Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 258

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Chapter 258

‘Patrolling isn’t as bad as I thought.’

At first, it seemed absurd that a 1st year student would have to patrol the magic school, but as his pockets grew heavier, his thoughts changed somewhat.

Lee Han patrolled 2 rooms used as food storage and 1 room used as reagent storage, skillfully pocketing useful items with clever hand movements.

If Ratford had seen this, he would have shed tears of admiration.

-Wait.

“!”

Lee Han tensed up.

Had he been caught?

‘I was definitely in a blind spot.’

-Wardanaz must be hungry, let’s bring him something to eat.

-Oh right. That’s true. When you become undead, hunger disappears so you forget about it.

-Young people need to eat plenty. They’re at an age where they could chew on stones.

The Death Knights walked briskly to a corner of the food storage room and rummaged through boxes.

Then they brought hard, long bread and salami sausage, fresh vegetables to eat with them, and tightly sealed glass bottles.

-We just grabbed some things roughly. Not sure if it’ll suit your taste.

-It’s been too long since we’ve had a meal.

“Th-thank you.”

Even Lee Han couldn’t help but be flustered by the sight of Death Knights packing food for him like kind grandfathers.

“But is this okay?”

-Hahaha! Just like a diligent student.

-Of course it’s not okay. But what can we do? You’re eating because you’re working.

The knights from an ancient kingdom whose name is no longer remembered were very lenient about breaking rules.

If you’re hungry you should eat, and if you’re thirsty you should drink, shouldn’t you?

Especially when helping with school work!

‘Wait. This is alcohol?’

Lee Han was surprised when he opened the lid of the glass bottle.

“Is it okay to drink alcohol while patrolling?”

-Hahaha! Of course it’s not okay. But since we’re doing the work, Wardanaz can wet his throat a bit.

-When you go back, you’ll have to fill your stomach with black bread and cold rice balls again. Eat well while you can.

‘Modern knights should learn from the knights of old.’

Lee Han was moved by the mercy and camaraderie shown by the Death Knights.

Those White Tiger Tower students should watch and learn from this…

While Lee Han was eating heartily, the Death Knights spoke beside him.

-Originally, finding one rat that escaped into the maze takes longer than you’d think. We understand that Wardanaz, being young and full of ambition, wants to find it himself, but don’t overdo it.

-Right. It wouldn’t be bad to just faithfully fill the time the master suggested and go do your own work.

“…Wait. I don’t have any ambition though?”

Lee Han, who had been cutting bread and sausage with his pocket knife, paused.

The Death Knights nodded with kind faces.

-Yes. True ambitious people usually say they have no ambition.

-Among those who say they have ambition, there are rarely any real ambitious people.

“No…”

Lee Han wanted to point out that the Death Knights’ logic was flawed, but the Death Knights didn’t listen to him.

When you get older, you naturally stop listening to young people.

‘Einroguard needs a rule to send people who spread false rumors to the punishment room.’

Lee Han gave up and finished his meal.

‘Patrolling really isn’t as bad as I thought.’

Unlike his initial desire to attack the Skeleton Principal, there were various profitable benefits.

He could become friends with the Death Knights, borrow items from several storage rooms in the meantime, and check out places he’d been curious about…

The Death Knights didn’t really care what Lee Han borrowed from the storage rooms.

They all seemed to think ‘he’s young, so he can steal a little.’

Lee Han, who had been drawing a map with a quill pen, nodded.

To use the remaining time as efficiently as possible…

“Good. This time let’s go down to the lower floors.”

-We’ll follow you anywhere!

* * *

Duke Ikaldoren’s confidant, Jideupeue, had to struggle to endure his rising fear.

In fact, anyone would have felt the same.

How could one maintain their sanity while hiding alone in the heart of Einroguard with its heightened security?

Although Jideupeue was known for being cool and calm, even his rationality was gradually wearing thin.

‘Trusting those 【Maple Snake】 bastards was a mistake. Yes. Trusting those bastards was a mistake.’

Experienced adventurers who would do anything for gold coins and knew how to deal with mages.

He thought that would be enough to get inside.

Jideupeue hadn’t even asked for much.

He just planned to quietly enter, quietly join forces, quietly steal and leave…

But these crazy adventurer bastards, instead of dying quietly, did something that raised the security level.

Every night, watching the evil and great Archmage Gonadaltes patrol around warning ‘you’ll die if you come out and you’ll die if you don’t come out,’ Jideupeue’s nerves were wearing thin.

Click-

Jideupeue opened the lid of his bronze pendant.

‘3 uses left.’

It was a very powerful artifact, one of the lifelines that had protected Jideupeue’s life until now.

A powerful artifact that, when activated once, cleverly paralyzed the surrounding magic!

This was a magic school with all sorts of magical barriers and patrollers roaming around. Even an Archmage could be caught with one mistake.

Although Jideupeue was quite skilled in stealth magic, that alone wasn’t nearly enough. Without this artifact, he would have been discovered long ago.

It was unfortunate that the number of uses was fixed, but…

‘I should start preparing soon.’

Jideupeue took out another artifact.

It was an artifact in the form of a small statue.

“Great mage Goltineus, I offer my respect, please transform me!”

As soon as he finished speaking, Jideupeue’s body was perfectly transformed into a statue.

Powerful magic that even high-level transformation mages couldn’t easily replicate.

This artifact was another one of Jideupeue’s lifelines.

Along with the bronze pendant, he had been moving positions every few days, disguising himself as a statue.

Until the security would eventually be lifted.

‘Don’t let anyone come in. Don’t let anyone come in.’

Crash!

“So you’re saying there was a side path behind the main gate stairs on the first floor?”

-Something like that. Oh. Don’t tell the master about this.

“Don’t worry.”

When a group of Death Knights entered, Jideupeue was so shocked his heart felt like it would freeze.

If his body hadn’t been transformed into a statue, he surely would have let out a “huk” sound.

Each of those Death Knights, who were Gonadaltes’ minions, possessed deadly combat power, and they were ready to call all nearby enemies the moment they were touched.

Jideupeue just prayed for those Death Knights to leave quickly.

“What kind of room is this?”

-Well… actually, the rooms in the magic school are such that many of them appear and change whenever you blink. Of course, I can’t blink!

-Uhahahahahaha!

-Kahahahahaha!

“…Uhahahahahaha!”

Lee Han laughed at the appropriate time.

True to undead who had no particular pleasures, the Death Knights took considerable pride in their jokes.

Fortunately, Lee Han possessed the extraordinary ability to laugh no matter what nonsense the professors spouted.

-Is it a storage room?

-Looks like a place for storing artworks. Paintings and sculptures.

‘How disappointing.’

Lee Han felt let down.

If there were no secret passages, side routes, food supplies, or reagents, wouldn’t that room just be a junk room?

-Don’t be too disappointed, Wardanaz.

One of the Death Knights, perhaps sensing Lee Han’s inner thoughts, offered advice.

-Even rooms like this that no one seems interested in can be surprisingly useful. Since no one pays attention to them, they’re good for storing things.

“!”

Lee Han was intrigued by the Death Knight’s words.

‘I definitely do need some space these days.’

When he first entered the tower, he had never thought space would be lacking.

Not only did he have a private room, but the common room was also more than spacious enough.

But as time passed, his belongings gradually increased.

Starting with food supplies bought from outside, then various reagents and materials stockpiled for assignments, books and stacks of papers…

Lately, Lee Han understood why the upperclassmen secretly hid stolen materials in secret storage in the middle of the mountain range.

There was no space inside the tower, and if you just left things lying around, other tower students might steal them (even students from your own tower).

To become an excellent magic school student, you needed to have three or four secret storage places that others didn’t know about.

‘At this point, I can’t tell if I’m a squirrel hiding acorns or a mage.’

“Indeed, if I throw a few wooden boxes inside, no one would touch them.”

-Exactly. Isn’t there an old saying about hiding a corpse in the forest?

“?”

‘Wasn’t the saying about hiding a tree in the forest?’

Lee Han thought so, but didn’t point it out out of consideration for the Death Knights.

Maybe that’s how it was in the old days…

-Wardanaz. Are you planning to use it as a secret storage?

“Yes.”

Another Death Knight chimed in.

-That’s all well and good, but this room has too much clutter. I’d recommend removing about half of it. Just stacking some light stuff at the entrance is enough to keep students away.

“I see…”

Lee Han nodded.

Clearing out the bulky items would definitely look better.

“Would it be okay to move the sculptures and statues outside?”

-Wardanaz. As I always say, there’s nothing in this world that can’t be done. You just do it.

-There are sculptures around the main building’s main gate, right? Let’s put them there.

“Um… is that really okay?”

-Wardanaz. As I always say…

“I understand. I’ll try moving them.”

Lee Han and the Death Knights began moving the sculptures outside one by one.

However, Lee Han’s group didn’t know.

That one of the sculptures had turned pale and was screaming internally!

‘No… no!’

Jideupeue felt like his heart was hardening.

For escape, it was essential to undo the transformation and prepare to use the artifact in a place where no one was watching.

But in front of the main building’s main gate?

Wasn’t that a place where every being in the magic school would be watching with open eyes?

The moment he undid the transformation, he would die instantly in less than a second.

‘No! I said no! I’m telling you it’s not allowed!’

Jideupeue couldn’t understand the current situation.

And he couldn’t understand at all who the boy among the Death Knights was.

He looked like a 1st year student, but why on earth was he wandering around with Death Knights?

There were so many incomprehensible things that he wondered if this was all Gonadaltes’s mockery.

Maybe his identity had already been discovered, and the wicked Gonadaltes was doing this to ridicule Jideupeue?

“But what are these sculptures used for?”

-Students make them as hobbies, and there are lectures too. Later, when they need them for magic, they take and use them.

-There’s probably a sculpture-making club too. Since Wardanaz is still a 1st year, you probably couldn’t join a club yet.

“…”

Lee Han absolutely didn’t want to join a club like a sculpture-making club, even if he did join one.

* * *

“Thank you for today.”

-What for? We enjoyed it more because Wardanaz worked so well.

-See you again next time, and go inside and study hard!

Lee Han saw off the Death Knights and went inside.

His heart was heavy because he had assignments left to do, but his mood wasn’t too bad.

‘By the way, where on earth is that intruder hiding?’

Though he didn’t know who the opponent was, Lee Han thought they were quite tenacious.

To persist so stubbornly in the heart of enemy territory.

What kind of person could they be?

‘I should pray not to run into them.’

Lee Han prayed that he wouldn’t encounter them while wandering around.

An intruder of that caliber would surely be a powerful opponent.

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