Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 765

Chapter 765

"Didn't I say one time?"

Gainando looked at his friends proudly.

Raphael, who had also bet that it would be done in one go, didn't show it outwardly but had a subtly pleased expression.

'Heh. I got it right.'

"What kind of bet were you making?"

"Ah, no. I just answered when asked."

Raphael hurriedly answered when the senior from another magic school asked.

He was afraid of looking like a shameless person betting while his friend was preparing magic.

"What are you talking about? You cast it together too!"

"Shut up, you prince brat. Don't you have any tact?!"

"Kids. Be quiet."

Yi-Han glared at his friends.

He was concentrating all his mind on casting the newly learned magic, so why were they chattering so much?

"Tch. It's because of Raphael."

"Who's fault is this?!"

Seeing the two argue, Siana thought inwardly.

If they let this slide, maybe she wouldn't have to pay the bet money...

"Ah, no. I'm not saying anything about the bet itself. I'm just amazed at what you predicted. How did you know it would succeed in one go?"

"Usually Mr. Wardanaz succeeds in three or four times."

"Th-that's right."

The friends testified as if it was natural.

Agdung felt dizzy at the magical speed bordering on madness.

'Three or four times?'

Surely they wouldn't say such things about magic far below their level...

...And come to think of it, there was no magic far below the level for a 2nd year student like Yi-Han now. Things like minus circles didn't exist.

Gainando drove the final nail into the confused Agdung.

"Moreover, Yi-Han was kidnapped by the principal's mad doppelganger recently, right? That's why he cast it in one go."

"Who was what??"

Before an answer could come, Siana asked curiously.

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"Yi-Han's magic ability goes up when he's in danger!"

Gainando analyzed confidently.

It was something Yi-Han would grab his collar for if he heard, but Gainando was pushing this hypothesis.

This top student friend would fearlessly pull out and complete magic he said he hadn't learned yet when in dangerous situations.

Since it hadn't been long since he escaped from the principal's mad doppelganger, such concentration should still be maintained.

So Gainando boldly bet on one time.

'...That sounds plausible?'

Yonaire thought inwardly.

Although Yi-Han himself would hate the idea, it was a subtly plausible hypothesis to his friends.

Certainly, every time he went through danger, he showed knife-sharp concentration for a while as if he had been honed.

"The remaining areas are finished too. You guys, I told you to be quiet, so why do you keep chattering?"

While Agdung was shocked speechless, Yi-Han finished work on the remaining areas and approached.

Gainando quickly sold out the senior from another school.

"Senior Agdung talked to us!!"

"...Shh. Be quiet, you idiot."

Yi-Han glanced at Agdung, embarrassed by his friend.

If he was going to sell someone out, he should do it secretly, not blatantly in front of someone from another school.

"Senior Agdung. Could you check it please?"

"Uh, uh... uh. Uhhh."

Agdung checked the mushroom field, answering in a half-dazed voice.

Suddenly, the words his Kalaroguard juniors had left came to mind.

-Senior. When you visit Einroguard, please check what their dark magic school is like.-

-That's right! We want to compare whether we're outstanding or Einroguard's dark magic school students are outstanding!-

Kalaroguard students didn't easily back down even against Einroguard students when it came to dark magic.

That's how sincere they were.

If they were better, they would take it as pride.

If Einroguard students were better, they planned to take it as motivation for improvement...

'...I'll have to leave out Wardanaz.'

Agdung decided he would have to tell the story without Yi-Han when he returned.

He was worried that if he told what he experienced as it was, his juniors' hearts would break, never mind motivation for improvement.

  *

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: What cursed son of a bitch carelessly dumped contaminated materials?! The forest is being destroyed!!!

Eaktus: Accept it. It happens often.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Accept what? Go eat shit. You bastard going to 5th year!

Eaktus: Wh... What?! Are you done talking?!

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Why don't you accept it? This happens often too?

Eaktus: Seeing how you're blabbering, your magic skills must be as good as your tongue. Want to have a go?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Sure! Let's meet in the principal's office! Come to the principal's office! I'll be waiting!

'The seniors' quarrel is quite interesting.'

Yi-Han, who had finished work on the mushroom field and evacuated to the 7th floor town, watched <Sentinels of Einroguard> with interested eyes.

When Priestess Siana wanted to watch fights, he had worried 'Has Priestess Siana gone strange because of the year she spent at Einroguard?', but seeing this, he could understand a little.

It's interesting!

'Senior Beaver-Penguin-Fox cares for the forest and has a dirty personality.'

Alerts were quickly spreading among the students now on the 7th floor of the main building.

It was an alert that contaminated beings were rushing out en masse from somewhere and sweeping the surroundings.

Although the seniors weren't surprised and evacuated to the inner town because it was too familiar at Einroguard for someone's accident to cause a butterfly effect and rush over the entire school territory like a huge storm, that didn't mean they weren't angry.

Already, some seniors were venting their anger to the sky, saying 'I'll kill them if I catch them'.

Senior Beaver-Penguin-Fox probably had to give up and flee because of contaminated beings while doing something in the 7th floor forest.

'By the way, to say let's meet in the principal's office...'

Yi-Han honestly admired it as a good method.

He wanted to use that method if he received duel challenges or threats asking where he was in the future.

Eaktus: You ■■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■...

Gonadaltes: Why does it show up as ■?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: It's for the honor of the Sentinels club. The magic automatically covers such vulgar words so members can't see them. More importantly, does anyone have information about the contaminated beings? I'll buy it at a high price.

"!"

Yi-Han's eyes widened at the Sentinels club member's words.

A trade request.

Seeing how eager the other party was, the compensation seemed quite good too.

Gonadaltes: What kind of information do you need?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Anything that helps with extermination. Why. Gonadaltes. Do you perhaps have some?

Eaktus: Don't sell to such a rude bastard, Gonadaltes!

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: I'll apologize first. Eaktus. No matter what, saying to go up to 5th year was a bit too much.

Eaktus: Hmph.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Everyone, if you have information, contact me privately. As I said, I'll pay a high price.

'Hmm. The other party probably knows magic like <Contaminated Ones, Retreat!> too?'

Yi-Han fell into thought.

As this dark magic wasn't that secret, there was a high chance the other party knew it too.

And seeing how the other party was acting, they probably wanted to exterminate contaminated beings in the forest, but while the mushroom field was fine, the entire forest was too large in scale.

'Moreover, it should have been cast before coming.'

As hordes of contaminated beings were already roaming the 7th floor, this magic was too much.

"Senior."

"Hm. What?"

Yi-Han called Agdung, who was sitting beside him pretending to drink from an empty cup.

The group was now sitting in the <Hot Water and Cold Water> teahouse inside the 7th floor Exile Town.

This teahouse run by a 3rd year Black Tortoise Tower senior was almost identical to outside teahouses.

Except for the fact that tea brewed without tea leaves was served.

"Could you explain a bit more about those contaminated beings? Methods to exterminate them..."

"You, you! Don't tell me you're trying to exterminate them?!"

Agdung cried out in shock.

The horde of contaminated beings approaching the mushroom field earlier was just the beginning. If you looked outside the town walls now, their numbers had increased dozens of times.

And to think he wanted to exterminate that.

No matter if he was the Imperial Mage Administrator's disciple, wasn't this judgment too reckless?

"Heh. Senior. Yi-Han usually enjoys exterminating at times like this."

Yi-Han gestured to Yonaire with his eyes. Yonaire slapped Gainando's back instead.

"I'm not trying to exterminate them, I'm just purely curious and asking."

"You're curious even in this situation?"

Agdung's eyes now had a different, appalled look.

"No, I'm just curious..."

"Right. I see."

'There seems to be a misunderstanding.'

Yi-Han felt there was a misunderstanding between them, but as there were more urgent matters, he decided to explain later.

"First of all, those contaminated being hordes will disappear someday as time passes, right? Since the mana here on the 7th floor has strong homeostasis."

Einroguard's main building was a magical realm with so many magics cast that even the skull principal couldn't grasp them all, but there were a few grand principles.

One of those was homeostasis that tried to recover and return to the original state no matter what problem or accident occurred.

Just as the human body tries to maintain a constant temperature, the main building also tries to maintain its essence as much as possible.

Agdung, like an experienced dark mage, noticed that the hordes of contaminated beings were being rejected by the mana flowing on the 7th floor.

Such beings couldn't last long. Just as summoned undead disappear if they can't secure mana, those contaminated beings would eventually deplete themselves and scatter.

"I understand."

"Then the method to exterminate the contaminated being hordes has to approach that way too. Other methods would take too much effort. Do you remember the location of the wave you felt at the mushroom field earlier?"

Agdung took out a nearby map Professor Taswhan had drawn before and spread it out.

"If I remember correctly, there was a spring connected to groundwater in this direction? And as you know, things like groundwater are one of the easiest places to be contaminated when mages are nearby."

Although time would solve it, if the source of contamination remained, contaminated beings would keep coming out for a while.

If such sources of contamination were purified, that time could be greatly shortened.

"I see. Let me take notes for a moment."

Yi-Han called Beaver-Penguin-Fox privately and started laying out what he had just heard.

Gonadaltes: Homeostasis of 7th floor mana... time... method... contamination source... as far as I can tell... groundwater...

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: W-w-wait. Sir. Just a moment!

The other party's handwriting shook wildly as if they were about to faint in shock.

Much more useful information than expected was coming in so quickly.

'Who on earth is this???'

For a moment, it was chilling enough to wonder if it was really the skull principal.

Although he would say 'The principal wouldn't have the patience to do this!', every Einroguard student felt it inwardly.

The skull principal was not a being they could measure by their common sense!

What if he was really disguising himself to give students a great despair and lesson...?

'But this is information I absolutely need now!'

As he had belatedly noticed the attack on the 7th floor while focusing on other research outside the main building, Gonadaltes's information was like rain in a drought for Beaver-Penguin-Fox.

Gonadaltes: Don't interrupt. It's distracting while I'm writing. By the way, you're really not going to exterminate them, right?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Pardon?

Gonadaltes: Ah. I wrote that last part by mistake.

Yi-Han paused after transcribing Agdung's words verbatim.

'You're really not going to exterminate them, right?' was something said to Yi-Han himself.

"Don't worry, Senior."

"It seems you're asking too much in detail for just academic curiosity..."

Agdung looked at the Imperial Mage Administrator's disciple with suspicious eyes.