Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 540

While Lee Han was panicking, words began to appear on the note.

-That idiot Moradi has messed things up now…

“??”

Lee Han’s heart raced. Then, words started to appear on the note, written in messy, shaky letters.

-Moradi… idiot… messed up again!

Lee Han frowned. “??”

-Giants! Reagent! Balpatan here too… Urgent!

“????” Lee Han was even more confused. ‘Giants? Balpatan? What’s going on?’

The writing was all over the place, like two people were fighting for the pen. It looked like a real mess.

Finally, the pen stopped moving. Anpagon’s writing became clearer as he tried to explain.

-Okay, listen. Balpatan and I came to find the reagent. But… we had a bit of a fight. A small one.

Lee Han looked around.

The leftovers of the forest, violently torn apart by magic, caught his eye.

‘Minor squabble? Really?’ Lee Han’s eyes widened as he looked around. Trees were broken like twigs, and the ground was scorched black. ‘If *this* is a small fight, I don’t want to see a big one!’ he thought, feeling a chill.

-So why are you with the giants? Were you captured?

-Ah. Not really. I’m helping the giants with their work.

-?

“??”

The writing on the note paused for a moment.

Lee Han wondered why his seniors were acting like this.

-Why are you doing the giants’ work?

-We became friends.

Silence again.

When his seniors didn’t reply, Lee Han carefully wrote.

-I’m sorry, but as your junior, I don’t think it’s a good idea for you two to be arguing right now.

As soon as he wrote, a reply came back.

-We weren’t arguing. Anyway, I understand.

-But didn’t you say you were Gainando last time?

Lee Han subtly ignored the last comment, pretending not to see it.

“Friends with giants? Seriously? How is that even possible?”

“Hey, anything can happen here in Einrogard. You’ll learn that soon enough.”

Anpagon closed his mouth.

Frankly, he couldn’t imagine what one had to do to become friends with giants.

What on earth could you do…?

“But why haven’t you answered when I asked for your name?”

“That’s not important right now.”

Anpagon replied to Balpatan in an annoyed voice.

With giants moving heavily around in front of him, what did it matter if that junior had called himself Gainando or Wodanaz before?

He probably misheard or something!

“We have to stop the giants.”

“Ah. Right.”

At first, he thought the junior was deceiving the giants and was in disguise, but if they were actually friends, it was more helpful.

Of course, he still couldn’t believe it…

‘I must ask him later.’

‘I suppose I should ask him later.’

Even Anpagon, from the Enchantment Magic School, who usually had no interest in others, was curious.

-Make the giants retreat…

“Wait.”

“What? Why did you stop?”

“Who’s going to pay the price?”

“You have to pay.”

“That’s an interesting load of rubbish. Why don’t you just shout at the sky?”

“Alright. Just so you know, you’re within my range right now.”

“Go ahead and try. If you want to boast about being stupid enough to make a loud noise in front of the giants.”

The two, who had been arguing, eventually couldn’t overcome the situation and agreed.

They decided to split the cost of asking the junior in half.

-If you make the giants retreat, the following rewards…

-Rewards?

At the junior’s reply, the two looked at each other.

And then they opened their mouths at the same time.

“It’s because you put garbage in!”

“Your rewards are rubbish.”

Lee Han was slightly touched.

‘The professors don’t give any rewards when they make us work, but the seniors are different.’

In fact, the professors weren’t making them work, but giving lectures, but Lee Han didn’t care.

Ten sets of armor made from the Red Lion’s hide, ten Wind Barrier scrolls, five jars of Moonlit Honey, etc., would be stored in the bushes near the Blue Dragon Tower.

He would have done it even if they had just asked, but these rewards only made him happier.

“I know where the one who caused all this trouble went. Please go where I point.”

-Ooh!

-The wizard is smart!

When Lee Han confidently shouted, the giants rejoiced and moved their feet.

Lee Han looked in the direction where his seniors were likely to be and gave a slight wink.

It was a signal to get out of there.

Lee Han winked, a secret smile playing on his lips. ‘Hehe. Perfect. They’ll never know.’

Lee Han felt proud as he watched the giants walk away.

He looked like a junior who was impressive in every way.

Although they couldn’t be seen, Balpatan and Anpagon were probably both thinking of Lee Han as impressive.

Balpatan and Anpagon watched the walking giants with their mouths open.

Lee Han had told them to trust him. He said he would handle it. Anpagon and Balpatan never thought he could control giants so easily.

“A… A giant controller…!”

Lee Han didn’t even imagine that a nickname circulating among his seniors had been added without him knowing.

-But why are we going here?

“The one who caused all this always leaves traces. There are traces of magic left here.”

Pointing ahead with his staff, Lee Han just picked up any words and spat them out.

It wasn’t a difficult task.

All he had to do was drag the giants away to create distance and then say, ‘Oops, I missed them, I’m sorry.’

It was as easy as blinking an eye for Lee Han, thanks to his clever training at Einrogard.

-Indeed! This rock is broken!

“That’s exactly it.”

-This tree is smashed too! They must have escaped here!

” ? ”

Lee Han, who had been rambling, paused.

The giants’ reaction was somehow strange.

‘Huh?’

Right now, Lee Han and the giants were walking in a completely different direction.

They were walking somewhere deep in the mountain range, not towards the peak.

Of course, there was no reason for traces of people to be found.

But the rock was broken and the tree was smashed.

‘Something’s wrong…?’

-Over there! It’s over there!

-It’s him! The old Yacha! It’s the old Yacha! I knew it!

Lee Han was startled and widened his eyes.

In the forest across from them, a Yacha walked, pushing aside trees and rocks.

The Yacha was huge, like a giant himself, but with sharp teeth and eyes that glowed like hot coals. He looked like a demon from a scary story.

Yacha, like giants, were not a common race in the Empire.

The Yacha turned his head, hearing the giants shouting, and said,

-Why are you noisy fools shouting at me again?

-Hey! Old Yacha! You broke trees again! You did it last time too! shouted a giant, pointing a thick finger.

The Yacha rolled his eyes. -You noisy fools. I’m just getting rid of the dead and rotten trees. It helps the good trees grow better.

-Liar! You smashed good trees too! another giant yelled, stomping his foot.

Lee Han shifted uncomfortably on the giant’s shoulder. He felt a little guilty. It was actually his friends who had broken those good trees earlier.

-If you have a complaint, come at me. You little whelps. I’ll even accept a wrestling match, which you all love so much.

The giants flinched, looking dejected.

-That Yacha is too strong.

Apparently, they had faced the Yacha a few times and had a hard time.

Lee Han wondered, “Aren’t you guys at an advantage in terms of size?”

-Yacha uses strange techniques.

-We can’t beat him…

As they were saying that, the Yacha took a step closer.

One of the giants, getting angry, pounded his chest and shouted.

-We don’t run away from a wizard! Watch!

The giant charged, and the air rushed out in front of him. Trees cracked and snapped, falling to the sides like they were made of twigs.

The Yacha said, as if he was surprised,

-Why can’t you young ones ever consider your own size?

The giant grabbed the Yacha, his big hands trying to hold him tight. The Yacha struggled, his muscles bulging as he tried to break free.

Then the Yacha smirked and said,

-You should have accumulated good karma. All you little whelps do is create neutral karma at best. What do you think you can do with that kind of power?

Lee Han was amazed by the supernatural flow of magic coming from the Yacha.

Rare races in the Empire were born with unique abilities that were hard to copy with magic, but the Yacha’s ability was very special.

The Yacha could turn good and bad karma into real power!

The Yacha could turn the good karma he had earned into his own power. The villains who fought the Yacha were forced to struggle with their own bad karma.

The giants didn’t have bad karma, but they didn’t have much good karma either, so they were being pushed back like that…

‘What an amazing ability,’ Lee Han thought.

Lee Han felt he understood why wizards were so interested in older magic or special powers, even after creating such great academic disciplines.

The strange flows and patterns that couldn’t be seen in magic were hard for a wizard to ignore.

-I’m going too!

-Ooh!

As their friend was pushed back, the giants rushed in to help. The Yacha laughed loudly and used his other arm to block the giants’ charge.

-Try harder! Go on, you little whelps!

-I’m going too!

Lee Han was worried when the giant carrying him on his shoulders charged forward.

He was glad that his friends were angry that they were being pushed back, but had he forgotten the little wizard on his shoulders?

-Ooh!

The Yacha crashed to the ground with a thud. Silence fell. The giants stared, mouths open. Lee Han, still clinging to the giant’s shoulder, blinked in surprise. Had they really won?

The giants themselves hadn’t expected this result, and they looked at each other in surprise.

-We won!

-We beat the old Yacha!

Lee Han used the Mystic Art of Suction to avoid falling from the giant’s shoulder, holding on tightly before finally climbing back up.

While the giants were excitedly clapping each other, the Yacha got up, looking surprised.

-What? What kind of good karma did you get in the meantime to become so heavy?

-The wizard’s cooking was delicious. My body has become that much stronger!

When the giant carrying Lee Han shouted proudly, the Yacha wondered what nonsense he was talking about, before noticing Lee Han.

-Why is a little whelp from Einroguard here?? And with giants??

Lee Han realized that it wasn’t normal to be so friendly with giants when the Yacha asked in surprise.

‘Were my friends surprised because of that earlier? No way. He’s a student from Einroguard, surely not because of something like this,’ Lee Han thought.

Lee Han answered, “I’m friends with the giants.”

The Yacha was surprised. -What nonsense…

-We’re friends!

-It’s friendship, old Yacha!

The Yacha waved his hand as if he had a headache from the giants’ voices.

Then he narrowed his eyes and glared at Lee Han, as if trying to guess how much power he had.

-Good karma… what…?

Lee Han asked, “Oh, have I accumulated a lot of good karma?”

The Yacha was surprised, -How can you not know if you’re the one who got it!

The Yacha judged that a wizard who had accumulated so much good karma couldn’t be a bad person, and the anger he had shown at first had disappeared.

-This is perfect. You young ones. Follow me. There’s something you can help with.

-We don’t listen to the old Yacha!

-Last time, you made us work and didn’t give us anything!

The Yacha sighed as if he had a headache and explained.

-Didn’t I tell you? If that glacier had been left alone, it would have collapsed and covered the cave where you sleep.

-If you make us work, you have to give us something!

The Yacha looked for Ikurusha when he couldn’t get through to them. -Isn’t Ikurusha here? Ikurusha?

Lee Han persuaded the giants. “Um. Everyone. Why don’t we listen to what he has to say first?”

From what the Yacha was saying, he didn’t seem like a bad person.

Rather, he seemed closer to Ikurusha.

The way he was frustrated with the giants’ words but still trying to take care of them…

-Hmph. Speak.

-We’re only listening this time.

The Yacha stared at Lee Han with wide eyes.

He couldn’t believe that an outsider, a wizard no less, could handle the giants so well.

-There’s someone causing trouble in the swamp. Because of this guy, the surrounding forest is dying. You young ones need to help out.

-Ha! Another trick! A trick!

Lee Han asked, “Um… if the forest is dying, doesn’t that mean the trees you guys like are dying too?”

-Is that so? What should we do then?

Lee Han said, “We have to stop it, right?”

-Hmph. I’ll help because I have no choice!

The Yacha seriously asked the young whelp from Einroguard, -Do you have any thoughts of working here instead of going back to Einroguard?