Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 837

Ihan was now with his friends from Blue Dragon Tower.

The students from White Tiger Tower looked angry and started to shout.

“Do you really think you can cure Wodanaz?”

“Maybe Phoenix Tower could, but you guys aren’t that much better!”

It was true that White Tiger Tower students were better at healing magic than Blue Dragon Tower students.

Students from White Tiger Tower wanted to become knights or work in jobs where fighting was important. Healing magic was very useful for these jobs.

Since they often practiced fighting, the White Tiger Tower students became very good at healing.

“We’ll be better than you, so don’t worry!”

“Our sincerity is different from yours!”

The Blue Dragon Tower friends laid Ihan down and tried to pull out the twig he was holding.

But it didn’t come out, just like before.

“It must be this twig, right?”

“Do we really have to remove it?”

“No way. How did Wodanaz get this?”

The students gathered there each held a twig.

There was a difference in speed, but in the end, they all received a twig as a gift from the forest.

Some, like Gainando, received it too quickly, and some, like Ihan, received it too late…

‘If we burn this, won’t Wodanaz burn us when he wakes up?’

Everyone knew how much Ihan had struggled to receive the twig.

Even while resting after getting the twig, Ihan kept walking around.

At first, the friends thought, ‘Hey, Gainando got it right away, so he’ll get it soon too,’ but as Ihan wandered the forest for nearly three days, their faces changed, and they whispered.

-Shouldn’t we stop him?

-I tried talking to him, but he didn’t answer. It looks like he’s under some kind of spell.

-Wodanaz doesn’t get affected by magic, does he?

-It looks like he cast a spell on himself.

As they watched him worriedly, Ihan suddenly collapsed.

The friends who were gathered, waiting for when he would receive it, were shocked and ran over.

-Oh no! Wodanaz!!

-The forest is catching Wodanaz!

-What did I say! Wodanaz is hated by spirits, so it could be a trap!

Whether this could be called fortunate was debatable, but Ihan was holding the twig in his hand. In the end, it seemed he had succeeded in acquiring it.

The problem was that he couldn’t get up after acquiring it.

“Energy-boosting potions didn’t work. Awakening magic didn’t work either…”

“Wasn’t there a fairy tale about a princess who fell after eating a poisoned apple? How did she wake up?”

“The dwarves brought a black magician and turned her into a lich. Hey. Is this the time to be talking about such absurd old stories?”

Gainando scolded his friend with a serious face, and the students were taken aback.

They were twice as embarrassed when a friend who was usually not right in the head said something sensible.

When nothing else worked, the Blue Dragon Tower students decided to try their strongest magic.

“Hmm. I have a >Magus Aheman’s Mana Rotation> scroll here. It requires three people to activate.”

According to the recorded document, >Magus Aheman’s Mana Rotation> was a spell that quickly moved the magic inside someone.

This spell was supposed to quickly move the magic inside someone. This fast movement would push away any bad magic or curses.

Of course, because the magic was strong and needed a lot of mana, three magicians were needed.

Gainando immediately raised his hand and volunteered.

“I’ll do it.”

“Okay. Then let’s have Adenart, Dalcard, and Kirak do it.”

“…Hey!”

Gainando started jumping up and down like a frog, waving his arms and shouting, “But I’m from the black magic school!”

It was an expensive and precious scroll, so once it was used, there was nowhere to get it again.

“Magus Aheman is a black magician! I, from the black magic school, should do it!”

“Magus Aheman, your junior will…”

‘Who’s the junior!’

Gainando grumbled inwardly.

They were casting the spell without him, and they weren’t even from the black magic school.

Thump!

“…Ugh!”

“Ack!”

“…Ugh.”

The three students stepped back with groans. All three were pale, as if their mana had been depleted.

“Potion! Bring a potion!”

“Here. Drink!”

The scroll, which had already been used, had turned black and turned to ashes.

The friends asked carefully.

“How is it? Does it seem to be working?”

“No… Wodanaz has too much mana, so it didn’t even budge, and the scroll just burned up. We almost depleted our mana.”

The Blue Dragon Tower students looked at Ihan with a renewed sense of awe.

What kind of guy is that?

Gainando jumped up and down again and said.

“That’s why you should have left it to me!”

“…Lagesa, ma’am. Won’t you give us some advice??”

The Blue Dragon Tower students called out to the pirate old woman who was watching from behind.

Lagesa stopped taking out her snuff and said.

“I told you. Just wait.”

“……”

Is that even advice!

“Shouldn’t have asked.”

“Indeed. As ruthless and cold as a pirate.”

“There’s a reason why Professor Verdus invested in her.”

Gainando, who spat out the last curse, clung to her with a scream. Lagesa grumbled and said.

“I tell you, and you still complain. Then try hard.”

“Ha. I’m already doing that!”

Bartrec, one of the alchemy school students hanging from a large cauldron, shouted in frustration.

Siana also shouted, supporting the White Tiger Tower dwarf.

“If this potion is completed, even dead people will wake up, right?”

“Yeah. I told you to try hard, didn’t I?”

Yoner felt uneasy at Lagesa’s sarcasm.

‘…Do we really just have to wait?’

He had felt it before, but Lagesa was doing similar things to the Skull Headmaster.

Whether it was that old magicians all converged together, or that they deliberately told the truth and enjoyed watching people struggle in vain.

Nilia asked Retford with a worried face.

“This potion… I don’t think it’s too difficult for our level…”

“Don’t worry. I’ll check it before feeding it to him.”

The >Dragon Heart Elixir> they were making now was a powerful energy potion that had even revived dead people.

No matter what curse Ihan was under, the power of this potion would be enough to push it away.

The problem was that the difficulty of this potion was very high. At least a fourth-year student would be able to make this potion stably.

But they were hurriedly rummaging through their bags to make it for a fallen patient…

“How are you going to check it?”

“Just give him a drop.”

“To whom?”

Retford glanced at Gainando.

Nilia said in surprise.

“Th-that’s not right! That’s too much!”

“Yes? I thought Lagesa was a strong magician, so she would be fine even if she drank a drop of a poorly made potion… Everyone agreed.”

“Ah.”

Only then did Nilia realize that she had misunderstood.

She wasn’t looking at Gainando, but at Lagesa, who was hanging Gainando upside down and cackling.

“How are you going to make her drink it?”

“I’m going to put a drop in her tea. So, everyone be quiet even after it’s finished.”

The alchemy school students quietly whispered.

Lagesa was delighted, not even thinking that the second-year students were plotting to secretly put potions in her tea.

Giselle, who received the signal, exchanged glances with the other White Tiger Tower students.

“…Let’s go fetch water to boil tea while we wait.”

“Please get some for me too.”

“Why don’t you get it yourself, Lagesa, ma’am? You don’t even help your friends.”

“This is helping! And you seem to have forgotten, this daughter of Torgerd is a guest of Einrogard!”

“Understood.”

When Giselle glared and accepted, the White Tiger Tower students grumbled and followed her.

“It’s annoying to go get water, but we have to get water for someone like that?”

“She’s a complete thief.”

‘Hmm. Something’s strange.’

Lagesa suddenly stopped sending bird droppings at the fleeing Gainando.

The intuition she had honed over many years of fighting enemies at sea was warning her.

There’s a smell of conspiracy somewhere!

“Is it you, you brat? Huh? What are you hiding?”

“Stop shooting bird droppings and save Ihan! You’re like a magician who invested in Professor Verdus!”

“I don’t know about anything else, but I admire your guts!”

Lagesa exclaimed, sending horse dung instead. A magician with nothing had extraordinary guts.

Whoosh!

“Tutanta, what are you doing!”

“I made a mistake. I’m sorry, everyone.”

The Black Tortoise Tower students must have made a mistake while lighting the fire, as smoke spread throughout the camp.

Lagesa coughed and gestured.

“You’re so clumsy. Do it properly.”

“I brought the tea.”

The White Tiger Tower students had fetched water, and the Phoenix Tower students seemed to have brewed the tea.

When a student in a priest’s robe handed her the tea, Lagesa accepted the teacup without much suspicion.

Lagesa took a sip and noticed a faint scent that she hadn’t noticed before drinking it. She hadn’t noticed it because the surroundings were chaotic and smoky.

“…These, these brats are secretly feeding me the >Dragon Heart Elixir?! Are you using me as a test subject!?”

“She seems fine! Quickly, feed it to Wodanaz!”

“You wicked…! And the elixir is useless! Right now, in the realm of consciousness, they’re fighting to subdue another spirit…”

Ignoring Lagesa’s words, the friends hurriedly gave him the completed potion to drink.

At that moment, Ihan opened his eyes.

“…!”

“He’s awake, he’s awake!!!”

“Wodanaz is awake! Wodanaz is awake!”

“We did it!”

“What do you mean we did it…!”

Lagesa grumbled, feeling the mana in her whole body being abnormally amplified and circulated due to the elixir.

Lagesa knew that after the potion wore off, she might feel a bit strange for a while, like things were going back to normal too quickly.

‘But they’re quite something.’

To be honest, Lagesa didn’t think that the second-year students would be able to properly complete the >Dragon Heart Elixir> even if they put their heads together.

It was a tight time, and they were students from different towers. It was a situation where it was easy to fight rather than cooperate.

But these brats not only joined forces, but even those who hadn’t learned alchemy played their part.

The White Tiger Tower guys fetched water so they wouldn’t be suspected.

The Black Tortoise Tower guys made a fuss to dull their minds and senses.

The Phoenix Tower guys relieved Lagesa’s suspicion with the status of a priest…

‘…But is it okay for the guys in priest robes to do this?’

Lagesa moved on for now. This was something each denomination had to worry about.

“You brat. I knew you weren’t scared when you shouted. You were aiming for this.”

This Blue Dragon Tower royal was provoking her without sparing his body; he had an ulterior motive.

“What are you talking about! Let me down!”

“Okay. Okay.”

Thud!

Even in his sleep, Ihan’s hand gripped the twig tightly, as if it was the most precious thing in the world.

Ihan, who had woken up, looked at the camp set up around him and the friends gathered.

Looking at the twigs that everyone had taken, it seemed that Ihan was the last to take one.

“…How many days have passed here?”

“It’s the last day Kwangmok King promised. We have to leave today.”

‘We were here that long!?’

To think that they had been there for the entire permitted period.

Ihan shuddered, wondering if Kwangmok King had foreseen this as well. Meanwhile, Yoner hesitated and whispered.

“Ihan. That, the prophecy. The prophecy about the royal family and misfortune.”

“…Gasp!”

At his friend’s words, something suddenly flashed through Ihan’s mind.

Hadn’t Yukbertire touched Ihan when he recently made a staff?

“I knew it…! Anyway, the royal family is never helpful in life…!”

“……”

Yoner inadvertently checked his surroundings. Fortunately, Adenart and Gainando didn’t seem to have heard.

“I think I know what you’re trying to say. Yoner. My recent misfortune means we can’t help but suspect the prophecy, right? Yeah. Now that I think about it, I recently had contact with the royal family. No wonder I’ve been so unlucky.”

“That. You know. Can you listen without being shocked?”

“What are you trying to say? Did Gainando carry me on his back while I was passed out?”

“Uh… yeah. The princess too.”

“……”

“Wodanaz has collapsed again!”