Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 307

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Chapter 307

Even though the Wardanaz family was clearly a prestigious magical family and a great noble house, he couldn’t understand why students from knight families were so confidently guaranteeing their combat prowess.

Their swordsmanship wouldn’t be superior, and as first-year students, they wouldn’t be skilled in magical combat either…

“…I have clearly stated this. Please remember it.”

“Understood.”

“Is there anything else you’d like to add to the record?”

“I received a flame magic permit from the Afha Order.”

“Is that so? I’ll record that.”

The clerk looked slightly surprised.

He was a clerk who welcomed several Einroguard students every vacation.

He had never seen a first-year student come this prepared.

Of course, he had never seen a first-year student from a great noble family come here either!

Lee Han was about to ask them to add his magical combat training under the mad professor to his experience, but stopped.

He was afraid it might have the opposite effect.

“A flame magic permit? When did you get that?”

“What foolish fellows. We might need to handle requests within the city, and you didn’t prepare for that?”

At Lee Han’s scolding, the White Tiger Tower students felt wronged.

This was their first time doing this, so how could they have known?

“Fine. Since it’s your first time, mistakes can happen. Now. Has anyone here found party members?”

About two-thirds of the gathered White Tiger Tower students raised their hands.

These were students who had decided to go with each other, or had been introduced to party members through connections.

“I see. The remaining people can come with me then. Please take care of me.”

“…”

“…”

“Huh???”

The White Tiger Tower students couldn’t accept reality for a moment, then asked in confusion.

“Uh… what??”

“What’s wrong?”

“Uh, what. That. Wardanaz. Are we moving together?”

“Yes. Do you have a problem with that?”

“Uh, well. I mean. Won’t it be dangerous?”

One White Tiger Tower student nearby thought to himself.

‘Especially for us!’

“Dangerous?”

“Uh… yeah.”

“Thanks for worrying. But I have the ability to protect myself. I’m mentally prepared too. So it’s fine.”

The White Tiger Tower student wanted to say ‘We’re not fine,’ but couldn’t bring himself to say it and looked around at his friends.

-Help me!

However, there weren’t as many friends stepping forward as expected.

“Uh… ahem. Then. Wardanaz. I’ll pay you back as soon as I earn some silver from working hard.”

“Right, right. Wardanaz. See you later.”

The lucky students who had raised their hands earlier hurriedly escaped.

Now only the unlucky students who hadn’t raised their hands remained.

“Then let’s think about what kind of request we should take together.”

“Um. Wardanaz. Perhaps…”

“Come to think of it, how much silver do you owe me?”

“…I’ll work hard…”

The students gathered there accepted the reality with gloomy expressions.

When they were putting on their equipment, they had been excited wondering what requests there might be, but now they already felt like they were back at Einroguard.

* * *

‘How reassuring.’

Lee Han sipped green tea at an outdoor table of a tea shop with the White Tiger Tower students and made plans.

He was in a good mood having found unexpected meat shields—no, vanguards for the party.

The standard party composition was to have sturdy vanguards block attacks at the front, combat members positioned in the middle behind them to launch attacks, and in the rear, mages and priests to flexibly respond to various situations.

Of course, this was only an ideal example. Things in the world didn’t always go ideally.

To begin with, mages and priests were high-level personnel that were hard to find even if you wanted them.

“In that regard, we’re in a very advantageous position. Don’t you think?”

Not all adventurers or mercenaries were skilled.

The excellent veterans were those who had built their skills by experiencing life-threatening dangers several times while struggling at the bottom. Those who hadn’t were mostly inconsistent in skill without proper foundations.

In comparison, the White Tiger Tower students here were prepared talents who had received training as knights, including swordsmanship, for over ten years.

With this level of skill, they were experts that mediocre adventurers couldn’t match.

“Sturdy vanguards plus a mage.”

“…”

“Aren’t you going to answer?”

“It, it seems good!”

The White Tiger Tower students, who had been exchanging glances wondering ‘how can we escape,’ quickly spoke up.

“But Wardanaz. Aren’t we a bit short on members?”

Angrago said carefully.

Durgyu, Angrago, Raphadael, Lee Han.

It wasn’t too few, but it did feel a bit lacking.

Moreover, they lacked experience.

Ideally, they would want to add two or three experienced veterans.

“Don’t worry about that.”

Durgyu answered instead.

Before coming with the other friends, Durgyu had thoroughly researched by asking senior knights.

“I heard that Einroguard students like us are popular. Popular enough that we can recruit other adventurers easily.”

In a way, it was natural.

The White Tiger Tower students were all thoroughly trained and could even use magic.

It was natural that other adventurers would want to work with them.

“Then that works out well? Can we just go to the guild and ask them to find some for us?”

“That’s right. But before that, let’s plan what request we’ll tackle first.”

Lee Han took out a map.

“I heard ghouls are appearing from a cave near Bulpareun Hill. First, we’ll deal with these undead.”

His friends nodded.

They were confident they could handle ghouls.

Given the distance, it would be a two-day, one-night expedition with camping nearby.

“Then after that, we’ll collect geranium flowers, seolrakcho, and sleepwort from behind the cave. There’s a request for all three.”

“…Huh? Wait a minute.”

“What’s wrong?”

The White Tiger Tower students were confused when herb collection was suddenly added while they were preparing for undead hunting.

“I thought we were hunting undead?”

“Yes. But looking at the map, it’s terrain where those three herbs are likely to be found. It’s good if we can handle multiple requests at once, right?”

“…I, I see!”

“Indeed!”

“I was also thinking… that it looked like terrain where seolbakcho and mugwort cakes would be found.”

Instead of asking more questions, the White Tiger Tower students nodded as if they had known this all along.

The White Tiger Tower students nodded as if they had known all along, instead of asking any more questions.

‘How did you know there were herbs just by looking at the map?’ seemed like a question that would make them look too stupid.

“Right? I knew you’d know. It was in the books too.”

“…”

“…”

The White Tiger Tower students just sat quietly and smiled meaningfully.

It seemed like they could at least get by if they just listened quietly for now.

“And after we finish gathering, we’ll capture Rapella field mice in the nearby forest. There are discovery records.”

“…No, no. No. Wait a minute.”

When rare animal capture was added on top of undead hunting and herb gathering, the White Tiger Tower students couldn’t hold back and dropped their smiles.

“What’s wrong?”

“Well… capturing Rapella field mice doesn’t seem like it would be easy??”

“Right. Wardanaz. Those kinds of animal capture requests are usually difficult. Not just anyone can do it. You need experienced hunters…”

“That’s true. There’s certainly no guarantee we’ll catch them.”

“Exactly! Our schedule is already full enough…”

“But there’s a method with quite high possibility. First, they like 【Dobruk’s Red Fragrance Potion】. If we have Sharkan find their traces, then sprinkle the potion along their routes and wait, we can catch them with higher probability than just randomly searching the forest. Not only that, if we add illusion magic at the path…”

The White Tiger Tower students gaped after hearing Lee Han’s explanation.

‘What the…’

‘Is he a 10-year veteran adventurer?’

‘That’s the same guy who registered with us, right?’

“Is this explanation enough? You must have seen it in books too.”

“…”

“…That’s exactly what we were thinking. Wardanaz. Getting maximum efficiency from a single request.”

The White Tiger Tower students threw away all their complaints.

And while they were at it, they decided to throw away their brains too.

‘We should just do whatever Wardanaz tells us to do…’

* * *

“Einroguard! You mean Einroguard students!”

The adventurer, Gu Bon, was very pleased at the clerk’s words.

He had been in trouble since his party of 3 years had disbanded due to the retirement of two frontliners and internal conflict between two attackers, so receiving this proposal was perfect timing.

“Yes. Mr. Gu Bon has been consistently active and has shown sincerity and reliability in most requests. That’s why we’re recommending this connection.”

“Thank you so much. I won’t disappoint you.”

Gu Bon knew well how precious the clerk’s proposal was.

There were countless cases of people who had never even held a sword flowing into the city and swaggering around saying ‘I’m an adventurer,’ but Einroguard students on vacation were very valuable talent.

Moreover, they would all be from knight families, so they would be talented in both combat and magic – truly versatile talents.

There was only one reason for connecting such precious talents with him.

‘They must be expecting advice from a veteran.’

Unknown adventurers rolling around like roadside stones could get hurt anywhere without consequence, but if Einroguard students got injured, several people would be in trouble.

Their skills were certain, but their lack of experience was unavoidable.

They must have assigned a trustworthy and experienced adventurer to fill that lack of experience.

“I’ll do my best to cooperate.”

“That’s reassuring. I’m counting on you, Mr. Gu Bon.”

Gu Bon finished his conversation with the clerk and headed to the meeting place with his one remaining party member.

“Einroguard students… what do you think they’ll be like?”

“I’ve never met them either. I heard most of them are mages from knight families.”

“So they’re knights?”

The two imagined powerful knights heavily armed and pushing forward like unshakeable rocks.

And magic on top of that.

“They must be good at fighting.”

“Fighting isn’t the problem, other things are. They’re inexperienced young students, right? Honestly, I’m a bit anxious.”

“Should we have refused the proposal then? Such a good proposal?”

“That’s not it, but… honestly, I did want to try working with mages too. I’m just worried they might say something ridiculous.”

The two walked with half expectation, half worry.

They weren’t anxious about the students’ skills.

They were just worried they might be overconfident and set goals too high or make strange mistakes in odd places.

“Please take care of us. I’m Lee Han of the Wardanaz family.”

“I’m Gu Bon. This friend here is Bijidek.”

Gu Bon shook hands with the boy who was handsome like a statue. His tall height and solidly built physique truly befitted a mage from a knight family.

“Wardanaz?”

“What’s wrong, Bijidek. Be quiet. We’re having a conversation.”

“Uh… I think I’ve heard that name somewhere. Sorry.”

Gu Bon, now seated, carefully asked Lee Han.

“Since our party is much smaller in scale, we’re thinking of playing a supporting role and following orders. But do you have any requests you’re targeting…”

Gu Bon nervously swallowed, tense about how to dissuade Lee Han if he came up with some ridiculous plan.

Lee Han nodded and pulled out a map.

“Now. I heard ghouls are appearing from caves near Bulparn Hill…”

30 minutes later.

Faced with a perfect and meticulous plan he had never seen before, Gu Bon looked at Lee Han with shocked eyes and asked.

“Are all Einroguard students like this??”

“…”

The White Tiger Tower students subtly averted their gazes.

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