Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 469

“Woah, Wodanaz?”

“Yeah, how have you been?”

Lee Han looked around the room.

It didn’t look like a punishment room at all.

‘Well, Professor Krauer isn’t Headmaster Skullface. He wouldn’t hurt a student he wants to test for an exam.’

“Uh… well… that…”

Shiles rolled his eyes, looking embarrassed.

He felt like he would get scolded if he went back to his friends like this.

-You have no loyalty! You’re just trying to save yourself!

-We were so worried about you! You should have left us a clue!

“Don’t worry. I’ll tell the others you suffered a lot,” Lee Han said, reading Shiles’s mind.

Shiles teared up, deeply touched.

“Wodanaz…!”

“If I ever need to borrow a carriage during vacation, give me a discount.”

“You’re joking. I could just lend it to you for free.”

“I’m not joking.”

“…I-Is that also a joke?”

Phone Ring growled, making a fierce noise.

It was like he was asking if he should drop this clueless boy.

Shiles, being a beastman who had taken care of many animals because of his family’s transportation business, trembled, sensing the danger.

“Wh-Why is he doing this?”

“He seems to like you.”

“I… I don’t think so.”

Shiles knew very well what kind of monster a griffin was.

Compared to the often-mentioned hippogriffs or pegasus, griffins were extremely difficult to tame because they were fierce and cunning.

Seeing the griffin acting like this, Shiles wasn’t sure if Wodanaz had really tamed him or if the griffin was tricking Wodanaz.

“Wodanaz… um… you know. I’m not ignoring you, but… do you know that griffins are naturally fierce and good at tricking people?”

Phone Ring growled lowly.

He was already annoyed that his master was now distrusting him, and now this boy was trying to turn them against each other, which made him very angry.

“Hmm.”

At Shiles’s words, Lee Han looked down at Phone Ring.

He had used a curse-breaking potion to temporarily remove the curse and bring him along because he was in a hurry.

But now that he heard Shiles’s words, Phone Ring suddenly seemed particularly fierce.

Maybe it was because he usually saw him as a horse.

Phone Ring snapped his beak loudly, his eyes filled with injustice.

Even though he had been a bit prickly at first, he had always been loyal since then.

But now he was being suspected because of a few words from that little brat!

“No. Phone Ring is nice… probably.”

Phone Ring nodded happily, then paused, feeling a bit uneasy.

“Anyway, hurry up and get on. We need to prepare for the next exam.”

Shiles glanced at Phone Ring and quickly climbed on.

The griffin was scary, but Wodanaz was also a strong person.

He had come to rescue him, but if he kept talking back, he might become scarier than the griffin.

“By the way, Wodanaz, how did you find out where I was?”

“Divination magic.”

“…Oh? Is that possible?”

Shiles tilted his head.

Divination was much harder if there was little information or if the target was protected by magic.

Shiles thought that Wodanaz had found this area with a few clues and then used divination magic to find out which floor of the tower he was on.

“I didn’t have time because of the other exams, so I just kept using it again and again until it worked. And then it showed up here.”

“……”

Shiles looked shocked.

It was a very crude method.

There were side effects every time divination magic was used, and he just kept using it until it worked.

“I-Is that okay??”

“I have to take other exams, so I don’t have enough time. I can’t help it. Let’s go quickly.”

“No, doing this because you don’t have time is…”

He was doing something so extreme just because he was short on time for exams.

He was afraid to imagine what he would have done if he had been even more short on time.

“Wait. Then where did you get the griffin?”

“The professor lent me a horse and I changed it for a bit.”

“…Yo-You’re joking, right? This too?”

Clack-

The door to the room where Shiles had been trapped opened, and Professor Passelret entered.

The professor, who had opened the door to give him a snack, was surprised to see the broken window and asked,

“…Wh-Why did you break it?”

“……”

Lee Han was a little embarrassed by the question.

Huh?

‘Wasn’t the exam to break in and rescue him?’

Thinking about it, the professor had told him to find the location and submit it, but he hadn’t told him to rescue him.

He had just broken through the window out of habit.

‘Hmm. I’ll look like too much of a madman if I say it like this.’

Lee Han was thinking about a good excuse when he met Phone Ring’s eyes.

“Perhaps…”

Phone Ring cried as if begging not to be used as an excuse.

“Anyway, well done… well done.”

Lee Han lowered his head, embarrassed that he had broken the exam site when he was supposed to be solving the exam question.

However, Professor Passelret didn’t seem to care much.

‘That’s a relief. He’s a kind professor.’

“Then I’ll be going now…”

“That’s why I said I should teach differently!!!”

“!?”

“!”

Lee Han and Shiles were startled by the professor’s sudden outburst in a different voice.

Phone Ring cried lowly, his eyes full of wariness.

“Professor?”

“Ah. Don’t mind it. Don’t mind…”

“How can I not mind it!!!”

“……”

‘I want to go home.’

Shiles thought to himself.

Being caught in the middle of two professors arguing (though it was actually one person) was more uncomfortable than he had thought.

“He’s just a freshman, so we can just leave him alone…”

“Geniuses should be taught differently! He’s protesting like that because we’re teaching him like this!”

“Th-That’s… Divination magic is dangerous, so…”

Even the timid personality came out to participate in the argument.

Lee Han paused at the sight of the professor’s three personalities arguing with each other.

‘Wait. This is dangerous.’

It wasn’t dangerous that the professor was having a personality split and arguing.

In Einroguard, this wasn’t even considered dangerous.

What was dangerous was what they were talking about.

The professor’s aggressive personality was arguing for an even stronger teaching method than now.

“Look! He’s protesting like this because he’s so bored!”

“…No. It’s my fault for breaking it. I misunderstood the problem…”

“Don’t worry too much. It’s not because you broke it. It’s a debate that’s been going on since last time.”

Professor Passelret’s words were not very comforting.

The professor’s personalities had been discussing how to teach him without Lee Han present.

It made sense for students to be involved in deciding what they learn.

No, why were they talking and deciding among themselves without the person involved?

“Th-Then… a compromise…”

‘What compromise are you talking about?’

Lee Han supported Professor Passelret’s normal personality.

With the aggressive and timid personalities saying, ‘Let’s teach him more strongly,’ the only one to trust was the normal personality.

“It’ll be bad if you force him to learn.”

Lee Han nodded.

“That’s for normal people! Do you think he’s normal?”

Lee Han shook his head.

“We-Well, he’s definitely a bit…”

‘That personality isn’t timid, it’s just weak.’

Lee Han secretly resented the professor’s timid personality for being swept away by the aggressive personality.

A personality should clearly push its own argument, but what was it doing losing to another personality?

The only good thing was that the professor’s normal personality was holding on…

“Think about it. All the other lectures are going through advanced courses quickly, but would he enjoy basic divination magic? Or would he quit? We don’t need disciples, but there are exceptions! Even stubborn guys like Professor Knighton are changing after seeing other professors!”

“??????”

Lee Han couldn’t believe what he was hearing.

“Okay. Okay.”

“I will admit it…”

“……”

Lee Han looked at the professor with bitter eyes.

It had ended like this after all.

Divination magic wasn’t easy now, and his chest grew cold when he thought about how it would be after the midterm.

‘Is it my fault? Is breaking the tower’s window that big of a mistake?’

“Wodanaz.”

Shiles, who was next to him, spoke.

“Um… good luck.”

“…Let’s just get out of here.”

The road back with Shiles was as dark and gloomy as Lee Han’s heart.

The two of them put Phone Ring on a ferry (Phone Ring had changed back) and slowly glided across the water.

Shiles suddenly thought of something and asked.

“Wodanaz, don’t you have to take the illusion magic exam too?”

Come to think of it, wasn’t the place where Shiles was trapped Professor Kirmin Ku’s tower?

Shiles didn’t take illusion magic, but Wodanaz did.

“I came to rescue you after taking the exam.”

“Huh?”

Shiles wondered what he was talking about.

“Isn’t the exam still going on?”

While Shiles was trapped, the freshmen were doing the illusion magic exam below the tower.

Professor Kirmin had put nightmares all over the tower and was making the students overcome them.

What was important to an illusion magician was not only the ability to use illusion magic, but also the mental strength not to be eaten by illusions.

How they overcame the nightmare was important, so the students were still screaming and enduring…

Wodanaz said he came to see and rescue him???

“I expected it to end quickly. Fortunately, it ended quickly. Then go in, Shiles. I have to go listen to the remaining magic exams.”

“Wodanaz, I don’t want to interfere, but you should take fewer lectures…”

“It’s over! Hooray!!”

“It’s finally over!”

“Hey, Wodanaz is watching. Pick up the book quickly, you jerk.”

When he returned to the library, the students who had finished all the midterms this week were throwing books and cheering.

Lee Han picked up the student who had thrown the book and tossed him to the side, clicking his tongue.

‘The guys who don’t study are always the worst.’

Looking at them now, the Blue Dragon Tower and Phoenix Tower students were sad and regretting how they could have done better, but the White Tiger Tower students were just happy that it was over.

“Wodanaz… do, do you have any exams left on the weekend?”

“No.”

“Wow!!!! It’s over!!!! Hooray!!!!”

The friends who knew that Lee Han’s exam was over threw their books without worry.

Some friends were drumming and playing songs of joy.

‘…Isn’t Mack angry?’

Lee Han suddenly felt sorry for Mack as he watched his friends freaking out.

Mack might be angry and running over because they were making such a fuss…

“Wait… I think there’s one exam left.”

The friends who were about to unpack the food they had stored up and open the liquor paused.

Huh?

“Wh-What’s left?”

“Dark magic?”

“I thought dark magic was over last time?”

“Then enchantment magic?”

“Enchantment magic should have been over last time too.”

“Summoning magic?”

“Summoning magic too…”

The friends who were trying to guess gave up and looked at Lee Han.

It meant just tell them.

“Isn’t there still the basic dance and social lecture exam left?”

At Lee Han’s question, the friends were silent for a moment, then burst out laughing.

“There’s no exam for that!”

“That’s right. Just go tomorrow and have fun dancing.”

“……”

Lee Han frowned and looked at his excited friends.

“What’s wrong? Lee Han?”

“Shouldn’t the difficulty of the dance exam be raised a bit…”

“……”

Yoner, who had brought a glass of lemonade, looked at Lee Han with disgust.

What nonsense was he talking about for the few rest lectures!