Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 888

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Chapter 888

“How much have you made?”

-I am working hard, Mage sir!

“Good. Hurry up.”

A moment later.

“How much is done?”

‘That son of a bitch.’

Sarataan cursed profusely.

He had clearly said it would take about a day, but here he was asking again after taking just a few steps.

Anyway, most mages were nothing but damn bastards.

-I am doing my best! But it will take a day…

“Hmm. It’s not a trick, is it?”

Lee Han muttered suspiciously. Sarataan smiled obsequiously (though the mage couldn’t see it) and watched nervously.

“Should I summon the Thunder King to supervise?”

“Summoning a powerful spirit for something like that seems excessive.”

“Is that so? This staff spirit is such a cunning fellow…”

-…!

At the sight of the mage boy casually uttering the chilling words about summoning the Thunder King to supervise, Sarataan desperately began creating new shoots imbued with power.

* * *

Flash!

In the middle of the night, Jowrin quietly opened her eyes. Looking around the common room, not a single student was visible.

‘Hehe. Jowrin is clever.’

Even Lee Han, who would normally sit by the fireplace reading books until dawn, had been persuaded by Jowrin earlier to go upstairs.

-Lee Han must sleep!

-What? Why are you suddenly saying that?

-Hurry!

-I have a lot to do, so suddenly sleeping is a bit…

-If you don’t go up, I’ll send letters to the Empire’s noble families saying Lee Han can’t even sleep because he studies!

-…Your Majesty. You haven’t been reading any strange books, have you?

Lee Han was reluctant, but when Jowrin insisted, he went upstairs and lay down on his bed.

And honestly, he was tired too.

Einroguard students had the characteristic of falling asleep immediately just by putting their heads to the ground without any special magic, and Lee Han was no exception.

‘Jowrin will solve Lee Han’s test.’

As Jowrin was crawling out of the empty common room, she heard the baby basilisk’s voice in her ear.

-What are you doing?

…

Come to think of it, she had forgotten that the baby basilisk was sleeping in her embrace instead of Lee Han. Jowrin turned pale and waved her front paws.

Shh! Shh! Be quiet!

-I, I am being quiet! …Save me! Save me!!

The baby basilisk realized Lee Han wasn’t there and was terrified.

There was no one to stop the dragon in front of it from devouring it.

I said be quiet! …Sob!

Jowrin began to tear up as it seemed her plan would be ruined by the baby basilisk’s crying.

Then the baby basilisk was startled.

-Why, why are you crying??

Because of the basilisk, Jowrin is going to get caught… sob sob…

-No, no. You won’t get caught. No one’s here! I don’t know what you’re trying to do, but…

But Jowrin planned so hard!

-It’s not over yet!

The baby basilisk earnestly comforted Jowrin.

Jowrin, who had been tearing up, barely regained her spirits from that comfort.

Re, really it’s not over yet…? Jowrin’s plan?

-That’s what I’m saying! But what exactly is the plan?

Hmm. Jowrin is…

Jowrin explained her ambitious plan.

Sneak into the greenhouse at night and shoot her breath attack over the mandragon that Lee Han was growing to promote rapid growth.

Unfortunately, the baby basilisk was not a mage. As long as it wasn’t a plan to eat it, it was ready to praise any plan.

-It sounds like a really great plan!!

Re, really?

-Yes yes yes!

Jowrin completely stopped crying and giggled. She felt better thanks to the baby basilisk’s encouragement.

Then let’s depart again!

-Yes!

Jowrin placed the baby basilisk on top of her head.

Only then did the baby basilisk realize it was going along too, but couldn’t bring itself to ask to be put down.

-…Am, am I going too?

Hm?

-It’s nothing! Let’s work hard together!

Let’s do that!

Jowrin transformed into an eagle and quickly flew up to the common room window.

Then Professor Bendozol, who had been sleeping rough on the ground, opened his eyes with a flash and shot up into the air.

Jowrin and the baby basilisk were startled enough to stop their hearts.

Waaaaaaah?!

-Kyaaaaaaah?!

“What bastard dares… Oh. Your Majesty?”

Professor Bendozol, who had awakened from sleep due to detected movement, was surprised to discover the transformed Jowrin instead of an intruder.

How, how did he recognize Jowrin?

“I can distinguish the thought wave patterns emitted by all species. That doesn’t change even with transformation.”

…

-That’s creepy.

The baby basilisk whispered so only Jowrin could hear. Jowrin was about to nod but held back.

Jo… Jowrin has somewhere to go. Please step aside.

“Where might that be?”

Professor Bendozol asked the natural question as a guard.

Wasn’t nighttime Einroguard a demon realm filled with all sorts of evil students and less evil monsters?

Of course, Jowrin couldn’t answer and hesitated.

“Dragon sir?”

Uh… well… that is…

“???”

…Bah! Why are you prying so much! How impudent!

Jowrin threw a tantrum even though she knew it made no sense. The baby basilisk thought to itself.

‘The plan’s going to fail already…’

However, surprisingly, the tantrum was very effective. Professor Bendozol threw himself to the ground and prostrated.

Thud!

“I have committed a mortal sin, Dragon sir! How dare a lowly mage try to inquire about Dragon sir’s destination…!”

Bl, blood is coming out?!

“This is nothing serious.”

Professor Bendozol jumped up and wiped the blood streaming down from his forehead.

“Considering my impious actions, I should suffer even more than this.”

St, stop…! Jowrin was wrong!

Unable to bear the other’s madness, Jowrin finally confessed her plan.

Going to the 6th floor greenhouse to get the mandragon…

“Indeed! You’re planning to pluck the students’ mandragons and store them in Dragon-nim’s warehouse! I’ll help!”

Professor Bendozol shouted excitedly.

The students should be grateful too. How thankful they should be that a dragon like Jowrin would take all their mandragons away.

…That’s not it, I was going to help grow the mandragons…

“Indeed! You’ve become interested in growing mandragons. Dragon-nim’s mercy is wider than the continent! I’ll help!”

No, Jowrin has no interest in growing them. It’s just that Lee Han’s mandragon doesn’t seem fully grown yet…

“…”

Learning the reason, Professor Bendozol glared at the dormitory tower with menacing eyes. The baby basilisk quickly whispered.

-L, look at that mage’s eyes! Those are eyes that want to kill master!

Is he glaring at Lee Han right now?!

“Wh, what are you saying. Absolutely not. Damn these eyes! These eyes!”

Professor Bendozol kept hitting his own eyes. Jowrin shouted in a disgusted voice.

I, I understand. You don’t hate Lee Han, right?

“…Yes! Of course not.”

-Make him swear that he’s a cherished disciple.

The baby basilisk truly had the cunning wisdom befitting the king of snakes. Jowrin relayed it as is.

Then suddenly bloody tears began flowing from Bendozol’s eyes.

…Eek!

“I’m sorry, Dragon-nim. I just hit myself wrong just now.”

I, I see… What about the oath…?

“…”

Professor Bendozol expressed dozens of negative emotions on his face before finally gritting his teeth and swearing.

“I swear on my love for animals that I will think of that brat… no, the disciple of the Wardanaz family as a cherished disciple…”

-Can’t you ask him to leave his inheritance too?

When the baby basilisk slyly asked, Jowrin showed reluctance.

Th, that seems a bit too much in Jowrin’s opinion…

* * *

Professor Bendozol mobilized all his magic to escort Jowrin to the greenhouse.

The upperclassmen wandering around under cover of darkness quickly distanced themselves when they spotted Professor Bendozol from afar.

-Aaah! It’s the crazy guy!

-What? Who?

-The crazy guy!

-Ah. Professor Bendozol? Let’s go the other way.

His reputation for madness was helpful at times like this. The students couldn’t even imagine that an invisible dragon was following behind Professor Bendozol.

Whenever students hesitated, Professor Bendozol threatened them with growling sounds.

“Grrrr!”

“Aaah! It’s the crazy professor!”

“Who!? Burdus?”

“It’s nighttime!”

“Ah, Bendozol! Run!”

After thoroughly clearing the path, Professor Bendozol wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He’d thought this before, but wouldn’t it be fine to reduce Einroguard’s students to about 1/10?

Instead, increase the mysterious animals by about 10 times…

‘But how is Dragon-nim planning to grow the mandragons?’

While Professor Bendozol was an animal expert, he wasn’t incompetent in other fields. Einroguard professors were fundamentally versatile.

In the professor’s view, to grow mandragons at their current level faster, several elixirs or secret medicines were needed.

【Arkan’s Growth Elixir】 or, as a bold choice, something like 【Ahrak’s Purple Poison】 would also help mandragon growth.

‘If you had secured such things, you could have just commanded this Bendozol. To move personally like this. Wardanaz, you bastard…!’

Professor Bendozol trembled with burning jealousy and hatred.

If Bendozol had been Wardanaz, he would have lived every moment in gratitude.

That ungrateful, arrogant, evil, conceited bastard…

I’ll go in for a moment and come back.

“Yes. Please go ahead.”

When Jowrin spoke upon arriving at the greenhouse, Professor Bendozol nodded.

Flash!!!!!!

“?”

When a sphere as strong as the sun flickered beyond the glass window of the main entrance, Professor Bendozol was startled.

‘…Could it be?!’

There was one more method to grow mandragons besides elixirs or secret medicines.

Artificially implementing the sun.

It was such an absurd method that he hadn’t thought of it, but if it was a dragon’s ability, it wasn’t impossible either.

“Dragon-nim!”

Hastily opening the door and entering, the small sun floating in the air instantly faded away.

Jowrin kept coughing. There was a backlash from forcibly drawing out her breath when she wasn’t fully grown yet.

Professor Bendozol’s heart nearly stopped from anger and self-reproach, but he endured and moved.

“Are you alright!”

J, Jowrin is fine. What about the other… other mandragons…

“They’re fine. You controlled it perfectly!”

After breathing out her breath and fixing that breath to implement a temporary artificial sun, the most important thing in the process was control.

Since it was such an intense storm of power, the moment you lost control, it would destroy the surroundings.

Since the surroundings were a greenhouse full of plants, even the slightest mistake could cause massive destruction.

Of course, Professor Bendozol wouldn’t care at all if such a thing happened…

“They’re fine. You focused the light precisely only on that brat’s… no. Wardanaz’s mandragon.”

Hehe. Jowrin’s plan succeeded!

“As expected of Dragon-nim!”

-Um… excuse me?

The baby basilisk called to the dragon and professor who were praising themselves.

Lee Han’s mandragon seedling, which had received the intense power directly, was growing.

…At an incredibly fast speed!

———–!!!!!!

Even though it hadn’t emerged from the soil yet, the mandragon’s scream struck the eardrums of the three and shook their souls.

Fortunately, since their species were respectively dragon, basilisk, and professor – all sturdy species – the three could endure it.

“Outside! Go outside!”

Professor Bendozol quickly threw the two outside, then closed the greenhouse door and cast sealing magic.

Meanwhile, inside, the overgrown mandragon continued to let out insane screams. It was so vicious that despite the seal, the shock could be felt even outside the greenhouse.

‘I’ve never seen anything like that…!’

A mandragon that let out such vicious screams even from underground was a first for Professor Bendozol too.

Jowrin seemed to realize things had gone wrong and made a tearful face.

Bi, big trouble…! Wh, what to do? What to do…?

“Dragon-nim!”

Hm? Does Professor Bendozol have a solution?!

“Dragon-nim never visited here today!”

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