Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 442

Lee Han winked at his friends.

They had to be as careful as possible, not knowing what kind of personality the giant being in front of them possessed.

Lee Han thought about their lessons. Clever wizards who could talk their way out of trouble lived longer than just powerful wizards, right?

“Yes. It is the sea. The sea.”

The water… it didn’t taste like the sea.

“It seems the spirits are causing a ruckus, so the salinity has decreased.”

According to the contract… your wizard’s request…

The sound of the water sloshing was intermittent, but the students’ faces showed relief.

Seeing Tanjua say he would grant the request, it was clear the summoning had succeeded.

“Quickly! Wodanaz!”

“Stop this flood!!”

“I know that. It’s exam period, so of course, we have to stop it.”

“…Ah, no. We have to stop it even if it’s not exam period!”

Lee Han’s friends were slightly taken aback by his madness.

“Devourer of ships! Do you see this rampage of spirits?”

I… feel… it…

“Stop this rampage of spirits and stop the rain! Stop the flood and return the water to the underground where it belongs!”

Gulp-

One of the students swallowed audibly.

Tanjua remained quietly silent.

As the sound of sloshing water became more prominent again, Lee Han cautiously asked,

“Devourer of ships! Perhaps my voice is too small…”

No… I heard…

Tanjua answered slowly.

But… difficult… my power is not complete…

‘Oh dear.’

Lee Han clicked his tongue.

It was unexpected, but it was possible when he thought about it.

The Tanjua summoned now was Tanjua in spirit form.

He must have lost most of the power he had in life, so it was not surprising that he could not grant Lee Han’s request.

‘If that’s the case…’

Lee Han calmly modified his request.

“Devourer of ships, then I will not ask you to stop this flood. Instead, change the direction of the rain clouds and storm!”

The problem in Einroguard now was not just the rising water, but the rain clouds and storms that raged from time to time.

Even first-year wizards could cross a calm sea, but there was no way to deal with rain clouds and storms lashing out.

That much… is possible… where to…

“Send it all to the upper floors of the Einroguard main building.”

The friends listened quietly and were horrified.

Hey…!

‘Is he okay?’

‘Shouldn’t we stop him?’

Weren’t the upper floors of the main building the domain of the headmaster and professors?

Wasn’t sending rain clouds and storms there a declaration of war?

“No. Wodanaz’s choice is right.”

Salco said in a weighty voice.

“What are you talking about, Tutanta?”

“Who do you think caused this flood?”

“…!”

The students thought of one person’s name.

Who else would cause a flood if not the owner of this school?

‘Huh? That’s not it?’

Lee Han, who was focusing on Tanjua, tilted his head.

This time, it really wasn’t the fault of the skeletal headmaster.

The spirits were just periodically getting stronger and going on a rampage…

“Headmaster!”

“That’s right. There’s no one but the headmaster. So, are you just going to keep getting beaten? Do you think the headmaster will be satisfied if you do that?”

“No way! Never!”

“Tutanta is right. We can’t just keep living like this. Let’s show them that we can retaliate too!”

The first-year students, who had a lot pent up, shouted in unison.

Sending water to the skeletal headmaster’s residence.

Just thinking about it was exciting.

“Tanjua-nim! Please send all the water over there!”

“That’s right!”

Tanjua slowly responded to the students’ shouts.

…I would rather… stop the flood… and stop the rain…

Tanjua was more cowardly than he thought.

Rather than send water to the residence of the great wizard who dominated this area, he simply declared that he would somehow stop the flood.

‘Wouldn’t the former be better?’

Lee Han thought so, but since Tanjua had chosen the latter, there was nothing he could do.

“You don’t have complete power, so how do you plan to stop the flood and stop the rain?”

It’s difficult, but… temporarily…

Tanjua explained with a sloshing sound.

It was difficult to permanently subdue the spirits and return the water, but it was possible to temporarily subdue the spirits and stop the water.

Of course… power is consumed… so I have to keep recovering…

Each time he did it, power would be consumed, so he would recover, and then temporarily stop it again.

Tanjua said he would repeat this as much as possible.

Lee Han was dumbfounded.

‘Seriously, wouldn’t the former be better?’

Having been summoned by a contract with a wizard, the summoned being would want to fulfill the contract as quickly as possible and be free.

If so, he should choose the quick way, but he refused to do so and said he would stay until he ran out of power.

How scary was the skeletal headmaster…

“If you would do that, I don’t mind.”

Tanjua then spewed out water as if relieved.

“Then will you do it right now? We have to move.”

Alright…

“While you’re at it, would you give us a ride? We have to go to the lecture hall, and we might be late.”

Tanjua glanced at Lee Han with a look of annoyance.

But he couldn’t refuse.

He was afraid that the wizard would bring up the story he had said earlier.

Alright…

Professor Rosine Pflüwerk, who was teaching >Basic Imperial Language and Logic Advanced>, stood in the lecture hall with a slightly troubled face.

“Haa…”

The demon Oriphyras, who had worked as an Imperial Legal Officer for 131 years, said as if he didn’t understand.

“Wizard. It doesn’t seem like a good environment for education to me.”

I once saw a demon duke training young demons, but even that place didn’t deliberately cause natural disasters like this.

“Be quiet.”

Professor Rosine had the demon next to her shut his mouth.

The content she heard from the skeletal headmaster on the weekend was quite shocking, and it still rang in her ears.

-Professors. The spirits are causing a ruckus, and Einroguard has been flooded. It’s a periodic phenomenon, so those of you who are new, don’t be too surprised…

The professors with long careers weren’t surprised at all, so it was clear that the explanation was considerate of outsiders like Professor Rosine.

In fact, Professor Inggoldel, who taught swordsmanship, was flustered and asked several times, ‘Shouldn’t we stop the flood?’

-Professor Inggoldel. Calm down. This flood is supposed to happen once every ten years, but it happened unfortunately…

-But shouldn’t you drain the water so that the students can come to take the exam?

-Why?

-No… the students are taking the exam…

-Why?

-Why?

The skeletal headmaster expressed his intention not to do it very strongly.

Professor Rosine agreed for now, but she was worried about whether the students would be able to come properly.

She cast her gaze out the stained glass window, and a storm was raging, and high waves were crashing one after another…

‘If the students don’t attend, should I have only the attending students take the exam separately? Isn’t that too harsh, no matter how you look at it?’

I prepared so hard…

Oriphyras pointed to the middle of the lecture hall with a slightly regretful voice.

This midterm exam was for the students to make simple and trivial contracts with powerful beings.

Of course, first-year students couldn’t summon and face such evil and powerful beings without any help, so Professor Rosine and Oriphyras worked hard to gather such beings, weaken them, seal them, and then put them in cages and display them in the lecture hall.

The students would talk and converse with these various beings, understand them well, and succeed if they contracted with even one of them.

Do you know how expensive that demon knight is? How much did the officials of the Empire give up to give us that demon…

“I know. I know. I know how hard it was to borrow him.”

That eight-headed beast was also very difficult. He’s such a rough and ferocious guy…

-Wizard, demon. I’ll kill you! Grrrr! I’ll pull out your heart and swallow it! Release me! You insignificant and smelly bastards!

The monster trapped in the cage made a chilling threat in a hoarse voice. Oriphyras got tired of it, picked up a spear, and stabbed the monster mercilessly.

-Kraaah!

“Didn’t I say I’d release you if you stayed still! Why are you doing this? Is it so hard to endure even that short time? I’ve been keeping the contract for over a hundred years?”

-Demon. I’ll kill you! Demon. I’ll kill you! Kraaah! Kraaah!

“I don’t want to use violence, but it can’t be helped for the sake of the young wizards. Tell me when you regret it.”

Oriphyras kept stabbing the monster. Such powerful and violent beings had to be caught firmly from the beginning, as they would climb up as soon as they were released.

“…Mr. Oriphyras.”

“Why? Should I stab him harder? But if I stab him harder and he disappears…”

“No. Not that…”

Rosine couldn’t continue and pointed outside.

Oriphyras also turned his gaze out the window. And he dropped his spear with his mouth wide open.

In the distance, a giant summoned beast was parting the sea and subduing the rain clouds as it approached.

“Tanjua (Devourer of Ships)?! What a rare sight! Which professor summoned him?”

“The students are on top of him.”

The two wizards and the demon were silent.

Oriphyras recalled the young student he had met last semester who could contract with demons without any special conditions.

Sure enough, that student was sitting on top of Tanjua, approaching the lecture hall.

“Wait, Wodanaz! If such a large creature goes inside, won’t the school building be damaged?”

“The headmaster will fix it. Devourer of ships! Please go inside!”

Lee Han had no intention of getting off Tanjua, despite his friends’ worries.

Sure enough, waves and rain clouds were raging fiercely inside the main building as well.

‘You can’t let your guard down just because you’re inside the building. It’s even more dangerous if you get swept away here.’

If he got swept away by a wave and pushed all the way to the punishment room, there would be no one to complain to.

Lee Han had no intention of getting off Tanjua.

Chwaaaar!

As Tanjua pushed open the door, the entrance of Einroguard suddenly widened, and the hallway expanded.

The student riding next to him exclaimed.

“Ah…! I see!”

“Well, a building like Einroguard wouldn’t be damaged by something like this! Wodanaz. You believed in this!”

“No. I just thought the headmaster would fix it even if it was damaged. To the right!”

Tanjua, who resembled a whale, sped across the calm surface of the water where the waves and rain clouds had stopped.

The students forgot their current hardships and cheered.

Crack!

At that moment, the wall next to them opened, and a waterfall began to pour down fiercely.

Water from somewhere was connected to this side and flew over.

Lee Han shouted urgently.

“Devourer of ships! Right now…”

I know…

“If you can’t stop it, you have to send the water to the headmaster’s room!!”

Tanjua made a gurgling sound and hurriedly stopped the waterfall.

The waterfall flowed backward and re-entered the wall.

“Thank you!”

Tanjua was too exhausted to answer.

Oriphyras, who was watching the scene from inside the lecture hall, shouted loudly without realizing it.

“Full marks… full marks!”

“???”

The students were flustered by the sudden shout from the lecture hall.