Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 799

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Chapter 799

“What should we do?”

“What do you mean what should we do. We need to give those remaining guys some teaching.”

The pirate crone pointed at the second-year friends as she spoke.

The second-year friends looked at Lee Han with eyes like squirrels who had their acorns stolen right before their eyes. They seemed to be saying:

-Are you going to hit us?

‘These bastards. Did they learn silent telepathy magic while I wasn’t looking?’

Lee Han couldn’t bring himself to attack his same-year friends due to his guilty conscience.

“I can’t do it.”

“What?! Are you really a pirate?!”

“I’m not a pirate. And I was kicked out of pirate magic earlier too.”

At Lee Han’s lingering resentment, Ragesa giggled with laughter.

“Is it because of the pirate magic? You’re truly greedy for learning, just like Baegreg said.”

“No, it’s because you made me completely unable to use what I barely learned…”

“Alright. I get it. I’ll concede on this one. I’ll just have to teach you. Come on. Everyone come here! I’ll teach you pirate-style fighting!”

“If we learn it, can we land a hit on Wardanaz too?”

“Of course!”

“…”

Lee Han glared at Raphadael.

Had he ever seen such an ungrateful bastard!

“Raphadael.”

“Ah, no. I was just asking. It was academic curiosity.”

“Looking at your reaction, you do have some conscience left. And that’s not what I was talking about. Why don’t I see any fourth-year seniors?”

Come to think of it, the third-year upperclassmen had just fled, and the second-year friends were remaining here, but the fourth years were nowhere to be seen.

Of course, he understood they were busy since they were preparing for graduation, but not even one of them was visible.

“The fourth-year seniors said they had something to do today and didn’t come?”

“…!”

Lee Han realized and was impressed.

‘The fourth years are really different!’

This wasn’t even at the level of tapping a stone bridge before crossing it.

They had quickly retreated after just hearing the information that Professor Kirmin was busy and that guests had come from outside.

To avoid getting caught in any potential danger.

Anyway, if they let the underclassmen meet first, they could confirm who had come later…

‘They’re really ruthless.’

Did you have to be like that to be a fourth year at Einroguard?

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Unbreakable One: Hey! You all know guests are coming next week, right? Are you preparing?

“!”

Lee Han, who had finished the duel club business and come out, was puzzled by the sight of 【Einroguard’s Whispers】 writing out text.

‘It’s a senior I’ve never seen before?’

The unfamiliar senior using the nickname Unbreakable One seemed very interested in other members, going around talking to them about various things.

Unbreakable One: Iaktus. How about you?

Iaktus: I’m preparing well.

Unbreakable One: What about you, Bakwantalana? Wow. Aren’t you totally excited?

“…?”

Lee Han, watching the conversation, felt a strange awkwardness.

A sense of discord as if the other person was forcing themselves to be excited.

‘I must be mistaken. There’s no reason to pretend to be excited.’

Einroguard’s students were fundamentally gloomy beings. There was no need to pretend to be excited.

Bakwantalana: Does anyone know who broke the 6th floor corridor?

Iaktus: Right. Someone broke the 6th floor corridor. What kind of crazy bastard was it? More importantly, how did they break it?

‘Huh. There really are a lot of crazy bastards.’

Lee Han was surprised seeing the text.

Some crazy student seemed to have broken the 6th floor corridor.

Since Einroguard’s main building was protected by powerful magic, it wouldn’t be an ordinary task to break it from inside…

Gonadaltes: Is that really true? There really are a lot of crazy bastards.

Iaktus: There were always a lot of crazy bastards, so I’m not that surprised. I’m more curious about how they broke it. If I knew that, I’d use it too.

Unbreakable One: Iaktus. That’s not a good thing to do.

Iaktus: Stop meddling in other people’s business.

Bakwantalana: Seeing the scene, it wasn’t ordinarily violent and rough. It’s not typical magic. I suspect a hellish great demon or high-ranking spirit went berserk.

Iaktus: Damn. Is it the ‘monsters in Einroguard’ season again? Why is it like this lately? I heard some crazy bastard appeared in the outskirts of the territory too?

Gonadaltes: I agree. If crazy monsters are roaming around inside the main building…

Lee Han, who had been moving his quill, paused.

‘Huh?’

Come to think of it, wasn’t the duel club located on the 6th floor?

The place where he learned pirate magic from Ragesa was also on the 6th floor…

Iaktus: Should we request the hunter club to track the monster? Those bastards. They say it’s too expensive.

Gonadaltes: Seems like a useless thing to do. Can’t everyone protect themselves from monsters? Making unnecessary expenses will only be a loss for yourself.

Iaktus: Is that so?

Gonadaltes: Iaktus. Don’t be fooled. While you sacrifice for other guys, the other guys will save their gold coins to spend on themselves.

Iaktus: Now that you put it that way, it does make me angry. Right. The one who needs it should catch it.

Unbreakable One: Both of you, don’t think so selfishly. If someone steps up even when it’s not their business, someday other friends will step up when it’s not their business too.

Iaktus: When? After I graduate?

‘I should change the topic.’

Lee Han felt that there would be nothing good about discussing at length who broke the corridor and what kind of monster was summoned inside Einroguard’s main building.

The longer they talked about it, wouldn’t an innocent second-year student come under suspicion?

Iaktus: Does anyone have information about next week’s guests?

Fortunately, Iaktus appropriately changed the topic. Lee Han immediately went along with it.

Gonadaltes: I know one person.

Iaktus: Oh. Gonadaltes! My friend with a terrible pseudonym! Who is it?

Gonadaltes: Pirate Ragesa. Since you might not know who that is, let me explain…

Bakwantalana: You mean Ragesa, daughter of Torgerd?

Iaktus: Admiral of the Southern Privateer Fleet!

Unbreakable One: …Who on earth invited Ragesa?

‘No. He’s famous, isn’t he?’

Lee Han was slightly flustered.

Of course, Ragesa was a somewhat well-known person in the Empire, but he hadn’t expected her to be so famous that every single club member could answer immediately without exception.

Gonadaltes: Everyone’s surprising. I didn’t expect every single person to know.

Iaktus: Haha. Well, I’m a cultured person so that’s natural, but the others probably know for slightly different reasons. It’s because of Ragesa’s Achievement, right?

Gonadaltes: What Achievement?

Iaktus: Hey. Hey. Are you seriously asking? Obviously I’m talking about investing twenty chests of imperial gold coins to Professor Verdus!

Gonadaltes: Ah. That Achievement…

“…”

Lee Han stopped his quill and fell into deep doubt. He felt slightly sorry for Ragesa.

She had simply trusted Professor Verdus and invested chests of gold coins, yet among Einrogard students her image was already established as ‘that very sucker who trusted and invested in Professor Verdus.’

It was truly cruel beyond measure.

Bakwantalana: I respect Ragesa.

Gonadaltes: Is that so?

Bakwantalana: Ragesa is a captain who possesses enormous wealth, and also a generous investor willing to invest in Professor Verdus. I really want to meet her.

Gonadaltes: …

Club week wasn’t simply a period when outsiders interested in clubs came to enjoy themselves and leave.

Of course outsiders could come with that mindset, but at least ambitious Einrogard students were different.

What was important to the students was the following:

-Which person among the visitors this time would be a rich and generous sucker?

If there was someone with heavy gold coin pouches and the generosity to invest in any research?

They had to somehow bring them over and persuade them. Before other mages made those gold coin pouches thin.

Einrogard’s students showed no mercy when it came to this kind of benevolent competition. If someone tried to snatch a sucker first, they would pounce on them prepared for all-out war.

‘Really a story I didn’t want to know…’

Iaktus: Thank you. Gonadaltes. Thanks to you I got very valuable information. I should prepare some rum.

Bakwantalana: Preparing an Achievement suitable for a pirate wouldn’t be bad either.

Iaktus: Oh my. I should have done some piracy.

Unbreakable One: How about everyone thinking of sincerely persuading guests instead of thinking of deceiving them?

Surprisingly, all the members currently present pretended not to see and ignored the Unbreakable One’s words.

Lee Han thought to himself.

‘The Unbreakable One doesn’t seem to have many friends here…’

Iaktus: Gonadaltes. I’ll give you some information too. The kitchen club seems to have invited big shots this time. I heard they invited the capital’s bakery guild and butcher guild, so try sneaking over to the kitchen club and tempting them by offering to show them research.

Gonadaltes: Is that okay?

Iaktus: Of course it’s not okay! If the kitchen club members catch you, you’ll have to go into their cauldron, so definitely do it secretly. But it’s worth it. I heard they have so many gold coins these days they don’t know what to do.

Bakwantalana: Then since I also received valuable information, I’ll give one piece of advice. Dezie from the Lekobi family is coming to the masonry club.

Iaktus: What?! That master craftsman from the construction guild is coming?! How did they invite him?!

Bakwantalana: According to rumors, they showed him the 【Tower of Echoes】. I don’t know if it’s true though.

Iaktus: If it’s Dezie… he’ll be carrying gold coins equal to his body weight. Damn it. If only we could steal him away from the masonry club!

‘Wait. Can I approach all of them?’

Lee Han, who had been listening to the upperclassmen’s stories, realized for the first time the advantage of joining multiple clubs.

Having joined multiple clubs, he could easily approach the visiting guests.

‘If I could get some money…’

Lee Han momentarily fell into happy contemplation for the first time in a while.

What if he met an investor with heavy gold coin pouches and a good heart?

‘First I should get some investment for the dark magic school, and ask them to invest in Senior Diret’s research too. My research hasn’t even started yet… Hmm. But I am writing a book on water crystals, so maybe I could ask for a little to complete that? That much should be okay. I could get more support for Basil and Ponrig’s feed too. Come to think of it, I need some potions for practicing lightning elemental magic…’

Lee Han, who had been letting his imagination run wild, barely came to his senses.

The magic of gold coins was amazing, making it hard to escape once you started imagining.

‘Oh no. What was I doing. Really dangerous.’

Bakwantalana: Gonadaltes. Which club invited Ragesa?

Gonadaltes: The dueling club.

Unbreakable One: Wow! Professor Kirmin Ku invited Ragesa? That’s really unbelievable?

Gonadaltes: No. From what I know, Professor Kirmin Ku was busy so he asked Professor Voladi Bagrek.

The Unbreakable One was silent for a moment.

Lee Han tilted his head.

‘Is something wrong?’

Or maybe like Lee Han, this senior also flinched just seeing Professor Boladi’s name. If that was the case, it was perfectly understandable.

Unbreakable One: I see. Thanks everyone. Something came up so I have to go now.

Iaktus: Unbreakable One. You’re the only one not sharing good information. Instead of just liking to give advice to others, why don’t you share some information.

Unbreakable One: Ah. Sorry. I didn’t think about it.

Iaktus: Of course you wouldn’t. The Unbreakable One only likes to lecture!

Lee Han thought while watching the conversation.

‘Isn’t he making too many enemies? What’s he going to do if they actually meet?’

Iaktus seemed quite confident in his own abilities, but originally you never know how things will turn out in the world.

There was nothing good about making enemies.

Unbreakable One: …Duke Ikalderen will be participating as a guest. Is that enough?

Iaktus: What nonsense are you talking about, Unbreakable One. Why would Duke Ikalderen participate?

Gonadaltes: No. The Unbreakable One has a point. Duke Ikalderen is currently confined in a corner of Einrogard.

Iaktus: …How do you know that?

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