Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 473

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Chapter 473

“No, no.”

“What are you looking at. Do I look like I’d buy it?”

Salko and Giselle immediately expressed their refusal.

No matter how brave and fearless the two leaders of each tower were, they didn’t have the guts to buy such a suspicious artifact that even an excellent mage like Lee Han reacted to like that.

And that was actually close to being stupid.

“Hmm. That’s a shame. It’s quite a decent helmet.”

“…”

“…”

The two were inwardly dumbfounded.

Whether they liked or disliked Wardanaz, no one could deny Wardanaz’s sense of responsibility, but…

That was one thing, and that helmet was definitely a scam item.

“Couldn’t I sell it to other upperclassmen later?”

“That’s not what’s important. Wardanaz.”

“Ah. To the juniors when they come in?”

“…No! I’m talking about the sacrifice. The sacrifice.”

At their conversation, Giselle crossed her arms with a thoughtful expression.

The talk about being able to end this situation by offering a sacrifice was indeed somewhat tempting.

“Wardanaz. Listen without misunderstanding.”

“Usually when someone says that, you can’t help but misunderstand… Well. Go ahead.”

Giselle glanced toward where Gainando was and spoke.

“With that friend’s bloodline, he could be a sacrifice that would satisfy the spirit. What do you think?”

“That’s a good idea.”

Salko was also impressed.

For Salko, who originally viewed noble family kids as thorns in his eye, a friend like Gainando who acted arrogant relying only on his bloodline was someone who could disappear anywhere, anytime without being missed.

“…Did you two drink some of the Principal’s liquor or something? What nonsense are you talking?”

Lee Han asked back in shock.

“Think about it carefully. Wardanaz. You’d also be an objectively decent sacrifice, but since you can’t be spared, I’m making this suggestion.”

“Wardanaz. Honestly, weren’t you annoyed when that Prince was playing around instead of working? Those who don’t work shouldn’t eat either…”

For a moment he was almost tempted, but Lee Han held onto his reason.

No matter how much he wanted to end the flood, he couldn’t send a friend to an angry spirit.

What if Gainando grew up in the Spirit Realm and returned later to declare revenge on all the people of the Empire?

“No way. And there’s one thing I’m curious about. You two…”

“?”

“Why are you only thinking of students as sacrifices? You could look for other decent sacrifices, couldn’t you?”

“…Huh.”

Salko was at a loss for words.

So was Giselle.

That’s right?

Lee Han looked at the two and clicked his tongue.

‘They’ve been too influenced by Einroguard.’

Friends who were originally kind… no, even if they weren’t originally kind, they weren’t to that extent, had changed so drastically.

It was a sad thing.

“Think about it some more for now. Something other than sacrificing students. Since it’s the weekend, I should go get another cabin. Tanzhuer! Please take me out!”

It’s resting… time though…

“I checked the resting time. Your strength should be fully recovered by now. Don’t make weak excuses. Tanzhuer is a stronger being than you think you are.”

I want to rest…

“Then would you rather attack the Principal?”

…I guess we should go…

Tanzhuer answered with sad eyes like being dragged to a slaughterhouse, holding back tears.

Salko and Giselle looked at Lee Han and clicked their tongues.

‘I wouldn’t think of doing it myself, but…’

‘…Wardanaz seems to have been too influenced by Einroguard.’

* * *

The reason Lee Han came out with his friends riding Tanzhuer on the weekend was simple.

He was planning to catch and borrow another cabin of Professor Thunderstep’s.

“Listen well! To whoever discovers a cabin first, I’ll give five Meikin Family chocolate bars, to whoever hooks a cabin first, three bottles of honey mead and three salami sausages, and to whoever picks the lock and enters first, I’ll give the right to take any one item from the cabin’s food supplies first!”

“Waaaaaaah! Long live Captain Wardanaz!”

“We’re the pirates of Einroguard!”

Crazy… bastards…

Tanzhuer muttered, but the students blinded by greed didn’t care.

The pirates, no, the search party composed of Blue Dragon Tower, White Tiger Tower, and Black Turtle Tower students went around Einroguard checking the floating debris.

“?”

Lee Han, who was also checking, paused when he discovered a strange phenomenon.

A glass bottle was floating toward them from far away.

‘What’s that?’

The bottle itself wasn’t strange, but among all the floating debris, it coming straight toward them without a single scratch felt like some kind of magical phenomenon.

Lee Han carefully fished out the glass bottle. Inside was a rolled-up paper letter.

Help me!

Bibble Verdus

“…”

Lee Han looked around once and put the paper letter back in the glass bottle.

Then he threw it far away.

What… did you throw…?

“It was nothing.”

A glass bottle… or something…

“Tanzhuer. Would you like to try attacking the Principal’s office once?”

Tanzhuer shut his mouth.

A moment later.

“…”

A glass bottle floated in from a different direction than before. This time his friends noticed it too.

“Wardanaz. What’s that?”

“Could, could it be a treasure map?”

Lee Han frowned and opened it.

Help me! Wardanaz!!

Bibble Verdus

“…”

“…”

An awkward atmosphere flowed among the students who were watching from the side.

Lee Han put the paper back in the glass bottle with a steel-like expressionless face and threw it away.

“It’s a letter that went to the wrong place.”

“Uh… huh?”

“It said Wardanaz…?”

“You saw wrong.”

At Lee Han’s words, the students fell silent.

They had plenty they wanted to say, but this was on a ship—no, on a Tanzhuer—and the captain’s authority was absolute.

“Right! I think we saw wrong!”

“Those kinds of fake letters have been a big problem at Einroguard lately!”

Lee Han nodded satisfactorily at his friends’ reliable support.

“Now. Let’s look for the cabin aga…”

Thump thump-

This time, several glass bottles came rolling toward them.

Lee Han went down below the Tanzhuer just in case, jumping on the water to create distance.

Then the glass bottles turned toward Lee Han’s direction and slowly drifted over.

Come quickly! I have to watch out for the guards so it’s hard to even make artifacts!

Is it because there’s no reward? Fine! I’ll lend you my tools! This is a real privilege!

I’ll compromise a bit more! You can use my workshop when making artifacts too! I won’t tell you to get lost all night!

Seeing how they followed him like this, it was clear that Professor Verdus was specifically targeting Lee Han with these letters.

‘Magic can become this terrifying!’

Lee Han felt like he understood the Imperial Anti-Mages’ feelings.

To think such good technology could be abused like this.

‘More than that, he really has a talent for killing motivation.’

Actually, Lee Han was a little worried about Professor Verdus too.

The situation of a professor being in the punishment room was certainly a pleasant one, but…

…if that professor was there taking on a student’s sins instead, the story was a bit different.

About half the reason Professor Verdus went to the punishment room was Lee Han’s responsibility.

‘Though the other half is his own karma.’

So he had been thinking of visiting the punishment room on the weekend to check if he was okay, probe whether he had noticed the truth, and also meet the senior he’d encountered during the last lecture to bring some food.

Though Professor Verdus’s importance was a bit small, he definitely hadn’t completely ignored him.

But seeing these letters made his desire to go completely disappear.

What kind of crazy negotiation condition was it to say he’d let him work if he rescued him?

“Guys. Sorry. I’m going to go rescue Professor Verdus.”

At Lee Han’s words, his friends weren’t surprised at all.

“Alright. Have a safe trip.”

“Negotiate well when rescuing the professor. You need to squeeze out as much as possible.”

“If it seems too hard to rescue him, just tell him to stay there! He’ll be able to get out on his own!”

No one found it strange that Lee Han was going to rescue the professor, leaving other seniors behind.

The Tanzhuer muttered quietly.

Crazy… mage… bastards…

* * *

The air in the punishment room was dark and gloomy. It felt like students’ wails could be heard from somewhere far away.

Moreover, though not completely flooded, the water that had risen to knee-level made the atmosphere even more sinister.

The darkest and most painful place in the already dark and painful Einroguard—the punishment room!

Even reasonably crazy students didn’t voluntarily come here.

Not simply because the air was stale, but because this underground labyrinth was that dangerous.

If you entered carelessly, you could lose your way in the complex paths that changed constantly and become a new prisoner…

“Lord Perkuntra! Lord Perkuntra! Lord Perkuntra!!”

Lee Han banged on the walls calling for the guard.

Not wanting to waste mana, he poured mana into his throat to strengthen his voice.

“Lord Perkuntra! Lord Perkuntra! Lord Perkuntra!!”

“You’re a 1st year?! How are you walking around the corridor?!”

“Amazing, iron-head! Set fire to Einroguard!”

As Lee Han walked down the corridor shouting, the prisoners inside burst into cheers.

“Shout louder! Make the guards come!”

“No! Keep it down! If the guards come, they’ll take you away!”

“Give us some food before you get caught!”

“Idiot, where would iron-head have food! It’s a time when even shoe leather gets chewed!”

Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet!

Thunder and lightning sounds came from far down the corridor, then warrior-form duplicates came running.

The duplicates shot lightning in all directions, casting magic at the students trapped inside.

-I told you to be quiet!

“My yearning for freedom won’t be silenced by a spirit’s whip, gah!”

-Noisy, you cheater who committed fraud during exams!

“At Einroguard, it was just self-defense, urgh!”

“…”

Watching the seniors’ ugly resistance, Lee Han was grabbed by the warriors and dragged to another area.

The seniors trapped inside whistled and stomped their feet, shouting.

“Freshman, welcome in!”

“Everyone comes to the punishment room once or twice! Don’t be too scared! 1st years get out quickly!”

Lee Han felt a bit sorry and answered.

“I’m not imprisoned!”

“Right! You’d want to think that!”

“We’re actually not imprisoned either, just contemplating here… Gah!! Stop zapping me, you lightning bastard!”

* * *

Perkuntra, who had been making other spirits work while resting in the sealed punishment room, looked at Lee Han with a displeased expression.

The punishment room was already crowded because of exam period, so why come and cause a disturbance?

“I have a favor to ask.”

This flood is not something I can stop. Even if I could, I have no intention of doing so.

Perkuntra arrogantly refused.

Lee Han’s feelings were understandable.

Having contracted with a powerful spirit like Perkuntra at such a young age, it was natural to want help when faced with such difficulties.

However, contracts with spirits weren’t omnipotent.

They were only possible within reasonable terms, so stopping something as massive as this spirit flood was something Perkuntra had no intention of granting…

“Huh? That’s not it, I came here because I wanted to visit someone imprisoned in the punishment room.”

…

Perkuntra was dumbfounded.

It was embarrassing, but more than that, a 1st year student coming to the punishment room for visitation purposes.

‘Does this guy have no fear??’

Well, of course he came trusting in his contract with Perkuntra, but…

…Right. Who are you trying to visit? What’s the name?

“Bibble Verdus.”

Bibble… Bibble Verdus…

Perkuntra checked the names of the imprisoned students.

But something was strange.

Did you say it correctly? That’s odd? Among the students…

“Ah. You’re not a student but a professor.”

…What are the other disciples doing and why did you come!?

In the end, Perkuntra couldn’t hold back and shouted.

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