Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 964

-There’s plenty of food prepared, so there’s no need to rush!

-Is the soup ready? Bring more fat and salt!

“Sigh.”

The person who started the big rumor in Granden City was sighing deeply.

“Wodanaz, if you’re tired, go and rest. You’ve done enough work already,” Falkrius suggested gently, sensing that his junior was struggling.

It wasn’t just empty words; this junior had truly done several times the work of others.

If it weren’t for his junior’s help, they wouldn’t have been able to prepare this much additional food.

The amount of food that was ultimately gathered was enough to surprise even the priests from each temple and the students from the kitchen club who had come to help.

“No. I’ll go get water.”

Lee Han waved his hand as if to say he was alright and raised his staff.

The priests, who were diligently drying and preserving the food to be distributed, were astonished by the sheer amount of water being created out of thin air.

‘Creating that much water? That must use a lot of mana!’

‘Are we perhaps overworking our junior??’

“…Wodanaz! Do it in the back!”

“The priests are giving us strange looks!”

“Ah. Yes.”

The seniors scurried to hide Lee Han in the back.

They wanted to explain to the priests, ‘It’s not that we’re overworking our junior, he just has a lot of mana!’, but in the current situation, explaining wouldn’t be very convincing.

Lee Han, having moved behind the temporary kitchen tent, sighed again as he filled the pot with water.

‘…I acted too emotionally.’

He had stepped forward in anger because the other party had not only provoked him but also insulted his senior, but as time passed and his head cooled down, he suddenly began to regret it.

Even if the other party had acted despicably, wasn’t his revenge too excessive?

Lee Han swallowed his regret and retraced the events that had occurred.

It was difficult just to think about it again, but for the sake of reflection, he had to seriously review it.

Lee Han’s anger soared, he disguised himself as Stedal Nagor and easily broke through the walls.

The defenses and magic walls were crushed by the >Valdororn’s Mana Hammer>.

‘Ha. They should have focused on magic instead of rebuilding the mansion. They didn’t even think about protecting against explosions?’

Most wizards would disagree, but Lee Han believed that magical barriers should be designed to thoroughly disperse external impacts.

If a wizard with infinite mana were to wield mana like a hammer from the outside, wouldn’t even the strongest magic be crushed?

Even if it took a lot of time and money, this situation had to be considered.

‘Thanks to that, this is going well. I’ll smash it all to pieces.’

“Kugh!”

Lee Han stomped his foot.

The seniors who were preparing next to him were startled and shouted.

“A-are we perhaps preparing too slowly?”

Everyone in the club knew that their junior had come out with Falkrius and prepared a large amount of additional food.

Normally, a senior wouldn’t be conscious of their junior, but the junior from the Wodanaz family in front of them was a bit special.

Wasn’t this the junior who usually secured massive amounts of ingredients and led the students of the kitchen club?

Moreover, with what he had prepared this time, they couldn’t help but be conscious of him.

“No. It’s not because of you seniors… it’s because of a mistake I made.”

“What? Wodanaz, you made a mistake?”

“……”

“Ah, no. What kind of mistake?”

The seniors put down their kitchen knives and ladles and gathered for a moment to comfort Lee Han.

They couldn’t imagine this junior making a mistake, but if he really had made one, they wanted to help him together.

“I acted emotionally recently, and said some things I regret…”

“Hey. That’s not a mistake.”

“Wodanaz, don’t worry about it. When I’m doing alchemy, I mutter about throwing the finished product at the headmaster’s face, even when he’s not there.”

“Right. I mutter about assassinating Professor Verdus when I graduate.”

The seniors’ comfort was clumsy but sincere. That sincerity was conveyed to Lee Han.

“Thank you, everyone.”

“That kind of mistake isn’t even a mistake. You don’t have to worry about it unless you blew up a building.”

“……”

Lee Han pondered deeply again.

Lee Han sneaked into the mansion and went straight to the west side building.

It looked like it was just rebuilt, with new stones and spaces between them.

He used magic to become invisible, so the guards walking around wouldn’t see him. He also used magic to trick their eyes, making them look the wrong way. Then, instead of using the front door, he used magic to lift himself up to the second floor. *It’s always better to be sneaky when you’re breaking in,* he thought. In the hallway, he saw a spirit he knew. It was walking slowly and looked very sad.

“……”

-……

He had encountered the water spirit he had met before again.

Although he was under invisibility magic, the water spirit felt the vibrations of the contract made with the King-level spirit and shuddered.

Seeing the water spirit turn around and try to run away, Lee Han realized that the invisibility magic wasn’t working.

“Wait! Stop!”

In fact, no spirit would stop just because he told them to. Lee Han immediately prepared magic.

He couldn’t let the spirit out to make a fuss when he wasn’t ready for battle…

Plop-

Surprisingly, the spirit stopped.

Lee Han was taken aback. There was a spirit that actually stopped when told to.

“…D-did you stop?”

The water spirit nodded.

“…Aren’t you a spirit summoned to guard the mansion? Is it okay for you to listen to me?”

The spirit denied the question. It meant no.

“It’s not a normal method, I see. Then I should check it out. I’m naturally close to spirits and have contracted with several spirits. I’ll summon the spirits for conversation.”

The spirit nodded with an attitude mixed with reverence.

In fact, it felt more fear than intimacy from the other party.

However, it didn’t dare to find fault or doubt a wizard who had contracted with a being like the Spirit King.

If the other party said so, that must be right.

There was no way such a wizard would tell a trivial lie…

The sparrow spirit and the squirrel spirit, who had contracted with Lee Han, appeared directly in the air.

The two were puzzled about what was going on, but quickly realized and focused on communication.

“It’s not a proper contract?”

Although words didn’t work, Lee Han was barely able to grasp the inside story with the power of communication and contract between the spirits.

Surprisingly, the spirit guarding the mansion now was not under a formal contract.

Originally, when borrowing the power of a spirit, the wizard would promise a reward (although sometimes they would run away even after promising the reward) and make a contract.

But Bardan had not made such a contract.

He was forcibly borrowing its power after capturing and sealing the spirit.

‘What?!’

Lee Han was horrified.

Even if it was difficult to contract with a spirit, how could he do such a thing.

“What a piece of trash!”

The water spirit nodded at the wizard’s anger.

Seeing that good reaction, it was clear that he was a wizard loved by the spirits. The spirit must have misunderstood because of the pressure and the vibrations of the contract.

“Wait. Then, perhaps the rampage from before was…?”

Lee Han wondered if that was possible.

Lee Han had clearly only taken the artifact last time.

Of course, he had met the owner of the mansion in the process and knocked him out, but he hadn’t destroyed the mansion.

But later, most of the rumors he heard were that he had destroyed half of the mansion.

Could it be?

The spirit nodded in agreement.

‘I was right!’

Bardan had been knocked out, so the power of the seal had weakened, and the spirit had tried to escape in the gap, causing it to rampage.

Lee Han was furious at being framed.

“Is this even possible?!”

The water spirit showed even more favor at the sight of him showing his true colors again.

Lee Han calmed down and suppressed his anger, then asked the spirit.

“Alright. Then where is the sealing tool that Bardan has?”

An artifact was essential for Bardan, who was not a wizard, to seal the spirit and forcibly use its power.

Perhaps this spirit was not caught by Bardan himself, but bought from someone else.

If he found the artifact and smashed it, the spirit could be freed.

Shrug-

The sparrow spirit and the squirrel spirit shrugged as if they didn’t know either.

It seemed that Bardan had hidden it tightly inside the mansion instead of carrying it around after the rampage incident.

“…Hmph. I was going to smash it up anyway. It’ll come out as I destroy things.”

-!

The water spirit was greatly moved and looked at Lee Han.

There was a wizard who would step forward for the spirit’s sake without any benefit.

The spirit, having made up its mind, declared that it would help.

“You’ll help? But aren’t you bound by the sealing tool?”

Lee Han asked, puzzled, but the water spirit expressed that it was okay.

It wouldn’t be able to last long, but if it gave its all, it would be able to disobey its master’s orders for a while.

Lee Han burned with determination at the spirit’s decision to step forward boldly, even though its existence could be greatly damaged.

“…Alright. Then I’ll do my best to smash it up!”

Lee Han, having returned to reality, felt a little better again.

‘Right. Thanks to that, the spirit was freed.’

There was still a thought in the corner of his mind that he had destroyed it too much, but anyway, there was a valid reason.

As he was happily destroying things, the sealing tool was also smashed, and the spirit thanked him for being freed and left.

Bardan begged him, declaring his surrender and asking what he wanted, but Lee Han didn’t have anything to say at that time.

This was because the undead summons had already smuggled the food out under the cover of the commotion.

-Nothing.

-…What?

-I don’t want anything.

-……

Moreover, it didn’t end with just making up an excuse.

As the next ace of the location movement club, Lee Han threw other treasures outside the fence to prevent them from guessing his intentions.

From Lee Han’s point of view, it was an act for a perfect crime, but from Bardan’s point of view, it was a terrifying event that increased the damage dozens of times.

‘…Should I not have thrown the treasures? There were no witnesses anyway, so I wouldn’t have been caught…’

“Wodanaz. Look there.”

Falkrius, who had approached, stretched out his arm and pointed ahead.

The hungry and poor people of Granden City were receiving food with happy faces.

“It was possible thanks to you. Thank you.”

“…It’s nothing.”

The sight before his eyes, which Falkrius pointed out, made Lee Han feel much more comfortable than dozens of excuses.

In any case, didn’t it bear good fruit?

Come to think of it, the old Skeleton Headmaster used to destroy cities to do good deeds, so destroying the mansion of an evil person is a bit…

‘No. Who am I comparing myself to?!’

Lee Han hurriedly grabbed his mind again and reflected.

If he started thinking like this and became bad, he would really become the Skeleton Headmaster’s youngest evil disciple.

“Oh, Wodanaz. Did you hear the news?”

“What news?”

“I heard that the Stonemason Club’s request was canceled this time. The nobles who made the request felt bad about spending too much money, so they all canceled it.”

“Ah. That thief who does good things? He’s a great wizard. I wish he was from Einrogaard.”

“No senior from Einrogaard would do such a good thing. If it were our senior, they would be the ones being attacked by the thief who does good things.”

“That’s right. …Wodanaz!?”

The seniors were startled by the sight of their junior collapsing to the floor in despair.