Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 431

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Chapter 431

Professor Garcia tried to defend Professor Verdus with a trace of conscience, but the Skeleton Principal paid no heed.

If not that bastard, then who else could have done it? Did the students come in and take it? The culprit is definitely Vible. I swear on my skull that I will absolutely throw this scoundrel into the punishment room!

“…”

Well then, that’s enough! Struggle moderately, Professor Garcia. Don’t neglect your body like you did when you were a student.

As the Skeleton Principal whooshed away outside, Professor Garcia let out a deep sigh.

Though it was a short time, he had been so tense that cold sweat was dripping down his spine.

“Come out quickly, everyone. Why did you all come into the faculty lounge!”

Professor Garcia pulled out the students who were crammed in the closet one by one.

Priest Tijiling asked with a worried expression.

“If Professor Verdus suffers because of us…”

Then Lee Han answered instead.

“It’s okay. Professor Verdus will understand.”

“…??”

When Lee Han answered instead of the professor she had asked, Priest Tijiling was slightly flustered.

Huh?

“How do you know that?”

“Priest Tijiling. It’s embarrassing for me to say this myself, but I’m one of Professor Verdus’s closest disciples. I can easily tell what the professor is thinking. Professor Verdus will understand.”

“…Is… is that so…?”

When Priest Tijiling hesitated, not quite understanding, Professor Garcia hurriedly intervened.

“Student Lee Han is right. The professor will understand.”

Actually, Professor Garcia didn’t know whether Professor Verdus would understand or not, but now wasn’t the time to argue about such things.

He had to get the students out of the lounge as quickly as possible.

“Everyone go down quickly. And never come to the faculty lounge again!”

“Not even if we don’t get caught?”

“…Student Lee Han, let’s have a separate talk later. Oh right.”

Professor Garcia turned his gaze as if he had almost forgotten.

“Take the items you gathered earlier too. Since you went through the trouble of gathering them.”

When he piled up and handed over an armful of items starting with waterproof magic cloth, seawater stones, and scrolls, Lee Han was flustered.

“But Professor, from what I heard earlier, these aren’t things I can use…”

“Learn and use them. It’s not like you knew everything from the beginning.”

“Professor, are you angry that I came into the lounge?”

* * *

The students who barely made it back to the tower finally caught their breath.

Priest Nigisor and Priest Siana were still excited and whispered quickly.

“That was truly magnificent!”

“Are we going again tomorrow?!”

“…Ah, no. I have to study tomorrow.”

“Then the day after tomorrow??”

“The day after tomorrow I have work to do.”

Priest Siana’s face was colored with disappointment.

Lee Han felt sorry for no reason and said.

“If you need a guide for night walks, there are other friends too. I’ll introduce you.”

“Such…! There was such a method too.”

Priest Siana nodded as if she hadn’t thought of it.

Certainly there was no law saying she had to go out only with Lee Han.

“I should recommend it to the other priests in the tower too.”

“Going together wouldn’t be bad.”

Since the Death Knights treated the priests kindly, there was nothing wrong with several going out together.

Priest Tijiling, who had been listening to the conversation, carefully tugged at Lee Han’s sleeve.

“What’s wrong? Ah.”

Lee Han looked at Priest Tijiling as if he understood.

“You want to go together but you’re shy.”

“…No.”

Priest Tijiling almost lost her composure, which was truly rare to see.

“Not that, the box…”

“Ah. That.”

Lee Han pulled out a small bronze box from the pile of items.

It was the reagent box with a small cauldron fragment carved on it that the Skeleton Principal had been looking for.

“I’ve been constantly worried about this box.”

Priest Tijiling said with a slight sigh.

Lee Han looked at Priest Tijiling again as if he understood.

“I’ve been thinking about how to use this box to benefit during the flood too.”

“…That’s not it, we should return it to the Principal…”

“The problem is how to use this.”

Lee Han fell into deep thought.

From what he heard the Skeleton Principal say, this reagent box was definitely something that could torment students more during the flood.

Increasing the flood volume or controlling its direction…

“Or maybe poison to dissolve in the water.”

“…No, that’s really not it.”

Priest Tijiling answered unconsciously.

No matter what, it didn’t seem like poison to dissolve in water.

At that point, he wouldn’t be a principal but just a crazy mage.

“Is that so? I thought it was quite possible.”

Lee Han regretfully grabbed the lid of the bronze reagent box.

Since he had examined it as much as he could, he planned to open it directly and check.

Click!

Fortunately, opening the box didn’t trigger any curse the Skeleton Principal had placed to attack Lee Han.

What was inside the box were ordinary reagents.

“Reagents… I see.”

“It’s a box for storing reagents.”

“These are materials I haven’t seen before. Priest Siana?”

Priest Siana, who was making plans for tomorrow’s night walk with the other priests, turned her head at the call.

“What? I’m planning right now, so if you could ask me a little later…”

“I was wondering if you might know what these materials are. I thought Priest Siana, who excels in alchemy, would know. If you’re busy, it can’t be helped…”

Priest Siana threw down her quill and paper and ran over.

Then she looked inside the reagent box and was amazed.

“This is a Tanzhou fish horn!”

“!”

Tanzhou fish.

As you could tell from the name meaning ‘swallows ships’, it was a gigantic sea monster reminiscent of a whale.

Of course, if it only had a similar size to a whale, such a name wouldn’t have been attached.

The Tanzhou fish was a monster that freely controlled ocean storms and moved between waves and clouds, with abilities that suggested it had thick blood from other dimensions like demons or spirits mixed in.

And the Tanzhou fish’s horn…

“I’ve only seen it in books, this is my first time seeing the real thing. It’s really precious…”

“What? How expensive is it?”

Priest Siana, thinking Lee Han’s question was a joke, ignored it and continued speaking.

“The power of Tanjueo is contained entirely within this. With just this horn, you could summon Tanjueo. Though it would be in spirit form…”

Even if it wasn’t a body of bone and flesh like when it was alive, a monster of Tanjueo’s caliber could wield tremendous power.

Lee Han thought he understood what the Skeleton Principal was thinking.

“The rest of the materials are also materials to assist the summoning. By summoning Tanjueo…”

Priest Siana and Priest Tiziling nodded simultaneously.

Given the Principal’s personality, it was obvious he would torment students by controlling wind and rain.

“…He must have been planning to attack the tower where the students are.”

“???”

“…Huh? That far?”

“Isn’t it possible?”

Lee Han said as he closed the box.

The priests were too kind-hearted and underestimated the Skeleton Principal’s malice, but Lee Han did not.

When heavy rain pours down, visibility naturally narrows.

The Death Knights sent by the Skeleton Principal might ride Tanjueo and assault the tower.

“Anyway, that’s not what’s important.”

“Right. What’s important is that the box is in our hands.”

“Ah. That’s also important… but what I was trying to say was let’s contact the other towers to prepare for floods, then prepare this cloth.”

“…”

“…”

“We can do it together, right? Oh. Priest Siana. Can I ask a bit more about summoning Tanjueo?”

“The summoning itself isn’t difficult. All the materials are gathered here, so you just need to follow the process accurately.”

“No, I was going to ask how expensive it is… but thanks.”

Come to think of it, selling it would probably be quite difficult.

Even if he took it outside to sell, would they really keep it secret even in front of the Skeleton Principal?

“Ah. Mr. Wardanaz. There’s one more problem.”

“What is it?”

“It will require quite a lot of mana, but that’s okay, right?”

“…”

Lee Han felt slightly sad that his friends so naturally thought of him as a walking mana tank.

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The Skeleton Principal, who had entered to conduct the 【Advanced Basic Magic Character Education】 lecture, frowned his skull as the students murmured.

-So there really is a flood coming.

-In this weather? It doesn’t look like flood weather.

-But that Wardanaz guy never lies about stuff like this.

-Then what do we do?

-Let’s start by making rafts. Can you get more wood?

-Those Black Turtle Tower guys keep asking for high prices. We might have to give up some of our stored meat.

-Despicable bastards! Trying to profit from a friend’s misfortune!

Being swayed by fake rumors about a flood breaking out. Are you really Einroguard students?

“!”

“!!!”

The first-year students’ eyes widened at the Skeleton Principal’s sharp rebuke.

And then they whispered again.

“A real flood must be coming!”

“This is crazy…! Honestly, I thought it wouldn’t come!”

…

The Skeleton Principal realized his mistake and clicked his tongue inwardly.

Unlike other years, the Wardanaz family boy wielded strong influence over all four towers.

Whether they liked it or not, there weren’t many people who would ignore the boy’s words.

Especially in a situation where he was opposing the Skeleton Principal like this!

‘Just like Verdus’s disciple, how annoying.’

The Skeleton Principal floated away while having very rude and insulting thoughts.

Do as you please. You’ll only suffer losses yourselves.

“Hey. It’s really a flood.”

“I could bet my family on this one.”

Shut up.

A silence spell was cast on the tactless students.

The Skeleton Principal looked around at the students and asked.

Where did we leave off last time? Did we finish ‘I will not attack guests from outside and rob their pockets’?

“Yes! Principal!”

Did we also do ‘If I absolutely must attack a guest and rob their pockets, I will disguise it well so I won’t get caught’?

“Yes! Principal!”

Did we? We made good progress. Then I’ll need to bring teaching materials today.

With a clicking sound, the sound of Death Knights hurriedly running down the corridor could be heard.

At that sound, the students became extremely tense.

Some students hid under the long tables, while others gathered around Lee Han.

“War, Wardanaz. What monster is coming? What monster is coming?”

“Be quiet. You’re being noisy.”

The door opened and Death Knights entered.

However, the monster attack that students worried about did not occur.

What was among the Death Knights was an ordinary mage.

“???”

“What the…”

Begin.

The mage cleared his throat and opened his mouth.

“Dear junior students. Right now, you’re probably all thinking this.”

“!!”

Lee Han was shocked by that form of address.

Surprisingly, the other person was an Einroguard graduate!

‘What the…!?’

The students, who were seeing someone senior to them for almost the first time, looked at the mage with great curiosity.

“I’m learning at Einroguard, the Empire’s greatest magic school. So I’m the best in the Empire. I can do anything. I can steal livestock from villages for transformation magic experiments, I can borrow property from city guilds for alchemy.”

“…”

All the first years became serious.

None of them had been thinking such thoughts.

“Such thinking is a huge mistake. Dear juniors. If you have such misconceptions, you’ll unknowingly fall into the swamp of evil crime and end up with an Empire bounty on your head.”

That’s what you get for taking other people’s property and throwing it into experiments.

“Principal, please… this is in front of the juniors…”

What dignity does a captured guy have. Fine. I won’t say more.

The Skeleton Principal grumbled but didn’t open his mouth further.

While the senior mage in front of them rambled about ‘Why I forgot Einroguard’s glorious opportunities and fell into crime,’ Lee Han thought to himself.

‘I wonder if that senior left anything behind at school when he graduated?’

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