Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 964

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Chapter 964

-There’s plenty of food prepared, so you don’t need to rush!

-Is the soup all ready? Bring more pork fat and salt!

“Sigh.”

The person responsible for spreading the massive rumor throughout Granden City was letting out a deep sigh.

“Wardanaz. If you’re tired, go rest. You’ve already worked more than enough.”

Falkrious gently suggested when his junior seemed to be struggling.

It wasn’t empty words – this junior had truly done several times more work than others.

Without his junior’s help, they wouldn’t have been able to prepare this massive amount of additional food.

The final amount of food gathered was so much that even the priests from various temples and the club students who came to help were amazed.

“No, I’m fine. I’ll go make some water.”

Lee Han waved his hand as if it was nothing and raised his staff.

The priests who were busy drying and preserving the food to distribute were startled by the massive amount of water being created out of thin air.

‘He’s creating that much water? The mana consumption must be extreme!’

‘Are we perhaps overworking our junior??’

“…Wardanaz! Let’s go to the back!”

“The priests are looking at us strangely!”

“Ah. Yes.”

The upperclassmen hurriedly hid Lee Han behind them.

They wanted to explain to the priests ‘We’re not overworking our junior – he naturally has a lot of mana!’ but in the current situation, such an explanation wouldn’t be very convincing.

Lee Han, who had moved to the back of the temporary kitchen tent, filled the pot with water and sighed again.

‘…I acted too emotionally.’

He had gotten angry and stepped forward when his opponent not only picked a fight but also insulted his senior, but as time passed and his head cooled down, he suddenly began to feel regret.

No matter how lowly his opponent had acted, hadn’t he taken revenge too excessively?

Lee Han swallowed his regret and retraced what had happened.

Just thinking about it again was difficult, but for the sake of reflection, he had to seriously review it.

* * *

Filled with rage, Lee Han disguised himself as Stedal Nago and easily broke through the wall.

The defensive and surveillance magic that was in place was completely crushed by 【Baldoron’s Mana Hammer】.

‘Ha. Instead of spending time rebuilding the manor, they should have paid attention to magic. They didn’t even prepare for shock dispelling?’

Most mages would completely disagree, but Lee Han believed that magical barriers absolutely needed designs that thoroughly dispersed external impacts.

If a mage with infinite mana brutishly swung mana like a hammer from outside, wouldn’t even sophisticated magic just get crushed?

No matter how much time and cost it took, they should have considered such situations.

‘Thanks to that, it worked out well. I’ll smash everything.’

* * *

“Ugh!”

Lee Han stamped his foot.

The upperclassmen who were preparing nearby were startled and shouted.

“A-are we perhaps preparing too slowly?”

All the club students knew that their junior had come out first with Falkrious to prepare a large amount of additional food.

Usually upperclassmen didn’t read their juniors’ moods, but the Wardanaz family junior in front of them was a somewhat special junior.

Wasn’t he normally the junior who secured massive amounts of ingredients and led the kitchen club students?

Moreover, with what he had prepared this time added on, they couldn’t help but read his mood even if they tried not to.

“No. It’s not because of you upperclassmen… it’s because of a mistake I made.”

“What? You made a mistake too, Wardanaz?”

“…”

“Ah, no. What kind of mistake?”

The upperclassmen put down their kitchen knives and ladles and gathered for a moment to comfort Lee Han.

They couldn’t even imagine this junior making a mistake, but if he really had made one, they all wanted to help him together.

“I acted emotionally recently, and even made self-conscious remarks to myself…”

“Hey. That’s not a mistake.”

“Wardanaz. Don’t worry about it. I also mutter to myself while doing alchemy that I’ll throw it at the principal’s face when I complete it, even though he’s not even there.”

“Right. I mutter that I’ll come back to assassinate Professor Verdus after graduation.”

The upperclassmen’s comfort was rough but sincere. That sincerity was conveyed to Lee Han as well.

“Thank you all.”

“That level of mistake isn’t even a mistake. Unless you blew up a building, you don’t need to worry about it.”

“…”

Lee Han fell into deep contemplation again.

* * *

Lee Han, who had infiltrated the manor, headed straight for the western annex.

Since it had just been rebuilt, the defenses seemed lax and full of gaps.

After hiding his traces with invisibility magic, impairing the perception abilities of the guards patrolling the area with illusion magic, and then leaping to the 2nd floor with telekinetic magic (it was better not to use the main entrance when infiltrating), a familiar spirit was patrolling the corridor with gloomy movements.

“…”

-…

He had encountered the water spirit he had met before again.

Although invisibility magic was cast, the water spirit trembled as it sensed the waves of the contract made with a king-level spirit.

Seeing the water spirit immediately turn around to flee, Lee Han realized that invisibility magic didn’t work on it.

“Wait! Stop!”

Actually, there were no spirits that stopped just because you told them to. Lee Han immediately prepared magic.

In a situation where he wasn’t ready for combat, he couldn’t let the spirit go outside and make a commotion…

Thud-

Surprisingly, the spirit stopped right there.

Lee Han was flustered. There was actually a spirit that really stopped when told to stop.

“…Did you stop?”

The water spirit nodded.

“…Aren’t you a spirit summoned to guard the manor? Is it okay for you to listen to me?”

The spirit showed denial to the question. It meant no.

“It doesn’t seem to be a conventional method. Then I should check. I’m naturally friendly with spirits, so I’ve contracted with various spirits. I’ll call spirits for conversation.”

The spirit nodded with an attitude mixed with awe.

Actually, he felt more fear than friendliness from his opponent.

But he had no intention of finding fault or being suspicious of a mage who had contracted with an existence like a spirit king.

If such a person said so, then it must be true.

Surely such a mage wouldn’t tell such a trivial lie…

The sparrow spirit and squirrel spirit contracted with Lee Han immediately appeared from thin air.

They were puzzled about what was happening but quickly understood and focused on communication.

“It’s not a formal contract?”

Although words didn’t work, through communication between spirits and the power of contracts, Lee Han could barely grasp the inside story.

Surprisingly, the spirit currently guarding the manor was not under a formal contract.

Originally, when borrowing a spirit’s power, mages would promise compensation (though sometimes they ran away even after promising compensation) and make a contract.

But Bardan had not made such a contract.

He had captured the spirit, sealed it, and was forcibly borrowing its power.

‘What?!’

Lee Han was shocked.

No matter how difficult it is to contract with spirits, to do such a thing.

“What a piece of trash!”

The water spirit nodded at the mage’s anger.

Seeing that righteous reaction, it seemed certain that this was indeed a mage beloved by spirits. The spirit must have misunderstood because of the intimidating presence and the waves of the contract.

“Wait. Then could it be that the rampage last time was also…?”

Lee Han couldn’t believe it.

Last time, Lee Han had definitely only taken the artifact.

Of course, in the process he had met the manor’s owner and knocked him unconscious, but he hadn’t destroyed the manor.

But when he heard the rumors later, most of them said the manor had been half-destroyed.

Could it be?

The spirit nodded in agreement.

‘I was right!’

Because Bardan had fainted, the seal’s power had weakened, and the spirit had tried to escape through that gap but went on a rampage instead.

Lee Han was furious at the fact that he had been falsely accused.

“Does this make any sense?!”

At this display once again, the water spirit showed even more favor.

Lee Han, who had calmed down and suppressed his anger, asked the spirit.

“Good. Then where is the sealing device that bastard Bardan has?”

For Bardan, who wasn’t even a mage, to seal a spirit and then forcibly use its power, an artifact was essential.

That spirit probably wasn’t caught by Bardan directly either, but was something he bought from someone else who had captured it.

If he found the artifact and smashed it, the spirit could be freed.

Shrug-

The sparrow spirit and squirrel spirit shrugged as if they didn’t know either.

It seemed that after the rampage incident last time, Bardan had hidden it tightly somewhere in the manor instead of carrying it around.

“…Hmph. I was planning to smash things up anyway. It’ll come out if I destroy enough.”

-!

The water spirit was greatly moved and looked at Lee Han.

To think there was a mage who would step forward like this for a spirit without any benefit to himself.

The resolved spirit declared that it would help.

“You’ll help? But aren’t you bound by the sealing device?”

When Lee Han asked in puzzlement, the water spirit expressed that it was fine.

It couldn’t last long, but if it gave its all, it could disobey its master’s commands for a while.

At the spirit’s determination to boldly step forward even though its very existence could be greatly damaged, Lee Han’s resolve burned bright.

“…Good. Then I’ll also do my best to smash everything!”

* * *

Returning to reality, Lee Han felt somewhat better again.

‘Right. Thanks to that, the spirit was freed.’

He still had thoughts in a corner of his mind wondering if he had destroyed things too severely, but at least there was a valid reason.

As he happily smashed things, the sealing device must have been destroyed along with everything else, as the spirit had thanked him for its freedom before leaving.

In the middle of it, Bardan had surrendered and begged, asking what he wanted, but at that time Lee Han didn’t really have anything to say.

The food supplies had already been smuggled out by the undead summons during the commotion.

-Nothing.

-…What?

-I said I want nothing.

-…

And it didn’t end with just that excuse.

Befitting the next ace of the Teleportation Club, Lee Han threw other treasures over the fence as well, making it impossible to guess his intentions.

From Lee Han’s perspective, it was an action for the perfect crime, but from Bardan’s perspective, it was a terrifying event where the damage increased dozens of times over.

‘…Maybe I shouldn’t have thrown the treasures? There were no witnesses anyway, so I wouldn’t have been caught…’

“Wardanaz. Look over there.”

Falkrious, who had approached at some point, stretched out his arm and pointed ahead.

The hungry and poor people of Granden City were receiving food with joyful faces.

“This was possible thanks to you. Thank you.”

“…No, it wasn’t.”

The scene before his eyes that Falkrious had pointed out made Lee Han’s heart much more comfortable than dozens of excuses could have.

In any case, hadn’t it borne good fruit?

Come to think of it, the old Skeleton Principal used to destroy cities while trying to do good deeds, so an evil person’s manor was just a bit…

‘No. Who am I comparing myself to?!’

Lee Han quickly grabbed hold of his senses again and reflected.

If he compromised like this and lost his grip on reality, he would really become the Skeleton Principal’s evil youngest disciple.

“Oh right. Wardanaz. Did you hear that news?”

“What news?”

“They say the Stonemason Club commission was cancelled this time. The nobles who commissioned it all cancelled because they were conscious about being seen as extravagant.”

“Ah. You mean that vigilante? What an amazing mage. I hope they’re from Einroguard.”

“If they were an Einroguard upperclassman, they wouldn’t do such good deeds. If they were our senior, they’d probably be on the side getting attacked by the vigilante.”

“That’s true. …Wardanaz!?”

The upperclassmen were startled by the sight of their junior collapsing face-first on the floor in despair.

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