Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 104

Yoner doubted that students from White Tiger Tower had kidnapped Ihan.

He didn’t think it was possible.

Ratford, who was with the Black Tortoise Tower students, also looked doubtful.

“Wouldn’t that be hard to do…?”

“No, it’s possible,” Nilia said, looking worried. Her long ears drooped sadly, showing her concern.

“Even a smart animal can be caught in a trap.”

“But Ihan isn’t an animal…” Ratford replied.

Nilia continued, worried, “Maybe the White Tiger Tower students set a trap on his way? Or put poison in his drink? Or in his food?”

Yoner and Ratford wondered how to make Nilia stop talking.

Was she trying to make things sound even worse than they were?

But the real problem was that the Blue Dragon Tower students were starting to believe Nilia.

“If a hunter from the Shadow Patrol says that, there’s a good chance he really was kidnapped…”

“I think there’s a 90% chance the White Tiger Tower students kidnapped him,” one student said.

“Those guys! I’m going to get them!” shouted another.

“Everyone, calm down! Let’s think about what to do,” said a third student, trying to sound calm but looking very angry.

Yoner looked around, hoping to find the Princess.

But she was already there, talking with the other students and making plans to attack White Tiger Tower.

Yoner hung his head low.

Without Ihan, there wasn’t a single sane person in the tower to talk to.

‘Please come back soon…!’

Monday morning, the Basic Magic Character Education class was even worse than usual.

Of course, the Basic Magic Character Education class was never known for being pleasant.

Usually, everyone in the class looked sad and unhappy, like they were being forced to be there.

But today was different.

The Blue Dragon Tower students looked furious.

Their eyes were wide and angry, like they were ready to attack.

“Are you going to tell us where Wodanaz is or not?”

“What nonsense are you talking about, you Blue Dragon guys! Do you think we would do such a thing? We don’t do things like that!”

“What do you mean, ganging up on one person, three against one!”

One White Tiger Tower student, feeling attacked, turned red in the face.

When he saw that, a Blue Dragon Tower student stepped closer, waving his magic wand in a threatening way.

It looked like he was about to use a curse.

“Tell us where Wodanaz is!”

“We’re also in a mess because two of our students have disappeared.

Didn’t you guys kidnap them!”

The Blue Dragon Tower students were angry at the White Tiger Tower students’ response.

They were disrespecting the honor of those with noble blood.

“Us? Us?? How dare you say such a thing, knowing our family’s honor?”

“What about you lot, breaking into other dormitories at night.”

Giselle said in a mocking voice.

This time, the Blue Dragon Tower students felt attacked.

However, there was also an opponent Giselle hadn’t expected.

It was Gainan.

“We never did that?”

“Do you have any proof? Bring it if you do.

Do you have any proof that we did it?”

“…Is that guy really royalty??”

The White Tiger Tower students whispered to each other.

Even the Black Tortoise Tower students were not as bold as him.

“Maybe it’s not my business,” Salco said, “but if you did kidnap Wodanaz, wouldn’t it be better to give him back and make peace? Class is about to start.”

The White Tiger Tower students frowned as if to say, ‘Who asked you to butt in?’, but the Black Tortoise Tower students standing behind Salco didn’t back down either.

Since they all had tough backgrounds, they weren’t scared just because they were from knightly families.

The Phoenix Tower students also spoke up.

Priest Siana and Priest Tijilling said cautiously.

“If you kidnapped Ihan of the Wodanaz family, it would be better to return him…”

“I’m telling you, we didn’t!”

Because students from all three towers were suspecting them, the White Tiger Tower students got very angry and spoke loudly.

They had also lost two students and spent the whole night having conversations like, ‘Didn’t Wodanaz kidnap them?’ ‘Could it be that there were two of them?’ ‘But they still lost even though there were three of them’…

Those awful Blue Dragon Tower guys were making everyone think strange things.

Giselle stepped forward to try and fix the problem.

The elf, who led most of the White Tiger Tower students, bit her lip as if she didn’t like the situation at all, and said,

“I swear on my family’s name, we didn’t lay a finger on Wodanaz.

If you don’t believe me, ask the other students here.

There must be students who are friendly with him.”

Rowena, a follower of Princess Adenarte, and Derkyu, who was considered the most trustworthy person, were among the White Tiger Tower students who kept to themselves.

As everyone looked at her, Rowena answered cautiously.

“Your Highness.

From what I saw… there didn’t seem to be any kidnapping plans or anything like that.”

At those words, the Blue Dragon Tower students looked at the Princess.

The Princess shook her head coldly.

It meant she didn’t believe it.

“Your Highness?! Your Highness?!?”

Rowena was very upset that the Princess she served did not believe her.

The Blue Dragon Tower students became more confident and shouted.

“She doesn’t believe you!”

“So you were hiding some suspicious scheme after all.

Derkyu of the Choi family! I want to hear your opinion too.

What do you think?”

Giselle asked Derkyu as if she wouldn’t give up.

“Yes.

Tell us.

What do you think?”

Derkyu realized that Giselle’s voice had become as cold as it could possibly get.

She was extremely angry.

If there weren’t other tower students present, she might have drawn her twin swords and used curses.

“In my opinion… I haven’t heard of any kidnapping plans or anything like that.”

“See!”

“I haven’t finished speaking yet!”

Conflicting reactions came and went.

Giselle looked at Derkyu and asked.

“I’m swearing on my family’s name right now, you don’t mean to say you don’t believe me?”

Derkyu hesitated slightly.

If it had been Derkyu before entering the magic school, he would have answered, ‘If you say so much, I have no choice but to believe you,’ when Giselle said that.

But after entering the magic school, his thinking had changed a little.

Even Ihan, from a prestigious family like the Wodanaz family, recklessly misused his family name, so there was no reason why Giselle wouldn’t do the same.

“…Choi! You really…!”

Just as Giselle was about to argue, sounding very surprised, the air in the room became cold.

Everyone felt it.

A voice boomed, “Good morning! What’s going on here?”

“We weren’t doing anything.”

“We were greeting each other.”

The students were very angry with each other, but still, the students weren’t stupid enough to tell the Skull Headmaster everything that had happened in front of him.

There were certain unspoken rules in this hellish school.

One of them was ‘Keep your mouth shut in front of the Skull Headmaster’.

It looked like you were fighting?

Why don’t you fight more?

“I think you’ve misunderstood.”

“How good are we with each other?”

The Skull Headmaster made a clicking sound with his tongue, showing he was clearly not happy.

It was an action that made even the students who were glaring at each other as if they were about to kill each other want to make peace.

You guys are no fun.

I see.

So, did you bring the permission slips for the outing?

Uncomfortable silence.

The Skull Headmaster said as if he expected it.

I’m very disappointed.

No one has it!

Your seniors always completed these assignments on time.

If Ihan had been there, he would have said, ‘Don’t believe that silly talk.’

But Ihan was not there.

He had already gone to the island for special training.

The students were discouraged and sulky.

It can’t be helped.

I’ll give you a chance just this once.

Now.

Everyone, stand up.

And walk to the lake!

The students were surprised that the Skull Headmaster was suddenly being kind.

Of course, that was the reaction they could have, not knowing what was prepared on the island.

As Ihan always said, you should always be suspicious when the Skull Headmaster is kind.

The Skull Headmaster grinned as he watched the students walking towards the lake.

A lake that the freshmen couldn’t cross on their own in the first place.

The Skull Headmaster himself didn’t expect the students to complete the assignment.

He had simply started with the assignment so that no one would suspect or run away if he suddenly said, ‘From now on, cross the lake and go to the island’ during class.

If he gave them an impossible assignment and then let them cross the lake as if he was doing them a favor, even the smartest freshmen would never be able to suspect him.

How long had the Skull Headmaster been teaching students at this magic school?

The freshmen could never get away from the Skull Headmaster’s control.

‘Wait.

Where did the Wodanaz family’s little dragon go?’

Thinking of the nickname that Ihan would dislike in his mind, the Skull Headmaster turned his floating head all the way around.

But Ihan was still nowhere to be seen.

The Skull Headmaster wondered if he had crossed the lake first.

Wodanaz was a freshman, but he was by no means an easy wizard.

With that personality and ability, it wouldn’t be strange if he tried.

But even so, he would have stepped on the sand as soon as he arrived, and if he stepped on the sand, he would have moved to the underground dungeon.

Even if he was really lucky enough to avoid it…

Zorban II, who was waiting on the beach, would have caught him.

‘It would be lucky if he skipped class for another reason, and unlucky if he went to the island first.’

Since it was a trial for students from different towers to grab each other by the collar and fight, no, to get to know each other, the trial of the dungeon would not begin unless students from different towers entered together.

What if he crossed the lake on the weekend?

He would just have to sit and wait underground.

Crack!

As the Skull Headmaster’s eyes sparkled, a path made of ice appeared on the lake.

The students were unknowingly impressed by the feat of creating thick ice over the lake with just a look.

I’ve shown you this much kindness, surely no student will back down out of fear?

Especially not at Einroguard, which gathers only the most outstanding talents of this empire?

Pair up in twos and start.

“Do we have to pair up in twos?”

The Skull Headmaster kindly answered a student’s question.

Then you can all go up together, break the ice, and fill the bellies of the monsters under the lake.

“…We’ll go in pairs.”

The reason why they weren’t sent in groups was simple.

Otherwise, one or two of them might have escaped without stepping on the sand.

They had to be sent in pairs to prevent any students from escaping.

This was the educational philosophy of the Skull Headmaster, who was in charge of the empire’s best magic school.

The students crossed the lake in pairs, passing along the path made of ice.

However, as the first students set foot on the sand, the Skull Headmaster felt uneasy.

And that sense of unease soon became a reality.

The students weren’t sinking under the sand.

The Skull Headmaster felt pain as if his non-existent soul was being torn apart as the lecture he had prepared went wrong.

Why?!

“Yes?!”

The students next to him were startled by the Skull Headmaster’s sorrowful voice.

It was the first time they had heard such a sorrowful voice.

Why! Zorban II, I gave you a name! How dare you be so lazy and not do your job!

The Skull Headmaster, who was about to summon his summoned beast right in front of him, realized that Zorban II had been sent back.

The disappeared boy of Wodanaz, the sand that didn’t listen, and Zorban II who had been sent back.

All these signs pointed to only one thing.

When you take away everything that is impossible, what is left, even if it seems unlikely, must be true.

The Skull Headmaster didn’t think he had been this surprised in the last few hundred years.

Wodanaz! You little rascal!!

As if answering that cry, Ihan appeared in the distance from inside the island with a tired and pale face.