Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 26
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Chapter 026
Most students who entered the magic school thought of magic as a purpose rather than a means.
Most didn’t think ‘Hey, I should learn fire generation magic to light fires when camping and water generation magic to drink free water when I’m thirsty.’
Usually they harbored ambitions like ‘After polishing the basics, I’ll learn the magic I want to pioneer new territories and gain enlightenment!’
As such, Nilia didn’t think much of flame creation magic.
After all, lighting fires was something she could do without a staff and incantations. Given just stones and twigs, Nilia was confident she could start a fire.
It would have been better if she had aptitude for water magic, which she’d been interested in for a long time…
“Nilia. Be grateful for the magic you possess.”
“Uh… huh? Y-yeah.”
Overwhelmed by the atmosphere Lee Han was radiating, Nilia unconsciously nodded.
‘Is he praising my magic??’
As someone from the prestigious magic family, the Wardanaz Family, he surely couldn’t tolerate her looking down on the magic she possessed.
Nilia turned her head slightly, feeling embarrassed.
Of course, Lee Han was grumbling inwardly.
‘If I could just control mana, I’d start with fire magic. How envious.’
* * *
After warming their frozen hands and feet, quenching their burning thirst with water, and heating bread and cheese to eat, the group’s fatigue was somewhat relieved.
‘I should go outside soon and check on those undead bastards.’
Lee Han thought he needed to go outside and confirm whether the undead were still remaining.
Given that crazy principal’s personality, they might still be there.
“Nilia.”
“Alright. Let’s go check.”
Nilia, perhaps sensing Lee Han’s thoughts, jumped up from her seat.
As they emerged from the cave, pitch-black darkness greeted them.
Even without walking far, they could tell.
“…”
“Damn it.”
The distant lower part of the mountain was still bright. It looked like a belt made of fire wrapped around the base of the mountain. It was an encirclement created by undead summons.
“Isn’t he really crazy?”
“He is… but is it okay to say that?”
Nilia trembled slightly, seemingly afraid of cursing the Skeleton Principal.
“It’s fine. No one’s listening. You can curse.”
“R-really?”
“Nilia. Magic comes from free thinking. The Principal would want us to curse him and think freely too.”
Lee Han was excellent at spouting nonsense with a serious face.
When he spoke nonsense seriously with his sculpted face, Nilia, who didn’t know much about magic, began to waver again.
Is… is that so?
“Prin-Principal, you bad guy! You bear-like bastard! May wolves take you away at night…”
Rustle-
“Wahhh! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
As soon as rustling sounds came from ahead, Nilia clung to Lee Han while sobbing.
Lee Han slowly peeled Nilia off his chest like removing leeches and cast a wary glance.
“Nilia. Be careful. Someone’s there.”
The other party seemed to notice Lee Han’s side too, as a voice was heard.
“…Who’s there?”
“You say first.”
“White Tiger Tower.”
“Damn it. They weren’t all caught.”
Lee Han clicked his tongue.
No wonder those undead down there hadn’t disappeared – there were White Tiger Tower students who hadn’t been caught and escaped even during that commotion.
After more rustling sounds, White Tiger Tower students appeared in a completely disheveled state. They looked almost like beggars.
“Be-beggars?”
“No. I said White Tiger Tower.”
* * *
-Punishment to students who disobeyed the great Principal’s orders and fled.
-Punishment to students who disobeyed the great Principal’s orders and fled.
Unlike Lee Han’s group, what awaited the White Tiger Tower students who rushed out to break through the encirclement were countless skeletons.
The Bone Trackers attacked with rattling sounds while speaking chilling words.
Moreover, the bone clubs they carried weren’t lethal, but one hit slowed movement, two hits stopped feet, and three hits knocked you down.
“Argh!”
“These bastards are cowardly using numbers… Gah!”
Even the White Tiger Tower students who showed off their polished swordsmanship and knocked down Bone Trackers with wooden swords eventually fell one by one.
-Suppression complete.
-Suppression complete.
“…Up! Escape upward!”
And among the White Tiger Tower students, Giselle was the first to grasp the situation.
‘This wasn’t made to be breakable!’
While Lee Han didn’t trust the Principal at all, Giselle had carelessly believed the Principal’s words and mistakenly thought the encirclement could be broken through.
If they kept trying to go down, the only outcome would be capture.
Giselle began running up the mountain with the remaining students.
Fortunately, the Bone Trackers didn’t chase them up the mountain.
“Huff… huff huff…”
“Moradi. Is it okay to… huff. Escape upward? There’s no path.”
“Summons called by mages can’t stay long. They’ll disappear over time.”
If Lee Han had been there, he would have pointed out ‘That’s for mediocre mages, do you think summons called by the Principal would be that weak?’, but unfortunately the White Tiger Tower students’ magical knowledge was very lacking.
They thought Giselle’s words made sense and kept nodding.
“What do we do in the meantime?”
“Let’s wait. Rest and recover our stamina too. Light a fire… no. We need to find a place to rest first. Let’s find somewhere to shelter from the wind.”
At Giselle’s words, the White Tiger Tower students began searching the surroundings.
Though they weren’t as skilled in darkness as Nilia or adept at traversing mountains, the White Tiger Tower students had stamina.
Despite fatigue accumulating in their muscles and throats parched from thirst, the White Tiger Tower students kept moving without stopping.
Rustle-
“I heard a sound over there.”
“Isn’t it a mountain beast?”
“If it’s a mountain beast, let’s just catch it. I feel like my belly is stuck to my back.”
However, the sound they heard wasn’t from beasts, but human voices.
The White Tiger Tower students looked shocked.
To think there would be other people in the middle of this night.
“…Who’s there?”
“You say first.”
“White Tiger Tower.”
“Damn it. They weren’t all caught.”
Surprisingly, it was Blue Dragon Tower students.
* * *
“Come in.”
The White Tiger Tower students hesitantly entered the cave.
Their expressions were filled with awkwardness.
It hadn’t been long since they fought each other, so receiving help like this couldn’t be comfortable.
“Sit down and eat and drink.”
Lee Han spoke expressionlessly. Gainando beside him said quietly.
“We don’t even have enough food for ourselves, so why…”
“Shh.”
Durgyu elbowed Gainando in the ribs.
The White Tiger Tower students who suddenly appeared.
Seeing them in such a wretched state, he could guess how much they had suffered in the middle of this night.
Originally, Lee Han could have kicked them out.
After receiving such treatment from the White Tiger Tower students, no one would have said anything if he had kicked them out.
But Lee Han saw their pitiful state and called them into the cave.
And he shared food and drink with them.
Honestly, it was touching.
‘Lee Han is truly honorable!’
Being kind to allies was easy. What was truly difficult was being kind to enemies.
Durgyu hoped that Lee Han’s kindness would become an opportunity for the White Tiger Tower students to reflect and reconcile.
“…”
Only quiet munching sounds echoed in the cave.
Giselle carefully tried to assess the situation around her.
‘How are those Blue Dragon Tower bastards here?’
Giselle never expected that Lee Han would have followed her trail.
Who would have expected students from Blue Dragon Tower, not Black Turtle Tower, to do such underhanded things?
Instead, Giselle thought differently.
‘…These guys also saw the map.’
Otherwise, there would be no reason for them to be here on this night.
They must have come up before the White Tiger Tower students and were hiding in the cave due to the commotion below.
Giselle chewed thoughtfully, pondering what to do.
Though Lee Han from the Wardanaz Family had shown kindness, that was one thing and this was another.
Even from her time in the Moradi Family, Giselle had been educated this way.
-Giselle. As you know, the Moradi Family doesn’t forget grudges. But there’s a hidden meaning behind that. It’s that we repay favors when we feel like it.
Those who were swayed by emotions like gratitude were the most despised people in the Moradi Family.
A person from the Moradi Family had to know how to coldly refuse even if their life-saving benefactor desperately begged them right in front of their eyes.
‘How should I use this? First, I need to gain their favor.’
Meanwhile, one of the White Tiger Tower students hesitantly opened his mouth.
He was trying to ask Durgyu, who he was relatively close with, what had happened.
“Choi. Wha…”
Thud!
“?!”
The White Tiger Tower student who was about to speak collapsed forward.
Durgyu was startled by the sight.
‘What?!’
At first, he thought the student had just collapsed from exhaustion.
But that wasn’t it.
Thud! Thud!
The other students also collapsed forward as if they had eaten something wrong.
“…Damn it!”
Giselle, who realized too late, shouted in a sharp voice and spat out the water she had in her mouth.
However, she had already drunk quite a bit of water, so her mind became hazy.
‘They put something in the water…?!’
“Too late. You realized it too late.”
Lee Han spoke coldly.
Even as her mind grew cloudy, Giselle glared at Lee Han with murderous intent.
Instead of the gentle and slender expression she had seen when they first met, a sharp and deadly expression appeared like a coldly sharpened blade.
It was Giselle’s true expression that even the White Tiger Tower students had never seen.
“Just… you wait. Wardanaz…!”
The last thing Giselle saw was the Wardanaz Family boy looking down at her expressionlessly with a sculpture-like cold face.
With that sight as the last, Giselle fell into sleep.
* * *
‘Did I unnecessarily make enemies?’
Contrary to Giselle’s misunderstanding, Lee Han was actually feeling slightly regretful inside.
The White Tiger Tower students who were treated like this wouldn’t forget this grudge.
But what could he do?
The White Tiger Tower students had struck first. If someone dislikes you for no reason, make sure to give them a reason!
“Wha, wha, wha, what Lee Han?!”
“There’s poison in the water!? I drank it too!?”
Durgyu was so shocked he couldn’t speak properly. Gainando was the same.
Lee Han had deliberately plotted this conspiracy excluding the two of them.
Both Durgyu and Gainando were friends far from expression management. There could have been problems if he had told them.
“Gainando. Don’t worry. It’s not poison. And it wasn’t even in the water you drank. I’m going to capture these guys and leave them where the Bone Trackers are.”
Lee Han hadn’t put sleeping potion in the water the White Tiger Tower students drank out of personal grudge.
Who would the skeletons down below be looking for?
They were definitely looking for the White Tiger Tower students.
He had to quickly capture these guys and offer them up!
“Tha…! Even so, using such methods…?”
“Durgyu. Think carefully. If we had confronted them directly, it would have been noisy and we would have been discovered. Besides, would this Moradi have stayed still? She would have tried to drag us down with her.”
Durgyu was no match for Lee Han in words.
Hearing the explanation, Durgyu felt convinced again.
“But still, this is a bit… More importantly, where did you get the drug?”
Yoner raised his hand with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“I found sleep herbs on the way up earlier.”
Since Yoner could distinguish most flowers and plants, he was able to discover sleep herbs with white stems while coming up.
-Oh. Look at this.
-What is it?
-It’s a sleep herb. If you grind it into powder and drink it with water, it helps you sleep well.
-Let’s take it.
-Huh?
-Let’s take it. We might need it someday.
-Would we ever need this?
Yoner had tilted his head and gathered the sleep herbs. He wondered if there would ever be a use for them.
But surprisingly, there was a use for them.
…Though he really didn’t know they would be used like this.
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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