Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 348

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Chapter 348

30 minutes later.

Professor Garcia returned, breathing heavily.

“So… sorry everyone. You all waited a long time, didn’t you.”

“???”

Lee Han was gradually starting to sense something strange.

Professor Garcia was panting as if she had gotten into a physical fight with someone.

‘Did she perhaps beat up those people who were picking a fight earlier?’

But Professor Garcia’s personality was far too kind for that to be the case.

“Pro… Professor. Please have some of this.”

When the students offered her a teacup, Professor Garcia gulped it down. Her throat seemed parched.

“Phew. Sorry everyone. What refreshments did you order while waiting?”

“Just tea was sufficient.”

“No way. The refreshments here are delicious too. The fruit slices are tasty…”

Professor Garcia, who had been speaking, suddenly stopped.

The students had a sinking feeling.

“…Wait, I’ll just go out for a moment.”

Dash!

When Professor Garcia went out again, Lee Han hardened his expression and spoke.

“This won’t do. I’ll go check for a moment.”

Not just once, but she kept doing this, so as her disciple, he couldn’t help but worry.

“Wait. Isn’t that dangerous? What if you go and just get in the way…”

Nilia wondered if it was okay to follow.

She understood the desire to help.

But help from someone without the skills was closer to being a nuisance.

Nilia knew this well from her experience among hunters.

The students going to help Professor Garcia now would also be like that…

“No. Professor Garcia is clumsy at fighting, so in case of emergency, help would be needed.”

“…????”

“???????”

His friends were so flustered by Lee Han’s words that they couldn’t react.

Meanwhile, Lee Han turned around and quickly ran out the door.

“Wai… Wardanaz! What on earth does that…?!”

* * *

Among Einroguard’s professors, Professor Alcasis Lagrindes, who taught healing magic, was relatively easy to find.

When passing by on the road, if you saw a group of people all with equally pale and tired faces, they were usually either undead or Professor Alcasis’s disciples.

Professor Garcia spoke while catching her breath heavily.

“Professor… Lagrindes.”

“Professor Garcia.”

Professor Alcasis bowed his head curtly in greeting.

However, Professor Garcia had no intention of exchanging pleasantries with her counterpart.

‘Just how many professors are out here anyway?’

She had just sent one away, and now another new professor had appeared.

It was as if there was some professor gathering around here that only Professor Garcia didn’t know about.

“May I ask what brings you here?”

“I came looking for a student.”

“By any chance, Lee Han of the Wardanaz Family?”

At Professor Garcia’s words, Professor Alcasis moved his expressionless face as if slightly surprised.

“That’s right. Since you know him, this will be quick to discuss.”

“Well, you see, Lee Han is a 1st year student, right? Plus he’s studying many subjects, so his skills aren’t quite ready to learn healing magic directly yet…”

“Last time, when knights attacking Hongryeon Forest were accidentally sent flying, he handled the emergency treatment all by himself. Isn’t that qualification enough?”

“…”

Professor Garcia cried out inwardly to Lee Han.

‘What did you do with everything I told you during the semester?’

No matter how basic the healing magic, she had emphasized so much to be careful because the moment it became known that he could use it from his 1st year, a path of hardship would clearly open up!

Professor Garcia let out a sigh.

But she couldn’t blame her disciple for this.

When someone was injured right in front of him, he couldn’t just stand still for his own comfort.

Seeing Professor Garcia fidgeting restlessly, Professor Alcasis let out a rough sigh. It was a sigh filled with deep fatigue.

“Professor Garcia. I know Lee Han is a disciple you cherish. But look at my disciples.”

Professor Garcia unconsciously turned her head, then regretted it.

The most pitiful mages’ souls in the world were right there.

The students majoring in healing magic under Professor Alcasis dozed off while standing, then came to their senses and shook their heads.

“My disciples have slept only one hour in three days. Mages from other schools can make plans. But my disciples can’t do such things. You know this.”

“No… that’s…”

Professor Garcia was speechless in the face of sound logic.

Unlike other professors with selfish motives, Professor Alcasis’s reason was one that even Professor Garcia found difficult to refute.

When he said he needed help to save people’s lives…

“Please lend him to me for just 5 days. Probably in 5 days, all the urgent patients will be roughly taken care of.”

“…But even after that, you’ll come and borrow him whenever it’s urgent.”

“Yes. I’m sorry. But when accidents happen, there’s no choice. We need even one more person.”

Professor Alcasis spoke while rattling the swords at his waist. The dark elf professor’s voice was full of inevitable fatigue.

“So where is student Wardanaz?”

“…I don’t know.”

“Professor!”

Professor Alcasis glared as if pleading.

He was shocked that Professor Garcia, who he thought was reasonable unlike other professors, was acting like this.

“What can I do when I don’t know?”

“I see… Understood. Find him.”

“Yes…”

The students taking healing magic came forward with conflicted expressions, torn between thoughts of ‘Is it really okay to drag in a new student?’ and ‘If he’s really outstanding talent, couldn’t we rest a bit?’

“…”

Professor Garcia prepared to send a note flying to the tea house.

She was planning to tell the students to lock the tea house door and absolutely not come out.

‘They’ll never find…’

“Oh, I found him!”

“…What are you doing!!! Student Lee Han!! Are you crazy!?”

Professor Garcia got angry upon discovering Lee Han making eye contact with a healing magic major student right next to the alley.

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“…I’m sorry.”

Lee Han apologized.

But this couldn’t be helped. It had been too sudden a situation.

Just as he was listening to the conversation between Professor Garcia and Professor Alcasis, the search suddenly began…

‘From now on, I should get into the habit of preparing invisibility magic even in normal times.’

Lee Han reflected deeply.

Einroguard wasn’t the only battlefield.

Outside Einroguard was also a battlefield.

A battlefield where a moment’s carelessness could cost you your life!

“Finally found you.”

Professor Alcasis spoke in a rough voice, slightly hoarse from fatigue.

“Last time I couldn’t finish speaking because of Professor Verdus, but take my hand. I’ll help your talent bloom.”

“…”

Lee Han fell into contemplation about whether to trust Professor Garcia and run away or just obediently follow Professor Alcasis.

The former could result in getting hit by Professor Alcasis’s sword if he ran poorly, while the latter could result in being dragged away and training healing magic until the end of vacation if unlucky.

‘The latter is the only option.’

Lee Han made his decision immediately.

The moment Professor Alcasis’s concentration broke even briefly, he would cast all the magic he had and then run!

“You…”

Professor Alcasis’s eyes narrowed. Even without words, Lee Han’s thoughts came through.

While the Skeleton Principal was the best at catching escaping students at Einroguard, Professor Alcasis was also a hidden expert.

For a professor specializing in healing magic, not only healing magic but also the ability to catch and bring back escaping students was essential.

That’s why he could tell just from the posture.

‘Is that really a 1st year?’

Professor Alcasis couldn’t help but be inwardly shocked at Lee Han’s flawless stance.

How could a student who wasn’t even from White Tiger Tower show such a solid stance without a single opening?

He had heard that the student showed excellent talent not only in healing magic but also in other fields, but to this extent.

Just from the aura he was emanating, it wouldn’t be surprising to mistake him for an experienced battle mage.

‘However…’

Professor Alcasis calmly prepared his magic.

No matter how talented a genius the opponent was, he was still an immature beast that hadn’t fully grown.

In duels between mages, the experienced mage had an absolute advantage.

Professor Alcasis finished preparing to subdue him as quickly as possible while conserving mana.

‘Since he has a lot of mana, direct suppression magic probably won’t work. I’ll summon something external to bind him.’

‘Immediately cast fog and invisibility, then apply enhancement magic and run.’

The two mages only stared at each other silently. The air was taut with tension.

Lee Han instinctively felt that he was at a disadvantage.

‘Damn. I can’t tell what he’s trying to…’

He couldn’t tell what magic the opponent was trying to use. Moreover, Professor Alcasis also knew that Lee Han had a lot of mana.

“…Idiot! What are you doing! Run! Run without looking back! Arms, wither!”

“!?”

At that moment, two of Professor Alcasis’s disciples who had been watching from the side rushed out and cast magic at their master.

They were Fil and Chil, upperclassmen Lee Han was acquainted with.

Professor Alcasis wasn’t surprised or angry even as his disciples attacked him.

He just swung his staff as if annoyed and tired, deflecting the magic.

“Run! Vitality… Gack!”

Fil was subdued with one swing from the professor.

Professor Alcasis had over-regenerated the flesh of the airway connected to Fil’s throat, temporarily blocking it.

Fil tried to undo it somehow, but the professor’s technique was as solid as a master tailor’s stitching and couldn’t be easily tampered with.

“When you get up, study throat-related matters again. Stupid kid.”

“Eyes, block the light!”

Chil didn’t panic at his friend’s fall and aimed for his master’s eyes again.

Anyway, healing magic students had so much work that they didn’t go to the punishment room even if they attempted escape or rebellion.

Professor Alcasis knew this well too, so he didn’t get angry or punish them.

Tap!

The professor blocked Chil’s magic with an annoyed gesture.

It was a simple motion, but Lee Han and Chil could tell how advanced the technique hidden in that motion was.

He had grasped the structure of the incoming magic in that brief moment, then filled his fingertips with mana to reversely dismantle the magic.

Chil gritted his teeth and shouted.

“Aren’t you ashamed! You’re going to take a new student and grind him down like us! Aren’t you ashamed of that!”

“…Damn it, you’re right, Chil!”

The healing magic upperclassmen who had been contemplating nearby threw down their cloaks and picked up their staffs.

They had been wavering between profit and conscience, but hearing Chil’s words made them feel their faces burning.

As Einroguard students, they couldn’t let such things be done to a 1st year new student.

Professor Alcasis’s eyes became even darker and flashed deeply.

“I don’t mind you attacking, but I’ll kill anyone who wastes mana unnecessarily.”

“Don’t lie! Master will make us work instead of killing us!”

“Attack!”

“Which formation?!”

“This time formation 11! Move in formation 11!”

‘Just how many times have these upperclassmen attacked?’

The healing magic students hadn’t rebelled just once or twice, as they instantly formed up and rushed at Professor Alcasis.

‘Good! This much should be…!’

Chil felt relieved.

Of course the students would be miserably subdued, but at least they could buy time for their junior to escape.

However, Lee Han didn’t run away.

“…??!?”

When Lee Han instead ran over to stand next to Chil, Chil was shocked.

“What are you doing! Are you crazy!”

“Senior. How could I run away alone, leaving you all behind.”

“…You…!”

Chil’s eyes grew hot. Tears welled up without him realizing it.

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