Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 714

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Chapter 714

“Here, take Wardanaz with you too. For a field trip of sorts.”

“What?”

At the other club members’ suggestion, Sevius frowned as if asking what nonsense they were talking about.

“You know I work alone when I do relocations.”

“Just this once. Please, just this once.”

“That’s right. Since he robbed the Skeleton Principal’s villa, his skills are proven, aren’t they? He won’t hold you back, senior.”

Seeing the club members persistently asking instead of backing down as usual, Sevius realized that the members really wanted to recruit Wardanaz.

If he saw them make a big score directly, he would feel the charm of this club.

‘If he wants to do it, he’ll do it. Why are they being like that…’

With Sevius’s personality of not stopping those who leave and not blocking those who come, honestly the Einroguard clubs that tried to force juniors to join looked pathetic.

But as a fellow club member, he couldn’t completely ignore the other members’ enthusiasm either.

Remembering the dedication of members who never backed down even when there was dangerous work, Sevius slowly nodded his head.

“…Fine. Tell him if he wants to follow, he can follow.”

“Great!”

“Mr. Wardanaz. This is really a good opportunity. You’ll be able to learn a lot.”

‘Should I call this learning…?’

Lee Han, who had been listening to the seniors’ conversation from the side and suddenly ended up having to follow along, thought to himself.

Of course he would follow along though!

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“Invisibility magic?”

“I can use it.”

“!”

Sevius, who had been walking toward Einroguard in the evening twilight, stopped and showed a slightly surprised expression.

A junior who had only recently become a second-year could use invisibility magic.

Indeed, the guy who had robbed the Skeleton Principal’s villa seemed to be different in some way.

“Let’s wait here for a moment.”

Sevius stopped in front of the stairs going down from the 7th floor to the 6th floor and sat on a nearby flat rock.

Lee Han was puzzled.

‘Weren’t we going to hit a secret storage?’

He had naturally followed this senior’s thievery to gather information.

Basically, Einroguard’s food chain was structured so that the lower the grade, the more they became prey for the upperclassmen.

There was a difference in magical skills, but the information gap was also huge.

The seniors knew all sorts of strange and bizarre locations and rules that the juniors didn’t know about.

Lee Han had planned to help Sevius with his work while picking up some information about storage rooms or workshop locations that the seniors frequented.

But why were they waiting here?

“Are there other paths from the 7th floor to the 6th floor?”

“Quite a few. Since the 7th floor is wide, there are many strange shortcuts and side paths too. I heard there’s even a path leading to the Skeleton Principal’s room.”

“Is that really true?”

“I wouldn’t know. I’ve never seen it… Wait. Someone’s coming.”

Sevius straightened his posture as he saw a White Tiger Tower student walking from far away.

“Invisibility magic.”

“Yes.”

The two quickly cast invisibility magic. Sevius was puzzled when he realized Lee Han’s invisibility magic incantation was much faster and different.

‘Where did he learn that?’

The invisibility magic that Einroguard students commonly used was the 3rd circle magic 【Lesser Invisibility】.

It was a magic that thinly spread thermoptic camouflage around the caster, and among various invisibility magics, it was the most commonly used because it was the easiest to learn and cast.

But the magic the junior had just used wasn’t 【Lesser Invisibility】. The incantation was different and the structure was different too. He was curious where he had learned it.

‘Oops. I need to focus.’

Even if it was the easiest thievery, he couldn’t let his guard down. Carelessness was a thief’s most dangerous enemy.

“Prepared illusion, come forth.”

As Sevius took out a scroll, tore it, and muttered in a low voice, an illusion began to emerge from below the stairs.

It was, surprisingly, the Skeleton Principal’s Death Knight.

-You thief, stop right there!

“Uh… Aaah!”

The approaching White Tiger Tower student saw the Death Knight and fell over in shock.

Then he threw all his belongings to the side to lighten his body and gripped only one sword tightly.

“Kuk. How did you find out? Since it’s come to this, I won’t just get caught! Come! Sword, transform and block the enemy!”

The White Tiger Tower student’s sword rippled like liquid metal, then transformed into waves and began attacking the Death Knight.

At that moment, the Death Knight’s illusion disappeared. The White Tiger Tower student’s eyes widened.

“What… which bastard played such a prank… Skeleton Principal, you bastard, just wait until I graduate! I’ll come find you and attack you!”

The White Tiger Tower student seemed to think the Skeleton Principal had set a trap to mess with the students, and cursed angrily while fuming.

Then he gathered up his thrown belongings and walked away trudging again.

“!”

When they released the invisibility magic, Sevius had a book in his hand.

Lee Han was startled.

In that short time, Sevius had approached the White Tiger Tower student’s belongings and taken only the book he was targeting.

“Amazing!”

“It’s basic. You don’t need flashy magic for relocation. You just need to know how to read the opponent’s actions.”

Sevius knew well that White Tiger Tower students would throw their belongings to the side when entering combat.

If he just made them think the Skeleton Principal’s minion had appeared, they would throw their belongings to the side, so taking the book from there was easy work.

‘He’s not a senior for nothing.’

Lee Han looked at Sevius with eyes mixed with more respect than before.

He had thought he was a greedy mage who sold books at the library club and retrieved books at the relocation club, duplicating gold coins greedily…

“Let’s move. There are several more books to retrieve.”

‘Hmm. He does seem to be a mage who greedily duplicates gold coins too.’

Lee Han, who was following behind Sevius, asked a question out of curiosity.

“But senior. You said that thievery without getting caught is most important.”

“Right. Not getting caught is most important.”

“But if books keep disappearing, won’t they feel something’s off?”

There was a reason for the saying that long tails get stepped on.

If only books disappeared from their possessions, even the dullest person would have no choice but to turn their arrow of suspicion toward the library club.

‘Maybe he settles things with force?’

Lee Han thought of Illeg, the bear beastman senior.

If he had that kind of combat power, it would certainly not matter if there were suspicions or complaints.

The Skeleton Principal was also living well despite causing all sorts of suspicions and complaints.

“They can’t feel it.”

“Pardon?”

“I said they can’t feel it. These bastards have no interest in books whatsoever.”

Though Sevius was always blunt and indifferent, now he was rarely showing hostility all over his face.

“The guys who take books from the library club are divided into two types. One is people who take them and read them diligently. That’s fine. But there are bastards who take them and just use them as pillows or stands for alchemy pots. Mainly White Tiger Tower guys do that…”

‘…I should keep Gainando from meeting the library club members.’

“…Those bastards don’t deserve to have books. I retrieve them from such bastards. So no one notices. Even if they notice later, they’ll think they lost them while wandering around.”

“!”

Lee Han looked at Sevius with surprised eyes.

He had thought he was just a senior crazy about gold coins, but there was actually a reason behind it.

‘Stealing back from guys who take books but don’t read them. This is certainly plausible… No, it’s still strange, but it’s a convincing kind of strange.’

A crazy person with understandable reasons is naturally a bit more approachable than just a plain crazy person.

Lee Han was relieved that the upperclassman before him wasn’t just a crazy person.

“How about setting rules in the library club? That borrowed books should be treasured and read diligently.”

“You think they’d follow such rules?”

“Wouldn’t they follow them if we cursed the books?”

“…”

Sevius looked at his junior with a gaze of shock.

He thought it was a joke, but the face was very serious.

‘Isn’t this guy crazy?’

Come to think of it, he had forgotten because of the polite and well-behaved attitude, but the junior before him was a talent that every club wanted to recruit.

Outstanding talents at Einroguard always harbored some madness.

Sevius raised his guard toward his junior anew.

“…That would cause fights between entire clubs. And Senior Illeg wouldn’t allow it either.”

Illeg, who served as the president of the library club, was a generous and tolerant person.

He was understanding enough to forgive even those who took books out and didn’t read them or damaged them.

-When Einroguard’s library disappears, I’ll recreate the damaged books and put them back on the shelves.

-But Senior! Those bastards used books as firewood because they were cold!

-Let’s forgive them. They must have done such things because they don’t know the joy of books.

But even if Illeg forgave them, Sevius had no intention of forgiving.

“Next is… this bastard again.”

“Who is it?”

“Balpatan of the Moradi family. This bastard borrowed the same book and lost it three times. If he were a library club member, he would have been sentenced to bookshelf punishment.”

Sevius gritted his teeth looking at the name written on the paper.

Balpatan, who was in the same year, had been one of those who infuriated Sevius from before.

Being from White Tiger Tower was already unlikable, but he had even lost the 【History of Imperial Swordsmanship】 book three times.

The fourth request to find it was barely accepted after Illeg mediated when the library club members were about to just ban him from entry.

“…”

At the familiar upperclassman’s name, Lee Han managed his expression and looked away.

“Even so, since you’ve found it for the fourth time, wouldn’t he read it?”

“I heard last time he was using it as a pillow. Let’s go.”

‘Hmm. It does seem like the other upperclassmen’s fault too.’

Sevius came down to the 6th floor.

Unlike the 7th floor which had a completely different regional atmosphere, the 6th floor looked like the school main building that Lee Han originally knew.

Endlessly long corridors and windows. Lecture hall doors and magic lamps hanging from the ceiling.

‘Let’s not let my guard down.’

Basically, Einroguard buildings became more dangerous as the floors got higher.

Lee Han prepared himself not to be surprised even if monsters jumped out from the doors or windows beside him.

“This way.”

Sevius opened a window and jumped out. Lee Han was startled, but surprisingly, stairs began to form in the air.

‘6th floor, air stairs.’

Walking along the stairs, Sevius stopped in front of another window and took out his staff. Then he cast a spell to open the locked window.

“Reveal the hidden secret…”

Sevius clicked his tongue while attempting the magic.

“Is there a problem?”

“The White Tiger Tower students must have heightened their defenses in the meantime. It won’t unlock.”

“Let me try.”

“Forget it. Let’s retreat. They seem to have cast quite an expensive spell…”

Bang!

“I opened it. Should we go in?”

“…Yeah.”

Sevius sent his junior a look mixed with shock, suspicion, confusion, and more, but like a professional location mover, he didn’t waste time with unnecessary questions.

He could ask later.

Click!

“This is one of the storage rooms the White Tiger Tower students use.”

Various armor and swords came into view. Each one was an artifact with magic cast on it.

Of course, they weren’t cleanly made enough to be called masterpieces. Some weapons clearly felt like failures.

“Don’t touch anything else. Look for the book first.”

“Yes.”

Lee Han admired Sevius’s patience. To see all this and not take anything else.

Sevius retrieved 【History of Imperial Swordsmanship】. Sure enough, it was being used as a whetstone stand in the corner.

‘I’m really going to kill him…’

“Senior. Who’s next?”

At his junior’s question, Sevius answered with a less gruff attitude than before.

He couldn’t deny that this time had definitely been helpful.

“Professor Verdus.”

“Pardon?”

“Professor Verdus, I said. If you’re scared, you don’t have to come. You’ve helped enough…”

“No. I definitely want to go.”

“…?”

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