Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1196

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Chapter 1196

Lee Han, unable to bear watching the professors’ unseemly quarrel, spoke up.

“Can’t you just ask me directly?”

“That wouldn’t be proper.”

Professor Boladi brought up the correct argument again.

When evaluating a student’s magic, one couldn’t rely solely on the testimony of the person involved.

It was necessary to secure objective testimonies from proven third parties with demonstrated abilities to make a relatively accurate assessment.

Lee Han pretended not to see Professor Kirmin adding his middle finger behind his friend’s back as he continued speaking.

“Since you’ve escaped, wouldn’t it be even more improper to ask the Principal?”

“Why would that be?”

Professor Boladi asked back with genuine puzzlement.

Just because a professor had escaped didn’t mean they wouldn’t share information about educational situations.

That would be irresponsible behavior as the lord of Einroguard.

The Skeleton Principal that the professor knew would clearly distinguish between public and private matters and provide a proper response.

-Usually people don’t send letters after escaping, so that makes sense…

One of the knights muttered.

Throughout Einroguard’s long history, all sorts of crazy people had swarmed the place, but none had ever escaped and then sent a greeting letter.

“Should I just tell you to send a letter?”

Lee Han’s words carried a hint of sincerity.

He wanted to share the absurdity that the current group was feeling with the Skeleton Principal as well.

-I wouldn’t particularly recommend it. Unlike you, successor, our master doesn’t get angry when receiving such letters.

Rather, given the Skeleton Principal’s personality, he might add things that Lee Han wouldn’t want him to know in his reply.

Hearing this, Lee Han felt a chill down his spine.

“Indeed, you knights are seasoned veterans who have been through all sorts of battles. You’re much wiser than I am!”

-I’m not sure why you’re suddenly feeling that from this conversation… but well, thank you for the compliment.

Despite receiving praise, the Death Knights showed a lukewarm reaction.

It would have been satisfying to receive praise after cutting off a monster’s head with a single stroke or keenly detecting an enemy’s trap, but receiving praise after telling someone not to send a letter to the Skeleton Principal felt somewhat lukewarm.

What did he usually think of them?

While Lee Han was chatting with the knights, Professor Kirmin conveyed what had happened as briefly and simply as possible.

“During the northern commission, we encountered dark mages, and in that process, made a contract with the Demon Hag…”

“Isn’t that dangerous?”

“Who told you to escape? The dark mages invited us. With the Descendants of Ahrak…”

Professor Boladi shook his head. These weren’t conditions he was particularly fond of.

“I don’t like it.”

“Oondorgu’s Legion.”

“Even less so.”

“I’m not explaining this for you to choose, so be quiet.”

Whether his friend’s sincerity got through, Professor Boladi fell silent.

The progress moved quickly, and before long they had reached the topic of midterm exams.

“Professor Thunderstep was unfortunately greatly shocked.”

Professor Boladi stared intently at his friend.

His gaze seemed to ask why he was telling unimportant and uninteresting stories.

Though Professor Kirmin had been prickly and blunt, he admitted his mistake on this point.

“Well, this isn’t really that important. I don’t know why I brought it up either.”

“When are you planning to talk about transformation magic?”

“Wait a bit. I’m about to get to it now.”

-…

The knights felt deep sympathy for Professor Thunderstep.

These young professor bastards were really going too far.

* * *

“About transforming into a dragon…”

“Professor. Since it’s come to this, we must press on without rest. Count Langbern’s subordinates may not have figured out the truth, but if such incidents repeat, any sharp-witted enemies might become suspicious.”

“I understand. But about transforming into a dragon…”

“Please inform us of the list of enemies you’re currently targeting, Professor. We’ll all join forces to defeat them!”

“…”

Professor Boladi, who had arrived at the hideout, stared intently at his disciple. In the past, he would have immediately backed down, but Lee Han had recently trained his shamelessness considerably.

He gazed at his master with a serious expression as if he had no idea what the problem was.

“It would be better to refrain from transforming into a dragon.”

‘Ah.’

However, Professor Boladi was still one step ahead.

He had pierced through his disciple’s thread-thin moment of carelessness and immediately delivered his teaching. Lee Han realized that he had been intoxicated by his sense of victory and revealed a gap between breaths.

‘I should have continued speaking without pause.’

“The mana would be fine, but the other burdens are significant.”

“I understand. Unless I’m facing a powerful enemy, or unless physical abilities are needed, I don’t plan to transform unnecessarily either.”

Currently, the advantage when Lee Han transformed into a dragon was his tremendous physical abilities.

The destructive power from a body dozens of times larger, and the species’ inherent defensive capabilities.

He hadn’t yet been able to utilize the various other powers that dragons could use. This was natural since these powers were so difficult that even dragons trained for decades to master them.

Therefore, unless mass and defensive power were needed, there was no particular reason to transform into a dragon.

Unless it was to surprise a powerful enemy.

‘Surely he doesn’t mean Boladi when he says powerful enemy.’

Professor Kirmin thought to himself.

No matter how he looked at it, he had the feeling that the powerful enemy referred to Boladi rather than the evil god worshippers.

That couldn’t be right, could it?

-This hideout hasn’t been exposed to the outside yet, but there’s still no point in being complacent. Professor Bagrek. State your target.

The hideout the group had arrived at was originally an external hideout used by the Death Knights.

These knights, who spent more time outside the school than inside, naturally had secured multiple networks and hideouts outside the Empire as well. Problems couldn’t be solved by force alone.

These hideouts had their security checked periodically and their locations changed. Even if there were no particular problems, the knights didn’t let their guard down.

This hideout would certainly be changed soon since it had been used this time.

‘The waste is no joke.’

Lee Han thought to himself.

This two-story building located near the city gates clearly looked like it had cost quite a lot.

Most importantly, casting multiple spells inside while making it appear from the outside as if no magic had been cast was highly difficult.

It required much more cunning preparation than the conspicuous mansions of mages.

And they replaced this every time they used it.

Could it be that the Skeleton Principal’s constant grumbling about having no money was because…

“The next target I’m aiming for is the mage Enstair.”

The mage named Enstair belonged to the summoning magic school, and among them, he was particularly skilled at crafting small to medium-sized golems, making him highly renowned in this city of Alquie.

There were mages from other regions besides the west who knew his name, so his skills had to be considered reliable.

Amurec, who had been participating in the meeting and listening attentively, cried out in great surprise.

“The mage Enstair… could there be some mistake?!”

The reason this knight of the Crescent Moon Knights was surprised was because of Enstair’s usual behavior.

Of course, Count Langbern was equally shocking, but this person at least had some suspicious aspects like secluding himself and avoiding contact.

In comparison, the mage named Enstair actively interacted with other mages and didn’t hesitate to share his knowledge.

Moreover, he was generous to people other than mages as well. Just seeing how the city’s beggars frequently visited his workshop showed how good-hearted he was.

Professor Boladi didn’t get angry at the young knight’s opposition and explained indifferently.

“It’s a disguise.”

“A… disguise?”

All the former associates of Seinguiros were individuals who had expertise in hiding themselves.

Those who didn’t were caught and punished together during the subjugation.

Enstair’s current lifestyle was a kind of mask, and behind it was hidden a sinister mage who secretly utilized the knowledge and power received from Seinguiros.

“He’s offering victims as sacrifices and transforming them into combat golems.”

“…”

Amurec shuddered.

No matter how vast the territory the knight order was responsible for, creating inevitable gaps, he never imagined such a villain existed right under their noses.

It made him reflect anew.

“But… how did you find this out?”

After the reflection ended, curiosity came next.

How had this professor discovered the mage’s secret that even the knights couldn’t uncover?

“I heard it from a demon that Enstair recently contracted with.”

“????”

Amurec doubted his ears.

He heard it from a demon?

“Demons tell you such things… you say?”

Demons weren’t kind respondents. If they answered obediently when asked, why would demons have such a notorious reputation?

“That’s generally how it works.”

Professor Kirmin hastily changed the subject. He could guess what methods his friend had used.

He probably captured the demon and then physically extracted the information contained within.

“There are secret techniques used only at Einroguard. Hahaha.”

“…Ah! I understand!”

Despite the half-hearted nonsense thrown at him, Amurec looked at Lee Han as if he understood.

Professor Kirmin was even more flustered by that reaction.

What did he understand?

“I heard from my younger brother! That Wardanaz here persuades demons and uses them like servants! So that was the secret technique!”

As the incomprehensible anecdote he’d heard in the past was explained today, Amurec’s eyes shone with enlightenment.

“…”

“…”

Of course, Professor Kirmin and Lee Han hung their heads with gloomy expressions.

Lee Han ground his teeth inwardly.

‘That bastard Bartrek…!’

If Bartrek was this bad, he couldn’t even imagine how many false rumors the White Tiger Tower friends had spread when they each returned to their families.

-Seeing that Enstair is still alive, he seems more cautious than Langbern.

One of the death knights spoke quietly.

Count Langbern’s biggest mistake was not giving up fame and wealth despite having committed sins in the past.

With such a past, he should have fled to the distant seas beyond the Empire’s west or beyond the eastern mountain ranges and never returned, yet he arrogantly established himself elsewhere within the Empire and acted dignified like a noble.

It was arrogance that deserved death.

Compared to that, the mage called Enstair was more cautious.

He didn’t act arrogantly like a noble, nor did he suspiciously seclude himself, and moreover…

-Is the workshop well defended?

Professor Boladi nodded. The knights made clicking sounds with their tongues.

-Then he must have prepared several escape routes. Mages who are good at running away are troublesome for this reason.

“Indeed they are.”

Lee Han agreed enthusiastically.

Professor Kirmin felt there was something pointed about that remark, but said nothing.

-Let’s hear the successor’s opinion first. Do you have any ideas? It doesn’t have to be a complete plan.

Amurec wasn’t listening very intently.

He knew Wardanaz was an excellent mage, but wasn’t he still a second-year?

The method to attack such a fortified mage’s workshop should be thought up by a knight like himself.

‘To make him let his guard down or lure him out…’

“Well, I can give limited commands to other evil worshippers. If I send these people, wouldn’t the opponent let his guard down a bit?”

Crash!

Amurec fell backward while still sitting.

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