Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 54

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Chapter 054

“So you’re saying Professor Mortum gave you this bone?”

“Lord Wardanaz. I may not know much about magic, but in our industry, there’s a saying to never associate with dark mages.”

“…”

His two friends coldly pointed out reality.

No matter how he thought about it, that bone summon was quite a creepy gift.

To think there was a professor who would give something like that…

Lee Han found himself making excuses without realizing it.

“Still, it’s not completely useless.”

“That may be true, but it’s creepy.”

Ratford spoke loyally. Of course, the content of his words wasn’t very loyal.

Still, Yoner seemed to notice Lee Han’s complicated feelings and tried hard to find advantages of the bone summon.

“Still, you don’t have to feed it, it’s loyal, and there are many things it can do…”

“What can it do?”

Yoner pretended not to hear Ratford’s words and ignored them.

“…And if you look at it a certain way, couldn’t it be kind of cute?”

“Thanks, Yoner. But hearing that really clears my head. This is definitely weird.”

Though he wanted to think the gift he received was useful, Lee Han could no longer deny reality.

The bone summon was definitely strange.

“Why on earth would he give me this bone summon as a gift?”

“Well… More than that, I’m more curious about why he gave you the bone separately.”

“Doesn’t it mean to find more bones scattered around the school and combine them?”

“Doesn’t it mean to find more bones scattered around the school and combine them?”

“Doesn’t that mean we should find more bones scattered around the school and put them together?”

“Doesn’t that mean we should find more bones scattered around the school and put them together?”

Yoner laughed at Ratford’s words as if they were absurd.

“That’s ridiculous… Wait. It is ridiculous, right?”

However, Ihan couldn’t bring himself to smile.

Radford’s words had sounded all too plausible.

‘You didn’t really give it to me with that intention, did you?’

Otherwise, there’s no way the hand bone that the Black Turtle Tower student picked up would have stuck together and fused like this.

Of course, anyone with a normal way of thinking would wonder, “Who on earth would enjoy such a bone-collecting game?” but as you know, the professors didn’t have normal ways of thinking.

It’s highly likely that he thinks to himself, ‘The students will probably enjoy searching around for this bone, won’t they?’

‘That’s chilling.’

Lee Han shuddered.

More than the bone summons themselves, the professors’ twisted way of thinking was more frightening.

A terrifying thought that no normal person could ever follow!

“Wordanaz! Are you done looking around the black market? …Wait, what’s that bone?!”

Asan Dalcard, who returned late, was horrified at the sight of bone summons wandering around Ihan.

What the hell is going on?

A considerable number of students had gathered before Professor Ingoldel.

Not only students from the Blue Dragon Tower and Black Turtle Tower, but also those from the Phoenix Tower and even the White Tiger Tower had all gathered.

It was only natural since all the students taking alchemy class needed materials.

If they missed this opportunity to go with the professor, it would be difficult for students at their level to obtain materials from within the mountain range.

Professor Ingoldel slowly began to speak once all the students had gathered.

“Safety first, safety second. First, students from the same house should gather together. Then, students from the same house should check each other’s faces and memorize the count. We’ll periodically check the numbers to make sure no one is missing.”

Professor Ingoldel had a talent for intimidating his students. Already, the students’ faces were taut with tension.

‘But it’s better to be nervous.’

It was better to go with more tension rather than casually going like it was a picnic in the mountains and ending up with a disaster.

The students from the Blue Dragon Tower were all familiar faces.

Not only Ihan and Yoner, but also Asan, and even the princess.

Asan asked as if curious.

“Wordanaz. I heard from the Black Turtle Tower students earlier that the food you made was incredibly delicious.”

“That’s quite an exaggeration. It was just ordinary stew.”

Ihan thought the Black Turtle Tower students were exaggerating.

When you’re starving, anything tastes good.

The dish Ihan made earlier was a simple stew prepared by cutting fresh vegetables on the spot and cooking them with just oil, salt, pepper, and tomato sauce.

“No. That was really delicious.”

“It was really delicious.”

Lee Han was puzzled.

While he could understand Radford’s reaction, he hadn’t expected Yoner to react that way as well.

“There’s not even any meat in it? Isn’t what you usually eat at the dorm better than this?”

“No. Maybe it’s because we all ate together outside? I think that tasted much better.”

‘Is it because of the ingredients?’

The only reason I could think of was the freshly harvested vegetables in the stew.

Since it had grown so suddenly in Professor Thunderstep’s cabin, I suspected that Professor Thunderstep must have sprinkled some kind of special potion on it.

‘Oh no. The professor wouldn’t have sprinkled precious elixir only for me to thoughtlessly bring this along, would they?’

Ihan regretted it for a moment.

But thinking about it, if that were the case, Professor Uregeoleum should have left a warning not to touch the garden. Besides, isn’t that Ihan’s garden anyway.

‘No matter how much I think about it, it really wasn’t my fault after all.’

If he had known the reviews would be this good, he slightly regretted not trying some himself.

What on earth did it taste like…

“Wait. You’re the White Tiger Tower.”

Asan Dalcard spoke to the elf with long black hair.

It was a student from the White Tiger Tower that I had spoken with once before.

What’s unusual is that instead of moving together with the other students of the White Tiger Tower, she pledges loyalty to the princess!

“I have already obtained permission from my colleagues in the same tower. I will serve Your Highness the Princess.”

It seemed that several other Tower students had already gathered around the princess.

It was an astonishing level of loyalty.

In contrast…

Ihan looked around. Then, a student from the Black Turtle Tower casually approached and struck up a conversation.

“As expected, you don’t like the White Tiger Tower students? Should we gather some others and pick a fight with them?”

What the hell do you guys think of me?

“This place will do. Everyone go collect the materials.”

After walking the mountain path for several hours, Professor Ingeldel stopped when he discovered a flower field.

Seeing the students moving around in small groups of three to five, the elf professor smiled with satisfaction.

Contrary to his worries, the students moved in an orderly and well-organized manner.

The students were feeling it too.

That in order to survive in this school, they had no choice but to stick together.

‘Everyone is doing well.’

In every tower, there were a few students who played leadership roles.

Though their personalities and methods were all different, it was undeniable that when faced with crisis, these students who took on leadership roles were helpful to their friends.

The Wardanaz family boy was one of them.

A boy who, with the ice-cold charisma befitting someone from a prestigious family, extended strong influence not only to Blue Dragon Tower but even to students from other towers.

It was fortunate that his nature wasn’t bad despite being cold and calculating, because if he had a wicked disposition, the towers would have been noisy in many ways.

‘There’s always bound to be a student who acts like a leader, but this one is on a different level.’

Having heard stories about Lee Han from several students from other towers, Ingoldel was slightly misunderstanding.

Lee Han wasn’t having any crazy thoughts like ‘Since I was born into a magic noble family, it’s my duty to dominate and rule over others.’

Chirp chirp chirp.

Chirp chirp chirp.

Chirp chirp chirp.

“?”

Professor Ingoldel, who had been sitting, turned his head at the bird sounds coming from behind.

Pop!!

Pop!!

Pop!!

Pop!!

At that moment, Professor Ingoldel vanished completely.

“Whoa, what the heck.” Lee Han was putting cloud mushrooms and dwarf hammer mushrooms into his basket when he realized something was off about the situation.

From afar, several students from the Black Turtle Tower had come looking for them with faces pale as sheets.

“What’s going on?”

“Professor… Professor…! He’s gone!!”

Lee Han was shocked.

Several thoughts flashed through my mind in that instant.

Could Professor Ingoldell have deliberately reassured the students and then disappeared just to teach them a lesson?

‘No. I trust Professor Ingoldell. …Trusting the professor isn’t statistically a good choice… but still.’

Lee Han shook his head.

Then did evil enemies like the Imperial Anti-Mages sneak in and kidnap Professor Ingoldel?

‘This doesn’t make sense either. Given that there was such an attack last time, they would have increased security and defenses several times over, yet they broke through all that? If that’s the case, then he’s not qualified to be headmaster.’

If not this either, then the next thought that comes to mind is…

‘Was he attacked by a monster? But Professor Ingeldel is a master on par with Alalarong. Does it make sense for such a master to be taken down by a monster without even making a sound? And does it make sense for such a monster to appear in the outskirts of these mountains?’

Actually, when he thought about it, it wouldn’t be strange for any kind of monster to appear near this magic school, which made him feel bitter, but Lee Han still trusted Professor Ingurdel’s abilities.

He is not someone who would be defeated so futilely.

“What do I do? What do I do?”

“Everyone calm down. Professor Ingoldel might have just stepped out for a moment.”

Lee Han didn’t really think so himself, but he spoke calmly for now.

What mattered now was calming down the other students.

‘No monsters have appeared, and I haven’t lost my way either. There’s no reason to panic. I just need to go back the way I came.’

When people thought of mountain ranges, they all imagined wild, untamed lands, but in reality, there were roads here and there throughout the mountains.

Natural trails created by the footsteps of seniors who entered before us.

The students have been walking for quite a while now, but since they came in along this path, if they just go back the same way…

Whoooooooosh-

Whoooooooosh-

“…”

“…”

With the sudden downpour starting from above, Lee Han began to seriously suspect that all of this might be a trap.

* * *

Lee Han and several students gathered under a nearby cliff to take shelter from the rain.

Nilia shook off the moisture with a pale expression and said.

“Finding our way in this situation is impossible. We’ll definitely lose our direction. And what’s more dangerous is losing body temperature or encountering monsters. Meeting monsters on a rainy day is a nightmare among nightmares.”

At Nilia’s words, her friends made expressions mixed with despair.

However, Nilia spoke as if it was fine.

“But don’t worry. We’re in a decent place right now. We just need to hold out until the rain stops…”

“Let’s take the risk and find our way. If the rain gets heavier, it’ll be even harder to find the path.”

“No, we just need to hold out…”

“The Phoenix Tower students and White Tiger Tower students aren’t visible right now. How do we find them in this rain?”

“That’s why we should hold out for now…”

“We need to find the professor! Let’s look for a way to call the professor.”

Nilia gave up and became dejected.

Lee Han waved his hand as if telling her to come over here. Nilia scurried over and gathered wood next to Lee Han.

Meanwhile, the students chattered about their own thoughts.

They needed to find the path, they needed to reunite with other students, they needed to find the professor, and so on.

During this time, Lee Han lit fires in various places. The bone summon moved around through the rain, gathering more tree branches from here and there.

“That’s why we need to move first, just among ourselves!”

“We need to find the other students! It’s common sense that having more numbers is advantageous!”

“Finding the professor first is the right thing to do!”

The students’ debate grew even more heated.

Realizing that their opinions were running parallel, the students looked for a judge.

“Wardanaz!”

“Wardanaz, what do you think?”

“What?”

Lee Han was startled when the arrow suddenly flew toward him while he was lighting fires.

“Shouldn’t we wait until the rain stops first?”

“…R-right.”

“That’s right. We should wait.”

“…”

Nilia glared at her friends.

When I said it, you listened with one ear and let it out the other…!

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

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