Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1220

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Chapter 1220

Hierdan really pulled out more pouches. The Death Knights hid their reluctance and took all of them.

This many?

-Open this if someone tries to attack Master. What on earth is written inside?

-This pouch says to open it when a rebellion breaks out within Einroguard…

On the way back after completing their mission.

The Death Knights discussed what contents might be in the colorful pouches.

Pouches like ‘Open if you try to attack the Skeleton Principal’ or ‘Open when a rebellion breaks out within Einroguard’ really sparked their imagination.

What kind of pouch could that be?

-What other pouches are there?

-Hmm… There’s ‘Open if you only take Dark Magic courses’ and ‘Open if you make unhelpful friends’.

-Shouldn’t we open the last one now?

-That… doesn’t seem quite right.

The knights who went through all sorts of miscellaneous pouches one by one could at least agree on one thing.

They could understand why the successor found Hierdan creepy!

-It seems like he avoids him because he makes pouches like these.

-Shh. Keep your mouth shut until we return to Einroguard.

The veteran knight gestured.

Until they returned to Einroguard, they had to be careful with their words anywhere, anytime.

* * *

When he opened his eyes, Lee Han realized he was trapped in an unfamiliar solitary cell he’d never seen before.

“…Ugh!”

When he tried to get up from the bed, his whole body screamed. It felt like there wasn’t a single healthy muscle in his entire body.

Lee Han circulated mana throughout his body. Sure enough, traces of injuries that hadn’t fully healed were visible everywhere.

When he opened his vision and examined his soul, his soul was in as terrible a state as his body.

Fortunately, the healing had been done properly, but it seemed he’d need to rest for several more days.

‘How long have I been sleeping?’

There was a sign hanging in front of the solitary cell door. Lee Han looked at it curiously and flipped the sign to check its contents.

Extremely wicked criminal who ignored the Principal and three Professors’ words and acted on his own (Very dangerous)

“…”

Lee Han broke the sign and threw it into the nearby fireplace. Then he lit a fire.

‘It’s warm.’

The solitary cell looked different from regular punishment rooms.

It was quite spacious and had several pieces of furniture inside. Not only the fireplace he’d just used, but also an old desk, a bed, and even a bookshelf…

‘Wait. A bookshelf?’

Curious, Lee Han checked the books on the bookshelf.

Do punishment rooms have bookshelves too?

【The Tragic End of a Disciple Who Defied His Master’s Words】

【Collection of Moral Instructions Left by the Lord of Einroguard】

【Why Mages Should Not Ignore Their Master’s Words and Act Arbitrarily? Seven Arguments】

“…”

Lee Han threw these books into the fireplace as well. The flames became a bit warmer.

‘There’s ink, quill pens, and even paper. There’s a kettle too.’

After hanging the water-filled kettle over the fireplace, Lee Han fell into thought.

Originally, punishment rooms didn’t have things like this.

So students had to bring things in themselves or manage without…

Having such thoughtful arrangements made him rather anxious instead.

At Einroguard, you should be most wary when the school shows kindness.

“Lord Perkuntra?”

Lee Han tried calling for Perkuntra once.

As the spirit managing Einroguard’s punishment rooms, he would surely be able to hear if Lee Han called.

However, no answer came back.

‘Hmm. As expected, it doesn’t work.’

It wasn’t unexpected.

The Professors knew about Lee Han and Perkuntra’s relationship, so they wouldn’t leave Perkuntra alone when sending him to the punishment room.

No guard would give a prisoner the prison keys when letting them in.

If not that, it could be that Perkuntra was sulking and not answering.

Since he kept ignoring the warnings and acting on his own…

‘It was a bit reckless.’

After resting well and cooling his head, he newly felt how dangerous what he’d done was, and how dangerous the small world Dunamis magic was.

To think he’d drawn future magic to his present self by paying the price in advance.

He was lucky he didn’t collapse on the spot – it wouldn’t have been strange if he’d immediately coughed up blood and rolled around.

“Is anyone there?”

Swoosh-

Without any sound, a person appeared from the corridor outside the door.

Where ears should have been, bandages were wrapped tightly, and empty eye sockets stared intently at Lee Han.

It was a very shocking and bewildering appearance, but Lee Han had seen such beings several times before.

The Warehouse Keeper with eyes covered by bandages and the Spire Keeper with mouth covered by bandages were exactly such existences.

The Skeleton Principal’s minions who were far more loyal than the Death Knights!

“Excuse me, but who are you? And could you tell me where this is…”

Instead of answering, the other person continued staring intently at Lee Han. It seemed like they were checking if his condition was okay.

‘Ah. They can’t hear me.’

Lee Han finally realized the other person was deaf. Looking down, he could see a name tag at their waist that read ‘Prison Guard’.

After finishing the check, the Prison Guard passed by again.

“…Well. I’ll figure it out myself!”

Feeling awkward, Lee Han shouted that and began making his own deductions.

It wasn’t a regular punishment room, nor a deep punishment room…

‘An underwater punishment room for aquatic races located under the lake? No. There’s no reason I’d be put there. Is it a punishment room located in the desert? I wondered if that really existed.’

“Are you awake, Wardanaz?”

From far away, along with the sound of shoe heels clicking, Professor Kirmin poked her head out.

Lee Han called out happily.

“Professor Ku!”

“Oh. Wardanaz. You ignored everything I said, so I thought you hated me. This is surprising?”

“Come on. Why would you say such things? You’re misunderstanding.”

“Hmph. Misunderstanding my foot.”

Professor Kirmin grumbled and summoned a chair from thin air. Lee Han said apologetically.

“If we’re being precise, I didn’t just ignore your words, Professor – I ignored Professor Garcia and Professor Bagrek’s words too…”

“…Are you calling that consolation right now?”

Professor Kirmin looked at her disciple as if dumbfounded.

She was so dumbfounded that her grumbling mood disappeared.

Is he calling that words right now?

“I’m sorry.”

“Well… I guess it’s better than being the only one ignored…”

Unlike Professor Boladi or Professor Garcia, Professor Kirmin had spent relatively little time with this disciple.

It was natural since she didn’t have few disciples like Professor Boladi, nor was she as meddlesome as Professor Garcia.

Because of that, she’d sometimes wondered if Wardanaz was less obedient to her, so honestly she didn’t feel bad about it.

Though she wondered if she should be happy hearing this!

“Professor Ku. Where is this place?”

“A punishment room exclusively for upperclassmen and Professors.”

“Excuse me? Professor Verdus was locked up somewhere else last time, wasn’t he?”

“This is where people with relatively minor offenses are confined. Those who failed to submit magic on time, or missed things they were supposed to do…”

“…???”

Lee Han felt something was strange.

Then Professor Verdus should be in here, so why was he in a different punishment room?

‘No. Let’s not bother asking.’

Come to think of it, he wasn’t really curious. What would be the point of knowing why Professor Verdus received aggravated punishment?

There were plenty of more important things right now.

“So that’s why the facilities were a bit better. How long was I sleeping? What time is it now?”

Professor Kirmin spread out his fingers.

Lee Han was shocked to hear there was one month left until final exams.

He had essentially slept for over ten days!

“I slept that long!? Why didn’t you wake me up?!”

“…”

Professor Kirmin looked around the corridor to see if there was anything to throw.

Unfortunately, since it was a punishment room for professors, there was nothing useful in the corridor.

“Who told you to get hurt like that? How could I wake someone who was injured and recovering?”

“I could have recovered while awake.”

“…You’re not trying to lure me into opening the door, are you, Wardanaz? Attempting to escape?”

At the professor’s words, this time it was Lee Han’s turn to be dumbfounded.

“Why would I do such a thing? I know my physical condition isn’t good right now too.”

“S-sorry. Professor Bagrek has done it before.”

“…”

The atmosphere suddenly became solemn. Lee Han blamed Professor Boladi.

‘That person is really too much!’

No wonder his friend had developed a suspicious personality.

“Professor.”

“What.”

“How long do I have to stay in the punishment room? Until the end of the semester?”

At Lee Han’s question, Professor Kirmin smiled slyly. He looked like he had been waiting for this question.

“Until the end of vacation.”

“…No!”

Lee Han was greatly shocked by the much longer period than expected.

If he had to stay in the punishment room until the end of vacation, when would he collect gold?

“Professor! I’m a third year next year. I need to collect gold coins!”

“Wardanaz, what you’ve collected so far is already enough…”

Professor Kirmin answered with a disgusted expression.

Although Professor Kirmin didn’t fully grasp all of Wardanaz’s business ventures, even just calculating what had surfaced was absolutely not lacking.

Even just this semester, where he wasted a lot of time because of Boladi, hadn’t he received commission fees dozens of times more than other students?

“And you can just take on requests that can be handled from inside the punishment room.”

“The requests that require going outside pay better.”

“Who told you to disobey and use dangerous magic?”

Professor Kirmin answered as if he was dying of satisfaction.

Instead of appealing to this mean and wicked professor, Lee Han decided to look for a kind professor.

“Does Professor Garcia also know? If she doesn’t know, please tell her. She would surely help me.”

“Wardanaz. Professor Kim was the one who got angry and said you should be locked up until the end of vacation.”

“…”

“You shouldn’t have made a good person angry.”

When originally good people got angry, they were all the more frightening.

To the Skeleton Principal, who was going to release him moderately since he had achieved merit in subjugating the evil deity and learned magic, Professor Garcia unleashed fury that even the demons of hell would fear.

It was such burning anger that even the professors who usually opposed sending Lee Han to the punishment room because they had many things for him to do bowed their heads.

“Won’t the merit of subjugating the evil deity be taken into consideration?”

“A medal might arrive by mail. Though you won’t be able to attend the award ceremony.”

Lee Han sighed and gave up.

It seemed there was no way out.

Perkuntra’s help was blocked, and if Professor Garcia was like that, there would be no professor to help him…

At this point, he might have to stay there reflecting until the end of vacation.

‘Still, I don’t regret it.’

With the blessing of countless Einroguard upperclassmen who had been caught before, Lee Han steeled his heart.

Regretting being caught was nothing more than amateur behavior.

A truly excellent mage should think about how not to get caught next time.

‘Next time I’ll forge things a bit more cleverly…’

“Here, take this.”

Professor Kirmin held out the bundle he had brought.

It was several quite difficult illusion magic grimoires and simple snacks.

Lee Han took out cheese, butter, jam, and white round bread from the bundle and expressed his gratitude.

“Thank you, Professor.”

“Don’t mention it for something like this. If there are parts you don’t understand after reading, ask via paper bird. I have somewhere to go.”

“Are you going to lecture?”

“No. I’m going to see Professor Bagrek. He’s in the next cell.”

“…”

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