Surviving As A Mage In A Magic Academy [EN]: Chapter 916

Professor Garcia seemed to ignore what was just said. He then transformed the patrol officers into hamsters.

As the patrol officers entered the cage, now as hamsters, they squeaked loudly, seeming very happy.

“I’ll translate for you.”

“Shut up.”

After putting all the patrol officers in the cage, Professor Garcia used another spell to change their appearances.

The three of them now looked exactly like patrol officers.

“Markings checked… good. Am I too obvious, Mr. Leehan?”

“Professor, your skills are truly amazing.”

“Oh, it’s nothing, really. Ah, one last thing. Could you ask the patrol officers if there’s anything we should know about inside?”

Leehan told the hamster what the professor said.

The hamster squeaked at the other hamsters in the cage. They squeaked back, sounding angry. The hamster then started hitting them.

After a moment, the hamster gave an answer.

Leehan listened to the hamster, then said, “They say we shouldn’t act weak or humble. If they ask if you couldn’t even catch a slave, answer ‘Shut up before I sell you off as one.’ If it’s someone important, answer ‘I will capture a slave and offer them soon.’”

“……”

Leehan thought, ‘Is everyone here only interested in getting new slaves?’

Leehan nodded anyway. He knew that when entering a different time and place, you had to respect their ways.

“Excuse me…”

“Shut up before I sell you off as a slave!”

“Eek! I’m sorry!”

“Shut up before I sell you off as a slave!”

As they got closer to Isran City, people who saw the patrol officer’s uniform started coming up to them.

Each time, Leehan used the lines he had practiced to send them away.

“Whew. That wasn’t easy. Was I too obvious?”

“No, not at all, Mr. Leehan. You were excellent.”

Professor Garcia praised Leehan but thought to himself, ‘Is he doing too well?’

Garcia was a little surprised at how easily Leehan drove people away, as if he had done it many times before.

Professor Voladi nodded slightly, seeming happy with Leehan’s performance.

‘Am I the strange one?’ Garcia wondered.

“Then let’s keep going. I’ll look for a mage in the city.”

The group had a simple reason for entering the dangerous city: it was the easiest place to get information.

In small villages far away, it was hard to find anything out, even if you asked.

The group wanted to find the people in the city who were most likely to know things, which were the city’s mages.

‘I am getting worried,’ Leehan thought.

As he sent away people who tried to talk to him, Leehan thought about how this time of the ancient Three Kingdoms was truly a time where only the strong survived.

Classes were strictly separated, and nobles used fear and violence to control those below them.

Here, too, mages were nobles.

Sometimes slaves could use magic, but that was rare. People without the right family could not learn magic at all.

Nobles were mages, and mages were nobles.

‘Their personalities must be terrible,’ Leehan thought.

The patrol officer had threatened to enslave and sell him as soon as he realized Leehan was an outsider. Leehan couldn’t imagine how bad the mage nobles would be.

They would not be like his friends from the Blue Dragon Tower.

‘Should I have dressed up and pretended to be a noble? No, it wouldn’t have mattered anyway,’ he thought.

He wished he hadn’t looked like a slave because of his worn clothes, but even if he had dressed as a noble, he would have been found out quickly since he knew nothing about the city.

In the end, there was only one way.

‘I’ll have to use Professor Beggrec’s persuasion method even when I find a mage…’

He wondered why he kept using violence even though he had come to the past to solve a problem. But there was no other way.

The time was barbaric!

“I will capture a slave and offer them soon!”

Leehan bowed to a knight who was passing by. The knight was happy, thinking, ‘That patrol officer knows his manners.’

The hamster squeaked as if Leehan was pathetic.

“He says you’re a perfect patrol officer.”

“Oh. Thank you.”

“If that sounds like a compliment, your ears must be rotting.”

‘I even put a colleague in there, so why is he being so mean?’ Leehan wondered as he looked for directions.

According to the patrol officers and other people in the city, there were three mages in Isran City worth visiting.

First, the mages who ran the Hall of Waves in the harbor.

These mages were from a wicked captain who led the kingdom’s magical fleet. They used powerful sea magic to attack the coasts of enemy countries.

Next were the mages who studied magic at the Den of Metamorphosis near the city gates.

These mages were traitors from another kingdom who had impressed the kingdom’s nobles by creating a chimera with twelve different races.

Finally, there was the Hallway of Statues in the inner castle.

These mages were less destructive and cruel than the others, but they had a strange habit of capturing slaves and turning them into statues.

Professor Voladi suggested visiting the last mages.

“Let’s go there.”

“Are they the most subtly evil?”

“The building seems easy to attack by surprise.”

“……”

Professor Garcia wished he hadn’t asked and nodded.

The Hallway of Statues did seem good for a surprise attack.

Not many people went there, and there were no guards, except for the strange, human-like statues everywhere.

“Professor Garcia, I’ll leave it to you.”

“Yes.”

Professor Garcia waved his wand, knowing what to do.

The rules, formulas, and structure were different from the magic used now, but a great mage could understand it well enough.

Professor Garcia was a very skilled mage.

He could easily solve the magic here.

Leehan was impressed by the professor’s magic.

‘They put magic on the statues to stop anyone who tries to enter,’ he thought.

“Mr. Leehan, come here and take a look. I’ll explain it to you.”

“Ah. Do I have to remove it too?”

“Huh? No. I’ll do it.”

“??”

Leehan wanted to ask, ‘Then why are you explaining it to me?’ but he listened anyway.

He couldn’t ask why when the professor was teaching him.

“…It’s magic like this. Got it? If you’re curious when you go back, ask me and practice.”

“…Professor, are you explaining this to me because you think I’m going to practice this secretly??”

“Wh, what are you talking about, Mr. Leehan? It’s not like that? I’m just teaching my student as a professor?”

Professor Garcia stuttered and talked quickly, not making much sense. Leehan knew the truth.

‘What an absurd idea,’ he thought.

Still, ancient magic was strange and new, so it was interesting. Leehan remembered what he had learned.

“Let’s go in.”

“Yes.”

The three of them entered the hallway after making sure it was safe.

They saw a mage who looked familiar.

“……”

“……”

The mage looked like an old statue, and blood was dripping from his hands. There were dead bodies all around, wearing the clothes of mages from the hallway.

“I have no choice. I’m sorry.”

The young skeleton headmaster, who had been caught, apologized and tried to move.

Leehan felt the power of his movement and quickly shouted, “Wait! We’re not enemies!”

It seemed hard to persuade him with words. Leehan quickly removed his disguise magic.

The young skeleton headmaster stopped when he saw Leehan’s beggar clothes instead of a patrol officer’s uniform.

“You’re not from around here, are you?”

“Yes. W, we are… visitors from another dimension! Please hear us out!”

“Hmm.”

The young skeleton headmaster thought for a moment and lowered his hand. Then he said to Professor Voladi, “Come out of hiding!”

Professor Voladi obeyed and appeared. The young skeleton headmaster looked confused.

“That magic seems like my family’s magic…”

“That’s right. Because I learned it from you.”

“??”

“I’ll explain after cleaning up the bodies.”

The young skeleton headmaster’s face turned red.

“I didn’t want to kill them, but…”

“I know. They must have been acting cocky, right?” Leehan said.

The young skeleton headmaster was royalty, but only of a small country.

The mages of this strong kingdom would naturally be rude to him.

The young skeleton headmaster must have been visiting quietly for magical reasons and gotten angry at the insults.

“That’s not it.”

“Huh? It’s not?”

“I came to rescue the innocent people trapped here,” the young skeleton headmaster said.

Killing people for acting cocky? What nonsense!

“…Who are you… Mmph!”

Professor Garcia quickly covered Leehan’s mouth, who was about to shout in shock.

“Haha. Please forget what I just said!”

“???”

After cleaning up the bodies in the hallway and settling inside, Leehan and his group began to explain to the young skeleton headmaster.

“So, in our world, you become a great mage who will be remembered in history. You run a magic school, and we are students from there…”

“Incredible!” The young skeleton headmaster trembled, his face full of joy.

“To think that even a lacking mage like me could have such a future!”

To a mage who understood prophecy magic, another version of himself in a different world was not hard to believe.

The young skeleton headmaster was touched that he would be teaching students in the future.

All he was doing now was attacking evil mages, which was not important.

To think that he would be raising students with love!

Just thinking about it made him feel energized. He felt like he could keep attacking evil mages.

“What kind of place is that magic school? Is it a warm and loving place?”

“……”

“Ah, that is.”

Since the professors couldn’t answer, Leehan had to lie.

“It’s very warm and loving. There’s even a song: ‘Einroguard. Einroguard. It’s so good. A place with warm meals and a fluffy bed. Einroguard.’”

“That’s a great comfort,” the young skeleton headmaster said happily.

Even though he could only attack evil mages now, someday he might be able to raise mages with love.

Just thinking about it made him feel energized again. He felt like he could continue attacking evil mages.

“…Did we come to the wrong place?”

“Get a grip, Mr. Leehan. We came to the right place,” Professor Garcia said, trying to stay focused.

This was the young skeleton headmaster, even though it was hard to believe.