Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1194

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Chapter 1194

Professor Boladi burned away the enemy’s corpse completely without leaving a trace before it even hit the ground.

The important thing in such assassinations was to leave no traces.

When the butler woke up, he would be confused about his master’s sudden disappearance, but combined with the commotion in the courtyard, he wouldn’t be able to figure out exactly what had happened.

Taking advantage of that gap, he could handle four or five more targets.

“!”

The professor, who hadn’t even blinked when cutting the throat of his old enemy, cast a perplexed gaze downward.

His disciple and friend, who comprised his few human relationships, were rapidly entering the mansion’s courtyard.

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“Professor!”

“Speak, I’m listening!”

Professor Kirmin gestured while moving like he was flying ahead.

“Though it’s not really something new to say at this point, what if Professor Bagrek runs away again?”

“…”

If the Skeleton Principal had heard this, he would have treated them all like idiots, but surprisingly, the two still had no clever solution.

Professor Kirmin swallowed dryly and said.

“That is a problem.”

“Can’t we capture him with magic? We have Death Knights here too.”

‘Is he really a disciple?’

The Death Knights following behind thought to themselves.

Don’t disciples usually try persuasion or pleading when trying to bring back their master…

Come to think of it, it seemed like poetic justice. Professor Bagrek’s disciple enjoyed similar solutions to Professor Bagrek.

‘There’s a reason they say you reap what you sow.’

“Normally it would be possible. But because that angel lost the dimension…”

“That damn angel!”

Lee Han ground his teeth in a rare display of anger.

The Dimension of Divine Light Annihilation that Apazrakon had lost to Professor Boladi was causing trouble over and over again.

Since it was a dimension specialized in escape, even Professor Kirmin and the Death Knights couldn’t easily bind his feet…

‘Next time I see him, I’ll really capture him and lock him in Einrogard’s basement.’

“…But I didn’t think of nothing at all.”

“!”

Lee Han looked at Professor Kirmin with sparkling eyes.

As expected, a professor was different in some way.

“What is it? Gasp, did you perhaps mix poison into Professor Bagrek’s meals regularly…”

“Wardanaz, you should stop reading strange mystery novels. The method I thought of is a straightforward approach. Persuading him sincerely.”

“With the power of friendship?”

It was weaker than what Lee Han had expected – snapping fingers and having Professor Bagrek collapse before tying him up with chains and dragging him away – but if it achieved the goal, he had no complaints.

“No. You have to do the persuading, Wardanaz.”

“Pardon?”

Lee Han was flustered.

He didn’t think Professor Bagrek would listen to him.

He was someone who had ignored him and left even when called last time…

“A disciple’s words will resonate more than a friend’s. He doesn’t listen to friends’ words well anyway.”

“Don’t you have any poison you’ve been feeding him regularly? Something from illusion magic…”

Professor Kirmin shook his head.

He would love to have such a thing too, but reality was always cold.

He had to face things as they were given, as they were.

“This isn’t something I should normally tell you, but given the situation, I’ll explain briefly. You know Professor Bagrek has deep resentment with the sect, right?”

Lee Han nodded.

Though the Skeleton Principal hadn’t told him the detailed contents, he had guessed that the resentment between them was unusually deep.

Professor Kirmin hesitated slightly even while moving, then opened his mouth.

“At that time, there was a somewhat strange magical trend circulating among the western vampire families. It was magic where offering blood would bring all sorts of rewards. Sometimes youth, sometimes power, sometimes prophecy.”

“That’s…”

Lee Han expressed bewilderment at the obviously suspicious magic.

Did they really believe that was good?

“Right. Looking at the results now, it’s obviously suspicious evil deity worship. But back then, the Sainguiros Sect wasn’t known as such, and above all, most families weren’t magic experts like us. It’s also common for peculiar magics to temporarily become popular in noble society.”

Unlike Einrogard students who showed reactions of being sick to death at just seeing the letter ‘ma’ in magic, ordinary people in the Empire still held mystery and interest in magic.

It was quite common for old forgotten traditional magic to accidentally gain popularity and circulate in social circles.

“Anyway, the trend spread quickly. Vampires originally enjoyed consuming blood, so they had an even greater advantage.”

Most of the high-ranking families among the western vampire families quickly became devoted to this trend.

The society of Imperial vampires had more closed aspects than other species’ societies, so the propagation power within it was much stronger, and trends that started in high-ranking families spread downward instantly.

“Don’t tell me the Professor too…?!”

Lee Han asked in surprise. Professor Kirmin answered with a bitter voice.

“No. Boladi was from a breakaway family. There were a few families that found the trend suspicious and kept their distance. They didn’t have much power though.”

After saying this much, Professor Kirmin hesitated even more than he had been hesitating just moments before.

Then he finally spoke as if he had made up his mind.

“There’s no point in dragging this out, so I’ll tell you straight. Originally, relations between western vampire families weren’t that bad. Though high nobles despised the lower nobles who had broken away, they didn’t take action… until the evil deity started causing trouble.”

There was no evil deity sect that gave without any price.

Sainguiros, who had initially rewarded generously even for simple offerings, revealed his true nature and demanded greater offerings from several faithful servants.

Namely, the lives of their own kind.

“!!”

“Naturally, the breakaway families who were weak and usually bothersome became the targets… and one of them was Boladi’s family. I don’t need to explain further.”

Lee Han nodded.

He already knew that the western vampire families had become a wasteland because of the Sainguiros Sect and what they had done.

Though he hadn’t known they had offered their own kind as sacrifices like this.

“Boladi sought revenge then, but realistically, he couldn’t have caught everyone involved. While he might have gotten those directly involved, the number of simple associates would have been dozens of times more. Large-scale subjugation was carried out afterward too.”

No matter how vast the Empire’s land was and how developed self-governance was, such incidents couldn’t be covered up for long.

Large-scale subjugation was carried out to the extent that the Skeleton Principal personally led Imperial forces to surround the entire western region, and in such situations, even Professor Boladi would have found it difficult to carry out revenge as he pleased.

Someone like Count Langbern now was likely someone who had barely survived by taking advantage of that chaos.

“Do you think the Professor is trying to find and deal with all the associates he couldn’t catch back then?”

“…I’m not sure about that either, Wardanaz.”

Among the old associates, there were surely quite a few who still secretly believed even now.

If such associates were swept away, naturally the Sainguiros Sect would have no choice but to react.

The strategy of cutting off and provoking the enemy’s hands and feet was certainly a good strategy, but…

…Professor Kirmin wasn’t confident whether his friend was really deploying strategy in a rational state without a single trace of personal interest.

The Skeleton Principal had told him to trust Professor Boladi, but the old image of his friend burning with revenge still flickered before his eyes.

“Whatever it is, use any means necessary and just tie his feet for a moment.”

-If you can just make him let his guard down, we can bind his hands and feet. Please just make him let his guard down a little.

‘Earlier you told me to persuade him…’

Lee Han was dumbfounded by what Professor Kirmin and the Death Knights were saying.

Do these people really believe persuasion is possible?

“What? Get lost!”

The mercenaries and guards who were causing chaos in the courtyard showed rough reactions to the new group.

The mercenaries were wary thinking it might be pursuit by a knight order, and the guards were wary thinking new intruders had appeared when they hadn’t even caught all the mercenaries yet.

Already worried sick because of Professor Boladi, when some random bastards acted annoyingly, the knights’ eyes blazed blue-green.

Professor Kirmin reached out to stop them.

“We don’t know the situation inside, so let’s not make things bigger. I’ll handle it.”

“It’s a wizard! Be carefulㅎ…”

There was one quick-witted guard who tried to take out an artifact to prepare for magic.

But even such a quick reaction was in vain, as those who were there suddenly stopped as if their souls had left their bodies.

“???”

Lee Han was startled.

None of the illusion magic he had learned so far had shown such fast and powerful effects.

What the hell?

‘Miniature world? No, it was too quiet. Evil eye? But a magic eye with this kind of power…’

Sensing his disciple’s confusion, Professor Kirmin said with an embarrassed face.

“Wardanaz. I know you’ll be curious, so I’ll just tell you. Don’t go around telling others. My mother is… a succubus.”

“!!!”

Lee Han had to be surprised once more before he could even finish being surprised about the professor’s race.

The racial power of a dream demon was similar to a basilisk’s power, making precise control impossible.

You couldn’t deploy a petrifying evil eye on one person while not using it on another.

“You can control a dream demon’s power this precisely?!”

“To be exact, I just blasted the entire manor, but it didn’t work on you, Wardanaz…”

-We’re undead, so it doesn’t work on us.

When he turned around, he saw that Amurec, who had come with them, had fallen into a dream and was staring blankly into space with empty eyes.

Lee Han decided he should apologize as soon as this was over.

“Then let’s go up.”

“Please wait a moment.”

Having experienced the professor’s escape once, Lee Han had no intention of approaching in an ordinary way.

Wasn’t he someone who would immediately flee at the slightest opportunity?

Crack-!

The death knights’ jaws dropped.

They had naturally thought the successor would have prepared a few methods, but transforming into a dragon was unexpected.

Let’s go!

-Uh, uhh…

Lee Han, transformed into a black dragon, suddenly charged toward the 4th floor, smashing through the manor’s walls and ceiling.

“!”

Professor Boladi, who had originally planned to escape while the death knights were coming up, momentarily lost concentration and widened his eyes at his disciple’s transformation.

The manor was collapsing and falling down, but that wasn’t very important—the appearance of a dragon was much more significant.

What on earth had happened?

Taking advantage of that moment, the death knights who had been hiding under the wings leaped out.

-Got him!

-Professor Ku, put this troublemaker to sleep! Lock him in the deepest part of Einroguard until this is over!

“…Aren’t you going to persuade him?”

Lee Han, who had released his transformation and was coughing, looked at the knights as if bewildered.

The death knights avoided his gaze, hiding their embarrassment.

-Of course persuasion comes first. Now. Persuade him.

-We believe in you!

“…”

Suddenly receiving such encouragement was very burdensome. Professor Boladi stared directly at Lee Han.

“I told you to study on your own, didn’t I?”

“Uh… well, you see.”

When Lee Han was at a loss for words, Professor Kirmin cleared his throat. It meant not to be afraid.

‘He’s the one who ran away, Wardanaz! Don’t be scared of that pathetic master!’

“Professor. You can’t leave school and act on your own like this.”

“I have a valid reason.”

Professor Boladi explained calmly.

It was the theory Lee Han was already familiar with: ‘Since there are many enemies in the order, strike first to concentrate their resentment on this side.’

“You shouldn’t be acting on your own like this without a commission either.”

“I’m, I’m sorry…”

-This is hopeless.

The death knights shook their heads.

The master and disciple fundamentally had terrible compatibility.

The only remaining method was to keep knocking him unconscious so he couldn’t use dimensional escape…

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