Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 1046

Ihan was confused, but then he remembered Jaurin’s plan. It was a silly plan to trap a wizard. Thinking about it, the target might have been Earendel, not Headmaster Skull.

“Oh, right. Earendel,” Ihan said, “There’s something you should know when you meet Jaurin.”

Ihan carefully explained the story he had heard.

Earendel’s eyes widened, and his mouth opened and closed like a fish.

Earendel mumbled, his voice barely a whisper. “Thank… thank you for telling me…”

“If you’re worried, should I go alone? No matter how much Jaurin invited you, it’s troublesome to waste your vacation.”

Earendel shook his head again.

A strong trust in his friend could be felt in that gesture.

‘Earendel is better than me,’ Ihan thought, feeling a strange tingling in his eyes for no reason.

Earendel, who had been worried about whether he could make friends, was showing such a reaction.

“Do you need help picking out a gift?” Ihan asked.

“I think I’ll be alright,” Earendel said, staring intently at Ihan.

Ihan nodded at the firm confidence he felt from Earendel. “Indeed. You have a gift in mind already?”

“Yes…” Earendel replied.

Cold metal snapped around Ihan’s wrists. He stared down at the shiny silver handcuffs, blinking in surprise. He couldn’t believe it. He was so shocked, words wouldn’t come. Jaurin’s plan had succeeded!

Jaurin bounced with excitement, letting out a loud roar of laughter that echoed in the cave.

Ihan thought, to think he would be ambushed like this after visiting Jaurin’s mansion. Even if magical criminals or anti-magic activists attacked Einrogaard, he wouldn’t have been this surprised.

Ihan finally found his voice, yelling, “No… Was I the target?!” Earendel carefully nodded beside him.

From the invitation, he had sensed such a thing.

To Earendel,

Come visit during the vacation! I’ll invite Ihan and lock him up in the mansion, so let’s keep playing together!

Jaurin

“Why didn’t you tell me?!” Ihan asked.

Earendel mumbled, looking at his shoes, “You… you told me to choose a friend…”

‘Ah,’ Ihan thought. He had no choice but to understand the stammering junior. I told him to do it!

“I didn’t know it would be this kind of friendship,” Ihan said.

Thinking about it again, it was absurd. He remembered arriving at the mansion, walking through the gate, and then the door opening to this huge cave. The air was cool and damp, and strange shadows danced on the rocky walls. Jaurin, who had been crouching in the darkness, quickly jumped out and handcuffed Ihan’s wrist. It was a speed hard to believe for a dragon’s size.

‘Indeed, a dragon race!’ Ihan thought. In the midst of this, Ihan realized the power of the dragon race and checked the handcuffs first.

If he infused magic like crazy to overload it and then explode it…

Surprisingly, these ordinary-looking handcuffs perfectly dispersed magic power. Pure magic shock couldn’t damage it at all.

“How?!” Ihan asked.

I received help from my younger sibling! Other dragons helped with the production!

Ihan recalled the advice he had given to Jaurin’s younger sibling, Wooman, and fell into self-loathing.

-Have you prepared for pure magic shock? It’s not common, but there are very rare wizards who do this…

It seemed like he couldn’t dig his own grave any better even if he tried.

Jaurin saw Ihan was distracted and quickly crawled over and snatched the sword. Then, she tried to take the staff as well, but this time Ihan regained his senses and blocked it.

“Ahem. Your Highness,” Ihan said.

The staff should be kept here.

Thinking that Jaurin seemed to have become more daring in the meantime, Ihan said firmly, “Release these handcuffs.”

“Your Highness?” Ihan asked.

Jaurin pretended not to hear again.

She had decided to pretend not to hear unfavorable words.

‘No. Why has she become so Einrogaard-like? Could it be because of visiting Einrogaard?’ Ihan thought.

Ihan left Jaurin, who was acting like a mischievous seven-year-old, alone for the time being and focused on unlocking the shackles.

It seemed better to break the chains first than to unlock the handcuffs made by a dragon.

‘…Did a dragon really make it? It looks like some kind of feather,’ Ihan thought.

Ihan, who had cast detection magic and scattered magic power to sense the handcuffs and chains, was surprised again.

Despite wearing them, the handcuffs and chains were so light and soft that he couldn’t feel the weight, but once he let magic power flow inside, they disrupted the intrusion like a solid fortress.

It didn’t seem like they used any special metal, but to create such a powerful and bizarre magical item.

He wondered if they had used magic spells spoken aloud. It was something a dragon could do.

‘Wait. This is not the time to admire,’ Ihan thought.

It wasn’t the time to admire the dragon’s magic skills. He had to unlock the chains connected to the handcuffs first.

Ihan strengthened the detection magic and expanded the detection range.

No matter how perfect a magical item is, decay and weakening are bound to occur once it is made.

He was thinking of continuously firing magic at the weakest part until it worked.

No matter how prepared they were for magic shock coming from the inside, they couldn’t be invincible to all attacks coming from the outside.

‘Seeing that she took the sword first, there is a high possibility that there are limitations to these physical attacks,’ Ihan thought.

Jaurin, sensing the movement of magic power, quickly crawled onto the chain. Her large body blocked Ihan’s view. Her scales shimmered in the dim light. Ihan was so dumbfounded that he lost his words again.

“…Your Highness. Get out of the way,” Ihan said.

Jaurin covered her head with her wings, pretending not to hear. Earendel was too ashamed to lift his head because she was his friend.

-You, isn’t that too much?

The baby basilisk said, looking at Jaurin. Then Jaurin replied in a sulky voice.

You’re my friend!

-Ah, no…! Even if we’re friends, what’s not right is not…

Jaurin even prepared this gift!

Jaurin waved her tail and pointed to the cave wall. Various monster meats, frozen with cold magic and packaged in large sizes, were lined up on the shelves to give to the baby basilisk when they met again.

The baby basilisk didn’t know what to do after seeing the gift and was flustered. Ihan sighed.

If you’re going to be caught by food, you shouldn’t have stepped up in the first place!

“Your Highness. I was going to stay at the mansion in the first place, even if you didn’t deceive me like this,” Ihan said.

Really?

Jaurin perked up her ears. Seeing that her hearing was only returning to her advantage, it seemed certain that it was the influence of visiting Einrogaard.

“Yes,” Ihan replied.

How long? 100?

“…100 hours? Well, that’s…” Ihan started.

Jaurin was talking about 100 years.

Ihan, as well as Earendel and the baby basilisk, were speechless at the unbelievable thing to say.

He thought it would be at least 100 days…

“…Isn’t that too much?” Earendel whispered, and Jaurin hesitated.

Negotiations are originally done like this…

-I don’t think so.

Why are you saying that when you’re on Jaurin’s side!

-…Hing… I understand…

The baby basilisk, who was not as strong as Earendel, lowered its tail as it was.

In the meantime, Ihan walked around and checked the range of the chain.

‘Can’t I just go outside the mansion?’ Ihan thought.

The chain lengthened as Ihan moved, but the moment he approached the door of the mansion, it stopped lengthening and stopped.

Jaurin followed closely, worried that Ihan might secretly break the chain.

By the way, Ihan. Is that luggage you brought a gift?

Ihan didn’t answer and checked the window. It seemed that going out through the window was not going to be easy.

Jaurin, who had been ignored, widened her eyes. She never thought she would be ignored.

‘Hmm. Should I break the chain when Jaurin is asleep? Her senses are so sensitive that she’ll wake up right away,’ Ihan thought.

Ihan recalled how much stamina Jaurin had.

She certainly slept a lot when she was in the Einrogaard dormitory, but that was only in normal times.

If she was determined not to sleep, she could endure much better than Ihan. First of all, her race is a dragon.

‘Should I persuade her rather than forcibly break it?’ Ihan thought.

Ihan…

Jaurin whined, tears welling in her eyes (though dragons don’t really cry). Ihan sighed and answered.

“Your Highness. You can’t act like this, no matter what.”

But I learned this in Einrogaard.

Ihan cursed Headmaster Skull in his heart.

Isn’t Jaurin acting twisted because he keeps pushing the wizards to get what they want with their own strength!

“You learned that wrong. The true teachings of Einrogaard are harmony, cooperation, and friendship.”

“?” Earendel asked, looking at his senior as if asking what he was talking about.

He had only attended for one semester, but he couldn’t find any of those three.

“The steadfastness of not losing those values even in a harsh environment is the true teaching of Einrogaard.”

-Really?

I don’t think so?

Not only the baby basilisk but also Jaurin were suspicious. After visiting Einrogaard, she became so smart that it was not easy to deceive her.

“If you don’t believe me, ask the headmaster. He will agree right away.”

If Headmaster Skull doesn’t want to die, he will try to prevent Jaurin from practicing the teachings of Einrogaard.

Ihan said confidently, believing that.

“Come on. Trust Your Highness’s contractor and release him. This contractor will visit the dragon’s court together even if Your Highness destroys the castle later.”

…Jaurin wouldn’t do such a thing!

Jaurin grumbled at the absurd slander.

Why would she do such a thing?

Then Ihan. How long will you be here?

“Oh, right. Your Highness. I brought a gift.”

Ihan changed the subject when an unfavorable topic came up.

This was just a hunch, but if he said less than 100 years, he felt like Jaurin would stubbornly refuse to release him unconditionally.

Jaurin’s attention was diverted by the story of the gift. Ihan rattled the chain and took out a toy.

“…Oh… Is that… okay???” Earendel asked in embarrassment.

What Ihan took out was a very large bone-shaped toy. It looked like a greatly enlarged toy that was thrown to a dog.

“These handcuffs? It’s okay. It’s much lighter than I thought,” Ihan said.

“…Ah, no. Not that…” Earendel replied.

While Earendel was flustered, Ihan activated the magic of the dog bone, no, the dragon bone.

This toy, which he admired at the auction house, was actually an item that the magic toy maker Gashupa, the creator, thought would not sell.

It was originally made to train wyverns, but when he actually made it, the wyverns showed no interest at all.

Wyverns are too wild and like things that are more exciting and dangerous.

But Ihan found other values in this toy.

-Did you make this? It’s a really great item!

-Is, is that so? I thought it was a failure…

-No! This is a masterpiece. I’ll buy everything here!

-!!!

Gashupa was greatly surprised when a student from Einrogaard praised him and returned.

To think that a wizard from Einrogaard would say that.

Could it be that his work has values that he didn’t think of?

“Come on. Your Highness. Here it goes!” Ihan said.

When Ihan threw the bone, Jaurin’s eyes lit up, and with a flap of her powerful wings, she launched herself into the air after the toy. Earendel’s face was red with embarrassment, while the baby basilisk looked completely bewildered.

…Is this really okay?!

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