Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 204

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Chapter 204

Honestly, he was curious about what would come after ‘those losers are’…

But hearing it would only make the atmosphere turn cold.

Lee Han poured hot coffee into a dented pewter cup and placed it in Professor Boladi’s hands.

“It’s delicious.”

“Thank you.”

Watching Professor Boladi sip his coffee, Lee Han suddenly came to his senses.

‘Wait. Come to think of it, I didn’t need to stop him, did I?’

Whether Professor Boladi treated the White Tiger Tower students like losers or not had nothing to do with Lee Han…

It was an instinct to step forward and try to solve problems whenever a professor caused trouble.

“Wardanaz. Shall we depart now?”

“Are you really planning to come along? It’ll be dangerous, you know?”

“Hah. Danger is merely a virtue that should rightfully be bestowed upon knights.”

‘What bullshit.’

Lee Han wondered if he should have thrown the snowball harder, then stopped.

Well, if they wanted to suffer of their own accord, what could Lee Han say to stop them?

Even without Lee Han saying anything, they would pay the price themselves.

“Well then. Let’s go!”

“Moradi. Why aren’t you bringing your sword?”

“????”

Giselle, who had been eating grilled fat sandwiched between bread, paused.

What?

“What are you talking about?”

“We all agreed to go to the upper floors together.”

Giselle was horrified.

She had left the other White Tiger Tower students to their nonsense, and now the arrow had flown to her.

“Why would I…”

“Moradi isn’t scared, is she?”

“What ridiculous nonsense… Do I look like someone like you? Since we’re going to a dangerous place, Moradi should lead us. Don’t make me angry for no reason.”

“…”

Giselle regretted not shutting Angrago’s mouth when he brought up the topic earlier.

She should have made him shut up then!

Lee Han walked forward with Professor Boladi and spoke in a low voice.

“This isn’t my fault.”

“Shut up…”

* * *

Cohorti glanced at Diret and whispered with Kumandas.

“So when do you think that new student will come?”

“Well, I’m trying to get friendly with them right now…”

“You can’t be that slow! Don’t you see Diret right now!?”

Even without knowing much about crow beastmen, anyone could tell when feathers were standing up backwards that anger had reached the top of one’s head.

That was exactly how Diret looked right now.

Having to patrol the corridors every day for something he didn’t even do!

At this point, even same-year friends could end up in a murder case.

“This won’t do. I’ll go send another note.”

“Won’t that be dangerous? The Principal…”

“Don’t you realize we might be found as corpses before we even get to the punishment room?”

“Th-that’s true, but…”

Footsteps began to echo from afar. It was from the opposite direction of where the dimensional accident had occurred.

Cohorti looked up hopefully, even though he knew it was impossible.

However, a miracle happened before his eyes.

“!!!!”

The Wardanaz family new student they had been trying so hard to bring was walking down the corridor.

“It’s that new student!”

“What?! Really!?”

“I told you! Sincerity pays off… wait.”

The two who had been rejoicing paused.

Huh?

At first they had been happy just seeing the Wardanaz family new student, but behind him…

“…”

“????”

As not only a professor but other new students came crowding along, their expressions hardened.

‘What on earth is this situation?’

‘More importantly, isn’t that person… Professor Bagrek?’

There was a joke that even the Skeleton Principal didn’t know the exact number of professors at the magic school.

Students were even more so.

If it was a professor unrelated to their major, it was common to never have a single conversation until graduation.

But the students here were fourth years. They knew quite a few professors.

Moreover, Professor Bagrek was…

‘A professorless professor.’

Professorless professor.

Meaning a professor with no disciples, these were professors to be especially cautious of even in Einroguard, which was full of strange professors.

Think about it.

Even professors who made you think ‘what kind of crazy person would learn under that professor’ had a few disciples.

Even unpopular black magic had students learning it.

Yet having no disciples meant…

…it was really, very, extremely dangerous.

The faces of the fourth year students who recognized Professor Boladi were colored with fear.

Even as fourth years, people like Professor Boladi were still frightening.

‘Didn’t a third year try to attend last time and collapse from mana exhaustion?’

‘What kind of lecture does he give…’

“G-good day, Professor.”

The fourth year students swallowed their fear and greeted him. Professor Boladi nodded.

“Are you the ones in charge?”

“Yes.”

“I see.”

Professor Boladi said nothing more and tried to walk forward.

Naturally, the fourth year students were bewildered.

“???”

“Professor. Please allow me to explain.”

Seeing Professor Boladi talking to invisible seniors, Lee Han suppressed a sigh and spoke.

Actually, that wasn’t even a conversation just now.

It was a one-sided notification!

When Professor Boladi temporarily lifted the Skeleton Principal’s magic cast on the seniors, the fourth year students’ forms were revealed.

The White Tiger Tower students behind were startled, but Lee Han remained calm.

He had experienced too many things to be surprised by something like this now.

“Seniors. I will explain to you.”

“Th… That’s right.”

Lee Han explained briefly.

Professor Boladi was trying to solve this cold problem.

So the first years came here to help as well.

“!”

Kumandas’s eyes trembled with emotion upon hearing the explanation.

‘He was seriously considering the proposal we sent!’

Since he kept pretending not to know and ignoring it, he thought the message hadn’t gotten through, but this junior had already caught on.

He must have pretended not to know to avoid the Skeleton Principal’s fierce surveillance.

“Junior. Thank you! I knew you would respond to our proposal!”

“What?”

“…Our proposal?”

Diret, who had been listening from the side, asked with a serious expression.

Don’t tell me these guys…?

“No, no. It’s nothing.”

“You guys didn’t…”

“I said no, didn’t I? We didn’t make contact! Really!”

Diret paralyzed Kumandas with a curse and asked Lee Han.

“These guys didn’t make contact? Really?”

“Yes. They didn’t.”

Diret stared intently at Lee Han’s eyes.

There really wasn’t the slightest sign of lying.

‘I guess it was true.’

Diret tilted his head in confusion. For that to be the case, the other fourth year students’ attitudes had been particularly suspicious.

Were they just feeling guilty for no reason?

‘Junior… thank you…! I’ll definitely repay this favor later!’

The paralyzed Kumandas sent his gratitude to Lee Han with his eyes.

He was grateful that he came, but to even lie after noticing Diret’s killing intent.

He was truly an admirable junior.

‘I don’t understand why that person is acting like that.’

Of course, from Lee Han’s perspective, who didn’t understand the situation, it was just bewildering.

The fourth years seemed a bit strange…

…Was it because they’d all been at school for too long?

“A-anyway, let’s proceed. Now. Junior. Do you know what this artifact is?”

Kumandas took out an ancient artifact that looked like a giant harpoon.

Right now, the fourth year students were making holes throughout the Twisted Dimensional Corridor space to leak mana outside.

No matter how many dimensions were layered inside, how the space was twisted, or what was summoned, if the domain’s mana itself decreased, it couldn’t be maintained for long.

If all the mana was depleted like this, the twisted dimension would disappear and the corridor would return to normal.

…The problem was that it took too much time.

“This artifact is a very expensive ancient artifact with space-piercing magic built in. It consumes an enormous amount of mana, but once activated…”

“Just get to the point.”

“…Anyway, we use this to pierce through the corridor’s spaces and increase the leakage.”

Kumandas finished speaking while watching Diret’s expression. Lee Han nodded.

As befitting fourth year students, they were skilled at explaining and their method was rational.

Actually, the fourth year students seemed to explain better than the professors.

‘Not bad.’

“I understand. I got it.”

“!”

Kumandas felt his heart swell with emotion.

No matter how much mana he had, operating that level of ancient artifact required tremendous resolve from a new student’s perspective.

The resolve to squeeze out his mana to the very bottom.

To step up so responsibly even though it wasn’t an accident he caused.

‘What an excellent new student has entered…’

Diret glared at Kumandas as if he was pathetically frustrated. If only the professor and new students weren’t there, his eyes would have let out several harsh curses.

Kumandas seemed to feel that gaze and cleared his throat.

“Ahem. Shall we begin then?”

“Wait.”

“Yes?”

When Professor Boladi spoke up, Kumandas was flustered.

‘Is there something wrong with the calculations?’

“If you do it that way, most of the monsters inside will disappear.”

“Yes… that’s right? Because the dimension can’t be maintained if the mana disperses?”

“Then I cannot allow it.”

“…”

Lee Han squeezed his eyes shut.

As expected!

“Let’s go.”

Professor Boladi turned his steps toward the Twisted Dimensional Corridor. Lee Han and the White Tiger Tower students followed behind.

Kumandas was dumbfounded, unable to understand the current situation.

“Uh… what did I do wrong?”

“Of course you did. You idiot. You said you’d borrow a first year student’s mana to operate an artifact in front of a professor, but what professor would allow that? Just follow along.”

Diret scolded his friends while picking up his staff. The friends followed behind with embarrassed expressions.

* * *

Professor Boladi pursued practical experience, but that didn’t mean he lacked safety awareness.

He cast various enhancement magic spells in preparation for battle in the twisted dimension.

Lee Han pointed to the White Tiger Tower students and whispered.

“I think you should cast it on them too.”

“Why?”

It sounded like “Why (should I cast it on those) weaklings,” but Lee Han calmly gave his reason.

“…Without enhancement magic, they might scatter chaotically and interfere with the fight while trying to escape?”

“I see.”

Professor Boladi cast enhancement magic. The White Tiger Tower students showed confident expressions at the surging power.

“Junior. Don’t worry.”

“Thank you.”

Lee Han bowed his head slightly at the words of the fourth year students standing beside him.

Who would have thought the day would come when he’d feel the reliability of seniors at this magic school.

Professor Boladi looked at Lee Han and asked.

“Have you learned the 【Floating Frost Shield】 spell?”

“…I haven’t completed it yet.”

“I see. Be careful of projectiles.”

“?????”

The fourth year students doubted their ears.

Did he just say 【Floating Frost Shield】 spell?

…Isn’t that a 4th circle spell?

“What did you just say…”

Kumandas wanted to ask what that conversation meant, but he couldn’t.

Monsters began appearing ahead.

It was a winter specter with a massive build that had a hazy, mist-like form and scattered sleet whenever it moved.

“How much mana did you feed it for the winter specter to grow that massive?”

At Diret’s muttering, the Fourth Year Students hung their heads in shame.

“We’ll handle it.”

“Of course we have to handle it. Don’t say it so dramatically like it’s something special.”

Diret raised his staff. The Fourth Year Students also raised their staffs.

However, before they could even prepare their magic, countless small flames began exploding above the winter specter.

Whoooosh!

“…??”

“????!”

Junior?!

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