Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 991

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Chapter 991

“Lee Han of Wardanaz Family. What in the world is going on here?”

At Intarendals’ scream-like outcry, Lee Han responded as if his arrival was perfectly timed.

“Welcome. Intarendals. Please say something to Master.”

“Wh-wh-wh-what?”

The impious disciple’s impious statement delivered an even greater shock to the chamberlain who was already on the verge of fainting.

“Master said he would give me teachings to prepare for the exam, but he spent the entire day giving completely unrelated lectures.”

“I don’t understand a single word of the sentence you just spoke…”

Intarendals’ voice was pitiful. That’s how unbelievable the current situation was to him.

When every moment should be saved to cram as much as possible into the disciple, what kind of waste was this?

‘Am I perhaps mistaken about something?’

Maybe the master had more time left than expected.

Otherwise, this kind of leisure couldn’t be explained.

“You came. Did you bring it?”

“Yes. Gonadaltes. But…”

Intarendals, who was about to ask a question, hesitated upon receiving his master’s gaze.

Like a loyal chamberlain, Intarendals could understand what command his master was giving just by looking at his eyes.

The command his master gave now was silence.

“What did you bring?”

“Disciple, go teach the other mages. Finish the remaining portion.”

When Lee Han showed interest, the Insane Doppelganger waved his hand dismissively as if annoyed.

Lee Han, who had just suffered from cramming completely unrelated content to his friends because of his master, naturally became angry.

“But I just taught other content because of Master, so if you’re going to do this, it would have been better if I had done it myself from the beginning…!”

Of course, whether the disciple was angry or not had no particular effect. The Insane Doppelganger lightly sent his disciple flying.

“Now we can talk.”

“…Master. May I dare to offer frank advice?”

“Intarendals. If a chamberlain like you cannot offer frank advice, who else could offer frank advice to royalty? Speak freely.”

The Insane Doppelganger spoke with a humble demeanor different from the attitude he usually showed in public.

Rather than being moved by his master’s attitude, Intarendals felt even stronger anxiety.

To think that his master, who was always flawless, was showing such weakness.

He couldn’t help but think that perhaps he was acting this way because there wasn’t much time left.

“Is the world perhaps rejecting you again, Master?”

“That’s right.”

“I’m sorry. I knew it wasn’t… If it were true, then like that… What??!”

Intarendals reacted belatedly.

Even after asking the question, he hadn’t expected to actually receive an affirmative answer.

“Has a kalpa or kalpa-fire struck?! Or dimensional rifts…”

“Not yet. But looking at the future the disciple saw, it’s almost certain.”

The Insane Doppelganger spoke calmly.

An excellent mage didn’t rely only on their own magic. Moreover, a mage being rejected by the world needed to be even more humble.

No matter how outstanding an Archmage might be, there were things they couldn’t foresee in advance.

However, fortunately, from the future his disciple had glimpsed, the Insane Doppelganger could make some guesses.

“Looking at the reversal phenomenon that happened before occurring again, and the disciple confronting royalty, it will happen soon.”

“I will prepare methods to prevent it.”

The chamberlain answered resolutely.

The magic installed near the workshop in the mountain range wasn’t simply prepared to avoid and defend against the Skeleton Principal and his minions’ attention.

One who is rejected by the world must prepare to block the constantly approaching abnormal phenomena. Otherwise, even an Archmage could be reverse-summoned in a single blow.

If reversal was coming again soon, they just needed to prepare methods to block it accordingly.

It would be tight, but if they plundered this area and took what was lacking from the Dalcard Family’s treasury…

“No. The cycle is too short.”

However, the Insane Doppelganger shook his head.

Avoiding such kalpa-fire with magic made its intensity worse the more one avoided it.

Since madness had come twice this quickly, the third time would come even faster and stronger.

“You can prepare each time that happens.”

“Forget it. In that case, it would be wiser to use reverse-summoning.”

“However…”

Intarendals hesitated.

Even though one could descend again someday after being reverse-summoned, that was unpredictable even with an Archmage’s abilities.

Rather than hoping for such an uncertain future, wouldn’t it be right to somehow block it now?

He couldn’t understand why his wise master was making such a choice.

However, Intarendals couldn’t ask. Loyalty held the chamberlain back.

“…I understand. Then how?”

“There’s a fairly decent alchemist. I received an elixir. If reversal occurs, I plan to use this for reverse-summoning. You should…”

Though called an elixir, an elixir powerful enough to reverse-summon the Insane Doppelganger was essentially like a powerful poison.

Intarendals felt emotions welling up at his master’s words.

“…Yes. I will complete the remaining tasks until you are reverse-summoned.”

“Good. I’m counting on you. Pass the remaining items and books to the disciple, and dispose of what should be disposed of…”

“What will you do about the hamster?”

“That trash? Wouldn’t it be better to dispose of it?”

“Though lowly, he was originally an excellent mage. It might be better to pass him on.”

If Lee Han had heard this, he would have been disgusted saying ‘Please don’t give me such a thing,’ but unfortunately this was a conversation happening without the disciple’s knowledge.

The Insane Doppelganger, who had been frowning and pondering at the chamberlain’s words, nodded.

“Right. Having one more small pet wouldn’t be bad. The disciple seemed to like it quite a bit too.”

“That’s right. Lee Han liked it enough to personally feed it.”

Intarendals agreed on this point too.

Certainly the royal disciple had liked the hamster.

Though the hamster had previously been an evil mage criminal, that wasn’t particularly important. Such pets had often been popular even in ancient times.

-It’s Dahangsik, Dahangsik! Are you pretending not to remember on purpose? Because I didn’t let you play last time?

-No, no! I really forgot, Wardanaz!

-Wardanaz. By the way, that bastard didn’t read the magic book he promised to read last time.

-Thanks, Moradi! This bastard. That’s why you forgot. Come forward!

-Mo… Moradi! We’re from the same tower! Why are you doing this!

Seeing Lee Han catching the other mages like catching mice, Intarendals turned his head to look.

Then he spoke carefully.

“…Master. Since I’ve offered disloyal frank advice today, please allow me to offer one more word. In my humble opinion, it seems you should teach Lee Han more things during the remaining time…”

Even if he could compromise on everything else, he absolutely couldn’t understand leaving the disciple so carelessly like this now.

At the chamberlain’s words, the Insane Doppelganger was silent for a moment.

“It might seem that way. But the royalty has a plan.”

“!”

Intarendals’ face brightened.

As expected, his wise master had a perfect plan.

“May I ask what it is?”

“When the time comes, you’ll know too. Chamberlain.”

At the gentle refusal, Intarendals bowed his head. Now it was time to stop being rude and display loyalty again.

-If you can’t solve this one magic equation, what did you do last year? You come forward too!

-Wardanaz. This bastard got it wrong too but just changed his answer!

-You come forward too, you bastard!

“…”

Intarendals made a complicated expression.

…There must definitely be a plan.

A great and extraordinary plan that the chamberlain himself couldn’t even imagine…

* * *

Tap tap-

“Mmm…?”

On the night as the weekend was coming to an end.

Yoner, who had been lying in bed trying to fall asleep, opened his eyes at the sound of a paper bird tapping on his private room window.

“…If it’s Gainando, I’ll put tongue-numbing poison in his meal…”

Fortunately, it wasn’t sent by his cousin.

Night stroll planned. Those wishing to participate, come to the common room.

-Lee Han

‘Is there something else to steal?’

Yoner, who received his friend’s paper bird, hastily put on his clothes and gathered his equipment.

Unlike his 1st year, his equipment had increased quite a bit.

A small bronze bell that detected hostile opponents, a newly replaced staff, scales and spoons for quickly checking potion ingredients when discovered, a potion belt that vaporized desired potions to create mist clouds…

After finishing his inspection, Yoner came down the stairs.

While doing so, he kept thinking about the purpose of this outing, but couldn’t guess anything.

They still had plenty of supplies and weren’t particularly lacking in reagents.

‘Is it because of exams?’

It would make sense if he had found out information related to exams.

Wasn’t Lee Han originally skilled in that area?

“Ah. Yoner.”

“What’s going on?”

“Professor Thunderstep seems a bit suspicious, so I want to check it out.”

Lee Han explained what had happened before.

Lately, the insane doppelganger seemed to be mysteriously hiding something, and one of those things was the conversation with Professor Thunderstep.

The insane doppelganger was underestimating Einroguard students too much.

When something seemed suspicious, infiltrating workshops in the middle of the night to search them was exactly the Einroguard spirit.

“Lee Han!”

Just then, Gainando could be seen coming down the stairs too. He was still wearing a nightcap on his head.

“Gainando. You’re wearing a nightcap.”

“Huh? This is an artifact. I wanted to try it out this time.”

“…”

“…”

The two who thought their friend had carelessly come wearing his nightcap as is reflected deeply.

Lee Han asked Gainando.

“Do you know why we’re going out this time?”

‘It must be because of snacks.’

Yoner thought so to himself.

“Isn’t it because Professor Thunderstep seems to be plotting something behind your back, so you want to investigate? You’ve been constantly worried about that.”

“…?!!!”

Yoner was shocked by his cousin’s answer.

No way?!

“You… you…!”

“??”

“N-nothing. I thought you came out because of snacks.”

“I got snacks earlier.”

“Shh. Shut up.”

Lee Han firmly stepped on Gainando’s foot.

He had secretly given him one because he kept whining, and now he was immediately talking about it.

“Anyway, let’s go since we’re all gathered.”

“What about the other kids?”

“I didn’t need many, so I only called you two. I called Yoner because we need to enter Professor Thunderstep’s workshop, and Gainando… um… I called him because he’s reliable.”

‘You called him because he’d definitely come.’

Yoner could sense his friend’s true feelings but didn’t say anything.

The three quickly left the tower. Having been skilled at outings since their 1st year, they could now navigate the surroundings with their eyes closed.

“Wait. It’s time for the death knight to come.”

“Should we chase it away with sound or light?”

“We chased it away with sound last time, so let’s chase it away with light.”

When light flared up in the distance, the Death Knight that had been walking moved to check the other side.

Lee Han and his friends nodded and moved again.

“But Lee Han.”

“What?”

“How are you planning to infiltrate Professor Thunderstep’s workshop?”

Gainando asked with curiosity.

The Einroguard professors weren’t fools and naturally had their towers thoroughly equipped with magical defenses.

Looking at it now, it seemed like they were trying to sneak in, so the usual smashing method would be difficult too…

Swish-

Lee Han and Yoner simultaneously held up a key each.

They were keys to Kaksu Hall, Professor Thunderstep’s workshop and tower.

“…Did you st-steal them!?”

“No. The professor gave them to us. To come manage reagents and tend to the greenhouse herbs.”

“Why didn’t Professor Mortum give me keys like that?”

When Gainando grumbled, Lee Han slyly tucked the rest of the key bundle into his chest.

In that bundle, the key to the Dark Tower, the Black Magic Academy’s workshop, was also glinting black.

“…Professor Mortum is suspicious and stingy.”

“That’s true too. He probably didn’t even give them to Senior Diret!”

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