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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 763
🕑 Added 2024-08-18 03:16:31 +0000 UTCChapter 763
Feeling the pouring gazes, Agdung quickly changed the subject.
"Shall we all set out for the mushroom field then? Haha! Isn't the weather lovely?"
"But sunlight doesn't reach here?"
Gainando had never seen someone say the weather was lovely near the Dark Shadow Hall.
Even cheerful people usually said their mood became gloomy near the Dark Shadow Hall...
"It's lovely by dark magic standards!"
"???"
"Let's go! Let's go!"
Gainando whispered to Yi-Han as they watched Agdung's back as he ran ahead.
"Yi-Han. Kalaroguard people seem a bit strange."
"Maybe so..."
*
Yonaire and Siana, who had finished making the potion and were waiting, were surprised by the Kalaroguard student's visit.
"You spread spores in this mushroom field 11 years ago?!"
"Shouldn't we ask about him being a skeleton first...?"
Siana muttered that, but the topic quickly moved on.
"That's right. The professor discovered that mushroom field while looking for a good place with seniors back then."
Yi-Han and his friends whispered at the words of the upper-year student from another magic school.
"Then doesn't that mean the ownership of this field is essentially theirs?"
"Will the seniors listen?"
"They wouldn't just insist against a guest from another magic school, right? They have some evidence here too."
Yi-Han pointed to the scroll Agdung had brought.
It was a scroll recording the location of the mushroom field, the types of mushroom spores spread at that time, the date, and so on.
"We just finished <Arkan's Ferocious Beast Potion>, how about using this potion? The effect disappears if we don't use it today."
Siana showed lingering attachment, seemingly regretful about not being able to use the potion she had worked hard to complete.
However, all her friends (including Yonaire) agreed to negotiate peacefully first. Siana grumbled.
"You people don't know how difficult it is to make potions!"
"I'm really sorry, Priestess Siana of the Flameng Order. But since they came as guests from Kalaroguard, I want to avoid fighting if possible. The potion you made looks really amazing and I'd like to try it out, but..."
"Then I guess there's no choice."
Siana quickly forgave at the other party's praise. Yonaire, who was listening from the side, asked curiously.
"Are there rules at Kalaroguard prohibiting fights with other magic schools?"
"Ah. There's nothing like that, but we usually get miserably beaten if we fight with Einroguard students."
"..."
"..."
Yi-Han and his friends felt apologetic for the atrocities committed by their seniors' seniors.
"W-we're sorry."
"What are you sorry for? It's not like you did it!"
Agdung waved his hands and stepped forward. Yonaire followed behind and said.
"He seems like a kind person, unlike his appearance."
"It seems so. But his attitude is a bit different only towards me. He must have had some bad experience with the Wardanaz family."
"Oh dear. It would be good if there's a chance to talk about it."
Yi-Han nodded at Yonaire's words.
He was confident he could explain about the Wardanaz family's notoriety if he just had a chance to talk sincerely.
Actually, demons were just like porters...
"What's this, why are there so many...?"
The senior guarding the mushroom field looked slightly flustered at the sight of students rushing over in droves.
Moreover, one of them even looked like a student from another magic school.
"Are you perhaps from Kalaroguard?"
"That's right. I'm Agdung from Kalaroguard."
"Um... Nice to meet you. J-judging by your appearance, it seems you're researching how to change human bodies into undead."
"?!!"
Yi-Han's friends were shocked.
'Was that research famous enough to know just by looking?'
"That's right. I'm glad you recognized it."
"I've read about it in the <Imperial Magic Journal>. But what brings you here?"
"Actually, I came here because of this mushroom field."
Agdung, like a polite skeleton gentleman, presented the materials he had brought as evidence and explained his claim.
The senior's face wavered at the powerful claim that might overturn the mushroom field ownership debate from its roots.
"Th-this...! To think there was such a hidden story!"
"I ask for your wise decision."
"I need to talk with the other students for a moment. Would you come with me?"
The senior tried to gather the students waiting near the mushroom field with a serious face.
It seemed they needed to discuss ownership again.
"Yes. These juniors here too..."
"That's not allowed."
The senior firmly refused.
"Why not?! If these students hadn't guided me, I wouldn't have even been able to come here..."
"Regardless of that, we cannot disclose information about this mushroom field to outsiders."
The senior was thorough, befitting an Einroguard student.
Although they might allow the Kalaroguard student to attend since he was involved, there was no reason to let the junior outsiders attend too.
Even if they let them attend, they were more likely to just thoroughly gather information about the mushroom field and use it for theft, so they absolutely couldn't let their guard down.
"What! Even so... I'll go back after this is over anyway. After that, the dark magic school will receive our rights on our behalf and manage the mushroom field."
"Then you can explain separately when you hand over the rights after today's discussion. Those without rights cannot attend."
"What's going on?"
Two or three seniors from the mushroom field approached curiously, hearing the commotion.
Agdung appealed about the situation where the juniors who had helped him were not allowed to attend.
"Does this make sense?"
"Hmm. I'm sorry, but letting those without rights attend is a bit..."
"How can we trust them when they might secretly steal or attack?"
'How sharp.'
Some of Yi-Han's friends made guilty expressions.
They had been planning to do exactly as the seniors predicted.
"Senior Agdung. We're fine. You should attend and claim your rights. We can take care of it later."
Yi-Han whispered from behind, but Agdung shook his head and didn't back down.
"Please."
"We said no. We're already suffering from theft and attacks."
"But still!"
"No means no."
Even Yi-Han's friends were puzzled as Agdung kept pleading.
Why was he acting like this?
"Is there a reason we absolutely must attend?"
"I don't know...?"
The mushroom field seniors also seemed frustrated at the continued pleading.
"You should at least have a reason, how can we accept just pleading?"
"Th..."
"Th?"
"Do you know who this person is?!!!"
"????"
"????????"
Yi-Han and his friends all turned their gazes in the direction Agdung's finger was pointing.
The seniors all turned their gazes too.
'...It's me?'
Yi-Han was shocked when he belatedly realized he was being pointed at. The seniors seemed similarly flustered.
"Wh-who is it?"
"Is he royalty...?"
"What's so great about royalty? There's no way he'd act like this over royalty, right?"
While the seniors were whispering, Yi-Han urgently tried to stop Agdung.
"Mr. Agdung. Why on earth are you doing this? What are you doing now?"
"Just wait a moment! I'll persuade them!"
Agdung, heated up because persuasion hadn't worked, loosened his tie and declared.
Of course, Yi-Han felt like dying watching this.
'Is he a social assassin?'
There was no more fatal blow than going in front of the seniors and saying 'Do you know this person is from the Wardanaz family!'
From the seniors' perspective, wouldn't they think 'So what?'
"This person is the Imperial Mage Administrator's disciple! Are you going to exclude him even knowing that!"
"..."
"..."
For a moment, silence hung in the air at words that exceeded everyone's expectations. Even Yi-Han was silent in shock.
'Wasn't it about the Wardanaz family?'
He had naturally thought it was because he was from the Wardanaz family, but it was because of his relationship with the skull principal.
'No. They're both equally troublesome!'
Whatever the reason, there was no way it could be good to make such a fuss in front of the seniors.
Yi-Han tried to clean up the situation as quickly as possible.
"Wai...!"
"Um... Did we make a mistake?"
"!"
The mushroom field seniors' momentum faltered and they started to watch cautiously.
Although Einroguard mages didn't care about royalty or descendants of great imperial families, there was one exception - someone related to the skull principal.
If he really was the skull principal's disciple, they couldn't treat him arbitrarily even if he was a junior.
Not because they were afraid of the skull principal, but because they feared the disciple himself might take revenge someday.
How vicious and evil would that disciple be!
He could remember even such trivial grudges for over a hundred years and come back to repay them.
"Hmm. If he's really the principal's disciple... But is he really the principal's disciple?"
"Would someone from Kalaroguard be mistaken? Wait. Isn't he that guy? That all-schools student?"
"...It might make sense!"
The mushroom field seniors discussed and came to understand on their own.
If he was just the skull principal's disciple, they might have thought it was a false rumor, but taking all schools made it seem somewhat plausible.
"Seniors. There's a misunderstanding. Although I did go around with the principal, strictly speaking, the definition of disciple..."
"You went around with him?"
"So, by chance..."
The seniors nodded at Yi-Han's words.
And they all thought inwardly at the same time.
'He is a disciple!'
With the principal's crazy personality, if he took him around together, it was right to consider him a disciple.
It was truly surprising.
"You may attend, junior!"
"We trust you won't hold a grudge over today's events! Haha!"
"..."
Yi-Han suffered, realizing the rumor that would be added on top of the all-schools rumor.
"That's gre... No. That's great. Haha!"
Agdung laughed brightly, clacking his bones, thinking he had resolved one issue.
He couldn't help but feel proud of successfully getting the Mage Administrator's disciple to attend without damaging his face.
Yi-Han looked at Agdung with a frosty gaze. Agdung flinched, feeling something was off at that gaze.
"...Did it take too long?"
"..."
*
In the end, Yi-Han couldn't get angry at Agdung.
He couldn't get angry at someone who was being nice because of the skull principal's notoriety.
Instead, he tried his best to persuade.
-So although I went around with him a bit, rather than a disciple...-
-...Isn't that usually a disciple?-
'Damn. Even though I said it myself, it seems to lack persuasiveness.'
Yi-Han lamented inwardly.
To think it would feel unconvincing even as he said it himself.
Well, since he himself felt to some extent that he was the skull principal's disciple, there was no way persuasion would work well.
"Then we will unify and transfer the rights to the mushroom field."
After checking Kalaroguard's evidence and being unable to refute it, the seniors finally gave up ownership.
Yi-Han carefully asked.
"Is this alright? The loss..."
"It stings, but we often experience this level of loss at Einroguard."
"That's right. I often scam and sell things too. When you buy things like this, you buy accepting all this."
"..."
Yi-Han inwardly resolved to check a hundred times before buying if the seniors ever sold real estate in the future.
"The dark magic school will manage this place on behalf of Kalaroguard."
When an unfamiliar school they didn't know well came out, the seniors murmured.
"If the dark magic school manages it, what will happen to the mushroom prices here?"
"Hmm. They might raise prices if the school doesn't have money... They'll probably be poor..."
"...We'll maintain the prices as they are. The dark magic school has enough money."
"Oh!"
At Yi-Han's declaration, his dark magic school friends threw puzzled looks.
...Was that so?
