Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 282

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Chapter 282

“…Excellent. I’ll give you full marks.”

“Thank you.”

To the left.

To the right.

Three spins in place, then a somersault.

Finally, an elegant ballet.

Fortunately, Gonadaltes kindly complied with Lee Han’s commands, which could have been considered somewhat unreasonable requests.

“Thank you, Gonadaltes.”

The skeleton warrior nodded hurriedly. It seemed to be reading the mood for some reason.

“You may retur…”

Pop!

Back in his seat, Lee Han tilted his head.

“Something’s strange.”

“A skeleton doing ballet?”

Gainando looked at Lee Han with an expression that said ‘Now you notice?’

“No. The professor’s expression.”

Lee Han could read the professor’s emotions just like he could read a spirit’s emotions.

Actually, the professor was easier than spirits.

The professor was more obvious about it.

“Well, of course.”

“?”

“You gave the skeleton warrior that kind of name.”

His friends nodded in agreement. Lee Han looked puzzled.

“It’s not like this is the first time you’ve heard it?”

“That kind of thing doesn’t get easier to get used to no matter how many times you hear it, does it?”

While they were talking, it became Gainando’s turn.

“Gainando. Be careful.”

“Right.”

Gainando, who was about to go out with a nervous face, looked moved by his friends’ encouragement.

“Don’t push yourself and cause an accident, just give up appropriately and come back here.”

“Don’t think about showing off by yourself. You’re not Wardanaz.”

“…”

Seeing his friends dragging him down, saying they had already failed on their first attempt, Gainando snorted.

“Hmph! You losers!”

“Gainando… you’re going to end up coming back here…”

“Gainando. When you swung your staff, did you swing it clockwise or counterclockwise? Try to remember.”

Lee Han was impressed.

These guys who couldn’t do the magic they were supposed to do were first-rate at interfering.

“But I’ve already figured out the method.”

Gainando was somewhat confident. It was thanks to his previous friends serving as hints.

Nilia, who succeeded in handling spirits.

Lee Han, who succeeded in handling undead.

If Nilia had approached with warmth through intimacy, Lee Han had approached strictly and firmly.

Since Gainando was also handling undead, it was right to follow the latter approach.

“Listen! If you don’t obey my commands, I’ll…”

The skeleton warrior immediately rushed forward and slapped Gainando across the face.

Enraged, Gainando began swinging his staff and grappling with the skeleton warrior.

“That’s why we told you to give up appropriately and come back here.”

“Gainando! Break his legs! Break that bastard’s legs!”

* * *

Swordsmanship lecture time.

The students weren’t waiting nervously like they would for other final exams.

Swordsmanship lectures didn’t involve taking tests directly on the spot like other lectures.

“What did you guys bring?”

“Why are you asking that? What about you guys?”

“There’s no way we’d tell you that easily.”

The students kept each other in check while reading the mood.

An exam where they had to defeat the strongest possible prey in the mountain range and bring back evidence.

Regardless of grades, having other students hunt stronger prey than oneself was a matter of pride.

“That’s why they’re asking each other like that, Lee Han.”

“I see. Durgyu. But I think we shouldn’t ignore the grades.”

Lee Han spoke coldly.

What nonsense was it to have a pride battle regardless of grades when this was a final exam?

Grades were just more important!

“Th-that’s true too, but… it’s quite an important issue within the White Tiger Tower.”

“Durgyu. Don’t talk nonsense. Come to think of it, what we brought wasn’t discovered, right?”

Since Durgyu and Moradi belonged to the White Tiger Tower, they often clashed with other students.

Moradi had the personality to secure her own share properly, so she definitely wouldn’t have been discovered, but Durgyu had somewhat careless and naive aspects.

The type of personality that might accidentally leak information if friends begged earnestly!

“You don’t need to worry, Lee Han. No one will know what we brought.”

“Right. That’s fortunate.”

Not having your cards revealed in this type of competitive exam was quite important.

The moment it was revealed, the competition would just heat up unnecessarily and everyone would become tired.

Lee Han didn’t want that kind of fight that would only leave wounds on each other.

“You understand, right, Durgyu? We’re being considerate of our friends.”

“Right. Choi. Keep that in mind.”

“…”

Durgyu looked at Lee Han and Giselle with a complicated expression.

He felt something suspicious about the way the two were concentrating on persuading only him.

* * *

Duke Ma of the Je Family looked around nervously. Then Gatono of the Dulrak Family scolded him.

“The other guys will notice. Stay still.”

“S-sorry.”

Gulp-

The two maintained their composure as much as possible while looking ahead. Another student in the same party asked.

“But shouldn’t we be able to talk about it now that we’ve come this far?”

“No! We’re going to submit it as quietly as possible. There’s nothing good about unnecessarily provoking the other guys.”

“Even so, is a comeback really possible at this point?”

The White Tiger Tower student asked back as if he couldn’t believe it.

With only about an hour or two left, how could they find and defeat new prey in that time?

“That crazy bastard Wardanaz might be able to do it.”

“Right. Don’t provoke that bastard Wardanaz!”

“…”

The White Tiger Tower student who had asked the question found himself nodding unconsciously.

Of course it was nonsense, but there was sincere determination in what the other two friends said.

Gatono reached into his backpack. He felt the firm texture of something tightly wrapped in cloth.

Surprisingly, this was…

A shoe that the giant had been wearing.

‘No one else could have brought back prey as impressive as ours!’

Gatono was confident.

No matter how excellent Wardanaz, Durgyu, and Moradi were at swordsmanship, this would have been impossible for them.

It was the same for the other students.

After experiencing such humiliation and hardship trying to hunt a giant, who would have tried to hunt a giant again?

But Gatono and his friends were different. They hadn’t given up.

-Mr. Gretse. We want to face a giant.

-Please help us!

Gretse, a hunter from the Wasteland Starseeker, was moved by the passion of the White Tiger Tower students who kept coming to him.

Since he had come to teach and help the students in the first place, he couldn’t help but find the students who came to him separately endearing.

-That spirit is very good. Then I’ll help you just this once.

-Really?!

-However, whether you succeed or fail depends on your abilities. I can’t help you that far.

-Don’t worry! We’ll do anything!

Gatono and his friends shouted enthusiastically.

With their current mood, it felt like they could do anything.

-Now. You need to crawl to that beast pen and bring back the shoes the giant took off.

-Uh… we’re not fighting the giant directly?

-Of course not. There’s no way I’d allow first-year students to directly confront a giant.

-…

-…

-Why are you like that?

-It’s nothing…

-Getting back to the point, you don’t need to fight the giant. Just the shoes the giant wore would be sufficient evidence.

-But the test is about defeating prey and bringing back evidence, isn’t it?

-If someone secretly approaches and takes the shoes without being noticed, that’s as good as defeat in itself. At least that’s how it is in our Wasteland Starseeker.

-Is… is that so?

The White Tiger Tower students were swayed by the hunter’s logic.

In fact, since they didn’t have to fight the giant directly, they would have accepted it even if it was much more ridiculous.

-Wait. Mr. Gretse. That beast pen over there is completely muddy.

-That makes it even better. The mud will hide your scent so the giant won’t notice. Plus, if necessary, you can hide under the pigs.

-…Isn’t there any other way besides crawling?

-There’s nothing else except facing the giant directly.

The White Tiger Tower students pondered for a long time but eventually stripped off their clothes and crawled through the mud.

The smell was so terrible that even after washing for days, it still stung their noses, but it was worth it.

Shoes that a giant had worn.

Who else could have brought back something like this?

Gatono was so intoxicated with himself that he didn’t notice another student approaching from behind.

Smack!

A student from another party approached and quickly struck Gatono’s hand.

The giant’s shoe inside rolled out.

“…!!”

“Isn’t, isn’t that a shoe the giant wore?! It looks like a shoe the giant wore!”

“Friends! These bastards broke their promise and faced a giant!”

The White Tiger Tower students who had approached suspiciously were shocked to see the giant’s shoe.

After agreeing not to target giants together, they pulled such a dirty trick?

“Coward! How can you call yourself a knight after doing that!”

“I’m honorable. I have no shame looking up at the sky! The promise we made then was not to face giants because it was dangerous. We went there because we were confident we could handle a giant. What’s wrong with that?”

“Lies! You hid it because you were afraid we’d target the giant too!”

“If you’re envious, just say you’re envious. Don’t be pathetically jealous!”

“Are you done talking now?!”

The White Tiger Tower students didn’t stop at arguing but began grabbing each other by the collar and throwing punches.

Lee Han, sitting with Moradi and Durgyu some distance away, clicked his tongue at the sight.

“How foolish. Breaking promises and facing a giant behind their friends’ backs.”

“…Lee Han. But we faced a giant too.”

“We didn’t get caught.”

“We didn’t get caught.”

“…”

* * *

Professor Ingoldel expressed gratitude to Baishada, a hunter from the Shadow Patrol, and Gretse, a hunter from the Wasteland Starseeker.

“It’s thanks to both of your help.”

“Oh, no. Professor.”

“Teaching young mages as a hunter is an honor for me.”

‘He really speaks well.’

Baishada admired Gretse’s eloquence.

It wasn’t for nothing that he was from the Wasteland Starseeker, which appeared frequently in imperial newspapers. His speaking skills were on a different level from Shadow Patrol hunters.

“Thank you for saying that. Now. Shall we look at what the students hunted?”

The two hunters sat with the professor.

Students taking the swordsmanship lecture submitted evidence of their prey one by one, and the two hunters spoke with excited expressions each time.

“This is a blood shadow bat! They don’t usually come out of caves at this time of year, so how did they manage…”

“To catch a walking flame mushroom. A mage is indeed a mage. Even hunters avoid those because they’re troublesome.”

“To bring back vine hunter fruit. That’s impressive?”

During this, it became Gatono and his friends’ turn.

When the giant’s shoe was presented, Professor Ingoldel also expressed admiration.

“The shoe the giant was wearing…! You managed to bring it back!”

Gatono, with a bruise around one eye, said carefully.

“We couldn’t defeat the giant.”

“That doesn’t matter. It’s even more impressive that you brought it back without defeating it.”

Professor Ingoldel said this and looked at Gretse.

“Mr. Gretse. Thank you once again.”

“Professor. I knew you were wise, but I’m really surprised. How did you know?”

“If Mr. Gretse hadn’t given advice, how would first-year students have thought to face a giant?”

Gretse coughed awkwardly as if embarrassed.

Seeing this, Baishada felt envious inside.

Fame, popularity, skill, and even excellent advisory abilities to teach mages – he had everything.

‘Isn’t this too unfair?’

Next were Lee Han and his friends.

When Lee Han submitted the hair of the giant Ikurusha, Professor Ingoldel and Gretse choked and spat out the water they were drinking.

Then they looked at Baishada with shocked expressions.

Baishada shouted in panic.

“No, no, no… I didn’t do anything.”

“I know. Mr. Baishada.”

“You know!”

“From the teaching side, it usually feels like nothing special. But from the learning side, that one word becomes a great realization…”

“…”

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