Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 852

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Chapter 852

The one checking compartment 6 of the backpack most calmly was Sevius.

While Zandani was moved by the miraculous friendship and Lee Han was looking serious, Sevius calmly examined the inside.

“…Wait.”

“What’s wrong?”

“This looks like someone opened it once before. Look here.”

Sevius cast a spell to project compartment 6 as an illusion. The enlarged view of the space appeared before the mages.

It looked like a retired mage’s workshop. The difference was that instead of taking his belongings when retiring, the mage seemed to have left them for his successor.

A birch workbench for examining and sorting reagents, a high-grade alchemy cauldron with eight burners, gem drawers for reagents organized by color, spare wands and spellbook shelves, boxes containing gold and silver coins…

Lee Han asked in confusion.

“Couldn’t an Einroguard senior have stockpiled this before closing the space?”

“No. That’s…”

“Ah. It’s definitely strange! It doesn’t make sense for an Einroguard student to have piled up those gems, gold coins, and silver coins here.”

Lee Han struck his palm with his fist as if he understood.

Sevius glared at his junior and said.

“…Look next to it too.”

“?”

Lee Han turned his gaze. There were words written on the wall forming compartment 6.

In honor of my friendship with my big Einroguard friend, I leave my passion for the Einroguard student who will someday open this backpack instead of a Baldrogard student. Please use it well. And please forgive me even if the Baldrogard student gets upset.

-Ipelldrem

“Sen… Senior!”

Zandani exclaimed in surprise at the name of the legendary Baldrogard senior.

“It’s Senior’s name! The one who passed down this bag!”

“…Why are those words written there?”

“That’s… didn’t Senior perhaps predict the current situation?”

The flustered Zandani proposed a hypothesis.

If the senior had opened this spatial maze and heard his friend’s message, even belatedly, he would have been deeply moved by that friendship.

And then he would have thought:

Einroguard and Baldrogard are the twin carriages leading the Empire…

“…Ah, this bastard really.”

“Senior! Why are you acting like this, really!”

Lee Han was about to hit him when Sevius rushed forward first, so he frantically stopped him in shock.

When someone who usually doesn’t act that way explodes, it’s even more bewildering.

Zandani asked in surprise.

“Why, why are you acting like this?”

“Continue. But skip the twin carriages part!”

…Anyway, the senior might have thought that misunderstandings between Einroguard and Baldrogard should be resolved and the two should become closer.

Einroguard students have magic, while Baldrogard students have dignity and honor…

“…”

“…”

Zandani flinched at the murderous gazes of the two mages.

“Did, did I say something wrong again?”

“Please continue.”

…that could be exchanged.

But misunderstandings weren’t something that could be resolved so easily.

So the senior closed the backpack again and left it for his juniors.

So that someday when the juniors opened it, they could directly hear and be moved by the goodwill left by his Einroguard friend.

“Then what’s the deal with what he left for those Einroguard students?”

“That’s simple. Baldrogard students wouldn’t be able to open this, so they’d call Einroguard students, and then they’d witness this together, wouldn’t they?”

“…What nonsense… does that even make sense?”

“But it happened this way…”

Lee Han was speechless at Zandani’s appearance of hesitating yet still speaking his mind.

…Right?

“Senior. Please refute this.”

“…Hmm.”

“Senior!”

Despite Lee Han’s outcry, Sevius kept his mouth shut.

Now that things had turned out this way, it was difficult to refute.

Galar still spoke as if amazed.

“So you’re saying this Baldrogard senior personally opened this, checked his friend’s message, filled it with gifts, and closed it again?”

“Yes!”

“A mage with that level of skill existed at Baldrogard?”

“…What do you mean?”

“Ah, no…”

When his employer glared at him, Galar looked around nervously and averted his gaze.

Meanwhile, Lee Han, having recovered slightly from the shock, whispered with Sevius.

“Then this mage named Ipelldrem must have met his Einroguard friend again, right?”

“Probably so.”

“That’s fortunate at least.”

“It might not be fortunate.”

“Huh? Why? Because he maintained friendship with a Baldrogard student?”

“…It’s not that, but if he went to meet the Einroguard senior, he probably got dragged to the punishment room together. That’s just like the Principal’s personality.”

The Skeleton Principal was relatively lenient with outsiders, but students from other magic schools were a slightly different case.

If someone secretly came to Einroguard to meet a student in the punishment room, the Skeleton Principal would have locked them up without hesitation.

“Come on. That’s nothing much. Doesn’t everyone go to the punishment room at least once?”

“…”

Sevius was about to tell his junior that ‘outsiders won’t even spit toward Einroguard after going to the punishment room just once’ but stopped himself.

“Rather, it’s fortunate that things ended without any misunderstanding between the two.”

“That’s true.”

“But seeing how he bothered to seal this space again instead of just giving this backpack to any Einroguard student, it seems he didn’t learn much from the punishment room.”

‘My junior can be really scary sometimes.’

Sevius shuddered at Lee Han’s coldness.

How could he say such things after seeing that?

“Excuse me. Please accept this.”

Zandani held out the backpack.

After seeing the message left by his senior, he could understand why this backpack was left for Baldrogard students.

It was left with instructions to pass this backpack to an Einroguard student when they found one they could share friendship with someday.

‘Senior. I think I finally understand your intentions.’

“But we stole this anyway…”

“Shh. Be quiet.”

Sevius covered his junior’s mouth.

There was no reason to trouble someone who was ending things on a good note and even giving him items.

* * *

Lee Han shouldered his newly acquired backpack and left the Visitor’s Dormitory village together with Sevius.

Sevius surprisingly readily gave up the backpack to his junior. Without receiving any compensation at all.

“Are you really sure this is okay?”

“Yeah. I originally intended to take it because I thought it belonged to Einroguard. According to what the senior left behind, it’s right for you to receive it.”

“?”

Lee Han tilted his head in confusion.

“What do you mean?”

“He left it to a Baldrogard friend, and the Baldrogard friend left it to a future Einroguard friend.”

Since the one Zandani considered a friend was Wardanaz, it was right for Wardanaz to have this.

Lee Han was shocked.

“We’re not friends though???”

It wasn’t easy to become friends with a fourth-year Baldrogard student who thought of him as a sixth-year in the first place.

Where on earth should he even start?

Sevius replied as if annoyed.

“Then go return it.”

“Now that I think about it, I suppose we could be considered friends.”

Lee Han immediately gave up.

Certainly when problems arose later, ‘I received it from a friend’ would be better to excuse than ‘I stole it.’

‘Right. Having obtained such an artifact, I can be his friend.’

Though he wasn’t particularly inclined to, thinking of this backpack and the items inside it made it bearable.

Lee Han checked the items in the 6th space again. Besides various magical items, the reagent gems and gold coin box were particularly moving.

‘Do those Baldrogard bastards do magic with this kind of stuff piled up in their workshops? This is insane.’

At that point, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it indulgence and luxury rather than magic.

Sevius beside him seemed lost in thought about something and remained silent. Lee Han asked just in case.

“What’s wrong? Senior?”

‘Does he perhaps want something from inside?’

If Sevius asked to divide the items inside as his share, Lee Han was prepared to share them.

As much as the senior had helped Lee Han, Sevius could take the items from spaces 1 through 5, and Lee Han would modestly take the 6th space…

“I was thinking because it was strange that there was a curse on the spatial maze earlier.”

“Wasn’t it prepared just in case? If the Principal or Professor Verdus had gotten their hands on it, they would have opened it right away.”

From the Einroguard senior’s perspective, he would have had to prepare for situations other than his friend opening it through normal methods.

Especially since it was made by stealing items from the Skeleton Principal and Professor Verdus.

‘Come to think of it, I should be careful too.’

Lee Han resolved to change the backpack’s appearance as soon as he returned.

Though quite some time had passed, weren’t both of them among the most persistent individuals in Einroguard?

“Originally that would be the case. But this was opened by a Baldrogard student and then closed again. If he reset the curse, he would know that the juniors would be in danger.”

Sevius’s point was reasonable.

If the juniors later opened the bag to become friends with each other and got hit by a curse, before friendship or anything else, ‘Those despicable Baldrogard bastards, it’s a trap!’ would come out first.

Sevius couldn’t understand why something like this wasn’t left behind.

“Rather than forcing it open like we did, I think he would have left advice about the correct way to open it… This is strange.”

“Ah. I think I know.”

“What?”

“Those Baldrogard bastards absolutely never read magic books, so they used the backpack the senior left behind, but threw away the book he left behind thinking it was a magic book. How about that?”

“…”

Sevius was slightly worried that his junior might hate Baldrogard too much.

‘But… it does sound plausible!’

* * *

“Where did this bag come from?”

“I got it from a Baldrogard student.”

“I see. So you took it.”

“No. I said I got it.”

“Yeah. I understand. I understand.”

“…”

Lee Han made a displeased expression at his friends’ reaction.

“Yoner. Does ‘got it’ sound like ‘took it’ to you?”

“Huh? Yeah.”

“…I really got it.”

“What? How?!”

Yoner was more surprised than when the artifact was opened.

How on earth did he just get this?

“Well… we became close by chance and it was a token of friendship.”

“…”

Yoner wondered whether he should lie and say he ‘believed’ it as a token of friendship, even though he didn’t believe his friend.

Lee Han bitterly shook his head.

“Fine. Don’t believe me.”

“Ah, no. I believe you. I said I believe you, right?”

Meanwhile, his friends began emptying the spaces inside one by one and carefully filling them with necessary items.

“No. Why are you putting in mana potions? Wardanaz doesn’t need them!”

“By that logic, why put in food? Most of the food Wardanaz carries around gets eaten by other guys!”

“…Let’s put in mana potions too.”

“See!”

His friends removed all the quality wines from the 1st space and filled it with potions instead.

In the 2nd space, they cleared out various toys and put in food, in the 3rd space they cleared out expensive outdoor clothes and put in survival clothing like sleeping bags, cloaks, and coats. In the 4th space, they removed the Toberiz series…

“Ah, no! How did someone get this!?”

Gainando was shocked to see a rare out-of-print edition.

“Lee Han! Who gave you this?! What kind of person?!”

“Gainando. Is that important right now? Hurry up and choose some magic books to put in.”

“Hey! This is so amazing…!”

In the 5th space, they removed the ball game equipment and put in various animal equipment and tools. They left the 6th space as it was for now. They planned to take things out and use them whenever needed later.

“?”

Lee Han, who was about to close the backpack entrance after checking inside the 6th space, was puzzled by an item he hadn’t seen before.

‘What’s this? I didn’t see it earlier?’

It was a letter.

A letter left by Zandani in the name of the Alzardek family, asking him to visit Baldrogard sometime.

Lee Han saw it and let out a low sigh. Then he took out a quill pen.

“Lee Han. What are you doing?”

“Writing a reply to a letter.”

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