Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 742

Chapter 742

'I should pretend not to know.'

Yi-Han instinctively turned his body and lowered his head.

As he was already a member of the Stonemason Club, he would meet the seniors someday, but he didn't want to meet them at the scene where they were demolishing the workshop today.

Perhaps the instinct to rest a little on weekends had secretly appealed to Yi-Han's heart without him knowing.

Whoosh!

As Yi-Han's heart became anxious, <Bagni's Flame Bull> immediately wavered and spewed flames.

Seeing this, the seniors said cautiously.

"Junior. We usually don't meddle in other people's affairs, but it seems like you should lift this curse."

"It looks a bit dangerous."

Einroguard students didn't usually point out even if someone was walking around half turned to stone or with a basilisk hanging from their head with its teeth embedded.

First of all, they would know best themselves!

If it's painful and hard, they'll solve it themselves.

And more importantly, there were quite a few students who deliberately went around like that for magic research.

As they could be testing petrification magic on themselves or finding which parts of the head basilisks like, students didn't easily interfere.

But the junior from the Wardanaz family looked too dangerous to just pass off as individuality anymore.

"It's not a curse, but magic practice."

"What magic practice? What crazy person would cast a curse on themselves to practice magic..."

"Wardanaz!"

As attention gathered on Yi-Han due to the rising flames, someone who recognized Yi-Han came out from among the Stonemason Club members.

It was Alde of the Marcan family, who had just been released this morning.

"It really is Wardanaz. Nice to see you! Friends. See here? This junior is that junior, I tell you? Who came to the punishment room!"

"..."

"..."

The Stonemason Club members had complex expressions, as if unsure whether to believe Alde's words or not.

They knew the outstanding junior was taking all schools and joining all clubs, but visiting the punishment room was a bit...

'Isn't that too much?'

'Marcan seems to be boasting.'

No matter how they thought about it, they suspected he had tricked an ignorant junior to artificially create a touching story of a 'respected senior'.

Wasn't it something like the touching stories the skull principal sometimes put in imperial newspapers?

Seeing his colleagues didn't believe him, Alde flared up.

It was understandable to be angry when no one believed him from inside the punishment room to outside.

"It's true, I tell you! Junior. You answer. You came to the punishment room, right?! To help me!"

"Yes. I went because there was something Senior helped me with."

"Tell them how you got in too!"

"I persuaded the death knights, and asked the spirit of the punishment room to let me pass for a moment."

"...Hey. Explain properly."

Alde whispered in bewilderment.

It sounded unbelievable even to himself.

"But that's how I got in."

"What? That's impossible... No. Never mind. Don't you have anything more plausible? No one's believing me!"

The Stonemason Club members shook their heads and pulled Alde away.

"Marcan. Alright. We'll believe you. You're so great that a junior would come to the punishment room for you."

"Anyway, Blue Dragon Tower is so vulgar. Is honor that good?"

"It's true, you bastards!"

The Stonemason Club members brought up a serious topic.

"Yi-Han of the Wardanaz family. Right? We're not very interested in punishment room visits. We're interested in club activities. Do you know what the Stonemason Club does?"

"Don't you... build buildings?"

Einroguard was a place with surprisingly high demand for construction.

From students' secret warehouses and cabins hidden all over the territory to magic research workshops and various fortresses.

"Yes. Building buildings is our main activity. But that's not all."

"We also need to be able to demolish. We have to demolish quickly if they don't pay or change their words."

"Sometimes we also need to be able to stop those who try to demolish buildings."

"And you're a talent specialized in all of this. We're counting on you, junior."

"Pardon?"

Yi-Han, who had been listening, was flustered by the seniors' sudden expectations.

"I don't have much experience building buildings though. I'm not from a guild either..."

Although he had participated in repairing Einroguard or fortress construction plans while following the skull principal last year, Yi-Han didn't consider himself an expert.

What on earth were the seniors seeing to judge like that?

"You have a lot of mana, right?"

"Yes."

"Right. You have a lot of mana. That solves almost all the problems I just mentioned."

"..."

  *

Surprisingly, the Stonemason Club members' words were true.

Salko of the Tutanta family, who had joined first, nodded as if he knew Yi-Han would come.

"There's no way you wouldn't come, Wardanaz. There probably isn't a club that suits you this well."

"I joined forcibly, Salko."

Salko continued speaking as if he hadn't heard.

"As you can see, magical buildings require casting numerous magics like stacking bricks. It's work where stamina is really important."

"I see."

"Demolishing is the same. Since we can't demolish in one strike, we have to gradually use magic to undo it. Likewise, stamina is really important."

In the end, stamina in magic was almost equivalent to mana quantity.

There were mental concentration and other factors, but magic casting became much more difficult the moment mana ran out.

"Salko."

"What is it?"

"I'm done."

"...Wardanaz, you bastard! A worker like you should join the guild!"

Salko trembled his beard and shuddered at Yi-Han's work speed.

He had expected it, but it far exceeded those expectations.

While gathering the magically processed lumber in one place, Yi-Han asked.

"Salko. Did you join this guild for construction after all?"

While working after moving to the Stonemason Club area, Yi-Han could also hear the members' conversations.

Although they sometimes had to demolish buildings or fight, Stonemason Club members were basically interested in creating things.

Perhaps because of that, there were many students taking enchantment magic. Enchantment mages could go into artifacts, but they could also go into this construction field.

-When the pay comes in this time, I'm thinking of finishing the Cyan Tower.-

-Is that possible? It's already so tall that monsters are attacking.-

-Hehe. If it's completed, I could throw this at the skull principal's face and pass graduation. It's difficult, but worth doing.-

As Salko was also taking enchantment magic and from a stonemason guild, it was likely he had joined the Stonemason Club because he had a building he wanted to construct.

"Hm? What are you saying?"

"I'm asking if you joined the Stonemason Club because there's a building you want to build."

"No. I just chose this place because the pay is good."

Salko shrugged his shoulders as if to say 'What are you talking about?' Yi-Han felt slightly embarrassed.

"...Don't other official clubs have good pay too?"

"The preliminary work you just finished is worth thirteen imperial gold coins, Wardanaz. If requests come in steadily, there's no club with higher pay than the Stonemason Club."

"Come to think of it, my aptitude does seem to fit the Stonemason Club well."

Yi-Han accepted reality and resolved to fulfill his duties as a member to some extent now that he had joined the Stonemason Club.

Come to think of it, being a member of multiple clubs could be an advantage.

If there were no expensive requests in the Stonemason Club, he could earn gold coins in the Ballgame Club, and if there were no expensive games in the Ballgame Club, he could go to the Kitchen Club...

'It sounds a bit crazy, but it's worth trying.'

Every time he heard the pay for club requests, Yi-Han became a more positive person.

Ding dong ding-

As the bell hanging on the Stonemason Club's fortress rang, one member shouted.

"Urgent request, urgent request! More than double daily pay. Those participating move to the front of the Western Nightmare Echo Forest!"

"It's an urgent request. Wardanaz. Will you come with me?"

"What's an urgent request? The Nightmare Echo Forest isn't a very good place to approach..."

"It's a building that needs to be built faster for various reasons. Usually there's additional pay, so there's nothing to lose by participating."

"Let's go!"

Yi-Han marveled at the gold-overflowing requests coming into the Stonemason Club.

He couldn't believe what kind of people with rotting excess gold coins were making buildings so urgently with additional pay like this.

  *

Anpagon, a Blue Dragon Tower student and enchantment magic school member, frowned and glared at the tower.

"The effect isn't as strong as I thought."

"We definitely amplified it using the power of the Nightmare Echo Forest..."

"Has the forest's energy weakened? Anyway, we need to draw power from elsewhere. We have to finish today."

Anpagon and other members took out the blueprint of the nearly completed <Echo Tower> again.

The students who had requested this tower were trying to create a new workshop for music magic research.

As music magic had many differences from general magic, there were many things needed, but the Stonemason Club members were completing the building according to requirements with their unique wisdom and perseverance.

But there are always variables in the construction process.

The magic amplifying sound inside the tower using the power of the Nightmare Echo Forest had weakened more than expected.

It was a kind of natural disaster, but the members didn't make excuses. Once they received gold coins, they had to complete it by the promised date.

"Is everyone gathered? We'll start. Alright. We'll install additional magic circles from that shaded area to this tower stairs to secure mana!"

"Senior, that's impossible!"

"No. We have to do it. Start!"

The iron-blooded personality unique to the enchantment magic school could be more reliable in situations like this.

Although Anpagon wasn't a popular senior within the club, seeing such a cool attitude in a bewildering and confusing situation made the members feel calm.

Tap tap tap-

Yi-Han and others who arrived late were amazed at the large-scale construction already in progress.

"Are they going to build a new building there and connect it?"

"It seems so... To think they'll do this within today. It's unbelievable."

Yi-Han and Salko whispered but participated in the work.

The club members in the midst of work welcomed the newly arrived juniors.

"You came at a good time! Tell us if you get tired."

"Don't collapse for nothing!"

"Thank you, seniors."

The members who were watching in case the juniors overworked or made mistakes were surprised at their work speed.

Not only Salko, but the student from the Wardanaz family next to him was showing a terrifying work speed.

"Is that him?"

"It must be him."

"It was worth fighting fiercely."

"Damn. We should have completely monopolized him."

How much time had passed?

When the additional building next to the tower was almost complete, the club members let out cries of joy.

At this point, it was as good as success.

"It's done, you all! When it's over, go back to the dormitory and rest well."

"Yes!"

Salko nodded vigorously and answered.

In fact, even if the seniors hadn't said so, he was planning to go back and rest. Such large-scale construction consumed enormous stamina even if not done alone.

Even the Wardanaz guy with infinite mana needed rest. Using magic and doing construction would have consumed considerable concentration and stamina.

"Wardanaz. When the work is over, how about resting today instead of going to other clubs?"

Before Yi-Han could answer, applause was heard from behind.

It was students gathered to research music magic.

"It's completed!"

"As expected of the Stonemason Club. They're worth the expensive price."

"Though it's too expensive."

"Do those twin towers resonate mana? It's efficient."

"Though it's too expensive..."

Ipadour, the minstrel talking with the students, saw Yi-Han and waved his hand.

"Student Wardanaz!"

"Ah. So you're Wardanaz? I was about to call you anyway."

The students gathered to research music magic rushed over, grabbed Yi-Han, and went into the tower.

Salko stared blankly at their backs and shook his head as if regretful.

"W-wait. Shouldn't you rest?"

"No. Wardanaz probably planned to go in and start magic research right after finishing work here to reduce time waste. That tough guy..."

At Salko's words, the Stonemason Club members looked at the tower as if newly realizing something.

Indeed, the madness of taking all schools was beyond their imagination.