Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 687

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Chapter 687

“What was that just now?!”

At Diret’s exclamation, Lee Han and Ilendil were startled.

“Did that crazy sen… I mean, did Senior Yukveltire discover this place?”

“Did that bast… I mean, did Senior Yukveltire discover this place?”

“…Yukveltire left earlier. More importantly, didn’t you just say you made the 【Liberation from Skeleton】 potion?”

Lee Han answered with confusion at the question.

“Not yet.”

“R-right?”

At his junior’s answer, Diret thought he might have misunderstood something and tried to sit back down.

“I only completed the concentrate and need to do the dilution work.”

“…”

At his junior’s absurd answer, Diret was at a loss for words.

If you complete the concentrate right before dilution, isn’t that practically almost finished?

“How did you make it? 【Liberation from Skeleton】 should be quite a difficult potion?”

“Thanks to love for spirits…”

Ilendil tried to speak warmly with a pleased heart, but Lee Han answered first.

“There were similar parts in the process to 【Dobrooke’s Soul Restoration Potion】 that I’ve helped make before, and many procedures could be substituted with mana, so it was possible. Senior Ilendil also did the complex preliminary work in advance.”

Ilendil waved his hand slowly as if it was nothing.

“But 【Dobrooke’s Soul Restoration Potion】… where did you make that?”

Dobrooke’s Soul Restoration Potion was also considerably high in difficulty and troublesome to make, so a first-year student wouldn’t have occasion to make it.

“I made it while helping Lady Yoanen of the Meikin Family.”

Clang!

Ilendil dropped the enamel bowl he was holding.

Then he looked at Lee Han with shocked eyes.

“You… worked under Lady Meikin…?”

‘Does he have a grudge against Lady Yoanen too?’

Lee Han was slightly flustered by his senior’s reaction.

He hadn’t expected such an intense reaction.

“Yes. I worked there before.”

“How did you endure it…?”

“…”

At Ilendil’s muttering, Lee Han couldn’t answer immediately.

It was true that Yoanen’s workshop made people work harshly.

“It, it wasn’t as hard as I thought.”

“That place’s nickname is where they grind up alchemists instead of reagents…”

“Come to think of it, Lady Yoanen was quite terrifying. I was scared too.”

Lee Han quickly threw Yoanen under the bus.

If he defended her for no reason, he felt like he’d become a strange person too.

Ilendil comforted Lee Han with a pitying expression.

“You must have had a hard time. Making potions in that workshop…”

“That, that level wouldn’t really be much of a problem for our junior. You don’t need to worry so much.”

Diret added from the side.

From what he’d seen Lee Han do so far, making potions in a workshop would be on the easy side.

Of course, Ilendil, who didn’t know such details, was inwardly horrified.

‘He really is a scary person…!’

Leading the Black Magic Academy with iron blood without mercy or tears really wasn’t something just anyone could do.

* * *

The mages who had been wandering around like cultists had also given up and disappeared, and dawn was beginning to break in the distance.

Lee Han, who had been diligently making potions with Ilendil (packing away every completed one neatly in his backpack), looked outside and said.

“I think it’s safe to go out now.”

“Right. Thanks again. For welcoming us when we visited the workshop like this.”

At Diret’s words, Ilendil acted embarrassed as if it was nothing.

“He’s a junior from the same academy…”

‘Hmm.’

Diret looked at Lee Han with complicated eyes.

Taking care of juniors from the same academy was normal, but strictly speaking, Lee Han was practically a junior from the same academy to almost all the upperclassmen.

‘Better not say anything.’

Diret held back his words for Ilendil’s sake.

No matter how eccentric a person might be, they needed at least one capable junior.

“…since he’s taking care of the dark spirit.”

“!”

Lee Han hesitated.

‘Oh no.’

Come to think of it, the promise he made when parting with Ilendil last time was to take good care of the dark spirit (that he had forcibly contracted).

‘I haven’t summoned it since then…’

Usually when you summon a spirit, it’s because there’s a situation where you need it.

The problem was that there had been no occasions where the dark spirit was particularly needed.

Dark elements were among the most troublesome and complex of all elements, so there were often cases where you needed a spirit’s help when handling them, but Lee Han just used them himself and succeeded.

Fire spirits and cold spirits were good for assigning small tasks, but dark spirits were difficult even for that…

From Lee Han’s perspective, it was unavoidable that he hadn’t summoned it.

“Could I meet it once?”

Ilendil asked with sparkling eyes.

At that sight, Lee Han felt very burdened.

‘It seemed to hate me already. Won’t it attack me directly if I summon it?’

Preparing to fight back if it attacked, Lee Han carefully summoned the lower dark spirit.

The dark elemental spirit condensed in a round sphere form revealed itself.

“Have you, have you been well…?”

When Ilendil called out, the dark elemental spirit spun around.

Though it had been in a rampage state last time, it seemed to remember its creator to some extent and showed quite a favorable attitude.

Moreover, since Ilendil was a dryad hybrid, he naturally started off with basic favorability from spirits.

“Is there anything uncomfortable… or any problems in the spirit realm? What about elemental power?”

Watching the two converse, Lee Han was slightly tense.

He didn’t know when the dark spirit might report him.

“Is the contract okay?”

The dark spirit that received the question spun around, then made a gesture of prostrating toward Lee Han.

It was clearly a display of loyalty for anyone to see.

“It seems fine!”

“It’s rare for a spirit to show such loyalty. Have you two been together for a long time?”

Not only Ilendil but even Diret was amazed.

And Lee Han was amazed too.

“???”

He couldn’t understand why the dark spirit was acting like that when he’d never summoned it even once.

Especially when it had shown nothing but hostility when they last met!

“Um. Senior.”

“?”

When Lee Han called out in a whisper, Diret turned his gaze.

“That dark spirit.”

“Wow. That’s amazing? It would be hard to receive such loyalty from a spirit, but a dark spirit at that. How did you meet it?”

Lee Han felt that mentioning what Ilendil had done would make things more awkward between the two, so he subtly changed the subject as he answered.

“I made a contract for the first time before and haven’t summoned it even once since then, so why is it acting like that?”

“…What?”

Diret doubted his ears.

Usually, time was essential to become close with spirits.

The time built up between mage and spirit.

That time firmly binds two beings from different dimensions and completes their friendship.

But he had never summoned it even once.

“Why didn’t you summon it?”

“Because there was no need to summon it…?”

“You never needed dark elements? You used to summon skeletons by combining them with dark elements and such.”

“I just cast those myself.”

“…”

Diret realized that having too much talent could also be a problem.

To think he had done everything that normally would have required a spirit’s help.

Perhaps this junior’s inability to get close to spirits wasn’t just because of his mana.

“To show such obedience without building up time and becoming close is usually…”

“Usually?”

“Because of fear.”

“…I didn’t do anything.”

“Even if you don’t do anything directly to the spirit, spirits sensitively pick up on the mage’s life history. Let’s see, you junior…”

Diret traced back the things Lee Han had done recently.

Starting from the Pitong Mountain Range to what he had done at the exchange meeting venue.

…There were too many things that came to mind.

“This is why it’s scared.”

“No, no. You said it was loyalty earlier.”

“Loyalty from fear and loyalty from affection are pretty much the same thing.”

As expected of a student from the dark magic school, Diret had no particular qualms about subduing summoned creatures through fear.

Basically, since many summoned creatures from the undead dimension were violent, dark mages had to wield fear like a whip to subdue them.

Of course, Lee Han pursued a slightly different direction from such seniors, so he couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable.

“Maybe it was happy that you didn’t summon it…”

“I don’t think spirits think like humans do. Junior. Just accept it. Some people become close with spirits, but some can only make spirits submit.”

Lee Han glared slightly at the dark magic school senior who only said unhelpful things.

As expected of Yukveltire’s friend, he was truly annoying.

Unaware of their conversation, Ilendil finished talking with the dark spirit and even said farewell.

“Sniff. Seeing it so healthy makes me happy…”

Seeing Ilendil tearing up with joy, Lee Han and Diret made complicated expressions.

Diret quickly spoke up to change the subject.

“Junior. When are you going to Granden City? It should be about time.”

“Huh? There’s still quite a bit of time left.”

When the vacation was ending and a new semester approached, students usually gathered in Granden City, the great city closest to Einroguard.

Lee Han and his friends naturally planned to go to Granden City too, but not now with nearly two weeks still remaining.

What would be the point of staying near Einroguard?

“Ah. Right. You guys wouldn’t know since this is your first time.”

Diret belatedly realized from Lee Han’s reaction and began explaining.

“Usually staying in Granden City during winter break isn’t a good idea. Since it’s close to Einroguard, there’s a high chance of running into professors.”

“I came all the way to Flahur City and still met one.”

“That’s because you were born with the fate of attracting professors, junior.”

Diret replied coldly. Lee Han looked at his senior with a hurt expression.

How could he say such a thing?

“Delaying as much as possible before arriving in Granden City isn’t a bad idea either, but once you’re past 2nd year, everyone starts arriving early.”

“Why is that?”

“To prepare things to bring into the school.”

“!”

Lee Han was amazed by Diret’s words.

“Oh, is that allowed starting from 2nd year?”

Einroguard wasn’t a school that required preparation materials.

All the necessary books and equipment were provided by the school… well, not really, students had to obtain them themselves.

But starting from 2nd year, they bring necessary items with them.

Was it because the level of required magic became higher?

“That’s interesting. To think the Skeleton Principal allows such things starting from 2nd year. I thought he would forbid it.”

“…”

“…”

Diret and Ilendil stared at Lee Han intently.

From their gaze, Lee Han realized he had misjudged something.

“Wait, don’t tell me…”

“Of course he doesn’t allow it. What I just mentioned was about smuggling.”

What Diret had mentioned wasn’t about officially bringing things in, but about smuggling.

The Skeleton Principal naturally forbade students from bringing external items. This didn’t change whether you were 1st year or 6th year.

However, any student who had spent more than a year at Einroguard felt the necessity of external items.

Where there’s need, there’s magic.

Einroguard students tried their best to get as many items as possible into the school at the start of new semesters, using any means necessary.

“Can’t you sneak out during the semester and bring supplies back in?”

“…Junior. You do realize that students who go out and come back in like you aren’t generally common, right?”

Diret looked pathetically at his junior who was casually suggesting even more difficult things.

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