Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 415
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Chapter 415
After finishing his deal and returning, Lee Han prepared for his outing by quietly doing his tasks without causing any trouble.
He made and served meals for the priests, listened to the winner’s doctrinal lecture this time (surprisingly, the priests had chosen polo as the competition for this round), studied in his remaining time, and worked on assignments in advance…
And so, when it was past midnight and around two in the morning.
Lee Han had arrived in front of Amur Stable.
“I wish you luck.”
“Thank you as always.”
Watching Lee Han quickly change into civilian clothes, Amur thought to himself.
‘He seems too experienced for a 1st year student.’
Who would think that student was a new student at Einroguard?
* * *
Objectively speaking, Lee Han hadn’t gone out that many times.
But Lee Han worked so skillfully that even Einroguard’s picky upperclassmen would acknowledge ‘I couldn’t do better than that even if I did it myself…’
A prepared new student.
That was exactly what Lee Han was.
As soon as dawn arrived and it was time for the village shops to open, Lee Han quickly ran down the main road and purchased all the necessary supplies he could get his hands on.
Rice, barley, rye, lentils, onions, potatoes, peas, garlic, goat milk, olive oil and palm oil, peaches, grapes, melons, bananas…
‘I should also get some luxury items.’
Several jars of sauce and peanut butter, slightly spicy tomato sauce, coffee grounds and tea leaves, maple syrup, flat cookies and chocolate.
‘It would be better to bring meat too, right? There are limits to what we can obtain inside.’
Due to the bulk, he couldn’t bring much, but pickled herring and sardines, lamb and pork sausages with organs removed, canned beef and even duck meat.
Before the morning was even over, Lee Han had finished preparing all the supplies.
Boxes packed so tightly that not even a strand of hair could fit inside.
Seeing this, Lee Han suddenly felt a bit regretful.
‘Hmm. Did I shop like a madman?’
Anyone who saw this would think he wasn’t a student returning to magic school but someone fleeing due to a rebellion.
“Were you still resting? If you haven’t started preparing yet, let’s have a cup of tea together…”
Amur, who woke up late, discovered Lee Han standing outside and thought he hadn’t started preparing yet.
However, when he opened the door, he saw boxes piled up like a mountain.
“…Are you all finished?”
“Yes.”
“…Then, let’s go have a cup of tea.”
Amur opened the door to the tea house in Philone Village called Jakseol (Sparrow’s Tongue), ordered two cups of tea, and sat down.
Instead of sitting by the scenic window, Lee Han went to the innermost area.
It was a position where passing people couldn’t easily see his face due to the partitions.
From there, he could also jump out through the window or back door if he threw himself. Lee Han carefully checked the escape routes just in case.
“Sur… surely you’re not worried about someone chasing you…?”
“I’m just being careful.”
Lee Han spoke nonchalantly, but Amur wondered if he should send a letter to the capital.
No matter how strict the school was, did it make sense to send pursuers just because someone snuck out on a weekend?
‘Could it be that Student Wardanaz is misunderstanding?’
While he was thinking this, tea and refreshments were served. Lee Han wondered how he could take some of the dasik (tea food) made from rice and honey with him.
“Ex… excuse me…”
“??”
Inside the quiet tea house.
When a blatantly suspicious-looking customer entered, both Lee Han and Amur flinched.
In the big city of Granden, people completely covered in cloaks like that were common, but here in Philone Village, they weren’t quite so common.
“What is it? Have any strange customers been visiting the village lately?”
“There hasn’t been anything like that… hmm… ah. There was a group of strange people who came to the village, constantly chattering among themselves about ‘we should fix our golems like that too.'”
“…I’m sorry. Those people are mages invited for the festival.”
“Is that so? Oh, there were dark mages too?”
“Dark mages can be invited too…”
Lee Han corrected Amur’s prejudice.
Amur was surprised that dark mages could also receive invitations.
“Anyway, no customers came except for the mages?”
“As far as I know, that’s right.”
Lee Han and Amur looked at the newly entered customer with wariness.
From their clothing to their behavior, they were blatantly suspicious to anyone who looked.
However, the misunderstanding was quickly resolved.
Swoosh-
“Ple… please don’t tell anyone that I came here. Could I possibly get some food and drink if I leave this wooden sword as collateral?”
“…What are you doing there, Angrago?”
Lee Han asked in shock at the sight of the White Tiger Tower student.
At Lee Han’s call, Angrago let out a shrill scream and almost fell over.
“War… Wardanaz!”
“That’s right.”
“Did you come to catch me on the professor’s orders! You bastard!”
“…No. I came out first.”
“!?!”
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Although Lee Han and Salko had evaluated it negatively, surprisingly, the escape route that the White Tiger Tower students found this time was real.
Even an elephant will step on a mouse if it keeps backing up.
‘Amazing!’
Lee Han was honestly surprised.
To think these guys would actually find it.
“What method did you use?”
“There was a summoning magic festival this time. Quite a few merchant carriages came in because of the festival…”
Carriages that entered when the main gate was opened.
The White Tiger Tower students targeted those carriages.
Since people were coming and going, surveillance would be relatively lax, so let’s secretly get into those carriages and escape!
It couldn’t be used regularly, but it was a brilliant method that exploited a loophole in the situation.
‘I got attacked by anti-magic extremists when I did that, but these guys have good luck.’
Lee Han grumbled inwardly.
“Wait. Did only one or two of you escape? You guys move as a group.”
“Right. We moved as a group.”
“But how did you hide and ride in the carriage?”
Lee Han moved alone, so it wasn’t very difficult to catch and ride a carriage.
Not only did he have invisibility magic, but adding one person didn’t stand out much.
“…We didn’t hide.”
“What?”
At Lee Han’s question, Angrago’s face turned red with embarrassment as he answered.
“I said we didn’t hide.”
“Then…?”
“…We captured the merchant staff, locked them in the carriage, and rode together.”
“…”
“…”
Lee Han and Amur stared at Angrago in shock.
That’s…
Highway robbery!
“You…”
“Don’t say it! Wardanaz, I know too, damn it!”
“You’re not a knight but a robber…”
“Ugh.”
Angrago bit his lip, feeling ashamed even to himself.
“But there was no other way! How else could we convince the merchant staff! Anyone would have…”
Angrago suddenly looked at Lee Han mid-sentence and changed his words.
“…at least we had no other way!”
‘Didn’t this bastard just look at me?’
“R-right. I’m not in a position to say anything. I might have done the same.”
Angrago’s face brightened a little at Lee Han’s words.
He hadn’t expected Wardanaz to say something like that.
“Opportunities are hard to catch once you miss them… Anyway, I understand you each grabbed an easy carriage and snuck in with them. That should have been a success, so why do you look like beggars?”
“Well… there’s that.”
“??”
“After passing through the castle gate and going a bit further… we… released the staff members.”
“…Don’t tell me…”
Lee Han was shocked again.
“Don’t tell me you just released them near Einroguard? You didn’t wait until you were far from school, apologize for what happened today, appeal to their sympathy about how distressing Einroguard’s harsh rules are, promise compensation in your family’s name, and then release them?”
“…Why weren’t you there with us?”
Angrago pouted and grumbled.
How much easier it would have been if Wardanaz had been in the same carriage!
“Wait, there wasn’t a single White Tiger Tower student who thought of this?”
“Well… only our carriage released them.”
“…”
“…”
Amur, who had been listening quietly, slapped his forehead.
This was why group actions were difficult.
There was always one troublemaker who turned the situation into chaos.
“This is a secret, okay?? The other friends don’t know which carriage released the staff first yet…”
“That’s something to be proud of, you bastard.”
Lee Han sighed.
It must have been a disaster for the other White Tiger Tower Students who didn’t know the situation.
“What did the released staff member say?”
“They thanked us for releasing them, so I thought it was fine. We apologized too.”
“Their eyes weren’t burning with anger by any chance?”
“Yeah… they ran straight to the main gate and reported us…”
“…”
He could guess what happened next without hearing it.
The Einroguard summoned creatures waiting at the main gate would have burst out and started chasing the carriages, leaving the White Tiger Tower Students with no choice but to flee in all directions in panic.
Most of them would have just been caught…
“How did you get out?”
“…”
“How did you get out?”
“…I hid inside a box.”
“Inside a box? Inside a carriage box?”
“Yeah…”
Angrago said with his face turning even redder.
No wonder there was a strong potion scent coming from Angrago – he must have been inside a reagent box.
“Right. Good job… What else could you do. Wait. I understand you’re worried about being caught, but why are you bartering with wooden swords?”
“Because I don’t have any silver coins!”
Angrago said as if he was truly wronged.
Students who had been thoroughly burned in the first semester prepared for the second semester.
Since gold and silver coins would be confiscated upon entering the magic school, it was easy to face difficulties during outings.
So some clever students visited merchant companies in Philone Village and deposited money with certificates.
And the even cleverer Skeleton Principal disguised himself as students as soon as the semester started and withdrew all that deposited money.
“…You thought you wouldn’t get caught depositing it with a merchant company? You should have deposited it somewhere that seemed unrelated to you. Or converted it to highly liquid artifacts to carry around.”
“…Ugh…”
Angrago suffered at Lee Han’s criticism.
If only he had done a little better…!
“Forget it. You’ve had a hard time too. I’ll buy this, so drink up.”
“R-really???”
“…Yeah.”
Lee Han ordered tea cakes because Angrago’s face looked so pitiful. Angrago stuffed the refreshments into his mouth until his cheeks were about to burst.
Amur whispered from the side.
“Not all Einroguard Students seem to be the same.”
“…Haha. All students are different.”
Lee Han fell into thought while Angrago was eating.
‘Things got unnecessarily troublesome because of these guys.’
Since he couldn’t know how far the pursuers would chase, he couldn’t wander around with peace of mind.
Getting caught together would be nothing short of unfair.
At least it was fortunate that he had finished all the necessary preparations in the morning…
‘I need to secure more silver coins.’
Lee Han had secured a fair amount of gold and silver coins, but looking at Einroguard, the more funds the better.
He had planned to spend the remaining time today going around shops and exchanging various things, but the situation had become unnecessarily troublesome.
If the Skeleton Principal’s Death Knights were waiting…
“Excuse me, aren’t you a mage?”
“!?”
Lee Han realized belatedly that he had let his guard down while talking with Angrago.
He immediately grabbed Angrago’s neck and pushed him forward, preparing to escape through the rear escape route.
But there was no need. The other person was a familiar face.
The adventurers he had worked with on a quest during the last vacation, Gu Bon and Bijidek.
The two welcomed Lee Han with very pleased faces.
“It really is you, mage! But… the person in front… why…?”
“My hand slipped.”
Lee Han released Angrago’s neck and brushed off his hands. Angrago glared at Lee Han.
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