Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 1158

Now was not the time for such worries. The Undying One awaited a report.

Soon, a priest of the Order would finish his work and come to report.

However, the appointed time passed, and no report came.

The room around the Undying One seemed to shake, and shadowy arms reached out.

It was a fierce rage directed at the remnants of Sanguiros.

Ibinta glanced around nervously.

Even after leaving the city, the mad wizard remained lost in thought, saying nothing.

‘Is he angry because we didn’t find those Sanguiros guys?’ Ibinta wondered.

It was entirely possible.

Of course, the people of Marheim City had expressed their gratitude with all sorts of praise.

To contain the plague before it spread and capture the evil god worshippers was not an easy task even for famous wizards in the Empire.

The city’s officials and various staff members would be breathing a sigh of relief by now.

But a madman could not be judged by ordinary standards. If he could be judged by ordinary standards, he wouldn’t be called mad.

Will he be crazy like his brother?

“Hmm,” Ihan murmured, more to himself than Ibinta.

“Eek!” Ibinta jumped so badly he nearly tumbled off his horse. The horse, startled too, stamped a hoof in the deep snow and snorted, annoyed.

“I-Is everything alright?” Ibinta stammered, his heart still racing.

“Oh, it’s nothing important,” Ihan said, as if changing his entire plan was just a minor detail. “Just thinking I should try a different way.”

He turned to Ibinta, explaining, “That old plan – grabbing anyone who looked shifty and roughing them up until the real bad guy showed up? It’s got a problem.”

“You’re only realizing that now… Ah, no. Good thinking!” Ibinta cursed his own tongue and quickly flattered him.

What nonsense was he about to say when the other man was choosing a more moderate approach?

If he angered him again and caused him to choose a hard-line approach, his name would be forever remembered as a traitor among criminals.

“We’ll only do that when we’re sure, and basically, we should switch to a quieter approach.”

“Good thinking… Wait a minute. You’re still going to do *that* when you’re sure?” Ibinta flinched.

He wasn’t going to stop altogether?

“Is there a problem?”

“Not at all! Hehe, I was just feeling a little sad that I won’t have the pleasure of helping the wizard-nim wipe out those evil villains,” Ibinta flattered him again.

His own life was more important than some faceless thieves getting wiped out.

“Is that so? Hmm. If you’re that sad, then maybe we’ll do it a few more times as is…”

“I’ll go check the road ahead!” As the conversation took a chilling turn, the former leader of the thieves’ guild quickly ran ahead.

The northern part of the Empire had many mountain roads, and even on the plains, roads were often cut off or collapsed.

Harsh climate meant frequent contact with spirits and monsters, as well as other dimensions.

For sure, there were many incidents and disturbances.

“No problem. You can come straight ahead!” The Death Knights near the carriage responded.

Inside the carriage, the White Tiger Tower students were flipping through wanted posters and writing down the dealt-with bandits in their notebooks.

They had done so much this time that they needed time to organize it all.

“Iron-Head Bag? Wasn’t he the guy from that fortress last time?”

“I think so. It was definitely a name like that.”

“Wow! I caught a guy like that!”

“Oh? No, it’s not Iron-Head Bag. It’s just Bald Bag.”

“…Why does this guy have the same name and get my hopes up?”

The students thoroughly searched through the bandits they had caught to see if there were any useful ones.

If there was even one famous one, they would have something to brag about for about a year.

Giselle coughed softly as she watched them.

However, her friends were focused on the wanted posters with a level of concentration they didn’t usually show.

“Why does this nickname ‘Steel Teeth’ exist?”

“He must have replaced all his teeth with steel.”

“Then did Senior Steel Shoes’ ancestor wear shoes made of steel?”

“I don’t know. I don’t think Professor Thunderstep’s ancestor made thunder sounds every time he walked…”

“Hey.”

“!”

The White Tiger Tower students were startled by Giselle’s voice.

“W-What is it, Moradi? Did we do something wrong?”

“Did anyone sneak out? No, right? If anyone went to buy a 격구 magazine, come out now. It’s not the job of a knight to make others suffer.”

“……”

Deurghyu thought that even finding them on their own wasn’t exactly the job of a knight.

To be acting like this with someone like Senior Caton beside them.

“Sorry, Senior.”

“Hmm?” Caton looked up.

He had been so engrossed in the book he was reading that he hadn’t heard any of his juniors’ conversation.

“Were you reading a book?”

“Indeed, junior.”

“If it’s a book that Senior is reading, it must be amazing…” Deurghyu checked the book. The font looked strangely familiar.

‘What’s the title?’

Introduction to Basic Summoning Magic That Even First-Years Can Understand

“A junior from the Wodanaz family wrote this book for me. Isn’t it touching, junior?” Caton smiled warmly.

Deurghyu quickly took out a book cover. It was the book cover he used to cover the romance novels he usually read.

“Senior, please put this on it. It will protect the cover of the book.”

“Oh. Thank you! Seeing that you have something like this, it seems you read a lot of books too, junior.”

“Uh… um… I, Ihan studies so hard that I’ve started studying too,” Deurghyu said, feeling a pang of conscience.

Meanwhile, Giselle looked at her friends with a look of disdain.

“You haven’t forgotten why you came out here, have you?”

“To defeat the bandits…”

“…Weren’t we supposed to catch the evil god worshippers?”

“……”

Giselle’s gaze became as cold as the frozen peaks of the snow-capped mountains in the distance, and only then did her friends’ intelligence return.

“That’s right! We’re going because we received a request from the Moradi family!”

“Tell me what the request was.”

Silence fell. Angaro tried to throw a paper bird out the window to call Ihan.

“It’s a request to check the state and problems of the territory and submit improvement plans.”

“Th-That’s right.”

“I was actually thinking about it earlier.”

The other friends poked the White Tiger Tower student in the side.

What if they really asked him about it after that lie!

Click-

The front window opened, and Ihan suddenly poked his head out. He was holding the paper bird that Angaro had sent.

“For reference, I’ve redesigned the area so that the knights staying in the Moradi family’s territory can’t sneak out at night. I got the inspiration from watching the paths the seniors take at night.”

“…Do you ever sleep??” The White Tiger Tower students, feeling overwhelmed, criticized Ihan.

When did he prepare that again?

Ihan shrugged at his friends’ criticism and closed the carriage window again.

And he said to Ibinta.

“I don’t know what everyone else is doing without preparing things like this in advance.”

“……” Ibinta thought to himself.

There definitely seemed to be a similar kind of madness flowing through the Wodanaz family!

Giselle’s older sister, Jicklin, the genius knight that the Moradi family was so proud of, was patrolling the area with the knights of the north.

The difference from usual was that this time they were going to welcome guests from Einrogard.

“Excellent, Moradi-nim! Seeing your beautiful swordsmanship makes me think I need to dedicate myself even more to training,” A knight from the Dullac family exclaimed in admiration.

Jicklin had just split a giant Grendel rushing down the slope of the snow mountain with a single blow.

This giant man-eating monster, known to have giant’s blood mixed in, was a threatening monster that even knights would not dare to fight one-on-one.

But to instantly kill the enemy with pure sword power without the support of any wizard or the use of any items.

“Is that so?” The elf knight, who had her long hair tied back unlike her younger sister, looked seriously at the knight from the Dullac family and asked.

“Yes!”

“From when?”

“Yes?” The knight from the Dullac family was flustered, but Jicklin did not stop staring.

From when would he dedicate himself to training?

“F-From now?”

“Is that so. Begin.”

“Yes??” The knight looked at the others, not knowing what to do. He wondered if Jicklin was teasing him.

But the other knights shook their heads as if they felt sorry for him.

‘You shouldn’t have spoken lightly in front of Moradi-nim.’

‘She’s someone who absolutely doesn’t understand jokes.’

One had to be careful with every word in front of Jicklin.

Carelessly captivated by the beautiful scenery of the snow mountain and said they wanted to climb it once?

Then they had to climb it no matter what.

Saw the crimes on the wanted poster and got angry, saying they would definitely catch them?

Then they had to catch them no matter what.

Otherwise, they would be asked ‘Did you climb it?’ ‘Did you catch them?’ every time they met.

The knight from the Dullac family had unfortunately not heard the rumors or had taken them lightly.

“…Hiss! Huff! Hah! Huk…” As a result, the knight from the Dullac family was suddenly forced to train with his sword, following behind his colleagues.

Fortunately, there was no one around the desolate snow mountain.

“Hmm, hmm. Moradi-nim.”

Perhaps the sound of swords swinging in the back was awkward, the other knights cleared their throats and changed the subject.

“More than that, I was surprised to hear the news about the Einrogard wizards. As expected, the head of the family had everything planned.”

When the current head of the Moradi family, Jidurf Moradi, invited the Einrogard students under the guise of a request, the knights of the territory were confused.

To go to the trouble of making a request just to hear about the territory’s investigation or improvement plans from magic school students. Even students who were still in their second year.

As the head of the family was famous as an efficiency expert and a rationalist, gossipers put forward various speculations.

It was because of the relationship with the Wodanaz family, it was because of Count Gonadalte’s threats, and so on.

In that situation, news came that the Einrogard students were coming up, wiping out several bandit groups.

Only then did the knights realize.

That this was what the head of the family was aiming for!

Originally, the wizards would not have come to the territory. Weren’t they too picky?

Besides, what about Count Gonadalte? He would have made all sorts of complaints and interfered.

But thanks to the head of the family’s appropriate request, the students were able to come without any interference, and thanks to that, the Moradi family was able to clean up the recent chaos with the help of the wizards…

“No. The head of the family really wants to hear Wodanaz’s advice,” Jicklin answered with a firm tone.

Her father really wanted to hear advice from her younger sister’s friend.

How could he train the knights more brutally?

“……”

“……”