Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 848

“I agree. Some members of the Location Transfer Club act as if they can just take anything they want from anyone…”

“……”

“…whether you agree with that or not, I believe at least this item rightfully belongs to our Einroguard student.”

“Exactly, Senior!”

Lee Han clapped, flattering Sebius.

Honestly, he would have tried to take the backpack even if it wasn’t his.

He needed that backpack so much.

“Shhh. We need to be quiet from here on out.”

Sebius carefully stopped walking and asked Lee Han,

“Have you ever been to the 5th floor?”

“No, I haven’t.”

“I figured. You wouldn’t have much reason to go to the 4th floor either.”

During their first year at Einroguard, students usually only went to the 2nd floor, and sometimes the 3rd, even when wandering around the main building.

Once they became second-year students, they could directly enter the 7th-floor village where the upperclassmen gathered, so the 4th to 6th floors were surprisingly rarely visited unless there was something special to do.

‘I went to the 4th floor a lot though…’

Lee Han wanted to say that he had often gone to the 4th floor since his first year, but he held back.

He didn’t want his senior to think he was strange.

“The fifth floor is like the fourth,

Strange classrooms, weird traps.”

“And the Headmaster’s creepy creatures.”

Sebius ignored him again, pretending not to hear. Lee Han felt a little left out.

“But the fifth floor *is* different in one way. It has guest rooms. If visitors aren’t friends with any of the school groups, they stay up here.”

Guests who were friendly with specific factions of Einroguard, like the Collarogard students, could stay in those factions’ magic towers, but sometimes there were guests who weren’t friendly with any of the school’s staff.

“Like those Valdorogard students?

Why don’t they stay in towers?”

“Valdorogard types? They wouldn’t last a night in a tower. Too easy for Einroguard students to reach them. They get bothered too much.”

“……”

Lee Han felt slightly sorry for them as a fellow Einroguard student.

“Anyway, the 5th-floor accommodations are quite safe. They’re invisible unless you’re a guest.”

According to Sebius’s explanation, the visitor accommodations located on the 5th floor were like a small village.

A small village that only those with guest status could reach.

Naturally, students who weren’t guests couldn’t reach that village no matter how much they wandered around the 5th floor.

“So. How should we approach a place like this?”

At his senior’s question, Lee Han answered confidently.

As a junior in the same faction and the same club, he had to show he was capable.

“We kidnap a guest. If we put that guest in the lead, a path will appear.”

“…that’s a useful method too, I suppose. I was talking about approaching from a different floor, though.”

If there was anything that even the Skeleton Headmaster couldn’t touch, it was the chaos within the Einroguard main building.

Magic in the building had been there for so long, it was wild and unpredictable. It didn’t follow normal rules.

Clever Einroguard students knew how to use this chaos.

“When space overlaps from one floor to another, opening a path, the surrounding magic naturally weakens. When breaking through a place with strong security, you have to approach from a different floor.”

“Ah, I get it. Thanks.”

Lee Han regretted it.

How much more impressive would he have looked if, instead of kidnapping a guest, he had said, ‘I’ll use the weakening of nearby magic when spatial overlapping occurs from one floor to another.’

‘Ugh. I should have thought a little more before speaking.’

Sebius took out a map from his pocket.

Every Einroguard student had their own map. It was too easy to get lost without one.

However, Sebius’s map was unique. It wasn’t of places, but of swirling lines and numbers, a chaotic web of overlapping times, marked in glowing ink.

“Is that overlapping time?”

Sebius nodded.

Sebius was picky about choosing wizards to work with on location transfer operations, but he couldn’t deny that this junior was an excellent partner.

If you excluded the disadvantage of still being a second-year student, it was hard to find such a capable person.

…So capable that it was scary!

“Originally, a path will open near that pig tower statue in 30 minutes.”

“Then why did you come this way?”

“A toxic swamp formed nearby, making it difficult to enter. The possibility of the path not opening has also increased.”

“……”

Lee Han changed the subject.

“What about here? The ceiling here is said to open in 47 minutes.”

“Someone broke the hallway here, so we can’t use it for a while.”

Sebius muttered a curse under his breath, as if dissatisfied.

Because some ignorant madman had smashed the 6th-floor hallway, another convenient path was blocked.

“……”

Lee Han quietly remained silent.

‘Is misfortune rushing in because of Gainando and Adenart?’

For some reason, he felt unlucky…

“So, we have to go in here, which opens in 1 hour. I’ll explain a few spells before we go in here.”

Sebius thought it was a good opportunity and started explaining.

Since his junior was also taking the >Advanced Illusion Magic and Spiritual Theory< lecture, it seemed good to explain the spells he was learning here. “First, >Ogonin’s Bewitchment>. It’s a 3rd-circle spell. It’s like whispering suggestions into someone’s mind, making them more likely to believe illusions.”

“Ogonin’s… Bewitchment…”

Lee Han listened diligently, taking notes.

A skilled illusion magician could literally control the opponent, but originally, controlling a creature with high intelligence was a really difficult task.

It usually took a lot of effort because you had to completely read their thoughts and accurately guide them.

It was more efficient to generally weaken the opponent’s resistance in this way and then let them imagine on their own.

“Next is >Ogonin’s Distortion>. Also a 3rd-circle spell. It’s like magic camouflage, making you blend into your surroundings.”

If you cast >Ogonin’s Distortion> on yourself in the Einroguard hallway in the middle of the night, you would probably look like a professor to the opponent.

The spell that disguised you in the most natural-looking appearance in that situation was >Ogonin’s Distortion>.

“These two spells are usually used together. There are many parts that are lacking with just one.”

“Both are spells that approach the soul, right?”

“…Yes. That’s correct.”

Sebius was inwardly impressed when Lee Han hit the nail on the head.

As you could tell from the fact that they were spells learned in this semester’s lecture, these two spells were developed to approach the soul, separate from their own effects.

The great illusion magician Ogonin had developed efficient and excellent spells so that later scholars could easily follow.

The performance of the spells themselves was good, and learning them also increased the accessibility to the soul, so Sebius couldn’t help but be impressed every time he saw the spells Ogonin had created.

“One approaches the enemy’s soul and disrupts the surface, and the other shakes the surface of one’s own soul to create waves… But are there no spells created by magicians other than Ogonin?”

Lee Han asked the question out of pure curiosity.

Then Sebius answered curtly.

“Are you saying you don’t like Ogonin’s spells right now?”

“Ah, no. I’m just curious.”

“…Sorry. I acted unbefitting of a senior. Sometimes there are juniors who ignore Ogonin’s spells, saying they’re boring.”

Sebius didn’t particularly like juniors who neglected the spells Ogonin had created and tried to learn other spells first.

That was a very foolish thing to do, being caught up in superficiality.

“I respect Ogonin too! I respect him a lot!”

Lee Han quickly shouted, afraid that his true feelings would be revealed. Sebius didn’t show it openly, but he seemed quite satisfied.

“Lastly, there’s >Ogonin’s Detection>. It would be easy to understand if you learned >Ogonin’s Emotion Recognition>…”

“I learned it.”

“…Oh, okay. Anyway, this is a spell that detects the waves emitted by nearby souls and catches hostility.”

To explain it easily, separate from the principle, it was a spell that detected the approach of surrounding enemies in advance.

All three were definitely efficient and convenient. Especially for members of the Location Transfer Club.

‘I definitely seem to have been too prejudiced against Ogonin.’

Lee Han reflected once again.

He had felt it before, but he seemed to have been too prejudiced because of his first meeting with Ogonin.

Perhaps it was because he had met the outstanding illusion magician Valdororn.

Next to the Skeleton Headmaster, even Alsicl of the Pengairin family felt like a new magician.

“These three spells are originally spells that you have to learn during this semester. You passed the lecture because you learned soul recognition in a different way, but it wouldn’t be bad to learn them later anyway. I’ll cast them for you today instead.”

“Oh.”

Lee Han, who had learned >Ogonin’s Bewitchment> and >Ogonin’s Distortion> while Sebius was explaining >Ogonin’s Detection>, paused.

Wasn’t he supposed to learn them now?

“…Just learn Detection too.”

“Yes… But Senior. Shouldn’t you have told me that first…”

“Be quiet.”

‘He’s being too harsh as a senior.’

Lee Han grumbled inwardly.

Zandani of the Alzadk family, a fourth-year student at Valdorogard, said with a sullen expression.

“I knew Einroguard wizards were great, but I didn’t know they could use magic like that.”

The Valdorogard students who witnessed the Ancient Magic Black Emperor’s Crown were quite shocked upon returning.

In particular, Zandani, who (in his own mind) prided himself on seriously studying magic, was even more shocked.

How could that Einroguard student use such magic?

“…There’s no need to be too intimidated. Even by Einroguard student standards, that magic isn’t ordinary. It must have been a very exceptional situation.”

Garal, the magician hired by the Valdorogard students, comforted Zandani.

It wasn’t originally in line with Garal’s personality, but what he said just now was sincere.

Magic like the Black Emperor’s Crown couldn’t be used carelessly, even by Einroguard students.

He must have used an exceptional method, like an ancient artifact.

“Are you deceiving me? That boy from the Wardanaz family definitely cast it casually.”

“…By the time you’re in 6th grade, you can probably maintain a casual expression. You can’t tell by appearances.”

Garal himself was a little confused as he spoke.

Honestly, he wanted to ask how he cast it.

‘If he used an ancient artifact, why didn’t I notice?’

Zandani finally cheered up at Garal’s words and the encouragement of the other students.

Well, if he was a 6th-grade Einroguard student, he might be able to understand it somehow.

“The time we can stay in Einroguard will be over soon. Is it okay to keep staying like this?”

“It’s okay. I’ve already seen everything I wanted to see on the first day. I should just relax and go back with the remaining time.”

“……”

‘Are these guys really wizards?’

Garal was inwardly dumbfounded.

When wizards visited other wizards’ areas, they were supposed to squeeze out every last drop and take it with them.

If they didn’t have that spirit of inquiry, they weren’t wizards.

Of course, it was a luxury to expect such desperation from the Valdorogard brats, but this was too lazy…

Regardless, the Valdorogard students sipped wine taken from a high-end leather bag and leisurely rested inside the accommodation. One was playing music, and the other two were elegantly enjoying wizard cards.

Garal wanted to punch them, even though he was being paid to work.

“…That backpack. I’ve been feeling it since last time, but it’s quite unique. It doesn’t seem like a ready-made product.”

“You have a good eye! That’s right. It’s a gift my senior’s senior received from an Einroguard magician. A token of friendship.”

“…??”

Can dragons and mice be friends?