Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 884

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Chapter 884

After conversing with Einroguard’s greatest senior and returning to the common room, Lee Han gained some insight.

‘Senior Diret was right. In certain situations, deception is self-defense.’

Lee Han covered Jowrin, who was curled up and dozing by the fireplace, with a huge blanket (made by weaving together students’ cloaks).

For Jowrin, who usually lived quietly and peacefully at the manor, the magic school was like a festival full of all kinds of enjoyment, so even when drowsiness hit, she absolutely refused to return to the common room and followed Lee Han around.

Thanks to this, every time they returned to the common room like this, she would immediately curl up and fall asleep.

Actually, from Lee Han’s perspective, it wasn’t too bad. Taking care of Jowrin wasn’t that difficult, but he also needed his own time.

Lee Han wrote down and organized what he needed to do tomorrow Friday, what to do on the weekend, and points to be careful about during next week’s midterm exams on paper.

‘Hmm…’

Looking at the darkness that had settled outside the window, Lee Han felt the need to refresh his thoughts for a moment.

The convenient thing about being a mage was that at times like this, there was no need to fill a kettle with water and put it on the stove to boil.

Lee Han waved his staff to create water in the air and boiled it.

‘This is what being a mage is about.’

Actually, typical mages didn’t waste their precious mana on such trivial tasks, but Lee Han felt the utility of magic most strongly at times like this.

Holding the hot, strong coffee that was completed, Lee Han approached the window.

Though it was a barren and terrible place, Einroguard was truly a place with beautiful scenery.

When he stuck his head out the window in the middle of the night, brilliant trajectories of stars passed overhead and the breathing sounds of the forest could be heard below…

-Snore!

“…”

Witnessing Professor Bendozol sleeping outdoors naked below the window, Lee Han made a very complicated expression.

To have one of his few pleasures destroyed like this. It seemed he wouldn’t be able to look outside the window for a while.

‘I should use deception, no, self-defense.’

Lee Han took out the 【Whispers of Einroguard】 artifact and opened it. Then he began scribbling on the Watchman Club’s page.

Gonadaltes: Has everyone heard the rumor?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: What rumor?

Gonadaltes: The rumor about the intruder who came in this time. It’s so shocking and surprising that my hands are still trembling.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: For someone whose hands are trembling, your handwriting seems fine… So? What rumor?

Gonadaltes: That intruder actually stole the Principal’s treasure! Isn’t that truly surprising?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: What?! That’s really surprising… Wait. How do you really know that?

‘Oops.’

Lee Han thought ‘oops.’

He had only thought about mobilizing the Watchman Club members and hadn’t considered how he would appear.

‘Can’t help it. I’ll have to insist.’

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: No matter how I think about it, you seem to know strangely much about the Principal…

Gonadaltes: Good grief. I don’t know how long I’ll have to hear such words. Even when I share rumors, I have to suffer such slander. Fine. Let’s stop talking about this.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: No. I was wrong! I’ll apologize.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox was suspicious inside but apologized for now.

There was nothing good about persecuting someone who brought information within the club.

Bakwantalana: Convincing. The one currently moving to catch the intruder is the Wardanaz Family Boy. He’s the Principal’s disciple. If he took the Principal’s treasure, it’s logically valid.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: …Do you happen to know what treasure it is? It’s not the 【Light of the Forest】, is it?

‘What’s that?’

Though Lee Han didn’t know what artifact the other person was talking about, he agreed for now.

Gonadaltes: That possibility can’t be completely denied. Of course, it’s not certain.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: This won’t do. I have to go kill the intruder. I’ll apologize to everyone first. I’m going to take the treasure.

‘This person can be reliable at times like this.’

Lee Han was almost certain that Beaver-Penguin-Fox’s identity was Ilendil.

As such, the active attitude shown within the Watchman Club was bound to be surprising.

Senior Ilendil, a dryad hybrid, was usually a slow and indifferent person.

‘No. She did move actively when it involved the forest…’

Come to think of it, when the forest was being destroyed, she seemed to have hurled curses recklessly.

Her usual slowness might have just been because it wasn’t her area of interest.

Gonadaltes: Bakwantalana. Beaver-Penguin-Fox is saying that, but aren’t you interested? Beaver-Penguin-Fox might monopolize everything.

Bakwantalana: I have my own plan.

Gonadaltes: Do you know there’s a dimensional gate connected to outside the school among the Principal’s treasures? The rumor is that the intruder took that…

Though he threw out random words to provoke the other party, Bakwantalana seemed to have closed the book as there were no more replies.

Lee Han, who had been waiting, clicked his tongue in disappointment.

‘Don’t be impatient. This is just the beginning.’

Getting one person was already a decent result, and other club members who opened this artifact later might show additional interest.

Lee Han fell into thought about how to lie plausibly when the topic came up next time.

‘I don’t really know what Iaktus likes. Unbreakable One seems… to have old-fashioned tastes. As for Klzenbereg, aside from persuasion, he’s just creepy.’

Tap-

“?”

How much time had passed?

A paper bird came in through the window. After checking the contents, Lee Han was surprised by the sender’s identity.

Come to the common lounge as soon as you confirm this.

-Yukveltire>

‘Aha. The senior must have heard the rumor too.’

Lee Han realized what the situation was.

The rumor that the intruder had treasure must have reached Yukveltire’s ears as well.

“Senior.”

“Mm.”

Yukveltire, who was sitting on a chair in the common lounge (since other grade students would steal it if left behind, they had to carry it around or make one on the spot), nodded when she saw her junior.

“What’s the matter? Is it because of the intruder?”

“Right. Your insight is excellent.”

“If you help me, senior, it would be reassuring. Thank you.”

Lee Han spoke with a pretentious attitude.

Of course, from Yukveltire’s perspective, who had stepped forward because of the Skeleton Principal’s treasure, this would feel very much like betrayal, but Lee Han was cold.

In certain situations at Einroguard, wasn’t deception self-defense?

If the opponent was seniors from the Enchantment Magic School, the possibility of it being acknowledged was even higher.

“Information you know about the intruder. And I want to know about the other students who participated.”

“I’ll explain to the best of my ability.”

Lee Han began explaining what he knew.

Though he knew little about the intruder, he at least knew in detail about the students who were currently participating.

Yukveltire took notes of her junior’s words while pondering what approach to take.

‘Approaching from below the mountain range might be meaningless. Going deeper inside and setting traps…’

“Senior. But what treasure are you after?”

Lee Han asked with the intention of obtaining information about the treasures the Skeleton Principal possessed through this opportunity.

If there’s a treasure of the Skeleton Principal that Yukveltire is after, it would be worth that much.

“?”

However, Yukveltire’s reaction was unexpected.

She stared at him with transparent eyes as if she didn’t understand what Lee Han was talking about.

“Weren’t you after the intruder’s treasure?”

“Not particularly. Even if he stole the Principal’s treasure, it’s likely to be of relatively trivial level.”

Yukveltire was cold.

She judged that even if the intruder had stolen treasure, it was likely to be of a trivial level at best.

If it weren’t so and was truly important treasure, the Death Knights wouldn’t be wandering around so leisurely right now.

Yukveltire wasn’t foolish enough to act based solely on such uncertain rumors.

‘No. Then why did she step forward?’

“If that’s not it… then why?”

“Since you, a Wardanaz family junior, help with my research, I’m helping you in return.”

“…!!!”

Lee Han was truly surprised by the unexpected answer.

‘That’s impossible!’

To think someone like Yukveltire would step forward to help out of pure goodwill.

Of course, Lee Han had promised to help with research during vacation, but even considering that, it was remarkable.

‘If anyone calls Senior with the nickname Little Verdus from now on, I’ll grab them by the collar immediately.’

Lee Han was surprised and moved.

To think a person could change.

Then would the day come when Professor Verdus would also abandon his attitude and step forward to help with pure goodwill?

‘…I can’t imagine it at all…’

“Thank you. Senior. I really didn’t expect you to help without any compensation like this. What made you think that way?”

“Diret told me to do it.”

“…”

More than half of Lee Han’s emotion disappeared.

I knew it!

“By any chance, were the words you said about helping me as much as I help you also written by Senior Diret?”

“That’s right.”

“…But did Senior Diret give permission to tell me this?”

Listening to the story, Lee Han felt slightly puzzled.

Given Diret’s personality, if she was pushing her friend’s back to help a junior, she would keep it secret rather than reveal it.

Yukveltire slightly frowned her pale face and pondered.

Then she said.

“I don’t think she gave permission. I’d appreciate it if you kept it secret.”

“I understand… Anyway, thank you…”

“Tell Diret properly too. That you, a Wardanaz family junior, are grateful to me.”

“Yes, yes.”

* * *

Jowrin, who woke up after dozing off, crawled out to the common lounge when she couldn’t see Lee Han.

Lee Han, who was seeing off Yukveltire, was surprised to see Jowrin and widened his eyes.

“Did you wake up?”

…Jowrin wasn’t sleeping!

‘Why do both Jowrin and the baby basilisk insist they weren’t sleeping?’

No one would say anything even if they slept, so he couldn’t understand why they insisted they weren’t sleeping.

Since it wasn’t important, Lee Han briefly explained what they had been talking about.

“Senior Yukveltire will also step forward with other Divination Magic Guild seniors to catch the intruder.”

Yukveltire is truly kind!

“Um… That’s… well… No. Yes. She’s kind.”

Lee Han didn’t want to criticize that friend in front of Jowrin, so he just let it pass.

‘I’m sure she tried to hang Professor Verdus upside down in front of His Majesty.’

Jowrin nodded her head and said.

Actually, Jowrin thought Yukveltire came because of the exam.

“Exam?”

Lee Han is taking the exam early! So to take the exam first…

“…I told you that’s a misunderstanding. Your Majesty.”

Lee Han explained again to Jowrin, who wouldn’t clear up the misunderstanding despite his clarification.

It’s not intentionally taking the exam early, it’s coincidental, and if it’s the lecture Senior Yukveltire is currently in charge of, it’s 【Magical Algebra and Arcane Geometry】, which is a difficult lecture, so taking it early really doesn’t make sense…

“Even studying more today, tomorrow, and throughout the weekend before taking it wouldn’t be enough.”

Lee Han seems like he could just take it.

“Absolutely not…”

The common lounge door opened and Yukveltire, who had left earlier, returned.

Yukveltire sat in front of Lee Han with a light movement and said.

“I missed and passed over another matter while talking about the intruder. I have something to say. Wardanaz family junior.”

“I’m listening.”

Thud!

A thick bundle of papers appeared on the table.

“It’s the 【Magical Algebra and Arcane Geometry】 exam. Let’s start as soon as you’re ready.”

“…”

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