Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 43
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Chapter 043
Lee Han carefully tucked the outing pass into his chest. His movements showed how cautious he was, as if afraid someone might snatch it away.
Professor Garcia and the Skeleton Principal simultaneously thought to themselves.
‘No one’s going to take it though…’
Is your body alright?
Is your body alright?
Is your body alright?
“Yes.”
Good. Then since you’ve received all your rewards, you must receive your punishment.
Good. Then since you’ve received all your rewards, you must receive your punishment.
Good. Then since you’ve received all your rewards, you must receive your punishment.
“…”
Lee Han looked at the Skeleton Principal as if dumbfounded.
The Skeleton Principal spoke as if his heart ached.
Don’t look at me like that. My heart aches too. But rules are rules.
Don’t look at me like that. My heart aches too. But rules are rules.
Don’t look at me like that. My heart aches too. But rules are rules.
‘100% a lie.’
No matter how Lee Han looked at it, the Principal was definitely enjoying this.
Just so you don’t misunderstand, you’re not being punished for attempting to go out without permission.
Just so you don’t misunderstand, you’re not being punished for attempting to go out without permission.
Just so you don’t misunderstand, you’re not being punished for attempting to go out without permission.
“Then what is it?”
You’re being punished for getting caught.
You’re being punished for getting caught.
You’re being punished for getting caught.
“…”
So I should have just watched Professor Garcia get stabbed?
Lee Han felt those words rise to his throat but held them back.
Since ancient times, nothing good ever came from talking back to a professor.
‘Endure it. Just endure.’
The sun is just rising now. Until the next sun rises, contemplate in the punishment room how not to get caught next time.
The sun is just rising now. Until the next sun rises, contemplate in the punishment room how not to get caught next time.
The sun is just rising now. Until the next sun rises, contemplate in the punishment room how not to get caught next time.
Along with his words, the Skeleton Principal threw a book to Lee Han.
A book bound in plain black leather with no patterns. It was a book that gave off a strangely eerie feeling.
“What is this?”
It’s a book to keep you from getting bored in the punishment room. Try reading it once.
It’s a book to keep you from getting bored in the punishment room. Try reading it once.
It’s a book to keep you from getting bored in the punishment room. Try reading it once.
An expression of ‘Can I trust this?’ flashed very quickly across Lee Han’s face.
The Skeleton Principal was pleased to see his student being suspicious first.
Move the student to the punishment room.
Move the student to the punishment room.
Move the student to the punishment room.
The Skeleton Principal’s summoned creatures approached and helped Lee Han to his feet.
From this morning until tomorrow morning.
Lee Han would be staying in the school’s punishment room.
* * *
Going down underground stairs, walking through corridors, then down more stairs, walking through corridors again…
It felt like they had repeated this dozens of times. Even if he hadn’t been blindfolded, he probably couldn’t have memorized the route.
Clang!
“Hmm.”
When the door closed and he was alone, Lee Han looked around the punishment room.
It didn’t look much different from a personal room in the dormitory.
Instead of sunlight coming in from outside, artificial lights flickered to provide illumination, giving it a somewhat dim feeling?
‘This is the punishment room? It’s not as bad as I thought.’
Lee Han thought he could stay here for several weeks.
Living as a graduate student, there were times when several people had to stay in rooms much smaller than this.
Compared to that, this was extremely comfortable.
Lee Han resolved to tell Nilia when he met her later that ‘the punishment room wasn’t as bad as expected.’
Of course, he couldn’t know if Nilia would think the same way.
-Lee Han of Wardanaz Family.
“?”
The stiff voice of an undead summoned creature came from outside.
-Receive this.
The bottom of the door opened and a large basket came in.
Freshly baked bread and salt and pepper in deep bowls, roasted lamb seasoned with sauce, apples baked with sugar and butter, freshly cooked fried eggs, biscuits mixed with almonds and chocolate that were slightly firm and still steaming hot…
‘Huh?’
Lee Han was confused because the meal was too good for a punishment room.
What’s this?
-It’s a gift from Professor Garcia.
“Ah… please tell her I’m grateful.”
-It’s not finished yet. Receive more.
“No. Wait a sec…”
Lee Han was flustered by the baskets that kept coming in.
Could he eat all this in one day?
Fortunately, the next baskets contained more preserved foods.
Chocolates wrapped well in foil and candies. Peanuts roasted with salt, round flat cookies in boxes and tea leaves. Apple juice and orange juice in glass bottles…
‘I guess she didn’t know what I’d like so she just put in everything?’
Lee Han gratefully set aside the baskets from Professor Garcia’s gift.
It seemed like his mouth wouldn’t be bored while in the punishment room.
Slurp-
Lee Han brewed black tea, added milk and sugar, and sipped it slowly while lost in thought.
The fight with the Imperial Anti-Mages was brutal even thinking about it now. Brutal enough to make him think ‘How did I manage to fight like that?’
The reason he could be so calm in battle was…
‘Thanks to Alarlong’s teachings.’
If Alarlong had been there, he would have reacted with bewilderment saying ‘No, I never taught you such wit in magical combat or actual battle,’ but Alarlong wasn’t there.
Lee Han didn’t know it, but he definitely had a natural talent for combat. It was a fact acknowledged by all the other professors.
‘Thank you, Alarlong.’
Lee Han cast the 【Low-Level Control】 magic.
Move.
”
Move.
“
Move.
The quill pen gently floated in the air and began moving naturally.
It was such smooth movement that he couldn’t have imagined when he first learned magic.
Lee Han put down the quill pen and cast magic on the iron ball.
A nearly perfect circle was drawn in the air.
‘It’s a bit frustrating that Professor Boladi’s words turned out to be true.’
Sometimes certain professors would anger students by only saying correct things rather than wrong ones.
Who would have thought Professor Boladi’s words that ‘real combat will improve your skills’ would be proven like this.
He had felt it when fighting the anti-magic extremists, but his skills had really improved dramatically.
‘A few more real battles and I’ll become an archmage. Or die before that.’
Lee Han put down the iron ball. Though it wasn’t by choice, he didn’t feel bad about it.
‘Speaking of which, that swordsmanship…’
Lee Han carefully recalled the swordsmanship he had used when fighting the enemy leader.
As Alarlong had taught him, whether it was a won or lost battle, not just passing it by but reviewing it like this was a great help for skill improvement.
‘…No matter how I look at it, that wasn’t normal swordsmanship, was it?’
At the time, the opponent was so strong that he had just charged in recklessly without thinking, but looking back now, that definitely wasn’t normal swordsmanship.
What kind of swordsmanship involves pouring mana like a madman and striking like that?
It was fortunate that Lee Han had abundant mana, otherwise anything could have happened.
Even his sword had shattered at the end.
Alarlong had said that excellent swordsmen could condense the mana in their bodies into their sword to create aura, but from Lee Han’s perspective, what he had done was less like aura and more like something…
‘…I don’t know what to call it, but I should be more careful from now on.’
Lee Han resolved not to do something reckless and end up in the Empire newspaper’s “People Who Died Stupidly This Year” section.
After finishing his tea, one remaining thing caught his eye.
…It was the black book the principal had given him.
‘Should I open this?’
Lee Han seriously pondered.
Was this truly a gift from the principal, or a trap?
It’s a gift from the principal->The principal is human too, so he would know that Lee Han fought hard to save the professor. He put him in the punishment room according to the rules, but he must feel sorry. This must be a gift given as an expression of that regret.
It’s a trap from the principal->Strictly speaking, the principal isn’t human but undead. He doesn’t have human emotions. And the principal was clearly enjoying himself when he put Lee Han in the punishment room earlier. If that’s the case…
‘…It feels more likely to be a trap.’
Even considering it, it seems like a trap, doesn’t it?
Lee Han decided to decide later and tried to push the book away.
That’s when it happened.
Rustle!
Rustle!
Rustle!
“!?”
As soon as Lee Han brought his hand near it, the black-bound book forcibly opened.
And the letters on the opened page began jumping out as if alive, wrapping around and burrowing into Lee Han’s hand.
“!!!!”
Lee Han felt a shock as if someone was hammering knowledge directly into his brain.
‘What is this…!’
Though it was confusing and painful, he could understand what this book was trying to do.
This book was now trying to impart a magic spell.
Lee Han’s mouth opened instinctively. Then he called out the name of the magic.
“Gonadaltes’… Nimble Steps…!”
Flash!
Once the transmission was complete, the book closed tightly again with a rustling sound. Even when Lee Han tried to open it with a bewildered expression, it wouldn’t open as if nails had been hammered into it.
‘What kind of book is this?’
Lee Han held his throbbing head from the headache and reviewed the magical knowledge he had just received.
As if he had originally known it from reading, the knowledge of the magic called 【Gonadaltes’ Nimble Steps】 remained vividly in Lee Han’s mind.
From the incantation to the movements.
Of course, that didn’t mean he could immediately use the magic. It was Lee Han’s responsibility to directly comprehend based on that knowledge.
‘In other words, it’s a book that forcibly teaches magic…’
From the magic’s name, he could tell it was magic directly created by the Skeleton Principal.
If it was such magic, the Skeleton Principal could have called Lee Han and taught him one-on-one, so why did he transmit it in such an eccentric way?
‘It’s probably because the principal is crazy. After all, they say people go insane if they teach for too long.’
Lee Han convinced himself.
Of course, the reason the principal didn’t teach directly was because if he taught one-on-one as he pleased, he would hear things like ‘Look, look, that insane archmage is trying to ruin another young talent!’ from other professors and outsiders…
But there was no way for Lee Han to know that.
* * *
“Feet, wrinkle the ground. Feet, wrinkle the ground. Feet, wrinkle the…”
Having nothing else to do, Lee Han diligently memorized the newly learned incantation.
Though Lee Han himself went around saying ‘I’m not that greedy for magic,’ objectively speaking, Lee Han was indeed someone obsessed with magic.
Normal new students would play when they had nothing to do, not think ‘I have nothing to do, so let’s study’ like Lee Han.
Thump thump thump-
“…?”
Lee Han paused at the sound of wall knocking coming from somewhere.
What’s that?
“Feet, wrinkle the…”
Thump thump thump-
He hadn’t heard wrong. Lee Han carefully brought his ear close to the wall of the punishment room’s solitary cell.
Thump thump thump-
Thump thump thump-
Thump thump thump-
The sound was heard more clearly.
Lee Han likewise knocked on the wall. The other party also paused briefly, seeming to have heard the sound.
A rough, husky low voice was heard.
“…Can you hear me?”
“I can hear you.”
“What year are you?”
“I just entered this time.”
“I just started here.”
“I’m new here.”
“I just started here.”
“Cast iron, huh? That must be tough.”
“And you are…?”
“Gold.”
Gold.
It was a title that symbolized the fourth grade of the school.
Ihan was shocked to learn that a senior from his school was trapped in the next room.
‘What does it take to be a fourth-year… no, that’s not for me to say.’
Lee Han completed his quick self-reflection.
Lee Han, who had been caught trying to escape, wasn’t in a position to say such things.
“What were you doing to end up in the punishment room? Did you start a fight between dormitories?”
“No.”
“No? Then did you steal items from friends in the same tower?”
“No. I was caught trying to escape.”
Chuckling laughter could be heard from the next room.
“This new student is remarkably fast. An escape attempt after just one week. I bet you went to the mountain, right? Everyone gets caught going to the mountain. They don’t know there are castle walls there.”
“I didn’t go to the mountain.”
At Lee Han’s words, the student beyond the wall fell silent in surprise.
“Don’t tell me you went underground?”
“Yes.”
“That’s impressive? To notice the underground. But that’s a trap. Touch even one item and alarms go off, and the Warehouse Keeper who guards the storage is a monster specialized in detection ability. What got you caught?”
“I didn’t get caught.”
“…You didn’t get caught?”
“Yes. I went outside through the underground passage. I got caught after going out.”
“…”
The 4th year student beyond the wall was shocked.
It was already surprising that he realized the existence of the underground passage in just one week, but he broke through the storage traps and the Warehouse Keeper’s detection to go outside through the underground passage???
‘What is this guy? Is he really a new student??’
“Wait. Then why were you caught?”
“I was riding in a carriage when Imperial Anti-Magic Extremists attacked, and I got caught by the Principal while fighting them.”
“…”
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
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