Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 693

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Chapter 693

When his senior kept his eyes closed and continued trying to escape from the illusion magic despite his words, Lee Han slapped his senior’s cheek.

Smack!

“Ack!”

“Senior! Get a grip! This is reality!”

In a situation where he couldn’t use any particular magic, the best way to break illusion magic was to provide stimulation.

Strong concentration or stimulation would subtly twist the flow of mana, causing one to awaken from the illusion.

Lee Han slapped his cheek once more. This time it was the opposite side.

Smack!

“Wait, wait! This seems to be reality!”

“Thank goodness.”

Erde rubbed both his cheeks. The stinging sensation was definitely real no matter how he looked at it.

‘This bastard is really scary…’

Of course, when someone fell into confusion related to illusion magic, it was right to help them as quickly as possible.

Though it seemed ridiculous, it was quite a serious problem.

If someone fell into the delusion that they were under illusion magic even when they weren’t actually under illusion magic, the boundary between reality and illusion would collapse and they could go insane.

However, not many people could immediately slap both cheeks of their senior with full force.

He was truly a monster who would gather first-year students from all four towers and attempt a smuggling operation.

Erde became newly curious about the underclassman before his eyes.

He would be moving up to second year now, so there was no way such a guy wouldn’t become famous…

“You, what family did you say you were from?”

“Senior. Let me explain more about the plan.”

“Oh, okay.”

Lee Han began explaining the plan he had prepared.

The passage Lee Han was targeting now was the underground passage he had used to go out with Professor Garcia during the first semester.

Among Einroguard’s numerous underground passages, several passages were used as routes for external merchant workers to come and go.

Among them, Lee Han knew the location of a passage connected to the hidden secret brick door of the underground warehouse.

“I understand.”

Erde nodded.

“What do you understand?”

“You discovered that book. 【The Secret Paths of Einroguard】. That’s a trap the Principal made. If you stick your head in there, it’s the punishment room.”

“…”

Wondering just how many books the Skeleton Principal had made and scattered around, Lee Han replied in disbelief.

“This is a passage I went in and confirmed myself.”

Erde’s mouth gaped open.

Right now, Erde was directly experiencing that if a person gets surprised too many times in one day, they can’t even speak properly anymore.

“There are three merchant carriages, and they’re scheduled to arrive at dawn on the first day of March.”

“Wa, wait.”

“?”

“Sorry for interrupting again, but how do you know the number of merchant carriages or their scheduled arrival time?”

“I went and asked them.”

“There’s no way they’d just tell you!”

“I forged the Principal’s and Professor’s signatures and pretended to be there on additional errands.”

“…”

Lee Han had visited the merchant group with forged signatures of the Skeleton Principal and Professor Verdus.

The merchant group, which would normally have gone through verification procedures, was fooled by Lee Han who knew the location and process of the underground passages so well, and spilled their schedule.

“Wait. If the carriages arrive at dawn on the first day of March…”

“That’s right.”

The first day of March was like a nightmare day for Einroguard students.

It was the day Einroguard’s new semester began.

Everyone had to pass through the main gate in the morning, but if dawn was the scheduled arrival time for the carriages?

“We need to pass through the underground at dawn, safely store the carriage goods, then escape again and arrive at the main gate.”

“That’ll be tough…!”

Erde fanned his collar as heat rose in his body.

Though he said that, he was excited by the thought that this might actually work.

“That’s why I need you, Senior. I know the underground passage routes, but I’ve never experienced the inspection situation as a second-year. If it seems like we’ll run short on time while working, we need to delay the start of the inspection.”

“How?”

“I don’t know either. We’ll have to use any means necessary. Maybe summon a demon…”

“Demons won’t work. Einroguard’s preparations against demon-like bastards are too solid, so the inspection side won’t even glance at it.”

Every time summoning accidents caused by students increased, Einroguard’s magical defenses increased accordingly.

Lee Han said bitterly.

“We’ll have to pray we don’t need to improvise.”

“Let me ask just one more thing.”

Erde was now completely entranced and absorbed in Lee Han’s plan.

His attitude of looking down on him as an underclassman had completely disappeared, and he was filled only with thoughts of participating in this plan and making it succeed.

Among the student smugglers currently in Granden City, this method seemed like the plan with the highest possibility of success.

“Please ask.”

“How do you know the warehouse keeper won’t be underground?”

Erde knew the warehouse keeper well too.

In fact, there were few Einroguard students who didn’t know the warehouse keeper.

After enrolling, when wandering around looking for the underground kitchen and warehouse while clutching their starving bellies, they would hear terrifying footstep sounds from afar.

The Skeleton Principal’s tracker who possessed mana detection abilities, the warehouse keeper!

More than a few students had been caught while stuffing bread and cheese into their mouths.

“I confirmed it with the Death Knight. He said he’s participating in the inspection this time.”

“The inspection side is in big trouble! …Hey. Wait. Who did you say you confirmed it with?”

* * *

During the remaining period, Lee Han and his friends checked supplies and prepared their plan.

And finally, that day arrived.

The last evening of February.

Even the moon was covered by clouds, making it unusually dark.

“Everyone, good luck.”

“May the skeleton shatter!”

Erde confidently offered his blessing.

Until the underclassmen looked at Erde in bewilderment.

“…Isn’t that, isn’t that too harsh?”

“Uh… don’t you guys say things like this? We used to say this before doing anything…”

Erde felt the generation gap and shrank back.

‘Isn’t it cool…’

“Everyone drink up.”

Gulp!

The appearance of the students who drank the disguise potion made by Yoner and Siana changed.

Though it wasn’t a high-difficulty potion that could change even their race, it was sufficient for smuggling work.

Lee Han nodded at his appearance with a bushy beard growing out and his body becoming thick and bumpy.

“Let’s depart. We’ll meet at the main gate tomorrow!”

Lee Han’s group split into two.

One was the team that would directly pass through Einroguard’s underground passages and enter the warehouse.

Lee Han and Erde participated in this one.

The other was a group waiting in the rear to prepare for any unexpected situations.

Durgyu and Nilia led them.

Clatter clatter-

“Three carriages worth of smuggled goods. If we succeed, this year’s Einroguard black market will be abundant.”

Erde, disguised as a coachman next to Lee Han, muttered.

In the first year, since first years only interacted among themselves, the market economy within Einroguard didn’t function properly, but from the second year onwards, the story was different.

The scale of the black market would immediately grow and restaurants would emerge.

But even this market economy couldn’t avoid being affected by circumstances.

When the cooking club or several students with exceptional talent for securing supplies were sent to the punishment room, prices would immediately rise.

Sometimes in Einroguard, you couldn’t buy what you needed even if you had silver coins.

But three carriages worth of smuggled goods!

Even if the students participating here generously divided among themselves and only released the remaining items to the black market, favorable winds would blow through Einroguard for a while.

“Junior. Have you thought about what you’ll do if we succeed?”

“You mean me?”

“Yeah. All those supplies. After you stockpile enough to eat and use for one semester, what are you planning to do with the rest?”

“I was thinking of cooking and selling to my friends.”

“That’s good too.”

Erde nodded, thinking as expected.

There was no way such a seasoned guy wouldn’t think of selling surplus goods.

“How much are you planning to sell for?”

“About one silver coin per meal?”

“…What?”

At the unbelievable price, Erde doubted his ears.

“Oh, is that too expensive?”

“No, no. It’s too cheap. Are you joking?”

“I’m not joking.”

Erde wondered if his junior was mistaken about something.

Either cheating on quantity or using cheap ingredients (though even then, one silver coin was too cheap).

But that wasn’t it.

From what he heard, this junior was simply planning to let people eat their fill and then receive one silver coin.

“Are you crazy?! Why are you selling it like that?! The cooking club guys would have heart attacks if they heard!”

“Even this is expensive compared to the cost price…”

“You’re talking about cost price. Where’s the cost price in Einroguard! There might be original sin though. Enrolling is the original sin. And if you’ve committed a sin, you should pay five silver coins for one rye bread.”

‘Is it that bad?’

Lee Han felt bewildered by his senior’s words.

He had thought he was taking quite a profit, but apparently that wasn’t the case.

“Wait. Have your friends ever eaten their fill for one silver coin?”

“When I cooked food, it was like that.”

“What kinds of food were they mainly?”

Grain dishes using rice, wheat, and rye.

Not only onions, ginger, corn, mushrooms, peas brought from the vegetable garden or cabin, but also goat milk, cow milk, eggs. Grapes, peaches, pumpkins, figs.

For sauces and spices, everything from maple syrup to honey, marmalade, peppers, nutmeg, olive oil, whole peppercorns, tomato sauce.

Various dried fish, pickled sardines, mackerel, herring. For meat, large chunks of raw ham and beef, pork, lamb. Sausages and bacon, etc…

“…were mainly used. Since I’m not a chef, the menu was simple.”

“…”

Erde felt an intense desire not to believe what his junior had just said, a crazy impulse to chase all the juniors who had eaten this and lived well to Baldroguard, and finally, violent hatred toward himself for entering a year early.

“I should have rather not listened…”

“This way.”

Lee Han moved the carriage along the path he had taken last year.

Just in case, he had even done reconnaissance several times on this path. As the carriage passed between two unremarkable trees, a sudden change in mana occurred.

“!”

Erde belatedly sensed the magic and was shocked.

There really was a path here.

Rumble-

Suddenly the path ahead bent downward and began connecting underground. Erde swallowed, thinking it had begun.

This wasn’t his first time stealing in Einroguard, but he had never once not been nervous.

Especially theft on this scale…

-You came earlier than expected.

Erde felt a shock that made his heart seem to stop at the familiar voices of the Death Knights.

‘What are you going to do?’

‘Please stay still.’

Lee Han said nothing and remained still. Erde felt anxious as his junior disguised as the person in charge remained still.

Should he do something?

-Don’t talk to the workers. They get scared.

“!”

Lee Han already knew well from experience that the workers who came here all kept their mouths shut and stayed silent.

If he stayed still as if frightened by the Death Knights, they would interpret it on their own.

-I merely said you came earlier than expected.

-You can come early. The inspections are taking a lot of manpower this year anyway, so it’s good if we finish early.

-It’s probably because of that boy?

-Probably.

-The Master seems to torment the Wardanaz Family boy too much. At this rate, like the other disciples, he might snap…

-Now now. Don’t say such impious things.

The Death Knights let the carriage pass through roughly.

At the sound of wheels slowly rolling again, Erde patted his chest in relief.

They had successfully overcome the most dangerous crisis!

Now the plan was as good as half successful.

Erde whispered in an excited voice.

“You crazy bastard. You did it. You’re the one who did it!”

However, Lee Han’s face was twisted with pain and hatred instead of happiness.

“Why, why are you like that? What’s wrong?”

“It’s nothing. Let’s continue.”

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