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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 1035
🕑 Added 2024-11-17 04:17:35 +0000 UTCChapter 1035
"Uh, is this okay??"
Even while flying like an arrow, Yi-Han didn't forget to question.
It was natural really.
Could they just escape like this leaving their senior alone when a mad knight had come?
"If two powerful combat mages leave, Senior might..."
"Yi-Han! It's good to value yourself highly but! This! Is not! Something Yi-Han! Needs to get involved in!"
Pop!
Professor Garcia spoke while following behind with space jumps.
Currently Professor Boladi was casting quite high-difficulty complex enhancement magic including strength enhancement, time acceleration, and space compression.
Speed that would disappear in the blink of an eye.
To follow that, Professor Garcia had to grit her teeth and cast space jumps.
'Really now. I thought he needed some confidence but to put himself alongside Professor Bagrak.'
"No. I meant you professors were the powerful combat mages."
"...I'm not a combat mage, Yi-Han!"
Professor Garcia screamed with a voice full of bewilderment.
Because of that, her space jump was delayed once and when Professor Garcia staggered, Professor Boladi also stopped moving.
"This should be far enough."
"Th-thank you, Professor."
"Thank you too?"
Yi-Han also thanked along with Professor Garcia.
The reason a question mark was attached at the end was because he still had doubts whether this was really something to be thankful for.
"But with a mad knight coming, leaving them seems a bit..."
"Really don't worry. Senior is more than capable of evading alone."
Professor Garcia wasn't worried at all.
The skull principal's former disciples currently visible outside the empire, specifically outside Einroguard, basically all had definite ability to take care of themselves.
Disciples without such ability had already been caught in the punishment room long ago.
Thinking of the Great Artist's ability, no matter how strong a knight, they would toy with them and escape in an instant.
"Even so, I'm still worried..."
"Ugh!! You spellchanting rabble!!! Disappearing again!!! Come out I say!!!!"
No sooner had the words ended than the enraged voice of that knight from earlier was heard from far away.
Professor Garcia spoke as if saying 'See?'
"See?"
"Y-yes indeed."
Yi-Han spoke while trying not to show his disappointment.
"But Professor. I didn't know Senior would be unable to keep promises like Ver... no, like other common enchantment mages."
"Senior isn't someone who can't keep promises like Ver... no, like other enchantment mages."
Professor Garcia tilted her head.
Unlike Professor Verduus who openly had no intention of keeping promises, the artist was relatively good at keeping promises.
For such a person to fail to keep them and run away like this.
"Could Senior... No. Never mind. This might be too extreme a thought."
"!"
When Professor Garcia trailed off, Yi-Han showed a surprised expression.
Could it be?
"Could what I'm thinking be right?"
"...It probably is, Yi-Han. That is..."
"That knight is the principal's spy, and Senior noticed that."
"Completely wrong!!"
Professor Garcia was shocked at her disciple's rich imagination. Even Professor Boladi seemed faintly surprised.
"It's not? Nothing else comes to mind though."
"Senior's work must be stuck. If their magic wasn't stuck, there'd be no particular reason to run away like this."
Enchantment mages who boasted and took commissions but got stuck due to unexpected circumstances fell into two categories.
One was like Professor Verduus, boldly shouting 'I'm stuck! Not my fault! I did my best!'
The other was running away to find a solution.
The artist was a typical example of the latter.
"What? Can't they just explain the situation and ask for more time?"
"What are you saying, Yi-Han. How could they do such a shameful thing?"
Professor Garcia shuddered as if even thinking about such a dignity-discarding shameful act was disgusting.
Even Professor Boladi shook his head as if that wasn't right. Yi-Han felt wronged for no reason.
'Am I the strange one?'
"Let's go try to stop this for now. The Petroguard students will suffer."
Having lost the artist, the Garihi family knight was howling like a beast and making Petroguard students flee in all directions.
As a professor of the same magic school, they couldn't just leave this alone.
"Understood."
"Wait!"
When Professor Boladi was about to step forward, Professor Garcia quickly stopped him.
"?"
"...I'll do it!"
"No. Professor, you're not a combat mage."
Yi-Han put what he had just learned to good use. Professor Garcia glared at her too-clever disciple.
'Not knowing people's hearts!'
If she sent Professor Boladi, he might inflict unnecessary injuries on that knight.
Since tracing back the reason for that knight's rampage led partly to their senior's fault, she didn't want to be too harsh on them.
However, Professor Garcia was missing how much her disciple had grown in the meantime.
Naturally, Yi-Han guessed what Professor Garcia was thinking.
"I'll go with Professor Bagrak. I'll stop him if it looks like the other might get hurt."
"...Yi-Han. I'm not dismissing your abilities, but will you be alright?"
"No need to worry. The professor will listen if I speak too."
At Yi-Han's words, Professor Boladi silently nodded as if there was no need to worry.
Professor Garcia felt reassured but also worried in a different sense.
'Aren't you listening to your disciple too well?'
Einroguard professors basically needed to have a habit of doubting students to some degree.
'Students' struggle against professors' was one of Einroguard's unofficial mottos.
Of course, she wasn't in a position to talk either...
"Then I'll go... ...Professor! You need to move together!!"
Yi-Han hurriedly chased after Professor Boladi who had already disappeared far away.
*
Ram of the Garihi family was an outstanding knight, but he had a fatal weakness.
It was carelessness.
The carelessness of thinking only Petroguard and Baldurguard mages would be here at most!
That carelessness caught the knight's ankle.
"...Urk?"
Professor Boladi stabbed curse daggers made by projecting shadows into each of the other's limbs then quickly moved out of range.
Ram, who counterattacked immediately upon being ambushed, noticed his opponent had disappeared and his limbs had become heavy as if bound with iron.
'...Strong!'
Ram, who had been angrily demanding the artist come out, felt his anger disappear and head grow cold.
That single strike had been that fatal. Perhaps because several magics were linked in the curse, it wouldn't easily disappear even when pouring out burning mana.
To be cursed like this without even confirming the enemy's identity. It was an unbelievable mistake.
Boom!
"Ugh!"
Simultaneously, strong telekinesis pressed down on the knight. It was <Wardanaz's Telekinesis>.
"I will subdue you for causing disturbance at Petroguard."
"H-how dare...! Urgh!"
When the knight tried to overcome the telekinetic shackles by circulating mana throughout his body, Yi-Han immediately cast <Crow's Evil Eye> additionally.
Against that, the knight burned his whole body.
Not a metaphor for burning mana, his body was actually burning.
"Hnnnngh!"
'Mana explosion!'
Yi-Han marveled at the knight's rare technique.
Though not as much as mages, knights could also imbue attributes in mana.
The knight before him had clearly maximized the fire element attribute in his body's mana then exploded it. Though too simple to call magic, its power was definitely amazing.
He had driven away not just <Crow's Evil Eye> but also the telekinesis pressing down his body in an instant.
"How dare a mere mage appear carelessly before a knight!"
Though the curse daggers weren't dispelled yet, Ram tried to grab Yi-Han while supplementing his limbs' strength with remaining mana.
With magic bouncing off, the mage must have some shock too.
And at that moment, telekinesis and evil eye were cast again.
"Kuhehuk...! H-how?!"
The knight, who hadn't imagined the other could keep casting magic by pouring out mana regardless of whether their magic was deflected, collapsed.
Yi-Han felt slightly sorry and spoke.
"I'm sorry. First calm down and..."
"Bal... how is a Baldurguard mage this stro... Kuhuk!"
'Oops.'
Having momentarily raised the telekinetic output, Yi-Han quickly stopped. However, the other had already fainted.
Looking beside him, Professor Boladi was staring intently. Yi-Han made excuses without realizing.
"He's not badly hurt. ...Probably."
*
After regaining consciousness, Ram apologized honestly.
It wasn't just because he was subdued. Originally it was shameful for an imperial knight to cause trouble in another magic school's territory.
"...I apologize to everyone. How shameful."
"What commission did you give the artist to become so angry?"
"Well. It's a long story."
Ram made an expression of reluctance. Then Professor Boladi slowly prepared to move behind him. Anyone could see it was preparation for torture.
Yi-Han panicked and shouted urgently.
"Please tell us the story! We might be able to help!"
"Well... Alright. I'll tell you."
The knight who had been hesitating finally gave up and opened his mouth.
Having been caught like this, the mages in front didn't seem likely to give up easily.
Ram of the Garihi family, a knight of the imperial Fire Watch, had a childhood friend and lover promised for the future since young.
However, this lover was weak-bodied from birth and eventually succumbed to magic plague and died young.
The knight who kept deep sorrow in his heart visited the Great Artist.
To obtain a work that could remember his lover in life.
"..."
"..."
Yi-Han and Professor Garcia who heard the circumstances broke out in cold sweat.
Sweat wouldn't stop from guilt.
"...Professor!!"
"I-I didn't know either, Yi-Han. I didn't know it was this kind of story!"
Apart from Professor Garcia, Yi-Han who had directly participated in subduing with magic felt twice the guilt.
"This won't do. We should at least explain the circumstances."
"Let's do that, Yi-Han!"
The two approached after finishing their conversation. The knight wondered at the sight of the two mages fidgeting.
What?
"Actually about that..."
30 minutes later.
The red-haired knight who heard the full explanation furrowed his brow.
"Indeed. So that's what it was?"
"We'll apologize on their behalf."
"We're sorry!"
As juniors of the same school, Professor Garcia and Yi-Han apologized sincerely.
However, Ram shook his head.
"It's fine. I thought they had completely given up, but since that's not the case it's rather better. But why do they avoid explaining the reason?"
"...That's what I'm saying!"
Yi-Han strongly empathized.
They could just explain, but by running away repeatedly, hadn't they made this originally kind knight explode?
Tap tap tap-
Released from restraints, Ram stood up and dusted himself off.
"Don't feel too sorry. I did shameful things too, so let's both forget it."
"Sniff. We won't forget your great magnanimity, Sir Knight."
"I said don't do that... Please convey my apologies to the Petroguard mages too. I'm sorry I couldn't do it directly. I caused too much trouble to such outstanding mages."
The knight apologized while praising each work by the Petroguard mages he had seen.
The dynamic wyvern statue that seemed to move alive (though the wings looked wrong) and the painting of a beautiful moon spirit swimming in a night pond.
The living prince painting hanging in the room where the artist stayed...
"Indeed Petroguard mages have their outstanding points."
Yi-Han honestly acknowledged.
His thoughts had changed through conversation with the Great Artist.
Unlike Baldurguard, Petroguard definitely had outstanding aspects.
"...Wait. What did you just say? What painting?"
"The painting of a beautiful moon spirit swimming in a night pond? Come to think of it, it was an undead walking out of a poison swamp..."
Though the latter part bothered him, Yi-Han let it pass. There was something more important.
"Did you say there was a prince painting in the quarters? A living one???"
"That's right. He was very friendly too. Do you perhaps know which prince?"
"..."
