Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 355
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Chapter 355
“Right. Tell the other followers to stay inside the magic tower.”
“No, there’s nothing like that…”
When even Lee Han started talking nonsense, his friends became even more flustered.
“Lord Penguerin. Let’s hurry and go find His Highness! If His Highness goes missing, the great noble families of the Empire who have connections with him will be very worried.”
“A-alright! Wait!”
Alsicle waddled out hurriedly.
As Alsicle himself was from a prestigious Empire family, he could guess how renowned a member of the Imperial Family would have to be to have connections with the great noble families of the Empire.
How troublesome would it be if such an Imperial Family member went missing around Alsicle’s magic tower?
He absolutely couldn’t let that happen.
Yoner brushed the snow off his hair and whispered to Lee Han.
“Does Gainando have connections with great noble families?”
“Hmm. If we’re being strict about it, maybe the Wardanaz Family and the Meikin Family?”
“…”
Hey!
Yoner was dumbfounded at his friend who had cleverly played with words to deceive the mage in less than a second.
* * *
“So how did Gainando end up stranded? Wait. More importantly, why are you guys here?”
“…We thought you had been kidnapped, Wardanaz…”
Nilia hesitantly explained what had happened.
Looking at it now, it didn’t seem like he had been kidnapped.
After hearing the explanation, Lee Han began to clarify.
“I wasn’t kidnapped.”
“That’s right.”
When Professor Boladi agreed from beside him, Lee Han momentarily hesitated.
‘Wait. Was I kidnapped?’
Sometimes, after being under a professor as a disciple for a long time, one would develop Stockholm syndrome.
Then even when being kidnapped and dragged away, they would say things like ‘Haha, the professor must need my help, it’s nothing serious so don’t worry everyone.’
“…Or not? Was I kidnapped?”
“To be honest, we’re not that different from the other professors.”
Yumidifus said with a slightly repentant expression.
But Yumidifus had his own excuse.
“I knew the professors at Einroguard were wicked, but I didn’t know they were chasing after students during vacation to torment them. If I had known, I would have left you alone to rest.”
“Yes. During vacation, students should be allowed to rest.”
When Professor Boladi agreed with Yumidifus’s words, Lee Han’s eyes widened involuntarily.
“Professor?”
“What’s wrong?”
“No… it’s nothing.”
Lee Han swallowed the shout that was about to come out.
Professor Boladi surely thought that his teaching was different from the teaching other professors did while chasing students around.
Maybe he thought of it as restful teaching or something…
Of course, it was an absurd delusion. They were exactly the same.
“Over here! He disappeared starting from here!”
Hearing Nilia’s shout, Yumidifus waved his staff to stop the carriage.
When the water spirits pulling the carriage stopped walking, Alsicle immediately rushed out.
Pop!
The snow falling from the sky suddenly began rising back up as if time had rewound.
After clearing away the snowstorm with his staff, Alsicle immediately stepped into the air. Then ice platforms formed in the air and Alsicle’s body shot upward.
Mages didn’t need to search through mountain valleys below while getting hit by snowstorms.
Especially not a mage who had reached Alsicle’s level of mastery.
“Ice, disappear! Snow, hide yourself!”
Alsicle cleared away the ice and snow covering the bottom of the snow mountain valley.
The mountain that had been so white instantly turned dark gray.
‘Amazing!’
As a fellow mage, Lee Han couldn’t help but admire Alsicle’s skill.
To clear away ice and snow over such a wide area all at once.
“Spirits, find the living! Is it this way?”
“Yes!”
“This is terrible! Terrible! If His Highness gets hurt, what will the Empire people think of me! They’ll think I’m an idiot who can’t even properly take care of guests visiting the front yard of my magic tower!”
“Calm down, Alsicle. Prince Gainando is a mage, so he has the ability to protect himself.”
Yumidifus tried to soothe Alsicle, but Alsicle shook his head vigorously as if he didn’t want to hear it.
Meanwhile, Lee Han talked with his friends.
“He disappeared from here?”
“Yeah. When we turned around, he was gone.”
Nilia and his friends had come chasing on horseback for quick pursuit.
If Professor Lightningstep had seen them, he would have been pleased, thinking ‘Everyone learned properly during the first semester’ – it was excellent horsemanship.
However, Gainando, who had been in the rear, had somehow disappeared when they looked back just before arriving at the magic tower.
“Why on earth did he disappear?”
“Maybe a monster appeared or he was possessed by an evil spirit?”
“If a monster or evil spirit had appeared, you guys would have noticed too… Maybe he found someone who had collapsed?”
At Lee Han’s words, all his friends answered simultaneously.
“There’s no way that’s possible.”
“Lord Wardanaz. Does that make sense?”
“It would be more believable to say he found mage cards dropped on the ground…”
“…”
At his friends’ utterly cold reaction, Lee Han felt slightly sorry for Gainando.
“This won’t do. Clones, help me!”
Alsicle brought out magic he had been saving due to mana concerns.
An ice clone took shape and transformed to look exactly like Alsicle.
Among clone magic, clone magic that was indistinguishable from the mage was very high-level and difficult.
Lee Han admired once again seeing him complete such a clone with the already challenging ice element.
“Amazing…”
“Do you like that magic?”
“Pardon?”
Lee Han was startled by Professor Boladi’s question.
To carelessly let his guard down when a professor was right beside him.
“No, I don’t…”
Before he could stop him, Professor Boladi approached Alsicle and said.
“Teach that magic you just used.”
“…What are you babbling about!? Why should I teach that?!!”
Of course, Alsicle jumped up in shock.
He was busy to death, and suddenly someone came asking him to teach his secret clone magic.
What mage would agree to that?
“He wants to learn it.”
“Just because someone wants to learn it, do I have to teach everything!?”
“I taught everything I was asked to teach.”
When Yumidifus spoke from the side, Alsicle flinched.
After all, Yumidifus had taught everything without hiding anything from people who truly came to learn.
“Th-this magic is too difficult, it’s not time to learn it yet. You need to build more fundamentals…”
Alshickel, who was speaking, recalled the magic Lee Han had shown today.
There weren’t really any fundamentals that seemed to need more building.
“…You need to learn more intermediate magic instead of fundamentals…”
“You said earlier that you needed a challenge.”
“You think this is what I meant by that?!”
They had definitely had a conversation earlier when only Yumidifus and Voladi Bagrec were present.
-His learning speed is a bit faster than expected.
-A bit??
-Go eat some sardines. If he learns this quickly, his motivation might weaken, so I should consider giving him a somewhat challenging task. Mages become stronger when they have goals they desire.
Fundamentals were certainly important, but making a mage with outstanding talent practice only fundamentals was also dangerous.
They might lose interest if not careful.
A mage needed grand goals.
Intense goals that would allow them to cross any thorny path for the sake of achieving them!
…So he had been wondering what cold element magic to set as a goal, but this wasn’t it.
This was truly a cherished magic…
“I’m fine with it, Penguerin. You must find me disagreeable.”
Lee Han smiled bitterly while pretending to dissuade him.
Alshickel, overwhelmed by guilt at that smile, hesitated before finally shouting.
“Fine! The next goal will be this! Voladi Bagrec, you bastard!”
“Why are you getting angry?”
“Shut up!”
While the two continued fighting, Nilia shouted.
“Fighting is all well and good, but there’s smoke rising over there!!”
“?!”
As Nilia said, smoke was rising from a place far from the valley.
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“Th-thank you, Your Highness.”
“It’s naturally what someone born with the duty of nobility must do.”
Gainando still didn’t know what nobility meant, but he had no hesitation in using it.
The noble with the broken ankle nodded with a moved expression.
“If it weren’t for Your Highness, what would have happened… But I’m surprised Your Highness can even do such things.”
“…Any Einroguard student can do this.”
“How humble of you!”
“It’s not humility.”
Gainando applied a splint to the noble’s broken ankle and pushed him deeper into the cave.
Though he couldn’t perform healing magic like Lee Han, Einroguard students had no choice but to learn at least how to apply splints.
When Gainando rummaged through his bag and pulled out cookies, the noble declined, saying he was fine.
“I’m fin…”
Crunch crunch-
“Hm? What did you say?”
“Oh, nothing at all.”
Gainando discovering the unconscious noble was close to divine luck.
He had fallen from his horse, rolled down beside the valley and fainted, and a snowstorm was raging on top of that.
If it weren’t for the mage card the noble had dropped, Gainando wouldn’t have even glanced over.
“But Your Highness. Moving to the cave to avoid the snowstorm was… a wise decision… but… will your companions really come looking?”
“Ah. Don’t worry about it.”
Gainando confidently thumped his chest.
“I told them everything before coming. They’re definitely calling others and coming to help.”
Of course, Gainando’s shout of “Wait a moment!” was completely inaudible due to the fierce snowstorm and overlapping hoofbeats.
“Gainando!!!”
“See?”
Gainando nodded as if proud. The noble’s face also brightened.
“What a relief…”
Smack!
“Ow!!”
“Why do you disappear without saying anything and make your friends worry?”
The noble blinked in surprise at the sight of His Highness’s friends hitting and scolding His Highness as soon as they arrived.
‘Aren’t… aren’t they friends?’
“I did say something! I said something! Those bastards are lying!”
“You didn’t just say something in that situation and then change direction without even checking, did you?”
“…”
Gainando, at a loss for words, mumbled awkwardly.
Lee Han sighed and said.
“Still, I’m glad you’re not hurt.”
“Did he really save someone?”
“Shh. Ratford. Gainando will hear.”
His friends were very surprised.
To think he had really gotten lost trying to save someone.
Gainando, unaware of his friends’ wicked thoughts, asked.
“You followed the trail markers I left, right?”
“What trail markers did you leave?”
“I drew arrows on the ground as I came.”
Lee Han sighed, wondering how to scold this friend who had drawn arrows on the ground while a snowstorm was raging.
“Your Highness! Are you injured anywhere…!”
Alshickel, who landed after Lee Han, came running frantically.
Then he looked at Gainando’s face and tilted his head.
“I’m meeting you for the first time, who might you be…?”
“I’m Gainando.”
“Uh… you don’t seem to be even twenty years old…?”
Alshickel looked at Lee Han in confusion.
He had definitely thought the prince would be around thirty or forty years old…?
“He’s our friend. Thank you, Penguerin.”
“Uh, huh? Y-yes. That’s true but… that’s… uh…”
Alshickel felt he had been deceived but couldn’t figure out specifically how, so he tilted his head.
Meanwhile, the noble who had been lying down got up.
“Alshickel Penguerin. It’s an honor to meet you like this.”
“…Hic!”
Alshickel hiccupped and averted his gaze.
Lee Han was curious seeing Alshickel so surprised.
‘What? Is the other person an assassin or something?’
“Who are you?”
“Ah… oh no. This is trouble.”
What was surprising was that Yumidifus also had a worried expression.
“Looking at his attire, he’s an inspector.”
“An inspector?”
“An inspector sent by the investors who funded Alshickel’s magical research. He came to check the results.”
“…”
Lee Han could genuinely empathize with Alsicle’s suffering.
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