Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1189

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Chapter 1189

Lee Han realized that the atmosphere was taking a strange turn.

His collecting gold coins was purely for a stable life and to invest in future opportunities that would leave his name permanently in the Empire’s commercial world.

It was never meant to make his senior feel deprived.

“I think there’s been a misunderstanding. Senior Jarun, you spend as much as you earn. Just looking at your magic preparations last time, your gold consumption was quite heavy.”

“Junior. Saying that will only make your senior sadder. If you rationalize everything one by one like that, who in the world doesn’t have their own circumstances? A real miner doesn’t make excuses but speaks with the gold they’ve collected.”

“…Get lost!!”

Jarun shouted while trembling with rage. It seemed rare for him to have his pride wounded like this while talking with juniors.

“Senior. If you forcibly kick me out here, you’ll really become a loser.”

“Do you really want to die!”

“Both of you, please calm down. If you don’t calm down, I’ll report this location to Professor Verdus and hand over all the animals I’m caring for to Professor Bendozol.”

“…”

“…”

The two seniors who were getting heated up to fight froze as if cold water had been poured on them.

And they looked at Lee Han with eyes full of shock and horror.

To casually utter such a terrifying and deadly threat without even a second’s hesitation???

‘That, that bastard. Does he have no human heart?’

‘How could he make such a threat so instantly?’

It was such a lethal and sharp threat that it sent chills down their spines.

If Jarun’s mining location were revealed to a greedy and shameless mage like Professor Verdus, interference would come immediately.

Other professors might think ‘Still, it’s a place the disciple found, so it would be a bit much for me to take it,’ but Professor Verdus would think ‘It would be more beneficial overall if I mined it instead of an inexperienced disciple.’

And if all the rare animals that Lee Han was currently caring for, nominally belonging to the Ballgame Club, went to Professor Bendozol?

There was a high chance they wouldn’t be able to participate in the ballgame tournament at all. Given Professor Bendozol’s personality, would he send animals under his management to such a dangerous event?

“Al, alright. I’ve calmed down. You calm down too. Please don’t tell Professor Verdus. Especially not to someone like Senior Yukveltire under him.”

“What did Senior Yukveltire do… No, never mind. It wouldn’t help to hear about it anyway.”

“I’ve calmed down too, junior. Please don’t call Professor Bendozol. If Professor Bendozol manages them, the unicorn, griffin, and basilisk will all be sad.”

-I, I was included too!?

The baby basilisk was startled.

Wasn’t he only caring for the unicorn and griffin?!

When the two seniors calmed down, Lee Han nodded. Lee Han had no intention of calling the professors in the first place.

“If you two don’t fight, I have no intention of causing unnecessary trouble. After all, seniors, for mages, aren’t gold coins something that come easily and disappear easily?”

Coming in big from one commission, disappearing big from one experiment.

Wasn’t that exactly a mage’s wealth?

‘That’s not right.’

‘Only you are like that. It’s probably earned with difficulty and disappears easily.’

The two seniors thought to themselves.

There was something wrong with their junior’s words.

It was true that it disappeared easily, but it wasn’t earned easily…

…To be precise, only their junior earned it easily.

If commission offers came from all over like yours, it would be easy to earn!

“Haha. I think you’re right.”

“Right. Right. Junior.”

The two seniors gave fake answers with smiling faces, though they found it very annoying.

It was because the earlier threat was still lingering.

“It sounds a bit half-hearted, but… anyway, thank you for understanding. By the way, I met a transformation mage named Garko from the Arzo family during this outing. Do you happen to know him?”

“I know him.”

“He’s an elf, right? Bad personality.”

Karnella and Jarun, being from the same magic school, immediately understood.

Lee Han was puzzled by their lukewarm reaction.

Although Garko was a bit fanatical and believed in strange conspiracy theories (like claiming Bakwantalana was a transformation mage), his personality wasn’t that bad.

“Bad personality? He didn’t seem like that kind of person.”

“If he keeps sending letters and bothering you, that’s a bad personality.”

“…”

Lee Han made a displeased expression.

Seeing that someone who wasn’t even an Einroguard graduate was sending letters to Jarun, who rarely came out of Einroguard, made him think two things.

One was that Jarun had such outstanding talent…

…The other was that the people from Einroguard’s transformation magic school were really rude.

“Were there any curses written in the letters?”

“No. That would have been more interesting at least.”

Jarun continued grumbling without even noticing his junior’s cold gaze.

“He torments me by sending only trivial daily stories, transformation mage stories, and greetings. How annoying it was!”

“Honestly, it was a bit annoying. Junior.”

Karnella also expressed agreement.

Although she was relatively active outside among the transformation magic school, that didn’t mean she liked it.

She only did it for ballgames; originally, it was more comfortable to play separately with the animals she raised.

Lee Han couldn’t hold back and said.

“Even so, how can you call his personality bad just because of that? The reason I asked you two is because you’re the most sociable in the school.”

“…”

“…????”

The two seniors opened their eyes wide.

It was the most shocking and surprising story they’d heard today. Even more so than seeing their junior transform into a dragon.

“Who said what… what? Are you talking about an evil order by any chance? Junior. Even if I concede a hundred times that I might be, this senior here is absolutely not…”

“What? You bastard. Why are you the only one who ‘might be’?”

Jarun got angry.

Of course, he didn’t particularly want to be called sociable.

But he didn’t want to hear this crazy junior say ‘I’m better than that senior.’

He thought there wasn’t much difference between Karnella and himself.

“I live above ground and senior lives underground. Isn’t that the end of the discussion?”

“Others only listen to you because they’re scared of the monsters you bring around. If not for that, they wouldn’t listen at all!”

“Ha! You’re shamelessly spouting nonsense. Senior, if you didn’t have magic skills, juniors wouldn’t come looking for you either! Instead of arguing about this, let’s have the junior decide.”

“Fine! Junior, which of us is more sociable…”

Only then did they realize Lee Han had disappeared.

Their junior had realized it too.

Now that he had learned magic, there was no reason to stay beside two pathetic seniors!

“…”

“…”

The two seniors reflected just a tiny bit.

* * *

“By the way. It’s a secret from Jowrin.”

-Why would I tell her? It’s not like you’re transforming into a basilisk.

The baby basilisk spoke in a gloomy voice.

Lee Han felt sorry for no reason and said.

“When I get used to transformation magic, I’ll definitely practice basilisk first.”

-Really?

“Of course. …It’s also a secret from Ponrig, though.”

It was essentially passing the promise around, but it couldn’t be helped. Lee Han thought he’d tell Ponrig when he could transform into a griffin later.

Lee Han climbed the ladder that stretched through Einroguard’s underground to reach the surface.

Just then, he could see Professor Thunderstep walking from far away.

“Ah. Professor.”

“Oh.”

“By any chance, have you been feeling a bit better about what happened last time?”

“Would you be okay if you were in my position??”

Professor Thunderstep spoke with an expression that suggested he wanted to push his disciple back down the ladder.

How could he be okay so soon after being tormented point by point by the young Skeleton Principal?

He felt like going to the principal’s office and wildly throwing dissolution potions around.

“But Professor.”

“What, why, again?”

“You definitely said that not being discouraged by failures or criticism and moving forward is an alchemist’s talent…”

“…”

Professor Thunderstep was left speechless as his own words came back to him like a boomerang.

He definitely seemed to remember acting all high and mighty while saying such things when criticizing students’ terrible potions…

“Why did you come up instead of staying forever with those evil things in that pitch-black hole below?”

‘Is he talking about the upperclassmen?’

Lee Han wondered as he brushed off the dirt and dust. He couldn’t understand how Professor Thunderstep had noticed Senior Jarun and Senior Karnella.

“I told you, didn’t I? I need to take the exams in advance.”

“Tsk tsk. Don’t torment the other professors too much.”

“Yes.”

Lee Han answered promptly without changing his expression at all.

Professor Thunderstep sent him a look of distrust. He wasn’t confident that this guy had properly understood what he meant.

…If Professor Thunderstep had known what Lee Han had transformed into to come here, he might have charged at him in fury.

No shameless mage could be that brazen.

“You can torment Professor Verdus though.”

“…”

“What, why? My exam can be brutalized by borrowing the principal’s wisdom, but you’ll forgive Professor Verdus because he’s a cute beaver beastman?”

“I’ve never thought such a thing… No, more than that, Professor Verdus’s exam is a bit different.”

Lee Han began his explanation.

If there was one misunderstanding that Einroguard Divination Magic School students hated hearing most, it was ‘On the surface maybe, but deep down you actually respect your master, right?’

The moment they heard such words, even the cold and detached Divination Magic School students would immediately turn serious and draw their weapons.

Lee Han wasn’t much different.

The level where the beaver beastman’s cuteness would work had long since passed.

“It’s the 【Magic Architecture and Its Materials】 exam, and I’ve already prepared for this one.”

Lee Han had enough conscience not to ask the ancient noble archmage about every single exam question one by one.

The reason he asked the young prince about Professor Thunderstep’s exam was simple.

The professor made the exam so difficult that the possibility of breaking through within the allotted time was slim.

In contrast, this transformation magic exam and divination magic exam were different stories. He had already prepared for them and was confident he could pass without needing to ask.

For the transformation magic exam, he had been practicing steadily, and for the divination magic exam…

“I have something I took on and completed as a commission from outside, so I’m thinking of submitting that.”

“…”

Professor Thunderstep nearly staggered for a moment.

To think that the reason he suffered was because he made the exam too difficult.

Does heaven really only love evil students and not love good professors?

“Might that not be insufficient?”

“If this is insufficient, I’m seriously thinking of reporting Professor Verdus to Prince Uman…”

Lee Han made a displeased expression.

If he nitpicked a commission result that all the northern knights and mages had approved of, that wouldn’t be a matter of persuading Professor Verdus but of calling an inspector.

‘Well, that’s true.’

Professor Thunderstep had no choice but to acknowledge it.

This disciple was so thorough that he wasn’t the type to carelessly finish a commission he took on from outside.

If he had finished it carelessly, he definitely wouldn’t have submitted it for Professor Verdus’s exam.

“Can I take a look?”

“Just a moment… Here it is.”

“Why are there two volumes?”

“Ah. Just ignore the one at the bottom. Some crazy mages forced me to bind it.”

Lee Han coldly uttered words that would make the dark mages gathered in the north shed tears of sorrow.

Professor Thunderstep, who received it without much thought, skimmed through the book at the bottom and his eyes lit up.

“With this… I can finish off Professor Verdus!”

“Excuse me?”

“Ah, I misspoke. I can surprise Professor Verdus.”

“For something like that, there seems to be too much murderous intent in your eyes…”

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