Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 911

“…What on earth is going on?!”

The two professors stared, confused. They had just used the dragon’s breath to push the strange hamster creature back into the Black Emperor’s Box and send it away. Now, they saw something even stranger.

The dragon cried out, a sound like the world ending.

“Euaaaaah!”

“Y-Your Highness, what is it?” Professor Garcia asked, worried.

*Lee Han is dying!* Jo Ulin thought, tears streaming down her face. *This isn’t the adventure stories!*

She could barely speak through her sobs. In fairy tales, heroes and brave friends fought monsters and won. They didn’t watch helplessly as someone they cared about fell.

*If this is adventure,* Jo Ulin thought fiercely, *then adventures should be stopped!*

“Wait… is he just… sleeping?” Professor Garcia said, looking closely at Lee Han.

“Professor Baegreg?” Professor Garcia asked Professor Voladi for confirmation.

“Yes,” Professor Voladi nodded. “He looks like he just fainted from being too tired.”

But the dragon, Jo Ulin, didn’t trust them. Lately, she had felt like people weren’t telling her the truth. *Could they be lying to make me feel better?* she wondered.

“…Maybe… maybe someone has been tricking you, Your Highness?” Professor Garcia said, noticing her doubt. “No, wait. Check for yourself. Is he really okay?”

Jo Ulin was scared to look, but she gently put a claw near Lee Han’s neck. She felt a faint beat. His heart was still working!

*Then why did he fall?* she thought, panicked. *Was it my breath? Did I hurt him?*

“No, I don’t think it’s your breath,” Professor Garcia said quickly. He knew how much magic Lee Han had.

Lee Han had used the dragon’s breath before without problems. It shouldn’t be too much for him now.

“B-But I used more breath this time!” Jo Ulin insisted, still worried.

“Even if you did, it wouldn’t be that much more, Your Highness,” Professor Garcia replied calmly.

Jo Ulin frowned. *Was this professor cold?* she wondered. *Did he not care that his student had collapsed? Maybe even coughed up blood?*

*Lee Han did say the professors were all cold and mean!* she remembered.

“No,” Professor Garcia said, shaking his head. “He probably just used too much magic before he even got here. Even with lots of magic, everyone gets tired.”

“He used Cerebral Tempest,” Professor Voladi suddenly said.

“Huh?” Professor Garcia blinked, confused.

Professor Voladi started to explain, going into great detail, unlike his usual quiet self in the professors’ lounge.

“This power, from the Spirit King called Thunder General or Thunder Duke, was first named something else, but the young Wodanaz family boy…”

*Oh no,* Professor Garcia thought. *I shouldn’t have asked.*

He instantly regretted it. They had a lot to do, and he didn’t have time for a long lecture. But Professor Garcia was the youngest professor at Einroguard. Professors were in charge, always. It was the rule.

Professor Garcia sighed inside but listened carefully anyway. Actually, it was kind of interesting…

“Wait,” Professor Garcia said, raising an eyebrow. “You *encouraged* him to use that?”

“I did *not* encourage it,” Professor Voladi said firmly.

“O-Oh, okay,” Professor Garcia said slowly, still not quite believing him. *Did he really not encourage it?* he wondered, just as suspicious as the dragon.

“Anyway,” Professor Garcia continued, changing the subject slightly. “Lee Han has been interested in Cerebral Tempest magic, I know, but that doesn’t mean he used it *now*, right?” He tried to defend his student a little.

Even without using dangerous magic like Cerebral Tempest, Lee Han could easily get exhausted. He did strange things all the time…

Professor Voladi pointed behind them. On the rock wall, they could see marks like lightning had burned into the stone. It looked like ideas and thoughts had exploded there, leaving scars.

“…Indeed,” Professor Garcia admitted, seeing the evidence.

When, when will Lee Han wake up?

“He’ll wake up as soon as he recovers a bit. You don’t have to worry,” Professor Garcia said.

Professor Garcia took simple first aid measures. Having a lot of magical power meant that his healing ability was proportionally stronger.

His disciple had so much magical power that it couldn’t be properly expressed in words, so his recovery was fast even in this situation. He didn’t seem to need much worry.

“Oh, right. Let’s seal the remaining Black Emperor’s Reliquaries before they open,” Professor Voladi said.

Professor Voladi nodded. The Death Knights also expressed their agreement.

This commotion had already occurred with just one Black Emperor’s Reliquary opened, and they couldn’t even imagine how troublesome things would become if more opened here.

Jo Ulin has something she’s curious about.

“What are you curious about?” Professor Garcia kindly asked back.

He felt sorry for this soft-hearted dragon who seemed to have been greatly shocked today. He felt he should answer kindly no matter what she asked.

Why aren’t the other professors coming?

“……”

-……

Professor Garcia and the Death Knights were all silent. Professor Voladi opened his mouth.

“That is.”

“I, I’ll answer!”

“!”

Lee Han, who woke up after a good sleep, was startled by the sight of the giant dragon dozing beside him, curled up.

“Your Highness!”

Ugh…?

“What happened to the continent? Has it already been conquered by the demigods…”

Euaaaah! Lee Han has become strange!

Jo Ulin, unaware of the situation, began to wail again. She mistook that Lee Han was seeing hallucinations due to pain and fatigue.

‘Not yet.’

Lee Han, belatedly realizing the situation, checked the Einroguard main building below the mountain range.

It was as peaceful as ever. An explosion had occurred on the 11th floor, and giant tentacles were pouring out of the 4th-floor windows, but well, that’s about it…

‘It’s fine.’

“I’m sorry, Your Highness. I was mistaken. Einroguard hasn’t been attacked while I was collapsed.”

Yeah…

After hearing the confirmation, Lee Han let out a sigh of relief.

As expected, the two professors were amazing. They somehow managed to stop the summoning of the demigod army.

“Lee Han, you’re awake?”

“Professor!”

The returning figures of the two professors could not have felt more dignified. Lee Han greeted them with full of respect.

“The professors saved the continent!”

“W-Well, I don’t think it’s that much,” Professor Garcia said, slightly embarrassed.

Of course, if they hadn’t stopped it, things might have gotten a little bigger, but hearing that they had saved the continent with this much work was a bit embarrassing.

“Good work,” Professor Voladi said.

“Thank you. Has the demigod army been completely annihilated?” Lee Han asked.

“No. We’ve only sealed them,” Professor Garcia explained, shaking his head.

The mad doppelganger had used that short time after making his decision very efficiently. After casting the Black Emperor’s Reliquary in succession, he tried to summon the demigods inside by making contracts with them one by one.

Of course, such a secret technique required immense power, so the mad doppelganger planned to summon only the first demigod with magic and then use the power of the summoned demigod from then on.

Fortunately, after stopping the first demigod, they were able to quickly seal the remaining Black Emperor’s Reliquaries, so they were lucky.

“After stopping the first demigod, we sealed the remaining demigods before they even came out, so it should be fine for now. Reverse-summoning those things isn’t easy either,” Professor Garcia said.

The Black Emperor’s Reliquary itself was such a powerful magic that reverse-summoning it without causing any damage to the surroundings was a task.

Even for the professors of Einroguard, it was not something they could do alone, on the spot.

“Did you meet the doppelganger?” Professor Voladi asked.

“Yes. I saw him. I also met the King of the Yakshas. He was a rare, wise man,” Lee Han replied.

Professor Garcia expressed goodwill towards the Yaksha King. Originally, beings from other dimensions were often eccentric or unpredictable, especially those with powerful strength.

However, the Yaksha King possessed the power to seal the mad doppelganger and yet did not lose his manners and dignity when dealing with mortals. He was truly a rare being.

“It’s good that Lee Han contracted with such a person. It’s a relief,” Professor Garcia said.

“…I-Is that so,” Lee Han replied.

Lee Han wanted to curse the Yaksha King for making him sign a contract with the star that he didn’t even need to do, but he held back. This was not the time for that.

“Can the headmaster’s doppelganger be returned to normal?” Lee Han asked cautiously.

“Hmm,” Professor Garcia frowned at Lee Han’s question.

“I don’t think it will be easy. Unlike the Black Emperor’s Reliquary, he’s such an outstanding archmage himself…”

The seal currently being cast by the Yaksha King looked ordinary on the surface but was a very high-dimensional secret technique. Not just one, but over dozens of secret techniques.

Stopping a great archmage like the mad doppelganger was similar to playing a multi-board game against dozens of chess masters. The initiative would pass to the opponent with just one mistake.

One of the secret techniques used by the Yaksha King was to overlap his own existence information with the enemy, preventing the opponent from doing anything. It was a powerful seal, but it acted as an obstacle when attacking from the outside.

It could harm the Yaksha King or interfere with the Yaksha King, releasing the mad doppelganger’s seal.

“So, it’s going to be difficult to solve with an attack, Lee Han,” Professor Garcia said.

“W-Well, weren’t we talking about returning him to normal? Why are you talking about attacking?” Lee Han asked, puzzled by the professor’s answer to something he hadn’t even asked.

He had asked if there was a way to return him, not if there was a way to destroy him with an attack.

Professor Garcia paused at Lee Han’s reaction.

“…I just thought Lee Han would be curious! Haha! Haha!”

“???”

Lee Han didn’t quite understand why the professor was acting like this, but he nodded for now.

Hiding the embarrassment of mistaking his disciple for someone who was crazy about battle like Little Professor Voladi, Professor Garcia continued.

“So, I’m thinking of researching the Eternal Rest magic with Professor Baegreg.”

“!”

Lee Han was surprised when the name of the magic he knew came up.

‘Well, they must have heard about it since they met the Yaksha King.’

Come to think of it, there was no way that talkative king would have stayed still. He must have advised the most effective method in the current situation.

That’s why the two professors decided to research >Gonadalte’s Eternal Rest> as quickly as possible.

“I’ll help too, even if I’m lacking,” Lee Han offered.

“Really? Lee Han. You must already be tired,” Professor Garcia said, secretly pleased but trying not to show it on the outside.

In fact, according to what he heard from the Yaksha King, there was a high possibility that Lee Han would be needed for this solution.

Not in terms of magical ability, but because his status as the mad doppelganger’s disciple was likely to play a big role. The persuasiveness would be different between an outsider using >Gonadalte’s Eternal Rest> and a disciple using it…

“Well, it’s also my business…” Lee Han said with half resignation.

He was already too involved with the mad doppelganger to leave it to the two professors and ignore it. It wasn’t like he knew when someone would come to kidnap him.

“……”

“Professor Baegreg?” Professor Garcia asked, puzzled by Professor Voladi, who was quietly contemplating without saying a word in the meantime.

Wasn’t this the time to praise his commendable disciple?

“Ah. Sorry. I was thinking,” Professor Voladi said.

“About what?” Professor Garcia asked.

Professor Voladi slowly explained that there was originally a midterm exam prepared, but considering the special situation, he was wondering whether to acknowledge what happened today as the midterm exam and just move on or not…

“……”

Professor Garcia was dumbfounded.

‘Does he have no heart??’

His disciple, who was only a sophomore, had been single-handedly stopping the demigod’s rampage!

“I think you can acknowledge it?” Professor Garcia suggested.

“But I must have had high expectations,” Professor Voladi said.

At those words, Professor Garcia turned his head and looked at Lee Han. Lee Han shook his head slightly.

“Ignore the student’s opinion, Professor! We’re professors,” Professor Garcia insisted.

“Hmm. I find Professor Garcia’s thoughts a bit difficult to agree with,” Professor Voladi said, scraping at Professor Garcia’s insides, which didn’t need to be scratched.

Professor Voladi acknowledged that he would skip the midterm exam.