Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 34
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Chapter 034
“I can’t just say anything to Thunderstep’s top disciple.”
“…I’m truly delighted.”
Lee Han struggled to manage his expression.
Even when a professor’s kindness wasn’t particularly welcome, expression management was still necessary.
A displeased professor was a more terrifying existence than most demons.
Lightningstep walked along with heavy steps and stopped in front of one horse.
It was truly a beautiful white horse.
A white horse that was neither particularly large nor particularly small, with a solid build and well-developed muscles.
The white horse stared at Lee Han intently, then blinked its eyes. There was no sense of violence in it whatsoever.
If Lee Han had been a little younger, he might have been fooled into thinking ‘Did the professor really give me a good horse as a gift?’
But Lee Han was someone who had experienced all kinds of hardships.
He wasn’t easily deceived.
‘Could this possibly be a demon disguised as a white horse?’
There’s definitely something going on!
“Now. This horse is truly a good horse. But its temperament is the roughest and most difficult in this stable. If you can tame this horse, you’ll be able to easily tame other monsters too.”
Lightningstep spoke with a very pleased expression.
“Of course, it might be too difficult an opponent for a first-year student.”
“If you think so, then chan…”
“But you, Wardanaz, who handled the thunderbird so skillfully, can definitely do it! I believe in you!”
‘Damn it.’
The difficulty level goes up because I did well!
How can this be so unreasonable and absurd…
While Lee Han and Professor Lightningstep were talking, the other students couldn’t give up their lingering hopes and were approaching various horses, trying to communicate with them.
“You’re gentle, right? Gent… Ack! It bit me!”
“Stop spitting! I said stop spitting!”
“It’s headbutting me!?”
Of course, the horses weren’t easy to deal with.
As the chaos continued, Nilia cautiously spoke to her friends.
“Shouldn’t we become friends with the horses first?”
“We’re trying to become friends with them, aren’t we?”
“I mean, instead of just approaching them suddenly and trying to pet them, there are other things. Like coming out early in the morning to brush them, or cleaning their stalls, or feeding them…”
Nilia didn’t think she was saying anything particularly strange.
Even when working for the 【Shadow Patrol】, you had to show this level of dedication to tame unfamiliar beasts.
If you don’t consistently put in time and effort, the other party won’t open their heart.
“Why do we have to go that far?”
“Come out to the stables early every morning?”
“?!”
However, surprisingly, the other students showed resistance.
Even the Black Turtle Tower had many students from wealthy families.
Horses were something servants or slaves took care of, not something they needed to personally attend to.
‘Are they all idiots!?’
Nilia was about to say ‘Do you still think you’re outside the school?’ but held back.
If she said such things, only Nilia would be treated as a strange person.
She had no choice but to keep it to herself.
‘I’ll have to come out alone and do it myself. Later, when they see the horses listening to me, maybe others will listen to what I say too.’
As Nilia walked over with her ears drooping dejectedly, Lee Han and Yoner approached her.
“Nilia. Did you pick a horse?”
“We’re planning to come out every morning to take care of the horses. Want to join us?”
“…Yes!!”
Nilia hugged Lee Han and Yoner tightly with a tearful expression.
True friends didn’t care about being from different towers.
Lee Han and Yoner looked at Nilia with bewildered expressions.
‘Why is she acting like this?’
‘Who knows…?’
* * *
After the Basic Riding Training lecture ended, Lee Han headed to Professor Thunderstep’s cabin with Professor Lightningstep.
Actually, to be precise, it was closer to being dragged along rather than going together. Lee Han couldn’t refuse Professor Lightningstep’s words.
“You’re here… no.”
Lee Han clearly saw it.
Professor Thunderstep’s eyes shaking greatly and his complexion darkening upon spotting the family elder!
“…What brings you here?”
“Do I need a reason to see my nephew! Move aside. Oh my! Living in such a secluded place making cabins again. It’s not even properly organized! Look at all this dust!”
“It, it’s organized in its own way.”
Thunderstep tried to protest somewhat.
In fact, the cabin had become quite tidy since Lee Han arrived.
“What do you mean organized! What kind of organization is this! Alchemy is fine, but now you should think about finding a good partner and having children. How long do you plan to live alone! The elders are worried about you…”
“…”
Thunderstep looked at Lee Han as if asking for rescue. Lee Han couldn’t bring himself to refuse those eyes.
“Um. Professor. Shall I prepare a meal?”
“Ah. Right. I brought my disciple, so I should feed him. You stay put, Thunderstep. Your cooking doesn’t taste good. I’ll make it delicious in the Eastern style.”
“But I don’t really like Eastern food…”
“What did you say?”
“Nothing at all.”
Thunderstep mumbled and then closed his mouth. Then he looked at Lee Han and spoke in an earnest voice.
“Did anything happen to you?”
A voice that contained the meaning of ‘please change the subject.’
Lee Han pondered what story he should bring up.
Should he talk about joining the Prising Order?
“Wait. That staff…”
Thunderstep finally realized that Lee Han’s staff was one he hadn’t seen before.
“Where did you get that staff?”
“Ah. You mean this.”
Lee Han hesitated for a moment.
Then he asked again.
“You’ll keep it secret, right?”
“…”
Thunderstep was bewildered.
He had just asked casually to change the subject, but he never expected such a response.
Moreover, saying something like that was obviously suspicious…
“…I’ll keep it.”
“Child. Our bloodline always keeps secrets.”
Lightningstep was chopping on the cutting board in the back, then briefly washed his hands and approached.
“Whatever secret it may be, we don’t take stories heard at the dinner table outside. By the way, why do you only have bread and meat as ingredients?”
“Ah. I can take care of my meals just fine on my own…!”
“That’s why your health is weakening! The Eastern diet is the best for dwarves. You should eat rice, not wheat. Let me cook you my delicious stew.”
Thunderstep’s expression was colored with sadness.
The Dwarf Professor desperately tried to change the subject and asked Lee Han again.
“So that staff, how did you get it? I can feel the energy of life from it…”
Lee Han summarized and refined what had happened that night considerably before speaking.
-I happened to go up the mountain for a night stroll and met a talking oak tree…
“…You happened to go deep into that mountain for a night stroll???”
“Yes. A stroll is supposed to be taken in such secluded and remote places to be truly enjoyable.”
“…”
“…”
Thunderstep and Lightningstep looked at Lee Han as if bewildered, but Lee Han remained unshaken.
‘He was trying to escape.’
‘An escape attempt.’
There was only one reason why a new student would climb a hill on a weekend night.
“But wait. You met a talking oak tree? Did you solve a riddle by any chance?”
“Yes. How did you know?”
“It’s a fairly famous spirit… Then that staff must have been given to you by the talking oak tree.”
Thunderstep nodded with interest as he looked at the staff.
Talking oak trees had picky and troublesome personalities, but the secrets and knowledge they possessed could not be ignored.
The staff Lee Han was holding emanated the life-filled energy of a wood spirit. It was an unusual staff that was rarely seen.
“Does this staff have any special effects by any chance?”
Lee Han asked with a slightly expectant voice.
As a human being, he couldn’t help but have expectations.
The talking oak tree had spoken of it as if it were quite a remarkable item…
“That staff is good for farming.”
Lightningstep placed the bubbling pork stew on the wooden table.
Well-fermented kimchi (the name was something like Eastern pickled cabbage, but Lee Han just called it kimchi) was stir-fried once, then various seasonings and chunks of pork were added and boiled vigorously, making the stew emit a scent that made Lee Han’s heart flutter.
For Lee Han, who was of Korean origin, the Eastern Empire diet, which was typical Korean-style food, was always familiar.
In contrast, Thunderstep’s expression was colored with sadness.
With green onions and peppers added, and looking bright red, it obviously looked spicy.
‘With a student present, cooking such spicy Eastern food on your own…’
“I’ll eat well.”
“?!”
Thunderstep was startled to see Lee Han take a big spoonful of white rice and mix it into his bowl before eating.
He’s eating it well!?
‘Isn’t it spicy? Was he someone who originally enjoyed spicy food?!’
“As expected. Befitting Thunderstep’s disciple, you know how to eat food. Wardanaz.”
Lightningstep spoke with a satisfied expression.
Since the Empire was so vast, there were people who couldn’t eat cuisine from regions other than their birthplace.
Compared to such people, Lee Han eating so heartily was nothing but delightful.
A way of eating that old dwarves couldn’t help but love!
“In contrast, why are you picking at your food like that! Eat quickly!”
“Ah, yes!”
In contrast, Thunderstep was eating even slower than his student. While the dwarf and human were eating, Lightningstep continued the earlier conversation.
“Since that staff has wood spirits dwelling in it, it will be very good when growing and nurturing something. It’s literally a living staff. Such staffs can’t be easily obtained. It’s a very precious item.”
“Uh… are there no other effects?”
“Well? That’s the most representative effect.”
Of course, helping crops grow wasn’t a bad effect, but it was quite far from what Lee Han had wanted.
‘It was for farming…?’
He had hoped that holding the staff would make him invincible, or allow him to learn magic in dreams, or at least help with mana control…
“That works out well. You were planning to tend a vegetable garden anyway.”
“That’s true.”
“A vegetable garden?”
Lightningstep showed interest in the conversation between Thunderstep and Lee Han.
“Weren’t you from the Wardanaz Family?”
“This guy is a bit unusual.”
“So it seems. What are you planning to grow in the vegetable garden?”
“I want to try growing all sorts of edible things.”
“That guy is interested in Eastern cuisine, so he was planning to plant various things like cabbage and green onions.”
“Really?”
Thunderstep’s words seemed to please Lightningstep. Lightningstep spoke as if looking forward to it.
“If you want, I’ll help you out a bit.”
“Oh. Really?”
“Yes. I’ve tended quite a few vegetable gardens myself.”
Lee Han went outside the cabin with Lightningstep.
Behind it was a clearing that had been left empty specifically to create Lee Han’s vegetable garden.
Thanks to tending the soil bit by bit, it was in a state where seeds or seedlings could be planted at any time.
“It would be good to plant the ones that take a long time first. Things like potatoes and sweet potatoes will be very useful.”
Lightningstep knew well how the new students of this school suffered.
Crops that could fill the stomach like potatoes and sweet potatoes would be very useful.
“It will take at least two months, but if you plant them in advance, you’ll be grateful later.”
“You’re absolutely right.”
Lee Han thought Lightningstep’s words made sense. He received potato and sweet potato seeds and began carefully planting them in one section of the vegetable garden.
‘…He’s from the Wardanaz Family?’
Lightningstep was slightly bewildered by Lee Han’s working appearance.
Anyone who had done some work would have to admire the way Lee Han worked.
That skilled appearance that was clearly a natural-born worker.
…Was he really from the Wardanaz Family, a prestigious magic family?
* * *
“…?”
Thunderstep, who came out of the cabin late to watch, felt something strange.
“Did you come and plant them over the weekend?”
“What? I just planted them now.”
“Really?”
Thunderstep tilted his head.
‘He just planted them now?’
But why does it look like sprouts have already grown?
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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