Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 745

Chapter 745

'What kind of Gainando-style calculation is this?'

To insist like that when there were clearly numerous disciples.

It wasn't much different from Gainando insisting he hadn't eaten the chocolate he had just eaten.

"Please think again. Those disciples who tried to burn the continent or tried to burn Your Highness..."

The mad doppelganger flicked his finger and sent a shockwave.

As he rolled backward, Yi-Han cursed inwardly.

'Can't he just use words instead of always doing this?'

Dealing with ancient people was truly difficult.

"There's a limit to barbarism. Do you not know anything about manners?"

The mad doppelganger looked at Yi-Han with a gaze of sincere contempt.

How could he talk back like that in front of royalty?

It was vulgarity hard to easily endure even knowing he was barbaric.

"...I'm sorry. It's because I don't know manners well."

Yi-Han gritted his teeth, vowing to assassinate the mad doppelganger along with the skull principal someday.

But for now, he had to endure.

The other party was essentially a thug with a staff.

"Of course, you lowborn."

'...I think I understand why Black Tortoise Tower dislikes Blue Dragon Tower.'

Yi-Han inwardly vowed to hit Blue Dragon Tower students once every time they brought up bloodlines or family when he returned.

"Thinking about it, you seem to be misunderstanding about doppelgangers."

"...?"

Yi-Han was flustered when the word doppelganger came out of the mad doppelganger's mouth.

"There are dregs that ran away from this royal. You're stupid and vulgar, so you might confuse royalty with dregs. I'll forgive you once, but don't make such a mistake again in the future. Understand, lowborn?"

Yi-Han probed for information by asking if he could ask a question, so as not to offend the other party.

No matter how he thought about it, it felt strange that the mad doppelganger was claiming 'I'm the main body and the rest are doppelgangers'.

Even while getting hit a few more times, Yi-Han had the following conversation:

-Isn't much more left in the main body, and usually only honor remains in doppelgangers?-

-When you make butter from milk, a lot of dregs remain, but does that mean those dregs are butter? The most important thing is the essence.-

-...Ah... Yes... So you don't count the disciples of the doppelgangers?-

-Yes. I understand. You can stop hitting me now.-

-I just answered, why are you hitting me aga...-

'I got hit unnecessarily for the last few times.'

Yi-Han resolved to stop provoking the mad doppelganger and asked one last time.

"But... There's a mage called Antagondal, isn't there? Isn't he a disciple?"

"He's a servant."

The mad doppelganger glared at Yi-Han with cold eyes.

To dare think of a lowly slave as a royal disciple.

If he wasn't a barbaric lowborn ignorant of manners, it would be rudeness deserving extreme punishment.

"...?"

Of course, it was bewildering from Yi-Han's perspective.

Although Yi-Han didn't know much about Antagondal, he knew well that he was a mage outstanding enough to be treated as a great mage among magic criminals.

Naturally, he would be several times more outstanding than Yi-Han.

Yet to treat such an Antagondal as a servant and consider Yi-Han a disciple.

'This is strange.'

"Um, doesn't that servant do magic better than me?"

The mad doppelganger exhaled a shallow sigh with contemptuous eyes and shouted towards the air.

"Fate, be cursed! Why do you not give this royal a suitable disciple and throw a stupid lowborn at me!"

'Then send me back, you son of a bitch.'

Yi-Han cursed inwardly, dumbfounded.

It hadn't even been a few hours since he started talking with the mad doppelganger, but he was already missing Einroguard's professors.

To complain after kidnapping him himself.

Even Professor Verduus didn't say such things.

Regardless, the mad doppelganger self-deprecatingly commented on his own unfortunate fate a few times, then placed a caterpillar on his finger.

In an instant, the caterpillar's time fast-forwarded and it turned into a butterfly.

"Can this caterpillar fly or not?"

"It can fly."

"Why? It's a caterpillar?"

"It's a butterfly now."

The mad doppelganger let the butterfly fly away.

Then he stopped a mouse passing between rocks in the distance and asked.

"Can that mouse fly or not?"

"It cannot fly."

"Why? It might grow wings if given time?"

"Mice don't grow wings even if they grow up."

"That's right, lowborn. Why are you asking useless questions when you know?"

The mad doppelganger attacked Yi-Han once more.

Yi-Han thought while enduring the pain.

'So... Is it a difference in potential?'

He couldn't know exactly what this mad doppelganger was thinking, but roughly guessing, it seemed he needed a disciple.

Not an ordinary disciple, but one to complete his own honor.

He didn't know the criteria for that disciple well, but potential seemed more important than current ability.

Honestly, that Antagondal mage didn't seem to lack potential...

"I understand now."

"Ha! How can you be this slow."

"...What should I do to become that honorable disciple?"

Yi-Han seriously pondered escape methods.

The best would be to persuade this mad doppelganger and get out.

As he had confirmed earlier that ordinary escape was difficult, persuasion seemed to have a higher possibility.

Fortunately, although this mad doppelganger was crazy, he was crazy with some consistency, so if he could just persuade him, he might send him back.

"Should I learn that shield magic from earlier?"

"That's something even a stable boy could do, not a disciple."

"..."

Ancient kingdom stable boys seemed quite skilled in magic.

"Then what should I learn?"

"The true essence cannot be spoken of in such a way. Lowborn. But considering your stupidity, let me explain..."

Yi-Han tensed.

What magic would he have to learn for this mad doppelganger to send him back?

"...Start with command magic."

"..."

Yi-Han immediately changed his plan.

'I must escape no matter what.'

To learn magic enough to satisfy this mad doppelganger, Yi-Han might have to stay at Einroguard even while his friends graduated.

  *

Anglago sat with a serious expression and agonized.

'Should I go play ballgames, or study in advance to prepare for next week?'

To do his share within the club, he needed to practice harder than now. The seniors were no pushovers either.

As there was already talk of that Wardanaz guy going out as a striker, Anglago couldn't lose either.

But studying in advance to prepare for next week was also more important than expected.

All students who had started 2nd year would be feeling it.

It's different from last year!

As if to prove that last year's lectures were kind and considerate ones for freshmen, the professors were proceeding roughly and fiercely with the curriculum.

If the first week was like this, it was unimaginable what the next week or the week after would be like.

Even White Tiger Tower students were murmuring 'Shouldn't we study this in advance?' which showed how bad it was.

Pop-

"?"

Anglago tilted his head and rummaged through his backpack when he heard a sound from inside.

'What is it?'

The source of the sound was the paper wad artifact shared by the top and second students of each tower.

Thinking some interesting story might have come up, Anglago unrolled the paper wad.

-Guys. I've been kidnapped by the principal's mad doppelganger. I think you need to help.-

-How on earth...!-

-Where were you kidnapped to?-

"!!!"

Anglago was shocked.

It seemed one of the eight students had been kidnapped by the principal's mad doppelganger.

When Wardanaz had said 'Be careful of the principal's mad doppelganger', it hadn't really hit home, but to think his friend would be kidnapped. It was chilling.

-To think Wardanaz's words were true! I thought he'd just be in the outskirts, but he kidnaps a student?! As expected of the principal's mad doppelganger. Wardanaz. What are you thinking of doing? How do you plan to rescue that poor guy?-

-Anglago. The one kidnapped is Wardanaz.-

-......-

Anglago froze with a stupid face, dripping ink.

He hadn't imagined that among the eight, Wardanaz would be the one kidnapped.

-Im-impossible! Not Tutanta or Richmond?!-

-I can guess who you usually wished would be kidnapped. But unfortunately, it's not.-

-...I'm sorry to interrupt while everyone's chatting happily, but could you think about escape methods instead?-

-Wardanaz.Evenifyousayyou'vebeenkidnappedbythemaddoppelganger,youmustn'tlosehopeabsolutely.Doyouhaveanyusefulartifactsamongtheonesyouhaverightnow?Anyartifactsthatcantransmitcontactsoutside...-

'What?'

Anglago was flustered by the insanely fast rising letters.

Who was it?

-Princess. You can write slowly.-

"..."

-And some artifacts were taken. There was an artifact that could summon the principal, but perhaps because he's a doppelganger, he recognized it as his own magic right away.-

-What artifact could do what??-

-Anglago. Is that important right now?-

-Anglago. Are you perhaps the mad doppelganger's spy?-

-Ah, no... I'm sorry. Damn it.-

-Wardanaz. Location?-

-Somewhere in the mountains, but I'm not sure.-

'This is bad.'

Anglago made a gloomy expression.

Although there were occasionally friends who went missing for days in Einroguard, most didn't exceed a week.

But Wardanaz's current situation seemed to have no guarantee of when he could return.

Thinking of Wardanaz not being there, this semester immediately felt daunting.

Could they endure this year, which had become even more difficult than last year, well?

Thud-

With the sound of the personal room door closing, Jijel came down. Anglago called out in a glad voice.

"Moradi! Did you see?!"

"Yes. It's serious."

"Right. Without Wardanaz, it'll be hard to ask about magic."

"It doesn't end there."

Jijel pressed her finger to her forehead, feeling a headache coming on.

"The 2nd year system will collapse now."

"N-no. What do you... Why would it collapse? Because he can't take exams?"

"Wardanaz secured supplies now and exchanged them too. Alpha. Moreover, trading with Black Tortoise Tower guys was possible because Wardanaz mediated in between, but he's gone now. Can you trust Black Tortoise Tower guys without that bastard?"

"...No. That seems difficult..."

"If we had acted separately from the beginning it would be one thing, but suddenly cutting off in a situation where we're deeply entangled like now means mutual destruction. We have to bring Wardanaz back."

"B-but can we find him when we don't even know where he is?"

"It's not a matter of whether we can or can't, we have to find him. There are better points than last year though. We have seniors."

At Jijel's words, Anglago's face brightened.

Certainly, they had seniors with more experience and excellence than them.

"Of course, they won't easily accept getting involved with the principal's mad doppelganger."

"Then let's deceive them!"

"..."

Jijel made a sour expression at the sight of Anglago blurting out words to deceive fellow knights and seniors without a second of hesitation.

She had thought of deceiving too, but the other party had changed too much.

"Right. If we deceive about the exact purpose and take them along..."

-I'monmywaytoseetheprincipalrightnowwhenImeetI'llbesuretoaskhimtorescueWardanaz...-

"..."

"..."

The two White Tiger Tower students quietly looked at each other.

Come to think of it, there was also the method of telling the principal.