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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 1001
🕑 Added 2024-11-06 11:55:08 +0000 UTCChapter 1001
Even as his senior was raging at the unfairness, Yi-Han kept moving without stopping.
In fact, the fact that Yukbeltire had gotten angry had long disappeared from Yi-Han's mind.
Several mages at Einroguard were on Yi-Han's 'People Who Can Be Ignored Even When They Grumble or Complain' list, and this senior of royal blood was proudly on that list.
"What!? You can move already?!"
Direth, who was performing embalming in the morgue on the second floor of the Dark Shadow Hall (Raphael was on the verge of tears), was startled to see her junior enter the workshop.
Considering what had happened, it wouldn't be strange to rest for a few more days...
"I'm fine now. I came to take the final exam first."
"Really? Then I'll have to ask Professor Mortum for the rest."
Direth sealed the jar with magic after finishing putting the lungs in.
For the past few days, Professor Mortum had been helping the skull principal readjust the magic around Einroguard's territory and purify the flow of wickedly contaminated mana.
As it had been quite laborious work, Professor Mortum was now lying down groaning.
But originally, Einroguard mages had to do what needed to be done even if they were groaning in pain.
If the school's disciple came without rest, the professor should naturally come out and work too. Direth was strict about such matters.
"Go call Professor Mortum."
"Um, Senior. The professor was... feeling sick earlier..."
"Yes. But he'll be fine if we give him the potion. Go get the potion up there and pour it in his mouth."
"...Yes!"
Raphael nodded with an even more terrified face than before.
It was hard to tell whether he was afraid of the morgue or the senior in front of him.
"Will you really be alright?"
Direth asked while walking down the stairs with her junior to take the final exam.
Though she hadn't witnessed it directly, Direth had grasped the situation somewhat through various rumors and testimonies.
When the principal, feeling threatened by a doppelganger more popular than himself, finally moved to subjugate him, her junior, enraged by this absurd outrage, participated on the opposite side...
Having clashed with the skull principal, he couldn't be fine. Even if he looked fine now, the mana flow inside must still be greatly distorted...
'Oh. He's fine.'
Direth was surprised when she checked her junior's mana flow with a triangular bone talisman.
He was really fine, more than expected.
"Then casting <Crow's Evil Eye>, summoning a skeleton golem, and the rest... just making these poisons and potions listed here should do it. Can you do it?"
"!"
Yi-Han was startled.
Not because the exam was difficult, but because it was easy. Wasn't this just reviewing what they had learned during the semester?
"Senior. You don't need to do this."
"Hm? Do what?"
"You're making it easy because I collapsed, right?"
Yi-Han spoke firmly.
Of course, there was nothing wrong with an easy exam, but he didn't want to trouble his respected senior because of his own greed.
Moreover, this wasn't Yukbeltire but Direth.
"Actually Senior, I'm trying not to be so obsessed with exams anymore..."
"That's not it?"
"Pardon?"
"That's not it."
Direth looked at her junior as if dumbfounded. She couldn't understand what her junior was saying.
"The reason I made the exam like this is because you already covered all the material during the semester by yourself. Since there's no need to go further, we're just checking."
"...Ah. I see."
An awkward air flowed between them.
Noticing her junior's embarrassment, Direth spoke kindly.
"Shall we start the exam then?"
"Yes!"
*
The exam didn't even take 10 minutes. As Direth recorded a perfect score, she thought inwardly.
'Didn't he say he wouldn't be obsessed with exams?'
"Junior. The break is coming up, what are you going to do?"
"I think I'll be traveling around the empire with the principal asking for debt repayment extensions."
"...Uh, yeah..."
Direth was at a loss for words at this unimaginable plan that was so different from the expected answers.
'Wait. Come to think of it, didn't he promise to help with Yukbeltire's research during the break?'
Thinking about it, Yi-Han had definitely promised to help with Yukbeltire's artificial realm research during the break.
She remembered well because Yukbeltire herself had said it until it was hammered into their ears.
-This oblique bipyramid part still isn't complete. Should I help?-
-No need. The Wardanaz family junior agreed to participate during the break, so I'll leave it to him then.-
-...Even if he has a lot of mana, isn't it a bit much to use a junior like that... Then what about these overlapping magic circles here?-
-Ah. I'll leave those to the Wardanaz family junior too when he comes. I emptied them because they consume a lot of mana.-
-I hope his schedule changes and he doesn't come at all... Right. I understand.-
-What did you say?-
-Nothing. Nothing at all.-
But Direth didn't say anything.
How could she hold back her junior, who was working for Einroguard, for personal reasons?
This was something where Yukbeltire should yield as the senior.
Flap flap!
When a paper bird flew in through the window, Direth burned it with black fire as if annoyed. Yi-Han was puzzled.
'Are there paper birds that deliver annoying advertisements in Einroguard too?'
"Who sent it?"
"Yukbeltire. I burned it because it would surely be useless content. If it's really urgent, she'll come herself."
"Indeed. I think so too."
Yi-Han had already cleared from his mind the conversation about small worlds they had before coming here.
*
Coming out of the Dark Shadow Hall after finishing the exam, Yi-Han fell into thought.
'Even so, it seems too easy, I wonder if Senior Direth was lying?'
Yi-Han felt uneasy even while walking, worried that Direth might suffer disadvantages later because of him.
When Yi-Han arrived at his destination and opened the door to the <Understanding Very Difficult and Abstruse Arcane Magic> lecture hall, Professor Garcia shouted urgently.
"Yi-Han, you came to take the exam? Just write your name on that blank paper over there and go!"
"..."
Yi-Han was shocked at this novel exam content that even Gainando could get perfect marks on.
"Ah, no... Is this really okay?"
"What do you mean?"
Professor Garcia looked too busy to even raise her head.
Even while talking with Yi-Han, her eyes and hands were fixed on the magic on her desk.
"I think the principal will get angry."
Just looking at how Professor Verduus occasionally disappeared to the punishment room, one could tell.
Though Einroguard professors had almost unlimited freedom, if they used that freedom arbitrarily for education or exams, they could incur the skull principal's wrath.
"The principal told me to do this, Yi-Han! He said if we've taught everything we need to during the semester, don't waste time needlessly!"
"...!"
These were words that would have moved Professor Verduus to tears if he had heard them.
Of course, they were also words that Professor Verduus would never have said no matter how urgent the skull principal was.
Currently, Professor Garcia was in charge of part of the cleanup after two great mages had fought using even unique worlds.
It would be stranger if there were no aftereffects when worlds created by mages' mental images had invaded the existing world.
She had to check the anomalies and realm rifts appearing throughout Einroguard's territory and prepare before things became serious.
And resolve all this as cheaply as possible!
Only someone who could achieve such seemingly impossible feats every year could be called an Einroguard professor.
"Yi-Han did more than enough during this semester. That's why we can pass like this!"
"Thank you, Professor."
"Stay healthy during the break, Yi-Han. Don't push yourself too hard!"
Professor Garcia bowed her head, still bent over her desk. Then, suddenly remembering something, she asked.
"Oh right. Do you have plans for the break, Yi-Han?"
"I think I'll be traveling around with the principal persuading creditors."
"I see. Take care... What did you just say?!"
Professor Garcia finally raised her head. Her eyes were greatly shaken with shock.
However, her disciple had already finished his greeting and stepped out of the lecture hall.
Though she wanted to chase after him, Professor Garcia had to hold back her tears and give up because of the magic piled up in front of her.
*
'Wait. Then is Professor Bagrak busy too?'
Come to think of it, if Professor Garcia was this busy, it wouldn't be strange for Professor Boladi, who had directly participated in subjugating the mad doppelganger, to be even busier.
Einroguard now seemed to be in a situation where they were short-handed enough to deploy anyone the skull principal could trust and use.
"...!"
However, surprisingly, what appeared when he opened the underground lecture hall door was Professor Boladi's usual impassive face.
Yi-Han was surprised but then realized.
'Ah. I see.'
Originally, each mage had their own field of expertise.
Professor Mortum specialized in dark magic, Professor Garcia in space-time magic, Professor Verduus in the punishment room...
And Professor Boladi was a magic combat specialist.
While he might be called in combat situations, it was natural that he wouldn't be called for this kind of cleanup.
"Professor. It's alright. You already did the work of several people during the battle."
"?"
Professor Boladi was slightly puzzled at his disciple suddenly saying strange things.
He had been worried about aftereffects from using several high-level magics and getting involved, but seeing him suddenly say strange things made him more concerned.
"Are you really alright?"
"Yes. I'm fine. Thank you for worrying. And... thank you for helping last time too."
Professor Boladi nodded as if it was nothing.
Yi-Han asked, just in case.
"The principal hasn't given you any disadvantages, sent you to the punishment room, or cut additional funding afterward, has he?"
If so, the loaded anonymous report might be fired again.
"There was no funding to begin with."
"..."
"Since the school's members increased, we might get some from next year."
"...I'll definitely try to get it!"
Yi-Han spoke, feeling his eyes sting slightly.
Though it was doubtful whether they could receive funding just for increasing from one to two members, he planned to get it somehow even if he had to threaten the skull principal.
If not, it was too pitiful for Professor Boladi.
Other professors, even Professor Mortum of the dark magic school, received funding...
'Sniff.'
"?"
Professor Boladi tilted his head, not understanding why his disciple was covering his face in sadness.
"Are you really alright?"
"Huh? Yes. I'm really fine. I've already taken all the other exams too. Please don't feel too disappointed, Professor. Even setting aside the funding, wouldn't participating in the cleanup be a loss for you?"
Though he felt sorry for Professor Garcia, Yi-Han spoke to comfort Professor Boladi.
However, Professor Boladi gave an unexpected answer.
"I plan to participate in the cleanup after the exams are over."
"?!"
Yi-Han was even more surprised at this unexpected answer.
"Did the principal call you?!"
"Yes."
"Then why...?"
"I refused, saying I wouldn't participate until the exams were over."
Yi-Han felt like he could hear the skull principal's curses as an auditory hallucination.
Unlike a certain shameless Professor V's reasons, someone insisting on focusing on lectures would be harder for even the skull principal to get angry at.
...Though it might seem a bit absurd that it was a lecture with just two disciples...
'No. The sincerity is more important than the number of disciples. The professor is sincere.'
"Professor. How about having Eandurde take the exam on the last day?"
"The principal said to finish as quickly as possible..."
"What does that matter? It's more important to give Eandurde time to prepare as much as possible."
"Indeed. You're right."
Professor Boladi was immediately persuaded by his disciple's reliable appearance of looking after his junior.
