Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 39
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Chapter 039
There was a saying that when a person loses one sense, their other senses develop further to compensate for that lost sense.
But even considering that, the Warehouse Keeper’s senses were astonishing.
He couldn’t see, yet he caught Lee Han and Ratford.
‘Hearing? No. We didn’t make any sound. Smell? Even so, there’s so much miscellaneous stuff here. Could it be… does he have mana detection ability?’
While Lee Han was contemplating whether to confront or flee, the Warehouse Keeper spoke again.
“Principal, sir. I apologize for the rudeness.”
“…???”
The Warehouse Keeper didn’t even approach closer and just turned around and left.
Ratford was half-unconscious from fear, but Lee Han concentrated to understand the situation.
What?
‘Why did he mistake me for that crazy Skeleton Principal?’
If it had been another student, they would have either made an impulsive move unable to withstand the pressure, or made a mistake in the incomprehensible situation.
However, Lee Han thought persistently.
‘It’s because of mana!’
Mana detection ability.
If the Warehouse Keeper had found the hidden Lee Han and Ratford earlier because of mana detection ability, it made sense.
Lee Han’s mana was at an tremendously high level, as the professors had said.
When the blind Warehouse Keeper detected it, there was a possibility it felt similar to the Principal’s mana.
‘But does this make sense? No matter what, the Principal and…’
Lee Han didn’t completely believe it, but decided to assume it was true for now.
He couldn’t keep staying here like this.
“Hey. Snap out of it.”
“Uh, uh. What just happened? How…?”
“That’s not what’s important right now.”
There was no time to explain, and Lee Han himself wasn’t very confident about it.
However, it sounded different to Ratford.
This Wardanaz Family boy had amazingly even prepared a method to deceive the Underground Warehouse Keeper!
‘He’s… he’s a big shot! This person is really a big shot!’
At this point, the rumors had been underestimated.
To think a new student had magical skills enough to deceive the Warehouse Keeper.
“I, I understand.”
“?”
Lee Han was puzzled by Ratford suddenly speaking formally, but there was no time to question it.
“Let’s move. Don’t touch anything here.”
“Indeed… if we touch something, we might get caught, and that guy had memorized all the numbers earlier.”
“That’s right. There are even alarm spells cast.”
Lee Han was also heartbroken that he couldn’t touch the items piled up in the warehouse right now.
But seeing the Principal’s evil schemes, this warehouse was definitely a trap to catch new students who came here without knowing better.
Surely in a week or two, there would be guys who somehow made it here only to get caught and dragged away!
‘Don’t be fooled and keep moving. I need to find a way.’
Lee Han decided to look for a passage leading outside instead of being obsessed with the warehouse.
If only he could find a passage leading outside…!
“This way!”
Ratford put his ear to the floor and found the direction where footstep sounds could be heard.
Though it was called a warehouse, given its scale, it felt almost like a huge labyrinth.
In such a situation, Ratford’s sound detection technique was very useful.
“Very excellent.”
“Oh my. Thank you.”
“But why are you speaking formally…?”
“Please follow me.”
Ratford hurriedly moved his steps.
If they stayed in the warehouse too long, who knows what else might happen!
Lee Han might be fearless, but every moment Ratford spent here was terrifying.
‘It was definitely this way??’
However, Ratford had no choice but to stop with a confused expression.
He had clearly come in the direction where he heard sounds, but instead of a passage, only a solid wall was there.
“Was it definitely this way?”
“Yes… it was…”
“I think I know.”
“!?”
Unlike Ratford who had only picked similar locks, Lee Han was from Earth. Thanks to that, his range of imagination was much broader in such situations.
“Look here. There are parts on the wall with handprints. If we touch here, it should open.”
“…!”
Ratford was amazed once again.
He was surprised by the secret door that opened in such a way, and also by the Wardanaz Family boy who noticed it.
How did he figure that out…!
When he tapped the parts with handprints, the bricks really slid aside and a path appeared.
It was a passage so long that the end couldn’t be seen.
It was wide enough for two or three carriages to pass through, and seeing light glittering on the walls and ceiling, he was confident they had found the right way.
‘Finally!’
* * *
The workers of the merchant group that transported supplies needed by the magic school had several rules.
Never tell anyone the method of entering the magic school.
Never tell anyone what you saw at the magic school.
Never speak first while inside the magic school.
Besides these, there were various other rules like ‘be careful not to break glass bottles when moving them’ and ‘don’t mishandle scrolls’, but the most representative rules were those mentioned above.
The workers followed such rules more seriously than anyone.
They didn’t want to be trapped in a mage’s workshop and turned into frogs for breaking the rules.
It wasn’t a joke – one mistake might mean being trapped in the magic school forever.
That was the terrifying aspect of the magic school.
There were reasons why people from nearby villages respected yet feared the magic school.
Therefore, when a priest and a beggar appeared from the opposite end of the passage, the workers said nothing.
Oh, they appeared!
“…”
“…”
Lee Han and Ratford were quite bewildered.
The carriages positioned at the end of the passage, and the workers busily loading and unloading cargo from those carriages.
It was one thing to encounter them so openly like this, but the workers were deliberately pretending not to see them.
What?
‘Could it be a rule?’
What?
‘Could it be a rule?’
Lee Han quickly assessed the situation from how the workers deliberately avoided eye contact.
A place like a magic school couldn’t possibly lack thorough security.
Since these were workers entering such a place, it might be natural for them not to show unnecessary interest.
‘Stay calm. If I just stay calm, they won’t know either.’
The new students who succeeded in escaping the school were extremely few in number.
The possibility of the workers looking at Lee Han or Ratford and suspecting ‘Huh? Are new students escaping?’ was very low.
As long as Lee Han didn’t make a mistake from his own nervousness…
‘The more times like this, the more confidently I should act.’
Lee Han spoke calmly without changing his expression at all.
“Can we go outside now?”
“Sorry, priest. Please wait 30 minutes. There’s still some cargo left to load.”
“I understand. Would it be alright if we ride along?”
“Oh my. Of course.”
The worker thought Lee Han was truly kind and polite like a priest should be. He could have just sat silently in the best seat of the carriage, but to even ask like this.
He never imagined that Lee Han was a new student who had just entered this time.
Lee Han was too natural to be called a fresh newcomer who had just arrived, and he also had an atmosphere overflowing with dignity.
None of the workers suspected Lee Han.
“…”
Ratford looked at Lee Han with eyes full of respect.
If he had subdued them with force or magic, it wouldn’t have been this admirable.
To naturally deceive like this and obtain what he wanted.
No long complicated words or heavy bribes were needed. A true thief could deceive people with just their gaze and posture.
‘I still have a long way to go!’
Ratford was grateful to have opened his eyes to a new realm of thievery today.
Sometimes a single real experience could teach more than 10 years of training.
This was exactly that kind of moment.
* * *
Clatter-
After the work was finished, the carriages began to depart. Among the six carriages, the one Lee Han and Ratford boarded was the last carriage.
Even after finishing organizing the cargo, the workers didn’t exchange a single unnecessary word. From this sight, Lee Han newly felt how terrifying this school was.
‘If they manage even external workers to this extent…’
When you think of the Empire’s talent education facility, only warm and cozy images come to mind, but Lee Han knew that worldly affairs didn’t roll along so simply.
This magic school was like a symbol of the Empire and mages. And both the Empire and mages had enemies.
How disgusting an existence would this magic school be to such enemies?
Even without going as far as such enemies, there would be quite a few who coveted the treasures inside this magic school.
In a way, this level of security was natural.
‘Of course, that doesn’t make it acceptable to lock up new students and not let them out.’
That was clearly just the principal’s hobby no matter how you looked at it.
The carriage ahead hesitated for a moment. Lee Han wondered and slightly stuck his head out of the carriage.
“…!!!”
Surprisingly, a familiar face was boarding the front carriage.
It was Troll Professor Garcia Kim.
‘Are we caught?’
Lee Han felt his heart sink with a thud.
But thinking about it, they weren’t caught yet.
If they were caught, by now the carriage would be surrounded and Lee Han and Ratford would have to raise both hands and crawl out.
Then the reason the professor boarded that carriage was…
‘Damn. This got disgustingly complicated!’
Lee Han could guess what had happened.
Since the professor was also human, wouldn’t they go out sometimes? It must be that that day happened to overlap with now.
“Out… outside, surely…?”
“Shh.”
Lee Han gestured to Ratford to manage his expression.
“We’re not caught yet. We’ll continue like this. The village is wide and outside is dark, so if we get off carefully, we won’t be caught.”
Ratford nodded at Lee Han’s words.
And then he was slightly confused.
‘But who’s the thief here?’
Shouldn’t Ratford be the one telling Lee Han about this kind of thing?
The carriage that had stopped began moving again with clattering sounds.
Lee Han concentrated to remember as much as possible.
Even if the worst situation occurred and they failed…
‘I will never give up.’
Lee Han clenched his fist tightly and then felt embarrassed belatedly.
…It’s just sneaking out of school in the late evening, why am I being so…
* * *
Professor Garcia carefully held the package he received from the principal with both hands.
-When you go outside, the Emperor’s court official will be waiting, so deliver this completed artifact.
Professor Garcia wasn’t going to the village to have fun.
The magic school looked peaceful on the outside, but inside it was a place as hot as a furnace.
Since they gathered the Empire’s outstanding mages in one place, it was natural in a way.
Creating and delivering artifacts that the Emperor wanted was also one of the tasks that the magic school’s mages had to do…
Professor Garcia had been assigned the role of quietly delivering that finished product this time.
People who didn’t know better would think ‘It’s being offered to the imperial palace, so why offer it quietly?’, but that was stupid talk.
Nothing good would come from offering it proudly and noisily.
It would only attract unnecessary flies.
A mage should know how to think practically.
Thud-
“Hic!”
“Hnngh!”
The workers nearby tensed their entire bodies stiffly and straightened their posture when they slightly bumped into Professor Garcia.
They were already scary for being a magic school professor, and on top of that, they were a troll.
It was hard to gauge which of the two was more frightening.
Professor Garcia chuckled. It was something they saw every time, but the workers’ reactions were funny every time they saw them.
“…Everyone draw your weapons!”
“??”
Professor Garcia was puzzled by the worker’s shout.
Even if they were scared, wasn’t this too extreme?
“Professor! There’s a suspicious person ahead! Please get inside the carriage!”
“…!!”
Only then did Professor Garcia realize that the atmosphere ahead on that road was flowing strangely.
‘What kind of people are they?!’
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
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
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