Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 615

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Chapter 615

‘Phew. That went well.’

Lee Han let out a sigh of relief.

He had forged the Principal’s signature so that Nilia could escape from the Shadow Patrol during the vacation.

Fortunately, the Principal’s attention seemed to be focused on the knights below.

“These useless bastards, I swear…”

“If you order us to shoot, we’ll secretly shoot them.”

The Skeleton Principal shook his head at the subtle words of the Shadow Patrol hunters.

“Forget it. Let’s be satisfied with what we shot last time.”

“…”

Lee Han was horrified by the conversation taking place beside him.

Of course, it was difficult for the hunters of the Northern Mountains and the knights under them to get along well.

From the perspective of the hunters who risked their lives scouting deep into the mountains, the knights were just arrogant bastards who were unhelpful and only complained.

In contrast, from the perspective of the northern knights, the hunters were barbaric bastards who took away all the already scarce resources of their families and kept complaining for more.

‘Still, shooting arrows was a bit too much.’

* * *

The northern knights sat in front of the log cabin waiting for the owner to return.

Unable to wait any longer, one young apprentice knight got slightly angry.

“Even so, is it right to make the honorable knights of the north wait like this? They clearly said they would come today!”

How dare he arrogantly get angry first when the sky-like knights were staying quiet.

Normally a club would have come flying, but the veteran knight teaching the apprentice knight smiled wickedly and said.

“Oh ho. If you’re going to say that, why don’t you say something when the woodcutters return.”

“Would that really be okay?”

“Of course!”

The other knights who were about to get angry stopped their movements and smiled at the veteran knight’s words.

The young apprentice knight, unaware of the situation, huffed and nodded.

“Understood. How dare they!”

Not long after, a group of woodcutters came up from below.

They were the local woodcutters returning after finishing their work.

The woodcutters of the Northern Mountains, composed of various races, walked carrying massive builds and axes that made even those builds seem small. Every time they exhaled and took steps, steam poured out from their heated bodies.

“…”

The apprentice knight’s jaw dropped at the appearance of the woodcutters, which was different from his expectations.

The knights giggled at his reaction.

The free people around these Northern Mountains were different from the free people of other regions.

Just surviving in this harsh region was difficult without considerable force and courage.

Especially the mountain woodcutters here were famous among them.

Composed of those who boasted natural strength, they were people who would exterminate most monster groups on their own without requesting help!

“H… h… how dare you make knights wait!”

The apprentice knight couldn’t back down due to his pride and shouted.

At his shout, the woodcutters looked at the apprentice knight as if he were an idiot.

“What’s this. Knight lords. Did you come to pick a fight?”

“How, how dare! How dare…!”

“Sorry about that. Please understand. He’s still young.”

The veteran knight smiled and covered the apprentice knight’s mouth.

“You know well why we came. It’s because the talent is too precious.”

At those words, the woodcutters scratched their cheeks.

In fact, they already knew.

The young woodcutter, Ulgan.

He was famous among the woodcutters for his massive build and strong strength.

Naturally, such fame had reached the ears of the surrounding knights.

“But the kid doesn’t want to. He already ran away.”

Surprisingly, Ulgan had been trained as an apprentice knight a few years ago.

Since he had been famous for several years, knights had been coming to recruit him since then.

At their earnest recommendation, Ulgan followed the knights and trained as an apprentice knight, but not long after, he lost interest and returned to the woodcutters.

“We don’t really know the reason either. He certainly had good evaluations among the apprentice knights.”

“We know the reason. He chose to live as a free woodcutter rather than stuffy knights.”

The woodcutters giggled at their colleague’s words.

Several knights got angry, but the veteran knight stretched out his arm to stop them.

“Let us have a conversation. We want to hear what he didn’t like.”

“Didn’t the other apprentice knight bastards ostracize him?”

“That’s not it.”

“How can you be sure?”

“Well, because Ulgan beat up all the other apprentice knights…”

On the first day in the dormitory, Ulgan beat up all the other apprentice knights and reigned as their leader.

If Ulgan said one word, everyone would even pretend to die, so there was no way there could have been ostracism.

“Ha! That’s Ulgan for you.”

“Maybe he quit because it was boring?”

Even at the woodcutters’ exclamations, the veteran knight didn’t lose his composure.

He had been going back and forth in this northern region as a knight for quite a long time, but talent as promising as Ulgan was rare.

-This kid was born to be a knight!

Massive build and powerful strength, excellent reflexes and even natural supernatural abilities.

If raised well, he thought a legendary knight might be born in the north.

It wasn’t that he looked down on woodcutters, but Ulgan was too precious to end up as just a woodcutter.

‘I’ll somehow persuade him and bring him to the knight order.’

This time he was a bit older too, so he would personally take him around and teach him.

“Knights are boring.”

“???”

“But mages are not boring!”

“…?!”

The northern knights turned their heads thinking some crazy foreigner was picking a fight, then checked his face and were horrified.

The Guardian of the Empire’s Magic Barrier was walking over leading the Shadow Patrol.

“Gre, gre, gre, gre, gre…”

“Greetings. Quite good.”

“Wh, what brings you here!?”

The northern knights were flustered.

Usually when Gonadaltes came to this barren land, it was when big problems had occurred.

Like when the magic cast on the patrol fortress in the mountains was destroyed, or when a monster army appeared…

Among them, the veteran knight glimpsed another possibility.

“Don’t tell me Ulgan was selected as a student of Einroguard?!”

“That’s right.”

“That, that’s impossible!”

“Why. Can’t big people do magic?”

At Gonadaltes’ words, the Shadow Patrol members burst into mocking laughter from behind.

“Haha, the knight lords are full of prejudice!”

“Right, right!”

“…”

The knights vowed to definitely spit in the next supplies they sent to the Shadow Patrol.

“Ah… No. No matter how you look at it, Ulgan is naturally born to be a knight.”

“Wasn’t his strength a bit strange? Even considering his build? He probably has an innate sensitivity to mana. He handles mana to some degree without learning. Plus, he even has psychic powers? It’s a phenomenon commonly shown by mages who haven’t received proper education.”

“Oh…”

The woodcutters looked at him with interest, intrigued by the Skeleton Principal’s words.

They knew he was quite an impressive person, but hearing him speak like this made them trust him even more.

An aura of nobility and intelligence flowed from him, on a completely different level from the knights.

“No, both mana and psychic powers are abilities that knights need too!!”

The knights desperately argued back as the atmosphere began flowing in a strange direction.

Knights also needed to know how to handle mana to draw out their aura, and psychic powers were actually more useful to knights than mages.

After all, mages could achieve the same results through study, so why would they obsess over something like psychic powers?

You could tell just by how mages called psychic powers things like ‘primitive magic.’

‘Something’s strange.’

The Veteran Knight felt puzzled by Gonadaltes’ leisurely attitude.

That Skeleton Principal wasn’t the type to listen to others’ words so relaxedly.

What kind of scheme could he have?

* * *

“I hate mountains.”

Alsicle, who had been walking ahead, panted and waved his staff. It was the typical appearance of a mage who had neglected physical training.

At that sight, Eandurude looked at Alsicle as if he found him pathetic.

“Pathetic!”

“No. Originally, there are quite a lot of weak people among mages.”

“?”

Eandurude looked Lee Han up and down.

Feeling awkward, Lee Han made an excuse.

“There are exceptions though.”

“Why don’t you train?”

“Well, the convenience of magic is so excellent…”

“Laziness!”

“No. It’s a bit different from laziness… isn’t it?”

The reason Lee Han’s group was moving separately now was simple.

It was because of the Skeleton Principal’s orders.

-Seeing that the new student isn’t here, he must still be somewhere else. I’ll bewitch these knight bastards, so go find him.

-What should I do after finding him?

-Make him enter Einroguard.

-What? How?

-Easy. Just like you usually do.

-…No…

Lee Han was dumbfounded, but the Skeleton Principal had already left.

Left behind, Lee Han had no choice but to set out to find Ulgan, taking Alsicle and his junior with him.

“Snow, show me the traces.”

When Alsicle chanted the spell, snowflakes revealed the footprints left on the ground.

Fortunately, when it succeeded, Alsicle let out a sigh of relief.

This magic was for finding traces, but that didn’t make it omnipotent. If not used in the proper place, the magic itself would fail.

He had been worried about failing in front of the young mages watching from behind, but fortunately it succeeded.

‘Phew. Thank goodness.’

“Wow. There was a method like this.”

“It’s not that difficult a magic. Should I teach you later?”

“Thank you. I was wondering if I should use divination magic.”

When Lee Han put away the colorful stones he used for fortune-telling, Alsicle asked puzzledly.

“Divination magic? The burden would be severe since this isn’t a workshop?”

Normally he would have asked ‘You can already use divination magic?’, but Alsicle had become close enough with Lee Han not to ask such foolish questions anymore.

“Ah. I can somehow manage this much with mana.”

“…”

Hearing those words, Alsicle looked at the snowy footprints he had scattered.

Swish swish swish-

“Why are you erasing them?!”

“Forget about this!”

“No, why are you really doing that!”

While stopping Alsicle, Eandurude sniffed around and found the person’s location.

“There, there!”

Eandurude grabbed Lee Han’s sleeve and pointed far away.

A human with a massive build was chopping trees with an axe, and the speed was surprisingly fast.

‘That guy. If he enters Einroguard, we won’t have to worry about firewood!’

Lee Han was amazed at discovering a talent who might disrupt Einroguard’s market balance.

Alsicle was also curious beside him.

“His build is like a warrior’s, but he has quite a talent for magic? He’s even using psychic powers.”

“Psychic powers?”

“Yeah. Seems like telekinesis. He’s unconsciously using telekinesis on the axe right now.”

“That’s really amazing.”

‘You’re more amazing…’

Alsicle swallowed the words that were about to come out.

No matter how he thought about it, compared to such ordinary psychic powers, the Wardanaz Family Boy was much more amazing.

“Where did you come from?”

Ulgan was startled when he discovered the mages.

“Could it be the knights…?!”

“No. We’re mages from Einroguard. Ulgan.”

Alsicle calmed the young woodcutter as he spoke.

“Einroguard, you say…?”

“Yes. We came looking for you because you have talent for magic. Could we talk for a moment?”

Ulgan put down his axe and approached with a bewildered expression.

“Magic, you say…”

“I heard you trained as an apprentice knight before. May I ask why you quit?”

At Alsicle’s question, Ulgan’s face darkened.

“Ah. If it’s a difficult question to answer…”

“No. Actually, I should have answered properly. The thing is, I…”

When Ulgan made a determined expression, the other three focused and looked at him.

They were curious about what reason there could be for him to act like that.

Why exactly?

“…I hate fighting.”

“…”

“…”

A brief silence fell.

Alsicle, who came to his senses first, spoke.

“Then Einroguard would suit you even better!”

“Do, do you think so?”

When Ulgan showed interest, Lee Han thought to himself.

‘Is it okay to come to Einroguard if you hate fighting?’

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