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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 1050
🕑 Added 2024-11-22 12:11:02 +0000 UTCChapter 1050
However, Professor Garcia, who had already entered worry mode, couldn't hear those words.
"Yi-Han! Yi-Han!"
'She seems even more negative than me?'
It was slightly absurd seeing someone who always told the skull principal 'You're too negative and pessimistic and so on' acting like this.
Professor Garcia ran frantically following the long connected chains. Thanks to using time acceleration magic, her surroundings didn't even register.
In contrast, the skull principal noticed this dungeon's strangeness.
"...A dragons' dungeon!"
He realized this was a dungeon dragons used like vegetable gardens, completely different from ordinary dungeons.
There could only be one reason for having this in the mansion.
'She made it secretly.'
As a dragon, Jourin must have had the desire to secretly decorate her lair.
The skull principal wasn't particularly surprised or angry at that fact itself.
Seeing other dragons helped, they must have handled it well...
'...Isn't the overprotection too extreme?'
Though Jourin was a dragon with relatively slow mental growth, he wondered if such overprotection was necessary.
Even so, why have rest areas and baths in a dungeon?
Only minions would enter a dragon's dungeon anyway.
Meanwhile, Professor Garcia discovered Yi-Han's group.
"Yi-Han!!"
-Gasp.-
Jourin, who had been digging dungeon corners with her front legs in case monsters appeared, was startled by the familiar voice from behind.
-This voice?-
"Get away from him right now, you evil spirit!"
-!-
Though Jourin just flinched in surprise, the water spirit beside Yi-Han was truly terrified.
The spirit emitted by the mage who always ranked first in Einroguard's unofficial combat rankings made even a high-ranking water spirit fearful.
Bubble bubble-
While the water spirit bubbled in fear, Professor Garcia cast magic.
The space between Yi-Han and the spirit expanded, then the spirit froze. It was due to having its time momentarily stolen.
"Principal! Please finish off this evil spirit!"
"...Calm down first, Professor Garcia."
The belatedly appeared skull principal soothed his disciple incredulously.
No matter how he looked, that water spirit seemed blameless.
It seemed to be tending this dungeon on dragons' orders...
-Wh-wh-what to do? What should Jourin do?-
When both professor and principal appeared, Jourin's complexion turned pale.
Her ambitious plan to keep Yi-Han imprisoned in the mansion for 100 years had been completely exposed.
"Don't worry, Your Highness."
-!-
Jourin's expression brightened again at her reliable contractor's words.
-Yi-Han...!-
"I'll be beside you when you get scolded."
-...Yi-Han!-
Jourin made a crying face at these heartless words saying he would watch rather than help when she got scolded.
-Too cruel!-
"You've had it rough."
-Th-thank you, Your Excellency Magic Administrator.-
The skull principal released and soothed the spirit.
Then he looked at Yi-Han.
"I clearly warned you, so why did you carelessly enter the mansion and get kidnapped?"
"..."
Yi-Han wondered for a moment if the spirit was his disciple rather than himself.
This person who was so kind to the spirit was scolding his kidnapped disciple.
"If you're going to warn me, do it properly! How was I supposed to understand that?"
"Did you perhaps boil and eat Beavle while I wasn't looking? How can you be so brazen?"
Though the skull principal usually knew when he was being unreasonable, this time was different.
He had clearly...
-If you visit her she'll catch you and not let go until break ends.-
-She might not let go even after break ends.-
-Haha. Look who's the dragon expert now. Anyway if you're going to meet her, do it after finishing everything. I clearly warned you.-
...said this.
This wasn't being spiteful but giving clear advice not to go.
"How much more detailed should I have explained?"
"..."
Yi-Han changed the subject.
"By the way, please remove these handcuffs."
"You mean these dragon shackles? Wait. Those aren't easy to remove so it will take some time."
"...!"
Yi-Han was startled.
At first he thought the skull principal was being spiteful but he wasn't. He was serious.
"No way. Are there things even you find difficult to remove?"
"Well these are items made by dragons to imprison criminals eternally. They managed to get quite something."
"..."
-......-
Everyone present except the skull principal looked at Jourin.
Jourin hung her head low.
-Jourin was going to return them after Yi-Han promised to stay at the mansion...-
"I understand, Your Highness. I too promised His Majesty I would abdicate once the empire stabilized. Isn't that how these things go?"
The skull principal lightly moved his fingers and engraved magic circles on the handcuffs Yi-Han wore.
These shackles called dragon shackles were a kind of living metal that targeted and changed according to the criminal's characteristics.
Metal given artificial life limited by commands with dragons' power gathered.
Even the skull principal had to use quite some tricks to neutralize and remove such things.
"Mana dispersion? Dragons don't usually prepare for this? Who added such a thing?"
Such mana dispersion was meaningless since they weren't imprisoning dragons.
What criminal would have near infinite mana anyway?
"Indeed."
Yi-Han pretended to be indignant along while playing innocent.
What a thorough race dragons were!
The skull principal felt something suspicious but ignored it and continued drawing magic circles.
These magic circles were drawn with ink the skull principal had personally breathed life into. Given time, they would move on their own to complete magic circles restricting the dragon shackles' power.
"Now then..."
The skull principal turned around. Jourin hiccupped.
"Ten years banned from going out, and only boring visitors allowed..."
-Ah, no!-
"Who told you to cause trouble, Your Highness? Though it pains me too, it can't be helped."
The magic administrator without human heart coldly assigned demerits and decided punishment.
For a while, no soft and cute visitors could visit Jourin's mansion. Only boring and uninteresting visitors would be allowed.
"Build up good deeds. Then I will reduce your sentence."
-...Helping Einroguard students is good deeds too...-
Jourin spoke while watching his reaction.
Seeing this, the skull principal freshly felt Jourin had grown greatly mentally.
To use such cunning tricks?
'Well. There were signs since she deceived both His Majesty and me simultaneously.'
"Adding two hours daily of imperial hymn listening."
-!!!!-
Though Jourin flapped her wings and pleaded, the skull principal coldly ignored her.
"Aren't you being too cold?"
"Even if forgiven later, one must be strict when needed. Dragons need to learn with some strictness."
After firmly answering Yi-Han who whispered, the skull principal looked around.
"But Pengerin isn't here either?"
"W-well..."
Yi-Han avoided his gaze at exactly the same angle as his master.
"Can't be helped. Wardanaz. The reason I looked for you is I have something to say about Professor Boladi."
At those words, Yi-Han gave a bitter smile.
Professor Garcia, who was apologizing to the spirit beside them, saw that smile and asked puzzled.
"What's wrong, Yi-Han? Do you have a guess?"
"Heh. Isn't it obvious? You want me to immediately report if Professor Bagrak moves to submit a letter of complaint to the imperial palace?"
Whack!
The skull principal hit his annoying disciple once with his staff.
"No."
"...N-no?"
Yi-Han became embarrassed. Professor Garcia became embarrassed too. Honestly she had thought that was the right answer.
"Do you remember catching that Ksaksarigol fellow before?"
"Yes."
The otherworldly monster hunt where Alcicle and capital adventurers accompanied.
All sorts of imperial criminals had appeared during that monster hunt.
Magic criminals, evil god worshippers, separatists and...
It was no exaggeration to call it a comprehensive gift set of criminals.
And what was caught then was an elf prophet of the Ksaksarigol Order.
An evil one who kept trying unpleasant slander calling Yi-Han 'monster that devours divination'!
"Huh? When did Yi-Han get involved with the Ksaksarigol Order?"
Professor Garcia tilted her head.
Since Yi-Han had so many entanglements with evil and powerful beings of the empire she almost overlooked it, but thinking about it something was strange.
'Anti-magic extremists, magic criminals, King of Ghouls, King of Frost Giants, Prahgal Order... but no involvement with Ksaksarigol madmen?'
"..."
"..."
The skull principal and his chief disciple exchanged very subtle and complex looks.
Saying he somehow ended up participating in tracking a void realm monster wouldn't sound good to Professor Garcia.
They both nodded minutely at the same time.
"There was that time before. You know Professor. That time. It was totally Ksaksarigol."
"Right. That's right."
"????"
While Professor Garcia fell into confusion checking if she had missed any memories, the skull principal quickly moved the conversation forward.
"Anyway, interrogating that self-proclaimed prophet revealed more information... and some of it was related to Professor Boladi."
The skull principal seemed not to want to say exactly what the problem was.
Yi-Han noticed this and carefully spoke.
"If it's something I shouldn't hear, just tell me what I need to do."
"But Principal. In Yi-Han's case, he already does plenty of dangerous things, so hiding information won't make him less endangered. Won't it just have needless side effects?"
"Well that's true too. Better to just tell everything."
The skull principal immediately accepted Professor Garcia's words. Yi-Han wore a bitter expression.
"..."
Though it was right to hear everything from the start rather than being surprised later from hidden information...
...what was this bitter and uncomfortable feeling?
"There's a type Professor Boladi hates on the continent."
"?"
Yi-Han wondered at this abrupt start.
A type Professor Boladi hates.
...Aren't there too many?
'Criminals, beaver mixed-bloods, anti-magic extremists, Professor Verduus, magic criminals, Einroguard enchantment magic school representative...'
As if reading Yi-Han's thoughts, the skull principal spoke irritably.
"Not just types he hates but types he specially hates. For reference, I'm not talking about Professor Beavle either."
"!"
Not even Professor Verduus.
Yi-Han had no idea at all.
Looking aside, Professor Garcia was also listening very attentively with a serious expression.
"An evil god order that fell and lost even its name long ago... that madman babbled that they seem to have revived."
"I-indeed..."
Yi-Han straightened his posture and nodded.
Now he could guess what the skull principal was trying to say.
"I understand. You want me to stop Professor Bagrak if he secretly goes to subjugate them."
Emotions like anger or obsession were fatal to mages.
Moreover, Professor Boladi who enjoyed combat alone without separate support could become even more precarious.
"What are you going to stop? Don't get cocky and get beaten up, just quietly report. Professor Boladi isn't someone who won't beat you up just because you're his disciple."
"..."
The skull principal was very realistic.
Since trying to stop would only backfire, secretly monitoring from behind was the more reasonable method.
If something felt off or strange, they could help their former disciple by reporting immediately.
"But I'm about half his school's disciples..."
When Yi-Han grumbled, Professor Garcia spoke quietly.
"Yi-Han. Please don't try to stop him and just quietly report."
"...Yes..."
