me magic that’s too hard to learn and bothering me.”

“?”

“?”

Angrago and Durgyu exchanged glances.

Durgyu sent a look saying ‘don’t do it,’ but Angrago couldn’t hold back and opened his mouth.

“But isn’t that what you originally wanted, Wardanaz?”

“…Angrago. Have you had a lot of complaints about me recently?”

“Ah, no! I was being sincere!”

When Lee Han stood up from his seat, Angrago was startled.

He had really asked out of genuine curiosity!

“…You White Tiger Tower guys often have strange misunderstandings about me, but I don’t particularly enjoy learning difficult magic on purpose.”

‘And this was something the Blue Dragon Tower guys said too…’

Angrago felt wronged.

Surely student G and student A, as well as the student from the Imperial Family, had given similar testimonies.

“It just happened that way. Right, Durgyu?”

“Huh? Uh-huh. Of, of course I think so. Haha.”

The muscular orc friend quickly spoke, feeling his conscience prick him. Sometimes friendship was more important than conscience.

“See. Durgyu doesn’t have such misunderstandings. I don’t know why White Tiger Tower students are so vulnerable to fake rumors.”

“…”

“…Is the commission all finished?!”

Durgyu changed the subject once again.

Looking at Angrago’s expression, he felt there was a high possibility he would keep pestering him.

“Commission? Ah. It’s completed for the first stage, but the dark mages are making a fuss saying that won’t do, let’s make it difficult… Want to take a look?”

At Lee Han’s words, both nodded and accepted.

The arrangement of complex magic circles and magic spells was definitely wickedly difficult.

“The dark mages are going too far. If there’s an easy path, you should take that path. Why deliberately go the difficult route? They should think about the people who have to build it.”

“It’s too difficult. Lee Han. I understand why you can’t accept it.”

“…That wasn’t written by the dark mages, I wrote it. Is it very difficult?”

Lee Han’s face darkened slightly.

He thought he had made it sufficiently intuitive and efficient, but to get this kind of reaction.

“No, no! It’s not that bad!”

“Angrago’s right, Lee Han! This much is sufficient!”

His friends quickly tried to console him, but it was already too late. Lee Han muttered with a dejected expression.

“I might need to refine it to be easier. Honestly, to make it simpler from here wouldn’t be easy… It might be faster to just start over from scratch.”

Angrago looked at Durgyu with eyes saying to do something somehow. Of course, Durgyu didn’t have anything he could do in the current situation either.

“Do something, Choi! Wardanaz is trying to start new work!”

“Can, can you work anew or improve from there?”

“I don’t know either! I understood less than 30% of that! I could tell that if knights try to escape, they get trapped in a spatial labyrinth!”

Angrago and Durgyu whispered anxiously.

Although they couldn’t understand most of the blueprint they had just received, they could guess that it wasn’t just any ordinary amount of effort that had gone into that blueprint.

To refine this again.

Even more simply?

Creak-

“Hey. Everyone stop playing and come out…”

Giselle, who was going to call out friends who were obviously playing around, hesitated.

There was one friend who had no reason to be there originally, looking over blueprints with a dejected expression.

“…Looks like you weren’t playing around. Alright. Work hard.”

Giselle tried to back away, but the two wouldn’t just let her go.

“Moradi! Do something! Wardanaz is trying to start new work!”

“What? Teaching you guys?”

“The commission! The commission!”

“Starting new work. Did he at least finish it in the meantime? That’s impossible…”

“He did, but he’s trying to do it again.”

At Lee Han’s words, Giselle’s head whipped around.

Already finished?!

She knew this Blue Dragon Tower friend was a genius, but she hadn’t expected him to finish in such a short time.

“Wait. Why are you trying to do it again?”

“The dark mages…”

“The dark mages helped? Ah. That’s why it was done faster than expected?”

If that was the case, it made sense.

Although the dark mages had been incompetent in this incident (to be precise, the mage from Einroguard was too competent), their magical abilities were definitely not lacking.

If those dark mages had helped, it would make sense that the blueprint was completed quickly…

“No. Other dark mages kept suggesting to make it difficult, so we thought it was also a proposal made by dark mages, but that was actually Wardanaz’s proposal…”

“????”

Giselle fell into confusion. She couldn’t understand what Angrago was saying at all.

In the end, Durgyu had to step forward and explain instead.

“…Wait. Let me read it too.”

Giselle snatched the blueprint away and read through it with a frown.

Then she declared with certainty.

“This much is enough.”

“…Don’t lie! How can you understand it so quickly! I can’t allow this for the honor of the White Tiger Tower!”

Angrago flared up before Lee Han did.

No matter how close they were as friends, there were some things that couldn’t be overlooked. Magic was especially one of those things.

He couldn’t understand it himself, yet Moradi from the same tower claimed to have finished understanding everything!?

“You don’t need to understand the magical parts, just look at the results. Why are you trying to understand everything?”

Giselle looked at Angrago as if she found it absurd.

When constructing magical buildings according to such blueprints, there was no need to understand everything in the design.

You just had to place materials as written and cast magic accordingly.

If you could understand everything, why would you take on commissions? You’d just make it yourself.

“…”

“…”

Right?

Angrago and Durgyu wondered for a moment if they had been bewitched. Perhaps because of Wardanaz’s gaze, they had mistakenly thought they had to understand everything.

“But Moradi. What if there’s a mistake I made and problems arise during the work?”

“Did the dark mages say there were any mistakes?”

“There weren’t any, but…”

“Then there won’t be any.”

“…There might be repair work needed later when I’m not around.”

“If you leave the blueprints behind, they can compare and repair accordingly. They just need to work exactly the same way.”

Lee Han, having been refuted, looked at Angrago and Durgyu. The two smiled awkwardly with anxious hearts.

Please don’t start working on it again!

“W-we think Moradi is right too.”

“Right. Lee Han. Think about it carefully. Starting the work over is…”

“…Yeah. I think you guys are right.”

‘Phew!’

When Lee Han finally accepted it, his friends breathed sighs of relief.

However, his next words completely betrayed his friends’ expectations.

“But while we were talking just now, I thought of a way to fix it, so I should just fix that part.”

“Hey!”

* * *

Diret rode the Limpaksi, the fastest mount in the dark magic school and Professor Mortum’s most precious possession, racing swiftly through the Empire’s skies.

As he approached within sight of the Moradi family’s northern castle, someone called out from below.

“Ahem, Diret! There seems to have been a misunderstanding. You may return!”

Diret ignored the person disguised as Professor Mortum and flew straight past. Stopping to identify who it was would itself be falling for the opponent’s scheme.

“Someone from Einroguard has arrived!”

The knights managing the stables for flying mounts located on the cliff recognized the flag and moved aside.

Diret immediately jumped down from the Limpaksi. The Limpaksi shook its jet-black mane and made a displeased sound.

“Sorry! Right now evil enemies are trying to kidnap my junior!”

After promising to give it snacks later, Diret moved using flight magic instead.

“Stop right there! Flying is prohibited within the territory!”

A knight shouted, but Diret pretended not to hear and ignored him. When you couldn’t tell if the opponent was a disguised dark mage or a real knight, pretending not to hear was the right answer.

‘Is it this way!’

Having heard the location of the lodging where Wardanaz and Catten were staying, Diret kicked down the door and entered.

“Junior! You weren’t harmed by those lunatics, were you?!”

“?”

“…”

The Descendants of Ahrak, Oondorgu’s Legion, and dark mages from the Obsidian Tower who had been crowded together noisily chattering in this small lodging turned their gazes.

Meanwhile, Catten, who had been sitting calmly among them, waved his hand cheerfully.

“Who are you calling lunatics?”

The dark mages gathered there asked curiously.

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