Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 1026

Professor Garcia’s heart leaped into his throat. “No!” he wanted to shout, but only a silent scream echoed in his mind. He watched, helpless, as his student, Lee Han, walked toward him, completely oblivious to the danger. The cafe buzzed around them, filled with the chatter of wizards and the aroma of strong coffee.

Lee Han spotted him and his face lit up. “Professor Garcia!” he called out, beaming. He started to walk faster.

Desperate, Professor Garcia quickly made a gesture with his hands, shaping a skull – a warning sign taught to all Einroguard students to signal danger. *Stay away!* it screamed silently.

“Wait a moment, Mr. Lee Han!” Professor Garcia called out, hoping to distract him.

But it was too late. “Hello, Professor,” Lee Han said cheerfully, reaching the table.

“No!” Professor Garcia sighed, defeated. His warning had been missed.

“Why did you come here!”

“Huh? You told me to come to this cafe…”

“Not that! Just now, my gesture…”

“Gesture? What did it mean?”

Lee Han looked puzzled, as if he had no idea what Professor Garcia was talking about.

Professor Garcia was shocked by his reaction.

‘…They don’t use this anymore!’

The skull gesture was from Professor Garcia’s school days. He was shocked Lee Han didn’t understand it. It was a blow, even for a wizard.

Meanwhile, the Petrograd wizards were looking closely at Lee Han from head to toe.

“Greetings. You must be a student from Einroguard.”

“Yes, that’s right. I am Lee Han of the Wodanaz family.”

Surprise flashed in the Petrograd wizards’ eyes.

The rumors surrounding that name were numerous indeed.

Tales of battling the King of Ghouls, or the King of Frost Giants, or engaging in bloody fights with magical criminals and extreme fans…

But for the two wizards, the most important rumor was this: The new student currently favored by Headmaster Skull!

“Could you be the one Gonadaltes is personally teaching…?”

“Yes? Yes.”

“The student who is confirmed to join the Asphodel Spire after graduation?”

“Not really?”

“I thought so. I didn’t think that was the case.”

The Petrograd wizard quickly accepted this.

To be honest, the words of the Asphodel Spire wizards were not very reliable. Hadn’t they made false claims about Professor Garcia joining their tower back in the day?

“In any case, you are currently Gonadaltes’ only student, correct?”

“Why do you have to put it in such an unpleasant way?”

Lee Han frowned, a little annoyed by the unpleasant words of the wizards he was meeting for the first time.

Like a wizard dressed like an Einroguard student, they were being as rude as an Einroguard professor.

“There are many others besides me. There’s Professor Kim, Professor Begrek, and Professor Mortum.”

“Ah, of course, they also studied under him, but they have now become independent as professors.”

‘So, they don’t treat you as a student once you become a professor?’

Lee Han was slightly tempted.

Becoming a professor would free him from being called Headmaster Skull’s only student.

“We have a serious request for Mr. Wodanaz, who is currently the only pure student!”

“…If you’re asking me to hand over Professor Verdus, the answer is no.”

Lee Han replied with a wary voice to the wizards’ serious request.

“Mr. Lee Han! Why did you do that!”

Professor Garcia said loudly, but trying to keep his voice down so that the two wizards would not hear.

Surprisingly, this kind-hearted student had accepted the request from the wizards from Petrograd!

From Professor Garcia’s point of view, who had done his best to prevent him from getting involved, this was a truly embarrassing conclusion.

“Oh, but they said they would only listen to Professor’s request if they did that.”

“Are you doing this for me?!”

Professor Garcia was even more shocked.

Of course, he wanted to strengthen the exchange between the magic schools, but it was not something that should be done by sacrificing his poor student.

After all, Einroguard had been self-sufficient until now.

“No. It’s not just because of that.”

“Then…?”

“Well, you said that the reason for the commotion is the Headmaster’s former student.”

“It’s not confirmed. If we’re lucky, it could be a magical criminal.”

Lee Han pretended not to hear Professor Garcia’s muttering.

“If that’s the case, I think I have some obligation… I’m trying to help as much as possible.”

Ever since inheriting so much from the embodiment of ambition, Lee Han had felt a considerable sense of obligation to his promises.

In the old days, he would have said, ‘If the Headmaster’s former student caused an accident, should I write a complaint?’

Now, he was even willing to step forward and help persuade them.

“And I can’t leave Professor to deal with such a person alone.”

“…Mr. Lee Han!”

Professor Garcia was deeply moved.

If it weren’t for a few friends who had broken bones during their school days, he might have hugged him tightly.

“But about the letter earlier, you said it was magic that Mr. Lee Han couldn’t solve. What kind of magic is it?”

Instead of leaving for Petrograd right away, the wizards were first visiting the capital’s villa.

Since Lee Han said there was a magical problem in the mansion, they were trying to help with that first.

“Well, there’s a crazy wizard ghost in the basement…”

Professor Garcia’s face gradually hardened as he listened to the explanation, which he had initially taken lightly.

An infinite spatial maze.

Could it be…

“Isn’t that the crazy wizard Noen Chenph???”

“Who?”

Lee Han was puzzled.

A crazy wizard.

‘Aren’t there too many of them?’

Frankly, it was a title that could be attached to most wizards.

“The crazy wizard Noen Chenph was a wizard who caused a stir in the past,”

Professor Garcia said, recalling old memories.

The crazy wizard Noen Chenph was an incident that appeared in the Imperial Newspaper when the professor was a student at Einroguard.

Mysterious building discovered near the west gate of Isran City! Is it a wizard’s curse?

An anonymous nearby wizard testified that it seemed to be the work of a wizard from Einroguard…

Discovered in Plah City as well! An alchemy shop with suspicious magic installed in the basement!

Is it really the work of a wizard from Einroguard?

A crazy wizard had installed strange spatial mazes in the basements of mansions and shops all over the Empire that could not be entered.

Of course, the person most likely to do such bizarre things was a wizard from Einroguard, and Headmaster Skull actually thought it was the work of a graduate and quickly deployed wizards (while also lecturing the students not to emulate the graduates).

But surprisingly, the person who did this was not a wizard from Einroguard, but just a uniquely crazy wizard.

A wizard who had been studying space-time magic all his life and had embedded his unresolved tasks all over the Empire!

‘What a nuisance.’

Lee Han firmly resolved that even if he had magic that he couldn’t solve later, he should not embed it all over the Empire.

What a nuisance that would be.

“Has it been resolved?”

“No. If it had been resolved, there should be no problem with Mr. Lee Han’s villa basement. That basement spatial maze is all connected, it’s one magic. If it had been resolved, the maze mansions all over the Empire would have returned to normal.”

The wizards, who were not from Einroguard and had encountered a difficult problem that was not easy to solve, made a simple choice.

They simply destroyed the magic in the basement space and got rid of the ghost.

After all, the magic installed in the basement space was like the entrance to a spatial maze, so it was not very difficult to destroy.

The fundamental problem could not be solved, but the mansion was peaceful for the time being.

Lee Han was delighted with the solution that seemed to cut through the complicated knot with one stroke.

Come to think of it, if you can’t solve the problem, there was also this solution.

‘If that’s the case, I think I can do it too.’

The ghost’s combat power is not that strong…

“However, Mr. Lee Han. If you use this method, the mansion will collapse.”

“…Huh????”

“After all, if you destroy the magic, there’s no way to prevent the surrounding area from being shocked, so usually the foundation or even the first floor shakes.”

Lee Han, who was very surprised, could not say anything.

Professor Garcia thought to himself.

‘He seems more shocked than the story of the Headmaster’s former student…’

Isn’t he?

“Then, Professor. What if we just leave it alone?”

“Yes?”

“What about leaving the wizard ghost alone and living with it?”

“…It’s okay if it’s not threatening, but do you really want to do that, Mr. Lee Han?”

Professor Garcia was taken aback by his student’s crazy determination.

Even so, he was determined to live with such a crazy wizard ghost in the future.

“I’m fine. The previous wizards did it, so why can’t I?”

“???”

Unaware of the conversation between Professor Garcia and his student behind him, Petrograd wizard Dalser knocked on the door of the villa mansion.

“Wow, it’s very neat?”

“Isn’t the Wodanaz family a great noble family? It’s only natural that the villa mansion is impressive.”

Benjamin, a lord of the Garnock family who was also from Petrograd, nodded as if it was nothing to be surprised about.

“Let’s quickly solve the problem and visit Petrograd.”

“I agree. Oh. There are other students too.”

The two wizards discovered students walking around inside the mansion.

-Hey, you bastard, stop right there?!

-Oh, no. Prince! Is it such a big deal that I picked up a meat pie! You’re too stingy compared to Wodanaz!

-Shut up! How dare you touch the food before it’s ready!

“…Oh, aren’t they Einroguard students?”

Dalser was slightly embarrassed.

If he saw correctly, students from different towers were gathered in one place.

That couldn’t be the case in Einroguard?

“What brings you here?”

“Ah, I visited with Lee Han of the Wodanaz family… He’s coming behind me.”

“Come in.”

Salco opened the door without paying attention.

Even if the prince or the White Tiger Tower guys lost face in front of outsiders, it had nothing to do with him.

“But why did you visit with Wodanaz?”

“I heard there was an unresolved magic in the basement, so I came to help.”

“…Oh, just the two of you?”

Salco scanned them up and down.

“Wodanaz failed, but the two of you…”

“…We’re from Petrograd. Do you understand?”

“Yes. But Wodanaz failed, but the two of you…”

Dalser was very surprised.

Of course, he knew that Einroguard wizards were excellent at overturning the attire of other wizards, but he never thought that a mere second-year student would show this much ability.

“We’re… well… if you want to put it that way, we’re playing the role of Einroguard professors. In Petrograd.”

“Yes. I know, but the two of you…”

“Just show us the way!”

As the voice grew louder, the other students turned their heads. Siana asked curiously.

“Oh. We have guests?”

“Hello. We are…”

“They said they came to solve the basement magic.”

“Just the two of them?”

The two Petrograd wizards began to feel dizzy and faint.

…Could it be that Professor Garcia invited them here to get revenge?

‘Ah, no. It’s not like Gonadaltes, and Professor Kim would never do that…’

“You two! Wait a minute!”

Professor Garcia, who arrived late, called out to them.

“Actually, the basement magic is…”

“Don’t worry. Professor Kim. We’ll solve it right away.”

Dalser was unusually motivated. Professor Garcia tried to stop him, feeling uneasy.

“So, that’s not ordinary…”

“Please wait!”

The two Petrograd wizards headed to the basement, fluttering their cloaks in an impressive way.

Professor Garcia muttered with a tearful face.

“What if those people start hating Einroguard too…”

“…I’ll try my best when I go to Petrograd.”