Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 868

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Chapter 868

Diret, who had been about to have the spirit draw a picture, suddenly remembered something.

“By the way, junior.”

“Yes.”

“Didn’t you say you negotiated with Professor Verdus last time and got a key?”

“Since we’re breaking in anyway, it’s better this way, isn’t it?”

“…”

“Senior. I was joking.”

“Who would think that’s a joke!”

Diret got angry at his junior’s appearance of being embarrassed with a serious face.

Lee Han explained again.

“I did receive keys to the underground warehouse, but they’re only for warehouses that store materials and reagents. To access the professor’s workshop, we still have to break these golems.”

“I see.”

Diret nodded, but felt a lingering doubt in his heart that wouldn’t disappear.

Did his junior’s key really not fit the Underground 1st Floor Workshop passage?

* * *

The group arrived in front of Professor Verdus’ workshop located on Basement Level 1.

Jowrin excitedly shouted.

Professor Bagrek! Jowrin commands you to smash that door too!

“Your Majesty. We cannot smash that door.”

Professor Boladi shook his head and explained.

Placing defense golems on Basement Level 1 was different from entering the workshop located on Basement Level 1.

The former had some gaps, but the latter was something Professor Verdus stubbornly refused to leave any openings for.

If they carelessly touched it, they might trigger alarms throughout the entire tower.

“This is where Yukveltire will shine. Your Majesty.”

Diret called for Yukveltire.

Since she was Professor Verdus’ disciple and knew she was here, she would surely explain in detail about the magic that was cast.

If they could just figure out what magic was cast, with Professor Bagrek here too, they could surely break through.

“Yukveltire. What magic is cast here?”

“I don’t know either.”

“…What?”

While Diret was bewildered, Yukveltire took out a workshop key she had secretly copied without Professor Verdus knowing.

Then she opened the door to the Underground 1st Floor Workshop. Everyone in the group (including Jowrin) was speechless.

“…No, when and how did you get that?”

Lee Han asked in surprise.

Of course, the defense systems of Basement Level 1 and the outer warehouses were at a brutal level, but by Professor Verdus’ standards, that was just the beginning.

He would never easily give up something like a workshop key that stored his truly important works.

If it were discovered, he would have immediately changed all the workshop’s defensive magic.

“I happened to get it 3 years ago.”

“How did you avoid getting caught all this time??”

“Simple. I never used it once.”

“…”

Lee Han was shocked again.

It was surprising that Yukveltire hadn’t used that key once in 3 years, but it was even more surprising that she was using it now.

“It’s not my place to say this, but… are you sure it’s okay to use it?”

“I’m recommending an artifact befitting a talented junior. This is a very rational action.”

“Ah, yes.”

Jowrin made a gesture behind Yukveltire, raising both front paws beside her head like horns. Lee Han could immediately understand what she meant.

-Isn’t she angry?

‘Let’s just say no for now…’

Lee Han felt slightly worried that he might be taking too much advantage of his senior who had lost her reason to anger.

“Professor. What do you think…”

He was about to ask Professor Boladi, but the professor wasn’t visible beside him.

When he looked up, Professor Boladi was already inside the workshop looking for magic drafting tools.

“…Professor…”

“?”

“It’s nothing.”

Lee Han went inside.

Just as a cunning rabbit digs three burrows, Professor Verdus also had multiple workshops.

Outstanding artists have multiple workshops and engage in creative activities in each, but Lee Han thought Professor Verdus had multiple workshops to minimize damage when one was robbed.

In that regard, the current Underground 1st Floor Workshop was quite a decent place.

The quality of the works placed here was much higher than the workshop Professor Verdus revealed when working with students.

It seemed to be where Professor Verdus stored artifacts he delivered to others or made according to his own taste.

‘Normally, for educational purposes, shouldn’t he show students things like this?’

“Found it. Here it is.”

Yukveltire called Lee Han.

On the workbench, he could see an artifact box labeled 【Bibble’s Drafting Tool】.

“…Isn’t this not something the professor made, but an artifact the professor still uses?”

“?”

Yukveltire looked at her junior as if to say ‘so what?’

Professor Boladi also looked at his disciple with eyes that said ‘what does that matter?’

Diret placed his hand on his junior’s shoulder.

‘I understand your feelings.’

‘Thank you, senior.’

Lee Han felt grateful that there was at least one normal person.

“It’s nothing. I’ll use it well…”

“Wait.”

Yukveltire stopped Lee Han and explained.

All the items on this Basement Level 1 would immediately activate magic throughout the entire tower the moment anyone other than Professor Verdus touched them.

Lee Han thought this was nonsense and said.

“If you’re going to cast magic on the door, fine, but you cast such complex magic on each individual item?”

To make the magic of the entire tower activate not just from dispelling or destroying, but from simply touching, would require more than ordinary time and effort.

You’d have to pour enormous effort into casting magic on each individual item.

Professor Verdus wasn’t an idle person, so how could such a thing be possible…

Yukveltire answered immediately.

“Yes.”

“…”

Lee Han felt anew the extraordinariness of Professor Verdus.

He had been stealing materials, reagents, and sometimes even airships under construction, so he didn’t know, but the items Professor Verdus was truly determined to protect couldn’t be easily taken.

‘And I’m trying to steal such a person’s favorite item.’

After thinking for about 1 second, Lee Han steeled his resolve again.

Even if he got caught later, stealing first was the right thing to do. Especially if the opponent was Professor Verdus.

“We’ll have to escape immediately the moment we grab the item.”

“That’s right.”

“We could probably grab one or two more. Check it out.”

“…Do you perhaps also have something you’re angry about with Professor Verdus… never mind.”

Lee Han was almost overwhelmed by Professor Boladi’s appearance of so thoroughly pursuing profit.

‘I should take a closer look for now.’

Lee Han left the drafting machine alone and looked around the workshop again.

Amulet of Aging Resistance

‘Amazing!’

Lee Han looked at the amulet hanging on the wall and admired it.

He wasn’t admiring it simply because of its appearance, craftsmanship, or the sparkle of its gems, but because of the sophistication of the magic embedded within.

Just as small gears connect to form a massive movement, small magics were connected to drive away the user’s aging and bring forth youth.

‘There’s an explanation written below too.’

Even if it was hard to steal due to the defensive magic, he wanted to read what Professor Verdus had written.

Commissioned by the Penguerin Family

Delivery deadline 5 years 6 years 7 years late

“…”

Just deliver it already!

Lee Han was dumbfounded.

With this level of completion, it seemed like he could just give it to them, yet he’d been holding onto it for 7 years.

It would be strange if the Penguerin family hadn’t sent assassins.

‘No. I just don’t know about it, but they might have sent some…’

Looking more closely, the other works were similar.

They were all excellent and beautiful, with phrases like 【Delivery deadline several years late】 written below them.

If you’re late one more time, I’ll really send you to hell – Osyu

If you’re late one more time, I’ll really make you lecture in the deep punishment room – Osyu

If you’re late one more time, I’ll really burn down your workshop and hang you at the castle gate – Osyu

If you’re late one more time…

What the hell is wrong with you? Please just do your work on time! – Osyu

Lee Han discovered the thickly stacked curse letters and shook his head.

It wasn’t easy to feel sorry for the Skeleton Principal, but Professor Verdus was accomplishing that difficult task.

Star Guide, Pasellet Kraer, For Third Year Exam

Lee Han was startled by the massive brass telescope and the name written below it.

To think the exam for the lecture he was taking would be here! Well, since Professor Verdus was an excellent artifact craftsman, it was natural for other professors to commission exam artifacts from him.

When Lee Han stopped walking and peered at the brass telescope, the others also gathered around, wondering what was happening.

“What is it?”

“Junior. What are you looking at?”

Jowrin has a bigger and more magnificent telescope than this. His Majesty has it now, but if Lee Han needs it…

‘That really woke me up.’

Lee Han pressed Jowrin’s mouth shut from above and below, then said.

“I was surprised to see an artifact used for an exam I’ll be taking.”

“I see.”

“Ah.”

“Take it.”

“?”

Lee Han hesitated, feeling like there was one strange answer mixed in among the responses just given.

Surprisingly, it was Professor Boladi who had spoken.

‘Actually, thinking about it, it’s not surprising.’

“Professor. This is for another professor’s exam.”

“Securing it first is also part of a student’s ability.”

Yukveltire agreed with Professor Boladi’s words.

“It’s also something Professor Verdus should have protected well.”

While Lee Han was at a loss for words, Diret whispered from beside him.

“Junior.”

“Yes. I also think taking this would be a bit…”

“Just take it. You need to reduce your exams by even one.”

* * *

Iaktus: Professor Verdus’s workshop was robbed! Professor Verdus’s workshop was robbed!! Professor Verdus’s workshop was robbed!!!

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Just write one line. Why are you making such a fuss. It’s not the first time this has happened.

Iaktus: You must have read it wrong. The workshop was robbed, not the storage! And it was the basement level 1 workshop!

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: …Professor Verdus’s workshop was robbed!!!!

Einroguard’s whispers kept carving only “Professor Verdus’s workshop was robbed” as if possessed by madness.

It was that shocking an event.

The basement level 1 workshop was robbed, not the storage or the first floor workshop?

Bakwantalana: Professor Verdus had many enemies. He’s paying the natural price.

Iaktus: No. You can’t simply evaluate it like that. Professor Verdus always had many enemies, but his personal workshop had never been completely robbed before.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Could it be related to the dragon that came this time? With a dragon’s power…

Iaktus: No way. She’s royalty. A proper member of the Imperial Family who didn’t even enroll in Einroguard. Would such royalty commit theft?

Bakwantalana: Just because you enroll in Einroguard doesn’t mean royalty becomes improper.

Iaktus: What are you saying. If you enroll in Einroguard, you’re just an Einroguard student.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: I agree. I saw a royal junior once before, and he was gobbling bread more desperately than a back-alley beggar. Once you enter Einroguard, there’s no such thing as royalty or whatever.

Lee Han looked around cautiously before joining in.

Gonadaltes: How did you find out that Professor Verdus’s workshop was robbed? Isn’t it a false rumor?

Iaktus: No. Professor Kraer is trying to kill Professor Verdus right now.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Didn’t someone say it was stolen and then secretly take it themselves?

Iaktus: Surely a fellow professor wouldn’t take another’s belongings… Hmm… It could be possible.

Gonadaltes: It certainly could be.

Bakwantalana: I don’t think that’s the case though.

Gonadaltes: More importantly, the Principal hasn’t been seen lately. Does anyone know why?

Lee Han casually asked something he was curious about. Immediately, curses flew back.

Iaktus: Everyone’s happy that he’s not around, so why the hell are you asking for the reason?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: If he comes back starting tomorrow because you asked, will you take responsibility?

“…”

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