Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 950

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Chapter 950

Beaver-Penguin-Fox, Ilendil was bewildered.

Currently, Ilendil was not inside Einroguard but outside. To be precise, inside the pocket of a student who was going outside.

As soon as he learned that dangerous guys were involved, he immediately took action.

‘…Almost broke the bottle…’

Fourth year students often had one or two means to escape Einroguard in emergencies, but that didn’t make escaping easy.

What Ilendil chose was to borrow the power of spirits and hide inside a glass potion bottle.

Naturally, he had secretly entered without telling the student who owned it, and he couldn’t get caught.

Ilendil suppressed his bewilderment and moved the chalk again.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: There must have been a mistake.

Gonadaltes: I confirmed his identity and it’s definitely Akdin?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: …

Confused, Ilendil grabbed his hair tangled with tree branches and thought deeply.

Although Gonadaltes was crazy (especially when it came to naming), he wasn’t the type to bluff about something like this.

Did he really catch him?

Among the mercenaries who moved this time, there were many notorious ones.

However, if he had to choose who would play the leader role among them, Three-Finger Akdin had the highest possibility.

He was cunning and persistent, causing all sorts of major incidents like 【Garam’s Madness】 and 【Flame Waterfall Attack】 while safely escaping.

To suddenly catch such a guy.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: He’s skilled in all kinds of deception and schemes. He also has a lot of escape experience… Check again if it’s really Akdin.

Gonadaltes: Ah. I confirmed it. I ambushed him, and it happened to hit his artifact directly and shattered it. He was careless and his reaction was slow too.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: That’s all?

Ilendil couldn’t believe it and asked again.

A mercenary notorious for being cunning and persistent was caught like some rookie because he was careless?

Gonadaltes seemed annoyed and started getting irritated.

Gonadaltes: Then don’t believe it. What do you want me to do? Will you come and check directly?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Hmm. I’ll apologize first. Since the opponent is who he is, I ended up asking persistently. The guys targeting Swan Song are quite dangerous right now, so I’m also heading to Granden City.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox planned to directly inform the mages and knights of Granden City about the situation and capture the mercenaries.

Originally, he was going to exclude unrelated students from this matter, but seeing Gonadaltes’ capabilities changed his mind.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Gonadaltes. Won’t you cooperate and work together?

“!”

Lee Han was surprised by the unexpected proposal.

A cooperation proposal.

‘I do need to catch the guys who escaped, but he’s taking direct action?’

Lee Han was a bit puzzled that a senior who seemed like he would only enjoy gardening activities in a corner of the forest, not Professor Boladi, was stepping forward like this.

Gonadaltes: If you have information, can’t you just leave it to the people of Granden City?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Of course I’ll leave some of it to them, but I can’t just trust only those people. And it’s too good an opportunity for that.

Gonadaltes: Too good an opportunity?

To the puzzled Lee Han, Ilendil explained in detail.

There were two reasons why Ilendil was directly stepping forward now.

One was that as a mage of Einroguard, he couldn’t just trust other mages and stay still, and the other was because of the artifacts the mercenaries possessed.

If Gonadaltes cooperated, he planned to fairly settle not only the previously promised reward but also these artifacts.

‘No. How does this person know about this?’

Gonadaltes: Good. As a fellow Einroguard student, I can cooperate. But I’d like you to help me a bit in the club from now on.

Ilendil frowned at the sight of the other person adding additional conditions.

The previously promised reward and settlement of the artifacts to be obtained were sufficient as trade conditions. To be greedy for more here.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: That doesn’t add up. If we cooperate, it’s the reward and artifacts. I don’t see why we’d add more to that.

Gonadaltes: Think about it carefully. If we cooperate together, we’ll somewhat guess each other’s identities, right?

It was true.

Even if they disguised themselves and hid their identities, watching each other use magic from the side would inevitably lead to guessing.

‘Why is he saying such things?’

Gonadaltes: But I already know your identity. Since only I’m revealing my identity, it’s my loss, isn’t it?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: …Don’t talk nonsense.

Ilendil barely regained his composure and replied.

This cunning bastard was bluffing to extract more.

No matter how he thought about it, Ilendil had never revealed his identity in the Watchman Club. Besides, wasn’t Gonadaltes a relatively late joiner?

Gonadaltes: Even if you say that, knowing is knowing.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Then tell me. If you get it right, I’ll unconditionally help with Watchman Club matters from now on.

Ilendil snorted.

There was absolutely no way the other person could get it right…

Gonadaltes: Senior Ilendil.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: …

Gonadaltes: I got it right, didn’t I? Please take care of me when we talk through artifacts from now on. Help me when cursing Iaktus.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: How did you…?

Gonadaltes: Let’s talk about that when we meet later. More importantly, Senior, how did you find out about what the mercenaries are plotting?

Lee Han asked about something he couldn’t understand.

Even Lee Han, who had been wandering around Granden City, had no idea about this, yet Ilendil knew all about it.

He couldn’t understand how he had found out.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: A spirit serving one of the mercenaries came to me and told me.

“…”

Lee Han’s eyes widened in shock.

How on earth was such a thing possible??

* * *

“Guys. Gather around.”

Lee Han called his friends with a serious expression.

Starting from the collapsed mercenaries earlier, friends who realized the current situation was serious quietly gathered together.

“It’s surprising, but the spirits you command can also betray you. Check the contract details carefully.”

“…Wh, what are you talking about?”

“Weren’t you talking about those mercenaries?”

“I’m going to talk about that now too.”

Lee Han relayed exactly what he had heard from his senior.

Surprisingly, the reason this group of mercenaries was running wild was because of evil god worshippers.

It was easy to think that evil god worshippers would act alone, but in fact, grand schemes required various pawns.

The mercenaries who came to Grandden City this time were also those who had followed after receiving large amounts of gold coins from the evil god worshippers.

-We have somewhere else to go from now on. You take this artifact and deliver it to your comrades.

‘Are they idiots?’

From the mercenaries’ perspective, this was very confusing talk.

What were they trusting to hand over the artifact to mercenaries?

Even with supervision it wouldn’t be enough, yet they were asking them to obediently deliver the artifact.

The mercenaries nodded readily, planning to split up and immediately sell the artifact to the black market.

-Understood. We’ll do that.

-You promised.

-Yes. We promised.

The mercenaries who received the artifact chuckled and prepared plans to leave the city that very day.

Doing a few odd jobs and getting gold coins plus an ancient artifact. There had never been such a profitable commission.

However, that night in Grandden City, monsters summoned by evil god worshippers descended, and at the same time, a terrible curse manifested on the mercenaries who had received the artifact.

Listen… to the commands…

The symptoms were hallucinations and auditory hallucinations from the evil god.

If they didn’t follow the commands, the curse would immediately spread throughout the mercenary’s entire body and grip their heart.

Only then did the mercenaries realize they had been deceived by the evil god worshipper. Among their actions, there had been something that triggered the curse.

Each had bounties on their heads, so with the palace monster descent incident, they never knew when their identities might be discovered.

They needed to flee as quickly as possible, but the mercenaries couldn’t do so and performed commands following the evil god’s voice.

Raiding shops and stealing swan songs was also part of those commands.

Angrago, who had been listening intently, asked.

“But the mercenaries’ level didn’t seem that impressive, wouldn’t the mages and knights belonging to Grandden City catch them quickly if they stepped in?”

“I think so too. But my senior seemed to want to get his hands on that artifact. I guess it’s a precious item.”

‘These… arrogant mage bastards…!’

Akdin, who had regained consciousness, was dumbfounded.

Putting other things aside, to be mocked for having a low level was truly outrageous.

Just Akdin himself, if he revealed his identity in front of mercenaries, there would be several who would join the commission just based on his name alone!

‘Did I get impatient?! For me to make such a mistake.’

Akdin gritted his teeth.

To think that he, who had been through all kinds of hardships, would end up like this just because he underestimated a customer who entered the shop.

He hadn’t expected the enemy to have tracked him so closely.

‘…No. They have the right to mock me.’

Making the enemy let their guard down, drawing them out, then delivering a decisive blow to the most important artifact to subdue them.

It was so perfect that there was nothing to say.

Akdin couldn’t even imagine that his opponent had simply prepared magic and checked inside the shop for no particular reason.

The artifact being smashed was actually a lucky strike…

“Sorry for being late!”

When the knights and mages of Grandden City came running, Lee Han and his friends prepared to leave.

Then a staff member came running frantically and stopped them.

“Wait! Which organization do you mages belong to? Please let us know so we can repay this favor!”

“Uh…”

“Well…”

The students were flustered.

Of course they belonged to Einroguard, but weren’t they currently in disguise?

Moreover, considering the importance of the situation, if they revealed they belonged to Einroguard, it might reach the ears of the Death Knights…

“We, we’re mages belonging to the Nago family.”

“Ah! Right! I’m also from the Nago family!”

“Ooh…!”

Not only the staff members but even the knights were amazed.

Were there other mages in the recently famous Nago family?

“Did you know? When I asked the Einroguard Death Knights last time if they knew the family, they said it was a very extraordinary family.”

“Truly amazing. They say there are many extraordinary families in the Empire…”

‘The Nago family… a name I need to be careful of in the future.’

Akdin, whose power was completely sealed, memorized it deep in his mind.

The experienced mercenary didn’t hold a grudge against those who had defeated him. Rather, he remembered and avoided them as much as possible.

There was nothing good about fighting the strong.

Seeing the skills of the Nago family mages now, it seemed he should avoid them in the future too.

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Ilendil anxiously waited for Gonadaltes’ arrival at a nearby flower garden.

Basically, Ilendil didn’t like actually meeting other mages. Especially if it was a mage who called himself Gonadaltes.

But given how the situation had turned out, there was no choice.

To definitely get his hands on the precious artifact, cooperating with the Einroguard student was right.

Gonadaltes’ skills were certain…

‘To subdue Akdin so easily, is he a 4th year, no, a 5th year? Who is he?’

Due to the shock, Ilendil had even missed that his opponent had called him ‘senior.’

“Are you here?”

“…Aah no!”

Ilendil let out a small scream seeing the mages pouring in.

The mage at the front recognized Ilendil and asked.

“Senior Ilendil?”

“Why, why are there so many?”

“So many what?”

“Mages…”

“Isn’t it better to have more people to cooperate with?”

“Th, that’s true but…”

Ilendil trailed off. Lee Han tilted his head wondering if there was some problem.

Ilendil, who had been hesitating, slowly answered in a small voice.

“I, I’m a bit uncomfortable with so many people…”

“…”

Yet he had spoken so actively in the Watchman Club!

Lee Han was dumbfounded but asked his friends to wait outside for a moment.

“Could you wait outside?”

“If that person attacks you, scream immediately. Wardanaz.”

“…Would he really do that.”

“Isn’t that person the lunatic who summoned a dark spirit in the forest last time? Is it okay to leave Wardanaz alone?”

‘I can’t deny it.’

Just as Ilendil disliked having several strangers in a narrow space, the 2nd year students also didn’t particularly like the senior who had released an artificial dark spirit in the forest.

Among the 2nd year students, Ilendil was already categorized as ‘that crazy senior.’

Creak-

When the door closed, Ilendil let out a sigh of relief. Then he asked.

“A face I’ve never seen before…?”

“Ah. I’m in disguise.”

Lee Han undid his disguise.

When the kind junior with a warm heart who loved spirits appeared before her, Ilendil screamed and fainted backwards.

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