Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 765

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Chapter 765

“Didn’t I say once?”

Gainando looked at his friends triumphantly.

Raphadael, who had likewise bet on once, didn’t show it but had a subtly pleased expression.

‘Heh. I got it right.’

“What bet are you talking about right now?”

“Oh, no. I just asked a question and answered it.”

Raphadael answered hurriedly when the upperclassman from another magic school asked.

He was afraid of looking like a shameless person betting while his friend was preparing magic.

“What are you talking about? You bet along with us!”

“Shut up. You prince bastard. Don’t you have any sense?!”

“Guys. Be quiet.”

Lee Han glared at his friends.

He was concentrating all his attention on casting the newly learned magic, so why were they chattering so much?

“Tch. Because of Raphadael.”

“Who’s fault is this!”

Seeing the two arguing, Siana thought to herself.

If this continued, she might not have to pay the bet money…

“Oh, no. I’m not criticizing the bet itself. I’m just curious about your predictions. How did you know he’d succeed in one try?”

“Usually Wardanaz succeeds in three or four tries.”

“Right, that’s right.”

His friends testified as if it were obvious.

Agdung felt dizzy at the near-insane magic speed.

‘Three or four tries?’

Surely they wouldn’t say such things about magic far below his level…

…And thinking about it, for a 2nd year student like Lee Han, there was no such thing as magic far below his level. Something like negative circles didn’t exist.

Gainando delivered the final blow to the confused Agdung.

“Besides, Lee Han was recently kidnapped by the Principal’s insane doppelganger, you know? That’s why I bet on once.”

“He was what by who???”

Before an answer could come, Siana asked in confusion.

“What does that have to do with anything?”

“Lee Han’s magic ability improves when he’s in danger!”

Gainando analyzed confidently.

It would have been something Lee Han would grab him by the collar for if he heard it, but Gainando was pushing this hypothesis in his own way.

This top-of-the-year friend would fearlessly pull out and complete magic he claimed he hadn’t mastered yet when placed in dangerous situations.

Since it hadn’t been long since he escaped from the Principal’s insane doppelganger, that kind of concentration should still be maintained.

That’s why Gainando boldly bet on once.

‘…That, that sounds plausible?’

Yoner thought to himself.

Lee Han himself would hate the idea, but to his friends’ ears, it was a surprisingly plausible hypothesis.

Certainly, whenever he came back from experiencing danger, he showed razor-sharp concentration like a honed blade for a while.

“I’ve finished the other areas too. You guys, I told you to be quiet, so why do you keep chattering?”

While Agdung was shocked and speechless, Lee Han finished working on the remaining areas and approached.

Gainando quickly threw the upperclassman from another school under the bus.

“Senior Agdung started talking to us!!”

“…Shh. Be quiet, you bastard.”

Lee Han was embarrassed by his friend and glanced at Agdung apologetically.

If you’re going to throw someone under the bus, do it secretly, not openly when someone from another school is right there.

“Senior Agdung. Could you please check it?”

“Uh, uh-huh… uh-huh. Uh-huh-huh.”

Agdung answered in a half-dazed voice while checking the mushroom field.

Suddenly, words left by Callarogard’s underclassmen came to mind.

-Senior. When you visit Einroguard, please make sure to check what their dark magic school is like.

-That’s right! We want to compare whether we’re excellent or if Einroguard’s dark magic school students are excellent!

Callarogard students wouldn’t easily back down when it came to dark magic, even if their opponents were Einroguard students.

That’s how serious they were about it.

If they were better, they’d take it as pride.

If Einroguard students were better, they planned to accept it as motivation for improvement…

‘…I should exclude Wardanaz.’

Agdung decided he should exclude Lee Han when telling the story back home.

He was worried that if he told exactly what happened, the underclassmen’s hearts would break, never mind motivation or anything else.

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Beaver-Penguin-Fox: What cursed bastard carelessly dumped contaminated materials?! The forest is being ruined!!!

Iaktus: Accept it. It happens often.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Accept what? Go eat shit. You balding 5th year bastard!

Iaktus: What… what?! Did you just finish talking?!

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Why don’t you accept it? This happens often too, doesn’t it?

Iaktus: Seeing you run your mouth like that, I guess your magic skills are as good as your tongue. Want to have a go?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Fine! Meet me at the Principal’s office! Come to the Principal’s office! I’ll be waiting!

‘The upperclassmen’s quarrel is quite interesting.’

Having finished the mushroom field work and evacuated to the 7th floor village, Lee Han watched 【Einroguard’s Watchman】 with interested eyes.

When Priest Siana wanted to watch fights, he had worried ‘hasn’t Priest Siana become strange because of the year she spent at Einroguard’, but seeing this, he could understand it a bit.

It was interesting!

‘Senior Beaver-Penguin-Fox cares about the forest and has a nasty personality.’

An alert was quickly spreading among the students currently on the 7th floor of the main building.

It was an alert that Contaminated Ones were swarming out from somewhere all at once, sweeping the surroundings.

Someone’s accident causing a butterfly effect that rolled in like a massive storm across the entire school territory was such a familiar occurrence at Einroguard that the upperclassmen evacuated to the inner village without surprise, but that didn’t mean they weren’t angry.

Already several upperclassmen were venting their anger to the sky, saying ‘I’ll kill them if I catch them’.

Probably Senior Beaver-Penguin-Fox had also been doing something in the 7th floor forest, then gave up and fled because of the Contaminated Ones.

‘But to say meet at the Principal’s office…’

Lee Han honestly admired it as a good method.

If he ever received duel challenges or threats asking where to meet in the future, he wanted to use that method.

Iaktus: You ■■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■…

Gonadaltes: Why does it show as ■?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: For the honor of the Watchman Club. Magic automatically censors such vulgar words so members can’t see them. More importantly, does anyone have information about the Contaminated Ones? I’ll buy it at a high price.

“!”

At the Watchman Club member’s words, Lee Han’s eyes widened.

A trade request.

Seeing how desperate the other party was, the compensation would probably be quite good too.

Gonadaltes: What kind of information do you need?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Anything that helps with extermination. Why, Gonadaltes. Do you happen to have some?

Iaktus: Don’t sell to such a rude bastard, Gonadaltes!

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: I’ll apologize first, Iaktus. Even so, telling you to go to 5th year was probably too much.

Iaktus: Hmph.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Everyone, if you have any information, please contact me personally. As I said, I’ll pay handsomely.

‘Hmm. Magic like 【Contaminated Ones, Begone!】 is probably something the other person knows too, right?’

Lee Han fell into thought.

Since this dark magic wasn’t particularly secret, there was a high chance the other party knew it too.

And seeing how they were acting, it seemed like they wanted to eliminate the contaminated ones from the forest, but while the mushroom field was one thing, the entire forest was far too large in scale.

‘Besides, it should have been cast before coming here.’

Since the contaminated ones were already roaming around the 7th floor, this magic would be ineffective.

“Senior.”

“Huh. What?”

Lee Han called out to Agdung, who was sitting beside him pretending to drink from an empty cup.

The group was currently sitting inside the 【Hot Water and Cold Water】 tea house in the exile village on the 7th floor.

This tea house run by a 3rd year Black Turtle Tower senior was almost identical to the tea houses outside.

Except for the fact that the tea served was brewed without tea leaves.

“Could you explain more about those contaminated ones? Methods to eliminate them or…”

“You, you! Don’t tell me you’re planning to eliminate them?!”

Agdung exclaimed in shock.

The group of contaminated ones that had been approaching the mushroom field earlier was just the beginning. If you looked outside the village walls now, their numbers had increased dozens of times over.

And he wanted to eliminate those things.

Even if he was the disciple of a great mage, wasn’t this too reckless a judgment?

“Heh. Senior. Lee Han originally enjoys eliminating things in situations like this.”

Lee Han gestured to Yoner with his eyes for help. Yoner hit Gainando’s back instead.

“I’m not trying to eliminate them, I’m just asking out of pure curiosity.”

“Y-you’re feeling curious even in this situation?”

Agdung’s gaze was somewhat different from before, now filled with a fed-up look.

“No, I’m just curious…”

“Fine. I understand.”

‘There seems to be some misunderstanding.’

Lee Han felt there was some misunderstanding between them, but since there were more urgent matters, he decided to clarify later.

“First of all, that group of contaminated ones will disappear eventually as time passes, right? Since the magical power of the 7th floor has powerful homeostasis.”

Einroguard’s main building was a magical realm with so many spells cast that even the Skeleton Principal couldn’t grasp them all, but there were a few fundamental principles.

One of them was homeostasis – the tendency to recover from any problem or accident and return to the original state.

Just like how the human body tries to maintain a constant temperature, the main building also tried to maintain its essence as much as possible.

Agdung, like a seasoned dark mage, noticed that the group of contaminated ones were being rejected by the magical power flowing through the 7th floor.

Such beings couldn’t last long. Just as summoned undead would disappear if they couldn’t secure magical power, those contaminated ones would eventually exhaust themselves and scatter.

“I understand.”

“Then the method to eliminate the contaminated ones can only be approached from that direction. Other methods would require too much effort. Do you remember the location of the wave you felt at the mushroom field earlier?”

Agdung took out a nearby map that Professor Taswan had created long ago and spread it out.

“If I remember correctly, there was a spring connected to groundwater in this direction? And as you know, groundwater is one of the places most easily contaminated when mages are nearby.”

While time would solve it, if the source of contamination remained, contaminated ones would continue to emerge for a while.

If such contamination sources were purified, that time could be greatly shortened.

“I see. Let me take some notes.”

Lee Han called Beaver-Penguin-Fox for a one-on-one conversation and began relaying what he had just heard.

Gonadaltes: The homeostasis of the 7th floor’s magical power… time… method… contamination source… from what I understand… groundwater…

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Wait, wait, wait. Sir. Just a moment!

The other person was so shocked they seemed about to faint, their handwriting shaking wildly.

Information far more useful than expected was coming in incredibly quickly.

‘Who on earth is this???’

For a moment, it was chilling enough to wonder if it really was the Skeleton Principal.

While he himself thought ‘There’s no way the Principal would patiently do something like this!’, every Einroguard student secretly felt it.

The Skeleton Principal was not an existence that could be measured by their common sense!

What if he was really disguising himself to give students a great taste of despair and lessons…?

‘But this is essential information right now!’

Having been focused on other research outside the main building and only belatedly discovering the attack on the 7th floor, Gonadaltes’ information was like rain in a drought for Beaver-Penguin-Fox.

Gonadaltes: Don’t interrupt me. You’re interfering with my writing. But you’re not really going to eliminate them, right?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Pardon?

Gonadaltes: Ah. I wrote that last part wrong.

Lee Han paused while transcribing Agdung’s words.

‘You’re not really going to eliminate them, right?’ was something said to Lee Han himself.

“Don’t worry, Senior.”

“For academic curiosity, you’re asking in too much detail…”

Agdung looked at the disciple of the great mage with suspicious eyes.

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