Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 966

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Chapter 966

“Who… who?”

Lee Han pretended not to know.

Then Yukveltire asked back as if she didn’t understand.

“Junior, you attend transmutation magic lectures too, so why don’t you know?”

‘Damn.’

Lee Han realized his mistake after being pointed out.

Come to think of it, since he attended lectures from all schools, lies hardly worked on him.

Lee Han quickly gave up and eventually confessed.

“I asked to see if you heard properly. Senior Jarun from the Steel Boot family, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Why are you asking about him?”

“I’m thinking of forming a party with other students to catch him. It would be good if you, the Wardanaz family junior, moved with us too.”

Yukveltire made the suggestion with a rarely kind attitude.

For Yukveltire, who hated moving with incompetent students, inviting a mere 2nd year student to her party was very surprising.

It would have been impossible if she hadn’t evaluated Lee Han highly.

That’s why such a kind suggestion could come out.

Of course, it was only a kind attitude by her standards, and to other juniors in the school, it looked no different from when she made her usual cold proposals. Lee Han felt the same way.

‘I really, really don’t want to.’

As he had already thought earlier, Lee Han didn’t want to form a party with Yukveltire and explore the Einroguard underground mines.

Even in bright, open places, he sometimes felt like hitting her, so he couldn’t imagine what would happen in dark, confined spaces.

Lee Han decided to just make an excuse and drop out entirely.

If he went down separately and ran into Yukveltire’s party, it would only become more troublesome.

“Actually, I’ve been late to many lectures because of this club outing week.”

“?”

Anfargon, who was beside him, looked at his junior as if asking what he was talking about.

He had already completed his staff and essentially finished until the final exams, so what?

‘Is he talking about other lectures?’

“So I’m planning to focus on lectures for a while.”

At those words, Anfargon answered instead of Yukveltire.

“Wardanaz. The lectures will be postponed for a few more days anyway because of Senior Jarun.”

“…?”

Lee Han didn’t understand what he meant.

The lectures would be postponed for a few more days because of Senior Jarun.

Did Senior Jarun perhaps have the ability to postpone lectures?

‘If there’s such magic, I want to learn it too!’

“What do you mean by that?”

“The professors will also want to get their hands on the orichalcon vein that Senior Jarun found.”

Anfargon explained as if it was nothing special.

Einroguard’s lectures could be flexibly postponed, delayed, or canceled depending on the professor’s circumstances.

It was unavoidable since professors were sometimes briefly called to the capital, dragged to punishment rooms, or went missing in mountain ranges.

But sometimes postponements happened even when that wasn’t the case, and this was exactly such a time.

An orichalcon vein was valuable enough to temporarily stop lectures and tell students to go look for it.

“…Don’t joke around.”

“I’m not joking. I don’t like jokes.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a paper bird flew in.

Notice to students taking 【Ancient Artifacts and the Tragic History of Summoning Magic】.

Currently, student Jarun from the Steel Boot family has reportedly discovered an orichalcon vein in the Einroguard underground.

I will substitute the lecture with reporting on the vein search process, so I hope for students’ enthusiastic participation.

Professor Milay

“…”

As rumors were spreading quickly, other paper birds flew in too. They were paper birds sent by different professors.

Each letter conveyed the will to give their disciples orichalcon even if it meant postponing their own lectures.

“Professor Verdus wrote a letter too. Look.”

“What?! Professor Verdus?!”

Lee Han couldn’t believe it.

That Professor Verdus was pushing his disciples’ backs by skipping lectures for them?

‘Ah. Come to think of it, he originally hated giving lectures. Maybe he just skipped because he thought it worked out well?’

To students taking 【Staff Materials and Magic Amplification】!

Student Jarun from the Steel Boot family found orichalcon!

You guys need to go quickly and steal it!

Then don’t forget to share half with me afterwards!

Professor Verdus

“…”

Lee Han looked away from the letter with a face full of contempt. The reason was much more trashy than he had expected.

When his junior finished reading, Anfargon calmly burned the letter. This kind of thing was trash that didn’t need to be kept.

“So you can postpone studying for lectures a bit. Securing even a small amount of orichalcon ore would be much more helpful to you, Wardanaz.”

“…”

When even Anfargon said that, Lee Han was slightly swayed.

It was certainly a rare ore with no immediate use, but who knew what would happen later.

If everyone from seniors to professors recommended getting it first, there must be a reason.

Lee Han pondered and asked carefully.

“Senior Anfargon, are you… okay with it? Moving together with Senior Yukveltire?”

“No. Not really.”

True to the Buyeo magic school, there was no respect for seniors whatsoever.

Despite Yukveltire being right next to him, Anfargon clearly expressed his reluctance to move together.

And Yukveltire didn’t care. Because Yukveltire also didn’t particularly want to move with Anfargon.

“…Then why are you trying to move together?”

“Because currently, Senior Yukveltire has the highest probability of finding Senior Jarun.”

“??”

Lee Han didn’t understand.

They weren’t even in the same masonry club, so why would Yukveltire have the highest probability of finding Jarun?

“Do you have some special means?”

“That’s right.”

Yukveltire explained with a merciful attitude to the junior who was finally showing interest.

Originally, Yukveltire, like most excellent enchantment mages, had great interest in those who collected and produced raw materials.

Students like Jarun from the Steel Boot family, who consistently mined gold and ore, fell into that category.

So Yukveltire had secretly inserted a means to track location into Jarun’s artifacts.

“What????????”

Lee Han shouted in shock.

When her junior suddenly screamed, Yukveltire lightly frowned as if asking what was wrong.

“What’s the matter?”

“No, I mean. Is it okay to… put location tracking magic on someone else’s artifacts?”

“Senior Steel Boot sometimes steals our artifacts too.”

Anfargon answered without any change in expression. Lee Han was even more at a loss for words.

Was this self-defense?

Lee Han thought he had a decent understanding of the relationships between Einroguard’s schools, but new shocks kept popping up every time.

“I, I see. So that’s why you used location tracking magic…”

“No. That’s completely separate. That was just to check mineral locations…”

Lee Han pretended not to hear and ignored it.

If Yukveltire had indeed done such things, it made sense why Anfargon, who preferred to wander alone, wanted to go together.

‘Is that person really the most likely candidate?’

Lee Han, who had been agonizing, finally had to admit it.

If he was going to find orichalcum ore now, joining hands with Yukveltire was the choice with the highest possibility.

“…I understand. Then I’ll go with you too.”

“Good. You thought well.”

“Finally making the right decision.”

At the two upperclassmen’s words, Lee Han already felt tired.

Yukveltire held out a small earring artifact that had been on the workshop table.

“Take this. You’ll need it when we go underground.”

“Indeed. …Did you make this yourself, Senior?”

“Yes. How did you know?”

“The artifact was made so perfectly and cleanly that I had a feeling.”

Though Yukveltire had no interest in flattery, the story was different for relatively close acquaintances like Diret or Lee Han.

Yukveltire spoke while hiding a faint smile filled with pride.

“You have a good eye.”

‘I need to get rid of this and check it for magic as soon as the search is over.’

Lee Han decided to keep a close eye on that earring artifact. If he had cast tracking magic on Jarun, he could certainly cast it on Lee Han too.

“But Senior Yukveltire. Isn’t Senior Diret joining us?”

“Diret won’t participate.”

“Ah. Is he perhaps busy?”

“No. Diret’s non-participation is due to an irrational decision. He said he wants to avoid going underground with me.”

Yukveltire shook his head slightly as if finding it absurd even thinking about it again.

What kind of illogical and nonsensical reason was that?

“…”

Lee Han’s face turned slightly pale.

‘Damn. I should have asked first…!’

* * *

4th year Anfargon.

5th year Yukveltire.

3rd year Sigunteng (who joined after working on the lower floor).

2nd year Lee Han.

The four Enchantment school students quickly finished their preparations and headed to the nearest underground entrance.

“As far as I know, I heard they use the underground passages near Brook Forest or Dark Forest.”

Lee Han threw out a question, trying to learn something from this opportunity.

However, no answer came back. All three were thinking ‘the other guy will answer.’

“…Senior Yukveltire. As far as I know, I heard they use the underground passages near Brook Forest or Dark Forest.”

“Normally that side would be good for going underground. But when rumors spread like now, it’s dangerous.”

Yukveltire, who was gauging Jarun’s location while holding a bronze compass artifact, answered curtly.

The passages that were normally good to enter became easy prey for cunning and vulgar students when incidents like this broke out.

They could wait and follow from behind.

Even if it was a bit harder to enter, they had to take a detour at times like this.

“This way.”

Yukveltire tapped the ground and chanted a spell. Then a stone slab rose from the ground that had only dirt, revealing a door leading downward.

Lee Han was amazed at the passage that had been cleanly drilled all the way to the underground mining area.

“Did you upperclassmen make this?”

“…”

“…Senior Anfargon. Did you upperclassmen make this?”

“No. It’s an underground passage that Professor Verdus made. We stole it, moved it, and are using it.”

Lee Han was curious about how exactly one steals and moves an underground passage, but now wasn’t the atmosphere to ask about that in detail.

Lee Han gave up and quietly grabbed the ladder and headed down.

* * *

There were countless rumors in Einroguard’s underground.

There were rumors that some crazy mage had brought in and was raising an Unbreakable One, rumors that there was an ancient archmage that the Skeleton Principal had imprisoned, and rumors that monsters from other dimensions that had flowed in from somewhere were wandering around.

And the most frightening point was that these rumors were often more accurate than expected.

The mining area was now known as a place with considerably high danger level even among such underground areas.

Lee Han was naturally tense…

…he wasn’t.

‘…I visited the underground too early because of Professor Bagrek.’

Even Lee Han himself was surprised at himself for not being tense.

No matter how he thought about it, it seemed like he had seen too many rough situations since his first year.

“Rest.”

“Yes.”

The students who had been illuminating their front, back, left and right vision with artifacts while maintaining vigilance and defense all stopped at once and sat on rocks.

Lee Han was about to take out simple snacks from his six-sided backpack to recover his energy.

However, the three upperclassmen all took out potion bottles and drank them in unison, as if they were puppets tied by strings acting identically.

“…What are you drinking?”

“…”

“Senior Sigunteng!!! What are you drinking!”

“Huh? Nutritional supplement potion.”

The dwarf senior with geometrically braided beard spoke while shaking an empty bottle.

It tasted terrible, but it was a potion that could easily and quickly fill about one meal’s worth of nutrition.

“But if you invest just a moment of time, couldn’t you eat something much more delicious and warm?”

“Why waste time like that?”

“Hmm. I see.”

Lee Han quickly gave up on the idea of preparing snacks for the upperclassmen.

‘I’ll just let those people eat like that.’

Unlike his friends, trying to feed these upperclassmen would probably make Lee Han’s stomach burst first.

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