Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 462

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Chapter 462

“…Are you perhaps using ‘persuasion’ in a different sense?”

Ogoldos whispered.

Originally, Einroguard had quite a few words that were used in different meanings.

For example, ‘let’s go borrow something from our principal’s storage’ meant…

“That’s a possibility.”

Cohorti nodded his head.

Certainly, Ogoldos’s observation was sharp.

“Hey, junior. Did you perhaps attack the professor…”

Thwack!

Diret, who had returned at some point, swung his reagent pouch and struck Cohorti.

Cohorti screamed and fell into the pit.

“You call that talking? You call that talking? To a junior who went around getting reagents instead of you?”

“That… that bastard is also suspicious…”

“No, I’m not!”

Ogoldos desperately denied it, but Diret mercilessly swung his reagent pouch.

With a dull sound, Ogoldos also fell next to Cohorti.

‘Hmm. So that’s why they were in the pit.’

Lee Han realized the truth seeing the upperclassmen fall into the pit.

And he thought to himself.

‘I should never let my guard down even when breathing in front of Senior Diret.’

Without even realizing he was treated as the most frightening upperclassman in the dark magic school, Diret looked at Lee Han with very apologetic eyes.

“…Sorry for making you hear nonsense. I’m serious.”

“Not at all. I always regard the upperclassmen’s words as golden rules.”

The two in the pit made pleased expressions.

How could even the same words sound so lovely when he said them?

“There are also trashy stone-like words, so don’t treasure them too much… So, you got this through persuasion? The professor didn’t make any unreasonable demands, did he?”

Diret was worried about Lee Han.

As you know, Einroguard’s professors weren’t kind enough people to show kindness to students through persuasion alone without any compensation.

‘Didn’t they at least draw some blood?’

Considering the magical power this junior possessed, it wouldn’t be surprising if some crazy professor did something insane.

“Yes. Well, I am learning under Professor Thunderstep too.”

“Ah.”

Diret finally realized.

It was so natural talking with the dark magic school upperclassmen that he had forgotten, but thinking about it…

‘This kid is taking multiple classes.’

Well, if he was this level of disciple, it made sense that professors would grant his requests.

Though professors didn’t pay much attention to disciples, that also depended on the disciple.

How heartbreaking would it be if they didn’t grant one request and he went to another school?

“I see…”

“And this is from Professor Garcia, this is from Professor Knighton, this is from Professor Flywark, this is from Professor Milay, this is from Professor Ku, this is from Professor Kraer, this is from Professor Yoner, and this is from Professor Lagrindes.”

“…”

Diret covered his face with both hands.

Just when he was trying to accept reality, his head became dizzy.

“And I borrowed this from Professor Verdus.”

“?”

Cohorti in the pit felt something strange.

‘Didn’t they say Professor Verdus went to the punishment room?’

“Are you alright?”

When Diret just kept his head down silently, Lee Han asked with a worried voice.

“Did I make some mistake…”

“No… no. What mistake. Junior. You really, truly, I swear on all the meals and outings of students learning in the dark magic school, did amazingly well. So well that I feel sorry.”

Diret pulled himself together and raised his face.

He had already committed every discourtesy as an upperclassman, but he had to act like an upperclassman now.

He couldn’t make a junior who achieved such feats worry.

“Thank you so much.”

“Not at all. I just did what I had to do.”

“And we can’t accept this…”

“No way!”

“Please reconsider!”

When screams erupted from the pit, Diret poured dirt over the pit.

Lee Han unconsciously took a step back from Diret. Diret didn’t notice.

“…Uh. How could we accept this when you worked so hard.”

“But senior. Since I brought these, I can’t return them to the professors, and I can’t use them myself.”

“Right. He’s saying this much. Diret.”

“Please think about it one more time.”

At the words of Cohorti and Ogoldos, who had dug through the ground and crawled out the other side, Diret sighed and kicked them while saying.

“…Thank you. Really. I’ve never had a day as embarrassing as today while learning dark magic. I’m serious.”

“Come on. The zombie incident you caused in the capital two years ago was more embarrassing.”

Diret covered the pit where he put the two again, summoned a creature to completely block it, then said to Lee Han.

“Thank you so much for joining the dark magic school too. And…”

Diret hesitated then carefully said.

“If it gets tough or you don’t like it, you don’t have to attend. I’m serious.”

“I understand. Thank you.”

“…Don’t tell the professor I said this.”

“The professor wouldn’t withdraw his trust in you over something like that.”

“That’s not it.”

Diret said very firmly.

Though Professor Mortum trusted Diret, Lee Han’s whereabouts was a critical matter that couldn’t be forgiven even for a top student.

“I… I see.”

Lee Han was slightly flustered by Diret’s blade-like response.

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Returning with the snack basket the upperclassmen packed, Lee Han realized the atmosphere at the library entrance camp was chaotic.

The students who had been sitting weren’t visible, and everyone was gathered in various spots with serious expressions, whispering.

“What’s this? Did something happen?”

“Wardanaz!”

Students who spotted Lee Han rushed over with urgent faces.

“Why are you so late! There’s big trouble now!”

“Dark magic scho… never mind. What happened?”

“There’s definitely a monster outside the palisade. A Black Turtle Tower student was kidnapped.”

“!”

Lee Han was startled and turned his gaze.

Currently, the library entrance camp was quite solidly protected by deeply dug moats, palisades, and temporary towers.

Moreover, above that were lights placed everywhere that the students had made, or rather, mainly Lee Han had made, casting beams of light in all directions even in the library’s darkness.

To break through that and take students when infiltration and approach were both difficult.

“Are you sure they were really kidnapped? Maybe they’re somewhere else…”

“That’s not it. They were standing guard but disappeared. When the next shift came, no one was there.”

Deep wrinkles were etched in Salko’s brow.

To think such an incident would occur when the exam wasn’t even over yet.

His stomach churned thinking about how the Black Turtle Tower students would be too frightened to concentrate.

Giselle felt similarly.

Seeing those White Tiger Tower bastards, who already lacked concentration, muttering things like ‘let’s send a search party’ and ‘let’s hunt down whoever it is’ while sneakily closing their books made her want to hunt her friends rather than monsters.

“We need to organize and send a search party. Wardanaz.”

“What is this, some family’s front yard? What search party.”

Giselle coldly cut off Salko’s words.

The students were forgetting because luck had been on their side, but the library was a labyrinth.

There was no telling what might happen if they stirred up the surroundings under the pretense of searching.

“Are you White Tiger Tower bastards interfering now because our people didn’t disappear, Moradi?”

Salko growled, but Giselle didn’t even blink. Instead, she glared coldly and retorted.

“You would have said the same thing even if White Tiger Tower bastards had disappeared. Of course, the White Tiger Tower bastards didn’t disappear.”

“Moradi. I should tell you that I’m suspecting you.”

“What bullshit are you spouting so confidently?”

“It’ll be convincing if you listen. You White Tiger Tower bastards have really bad brains. There’s only one thing such bastards would think of, isn’t there? Dragging down and clinging to others’ ankles.”

“Ah. So you’re saying our tower did this?”

Giselle answered as if she couldn’t be bothered. Salko nodded.

“Who would benefit if Black Turtle Tower students disappeared?”

“By that logic, why is Blue Dragon Tower off the suspect list?”

“There are two reasons, Moradi. One is that Blue Dragon Tower bastards are bookworms who can’t do anything properly without Wardanaz.”

“…”

Lee Han looked at Salko in disbelief as he listened.

“No…”

“What if Wardanaz masterminded it?”

“Look at Wardanaz’s daily schedule.”

Even Giselle, who usually wanted to mess with Lee Han, found this to be honestly irrefutable strong evidence.

“That’s certainly true. What’s the next reason?”

“Blue Dragon Tower bastards have better grades than Black Turtle Tower students. There’s no idiot who would bother checking those below them.”

“Aha. I see. Why? Why don’t you draw your weapon and come at me?”

“I was already thinking of doing that. If you keep interfering with the search party.”

As the representatives of each tower glared at each other while openly emanating killing intent, the priests fidgeted anxiously with worry.

“W-Wardanaz sir. Can’t you stop them?”

“Uh, wouldn’t it be convenient to just let whoever wins decide?”

Lee Han was wondering which of the two would win when he found the priests’ words puzzling.

Honestly, wasn’t he curious?

However, the priests seemed to have no interest in such trial by combat.

“Please!”

“They’re not the type to listen to me anyway…”

Lee Han muttered that, but surprisingly, both of them called out to Lee Han.

“Wardanaz. You judge.”

“Wardanaz. What do you think?”

“…Since when have you two respected my opinion so much that you’re calling on me?”

Lee Han looked at the two with irritated eyes.

These bastards who usually nitpicked at everything – why were they asking Lee Han to be the judge at times like this?

They could just fight it out themselves and hate each other…

“If we don’t send a search party now, the remaining students will be even more anxious. The next student to disappear might be from Blue Dragon Tower.”

“It would be better to raise our guard. You want to push more people into a place where we don’t even know what’s what? Do you know what they call that in the north?”

“A brave and noble action?”

“They call it something only idiots and morons would do, but if you want to call it that, go ahead. Should I call it the nobility of brave families from now on?”

‘If I leave them like this, will they fight and make the decision for me?’

“Wardanaz. Answer quickly.”

“What are you doing? Answer.”

Lee Han originally didn’t want to get involved in their fight.

It would have been more convenient to let them fight and then clean up afterward.

The winning side would be satisfied, and if he consoled the losing side separately, they would harbor resentment toward the winner, so Lee Han could be the good guy.

But now if Lee Han made the decision here, both the responsibility and resentment would come his way.

He didn’t want to go through such trouble dealing with those bastards from other towers who already didn’t listen and grumbled.

‘Stall for time. I need to make those two decide on their own.’

“I think you’re both wrong.”

“?”

“??”

Both looked at Lee Han with surprised eyes.

A completely unexpected answer had come out.

“Why, Wardanaz?”

“Is there some other good method?”

“Think about it carefully. This is a monster that kidnapped our friend by breaking through such thorough defenses. What does that mean?”

Of course, Lee Han didn’t really know what it meant either.

How could he know what kind of monster it was with just the current clues?

He wasn’t even certain it was really a monster.

However, when Lee Han spoke with such gravity, Salko and Giselle stopped what they were doing and fell into thought.

Lee Han wasn’t the type to lie about such matters.

“Hmm. Difficult. Wardanaz.”

“Why don’t you just speak directly.”

“No. Both of you think about it more.”

CRASH!!!!!

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of the fortress outer gate being smashed could be heard.

And the student standing guard above screamed.

“It’s an attack!! Monster assault!!”

“…!?”

“R-right! Monsters are generally arrogant. Since they succeeded at such a thing so easily, they’d look down on us and attack again!”

“…Exactly that. That’s what I was saying.”

“?”

Giselle sensed something strange and asked.

“But why didn’t you tell us that and instead told us to think about it…”

“Everyone gather toward the main gate!! It’s a monster attack!!”

Instead of answering, Lee Han ran toward the main gate while calling the students together.

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