Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 18

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Chapter 018

The White Tiger Tower students were more narrow-minded than Lee Han had thought.

As soon as class ended and he tried to leave, three students suddenly blocked his path.

“Wardanaz. Did you think you could win so despicably and just slip away?”

“We’ll teach you a lesson so you never dare to shamelessly enter our lectures again.”

A Dwarf Student and an Orc Student whose names Lee Han didn’t know spat out their words.

Lee Han, who hadn’t fully grasped the situation yet, threw out a question to probe them.

“You’re doing this even knowing my family is the Wardanaz Family?”

“How cowardly, threatening us with your family…!”

“Isn’t ganging up 3 to 1 cowardly too?”

“Shut up!”

Though they pretended otherwise, fear briefly flickered across The Other Person’s expression.

It seemed they had heard rumors about the Wardanaz Family.

Despite that, they were going to gang up 3 to 1 and throw punches just to salvage some dormitory pride?

‘Apart from basically having empty heads… do they have something to rely on?’

Either they were from Great Noble Houses themselves, or they had backing from Great Noble Houses.

‘It doesn’t seem like the former, so it must be the latter.’

If that was right, then their heads were severely empty indeed.

If friction arose with a Great Noble House like the Wardanaz Family, there was no way the opposing Great Noble House would protect them.

Most likely they’d be used and then abandoned.

There was a reason for the saying not to get involved in fights between Great Noble Houses…

‘If they were the type to understand through words, they wouldn’t have confronted me like this in the first place.’

If The Other Person was the type to charge recklessly without thinking ahead, no amount of logical persuasion from Lee Han would be meaningful.

Fists were close, but family was far away, wasn’t it?

“Who put you up to this? Probably a family with power that your families would find hard to refuse.”

“!!!”

“!!!!!”

The three Students were shocked as if they might faint.

How could a student from another dormitory guess so accurately about internal White Tiger Tower affairs?

“Sh… Shut up!”

“Let’s attack!”

“Surround him!”

The three realized that continuing the conversation would only hurt them, so they began moving stealthily to launch their attack.

‘3 to 1 is too much.’

Taking advantage of that moment, Lee Han quickly racked his brain.

Alarlong had spoken firmly.

-1 on 1 is fine. 2 on 1, do it if you must. 3 on 1, just run away.

If you end up fighting three people, just flee!

Lee Han agreed with that too.

All three were from Knight Families and had learned quite a bit of swordsmanship, so in a 3 to 1 fight, Lee Han would definitely be at a disadvantage.

The problem was that the three were blocking the path.

He had to somehow shake them and break through.

‘That’s it!’

At that moment, something flashed through Lee Han’s mind.

The Other Person knew that Lee Han was from the Magic Noble House Wardanaz Family.

He had to use that.

“Move!”

“Move!”

“Move!”

Move!

The three students were startled when Ihan chanted the spell in a powerful voice.

Magic, you say.

They’re still struggling with even the most basic light magic!

‘Threatens with low-level manipulation.’

Lee Han hadn’t perfectly mastered the 【Lower-Level Control】 magic either.

Proper control has not yet been achieved.

But it didn’t matter.

Since the opponent wouldn’t know that Lee Han hadn’t mastered it perfectly.

With both their magical abilities being so meager, Ihan’s magic was enough to make his opponent cower in fear.

Smack!

Smack!

Smack!

Ihan’s eyes widened in shock.

All Ihan was trying to do was just float a stone in the air.

Once you float a stone in the air, you can use it to threaten your opponent as much as you want.

However, Ihan had overestimated his magical abilities.

It turned out that keeping it suspended and stationary in mid-air was more difficult than expected.

The moment the spell was cast, the stone shot forward like an arrow.

And struck the goat beastman student squarely on the forehead.

“You bastard!! How dare you!!”

The remaining two students were shocked by their first encounter with combat magic.

A rock arrow spell that flies so fast there’s no time to react.

Even if they are the Wordanas family, to already possess such powerful magic…!

“…if the next bastard wants to die too, come on over.”

Ihan said coldly.

Given the circumstances, there was nothing that could be done.

The magic just now had to be as boastful as intended.

“Ugh…”

“You’d better step aside. You may have swords, but I have magic.”

The two wore expressions of conflict between fear and pride.

At that moment, Ihan used magic once again.

Move!

“Move!”

“Argh!”

The Dwarf Student threw his body to the side. However, the rock arrow precisely tracked the dodging Dwarf Student and struck his stomach.

Thwack!

Thwack!

Thwack!

Smack!

Smack!

“Cough… ugh.”

The dwarf student collapsed forward, unable to even breathe. The orc student, left alone, was paralyzed with fear.

I got hit even though I dodged.

Their skills were truly extraordinary.

‘I didn’t learn magic wrong, did I?’

And seeing the collapsed student, Lee Han was also inwardly flustered.

How is it that I can’t just make it float normally, but when I’m not even aiming to hit the other person, it works this well?

“St… stop it. I lost! I’ll get out of the way! I’ll move! Stop shooting! Don’t kill me!”

‘I’m not killing you, you crazy bastard.’

Lee Han thought that but maintained his expression until the end.

“Be careful with the name of the Wardanaz Family from now on.”

“Grr…”

The Orc Student gritted his teeth but didn’t dare make eye contact.

Durgyu, who came running late, met eyes with Lee Han while still wearing a bewildered expression.

“Did you come to fight too?”

“Ah. No.”

In this situation, no matter how unshakeable Durgyu was, he couldn’t help but stammer.

* * *

“That guy Gazel from the Moradi Family made such threats?”

“No. Giselle…”

“Ah. Right. Giselle. The name is difficult. Anyway, that guy Giselle from the Moradi Family?”

Lee Han was slightly surprised by Durgyu’s confession.

The atmosphere between Blue Dragon Tower and White Tiger Tower was quite different.

Blue Dragon Tower didn’t have an atmosphere where anyone dominated, perhaps because they were all from Great Noble Houses or Imperial Family.

In reality, it was more like an atmosphere where they gathered in small groups of three to five and acted according to the relationships their families had with each other.

Imperial Princess Adenart was the most famous and had a few students following her, but even that was far from a command relationship.

But White Tiger Tower was being controlled by Giselle from the Moradi Family.

“What does he look like?”

“Like this.”

Durgyu skillfully drew a picture on the ground with a tree branch while explaining the appearance.

Lee Han was shocked when he heard this.

‘No way…?!’

Wasn’t this the student who pretended to be kind and talked to Lee Han during swordsmanship class?

“No wonder he was overly friendly despite looking so pretty… As expected, he was hiding wicked intentions.”

“Wardanaz. I agree that Giselle Moradi is wicked, but I don’t think that has anything to do with appearance. Besides, saying he looks pretty. Don’t tell me you think Giselle is a man…”

Lee Han let Durgyu’s point go in one ear and out the other.

Why would he listen to someone defending a pretty-looking guy?

‘How ironic though.’

Initially, Lee Han had planned to use the help of Giselle, who had been relatively kind, to persuade other students too.

But instead, he became friends with Durgyu, with whom he’d initially clashed, and Giselle was hiding wicked schemes.

‘Was she trying to sound me out when she talked to me?’

Lee Han recalled the things he had said to Giselle.

He hadn’t said anything particularly important or that could become a weakness.

He had said ‘I’m taking swordsmanship lectures to get easy credits!’ but she probably wouldn’t have students ambush him because of that.

If she heard that, she would normally think of him as easy prey, not as a threat.

“I don’t understand. Why did she try to attack me?”

“I think there are several reasons. First, you’re from the Wardanaz Family.”

“Is there some bad blood between the two families that I don’t know about?”

Lee Han was puzzled.

Could there be a blood feud between the magic family Wardanaz and the knight family Moradi?

“No. As far as I know, there’s nothing like that. However, if she ruthlessly crushes you, who’s from the prestigious Wardanaz Family, Giselle’s power among us first years will become that much stronger.”

“…”

Lee Han immediately understood the meaning and became serious.

So right now, Lee Han was…

Being seen as an expensive trophy with the Wardanaz Family label attached?

‘This is quite annoying.’

No matter how much he tried to think of it as childish quarrels between teenagers, annoying was annoying.

“Right now, not all of us first years follow Giselle, but if Giselle shows such charismatic behavior, more students will follow her.”

“Getting classmates to throw punches is called charisma? These knight family bastards.”

At Lee Han’s words, Durgyu lowered his head with an embarrassed expression. He too had not been free from it.

“No. I wasn’t talking about you. Why are you getting dejected?”

“Thanks. Wardanaz. Let me continue. Giselle has a personality that tries to play the leader role anytime, anywhere. She’ll do anything to confirm her power, her dominance. So… I wanted to tell you to be careful if you’re going to continue taking swordsmanship lectures.”

If he continued taking swordsmanship lectures, and if Lee Han showed good performance, the White Tiger Tower students would inevitably feel jealous.

And she would cleverly incite those emotions to make students follow her.

Durgyu carefully suggested.

“Even if you don’t necessarily take swordsmanship lectures, there’s also a way to learn swordsmanship separately during break time.”

“Hmm. Durgyu.”

“?”

“I just thought of this, but I’m also planning to take 【Basic Physical Training】… Is this also only taken by White Tiger Tower students?”

“…Wardanaz. This might sound rude, but… wasn’t the Wardanaz Family a Magic Noble House…? Why on earth…?”

Durgyu held back but eventually voiced his question.

* * *

After parting with Durgyu and returning, Lee Han was lost in thought.

Actually, Durgyu’s advice was the easiest advice.

-Avoid lectures that only White Tiger Tower students take.

If he just avoided the lectures, no matter how much Giselle wanted to pick a fight, she couldn’t.

In other lectures, Lee Han would be with Blue Dragon Tower students too, so how could she pick a fight?

And if Lee Han disappeared from the lectures, Giselle probably wouldn’t bother chasing after him to pick fights either. There would be nothing to gain.

But Lee Han had no intention of accepting that advice.

First, although Durgyu didn’t know, Lee Han had chosen those lectures to get easy credits…

‘So she dares to try political games on me?’

The second reason was pride.

She was pulling such petty tricks for such pathetic reasons, and he should just let it slide?

Lee Han had no intention of taking a loss like that.

Bang-

Lee Han returned to the tower and opened the door to the First Year Common Room.

The students who had arrived first were chatting in small groups, and when they spotted Lee Han, they waved their hands.

“Friends!”

“…?”

“??”

“Today I was attacked by White Tiger Tower students. Just because I belong to Blue Dragon Tower!”

A moment of silence.

The students were a beat late in processing such shocking words.

And then someone flipped a table.

“…Have these tin can bastards gone crazy!?”

“They must think they’re invisible!!”

‘Hm?’

His classmates’ reaction was much more intense than Lee Han had expected.

“Everyone spread the word! White Tiger Tower bastards dared to touch Wardanaz!”

“Maybe Gainando, but they touched Wardanaz? You guys have crossed the line!”

“Is there no way to get weapons? Find a way to get them somewhere! I’ll kill them!”

When things seemed to be getting excessively heated, Lee Han stepped forward to calm them down.

“Wait. Wait. Everyone’s being too kind for my sake. You don’t need to go that far. I…”

“No! Wardanaz. I owe you a debt of gratitude.”

“That’s right! There’s no one here who hasn’t eaten the meat that Wardanaz brought!”

Seeing his friends being grateful without knowing how much they had been overcharged, Lee Han felt just a little bit sorry.

“And this is a matter of pride!”

“Let’s defeat those White Tiger Tower guys!”

“Let’s defeat those White Tiger Tower guys!!”

How to Live as a Mage in Magic School

How to Live as a Mage in Magic School

How to Live as a Mage in Magic School

Publication Date: August 15, 2021

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