Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 147

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Chapter 147

Lee Han’s face hardened stiffly.

He immediately guessed the thief’s identity.

‘Anti-Magic Faction!’

Just like those who had attacked Professor Garcia before, they had clearly infiltrated the school taking advantage of this spring festival.

“Be careful, Yoner! It’s an Anti-Magic Extremist!”

“Uh… huh?”

Yoner had been equally tense, but hesitated upon hearing Lee Han’s words.

It seemed a bit strange that the thief before them was from the Anti-Magic Faction.

Usually, Anti-Magic Extremists were the type to cause loud and flashy incidents.

Having their own convictions and pride, they wouldn’t dress like common thieves and sneak in at night.

‘A hired thief perhaps?’

“Get out of the way, brats! If you don’t want to get hurt!”

The thief before them, realizing that Lee Han and Yoner were new students, drew his short sword and tried to threaten them fiercely.

However, before the thief could fully draw his short sword, Lee Han’s incantation was completed.

“Flash!”

With a fierce shout, lightning crackled forth.

It was faster than the thief had expected.

“Wha… Gack!!”

* * *

In fact, not all intruders who entered magic schools were from the Anti-Magic Faction.

Rather, Anti-Magic Extremists were among the hardest intruders to infiltrate magic schools.

Since they were the type to cause major incidents once inside, magic schools managed them as strictly as possible.

The most common type of intruders entering magic schools were surprisingly mercenaries and adventurers.

The Empire’s magic schools weren’t simply places of education, but locations where the Empire’s most outstanding mages gathered to research magic.

The things researched within, no matter how trivial or failed, would increase in value dozens or hundreds of times when taken outside.

Among external mages, there were many who would pay a fortune just upon hearing that something was being researched at a magic school.

Today’s thief was exactly such a case.

-I heard Einroguard is accepting outsiders thanks to the spring festival.

-Really?

-Yeah. Let’s go in and grab something valuable to bring out.

-But… getting involved with high-level mages is scary…

-Of course I know there are monster-like guys among those mages too. But there aren’t many of those types. Would such people bother coming out just because someone sneakily steals one thing while mixed in with the guests? They won’t even care. There are so many people around. We just need to not get caught. Just not get caught.

-Hmm! That’s true…

-No one else can follow you when it comes to breaking into magically protected buildings. Last time too, what was that guy’s name? That mercenary mage? You broke through the magic that gentleman had set up and got in.

-That’s true.

They probably had some experience dealing with mages, and would be feeling greedy too.

So the thief forged his identity and entered Einroguard.

Getting into the magic school wasn’t too difficult because of the spring festival. You could pass through with just a reasonable excuse.

However…

-Wasn’t this supposed to be the main building??

-There should definitely be a main building here?

The thieves had underestimated the magic school too much.

The 1st and 2nd circle mercenary mages they could mostly encounter outside were on a completely different level from the mages of the magic school.

The unprepared thieves were caught by the magic school’s defensive magic and illusion magic, unable to even find proper locations.

The thieves who kept wandering and wandering like that were barely able to discover one building.

-Found… found it!

-That’s just the stables…?

-It’s the magic school’s stables! There must be lots of rare ones there!

-Th, that’s right!

The thieves who discovered the stables located separately in a remote area hurriedly opened the door and went inside.

However, what they could see inside the stables were only ordinary horses.

-Damn it! There are only horses!

-Should we take some horses with us?

-What nonsense… do you think we came here to take horses? And how are we going to take horses with us? Unless it’s something small, it’s hard to carry out!

There was one griffin right in front of them, but unfortunately the thieves didn’t notice it.

Sadly, the thieves’ misfortune didn’t end there.

While opening the door of the stables and coming out, they even ran into new students.

“…”

“…It’s not Ratford! Yoner! It’s a thief!”

The thief who saw the shouting student was very flustered, but soon regained his composure.

There were no people around and the other person looked like a new student. That much was enough to suppress them and escape.

“Be careful, Yoner! It’s an anti-magic extremist!”

“!?”

The thief was flustered by the absurd misunderstanding.

An anti-magic extremist.

It was a ridiculous misunderstanding.

He had just come in to take a few things that would make money…

‘Damn, this isn’t the time for this!’

The thief realized he couldn’t waste time. Other people might come if they heard the noise.

“Get out of the way, brats! If you don’t want to get hurt!”

The thief tried to draw his sharply honed shortsword.

Of course, he had no intention of actually hurting the students.

Stealing one or two items from the magic school was on a different level from hurting students.

He didn’t want to come in to make some money only to be tracked for life by the monsters of the magic school.

…However, the thief didn’t know.

The new student in front of him was also one of the monsters from that formidable magic school.

“Flash!”

Along with the flashing lightning bolt, muscle-searing pain burned through the thief’s brain.

‘Guk…?!’

Beyond the pain, the thief couldn’t understand the current situation.

Having faced mages outside a few times, the thief knew how much time it took for mages to chant incantations and cast magic.

In fact, magic was surprisingly difficult to use in combat.

One had to maintain concentration without wavering while chanting long incantations and waving a staff.

Not many people could do that on a battlefield where murderous shouts erupted and weapons flew around.

Moreover, the opponent was a new student.

Even mercenary mages took quite some time to chant incantations without mistakes, so a magic school rookie who hadn’t learned magic for long should definitely take longer…?

“Kraaaaak!”

“Flash, flash, flash!”

‘Stop it!!’

The thief convulsed on the floor and screamed only in his mind.

His throat wouldn’t obey due to the electrocution. If he hadn’t worn armor with magic resistance, he would have fainted long ago.

In his agony, the thief realized he had underestimated the magic school too much.

‘This is no joke…!’

He didn’t know what kind of teaching they received, but the magic school’s new students were on a different level.

The thief vowed that if he survived and got out, he would avoid magic school graduate mages even at the sight of their shadows.

‘He-help me, you bastard…’

The thief looked at his accomplice still inside the stables and thought to himself.

The accomplice who had entered together was frozen by the one-sided violence happening outside the stables and didn’t dare come out.

He understood the feeling, but being fried by lightning made him curse.

‘Help me… damn…! If I get suppressed… you’re next…!’

Meanwhile, Lee Han floated a water orb while shooting lightning.

Though he had luckily gained the upper hand, Lee Han never let his guard down.

If they were anti-magic extremists, this could also be a trick.

“Yoner. Step back.”

“Uh… huh? He seems suppressed though?”

Though Yoner wasn’t a combat expert, he could tell the opponent was foaming at the mouth.

“No. It could be a trick by the anti-magic faction.”

“Re… really?”

Yoner stepped back as Lee Han said.

The opponent seemed to be foaming at the mouth, but Lee Han wasn’t someone who was wrong about these things…

Swoosh!

The water orb flew and struck the fallen thief hard. It was fortunate that the thief had lost consciousness.

“…Seems like he’s down.”

‘Actually, he seemed down earlier.’

Lee Han didn’t let his guard down even after the opponent had fallen.

He cast various spells and floated more Water Orbs.

Anti-Magic Extremists never traveled alone. It wouldn’t be strange if his accomplices were nearby.

“Light!”

Lee Han shot a massive Light Orb up into the sky.

With such a bright Light Orb, the other professors would come running.

“The professors will be here soon. We just need to hold out until then.”

“Yeah…”

Yoner glanced at the fallen thief.

Looking at the level of the fallen thief, it was a bit unclear who exactly needed to hold out until the professors arrived…

Creak-

“!”

Lee Han turned his gaze. From inside the stables came a creaking sound as the door slowly opened.

Lee Han aimed his staff.

The moment an enemy appeared, he planned to unleash all his prepared spells.

“Please… spare me!”

However, what emerged was a thief covered in tears and snot.

The thief who had witnessed his accomplice getting beaten down by magic inside the stables was completely terrified. He raised both arms and desperately shouted.

“I’m not an Anti-Magic Extremist! I’m not an Anti-Magic Extremist!! Please just spare my life…”

“Flash!”

“Argh!”

Lee Han swung his staff without mercy. The thief struck by lightning collapsed forward.

Seeing this, Lee Han muttered quietly.

“Hmm… He might actually not be an Anti-Magic Extremist.”

“…”

‘Thank goodness he’s a friend from the same tower.’

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The first to arrive was the Skeleton Principal.

One of the advantages of being a lich was having no need for sleep. Having received reports of the commotion, the Skeleton Principal came running excitedly, wondering if someone had attempted an escape.

What’s this… just thieves.

The Skeleton Principal spoke with disappointed eyes as soon as he arrived.

Lee Han asked in a surprised voice.

“Aren’t they Anti-Magic Extremists?”

You thought they were those guys? Those guys can’t get in this easily. And they’re not this weak either.

The Skeleton Principal looked over the thieves as he spoke.

Though he called them weak, the thieves’ equipment was quite high-grade. There were signs they had prepared specifically for dealing with mages.

They had definitely experienced breaking into other mages’ workshops or bases before.

That experience and arrogance had brought about this disaster…

Even from the Skeleton Principal’s perspective, Lee Han had really thoroughly suppressed the thieves. He had probably kept beating them thinking they were disguised Anti-Magic Extremists.

‘I got beaten up more because of those Anti-Magic Extremist bastards.’

“So you’re saying you just came in to steal?”

There are actually more of those types. With how many valuable things this school has, there’s no way there wouldn’t be thieves like that.

“But is it okay to hold festivals like this?”

At Lee Han’s question, the Skeleton Principal snorted.

Not being able to hold festivals because we’re afraid of thieves would be damaging to our pride as mages.

“I see…”

That made sense.

If the Empire’s greatest magic school acted cautiously because they feared mere thieves, that would be ridiculous in its own way.

And sometimes using thieves breaking in as an excuse could help secure more budget…

“…”

“…”

Lee Han and Yoner pretended not to hear.

To think they’d hear the behind-the-scenes financial operations of the magic school like this…

Anyway, well done. Catching thieves like this. I’ll handle these thieves myself.

“Come to think of it, can we get an outing pass as a reward?”

For catching worthless trash like this who aren’t even Anti-Magic Extremists? Do you have no conscience for someone who isn’t even a lich?

“…”

I’ll consider it if you catch someone more valuable.

“Even so, we caught thieves like this and you’re not giving us any reward at all.”

Yoner protested as if it was unreasonable.

Unlike Lee Han, Yoner still had a tiny bit of faith and expectation left regarding the Skeleton Principal.

That’s a fair point too. Fine! I’ll think of something appropriate.

When the Skeleton Principal readily agreed, Lee Han became inexplicably anxious.

It was a deserved reward, so why did he feel so uneasy?

Oh right. That thief probably wasn’t the only one who got in, so I should have the students stand guard too.

The Skeleton Principal spoke as if a good idea had occurred to him.

Lee Han didn’t understand.

“Don’t you have your summoned creatures, Principal?”

Oh my. But the undead need to rest too.

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