Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 178
—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————
Chapter 178
He couldn’t even guess why the apprentice knights were applauding.
‘And I don’t want to know either.’
Lee Han turned around to quickly escape from the scene.
To the apprentice knights’ eyes, this appeared as the pride of someone from a great noble family who didn’t care much about his own honorable actions.
When a person of pride performs honorable deeds, it’s because those actions are honorable, not because praise and rewards follow those actions.
Clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap!
The applause grew even louder.
Lee Han shuddered and shook his head back and forth.
* * *
“Ah. So that’s why.”
Lee Han could only understand after Durgyu explained it to him.
Durgyu was bewildered by that reaction.
“…Why are you surprised, Lee Han?”
Hadn’t he helped the other person who was injured from an excessive technique, even breaking his own sword in the process?
“I was just trying to break the other person’s sword and ended up breaking mine too.”
“…I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that.”
“What do you mean pretend you didn’t hear? I was trying to break the other person’s sword and…”
“Look! The apprentice knights are coming! Let’s go greet them!”
Durgyu cut off Lee Han’s words.
Thanks to Lee Han’s honorable actions, the accumulated resentment between the apprentice knights and White Tiger Tower students had slightly dissolved.
Perhaps some truths didn’t need to be known.
Sizzle-
“?”
Lee Han and the White Tiger Tower students looked at the apprentice knights with confused expressions.
The apprentice knights had started a fire and begun grilling meat over it.
Lee Han asked Bikelintz.
“Excuse me, but what are those knights doing right now?”
“They’re grilling the game they caught themselves.”
Bikelintz nodded as if pleased.
Knights who traveled throughout the vast Empire had several customs.
One of them was treating others to monsters they had subjugated or hunted.
A kind of goodwill and gift that knights could show.
“Sprinkle some more spices.”
“Why? This much is enough.”
“They’re kids who attend magic school. The gamey smell and wild taste will be too strong for them to eat.”
Even the prey they worked hard to catch wasn’t all delicious.
In fact, among monsters, the tasty ones were rather rare.
Moreover, there was no way the apprentice knights would excel at butchering, bloodletting, or cooking, so it would be stranger if this meat tasted good.
That’s why what the apprentice knights relied on were strong spices.
When they sprinkled spices mixed with all kinds of seasonings from the Empire, it became quite edible.
“Oh. We used it all up.”
“Anyone have any left? Look around.”
Meanwhile, the meat was fully cooked. The waiting White Tiger Tower students began grabbing skewers one by one and tearing into the meat.
“Wai…”
“Is it cooked through?”
“It’s well done. Not bad.”
The White Tiger Tower students chewed and ate the meat with gusto. Their appearance of devouring it without the slightest hesitation was almost combative.
“…!”
“!!”
The apprentice knights were shocked seeing this.
They were eating so well without hesitation even though no spices had been sprinkled on it yet.
‘We misunderstood…!’
‘Right, a knight is a knight wherever they go!’
With this realization, the apprentice knights reflected on themselves.
How could they try to look down on fellow knights just because they lived comfortably at the magic school.
“…Sorry.”
“What?”
“We thought you guys were resting comfortably while we were suffering.”
At the apprentice knight’s words, the White Tiger Tower students frowned.
Calling that words…
“But we realized that’s not important. Whether it’s the rough and shabby training grounds on the city outskirts where we stay, or the comfortable and cozy dormitory rooms at the magic school where you stay, what matters is that we’re the same knights…”
“Do you really want to get stabbed in the back?”
“Ah, no, why?!”
While the knights were bickering, Lee Han took a bite of the meat skewer.
Then he made a cold assessment.
“They didn’t get rid of the gamey smell and fishy odor. Durgyu. Sprinkle some of this on yours.”
“I feel a bit self-conscious about sprinkling it just for myself…”
The bickering knights eventually seemed to reconcile somehow. They went back to tearing into the meat.
The White Tiger Tower students were students who had learned more keenly than anyone since enrollment that they had to eat when they could.
They quickly finished it off before the meat even finished sizzling and cooking over the flames.
“Wait, I have something to say.”
“Go ahead. Chomp.”
“Yeah. Gulp.”
“…”
The apprentice knight was dumbfounded by the White Tiger Tower students’ reaction.
Of course, it wasn’t bad that they were eating deliciously, but shouldn’t they listen a bit when someone is talking?
“…how we caught this Iron Boar.”
Originally, when knights served game they had hunted, bragging about how they caught it was also part of the custom.
The apprentice knights eagerly chattered about how they had caught it.
-So we divided into tracking, herding, and hunting groups, with the tracking group chasing and the herding group driving it, then we even used traps to drain its stamina…
“Munch munch.”
“Gulp.”
“So? What happened then?”
“…”
However, Lee Han was the only one who even pretended to listen. The other White Tiger Tower students focused on the meat with an attitude as if wondering where some dog was barking.
The apprentice knights felt frustrated.
They were trying to reconcile, but that attitude…!
“…Do you guys have anything you’ve caught recently?”
One of the apprentice knights couldn’t hold back and asked.
One of the White Tiger Tower students thought for a moment and said.
“Rakshasa Hungry Ghost.”
“…Don’t talk nonsense! How could you catch a Rakshasa Hungry Ghost!”
“We caught it though.”
“Right. We did catch it.”
Lee Han stared intently at the White Tiger Tower students.
‘Since when was it “we”?’
Feeling that gaze, the students turned their heads away.
“Tell us in detail!”
“Right. Tell us in detail!”
The apprentice knights glared with determination to catch any flaws if it was just boasting.
“Wardanaz cast magic…”
“And then?”
“He kept casting…”
“…And then?”
“He cast until it collapsed.”
“…”
The apprentice knights were at a loss for words.
It definitely sounded absurd, but…
That very point somehow made it feel more real.
“Wait. Then it wasn’t you guys who caught it, but Wardanaz?”
“We were there together, so we caught it together!”
“Let’s ask Wardanaz. Wardanaz, what do you think?”
“Just stop it and eat your meat…”
Lee Han muttered in a tired voice.
* * *
After fighting so fiercely in the morning, he wanted to rest.
But the other lectures wouldn’t wait for him.
When 【Basic Imperial Geometry and Arithmetic】 began in the afternoon, Lee Han regretted wasting his energy so pointlessly in the morning.
‘Because of those knights…’
Only Professor Ingoldel and Sir Bikelintz were satisfied, while the students were groaning with fatigue and muscle pain.
Some White Tiger Tower students were already boldly sleeping.
Lee Han looked at them as if they were pathetic.
“Those crazy bastards… Gainando. Wake up.”
Lee Han hit the back of his head. He was in no position to criticize other towers.
Gainando woke up with a start.
“So-someone seemed to hit me?”
“You must have had a bad dream. No one hit you.”
“Is that so?”
Everyone was hurriedly reading various books one last time while muttering, but Gainando and Lee Han weren’t doing such things and remained calmly still.
At first glance, the two seemed similar, but Yoner knew very well that their circumstances were completely opposite.
The difference between someone who was too well-prepared and someone who was too unprepared!
“Everyone, put away what’s on top.”
When Professor Alpen Naiton appeared, the students inhaled with expressions mixed with despair.
As his staff was waved, the books and papers on the desks went into bags.
Time and rules began to be written on the lecture hall blackboard.
“Students who finish may leave early. Now then, let’s begin.”
In less than 5 seconds, test papers appeared in front of the students. The students grabbed their quill pens with expressions as if they were about to vomit.
‘It’s not particularly difficult.’
Lee Han had a thought that would have earned him an ink bottle to the face if others had heard it, as he quickly worked through the problems.
In fact, mathematics and geometry problems of this difficulty level could be solved instantly by Lee Han without studying.
Problems mixed with magical elements, such as ‘Calculate the number of mana stones needed for this magic circle’ or ‘Complete the missing parts of the magic circle,’ were somewhat tricky, but not too difficult if you knew how to apply the concepts.
Writing fluently in one stroke.
Lee Han quickly filled in the blank spaces.
The expressions of other students sitting behind him turned to shock.
‘Wardanaz…!’
‘Shouldn’t Wardanaz be made to take tests in a different lecture hall for conscience’s sake?’
To think he could make other students despair just by solving problems.
The students grumbled inwardly.
Because Wardanaz studied too diligently, wouldn’t the grade average rise, the professors’ standards rise, and the evaluation criteria of noble families also rise?
Selfish bastard…!
“Don’t look around.”
At Professor Alpen’s warning, the students lowered their heads.
Lee Han stood up from his seat. Professor Alpen wasn’t surprised.
“Did you finish everything?”
“Yes.”
“You may submit and leave.”
Lee Han walked out of the lecture hall without looking back.
The students watched his back with eyes mixed with envy and jealousy.
Thud!
Gainando also stood up from his seat. Professor Alpen asked with a surprised expression.
“Did you finish everything?”
“Yes!”
“…You may submit and leave.”
Gainando also ran out of the lecture hall without looking back.
The students watched his back with eyes mixed with contempt and admiration.
‘That fearless bastard.’
‘You’re the best, Gainando!’
* * *
“Burn Bright!”
Normally there would have been shouts of ‘Don’t use magic in the common room! What if someone gets hit by mistake!’, but tonight was different.
Even Gainando was practicing while waving his staff.
Tomorrow, Thursday, was the most hellish day of this midterm exam week.
It was the day of Professor Garcia’s 【Basic Understanding of Magic】 exam.
As mages, for other liberal arts lectures or miscellaneous courses, even if grades came out low, excuses like ‘What does a mage need such liberal arts for?’ or ‘A mage just needs to be good at magic, why should they do such trivial calculations? I’m going to be a mage who succeeds through intuition’ were possible, but 【Basic Understanding of Magic】 was different.
A core lecture that Einroguard students couldn’t avoid.
“Gainando, did you take dark magic?”
“Yeah. Thanks to that, I have to study it too. Phew. It’s really tough.”
“I have to study summoning magic too. I’m having a harder time.”
How you planted seeds and made flowers bloom in this lecture determined your career path for the next year, so its importance was tremendous…
…and so was its difficulty.
The fields you decided to take interest in and learn during lecture time would require additional exams.
“Are you looking down on dark magic right now?! Do you know how difficult curses are!”
“Compared to summoning magic, dark magic is on the easy side!”
“Hey. Those who don’t know illusion magic should stay quiet.”
“Shouldn’t you guys focus more on basic elemental magic? That seems like it would be the most difficult.”
“Wardanaz. You decide for us. What do you think is the most difficult magic?”
Unable to decide among themselves, his friends called Lee Han.
Lee Han raised his head from among the mountain of books piled up. Books from all kinds of magic fields were messily stacked.
“What did you say?”
“…Oh, it’s nothing.”
“Work hard, Wardanaz!”
“Let’s quickly sit down and study too!”
—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
