Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 1089

Also, the Watchers Club members are very suspicious. Even if you pretended to be someone else to talk to them, you wouldn’t learn much.

For example, if someone messaged Lee Han saying, ‘I’m Bakhantallana, can I borrow money?’, Lee Han would block them right away.

“Even if it’s just impersonation, please tell me what artifacts they use.”

He didn’t know if it might be a clue to finding other members later, even if it didn’t help right now.

Lee Han wrote down all the information the young prince gave him without missing a thing.

‘Bakhantallana enters the club with a mirror artifact. Bulgasari… is using a room? Is he using the entire room as an artifact? Was there such a place in Einroguard?’

Lee Han, who was writing, was curious.

It wasn’t surprising that Bakhantallana used a mirror artifact. Lee Han himself had used a similar artifact when he first entered the Watchers Club.

Mirrors are magical items that easily attract magic. This is because of their nature and how they are used in magic. It was a good choice for a Watchers Club artifact that constantly needed magic.

But Bulgasari, who was using the entire room as an artifact, was a bit strange.

The magic itself wasn’t that difficult, as it could draw and circulate magic throughout the room, but realistically, it wasn’t easy to do that in Einroguard.

To join the Watchers Club, you needed a reliable way to access it. Lee Han wondered if Bulgasari could really find a room like that in Einroguard.

‘Did he remodel a private room? No. Then it would be too uncomfortable to live in. Maybe there’s a good place I don’t know about.’

As Lee Han was pondering, he received a new message. It was a one-on-one personal message from Bakhantallana.

Bakhantallana: Right now, some crazy intruder is destroying the Watchers Club.

Lee Han paused.

The space that the Watchers Club used in common was taken away, but personal contacts were still alive.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: What the heck is going on?!

Bulgasari: Could it be the headmaster who came in?!

Not only Bakhantallana, but also other members who had built up relatively close relationships received one-on-one messages.

Lee Han first answered a senior he knew.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: By the way. Can you ask Bakhantallana when and how this will be resolved? I need to find someone with a smuggling plan before the semester starts and ask them.

Gonadaltes: Why don’t you just say it yourself?

The young prince looked at Lee Han with sparkling eyes.

How could he have such a touching pseudonym?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: I blocked him after an argument last time.

Gonadaltes: …I’ll tell him.

Lee Han told him as is. Then Bakhantallana answered.

Bakhantallana: I’ll hurry, but it will probably take about a week. Tell Beaver-Penguin-Fox to pay attention. You never know what the intruder will do.

Gonadaltes: Just tell him yourself.

Bakhantallana: It’s impossible because we blocked each other. Do you have any idea who the intruder is?

Gonadaltes: I have no idea. Maybe it’s a Valdrogard spy.

Bakhantallana: Indeed. There’s a possibility. The recent member was an outsider anyway.

‘Hoo.’

Lee Han sighed.

Hiding his identity in the Watchers Club was more difficult than he thought.

-Well. Disciple. Shall we depart then?

“I understand. By the way. Where is the coat kept?”

-It’s well kept in the basement under the ruins that no one cares about. Since I travel all over the continent often, I have these hideouts in various places.

In order to wander around the continent and constantly fight against evil, it was impossible with just brute force and magic.

Constant and meticulous preparation was also essential.

-As I said, it’s not something that anyone can easily take, so you can expect quite a bit.

Lee Han felt good at the young prince’s confident words.

An ancient relic obtained for free.

Maybe this is a real vacation.

Suffering with the headmaster and professors might be a fake vacation…

“Hehe. Thank you. Master.”

Lee Han arrived in front of a grand mansion west of the capital. He stopped, staring. “…” He couldn’t believe his eyes.

“Huh?” Lee Han blinked. “Oh no.”

Beside him, the young prince shifted uncomfortably. “Well, this is… unexpected.”

The prince explained, a little sheepishly, “I made a hideout under some old ruins in a swamp. Nobody ever went near it.” He gestured at the mansion. “But… the swamp is gone. And… well, look.” A huge, fancy mansion stood where there should have been a swamp.

“…The capital must have grown,” the prince mumbled. “They must have drained the swamp. Someone built here…”

*No one touched the hideout, Disciple.* The prince’s voice echoed in Lee Han’s mind.

Lee Han’s eyes widened slightly. “Wait. No one touched it?”

*That’s right.*

‘So…’ Lee Han thought, looking up at the imposing mansion. ‘It’s still *under* the mansion? When they built this place, they probably just built *on top*. They wouldn’t have dug down into the old basement, would they?’ It made a strange kind of sense.

Once the basement space was secured, they didn’t bother digging further down to search.

If that’s the case, it made sense that the prince’s hideout was still there.

Disciple. There’s only one way.

“Indeed. I understand.”

Lee Han nodded.

It wasn’t Lee Han’s taste to enjoy social activities by flaunting his background from a great noble family, but in this situation, it couldn’t be helped.

Visiting another family’s mansion to build friendship as a member of the Wodanaz family…

I was going to find an empty house nearby and dig a tunnel into its basement, but your method is good too, Disciple!

“…Then I’ll get caught…”

Suddenly, he remembered the fools who were caught trying to rob a dwarf bank by digging a tunnel underground.

He didn’t want to have his name in the Imperial newspaper like that.

“Is anyone there?”

“Huh? Yes? Can I help you?” The gatekeeper was about to respond in an annoyed manner, then becoming more formal: “Oh! Please, forgive me. What brings you to our mansion?”

The gatekeeper hurriedly called someone.

If he was a direct descendant of the Wodanaz family, he was not someone he could dare to treat carelessly. At the very least, the head butler had to come running.

‘No. But why is he coming himself?’

While running, the gatekeeper felt a question.

Originally, the usual invitation or visit method was as follows.

A servant would come and deliver a letter, and after the letters had been exchanged a few times, they would meet at a club or hunting ground outside, and then invite them to the mansion or recommend a visit…

Of course, you could skip some of this. Sometimes, meeting and interacting at a club or hunting ground was skipped.

But it was really strange for him to come himself without a servant.

‘I guess it’s because he’s from the Wodanaz family.’

The gatekeeper understood on his own. Originally, wizard families had some eccentricities, and among them, the Wodanaz family was the most famous.

While waiting, Lee Han checked his surroundings. It was to confirm which family this was.

Unlike the black market in Einroguard, where family names are clearly displayed, it was harder to know families here. But if you had an eye, you could figure out the family name with various clues.

The best thing was to see the family crest or flag decorated in the mansion or garden.

Lee Han tilted his head.

It was a family crest that he seemed to have seen somewhere before?

‘Oh. What is it? This is the Kraha family…’

“This is an honor!”

The head butler came running in a hurry.

To think that a wizard from the Wodanaz family would visit like this.

There was only one reason.

“To think that a wizard from the Wodanaz family would come to see Irendi. It’s truly an honor.”

‘Who is Irendi?’

Lee Han quickly turned his head.

First of all, it didn’t seem like an Einroguard wizard, and even more so, it wasn’t a famous established wizard who had made a name for himself in the Empire.

Well, if it was such a wizard, he wouldn’t say it was an honor that Lee Han had come.

‘Then is it a young wizard? Similar to me? From another magic school?’

As the thought arrived there, Lee Han suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

If it was a wealthy noble family rich enough to have a villa in the capital, but not from Einroguard, which magic school would they go to?

Ipfeldrem: Please help me!!!!

‘Oh my!’

Lee Han was greatly surprised by the appearance of a new member contacting him one-on-one in the Watchers Club.

He didn’t expect to receive a call in this situation.

Gonadaltes: Sorry, but I don’t have time right now either. Ask someone else.

Ipfeldrem: The others have refused because they’re busy right now. Please!

Apparently, the other members were on edge because of the unidentified intruder.

In this situation, the Einroguard students’ hearts were not wide enough to listen to the whining of a mere Valdrogard student.

Gonadaltes: Mi…

Ipfeldrem: An Einroguard student has visited my mansion right now?

Gonadaltes: Pretend you’re not there and tell them to get lost. They probably came to extort money.

Ipfeldrem: Re- Really… Gonadaltes, you’re so rude! How can you insult an Einroguard student you don’t even know like that?

‘Hmph.’

Lee Han made a nonchalant expression.

As if someone who had never been to Einroguard would know!

Gonadaltes: I’m telling you for your own good. Most of the Einroguard students are evil.

Ipfeldrem: Even if I concede a hundred or a thousand times, that’s not the case with the person who visited today. He’s a senior student.

Gonadaltes: I don’t think it’ll be any different just because he’s a senior.

Lee Han considered warning him to be careful of senior students in the enchantment magic school that started with ‘Yu’ and ended with ‘Re’.

If an innocent Valdrogard student met the wrong person, they could be completely cleaned out.

Ipfeldrem: The other party is from the Wodanaz family. How can I treat him well without being rude? How do you treat guests in Einroguard?

“Cough.”

Lee Han choked and coughed. The young prince was worried if he was okay.

‘…Crazy…!’

Only then did Lee Han realize why he had felt a chill down his spine earlier.

It was the mansion of a Valdrogard student!

And at the same time, the family crest clearly came to mind.

‘Kraha family…!’

Then the other party was a distant relative of Gainando and a student attending Valdrogard.

Lee Han sincerely wanted to run away.

‘Damn it. I should have said Gainando instead of the Wodanaz family. No. Then I would have been caught even more quickly.’

Even if he was a distant relative, as a member of the Kraha family, he would know what the prince looked like.

If a black-haired man came to scam him, he might have called the Knights right away…

Ipfeldrem: Hello? Are you angry? I’ll apologize. But Gonadaltes, your rude attitude…

The young prince, who was watching, advised.

Disciple. This is a good opportunity.

“Do you have any good advice?”

Lee Han was delighted when he saw his master’s words in the midst of confusion.

If it was an experienced prince, he would be able to handle this tangled situation wisely.

If you want guidance from the other party, tell them to donate the mansion to you. Seeing how thirsty they are for magic, it seems like it will work.

“…Isn’t there any less violent advice?”