Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 767

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Chapter 767

In truth, there was nothing worth robbing on the tea house’s 2nd floor, but his friends had a strange belief.

Wouldn’t Lee Han be able to steal something even from a space of absolute nothingness?

“…I didn’t rob the 2nd floor, I made a trade.”

Exasperated by his friends’ gazes, Lee Han gave a simple explanation.

He had received magical items through a trade with an upperclassman.

“Through a magical space?”

“That’s right, Priest Siana.”

“…If it’s that kind of space… you didn’t accidentally bring out other people’s belongings too, did you?”

The amount of supplies brought back was so large that Siana had reasonable suspicions.

Lee Han looked dumbfounded at that question.

“What kind of nonsense is that. I wouldn’t do such a… wait a moment.”

Lee Han paused mid-conversation and double-checked just in case.

He didn’t want to end up on the Einroguard Watchman Club’s blacklist.

“No way! Priest Siana!”

“S-sorry…”

‘…Good thing I didn’t say anything.’

Yoner thought to himself from the side.

He had actually been thinking ‘Maybe you mistakenly took more than you should have?’ too…

“I paid a fair price to receive this much. Don’t misunderstand, everyone.”

“What did you pay?”

Lee Han glanced once at the dark mage from another school sitting there as an innocent skeleton, then changed the subject.

“That’s a secret.”

“…”

His friends immediately started whispering.

“If Lee Han says it’s a secret, wasn’t it a really dangerous trade?”

“Maybe he found and sold something like the Principal’s heart…”

“I think that Wardanaz bastard might have sold some of his own blood or flesh.”

Lee Han waved his staff to push away his friends’ conversation with telekinesis, then began neatly stacking up the supplies he had brought.

“Magic dice game? Who won?”

“It’s still in full swing so we can’t tell the outcome yet…”

“Gainando lost.”

“The Prince is in last place.”

When his friends unfairly revealed the results, Gainando sneakily pushed away the game board and shouted.

“Let’s check the supplies! The supplies!”

“I’ll help too. But seriously, what kind of trade did you make to get this much?”

Agdung had no idea what Lee Han had done while talking at the tea house and asked.

“I was lucky, Senior Agdung. Oh right. I’ll share some with you too, Senior.”

“What? No, I can’t do that. As a senior.”

“No way! You came all the way to Einroguard, so this much is a gift symbolizing the friendship of the Dark Magic school.”

“Still, I have my dignity…”

Crack!

While the two were talking, his friends started working.

They split open the tightly sealed wooden boxes and barrels with small hatchets to check the contents inside.

“Everyone count the quantities and write them down.”

“One box of medium-grade black tree leaves.”

“One box of flame wood roots.”

“Lee Han, this wooden barrel looks like gravel tree sap.”

“Is there anything to eat? Here’s one box of processed flame-work wood.”

“Don’t say useless things, Gainando. Magic stones, earth attribute, one box…”

‘Did they smuggle like me?’

Lee Han was inwardly amazed as he organized the supplies he had received from the other person.

Not only the variety, but the quantity was much more abundant than he had expected.

The other person should also be an Einroguard student, yet they had this much supplies.

What was this?

“Huh. Did they rob a forest or something?”

“!”

At Agdung’s muttering from beside him, Lee Han realized.

Most of the reagents were all things that could be obtained from the forest.

‘Indeed. But…’

While Einroguard’s territory was full of mountains and forests, finding useful resources within them wasn’t that easy.

Especially these kinds of reagents required professional cultivation and nurturing efforts to become somewhat usable.

The other person must have several hidden secret forests somewhere.

‘Enviable. Truly upperclassmen.’

Lee Han was slightly impressed by the wealth of the faceless Beaver-Penguin-Fox.

If he encountered them in the Watchman Club in the future, he felt like he would act a bit more kindly.

To have hidden such wealth within Einroguard’s territory…

“Huff, huff huff. We’re done organizing, Lee Han.”

“Good work, everyone.”

Gainando grumbled that Lee Han had been tricked since there was no food, but his friends were quite satisfied.

They still had enough food from the large smuggling operation at the beginning of the semester, and these reagents were much more useful.

Curious about what the disciple of the Tower of Magic would do with this amount of reagents, Agdung asked.

“What kind of research will you do with this?”

“Together with the Dark Magic school students, gol…”

Lee Han was thinking of using the Dark Magic school’s workshop and facilities to make something with the remaining reagents, excluding those needed for lectures and research.

With help from other upperclassmen in the school, something sellable would come out somehow, and then the Dark Magic school’s vault would accumulate a little, wouldn’t it.

But he couldn’t tell this story to an outsider.

Making dark magic items that could become gold coins seemed a bit unseemly.

“Gold?”

“A little forbidden research.”

“!?”

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: You took the items, right?

Gonadaltes: Yes. You don’t seem to be completely poor.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Don’t put on airs. There shouldn’t be anyone at Einroguard who has that many reagents.

Gonadaltes: Hehe. Is that really so.

While putting on airs, Lee Han worried about what he should pay as compensation when taking on requests within the Watchman Club later.

Should he really pay with food?

‘But the upperclassmen don’t seem like they’d be that obsessed with food.’

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: If you activate the artifact, I’ll hand over the remaining items. Hurry. The forest is crying.

“Senior Agdung.”

“What?”

“I’d like to go activate the artifact that the Professor installed.”

Agdung looked at Lee Han with eyes that said ‘I knew this would happen.’ Lee Han hurriedly made excuses.

“It’s not that I intended to subjugate the Contaminated Ones from the beginning, but looking at the current situation, it’s gotten a bit serious…”

“Right, right. That must be it. Shall we make a plan?”

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If it had been a different situation, he would have thought about it a bit and stopped them, but thanks to the artifact Professor Taswan left behind, Agdung didn’t stop his juniors.

The plan was simple and clear.

“I’ll cast protective magic, so move as quietly and stealthily as possible.”

Once Agdung cast magic to protect the group from the contaminated ones, they would move as quickly as possible to the artifact’s location through the safe mushroom field.

Once they arrived, they could activate it, and that would be the end.

Ymirg, who was listening nearby, muttered.

“H-how are you going to cast protective magic that maintains itself while moving…?”

‘Right?’

Lee Han felt puzzled by Ymirg’s point.

Unlike protective magic cast on a fixed area, protective magic that maintains itself while moving had a completely different level of difficulty.

To cast protective magic on everyone here individually would require enormous consumption of not only mana but also mental concentration.

“Senior Agdung. What kind of magic will you use? I’d like to help too.”

“Ah. Wardanaz! You really don’t need to this time.”

Agdung smiled and waved his staff.

Then summoning magic was cast, and cloaks emitting a very disgusting smell appeared in the air.

They looked like fabric made by compressing contaminated ones and weaving them into warp and weft.

The Einroguard students’ faces hardened upon seeing the worst cloaks they had ever seen.

Even when their cloaks were torn during admission and they had to patch them with leaves, it would have been better than this.

“…Do we have to wear these by any chance?”

“Yes. These are 【Contaminated One Cloaks】 created through research at Callarogard. How are they?”

Agdung spoke with pride.

Callarogard, which often dealt with contaminated ones, had deeply pondered finding more efficient methods rather than casting individually consuming banishment magic every time.

The result of that pondering was precisely these 【Contaminated One Cloaks】.

Instead of creating waves that repel or banish contaminated ones, these items made the wearer be perceived as the same kind of being.

Contaminated ones, falling into the delusion that they were the same kind of beings, wouldn’t attack mages wearing these cloaks.

“Well…”

“Uh…”

“Hmm…”

None of the friends could speak properly and hesitated.

In their hearts, they wanted someone to step forward and shout ‘I absolutely can’t wear this!’, but no one came forward.

“Are they not good?”

Agdung was flustered when the Einroguard students’ reactions were more subtle than expected. The students hurriedly shouted.

“They’re so good!”

“What an incredible idea!”

“If this gets in the Empire newspaper, investors will come wanting to commercialize it!”

Lee Han shouted this while signaling with his eyes to friends who were still standing still. Seeing this, his friends forced themselves to come up with advantages.

“That’s a relief. For a moment I thought you guys were being lukewarm about it.”

“…”

“Isn’t it petty that it was made in Callarogard’s name?”

Gainando grumbled quietly from behind.

If it had been made in Baldrogard’s name, he would have mercilessly said he wouldn’t wear it!

‘Come to think of it, I think I understand why the Dark Magic school is poor.’

Lee Han thought as he put on the cloak.

The effect of this cloak was very excellent.

Being able to deceive contaminated ones without needing to cast separate magic or charge mana would be very useful in dangerous areas.

But one disadvantage was devouring all the other advantages.

Most people wouldn’t wear such a bizarre and disgusting cloak!

They’d rather buy a cloak that costs several times more…

‘No matter how good the performance, you can’t make it this way. I’ve learned another lesson.’

Lee Han’s group, wearing cloaks with faces as gloomy as monsoon rain, quickly broke through the mushroom field.

The contaminated ones that appeared periodically showed no interest in Lee Han’s group, treating them like stones.

It was really good performance, but instead of being impressed, the students checked the magic on their noses.

“The smell paralysis curse seems about to break, will it be okay?”

“Shh. If you make noise, the contaminated ones will find it strange. Just endure a little more.”

While conversing, Lee Han and Agdung searched for the staff at the very front.

When they found the peach wood staff artifact stuck near a pond where black, murky liquid was bubbling, Agdung gestured.

“Found it. Over there!”

“Should I go get it?”

“Wait. I need to disable the defensive magic…”

Bang!

Lee Han blasted it away with telekinesis and then pulled the artifact over.

Agdung felt he should maintain his dignity as a senior, so he nodded without showing surprise.

“Huh. Goo yah. Yeo do ryeo ma beo i ga.”

“Senior Agdung. Your jawbone has come loose.”

* * *

Ilendil was cursing all of Einroguard’s principal, professors, and students while waiting anxiously.

“Calm down, everyone… just endure a little. You understand, right?”

The spirits who had evacuated nearby looked like they were suffocating from the contaminated ones’ rampage.

If the contaminated ones continued wandering around the forest like this, the spirits wouldn’t be able to endure long and would have to return to their own dimension.

“I hired a mage so… soon… there will be results…”

Though Ilendil usually spoke in a slow, leisurely voice, today’s voice was twice as fast as usual.

That’s how important the matter of the 7th floor forest was.

Bakwantalana: Sounds like a lie to me. I’m not sure. I recommend not making deals that are too big.

Iaktus: Oh! It would definitely be good to do it. I found that Gonadaltes guy trustworthy from the beginning, you know?

Lee Han thought Bakwantalana was taking his side, but in fact, the other members of the Watchman Club advised Ilendil not to trust him.

No matter how they thought about it, it seemed difficult to absorb all the contamination sources in such a short time.

In Iaktus’s case, his true intentions were completely obvious…

But Ilendil eventually accepted the suspicious proposal. That’s how desperate she was.

‘But what should I do if it’s a lie?’

Ilendil tried to restrain the thoughts creeping up about who she should commission for an assassination to make the other person suffer the most.

At that moment, the forest on the 7th floor began to mix together with a roar.

Kwarrrrung!

As earth and water switched positions with each other and dragged out the contamination sources, the Watchman Club members screamed.

Iaktus: Impossible! How!

Gonadaltes: What’s impossible?

Iaktus: …The level of magic happening on the 7th floor right now is impossible!

Gonadaltes: That wasn’t the nuance though?

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