Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 420

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Chapter 420

-This is truly fascinating. I have no idea what happened here.

When the Death Knight muttered with a curious voice from beside him, the Skeleton Principal made a bone-clacking sound instead of clicking his tongue and spoke.

You’re still far from understanding. I figured it out immediately.

-Is that so?

The Death Knight was amazed.

To figure out the secret hidden in this mysterious scene.

As expected, he thought his master truly deserved to be called the Empire’s greatest sage.

The name Gonadaltes was so renowned that even the printing guild that produced the Empire’s most popular magazine, Detective Toberiz the Beastman, came to seek his advice every time.

The culprit is definitely that Wardanaz bastard.

-…?

The Death Knight looked at his master with a bewildered gaze.

Of course, he knew that his Death Knight’s master tormented his disciples more the more he cherished them, but wasn’t this completely unreasonable?

If he tormented his disciple so unreasonably and the disciple became twisted, it would be difficult to handle the aftermath…

I’m not being unreasonable, you empty-headed fool.

-I understand. I trust you, Master.

Someone who truly trusts wouldn’t say such things. Now. Think about it. You must have guessed that first-year students came and went here.

-That is…

The Death Knight nodded.

Although the knights and mages didn’t acknowledge it, judging by the atmosphere, it was clear that first-year students had come and gone.

But among the first-year students, the only one who’s friendly with both the mage bastards and the knight bastards is that Wardanaz bastard.

-But the ones who escaped were White Tiger Tower students, so how… And no matter how friendly they are, is such a thing even possible…?

There must be some inside story. Remember this well. When you eliminate all the impossible things, whatever remains, no matter how strange it seems, is the truth.

The Skeleton Principal spoke with a voice full of wisdom. The Death Knight bowed his head with admiring eyes.

I knew they were close, but I didn’t know he could mediate between the two sides. His skills are truly impressive.

-Yes. It’s still amazing. Those two little bastards…

Hey now.

-I apologize. That was a rude expression.

No. You can lower your voice and continue. They are bastards after all. If they don’t listen when you talk to them, are they even human?

The Skeleton Principal was genuinely amazed.

There were many geniuses across the vast Empire.

Of course, Lee Han was somewhat more exceptional among those geniuses, but anyway…

Even among Lee Han’s upperclassmen, weren’t there several who showed amazing talent in their specialized schools of study?

But such geniuses usually only cared about their own studies, not taking care of their friends’ meals while helping professors with their work and even mediating between outsiders in their spare time.

But Lee Han was capable of such things.

Looking at it now, he must have mediated between the knights and mages too.

This was difficult work even for experienced Imperial officials…

Come to think of it, this is ridiculous. Originally, that kind of thing should be done by professors. Does this make sense? How can they have worse social skills than their disciple?

The Death Knight thought to himself, ‘But they’re professors you brought here yourself, Master,’ but remained silently quiet.

Instead, he changed the subject.

-You must be truly pleased to have such a talented disciple.

That’s true. Now that I know he’s capable of going that far, I can try having him do other things in the future. What should I have him try next…

-…

The Death Knight thought this might be a bit too much for a first-year student, but he remained silently quiet.

A loyal summoned creature knew well when to stay silent.

Oh right. I almost forgot. Take care of it.

-What do you mean? A reward?

The Death Knight wondered if the Skeleton Principal was giving his disciple a reward since he was assigning him additional work.

Honestly, mediating between mages and knights to resolve matters was more difficult than defeating an evil demon archduke.

Are you crazy? What reward? Does Einroguard look so easy that I’d give a reward to someone who ran away?

-…Yes. I apologize.

He meant to investigate how that Wardanaz bastard managed to get out.

-Didn’t he come out together with the White Tiger Tower bastards?

I thought so at first too, but thinking about it, that Wardanaz bastard isn’t that careless. He released a staff member, didn’t he? He probably came out separately. Look into it.

The Skeleton Principal was surprisingly thorough about the rules he had established.

Unless caught in the act or leaving physical evidence, he wouldn’t confine students based on mere suspicion or testimony alone.

If he was going to confine them, he would catch them with certainty so they couldn’t argue back!

-He’s a first-year student, so wouldn’t it be difficult unless it’s an exceptional situation like this?

Yes, that complacency is truly arrogant! I told you not to underestimate your opponent. Keep this in mind! Forget the idea that he’s just a first-year. Think of him as a seasoned fourth-year!

-…Yes. I understand…

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After spending a frantic weekend and barely returning at dawn, Lee Han caught a brief nap and immediately woke up in the morning.

The priests didn’t show it, but they were stirring about the suddenly changed breakfast menu.

“Is today some special day by any chance…?”

“No. You should normally eat this much for nutrition.”

Lee Han said while spreading jam generously on the surface of bread and pushing it toward the thinnest-looking priest.

One of the priests suddenly remembered something and asked.

“By any chance, did the Blue Dragon Tower students eat like this last semester?”

“Generally, yes?”

“Ah…!”

The priests nodded as if they understood, thinking ‘I see!’

No wonder during the first semester, the Blue Dragon Tower students weren’t particularly desperate for snacks, and when the priests tried to share food with them, they said ‘Haha, it’s fine, please eat, priests,’ but lately their eyes looked hollow, which had been concerning.

“No wonder…”

“But if people who used to eat like that don’t eat, wouldn’t they be hungry? Maybe if we took some to them…”

When a priest put egg custard, pumpkin pie, egg rice, and aged roasted duck on a plate and tried to get up, Lee Han immediately warned.

“Anyone who takes food to other towers will definitely be eliminated during the order drawing.”

“Ah, no!”

“Why…!?”

The priests who were about to take food were flustered.

Since they desperately wanted Lee Han’s next divine magic to awaken as their religious order’s divine magic, they couldn’t afford to be pushed back in that order.

“I don’t think we should eat so luxuriously…”

“I heard from the religious order that eating like this isn’t good…”

Lee Han ignored the priests’ grumbling and fed them.

“Tiziling Priest. You put too little on your plate. Put more on it.”

“This is the third plate you’re serving me… No, this is too much…!”

Tiziling Priest hastily refused, but it didn’t work.

After contentedly watching the priests eat their fill, Lee Han turned his gaze outside.

‘Something is strange.’

Although he had only attended for one semester, Lee Han had adapted very sensitively to Einroguard.

Thanks to this, he could feel that the atmosphere had changed.

There were many Death Knights moving around near the towers and castle walls, and unfamiliar undead summons were flying in the sky…

He had more than enough guesses about the reason.

‘Those White Tiger Tower bastards are really unhelpful.’

Of course, Lee Han, who had participated in a commission during that short weekend time to earn some money, bore some responsibility, but it was ultimately the White Tiger Tower bastards who had escalated the commotion.

Yet they had the nerve to pick fights with Lee Han, saying things like ‘It worked out well meeting the knights,’ and they were truly unhelpful bastards.

‘Was I found out?’

Lee Han glared at the spire.

He had earnestly pleaded with the people who were there, but there were too many of them. Lee Han didn’t really expect the secret to be kept either.

Since he wasn’t immediately dragged to the punishment room, it seemed the Skeleton Principal hadn’t caught him in the act and fortunately let it slide…

‘He’s absolutely not the type to just let this go.’

It would be fortunate if he believed Lee Han had gone out with the White Tiger Tower students, but it didn’t seem like he’d be that careless. It would be best to be careful for a while.

‘I need to go out about 3 or 4 times per semester to have enough supplies…’

Despite the search, Lee Han’s soul was very peaceful.

He had brought in plenty of supplies, and since he had outing permits, the situation was much better than he had prepared for.

There wouldn’t be another mage festival like last week, so this week he just needed to work hard on the assignments that came out…

Crash bang clang clang!

Lee Han rolled around after entering Professor Voladi’s classroom.

The lecture content had changed while he was away.

“…Are you attacking me as soon as I enter now?”

“I have no choice.”

Lee Han didn’t really want to know the reason, but he endured and asked.

“Why is that?”

“Because at your level, the only way to block spatial movement magic is through repetitive training.”

“What? Why spatial movement magic all of a sudden…? I still need to practice lightning magic form transformation, and there’s so much to do…”

Lee Han was confused about where the various and relatively safe curriculum like caring for basilisk eggs and lightning magic form transformation had gone, and why it had suddenly changed to training countermeasures against spatial movement magic.

Then Professor Voladi showed him a note.

To Voladi Bagrec

Lee Han Wardanaz was defeated by a golem that uses spatial movement magic and is feeling frustrated. You help him.

Osyu Gonadaltes

“…”

Lee Han’s expression twisted.

‘Is he doing this because I went out? Really?’

Of course, it was a note sent before going out, but Lee Han didn’t know that fact.

Just lock me in the punishment room instead!

“…So now you’re teaching countermeasures against spatial movement magic?”

“Yes. Since you’ll encounter it someday, it’s better to prepare in advance.”

Professor Voladi spoke in a serious voice.

The Skeleton Principal’s point was valid.

Later, if Lee Han was wandering around the most remote and gloomy places in the Empire and happened to meet a combat mage who had spent their entire life specializing only in spatial movement magic, wouldn’t his life be in danger?

“…”

Lee Han had to suppress the words ‘Why don’t you teach me how to face dragons too’ from coming out of his throat.

If he said such a thing to Professor Voladi, he might say ‘I see, understood’ and start dragon slayer preparation from that day.

All Lee Han could do was be slightly sarcastic.

“I’m really… truly happy to learn in advance how to deal with spatial magic specialist combat mages that I might encounter once or twice in my lifetime.”

“Is that so?”

Professor Voladi was satisfied when Lee Han expressed happiness.

As a master, giving the disciple the teachings they wanted was something that brought pride.

“From now on, speak directly.”

Professor Voladi thought that Lee Han, out of respect for his master as a disciple, couldn’t speak directly.

“…I’ll speak directly myself, so please don’t listen to what other professors say. Originally, words tend to create misunderstandings when they’re passed through one or two people, don’t they?”

“That could be the case.”

Professor Voladi nodded as if he understood. Lee Han sighed.

“Spatial movement magic is one of the most difficult magics to counter when used offensively. Because there are no warning signs.”

Space-time magic belonged to the most complex and difficult magic among the magic schools.

Accordingly, there were few mages who could use spatial movement magic, and even fewer mages who could cast it fast and accurately enough to use in combat.

And what about the mana consumption? If you wanted to kill an opponent, one arrow would suffice, so there was no need to use such complex magic.

“Professor. Do I really need to prepare for such things as you just mentioned?”

“But you already encountered it. Something that happened once can happen twice.”

“…”

When he was defeated by Professor Voladi’s logic, that’s when he felt the most self-loathing.

To think he had to lose to such logic.

“There aren’t many countermeasures, but they’re not nonexistent.”

As the Skeleton Principal had told him, spatial movement magic had no gaps, but the person using it had gaps.

If you could predict the opponent’s pattern in advance, even the most powerful magic could be avoided.

“That would be divination magic.”

“!”

Lee Han was surprised by the unexpectedly sound method.

Certainly, divination magic was suitable for the current situation.

“Oh. Then I don’t need to learn by getting hit with my body?”

“No. You need to get hit a lot to use divination magic.”

Lee Han instinctively threw his body to the side without realizing it. Sure enough, a chair appeared in the spot where Lee Han had been and flew at him.

Before he could feel relieved, a desk appeared from behind and struck Lee Han as it passed. Lee Han rolled around on the classroom floor.

“That first dodge just now was excellent. You have talent.”

“That wasn’t divination magic, just luck…”

Lee Han didn’t have time to answer. The attacks started again.

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