Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 390
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Chapter 390
“Alright. I’ll forgive you.”
“Phew!”
The White Tiger Tower students let out sighs of relief.
Until Lee Han said his next words.
“Then let’s go.”
“?”
The students looked at each other in confusion.
“Where to?”
“To the storage. You did the work half-heartedly, so we need to do it again.”
“…”
“…”
The students who belatedly realized what Lee Han meant asked hesitantly.
“W-we have to do this too?”
“Right. You can come back and do it later. You can come during the day.”
“It’s not just us who used shortcuts, other guys used shortcuts too…”
“Even better. Call those guys over too.”
“…”
The White Tiger Tower students glanced at the nearby stream once, then at Lee Han’s staff once.
It was getting to be weather where falling into the stream would be cold.
* * *
“To think you came to help us like this…!”
The priests were surprised when the White Tiger Tower students came to help.
“You didn’t need to come all this way.”
“That’s right. This is our work.”
The priests didn’t notice the gloomy and sad expressions on the White Tiger Tower students’ faces.
Lee Han whispered from behind.
“Hey. Manage your expressions.”
“…”
“When we thought about it, it seemed like too much work for the priests to handle… so we came to help…”
“That’s right… if we had… done well last week… the priests wouldn’t have had to struggle in the first place… *sob*!”
“The White Tiger Tower truly isn’t called the tower of knights for nothing.”
“We’re really moved.”
At the priests’ heartfelt gratitude, the White Tiger Tower students inwardly made tearful faces.
They’d rather be ordered around – acting like this made it hard to even get angry.
“That’s why I said not to hide the trash. I said we’d get the punishment room if caught.”
“We didn’t get caught though! It’s because that Wardanaz bastard found it.”
Clatter clatter clatter-
The White Tiger Tower students began clearing the trash piled in the storage with skilled movements, as if they hadn’t done it a week early for nothing.
A chair with eight legs (two of which were clearly octopus tentacles), a half-burned magic book (the cover read ‘Fully Cooked! Die!’), a coat stained with three different colors of blood (not just red, but green and blue blood as well), and so on.
“Impressive, Angrago.”
“What?”
At Lee Han’s praise, Angrago responded with an indifferent voice.
Having been called out on a night when he could have been resting comfortably, there was no way he’d be in a good mood.
‘What’s this bastard trying to pick a fight about.’
“The storage organizing, I mean. Your technique is impressive. Do you have any tips to teach?”
Lee Han’s praise was sincere.
Even though the priests weren’t lazy or lacking in skill, the White Tiger Tower students’ speed overwhelmed the priests.
It was thanks to the techniques they’d accumulated over time.
“Hmph… Well… it’s not like I can’t teach you.”
Angrago didn’t seem to dislike it, and while grumbling, he began explaining.
“First, do you know what needs to be cleared first?”
“The relatively light trash?”
Since it was piled up like a mountain, it was important to reduce the volume as much as possible.
Clear the light stuff first, then the heavy stuff…
“Wrong. We thought that way at first too.”
“?”
“What you need to clear first is trash that doesn’t look dangerous. You can just grab that stuff and drag it out. The dangerous stuff is either obviously dangerous-looking or trash of unknown identity. Obviously dangerous trash is actually better. You just attack it first. But trash of unknown identity is really dangerous…”
Angrago let out a deep sigh.
You could feel how exhausting it was just talking about it.
“There’s no choice with stuff like that. Someone in front has to approach with a shield while others provide support from behind.”
“…”
Lee Han was at a loss for words.
‘Well, the school’s work couldn’t be easy.’
When magic clashed with each other, collisions occurred and unexpected phenomena happened, so it would be stranger if a place where thousands of such related items were piled up was fine.
Of course, among the tasks assigned to first-year students this week, this storage cleanup was among the highest difficulty, but that provided no comfort to Lee Han.
“Can’t be helped.”
Lee Han waved his staff and threw bone fragments. Sharkan burst out and skeleton warriors rose up in a rush.
“This won’t work as is. I need to combine them.”
Lee Han combined and compressed the skeleton warriors together as he had learned in the Ghoul King’s palace before.
Having many numbers alone wasn’t particularly helpful for the current cleanup.
“And… I should call Gonadaltes too.”
“What?!?!?”
“Ah. Don’t be startled. It’s my summoned creature’s name.”
‘Isn’t this guy crazy?’
Along with eerie magic power, undead appeared inside the storage.
At that sight, several priests coughed uncomfortably.
“Oops. Sorry. I needed the manpower.”
“Not at all. We know well that dark mages aren’t actually trying to mock death, but are people who understand death and try to comfort the deceased.”
“???”
Lee Han tilted his head.
Was… was that so?
‘I don’t think so.’
The priests attending Einroguard had less prejudice than other priests since they learned magic in earnest aside from divine magic.
Naturally, rather than blindly hating dark magic, they tried to understand it.
…But since they didn’t learn it directly, there were still misunderstandings.
“Good. Now that preparations are done, let’s divide the work. White Tiger Tower students, come this way. I’ll cast enhancement magic on you.”
“Oh…!”
At Lee Han’s words, the students brightened up.
Regardless of their dislike, everyone acknowledged Lee Han’s magical skills.
If they worked with enhancement magic cast on them, it would be several times easier.
“Thanks, Wardanaz.”
“You say the strangest things. We’re working together, so we should help each other.”
“…Wait, Wardanaz. Why aren’t you casting it on the priests?”
“The priests will be doing the work of taking the luggage we drag out to the outside.”
“…Then what about us??”
“You guys need to go in and clear out that unidentified trash over there.”
“…”
“…”
The White Tiger Tower students glared at Lee Han.
“I’m going in with you too.”
“That doesn’t change the fact that you treat us poorly.”
“…Should I prepare something for you after work?”
At Lee Han’s question, thinking he just needed to feed them delicious food, Angrago responded indignantly.
“You call that…”
“Gasp. What will you make for us?”
“…”
“S-sorry. Angrago.”
“Honestly, what that Wardanaz guy made was delicious. It’s been tough eating only jerky for 2 weeks.”
Lee Han asked in confusion.
“Couldn’t you trade with Black Turtle Tower? What have you been doing all this time?”
“Last time we went to their black market and got into a fight…”
“Those bastards wouldn’t apologize first…”
Lee Han looked at the students as if he couldn’t believe it.
Even so, wasn’t fighting each other for 2 weeks a loss for both sides?
‘Don’t tell me these guys won’t try to make peace first when I’m not around?’
The White Tiger Tower students looked at Lee Han with expectant eyes.
Since they too were suffering from material shortages, they secretly hoped Lee Han would mediate.
“Fine. I understand. Let’s clean up.”
“Wardanaz…?!”
“Th-that’s it?! Don’t you have more to say?!”
“I don’t know.”
* * *
“What the hell is this used for?”
Holding wing-like contraptions that looked like hang gliders, the White Tiger Tower student muttered in puzzlement.
“They probably tried to use them like bird wings. They might have worked pretty well when flying from high places.”
“Why would they do this?”
“To escape?”
“Ah…”
The White Tiger Tower student looked at the unknown upperclassman’s attempt with eyes mixed with awe.
“Could we possibly repair this and try using it?”
“You want to… ride this?”
“Huh? Is it dangerous?”
“How could it not be dangerous?”
Lee Han was about to tell him to just experiment with it, but stopped. He was worried the other person might actually do it.
“I see. So it’s okay to ride it?”
‘Should I hit him?’
Activating. Activating. Activating.
“!?”
As if reading Lee Han’s thoughts, a golem’s hand suddenly shot up from among the trash pile. Then it immediately tried to strike the White Tiger Tower student.
‘Thank goodness I cast spatial divination in advance!’
Lee Han read the attack trajectory of the golem’s hand and urgently shouted.
“Transform into steel, cloak!”
He was worried since it wasn’t his own cloak, but fortunately the White Tiger Tower student’s cloak turned into solid steel.
Lee Han immediately threw the student backward. The student who rolled over the trash pile groaned as he tumbled away.
“Everyone prepare for battle! It’s a golem! How did you deal with it last time?”
“Go… golems never appeared!!!”
“What?”
“I said golems never appeared, you crazy bastard! Why is a golem coming out!”
The White Tiger Tower students shouted in panic.
No matter how many unidentifiable pieces of trash there were, golems had never appeared before.
Only then realizing this belatedly, Lee Han said awkwardly.
“I see. I naturally assumed they had appeared before.”
“If it were that kind of place, we wouldn’t have come even if you beat us to death…!”
Golem, 【Die You Flying Skeleton】 has activated. Executing commands.
“…”
“…It was definitely made by upperclassmen.”
At the golem’s name that conveyed hatred toward someone, all the students present couldn’t help but be impressed.
The golem made of granite, basalt, two other unidentified rocks, and birch wood was about half destroyed but was moving slowly.
“Sharkan. I’ll enhance the skeleton warrior. Let’s attack together.”
Lee Han prepared for battle as he had done before.
Explosively enhance the skeleton warrior, then unleash elemental magic.
The golem’s durability looked quite solid, but since it was half-broken, they had the advantage. If they kept shooting, they would inevitably hit the golem’s weak point, its core.
Beginning cleanup.
However, instead of preparing for Lee Han’s attack, the golem silently began picking up trash and throwing it outside.
Angrago threw himself to the side, startled by the suddenly flying trash.
“It’s an attack!!”
“It, it says it’s cleaning?”
Lee Han and the White Tiger Tower students looked in amazement at the golem that was suddenly doing their work for them.
Despite having lost one leg, the golem cleared away the trash at a rapid pace.
‘But it won’t be able to move for long.’
Lee Han read the mana emanating from the golem’s entire body.
The amount of mana released with each movement was considerable, and the amount lost from the damaged parts was also substantial.
In that case, it would need additional recovery or, but seeing the golem’s mana itself gradually weakening, it seemed difficult for it to move for long.
‘Well, if it could move for a long time, it wouldn’t be here like this.’
It must have been reactivated by accidentally touching something wrong.
“You bastard… you’re amazing! It would have been great if we met you last week!”
Command not understood.
“You don’t need to understand!”
Executing commands. Explosive potion detected. Please step back.
“Th, thank you.”
However, contrary to Lee Han’s thoughts, the White Tiger Tower students quickly became friends with the golem.
“Can’t we somehow make a new leg for it with this?”
“Rather than that, let’s find its fallen leg. It might be somewhere in the trash heap.”
The guys who had been whining about not wanting to clean up just moments ago were now thoroughly searching the storage without anyone taking the lead.
“It’s good that you’re working hard, but time’s up. Let’s come back tomorrow to do the remaining work.”
“Has it already gotten that late?”
“Won’t the golem clean everything by itself while we’re gone?”
At the White Tiger Tower students’ words, Lee Han answered as if asking what they were talking about.
“That won’t happen.”
“Why?”
“Because it’ll stop after about half a day more?”
“…”
“…”
The White Tiger Tower students looked at Lee Han with eyes that said ‘How can you say such cruel things?’
“No… there’s damage and mana consumption, so it’s hard to operate for long. Look. If it were in perfect condition, would it be operating like this right now?”
“Ah, even so, you shouldn’t say things like that in front of the golem!”
“Wait. Is that what’s important right now? Wardanaz. So you can fix it? There’s a way to fix it, right? You just need to fix it.”
The White Tiger Tower students spoke desperately, but he couldn’t say something impossible was possible.
Lee Han was also a 1st year student – how could he fix a golem?
“Will it work?”
“Sigh. He says it will.”
“That’s a relief.”
“As expected of that Wardanaz guy.”
“…”
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