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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 1043
🕑 Added 2024-11-20 12:54:09 +0000 UTCChapter 1043
"In Hell???"
"What? No!"
Yi-Han was greatly bewildered by his junior's question.
Why was Hell suddenly brought up?
"What do you mean Hell?"
"Because Senior said you left him behind..."
Alhidle displayed logic befitting a tower's top student.
1. Senior Wardanaz is an extremely amazing person.
2. His relative Alcicle is quite amazing too.
3. But if Senior Wardanaz is shocked enough to be surprised about leaving him behind?
4. Must be the Hell realm!
'Is he really top student?'
Yi-Han slightly doubted the ability of his tower's juniors.
"If not the Hell realm, then is it the cold spirit realm or frost giant realm?"
"No... I meant we left him at Petroguard. Another magic school."
"...Is that something to be so surprised about?"
Alhidle tilted his head.
Alcicle wasn't some five-year-old child, and being left at another magic school rather than the Hell realm wasn't something to be so surprised about, was it?
"That's true. But still... he'll feel hurt."
"It's alright. He'll surely understand."
Alhidle believed in the mage from the same family.
Surely like himself, he wouldn't harbor petty emotions or grudges on the grand path of magic!
*
"Boladi Bagrak!!!"
Alcicle roared upon realizing the truth.
Many Petroguard students wore deeply impressed expressions at that cute roar. If they could, they wanted to ask him to stay as a model for a while.
"Did they really leave?!"
"I-I'm sorry."
Dalser, Petroguard's professor, no, mage serving as professor, apologized.
Though it wasn't really Dalser's fault that the Einroguard students all left...
...Alcicle looked upset enough that it didn't matter.
"No. Ugh. It's not your fault."
Alcicle was fuming with anger.
Honestly, he understood the other Einroguard students.
He could see how Yi-Han and Professor Garcia might forget while focusing on dealing with the skull principal's former disciple.
But Professor Boladi was different.
Given his combat mage nature, he couldn't have missed such a subtle change.
He knew 100% but didn't tell!
'This cheap and vile...'
Alcicle felt truly wronged.
Was taking his disciple hunting realm monsters such a great sin?
...Come to think of it, it did seem like a great sin.
Alcicle let out a deep sigh.
"Sigh. Getting angry only hurts me. I'll be going now."
"You're leaving already?"
The Petroguard students who had become close in the meantime were very regretful.
Even if not as a model, this mage from the Pengerin family was an outstanding senior mage.
Especially his knowledge of cold and frost related magic was unmatched within Petroguard.
"Have to go. It was fun everyone."
"P-perhaps..."
"What? If you have questions about magic, ask quickly."
"Could you give us just one feather?"
"...If you don't step back five paces I'll freeze everyone."
*
"Hmm. Indeed Sir Alcicle is quite generous."
Though not as much as Alhidle, Yi-Han also soon recovered from the shock.
Unlike the skull principal, it didn't seem like Alcicle would get so angry about being left at Petroguard.
"Your words seem right. By the way, where's Eandurde?"
Yi-Han wasn't looking for his junior just because of the break.
There was also an issue related to Jourin.
-Ah! By the way, do you have any recommendations for methods to tie up mages? Actually my sister asked!-
Jourin's brother, Uman, had once asked Yi-Han about methods to thoroughly bind mages.
At the time he thought it was about the skull principal, but as time passed he thought it might not be.
'Come to think of it, that could have been targeting Eandurde.'
Even for Jourin, forcibly restraining the skull principal seemed somewhat unlikely.
Compared to that, Eandurde made sense.
She was Jourin's friend, and someone who could be tied up...
If so, he needed to find her first and warn her. An unwary Eandurde might end up staying in Jourin's cave all break.
"You mean Eandurde? Eandurde got off the carriage as soon as we arrived at the capital."
"Ah. Of course."
Having come by threat, she wouldn't leisurely follow along to look at auction houses.
"She did ask a few things before that. Seemed like she was looking for friend gifts."
"Indeed! I knew you were clever from the moment I first saw you, Alhidle."
Alhidle became shy at his senior's flattery.
Since Eandurde received a friend's invitation, she seemed to be planning to prepare gifts before visiting.
And to buy gifts she needed gold coins, so she said she was going to the underground arena...
"Eandurde!!!"
Yi-Han shouted his absent junior's name out loud for the first time. Alhidle wondered.
"But Eandurde isn't here?"
"Forget it. Anyway, she said she was going to the underground arena? I need to go find Professor Bagrak."
As a school senior, he needed to go find his school junior with a school professor. Yi-Han ran toward where the two professors were waiting.
"Alhidle. You come too. Since we met, take some gifts."
As a junior from the same tower, Yi-Han wanted to give him some useful things from his gift bundle.
"But I have something I need to buy."
"What is it?"
"Bagni's Red Diamond, I wanted to learn the magic dwelling inside..."
"...Some nouveau riche bought that earlier. Let's go! Follow me!"
*
After dumping out his gift bundle, Yi-Han explained the situation to Professor Boladi.
Professor Boladi, not particularly surprised by the mountain of gifts, answered immediately.
"Follow me."
"What about Professor?"
When Yi-Han asked if Professor Garcia wasn't coming along, Professor Boladi shook his head.
"Rather dangerous."
For a mage not trained in magic combat, the narrow and winding back alleys of the capital's slums good for ambushes weren't very good places.
They could be ambushed by enemies suddenly jumping out from behind what seemed like blocked walls.
"Indeed Professor might get hurt..."
"The surroundings might get destroyed."
'Ah. It was the opposite.'
Yi-Han realized he had understood backwards. He judged correctly up to getting ambushed but what came after was different.
A mage of Professor Garcia's level could still use magic even if ambushed. The problem was controlling that magic's power.
Unless they wanted to blow away the entire capital outskirts slum, it was right to leave Professor Garcia behind.
"...Oh? Then what about me..."
"?"
"Nothing."
Yi-Han was about to ask 'Then am I not dangerous?' but gave up.
In Professor Boladi's thinking, the school's most senior magic student was sufficiently qualified to come along!
'And at last year's level it might be doable.'
Yi-Han cast enhancement magic by chanting, stored remaining magic, and moved needed reagents separately from his reagent pouch.
It was preparation for simultaneously unleashing five or six magics if combat broke out.
Last year Yi-Han had come to these capital outskirts slums with the skull principal to scout Eandurde for Einroguard.
In these gloomy alleys where no one would notice if someone died, mercenaries with daggers and clubs would jump out every few steps.
'Back then some guys recognized the principal's face and backed off, but this time...?'
Stepping onto the dirty streets of the slums, Yi-Han wondered while watching Professor Boladi's back.
Would the mercenaries and criminal guild members here recognize Professor Boladi's face like the skull principal's?
-We have guests.-
-You fool! Do you know who that is!-
Someone was about to jump out from an alley between half-dried plaster buildings but was pulled back by another.
Yi-Han nodded.
'They recognize.'
-That's the guy who came with the magic administrator last year! Are you trying to get us all killed?!-
"..."
Yi-Han was shocked.
They recognized him, not Professor Boladi?
"Impossible!"
"?"
Professor Boladi who was walking ahead looked back puzzled.
"...It's nothing. More importantly, will the guys here recognize you, Professor?"
"Not sure."
Personnel turnover was fast in these slums. Though called guilds, unlike guilds with formal imperial permits, they were mostly gathered fugitive mercenaries and criminals.
As such, it wouldn't be strange if no one recognized Professor Boladi.
'Indeed. I was just unlucky.'
Yi-Han let out a sigh of relief.
The one who just recognized him was probably because it was less than a year ago...
-Aaaahh! It's the mad hunter!!!-
-The butcher's here! The butcher has appeared! You fools! Move!-
-All bounty targets run away!-
Shouts echoed from all around the alleys then noisy footsteps rang out.
A leaning wooden building located on the left side of the street suddenly collapsed.
It had been a secret tavern where bounty criminals gathered, but hearing the rumors they all tried to escape through the back door and the old building collapsed.
Yi-Han used telekinesis to block the debris and maintain the exit. The criminal mercenaries who frantically jumped out expressed their gratitude.
"Th-thank..."
Thwack!
Before finishing their thanks, they collapsed. Professor Boladi had acted.
The professor took out a piece of paper, wrote to send the bounty to Einroguard, then threw it on top of the collapsed ones.
Then the paper piece split in two and one transformed into a paper bird flying toward the capital guards.
"Good luring."
The professor praised his disciple. Yi-Han felt slightly wronged.
He hadn't intentionally lured them!
Thinking about how the captured mercenaries would chatter 'Ugh that mage was in league with Professor Bagrak after all' made him feel somewhat wronged.
'I really tried to save them...'
While grumbling inwardly, Yi-Han spotted people watching from behind round wooden barrels filled with fish in the fishy-smelling alley beside them.
-Isn't that the mage who came with the magic administrator last time?-
-Right! And this time he came with the hunter!-
"..."
"This way."
While Yi-Han worried about how far the rumors would spread, Professor Boladi found the underground arena entrance.
Any city in the empire had such shadowy places and specific conditions were needed to enter.
Like knowing the entrance or getting introduced by a guild and so on.
The underground arena entrance Professor Boladi was trying to enter now appeared on the outside to be a shabby leather shop.
However, going inside revealed a magically hidden underground arena passage.
"Aack!"
When Professor Boladi entered, the merchant tanning unknown monster hide screamed.
"Why!! Why did you come!! Why did you come again!!"
"For the passage."
"What? Passage? Ah, arena? ...You crazy mage! After what you did last time you came, you think it's still running! It went bankrupt back then!"
The leather merchant was confused at first then belatedly realized and burst out in angry outrage.
Professor Boladi turned to Yi-Han and spoke.
"Let's go to the next arena."
"..."
