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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 1021
🕑 Added 2024-11-12 11:53:58 +0000 UTCChapter 1021
While students in each carriage were writing untraceable anonymous reports (using transformation magic and fire element magic), Gainando saw a strange sight outside the carriage.
Several groups of people were gathered in a secluded area on the outskirts of the capital.
And among them was the familiar figure of a friend...!?
"Huh?!"
"Lord Gainando. Move your hands instead of playing."
"You need to write quickly."
The two priests scolded him simultaneously.
Though Immortal Phoenix Tower students rarely spoke harsh words to other students, Gainando was an exception.
Gainando's numerous escape attempts had made even the Immortal Phoenix Tower priests lose faith.
"Ah, no. I saw someone who looked like Yi-Han over there..."
"Gainando... the priests are getting angry."
"Stop making such nonsense lies. We're embarrassed."
The Blue Dragon Tower friends spoke as if they were all ashamed.
It was fortunate there were only priests in the carriage - if it had been White Tiger Tower or Black Tortoise Tower, the whole tower would have been disgraced.
"It's true! Look!"
When Gainando jumped up and down, his friends reluctantly stuck their heads out of the carriage.
Then they asked a passing person.
"Excuse me. What's happening over there?"
"Seems a monster from another realm contaminated the underground. I heard mages are gathering to purify it."
"Thank you. See?"
The friends who returned with the answer looked triumphantly at Gainando.
There was no way Yi-Han would be in such a place.
"Um..."
Siana hesitated. A thought had suddenly occurred to her.
'Couldn't he be there?'
Hesitating, Siana looked at Tijiling who was writing an anonymous report beside her.
Tijiling was boldly wielding her quill writing 'The lord of Einroguard makes his disciple fight monsters!' when she turned her head.
"What is it?"
"Ah, nothing."
Siana who had been about to ask quietly gave up.
Looking beside her, it wasn't the atmosphere to ask.
"Wait! If it's Yi-Han, he could be there!"
Though Gainando belatedly realized this possibility and spoke up, his friends scolded him.
"Say something that makes sense."
"Did you forget why Wardanaz is in the capital now? Even if it's Wardanaz, would he already be done helping the principal and be working there?"
*
-Wardanaz? He's probably helping wrap up the realm erosion incident out there.-
"..."
"..."
The Einroguard students who met the skull principal in front of the palace gaped at this unexpected answer.
"...Don't lie!"
-You rascal. You've gotten quite brave outside school. But it's true.-
"Didn't Wardanaz come with you to help with your work, Principal?"
-That's why he went after finishing all that work.-
"..."
"..."
The friends were even more surprised than when they had heard Yi-Han had left early for the capital to help the skull principal.
He already finished everything??
"Did you take Wardanaz to commit robbery?"
"There was no robbery in the imperial newspaper..."
"Did you do it without getting caught?"
-I can hear everything.-
The skull principal spoke in an indifferent voice.
The speculation about covering support funds through robbery was quite amusing but far from the truth.
-And I really persuaded everyone. If you don't believe me, go around and check for yourselves.-
"Impossible!"
"Could you have sold him by promising to send him there after graduation and gotten gold coins?"
"No way... Even if it's the principal, you wouldn't do such a thing."
While the students unknowingly hit part of the truth, Gainando emerged from his shock and asked.
"D-did Mother get persuaded too? She definitely said she would cut off her fingers if she donated more to Einroguard??"
-...Did she say such things?-
The skull principal was slightly hurt.
To think such a generous supporter as Lady Kraha would say such things.
-Do you remember when she said that? The western jewel palace theft two months ago? Or the eternal ice contact ship disappearance five months ago? Or…-
He recited a list of incidents caused by Einroguard graduates that had been recorded in the imperial newspaper.
However, Gainando shook his head.
"I-I'm not sure about that. But how did you really persuade them?"
He planned to learn from the skull principal and use it himself later.
-She just agreed because Wardanaz asked.-
"...Eh, just with that?"
Gainando looked at his friends.
His expression hoped they would shout 'Don't lie!' together.
However, his friends immediately accepted it.
"That's definitely possible."
"I would have agreed too."
"!?"
-See? Anyway, if you want to play with Wardanaz, go to the realm erosion site on the outskirts of the city. Go practice some magic too. Your principal is too busy to even blink.-
"Do you still have work even though Einroguard's donation problem is all solved?"
Yonaire asked, slightly worried.
Though it didn't matter in first year, now that they had moved up to second year, the students knew.
When Einroguard's vault shrinks, it's a direct hit to the students too!
-No need to worry. What's left is just trivial explanations.-
"Aha. So that's why you came to the palace."
-No. I came to the palace now because of Professor Boladi. I need to prevent him from sneaking in and reporting.-
"????"
'What is he talking about?'
The students naturally couldn't understand. The skull principal shook his jaw bones as if annoyed at explaining.
-When you see Professor Boladi, tell him not to be too upset. Teaching disciples is inherently a matter where wounds are predetermined…-
"We do get hurt a lot."
-Not you. You shameless fellow.-
After hanging Gainando upside down, the skull principal prepared to float away again.
As the students murmured and prepared to go to the outskirts to find Yi-Han, the skull principal casually opened his mouth.
-By the way.-
"Yes?"
-What are those bundles of paper you're holding?-
"..."
*
"Sir Alcicle. Why do you keep looking around like that?"
Yi-Han was puzzled by Alcicle who chanted once and checked his surroundings twice.
All the nearby mages were now participating in cleaning up after the realm erosion phenomenon.
Though everything foreign inside had turned to ashes, that wasn't the end.
When worlds and realms overlap and erode, they naturally become unstable.
They needed to check and stabilize to prevent another catastrophe.
"Is Boladi Bagrak not here?"
"No. Why would Professor Bagrak be here?"
"You don't know because you don't understand."
Alcicle chanted once more and checked his surroundings three times.
It was especially frightening because Professor Boladi was a combat mage. From Alcicle's perspective, not specializing in combat, it was a bad matchup.
"If you're that afraid, why don't you just return to the mansion and rest? The remaining work isn't very dangerous so I can do it alone."
Yi-Han said this while waving his staff.
This kind of realm stabilization work suited Yi-Han well since it could be done with just sense and mana.
Walking around sensing twisted places by feel, and when such places appeared, calling another mage...
"Space. Harden."
...He didn't even need to call anyone.
Thanks to learning basic space-time magic from Professor Garcia, Yi-Han could finish about four or five times the work of other mages alone.
"The mansion is more dangerous? It's definitely better to stick together."
Alcicle shook his beak as if saying not to talk nonsense.
The only thing Alcicle was counting on was that he was Professor Boladi's disciple.
Surely he wouldn't conduct a bloody interrogation in front of his disciple?
"Come on. You're worrying too much."
"Hmph. That's because you're his disciple."
"I get attacked a lot too, you know?"
Yi-Han pushed aside the grumbling penguin mixed-blood mage and approached a spatial crack.
"Space. Harden."
"Um..."
Great Mage Erindarbell approached with the most apologetic expression possible in the empire.
"...Could I have a moment?"
"Ah. Yes. What is it?"
"I sincerely apologize for this mistake..."
The two exchanged glances. Yi-Han whispered in a voice too quiet for the other to hear.
"But Lady Erindarbell is a great mage, why is she so kind?"
"Not all great mages are evi... No. They are evil but... Anyway, she is quite unique."
While the two whispered, Erindarbell fumbled and took something out of space.
It was a gift brought to compensate somewhat for the trouble caused this time.
"This artifact is <Asen's Staff>. It has magic cast on it that quickly recovers mana related to the light element. As a gift..."
"Uh, Lady Erindarbell. But Wardanaz has so much mana it won't be very useful..."
"!"
At Alcicle's point, Erindarbell had an 'oops' moment.
Come to think of it, this Wardanaz family boy had limitless mana. No matter how good an artifact that only recovered light element mana was, it would be meaningless.
'Another such mistake!'
When Erindarbell hung her head again, Yi-Han jabbed Alcicle's soft side.
"What are you doing!"
"Ah, no. Sorry..."
Alcicle apologized.
As a mage, he couldn't help his beak opening automatically when knowledge came out.
"Still, you're receiving it to use, so we can't accept something unnecessary. Even if it's from a great mage."
"We can accept it and sell it. Think about the other person's feelings a bit."
"?"
Alcicle felt something strange and tilted his head.
"...Wait, then we shouldn't se..."
"Anyway, you must say the next gift is good no matter what. Understand?"
"O-okay."
Erindarbell put away the staff then rummaged through space for a while again.
After long deliberation, what came out was a round egg.
"This is a hippogriff egg."
"That won't work!"
Yi-Han urgently shouted. Erindarbell who had been about to introduce the egg paused.
Why?
While soothing the baby basilisk tightly wrapping around his arm inside his sleeve as if begging not to be abandoned, Yi-Han quickly explained.
"Actually, I'm raising a griffin, so it would be very jealous."
"I-I see... If that's the case, it can't be helped."
Erindarbell hung her head again. This time it was Alcicle's turn to jab Yi-Han's side.
"Didn't you say to just accept it!"
"S-sorry. The griffin gets sulky often..."
"Really? I've never heard griffins are particularly jealous."
"Maybe my griffin is a bit unique."
-...-
The baby basilisk wriggled while feeling sorry for Niffirg who wasn't present.
How wronged would he feel if he heard this conversation?
Seeing the great mage continue to rummage through space, Alcicle advised, perhaps feeling sorry for her.
"Um, Lady Erindarbell. Wardanaz would be happy just getting gold coins."
"Don't say such outrageous things, Sir Pengerin."
"..."
At Erindarbell's firm refusal, Alcicle pouted his beak.
It's true though!
As the deliberation dragged on, Erindarbell just dumped the contents of her space onto the ground. Then she started cleaning up while muttering about each item.
"Pure gold angel statue... too ordinary. A three-story capital mage villa I got before... this probably won't be very useful either..."
"Sir Alcicle. Please advise her to choose one of those."
Yi-Han pleaded with a voice full of sincerity.
If he passed on those gifts and received some strange staff or hippogriff egg instead, he felt he would really cry.
