Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 800

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Chapter 800

For a moment, all the members of 【Einroguard’s Watchmen】 who were watching the conversation had the exact same thought.

…Is this bastard really the Skeleton Principal?

However, Lee Han wasn’t flustered. Hadn’t he already received this kind of suspicion several times before?

Gonadaltes: How do I know, you ask. I’m more interested in the school and more active than you guys, so naturally I’d know.

Iaktus: Like sending students to the punishment room, for example?

Gonadaltes: Iaktus. Stop talking nonsense. If I were really the Principal, why would I keep doing this here? I would have just caught you all already. Have I ever asked to meet with you guys?

Bakwantalana: A valid point. I must admit we’re being overly suspicious because of Gonadaltes’s alias.

The members honestly acknowledged it.

If the new member’s alias had been something like 【Cool Fourth Year Student】 instead of Gonadaltes, they probably would have been less suspicious.

However, as long as he bore the alias Gonadaltes, even ordinary words inevitably felt suspicious.

‘Damn it. This is troubling for me too.’

‘Is he really not the Skeleton Principal?’

‘What kind of crazy student is this?’

Rationally, everyone knew the Skeleton Principal wouldn’t engage in such bothersome activities.

If they assumed the Skeleton Principal had infiltrated, there were several contradictory circumstances.

But…

Any student of Einroguard felt it to their bones.

The Skeleton Principal’s madness was something in a realm they simply couldn’t measure!

What if all of this was part of some grand plan the Skeleton Principal was drawing up, and they were being played?

Who could say such a possibility was completely impossible?

Gonadaltes: Honorable members of the Watchmen! As mages, shouldn’t we judge coldly and rationally instead of being frightened by ridiculously low possibilities? If we keep driving each other into corners like this, only distrust will pervade the club and quality information won’t be shared.

Iaktus: You’re right… Sorry. I said something unnecessary.

Unbreakable One: Right. I agree. And there’s no way a professor would be here. That’s ridiculous.

Seeing that everyone seemed to have calmed down, Lee Han drove the point home.

Gonadaltes: I happened to witness Duke Ikalderen this year. From what I heard, he was caught trying to steal Einroguard’s treasures.

Bakwantalana: Isn’t it possible it was someone else? No matter what, to think they’d imprison a great noble and duke of the Empire at Einroguard.

Unbreakable One: If it’s the Principal, it’s possible… it’s possible.

Iaktus: I agree too. It’s hard to believe, but that makes it more credible. So Duke Ikalderen is participating as a guest? Why?

Unbreakable One: From what I know, he’s spending gold coins as a form of atonement.

‘Wait. Who is this senior?’

Lee Han was quite surprised by Unbreakable One’s information.

While the other seniors hadn’t noticed, Lee Han knew well that information about Duke Ikalderen was quite secret even within Einroguard.

Even if it was a senior who had coincidentally seen him imprisoned, as Lee Han had claimed as an excuse…

…could they know the reason for his participation as a guest too?

‘Could this senior be in continuous contact with Duke Ikalderen? It’s not impossible.’

After all, hadn’t Lee Han himself built a friendship with the punishment room management spirit and secretly received a free pass?

Though Einroguard’s rules were strict, there were always exceptions if you became friends with the guards.

If this senior had also found where Duke Ikalderen was imprisoned and figured out how to approach him…

‘What an impressive person. For a duke, the Skeleton Principal would have set up considerable security. How did he approach him?’

Iaktus: As a form of atonement…

Bakwantalana: Instead of reducing his sentence, he’s being told to spend money on students. Very much like the Principal.

Gonadaltes: Thanks for the compliment.

Iaktus: …

Bakwantalana: …

Gonadaltes: That was a joke. Sorry.

Iaktus: Never make such damn jokes again.

‘These seniors have no sense of humor.’

Lee Han grumbled inwardly.

To react so violently to a light joke thrown out to change the mood…

Bakwantalana: Thanks for the good information. To think a duke is participating.

Unbreakable One: Everyone, since we’re honorable Watchmen members, you won’t kidnap the duke or use violent methods to persuade him, right? Promise me you won’t.

Iaktus: Unbreakable One. You didn’t need to tell us since we were going to kidnap him anyway.

Unbreakable One: Hey!

Gonadaltes: Is it okay to kidnap him?

Iaktus: What else could it mean that the Principal temporarily released him?

Einroguard students had an outstanding talent for grasping the Skeleton Principal’s true intentions.

As soon as they heard that Duke Ikalderen was participating as atonement, the members understood it as ‘Ah, the Principal has given permission to thoroughly fleece the duke.’

Of course, they couldn’t know if that was really his intention…

‘Then I can’t not do it either.’

Lee Han made a note that he should remember to kidnap Duke Ikalderen too.

He couldn’t just do good things for the seniors alone.

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“Senior. Is it true that the Kitchen Club invited people from the Capital’s Bakery Guild and Butcher Guild this time?”

“Puhuh! How did you find out?!”

The big, pot-bellied senior, Falkrious, looked around in surprise.

“It’s a secret. If the other guys find out, they’ll try to intercept them before they even reach the 7th floor!”

“Could I possibly get some support for my research too?”

“Hmm.”

Falkrious, who had been chuckling while boiling plain water soup, seriously pondered his junior’s question.

“That’s… hard for me to answer. Extorting, I mean, receiving gifts of other people’s gold coins has always been difficult.”

Senior Falkrious had been cheerful even when throwing punches at other club seniors and wielding kitchen knives, but he became very serious when talk of gold coins and support came up.

As long as Falkrious was also a mage, it was a task he’d have to carry for life.

“There were times I thought it was 100% certain but didn’t get gold coins, and times I thought it was completely wrong but did receive gold coins. The psychology of people with gold coins seems too difficult. More difficult than great magic.”

“I completely agree, Senior.”

Lee Han nodded very sympathetically.

Originally, receiving financial support from others as a researcher was truly difficult work.

Money was limited while those wanting to research overflowed, so they had no choice but to fight fiercely among themselves.

“Puhuh. There’s only one thing I can tell you. If you sincerely prepare your research…”

“…the people who come will surely understand, right?”

“Huh? No. If you sincerely prepare your research, people won’t be interested, so you need to deceive them with flashy tricks.”

“…Thank you. I learned something.”

“Puhuhuh. That’s fortunate!”

At Falkrious’s words, Lee Han came to his senses.

Come to think of it, there was nothing more foolish than trying to use honest methods against people with gold coins.

‘He’s right. I need to sell flashiness.’

Lee Han fell deep into thought.

How could Lee Han, who was still learning magic through his body without a single proper research, possibly pull off such flashy deceptions?

Seeing Lee Han sitting at the cooking club dining table scribbling with a quill pen, his same-year friends were puzzled.

“Why is Lee Han doing that?”

“He says he’s preparing for next week.”

“Ah. Club Week!”

Gainando’s face brightened slightly then darkened.

Having outside guests come was enjoyable, but the club Gainando currently belonged to wasn’t the club he wanted.

“Gainando, who’s coming to your club?”

“Some famous collector is coming… I don’t know. I’m not interested.”

“Why aren’t you interested? It’d be good to get close and receive support for magic research.”

“Ugh. I don’t want to take dirty money earned from mage cards…”

“…”

“…”

The Blue Dragon Tower friends exchanged glances. One of them tapped his head with his finger.

‘Isn’t he crazy?’

‘Leave him be. Wardanaz will scold him properly.’

Ignoring Gainando, the friends approached Lee Han.

“Wardanaz. What are you doing now? Should we help?”

“Ah. I was preparing a self-introduction to use as a greeting when outside guests come next week. I’ve roughly finished it, want to listen once?”

“Oh…!”

“Self-introductions are important.”

The friends nodded.

When meeting someone for the first time, a mage had to introduce who they were. Especially if there were gold coins to be extracted from that person.

Which school they belonged to, who they learned under, what achievements they had…

In the end, Empire people liked numbers.

‘I’ve been researching skin color changes when casting troll transformation magic for a whole month!’ worked less well than ‘I’m second in the transformation magic school!’

As expected of Wardanaz, he was already preparing before the weekend even started.

“I am Lee Han of the Wardanaz Family…”

-I want to give bonus points for starters.

-But couldn’t the Wardanaz Family feel a bit dangerous?

-Dangerous, but worth revealing. There are definitely people who have expectations for a prestigious magic family’s name.

The friends coldly scored it. Yoner thought to himself.

‘He usually doesn’t even use his family name.’

It hurt his heart to see his friend, who usually didn’t care about his family name, immediately bring it out when it came to gold coin-related matters.

He really seemed intent on not choosing his means and methods.

“I am the top student of Einroguard’s second year.”

-A bit annoying, but I’ll give additional points for this too.

-Everyone has to acknowledge this one.

The Blue Dragon Tower friends added points along with slight jealousy.

“Furthermore, I am taking courses in all schools of Einroguard.”

-Doesn’t this feel a bit unrealistic?

-But there’s lots of evidence for this, so it’s fine. And it only feels unrealistic to mages, it’ll actually work on ordinary people.

-Indeed.

“I’ve also taken first place in all the schools…”

-…

-…

“Last year, I helped with work at Master Puyo’s staff workshop, Yoanen Meikin’s alchemy workshop, and so on.”

-…Meikin. What did you make your friend do? If it’s Yoanen Meikin, isn’t that the one who drove thirteen alchemists insane…

-There seems to be a misunderstanding. First, it wasn’t thirteen but fourteen, and Lee Han…

Lee Han frowned as his friends talked about useless things.

“Can’t you focus?”

-S, sorry.

-I’ll focus. Continue.

“Last year, I faced the following enemies. Rock Drake, Frost Giant King, King of Ghouls, Basilisk, Sea Serpent, and so on…”

-…

-Wait. Wait a moment.

“Hm?”

When his friends stopped him, Lee Han was puzzled.

“Is there a problem?”

“Just now was a bit too…”

“…Absurd? Like a lie? Exaggerated?”

“Right, right. It might sound a bit strange.”

“But it’s all really things I experienced.”

Lee Han felt slightly wronged.

He hadn’t even started exaggerating yet, but he was already hearing such words.

“W, we believe you. Wardanaz. We believe you!”

“Actually, hearing it summarized like that, it is hard to believe… Anyway, it might be a bit shocking to outsiders.”

When his friends spoke seriously without backing down, Lee Han wavered.

“Really? Then which parts should I fix?”

“Rock Drake, King of Ghouls, Basilisk, Sea Serpent.”

“You want me to leave only those?”

“No. Let’s remove all of those. Just having the Frost Giant King alone would be shocking enough.”

“…”

Lee Han made a displeased expression but removed them according to his friends’ advice for now.

“Last year, I faced the Frost Giant King and passed the trial. This is the proof.”

-Good!

-Clean and excellent!

“And this year, I met the mage criminal Antagondals and an insane doppelganger of an ancient great mage…”

-…

-…

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