Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 760

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Chapter 760

“There’s just a minor ownership dispute!”

Who do the belongings of Einrogard belong to?

Perhaps this difficult question might be one that Einrogard’s mages would have to carry with them forever.

An anonymous lich claimed “they belong to the Principal who is the lord,” an anonymous troll hybrid professor argued “don’t they belong to whoever takes care of them?”, and radical students insisted “they belong to whoever needs them,” but no definitive answer had emerged yet.

And usually the rules changed flexibly depending on the situation.

-Wait. I claimed this alley passage first. Pay a toll if you want to pass through.

-You’re insane. Are White Tiger Tower students bandits instead of knights? Attack!

-Wait. I claimed this alley passage first. I’ve been repairing the collapsed passage and regularly removing traps that appear. Pay a toll if you want to pass through.

-Honorable White Tiger Tower student. I express gratitude for your hard work. Here, I’ll pay the toll.

Ownership was recognized to some extent based on the other student’s contribution or justification.

However, this mushroom cultivation field was a place where ownership was quite complexly tangled.

More than ten years ago, a senior had discovered this colony where mushrooms grew on their own by chance…

-Friends, I found a mushroom field!

-Are there fog cloud mushrooms too?

-Yes! Now we won’t need to enter the Fog Mountain anymore!

-Wait. If it’s that kind of field, other guys might try to steal it.

-Let’s join forces and protect it together. This mushroom field is ours!

A few years later, when the seniors graduated, the underclassmen inherited and divided it among themselves…

-I helped the senior the most. I should get the largest area!

-You’re talking nonsense. Who took care of the mushrooms the most?

-It’s a place that grows even if left alone, what care! Stop talking nonsense and divide it equally!

Even the inherited areas became complexly tangled, causing disputes.

-From here to here is my territory!

-What are you talking about? It says this isn’t yours.

-Forgery?! You bastard. You forged it!

-Excuse me, may I ask something. I bought the rights to this mushroom cultivation field for twelve gold coins…

After forgery, theft, robbery, quarrels, and so on continued one after another, the mushroom cultivation field had now become a strange land with multiple owners.

“What kind of place is that?”

“I heard there are many such places in Einrogard?”

“…”

Lee Han, who had returned to the bottom of the embankment where his friends were waiting, was dumbfounded by Yoner’s words.

“There’s no choice. We’ll have to rob it.”

“I knew you’d say that, Wardanaz.”

Lee Han briefly wondered if he should have a sincere conversation with Priest Siana later.

‘She doesn’t think of me like the seniors from the Displacement Club, does she?’

He only moved things for survival purposes when there was no other choice, never because he enjoyed it.

…Probably.

“It would be better to wait until night, right?”

“That’s the problem.”

“?”

“Alchemy classes have started, right? Everyone’s busy gathering materials to use for the semester.”

“That’s right.”

“The seniors know that too, so they’ll probably hold out there for a while.”

“…”

Lee Han poked his head above the embankment and checked again.

Various sleeping bags and traces of camping preparations were scattered around the seniors. It looked like preparations to stay for several more days.

“I didn’t want to attack the seniors… I’m wondering how to avoid being caught.”

“Don’t you usually worry about whether you can win first?”

Yoner was dumbfounded by his friend who naturally assumed victory and made plans accordingly.

* * *

Professor Mortum coughed and gestured.

“You may open the door.”

Creak-

The door of the bone carriage that had just landed in the spire stable opened, and a coughing mage walked out.

The mage was someone who looked sick and exhausted like Professor Mortum.

The only difference was that Professor Mortum was short while this mage was tall.

“You still don’t look well, Professor Taswan. I’m worried that research on curses of restraint might be too harsh for mages.”

“Cough. I’m fine. The research on curses of restraint is mostly finished. My poor physical condition is due to the curse I received from Lord Gonadaltes. The one I got at the gathering when I said Callarogard was one of the empire’s twin pillars along with Einrogard…”

“…”

Professor Taswan was a professor at Callarogard, the magic school where the empire’s dark mages gathered, and was also an excellent dark mage himself.

And it was difficult for the empire’s dark mages to have no connection with the Skeleton Principal.

The Skeleton Principal was the only mage who had received the orthodox transmission of dark magic passed down from ancient times, and since he had contributed to creating the empire’s current magic system, they inevitably had to be influenced by him to some degree.

Professor Taswan had been struck by the Skeleton Principal seven years ago at a gathering of dark mages in the Purple Mountain Range.

It was a pleasant festival-like gathering called 【Night of Dark Mages】, a delightful occasion where the empire’s outstanding dark mages and liches who often heard “Are you still alive?” would participate.

The Imperial Demon Lord, visiting after a long time, made the festival even more exciting with various secrets and mysteries of dark magic, and his unrestrained critiques of his juniors’ magic.

Professor Taswan, despite his body weakened by long dark magic research, was so happy that he downed several cups of strong poisoned wine.

And then, intoxicated, he babbled this nonsense in front of the Skeleton Principal.

-Lord Gonadaltes! I’m truly delighted. As a dark mage of Callarogard, one of the twin pillars leading the empire along with Einrogard…

-What did you just say?

The Skeleton Principal cast a curse as punishment for the insult to Einrogard and for stupidity (a mage should be able to judge for themselves rather than believe false rumors).

That curse still hadn’t been completely dispelled, so Professor Taswan was still ailing.

“Professor Taswan. I don’t know if this will be comforting, but the Principal is busy right now. You probably won’t be able to meet him.”

“What truly delightful news! Thank you, Professor Mortum. I feel some vitality returning to my body.”

As the still cold spring night breeze swept across the spire stable, Professor Taswan shivered. Despite wearing an outer coat with powerful warming magic, the cold rushed in.

“Have a cup of warm honey tea here. My disciple made it.”

“Ooh…”

Professor Taswan carefully received the cup and drank the honey tea. The hot golden liquid went down his throat, warming his body.

That wasn’t all. Whether alchemy was used, it even had an effect of healing the body. Professor Taswan asked curiously.

“Student Diret made this honey tea? I didn’t know he was excellent at alchemy too.”

“No. It’s a new disciple who joined.”

“I’m envious, Professor Mortum. It seems another excellent disciple has joined. Since Einrogard is where the empire’s best talents gather, excellent talents in dark magic must be joining too… At Callarogard, it’s always difficult to gather disciples. My disciples are sincere and excellent, but so few new people join.”

Professor Taswan shook his head, sharing the sorrows of a dark mage.

At least Einrogard, being the empire’s top magic school, seemed to have many talented individuals joining the dark magic school.

In comparison, it was really difficult for Callarogard to find disciples.

People who had talent in magic while simultaneously wanting to devote themselves to dark magic were quite rare talents.

“…”

Professor Mortum hesitated, unable to tell the truth immediately.

He couldn’t bring himself to say that Einrogard’s dark magic school also had fewer than five new students.

“Congratulations on having many disciples join, Professor Mortum. Other dark mages would be happy to hear this news.”

Professor Taswan was genuinely delighted. Seeing this, Professor Mortum squeezed his eyes shut.

Now he had completely missed the opportunity to speak.

“…Where are your disciples?”

Professor Mortum changed the subject. Professor Taswan pointed to the bone carriage.

“They’re inside. They all haven’t recovered from the poisoning yet, so it’ll take some time before they can move around.”

“It would be better for you to go inside and wait…”

“I can’t go in first when my disciples are here, can I.”

At Professor Mortum’s words, Professor Taswan smiled good-naturedly.

No matter how cold and miserable it was, he couldn’t enter first, leaving his disciples behind.

Seeing this, Professor Mortum grumbled inwardly.

‘He’s raising the professors’ average too much.’

If the other person raised the average standard of Empire professors’ character too much, wouldn’t it eventually cause trouble for other professors as well?

In a way, it was selfish behavior.

“…I understand. The purpose of this visit is…”

“First, the Mages Card Club exchange tournament.”

“That club again? I really don’t understand why mages are so obsessed with this.”

Professor Mortum grumbled with displeasure.

He couldn’t understand why students from other magic schools would come all the way here to play mages cards.

Professor Taswan also smiled as if he understood.

“I don’t quite understand it either, but it’s my disciples’ hobby, so I just let it be. If you only use the whip, even the strongest horse will easily collapse.”

“The Principal says you should whip a running horse… Never mind. What’s the next purpose?”

“Purchasing reagents.”

Einroguard was a place that purchased massive amounts of reagents, and at the same time, it was also a place that sold them.

With that vast territory and bizarre main building, there was no way reagents wouldn’t be produced.

Of course, since the consumption was enormous, they didn’t easily sell to outsiders, but for other magic schools in the Empire, exchanges of necessary items were frequent enough to be permitted.

“Purchasing reagents… What do you need?”

“The cursed wooden barrels I mentioned before, poisonous insects, and we also need mushrooms.”

“You can take the wooden barrels right away. As for poisonous insects and mushrooms… there probably isn’t enough quantity right now.”

“There’s a place I confirmed the location of 11 years ago! I’m planning to harvest them directly.”

“I see. Then I’ll assign a disciple as a guide, so go ahead and harvest them.”

Professor Mortum said while moving his quill pen to organize the visit purposes on his behalf.

Then Professor Taswan showed reluctance.

“Couldn’t it be a student other than Student Diret? No matter what, asking a 5th year student to do this kind of work…”

“…”

This time, Professor Mortum also reflected a little.

Certainly, the other person was right about this.

‘Then who to assign… It’s a shame Cohorti graduated. No, even if that guy hadn’t graduated, I wouldn’t have trusted him with this. Ogoldos is a bit lacking in resourcefulness…’

Hosting mages from outside was a much more difficult task than hosting regular guests.

Regular guests usually toured the safe areas of the school before leaving, but mage guests visited deep into the premises.

To host such mages, one needed to be skilled at improvisation and able to subdue other rough Einroguard students as well.

“Hmm. I’ll have to assign it to Wardanaz.”

“There was such a student? What year is this student?”

“Um… Don’t misunderstand.”

“Misunderstand what!”

At the other person’s words, Professor Taswan laughed.

“Probably a third year, I suppose? That’s fine. If it’s a third year from Einroguard, they should be able to handle it sufficiently.”

If it was an outstanding student even at the Empire’s greatest magic school, a third year could sufficiently serve as a guide.

Professor Taswan thought so.

“Actually, second year…”

“????”

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