Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 950

Chapter 950

Beaver-Penguin-Fox, Ilendil, was dumbfounded.

Currently, Ilendil was not inside Einroguard but outside. To be precise, she was in the pocket of a student going outside.

As soon as she learned that dangerous guys were involved, she had immediately taken action.

'...I almost broke the bottle...'

By fourth year, many students often had a means or two to escape Einroguard in emergencies, but that didn't mean escape was easy.

What Ilendil had chosen was to hide inside a glass potion bottle using the power of spirits.

Of course, she had secretly entered without telling the student owner, and she couldn't be discovered.

Ilendil held back her bewilderment and moved the chalk again.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: There must have been some misunderstanding.

Gonadaltes: I checked his identity and it's definitely Akdin.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: ...

Confused, Ilendil grabbed her hair tangled with twigs and pondered deeply.

Though Gonadaltes was a crazy bastard (especially in naming), he wasn't the type to put on airs with nonsense in this kind of situation.

Did he really catch him?

There were indeed many notorious figures among the mercenaries who moved this time.

However, if she had to choose the one most likely to be the leader among them, Three-Finger Akdin had the highest possibility.

He was cunning and persistent, having caused all sorts of major incidents like <Garam's Madness> and <Flame Waterfall Raid> and still escaping safely.

To say he caught such a guy out of the blue.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: He's skilled in all sorts of deception and tricks. He has a lot of escape experience too... Check again if it's really Akdin.

Gonadaltes: Ah. I checked. I ambushed him, but it just happened to hit directly on his artifact and shattered it. He must have let his guard down, his reaction was slow too.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Is that all?

Ilendil asked again, unable to believe it.

For a mercenary notorious for being cunning and persistent to be caught off guard like some novice?

Gonadaltes seemed annoyed and started to get irritated.

Gonadaltes: Then don't believe me. What do you want me to do? Come and check for yourself?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Well. I'll apologize first. Given who we're dealing with, I ended up asking persistently. The guys aiming for the swan songs are quite dangerous, so I'm heading to Granden City too.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox had planned to directly inform the mages and knights of Granden City and catch the mercenaries.

Originally, she had intended to exclude uninvolved students from this matter, but seeing Gonadaltes's strength, she changed her mind.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Gonadaltes. Would you like to cooperate and move together?

"!"

Yi-Han was surprised at the unexpected proposal.

A cooperation proposal?

'We do need to catch the guys who escaped, but to take action directly?'

Yi-Han was a bit puzzled to see a senior who seemed like she would only enjoy gardening in a corner of the forest, not Professor Bagrak, step up like this.

Gonadaltes: If you have information, can't we leave it to the people of Granden City?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Of course I'll leave some of it to them, but we can't just rely on those people. And it's too good an opportunity to pass up.

Gonadaltes: What do you mean by too good an opportunity?

To the puzzled Yi-Han, Ilendil explained in detail.

There were two reasons why Ilendil was directly taking action now.

One was that as a mage of Einroguard, she couldn't just sit still trusting only other mages, and the other was because of the relics the mercenaries had.

If Gonadaltes cooperated, she intended to fairly settle not only the promised reward but also these relics.

'No. How does this person know about this?'

Gonadaltes: Alright. I can cooperate as a fellow Einroguard student. But in return, I'd like you to help me a bit in the club from now on.

Ilendil frowned at the sight of the other party adding more conditions.

The promised reward and settlement of obtained relics were sufficient as trade conditions. To be greedy for more here.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: That doesn't add up. If we cooperate, there's the reward and relics. I don't understand why you're adding more.

Gonadaltes: Think about it carefully. If we cooperate, we'll be able to guess each other's identities to some extent.

It was true.

Even if they disguised themselves and hid their identities, they would inevitably be able to guess by watching each other use magic up close.

'Why is he saying such things?'

Gonadaltes: But I already know your identity. It's only me revealing my identity, so isn't it my loss?

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: ...Don't talk nonsense.

Ilendil barely came to her senses and replied.

This cunning bastard was putting on airs to extract more.

No matter how she thought about it, Ilendil had never revealed her identity in the Sentinel club. Moreover, wasn't Gonadaltes a relatively late joiner?

Gonadaltes: Even if you say that, knowing is knowing.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Go ahead and say it. If you guess correctly, I'll unconditionally help with Sentinel club matters from now on.

Ilendil snorted.

There was no way the other party would guess correctly...

Gonadaltes: Senior Ilendil.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: ...

Gonadaltes: I'm right, aren't I? Please help me when talking on the artifact from now on. Help me curse Eaktus too.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: Howdidyou?

Gonadaltes: We'll talk about that when we meet later. More importantly, senior, how did you find out what the mercenaries are planning?

Yi-Han asked what he didn't understand.

For Ilendil to know something that even Yi-Han, who had been going around Granden City, didn't know at all.

He couldn't understand how she had found out by what method.

Beaver-Penguin-Fox: A spirit controlled by one of the mercenaries came to me and told me.

"..."

Yi-Han opened his eyes wide in shock.

How on earth was such a thing possible??

  *

"Everyone. Gather around."

Yi-Han called his friends with a serious expression.

From the collapsed mercenary earlier, the friends who realized the situation was unusual quietly gathered.

"It's surprising, but even the spirits you control can betray you. Check the contract details carefully."

"Wh-what are you talking about?"

"Weren't you talking about that mercenary?"

"We'll talk about that too now."

Yi-Han relayed exactly what he had heard from the senior.

Surprisingly, the reason these mercenary groups were rampaging now was because of evil god worshippers.

It was easy to think that evil god worshippers would move alone, but in fact, grand plans needed many minions.

The mercenaries who came to Granden City this time were also those who had received large sums of gold coins from evil god worshippers and followed.

-We have somewhere else to go from now on. You take this relic and deliver it to your comrades.-

'Are they idiots?'

It was a very perplexing statement from the mercenaries' perspective.

What on earth were they trusting to hand over relics to mercenaries?

Even watching from the side wouldn't be enough, yet to just readily hand over relics.

The mercenaries nodded willingly, planning to sell the relics on the black market right after separating.

-Alright. We'll do that.-

-As promised.-

-Yes. We promised.-

The mercenaries who received the relics snickered and prepared plans to leave the city that day.

Doing a few odd jobs and getting gold coins plus ancient relics. There had never been such a profitable request.

However, that night, a monster summoned by evil god worshippers descended on Granden City, and simultaneously, a terrible curse manifested on the mercenaries who had received the relics.

Obey... the orders...

The symptoms were hallucinations and auditory hallucinations of the evil god.

If they didn't follow orders, the curse immediately spread throughout the mercenary's body and gripped their heart.

The mercenaries then realized they had been deceived by the evil god worshippers. There had been an action among their actions that triggered the curse.

With bounties on each of their heads, they could be exposed at any time due to the palace monster descent incident.

Though they needed to escape as quickly as possible, the mercenaries couldn't do so and followed orders according to the evil god's voice.

Raiding the store and stealing the swan songs was also part of those orders.

Anglago, who had been listening intently, asked.

"But the mercenaries' level didn't seem that impressive, wouldn't the mages or knights belonging to Granden City catch them quickly if they stepped in?"

"I think so too. But the senior seems to want to get her hands on those relics. They must be precious items."

'These... arrogant mage bastards...!'

Akdin, who had come to his senses, was dumbfounded.

It was truly outrageous to be ridiculed that their level was low, if nothing else.

Just Akdin himself, if he revealed his identity in front of mercenaries, there would be several who would say they wanted to join the request just by his name!

'Did I get impatient?! To make such a mistake.'

Akdin gritted his teeth.

To think he would end up like this just because he underestimated a customer who entered the store, despite all his experience.

He hadn't expected the enemy to have tracked him so closely.

'...No. They have the right to mock me.'

Lulling the enemy into a false sense of security, drawing them out, then striking a blow on the most important artifact to subdue them.

It was so perfect he had nothing to say.

Akdin couldn't even imagine that the other party had just prepared magic and checked inside the store for no reason.

Even the artifact shattering was actually a lucky hit...

"We're sorry we're late!"

As the knights and mages of Granden City rushed over, Yi-Han and his friends prepared to leave.

Then the clerk hurriedly ran over and stopped them.

"Wait! Which mage from which affiliation are you? Please let us know so we can repay your kindness!"

"Uh..."

"Well..."

The students were flustered.

Of course, they were affiliated with Einroguard, but they were in disguise now.

Moreover, given the importance of the situation, if they revealed they were from Einroguard, it might reach the ears of the Death Knights...

"W-we're mages affiliated with the Anog family."

"Ah! Right! I'm also affiliated with the Anog family!"

"Ooh...!"

Not only the clerks but even the knights were amazed.

To think there were other mages in the Anog family that had been so rumored recently?

"Did you know? When I asked the Einroguard Death Knights if they knew the family, they said it was a very extraordinary family."

"It's truly amazing. They say there are many extraordinary families in the empire, but..."

'Anog family... A name to be cautious of in the future.'

Akdin, with his power completely sealed, memorized it deeply in his mind.

An experienced mercenary didn't hold grudges against those who defeated him. Rather, he remembered and avoided them as much as possible.

There was nothing good about fighting strong people.

Seeing the skills of these Anog family mages now, it seemed he should avoid them in the future too.

  *

Ilendil anxiously waited for Gonadaltes's arrival at a nearby flower garden.

Basically, Ilendil didn't like actually meeting other mages. Especially if it was a mage who called himself Gonadaltes.

But given how things had turned out, there was no choice.

To surely get her hands on the precious relics, cooperating with an Einroguard student was right.

Gonadaltes's skills were certain...

'If he could subdue Akdin so easily, is he a 4th year, no, 5th year? Who could it be?'

Due to the shock, Ilendil had even missed that the other party had called her "senior".

"Are you here?"

"...Aaah!"

Ilendil let out a small scream at the sight of mages pouring in.

The mage at the front recognized Ilendil and asked.

"Senior Ilendil?"

"Wh-why are there so many?"

"What do you mean?"

"Mages..."

"Isn't it better to have more people to cooperate with?"

"Th-that's true, but..."

Ilendil trailed off. Yi-Han tilted his head, wondering if there was some problem.

Ilendil, who had been hesitating, answered slowly in a small voice.

"I-I'm a bit uncomfortable with so many people..."

"..."

After being so active in the Sentinel club!

Yi-Han was dumbfounded but for now asked his friends to wait outside.

"Could you wait outside?"

"If that person attacks you, shout immediately, Wardanaz."

"...Surely they wouldn't."

"Isn't that person the madman who summoned dark spirits in the forest last time? Is it okay to leave Wardanaz alone?"

'I can't deny it.'

Just as Ilendil disliked having several strangers in a small space, the second-year students didn't much like the senior who had released artificial dark spirits in the forest.

Ilendil was already in the "that crazy senior" category among the second-year students.

Creak-

As the door closed, Ilendil let out a sigh of relief. Then she asked.

"I don't recognize your face...?"

"Ah. I'm in disguise."

Yi-Han undid his disguise.

As the kind junior with a warm heart who loved spirits appeared before her, Ilendil screamed and fainted backward.