Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 981

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Chapter 981

The alchemy lecture ended just like that.

As Lee Han walked out of the classroom, he considered just burning the 【Thunderstep’s Drowning Scent】 recipe, but held back.

‘Let me hold back. I might need it later.’

Knowledge was always power.

That recipe might help Lee Han someday.

Still, Lee Han resolved not to learn it right now. It was a matter of pride.

He wouldn’t dance in Professor Thunderstep’s palm!

“Master. Were you alright?”

Lee Han looked at the Insane Doppelganger following behind and asked.

“It wasn’t bad, but there’s a problem with the mage playing the professor role.”

“Ah.”

At his master’s words, Lee Han nodded.

Professor Thunderstep definitely had problems.

It would be one thing not to answer his disciple’s questions, but to mock him while giving additional assignments like that.

What a spiteful personality.

“Professor Thunderstep’s personality is a bit…”

“Weak.”

“Pardon?”

“I said weak. A master must possess not only generosity but also strictness.”

Professor Thunderstep had acted forcibly kind because of Professor Verdus’s precedent, but that kindness had backfired instead.

He had been branded as a weak mage by the Insane Doppelganger.

‘Oh no.’

Lee Han felt sorry for this absurd misunderstanding.

Professor Thunderstep was originally someone who could rank high if you picked spiteful mages anywhere, yet he was receiving such a misunderstanding…

“Still, he’s usually a bit stricter.”

“Then that would mean he acted while reading the royalty’s mood. This too is not something an outstanding mage should do.”

‘That is true though.’

Even in Lee Han’s opinion, Professor Thunderstep had been bowing and scraping quite a lot.

No matter how much Professor Verdus had suffered, he looked quite pathetic for an Einrogard professor.

-Wardanaz. Are you okay?

Other friends who came out of the classroom sent hand signals from behind.

-I’m fine.

-Really?

-Of course. But stay a bit farther away.

“…”

You’re not fine at all!

Nilia and Yoner were dumbfounded.

What kind of person who’s okay tells others to stay far away?

“Is it really okay for the mage who originally kidnapped Wardanaz to walk around so openly like this?”

“Since the Principal isn’t here…”

“Isn’t now exactly when we should file a complaint?”

The friends grumbled while cursing the Skeleton Principal for being absent at such an important time.

Wasn’t this chaos happening because the person who should normally lead the Death Knights to sternly execute outsiders and maintain Einrogard’s discipline was absent?

He caught escaping students so well usually, yet he couldn’t do anything at times like this.

“Everyone think carefully.”

“Indeed. If we send a complaint, there’s a possibility the Principal might retaliate later. We might be locked in the punishment room until graduation…”

“No. I wasn’t talking about that, I was talking about the complaint content. We need to write the complaint content accurately and specifically for the Principal to take a hit too.”

“As expected of Meikin.”

The 2nd year students admired their friend’s seasoned advice.

Strictly speaking, the Skeleton Principal had more power to deploy against Imperial Officials than the students here.

Moreover, hadn’t the Skeleton Principal been Einrogard’s lord for more than just a year or two?

Making half-hearted accusations like ‘The Principal doesn’t give us bread and starves us boo hoo’ would surely have countermeasures prepared.

The students, no longer freshmen, had developed somewhat broader perspectives.

“Let’s each record that doppelganger doing dangerous things.”

“Excellent! Since Wardanaz attends almost every lecture, role division will be easy too. We’re lucky.”

“…Let’s not say that in front of Wardanaz…”

The friends made a firm resolution.

For Wardanaz’s sake, they would closely monitor the evil mage’s even more evil doppelganger!

“But isn’t Wardanaz being too nonchalant?”

“Actually, when I first heard about Professor Verdus’s lecture, I wondered if Wardanaz brought him on purpose. But that couldn’t be right, could it?”

“…No. I asked too, and Lee Han said he absolutely didn’t bring him on purpose.”

At Yoner’s words, the friends breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Though they didn’t show it, honestly everyone had a little thought in a corner of their hearts wondering ‘Wardanaz isn’t actually bringing him around on purpose, right?’

* * *

Unbreakable One: Using this mage seems like a very bad idea. Not casting magic with uncontrollable power is very basic advice.

Iaktus: I heard Professor Verdus got beaten? Could we maybe beat Professor Bendozol too?

Unbreakable One: Is everyone listening to me? The opponent is a dangerous mage. Don’t try to use him, leave dealing with him to the professors. The Principal will return soon too.

Bakwantalana: Inflicting private sanctions on professors is the most trivial and worthless thing that mage could do. If possible, we should extract magic from him.

Unbreakable One: Can you guys not see my words?

Ipelldrem: I can see them!

Unbreakable One: Thank you so much… Iaktus. Even if you ignore me, I’ll keep writing! Try ignoring me if you want.

Iaktus: Okay, okay. Unbreakable One. I wasn’t ignoring you on purpose. But you have a talent for ruining fun things all the time.

Unbreakable One: Wh-what kind of ridiculous insult… I absolutely cannot accept that! Apologize!

‘There is some merit… to it.’

The Einrogard Watchman members were having a heated discussion for once.

Naturally, the conversation topic was ‘How can we use the infamous Insane Archmage?’

Iaktus wanted to use him to subjugate professors.

Bakwantalana wanted to extract secrets from him.

Unbreakable One was saying they should just keep maximum distance since he was dangerous, whether professors or secrets. It was the most boring and unpopular argument.

Iaktus: And originally the Wardanaz family junior walks around with the Principal’s doppelganger, right? Just from that, it doesn’t seem that dangerous.

Unbreakable One: That’s wrong! The Wardanaz family junior was even kidnapped!

Ipelldrem: Ki-kidnapped? Do students get kidnapped at Einrogard? And the one kidnapped was that Wardanaz?!

Unbreakable One: …It happens very rarely, it doesn’t usually happen.

When the Baldrogard student who joined recently poked his head out, the other members thought ‘oops.’

They had been chatting as if only Einrogard students were present as usual, not imagining how it would look to an outsider.

Lee Han moved his quill to appease the new member. No matter what, he couldn’t reveal all their dirty laundry in front of the Baldrogard student.

Gonadaltes: Right. It’s called kidnapping but there must be exaggerated parts. It was probably just slightly aggressive magic instruction. That Wardanaz guy tends to exaggerate a bit…

Ipelldrem: H-how can you talk about kidnapping like it’s nothing? Gonadaltes, you’re really rude, just like last time!

“…”

Relationships between people were more important for first impressions than one might think.

The Baldrogard student, who had received direct harsh criticism from Lee Han last time when trying to use the alias ‘Wardanaz’ at the Watchman club, showed full wariness.

Disregarding Wardanaz, a fellow Einroguard student, and dismissing his kidnapping as nothing serious—how could they be so rude?

He wanted to see their faces directly to know who they were.

Gonadaltes: …Iaktus. You explain instead.

Iaktus: Well, kidnapping isn’t exactly common, but isn’t that just how geniuses are? Crazy mages flocking to pass on their magic—that’s what it takes to be a real genius. There’ll be more in the future, so don’t be too shocked already.

Gonadaltes: What nonsense are you spouting? Where does that happen these days? Don’t talk like it’s ancient times.

Iaktus: What? Why are you getting angry?

Gonadaltes: I’m not angry.

Lee Han quickly composed his emotions.

If he reacted immediately to their offensive words, he might get caught.

Iaktus: Anyway, it’s all over and he’s fine now. Though that projection is wandering around the Main Building lecture halls.

Unbreakable One: Right. He’s fine. You don’t need to worry too much.

Ipelldrem: Yes…

Unbreakable One: You’re not misunderstanding Einroguard, are you? If you are, ask now.

Ipelldrem: Oh, no. I’m not misunderstanding.

‘They’re all terrible at comforting people.’

Lee Han clicked his tongue.

From the atmosphere, it seemed like they were making the Baldrogard Student more frightened rather than clearing up his misunderstandings.

Actually, this wasn’t the time to talk about others. Wasn’t Lee Han the one The Other Person was most wary of?

As the only outsider who could move around freely, it would be right to ease his wariness if possible.

But how?

‘If I say I’m Wardanaz, he’ll think I’m crazy…’

Revealing it was risky and could backfire.

Lee Han fell into thought.

The Insane Doppelganger’s company turned out to be surprisingly unproblematic.

Listening to other members’ conversations, all it did was try to provoke attacks on professors or express desire to learn magic. Unlike Jowrin from before, no one was coveting his body.

Well, even for Einroguard Students, attacking the Skeleton Principal’s projection would be a bit…

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Everyone’s having a hard time with lectures. Hang in there.

“!”

* * *

Ilendil had left a message in the Watchman club on a whim.

‘Everyone’s forgetting what’s important.’

Einroguard Students often forgot important things because they were so obsessed with magic and its evaluation.

But Ilendil was different. She knew very well what was most important.

The Forest.

A magical space where all kinds of spirits and plants lived and breathed.

To care for and tend to this space, Einroguard lectures were nothing but trivial matters.

In fact, Ilendil was absent from most lectures. It was a boldness rarely seen from a Fourth Year Student.

But this dryad hybrid student had no regrets whatsoever.

Look at those students obsessed with lectures and teachings.

Because of that obsession, they were getting caught up in various external incidents and suffering.

In contrast, Ilendil could focus solely on her own work in the quiet Forest…

-Senior! Are you there?

“…”

Hearing the familiar voice from afar, Ilendil was horrified.

Why?!

Why had that junior come to the Forest?!!

‘Right, that’s right!’

Only after seeing the artifact set up in the middle of the Forest, 【Echo of the Demigod】, did Ilendil’s memory return.

Come to think of it, she hadn’t just received this artifact for free.

She had received it in exchange for allowing that junior to tame an artificial demigod in the Forest and practice evil ancient magic.

‘I had forgotten about this…!’

Ilendil blamed herself and tried to respond.

-Don’t call out so crudely, send a paper bird instead.

-Yes. I understand.

“…!”

As soon as she realized there was one more person, Ilendil immediately moved like a proper Einroguard Upperclassmen.

She dug deep into the ground and hid Underground.

Her skill in persuading the earth and asking the Rock to let her go Underground in that brief moment was truly befitting an Einroguard Upperclassmen.

‘This, this is impossible. Why is this happening to me…!’

Was this divine punishment for mocking Other Students who attended lectures?

Ilendil deeply reflected.

If mercy was shown just this once, she would never mock Other Students again…

“Senior! Senior! …Where did you go?”

“Below.”

“Excuse me?”

“She’s below.”

When the Insane Doppelganger gestured with his chin, Lee Han laughed as if it was absurd.

“Why would Senior be Underground in the Forest when she’s not a mining Dwarf Student?”

Crack!

When the Insane Doppelganger waved his hand, the ground split open and Ilendil, who had been hiding deep below, was revealed.

The dryad hybrid Senior was crouched down and quietly stood up.

“H-hello…”

“…”

“Um… won’t you say something…?”

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