Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 899

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Chapter 899

‘But how do I draw his attention?’

Eandurude fell into thought.

Whether fighting in the illegal fighting pits of the past or fighting with other tower students now, Eandurude’s mindset of ‘I’ll kill you first, kyaaak!’ hadn’t changed much.

However, her perspective on situations and her thinking had changed greatly after entering Einroguard.

The world was vast and there were many strong people. In the narrow fighting pit, she could defeat enemies with just her gorgon bloodline, but outside, that was impossible.

The Wardanaz family boy who was currently tormenting his same-year friends was one of those strong people.

-You bastard. Why aren’t you cleaning up this mess quickly?

-I, I was going to clean it up later. I was busy studying.

-What nonsense about studying. I saw you playing mage cards with Gainando earlier.

-How the hell did you see that!? Wardanaz, you weren’t even looking this way! We even covered it with an illusion!

When night came, Lee Han chased away the friends who were playing and organized the common room for friends who wanted to study.

The friends who were about to play chess and marbles got smacked on the back and kicked in the butt by Lee Han.

-Just study! Just study!

-Wardanaz, you bastard. What are you going to do if we score better on the exam than you!

-…Hey. Even if you’re angry, don’t say things that don’t make sense.

Lee Han brewed large quantities of coffee together with the students taking alchemy lectures. Hot water shot up from the pot placed on the fireplace and flew into each person’s cup.

-Amazing skill!

-When I told the upperclassmen about Wardanaz’s coffee magic, they didn’t believe me. What crazy person would waste magic on something like that…

Yoner checked the sugar on a balance scale before throwing it into the coffee of friends standing in line.

Sugar was an important resource that shouldn’t be wasted.

-I trust that none of you are like Gainando, secretly taking extra to eat at night.

-…Hey!

-Sorry. I should have said ‘student’ but I said Gainando.

While students usually scattered to take night walks or stay in their private rooms, gathering in the year’s common room like this when exams approached was a characteristic and tradition unique to second years.

There were various reasons for this tradition, but the biggest reason was probably the nanny from the Wor Mo family.

“Eandurude. You should get some coffee too.”

“Thank you!”

“Are you preparing well for midterms?”

“Uh… yes.”

Eandurude blinked at Yoner’s question and slightly averted her gaze.

Actually, Eandurude was normal. Most first-year students only showed passion for a few lectures they liked and approached the rest with an attitude of ‘ugh, I don’t want to listen.’

“Tell me your grades during vacation later. I’m worried you might be losing time because of Prince Jowurin.”

“It’s fine! I’m only studying what’s necessary!”

“…Eandurude? Eandurude??”

After receiving her coffee, Eandurude quickly escaped. Yoner had strict aspects, so he probably wouldn’t like hearing that his junior was studying efficiently.

‘Please hurry up!’

The baby basilisk on the windowsill wagged its tail at Eandurude pleadingly. Eandurude gestured small for it to wait.

It was easy to forget while watching him brew coffee and serve snacks, but her senior was a tremendous powerhouse.

To draw the attention of such a powerhouse, she would need a very clever and ingenious strategy…

“Eandurude. What are you doing over there?”

“Eek!”

“?”

Lee Han was puzzled when his junior jumped up and down.

“I’m worried you might be staying here too long because of His Majesty. I’ll pack you some snacks, so why don’t you head back soon?”

“I’ll stay just a little longer.”

“Why?”

“…”

Eandurude desperately racked her brain. At that moment, something brilliant came to mind.

“His Majesty can’t sleep if I’m not nearby!”

“Oh my. You’re having a hard time.”

If the dragon by the fireplace had heard this, it would have been angry saying ‘How can you make Jowurin look like a complete fool!!’ but fortunately it didn’t hear.

Eandurude felt no guilt whatsoever.

After all, wasn’t she saying this to help Jowurin’s plan? The baby basilisk seemed to think so too, sending a signal of approval from the windowsill.

‘A clever and ingenious strategy. A clever and ingenious strategy…’

As Eandurude pondered, Lee Han asked another question.

“Do you have any questions about lectures? Like Professor Bagrek’s lectures, or Professor Bagrek’s exams, or Professor Bagrek’s assignments…”

“???”

“Sorry. I should have mentioned other professors but I said that reflexively.”

Seeing Lee Han apologize, Eandurude had another flash of inspiration.

Come to think of it, nothing was better for drawing attention than this!

“I have a question!”

“Oh. Really? Go ahead.”

Lee Han personally brought over a chair and told her to sit. Gainando approached from behind with a tearful expression, drooping.

“Lee Han…”

“Remove the ankle-biting poison. Gainando. Your skeleton right now won’t be affected much by poison and will have trouble enduring it.”

“Thanks!”

‘M-magic!?’

Eandurude, sitting in the chair, was shocked.

How could he answer that without even looking back or asking about the situation?!

‘The year’s top student is… really amazing…!’

Eandurude thought of the penguin beastman student in the same year.

Unlike other Blue Dragon Tower students who wandered around during breaks, this student who focused only on magic, even saving sleep time, was always mentioned when talk of the year’s top student came up.

Would Penguerin be able to do this after just one year??

‘Unbelievable…!’

“Now. Eandurude. Professor Bagrek’s magic is the most wicked and vicious…”

“…?”

Eandurude tilted her head at the teaching that seemed strangely emotional, but listened attentively for now.

Meanwhile, the baby basilisk began to move stealthily.

The target was the reagent pouch Lee Han wore at his waist.

‘Here I go!’

The baby basilisk jumped from the windowsill onto the bookshelf. Then it jumped from the bookshelf and landed on Adenart’s parchment.

Adenart carefully placed the baby basilisk on her hand and returned it to Lee Han. The baby basilisk, whose stealthy approach had failed, was completely dejected.

‘Pathetic creature.’

Eandurude looked at the baby basilisk with contemptuous eyes. Jowurin, who was pretending to doze near the fireplace, also seemed to cast a contemptuous glance, though it might have been her imagination.

‘I, I was planning to do this originally.’

The baby basilisk rationalized to itself and slowly crawled out from Lee Han’s sleeve again.

Then it went down to his waist and tapped the reagent pouch string with its tail…

“What are you doing?”

-…

The baby basilisk froze completely at Lee Han’s call. Even if it had been petrified by witnessing its own gaze directly, it probably wouldn’t have frozen this solid.

“Do you need this? Want to play with it? Here.”

Lee Han untied the reagent pouch and held it out to the baby basilisk.

He kept important reagents stored separately anyway, and this pouch only contained reagents for urgent use. It didn’t matter if the baby basilisk played with it.

-Wa, waah!

The baby basilisk naturally took the reagent pouch as if it had planned this.

Lee Han and the students watched fondly as the baby basilisk rolled around with the reagent pouch.

“It’s still a baby after all.”

“Even if its behavior is childish, it’s cute.”

-…

Trembling with humiliation, the baby basilisk barely managed to return to Jowrin.

-I’m never doing that again!!

Well done. Jowrin shall praise you!

-I don’t need it…

While the baby basilisk grumbled, Jowrin carefully took out the dragon stone.

As the golden icosahedral substance emerged from her mouth, brilliant sunlight suddenly poured out like waves throughout the common room.

“What the!?”

“Hey! Are you hogging the common room alone! Which bastard is it!”

“I don’t know who it is, but you broke my concentration! Ah! I really could have gotten a perfect score!”

Jowrin moved faster than she ever had in her life. Her front paw quickly covered the dragon stone and the sunlight disappeared.

“Wardanaz. We need to find the culprit!”

“Stop fooling around and sit back down to study.”

“…Okay…”

Fortunately, the students didn’t set out to hunt down the culprit. Lee Han also didn’t seem particularly suspicious, probably thinking someone had made a magical mistake.

Since not a single student had actually seen the dragon stone, it was natural in a way.

‘Phew.’

Jowrin carefully lifted her front paw. The dragon stone, now somewhat dimmed, revealed itself.

-Wow. That’s really amazing.

The baby basilisk inadvertently expressed admiration. The power of dragons was truly magnificent enough that even the king of serpents had to show respect.

The powerful and complex force dwelling within that ore…!

It’s all in there. Now I just need to return it! Then Jowrin shall pretend to sleep.

‘I don’t think that’s going to work.’

As she crawled along to return the reagent pouch containing the dragon stone, the baby basilisk thought to herself.

It’s a bit late to say this now, but will he really fall for this?

* * *

Professor Thunderstep yawned.

That sun heralding the morning symbolized the start of a new week, the start of midterm exams, the start of students’ suffering.

“Professor.”

“!”

Professor Thunderstep flinched at the familiar voice of his disciple.

‘Could this be an ambush?’

Statistically speaking, Einroguard students began attempting to ambush professors starting from their third year. The success rate was close to zero, but originally it was difficult to make rational judgments at Einroguard.

And considering the skill and audacity the Wardanaz family boy possessed, it wouldn’t be strange if he attempted it in his second year.

‘Highly likely. There’s no reason for him to come now.’

Midterm exams could lack time even if you invested the entire week. Even for Wardanaz, finishing in one day would be impossible.

Professor Thunderstep put his hand in his pocket and loaded a potion. Then he slowly turned around.

‘What. It’s not an ambush.’

The professor was relieved after seeing his disciple’s expression.

Not a cunning scheme, but a dark expression full of despair, anger, grief, and so on.

It was an ordinary Einroguard student facing exams.

“What is it, Wardanaz. Did you come because you have something to ask?”

“It’s not that…”

“But where is His Majesty?”

When Dragon His Majesty, who usually followed Lee Han around like a baby bird, was nowhere to be seen, Professor Thunderstep was puzzled.

Lee Han’s expression grew even darker.

“His Majesty is grounded.”

“…What? Grounded?”

“Yes.”

“Did His Majesty do something wrong?”

“Something like that.”

“Still, grounding His Majesty! That’s impressive.”

Professor Thunderstep was honestly amazed.

Who could treat Jowrin so sternly like that? It would be difficult to do unless you were that Wardanaz family boy.

‘There’s a reason for the old saying that monsters are defeated by monsters.’

“No. I think I failed to take proper care of her.”

Lee Han said with a deep sigh. It was a rarely seen bitter and weak appearance.

Professor Thunderstep was slightly flustered by that sight.

“Why, why are you like this? Did something happen?”

“It’s just… His Majesty keeps acting on her own lately, and I wonder if it’s because of me.”

“Hahaha! What nonsense… No, do you seriously think that?”

Professor Thunderstep was truly flustered.

“His Majesty is a growing dragon. Acting on her own is natural! Don’t you remember when she broke the lecture hall wall last time?”

At this level, Jowrin was growing very well.

She didn’t try to eat people, wasn’t interested in evil secrets, and didn’t try to steal others’ property to pile up in her lair…

“But that was also because she came out looking for me.”

“Be quiet. So why did you come? Did you come to ask for a potion that reduces mischievousness?”

“Ah. No. I came to submit my exam.”

“…”

Professor Thunderstep nearly collapsed as strength left his legs.

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