Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 526

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Chapter 526

“Are they really going to attack??”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, Gainando.”

Even at Gainando’s question, Professor Garcia didn’t give in.

“But at Einroguard, undead attacks do tend to increase a bit when the seasons get chilly. Everyone should be careful.”

“Huh? This is the first I’m hearing of this?”

“Hey. Be quiet.”

His friends covered Gainando’s mouth.

There was nothing good about interfering when Professor Garcia was giving devoted advice for the students.

“Mmph, you guys don’t even know dark magic… mmph mmph!”

‘That does sound plausible.’

Lee Han fell into thought after hearing Professor Garcia’s words.

Given the Skeleton Principal’s personality, as the year drew to a close, he would likely remember that he hadn’t tormented the students enough and become more active.

Professor Garcia’s words were probably a metaphorical expression of that.

“…It’s not just undead, sometimes other types attack too, so don’t just keep undead in mind.”

“…”

“…”

One White Tiger Tower student who had been biting on a quill pen dropped it in shock.

What the…?!

* * *

“Gainando. Help us.”

“Right. Summon the undead quickly.”

“No way, you bastards! My skeleton is angry!”

At his friends’ complaints, Gainando got fired up and angry.

These ungrateful friends had dismissed the skeleton warrior he had carefully summoned, and now they were whining for him to summon it again quickly.

“Do you know how finicky summoned creatures are! Didn’t you learn that in summoning magic class!”

“Huh?”

“What?”

At his friends’ surprised reactions, Gainando looked at them with a ‘you’re just realizing this now?’ expression.

“Undead were like that too?”

“…Get itchy! Get itchy!”

“Agh! This idiot is casting a curse!”

While Gainando was playing tag with another student, Asan said in amazement.

“Wow. Undead have emotions like summoned creatures too.”

“…”

Yoner inwardly pitied the students learning dark magic.

Even Gainando, who had once run his mouth about alchemy, seemed pitiful.

“Of course they do, right? They’re beings from other realms summoned through contracts.”

“But Wardanaz uses undead freely?”

Asan pointed at Lee Han with his finger.

Lee Han was calling forth skeleton warriors to help his friends and explaining.

-Now. If you look at these skeleton warriors, you can see the connection points here are weak…

Crack!

-Wo, Wardanaz. Is it okay to treat summoned creatures so roughly?

-Huh? Yeah. Don’t worry about it.

“…Lee Han uses a rather unique method, so don’t worry about it. Lee Han is special.”

Yoner resented Lee Han for making the explanation difficult and changed the subject.

-Undead repelling, undead repelling… Huh? Wardanaz. The skeleton warrior is just ignoring it and coming through?

-That’s because I’m forcing it. It worked out well, so don’t worry about it.

-…If forcing it works, shouldn’t that mean it’s not working? Don’t you need to cast it again?

-No. It’s supposed to work like that.

-???

After teaching his friends how to deal with undead as thoroughly as possible, Lee Han sat down for a brief rest.

Professor Garcia looked at Lee Han as if he was proud to death.

“Good work, Lee Han.”

“Not at all, Professor. Compared to you who taught us, I’m…”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about?”

Silence.

For a moment, silence lingered between the two priests.

Professor Garcia glanced at the lake, then muttered in a voice neither small nor loud.

“Boxes…”

“?”

“We might need to be careful of food boxes that someone gives us… enemies might be hiding inside them.”

“…”

Professor Garcia’s most clever disciple realized the hidden meaning in the muttering and was horrified.

The Skeleton Principal often scattered snacks to students when important exam periods approached.

Of course, they weren’t ordinary snacks.

They were deadly snacks that made you drowsy immediately after eating them.

Normally, knowing this fact, they shouldn’t even touch them, but the students, being Einroguard students, adapted to fight against their environment.

They countered by eating them after exams ended, neutralizing them before eating, or like Gainando, just eating them and sleeping.

Tasty snacks were too irresistible a temptation at Einroguard.

The Skeleton Principal had surely set another trap targeting that.

When students received boxes, they would bring them to the lounge storage…

‘Does he really need to go this far?’

Lee Han answered gratefully.

“I’ll keep that in mind. But Professor, how do you know all this…”

“My friends fell victim to it.”

“…”

“Fortunately, I was fine even after eating it. Thanks for worrying about me.”

“I, I see.”

Though he hadn’t particularly worried, Lee Han pretended he had.

Silence again.

Lee Han quietly waited for Professor Garcia’s soliloquy.

“When it starts snowing… we might need to be careful of piled snow drifts…”

“…”

* * *

“Professor. I’m thinking of raising chickens.”

“Chickens?”

Professor Thunderstep, who had been walking while smoking a pipe, was puzzled.

Lee Han already had chickens.

Of course, strictly speaking, they were Professor Thunderstep’s chickens, but while managing the vegetable garden next to the cabin, Lee Han had the right to take some as needed.

That included the eggs the chickens laid.

“You want to increase them? Won’t that be hard to manage?”

It might be different for other students, but if Lee Han took on more work, it seemed like it would really become dangerous.

“I’ll be careful and manage it myself. Anyway, I’m thinking of raising chickens, and this one is a ghostly chicken.”

“Cough.”

Professor Thunderstep coughed roughly. He had inhaled the smoke wrong.

“Did you catch the ghostly chicken? That’s not an ordinary troublesome creature, so how?”

“Ah. I’m just assuming that’s the case.”

“What… you haven’t caught it yet.”

Professor Thunderstep looked disappointed.

If they had caught it, he was going to ask them to sell him some eggs…

Come to think of it, if they had actually caught that troublesome creature, that would have been even more surprising.

“What would make this creature docile?”

“You’d be better off asking the old lady…”

“Ah. I’m sorry. When I had a question, I thought of you first, Professor. I really…”

Lee Han spoke with an innocent face that knew nothing.

He was distributing his questions because he was worried about arousing suspicion if he kept asking Professor Lightningstep too much.

However, whether the excuse was effective, Professor Thunderstep answered with a pleased expression.

“But I know about ghostly chickens too. It’s being docile? That’s not common… If its eyes are cloudy, it lacks energy, or its comb color is a bit different, then it’s sick.”

“What if that’s not the case?”

“Well. Then it’s scared, but it doesn’t get scared easily. It’s a fierce creature with a nasty temper.”

“Hmm… I understand. By the way. I know it’s clever and cunning, so if caught, is there a way to prevent it from escaping?”

“Set up simple but threatening traps. Since it’s not a creature that would get caught in traps anyway, if you block it off, it will notice on its own and give up trying to escape.”

“I see. Thank you, Professor.”

Lee Han stood up, carrying a basket filled with fresh vegetables and freshly caught fish.

Professor Thunderstep didn’t even bother to say anything now out of annoyance. Just not touching the items in the cabin was praiseworthy enough.

“Well now. I can understand why Professor Willow Tree is pleased.”

After Lee Han left, Professor Thunderstep looked around once and muttered.

It was hard to believe this was a place recently destroyed by floods, given how quickly it had recovered.

To make the plants in the vegetable garden and flower beds grow this fast.

While it was common for mages with spirit blood in their veins or those born with special constitutions to help plants grow well, Lee Han’s speed was particularly fast and his power was strong.

He had heard about receiving blessings from spirits in the mountain range, but this…

‘This kid isn’t leaking mana everywhere, is he?’

Professor Thunderstep had that thought for a moment but shook his head.

Not only was it impossible to leak enough mana to influence things on this scale, but there was no way Lee Han himself wouldn’t know if he was leaking that much mana.

What was more concerning was still the ghostly chicken story.

‘It was strangely specific.’

Professor Thunderstep had his wits about him too.

There was no way he wouldn’t find it strange that Lee Han was asking such detailed questions.

‘As expected…’

Professor Thunderstep, who had been pondering, became certain.

There was only one possibility.

That fearless disciple was planning to roam the mountain range trying to catch a ghostly chicken after just hearing it was valuable.

“Tsk tsk tsk.”

Professor Thunderstep shook his head disapprovingly.

Trying to catch a ghostly chicken directly was far too reckless.

Perhaps because he had never experienced failure, that disciple was truly fearless.

It would be better to just steal one…

* * *

“There. You understand, right? It’s very dangerous if you come out of here.”

Lee Han warned the ghostly chicken while showing it the traps he had set at the entrance.

To clearly demonstrate their power, he even summoned a skeleton warrior and put it in the trap.

At this sight, the ghostly chicken that had been eating feed inside the cabin looked at Lee Han with blank eyes.

When his opponent wasn’t shaken in the slightest, Lee Han grumbled.

“That creature is quite cunning. I must never let my guard down.”

The baby basilisk tilted its tail.

The ghostly chicken wasn’t particularly fierce or emanating killing intent.

It just seemed tamed…?

Lee Han checked the time, gave the ghostly chicken one more warning, then started walking.

He had to take the tower duty shift this evening.

Lee Han broke through the cabin’s entry prohibition barrier, brushed the dust off his coat, and was about to start walking…

‘Gasp.’

“…”

Few things were as heart-stopping as encountering a professor after sunset.

Lee Han, who had run into the Divination Magic Professor, Professor Passelette Kraer, quickly turned his mind.

‘Today I have a justification for being outside. Getting flustered would be more suspicious.’

“Good evening, Professor.”

“…”

Professor Paselette gave no response.

For a moment he wondered if the professor was angry, but the professor was just staring blankly at the sky with no particular interest in Lee Han.

‘Ah. Is it something related to magic?’

Lee Han knew well that Professor Paselette had multiple personalities and specialized in researching divination magic, the most complex and eccentric of all magic.

It wouldn’t be strange for such a person to come out in the evening and be lost in their own world.

After all, there were people who hid undead in boxes or snow just to torment disciples, and others who threw iron balls…

‘I should pass by without saying anything more.’

“Lord Wardanaz?”

Lee Han had to tense his body to avoid making a sound from surprise.

Tiziling Priest was standing behind him, looking puzzled.

“Tiziling… Priest. What brings you here?”

“I came to gather rock plantain because they said it’s good for getting rid of lightning mice.”

“Ah.”

Lee Han spoke, recalling today’s duty work.

“You came out for nothing. I was just going to do it myself.”

“If you’re going to gather them, we should do it together, so why by yourself…?”

“Ah, not gathering, I was going to exterminate them all at once. I read in a book that they come out when strong lightning strikes, so I was going to cast lightning magic around the cave and wipe them all out in one go…”

“…”

Tiziling Priest was shocked by the absurd method, then raised her eyebrows upon seeing Professor Paselette.

“Professor?”

“Huh? Oh. That’s the Professor. He seems to be concentrating, so it would be better not to disturb him.”

Since they learned divination magic together, Tiziling understood what Lee Han was saying.

“I understand. I’ll head back now…”

At that moment, Professor Paselette finished concentrating and opened his eyes.

The professor spotted Lee Han and said.

“I saw the divine magic you’ll give tomorrow well. Principal.”

“I think you’re mistaking me for someone…”

“Indeed, worthy of the person Lord Gonadaltes chose as his successor in the future.”

“…You’re really mistaking me for someone else!”

Lee Han instinctively shouted firmly.

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