Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 820

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Chapter 820

Ragesa, being an experienced and seasoned pirate (and having connections with the Skeleton Principal), knew quite a lot about Einroguard’s education.

When she had visited 17, 29, and 37 years ago, Einroguard had been similar.

37 years ago.

-Why don’t you have a staff?

-I traded it for a loaf of bread.

-…I see. Understood. Why don’t you have a cloak? Did you also trade it for a loaf of bread?

-No.

-Then?

-I traded it for half a loaf…

-…

29 years ago.

-At least you have a staff!

-Yes. We discovered the kitchen yesterday! We cleaned out all the food in the kitchen and used that to retrieve our pawned staff and cloak.

-Kihihi, good! Well done. At least you got the food with your own strength! But what’s that iron chain you’re wearing on your ankle?

-The Kitchen Keeper caught us, and asked whether we’d go to the punishment room or do kitchen chores… so I chose to do kitchen chores. I have to help with kitchen work ten hours a day from now on.

-…I don’t know much about teaching magic, but can you learn magic while doing kitchen work ten hours a day?

17 years ago.

-Amazing, you caught quite a large beast!

-Thank you.

-But why are the others lying there without eating?

-They tried to knock me down and steal it, so we had a little fight…

-Oh my! It’s not your fault. Those idiots who tried to steal food from a troll half-blood are the stupid ones.

-I said I’d share it, but they tried to ambush me from behind… *sniff*…

-Tsk tsk. You can’t make rational compromises with guys who’ve been starving for a whole week. You have to rule with violence. Use those fists of yours.

-But I don’t like violence?

-If you don’t like violence, you need even stronger violence. At the very least, keep your fists clenched tight! Guys who’ve starved for a week will give up after a few hits, but guys who’ve starved for two weeks won’t give up even after several beatings.

“Hmm. I don’t think it would have changed?”

Finishing her reminiscence, Ragesa spoke decisively.

No matter how she thought about it, Einroguard would continue to be a painful and brutal place until the lord changed.

No wonder Ragesa often lectured her subordinate pirates, saying ‘You shouldn’t complain about drifting at sea all year long! There’s a place called Einroguard…’

“When I was a first-year, everyone was hungry but we managed to eat three meals a day…”

“Really?? You didn’t attend Baldroguard by any chance?”

“Ragesa!”

When Lee Han got indignant, Ragesa giggled with laughter.

There was no better word for teasing magic school students than Baldroguard.

‘Wait. Could it be because of Eandurude?’

Lee Han flinched at the sudden thought.

Eandurude, currently belonging to the Black Turtle Tower, was experienced in combat and had a personality that preferred fighting.

When they met in Professor Boladi’s classroom last time, hadn’t he said he was ‘extorting food from friends in other towers’?

Lee Han had given him a bundle of food and told him to share it with his friends, but honestly, Lee Han himself was skeptical about whether he really shared it.

Because Lee Han himself wouldn’t have shared it if he had received it that way!

‘If it were me… I would have secretly put it in storage.’

No matter how much he was told to take care of friends from other towers, taking care of guys who attacked him whenever they saw him wasn’t easy.

What was so precious about them that he’d take care of them?

“I have a guess.”

“What is it?”

“There’s this kid among my juniors…”

Lee Han briefly explained about Eandurude.

However, Ragesa was unimpressed.

“How much could one person steal? And they’re all mages. Even if stealing is difficult, they can hide things easily enough if they put their minds to it.”

“No. Eandurude is the kind of guy who could really viciously steal if he put his mind to it.”

‘You don’t dislike him, do you?’

Since Lee Han spoke so seriously, Ragesa was momentarily confused, wondering if this was a junior he disliked.

“Then I’ll go ask. You follow behind with invisibility.”

Ragesa strode forward.

The first-year students who had been frantically devouring the large cheese, round bread, big rice cakes, and fruits from the basket belatedly realized and were startled.

“Who… who are you!”

“Calm down! Even if you youngsters all attack together, you couldn’t touch the hem of Torgerrd’s Daughter’s clothes. I’m the owner of that food basket!”

“…Can’t, can’t give it back! Absolutely can’t give it back!”

“…”

“…”

At the junior’s intense reaction, not only Ragesa but even Lee Han felt embarrassed.

“…I didn’t come to steal it. Do you think I would have lost that food basket in the first place? I threw it there for you youngsters to eat.”

“Thank, thank you…!”

At Ragesa’s words, the first-year students cried and were moved to tears.

Having quickly become close, they answered Ragesa’s questions without suspicion. They would have spilled Einroguard’s secrets if asked.

“Why are you so starved?”

“The amount of meals served is too little… And they often disappear along the way.”

“With such a vast territory, what about trying to find food?”

“We are trying, but we fail more often than not…”

Gathering and hunting only made them hungrier when they failed. This was especially true for Einroguard freshmen, who were mostly beginners.

Wandering around inside Einroguard buildings was much more dangerous. If lucky, they could hit the jackpot, but if unlucky, they’d be dragged to the punishment room.

“Oh dear. Could it be that a guy named Eandurude is stealing a lot of food?”

“Eandurude? No, that’s not it.”

“Eandurude actually shared food with us last time. It’s because Karle Priest steals everything.”

“That’s impossible!”

Lee Han exclaimed in surprise.

Of course, the first-year students were equally startled. It wasn’t easy to stay calm when a voice came from thin air.

“What, what was that just now?”

“Don’t mind it. It’s a ghost pirate following me around. Anyway, it’s not because of Eandurude?”

The new students nodded and explained.

These students belonged to the White Tiger Tower, and naturally had frequent conflicts with Eandurude, who belonged to the Black Turtle Tower.

-Ha. You turtle guys. Do you think guys like you can beat us who’ve trained with swords since childhood? Argh! Ahhh! I surrender! I surrender!

-Step on them! Break them! Win!

-Ahhh! I was wrong! I said I was wrong!

Eandurude, who beat up not only the White Tiger Tower and Blue Dragon Tower but sometimes even the Phoenix Tower priests when things went wrong (Karle Priest got beaten especially often), was the pride of the Black Turtle Tower first-years.

To stop such an Eandurude, the White Tiger Tower needed someone like Ulgan from the northern mountains, and the Blue Dragon Tower needed someone like Alhidel, a prodigy from the prestigious Penguerin family of the Empire.

But Ulgan mainly wandered the mountains and rarely participated in inter-tower fights, and Penguerin also rarely participated, saying ‘I’m still far from ready, what’s with this childish fighting!’, so Eandurude stood out particularly in such fights.

“Then it is because of Eandurude?”

At the voice from thin air, the first-year students answered with puzzled faces.

“Well… Eandurude doesn’t attack if we don’t attack first.”

“He doesn’t take more food once he’s full either.”

‘What kind of beast is he?’

Lee Han regretted not explaining the necessity of food stockpiling to his junior.

“And last time he brought a food bundle and shared it. He said he got it from a senior whose name he couldn’t reveal…”

“I see.”

After hearing the full explanation, Lee Han felt very sorry toward Eandurude.

His junior had faithfully followed his words, but he himself had failed to trust his junior.

Ragesa, who had been listening from the side, asked out of curiosity.

“What did Priest Karle steal?”

Since priests usually don’t steal, it was naturally a curious story.

“Priest Karle is from the Bildotzcal Order…”

“Oh, Bildotzcal! The true order of the Empire!”

Ragesa clapped and rejoiced, truly befitting a pirate. The first-year students were dumbfounded.

“I see. So he was from the Bildotzcal Order.”

“Shouldn’t priests not steal?”

As Ragesa rejoiced, the White Tiger Tower first-year students spoke with voices full of resentment.

Of course, Ragesa only snorted and mocked them.

“How do you so-called knights beg? I saw earlier that you ate more greedily than beggars!”

“…”

“When you’re hungry, you steal and take. The one who gets robbed is the fool.”

“We didn’t know the priest would steal!”

“Right. That’s what you did well! Kihihi!”

Before the students might guess Ragesa’s identity if left alone any longer, Lee Han stopped Ragesa and took food from his backpack.

“Here. Take some more food.”

“Th… Thank you! Ghost Pirate!”

“I recommend eating these canned goods first. Don’t just hastily grill the corned beef cans because you’re hungry. Put them in a pot and boil them with the bread that comes out. Don’t give up because it’s hard, it’s better to somehow boil it.”

The White Tiger Tower first-year students sent respectful gazes into the air at the Ghost Pirate’s wisdom.

As expected, the Ghost Pirate knew a lot, probably thanks to experience.

Lee Han watched wistfully as the first-year students hurriedly packed the food and left, then suddenly wondered.

“Wait. If it’s not because of Eandurude, why are these kids starving?”

“I told you, didn’t I? That’s normal at Einroguard. Why do you think those kids don’t have staffs?”

“Why don’t they have any?”

“Are you really asking because you don’t know!? They traded them for bread! Are you really an Einroguard student!”

“…?!”

Lee Han became very confused by Ragesa’s words.

“There was nothing like that in our time. Except for Gainando secretly trading books to eat snacks…”

“That’s strange? Was there a place where you could regularly get food?”

“In my case, I regularly went outside and managed a vegetable garden to secure food.”

“…”

Ragesa looked at Lee Han with the eyes of someone who had discovered the stupidest mage in the Empire.

“It’s because of you!!!”

* * *

“Indeed…”

“It’s shocking! To think there were Einroguard students who spent their first year comfortably.”

“No. We had our difficulties too.”

At Lee Han’s words, Ragesa only snorted.

Unless you had experienced being unable to use magic because you traded your staff for bread, you weren’t an Einroguard student.

“Well then, Ragesa. I’ll be going to attend a lecture now.”

“Let’s go together. I should at least watch. Anyway, if I wander around, only those who see me as an idiot who threw gold coins at Bibble will approach me.”

“Won’t it be boring for you? It’s a healing magic lecture.”

“Healing magic would be boring.”

“Then wouldn’t somewhere else be better?”

“No, no. Anyway, wherever you go, kid, something will definitely happen. It’ll be entertaining enough.”

‘Isn’t that a bit too harsh?’

Lee Han grumbled inwardly.

It’s not like Lee Han was someone who got involved in incidents wherever he went…

Anyone listening might misunderstand.

Even when the corridor was half-destroyed last time when Ragesa taught magic, it was because Ragesa herself taught magic strangely, not Lee Han’s fault.

Lee Han had many other lectures he attended quietly… no, there were at least a few.

“Wait a moment. Ragesa. Have you seen Senior Yukveltire’s research by any chance? If you haven’t seen it yet…”

“That arrogant brat looked down on me the most, didn’t she?”

“…”

Lee Han was simply amazed that even with such an impressive bronze golem, one could still fail to get sponsorship.

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