Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 308

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Chapter 308

When Lee Han first said he would subjugate the undead in the cave and collect materials as well, Gu Bon had tried to dissuade him, saying it was overambitious.

Subjugating undead was already quite demanding work, and such rare herb collection requests were usually difficult to find, so there was a high possibility it had come to the adventurer’s guild for that reason.

If he took on both tasks, he might fail at both or just waste his stamina.

However, Lee Han listened carefully to Gu Bon’s concerns and explained step by step without getting emotional at all.

According to books, the terrain behind the cave was good for herbs to grow, and if undead appeared in the cave, the herbs’ potency would be influenced by that, making them more likely to be obtained…

Though Gu Bon didn’t know much about magic or herbology, Lee Han’s words carried clear persuasive power.

And that wasn’t the end of it.

He even planned to capture the rare monster, Rapella field mice.

Ordinary adventurers didn’t do this. There were reasons why they solved one request at a time.

They were already cautious about when or even if they could solve one request, so making such greedy plans should have been objected to…

But Gu Bon couldn’t do that.

The other party’s plan was really too perfect and meticulous.

If it weren’t for his face, he would have thought he was an adventurer with about ten years of experience.

“All Einroguard students can do about this much.”

Lee Han spoke humbly for the honor of his friends.

The White Tiger Tower students stared at Lee Han with wide eyes.

‘What is he saying?’

‘Only you can do that…!’

“I don’t have anything more to add. I think we can proceed right away…”

Gu Bon trailed off.

Even if it was cautious, there was something he had to say.

“Are you properly prepared for travel and camping on the way there?”

At Gu Bon’s words, Angrago snorted as if telling him not to worry.

“Nothing to worry about. It’s not like we’ve only camped once or twice.”

“It wouldn’t happen to be camping where servants carrying food supplies and various camping equipment followed along, would it?”

“…”

At Lee Han’s question, Angrago was struck speechless.

Wait, how did he know?

Lee Han sighed and said.

“You’d better forget about camping experiences with other knights from your family. Back then, they would have taken care of everything from preparing the campsite to preparing washing water, warm meals, night watches, and such. If you want to travel alone, you need to bring everything necessary.”

At Lee Han’s words, Gu Bon was surprised once again.

He couldn’t believe this was really a 1st year student.

How could a 1st year student so calmly and composedly anticipate…

“Open your backpack. I need to check what you have. Don’t you even have rope, if not nails or hammers? Who knows what might happen? And you need cloth too. Preferably oil-treated ones would be good. Is canned pork all you have for food? It’s insufficient but that much should be fine. Pack a leather water bottle too. You seem to have left out flint and tinder because of magic, but don’t waste mana unnecessarily and pack those too.”

“…”

Gu Bon was completely overwhelmed.

The sight of him checking supplies more skillfully than most seasoned adventurers.

Seeing that made Gu Bon wonder why he had come here.

It seemed like things would roll along just fine even without an experienced veteran…

“Mr. Gu Bon. I’d like to ask for some advice.”

Unaware of Gu Bon’s inner thoughts, Lee Han called for Gu Bon. Gu Bon felt very burdened.

Lee Han was already doing better than Gu Bon.

‘I packed my luggage pretty carelessly…’

Even many veteran adventurers weren’t this thorough. Unless going to really dangerous places, the basic approach was ‘let’s tough it out physically to save silver coins.’

“It looks excellent.”

At Gu Bon’s words, Lee Han urged him as if asking why he was acting like that.

“Why are you acting like that.”

“Pardon?”

“There must be parts you want to point out. There’s no way there aren’t any.”

“Ah… no…”

There really aren’t any!

Gu Bon’s colleague Bijidek looked at him with eyes that said ‘how can you give more advice here?’

* * *

“I see. The color of the backpack is important too. This is information I didn’t know. As expected, experienced adventurers are different.”

Lee Han wrote with an impressed expression.

Changing backpack camouflage colors to match the terrain you’re going to. As expected, advice from adventurers with lots of real combat experience was exceptional.

Bijidek whispered in a small voice.

“There’s no such thing.”

“…I, I just couldn’t think of anything.”

Gu Bon hung his head in shame.

Of course, he had never changed backpack colors for different terrains.

When you never know when or where you’ll go, would you change backpacks every time? Adventurers didn’t have enough money to waste silver coins like that.

Durgyu, who was walking ahead, asked.

“But isn’t that a bit strange? Changing backpacks every time would be troublesome and annoying.”

“Probably camouflaging with grass or dirt that can be obtained from the surroundings.”

“Aha.”

“…”

Gu Bon shuddered at the sight of the Einroguard student who figured out ten things even when not told one.

What the hell…

“But since we can use magic, there’s no need for that. It could be replaced with 【Basic Color Change】 magic.”

Durgyu was impressed by Lee Han’s words.

“As expected of you, Lee Han, who attended all magic classes like a madman.”

“What did you just say?”

“Ah, no. Sorry. It’s a habit of speech from friends in the same tower…”

“It’s fine, Durgyu. It’s not your fault, it’s those other guys’ fault.”

“We… we didn’t do it.”

“We didn’t say anything.”

Angrago and Raphadael denied it, but Lee Han ignored them.

“But Wardanaz. I remember 【Basic Color Change】 magic wasn’t taught in class. When did you learn it?”

“No. I just saw it in a book too. If I practice, I should get it before we arrive.”

“How does that make sense…”

“Colors, change.”

In just one try, the backpack was dyed green. Lee Han nodded.

“It’s similar to steel transformation but easier. Thanks to that, I succeeded in one try.”

“…”

“Why are you staring like that?”

“It’s nothing…”

The White Tiger Tower students turned their gazes away with expressions mixed with sadness and resignation.

The veteran adventurers, Gu Bon and Bijidek, whispered because they couldn’t understand.

“Isn’t the atmosphere a bit strange?”

“I definitely think so too… aren’t they friends?”

Rather than close friends from the same knight background, there was a strict atmosphere like between a superior and subordinate.

They were definitely the same grade…

‘Must be my imagination?’

After passing through Granden City’s castle gate, moving along the Empire’s roads, following the path shown on the map to exit, and passing through grass fields, they could see their destination, Bulpareun Hill.

Since they arrived around early evening, they had arrived quite quickly.

Everyone had good stamina and even had horses, but most importantly…

“Thanks to having two veterans with us, we were able to come here in one go without getting lost.”

…it was thanks to finding the way directly without getting lost even once.

The two adventurers said nothing and smiled awkwardly.

‘We…’

‘…didn’t really do anything though.’

Lee Han had looked at the map by himself, saying ‘Is it this way?’ ‘It’s this way’ ‘Let’s turn here’ and arrived at the destination on his own.

Even when the two who knew this area well tried to give advice, there wasn’t a single thing wrong.

“Now, then…”

“I’m still fine on stamina, so let’s go in.”

Raphadael spoke enthusiastically.

As someone learning dark magic to subjugate criminal dark mages, he was very active about undead subjugation.

Gu Bon was delighted.

Finally, the time had come to give advice as a seasoned adventurer.

“That’s…”

“No. Raphadael. Of course we’re not tired, but there’s no need to enter a cave where undead appear in the early evening. When the sun completely sets, the undead’s power will become stronger. Even if we’re not tired now, it’s right to prepare camp and wait until tomorrow morning.”

Having said that, Lee Han looked at the two adventurers and asked.

“Is that alright?”

“…Right, that’s right. It’s a good method.”

“Thank you.”

The two adventurers, beyond bewilderment and absurdity, began to feel a deep sense of doubt.

…Was there really a need for us to come?

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“We’ll take care of the camping preparations!”

“???”

When the two adventurers declared firmly, Lee Han and his friends tilted their heads.

“Shouldn’t we normally prepare together?”

“No. Originally, people like mages don’t do this kind of work.”

Gu Bon’s words were correct.

While dirty work was shared in parties, there were always exceptions.

You couldn’t assign menial tasks to high-level personnel like mages and priests, or those from knight families who did the work of several other adventurers. That would actually be wasteful.

All the students here were mages and from knight families…

“I see. I understand.”

“Then we’ll…”

“No.”

Lee Han refused.

“If you two aren’t around, we’ll have to do it ourselves, and if we can’t do it then, it’ll be a problem. We should learn how to do it.”

“Huh?”

“Do, do we need to prepare that much?”

The White Tiger Tower friends, who were just thinking of resting, asked back in an awkward posture.

However, Lee Han was serious.

“Yes. Think about it carefully. If we end up camping at Einroguard, we won’t be able to get help from other adventurers.”

“Why would we camp at Einroguard?”

Gu Bon asked because he didn’t understand. The magic school students pretended not to hear and moved on.

“Now. What should we do first?”

“First, light a fire…”

As Gu Bon tried to take out his flint box, Lee Han immediately swung his staff.

Whoosh!

“It’s lit.”

“…Well, if there’s a water source nearby, it’s good to get water. If you secure fresh water, it’s useful in many ways…”

Splash!

“I’ve summoned it. What’s next?”

“…”

Seeing the giant mass of water floating in the air, Gu Bon and Bijidek gaped, then quietly took out wooden buckets to collect the water.

“The thicket around here will block the light from leaking out and the cold wind, but it’s somewhat lacking. Even just piling up some dirt…”

Thud thud thud!

In an instant, dirt piled up and became a simple earthen wall.

“Is this enough?”

“…Yes. Now we just need to set up simple traps so we can know if intruders come around…”

Lee Han brought out the magic he had learned when making fireworks with Professor Verdus.

It was magic that imbued paper with light illusions, summoning the light illusion when the paper was torn.

Flash!

Angrago asked without much thought.

“Did you learn that on the way here too? That’s amazing.”

“What nonsense are you talking about? You know magic can’t be learned that easily. It’s magic I learned directly from the professor during the semester.”

“…No… hey…!!”

While Angrago was speechless from feeling so wronged and absurd, Lee Han finished his work by going around the area.

“How is it?”

“If we just keep watch properly, there really won’t be any problems now.”

“Everyone heard that, right? Remember the order well.”

Lee Han said to the White Tiger Tower students.

The White Tiger Tower students weren’t even surprised by this series of numerous spells. They nodded as if it were natural.

“Don’t worry, Wardanaz. We remembered it well.”

“With this much, we should be able to do it too.”

‘No…’

Gu Bon and Bijidek were confused by the feeling of common sense collapsing.

Work that should normally take 2-3 hours had just finished in a few minutes…

Could this kind of reaction to that make sense?

‘Are all mages like this??’

‘There’s a reason mages are expensive…! They’re really worth the high price!’

Of course, mages who participated in parties didn’t do this kind of thing.

Since they had to conserve their mana consumption, no one used magic for this kind of preparation.

Because they met Lee Han by mistake, the two adventurers’ common sense about mages was changing strangely.

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