Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 730

Chapter 730

Realizing the distrust her junior was sending, Hormasi sighed.

"You can't trust me because you're from Blue Dragon Tower!"

"It's not because I'm from Blue Dragon Tower, but because I've experienced it myself..."

"It can't be helped. I'll have to go in first and bring it out."

"Stop!"

Professor Bentozol stopped Hormasi with a fierce voice.

"You're going to make him walk this distance in the desert in this weather?"

"That much is fine, isn't it?"

"You don't even know the meaning of 'fine' so of course you'd say that! Shut up and stay still! I'll bring it!"

Professor Bentozol moved his feet onto the desert sand, panting.

Watching his back, Hormasi grumbled grumpily.

"Professor Bentozol always only cares about animals. If he had used even 1% of that affection on students, he'd be more popular than Professor Garcia."

"I agree."

"Wait! Junior. Your year didn't have Professor Bentozol for the basic mount lecture, right?"

"Yes. Professor Bungaegor did it."

"Damn it!"

Hormasi was so upset she stomped her feet.

Belatedly noticing Yi-Han's gaze, Hormasi said proudly.

"What? I brought it up because I wanted you all to experience Professor Bentozol's teachings too."

"Yes... I see."

"It's true. Just seeing this desert reminds me of my 1st year..."

"Did you race here?"

"Ah. We did. But we ran while carrying our mounts."

"..."

Yi-Han vowed to definitely thank Professor Bungaegor when he met her this week.

Thud, thud, thud-

Along with quite heavy sounds, a monster could be seen walking from the far horizon.

The monster certainly looked like a dog.

But...

'Wait, isn't it a bit big?'

Come to think of it, an ordinary dog probably wouldn't be visible so clearly from here.

The dog walking now was easily two or three times the size of a lion, and its head was two or three times that of a lion...?!

"It's a Cerberus!"

A magical beast with blood from another realm mixed in, Cerberus!

Yi-Han was dumbfounded at the sight of the monster spewing flames from three heads.

To call that a puppy.

Then would they call a dragon a lizard?

"That's right. It's a Cerberus. Why?"

Hormasi asked back as if to say 'what's wrong?' She was truly a shameless senior.

"When you said puppy, I thought it would be something smaller and cuter."

"Hmm. Isn't it cute?"

"Usually, Cerberus isn't generally evaluated as cute."

"Ha. You're not one to talk. People don't generally raise griffins or basilisks."

"..."

Yi-Han was at a loss for words for the first time.

Indeed, the senior was different in every way. To think she would so cruelly exploit his weakness.

Hormasi unwrapped the coat and cloak tightly wrapped around her body. Flat weights were attached to her uniform like emblems or medals.

"??"

"Weight, increase."

Hormasi carelessly increased the weight of the weights attached to her uniform.

As if that wasn't enough, she amplified the weight of the weights attached under her long skirt and boots too.

"...Uh, what are you doing?"

"Ah. My puppy plays a bit rough. It's easier to endure if I increase the weight in advance."

Yi-Han was very flustered seeing her increase the weight several times from what must have already been quite heavy even without magic.

"Are you alright?"

"I've trained to endure it. Professor Ingurdel... Ah. You probably don't know."

"I take Professor Ingurdel's lectures too."

"...I-I see."

Shuddering at the fact that her junior was taking several more lectures in addition to all schools, Hormasi said,

"...Anyway, I'm top of Professor Ingurdel's class."

"Ah. Me too."

"..."

For the first time, Hormasi thought she should pay a bit more attention to her White Tiger Tower juniors.

What on earth had happened?

'Indeed.'

Yi-Han was slightly impressed when he heard the senior was top of the swordsmanship class.

Mana manipulation according to swordsmanship, plus various enhancement magics.

Just seeing her walking around with such weights, one could guess the senior's achievements were not light.

"You'll enter a knightly order after graduating, I suppose."

"No. I'm going to join the ballgame club."

"...I see."

As they were talking, the Cerberus approached.

Professor Bentozol summoned clouds in the air to create shade so the Cerberus could avoid the sun, and cooled the hot sand with cold air so it could walk comfortably.

The Cerberus yawned with its three heads, regardless of what the mage was doing.

"My puppy! Over here! Carnela!"

"Ah. Is Carnela the Cerberus's official name?"

"Carnela is my name."

"I'm sorry."

"There's no need to be sorry. I prefer being called by my family name. I don't really like my name."

Carnela of the Hormasi family said seriously.

Yi-Han became cautious, wondering if there was some unspeakable circumstance.

"I'll be care..."

"It's the name of a player who made a critical mistake in the western ballgame finals 63 years ago."

"...Ah, yes. Senior."

Carnela didn't realize she had just lowered herself to a position similar to Gainando in her junior's mind.

The Cerberus ran excitedly when it discovered its owner.

As the three heads competed to lick her, Carnela staggered.

"Don't lick too much! You're not a very good prey nutritionally, so you might just hurt your tongue!"

Carnela ignored it and said,

"This is my mount. I've raised it since it was young."

"I see... H-how did you bring it in if you raised it since it was young?"

"Of course I smuggled it in! It was tough back then."

"You must have had a hard time. I had a really hard time too."

"Yes. Really..."

Carnela, who was recalling how tough it had been back then, paused at what her junior had just said.

Didn't he just say he did it too?

"It's a bit thin, but there's no problem with its health. It would be good to get it prey with more meat."

"Professor. It's already on the fat side even now."

"It looks skinny to me!"

"That means it's healthy. Well, junior. Look at this. You understand why I wanted to show you first, right? Cerberus is an animal you need to be careful with when running together."

"It certainly is."

"Of course, you might scoff at this, raising a basilisk and griffin."

"...Isn't Cerberus more threatening? Professor, what do you think?"

"They're all lovely creatures. You lot are the threats to the empire."

Yi-Han realized why the senior ignored Professor Bentozol's words and immediately put it into practice.

"So I need to get used to this Cerberus."

"That's right."

"Hmm. Can't I just be a defender instead of a striker?"

"No!"

Carnela shouted urgently as if she absolutely couldn't yield.

They were already lacking powerful strikers, and now a junior who could compete riding a griffin-unicorn-basilisk wanted to be a defender.

But from Yi-Han's perspective, Cerberus was a very threatening monster.

He was already living with his life on the line enough, he didn't want to put his life on the line additionally here.

"Of course, it is fierce. But if you become friends, it keeps its faith!"

"I feel like I might get bitten once or twice before that... To begin with, monsters aren't something you can forcibly become friends with, are they?"

Yi-Han approached the Cerberus cautiously with a sour expression.

Then the Cerberus flinched, quickly lowered its tail, and turned all three heads simultaneously. Then they pushed each other towards Yi-Han.

"...What are you doing?"

Yi-Han whispered in bewilderment.

What did this make of what he had just said?

However, the Cerberus blinked its eyes with a docile attitude and made no response.

Carnela, who belatedly realized, shouted with a cry of joy,

"See! I told you! This Hormasi was waiting for a junior like you! You were born to be a striker! You have a talent for controlling monsters, I tell you!"

"Nonsense! King of monsters and such is nonsense!"

Professor Bentozol retorted in an irritated voice.

Carnela asked back, wondering what he meant.

"What are you saying?"

"It's like a superstition of nameless hunters!"

Professor Bentozol grumbled dissatisfied about how hunters had praised Yi-Han as the king of monsters during winter break.

These hunters loved superstitions so much that they could calmly spout such nonsense.

"That's even better?? Very good. Junior. You might be able to completely fill the void."

Originally, Carnela would easily flatter fellow club members but never actually expect anything, but at this point, she couldn't help but start to have expectations.

Hadn't a truly great striker joined?

  *

"Senior Hormasi. I have a question."

"What is it?"

"What's the name of this technique?"

"<Knocking the Player Off>! Are you joking? You don't know the name of this technique?"

Although it was an advanced technique, it was such a famous technique name that Carnela was greatly shocked by the fact that her junior didn't know it.

"I really haven't played much ballgame."

"...It's okay. You can start from now!"

"Senior. To speak seriously... Originally, a herd of deer led by a lion is stronger than a herd of lions led by a deer, right? Even if I'm close with a griffin, wouldn't it be better for a senior who's good at ballgames to be the striker?"

Despite Carnela explaining various privileges of strikers and prize money distribution bonuses, Yi-Han gradually wanted to slip into being a defender.

The madness occasionally revealed in the senior's eyes was similar to Gainando when playing mage cards.

You never knew what kind of crazy things people with such eyes would do.

"Hey, junior. Do you know what the goal of this club is?"

"...Isn't it ballgames?"

"That's right. The goal is to play ballgames honorably and enjoyably and socialize. It's good if we win, but it's not that much of a loss if we lose. That's why all the members are satisfied."

"That seems good. It fits the purpose..."

"What's good about it!!!"

Carnela shouted with boiling hatred. Stomping her feet, the dark elf senior wildly pointed at the ballgame club building.

"I don't care about the other member bastards! I want to win!! The usable strikers all left, and now you want to make the newly joined king of monsters a defender?! I can't see such a sight before dirt enters my eyes! Junior. Just do your share! Just one person's share! Then I'll do anything for you! I'll even cut off Senior Perse's neck!"

'This is bad. This person is already crazy.'

Yi-Han realized his mistake.

He had thought she was a kind person seeing her give support funds, but indeed, there's no such thing as a free lunch in this world.

"Alright. Here we go!"

A practice scarecrow riding a straw golem charged from ahead. Yi-Han whispered to the griffin.

"Niffirg. Don't overdo it. There's nothing good in overdoing it."

There was no need to overdo it to meet a crazy person's demands.

The intelligent griffin nodded as if it understood.

"It's coming!"

Clop clop clop!

The griffin instantly dashed along the ground, stepped on the straw golem's knee, and leaped high.

As the practice scarecrow came in front of him, Yi-Han instinctively swung the long ballgame stick and knocked down the scarecrow.

Originally, <Knocking the Player Off> was where one side checked while the other side attacked the opening, but Yi-Han's griffin had ended it by charging alone before Cerberus could even check.

Seeing this, Carnela let out a cry of joy.

"That's it!! That's exactly it!! Junior! You are the striker of Einroguard's ballgame club!!"

"..."

Yi-Han, who had landed on the ground, stared blankly at Niffirg. The griffin sweated nervously when its owner stared at it.

It clearly hadn't overdone it, so why??