Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 736

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Chapter 736

“Hey. This seems like a trap.”

“Marcang. Snap out of it! It’s a trap!”

At Erde’s shout, the students in other solitary confinement cells felt suspicious and tried to stop him.

No matter how they thought about it, the situation was strange.

Someone calling Erde senior was wandering around the punishment room.

Logically, it didn’t make sense.

“It’s not a trap! A junior I worked with came to see me!”

“…”

“…This bastard got so drunk on his own lies that he believes them himself!”

The other students sighed.

When he was bragging about having smuggled goods outside, they should have slapped him to bring him to his senses, but leaving him alone had made his condition worse.

Since the punishment room was such a lonely and sad place, students locked up here often fell into madness.

“Marcang. I don’t particularly like you since you’re from a different tower, but as a fellow punishment room comrade, let me give you some advice. The worst kind of lie is one that even you end up believing.”

“Right. When I first came to the punishment room, I lied about coming here after robbing the Principal’s office. That lie led to another lie, and eventually I really had to rob the Principal’s office.”

“You stupid bastards, who are you treating like a delusional patient?! He’s really my junior!”

Naturally, Erde was furious.

The admirable junior from the Wardanaz family had come to see him, but these despicable bastards were slandering him.

“Marcang. Put your hand on your chest and think about it. If you were a junior, would you really come all the way here through this dangerous and complex punishment room maze just to see you? Honestly?”

“He’s right. That’s a trap. It might be the Principal’s new minion.”

“…”

At his solitary confinement friends’ words, Erde began to waver slightly.

Come to think of it, no matter how capable he was, it was hard to believe that someone who had just become a second-year had broken through the punishment room maze to find him here.

Could he really be a minion sent by the Principal?

“…But what would be the point of disguising as that? There’s nothing they can do. This is already the punishment room.”

“They just want to enjoy watching you suffer. That’s the Principal’s hobby.”

At the plausible words, Erde wavered more and more.

Just then, Lee Han came down the stairs and arrived at the end of the corridor.

Seeing the solitary confinement cells on both sides of the corridor filled with upperclassmen, Lee Han breathed a sigh of relief.

“So you’re all here.”

“…!”

“!!”

Without anyone saying anything, the students quickly turned around and stood facing the wall.

If he was the Skeleton Principal’s new minion, even dealing with him would be dangerous.

“Erde senior?”

“…”

“Are you angry because you’re locked up?”

Erde held onto his wavering heart and pretended not to hear.

Lee Han was puzzled, but since he had arrived, he took out the things he needed to do one by one.

“I brought some snacks here. I’ll leave them, so eat them if you’re bored.”

The basket contained freshly baked white bread and honey to dip it in, jam made from strawberries, simple sandwiches with ham and eggs, canned pork and canned beef.

If it were outside, he would have to sell them for money, but Lee Han wasn’t cold-hearted enough to demand payment from a senior who had sacrificed for the success of their operation.

“Is there anyone who would like to eat? I brought plenty. I’ll give them away without taking any gold coins.”

“…”

The upperclassmen’s fear reached its peak.

A minion trying to tempt them by offering food without taking gold coins.

They couldn’t even guess what kind of scheme this was.

“Are you all angry? Then I’ll be going now. Senior. I’ll see you when you get out of the punishment room.”

When no one answered, Lee Han tilted his head and headed back to the stairs.

A Death Knight coming down from above spotted Lee Han and shouted loudly.

-Wait!

“!”

-Not this way, the hidden path in that wall is faster.

“Thank you.”

‘As expected!’

When the Death Knight gave directions instead of arresting him, the students’ conviction grew even stronger.

Only after the junior had completely disappeared did the students in the punishment room breathe heavily.

“Phew. That was a vicious trap.”

“I almost answered without thinking.”

“Marcang. Don’t eat it. I guarantee that’s definitely poison!”

Erde initially thought the same and didn’t even touch the basket.

However, maintaining such patience in the punishment room wasn’t easy.

After trying to check with all kinds of magic, Erde finally took a bite of the bread.

“…It’s delicious?”

“What? Don’t tell me you ate it?”

“This is fine too, and this is fine too… Hey, you stupid bastards!! He really was my junior!!!”

Erde belatedly realized it was really his junior and shouted.

However, the other students still couldn’t believe Erde’s claim.

“Does it make sense that a junior brought you food?”

“It must be a slow-acting poison.”

“Marcang. Then you explain it. If that junior was really your junior, how did he get in here, and how was he friendly with the Death Knight?”

Though frustrated, Erde couldn’t argue back.

It was all too valid a point.

‘Damn. Just how did he get in?’

* * *

Coming out after finishing his lecture, Lee Han spotted Perse senior and her friends.

“Hello, senior.”

“…”

Perse couldn’t answer with a dazed look in her eyes. Her friends beside her explained on her behalf.

“Sorry. Perse just mistakenly transformed into an invertebrate in the lecture, so she might still be suffering from aftereffects.”

“I, I see.”

But the upperclassmen’s expressions looked dark and tired even considering that their friend had mistakenly transformed.

Lee Han spoke to encourage the upperclassmen.

“Everyone cheer up. It’s almost the weekend.”

“…I have lectures on the weekend too.”

“!”

Lee Han was flustered by the senior’s gloomy answer.

Lectures even on weekends?

‘How does that make sense?’

“Why do you have lectures on weekends?”

“Well. Too much content to teach? Insufficient training? The professor went crazy?”

“Even so, that seems too harsh…”

“You’re taking all school magic lectures. That’s what’s harsh.”

“…”

Lee Han was hurt by the senior’s words. Another friend beside them scolded.

“Why are you taking out your cursed lectures on the junior?”

“Hmph. It’s the truth though.”

‘I shouldn’t have greeted them.’

Lee Han thought he should avoid speaking first when he saw tired-looking upperclassmen in the future.

When they were tired, they weren’t just ordinarily sharp.

‘This must be Professor Bendozol’s lecture?’

When he turned his attention to the next lecture, the name 【Terribly Beautiful Creatures】 caught his eye.

This definitely felt like it had a high possibility of being Professor Bendozol just from the name alone.

Even the lecture location was the western Nightmare Echo Forest, quite far from the Main Building.

This forest was notorious among the current second years because some White Tiger Tower and Black Turtle Tower students had nearly gone missing there last year while trying to get food.

All sorts of evil spirits and spectral monsters would rampage, trying to drive out intruders from the forest.

While most of Einroguard’s professors weren’t normal, professors who would hold lectures in such places were rare even among them.

Lee Han walked along the forest path. The path itself wasn’t particularly difficult since he had come this way several times before.

Unless you went into the mountain range, a second-year Einroguard student wouldn’t get lost on flat ground.

‘It’s strangely quiet.’

Since he had recently gone to the Dark Forest with Diret and stepped on a trap left by some crazy mage’s clone, Lee Han became cautiously worried for no reason.

“Sharkan.”

Lee Han summoned his creature and walked slowly while exploring the surroundings.

Not stopping at just summoning Sharkan, he floated a light orb above his staff and cast other enhancement spells.

However, despite doing all this, nothing particular happened.

‘Was I being oversensitive?’

If there had been threats or enemies, they would have appeared by now, but with no particular attacks and no enemies detected by his senses, Lee Han wondered if he had been mistaken.

How long had he walked like that?

A large clearing in the forest came into view. It was the destination for this lecture.

Sure enough, Professor Bendozol was waiting for students with his arms crossed and a displeased expression.

“Professor. Good day to you.”

“…Huh, what?! How did you arrive!”

The professor shouted in surprise at Lee Han’s greeting.

He hadn’t expected a student to arrive this quickly.

Lee Han was even more flustered by that reaction.

“The lecture is starting soon, isn’t it? Of course I’d arrive. But…”

Looking around the clearing, Lee Han belatedly realized that no one else was there.

Something was strange.

If this were a dark magic lecture, it would make sense to attend alone, but no matter how crazy Professor Bendozol was, a lecture like 【Terribly Beautiful Creatures】 should have some degree of popularity.

So why was no one in the clearing?

“Why is no one here?”

“Because they haven’t arrived yet. Do you call that a question? More importantly, how did you arrive?”

“…Were there perhaps traps on the way?”

“Traps, what! That can’t even be called a trap. It’s more like a test!”

Lee Han persistently questioned the shameless professor who said something that sounded familiar from somewhere recently.

As a result, he was able to understand a little about what kind of lecture this 【Terribly Beautiful Creatures】 was.

This lecture was originally one that was always held in dangerous places within Einroguard’s territory.

Originally, he could have brought those creatures directly to show them, but Professor Bendozol put more careful thought into it.

Since rare and powerful creatures lived in dangerous places, it was helpful to go directly to those places to show them.

Of course, students weren’t easily convinced by Professor Bendozol’s intentions. Many students always arrived late or dropped out.

Though it was sometimes heartbreaking because of such insincere students, Professor Bendozol had steadfastly maintained his educational direction.

Right now, hadn’t the professor chosen a date when the mana accumulated in this Nightmare Echo Forest was strong and further provoked the monsters to make them fiercer?

Without his own philosophy about education, it would be difficult to be this diligent.

‘…This is trouble. It’s a crazier lecture than I expected.’

Lee Han felt his heart sink.

He had expected some degree of madness from the moment he guessed it was Professor Bendozol’s lecture, but this was surpassing that.

Having to visit new dangerous areas for every lecture.

“Why aren’t you answering! How did you arrive!”

“I just walked here.”

“Just walked? What about attacks? Evil spirits? Ghost swarms and such?”

“There weren’t any.”

“…”

Professor Bendozol looked at Lee Han with eyes of shock and disbelief.

He couldn’t believe that after preparing so hard, it had no effect on the student.

“Impossible! These evil spirit bastards. Don’t tell me they’re cowardly picking and choosing their opponents!”

While Professor Bendozol raged and analyzed what his mistake had been, Lee Han asked another question.

“Professor. I have something I’m curious about.”

“Griffin? Basilisk? Unicorn?”

“None of those three.”

“Then what are you curious about!”

“It’s just that, if all the students arrive late, how do you proceed with the lecture?”

“If I can’t teach everything, I do it on weekends too.”

Professor Bendozol answered curtly.

He didn’t want to teach students on weekends, but according to Einroguard’s rules, he had no choice.

It was truly regrettable.

“I see.”

“Wait, come here! I need to check why the monsters didn’t even appear…”

Professor Bendozol, who had started speaking, realized that the Wardanaz family boy had disappeared back into the forest.

Surprisingly, this boy was trying to bring other students!

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