Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 752

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Chapter 752

Professor Garcia was slightly flustered but quickly regained his composure and examined the artifact closely.

What mattered now was rescuing the student, wasn’t it?

The Principal often said ‘an outstanding mage doesn’t choose their means for their purpose,’ so he would understand.

‘…Even if he doesn’t understand, there’s nothing I can do about it!’

“Wait. An ancient artifact with the power to penetrate worlds. Stone-shaped, and an artifact the Principal possesses… isn’t this Saint Iacutus’s Stone?”

Professor Garcia was once again shocked after examining the artifact.

The terrible magic power trapped in the stone wasn’t just crudely compressed and crammed in with brute force.

It was a world.

A new world constructed inside the stone with enormous magic power.

And the purpose of that world existed solely for penetration.

A stone containing a world of order created to penetrate all obstacles blocking its path, and made for penetration.

Any mage would know how absurd stories like ‘a spear that can pierce anything’ were, but this stone made one think of such absurd tales.

It contained that level of destructive power.

“The Principal called it by a different name.”

“That’s because the Principal thinks the creator’s name should be attached rather than the user’s…”

Professor Verdus made an agreeing “Mmhmm” sound.

Artifacts were originally named after their creators, not their users.

But there were always exceptions to rules.

Truly exceptional users would have their names attached instead of the creator’s.

“We can’t just use this. Professor Bagrek. Your body will burn up.”

Professor Garcia spoke with a worried voice.

Even strong artifacts put a burden on their users, so what about ancient relics that each had their own individual names?

Especially this Saint Iacutus’s Stone felt dangerous even when heard about in legends or the Skeleton Principal’s complaints, but seeing it directly with his own eyes, he could feel just how dangerous this relic was.

Neither Professor Garcia nor Professor Bagrek could escape that price.

For such relics, one needed to prepare tricks or workaround methods…

“There is a way.”

Professor Boladi reached out his hand toward Professor Verdus. Seeing this, Professor Garcia exclaimed in shock.

“Even so, you can’t force Professor Beeble to use it!”

Kidnapping was within Professor Garcia’s conscience’s limits, but forcing someone to use a relic and passing the backlash onto them crossed the line.

At that outcry, Professor Boladi looked at Professor Garcia with a very slightly flustered expression.

“…Is that not it?”

“No.”

Professor Garcia felt embarrassed.

To think he alone had thought of human sacrifice.

Professor Boladi broke the sealing magic binding Professor Verdus’s arms.

Immediately, Professor Verdus tried to cast magic while forming hand seals.

Thwack!

Professor Boladi subdued his opponent again.

“Stay still.”

“Mmhmhmhm…”

This time, even when released, Professor Verdus didn’t move. Having accepted reality, Professor Verdus became dejected like a beaver whose dam had collapsed.

“Use this artifact.”

Professor Boladi took out another ancient relic and held it out to the beaver beastman.

At the brilliantly glowing droplet-shaped jewel, Professor Garcia screamed.

“Anabadalda’s Droplet?!”

Seeing the ancient relic called Anabadalda’s Droplet, which according to legend protected its owner from any karmic fire, Professor Garcia was truly amazed.

“How on earth did you obtain it, Professor Bagrek?!”

“I borrowed it from the Principal’s room.”

“…”

Professor Garcia began to worry.

While he and Professor Verdus didn’t much care whether they went to the punishment room, the deep punishment room, or the eternal punishment room, hadn’t he dragged Professor Bagrek into this?

Moreover, he was worried about how much the room had been destroyed to obtain those two ancient relics. The degree of room damage would increase the Skeleton Principal’s anger accordingly.

“Let’s proceed.”

“Ah, yes. Let’s go in when the students clear the area.”

Professor Garcia planned to handle things as quietly as possible.

Originally, even when Einroguard students went missing, professors never went looking for them directly.

As such, he felt a bit sorry about showing other students the sight of three professors (one of whom was even in a sealed state) coming to rescue student Lee Han.

But Professor Garcia had his own excuse.

‘None of the Einroguard students who’ve gone missing before were ever kidnapped by the Principal’s insane doppelganger…!’

All Einroguard students were unfortunate, but some students were a bit more unfortunate than others.

Professor Garcia thought exceptional rules should apply to such students.

“Now.”

The three professors cast invisibility magic and lightly entered the campsite.

Perhaps because it was a weekday afternoon, no students were visible. They had returned to school for now, leaving their work behind.

While the students didn’t skip lectures, Professor Garcia, who had arbitrarily skipped and come up, wore an expression mixed with guilt.

“Sigh. I feel sorry for the other students…”

“?”

“?”

Professor Verdus and Professor Boladi looked at Professor Garcia as if asking what he was talking about.

Professor Garcia realized the two people before him were the most distant from consulting about his guilt and changed the subject.

“…Shall we proceed with the work?”

“This spot seems good.”

Professor Boladi pointed to the magic tent the 5th year students had been using.

The magic tent containing vast space inside was installed precisely in front of the weakness of the great magic spread across the mountain range, making it convenient for work.

Professor Garcia gratefully entered, appreciating the students’ excellence. The three professors dispelled their invisibility magic and looked around inside the tent.

“This is…”

“Mmhmm?”

Professor Boladi removed Professor Verdus’s gag.

Professor Verdus looked at the magic circles and work inside the tent and said.

“This looks like Yukveltire’s work?”

“Don’t say ridiculous things, Professor Beeble. There’s no way student Yukveltire would come here to help student Lee Han.”

“But… but it looks like Yukveltire’s work… What is this?”

Professor Verdus fell into confusion.

Yukveltire wasn’t someone who would come here to help a junior.

But this was Yukveltire’s magic.

This conflicting fact created an error in Professor Verdus’s logic circuits.

“And that’s not what’s important right now. What matters is whether we can borrow it.”

“Correct.”

“Exactly. We can proceed right away.”

“Then let’s do it immediately.”

Professor Garcia picked up the stone and droplet.

At that moment, the tent flap opened and Diret entered alone.

“That bad guy. He’s not even a friend. When time is of the essence, he goes back to check his research…!”

Diret, who had entered while cursing an anonymous Blue Dragon Tower friend, was flustered to see three professors inside the tent.

“…What are you doing here?”

“Uh… well…”

The three professors were just as flustered as Diret.

“We’re proceeding with work?”

“We were preparing for a rescue.”

In truth, only Professor Garcia was flustered.

Professor Verdus and Professor Boladi were confident rather than panicked.

Fortunately, Diret cleverly grasped the situation instead of causing a commotion by shouting things like ‘The Einroguard professors only want to save the Wardanaz family junior!’ or ‘Principal! Look at these professors here!’

“You came to help my junior?!”

“Shh, shh…! Student Diret. Lower your voice.”

“I never expected three of you to come help…!”

Diret was genuinely moved.

Unlike the upperclassmen or his junior’s friends, even professors had come like this.

Even that Professor Boladi and that Professor Verdus were here.

“Not me though? I was kidnapped… Gack.”

Professor Verdus let out a death cry and collapsed as Professor Garcia lightly patted his back.

“That’s right. Student Diret. The three of us came like this. Of course, if an Einroguard student goes missing, they should escape by their own power, but against the Principal’s doppelganger, how could…”

“I agree too!”

Diret shouted passionately.

After talking with that heartless, anonymous Blue Dragon Tower friend, he couldn’t be happier to talk with a normal person like Professor Garcia.

Wouldn’t there be exceptions to rules and such?

No matter how he thought about it, being kidnapped by the Skeleton Principal’s doppelganger was definitely an exceptional situation.

“But Professor. With my and my friends’ level, this was our limit. Do you happen to know any method to break through this, or about counter-magic?”

“There is a method.”

“!”

Diret was amazed.

Indeed, the breadth of magic that Einroguard’s professors possessed was truly unimaginable.

Though he had reached 5th year, Diret couldn’t really imagine if he could ever have such insight.

“We’ll use an ancient artifact here to break through.”

“…”

Diret was slightly taken aback by the unexpected method but accepted it positively.

As expected of professors, they seemed to have prepared such ancient artifacts one by one.

“That’s amazing. To create such an artifact.”

“We stole it from the Principal’s office though?”

“…”

The atmosphere became awkward at Professor Verdus’s words.

Diret smiled awkwardly and replied.

“I, I steal things too when I need them.”

“Me too.”

“…Let’s just proceed with the work.”

“Ah. Wait a moment. I’ll contact my junior. He must be having a really hard time right now.”

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Lee Han used telekinesis to place bacon on a frying pan heated by fire. With a sizzling sound, bacon grease splattered.

Crack-

The eggs behind him shot up into the air, cracked themselves, and dropped into the frying pan. Lee Han allocated half of the precious oil for eggs and the other half for baking bread.

After staying at Einroguard for a long time, one learns to conserve even oil.

“…”

Antagondals looked at Lee Han as if he were the most pathetic and stupid mage in the world.

If he hadn’t been covering his face with a silver mask, he would have cast an even more vicious look of contempt.

“Would you like some?”

“No. I don’t need meals. More importantly, what are you using telekinesis for?”

“Huh? Don’t other mages use telekinesis for chores?”

“They do. But not for cooking!!”

Antagondals spoke in a voice as if he had witnessed an insult to magic.

While one could use telekinesis to conduct alchemy or prepare magical groundwork, there was no mage who used 5th circle magic just to make fried eggs and cook bacon.

If one had such ability, they would normally just employ servants or slaves.

“I’m not an Archmage, so it’s fine.”

“What kind of crazy talk…”

Before he could finish speaking, the Skeleton Principal’s insane doppelganger suddenly entered.

Lee Han put his food on a plate and asked the doppelganger.

“Would you like some?”

He didn’t really want to share, but originally, the more annoying someone was, the more kindness one had to show to avoid being picked on.

Otherwise, Lee Han might have his own food taken away.

At those words, Antagondals looked at Lee Han in shock.

‘Does this guy have no fear?’

Right now, when he should be extremely careful before escaping, he was spouting nonsense even to the insane doppelganger!

However, instead of getting angry, the insane doppelganger showed acceptance.

“Bring it here.”

“Yes.”

Lee Han placed the meal in front of him along with freshly brewed coffee.

The insane doppelganger quietly put the food in his mouth with his bare hands.

‘…Have I gone insane?’

Antagondals was genuinely terrified as he couldn’t understand this surreal scene at all.

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