Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 447

“Wodanaz!” someone shouted.

Ihan, who was meant to give the order, stopped. The other students looked at him, confused.

Salco felt a sudden worry. Had something gone wrong?

“What is it?” someone asked. “What’s the problem?”

“Did pirates attack or something?” another student joked.

Pirates… here at school?

Tanzuer, who was trying to be quiet and just do what he was told, couldn’t stay silent any longer.

“Sorry!” Ihan said quickly. “I was just thinking for a moment. Pull now!”

Ihan and his friends pulled on the rope. Even with all the enhancement magic they had cast, pulling the cabin was not easy.

‘Hmm. I need to learn some stronger enhancement magic.’

>Gonadaltez’s Nimble Steps> was a surprisingly useful enhancement spell for a simple 1st circle spell that could be cast very quickly.

Other enhancement spells that immediately increased strength, agility, and reflexes started from the 3rd circle. The Skull Headmaster’s genius in compressing that into the 1st circle was extraordinary.

But after spending so long at the magic school, he was starting to feel the need for stronger magic.

‘Even if it takes longer to cast and is a bit rougher, I need something specialized.’

Just looking at the current situation, he needed an enhancement spell that focused on strength.

‘The >Power of Taktapcheonung> I saw in the book seems like it would be good. I wonder if I can learn it…’

“Woda… Wodanaz. Isn’t there any stronger magic?”

“Sorry. I don’t have any spells to use right now.”

“Hey! Don’t say stupid things! Even *this* spell has really bad side effects if we use too much!”

A White Tiger Tower student scolded his friend.

Even >Gonadaltez’s Nimble Steps> caused quite a bit of muscle pain.

‘Ah. An enhancement spell like >Power of Taktapcheonung> would have even worse side effects.’

Ihan suddenly realized the side effects of enhancement magic.

Magic that directly enhanced the body had quite a few bad effects.

Experienced wizards could reduce the shock and minimize the side effects with various spells, but that was still a long way off for Ihan.

Above all, he had so much mana that he was far removed from such side effects.

‘Still, there’s no choice. I have to use it if I need to.’

Ihan quickly stopped worrying.

It might be a bit more painful for his friends, but it couldn’t be helped in Einroguard.

Plop, plop-

Even though they were wearing leather gloves and adding cloth, students were slipping and falling on the slippery Tanzuer as they pulled the rope.

“Don’t rush!”

Salco shouted loudly.

The most important thing in this situation was not to rush.

When building structures with the stonemason guild members, mistakes were bound to happen.

The most important thing at that time was to respond calmly.

“Just hold on! The side that finishes first will go to help!”

Salco was planning to rush over and help as soon as his side was finished properly.

However, Ihan was one step faster.

Ihan unleashed his mana in a sudden burst. A visible wave of energy pulsed from him, making the air shimmer. Water droplets around him hissed and vanished as steam.

In an instant, the rope was pulled like crazy, and the cabin was pulled closer.

“It’s done! Wait there!”

Ihan, who had finished his work, threw the rope and ran towards the fallen students.

Salco was impressed when he saw that.

‘That guy is a natural worker!’

A guy like that should have been born into the Tutanta family, not the Wodanaz family…

“Wodanaz, why do you look so gloomy?”

“He must be tired.”

In the end, the students who succeeded in hunting the cabin returned to the library with triumphant faces.

However, Ihan’s face was far from proud.

“Um. So…”

“??”

“…It’s nothing.”

“What? How boring.”

Ihan was about to say something but stopped.

This cabin is…

‘It’s Professor Thunderstride’s cabin!’

As Professor Thunderstride roamed around the vast Einroguard grounds to collect alchemy materials, Ihan, as his disciple, didn’t know how many cabins there were.

However, buildings built by the same person were bound to show.

This cabin was Professor Thunderstride’s cabin.

“Why doesn’t this open?”

“It doesn’t seem to work with an axe either?”

“Step aside for a moment.”

Ihan approached the cabin.

Bzzzt!

Fortunately, the defensive magic was broken using the method he learned from Baldrorn. The students immediately broke the door with an axe and entered the cabin.

“Woo… Woo-waaaaah!”

“T, this…! Look at this!”

The students who went inside burst into cheers.

The students who were resting on the other side of the library were curious about the sound and approached.

“What is it? What’s inside?”

Inside the cabin were supplies that any Einroguard student would dream of.

There were dwarf-style smoked ham and salted herring, eggs and rice, onions, wheat, raisins, plums, bananas, figs, and even olive oil, salt, and even beer.

One White Tiger Tower student was even shedding tears.

“Wodanaz, with this much, we can have a feast, right??”

“…Y, yeah, go ahead.”

Ihan, who was worried, quickly nodded at his friends’ call.

Now that it had come to this, he felt sorry for Professor Thunderstride, but it couldn’t be helped.

‘I need to destroy the evidence.’

“Let’s divide the work. Group 1 takes out the items inside, and Group 2 completely takes apart the log cabin so that no one can recognize the traces. Let’s use it as firewood.”

“Can’t we just cut it roughly and take it apart later when we use it?”

“No. We have to do it now.”

“Aww… That’s annoying…”

The students grumbled, but they didn’t refuse Ihan’s words.

Ihan breathed a sigh of relief inside.

If we finish this quickly…

“Wait! Wodanaz!”

“?!”

Ihan was startled when someone called him.

“What is it?”

‘Could it be that I’ve been caught?’

If someone realized that this was Professor Thunderstride’s cabin…

“We’ll take care of taking it apart, so you take care of the cooking!”

“That’s right! Please!”

“……”

“Did these guys hate our cooking that much??”

The White Tiger Tower students, who were in charge last time, pouted and complained.

The students gathered in the library enjoyed a feast for the first time in a long time.

The food, piled so high that the legs of the makeshift tables broke several times, disappeared in an instant. The students greedily tore into chunks of soft meat that had been patiently roasted over the bonfire until the insides were melting.

As Gainando stuffed freshly baked flatbread into his cheeks until they burst, then screamed because it was too hot, the White Tiger Tower students whispered.

“Hey, it doesn’t seem like the Blue Dragon Tower guys have great table manners, does it?”

“Right. Wodanaz was said to be so great when he went to the Knights last time, but he doesn’t seem that different from us…”

Ihan put an additional dish of beans, rice, onions, and meat steamed in a small pot and sat down.

‘I’m pleased.’

It wasn’t that he was pleased that the students were eating well.

He noticed that the students were still holding books while eating, unlike during the first semester.

The students had learned as much as they had suffered severely once in the first semester.

“Hey! What’s with the studying while eating!”

“It’s rude to Wodanaz who made it… Ack!”

Some students (usually White Tiger Tower students) started to say something, but Ihan hit them with a bone.

“Don’t bother others and read too.”

“W, we have swordsmanship lessons…”

Ihan was dumbfounded by the shallow intention of only mentioning swordsmanship lessons, even though they took many other lessons besides swordsmanship.

Seeing his friend get hit with a bone, the White Tiger Tower students, who were about to take out a ball to play with, quietly put the ball away.

Seeing that, Giselle considered whether to prepare a few more bones in the future.

“The rightful line of great magic… No. It seems too dogmatic…”

Yoner frowned next to him, with a quill in his mouth, deep in thought.

Ihan felt curious and asked.

“What lecture is it?”

“Huh? Advanced Basic Literature. It’s about creating a doctrine suitable for Einroguard…”

‘I’m glad I didn’t take it.’

Ihan was disgusted.

Ihan was rumored to be taking all the magic schools, but in fact, there were quite a few lectures that Ihan didn’t take.

He would never take lectures such as Understanding Basic Drama or Understanding Imperial Masterpieces unless someone secretly submitted an application.

A good lecture was one where you could get an A+ with logic, effort, and reason, not a lecture that competed with emotion.

“Do you have anything in mind?”

“Hmm… The pursuit of freedom through unfreedom… No. It’s too gloomy to reveal outwardly.”

“Huh? That’s good??”

Yoner’s face lit up and he wrote a note. Ihan was embarrassed to see that.

“You think it’s good?”

Isn’t that a phrase that seems to fit an imperial prison?

“Yeah. Can I submit this?”

“I don’t care, but I don’t think it’s a good phrase no matter how I think about it.”

“No. I think it’s okay?”

Yoner nodded with a confident face. Ihan worried a little about whether there was a problem with his friend’s feelings.

‘Well, Yoner’s sister had a slightly different feeling.’

Flutter-

While the students were enjoying a pleasant meal and taking a break, a paper bird flew into the library.

-Students taking Advanced Understanding of Basic Summoning Magic, please note. There will be a change in the midterm exam due to changes in Einroguard’s weather.

The students taking summoning magic gathered in front of the bird, buzzing at Professor Milley’s voice.

But the bird didn’t end there. A few more flew in.

-Students taking Advanced Basic Swordsmanship, please note…

-Advanced Basic Alchemy…

-…

-I don’t have anything to tell you, but I sent it because I was bored. Study hard, you ironheads.

-……

There was one strange paper bird, but the students were slightly moved by the professors’ warm consideration.

Originally, if you treat them badly, they are bound to be moved by even minor kindness.

“……”

However, Ihan hesitated in between.

He didn’t know where to stand because he was taking too many lectures.

“Wodanaz, I’ll let you know, so just rest.”

“You just sit still!”

The friends quickly stopped Ihan.

The eyes of the friends looking at Ihan were full of pity.

Professor Milley’s exam was comfortable and peaceful.

The students gathered in the lecture room with a fireplace were writing a report on this >Boltzmann’s Call> festival in a comfortable and warm atmosphere.

“Some students may be surprised. It will feel like a very simple exam compared to the exams from last semester or what we learned this semester.”

Professor Milley said, maintaining a straight posture.

“However, you must remember that writing such documents is as important as magic.”

The era of wizards who shut themselves up in their towers built in remote places and researched was long over in ancient times.

Wizards had to constantly communicate and interact with other wizards and sometimes bring gold coins from investors.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to proceed with even the most outstanding research.

“You will feel that it is not easy once you write it. As it is the first time, I would like to give you one piece of advice: it would be better to write sincerely without pretending to be artificial. What did you feel at the festival, what was lacking, and how will you improve it in the future?”

“……”

Ihan, who was listening, was deep in thought.

‘…What else should I improve?’

With Ihan’s short knowledge, he couldn’t think of anything else to improve.