Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 573

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Chapter 573

Though they had much to say, both of them instinctively realized that if they said the wrong thing now, they might really end up in a coffin.

While Diret was fundamentally kind, he was someone who could easily put a few students in coffins when necessary.

“How about putting up danger signs and spreading rumors?”

Ogoldos carefully suggested his opinion.

Then Cohorti shook his head.

“Too weak. That won’t stop Einroguard students. It might stop 2nd years, but 3rd years and above will just come in anyway.”

“No, if you put up danger signs, why would they even come in?”

“Because there’s glory behind danger.”

‘Is he insane?’

Ogoldos was horrified, but Cohorti was serious.

After being at Einroguard for a long time, you start interpreting words like ‘danger’ and ‘no entry’ differently.

‘Danger’ becomes ‘good rewards.’

‘No entry’ becomes ‘there’s treasure here.’

“I think, how about going into the rat hole kitchen and burning all the food supplies?”

“What!? No, the students will starve to death!”

“Ogoldos. People don’t starve to death that easily. Think about your 1st year.”

“That’s… true, but…”

Ogoldos momentarily recalled his 1st year.

Indeed, people really didn’t starve to death.

When there was nothing to eat, they boiled and ate soft tree bark, and ate porridge bulked up with weeds…

“Right? Since they’re coming because of the kitchen. Burning all the food supplies is the sure way. Fire is always the answer. I recently got Bakvantallana’s flames from a friend…”

“No. That won’t work.”

When Diret cut him off, Ogoldos breathed a sigh of relief.

At least one of the Dark Magic School seniors was sane.

“Just because you burn all the food doesn’t mean they won’t come. They’ll keep checking several times. And the food supplies might be replenished.”

“Ah, I missed that…!”

Cohorti slapped his knee and gritted his teeth.

To make such an amateur mistake while focusing on problem-solving.

“Why are these Einroguard bastards so persistent? Like bugs.”

“What are you talking like you’re from some other magic school?”

Despite Diret’s reproach, Cohorti was deeply absorbed.

How could they prevent students from coming to this area?

“Hey. You think too. What are you doing? If you can’t come up with something, you’re going down to 1st year.”

“Ah. Don’t say weird things. What do you mean go down to 1st year? You don’t even have the ability to make that happen.”

“I’ll go out and spread rumors about you to the dark mages. That you came out of the dimension carried by a junior.”

“…”

Ogoldos got goosebumps at the all-too-plausible threat.

With Cohorti’s personality, he would definitely do that and more.

A graduating student making such petty threats?!

“Hmm… hmm…”

“5. 4. 3.” “Ah. Wait!”

“2.46, 2.45, 2.44…”

Under Cohorti’s continued pressure, Ogoldos finally blurted out something he would never normally say.

“What if we spread poison? No. Never mind. Please forget it.”

“Poison?”

“I said forget it.”

“Be quiet. Poison…”

Cohorti fell deep into thought.

Ogoldos tried to stop him from the side, but to Cohorti, poison seemed like a pretty good method.

“Isn’t that good?”

“Hmm.”

“Senior Diret! Poison really isn’t right!”

“It does seem promising.”

“…”

When even the senior he trusted acted like this, Ogoldos almost collapsed.

“No, senior. Spreading poison in the kitchen is a bit much. And, well, other people will detoxify it and eat anyway.”

Ogoldos didn’t say ‘if we spread poison in the kitchen, it could damage the Dark Magic School’s reputation and make us suspects.’

He didn’t think they would listen anyway.

Instead, he approached it practically.

Even if you spread it in the kitchen, everyone will detoxify it and eat!

“That’s because you don’t spread it properly.”

“Cohorti’s right. Ogoldos. You need to study poison more.”

While Ogoldos was speechless, Cohorti drew a map of the corridor and poked it with his staff.

“Ogoldos. Look. Spreading poison on kitchen food is the worst plan. As you said, they’ll think to detoxify it. Spreading poison in the kitchen? That’s a mediocre plan. Because the space is limited, they’ll think to break through. The best plan is to just spread poison throughout this entire area. So they won’t even dare to enter.”

Even when chatting pleasantly and cheerfully normally, the hearts of Einroguard upperclassmen harbored a yellowed madness.

Ogoldos felt that very madness and shuddered.

Is this what a dark mage is??

“Here, here, here, here. First acid poison, sleep poison, suffocation poison. There’ll be guys trying to detoxify, so let’s mix in a compound poison. Make it explode when they try to detoxify.”

“Combine ankle-grabbing poison with tongue-sticking poison to make one. They’ll panic and run away.”

“Very good idea. Diret. Let’s lay some curses on the floor. Still trying to detoxify and come in? We need to teach them a lesson.”

Cohorti instantly completed a plan to turn the corridor area near the underground warehouse into an impassable dark mage’s simple labyrinth.

First, lay down a thick, brightly colored poison fog throughout the area.

Quick-witted ones would run away here, but if there were any trying to detoxify the poison, he had hidden poison within poison to react to that attempt.

If they tried to detoxify, new poison would explode out to stick the arrogant mage’s tongue and choke their breath.

If they still didn’t run away and stubbornly tried to enter?

The curse magic circle laid on the floor would activate to give them a taste of vicious combinations.

“This should be enough, right?”

“Just in case, let’s hide some undead in the walls.”

“We should. If they still come in after this, really…”

Listening to the conversation from the side, Ogoldos suddenly thought.

Maybe other school students had valid reasons for finding Dark Magic School people creepy?

Not just because other school people were steeped in prejudice and elitism, but because there were really plausible reasons…

“Senior Diret. Please think about it one more time. Won’t it be troublesome if others find out we did this?”

“Ogoldos.”

Diret looked at his junior with a calm face.

This junior might be misunderstood as having a sharp personality from the outside, but he was actually on the tender side.

Even though 2nd year was almost over, he was still under illusions.

“You fell on the 7th floor stairs last week, right?”

“Yes? Yes.”

“Why do you think you fell?”

“Didn’t I slip?”

“That happened because Buyeo Magic School kids experimented on the stairs and just left. The stairs changed properties every minute.”

“…”

Ogoldos blinked.

“Also. The fire crystals you had collected disappeared two days ago, right?”

“Yes…”

“The kids preparing for advanced fire elemental studies used them.”

“…”

Flames flickered in Ogoldos’s eyes.

It was the flame of hatred.

“Do you understand?”

“Ogoldos. You might think we’re being too harsh. But it’s those bastards from other schools who made us like this.”

Cohorti placed his hand on Ogoldos’s shoulder and spoke seriously.

Why did Cohorti feel no remorse about spreading poison in the underground warehouse area?

It was because those bastards from other schools had repeatedly set fires, caused explosions, and summoned monsters to wreak havoc.

Compared to that, spreading poison to temporarily block intrusion was truly merciful.

“Just think about yourself and your juniors. Got it? Those bastards from other schools don’t think about us at all.”

“…I’ll spread the poison myself.”

“Good.”

Cohorti was pleased with Ogoldos’s resolute expression.

He had been naive and unreliable, but now the determination of a dark mage could be seen on his face.

‘That guy. I can graduate with peace of mind now.’

Scratch scratch-

Cohorti turned his head.

Now that the plan was confirmed, Diret was writing a reply to his junior.

-I’ve prepared a way to ban other students from entering. But I might use a little poison, so you need to be careful.

Poison?! Isn’t that too dangerous?!

-Of course I’ll try to persuade them with words first. But if persuasion doesn’t work, I might use a little poison. I’m not spreading poison to use on other people. If rumors spread that there’s poison, other people will stop entering. You understand, right? I’m absolutely not spreading poison to harm other people.

“…”

Cohorti shook his head.

‘Hang in there, Diret.’

Thinking that he would leave while his friend remained to suffer made him feel unnecessarily sorry.

“I’m starting to feel bad about graduating…”

“Then why don’t you stay?”

Whoosh!

Cohorti glared at Ogoldos with eyes that could kill a person.

“Don’t you dare say such things, even as a joke.”

“…S-sorry.”

“I’m sorry. You’ll understand when you become a fourth year too.”

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‘Is this really okay?’

Lee Han fell into thought after finishing the conversation.

The fact that Diret would use poison to ban entry to the surrounding area really bothered him.

Of course, both Lee Han and the giants had high resistance to poison, so that part was fine.

But…

‘Wouldn’t it be a nuisance if other people get poisoned while passing by?’

Lee Han, who had been worrying, stood up from his seat.

There was no time to worry about this now.

‘No. Let’s trust my senior.’

Seeing him say that hiding giants was a common thing was truly reassuring.

The upperclassmen who had gone through far more chaos than Lee Han.

Thinking that the upperclassmen had also pulled off similar things filled him with confidence.

‘I can do it too.’

Surely Diret would have done it well so that other people wouldn’t get involved.

He wasn’t sure what method that would be, but anyway…

“I’m ready.”

-Really?

“Yes. The upperclassmen said they would help.”

Ikurusha was amazed to see Lee Han return.

He actually managed to do it!

‘Is he really not a first year?’

-I see. Then let’s depart right away. There’s nothing good about waiting.

Ikurusha took Lee Han and headed toward the cave.

The giants had already entered the cave and were waiting.

-I gave the giants a week’s worth of food. I didn’t think they’d need to hold out for more than a week.

“That should be enough. If things go wrong, I’ll bring food.”

-Food for the giants? You don’t even have enough for yourself, do you?

“I have a little stored up.”

-Hmm. Just how much… No. That’s not important right now. Let’s worry about that if such a situation arises.

Ikurusha stood in front of the cliff and suddenly grabbed a rock.

Lee Han wondered what he was doing and felt puzzled.

Rumble-

Surprisingly, the rock rolled to the side and a cave entrance appeared.

“What kind of magic is that?”

-I just set it up with strength?

“…”

Ikurusha, who had pushed aside a rock that would be difficult to move even with considerable magic, went inside.

Inside, the giants were sitting and whispering.

-It’s nice not having to tend to the sheep.

-Shh. If Ikurusha hears, he’ll give us work.

-I’m going to read books during this break.

“Hello, everyone.”

-The mage!

-The mage is here!

The giants excitedly rushed over.

They got squeezed because they bumped into each other in the cave, but he could still feel their joy.

“I’m sorry… because of me.”

-No. We’re also happy to rest… no.

-Actually we wanted to play… no.

Ikurusha looked at the giants pathetically and said.

-You can speak honestly. I was planning to let you rest for about a week anyway.

-Lies! That’s a lie!

Ignoring the giants, Ikurusha spoke to Lee Han.

-Oh right. I checked the passage briefly and there’s a troublesome race wandering around.

“What race?”

-Sirens.

“Sirens? I’m friends with them!”

-Really??

Ikurusha was puzzled.

How are they friends?

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