Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 388

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Chapter 388

“Right now everyone…”

Before Sharucal could finish speaking, the divine power that had been spreading from Lee Han’s body failed to bear fruit and disappeared.

He had succeeded in creating divine power, but couldn’t manifest it as magic.

However, that alone was already a remarkable achievement. Originally, most believers couldn’t even create divine power.

Divine power was the foundation and source of divine magic.

A person who had once created divine power would eventually reach divine magic someday.

“Phew…”

“Hah…”

Sighs of relief leaked out from various places.

Anyone could tell these were sighs containing the meaning of ‘thank goodness.’

“…You’re all not happy about this, are you??”

Sharucal spoke in a slightly sulky voice.

If they were fellow priests, shouldn’t they wish for the awakening of divine magic even for believers of other orders?

Even if they served different gods, they were comrades walking the same path!

“Oh, no.”

“Of course not.”

“Actually, a little…”

The other priests blocked Nigisor Priest’s mouth as he tried to honestly admit it.

In fact, if it had been another believer, they could have purely congratulated them saying ‘Congratulations on awakening divine magic.’

But Lee Han was a little different.

If Lee Han awakened the divine magic of Agltakwa’s order, he might think ‘So my faith was actually with Agltakwa’ and cut off interest in other orders.

From the priests’ perspective, it would end without even having a chance to show their own faith.

Moreover, there was one more reason.

The fact that he had awakened divine power itself meant he had aptitude for faith and belief.

Since most ordinary believers couldn’t even awaken divine power, it was indeed a very rare talent.

In other words…

If they took him now and persuaded him well, there was a high possibility he could awaken divine magic of other orders too!

In fact, Nigisor Priest ended up saying what he wanted to say even though the other priests blocked his mouth.

“Seeing that you’ve awakened divine power now but divine magic isn’t manifesting, isn’t this faith toward another god rather than faith toward Agltakwa?”

“Please be quiet.”

Tiziling Priest made him shut his mouth.

While they were making such a fuss, Professor Garcia approached with a puzzled expression.

It was rare for Phoenix Tower students to gather and do other things during lecture time.

“What are you all doing? Is there something you’re stuck on?”

“Ah. Professor. We were just discussing which order’s divine magic Lord Lee Han of the Wardanaz Family will awaken.”

“…Are my lectures boring?”

* * *

After that, the students faithfully concentrated on underwater breathing magic.

It absolutely wasn’t because Professor Garcia was scary. It was because they didn’t want to disappoint Professor Garcia, who was always kind to students.

“Lee Han. You’re going to our tower’s common room, right?”

“No?”

“…Ph, Phoenix Tower common room then. R, right. That makes sense.”

Gainando spoke while avoiding eye contact.

“I’m going to work in the garden.”

“Ah!”

Gainando’s face brightened.

“That works out well. You come help too.”

“Ah.”

Gainando’s face darkened.

“I actually have things to do…”

“Gainando doesn’t have anything to do. He said he was making a new card deck this afternoon.”

The Blue Dragon Tower friends kindly informed them. Lee Han nodded.

“Since you don’t have anything, you can come help.”

“…I was on duty yesterday too…!”

“??”

Lee Han was puzzled by Gainando’s words.

Duty?

“Did you guys divide up the work among yourselves while I was gone? How admirable…”

Honestly, it was touching.

Of course, if Black Turtle Tower students heard this, they’d think ‘Why is that Wardanaz bastard moved by something like that?’, but Blue Dragon Tower students were basically guys who had never folded their own clothes once in their lives.

Guys who thought messy common rooms would clean themselves up if Lee Han didn’t give instructions one by one.

To think such students had set up duty schedules on their own in the second semester and were working hard – it was quite moving.

‘So this was Einroguard’s positive function.’

“Ah. That’s not it…”

“?”

Let me explain.

Several Blue Dragon Tower students screamed and nearly fainted.

The Skeleton Principal was floating down from above – not from the side or behind, but from directly overhead.

The Skeleton Principal never scared students using the same method twice.

This is something that happened while you were away, so you wouldn’t know. As you know, you blockheads spent a semester here. Some wisdom should have grown in those empty heads of yours. Of course, it would be an amount lighter than down feathers.

“…”

“…”

The students frowned at the Skeleton Principal’s heartwarming praise.

So for the second semester, I decided to give you all a bit more freedom.

Though the Skeleton Principal spoke in a caring and gentle voice, no one was fooled.

Lee Han still didn’t understand and asked.

“What kind of freedom do you mean? Perhaps weekend outings…”

Are you insane for being two weeks late? Anyone listening would think you’re a professor.

“…Then what is it?”

The freedom to take responsibility for the school’s work individually.

The Skeleton Principal kindly explained.

While Lee Han was away, the other first-year students had already heard the explanation.

Each tower was given the responsibility of taking turns handling the school’s miscellaneous tasks.

Cleaning the alchemy workshop disposal site, organizing the first-floor kitchen storage, tidying lecture halls messed up by experimental aftermath, cleaning near the stables, and so on.

Considering Einroguard’s vast grounds and the nearly infinite interior of buildings, there was an endless supply of miscellaneous work for students to do.

The Skeleton Principal had bestowed upon the students the freedom to do such miscellaneous work.

“Wow.”

Sometimes there are students who misunderstand about magic school, but this magic school isn’t a prison-like place. It just grants freedom appropriate to one’s qualifications. If I let them loose without qualifications and they got hurt, how heartbroken would I be?

“You’re truly amazing.”

Right?

Thinking he had sufficiently ruined the students’ enjoyment, the Skeleton Principal flew away into the air again.

Gainando looked at Lee Han with a gloomy face.

“Yesterday I couldn’t even play because I was cleaning up naturally occurring slimes.”

“I see. Come help.”

“…?!”

Gainando was flustered by Lee Han’s merciless decision to drag him along, despite the atmosphere clearly being one where he should be let off.

Weren’t you going easy on me?

“So what task is Phoenix Tower assigned to?”

“Ah. We’ll receive a new assignment this evening.”

“I see. Since I haven’t done anything for 2 weeks, I’d like to participate.”

At Lee Han’s words, the priests’ faces suddenly hardened. Seeing this, Lee Han hesitated.

‘What mistake did I make?’

“May I participate as well?”

“What are you saying… You worked hard last week, so you should rest this week. I’ve decided to do it this week.”

“When it comes to helping with work, what does order matter? Haha.”

“You’ll get sick if you overdo it. Please rest.”

Seeing the priests competing to work, Lee Han shook his head and turned away.

Gainando, who didn’t know the inside story, was very envious.

“Wow. The priests are stepping forward to work themselves. I’m really jealous.”

“Be quiet and let’s go to work.”

* * *

Professor Thunderstep’s backyard vegetable garden had become quite messy while they were away.

Lee Han cleaned up the surroundings with Gainando and fed the chickens.

The chickens, recognizing Lee Han who had returned after several months, clucked happily in greeting.

Gainando swallowed his saliva.

“Are you going to catch those?”

“They’re for getting eggs.”

“Ugh.”

Gainando still thought eggs would be nice, so he tried to pet the chickens.

However, the chickens wouldn’t leave alone a mage with evil intentions and immediately pecked him with their beaks.

“Ack! These bastards!”

“Gainando. Stop playing around and come here to clear the weeds. I need to plant new seeds here.”

Gainando, who was panting while doing chores, suddenly remembered something and asked.

“Wait. Can’t I summon undead? They could work too!”

“It’s a good idea, but undead aren’t suitable for this kind of work. Bad mana gets attached.”

“…”

Gainando cursed dark magic inwardly.

It really was magic that wasn’t much help in life.

After sweating for nearly two hours, they were roughly finished. Lee Han packed vegetables, mushrooms, eggs, canned goods, preserved meat, etc. into a basket and gave it to Gainando.

“Take this and share it with everyone.”

“Good, great! I’ll cook it well!”

“No. Don’t cook it yourself. Just deliver it.”

“…”

Gainando became sulky.

“I can cook well too…”

“No. Just deliver it.”

“…Okay.”

Gainando, who received the basket, tilted his head. While vegetables were one thing, the rest of the food items were unfamiliar.

“But isn’t this from inside the professor’s cabin…?”

“Go back quickly. I’ll do a bit more cleanup and then leave.”

Lee Han sent Gainando away as if chasing him out.

Then he saw Professor Thunderstep and Professor Lightningstep walking from a distance.

“I wondered why it looked so neat, but you cleaned it up. Good work.”

Professor Lightningstep laughed heartily and praised Lee Han.

“You worked hard inside. How did you manage to find such ruins?”

“I was lucky.”

Professor Thunderstep, who was listening nearby, spoke as if incredulous.

“Is that what you call lucky?”

“That’s pretty lucky. You found it and came out safely.”

“What do you mean… Geez. That prince kid came out earlier, and the canned goods in his basket, are those mine by any chance…?”

“Anyway, I’m happy to see you both like this!”

Lee Han immediately changed the subject.

“Right. You’re a bit late, so to catch up you’ll need to work very hard… no. Work a little hard… no. Just take it easy. You’ll catch up anyway.”

“…”

Lee Han was dumbfounded by Professor Thunderstep’s half-hearted words.

“I need to work hard, how can I catch up if I take it easy?”

“Even if I tell you to take it easy, you’re the type who’ll work hard anyway.”

“Oh right. Have you been to see Professor Bagrek?”

Professor Lightningstep put down the sack he was carrying with a ‘thud’. On the sack was written 【Basilisk Feed】.

“…I haven’t been there yet, but why do you ask…?”

“Huh? Weren’t you supposed to raise a basilisk? Didn’t you hear?”

“…”

Lee Han became gloomy upon hearing the name of the monster he had forgotten about.

Hadn’t Professor Boladi brought a basilisk egg during the vacation and said ‘You need to raise this well so it’ll try hard to kill you’?

Of course, the exact words were a bit different, but the meaning was roughly similar.

‘Later when I catch a basilisk, I should throw it at the duke’s mansion or something.’

Lee Han cursed the duke and said.

“Yes… I knew he was planning to hatch an egg.”

“Right. He’s planning to hatch it this semester. It’s a good quality egg, so it should be quite possible. It’ll be good experience for you too.”

“Yes… well…”

Diligently caring for and hatching a basilisk that was trying to kill him could indeed be good experience.

When Professor Lightningstep brought something to drink from inside the cabin, Professor Thunderstep asked.

“He’s going to hatch a basilisk?”

“Yeah.”

“Professor Bagrek? He might know how to kill them, but I don’t think he can hatch them. They require a lot of care.”

Hatching a basilisk from an egg was no ordinary difficult task.

Even if Professor Thunderstep wasn’t close to Professor Boladi, he knew well enough that Professor Boladi was skilled at killing basilisks, not raising them.

It would be difficult even with advice from Professor Lightningstep, wouldn’t it?

Professor Lightningstep sipped his beer and answered as if it was fine.

“There’s a disciple here. He’ll do well.”

“Ah, right.”

“…”

Lee Han wanted to argue about what ‘right’ meant, but he held back.

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