Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 789
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Chapter 789
Nilia dashed out at full speed like a hunter from the Northern Mountains. She was so urgent that she even pulled out a potion from her pocket and drank it.
She absolutely wouldn’t let that mage criminal spread false rumors!
“Wardanaz! Hurry!!”
“Ugh…”
‘If we just stayed still, no one would probably care, right?’
Lee Han extended his mana throughout his body to temporarily enhance his physical abilities and chased after his friend.
He could have used a few more enhancement spells here, but it didn’t seem necessary to go that far.
Honestly, if they just stayed still, the Einroguard students would probably just think ‘Who’s that young hunter?’ and move on…
“This Antagondals being defeated by a mere young hunter…!”
“Hey, stop right there!”
Nilia gritted her teeth and pursued the bat.
Turning the corner, they saw third-year upperclassmen playing magic stone throwing at the end of the corridor.
“Should I throw from here, or from over there…”
“Can’t you hurry up?”
“Hey. Be quiet. When to throw is my right that even the Skeleton Principal can’t interfere with…”
“This Antagondals being defeated by a mere young hunter…!”
“Sorry!”
“Coming through!”
“???”
The upperclassmen who were about to throw stones with magic circles drawn on them looked up in confusion.
“What was that just now?”
“Wait. Didn’t they just say Antagondals? That mage criminal?”
The upperclassmen watched the two underclassmen running away with admiration.
These days’ underclassmen are extraordinary!
Meanwhile, the bat turned another corner.
This time they saw upperclassmen playing mage hopscotch. Nilia shouted with a voice full of frustration.
“Why are there so many upperclassmen in the corridors today?!”
“A toxic swamp burst on the 6th floor right now, so probably the upperclassmen who were there…”
“This Antagondals being defeated by a mere young hunter…!”
“?!”
An upperclassman who had stepped on square 4 and was staggering from a rotation curse was startled.
“Did they say Antagondals? What’s going on?”
“I think, looking at that ugly form transformed into a bat, they sent a clone body and it got destroyed.”
“Even if it’s just a clone body, those underclassmen are really amazing!”
“…”
“…”
The two fell silent upon hearing the upperclassmen’s admiration.
Lee Han thought to himself.
‘Should I slip away now?’
Come to think of it, only Nilia was saying Antagondals.
If Lee Han just quietly stopped…
“Wardanaz…!”
“I wasn’t thinking anything.”
“What are you talking about? You stopped!”
“!”
As Nilia pointed ahead, the weakened bat simply dropped down and collapsed.
Nilia, who had been breathing heavily and panting, said with a relieved voice.
“At least no strange rumors spread. Right?”
“Huh? Uh… Yeah. Sure. That’s right.”
Lee Han told a white lie, not wanting to hurt his friend’s heart as she looked at him with bright expectations.
* * *
“…So that’s the situation.”
“Isn’t that too dangerous?!”
“Well, yeah. We need to be careful.”
“…”
Nilia was shocked to see her friend speaking in a tone like ‘It might rain tomorrow, so I should bring an umbrella.’
‘Has his sense of danger been numbed…!?’
Having experienced particularly difficult situations at Einroguard, his sense of danger might have become numbed.
‘No, other friends didn’t go that far even after experiencing difficult situations. Maybe Wardanaz was originally like this…’
Nilia proceeded with very rude speculation in her mind.
“By the way, Nilia. Do you happen to take the 【A Mage’s Life with Plants】 lecture?”
“Yeah. I do. Why?”
Lee Han cheered inwardly.
‘It is a second-year lecture!’
When he just saw the lecture name, it was a botany lecture, but he was worried because he couldn’t tell if it was a second-year or third-year lecture.
He was overjoyed that it was a second-year lecture.
“That’s really fortunate. A second-year lecture.”
“…”
Nilia stared at her friend with eyes mixed with sympathy, pity, shock, and horror.
“What was the content of the last lecture?”
“Nothing much. Since it was the first lecture, the professor explained what kind of lecture it was and showed us rare and interesting plants. Oh right. The professor was a willow tree spirit.”
“I see.”
“Right. Wardanaz, you’re taking Professor Verdus’s lecture, aren’t you? How was the lecture?”
Nilia asked curiously.
Although they were from the same enchantment magic school, since Lee Han was taking third-year lectures, she was curious about what differences there might be.
“Uh… Right. 【Wand Materials and Magic Amplification】. Nilia, yours was 【Introduction to Enchantment Magic】, wasn’t it?”
“Right. Senior Yukveltire teaches it.”
“How is it? Is she as eccentric as Professor Verdus?”
“No? She teaches well though?”
“…?”
Lee Han doubted his ears.
She teaches well.
Had the meaning of ‘teaches well’ changed to something else at Einroguard?
“She teaches well?”
“Yeah. She teaches well.”
Nilia briefly explained Yukveltire’s lectures.
While she was basically someone who had no particular interest in underclassmen, Yukveltire wasn’t someone who abandoned her work and only did her own things like Professor Verdus.
Since she accurately and systematically organized the content to be taught each lecture in detail and distributed it to the underclassmen, the second-year enchantment magic school students had few complaints.
And compared to Professor Verdus’s lectures from last year, it was bound to feel better anyway!
“…”
After hearing the explanation, Lee Han felt unfairly treated for no reason.
Of course, he didn’t want Senior Yukveltire to torment the second-year friends, but this was a bit…
‘Why do crazy people become normal when I’m not watching?’
“What about you, Wardanaz?”
“We’re… studying by stealing the professor’s work.”
“Hey. Don’t joke around.”
“…”
“…You’re not joking?”
Nilia suddenly felt very sorry.
“S-sorry. I didn’t know it was real.”
“Stealing professors’ work to study is actually kind of fun. It’s educational too.”
“Really?”
“No. I was just lying.”
“…”
“…”
An awkward silence lingered between them.
Nilia suggested to change the atmosphere.
“T-then let’s go to the 【Life of a Mage with Plants】 lecture hall first! I’ll show you around before today’s lecture starts!”
The lecture hall where this botany class was held was a greenhouse filled with all kinds of plants.
Just tending to and observing them was quite entertaining, so several students could be seen visiting the lecture hall to study even when it wasn’t lecture time.
Of course, she knew Lee Han attended lectures so much that he barely had any free time, but it was almost meal time now…
“I promised to help with work at the Soup Club.”
“Then let’s go together after that’s done. I’ll help too.”
“After that’s finished, I have to go to the Polo Club to take care of the animals for a bit.”
“…Then let’s do that together too.”
“After that I have to go to the Masonry Club to…”
“Hey, cut it out!”
Nilia couldn’t hold back and ended up getting angry at her friend.
* * *
Hearing his friend’s sincere anger, Lee Han reflected and canceled his club schedules.
And left only one.
“I can’t really cancel this Soup Club work. I heard the upperclassmen are on the verge of rioting.”
“…The food is pretty tasteless.”
Nilia had no choice but to admit it.
The meals from the Soup Club, which was responsible for the hungry stomachs of countless Einroguard students, were always precarious.
Since they had to somehow make quantity with limited ingredients, taste inevitably had to take a backseat.
But such circumstances couldn’t convince the Einroguard students who paid a gold coin each for their meals.
-Hey, you crazy bastards! Stop serving bread made from ground beans! You need to mix in at least half flour!
-Get rid of the corn porridge!
-If you’re going to keep serving this salted meat, just serve rocks instead. Rocks would be easier to break!
“I’m curious, where exactly do they get that salted meat from?”
Nilia was puzzled.
Mages who were second year or above could use various spells, so preserving meat wasn’t difficult.
So why did the Soup Club consistently serve salted meat that was harder than rocks?
“I was curious too so I asked, and apparently the Principal usually buys it in bulk from outside.”
“…”
Nilia was shocked by Lee Han’s explanation.
What kind of…?
“Now when you wander around the school, there are kitchens that are relatively easy to enter, but many of those kitchens are fake. The Principal deliberately buys tasteless food supplies and stocks them there.”
‘He really focuses on such pointless things!’
Nilia shuddered once again at the Skeleton Principal’s obsession.
He could just not place food supplies at all, but he goes to such lengths just to watch students suffer…
“Still, it’s better than nothing. You can eat it if you cook it well.”
No matter how hard the meat had become, if you pounded it, tore it, cut it into small pieces, threw it in water and boiled it thoroughly with bread, it would at least become a salty meal.
Of course, whether the students who ate it would be satisfied was unknown…
“Seniors. I’m here.”
“Wardanaz! We were waiting for you!”
The Soup Club members cheered and welcomed Lee Han.
To be precise, they welcomed the food supplies Lee Han would bring. To members who always suffered with limited ingredients, this junior was a miraculous big spender.
“What about flour?”
“We used it all yesterday. We tried to secure wheat but poison spread on the 6th floor…”
“Rice?”
“We have a little left.”
“Meat…”
Lee Han took out the ingredients he brought and carefully consulted with the upperclassmen.
Seeing this, Nilia felt ashamed for complaining about the Soup Club’s meals.
-This costs one gold coin? If Wardanaz saw this, he’d be so shocked he’d collapse, hmph!
‘How could I criticize without considering other people’s circumstances.’
“Let’s make oat porridge for now.”
“Oat porridge doesn’t get good reactions. Bowls might come flying.”
“Let’s add other side ingredients to fool their eyes. Onions, carrots… Damn it. Let’s use cheese too.”
“Even cheese!? Isn’t that too luxurious?”
“Let’s slice it thin. How about we cut the salted meat and put it in the porridge, and slice the ham I brought and put it on the outside?”
“That sounds good. We can fool their eyes!”
“…”
Nilia forgot about being ashamed just moments ago and glared at the upperclassmen.
As expected, the Soup Club members were half con artists.
To lead her honest friend down the path of deception like this…
* * *
“Nilia. Thanks for helping.”
“This wasn’t the kind of help I had in mind.”
Nilia muttered as she walked.
She had thought of skinning animals and preparing meat, not pounding meat to make it look like there was more of it.
“Three, two, one… Here it is. Yggdrasil Greenhouse. Right?”
“Right. Just open the door and go in.”
Nilia hurriedly opened the door to show her friend the lecture hall before the lecture started.
Helping with the Soup Club work (the students who had gathered for the meal hesitated about whether to throw their plates but eventually put them down) had taken longer than expected.
Whoosh-
The humid, hot air characteristic of greenhouses rushed out. Professor Willow Tree inside looked at them both with puzzlement.
“It’s not lecture time yet?”
“Hello, Professor. We came early because I wanted to introduce the lecture hall.”
“Indeed… You are excellent mages. Look around as much as you like.”
Professor Willow Tree, who had been pruning branches, smiled kindly.
Then he paused when he saw Lee Han.
“It’s been a while, Professor.”
“Wardanaz. …It’s been so long since we met last year! I’ve heard many rumors… But why aren’t you using your staff? It looks full of complaints.”
“…”
Lee Han glared at his staff with an aggrieved heart.
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