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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 1057

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Chapter 1057

'Why is that bastard here?'

Though he didn't yet know who had brought him, Kitarenanoom was indeed an experienced magic criminal.

He wasn't reckless enough to face a powerful combat mage while not fully recovered.

If something seemed strange, run away.

This simple principle was surprisingly rare among imperial criminals.

Kitarenanoom packed all his belongings spread out in the small room, then walked to the storage room at the end of the corridor and swept up dried meat and bread.

Then he ran to the underground escape route wearing an invisibility curtain.

'Good luck, Ibinta! May a thief's fortune be with you!'

"Strange."

Actually, Professor Boladi hadn't come here looking for Iron Cloak Ibinta.

He had discovered the ruined town while looking for a ranch owner who had fled to the nearby forest.

"Indeed it is. There's even far-sight magic installed there."

Yi-Han noticed magic installed on the ruins' debris with his keen senses.

There was a strange dissonance where the mana flow seemed different nearby.

Jijel stared at her friend's words.

"Why?"

"Nothing."

Her friend's senses were increasingly climbing into the realm of monsters rather than humans.

Perhaps by next semester he would be closer to professors than people...

"Wow. Whoever it is must be really stupid."

Gainando sneered.

Setting such detectable magic nearby was like shouting 'I'm here!'

Of course, this was an unfair insult to both thieves and Kitarenanoom.

For the thieves, the magic criminal had caused trouble arbitrarily...

...and from Kitarenanoom's position, he had things to say too.

-Is the monster one who finds magic hidden in such places by sense alone, or are you saying I should have disguised it?!-

With serious injuries already, he had no mana to spare for such things.

"Could it be magic set by the ranch owner hiding in the forest?"

"No. The magic level is high."

Professor Boladi shook his head recalling information about the ranch owner.

He was someone who had secretly imported and sold forbidden variant cockatrice eggs then fled after causing an accident - someone with high magic level wouldn't cause such accidents.

A typical amateur's accident.

"There are traces in the town."

"Traces?"

Yi-Han asked puzzled.

He hadn't felt any particular traces in these ruins besides magic.

"The debris is artificial."

"!"

Yi-Han was greatly surprised at the professor's answer.

Rather than dismissing it as accumulated dust and broken debris, to discover artificial regularity there.

Ruins untouched by human hands should be irregular.

'Indeed.'

"There may be people hiding underground."

After saying this, Professor Boladi said he would check the forest so wait for now.

"Yes."

"Understood."

Yi-Han and Jijel answered immediately. Gainando happily sat on a nearby rock.

'Hehe. This one will be easy.'

"Has he gone?"

"Mm."

"Then let's go."

At Jijel's words, Yi-Han nodded and approached the ruins.

Gainando, who was just about to rest on the rock, shouted in surprise.

"Where are you going?!"

"Going to catch those hiding underground before the professor comes."

"..."

Seeing Yi-Han and Jijel speaking as if this was natural, Gainando wondered if he was the strange one for a moment.

'Am I the strange one?!'

Professor Bagrak had clearly said to wait...?

"Y-Yi-Han. Did you perhaps fight with Professor Bagrak?"

"No. If we had fought, I wouldn't be this fine."

'That makes sense.'

Jijel inwardly admired.

It was certainly logical reasoning.

"But why are you going in arbitrarily?"

"Hmm."

Yi-Han and Jijel exchanged glances.

Could they persuade Gainando without revealing they needed to hide information related to evil gods first to prevent Professor Boladi from going berserk?

"You know I'm crazy about challenges."

"Right. Completely crazy."

Jijel chimed in agreeing with Yi-Han's words. When Yi-Han stared at her, Jijel whispered in panic.

"Y-you are though."

"Seems there's some emotion mixed in... anyway thanks."

Gainando stared at the two then let out a deep sigh.

"Well. Yi-Han's always been like this. Let's go."

"..."

When his friend accepted so easily, Yi-Han wasn't sure whether to be happy or worried about his friend.

"Right. Then let's go in."

"But won't it be dangerous?"

"Not far from the capital and the town's not big, so there can't be more than a dozen or so people."

Yi-Han checked for danger with crystal top divination. Looking at the results, it didn't seem that dangerous.

"Rise, golem made of bones."

After summoning the dragon tooth golem, Yi-Han ordered Gainando to call his summons too.

While preparing for battle together, Jijel thought inwardly.

'But how does he plan to find the entrance?'

Though the town wasn't very big, if there was a hideout hidden in such ruins, finding the entrance wouldn't be as easy as expected.

Moreover, just looking at their disguise skills showed they weren't amateurs. Without a hunter like Professor Boladi, the dissonance wouldn't have been noticed.

"Ready?"

"Yes. But how do we find..."

Yi-Han started firing large water orbs indiscriminately at the ruins' floor.

As he recklessly fired relying on mana until it worked, the surroundings became as noisy as large hail falling.

Crash!

Finally one unlucky floor collapsed revealing itself. Yi-Han expanded the hole then jumped inside.

"..."

Then he met eyes with twenty heavily armed thieves surrounding the area.

Both Yi-Han and the thieves were greatly surprised.

"Intruder...!"

"More numbers than expected! Everyone be careful! Split, Ferkuntra's thunderbolt!"

"Aaagh! You crazy mage bastard!"

Seeing the mage firing chain lightning too quickly for someone surprised, the thieves screamed and retreated behind the passage.

"Gainando! Don't come down, just send your summons!"

"Stop talking and concentrate!"

Jijel who had somehow come down hit his back and shouted.

The hideout's scale was much larger than they thought above. From the number of thieves who just fled to just looking at the passages, its scale and quality could be felt.

Passages carved from rock, walls that could be blocked. Plus all sorts of traps. This wasn't time to worry about the prince above.

Bang bang bang bang bang-

Throwing knives flew from all directions, perhaps already activated by the fleeing thieves.

Yi-Han had the dragon tooth golem destroy walls and devices, and blocked remaining attacks with telekinesis.

"What kind of fortress is this?!"

"We were too hasty!"

Jijel realized her mistake.

She had looked down on the opponents too much while only focusing on Wardanaz's goal.

She had thought those hiding in such a town wouldn't be that impressive but...

'Still far to go. To be careless like this!'

Click!

The entrance they had come through suddenly closed and walls on both sides newly opened. Then thieves charged in with battle cries.

Jijel neutralized approaching thieves while viciously spraying her sword. As cold waves burst with each swing, the thieves ground their teeth and shouted.

"Mages! Get cold resistance potions!"

"Wardanaz, some support...!"

Jijel, who had been pushing to sweep away the enemies here then go back up, felt something strange.

Her friend who should be pouring magic with several times her firepower was quiet.

"...I call upon you!"

Along with massive spatial distortion, the Thunder King revealed his fierce majesty tearing apart the underground fortress's bedrock.

Jijel shouted in shock.

"You summoned a spirit king?!?"

"The... the opponent was stronger than expected."

Yi-Han was certainly an outstanding Einroguard mage.

The moment predictions went wrong, instead of stubbornly persisting, he deployed the strongest force he could use.

Of course it might look like using a dragon-slaying sword to kill a chicken but...

-Amazing! To think you would call me for such a reasonable reason! Why not do this usually!-

Ferkuntra, summoned for a reasonable reason for once, very excitedly began sweeping away the underground fortress.

Seeing devices and passage barriers likely bought expensively from dwarves flying away to natural disaster, Jijel unconsciously felt sympathy.

'Though they're thieves, they really have bad luck...!'

"Professor! Professor!"

Gainando was about to run shouting toward the forest right away.

When the last open entrance closed and his friends' figures disappeared, Gainando fell into complete panic.

However, Professor Boladi suddenly revealed himself beside him as if he had been there from the start.

"!??!"

Gainando who had fallen over blinked wondering if he saw wrong.

But it was indeed Professor Boladi.

"Wh-when did you come?!"

"Was waiting over there."

Professor Boladi explained calmly.

His disciple had been acting strangely recently, and Professor Boladi couldn't help but notice.

He had predicted they would charge in arbitrarily right when he left saying he would search the forest.

"Th-that...! Though Yi-Han has been doing reckless life-risking things lately, that's how he originally..."

Gainando who was about to say Yi-Han was originally like that trailed off.

Though he had kept denying it for friendship, honestly Yi-Han did seem a bit strange lately.

Could he still be affected by the shock of losing to the principal?

Rumble rumble rumble!

"Wh-what's that sound?"

"He summoned the Thunder King."

From the sound and powerful spirit's energy from below, Professor Boladi immediately guessed the situation.

The Thunder King was the only spirit his disciple would summon in that situation.

...Though it sounded a bit strange using it just to fight thieves, thinking of his mana quantity it wasn't that strange.

"Then... what about the lesson?"

"Lesson?"

"Weren't you planning something like going in to help, then Yi-Han reflecting and saying he won't go to dangerous places anymore?!"

Professor Boladi slowly shook his head.

Gainando's elaborate plan was far from Professor Boladi's original thoughts.

From the start, thieves hiding in such places couldn't corner his disciple enough to make him reflect.

Even now he had immediately summoned the Thunder King.

Professor Boladi had just been waiting in case of unexpected situations.

Hearing his friend couldn't learn a lesson, Gainando made an expression like being struck by lightning.

'No!'

"Professor! You need to scold him sternly!"

"I'm not sure."

Professor Boladi was skeptical.

You can lead a horse to water but can't make it drink.

His disciple's personality wasn't docile enough to listen when told not to do something.

Especially since Professor Boladi himself hadn't listened as a student.

"He keeps trying to subjugate alone lately?! Plus recently he seems fixated on evil god worshippers, who tries to subjugate evil god worshippers alone!"

Stamping his feet angrily, Gainando didn't see Professor Boladi flinch.

Actually he wouldn't have noticed even in a calm state.

"With thorough planning and iron will it's not impossible..."

"It is impossible! Only a complete madman would do such things!"

"..."

Professor Boladi hesitated slightly.

Trying to refute but ultimately giving up.

"You may be right."

"Right?! Professor you need to tell him that!"

"Which order? Prahgal?"

The order his disciple had the worst karma with could be said to be this order of life-overflowing chimeras.

It wouldn't be strange to be absorbed in subjugation taking advantage of break.