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Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy Chapter 714

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Chapter 714

"Here, take Wardanaz with you too. To give him a tour as well."

"What?"

At the other club members' suggestion, Sebius frowned as if to say 'What are you talking about?'

"You know I go alone when relocating."

"Just this once. Please, just this once."

"That's right. He raided the skull principal's villa, so his skills are proven, aren't they? He won't hold you back, senior."

Seeing the club members pleading without backing down unlike usual, Sebius realized they really wanted to recruit Wardanaz.

If he saw directly how to make a big score, he would feel the charm of this club.

'If he wants to do it, he'll do it, why are they...'

With Sebius's personality of not stopping those who leave and not blocking those who come, Einroguard's clubs trying to forcibly recruit juniors were honestly unsightly to him.

But as a fellow club member, he couldn't completely ignore the other members' aspirations.

Recalling the dedication of members who didn't back down even in dangerous situations, Sebius slowly nodded.

"...Fine. If he wants to follow, let him follow."

"Great!"

"Mr. Wardanaz. This is a really good opportunity. You'll be able to learn a lot."

'Should this be called learning...?'

Yi-Han, who had been listening to the seniors' conversation and ended up having to follow along, thought inwardly.

Of course, he would follow!

"Invisibility magic?"

"I can use it."

"!"

Sebius, who had been walking towards the evening Einroguard as twilight fell, paused and made a slightly surprised expression.

For a junior who had just become a 2nd year to know how to use invisibility magic.

As expected, someone who had raided the skull principal's villa was different in some way.

"Let's wait here for a moment."

Sebius stopped in front of the stairs leading from the 7th floor to the 6th floor and sat on a nearby flat rock.

Yi-Han was puzzled.

'Weren't we raiding a secret warehouse?'

Of course, the reason he had followed to see a senior's theft for the first time was to gain information.

Basically, Einroguard's food chain was structured so that the lower the year, the more they became prey for seniors.

There was a difference in magic skills, but there was also a big difference in information.

Seniors knew all sorts of bizarre places and rules that juniors didn't know.

Yi-Han had planned to learn the locations of warehouses or workshops that seniors frequently used while helping with Sebius's work.

But why were they waiting here?

"Is there another way down from the 7th floor to the 6th floor?"

"Quite a few. Since the 7th floor is so wide, there are many strange shortcuts and side paths. I hear there's even a path leading to the skull principal's room."

"Is that true?"

"I don't know. I've never seen it... Wait. Someone's coming."

Sebius took a stance as he saw a White Tiger Tower student walking from far away.

"Invisibility magic."

"Yes."

They quickly cast invisibility magic. Sebius realized Yi-Han's invisibility magic incantation was much faster and different, and was puzzled.

'Where did he learn that?'

Usually, the invisibility magic Einroguard students often used was the 3rd Circle magic <Lesser Invisibility>.

It was a magic that thinly spread thermoptic camouflage around the caster, and was used a lot as it was the easiest to learn and cast among various invisibility magics.

But the magic the junior just used wasn't <Lesser Invisibility>. The incantation was different, and the structure was different. He was curious where he had learned it.

'Oops. I need to focus.'

Even for the easiest theft, one shouldn't let their guard down. Carelessness was a thief's most dangerous enemy.

"Prepared illusion, come forth."

As Sebius took out a scroll and tore it while muttering in a low voice, an illusion began to spring out from the bottom of the stairs.

Surprisingly, it was the skull principal's Death Knight.

-You thief, stop right there!-

"Uh... Aah!"

The White Tiger Tower student who had been walking was startled by the Death Knight and fell over.

Then he threw all the luggage he was carrying to the side to lighten his body and tightly gripped just one sword.

"Kuk. How did you know? In that case, I won't just be caught! Come! Sword, transform and block the enemy!"

The White Tiger Tower student's sword rippled like liquid metal and changed into a wave to attack the Death Knight.

At that moment, the Death Knight's illusion disappeared. The White Tiger Tower student opened his eyes wide.

"What... What bastard played such a prank... Skull principal, you bastard, just wait until I graduate! I'll find you and attack you!"

The White Tiger Tower student, thinking the skull principal had set a trap to tease students, cursed angrily.

Then he gathered the luggage he had thrown and trudged on again.

"!"

When they dispelled the invisibility magic, there was a book in Sebius's hand.

Yi-Han was surprised.

In that short time, Sebius had approached the White Tiger Tower student's luggage and taken only the target book.

"That's amazing!"

"It's basic. Flashy magic isn't needed for relocation. You just need to know how to read the other person's actions."

Sebius knew well that White Tiger Tower students would throw their luggage to the side when entering combat.

If he just made them think the skull principal's minion had appeared, they would throw their luggage to the side, so taking the book from there was an easy task.

'He's not a senior for nothing.'

Yi-Han looked at Sebius with more respect in his eyes than before.

He had thought he was a mage who greedily copied gold coins by selling books in the library club and recovering them in the change location club...

"Let's move. There are a few more books to recover."

'Hmm. He does seem to be a mage who greedily copies gold coins.'

Yi-Han, following behind Sebius, asked out of curiosity.

"But senior. You said undetected theft is the most important, right?"

"Yes. Not being detected is the most important."

"But won't they feel something's off if books keep disappearing?"

There was a saying about long tails getting stepped on for a reason.

If only books disappeared from one's possessions, even the dullest person would have to turn their suspicions towards the library club.

'Perhaps they settle it with force?'

Yi-Han recalled the bespectacled bear mixed-blood senior, Illeg.

With such combat power, it certainly wouldn't matter if there were suspicions or complaints.

The skull principal was living well despite all sorts of suspicions and complaints, wasn't he?

"They don't notice."

"Pardon?"

"They don't notice. These bastards have no interest in books."

Sebius, who was always blunt and indifferent, was now showing rare hostility on his face.

"The guys who take books from the library club are divided into two types. One is people who take them and read them diligently. This is fine. But there are bastards who take them and just use them as pillows or alchemy pot stands. Mainly White Tiger Tower guys do this..."

'...I should keep Gainando from meeting library club members.'

"...Such guys don't deserve to have books. I'm recovering from those bastards. So no one notices. Even if they notice later, they'll think they lost it while walking around."

"!"

Yi-Han looked at Sebius with surprised eyes.

He had thought he was just a senior obsessed with gold coins, but he had his own reasons.

'To steal again from guys who take books but don't read them. This is certainly something worth doing... No, it's still strange, but it's an understandable strangeness.'

An understandable crazy person tends to be a bit more familiar than just a crazy person.

Yi-Han was relieved just by the fact that the senior in front of him wasn't just a crazy person.

"What if the library club sets a rule? Saying that taken books should be treasured and read diligently."

"Would they follow it even if we did that?"

"Wouldn't they follow if we put a curse on the books?"

"..."

Sebius looked at his junior with a shocked gaze.

He thought it was a joke, but his face was very serious.

'Isn't this guy crazy?'

Well, he had forgotten because his attitude was so polite and gentle, but the junior in front of him was a talent all clubs wanted to take.

In Einroguard, outstanding talents tended to have some madness.

Sebius raised his guard towards his junior anew.

"...That would lead to fights between clubs. And Senior Illeg wouldn't allow it either."

Illeg, who was in charge of the library club as president, was a generous and lenient person.

He was understanding even if people took books out and didn't read them or damaged them.

-Einroguard's library will recreate disappeared and damaged books and put them back on the shelves.-

-But senior! Those bastards used books as firewood because they were cold!-

-Let's forgive them. They must have done such things because they don't know the joy of books.-

But even if Illeg forgave, Sebius had no intention of forgiving.

"Next is... this bastard again."

"Who is it?"

"Balpatan of the Moradi family. This bastard has borrowed the same book and lost it three times. If he were a library club member, he would have been subjected to bookshelf punishment."

Sebius gritted his teeth looking at the name written on the paper.

Balpatan, who was in the same year, had been one of those who upset Sebius from before.

Being from White Tiger Tower was already unlikeable, but he had even lost <The History of Imperial Swordsmanship> book three times.

The fourth request to find it was barely accepted after library club members were about to ban him from entering, but Illeg mediated.

"..."

Hearing a familiar senior's name, Yi-Han managed his expression and turned his gaze.

"Even so, wouldn't he read it after getting it for the fourth time?"

"I heard last time he was using it as a pillow. Let's go."

'Hmm. It seems like it might be other seniors' fault too.'

Sebius came down to the 6th floor.

Unlike the 7th floor which gave off an atmosphere like a completely different area, the 6th floor looked like the school main building Yi-Han originally knew.

Endlessly long corridors and windows. Lecture room doors and magic lamps hanging from the ceiling.

'Don't let your guard down.'

Basically, Einroguard buildings tended to become more dangerous the higher the floor number.

Yi-Han steeled himself to not be surprised even if monsters jumped out from the doors or windows beside him at any time.

"This way."

Sebius opened a window and leapt out. Yi-Han was startled, but amazingly, stairs began to appear in mid-air.

'6th floor, mid-air stairs.'

Sebius, walking on the stairs, stopped in front of another window and took out his staff. Then he chanted a spell to try to open the locked window.

"Reveal hidden secrets..."

Sebius, attempting magic, clicked his tongue.

"Is there a problem?"

"It seems the White Tiger Tower guys have increased their defenses in the meantime. I can't undo it."

"Let me try."

"Forget it. Let's back off. They seem to have used quite expensive magic..."

Bang!

"I've opened it. Should we go in?"

"...Yes."

Sebius sent a gaze mixed with shock, suspicion, confusion, and more to his junior, but like a professional relocator, he didn't waste time with unnecessary questions.

He could ask later.

Click!

"This is one of the warehouses the White Tiger Tower guys use."

Various armors and swords came into view. Every single one was an artifact with magic cast on it.

Of course, they weren't cast cleanly enough to be called masterpieces. Some weapons clearly felt like failures.

"Don't touch anything else. Find the book first."

"Yes."

Yi-Han marveled at Sebius's patience. To not take anything else even after seeing this.

Sebius took <The History of Imperial Swordsmanship>. Sure enough, it was being used as a whetstone stand in the corner.

'I'll really kill him...'

"Senior. Who's next?"

At his junior's question, Sebius answered in a less blunt attitude than before.