Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 53
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Chapter 053
“What were you doing?”
“I was collecting some bread.”
“Hmm. Bread…”
“Yes. Bread is being used like coins here. Roughly five pieces of bread can be exchanged for one quill pen, and ten pieces can be exchanged for sugar cubes the size of a matchbox.”
“…”
The Blue Dragon Tower students could eat and live relatively well because Lee Han was there, but students from other towers didn’t have someone like Lee Han.
They were desperately struggling for survival.
The hard bread that came out at mealtimes was now being used as alternative currency.
Currency that could purchase various supplies!
“Wow… is it okay if I look around?”
“Please look as much as you want.”
Yoner looked over the black market goods with an excited expression. It seemed like he wanted to buy something if there was anything useful.
Lee Han also couldn’t contain his curiosity and leaned his head in together.
And then he was surprised.
‘No way. There’s surprisingly a lot of useful stuff?’
He had wondered how much the Black Turtle Tower students could have gathered, but there were all sorts of items beyond his expectations.
Of course, food wasn’t abundant.
Excluding various canned goods (which seemed to be items released when priests came), it was full of all kinds of fake foods.
Fake cheese, fake milk, fake eggs, fake smoked meat, fake pickled fish, fake coffee, fake tea leaves, etc. – to the point where one might think ‘Wouldn’t making fake versions be harder?’
But excluding food, there were surprisingly many useful things.
Bags, quill pens, blankets, lanterns, fishing rods, shovels and pickaxes, simple tents and sleeping bags, rope and chalk, bows and arrows…
And most surprising of all…
‘Why are there so many artifacts?’
Ordinary-looking cloth cloaks, leather belts, stone-woven bracelets and necklaces.
They were common miscellaneous items, but Lee Han could feel the mana emanating from them.
He was certain. They were artifacts.
‘Even though this school makes it easy to obtain artifacts, this is too surprising.’
Outside, even a very simple artifact was extremely precious. Not just because of the price, but because they were so few in number that adventurers and mercenaries were desperate to get them.
Having at least one artifact was enough to say ‘I’m a seasoned adventurer’!
Just having one artifact with 【Dark Vision】 would allow you to serve as a guide in any dark dungeon, and an artifact with healing magic could become a second life in critical situations.
But this school was a bit different.
After all, wasn’t it a place where people who knew how to make artifacts and people who wanted to make them gathered?
Of course, since amateurs were making them, the quality was inconsistent and unreliable, but the sheer number of artifacts had to be overflowing.
But still, who would have thought that new students would diligently find and bring these discarded artifacts.
He was impressed by the practical spirit and skills of the Black Turtle Tower students.
‘If I had entered Black Turtle Tower, we would have gotten along much better.’
If Lee Han had been in Black Turtle Tower, he would have scraped together all the school’s supplies with the students.
“Are you going to buy one? I checked too, but there wasn’t much that was useful.”
Thinking that Lee Han was showing interest, Ratford whispered quietly beside him.
The Black Turtle Tower student whose business was being interfered with glared at Ratford.
‘This bastard is interfering with whose business…!’
However, Ratford didn’t care and said,
“That cloak is supposed to be a protection cloak that blocks blades, but when I actually tested it, it only blocked one out of two times.”
“Wait, if it’s one out of two times, isn’t that still pretty useful?”
“Indeed… Excellent. The attitude of thinking the cup is half full rather than half empty.”
“Just throwing around random words doesn’t make it a compliment, Ratford.”
Lee Han carefully looked over the artifacts.
There was definitely a reason why Ratford said there wasn’t much useful stuff.
Most were artifacts whose effects were unknown or hard to verify, and some had mana that was gradually becoming sparse.
The magic cast on them wasn’t permanent and was disappearing.
Among such artifacts, the protection cloak that just came up was quite useful, even if you couldn’t expect much from it.
The problem was…
“Do you accept credit by any chance?”
“Even if a knife comes to my throat, credit is not allowed, Mr. Wardanaz.”
‘Why are you speaking formally…’
Lee Han was dumbfounded.
You could just casually say no!
But for the Black Turtle Tower students, this credit issue was quite important.
Students from other towers had already come and attempted credit transactions.
While Lee Han was prepared to go all the way to family estates to raise hell if students from the same tower ran off without paying, Black Turtle Tower students couldn’t visit Empire great families.
Therefore, credit transactions were absolutely not allowed!
After hearing the explanation, Lee Han nodded. It was a very understandable explanation.
“Then it can’t be helped. Hmm… I brought various things since I heard bartering was possible.”
Lee Han lifted up his basket.
He had brought various things after hearing it was a barter market, but seeing the current atmosphere, his confidence disappeared.
Should he go back and bring more canned goods?
‘I want to buy artifacts before they’re sold.’
“What did you bring?”
“Well, I brought some freshly harvested fruits and vegetables, and some eggs…”
“!”
“!!!”
The sound of clattering and Black Turtle Tower students getting up could be heard from around them.
* * *
Surprisingly, the Black Turtle Tower students went crazy for fruits, vegetables, and eggs.
Not only the student selling artifacts, but students selling other things also rushed to Lee Han trying to attempt bartering somehow.
“This pickaxe and shovel! They might be made by a dwarf craftsman, and if you get one, you’ll have use for it anytime…”
“I’ll trade fake pickled fish, fake coffee, and fake tea leaves for one of those eggs over there!”
“If I could get an onion, I’d give you this staff.”
While everyone was lining up trying to force sales somehow, the Black Turtle Tower student who sold the protection cloak for 2 potatoes was roasting potatoes over a fire and mocking his friends.
“How stupid. You profit by selling good stuff, what do you gain by selling bad stuff and begging?”
“Shut up! You lucky bastard who found a cloak!”
“Hey. Want to sell one bite of potato for a few pieces of bread?”
“Not selling. You eat that crappy bread yourself.”
“I heard potatoes taste worse than expected these days. Bread might be better.”
Despite his friends’ sabotage, the student who got potatoes carefully roasted them over the fire.
When he peeled the skin of the fully roasted potato, the warm white flesh was gently revealed. The Black Turtle Tower student blew on it and put it straight in his mouth.
“…!!”
Even without words, you could tell the potato was melting on his tongue.
Lee Han, who was watching, was a bit flustered.
‘How hungry are they?’
A potato that was just roasted without using salt or butter couldn’t go down that smoothly.
But to have such a reaction.
“…Everyone gather around for a moment. I’ll treat you to some cooking. Yoner. Will you help me?”
Yoner nodded. The two exchanged glances.
‘Let’s not take money just this once.’
‘Yeah!’
Although Lee Han was someone who thoroughly collected money for almost everything, seeing that starved appearance made him not want to add silver coins to his ledger.
And he had another desire as well.
‘If I treat them to cooking before entering the mountain range, couldn’t I win the favor of the Black Turtle Tower students?’
He was already in a permanent hostile relationship with the White Tiger Tower students, but he might still be able to become friends with the Black Turtle Tower students.
Lee Han cut the freshly harvested vegetables with a knife and simply seasoned them.
When he sprinkled salt and pepper and mixed them, the Black Turtle Tower students looked at him with shocked expressions.
However, the shock had only just begun.
Lee Han added oil and stir-fried the vegetables until they turned golden. Already a mouth-watering aroma spread around the area.
Black Turtle Tower students gathered around the pot one by one like zombies.
Lee Han opened a can of tomatoes. He scraped the bottom of the can thoroughly with a spoon, poured it into the pot, stacked the vegetables neatly, then let them sizzle and cook.
A delicious, thick tomato vegetable stew-like dish was completed that was hard to believe had been made hastily.
As soon as it was finished, Lee Han generously ladled out a bowl for each of the waiting Black Turtle Tower students.
And the surroundings became quiet. All that could be heard was the sound of everyone scraping their bowls with spoons.
The faces of the students who had finished eating were filled only with gratitude and emotion.
Ah, this was what a meal was!
We had been living forgetting something for a while!
“Now. Let’s give applause to Lord Wardanaz…”
“Please be quiet.”
Lee Han shoved a potato into Ratford’s mouth. He was trying to ruin the good atmosphere.
* * *
Although Lee Han firmly declined, the Black Turtle Tower students stuffed various odds and ends into Lee Han’s pockets to give him something.
Thanks to this, Lee Han ended up walking with two backpacks on his back, a lantern and fishing rod hanging on one side, and a shovel and pickaxe hanging on the other.
“You… you look so cool?”
Yoner admired that avant-garde fashion. Ratford agreed too.
“You look like an experienced explorer.”
Ratford was one thing, but Lee Han couldn’t tell if Yoner was teasing him or if his eyes were crooked.
Lee Han sighed and put down one backpack. The chess set, card set, and dice set inside rattled.
Besides the favor and trust of the Black Turtle Tower students, there were other things he had gained.
In addition to the protection cloak, he had obtained several quite useful artifacts.
Low-grade stealth boots (mysteriously reduced sound when worn), smoke chalk (scattered smoke around when thrown and broken), gaze detection bracelet (the stone on the bracelet turned red with a certain probability when someone stared at you)…
‘No. But these were definitely made by upperclassmen. Why did they make things like this?’
Lee Han looked at the works of the seniors taking artifact creation lectures and suspected their intentions.
No matter how he thought about it, these all seemed like they were for avoiding the professor’s eyes…?
Rattle rattle-
Rattle rattle-
Clatter clatter-
Rattle rattle-
Lee Han, who had been examining the artifact, turned his head at the sound coming from inside his backpack.
Amazingly, a skeletal hand was moving and crawling out of the backpack.
For a moment, Lee Han thought the Black Tortoise Tower students had repaid kindness with enmity.
But when he thought about it, there was no one among the Black Turtle Tower students who could sell magic traps in such a complex way.
Clatter!
Rattle!
The bone hand flew over and combined with the unidentified bone Lee Han had received from Professor Mortum in his chest.
The bone, now grown to about the size from hand to forearm.
That bone floated in the air and waited obediently in front of Lee Han. Like a dog waiting for food.
“…No. No. No.”
Lee Han tried to deny it, but the bone approached and lightly bit the tip of Lee Han’s finger to take a drop of blood.
Then he felt a mental connection with this incomplete bone summon.
“Sit.” “Stand up.” “Turn around.” “Go and catch.”
“…”
“…”
Yoner and Ratford looked at Lee Han with complicated eyes.
Suddenly their friend had pulled out a bone summon and was giving it various commands, heading down the path of dark magic, so they couldn’t help but feel complicated.
‘The professor really gave me something strange. Well, there’s no way the professor would give something normal.’
“Wouldn’t it be better to throw it away?”
Shiver shiver!
At Yoner’s words, the bone summon trembled and clung closely to Lee Han.
Although it was a summon with only hand and forearm bones, somehow it felt pitiful.
“…Ah, no. Cancel. Cancel. I’m sorry…”
Yoner had no choice but to cancel what he had said.
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
How to Live as a Mage in Magic School
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
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