Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 184

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Chapter 184

However, Lee Han didn’t receive any compensation.

Before he could even search their pockets, the other person woke up.

“…Huk!”

“Wh-what on earth happened?”

“…”

Lee Han and Ratford glared at the other tower students with dissatisfied expressions.

If they were going to wake up, they should have woken up earlier in the corridor, but after all the trouble of carrying them out…

‘These guys weren’t pretending to sleep, were they.’

“Th-thank you, Wardanaz.”

The Black Turtle Tower student who came to his senses grasped the situation and expressed his gratitude.

His last memory was cut off at the part where he entered the lecture hall and inhaled the smoke coming from the ominous magic circle.

Since he had no memory after that, it was clear that Wardanaz and his friends had rescued him.

Clap-

The Black Turtle Tower student grabbed Lee Han’s outstretched hand and shook it. Lee Han made a reluctant expression.

It had been a hand extended to search his pockets.

“Thank you, Wardanaz.”

“I didn’t expect you to rescue us.”

The White Tiger Tower students also woke up one by one.

And they similarly expressed their gratitude.

“To think you’d carry us out like this…”

“I never imagined it. I sincerely express my gratitude.”

The awakened students politely expressed their thanks, turned around, and left.

Lee Han glared at their retreating figures, feeling annoyed for no reason.

“Shall I knock them unconscious again?”

At Ratford’s whisper, Lee Han wavered just a little bit.

* * *

“Well, this is quite mysterious…”

Professor Thunderstep tilted his head as if he couldn’t understand.

It wasn’t because of a hangover. Originally, it was natural for a hangover to come after drinking a lot.

It would be stranger if it didn’t come!

After driving away the hangover with a potion, Professor Thunderstep fell into contemplation once again.

‘How did no one get caught?’

At the request of other professors, Professor Thunderstep had placed various potions in the Kaksu Hall 1st floor classroom.

Tormenting the students, no, helping them grow was something that required cooperation even with other professors.

Considering the effects of the installed magic circle, if students had entered, they should normally have been rampaging inside the lecture hall until morning.

But surprisingly, the lecture hall was completely empty.

It wasn’t that there had been no intruders. With chairs flying around and magic circles damaged, an intrusion was certain.

But how?

‘Did they notice and plan their attack? No… if they had noticed, they wouldn’t have triggered the magic circle.’

Professor Thunderstep was more curious than angry.

What on earth had happened?

“Good morning, Professor.”

Since it was Friday morning, students came one by one to submit their alchemy assignments.

“Yes. Good morning.”

One by one, they submitted their potions and left.

Professor Thunderstep was pleased by their dejected and troubled expressions.

They clearly had faces of those who had worried all night because they couldn’t gather all the materials.

“Good morning, Professor.”

“Yes. Wardanaz.”

When Professor Thunderstep saw Lee Han, he suddenly felt suspicious.

‘…No, that can’t be.’

He suspected whether the boy from the Wardanaz Family before him might have done it, but thinking about it, Lee Han hadn’t attended those lectures.

If he didn’t attend the lectures, what connection could there be? It was just a coincidence.

“I’ll leave this here.”

“Go ahead.”

Lee Han obediently submitted his potion and turned around.

Even after that, Professor Thunderstep remained lost in thought.

‘Hmm. Truly mysterious.’

Professor Thunderstep got up from his seat and checked the potions the students had submitted.

He could feel the traces of students’ pitiful struggles in the situation without materials.

‘Did this one substitute daisy fleabane? The idea is creative, but it probably won’t work well. This one is… ignorant. Did they just proceed without materials? Being bold is good, but the effect has diminished too much. This potion is complete despair. To think they poured in another potion of similar color.’

Professor Thunderstep, who had been checking, paused.

Surprisingly, there was a nearly perfect potion before his eyes.

“?!”

Professor Thunderstep was startled and brought his face closer. However, even upon re-examination, the potion’s effect was perfect.

How??

‘How did they get thistle flower? Did they know the location of other flower fields?’

If that was the case, they were an incredibly lucky fellow.

Professor Thunderstep clicked his tongue and tried to check the name of that lucky student.

-Lee Han Wardanaz

“…”

Professor Thunderstep narrowed his eyes.

Something nagging was troubling Professor Thunderstep’s brain.

‘There’s more than one??’

Looking around, there wasn’t just one or two students who had obtained thistle flowers.

Professor Thunderstep couldn’t believe it.

No way…

No way?!?

* * *

“It’s over!!!”

Friday evening.

The Blue Dragon Tower new students cheered and whistled in the common room.

Some students opened the caps of drink bottles they had been saving and splashed them around freely.

Whether they did well or poorly, now that midterms were over, all students couldn’t help but feel liberated.

“It’s over! It’s over!”

“How about a round of card games?”

“Curse all the professors!”

“How about a round of card games??”

“Wardanaz! What’s all this?”

“Everyone worked hard taking exams.”

Lee Han welcomed his friends with a kind smile.

The luxury items he had been saving filled the table one by one.

Glass bottles filled with cold fruit juice and various desserts packed tightly without a single gap.

Crispy crème brûlée and fresh cream cake topped with strawberries. Cold cream soda and ice cream made with peaches. Pudding made by mixing and setting grapes with cream and milk – a feast of desserts that couldn’t normally be eaten at Einroguard.

The Blue Dragon Tower students nearly shed tears at this feast.

“Wardanaz…!”

“You really are…!”

Even if Lee Han had saved the Empire, they probably wouldn’t have been this moved.

Lee Han thought to himself.

‘Seeing them this happy makes me feel guilty.’

In fact, focusing on luxury items like this left Lee Han with much higher profits too.

He was already making enough profit, so it felt uncomfortable to squeeze out even more.

If he made hearty meals using fresh ingredients available from the vegetable garden and other places, along with seasonings and spices bought from outside, the profit wouldn’t be nearly as high.

‘…No. I mustn’t waver.’

Lee Han steadied his wavering heart.

Special meals like this were only once in a while – if he filled the ingredient storage and planned menus with things like this, the storage would be ruined in an instant and the students would fall into starvation.

In the long run, it wouldn’t be good for Lee Han either!

“Everyone stop pushing and form a line. There’s plenty for everyone.”

Compared to other towers, the Blue Dragon Tower was orderly thanks to having plenty of food, but this time there was chaos as everyone pushed and pulled to get in front.

Lee Han got Yoner’s help to line up his friends.

“Now. Form a line…”

“I’m first!”

“Where does this guy who didn’t even take the exam get off!”

“…Get in line.”

“Ah. Yes.”

“S-sorry. Mr. Wardanaz.”

Of course there were minor frictions, but his friends all understood.

Lee Han nodded knowingly as he watched the Imperial Princess’s followers line up to receive their share.

“You’re going to bring some to the Imperial Princess.”

“Ah!”

“…Don’t tell me you guys forgot?”

At Lee Han’s question, the followers awkwardly avoided his gaze.

“I’ll give you more when you come back, so go take some to her.”

The followers looked once at the glass bottle filled with melon juice, once at the appetizing sliced cake, and then up at the stairs.

“The Imperial Princess might not like this kind of thing…”

“…”

Lee Han was shocked.

Their loyalty was losing to delicious dessert?

“She’s originally someone who eats lightly, so maybe she was forcing herself to eat because of us…?”

“Right, right.”

“I don’t think so.”

Despite Lee Han’s words, the followers pretended not to hear and ignored him. They wanted the dessert too badly.

“…I’ll just go call her myself.”

“As expected of Lord Wardanaz!”

“Stop it, you sound sarcastic.”

Lee Han went up the stairs and knocked on the Imperial Princess’s private room door.

The Imperial Princess opened the door. Her expressionless face held a faint hint of expectation.

However, that expectation soon disappeared. Lee Han’s hands were empty.

“…!”

The Imperial Princess’s eyes shook more violently than when she was misunderstood about secretly stealing sandwiches last time.

“Everyone’s eating snacks downstairs right now, so please come down and have some.”

The Imperial Princess let out a very slight sigh of relief. Then she nodded.

The Imperial Princess came down following behind Lee Han, who had descended the stairs first.

The followers were startled when they saw this.

“Will you be alright? It’s so noisy here…”

“Won’t it disturb your thoughts? Maybe you should stay upstairs…”

The Imperial Princess looked serious and hit the follower’s hand. The follower was flustered.

“Wardanaz. What if the Imperial Princess gets tired?”

“She doesn’t look tired at all.”

“Right. Your loyalty is distorted.”

Gainando grumbled while stuffing pudding in his mouth.

If only he showed 1/100th of that respect…

“Shut up. Gainando. What do you know about my loyalty?”

“That’s right. My loyalty is pure.”

Lee Han, feeling annoyed, waved his hand dismissively.

“It’s not like she’s a child, she’ll manage fine on her own. Look, she’s standing there just fine.”

“Is… is that so? She’ll be okay, right? But how did you persuade her to come out? She wouldn’t like this kind of place, would she?”

Lee Han wondered a bit if his friends had ever had a proper conversation with the Imperial Princess.

Of course, Lee Han was in the same boat…

“I spoke from the heart. Now, next.”

“Lee Han. Want to play a round of cards after we finish handing out desserts?”

“You keep losing though?”

It was something he said out of concern for Gainando, but it seemed to have struck Gainando’s pride.

Gainando tried his best to stay calm (though his trembling was obviously showing) as he spoke.

“Th… that was a test deck. I added new cards I bought this time… so it’s gotten stronger…!”

‘Just putting in expensive cards doesn’t make a deck stronger though.’

Gainando was the typical type who just stuffed his deck full of cards that required a lot of mana to summon.

In contrast, Lee Han was the type who built his deck around low-mana cards that chipped away at the opponent mage’s life force to end games early.

Naturally, Lee Han had no choice but to win.

“Fine. I’ll play one round with you…”

Bang!

The common room door opened and a Death Knight appeared.

All the students were shocked.

“It’s… it’s a holiday, isn’t this too much?!”

“Is this okay? Is this really okay?!”

However, contrary to the students’ outcries, the Death Knight had come for its own reasons.

Students whose names are called from now on, who have failed, will move to the punishment room.

“…”

“…”

Lee Han was shocked.

‘So the rumor about going to the punishment room if you fail wasn’t just a rumor!’

It was easy to mistake Einroguard as lenient since it allowed individual mages to learn whatever they wanted in terms of education, but Einroguard wasn’t so easy-going that you could study lazily even for the lectures you were required to attend.

Gainando.

“No! No!”

At the fact that he would have to spend his golden weekend in the punishment room, Gainando attempted to flee.

Of course, there was no escaping the Death Knight.

“Lee Han! Bring me private food! You have to bring me private food!!”

Several unlucky students were dragged away by the Death Knight. Outside, a prison carriage for criminals or lawbreakers was waiting.

Wardanaz.

“?!”

The other students were more surprised than Lee Han himself.

How could Wardanaz fail?

“Wasn’t there some kind of misunderstanding?”

“I think you should take it into consideration! Even an undead like you would fail at least one subject if you took lectures like that!”

You are the top student of Blue Dragon Tower. Follow me.

“…”

His friends somehow felt annoyed and glared at Lee Han. Lee Han spoke calmly.

“It’s not my fault.”

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