Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 583
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Chapter 583
However, trust once lost did not return.
The White Tiger Tower students who were carried down on stretchers glared at Professor Ingoldel with eyes like puppies who had been cheated out of their trusted treats.
“Everyone…”
The students turned their heads away sharply.
“I’m sorry to all of you. I misjudged the difficulty of the exam.”
“That can happen.”
Lee Han, who had been leading his friends at the front, answered reflexively.
When Giselle beside him looked at him like he was crazy, Lee Han made an excuse.
“Sorry. It was out of habit.”
When a professor apologized, habitually blurting out “It’s okay” was something he couldn’t help.
“Did they get attacked by slimes?”
The knights asked in surprise.
The number was too many for having been attacked by slimes.
Shifting Slimes were troublesome monsters that caught you off guard, but they weren’t incredibly powerful monsters either.
They thought that once some students got attacked first, the remaining students would handle it on their own…
“Ugh… urgh.”
“Answer me.”
The Knights of the White Poplar Knight Order called the apprentice knight with a stern voice.
This final exam was not only a test for Einroguard students but also a venue to evaluate the abilities of the apprentice knights.
Mistakes made by Einroguard’s students were for Professor Ingoldel to scold, but mistakes by apprentice knights had to be scolded by the knights.
“If you knew that shape-shifting type monsters appeared, there should have been ways to respond, right?”
For monsters like Shifting Slimes, the best approach was to split into confirmed groups and keep distance from each other.
These types of monsters lacked patience, so if you endured like that, they would eventually reveal their weaknesses.
“We… we weren’t attacked by slimes.”
“You weren’t attacked by slimes?”
When the apprentice knight spoke while reading the mood, the knight was surprised.
“Ah. I see. Did you perhaps encounter a giant?”
“There are giants in the mountain range!?”
The apprentice knight was startled.
At that reaction, another colleague nearby was horrified and whispered.
“I thought it was just a rumor…”
“Ahem! Don’t worry about that. Anyway, if you encountered other monsters, that makes sense.”
If that was the case, it made sense.
If the students’ plans changed because of the Shifting Slimes, and they were attacked by other monsters while moving hastily…
“What kind of monster was it?”
“Well, actually…”
The apprentice knight pointed his finger while reading the mood. That finger was pointing at Lee Han.
“?”
“We were attacked by Wardanaz…”
“…”
The knights fell silent as if they had lost their words. The apprentice knights also read the atmosphere and bowed their heads with embarrassed faces.
“Explain what happened.”
The apprentice knights explained with their best effort.
The Shifting Slimes that had transformed into Lee Han’s group were so cunning and clever that they lured the students well, and this guy deceived them into attacking the real Lee Han’s group…
“…I see.”
“But not all these people would have been defeated that way, right? Why did you guys fall?”
The other apprentice knights explained with their best effort.
The Shifting Slimes that had transformed into Lee Han’s group…
“Enough! Enough!”
The knights shouted with reddened faces.
Everyone was defeated in exactly the same way!
Even if one or two were defeated that way, normally they would be suspicious and wary from then on, but this was utterly shameful.
“No! The exam is a competition, but no matter how close you are, to trust others so easily! What have you been learning!”
“Wardanaz looked so trustworthy… Ugh. We were wrong.”
The Knights of the White Poplar Knight Order reflected.
Professor Ingoldel’s exam wasn’t excessive. Rather, they had been too complacent.
“I failed to look after you properly. To think you couldn’t respond even in this situation.”
“No, no…! This was unavoidable because those Einroguard bastards were deceived first!”
“Quiet! Where do you think you’re making excuses? When we return, it’s training!”
While the apprentice knights were being scolded, Professor Ingoldel apologized to the students once more.
“Everyone. I will never again prepare such an exam as a first-year final exam. You all worked hard.”
“No.”
“?”
Lee Han, who was listening, turned his head.
Which crazy student would say such things in front of a professor holding a sword?
“Professor. We hope you will prepare such an exam for first-years next year too.”
“…That’s right! It would be too regrettable for only us to experience this exam.”
“It’s not the professor’s fault! We understand the professor’s sincerity!”
The White Tiger Tower students shouted while gritting their teeth.
“Everyone!”
“Professor!”
The students hugged Professor Ingoldel and created a touching reconciliation.
Lee Han was horrified at the sight.
‘No, these trashy bastards.’
To do such a thing because they were upset about being the only ones who suffered!?
* * *
‘Huh?’
Lee Han, who had arrived at Professor Mortum’s workshop, the Dark Tower, to take the dark magic exam, received his test paper and was puzzled.
“Professor?”
“Cough. What?”
“Uh, is this all there is?”
“Yes. Why?”
“It’s nothing.”
Lee Han looked around the lecture hall with a wary gaze.
However, there was nothing in the lecture hall.
Gainando, sitting next to him, was eating a sandwich and staring blankly at his friend doing strange things.
Raphadael, who couldn’t stand watching, asked Gainando.
“Why is he acting like that?”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“Wardanaz. I’m talking about Wardanaz.”
From earlier, Wardanaz had been surveying his surroundings like a knight infiltrating enemy territory.
That sight made even Raphadael feel concerned for no reason.
Is there something around here?
“Lee Han is always like that, isn’t he?”
“…”
Raphadael regretted asking this prince bastard.
‘This guy wouldn’t notice even if Wardanaz’s head disappeared.’
“Cough. Student Wardanaz. There’s nothing hiding inside the lecture hall.”
“Is that so?”
Lee Han tried to summon a paper bird to check outside the lecture hall. Professor Mortum sighed and said.
“There’s nothing hiding outside the lecture hall either.”
“Ah. I see.”
Lee Han tried to cast 【Ogonin’s Emotion Recognition】 to gauge Professor Mortum’s emotional color.
Seeing this, Professor Mortum thought he should just explain.
“Cough. The last midterm exam was too chaotic. So this final exam will be simple.”
“…Don’t tell me you’re doing it this way because the academy’s reagents are all depleted?”
Lee Han asked with a voice full of concern.
From what the upperclassmen had said before, the Black Magic Academy wasn’t exactly a well-funded academy.
Even during the last midterm exam, the upperclassmen were struggling because of insufficient reagents…
“…Cough, did the upperclassmen say something about the Black Magic Academy again?”
Professor Mortum became suspicious of what these immature upperclassmen might have said.
Don’t tell me that instead of showing dreams and hopes to the fresh new student, they whined about ‘our academy is struggling without reagents’?
He was already flabbergasted when he heard that the new student had gone to other academies to borrow reagents last time…
“What kind of words do you mean?”
“That the Black Magic Academy’s situation is difficult or…”
“They never said anything like that.”
If Professor Mortum was a master of black magic, then Lee Han was a master of student survival tactics.
The moment the professor asked, he had already grasped the other person’s intention.
Gainando, who was listening from the side, tilted his head.
Surely the upperclassmen had said…
“Hey, our academy is fucking terri— Cough!”
Lee Han invisibly jabbed Gainando’s ribs. Gainando bowed his head forward deeply.
“…Anyway, the Black Magic Academy isn’t that troubled. Cough. So don’t think unnecessary thoughts and solve the problems quietly.”
“Yes. Thank you.”
At Professor Mortum’s words, Lee Han felt somewhat relieved.
It seemed like this really was the exam, with no particular traps.
Of course, this could also be a deception. Lee Han decided to moderately relax his tension, including that possibility.
An excellent mage must consider all possibilities.
Choose the creature that lives in the Undead Realm from the following.
1.Skeleton
2.Quinee
3.Sand Octopus
4.Rock Drake
5.Shadow Wraith
‘Hmm.’
Lee Han received the problem and thought.
It looked easy at first glance, but this was a trap question.
‘Skeletons aren’t living creatures.’
The correct answer was ‘none of the above’. Lee Han wrote the answer with his quill and moved on.
Gainando, who was beside him, looked at Lee Han triumphantly and said.
“Lee Han. This is too easy?”
“You did read the problem properly, right?”
“Of course!”
‘This guy. I’ll have to check after it’s over.’
Lee Han was planning to scold Gainando harshly later if he had written down skeleton.
How could he fall for such a childish trap question?
‘Lee Han really.’
Gainando was actually internally angry at Lee Han.
If they had studied together like that, he should trust his friend. Asking if he read the problem properly?
Choose the creature that lives in the Undead Realm from the following.
3.Sand Octopus
No matter how much he thought about it, the only correct answer was Sand Octopus.
* * *
“Um. Professor.”
After all four had submitted their test papers, Raphadael cautiously raised his hand.
Gainando was staring blankly at Raphadael while eating the sandwich he had left unfinished earlier.
“Still, I’d like to have my undead summoning practice from the second semester confirmed.”
“Cough.”
Gainando almost spat out his sandwich.
“Are you crazy!? The exam is over!”
“…Still, we should check the summoning practice. That’s what exams are originally for.”
“Why are you talking like Lee Han! Are you crazy!?”
Lee Han and Ymirg also looked at Raphadael in surprise.
They hadn’t expected Raphadael to say such things.
‘What is he thinking?’
Professor Mortum coughed and asked.
“You seem to have become quite close with your summoned creature.”
“No… No! I haven’t become close!”
Raphadael was startled and denied it.
How could he say such things to an honorable knight family origin who was learning black magic to deal with dark mages?
But Professor Mortum nodded as if he understood everything.
“Cough. All dark mages learning undead summoning are like that.”
Unlike other summoned creatures, undead summons had rough temperaments, didn’t obey their master’s commands well, and constantly looked for opportunities to rebel.
But if one endured such problems and continued training them, at some point they would find themselves easily commanding undead summons like their own limbs.
The sense of accomplishment at that moment was incomparably greater than with other summoned creatures.
‘Is that so?’
Lee Han was puzzled by Professor Mortum’s words.
He couldn’t particularly relate to it.
The undead being picky was one thing, but summoning undead didn’t give him a sense of achievement…
‘This guy is thinking useless thoughts.’
Professor Mortum clicked his tongue while looking at Lee Han.
Well, it was natural that Wardanaz wouldn’t relate much to those words.
“You seem to have had some recent enlightenment… Cough. Alright. We have time left, so let’s just do a simple additional undead summoning test.”
Gainando let out a short scream, but Professor Mortum had no intention of reversing his decision once made.
“You bastard. Why are you acting like this? You hated black magic! Go back to the you who hated it!”
“…I still don’t like it much.”
“You’re lying!! That’s a complete lie!! Someone who doesn’t like it wouldn’t prepare this thoroughly!?”
While Gainando was grabbing Raphadael by the collar, Lee Han raised his staff to go first.
‘A dark element Skeleton Warrior would be good.’
Among the various undead summons, it was the summoned creature he could control most confidently.
Thanks to his recent repeated efforts, he could even make them dance when summoning just one entity.
A skeleton dancer would surely get full marks…
“Ahem. Wardanaz.”
“Yes?”
“You don’t need to show yours.”
“…”
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