Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 795

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Chapter 795

“That person who is Master Yumidifus’s teacher…”

As Lee Han, barely recovering from the shock, opened his mouth to ask once more, the large old woman got angry.

“What do you mean ‘that person’!”

“Pardon?”

“Look here, you little brat. Who has the highest status in this place?”

“…”

Lee Han naturally wanted to say it was Professor Boladi, a professor of Einroguard.

Professors beat students, and students beat pirates, didn’t they?

In fact, under Imperial law, there weren’t many positions that pirates could beat.

But Lee Han answered tactfully.

“Isn’t it you, Pirate-nim?”

“Kihihi, that’s right! In front of me, formal titles like ‘nim’ should only be attached to me. Got it?”

The pirate seemed to have no conscience.

Lee Han watched for an opportunity and whispered to the professor as the old woman walked inside.

“Professor. When exactly did Imperial law change?”

If piracy had become one of the Empire’s legitimate professions, he needed to know in advance.

That way, he could collect taxes from pirates later too.

“It didn’t.”

“Then how is that person, who is a pirate, at Einroguard?”

Even as Lee Han asked, he worried that Professor Boladi might answer like this:

-Einroguard has everyone from mage criminals to Professor Verdus. What’s the big deal about a pirate?

“Ragesa-nim has received permission.”

“…”

For a moment Lee Han’s world almost collapsed, but fortunately the truth was slightly different from what Lee Han thought.

The permission that the pirate Ragesa had received wasn’t a piracy license, but a letter of marque for capturing enemy ships.

‘Ah.’

After hearing the explanation, Lee Han felt slightly relieved. A privateer captain was at least within an understandable range.

It was like a kind of civilian Imperial navy that captured ships only from the Empire’s enemies with the Empire’s permission.

“Wait, Professor. Is the Empire currently at war?”

“No.”

“…Then who do you capture?”

Lee Han had a natural question.

Currently, the Empire wasn’t particularly at war.

Then there were no enemy ships to capture, and privateers had nothing to do, right?

“That’s truly the problem. Indeed.”

Ragesa, who had been listening from behind, interjected. Having pulled out a tin cup and poured strong liquor into it, the old pirate spoke as if lamenting.

“The old days were good. Back then, the sea was full of ships to capture.”

“Then now…?”

“Well, I can’t starve to death, so I’m capturing pirate ships.”

“…Then aren’t you not a pirate but just someone who subjugates pirates?”

At Lee Han’s common-sense question, sparks flew from the old woman’s eyes. Ragesa growled and shouted.

“How dare you? Are you criticizing Torgerd’s daughter for abandoning the family business?!”

“Please forgive me. It seems I misunderstood.”

“Hmph! Even if you’re Yumidifus’s disciple, you should be careful. No one can criticize Torgerd’s daughter for abandoning the family business!”

“…”

-Isn’t she crazy??

Lee Han agreed with the Baby Basilisk’s words.

But what could he do?

Powerful crazy people in the Empire had the right to set rules as they pleased. Just like the Skeleton Principal, if the other person wanted it, he had to call her a pirate.

“Indeed. I apologize, Ragesa-nim. Ragesa-nim is clearly a pirate to anyone who sees. If you brought a hundred Einroguard students and asked them, all hundred would say you’re a pirate.”

At Lee Han’s apology, the old woman’s anger seemed to subside as she giggled.

“Kihihi. Right. Of course it should be that way.”

“But what connection does the dueling club have with Ragesa-nim?”

“None! Good grief. What an absurd thing. Calling this old pirate to teach those brats playing around in their club…”

“…”

Only then did Lee Han fully grasp the situation.

Professor Kirmin asked Professor Boladi to invite an excellent dueling mage->Professor Boladi asked Ragesa, who was an excellent dueling mage->A pirate came to Einroguard…

‘Is she really friends with Professor Bagrek? How could he ask Professor Bagrek for this?’

It was like asking Professor Boladi for help just because you couldn’t decide on a midterm exam topic.

He could understand being in a hurry, but seeing Professor Boladi dragging a dragon along would make you realize ‘you shouldn’t ask just anyone when you’re in a hurry.’

“Indeed. Still, the dueling club members must be really happy.”

Fortunately, it had nothing to do with Lee Han.

The dueling club members would have a hard time, but Lee Han was…

‘Hehe. I didn’t join.’

Splash!

Ragesa splashed the liquor sloshing in the bottle at Lee Han, then tried to trip him.

Lee Han was startled and used telekinesis to create a wall, then increased the distance.

“Lee-ha!”

The pirate crone didn’t stop and chanted a strange spell. He could feel from the incantation itself that it had a different system from Imperial magic.

‘Primitive magic?!’

Suddenly the chair beside him transformed into a flock of fierce parrots and rushed to attack Lee Han from all sides.

The Baby Basilisk jumped out of his sleeve in anger and let out a cry. Lee Han thought he should give it a snack later and chanted a spell.

“Rise, made of bone…!”

Skeleton warriors enhanced with dark elements and skeleton warriors enhanced with blood elements instantly took shape and blocked the front.

Seeing this, Ragesa asked in bewilderment.

“You’re Yumidifus’s disciple? Why are you using dark magic?”

“I’m taking multiple schools.”

“What else are you taking?”

“All schools.”

“Who is ‘all’?”

While Ragesa was asking pointless questions, Lee Han made the skeleton warriors charge and fled through the back door of the lecture hall.

The lecture was probably over anyway, and staying here didn’t seem like it would lead to anything good.

“Ai-ya!”

However, the pirate crone chanted a spell once more. Then the back door writhed as if alive and transformed into a wall.

Lee Han responded simply.

Bang!

When he suddenly fired a water orb along with Wardanaz’s telekinesis, a hole appeared in the wall. Ragesa’s mouth fell open.

“That… that thing!”

“I’ll see you next time, Professor. It was an honor to meet you today, Ragesa-nim!”

“Can’t you stop!”

“Pardon? What did you say?”

Lee Han pretended not to hear and rushed out of the lecture hall.

“…”

-…

In the corridor stood pirates wrapped in chains with gloomy faces. Anyone could see they were Ragesa’s subordinates.

Lee Han sighed.

From inside the lecture hall, Ragesa shouted at the top of her voice.

“Bring that brat here!”

-Let’s go.

“I’ll go on my own feet.”

Pushing away the pirates trying to grab him, Lee Han entered the hole again.

Then he said.

“I just wanted to get some fresh corridor air for a moment.”

Ragesa was greatly satisfied with that shameless excuse and burst into laughter.

“You’re better than Yumidifus! That guy Yumidifus was so rigid that he didn’t get a single joke. You seem to know something.”

“I don’t really know jokes either though.”

“This disciple of Yumidifus would be much more worth teaching than those Duel Club brats. Don’t you think?”

At the pirate crone’s question, Professor Boladi showed faint pride and answered with dignity.

“You flatter me.”

“Flatter nothing. Just joining a club to duel is already wrong from the start. Goodness. Maybe if it were a Thief Club or Pirate Club.”

Lee Han resolved to never mention which club he belonged to.

This strange pirate might overestimate the Teleportation Club.

“I’m going to see the brats, you come along too.”

“…Yes…”

“What about you, Baegreg?”

“I need to prepare for my lecture.”

Professor Boladi was thinking of preparing what he had discussed with Lee Han about the lecture earlier.

Since his disciple had spoken so passionately, the professor also had to move without delay.

‘Damn.’

Lee Han squeezed his eyes shut.

To think what he had done would come back to him like this!

“Really? Then come find me when you’re done with work and bored. Is Lord Gonadaltes at the school?”

“He has business.”

“Aw. I prepared a gift. Alright. Let’s go, brat! Do you have any questions about magical combat?”

* * *

Walking alongside Ragesa who reeked of strong liquor, Lee Han was able to gather some information.

That Ragesa’s family had been pirating through the archipelago since before the Empire.

That Yumidifus had once come to Ragesa’s pirate ship in his youth to learn magic.

And the method of determining the value of treasure on other ships with just a single gust of wind…

“Wait, that’s actually possible?!”

“Kihihi. Yes! Amazing, right? But it’s possible! This illusion magic is the secret of my secrets. Imperial illusion mages would kneel and beg me to teach them when they heard about it.”

Ragesa knew not only the primitive magic she had shown earlier, but also secret magics unique to her family that had been passed down for ages.

Among them, several water element-related magics were valuable enough that Yumidifus had come to learn them directly.

“No illusion mage could imitate this, right?”

“But the Empire has many unnamed but excellent illusion mages. Just look at Lord Baldoron…”

“Drop the ‘Lord’?”

“Yes. Just look at Baldoron…”

“Who’s that? A new mage? Goodness. Time passes quickly when you’re sailing the seas.”

Ragesa tapped her waist and groaned. She looked so healthy that it didn’t seem to have much effect.

“So what do you want to learn?”

“Pardon?”

“Don’t play dumb. Which of my magics do you want to learn? That was always the purpose of mages who came to this pirate.”

Secret magics of families that had existed since before the Empire were extremely valuable to current Imperial mages.

Even if their effects were inferior, they were coveted for research purposes, and if their effects were powerful too, all the more so.

Ragesa suspected Professor Boladi’s intention in introducing Lee Han to her.

Probably a request to teach his disciple too if there was a chance to learn.

It was quite a cunning scheme, but Ragesa didn’t dislike such schemes. Especially if the student was smart and cunning.

“…Among the magics you can teach, what’s the easiest magic?”

“The easiest magic! You cunning little thing. You’re full of tricks!”

“???”

Lee Han couldn’t understand what the other person was thinking.

It didn’t seem like she’d listen even if he refused, and everything looked difficult, so he just asked what the easiest magic was…

“Wait.”

Ragesa suddenly stopped walking. Then she restrained Lee Han and raised her finger to make a shushing sound.

“??”

There was nothing ahead in the corridor, but Lee Han was puzzled as Ragesa acted strangely.

‘Is there a spirit-type monster? But then I couldn’t possibly feel nothing like this?’

“This smell is… the smell of Vible.”

“…”

Amazingly, Ragesa had smelled Professor Verdus coming from far away!

Lee Han was impressed.

“That’s amazing.”

This skill seemed more necessary for students than pirates.

To notice someone coming from so far away.

‘Could I ask her to teach me this magic?’

“Amazing nothing! The amazing part hasn’t even started yet.”

“??”

The pirate crone waved her hand dismissively and then rummaged around to pull out artifacts.

She changed her belt, put on a thick iron mask, and held an additional short staff in her hand…

Then she looked at Lee Han, examined him from top to bottom, and threw him a necklace. The necklace emanated protective power.

“Wear that. It’s going to get a bit intense.”

“…?”

“Everyone prepare for battle! Let’s go plunder that bastard Vible!”

‘She was a righteous pirate!’

Lee Han suddenly felt a surge of respect for this pirate mage.

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