Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 432

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Chapter 432

A pot that leaks inside will leak outside too.

The mage who stole livestock from villages for transformation magic experiments and borrowed assets from city guilds for alchemy was highly likely to have accumulated wealth in various ways while at Einroguard as well.

‘I covet that inheritance.’

While Lee Han was having such sinister thoughts and his eyes gleamed, the senior looked around at the underclassmen and said.

“You underclassmen are still first years, right? Most of you probably don’t know about night walks or going outside.”

No… well… no. Keep talking.

The Skeleton Principal was about to say ‘the first years from your time and this year’s first years are quite different’ but stopped.

“That’s actually a good thing. Underclassmen. Once you break the rules once, you’ll break them twice, and once you break them twice, you’ll break them three times… You must not ignore the school rules! Sometimes friends who ignore the school rules might seem cool, but that’s an illusion.”

The underclassmen reacted violently to the senior’s heartfelt sermon.

“What is he saying? Is that really a senior?”

“He’s a lackey bought off by the Principal!”

“After graduating and living the good life, has he forgotten his first-year days!”

“Boo! Get out! Principal’s lackey!”

Telling first-year underclassmen whose tempers had sharpened from eating only rough, hard food to ‘follow the school rules’ didn’t work at all.

It only had the opposite effect.

“Underclassmen! Please calm down! You might not believe my words now, but as time passes…”

“Get out! Get out!”

Gainando excitedly crumpled up paper balls and threw them.

The Skeleton Principal looked at him with disdain.

‘What an idiot.’

That wasn’t even something the Skeleton Principal had ordered. The Skeleton Principal didn’t forbid students’ transgressions.

Of course, he did get annoyed when they occasionally went as far as robbing the Skeleton Principal’s storage…

Even considering that, such eerie spirit of self-discipline was the source of magical skill improvement.

‘As long as they don’t do it outside school, that’s enough. How can he blame the school when he couldn’t control himself.’

“Underclassmen! Underclassmen! Please listen to me!”

“Boo! Get out!”

“Please listen to me…”

“Get out! Get out!”

Bang!

The senior struck the floor with his staff.

Then Gainando’s coat transformed into dozens of birds and began pecking at Gainando frantically with their beaks.

“Aah! Aaah! I was wrong! I was wrong!”

“…”

The friends who had been jeering immediately shut their mouths at Gainando’s state.

No matter how weak he looked, the senior before them was also a monster who had survived the hell called Einroguard.

* * *

The senior belatedly came to his senses and released Gainando, but the atmosphere had already turned cold.

“…Principal. Is this okay?”

Well. How would I know.

At the Skeleton Principal’s cold tone, the senior broke out in a cold sweat.

Having been dragged here as punishment for causing trouble outside, this Einroguard graduate mage had to do work befitting that.

-Participate in the lecture. Teach those blockheads clearly why they shouldn’t cause trouble outside.

-Principal! But I’m still a mage who graduated from this Einroguard…

-Then stay locked up in the punishment room.

-…Thank you so much for entrusting me with such a mission!

Having received the proposal that his imprisonment period would be reduced in consideration of his merit if he conducted the lecture well, the senior was desperate.

However, the first years’ atmosphere was cold.

No more jeers came out due to fear, but their eyes were full of distrust.

“…Underclassmen. I got a little excited just now. But I’m really not a dangerous person.”

“…”

Gainando sniffled while plucking out feathers. His friends glared at the senior.

“…Does anyone have questions? Ask me anything.”

“I do. Senior.”

In a situation where no one was raising their hand, Lee Han alone raised his hand.

The senior was delighted at that sight.

“Ask away!”

“It seems you were caught after committing a crime, so where were you imprisoned?”

“Uh… Einroguard’s punishment room. You underclassmen wouldn’t know, but here at Einroguard there’s a punishment room…”

“Don’t only students go into the punishment room?”

“Good question. There are actually several punishment rooms. When you’re in lower grades at first, you only go into the outer punishment room, but later when you’re in higher grades, there are hidden inner punishment rooms. There, mages caught from outside are also…”

Hey, you idiot. Is that something to talk about in a lecture right now?

When the Skeleton Principal got annoyed, the senior was startled and shut his mouth.

Lee Han looked at the Skeleton Principal as if disappointed.

“Principal. I was only trying to ask how miserable and painful the punishment room is for the sake of my dear friends. If they knew the punishment room was such a place, wouldn’t my friends also be careful not to go there?”

The senior was impressed by those words.

Among the first-year students, there was a model student helping him.

Of course, the Skeleton Principal was so dumbfounded he couldn’t even speak.

“Very excellent. Your friends will surely understand that intention too.”

“Since we’re on the topic, could you tell us about the location of the punishment room? I’m curious how deep and impregnable a place it must be for students to be careful.”

You’re banned from asking questions.

The Skeleton Principal couldn’t stand it anymore and made Lee Han shut his mouth.

The senior looked at the Skeleton Principal resentfully.

‘He was helping create a good atmosphere…’

Look away, you idiot. The guy doesn’t even know what’s happening to him.

At the sight of the foolish graduate looking at him with such brazenness, the Skeleton Principal clicked his tongue and gave instructions.

Stop doing useless things and show some magic. Magic that shouldn’t be done outside. Then you’ll at least do the basics.

“Ah, understood.”

The senior cleared his throat and raised his staff to create space.

The desks in the lecture hall disappeared and the students gathered in a circle, ready to watch the magic.

“Now. Everyone watch.”

A spell was cast and a chair transformed into a sheep.

The first-year students exclaimed at the high-level transformation magic.

While it was hard to agree with the senior’s opinions, his magical skills were certainly solid.

“As you can see, this is one of the transformation magics that turns inanimate objects into living beings. But there’s a very dangerous point about this magic.”

“What’s that?”

“It’s that you can’t sell things made with magic like this without telling people.”

“…”

“…”

The first years looked at the senior coldly, but the senior earnestly explained why you shouldn’t create and sell fake livestock.

“And there’s more. Now. You can see this magically created gem, right?”

“Are you saying we can’t sell that either?”

“Very excellent, underclassmen! Now. Let’s all take notes.”

The first-year students muttered curses under their breath as they picked up their quills.

They had hoped to learn interesting magic, but it was a ridiculous lecture.

‘Hmm. That senior seems like he’ll be going back to the punishment room.’

Lee Han, who still had things to ask, approached the senior while his friends grumbled and took out paper.

“Senior.”

“Aha.”

The senior looked at Lee Han and treated him very favorably.

He was the junior who had been trying to help with the lecture from earlier. He couldn’t help but find him admirable.

“I know what you’re going to ask.”

“Oh. Is that so?”

“Of course. You want to ask how to use the magic I showed earlier, right?”

“…”

“But junior. Using this magic as a first year is too much. If you really want to learn it, master steel transformation first and then come back.”

“I’ve mastered… no, that’s not what’s important right now. Senior.”

Lee Han whispered as quickly as possible, taking advantage of the students’ commotion.

They had to finish communicating with each other before the Skeleton Principal noticed.

“By any chance, didn’t you leave anything at the school?”

“…!”

Only then did the senior realize that Lee Han hadn’t approached with pure intentions.

“Something I left at school?”

“Yes.”

“Not much, but it’s not nothing either.”

“Let’s make a deal.”

Lee Han didn’t just ask for it based on senior-junior sentiment. The senior was surprised by Lee Han’s proposal to make a deal.

To think a first year student had grasped the essence of Einroguard like this.

At Einroguard, even brothers and sisters didn’t trade with just words.

“What kind of deal? Junior. I don’t think you have anything to give me.”

“Senior. You’re going back to the punishment room, aren’t you.”

“Are you provoking me right now?”

“No. Just tell me the location. I’ll smuggle food to you.”

“…!”

The senior was impressed for the first time in a while.

To think a guy who was only a first year could propose a deal so skillfully.

Certainly, from the position of having to be locked in the punishment room for a long time reflecting, that junior’s proposal was quite tempting.

But…

“How can I trust that? If you’re a first year, you probably don’t have enough food for yourself. And above all, you probably can’t even break into the punishment room.”

“It doesn’t matter. Senior. When I come, you can tell me then. Even if I fail, there won’t be any loss for you.”

“You… are you really a first year?”

The senior was genuinely surprised.

Just looking at what he was doing, he seemed like at least a fourth year…

“Fine. Take this.”

Thinking there was nothing to lose, the senior handed over a note. Letters were carved by magic in a short time.

“If you put it in a dark place, you’ll be able to see the letters. Look at that and come find me.”

What are you two chattering about so much?

When the Skeleton Principal approached, sensing something suspicious, both the senior and Lee Han thought ‘oh no.’

Their conversation had gone on too long and aroused suspicion.

“Well… he was asking about magic so I was teaching him.”

Magic?

‘Damn!’

The senior gritted his teeth.

Perhaps because it had been a while since he graduated, his lying skills seemed rusty.

Such a terrible lie.

Who would believe he was teaching transformation magic like this to a first year student.

You too? Well, you have good eyes at least… It’s not time for teaching magic, so teach him moderately.

“??”

The senior doubted his ears.

However, the more surprising words hadn’t even started yet.

Since you were doing other things during lecture time, as the price for that, you must master at least one. I’ll check after it’s over.

“That’s impossible!”

You’re talking nonsense. You can master one. Make sure you do.

“????”

The senior became confused, not knowing what conversation was taking place right now.

* * *

“Wa, waterproof magic cloth selling at this price? Really?”

“…Then don’t buy it, you bastard.”

“No, no… if it’s cheap, I’m grateful. Thank you. Wardanaz.”

The White Tiger Tower student bowed his head and purchased the cloth.

Lee Han sighed at that sight.

‘Damn. I want to make excessive profits like the Black Turtle Tower guys too.’

The Black Turtle Tower friends, who usually collected a lot of materials, were excitedly selling before the flood.

Students from other towers had to spend their stored food supplies to purchase various lumber, leather, and reagents.

But Lee Han couldn’t raise prices like that.

The priests were right beside him.

The sight of priests looking at Lee Han with bright, innocent eyes.

In front of them, he absolutely couldn’t say things like ‘How many floods will there be, we need to make big money at times like this.’

“What’s Wardanaz saying?”

“He’s just not raising prices?”

“What? I definitely thought he’d raise them… During the last exam period, he said free market price formation develops Einroguard’s economy and doubled the coffee powder price.”

“But what does that market… price… economy stuff mean?”

“I don’t know either. Must be a Wardanaz family secret.”

“That Wardanaz guy is a great noble. Making money from a crisis like this would go against his own dignity.”

“Hmm. I have to acknowledge that…”

“Hey. If you’re done buying, get lost.”

Annoyed, Lee Han threw a water orb to chase away the other tower students.

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