Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 1131

Lee Han knew he was worried about Professor Begreck. But offering money to catch him? That felt wrong.

He imagined the government’s anger if they found out the truth. They would be furious!

“Maybe we should ask Prince Jowrin for help?” Lee Han suggested.

“No! This is not a problem for the royal family!” Professor Garcia said quickly, shaking his head.

At first, Professor Garcia thought Lee Han was joking about himself. But now, looking at Lee Han’s serious face, he knew it was no joke.

“Lee Han,” Professor Garcia said firmly. “Offering money for Professor Begreck won’t work. It might even help the bad guys.”

“That’s right, Wodanaz. And what about the bounty hunters?”

Professor Kirmin’s words made Lee Han think.

Lee Han thought about the bounty hunters. They just wanted to catch Professor Voladi. They didn’t do anything wrong to deserve this trouble.

“Hoo…”

Apaz Ragon stood blankly and then opened his mouth.

“Can I go back now…”

“It’s all your fault!”

The death knights and Ibinta sighed in relief at Lee Han’s growling demeanor.

When multiple people messed up, the most important thing was to act a little more perceptive than the others.

Fortunately, this angel didn’t seem to have any sense at all.

‘Thank you, angel!’

Apaz Ragon didn’t understand what was happening and argued.

“I didn’t help that mortal escape. I am, in fact, a victim. The rules here say you should help me, right?”

He had been cursed at because the situation was too chaotic earlier, but once things had settled down, Apaz Ragon logically defended himself.

Even though angels lived apart in their own world, they were not stupid. Apaz Ragon made a good point using what he knew about this land.

But, as expected, Apaz Ragon wasn’t a mortal and missed something.

The continent was a more irrational place than he thought.

“Get lost! Go back to your dimension. You’re less helpful than even a demon, you son of a–”

Inside the Bracelet of Ten Thousand Hells, several demons snickered with glee.

They were in a miserable state, trapped inside, but that didn’t mean they had no joy. Especially the humiliation of the Celestial beings was a rare pleasure to experience.

Even being compared to them!

“I cannot accept this…”

Apaz Ragon kept trying to persuade the human, who was acting irrationally. Lee Han ignored him and called out to the others.

“Professors, knights, please help me get rid of him.”

“Understood!”

The death knights answered immediately.

It was a natural reaction, given how self-conscious they were about causing trouble.

Professor Garcia and Professor Kirmin didn’t feel as guilty as the knights, but they had no reason not to grant their student’s request.

And their thoughts were honestly similar.

‘We might not have been able to escape if it weren’t for that angel.’

“Mr. Apaz Ragon, I get it. But you can’t chase Lee Han. He doesn’t want you to. Please just go back.”

“I don’t understand. The fault lies with that mortal…”

“Commence attack!!”

The angel was able to learn another fact firsthand.

Lee Han showed Apaz Ragon that humans sometimes use force, not words.

As the death knights threw chains of darkness and the two professors unleashed magic, Apaz Ragon had to flee hastily to the other side of the dimension.

‘How can this be? Why?’

Confused, Apaz Ragon decided he needed to visit the Yaksha King again.

A wise king would surely be able to advise him on what the angel was experiencing now!

Once the angel disappeared, the atmosphere became awkward again.

The knights and Ibinta watched carefully. The mercenaries and evil god worshippers watched even more nervously.

…Are we going to be killed right away here?

“Calm down, Wodanaz. As I said, Professor Begreck will be fine.”

“Thank you… Professor, you’re also suffering because of Professor Begreck.”

As he calmed down a little, Lee Han felt sorry for Professor Kirmin.

He had come to help him and ended up getting caught up in Professor Voladi’s indiscriminate escape.

However, Professor Kirmin shook his head.

“Professor Begreck is my friend before he is your teacher, Wodanaz. Everyone has at least one friend who makes them suffer.”

Professor Kirmin stared intently at Lee Han, as if saying, ‘Doesn’t someone come to mind for you too?’

‘Aha.’

Lee Han realized what the other person was saying.

“You’re talking about Senior Diret and Senior Yookbeltire.”

“…Oh… well… I guess those two could fit that description too?”

‘I was talking about Prince Gainan though.’

Professor Kirmin thought to himself.

He was trying to talk about ‘friendship with a friend who makes you suffer’ by talking about Gainan, who unnecessarily made Wodanaz suffer…

…But still, Diret and Yookbeltire were enough to explain it.

“Come to think of it, Senior Diret is suffering so much, but he didn’t kick Senior Yookbeltire out.”

“Wodanaz, you too… um. Never mind.”

“Yes?”

“It’s nothing. Haha.”

Professor Kirmin was acting a little strange, but there were too many things that had just happened and too many things to do in the future to pay attention to it.

Lee Han called the knights. The death knights, who were very intimidated, started making excuses.

-Professor Begreck was sneaky and planned well…

-If we were really trying to catch him, we would have poisoned his food! But Professor Einrogaard was there…

-And then that angel had to show up…

“…I’m sorry for getting angry. You don’t have to comfort me.”

Lee Han felt sorry for no reason and apologized to the knights. Professor Garcia thought to himself.

‘Sounds more like excuses than comfort?’

-!

However, it definitely had an effect on the death knights. The knights’ eyes sparkled brightly again like bright blue jewels.

-So you don’t think it’s our fault!

“Who is to blame for the professor going wild? If we must blame someone, maybe it’s that angel… but forget it. It’s finished now.”

“You are right,” said a knight. “That is wise.”

“And if the professor really wanted to escape, I guess it would have been hard for you to stop him?”

“Well, no. Actually, Professor Begreck tricked us to escape. If we fought him again properly, maybe we could win, maybe not…”

The knights felt ashamed and wanted to argue back, but the older knight stopped them quickly.

What were they about to say?

“Yes, it was hard for us to stop him,” said a knight quietly.

“-Krooh!” one knight groaned, a sound of deep shame.

The knights trembled with shame.

‘Just you wait, Professor Begreck.’

“I, I was just trying to do my best.”

Ibinta, looking around nervously, offered as an excuse. Ihan nodded.

“It was bad luck to encounter a worshiper of an evil god in the first place. Even if you hadn’t gotten him to confess, there was a high chance the professor would have realized it on his own.”

“Thank you for understanding!”

Ibinta, who used to lead a gang of bandits, was very touched, even though his face didn’t show it easily. He was surprised that this wizard was so kind. Loyalty welled up from the depths of his heart, almost without him realizing it.

“Don’t worry about it.”

“Thank you! Th-then, about Gonadaltes…”

“I won’t hold him responsible, so you don’t need to worry.”

“Thank you!”

Ibinta gave a deep bow of gratitude, then hesitated for a few seconds before speaking again.

“And… and about Hierdan of the Wodanaz family…”

“Just go away.”

Ihan said, annoyed, and Ibinta quickly retreated.

“I think I should report this to the headmaster right away.”

“Yes, we will,” the knights replied politely, then exchanged glances.

“Shall I send it?”

“We would be very thankful if you would, Heir!” said a knight.

“Don’t call me Heir.”

Escaped?!

The skeletal headmaster was surprised when he got the paper bird.

Frankly, it was unexpected.

The death knights beside him seemed to think so too, nodding in agreement.

“That’s surprising,” said a death knight. “I thought the professor would just agree if a student from the Wodanaz family told him to.”

Indeed.

The skeletal headmaster continued to read the letter, astonished.

The headmaster read the letter, still surprised. “It’s not like this Wodanaz student was on the Sangreus Order’s kill list,” he thought. “He was just on the list to ask to join us! Why did the professor get so angry?”

Maybe Wodanaz didn’t explain things clearly? the headmaster wondered.

“…Sadly, we found people who worship an evil god in the village. And one of them hated the professor…”

Cough.

The skeletal headmaster made a short groan.

The main point of the letter was not what he thought it would be.

What is this…

“What’s wrong?”

He says he met worshipers of an evil god while helping with the Order’s work.

“Wait,” said a knight. “Could it be they were hiding, waiting to attack him?”

I thought so too, but it doesn’t seem to be the case. The Ksaksa Rigol fellows were there, and they would rather die than participate in such a plan.

The headmaster knew that these crazy people were very afraid of changing what was supposed to happen in the future.

They would rather hurt themselves than get mixed up with someone unpredictable like Wodanaz.

“…That professor even threatened to send killers after me! Then he ran away to the land of fire giants. So, I chased him and… took care of it. (If you still talk to the Frost Giant King, please tell him to stop the rumors!) … Sadly, while I was chasing the professor, he found out that many people still hate the Order…”

‘So that’s what happened.’

Now the skeletal headmaster understood what really happened.

These people would hate not just the professor, but also his students. So, it made sense that Professor Voladi attacked first when he heard the threats. Just like the headmaster would do.

…It was a bit surprising that Wodanaz immediately chased after him, saying he would take care of it himself…

“Isn’t Student Wodanaz always looking for dangerous fights?” asked a knight. “It wouldn’t matter if he was fighting someone who worships an evil god.”

That’s true.

The skeletal headmaster nodded in agreement and turned to the next page.

“…If it wasn’t for that angel, he couldn’t have escaped by stealing a dimension! It still makes me really angry. If you still talk to the Yaksha King, tell him I blame him!”

‘The rest of the content is useless.’

The skeletal headmaster skimmed over the rest of the content. It was useless chatter about Wodanaz cursing the Yaksha King and Apaz Ragon.

“Should we send people to chase him?” asked a knight.

No. He’s skilled at avoiding pursuit, so it would only be a waste of time.

-The knights won’t fail a second time.”

Despite the enthusiasm of his knights, the skeletal headmaster firmly drew the line.

Before, I wanted to stop him because his anger was making him lose his good sense. Revenge itself is not bad. This time, I worried he might still be too angry… But after reading this letter, I don’t think I need to worry anymore.

What the skeletal headmaster was worried about was the situation where his former disciple lost his reason and ran wild; if he acted calmly, he had no intention of stopping him.

Revenge that is planned and done calmly is good for you.

“I don’t really understand,” said a knight. “How can you be so sure just from reading the letter?”

“If he was crazy with anger, he would have killed all those evil god worshipers right there and then. But he let them live and left by himself. That means he is thinking clearly.”

“I, I see…!”

The Death Knights were impressed by their master’s logic. Indeed, not just anyone could become a great wizard.

“Even if we don’t chase him, keep listening for news. Let it be known that we are ready to help him if he needs it. But he will probably ignore us.”

“Yes. Also, the Heir seems very worried. I will tell him what’s happening.”

“You flatter me,” said the headmaster. “Do what you… No, wait. I should write the reply myself.”

The knights suddenly felt uneasy.

What is he going to write?

The skeletal headmaster started writing a reply quickly, looking excited.

“…Isn’t it because your magic is weak that the evil god worshipers don’t respect you? Begreck doesn’t respect you, the fire giants don’t respect you, and even the angel doesn’t respect you…”

The knights were horrified. Their master wanted to use this dangerous situation to test his student and make him stronger!

If Wodanaz makes a mistake, he could become the worst magical criminal ever!