Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 694

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Chapter 694

Lee Han’s group drove their carriage through the underground passage.

Each time the solid stone floor and carriage wheels collided, echoes spread up to the high ceiling of the tunnel.

Erde inwardly clicked his tongue at the sight of the lights illuminating the long, lengthy underground passage.

It was no exaggeration to say that beneath Einroguard, there were so many passages that even the Principal couldn’t grasp their full number.

Who would have thought there was a path like this here.

“This reminds me of the passage we found last year.”

“A passage?”

Lee Han asked with delight.

When his junior’s face escaped from the expression twisted with pain and hatred, Erde felt slightly relieved and answered.

“Yes. Do you remember last year’s flood by any chance?”

“Yes.”

There was no way he could forget.

How much Lee Han and the first-year students had suffered.

Lee Han even had to directly confront an enraged spirit to solve that problem.

“Einroguard’s natural disasters are painful, but at the same time they become opportunities for students.”

‘He sounds just like the Principal.’

Lee Han thought something that would make the other person burst into sorrowful tears if they heard it.

“When the school’s solid order is shaken, hidden shortcuts are revealed. It was the same back then.”

“You were lucky.”

“Well…”

Erde made a bitter expression.

“It was a path, but it happened to be a sewer where magical waste passed through. Even then, we got caught and failed.”

Escape from Einroguard always carried countless failures and dangers.

Just because a path appeared didn’t mean there would always be glory.

“Junior. With your abilities, you’ll probably manage well on your own, but never let your guard down. Einroguard is like a swamp. If you’re careless, it’ll be up to your neck before you know it.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

“I hope nothing goes wrong.”

Erde looked back with a worried expression.

He was concerned about where they were about to enter, but honestly, he was equally worried about what was behind them.

Since this plan was built on tight timing, any variable that occurred would complicate the situation.

He wasn’t confident whether the first years handling the rear would do as well as the first year beside him.

“It’ll be fine. All my friends are as outstanding as I am.”

“True. Looking at those potions, they’re no ordinary thing. Professor Thunderstep would be delighted.”

“Priest Siana who made those is back there.”

“That’s reassuring. What about your other friends?”

“Durgyu is an excellent knight. He’s evenly matched with me in swordsmanship.”

“I see… Huh?”

Erde hesitated.

If someone was evenly matched in swordsmanship with a Blue Dragon Tower student, wouldn’t that mean they weren’t particularly outstanding?

“R-right. And?”

“Nilia is a hunter from the Shadow Patrol.”

“What’s the Shadow Patrol?”

“What? How can you not know about the Empire’s finest patrollers who guard the Northern Mountains?”

When his usually calm junior got angry, Erde was flustered.

“S-sorry. I’m from the south.”

“Even if you’re from the south, this is common knowledge!”

“I-I’ll remember that. What about other friends?”

“Hmm. I think I mentioned everyone…”

Yoner, who was driving the carriage behind them, said quietly.

“Gainando.”

“Ah. Gainando. Gainando is also a good friend.”

“You just forgot him, didn’t you…”

“I made a mistake because I’m nervous.”

“So what’s amazing about that friend?”

“Senior. Your voice is too loud. Please be quiet.”

“…”

This bastard?

* * *

“Will it be okay?”

“It’ll be fine.”

“Will it be okay?”

“It’ll be fine.”

“Will it be okay?”

“It’ll be fine.”

“Will it be…”

Nilia, Durgyu, and Siana exchanged glances.

Then they quickly grabbed Gainando’s arms and covered his mouth.

“Mmph! Mmph mmph!”

No matter how much they tried to be patient, having their friend worry about whether things would be okay once every five seconds was a bit much.

When the calmed Gainando signaled to be released, Durgyu carefully removed the gag.

“Gainando. If you keep doing that, we’ll have to tie you up again.”

“Sob sob. I’m just worried.”

“I’m worried too, Gainando. But it’ll be fine. Lee Han went.”

“It’s okay if Yoner gets caught, but I hope Lee Han escapes.”

At Gainando’s muttering, Nilia and Siana sent him looks full of contempt.

That trash bastard!

“You should say the senior should get caught instead.”

“Right. The senior will be fine.”

“True. The senior might be okay…”

While they were deciding on a sacrifice among themselves, a faint light began to appear in the distance.

At that light, Nilia felt her heart sink.

“C… carriages!”

“What? That’s impossible. It shouldn’t be time yet!”

Nilia lightly jumped down from the tree and whispered urgently.

“Three of them. Two lanterns per carriage. They’re merchant carriages.”

“Damn, Lord Pleming!”

“?”

Durgyu momentarily doubted his ears at Priest Siana’s curse, but there was no time to ask again now.

Merchant carriages arriving at this time was the worst-case scenario among what they had expected.

Lee Han had entered the merchant group and forged fake communications with the Principal and Professor Verdus’s signatures.

Among the contents was delaying the real carriage arrival time by about three hours.

The plan was to use that gained time for Lee Han’s group to quickly strike and escape…

“It seems like since it’s a job delivering supplies to Einroguard, they want to arrive early and wait.”

“Why does Einroguard have such an unnecessarily bad reputation?”

“There’s no choice. Take out what we prepared! Gainando. Can you do it well?”

“W-well.”

They had prepared, but when the situation actually came, Gainando was nervous.

Durgyu grabbed Gainando’s shoulders and spoke firmly.

“You have to do this. Gainando! If you fail, Lee Han might get caught!”

“I… I got it. I’ll do it! Let’s go!”

“Good. Everyone to your positions!”

In the distance, a merchant carriage approached with rattling sounds.

Usually the workers would hum songs during such trips, but today they were quiet as mice.

They only muttered very quietly.

-Please let us deliver safely and come back…

-Please let us deliver safely…

Delivering supplies to Einroguard was scary no matter how many times they did it.

“He-help us!”

“?!”

“My friend collapsed!”

Nilia rushed out and shouted to the workers.

The workers looked over in confusion. Inside the thicket was a blonde boy who had collapsed, foaming at the mouth.

“What happened?”

“We came out to see the great moon squirrels that only appear at night, but he accidentally ate some strange flower!”

“Why would you eat something like that?!”

The workers got angry without realizing it.

Even though the other person seemed quite wealthy and of high status, it was absurd enough to make them angry.

“So-sorry. It’s just… the color looked pretty…”

“How can you just eat anything because the color looks pretty!”

The workers hurriedly ran over and checked Gainando’s condition.

Gainando closed his eyes and concentrated.

‘I’m sick. I’m sick.’

Recalling his experiences of faking illness when he didn’t want to study last year, Gainando foamed at the mouth and trembled violently.

The workers became serious at the sight.

“He seems very seriously ill.”

“Around here, he might have eaten Kalaibi flowers or Ranaton flowers, right?”

“Either way, we need to get him to the village quickly.”

After the workers’ report, the supervisor pondered and made a decision.

“Get on the carriage! It’ll be uncomfortable since it’s a cargo wagon, but there’s no choice. It’s fortunate we left early.”

The students’ faces brightened as they somehow succeeded.

They had succeeded in buying time!

Clatter, clatter-

“?”

When horse hoofbeats were heard from another direction, the workers and students turned their heads.

An unfamiliar traveler was approaching on horseback.

“Excuse me. Is there an injured person here? I was passing by on the upper road over there, and it seemed like someone was hurt…”

“Are you by any chance a healing mage?”

“Yes. I’m Fil, a healing mage from Einroguard.”

“Gasp!”

The workers were delighted, while the students despaired.

Of all times for a senior to appear without reading the room!

“From Einroguard! What great fortune! There’s someone here who collapsed after eating a strange flower!”

“Why did they eat that?!”

“We don’t really know either!”

“I understand. I’m coming!”

As Fil began approaching, the underclassmen looked at each other with despairing eyes.

Then Gainando whispered to Siana.

“Priest Siana.”

“Yes?”

“That… give me that. Quickly.”

“Don’t tell me…”

Siana was flustered.

There was definitely the poison she had made at Gainando’s request before departure.

Real poison that wouldn’t threaten his life but would make him genuinely sick!

She thought he might use about a drop if his acting was awkward, but surely not now?

“Quickly!”

“He-here.”

“Tell Lee Han. That I drank it heroically…!”

“I will!”

Gainando opened the cap of the real poison and gulped it down.

Then he began foaming at the mouth and convulsing.

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

“Oh, my! Please hurry! The patient’s condition is bad!”

Fil hurriedly arrived and checked Gainando’s condition.

Then he cried out in shock. There wasn’t just one type of poison.

“How many flowers did he devour… no, how many different flowers did he eat?”

“We don’t really know…”

“Let’s go to the village! The reagents I have with me right now might not be enough!”

“Understood!”

“Hang in there! I’ll treat you soon!”

As Fil firmly grasped Gainando’s hand and shouted, the other friends watched the scene with complicated expressions.

* * *

-Please organize it inside.

When they reached the end of the underground passage, the storage appeared.

It was a storage Lee Han had seen before.

‘The warehouse keeper isn’t here!’

Lee Han and Erde exchanged glances.

Since the Death Knight had little interest in organizing storage, it wouldn’t come inside.

Now they just needed to enter the storage and move as quickly as possible.

Luck was following them.

Thud!

Lee Han’s group lifted boxes from the carriage and set them down inside the storage like skilled workers.

“Yoner, Ratford. I’m counting on you. If we can’t come back…”

“Forget it. Let’s just get caught together.”

“No. You guys at least get the carriage moving. What’s the point of all of us being in the punishment room together.”

In case of an unexpected situation, two people had to remain in the storage to make excuses.

The Death Knights might be indifferent to such matters, but having no one there was a different story.

“Rise, skeletal warriors.”

Lee Han summoned skeleton warriors enhanced with dark elements and even called Gonadaltes to take the leader role.

Given the cargo they had to move, they needed many hands.

Erde was dumbfounded watching the undead summons and just closed his mouth.

“Let’s go.”

“Yeah, let’s go!”

Lee Han and Erde picked up their cargo and began running.

Running through the deserted underground warehouse area and climbing up the stairs, the central foyer rear area came into view.

Empty banquet halls and large halls, along with several closed doors.

“This way!”

From here on, it was territory Erde knew well, so they ran without hesitation.

Cross over to the front area of the central entrance and go up the stairs to the main building 2nd floor storage!

That was the original plan…

“!”

“!!!!”

Both were startled.

Where there should have been a door leading to the front area, there was a wall instead.

“Damn Einroguard! The layout has changed!”

Erde spat out a curse.

Einroguard’s terrain changed frequently, but why did it have to change here at a time like this!

“We need to find a door!”

“It’s difficult without clues. In a situation like this…”

Even at his senior’s words, Lee Han remained unshaken.

‘Though Einroguard’s main building is ever-changing, the first floor where outsiders frequently enter doesn’t change so easily. There must be a door somewhere not far from here.’

Lee Han sharpened his senses and tried to feel the flow of mana around them.

Where there is magic, there is a path.

If he could find something out of place, surely…

“Senior. This wall, it’s not a wall but a door!”

“What?”

Erde reacted belatedly and waved his staff.

Surprisingly, his junior was right.

It wasn’t a wall, but a door cleverly disguised as a wall!

If he had majored in illusion magic, he should have noticed it first, but he made a mistake due to his anxious state.

Erde’s face reddened with embarrassment.

“Sorry! I should have found it. I’ll dispel it right away.”

Once the illusion wall was dispelled, the door would appear. Erde knelt on one knee, placed his staff against it, and was about to recite an incantation.

“Senior. How long do you think it will take?”

“5 to 10 minutes!”

“That won’t do. Let’s break it with force!”

“How can you break this with force?!”

Erde’s eyes widened at such a crude suggestion.

Lee Han placed his staff against it and swung a mana hammer, blasting away the illusion.

Thud!

The wall disappeared and the door revealed itself.

“Let’s go!”

“You… what did you just…”

“It’s Baldoron’s Mana Hammer!”

“…You must explain this in detail later!”

Erde ran forward, confused by the name of an illusion mage he’d never heard before.

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