Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 714

“Take Wodanaaz with you. It’ll be good for him to see how things are done.”

“What?”

Sebius frowned. He looked like he thought the others were being silly.

“You know I prefer to work alone when relocating items.”

“Just this once. Please, just this once.”

“That’s right. He raided the Skull Headmaster’s villa, so his skills are proven, aren’t they? He won’t slow you down, senior.”

Sebius saw that the club members really wanted Wodanaaz to come. They kept asking, which was strange for them.

If he saw a big score firsthand, he might appreciate the club’s appeal.

‘If he wants to do it, he will… why all the fuss?’

Sebius never made anyone join or leave his club. He thought it was sad that other clubs in Einroguard tried to force younger students to join.

Still, as a fellow club member, he couldn’t completely ignore the others’ desires.

Remembering the dedication of the members who always stepped up, even in dangerous situations, Sebius slowly nodded.

“…Fine. If he wants to come, he can come.”

“Great!”

“Mr. Wodanaaz, this is a really good opportunity. You can learn a lot.”

‘Learn? Is that what you call it…?’

Lee Han, who had been listening to his seniors’ conversation, suddenly found himself being dragged along and thought to himself.

Of course, he was going to go anyway!

“You know the Invisibility Spell?” Sebius asked, glancing sideways at Lee Han as they walked. The evening twilight was deepening around Einroguard, painting the stone walls in shades of grey and purple.

“Yes,” Lee Han replied, a little nervously.

Sebius stopped suddenly, his eyes widening slightly in surprise. “Really?” he said, a hint of disbelief in his voice.

A junior who had only just become a second-year knew the Invisibility Spell.

Indeed, the guy who raided the Skull Headmaster’s villa was different.

“Let’s wait here for a moment.”

Sebius stopped in front of the stairs leading from the 7th to the 6th floor and sat on a nearby flat rock.

Lee Han was puzzled.

‘Wasn’t he going to raid a secret vault?’

Lee Han was going with Sebius to learn how things were done. He wanted to get information from his senior.

Basically, Einroguard’s food chain meant that the lower the grade, the more prey you were to the seniors.

There was a difference in magical skill, but also a big difference in information.

Seniors knew many strange places and rules that younger students didn’t know.

Lee Han was planning to help Sebius with his work and get some information on the vaults and workshops that the seniors frequented.

But why were they waiting here?

“Is there another way down from the 7th to the 6th floor?”

“Quite a few. The 7th floor is large, so there are many strange shortcuts and side paths. There’s even a path that leads to the Skull Headmaster’s room, apparently.”

“Is that true?”

“I wouldn’t know. I’ve never seen it… Wait. Someone’s coming.”

Sebius spotted a White Tiger Tower student walking in the distance and prepared himself.

“Invisibility Spell.”

“Yes.”

The two quickly cast the Invisibility Spell. Sebius was puzzled to notice that Lee Han’s Invisibility Spell incantation was much faster and different.

‘Where did he learn that?’

Usually, the Invisibility Spell that Einroguard students often used was the 3rd circle spell, >Lesser Invisibility>.

It was a spell that thinly layered an optical camouflage around the caster, and it was widely used because it was the easiest to learn and cast among the various Invisibility Spells.

But the spell the junior had just used was not >Lesser Invisibility>. The incantation was different, and so was the structure. He wondered where he had learned it.

‘Hang on. I need to concentrate.’

For a thief, feeling too sure of yourself was very dangerous.

“Illusion, appear!”

Sebius muttered in a low voice as he took out a scroll and tore it, and an illusion began to emerge from the bottom of the stairs.

It was, surprisingly, the Skull Headmaster’s Death Knight.

-You thief, stop right there!

“Ugh… Ack!”

The White Tiger Tower student who was walking by was horrified to see the Death Knight and fell over.

Then, he threw all the luggage he was carrying to the side to lighten his body and grabbed only one sword.

“Tch. How did he know? In this case, I won’t just get caught! Come! Sword, transform and block the enemy!”

The White Tiger Tower student’s sword changed shape. It flowed like water and became a wave, hitting the Death Knight.

At that moment, the Death Knight’s illusion disappeared. The White Tiger Tower student’s eyes widened.

“What… Which guy is playing tricks… Skull Headmaster, you son of a… Just you wait until I graduate! I’ll find you and attack you!”

The White Tiger Tower student cursed, thinking that the Skull Headmaster had set a trap to prank the students.

Then, he picked up the luggage he had thrown and trudged on again.

“!”

When he released the Invisibility Spell, Sebius had a book in his hand.

Lee Han was startled.

In that short time, Sebius had approached the White Tiger Tower student’s luggage and taken only the book he was aiming for.

“Amazing!”

“It’s basic. Relocating items doesn’t require fancy magic. You just need to be able to read the opponent’s actions.”

Sebius knew that White Tiger Tower students tended to throw their luggage to the side when they went into battle.

All he had to do was make them think that the Skull Headmaster’s minion had appeared, and they would throw their luggage to the side, making it easy to grab the book.

‘He’s a senior for a reason.’

Lee Han looked at Sebius with more respect than before.

He had thought of him as a greedy wizard who sold books from the library club and retrieved them from the relocation club, greedily copying gold coins…

“Let’s move. There are a few more books to retrieve.”

‘Hmm. I guess he’s still a greedy wizard who copies gold coins.’

Lee Han, who was following behind Sebius, asked out of curiosity.

“But senior, you said that the most important thing is to steal without getting caught.”

“That’s right. Not getting caught is the most important thing.”

“But if books keep disappearing, won’t they feel something is amiss?”

There was a reason why people said that if the tail was too long, it would get stepped on.

If only books disappeared from their possessions, even the dullest person would have to turn the arrow of suspicion towards the library club.

‘Is he going to use force?’

Lee Han thought of Illeg, the spectacled bear beastman senior.

If he had that kind of combat power, it wouldn’t matter if there were suspicions or complaints.

The Skull Headmaster was also buying all sorts of suspicions and complaints, but he was doing well.

“They won’t notice.”

“Yes?”

Sebius, who was always blunt and indifferent, was now showing a rare look of animosity on his face.

“The guys who take books from the library club fall into two categories. One is the people who take them and read them diligently. That’s fine. But there are guys who take them and just use them as pillows or alchemy pot stands. White Tiger Tower guys mainly do that…”

‘…I need to keep Gainando from meeting the library club members.’

“…Those guys don’t deserve to have books. I’m retrieving them from those guys. So no one notices. Even if they do notice later, they’ll think they lost them while wandering around.”

“!”

Lee Han looked at Sebius with surprised eyes.

He thought he was just a senior who was crazy about gold coins, but he had his reasons.

‘He steals back from the guys who take the books and don’t read them. That’s definitely something he would do… No, it’s still weird, but it’s understandable weirdness.’

An understandable crazy person is a little more approachable than just a crazy person.

Lee Han was just glad that the senior in front of him wasn’t just a crazy person.

“How about setting rules in the library club? Saying that you have to cherish the books you take and read them diligently.”

“Do you think they’ll keep them if I say that?”

“Won’t they keep them if you put a curse on the books?”

“……”

Sebius looked at his junior with a look of horror.

He thought he was joking, but he had a very serious face.

‘Isn’t this guy crazy?’

Come to think of it, he was so polite and gentle that he had forgotten that the junior in front of him was a talent that all the clubs wanted to take with them.

In Einroguard, outstanding talents always had a touch of madness.

Sebius raised his guard against his junior again.

“…That would cause a fight on a club level. And Illeg senior wouldn’t allow it.”

Illeg, who was the president of the library club, was a generous and tolerant person.

To the point where he would understand even if they took the books out and didn’t read them or damaged them.

-The library of Einroguard will disappear, and I will remake the damaged books and put them back on the bookshelf.

-But senior. Those bastards used the books as firewood because they were cold?!

-Let’s forgive them. They must have done that because they didn’t know the joy of books.

But even if Illeg forgave them, Sebius had no intention of forgiving them.

“Next is… that guy again.”

“Who is it?”

“Valpatan from the Moradi family. That guy borrowed the same book and lost it three times! If he was in the library club, he would be in big trouble.”

Sebius gritted his teeth as he looked at the name written on the paper.

Valpatan, who was in the same grade, was one of the guys who had turned Sebius’s stomach inside out since before.

The fact that he was from the White Tiger Tower was already a dislike, but he had even lost the >History of Imperial Swordsmanship> book three times.

The library club members were going to ban him from entering the library for the fourth request, but Illeg mediated and barely accepted it.

“……”

Lee Han managed his expression and turned his gaze away at the name of a senior he knew.

“Even if you saved it for the fourth time, won’t you read it?”

“I heard he’s using it as a pillow. Let’s go.”

‘Hmm. I guess it’s the fault of the other seniors.’

Sebius came down to the 6th floor.

Unlike the 7th floor, which had a completely different atmosphere, the 6th floor was the same as the school’s main building that Lee Han originally knew.

Endlessly long corridors and windows. Classroom doors and magic lamps hanging on the ceiling.

‘Don’t let your guard down.’

Basically, the higher the floor in the Einroguard building, the more dangerous it became.

Lee Han was prepared not to be surprised even if a monster popped out of the door or window next to him.

“This way.”

Sebius opened the window and jumped out. Lee Han was startled, but surprisingly, stairs began to appear in the air.

‘6th floor, aerial stairs.’

Sebius, who was walking down the stairs, stopped in front of another window and took out his wand. Then, he tried to open the locked window by casting a spell.

“Reveal the hidden secret…”

Sebius clicked his tongue as he tried to cast the spell.

“Is there a problem?”

“The White Tiger Tower guys must have increased their defenses in the meantime. It can’t be unlocked.”

“I’ll try.”

“Forget it. Let’s back off. It looks like they put a pretty expensive spell on it…”

Bang!

“I opened it. Can we go in?”

“…Yeah.”

Sebius gave his junior a look mixed with astonishment, suspicion, confusion, and so on, but, like a professional relocator, he didn’t waste time with unnecessary questions.

He could ask later.

Click!

“This is one of the warehouses used by the White Tiger Tower guys.”

Several armors and swords came into view. Each one was a magical artifact.

Of course, it wasn’t as neatly hung as a masterpiece. Some of the weapons clearly felt like failures.

“Don’t touch anything else. Find the book first.”

“Yes.”

Lee Han was impressed by Sebius’s patience. He didn’t take anything else even after seeing this.

Sebius took the >History of Imperial Swordsmanship>. As expected, it was being used as a whetstone stand in the corner.

‘I’m really going to kill him…’

“Senior. Who’s next?”

At his junior’s question, Sebius answered in a less blunt manner than before.

He couldn’t deny that he had been helpful this time.

“Professor Verdus.”

“Yes?”

“Professor Verdus. You don’t have to come if you’re scared. You’ve done enough…”

“No. I definitely want to go.”

“…?”