Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 707

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Chapter 707

“Priest.”

At Perse’s point, Falkrious realized blood was dripping from his ladle and looked embarrassed.

“Oh no! This is all treasure! Thanks, Perse.”

“It’s nothing, Priest.”

“Puhehe, I told you it’s fine to call me casually.”

Falkrious put the ladle back inside and came out.

“Our 【Saint Iacutus Soup Club】 decided to treat you all to a meal first, then explain about the club. Does anyone know why our club has this name?”

The Blue Dragon Tower 2nd year students looked at each other.

Some knew about the legend of Saint Iacutus who defeated an evil dragon with a single stone, but they couldn’t guess what that had to do with soup.

“Is it some soup that Saint Iacutus enjoyed eating?”

“Wahaha! That’s an interesting thought. Similar but no. Everyone knows well about Saint Iacutus’s miracle of defeating the dragon, but they don’t know much about his other miracles.”

The pot-bellied priest senior patted his belly and continued his explanation.

“It’s a story from when Saint Iacutus visited a village one day. The village was divided into west and east, where the west had a good harvest but the east had a bad harvest and was starving. So Saint Iacutus asked the rich people in the west to share their food.”

“I bet they didn’t share.”

“Right! So Saint Iacutus came up with a plan. He said he would make delicious soup with just stones and water. The rich people from the west flocked to watch. While boiling the soup, Saint Iacutus muttered like this: ‘If only I had minotaur shoulder meat, it would make an even more delicious soup.'”

“?”

Lee Han, who had been nodding along to the typical fable, paused.

The ingredient mentioned was far too high-grade.

“Uh, isn’t it usually carrots, onions, or potatoes?”

“Puhe, it’s an old tale, right? Maybe they had recently hunted a minotaur and had plenty of meat. Anyway, when Saint Iacutus muttered like that, someone brought minotaur shoulder meat. Then Saint Iacutus muttered again! ‘If I had rock salt from the fairy caves, it would make an even more delicious soup.'”

“…”

“…”

Even the Blue Dragon Tower students who had been listening with admiration began to feel something was off and tilted their heads.

Weren’t the ingredients too high-grade?

Gainando alone was impressed.

“I use that muttering strategy often too! Until they play wizard cards with me…”

“Really? Wahaha. You might become a hero like Saint Iacutus. Every time Saint Iacutus muttered, the village people brought ingredients, and eventually a delicious soup was completed that could feed the entire village! Our club’s name honors this miracle.”

Asan asked as if he didn’t understand.

“Did this really happen?”

Several other students seemed to have similar thoughts and expressed their doubts.

“For one village to have good harvest on one side and bad harvest on the other…”

“The ingredients seem too high-grade too.”

Even with the underclassmen’s questions, Falkrious didn’t mind.

“Wahaha. It’s an old tale, so it might have changed a bit. But you’re acting like the Principal now! Every time the Principal hears this story, he gets upset about something and argues!”

“What kind of argument?”

“He says originally Saint Iacutus threatened the village people with stones to extort ingredients from them. Puhe. What nonsense!”

“…”

Lee Han somehow thought the Skeleton Principal might be right this time.

Falkrious laughed heartily and continued his explanation.

“Actually, what you’re curious about is something else, right? Rather than the origin of the club name… what the club does and what privileges it has?”

“Yes!”

When Gainando answered honestly and straightforwardly, Falkrious burst into laughter.

“Wahaha, right! Our club gathers ingredients from Einroguard. We cultivate and harvest. We raise livestock and slaughter. You can think of us as scraping together anything that can become ingredients. Since our history is long, our club owns many fields and ranches. Thanks to that, our club members never go hungry.”

“!”

Even students who hadn’t been interested in the senior’s words changed their expressions.

No matter how well Lee Han prepared meals, at Einroguard their stomachs emptied quickly and hunger visited constantly.

To think that joining the cooking club would let them eat much more abundantly than now.

Lee Han was amazed and whispered to the friend beside him.

“That’s impressive, right? I guess having a long club history makes such things possible. Many people must want to join.”

“…Why are you telling me this, Wardanaz?”

Adenart looked at Lee Han with an expressionless face, subtly showing a displeased look.

“Ah. Sorry. I just said it because you were next to me.”

“…”

Adenart looked at Lee Han with slightly suspicious eyes.

She had suspected from before that Wardanaz thought of her as a glutton similar to her half-brother, and lately she was becoming more certain.

“Me! I’ll join!”

Gainando jumped up and shouted while raising his hand. Afraid of losing to Gainando, several other students also raised their hands.

“No! I will…!”

“I’m in the top 10 in alchemy!”

“I’ve helped Wardanaz when he was cooking!”

“Puhehe. Thanks everyone for applying! But our club doesn’t accept just anyone!”

Gainando quickly swung his staff to attack his friends.

The friends who stood up seemed to have expected this and likewise swung their staffs to counterattack.

“I’m going to join!”

“You bastard, the one who gets the most food from Wardanaz should give way!”

Falkrious swung the kitchen knife he was holding.

Then the students who were casting spells at each other tumbled forward.

“How barbaric! This is Einroguard, but that doesn’t mean we do club admissions the Einroguard way!”

Thud!

Falkrious set down a huge cauldron. Water was sloshing inside.

“Try grabbing the handle next to the cauldron!”

“Like this?”

“Right.”

Gainando tilted his head and grabbed the side of the cauldron.

However, the water inside remained calm without any change.

Falkrious, who had been laughing heartily just moments before, completely changed his expression and sent a gaze full of contempt.

“Trash!”

“What? Uh, se-senior. Why are you like this? What did I do wrong?”

“Get lost! Don’t even talk to me. You’re dirtying my ears!”

Falkrious cast a spell to push Gainando away.

“Next! Grab it!”

“I-I’m holding it.”

When the next student grabbed it, a very small bubble rose from the water in the cauldron and disappeared.

Falkrious likewise sent a contemptuous gaze.

“You look like you’ve never cooked for anyone in your life. Trash! Get lost!”

“…”

“…”

The warm atmosphere immediately turned cold. None of those who had volunteered first passed and were driven away.

The cooking club students in the back nodded with pleased faces.

“As expected of Senior Falkrious.”

“He’s merciless to those without qualifications.”

The Saint Iacutus Soup Club’s admission procedure was simple.

Success meant grabbing that Iacutus cauldron and making the water inside boil.

Of course, making the water boil wasn’t easy.

Once inside that cauldron, no magic or external means would work.

Only the mage’s own life experiences could make the water boil.

Did they have experience cooking for others, or not?

Mages who had lived complacently without getting their hands dirty could never pass this test.

“Failed, failed, failed, failed… Oh. Not bad?”

When Yoner’s turn came, Falkrious stopped his contempt and sent an approving look.

The water in the cauldron was bubbling appropriately.

For someone from Blue Dragon Tower to show this level of result wasn’t easy.

“Are you interested in our club?”

“Could I look into other clubs a bit more before deciding?”

“Puhuhuh, of course. Take all the time you need to look around and decide!”

Priest Falkrious was a very generous person toward qualified underclassmen.

When Yoner said he’d look into other clubs before deciding, he readily agreed.

Seeing this, Lee Han felt slightly relieved.

‘He’s a reasonable person like Senior Diret.’

He had invitation authority but didn’t seem to wield it arbitrarily.

“Failed, failed! Failed!! Failed!!! You lazy pig bastards!”

Falkrious went on another rampage, failing students.

Then Lee Han’s turn approached.

“Hold it steady!”

“Yes.”

When the water in the cauldron began to bubble, Falkrious looked at Lee Han as if impressed.

At that moment, the water turned to steam and shot up above the cauldron.

Puhwaak!

“…”

“…”

Not only Falkrious and Lee Han, but also the Kitchen Club students behind them just blinked and watched.

What…

What on earth just happened?

“…Pass! You pass! To think I’d meet an underclassman like you in my lifetime. This is Saint Iacutus’s miracle!”

Falkrious grabbed Lee Han’s shoulders tightly and shook him back and forth while shouting heartily.

Lee Han spoke while being shaken back and forth.

“Se-Senior. I I also want to lo-look into oth-other clubs be-before de-deciding.”

“Huh?”

When the shaking stopped, Lee Han could speak normally.

“I also want to look into other clubs…”

“What are you talking about? No way. You’re joining right now.”

Watching Falkrious immediately shout for someone to bring the papers, Lee Han thought to himself.

‘Hmm. I was wrong in my thinking.’

He was just a crazy person.

* * *

After Falkrious and the Kitchen Club students returned in high spirits over finding such a treasure of an underclassman, the remaining seniors from other clubs cleared their throats.

“Saw something rare. It’s uncommon to see Priest Falkrious that happy.”

“Honestly, I didn’t expect anyone from Blue Dragon Tower to join the Kitchen Club this year.”

Perse also nodded.

Thinking about it again, passing the test like that was unbelievable.

Just how much cooking had he practiced?

“It’ll be good for both the Kitchen Club and that underclassman.”

“You can’t just force someone to join like that! You’ll regret not stopping him!”

Gainando grumbled.

Seeing this, the seniors clicked their tongues.

“Getting jealous because he couldn’t get in.”

“To call such a guy a friend.”

“Now. I’ll explain about the Jousting Club.”

When the Kitchen Club’s turn ended, Perse spoke up.

The clubs gathered here today planned to explain during their respective turns.

“Before explaining, is there anyone here who drove horses through monsters and made it to the desert during Professor Lightningstep’s exam last year in the first semester?”

All the 2nd year students looked at Lee Han.

Lee Han, who had been deeply thinking about how to somehow get rid of the Kitchen Club application form, belatedly noticed something strange and raised his head.

“What’s going on?”

“The senior is looking for you. Lee Han.”

“Senior Falkrious?”

“No. Senior Perse over there.”

“!”

When it seemed Lee Han would be targeted by the Jousting Club following the Kitchen Club, the other club seniors felt instinctive unease.

A senior from the Library Club broke the order and spoke up.

“Wait. Let me ask one thing. Is there an underclassman here who caught a Rock Drake in the library last year?”

“We all caught it together.”

Contrary to Lee Han’s words, all his friends looked at Lee Han. The senior ignored Lee Han’s words and got his answer from the students’ actions.

“Then is the underclassman who built a fortress in the library and held out also here by any chance?”

“That was also all together…”

“I see. Tell Falkrious to come out.”

The Library Club senior took out his staff and hid it behind his back while shouting.

Seeing this, the other club seniors also quietly drew their staffs.

How dare he steal another club’s underclassman so arbitrarily?

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