Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 498

Chapter 498

Chapter 498

'Is it really senior Direth?'

In fact, the question Yi-Han threw out was not with great confidence either.

He just suddenly thought of senior Direth while talking and asked.

But when the other party's answer suddenly disappeared, suspicion turned into conviction.

[Who is that?]

'It is indeed senior Direth.'

This time, when Yi-Han didn't answer, the other party wrote a few more lines. For some reason, it felt like they were talking incoherently.

[I don't know who that is, but the habit of throwing out any random name while probing the other person is not a good habit...]

[Senior. I am Wardanaz. The Wardanaz who shared the punishment room meal.]

The answer disappeared again.

Yi-Han slightly regretted asking thoughtlessly.

'Should I have just pretended to be Moradi?'

Come to think of it, as a junior, pointing out a senior's mistake was not a good habit.

Sometimes, one had to pretend not to know in order to be a loved junior.

[Why are you, a 1st-year, getting your hands on such an artifact...]

Direth finally gave up and admitted it.

The writing on the notebook looked unusually powerless.

—

Direth gave Yi-Han additional explanations about the artifact.

[It requires quite a bit of mana, so it will be drawing mana from the surroundings. That's why it can't move... You said you found it in a warehouse used by graduates?]

[Yes.]

[It would have been difficult to find such a thing by chance, how did you find it?]

[I asked a graduated senior who was trapped in the forbidden area of the punishment room.]

[...If you don't want to tell me, just say you don't want to tell me. Junior.]

Direth answered, slightly sulking.

'It's true though.'

Yi-Han felt wronged.

[Actually, I caught the Forest Mouse guarding the Polymorph Forest on the 3rd floor and threatened it, and it told me.]

[Ah. That mouse...! It's clever, right?]

"..."

Yi-Han was flustered by Direth's appearance of not doubting it at all and accepting it, even though he had thrown an absurd lie out of a sense of injustice.

'Does she really think that makes sense?'

It was enough to make one doubt how Direth thought of Yi-Han.

[Just now, do you really think that makes sen...]

[I have to go out soon too, so I'll quickly tell you what I need to say. First of all, if you get more of these communication artifacts, don't approach them recklessly like today. The seniors here at Einroguard are never kind to juniors.]

[You are so kind like this, but they are really bad people.]

[Shut up.]

Direth cut off Yi-Han's flattery with a single stroke.

1st-year students often had fantasies about seniors, as they usually had no contact with them.

-Since Einroguard is so dog-like, wouldn't the seniors be a bit better?-

-Since the professors are so trashy, wouldn't the seniors be a bit better?-

But if you think about it, there are many loopholes in that fantasy.

What kind of beings would the Einroguard seniors, who have gone through the same 1st-year life and moved up first, be?

They were the ones who could sell out their juniors without hesitation for their own survival and benefit.

Innocent students who had just moved up to the 2nd year could only gain the realization that 'Ah, here, seniors and professors are all the same' after experiencing being used to the bone a few times.

As such, Direth was a little worried about Yi-Han.

Of course, this boy from the Wardanaz family had extraordinary talent that could be counted on the fingers in many ways, but if only social experience was compared, it was difficult to keep up with the worn-out Einroguard seniors.

Moreover, as can be seen from the fact that he got his hands on a communication artifact this time, his talent in this aspect was rather poisonous.

Wouldn't he have many occasions to clumsily come into contact with seniors?

[I'll tell you a few rules, so remember them. First, approach strongly. You don't need to use honorifics or anything like that.]

[Should I try approaching while cursing a bit?]

[Not a bad idea. You can hide your background.]

'Oh.'

It was a joke, but Direth answered seriously.

Yi-Han nodded and took a memo next to him.

Yi-Han quickly changed his words because Ratford's eyes were too innocent.

"Ah. Ratford. Do you have anything to do right now?"

"Huh? No, I don't."

Ratford said, biting into a thick piece of cheese without much thought.

"Then sit in front of me and open an alchemy book. We can study together."

"...Ah, ah, come to think of it, there are still a lot of junk left over there. Please let me search a little more!"

"Hmm. Isn't that too much? I think it's greedy to try to do it all in one day..."

"You have to do your best to make progress little by little!"

Ratford ran away to the pile of junk. Yi-Han shrugged his shoulders and turned his gaze to the book.

[Water element combat magic is often easily underestimated, but its true value cannot be easily denied by any Imperial mage. Imperial mage Eumidiphos organized the classic water element combat magic and...]

[What is Water Bullet magic? To explain this, we must first talk about the underestimated water element combat magic... Imperial mage Eumidiphos...]

'Hmm. My skills haven't died yet.'

Yi-Han was slightly amazed at his own ability to densely insert the same content into different books.

Professor Bagrak or the skull principal might dislike such a useless preface, but originally, books should have such a preface.

There had to be consideration for the reader.

[...First, the following preconditions are necessary... Such a large amount of mana consumption is a disadvantage... To compensate for this, a means of mana amplification such as blood magic...]

'Is it too extreme?'

While writing an introductory book on , Yi-Han hesitated.

As he wrote that mana consumption was a disadvantage and that it needed to be compensated for, it seemed a bit extreme.

"Mr. Wardanaz?"

"Ah. Ratford. Are you going to study alchemy?"

"...Ah, no."

Ratford became a little scared of Yi-Han.

"There's a unique artifact here."

"!"

Yi-Han put down the quill and moved his steps to where Ratford was.

As the pile of junk was cleared away, a mirror firmly fixed to the floor was revealed.

The bronze mirror was very flawed, with a blurry outer surface, and it couldn't even properly reflect a face.

However, thanks to the notebook he had just dealt with, Yi-Han instinctively realized what kind of artifact this mirror was.

The mana wavelengths of the two were similar.

'It's a communication artifact!'

There was more than one in the warehouse.

Yi-Han approached the mirror with a curious gaze. And he activated it in the same way he had activated the notebook earlier.

"..."

"..."

However, unlike before, nothing happened.

'Is the connected artifact also in a state of having lost its owner?'

It was a sufficiently possible situation.

There were many abandoned places in Einroguard, and in that case, the artifacts connected to them would have been abandoned together...

Earlier, he was lucky that Direth had the connected artifact, and it was fortunate that she was nearby when Yi-Han connected, otherwise it would have been difficult to even hear a response.

"Hmm. Unfortunately. I thought I could talk to another senior."

"I will keep watch."

"No. It's something only the connected person can see anyway. Let's stop cleaning now and sit down to study."

"...Yes..."

Ratford sat down in front of Yi-Han, crestfallen. He instinctively felt that excuses would no longer work.

'Is the old saying that if you know alchemy, you can become an excellent thief really true? Is it a lie? Is alchemy really necessary?'

As he opened the alchemy book, skeptical thoughts trapped inside the book began to torment Ratford, wielding boredom.

Woong-

"!"

Yi-Han, who was wielding a quill next to him, was startled by the sound of the mirror vibrating.

"It's here!"

"Let's go see!"

"No. You finish studying what you were doing."

"..."

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