Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 690

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Chapter 690

“?!”

At the sound that it was finished, Siana’s eyes widened as she turned around.

The fact that he was analyzing magic he had just observed was already surprising, but it was already done?

“Oh, you’re done?”

However, Gainando wasn’t surprised at all and opened the door.

“Then how about a round of mage cards…”

“No.”

“Right? I was just asking.”

Watching Gainando quickly retreat backwards, Siana fell into slight confusion.

‘…Am I the strange one?!’

Perhaps this wasn’t something to be so surprised about, and only Siana herself was being amazed?

“What’s the matter, Priest?”

“Well, he says he’s finished analyzing the upperclassmen’s magic.”

“Huh!”

Durgyu was so surprised he almost fell over.

At that reaction, Siana let out a sigh of relief.

‘Thank goodness. It was Gainando who was strange!’

“As expected, it was transformation magic.”

Lee Han came out from inside and looked around at his friends. Spotting Durgyu in an awkward position, Lee Han looked at him strangely and asked.

“Why are you like that?”

“Ex, exercising a little.”

“Aren’t you training too hard? Anyway, it was transformation magic.”

A 3rd circle magic 【Lesser Box Transformation】 that transforms creatures below a certain size into wooden boxes.

When observed from the outside, the flow of mana was familiar and easy to understand, so he had judged it would be magic within his expectations, and he was right.

“Luck seems to be on our side. The upperclassmen used magic I could observe and analyze.”

‘That doesn’t seem like luck though…’

Siana thought to herself.

From the upperclassmen’s perspective, it was honestly a very unfair thing to say.

How could they predict that a junior who had only finished his first year might grasp the structure and learn it just by glancing at the magic?

Nilia whispered to Yoner.

“I always thought Wardanaz was good at magic, but lately doesn’t he seem more and more like a crazy bastard?”

“Mmm. I want to deny it but I can’t…”

After quietly silencing his chattering friends, Lee Han spoke again.

“They’re probably planning to throw troublesome and noisy things into our pile of luggage.”

“How utterly despicable!”

“Let’s definitely do it next year too!”

“…”

When his friends stared at him, Gainando was flustered.

“Huh? Aren’t you all going to do it next year?”

“Now that we’ve figured out the magic, there’s not much to worry about on this end.”

Lee Han ignored him and continued what he was saying.

This kind of method wasn’t very difficult to block if you knew how to learn and distinguish magic.

You just had to find what was mixed in the luggage pile, then dispel it or throw it back into the upperclassmen’s luggage pile.

“Then everyone get ready to go out and wander around.”

“Again?”

“Again? How much have we even done.”

At Lee Han’s words, his friends sighed and got up from their seats.

When they arrived in Granden City, Lee Han chose the most remote and unpopular gate among dozens of city gates to enter through.

Not satisfied with that, he threw rough, worn cloth over the carriage so no one could guess it was a noble family’s carriage.

All of this was to enter the villa while avoiding the upperclassmen’s eyes. If the upperclassmen discovered they had arrived in Granden City with plenty of supplies, it could become troublesome.

After safely storing supplies in the villa, Lee Han’s next choice was to make contact with the upperclassmen as much as possible.

He wanted to probe about the upperclassmen’s smuggling methods and prepare in advance if they had any wicked schemes…

For that, Lee Han and his friends needed to wander around various corners of Granden City like innocent 1st year students who knew nothing.

“Now. Everyone remember. If an upperclassman brings up smuggling or talks about Einroguard’s secrets…”

“Gasp!”

“I’m shocked!”

“That can’t be!”

“How could such a thing! That’s impossible!”

Lee Han nodded with satisfaction at his friends’ fake reactions.

“Right. Don’t forget to react like that and pretend to be fooled. Everyone, let’s go!”

* * *

The Skeleton Principal’s loyal knight, the Death Knight, walked down Granden City’s main street with his robe pulled deep over his head.

Actually, he could have walked in broad daylight under the sun, but it was goodwill to show consideration for the people of Granden City.

‘The Wardanaz family villa…’

The Death Knight arrived in front of the Wardanaz family villa as ordered and knocked on the gate.

-Who is it?

-I’ve come under the Principal’s orders. Students. Please open the door.

-…Aaaaah! It’s an attack from the Principal!

-It’s not an attack, it’s communication…

The Death Knight tried to explain in confusion, but the students began preparing defenses with clattering sounds.

-Lee Han! A Death Knight has come to the door!

-What do you mean… what did we get caught for?

-I don’t know!

-I’ll send word to the temple. Let’s call the priests and try attacking!

The Death Knight who came as a messenger today had relatively little experience dealing with students.

Unlike veteran Death Knights, he floundered and shouted.

-There’s a misunderstanding, everyone!

-Don’t listen everyone! He’s trying to trick us into opening the door!

-I came to take the new students! The new students!

-…

Creak-

The villa mansion door inside the gate opened and students poured out with suspicious eyes.

Only then could the Death Knight breathe a sigh of relief.

“Really?”

-I can even swear on my honor as a knight. The new students need to go in first.

The Skeleton Principal had left Eandurude with Lee Han during the vacation, but he couldn’t do that when the semester was about to start.

Since Lee Han was now becoming a 2nd year student, he couldn’t be placed together with new students.

“…A trap?”

Eandurude, who had been solving equations, looked at the Death Knight with suspicious eyes.

“It’s not a trap.”

“But… it’s a Death Knight.”

“Ah. The Principal originally uses Death Knights as his minions.”

“?!”

Leaving the shocked Eandurude alone, Lee Han opened the gate.

He couldn’t keep the Skeleton Principal’s messenger standing outside indefinitely.

As the Death Knight entered, he surveyed the Wardanaz family villa. He could sense a practical cleanliness that showed no particular interest in appearance or luxury.

-You’re not all preparing for smuggling by any chance, are you?

“Cough.”

“Kheuk.”

The Death Knight who had asked casually was flustered when the students started coughing as if they had choked on something.

-Ah, no. Are you already preparing for smuggling? You’re 1st years?

“What… what makes you say that?”

-Well, you arrived early and I can see you’ve piled up various luggage… Don’t smuggle. I’m saying this for your own good.

At the Death Knight’s words, the students shot him accusatory looks as if thinking ‘this minion of that Skeleton Principal.’

The Death Knight, belatedly realizing those looks, shouted.

-I’m not saying this because I serve my master!

“Sure you’re not…”

-I’m really saying this for your sake. Smuggling is not good! It might seem tempting at first glance, but you could lose all your prepared items and end up in the punishment room. And…

The Death Knight hesitated.

He didn’t want to needlessly turn the students against each other.

-…Also, it’s dangerous to trust the upperclassmen too much.

“Yes.”

“That’s right.”

“We know.”

-?!!

The Death Knight was flustered when the students showed indifferent and dry reactions.

-Ah, no. Weren’t you surprised?

“We were surprised.”

-You don’t look surprised at all…

“My friends all tend to be rather expressionless.”

Lee Han brazenly insisted. The Death Knight was confused but had no choice but to nod.

“How is the Principal doing these days?”

-Yes. Thanks to Lord Wardanaz knocking down all the bureaucrats, his work has become much easier.

“????”

The friends nearby doubted their ears.

What did Lee Han do?

However, Lee Han himself didn’t have time to clear up the misunderstanding. Since he had met one of the Principal’s minions, he had to extract as much information as possible.

“Is there anything the Principal is particularly wary of or cautious about?”

-Are you asking because you’re planning to smuggle right now?

The Death Knight wasn’t a fool.

He could understand the meaning behind the students’ questions.

-But I’ll answer you.

“!”

-Because once you learn about Einroguard’s ironclad defenses, you’ll abandon any thoughts of smuggling.

“Oh…!”

If the Skeleton Principal had heard this, he would have scolded him saying ‘There are those it works on and those it doesn’t!’, but fortunately the Skeleton Principal wasn’t nearby.

-My master has increased the number of Death Knights in preparation for the new semester. Knights who were stationed elsewhere have also returned.

‘Do they really need to go this far just to inspect smuggled goods?’

While memorizing the number of Death Knights, Lee Han lamented inwardly.

Couldn’t they just make do with the existing personnel?

-Dimensional hounds have also been summoned. They’ll patrol from the school’s main gate to the mountain range, checking for any smuggled goods that might come through.

“…Uh, do they normally inspect this thoroughly?”

-Usually about once every ten years. After all, we have to call in knights from other places… The dimensional hounds are quite troublesome creatures too.

‘Why does it have to be this year of all times?’

Lee Han was inwardly furious at the fact that he had drawn the worst luck from the smuggling difficulty that periodically rose and fell.

Couldn’t he have chosen an easier difficulty!

“What about the sky…”

-Good question! The number of bone wyverns has increased. I personally thought it was unnecessary to go that far with the sky, but my master is thorough. He probably judged that there might be students who would try to cross through the sky.

“…!!”

This was somewhat chilling.

It could have been a coincidence, but Lee Han instinctively felt that the Skeleton Principal was targeting him.

‘No way. The vacation is over and he’s still…!’

The Skeleton Principal was determined to somehow pay back the humiliation of Lee Han escaping through the spire stables last year.

If he had attempted smuggling with Amur’s help without knowing this, he would have been in big trouble.

‘It’s fortunate I found out in advance, but losing one of the methods is painful.’

It was one of the methods that only Lee Han could use, unlike the upperclassmen, and now it was blocked.

But there was nothing he could do about it even if he felt regretful. Lee Han resolved to abandon the spire stables route until the Skeleton Principal’s wariness subsided.

“But aren’t there many skilled mages among the upperclassmen? Is it possible to check all of their magic one by one?”

The Death Knight, hit in a sore spot, hesitated to answer.

-We can’t… catch them all. But that doesn’t mean you should smuggle. Only an extremely small number succeed a little, do you really want to take that risk?

‘Yes…’

‘We want to take the risk.’

The students thought to themselves.

“Hearing this does make me lose some interest in smuggling.”

-Really!

The Death Knight’s eyes brightened.

He was satisfied if his story could help prevent the students from making mistakes, even a little.

-Then that’s fortunate. You’ll understand once you experience it this time, but there’s no end to the chaos. There isn’t a single student who passes through the inspection quietly. They cast magic, cause disturbances, sneak out, and sometimes even riots break out…

“…Uh, riots?”

-They probably think that if they all act up together, they can’t be put in the punishment room! Of course, my master does put them there. That year, the first week of classes was conducted in the punishment room.

The upperclassmen’s past was very interesting.

Lee Han concentrated intently, wondering if there was anything he could reference.

-And this time, the Warehouse Keeper will also come out to help with the inspection. No matter how excellent the students’ magic is, it will be really difficult to get through!

Lee Han nodded.

The Warehouse Keeper, who had the ability to detect mana, was the very terror of students taking night walks.

Lee Han had been in danger several times too.

‘Wait. If the Warehouse Keeper comes out to inspect, then the underground is…?’

-Lord Wardanaz?

“Yes?”

-Who is that person?

The Death Knight pointed ahead with a perplexed look.

A tightly bound upperclassman who had tried to escape from the manor’s outer room was caught by students and being dragged back.

-You, you bastards. How the hell did you know? Who told you guys?

-Senior, please stay put!

Thud!

As the door closed, Lee Han shrugged his shoulders and said.

“I’m not sure what you’re talking about.”

-…

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