Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 364
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Chapter 364
“Gueeeek.”
The White Tiger Tower student who was properly ambushed collapsed on the spot.
Another student nearby was startled and shouted.
“Wardanaz!!!”
“That’s right.”
“What… what are you doing! Why are you attacking us! Are you crazy!!”
“You guys were the ones who threw the turkey at me first.”
“We, we were playing! It was just a prank!”
“It was a prank.”
“That’s right!”
“I understand.”
Lee Han swung his staff and chanted a spell.
Then alcohol bubbled up from the barrel and formed into spheres.
The White Tiger Tower student’s face turned pale white at the sight. Even in his drunken state, he felt his intoxication completely disappear.
The water elemental magic of that Wardanaz bastard that all White Tiger Tower students knew about!
“Everyone dodge… Gak!”
“Dodge what, you crazy bastards.”
“Wardanaz is here! Wardanaz is here, hey! Hey!! Stop drinking and listen! Wardanaz is here!”
The White Tiger Tower students sitting in the corridor side of the banquet hall realized something was wrong and screamed, but the banquet hall was too noisy for the message to get through.
The White Tiger Tower students who had been excitedly throwing food at each other in the spacious banquet hall belatedly discovered Lee Han.
“What… Gak!”
“This… Kheuk!”
“Why on earth… Kek!”
“Help Wardanaz!”
Salko, who belatedly came to his senses, shouted fiercely.
Black Turtle Tower students rushed in and attacked the White Tiger Tower students.
No matter how excellent the White Tiger Tower students were at close combat, they couldn’t coordinate properly in such a heavily intoxicated state.
“You… you cowardly bastards…! When we were drunk and off guard… Hiccup!”
“…”
Giselle got up from her seat and moved toward the duke’s position.
She didn’t want to get involved in that pathetic chaos.
* * *
“I apologize, Your Grace the Duke. It seems everyone’s pranks got a bit out of hand.”
After pushing the White Tiger Tower students aside, Lee Han apologized.
Actually, he had only realized Duke Ikalderen was sitting at the head table a little after the fight started.
The White Tiger Tower bastards had been playing so freely that he never thought the duke would also be in the banquet hall.
‘Are they really crazy?’
Playing around throwing cups and food with the duke right there.
It was audacity that surpassed even Gainando.
Anyway, with the duke present, he had to apologize for causing such a brawl in front of him, if only for courtesy’s sake. Lee Han bowed his head.
“Not at all. I enjoyed feeling the boiling blood of young talents.”
Duke Ikalderen’s face looked genuinely pleased.
Seeing this, Lee Han thought to himself.
‘He has unique tastes.’
Who would have thought he’d enjoy watching White Tiger Tower students create chaos by throwing pies and cakes at each other like that.
He might give a standing ovation if he went to watch a pigsty.
‘This is truly refreshing.’
Duke Ikalderen looked at Lee Han with great delight.
He had already been keeping an eye on this talent, and what he showed today was very impressive.
How satisfying it was to see him decisively suppress those squealing piglets in the banquet hall…
“We’re finished cleaning up.”
The banquet hall that had been such chaos was instantly cleaned up. Lee Han and his friends came rushing in and took their seats in the banquet hall.
“…”
“Should we not wake them up?”
The White Tiger Tower students were lying in a corner of the banquet hall, snoring loudly.
Both Lee Han and the duke pretended not to see them and ignored that side.
“To think so many Einroguard students would visit… I’m truly delighted.”
“If you wish, I’ll invite even more and bring them next time.”
“!”
At Lee Han’s words, Duke Ikalderen’s eyes flashed sharply.
That Wardanaz Family boy was an ambitious person who had killed the Toxic Contaminated Entity last time and blatantly hinted at his own value to the duke.
Such an ambitious person wouldn’t act like this without any thought.
What was the reason for bringing so many Einroguard students like this?
‘Connections…!’
Even among Einroguard graduates, there weren’t that many people with wide social networks.
The duke also knew that Einroguard was divided into towers and that they didn’t mix with each other.
But for Wardanaz, who belonged to Blue Dragon Tower, to bring students from other towers like this (though he seemed to have a very bad relationship with White Tiger Tower).
It was amazing leadership skills that not just anyone could display.
A sight that only someone with the natural dignity of a great noble could show!
‘Just a 1st year… his future is becoming frightening.’
In their previous meeting, the duke had promoted Lee Han from simply a talented new student to a young ambitious person qualified to sit as an equal across the table.
But in today’s meeting, he felt wariness, albeit very faintly.
He was genuinely afraid of what he might become in the future.
“Shall I bring something to drink?”
At the servant’s question, Lee Han said firmly.
“Please prepare a meal.”
“…Yes.”
The servant had cautiously asked about bringing only drinks because of the students who had just caused that chaos.
He was worried for no reason, but what could he do.
The servant withdrew to contact the kitchen.
‘Refusing drinks and asking for a meal to be prepared? Not talking immediately but buying time? Why?’
Duke Ikalderen fell into deep thought by himself.
Seeing this, Durgyu asked Giselle in an anxious voice.
“Is he angry?”
“Are you planning to keep asking things that anyone with eyeballs could tell? If you’re going to do that, pay silver coins to ask.”
Lee Han whispered to Salko.
“Eat as much as you can, Salko. This is free.”
“Wardanaz. You really should have come to Black Turtle Tower.”
* * *
It was fortunate for the servants.
The meal of the three tower students was much more peaceful and quiet.
The priests carefully used their knives to cut their steaks and gave polite thanks to the duke with every bite.
Duke Ikalderen normally wasn’t emotionally moved by such greetings, but after seeing the White Tiger Tower students’ antics earlier, he couldn’t help feeling pleased. The duke thought he should send donations to each temple after this banquet ended.
The Black Turtle Tower students’ meal was noisier than the priests’, but it was only harmonious to that extent. Considering they were students, it was rather nice in its youthfulness.
“How do you eat this?”
“Give it here. I’ll cut it for you. You don’t cut it with force, but cut the joint parts here and then peel off the shell.”
“Nilia…!”
“As expected, Nilia is different in some way, isn’t she?”
“There’s elegance in her actions. It’s not for nothing that she can mingle with nobles.”
“…”
Lee Han grabbed the back of Gainando’s head to stop him from burying his nose in the plate, then picked up a plate and set it down in front of the Imperial Princess.
Adenart, who had wanted to eat the terrine of venison set with seasoning but could only glance at it due to the distance, bowed her head slightly in gratitude.
Seeing this, Rowena asked in surprise.
“How did you know what she wanted?”
“She kept glancing at it.”
“Really? I thought she was pondering today’s riddle…”
‘I don’t think anyone would ponder while staring at a plate.’
Rowena thought for a moment and asked.
“If you take care of her like this, aren’t you already friends?”
“You call that being friends?”
“More like a servant.”
“A nanny.”
“Butler would be better.”
When the other Blue Dragon Tower Students added their cold comments, Rowena became dejected.
Having roughly taken care of all the people around him who needed looking after, Lee Han turned his gaze to the Duke.
The Duke was waiting with an unchanging smile on his face.
Seeing that, he was truly a good person.
It was just that he was stingy toward those excluding the Imperial Family.
“Your Grace. I have something I’m curious about regarding the riddle.”
“Ask me anything.”
When Lee Han spoke to him, the Duke brightened up like someone who had skipped a meal receiving food.
“I thought the riddle Your Grace gave us was a metaphorical riddle. For example, the moon…”
“You got it exactly right!”
“…”
“…”
Lee Han’s face froze instantly.
Yoner’s face beside him also froze. The two quickly exchanged glances.
‘…Was it really a metaphorical riddle?’
‘I thought it was a bit strange…!’
Unaware that their expressions had hardened, the Duke continued speaking.
When someone couldn’t solve a riddle meant to be solved and came up with strange answers, the person who posed the riddle would naturally feel troubled too.
The Duke had been wondering ‘Should I make it easier to understand?’ because the Imperial Princess’s Followers kept forcibly bringing answers after he posed riddles.
Though the possibility was slim, rumors like ‘Duke Ikalderen acknowledged wrong riddle answers as correct out of consideration’ could spread, so he had been quite troubled…
But to bring the correct answer like this.
“That’s right. That was exactly the correct answer.”
“I, I see.”
Lee Han unconsciously looked toward the Imperial Princess and her followers.
They seemed to still be eating and hadn’t heard the conversation between the Duke and Lee Han yet.
“Rowena?”
“Yes?”
“Put the staff you brought down below and never take it out.”
“Yes? Why do you say that?”
“…Just don’t take it out.”
When Lee Han became serious, Rowena nodded in surprise. Lee Han thought he should apologize later.
* * *
After the meal ended, the Duke asked the students questions.
They were mainly questions about Einroguard.
“How are you getting along at Einroguard?”
“Like shi… …We’re getting along satisfactorily.”
“Like hel… …I’m doing reasonably well too.”
Even the students who initially tried to tell the truth gave up when their tongues stopped due to the oath and chose safe answers instead.
‘What does protecting mysteries and knowledge have to do with meals!’
‘Damn oath!’
“I heard that the teachings of mages are quite harsh.”
“Tha… …I think that’s due to rumors from the past.”
“That’s right… Such rumors tend to leave strong impressions, so even more so…”
“…?”
The Duke was very confused.
He had definitely obtained information that life inside was quite difficult, but why didn’t anything match, both last time and this time?
The more he learned, the more he felt like he was falling deeper into a labyrinth.
“Still, thanks to Wardanaz here… we were able to live reasonably well.”
“That’s right. If it weren’t for Lee Han of Wardanaz Family, it might have been just a little bit harder…”
When Lee Han’s story came up, the Duke listened with interest.
He already knew that Lee Han was highly regarded among the students, but hearing it this way gave him information from a different perspective.
“He saved my life several times too. Some crazy bastards kept attacking…”
“I was lucky.”
Lee Han responded to Salko’s words as if it was nothing special.
However, at that moment, the Duke received a lightning-like shock.
He was intuitively certain.
‘No way!’
The people the Duke had sent into the school.
The crazy bastards that Black Turtle Tower Student was talking about could only be them.
In a school like Einroguard, there couldn’t be others who would attack students.
‘…Does that make sense!?’
Duke Ikalderen rarely wavered, but this matter crossed that line.
It wasn’t like he had sent just anyone – he had sent those expensive 【Maple Tree Serpent】 guys inside.
They weren’t novices either. They were guys with extensive experience against mages.
No matter how much it was inside a magic school with professors around, did it make sense that they couldn’t even subdue a single new student??
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t understand.
Finally, the Duke lost his patience and blurted out a question.
“By any chance, what was that attack…”
“Profess… No.”
“Schoo… It was nothing much.”
The other students finished with bitter expressions saying it wasn’t. The Duke could only be even more confused.
And what was most confusing…
‘Isn’t it too coincidental! For the one who stopped the attacks to approach this Duke Ikalderen…’
The Duke suddenly felt suffocated.
As if he had become a puppet dancing in someone’s palm.
It was a thick sense of pressure he had never felt except when facing the Emperor.
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